Saturday, June 21, 2008
Oh gee
I want to be in favor of Obama's candidacy. I loathe Billary's naked opportunism and power-hunger. I am scared of McCain for a host of reasons. But when Obama said he had no idea his pastor had said the outrageous things he said, I was dismayed because it was impossible to have been close friends and an influential parishioner and not know what J.Wright thought. Which meant Obama was dissembling, at best. Time passed and I'd kind of gotten myself to the point of thinking he's ambitious but not nakedly so and evasive about some things but who can blame him since a campaign is hardly even related to an administration. Now comes the "Obama seal" that's clearly modeled on the presidential seal. I mean, is this high school? It's so silly as to be pointless to mention it except that the man is running for the presidency of the United States. Can he seriously think millions won't ridicule him, minimally, or be outright disgusted? Is this the insecurity of a child abandoned by his father, a kind of Clintonesque idiocy, behavior that some waive off as meaningless but others view with (growing?) wariness? I've thought he seemed like an adult, as does his wife, and it would be so nice to have adults in positions of power.
Labels: 2008 election, people, ridiculousness
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| posted by jau at 5:36 PM
jau — at 11:41 PM, June 21, 2008:
ligneus — at 7:48 AM, June 22, 2008:
DADvocate — at 9:59 PM, June 22, 2008:
jau — at 10:51 AM, June 24, 2008:
ligneus — at 2:06 PM, June 25, 2008:
ligneus — at 7:57 AM, June 26, 2008:
| posted by jau at 5:36 PM
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jau — at 11:41 PM, June 21, 2008:
I wanted Thompson very much, as a matter of fact, but as soon as he threw his hat in the ring he went kind of catatonic about the whole thing. I'm still curious about that. He was on H&C on Fox the other night and was his old lively, mature, serious, smart, interesting self. So the good news is that he didn't have a personality-otomy. The bad news, however, is that there was something that completely didn't work when he was actually running. Our loss, that's for sure.
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ligneus — at 7:48 AM, June 22, 2008:
He really was the different kind of candidate that Obamae pretends to be. But hey, he's still around commenting and as I understand advising John McC. I guess to make the grade in politics you have to be a politician.
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DADvocate — at 9:59 PM, June 22, 2008:
It seems more and more we are expected to choose the lesser of two evils. This election has reached a new low, for the past 60 or 70 years anyway.
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jau — at 10:51 AM, June 24, 2008:
It'd be nice if you were right, Tony, but I fear Johnny is loosely hinged. If Obama were a fear-monger, he could use Hillary's 3-am-phone-call ad to good effect, but I'm guessing he won't go there. So tell us what's so good about JM?
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ligneus — at 2:06 PM, June 25, 2008:
Bottom line.
John McCain supported the surge when it was practically political suicide to do so, in fact he'd urged GWB to implement this strategy for a long time. At a time like this it doesn't hurt to have someone who seems a little loosely hinged, [I don't think he is] might make the Mullahs think twice though I don't see how war can be avoided. Could be that Israel will do the job for the US sparing either GWB or the next Pres having to decide. Not that that will be the end of the problem.
John McCain supported the surge when it was practically political suicide to do so, in fact he'd urged GWB to implement this strategy for a long time. At a time like this it doesn't hurt to have someone who seems a little loosely hinged, [I don't think he is] might make the Mullahs think twice though I don't see how war can be avoided. Could be that Israel will do the job for the US sparing either GWB or the next Pres having to decide. Not that that will be the end of the problem.
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ligneus — at 7:57 AM, June 26, 2008:
Just in case it's missed, you can hardly see the link 'bottom line' in my comment, without which it doesn't make as much sense. So here it is again.
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It's bad enough that he pulls such a crass stunt as the fake great seal, though it goes along with the pic of him protecting his balls as the National Anthem was playing, the absent lapel pin, etc, but to have no realization at all that he was doing something wrong shows just how un-American and clueless he is.
If you wanted a grown up in the White House, Fred Thompson should have been your man but not the whining sophomoric Obamas.
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