November 16, 2007
Roger Cohen on Obama. "The world isn’t voting. America is. But the candidate who most mirrors the 21st-century world seems clear enough."
This is really the main reason I work for Obama, we need to hand the torch of leadership to a new generation.
Aside from the fact that I think he would make a superb president.
He would get my vote.
Yeah, me too.
He would get my vote.
Yeah, me too.
This is getting weird.
This is getting weird.
In space, no one can hear you scr-
In case this important primer on the Democratic candidates has not already been linked to elsewhere, I think we all need to re-acquaint ourselves with it.
Y'know, if peeps here like to discuss politics at all.
Yeah, I remember whatzhizname. You know, the guy...
Well, then there's that other guy...
What were the issues again?
That one thing...no, this year it's that other thing.
David Brooks and Frank Rich agree.
Thanks for the David Brooks link. I rarely agree with him; on this, I do.
With Obama's Win, What to Expect at Fox News
The Freepers attack Obama
Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses
Thanks for the link, H - I think it speaks to what many of us, black and white alike, were feeling. I just couldn't stop repeating, "RFK. RFK." over and over in my head.
I have to admit -- I was a little stirred. He's nowhere near where I'd like him to be politically, as policy-wise, I see him in the mucky middle and not particularly distinct when it comes down to it. And he's no Shirley Chisholm or Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, but they didn't (and never would) make it. Perhaps he's the best we're likely to get. Nevertheless, it's refreshing to hear someone speak who can put a sentence together, who can speak and pull everyone up to something greater. I'm not convinced he's the visionary the country needs, but he's a hell of a lot better than the status quo.
I just got back from going to lunch with a few people. One of them was a female attorney. She is a Democrat and she plans to vote for Clinton. She said she did not like Obama because he creeps her out.
I asked her what it is about him that creeps her out. She gave a wandering reply which included her claim that he is Muslim.
I stopped her there, of course, and addressed the point. She continues to believe that he is Muslim.
Bear in mind that she is a lawyer. She is educated, and more intelligent than the average person. She also is a Democrat. And the smear Obama campaign has not even really begun by any stretch of the imagination.
I can't even fathom him winning the general election if it is so easy to make people believe he is Muslim and people will get so worked up about it.
Bear in mind that she is a lawyer. She is educated, and more intelligent than the average person.
I need to switch bars.
Clinton Aide: Obama Is For People Who Want "Imaginary Hip Black Friend"
Ouch.
I'm so voting for Optimus Prime - though I am worried about the attack ads: "Sometimes Optimus Prime is a robot, other times a truck. Which is it, Mr. Prime? America deserves a leader that doesn't transform whenever it's convenient." (from Bearguy's primer above)
But more seriously -- six million probs to Krugman's article on the Reagan Myth. That administration couldn't have managed a bake sale, let alone a major economy. They increased the deficit massively despite a boom.
See, the Democrats might be "tax and spend", but the Republicans are the "don't tax and spend even more!" party. It's like they studied a little bit of crazy Chicago school Economics, but skipped basic arithmetic.
It's always a WTF moment for me when someobody mentions Reagan or his administration as something positive or worth looking up to. Do people thingk we weren't THERE?
Obama, the Next Roosevelt? The Democratic Presidential Hopeful Might Be More TR Than JFK
Gore Endorses Obama
Not much of a news story, really. I just wanted an excuse to fanwank about what a good ticket Obama/Gore would be.
agreed if by good you mean good for Darrell Hammond.
That would be one hell of an interesting move, and could go a long way to bleeding off independents and those moderate Republicans who want the old McCain back.
Sounds like playing with fire to me - he'd sun the risk of alienating countless Democrats.
There are a lot of Democrats (even more since Nancy Pelosi rolled over) that are looking for their kick at the can. I don't know if they wouldn't vote for Obama, but at the very least, they'd make enough noise to seriously cripple him.
Personally, I think it's an interesting idea, to help move the U.S. towards a more cooperative form of government, but it'd be a difficult sell.
Jon Stewart examines the media’s affinity for smearing Obama
Obama reneges on earlier promises to strengthen church/state separation
Oh good.
Mr. Corsi called the Media Matters critique inconsequential because it was advancing a liberal, political agenda.
I'm getting a reading on my Hypocr-O-Meter...
“The goal is to defeat Obama,” Mr. Corsi said in a telephone interview. “I don’t want Obama to be in office.”
Oh yes -- there it is. Right in the red zone.
“There is a dispute about the date, and Kristol chose to side with Obama,” Mr. Corsi said. “We can nitpick the date to death,” he added, saying his “fundamental point” was Mr. Obama’s close association with someone ascribing to “black liberation theology.”
"Nitpick" here meaning "I refuse to admit I was incorrect."
And "black liberation theology"? Is there such a thing? I know there's garden-variety liberation theology, but that's not much to do with race so much as poverty, unless those divides are largely the same.
Nothing like ascribing your opponent to a school of thought which doesn't exist. In making him deny it, he legitimizes the claim. Brilliant!
And if Obama is a secret-Muslim, why the suggestion that he believes in a Catholic school of thought?
Oh -- there goes my meter again...
C'mon Capt. Obama's clearly a crypto-socialist-communist-stalinist-africanist-islamist-latinamericanist-papist-celebrityist. I mean, why else would people feel so threatened?
Because they're Obamacists?
(Or would that be Nobamacists?)
*braincramp*
"Nitpick" here meaning "I refuse to admit I was incorrect."
