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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Tell us where Obama should mine the talent to run the country if not from the Clinton White House - that most of us look back upon fondly - and the Washington Democrats. Anyone who voted for Obama expecting anything else but a pragmatic centrist just wasn't listening to the man - he was very hawkish - promising to unleash our forces if he detected a threat, promising to fight al qaeda, promising to hunt down bin Laden, promising to ramp up the troops in Afghanistan, promising fealty to isreal - did YOU not listen - or did YOU hear what YOU wanted to hear? I appreciate Joan's words and agree for the msot part...particularly on Gates - did YOU want CHAOS in the middle east JUST as Obama was taking office? Gates can ALWAYS be replaced, but has earned accolades
from BOTH sides...
Be patient and trust the man you voted for. But most of all - GROW UP!
I think it was on David Letterman's first show after the 9/11 attacks.
Rudy Guiliani was his guest. And when Dave asked about his working relationship with Washington during the crisis, the mayor replied...
Thank God we elected the right man. The alternative would have been a disaster. We have the right man.
Ah, certainty!
I'm with you. Beyond the obvious examples (Stweart and Colbert), there are many "serious" liberals with fantastic senses of humor: Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann (yes, angry and blow-hardy, but also deliberately funny), Stephanie Miller. Writers as diverse as Studs Terkel, Garrison Keeler, Tina Fey, Dooce ...
Barack Obama has a fantastic sense of humor. So do both Clintons. Al Gore has a fun dry wit (despite the insistence that he's "boring"). I think Barney Franks is wickedly funny.
As you say, many in the GOP are "funny," but not intentionally so. (Rumsfeld comes closest, but, I'm not convinced he was in on many of his own jokes).
And conservative funny guys? What, Dennis Miller? Ann Coulter? (The best I can come up with is P.J. O'Rourke, and to be honest, I don't know how he reconciles his intelligence and temperment with his politics). Well, if that's your idea of "funny" then I can see why one would not understand "liberal humor."
you're grateful joan. Now MOTUS can start to negotiate and bond with the terrorists. It's just what you've dreamed of.
Of course we both know that that won't work and MOTUS will hug many of the Bush policies to keep the attacks off our shores. He and you will just never admit it.
DIABLO
Bravo to your insight. Sorry that it can be painful but it is better now than late.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
I have confidence that in time, the American people will realize that rhetoric is not leading.
That politicizing the differences we have as Americans do not make a good leader.
I knew that my decision in a largely liberal area, Calif. , was not popular but I did stick to thehttp://www.realpics.net/view.photo.php?id=1260218 realization that McCain had the experience. Experience mind you that was criticized as being part of the Old Guard. He was compared so many times to Bush that I thought Bush was running for a third term.
I truly believe America made a blunder in electing a junior senator who campaigned on recycled jargon from a era that was full of upheaval. We were in upheaval but not based on race. Yes we are at war but 9/11 did happen and the war was a consequence. The financial crisis wasn't a big part of this campaign until the last few month. Obama pointed the finger at everyone but himself. He has this financial mess all over himself as well as members of his staff. The 1960's were about Change. We have no change with Obama. The Republicans did not even invite McCain to their Conservative Think Tank-
He was never considered conservative enough for them, and too conservative for the retread liberals of an earlier generation. I wish I could have done more for the campaign. I just assumed America would have thought before they voted. No, they did not, they jumped at the chance to be part of something. Next time maybe they should just go to block party or parade or a comedy show. I feel that the joke is on us.
Thanks Diablo for pulling Obama's covers.
Maybe in retrospect I am thankful about this election, maybe America will wake up from its nap and figure out what research reading and analyzing actually means. Then gratefully they may vote for a leader and not just a politician who speaks well.
Gobble Gobble
Humor is humor
Don't over anal-ize shit to death
The strain'll give you a big brown brain tumor
"Id-norance"
Is a good word
Monsters from the Id
I remember the invisible Id monster From "Forbidden Planet"
Back when I was a kid..
The Id monster was a psychic construct
Made actual physical matter
By the mind of the jealous Dr. Morbius
And the ancient science of the long extinct Krell
The Id monster was pure mindless rage
From the bowels of an ancient hell..
Think4Myself: would you have been comfortable with Sarah Palin as a President-in-Waiting? That's the reason many people gave for voting for Obama.
As for experience, nobody in this year's campaign has experience being president because... they haven't been president. (Quoting Bill Clinton "Nobody is ever prepared to be president.") As far as I know, there's no "Commander-In-Chief Simulation Program" available (except, perhaps, some cool video games being given as gifts this holiday season).
McCain can't keep the names of his terrorists straight, says the fundamentals of the economy are sound as it's headed over the cliff (admitting on more than one occasion that he doesn't know much about economics), refuses to pull the 'palling around with terrorists and having dangerous preachers as friends' smear tv ads and robocalls that ran in red states like Virginia while claiming he didn't support such nastiness, etc. Is that integrity you can count on?
How experienced was Lincoln when he was elected? George W. Bush had FAR greater experience as a executive (by being governor of Texas) than McCain but we see how depending on that political bromide worked out, don't we?
I think it's refreshing to see what Obama is doing, not because we necessarily agree with the politics of his appointees and nominees but because there is a desire for intelligent solutions instead of advancing hard-line causes like Cheney wanted to do through Bush. Obama is tapping smart, experienced people for their expertise rather than people with a warped sense of loyalty.
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
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