…partially captures the disquiet I feel about the crowds Barack Obama draws:
My boyhood, viagra sale cheap and the Arab political culture I have been chronicling for well over three decades, help are anchored in the Arab world. And the tragedy of Arab political culture has been the unending expectation of the crowd — the street, cheap we call it — in the redeemer who will put an end to the decline, who will restore faded splendor and greatness. When I came into my own, in the late 1950s and ’60s, those hopes were invested in the Egyptian Gamal Abdul Nasser. He faltered, and broke the hearts of generations of Arabs. But the faith in the Awaited One lives on, and it would forever circle the Arab world looking for the next redeemer.
America is a different land, for me exceptional in all the ways that matter. In recent days, those vast Obama crowds, though, have recalled for me the politics of charisma that wrecked Arab and Muslim societies
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October 31st, 2008
Until now:
Aerosmith has generally left the politics to bands like U2 and the Dixie Chicks, best viagra viagra but axeman Joe Perry says national security and economic woes have prompted him to split from the rest of the entertainment world and throw his support behind John McCain.
“We pretty much stay out of it, viagra generic pills but seeing so many people come out for Obama, case I just felt like ‘What the hell, I might as well raise my hand for this side,” Perry said from his Duxbury home.
The Bay State rockers have done a few fund-raisers for the Kennedy family over the years, but Perry’s endorsement of McCain marks a first for the platinum-selling guitarist/songwriter. A lifelong Republican, he said he was inspired to come forward because of ringing McCain endorsements from Rudy Giuliani and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“I’ve been a hardcore Republican my whole life,” he told the Herald. “My mother and father drilled into me from the very start that if you work hard and be positive, you’ll get what you’re working for. I guess I’m living proof of that.”
Of criticism about McCain’s age, Perry said: “My mother’s in her 80s and she does aerobics. My manager’s 70 and he’s right there. That doesn’t bother me.”
And despite lopsided polls, he urged his fans to get out and vote.
“I’m an optimist. It ain’t over till its over,” he said. “I think that he’s got a chance.”
My favorite part: “…but seeing so many people come out for Obama, I just felt like ‘What the hell, I might as well raise my hand for this side”. That just cracks me up.
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October 30th, 2008
As if there were anything you could add to it.
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October 30th, 2008
…say:
“When I was in fourth grade, cialis usa sovaldi sale I split my peanut butter and jelly sandwich and I gave it to my friend and he (John McCain) said, viagra usa advice ‘Look he’s a redistributionist!'”
…I thought, buy viagra “OK, but that was your sandwich. You didn’t take someone else’s sandwich and give half of it to your friend. If you had, everyone would have been angry with you because even fourth graders know stealing when they see it.”
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October 30th, 2008
This is hilarious. Until you actually take a moment to think about it, generic viagra case then it really is sort of scary. (Perfect for Halloween.)
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October 29th, 2008
…it makes less money.
When the government does a bad job, cialis generic remedy it’s an excuse to take more money.
October 29th, 2008
When former Milwaukee alderman Michael McGee is done serving his term in prison, viagra sale cheap he’ll be elected to serve a new term on the Milwaukee Common Council.
October 29th, 2008
From Daily Dollop:
Editorial: McCain Should Concede
[In the interest of early compliance with the reinstitution of the Fairness Doctrine, viagra generic remedy ed we are bringing you this special editorial from the New York Times.]
On the eve of this historic presidential election, cialis usa sovaldi instead of focusing on the historic transformation of the United States from a racist backwater into a leading nation for progressive values, see the entire world is captivated by one question: what is John McCain thinking?
The aged senator, whose Panamanian birth certificate admits to at least 72 years, insists on holding a vote on November 4th. Worse, he and his running mate, the nattily-dressed siren from Alaska, insist that they actually may win a victory in the election, inflaming passions around the country and dividing an already-fragmented electorate.
We ask why McCain insists on maintaining this fantasy, and the answer is that, deep within his crusty heart, he must hate this cradle of liberty. Why else would he force voters to the polls to choose between the future and his benighted version of the past?
