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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Joe Biden? Now there's some real change. Our old insider white guy is better than yours ! Of all the possible choices for VP we come up with this retread windbag! This choice screams desperation and accomplishes nothing. There is a reason Mr. Biden has been an unsuccessful presidential candidate for twenty years... nobody likes him! Just read the pathetically weak comments feigning excitement over babbling Biden, sad. Unfortunately the choice had to be made at possibly the worst point of the campaign. Recent days have not been kind to Sen. Obama but you have these bad patches in a campaign. The declining poll numbers, the ill-timed vacation, the poor performance at the "debate", the less than stellar handling of Georgia, the brother in a crate and the embarrassing tele-prompter revelation all came back to back. I know it's August but let's not get so desperate yet. As for Sen. Biden, just get someone who can keep a muzzle on Mr. IQ. All we need are more "clean and articulate" and "7-11" comments. And for god sake, have someone around to reign him in when he goes into those incoherent,condescending, stream of consciousness ramblings. Help!!
Cheerleading fluff reads like ad copy.
So the candidate can't count how many residents he owns? The average American admires that. Why is someone like Paris Hilton so popular? Americans absolutely love people like her. Hey, it's not just Americans... IT'S EVERYBODY!!
Sadly, the only way Obama is going to win this election is if the economy really tanks. Short of that, I've decided, it's going to McCain. God, I wish I were wrong.
P.S. Someone who's good at photo-shop should take the "McCain for president" sign and bumper-sticker and alter it to say "Migraine on presently", or something to that effect... 'Cause that's the way I feel.
Is it just butterflies or have I actually been repeatedly viscerally sick to my stomach as the Obama/McCain national poll margin tightens and tightens and the prospect of a McCain presidency seems more and more possible? I hope Biden can make a positive difference, but I can't help but remember how inept the Dems have been in these presidential races even though we have the voting public with us on so many issues. The Dems can't seem to figure out how to neutralize the Republican attack machine, which seems to have its sleazy finger on the pulse of voting America. And, what does that say about voters?
That is one of the dumbest things I have ever read.
"Dim" Americans have never fucking heard of the Pelagian heresy (though it might be my favorite: see what Randall Jarrell had to say about WC Williams and Pelagianism in the intro to WCW's Selected Poems--that's me, too). What absolute crap, and a lousy way to try making a point: good idea to have gone to bed.
For "dim" Americans, plagiarism is piddly, the kind of thing that gets you a do-over from grade-inflating COMP 101 teachers and a death penalty from the NCAA when your entire team turns in papers copied off Wikipedia (which also makes anxiety about plagiarism seem pretty silly to "dim" Americans).
I've been busting kids for plagiarism for twenty-five years, so I am sensitive to this mess. It's ridiculous--trolly, in fact--to say that Biden is doomed.
"McCain is not nearly as popular among Americans, it turns out, as he is among his journalistic camp followers. Should voters actually get to know him, he has nowhere to go but down."
But those "camp followers" will influence how well voters get to know McCain.
For whatever reason, they appear determined to paint McCain in the most positive light. McCain's past indiscretions and gaffes don't get nearly the sustained attention they deserve. He will screw up in major ways in the coming debates, but the coverage will gloss this over. Remember how spectacularly bad George Bush was in the first two debates against Kerry in 2004, and how little a price he paid?
At the same time, the media promote a GOP talking points image of Obama that has made what should be a walk over election a tight contest. Attempts to fight back have been and will be portrayed as whiny and ineffectual. Once again the media will allow itself to be a pawn of the GOP.
Heaven help us if we get another 4 - 8 years of incompetent Republicans in the White House.
RIGHT! HUH? "We needed an FDR; instead we're stuck with a pack of sleazy opportunists." – Peter Maranci
Sorry, Franklin Delano Roosevelt could not get elected in this day and age; every misstep in his 12-year presidency would be viasected by a Republican party that TO THIS DAY thinks he’s a traitor to his class, allowed Pearl Harbor, and started the Great Depression!
The modern conservative movement of Goldwater, Reagan and Bush were all schooled on the dogma of reversing the NEW DEAL!
Democrats, and most of the nation, see FDR as national hero: saving capitalism from itself, opening to civil rights, defeating fascism to list just a few.
However, FDR is still getting SWIFT-BOATED today.
In the press, on the web, in blogs, even on YouTube, Neo-cons who believe the TRUE CONTSITUTION was subverted in 1939. By the way, those sycophants now have career jobs in Our Justice Department. There is a Herbert Hoover “fan club” actively bashing FDR!
Xrandadu Hutman has succinctly identified the progressive/liberal/democratic flaw - the tendency to pass up the Good / Great Candidates while waiting for their particular brand of Prefect / Super-Mythical Candidate.
OBAMA and BIDEN are GREAT ENOUGH!
Get on Board! Be apart of this Coalition of Change!
In the past 2 weeks McCain lifted policy on Georgia from Wikpedia and too an excerpt from Alexander Solzhenitsyn as his own and his wife has apparently lied about meeting Mother Theresa and how many siblings she has. So if the worst Biden has done is used someone else's words in a speech then I only hope the Republicans keep harping on these non-issues.
And is anyone else looking forward to an ad showing Romney (if he's the VP) laughing about how his sons haven't served in the military to instead hit the road for Mormonism while Biden has a son being deployed to Iraq? And is McCain's POW story any more compelling than Biden's loss of part of his family and surviving 2 aneurisms? Let's hope one equals the other and the politicians will get back to issues and end these high school attacks on each other.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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