Which is a corollary to "We're not going to play the blame game" means "We're to blame."
Here's what the fallout of that ugly, bigoted little echo chamber can produce: Two hours ago someone walked into Arkansas Democratic Party headquarters and shot the party chairman three times. We have no clue as to the man's identity, much less his motives, but the fact that he changed cars as part of his getaway suggests to me that this was not a personal, hot-blooded attack.
Fucking hell. That's just awful, mct. Thoughts and best wishes winging their way over to Arkansas.
It's a little early to suggest that the shooting had something to do with fallout of that ugly, bigoted little echo chamber, no? Some reports are suggesting that the shooter may have been a recently laid-off employee of a car dealership that Gwatney owned. Whatever the case, horrible news!
It was not a former employee. He and Gwatney had never met, we know that much. The killer's identity has not been released, and he and Gwatney both are now dead. So I'm not prepared to say politics was absolutely the motive here, but strangers rarely kill local political figures for apolitical reasons.
Visual representation of most frequently-used words on McCain's and Obama'a blogs.
Pretty cool. It's kind of like the picture on the front of the mixed nuts can, which by law must match the actual proportions of nut varieties inside the can.
Does McCain's blog even mention his own name? Fascinating to see that depiction...
> Fascinating to see that depiction...
Yes, it seems to me that McCain's candidature must be more about "not being Obama" than about "being John McCain".
Obama Looks to Lessons From Chicago in His National Education Plan
I was notified today that my friend, George W. Bush, is about to mail me a $300 US cheque, right to my home here in Canada so that I can help stimulate the US economy. Well, by george, I am going to give the US economy the boner of its life by donating the whole $300 to Obama for America, and Mrs. TheDog is going to do the same.
Go America!
That's Richard Cohen. And he's spot on for this one:
(McCain's) ... opportunistic and irresponsible choice of Sarah Palin as his political heir -- the person in whose hands he would leave the country -- is a form of personal treason, a betrayal of all he once stood for. Palin, no matter what her other attributes, is shockingly unprepared to become president. McCain knows that. He means to win, which is all right; he means to win at all costs, which is not.
Oops.
Obama Deletes Another Unread MoveOn.org E-Mail
Inside Obama's Emails
For giggles: Baroque Obama
Roger Cohen on Palin.
I think I got the right Cohen this time.
More giggles: How to Win the Presidential Debate: A Graphic Representation
Damn, he's good.
Haysbert Says '24' Role Paved the Way for Presidential Hopeful Barack Obama.
i haz a frisson
Also, I think I caught a cold just watching him. I hope someone's waiting backstage with a blanket and hot soup.
*suddenly feels the urge to make a campaign donation*
OK, now I'm tearing up. I hate sharing an office with my boss.
Foreigners can't make campaign donations right? *sniffs back a tear*
Obama made significant gains in the polls today. 538.com now has him at 88.5% probability to win, and electoral-vote shows him for the first time with enough votes to win when excluding "barely" (<5% margin)states.
It was the holdin' babies what done it.
Pretty cool. It's kind of like the picture on the front of the mixed nuts can, which by law must match the actual proportions of nut varieties inside the can.
Which law is that? That sounds more like urban legend than fact.
Food & Drug Administration code 42 FR 14475
"If the label bears any pictorial representation of the mixture of nuts, it shall depict the relative proportions of the nut ingredients of the food. If the label bears a pictorial representation of only one of each nut ingredient present, the nuts shall be depicted in the order of decreasing predominance by weight."
Also applies to packaging of testicle pr0n.
Nun, 106, to back Obama after not voting since Eisenhower in 1952
Man, first the iPhone app, and now Obama's advertising in video games. Dude's campaign knows how to leverage technology like nobody's business.
"Barack Obama" the Bombay Democat to compete against "Renegade" the Republicat
Also, I evidently have been off Doonesbury for awhile, because I just now found out that, while playing two games of Horse in Kuwait, Obama hit eight out of ten from downtown.
Trudeau's got three more strips riffing on it, if you keep hitting the next link.
Would be cool if O named him secdef and he ended the war.
Yes it would.
Daughter of slave votes for Obama: 109-year-old Bastrop woman casts her vote by mail.
Game 5 of the World Series will start up at 20:37 Wednesday, i.e. after Barry's infomercial.
That's a lot of pull, considering he's not in the Big Chair yet. But MLB needs all the anti-trust help it can get, I suppose...
So what's the deal -- vote for Barry right now, in the next thirty minutes and get a free Sham-Wow?
You know what'd be funny? If Obama totally did his infomercial like an infomercial. "Abu-Graib? BUT THAT'S NOT ALL! Vote for McCain right now, and not only will you get the Abu-Graib AND Guantanamo, but extra-judicial wiretaps!" "Barack, that's unbelievable! How can McCain afford to give us all that?" "That's just it! He CAN'T!"
Hi-lar-i-ous!
Not only does Obama have his informercial on the teevee tonight, he's also on Jon Stewart.
Just so you know.
I heard it a little differently, that for the supremacists, there's a difference between inviting a black guy to your home for dinner, and your-house-is-on-fire-and-the-firefighter's-black.
News filtering through the office saying that Obama's grandma just passed away...
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Aah, jeez...
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Yeah, it was just on the BBC. So so sad.
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Very sad. Also like a Disney script or something.
More sad but less pathetic than some of the conservative response to it, as well.
I'm so glad he got to visit her recently.
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