Per my previous post, I'm not suggesting that Obama will fund Islamic Fascist religious organizations in America....

But...I'm so, so glad I didn't have to bow down to ANYTHING in order to get an education.

Are you referring to your own close encounter with Glenn earlier today?

This is the BS that in the Middle East has given us fanatics like the Taliban.

I knew it. All the pieces are in place. Soon there will be Radical Madrasahs on every street corner, competing with Al Qaeda to train Islamofascist Suburbanites that Obama can then spy on using his new found powers as the King of Democracy.

Talk about a win/win. That Obama is one shrewd dewd.

Glenn,

You might want to read Al Giordano's post of July 1 called "Smart Dissent" before you blast Obama's positions or positioning on the various issues you've been criticizing him on.

In case you're not familiar with Giordano, he has been spot on about this election from October 2007 on... and completely understood how Obama's community organizing skills would get him the nomination and probably the presidency. Giordano's political skills and reporting talents have been consistently the most insightful and original during this election cycle. Here's the link to his website, the Narcosphere...

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield

In fact, it's worth everyone who's been commenting here and smacking Obama to read the post.

This may be way off and very old information. So much is at stake. I reasoned, O, May as well try anything. The thought of :wow. The analysis vs opinion. I finally got it. GG. slowly. But better late than never.

~

I once wrote:

Citizens National Bank,

of Southern Pennsylvania.

10-12 W, Maine Street.

PO BOX 191

Waybesboro, PA 17268.

Main Office 35 North Carlisle St.

Greencastle, PA 17225.

Dear Mr, xxx,no`xo,tho.

It went on for 3-pages.a bore. cc. etc.,

`

Sincerely,

hush. delete. black-out. gloss.

P.S. It's important to be clear.

This is Elder, retired, and a law firm that The Honorable Birch Bayh Sr., worked, and NOT the younger Senator Bayh, who is on the Bank Chair-Whatever-C. (what do they do) (?). The Honorable Birch Bayh Sr. did not respond.

The Sr, Bayh letter was on April 3rd 2001 with the firm:

cc. Oppenheimer, Wolf, Donnelly, & Bayh LPP. (wise? decide.)

When we write about topics that touch us deeply...

language becomes spare and direct [with time and wisdom].

My apologies to Ralph Keyes. I hope. I learn there is daily elements of risk.

When we write comments, REMEMBER, try to leave out the parts reader skip.

"I think Hume's Ghost- whose criticism of Obama's economic plans sounds a lot like Krugmans, and generally is wrongheaded- was referring to lost revenue relative to the status-quo ante, which is the correct comparison, and which is, btw a very accurate statement."

Yep, except I was more troubled by the "tax relief" aspect of it.

http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2008/06/paul-krugman-saves-me-trouble.html

I'd appreciate having the wrongheadedness explained to me, though, which I would consider a favor since I'd prefer not to hold wrongheaded views if I can avoid it. Economics is not a strong subject of mine so I would not be surprised if I overlooked something.

Stuff + Stuff = Democracy!

9/11 + anything = STFU!!

There are those of us who have researched Obama in the past year and have been warning about his bogus (and lamely transparent) "change" persona. His Senate career is notable for his votes for exemption of credit card debts from bankruptcy discharge, his wholesale parroting of the right wing sham propaganda of the " broken Social Security System", his lock step votes for Iraq war funding, his passivity as a freshman Senator, as opposed to the Webb, Schumer, and McCaskill. He has been a go-along-to-get-along Senator with no instinct for principle. He has succeeded in eliminating Hillary, nobody's tool, and now that his true face is apparent, even to the mindless kool-aid supporters, they are shocked, shocked by the discovery. Some of us have warned passionately for months that the morning after this binge ould be harsh, but still, we can't afford an I-told-you-so. This unearned arrogance and sneering cotempt for those who were right in the 60's and hapen to bestill alive and right, is only the latest manifestation of what has been there all along, Obama's total lack of presidential or progrssive qualifications. The nit-wit Olbermann has been in the Obama tank from ther outset. Russert was never more than a corporate tool. The media hyped him and they have fortfeitd the right to say a discouraging we are stuck with him and I mean stuck.

Sounds like a neat way of restating the "principles are icky, you gotta do what you gotta do to win" big picture baloney.

Actually, I have to correct myself already: the highest calling of patriotism is not dissent. It is smart dissent, that based not on self-indulgence or the blurting of one's frustration's out in ways that seek to share the panic or the misery, but based on - even sometimes against great odds - building the objective conditions by which we will win the important battles worth fighting.

Shame on everyone for not being "Objective". Ah, the great Objectivity Monolith that must be worshiped by those who wish to be taken seriously, in which the only agenda is one of benevolently spreading Freedom and Democracy while being challenged by various forms of radical subhuman. I'm glad guys like Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin were smart dissenters who were willing to abandon their principles in order to get things done. Their language and actions on these issues really makes for a compelling argument in support of "smart dissent". I wonder how much smart dissent debate went into tarring and feathering tax collectors?

(With apologies to you...)

From whence do come these posters this day

who do not read Glenn and this thread each day?

They attack, they inveigh, and rattle their saber

as if Obama were (still) a progressive savior.

Alas, I admit, the sun beats down

as my energy weakens, I wear a frown.

My work prevents me from responding to (non) wit

yet, my heart grows weary of the venom and spit.

(It is painfully obvious that I should stick to ethics.)