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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
You'd make a great Dictator or Despot...Please spare us all and let your subscription lapse...
Heh. Troll, you're skirting Godwin's Law.
My subscription expires after November, so I'll be still be subscribed after and you and your troll buddies have departed.
I guess when you want to hear another persons opinion you head straight for the mirror...
Obama supporters referring to the voters who supported Hillary in the Primary as "troglydites" and there was much emphasis on the colour of their necks and their collars. Now, as in The Wizard of Oz, a magical transformation has taken place, culminating with the selection of Joe Biden as VP candidate. Gosh, oh gee, this man who's been a Washington insider since Adam was a boy, comes from Pennsylvania, yes Penn-syl-vania. What a wonderful place all of a sudden!
Groucho Marx's quip was never more apt: "These are our policies but, if you don't like them, we can offer you other ones".
C'mon. Does Ms. Traister know a middle ground between ripping some women to shreds and fawning all over others? But it's my own fault -- I need to stop taking the bait and reading her articles.
Really touching. It's reading articles like this that make me wish I still owned a television set. (heh,heh...But, one great speech is not enough of a rationalization for that crappy cable bill.)
Maybe it should be Michelle Obama for president?
Well said. Our relationships with our spouses, our mothers, our fathers, our sons, our daughters, our siblings, our friends, our neighbors - our relationships make us (for better or worse) who we are. And, when it comes down to it our relationships are the most important and valuable part of our lives. As the saying goes: has anyone, on their deathbed, ever said they regretted that the didn't spend more time at the office? And, if someone did say that would we not find it incredibly sad?
As an African American women I was truly proud of Mrs. Obama. She is product of what all of us aspire for as the American dream; for our childern to have opportunities to achieve in areas of education, and career that may have been closed before. We are the same age and it was an inspiration to me and my daughters. I know the obstacle of having to work twice as hard to get the same respect. So it's hard for me to understand how Senator Clinton supporters cannot see the enormity of this time. African Americans are talking amongst themselves and seeing what is going on and believe me that we are simmering behind closed doors. If Obamas supporters did one tenth of what is going on now we would be attacked left and right. There is a big risk they are taking in that they assume that African Americans are going to sit back and allow this to happen with out an answer.
I hope Senator Clinton is genuine tonight because 4 years from now, New York City will not be as welcoming a place for her as it is now.
I bet you dollars to donuts the hideous system that grinds down the poor internationally to make our cheap shit would still be in full swing, China would still be full of quasi-fascist pricks, your health system would still be a shambles, the terrorists would still have attacked, the privatisation of the human genome would still have occured, the government would still mysteriously care about what two consenting adults choose to do with their genitals, your debt would still be looming over you.
Worst of all, even if Gore did push through massive reform to get serious on global warming at the very beginning of his career (which would have been suicide), China and India still wouldn't care.
Moreover, who knows what scary shit either Kerry or Gore would do to hold on to power and retain "legitimacy"? The government would still expand massively and the possibility of localised decentralisation would shrink just like it always does.
I may be the only one, but I always thought Michelle was smart, connected, and from a good family. . . I though that was why Obama sought her out. More and more my sense that Obama zeroed in on his mentor at that high profile firm was because of his unabashed drive to be a political animal is being affirmed by the other personal glimpses we are being given this week. . . In my estimation, Obama's goal has always been political rising, not implementing "change." If idealism and change were there for him in the beginning, when did it morph from "doing good" into just talking about doing good.
I have been hearing over the last couple days that Obama decided to settle in Chicago, and persisted to attract a successful woman with Ivy League credentials, whose father that was politically involved. A woman whose good friend was the daughter of one of the most known African American figures in the U.S. (Jesse Jackson) - who mind you had just recently ran for President at the time that Obama and Michelle met. Obama then fervently pursued his ambitions and admits his wife was perturbed at the lack of time he spent with his family.
I still want to know what was Michelle's take on the Rezko deal was. When will a reporter ask her those pointed questions? That house was their family house, not just a deal Barack was involved in. She had to have said "Barack, I don't know about that . . ."
I am glad to see Michelle share the spotlight. . .Everyone says she looks different than other first ladies -- but to me, she is a lot like a mix of Hillary and Jackie O. Their daughters are lovely, but something about the event last night did not set well with me given the Obamas prior efforts to try to keep the children out of the limelight. . . .I am not certain that the "open mike" moments were not part of the script. . .Sasha did not grab that mike out of mom's hands, and when Malia gestured for the mike Sasha willingly gave it to her and Malia waited to talk. I think Sasha's time was a little off, because dad winced a little. Dad seems kind of regimented.
To me (I could be wrong), the Obama campaign is a strictly choreographed affair -- even down to the "candid" moments. I fully believe that they were trying to limit Bill's talk on the economy. Obama runs the risk of being overshadowed not only by Biden, but by Hillary and Bill. Not an enviable position, but one borne out of his lack of record.
Seems problematic to me that Obama and his camp could not get the Clinton issues settled long before the convention. There was plenty of time to do so. . . If the inter-party issues cannot be worked out - - how will we manage international issues???? Remember "Hope" is not a new concept. . .there was a guy from Hope, Arkansas. A guy from Hope that married a woman with Ivy League credentials from Chicago. . .Difference. . .30 years later that couple is still working for change, not just talking about hope. Perfect people, no. Deserve respect, yes. The "New Hope" folks need to learn how to better respect their elders for there to be a reconciliation - - throw the passive aggressive power struggles aside and stop trying to choreograph/dictate every element. . .I am dismayed that the "new hope" still is searching for the light. . . which has led me to a search of my own on how to place my vote come November. . .
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"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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