tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11318515.post8640156356317946630..comments2023-11-02T01:58:43.148-07:00Comments on in a vault underground: Take your feel-goodery and shove itjeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06313206057933336246noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11318515.post-57200263346965494072008-02-09T14:10:00.000-08:002008-02-09T14:10:00.000-08:00BG -I love ya, too, and I'm sorry if you find my t...BG -<BR/>I love ya, too, and I'm sorry if you find my tone off-putting and my views "extremist" and "reactionary." My tone for all my posts is pretty consistent. Click on that label--titled "political'n'shit," no, less--and you'll find that my general tone has always been snarky. And how in the hell am I attacking his character? The article to which I link are documents recording the junior senator's ACTIONS (i.e. having a anti-gay pastor stump for him in the south, and voting for a liquified coal bill that is steeped in big business).<BR/>Then I merely ask for people to not jump on the feel-good express because he is an excellent orator and holds ridiculously nebulous ideas like "bringing people together" and "hope" and "change," and I point out that he spends money which does not exist.<BR/>And my final plea is just to compare the platforms of the two candidates and make a decision for YOURSELF.<BR/>Its not an attack. I just don't like the guy.jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06313206057933336246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11318515.post-2466947467865413162008-02-08T14:11:00.000-08:002008-02-08T14:11:00.000-08:00JJ - I think the opinions you've stated come off a...JJ - I think the opinions you've stated come off as reactionary, and your polarizing critique is off-putting and extremist. Of course you are entitled to your opinion, but the voice you've used here may best be reserved for movie reviews and personal experiences; not a political canidate's character and intentions. (save that fear mongering role for Fox news) <BR/>I will thank you for causing me to take a harder look at who I support. I love ya, but I think your delivery here was miserable.<BR/><BR/>xo BGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11318515.post-1640960013701946692008-02-07T21:33:00.000-08:002008-02-07T21:33:00.000-08:00I don't dislike him. I just don't know him. And,...I don't dislike him. I just don't know him. And, frankly, I see him as unknowable. We're expected to hope or to have faith that he'll heal the country. That Republicans will decide to reach across the aisle in this magical spirit of bipartisanship. Because they would have been doing that all along. They just didn't have the right person to inspire them to do so. Yeah. That's gotta be it.Earl Cootiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13204523494279709530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11318515.post-23728050601156495052008-02-07T07:38:00.000-08:002008-02-07T07:38:00.000-08:00I've thought the same things as you, and still pre...I've thought the same things as you, and still prefer Obama. (I've gone back and forth many times between the two). It worries me that he hasn't taken bold progressive stances. The New Yorker has this to say - <BR/><BR/>"Obama’s Democratic critics worry that his soaring rhetoric of reconciliation is naïve. But, as Mark Schmitt has argued in The American Prospect, Obama’s national-unity pitch should be viewed as a tactic as well as an ideal. It might lengthen his coattails, helping Democratic candidates for the House and the Senate in marginally red districts and states. It would not protect him from attack, of course, but it would enable him to fire back from the high ground. And, as a new President elected with a not quite filibuster-proof Senate, he would be in a better position to peel off the handful of Republican senators he would need to make meaningful legislative progress than someone who started from a defensive crouch. Hillary Clinton would make a competent, knowledgeable, and responsible President. Barack Obama just might make a transformative one."<BR/><BR/>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/02/11/080211taco_talk_hertzberg<BR/><BR/>And if Hillary gets elected that just means Rush Limbaugh will have a lot to say and I'm so tired of Republican blowhards who will have years of research to start out the next presidency with. <BR/><BR/>-TAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com