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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Obama has been on a steady, relentless decline for the last 3 months. Was getting beat by 40 plus points in primaries after he had the nomination locked up. And now on a decline against McCain as time goes on. And everyone thinks the next speech is going to turn it back around. The speeches are getting old.
Prescott Bush was a Nazi sympethizer; and was charged under the Trading With The Enemy Act.
And yet you come here daily shilling for a de-facto third Bush term. How progressive of you!
Ravanne: "This speech was as fluffy as you can get and really won't mean much in the grand scheme of things. It's hardly going to change minds."
I don't find any fault with your reaction, except for your last sentence: "It's hardly going to change minds." That's a factual judgment that you can't claim to know, unless you have the special power of knowing well in advance what's going on in other people's minds.
Are you a bigot or just stupid? I don't know. What I do know is that Michelle Obama does not have a "wig" nor a weave. It's her hair. Don't be so ignorant or don't post.
Maureen: "Incidentally, I don't wear a wig..."
Right, because technically it's called a merkin.
Look, you're just babbling to yourself, impressed with your own ability to spew irrelevancies. Ted Kennedy makes an appearance, and you trot out the usual criticisms of his earlier days. I can't defend him or anybody else who has such an accident, but the fact remains that he lived on and continued his career, and only somebody with ill intentions keeps bringing that incident up at every opportunity. That person is you, and you can't deny that you have ill intentions. That's the one sore spot for you -- your own lack of grace. And the idea that you care about poor people whose hair goes to make wigs is a joke. You don't give a shit, you just care about scoring cheap points. I don't even think Michelle Obama wore a wig; you just made that up. Now you're off on a tangent about it. A true Wankologist.
I can't remember when I was prouder of America than I was last night as I watched that beautiful woman, standing in front of the entire DNC, enchanting everyone who listened to her. Michelle Obama is everything a First Lady should be and I hope that I will be able to watch her hold the Bible for her husband in January as Senator Obama becomes President Obama.
Falhaar: "Orwell weeps for you all from beyond the grave."
Bush admits to illegally spying on Americans and we are the ones who are making Orwell role over in his grave? When will Republicans grow a second brain cell to keep the one they have company.
Then level Mt. Rushmore and carve her face into it instead. Then rename one of the midwest states "Michelle Obama". And make Sasha Secretary of Unicorns.
Notorious: "Obama has been on a steady, relentless decline for the last 3 months."
You have a funny definition for "steady," unless you mean "holding steady." You're not too swift with "relentless" either. Obama has stayed at more or less the same level with voters throughout the summer, losing a couple of percentage points at times, but whatever. You are projecting your own desires here. We all know you want Obama to lose. That's fine. But don't get yourself all excited over some minor fluctuations at the polls. You're likely to wet yourself ("The Notorious Wets?").
Notorious: "Was getting beat by 40 plus points in primaries after he had the nomination locked up."
Right, he lost by a wide margin in West Virginia. I don't think it was 40 plus points -- you have some problem with exaggeration kiddo? It might have been 30 plus though. That was in West Virginia, where people didn't even bother hiding their racism during interviews.
Notorious: "And everyone thinks the next speech is going to turn it back around. The speeches are getting old."
Who is this mysterious "everyone" you're referring to? Naturally, people want Obama's speech to result in higher favorable ratings. Also, since he tends to give a rousing speech, and since this one's going to be seen by and reported by quite a few people, there is an expectation that Obama will come out ahead. Why does that bother you?
Why does any of this bother you? We know you don't want Obama to win. But what else are you about? What do you care about outside of your political carping?
Santa CLAWS little helper, you should be in Gnomeland now getting the reindeer in fine fettle for their trip around the northern hemisphere in about four months but you're here busily trying to deflect the point I made, very briefly, about Joseph Patrick Kennedy who made an immense fortune in the l920s, called himself a Democrat and was ambassador to Britain between l938 and l940. The Second World War did not begin with the bombing of Pearl Harbour; it began in Europe in l939 and Ambassador Kennedy's attitudes were not appreciated in London when the struggle against Nazi Germany was draining the life-blood out of Europe. Just sounding off might suit your purpose but I have totally objective reasons for being unimpressed by the Kennedy "fairy-tale". Maybe you should find out something about the source of the Kennedy wealth.
Cat vs. Roomba: "Then level Mt. Rushmore and carve her face into it instead. Then rename one of the midwest states "Michelle Obama". And make Sasha Secretary of Unicorns."
We get it. You're angry Michelle Obama's speech was well-received. This bothers you to no end. We understand.
West Virginia was 67-26.
It wasn't a policy speech. It wasn't a speech about the focus of an Obama presidency. I know of absolutely no one who has changed their minds on who to vote for based on a speech made by their spouse.
Speeches like this are pretty pointless to me and tend only to reenforce the views already held about a candidate. Those who already support Obama are going to listen to his wife's speech and have their positive feelings validated. Those who don't support him, or have questions about his qualifications for the office he is aspiring to probably aren't going to be swayed by his wife saying what a wonderful man he is. It's political theater - nothing more.
Look at what happened with Teresa Heinz-Kerry - those who supported Kerry liked her outspokeness while Republicans painted her as a Hillary-type bitch. A political wife is expected to speak nicely in public, not give too much information about her own opinions and show unending support for their husbands. In that, Michelle Obama accomplished her objective. Still, in the end it really means very little.
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
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