Letters to the Editor
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syphillitic math problems
Nice cherry pick, douchebag. the same Gallup Polls shows a national preference gap of about 20 points for Obama. billary's Penn lead, once near 20, is now three. She's down 12 in NC, and by 5 in Indiana. Her bigass stupor delegate lead, once near 60, is at 13 and falling daily. Read the polls. Take your meds. She's done. Bitch and piss and moan all you want. It's half irritating, half entertaining: irritaining. Loser.
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Women Voters
that have cast their lot with Hillary should be aggrieved with her for dragging this election into the mud and exposing herself as a self aggrandizing harridan. I would love to see a female president, I would go so far as to say in these troubled times in particular we need a female at the helm, it just can't be Clinton. Joan I might have voted for you until you went on this self deluding Hillary campaign.
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Yes, Green Goblin, only polls that injure Obama are correct
All others are false. I am the mirror image of the Obamabots on this site.
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Ah Tom Payne, done with your chronic masturbating for the day?
Your candidate is as dead as your limp dickie.
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It didn't hurt him with PA bikers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpnUkbb_qfU
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@Unschooler pg. 8 Re: Obama's disfluency
Thank you for the information. I admit, I'm not a speech pathologist and I did take a bit more liberty with my assumptions than I probably should have. I wasn't speaking so much from formal training as I was from personal experience.
What makes me think he "stumbled" is that he wasn't prepared for the inevitable and the predictable. His responses could have been more concise, and at the same time served the purpose of changing people's priorities.
For instance, the lapel pin question:
Senator Obama, I have a question, and I want to know if you believe in the American flag. I am not questioning your patriotism, but all our servicemen, policemen and EMS wear the flag. I want to know why you don't.
I've seen numerous letters in these forums alone on how he could show the absurdity of the question and therefor render it into a meaningless topic that only makes the person asking the question look bad. Instead, he justified the question by using phrases like, "And so, what I've tried to do is to show my patriotism by how I ..."
This validates the question by implicitly agreeing that he just hasn't done a good enough job of demonstrating his patriotism. It's a lot of unnecessary words that only serve to weaken his position. If he'd been prepared, no matter how the question was phrased, he could have responded with a very short and concise, "I believe that a man's patriotism is embodied in his actions, not in the symbols he adorns himself with. Would you think less of a policeman that didn't wear a flag? Or more of a burglar that did?" Maybe add a couple of examples of things he has done in line with patriotic acts. Or he could talk about how the flag has become a symbol of nationalism and not of patriotism and how he is campaigning on the ideals of equality and opportunity, and that we can bring ourselves closer to those ideals, and that nationalism represents nothing more than borders on a map. Either would have worked, but he should have limited himself to one paragraph, no more.
Yeah, it's blunt, bordering on rude. Possibly he could phrase it to be less offensive. The truth of the matter, though, is when someone believes something foolish, you have to show them that it is their belief that needs questioning, because you will never live up to their current beliefs.
Personally, I don't think he's all that comfortable placating the people that ask these irrelevant questions. I think it forces him to have to keep thinking up politically correct phrases instead of just saying what he means. He is, in effect, lying to his audience. Some might say he's trying to be inclusive, and they are correct to some extent. But the deeper truth is, we are seeing a facade. The result is a lot of the wrong words that only hurt him in the eyes of the people he needs to change. He doesn't need to convince his supporters, we are predisposed to thinking the questions are irrelevant. He needs to change the priorities of the people who are asking the questions.
He needs to challenge the beliefs of people that have bought into personality politics. Simply telling people that policy questions are more important isn't going to change their minds, to them it sounds like a cop-out. Like it or not, there are people out there to whom a lapel pin is "substance", and it's up to him, and the democratic party in general, to disillusion them. Otherwise, they will continue to vote for the other guy.
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Flag pins and the rest
Get a grip.
Wouldn't you be irritated if all someone cared about was whether you wore a flag pin? The "moderators" and Clinton weren't wearing flag pins either.
Stupid irrelevant questions are irritating.
Consider that millions of us are sick to death of "gotcha" politics.
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Barack's stumble?
I don't see how it can be called a stumble to object to irrelevant negative re-hashing of old news instead of substantive policy discussions.
The old accusations have been covered. We have a right to expect better from our high tier television moderators and Obama has a right to be disgusted with trite sniping.
I'm surprised he didn't respond in more explosive fashion. The fact that he didn't shows his capacity for self-control in dealing with asinine conversations - a skill he will need in dealing with republican members of congress.
Art Armstrong
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@Green Goblin - polls
at this point, what else DOES she have? hire ShawnWM to say, "he can't WIN, you FOOLS!". as far as cythera45 goes, she's disappointed but taking this whole thing like a ... woman? anyway, SHE'S tough. realized she lost, keeps up the "attack" but softens the tone to humor - Hillary could take some lessons.
as for Joan, i'm disappointed. i can understand wanting a woman in the White House, but not only "not this one!" but "she's already lost!" all she can do is convince republicans NOT to vote for Obama - THAT she can do. i had hopes that the "last" she was going to write about sexism was just that - but she sub-contracted that out to traister to plant the disinformation that young women have the same hangups as old. not so. young women are willing to wait for the RIGHT one. why? Times aren't so bad! at least vis a vis men.
for those who think PA will change anything - it won't. she will continue convincing reagan democrats to vote against Obama.