Letters to the Editor
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Dear Joan
I was glib with you and I'm sorry, sort of.
It's just that your concerns are spectacularly lacking in vision. Why don't you demand more of yourself? Why do you not offer your readers something worthier?
By all means, lay into Obama, whatever, but have you no substance to draw from while doing it?
You're irritated with his irritation because "gotcha questions go with the territory?"
So what, he's supposed to just play along, allow himself to be hazed because, well, hey, it's always been thus: the last guy had to drop his breeches and take twenty strokes with a paddle so this guy does too, and he's not allowed to suggest that maybe the entire exercise is less than Just?
And you call yourself a writer?
Don't you think it's incumbent upon yourself as a writer, as someone in a position of public trust to do more time thinking and less time reacting?
Please, Joan, for the love of God, get over yourself.
What are you about?
Do you even know?
Where's your vision?
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Obambi Delenda Est
The Phill debate was a very good start!
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Will the Philly debate hurt Obama?
Short answer: No.
In the short-run it probably helps to solidify his support and should bring in some money to the campaign. Pile-ons usually have this effect.
Long-run? If ABC/Disney has a few more debate performances like this I think its shareholders might start to have some sleepless nights about their investment choices.
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tough questions?
No, those were stupid question.
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tough?
Apparently the epitome of Joan's idea of a "tough" question would be something along the lines of "have you stopped beating your wife?" Obama should be commended for trying to rise above the garbage.
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syphillis, get cured
Billary's done. All your jive ass faux "issues", wright, sexism, bitterism, media bias, all add up to a plump ass kicking. Yours. Billary's. She may win Penn by five, tops, then lost NC by fifteen. Watch the polls. Count the delegates. Work on your yoga so you can kiss your own fat ass goodbye. Seek help. You can. Yes, you can! Then, vote democrat all the way down the line in November. or fuck off. your call.
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35000
Did I mention that for some reason 35000 came out to see him tonight and Joan didn't bother to report it?
Not that they can't be wrong but the numbers seem to be growing.
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Again? JW is so off, it's embarrassing.
Another phony post from JW, or...she wants Clinton to be the leader of a broken political system that does not serve the people of America.
It come's with the territory? yeah, in a phony corporate distraction driven system. but i guest jw has a position of relative power with the status quo and she doesn't want things to be different.
she would rather keep the country a mess as long as she can talk about it and get paid (and maybe even be quoted by Rush!!!).
She is clearly not progressive, just a Democrat.
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More of us should say this more often....
Joan, thank you. You speak for more people than the folks who show up here to bash you (do I need to say I'm 54? and that I "get it"?). At this point, I'm thinking that it's going to take at least another couple of elections before other voters get it, and that Obama ain't it. I used to think he was it, but he really has turned me off so much that I can't even listen to him anymore. Whoever inherits this disaster called the oval office is gonna be in a world of hurt, and it won't be over in one term. But for now? I've decided to garden and concentrate on issues I really have control over. I've nearly gone cold turkey, limiting my political reading and news gathering considerably, having spent the past 9 or so years railing and lamenting over the state of this country and the folks who vote for feel-good sound bite politicians. Bush was that. Worked for him. Looks as if democrats and "progressives" aren't that much different. C'est la vie. I'm taking a vacation. Somebody call me when it's over.
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I thought he stumbled...
Frankly, I didn't think he did all that well in the debate. He should have expected those questions to come up. He knows the media as well as any of us, and even I knew damn well the pointless crap was going to come first. One of the advantages of having stupid "journalists" in the mainstream is their predictability. You know they are going to go for the gossip, so you may as well take advantage of it, plan for the questions and count yourself lucky that you have ample opportunity to prepare.
I was disappointed that he didn't have immediate and complete responses to the inevitable questions. The "stumbling" revealed itself every time he broke up a sentence to think about what he was saying. It's easy for the mind to bring forth memories and facts. Notice how you never pause when describing a memory? You have to pause when you are creating and calculating, easily interpreted by the audience as lying or weaseling. On top of that, his replies had that dragging-on quality like when you try really hard to get someone to believe what you are saying but you know they aren't buying it. In the context of those questions, it made it look like he was trying to weasel out of something he didn't really want to confront, like a 10 year old trying to explain to his dad why he got a D in math. It was an avoidable error.
I still thought the questions were idiotic, but a first class orator with a good speech-writer and a little foresight could have defused them or rammed them down the moderators' smug little smiles. When you are in a fight and you can slip around someone's attack, they generally leave an opening for you to hit back all the harder. Those moderators have been telegraphing their attacks for the last 6 weeks, he should have read it and shredded them.
I'm still an Obama supporter (because I think his over-all vision is more in-line with mine than Clinton's is, although I'd have no problem voting for her in the general election), but I sure hope he learned a lesson there. He needs to remember these days that the media is not his friend, it is owned part and parcel by the Republican party, and they will attack. He better improve his ability to dodge and counter-punch or the fight against McCain will be a lot closer than it should be.