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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I really want Obama to win because I think he is an exceedingly intelligent consensus-builder who will gather the best minds together to work for a solution to Americas (and, increasingly, the world's) problems. I'm not concerned with his skin colour, his funky name (which, personally, I think is really cool) or if he's had the occasional conversation with someone considered "radical". He's the right man for the times. Obama has also shown far greater character in this election process thus far, and judging by where McCain / Palin are taking things now, he will continue to do so.
But what of John McCain? Is this the way he wants to win? He wants people to vote for him because he has made them fear that Barack Obama is a terrorist-in-disguise? All the more sickening, because you know McCain doesn't remotely think that himself. I am so disgusted that he would take the country in that ugly direction purely for his own grab at power.
And how sad that it might work. How sad that there are people who eat this stuff up, who will give in to the simplicity of racism and not endeavor to make sense of the candidate's platforms, then vote for the one who best fits their consciences.
Come on, America, be your best selves, respond to hope, not fear, and please register as many people as you can to vote.
After hearing McCain's speech today, and Palin's over the W/E, I firmly believe it's time for Obama to drop the Mr. Nice Guy routine and rip the jugulars out of both of these fools. No more merely saying "the other campaign has had to go negative and smear to distract you" - but to actually go negative on them both. (Not just McCain! Not since Palin has admitted the 'heels are on andf gloves are off'. Oh yeah, then show here what for! No more sparing her from venom)
Michael Dukakis on Rachel Maddow last week said the only way Obama can lose now is if he is too lackluster or timid or tempered in his responses when the R-side tosses out their lies and Swift boat material. He said at least three times that Obama needs to be aggressive, not like he was when the Willie Horton ads were unleased in '88.
Eleanor Clift meanwhile, said Obama must respond to Palin's "terror association" claims and vigorously since as she noted, they will seep in and people will believe them after being repeated x number of times.
This is for all the marbles, Barack. You are now so close, this close:
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You can taste it. But, it won't be yours unless you actually reach for the brass ring, and that means going strong and aggressive in your debate tomorrow night. NO more Mr. Nice Guy and no more saying McCain is "absolutely right".
Save that graciousness til after you get into the oval office.
That's actually a pretty good idea, Bobby May.... We need people with language skills and cultural understanding to help in counter terrorism.
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
I am surprised they can function at all with such limited brain capacity.
Am I the only person in complete awe of such massive stupidity, Xenophobia, and just sheer willful ignorance wrapped up in hate?
machines breaking down in urban areas yet? Long lines planned for the poor? Absentee votes getting lost, disqualified or thrown away? What does Florida have up its sleeve this year?
As Sarah Palin would say...I'm just wonderin'
He will turn water into Mountain Dew. He will heal the poorky.
Except that the left is the right is the left, one party, united in eviscerating the republic and turning its constituents into Konsuming Komrades.
God help us. We need a SECOND party. One DIFFERENT from the left-right unified BIIIIiiiiG GOVERNMENT party.
I have no reason to vote for evil, be it Obama or Bush III. I DO have a valid vote I intend to use to vote for the ONE man who rightly pointed out the problems we are now going through (in other words, a REAL leader, a strange concept, I know). Ron Paul is my write in candidate.
I urge EVERY TRUE AMERICAN to vote Ron Paul. (Doing this MAKES him president, you know. cool, huh?).
The others, well let's just say, if they are already in Washington, they are being BOOTED out on their skank asses. Every incumbent is hell bent. And WE, are being dragged right behind them and off that cliff. EXCEPT those dragging us are wearing a parachute (Swiss made, I think).
As I read McCain's words, I'm forcefully reminded of the Republican convention of 1992. As I watched the two Pats From Hell, Buchanan and Robertson, basically issue a Fatwa against a rather large chunk of America, I was as disheartened as I was dumbfounded. Later, when Clinton's victory was secure, I watched a television interview in LA where two East Coast sounding, clearly well off, older Republican women said, "We watched that convention. There was nothing there for us."
While I share the optimism that the right might face another historic repudiation, all such a thing ever amounts to is a holding pattern, never a decisive move back past the center-right. Clinton's liberalism, such as it was, quickly evaporated into what used to be moderate Republicanism. Gone were the stimulus program, health care reform, gays serving openly in the military, and distinguished liberal appointees, in the blink of an eye. Later welfare reform and DOMA sealed the fate or progressivism against the barely diminished and decidedly unhumbled right-wing assault.
Could it be different this time? Lord, I hope so.
Read this article in the Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain
As the daughter of an Air Force officer who fought in WWII and the sister of an Air Force pilot who fought in Vietnam, I believed that John McCain was a military hero. He's not. And Rolling Stone makes that crystal clear.
John McCain is a tantrum-throwing, name-calling spoiled brat in adult clothing. His only intent -- in his desperate attempt to attain the US presidency -- is to best his father and grandfather. He couldn't do it any other way.
It is beyond frightening to think of John McCain as President -- backed up by a clueless vice president with a vendetta.
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
Salon headlines in your mailbox
