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Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009
Are you nuts? Obama is not a Narcissistic Personality Disorder! On what do you base your absurd diagnosis? Because he is a compelling public speaker? Because he has self-confidence? I hate to break it to you but having a positive opinion of oneself does not qualify one for a clinical diagnosis.
I am not even an Obama supporter and I think you'd better brush up on your DSM.
I surely hope you didn't mean it the way it sounds. Would you please care to revise?
I'd say that you have to go pretty far and twist pretty hard to turn Malusinka's comment into anything racist or sexist.
Malusinka wasn't saying that Edwards is out because he's the white man. He is out, despite being the white man.
Well I surely hope that is what she was saying because I don't want to have to start defending men against sexism. I find 80% of men annoying. I am tired. I'm going to bed before anyone else starts diagnosing people.
I hedged my bets by saying
I am most likely....
that means in the end that I'll probably vote for anyone not a Republican. I want to threaten to not vote for Hillary and to have her run a less sleazy campaign (sorry to anyone who disagrees) but I guess I'm not the person to do it. As we all know, threats don't work in our party. At least we have that going for us. People should vote for the person they like most and/or dislike the least. And for the campaign that they trust most/distrust least.
I'll probably probably vote for Clinton IF she is the nominee. But I just worry that Clark would be too pro-military for her. I'd like someone like Dodd....Is he the one running against the Telecom immunity or is that someone else? Anyway--I'm thinking diplomacy, not military, even "nice" military. No offense to Mr. Clark.
truce...but I did just hear about the Iowa email debacle yesterday, and that is pretty low in my opinion. As far as I know the D-Punjab emails never were sent to the public. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
My Dear AKASmith - You so are cute when you get angry! Yes indeed, Obama
has a narcissistic personality disorder AND delusions of grandeur( You forgot to mention THAT in your post)
How do I know this? I'm looking 60 smack dab in the face and I've bothered to actually pay attention to what's going on around me during a good part of those years.
What about you?
IF he loses, which is still a coinflip, I am sure he will encourage all Democrats to back the winner.
If that winner is Edwards, then yes, he will have my vote. If it is HRC, against McCain, then I will cross party lines and vote for McCain.
He can tell me to do whatever he wants. Last I checked, this is a Democracy, and I will make up my own mind, which means that I will not vote for someone who is running a dirty campaign. Ever.
I love how every letters section of any Clinton/Obama article just merely picks up from where the last one did, irrelevant of whatever the actual article is talking about.
Addressing what the article is talking about, I disagree that the election of black (or female, or x whatever) candidate can be seen as a victory for the group in question. No place better demonstrates this than South Carolina itself, where most of its black legislators are impotent, due mostly to gerrymandering that guarantees them a safe seat, but a permanent minority in both Houses of the legislature. I'm not saying this is their fault (the lines, after all, are drawn by the party in power) but their almost rampant inability to either effectively use what power they have, and the fact that they will never face any serious challenger, renders their presence useless.
This gets into larger issues of what representation means, and dovetailing with the Clarence Thomas article, what ones group identity means. Is it (or was it) ever enough to be black/female/gay/Asian/etc? Is it better to vote in a conservative, Pro-life, family values woman or a pro-choice, feminist male? Is a white progressive better than a black conservative when it comes to advancing ones own identity group? I find many of the arguments preceding about Hillary's gender and Obama's race to be absurdly reductionist, and presuming (and almost rallying for), biologically determined factors being the driving force of identification, and not even something as coherent as ideology. Its gotten to almost absurd levels.
I have not heard a single Obama support refutes Obama's warning that a lot of his supporters might not support Clinton.
Hillary and Bill's antics since the morning before the NH primary, when they thought for sure that they were going to lose, turned my off immensely, and now I am having second thoughts as to whether I will vote at all should Senator Clinton beat Obama. If I do vote for Hillary in November, it will be because I do not want a pro-life judge sent to the Supreme Court, and because she pledged to get all combat troops out of Iraq before the end of her first year.
But I have noticed a dramatic change in opinion of Hillary among conservatives, independents, and men since the NH primary. Most of them are taking a second long look at McCain.
Hillary was already fighting a huge national negative image of herself, and the attacks that she and her husband have made on Obama and the dead, but still very admired, Reagan, have made the disfavor with her even deeper.
the irony is that Clinton didn't have to go negative against a fellow Democrat or a dead president (who won 49 states in reelection, just 24 years ago) to have kept her huge support in the Democratic party. Had Hillary and Bill kept their scorn in check they could have easily cruised to the nomination. But instead Billary (Hillary and Bill) have pissed off a lot of African Americans, moderates, and conservatives. Not a wise move when you are fighting a negative image.
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