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@jeb - you are a purity troll.
[Read the article: David Brooks calls Barack Obama a sojourner]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you are not voting at all in this election because you like Obama's positions but you don't like Obama's PR - or you perceive "arrogance" that's somehow worse than McCain's - that's the definition of purity troll.
Seriously.
I actually did respond to your post, pointing out the many criticisms I made of McCain, which you seem to have missed in both my original post and the response.
I'm sorry I missed that. But I also missed the place where you took back your flat statement that Obama hasn't done or accomplished anything. You can not think much of his accomplishments, and that's your privilege - but to flatly state he hasn't accomplished anything is to contradict the facts.
If you have addressed that criticism of mine and I missed it, then I apologize.
I don't believe in purity - nobody can meet that standard...But at some point each of us finds that we simply can't compromise any further. Obama, or rather Axelrod, pushed me to that point. Obama went along with it.
By Axelrod, do you mean David Axelrod?
So David Axelrod has said too many nice things about Obama, and Obama has gone along with it - therefore this PR is causing you to sit out this election?
Please explain exactly how that is not being a purity troll.
Because since we're facing 100 years of war in Iraq, a GOP-licious deficit, global warming, a health care crisis, and a housing crisis already in effect - I happen to consider these to be more pressing issues than some pro-Obama PR.
Don't you? Why or why not?
I've seen the list of things "he" has done...
Without even wading into those points to disagree with you...let's say for the sake of argument that the worst of all you say was true.
How would that make McCain better for America?
Because that's the choice we have to make here. Either an effective 3rd Bush term with McCain who has the worst temper in major league politics, doesn't know the difference between Sunni and Shiite, jokes about bombing Iran, has senior moments and has himself said he doesn't know anything about the economy - or Obama who is a self-made man who, above all else, has repeatedly proven his judgement is superior to McCain in foreign policy, military strategy AND economics?
As for "facts" about his arrogance... Obama is going to single-handedly bring hope to the nation, unity to the parties, and change to our government.
So because he wants to do something we all agree needs to happen, and he has pledged to do his best to make it happen, that makes him arrogant?
He says things like "we are the ones we have been waiting for"
Uh-huh. What's that pronoun again? "we". Which means We can make the changes happen that we want to happen. We can put our country back on the right track. That's called leadership and trying to inspire people to actually make things change.
...and stands behind a fake Presidential seal with a latin translation of his campaign motto.
And McCain's had adverts referring to him as President McCain. So?
He wanted to use the Brandenburg gate as a political backdrop.
You mean like every other US politician to make a speech before it?
...arrogance he has in spades...Even Bush bothers to chop wood so that he *looks* humble.
So Bush's use of his magical make-believe ranch-without-animals to clear brush as a photo op, is preferable? You prefer a false and mendacious humility like that?
Really?
He stands and brushes criticism off his shoulder. Is that enough?
He answers criticism directly and strongly, and then moves on. It seems what bothers you more is that this works - that he actually is able to answer criticism and move forward, rather than get stuck in low-road politics.
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@ Carol Richards and virtue001 - i agree w/both of you
[Read the article: David Brooks calls Barack Obama a sojourner]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Clark would make a great cabinet member, particularly Secretary of Defense. Along with John Edwards as Attorney General and perhaps Biden as Sec. of State...