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Is Obama starting to turn people off?
[Read the article: It ain't over yet]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I haven't been following this all too closely. I can't stand any of the talking heads on cable, but I catch bits of the candidates appearances on the tube from time to time.
Obama seems to be taking himself a bit too seriously these days. And the Anointed Savior Who Will Restore America's Standing In The World shtick is getting a bit tiresome. He's coming across as a little too morally superior, a little too sanctimonious, a little too "I know what's good for you", which Americans don't like one bit.
A snippet from his Houston speech: something along the lines of "My job as Commander-In-Chief will be to keep YOU safe." Uh-oh! Superman's job is to save the people on the train that's about to hurtle off the bridge. Your job would be to keep us safe, keep the Nation safe, however you want to put it. You are one of us, not above and beyond. Very wrong tone.
My two cents. I could be wrong.
And puh-lease, whoever wins, don't utter the magic tragic words "How hard it is to put your kids through college." The slice of the population who can pay their kids way through college is pretty small, and screams I Am Out Of Touch With The Lives Of Ordinary Americans.
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Women don't make passes
[Read the article: Women ARE funny. And foxy!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At men who are asses?
Acid stains you,
And Hitchens gives cramps?
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It's 3:00 am
[Read the article: It's 3 a.m. Who do you want answering the phone?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Phone rings. Bad news. Crisis.
Obama: "Go get me a pack of Camels. Right now. I need to think."
Like the Men's Wearhouse, I guarantee it!
(Not that there's anything wrong with that!)
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Yes, it's true
[Read the article: Mirror, mirror on the Wall]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are a lot of women who hate Hillary Clinton because she didn't dump Bill. Never mind that infidelity is not uncommon for either sex and each couple has to make their own decisions about how to proceed, especially if there are children involved.
What I've seldom heard is any self-analysis as to what Clinton's, or Spitzer's, refusal to validate the choice that *some* women *might* have made says about their own life and attitudes.
Much easier to jump on the "We" wagon and make a theoretical out of it. Saves all the pain and self-searching.
"Do all men cheat?" Really? Is that something you think about?
Weird.
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Yes
[Read the article: The crazy uncles in Obama's attic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unless he can make (and has the guts to make) Hagee et al a significant issue. But that would be negative, wouldn't it?
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Oh, those bargain bookstores!
[Read the article: The last rendezvous with Arthur C. Clarke]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sad to hear of Clarke's passing, but what really got me going was the memory of those old bookstores. One had a half-priced bargain basement. The cover price would be $1.25. You'd end up paying 67 cents. I got a lot of mileage, high lit and low, out of those places. The bookstore is still there, but the pricing is different. Now, you can't get out the door for under $4.00.
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Obama needs to make religion the issue
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](Or Hillary should she get the nomination.)
Very carefully. He needs to contrast the moderate beliefs that most Americans hold with the hell-bent for Armageddon theology that animates certain portions of the Christian right. He needs to bring into the light that some of these people want war in the Middle East -- it's a necessity for the end times. That their support for Israel is predicated on the conversion of the Jews, another necessity for the end times. And that some of these people have the ear of the Republican powers, the Bush Administration, and John McCain.
War with Iran is one thing. War with Iran because it will help fulfill Biblical prophesy? Another thing altogether. That point needs to be made.
Something to the effect that they don't believe in the rapture will perhaps help a broad section of the middle to take a deep breath and say, yeah, I don't believe that stuff either.
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Know your audience
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some of you on here just don't get it. Every time you call them fascists, every time you call them "Republithugs" or whatever cute epithet you made up and that makes you feel all clever and superior, every time you or Gary Kamiya writes about how the American people are just too god-damned STOOPID to know what's good for them, thousands of people who are doleful about this Republican administration, who have doubts about this Republican foreign policy, who are sick to death of getting screwed by this Republican economy...
Those people just turn around and say, "Yeah? Well go have another latte at Starbucks and fuck yourself. I hate you too."
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That magic sure would change the tone
[Read the article: Is your vagina magic?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]of Jack and the Beanstalk.
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Where's the video when you really need it?
[Read the article: The best-laid plans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What struck me is that she doesn't do it. She never has the fling. She's a GOOD GIRL! Just like a pretty girl with a name like Sloane Crosley is supposed to be.
Now imagine if she had shown up as the subject of a piece in one of the NY papers. Good Girl decides she's not a one-night-stander. How insulted would Broadsheet be?