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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
...the majority of the voters and the media seem absolutely infatuated with Obama as a candidate. Face it...when have we ever had such a winning candidate for CHANGE like this before?
After 200+ years of old white men in the top spot, no disrespect to any elderly folks, but isn't it about time to try a new perspective?
I want Sen. Obama to do well in the primaries and become the next "leader of the free world", and to have a totally scandal free presidency. But you know what? it AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN.
He's human and a politician and I expect a little dirt.
just not TOO much, thank you very much.
Maybe on tomorrow nights debate, because Hillary will be looking for the knock out punch, I'm expecting some kind of "scandolous" revelation about Obama.
I've read about some issues involving Sen. Obama and his inconsistant stance, and imho, these need to be addressed. Some items might be construed as hypocritical and that's just not good. He needs to come out quick on these.
But, you know what? As an informed voter, having read his books, different websites, news articles, speeches, and weighed his thoughts and ideas against these inconsistancys and decided, he's still head and shoulders above his competitors and I have faith that he will do the right thing.
If you're really that determined to throw away your vote, they make it fairly easy.
If everyone throws away their vote, then Ron Paul is president. Works for me.
OK, so there's not much difference between their careers, she's wedded to an idea she wasn't able to put through 15 years ago and the Republicans have plenty of nasty things to say about both of them. Neither has passed landmark legislation. Sure, her failed idea was a good idea, but she couldn't get it passed then, why would I think she can now?
There's not a hell of a lot of difference, as I've been saying. And I've said I'll support her if she's the nominee. I guess the only question left is why you hate Obama so much.
I look forward to a matchup of the potential first ladies...Michelle Obama versus Cindy McCain.
Google Cindy McCain.
Excellent, I see that she is a recovering drug addict and that she too was implicated along with her husband in the Keating Five scandal.
I don't think the Republicans can try swiftboating this time, for fear that the retaliation might go nuclear and take out both McCain and his wife.
I live in a Southern city, but 20 minutes away from me it's all rural. I deal with the local Farming Bureau and USDA Rural Development Department fairly often in my work. I like that he's crafted a plan for my friends and neighbors; maybe it's shameless pandering, but country-folk (members of my extended family) deserve to be included, too.
I think Illinois is similiar to Georgia in that there are rural farming communities; that's probably why he thinks about it. Or he's just shamelessly pandering.
My word are you one cynical bugbear! I get it, I get it...it must be hard to be the only one cooly disengaged from the process, the only one to see the forest for the trees blah blah blah.
It must be so painful for you to watch all these young and idealistic people rallying behind a politician...after all only you can really see that he's an Elmer Gantry, life must be tough.
Yep, all those idealists are most certainly wrong. History has shown the folly of their ways, except..you know...when it hasn't.
see: Trudeau, Pierre Eliot.
Your friendly resident Canadian,
"Wake up, people! Obama is a cynical politician like the rest of 'em, his message is a fraud that he himself most likely doesn't believe [and if he does believe it, then we REALLY don't need someone like that as president], what he promises most certainly won't come true, and he's just stroking your liberalism to get you to vote for him with sweet nothings he knows you love. He doesn't really care about the policy, and he hasn't bothered to really learn it. He would be a worse president than Clinton."
So many words that say nothing. Ad hominem really is a logical argument, isn't it?
First off, Carter is why you still have an east coast. 3 Mile Island, without Carter, well America would have a much harder time not being, you know, a toxic wasteland.
Further, his chief critics like to point to the oil crisis, that was precipitated by the very Republican Ford, and the Iranian hostage crisis, which had a lot of hay made over it by the very Republican Reagan, who then went on to sell guns to Iran.
And that is not even getting into Reagan being a firm supporter of Apartheid, or Bush Snr declaring around 8% of America's population neither real citizens nor patriots.
Yeah. Terrible president that Carter.
But I digress.
You are trying to preach the politics of despair. Every one of them, is a politician and therefore cannot be trusted, but what use is this? Really, what use is it?
Say one accepts your theory that they are all rotten lying politicians, does that do anything about the deficit? How about healthcare, does it give healthcare to sick kids? Education? Security?
What does blinding yourself with a wallowing sense of cynicism really gain you?
Because if every leader is just another politician how the hell do you expect to organise anything to actually fix the problems you have right now?
The politics of despair are very tempting, particularly to a generation raised on "Greed is good" and everyone one wearing black in order to "Assert their individuality."
But to anybody wanting to actually solve anything, there is one hell of a lot more to be said for hope.
I've lived through every election since JFK. In every instance I can remember, the "idealist" won the election. In 1988, I knew the Dems had lost when I watched Dukakis say "It's not about idealism, it's about management."
He's wrong. Reagan, as horrible as his policies were for the country took the election from Carter because Carter was a self flagellating policy wonk and Reagan sold the country on "standing tall."
Mondale? Dukakis? Gore? Kerry? If you don't think inspiration wins elections, you're missing the pattern.
Hillary IS the old guard. Six years on the board of directors for WalMart in it's Union busting heyday, and her long standing support of the Republican-lite Democratic Leadership Conference should be enough to send anyone with progressive values running away screaming.
We've got a halfway decent chance of bringing the country around to a place that resembles a free country again, with Obama. Hillary will continue the same old corporate fascism she and her husband embraced in the 90s. I'll vote McCain before I'll vote Hillary - I'd rather get stabbed in the face than the back.
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