Doubtless there are some holdouts, locked away in their mountain-top cabins, who will take a break from polishing their automatic weapons and writing their six-hundred-page manifesto against society, and turn out to vote for the worst-prepared vice presidential candidate in the history of the republic and her fossilized running mate.
Regardless of that, though, Obama will surely sweep through the polls like a breath of fresh air after passing an open-air sewer, and the country will be woken from the nightmare of the Bush presidency into a new dream of cooperation and sharing that will lift our spirits to new heights of glory.
One for all, and all for one, just like the musketeers of old!
After the pain of the 2000 stolen election, and the unseemly Swiftboating of John Kerry in 2004, it is only right that we unify the country by acclaiming, not voting, for the next president. Obama needs to know that he has the full support of every citizen of this nation, and that we will not tolerate any form of dissent of any kind.
If John McCain were half the honorable man he claims to be, he would concede now, before the election, and allow Obama to sweep into office unanimously, with the full backing of an all-Democratic congress to allow them to do the repairs to this leaky country that it so sorely needs.
To do otherwise is, dare we say it, unpatriotic.
October 28th, 2008
I agree with almost every word the Mad Rocket Scientist said when he was explaining why he decided to vote for John McCain:
Not because I’m a huge fan of McCain, generic viagra help or Palin for that matter, tadalafil but rather, because Obama scares me.
And Obama in and of himself doesn’t scare me much, but rather, the way people respond to him does.
See, I’m of the belief that the Republican party has, for the most part, lost their way, and are now another party for big government just so long as the growth is in the security and enforcement divisions (buy the public off with security), and the Democrats have become the party of the government giveaway (as in, let’s give tax money or relief or benefits to the “little guy” in order to buy the public off). Both are crap as far as I’m concerned, so when I vote, I vote with the intention of keeping both parties with enough power to keep the at each others throats. This helps a bit to keep wasteful spending down and to bring about laws and budgets that have the most extreme crap culled from them. It’s far from perfect, but right now it is the best I can hope for.
So, since we have a Congress with strong DNC control, I want the veto pen to be in the hands of another party, and since we have a two party system, that means the GOP. Since this election cycle does not show the weakening of the DNC control of either house of Congress, I have to vote for McCain on that basis alone.
But what about Obama?
Obama as a politician does not excite me. He does cause me fear either, because let’s face it, as a politician, he’s pretty lackluster.
But as a public speaker, he’s got Charisma. Other politicians may not respond to him very strongly, but people do. People respond to him the way people respond to movie stars, or Elvis, or the Beatles. He is a cult of personality unto himself, even if he did not intend it. People love him, and borderline worship him, which all by itself is pretty fucking creepy. Political leaders should not be that popular, and that leads to the big problem.
The big problem is that any person who runs for federal political office, especially the top office, has to be a bit narcissistic. A person can not actively pursue that seat of power without being in love with themselves, and enjoying the affirmation of it. And his wife is not helping things either, because she sells him just as hard as anyone else. And no one, I don’t care how strong their character, or how strong their mental discipline, can stand in the face of such massive adoration of the people and NOT begin to buy it, NOT begin to believe that maybe they really are “All that and a bag of chips”.
Also, such adoration means that when the guy in charge screws up, people are much more apt to give him or her a pass, which is a bad thing, since it encourages a person to be careless the next time as well.
THAT scares me away from Obama.
Politicians are supposed to be public servants not pop idols.
A democracy is safest when it regards its leaders with a healthy cynicism. Every leader I ever recall seeing being adored in the news reels ended up being guys who should never have been given the keys to their governments.
Barack Obama is not a God, or a savior, or our “only hope.”
He’s a politician.
Quit it with the giant rallies.
Cut out the literal singing of his praises.
Start looking at the guy with the sort of healthy suspicion that every man who seeks power deserves.
Honestly, I’m with the Rocket Scientist here, you’re creeping me the hell out.
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October 28th, 2008
I’ve had to have the bandwidth limits raised twice in the last two months.
Now, generic viagra patient I just hope the election will be good for the country.
October 26th, 2008