Letters to the Editor
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Ugh....reality
I am SO disappointed.....
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Gee, Glenn, why so confused?
Obama is a smart guy. He is, first, a team player. Message: I am a Democrat, and support Democrats, especially incumbents. Plus, he is getting a chit. Later, when he needs it, he will cash in the chit.
Doesn't seem odd to me. Obama has ALWAYS supported incumbents. Remember, Obama supported Lieberman over Lamont.
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Just an another ordinary hypocrite who fooled enough people to win a nomination
I want to thank the Obama wing of the Democratic Party and enabling Republicans who voted for Obama in the primaries for the worst choice of Presidential candidates in 50 years.
This is just one more example of the phony, double-talking Obama showing his true self. How long will the Obama believers hang on to that famous, big-deal, antiwar speech Barack Obama gave when he was a state Senator?
I pray for a viable third party candidate. Where is Ross Perot, or the modern day TR (that's Teddy Roosevelt for the historically illiterate)?
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dataguyx
Gee, Glenn, why so confused?
I didn't say I was confused.
Obama is a smart guy. He is, first, a team player. Message: I am a Democrat, and support Democrats, especially incumbents.
That's nice. Then please don't come and tell me how different he is as a politician, since what you just described is what all the current politicians in Washington do.
Plus, he is getting a chit. Later, when he needs it, he will cash in the chit.
Yes - and to get his "chit," all he's doing is enabling warrantless spying on Americans and full-scale amnesty for lawbreaking telecoms. But it's nice that he has people like you to defend it.
Doesn't seem odd to me. Obama has ALWAYS supported incumbents. Remember, Obama supported Lieberman over Lamont.
I pointed that out -- and every other point you made here -- in the post.
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won'tgetfooledagain
Just an another ordinary hypocrite who fooled enough people to win a nomination
I want to thank the Obama wing of the Democratic Party and enabling Republicans who voted for Obama in the primaries for the worst choice of Presidential candidates in 50 years.
And here we have exactly the Manichean lens I wrote about -- first someone who blindly defends Obama and now someone who can't just criticize him, but has to say he's "the worst choice of Presidential candidates in 50 years."
I haven't heard from Hillary Clinton recently -- or, for that matter, ever -- on these issues. Clinton also endorsed Lieberman and plays this game the same way.
How long will the Obama believers hang on to that famous, big-deal, antiwar speech Barack Obama gave when he was a state Senator?
Opposing the Iraq War in 2002 was something relatively few people did -- especially people with national political ambitions.
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Obama contact info
Press Option 6 ("any other questions"). Nobody answering the phones at this hour, it seems.
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Destroy the Matrix
How depressing. While we all know how corrupt the system is it is very hard when we see yet another politician helping to perpetuate that system. I'll make another call to the Obama campaign today so if nothing else they know that another voter has noticed our candidate's duplicity.
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Obama - we're watching you
Supporting Barrow is not the worst thing in the world but there's nothing good about it. I voted for Obama over Hillary but only because I was voting against Hillary because of her refusal to even say the right thing about Iraq. But I'm not real enthusiastic about Obama. I want to see the beef and so far I haven't seen it. I wouldn't care as much about Obama helping Barrow if he had taken a strong line publicly about FISA but he hasn't done that either.
Great war crimes were committed in this country by our highest leaders. There is a crime scene in Iraq with a million dead bodies and another in the U.S. with 4000 bodies and tens of thousands maimed. If I don't hear people like Obama speaking in a way that comports with that reality, then it just means we're still stuck in the brainwash zone.
I want out.
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Same old same old.
Anyone who believes that Obama is going to change anything is a fool.
He is the choice of the establishment, the MSM and the warbuckers.
American voters are suckers. They believe anything the MSM tells them. The MSM is a franchise of the warbuckers.
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dataguyx
I can't help as well but point out the glaring inconsistency in your two statements here:
(1)Obama is a smart guy. He is, first, a team player. Message: I am a Democrat, and support Democrats, especially incumbents. Plus, he is getting a chit. Later, when he needs it, he will cash in the chit.
(2) Obama has ALWAYS supported incumbents. Remember, Obama supported Lieberman over Lamont.
Tell me how "smart" Obama was for supporting for Lieberman? How many "chits" did he get for that?
Obama endorsed Lieberman. Lieberman won with the support of many Democratic voters. And now that same Joe Lieberman is the most vicious demonizer of Barack Obama, running around the country all but calling him a Jew-hating Terrorist who can't be trusted on national security.
Tell me again how "smart" this behavior is and all the great "chits" you get when you do it?
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@The Fool
No offense intended.
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Great Work
Hi Glenn:
You are doing great work - thanks for all that you do.
I know you have developed enough clout to make and have a phone call taken by someone high up in the Obama campaign. If you have time, I would love to hear that you were able to get your points across to a live person, someone that can get the message to Obama. Or, perhaps, you could reach Obama directly?
We know how the game is played, but how long must Obama wait to start to show hints of the "new game"? Maybe, it is too early and he does not to cause too many problems before August.. But like yourself, I am disappointed that neither Obama OR HILLARY, are coming out against the FISA bill or telecom amnesty...
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words are words...deeds are deeds...
Time is coming(has come?)when Barack Obama will have to fill in the not so pored over blanks regarding what he stands for,who he stands with and what he will offer in ways of genuine political intent,action and follow through.
Fair is fair and in election season politicians need some wiggle and waffle room.
What GG presents here does go to principles held centers and cores.
So...Barack Obama...this is one of many "what flag you flying?" moments now arriving or to come between here,next November and should a Obama WH come to be into all of 2009 just for starters.
Barack...this is a "show your flag" moment.
Words are words...deeds are deeds...