A friend of mine told me he’s not voting based on who’s running for President.
He’s voting based on who’s running for Vice President.
He’s theory is neither of the guys at the top of the ticket are likely to make it through their first term.
(I fervently hope that’s not the case no matter who wins, best viagra look btw.)
2 comments November 2nd, 2008
A friend of mine who is going to vote for Barack Obama said to me that a President Obama would “govern from the center.”
I don’t know where this “govern from the center” line is coming from.
You even hear it coming from Conservative newspapers and pundits who have endorsed Obama.
I’ve never heard Obama say he’s going to govern from the center.
His voting record in the Senate is far left.
If he wins, discount viagra cialis his party will be in control of the executive AND legislative branches.
What possible reason would he have to “govern from the center”?
I’m telling you right now that if Obama wins he will NOT govern from the center. He’ll claim a mandate to “change” America. That change will take the form of a boatload of leftist policies that most of his supporters will be thrilled by and all of the folks who somehow think the office will transform the man will be shocked by.
3 comments October 31st, 2008
…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
Add comment October 31st, 2008
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“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.”
1 comment October 30th, 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.
Add comment October 28th, 2008
History shows that motivated college students don’t always make the best decisions.
1 comment October 26th, 2008
“Don’t underestimate the capacity of Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”
Do you think he was talking about his plans for Iraq?
4 comments October 25th, 2008
This fundraising advantage comes directly as a result of Obama’s abandonment of his pledge to enter into the public financing system, viagra sale sale a system creating to squelch the influence of money in presidential politics.And while Obama’s campaign can rightly claim an unprecedented number of donors, and myriad small donations, it has also refused to abide by principles of full disclosure — it does not provide the public with the names of any donors who have given less than $200, for instance.
And amidst legitimate inquiries about some of that money coming illegally from non -U.S. citizens, and some of that money being given — in aggregate — in excess of individual contribution limits, one wonders why it is that the Obama campaign feels this refusal to inform the public where all its money is coming from in any way squares with Obama’s claim to be a reformer.
Just as it’s tough to envision a world where it’s the Obamas who have an unmarried pregnant teenage daughter and conservative pundits are celebrating that fact and demanding that the girl be given privacy, it’s tough to imagine a scenario where the media allows McCain to tiptoe away from his campaign finance pledge, untrammeled, and then drown his opponent in cash, the donors for much of which are undisclosed.
2 comments October 23rd, 2008
No matter how much of your money they already have, cialis pharmacy they just need more:
Just to relieve himself of that $150 million before the polls open, Obama will have to spend $12.5 million a day.
But he needs some more.
And, according to an e-mail plea to supporters, tonight’s the absolute deadline to donate $10 more and receive your special edition Official Obama-Biden car magnet.
Having now collected more than $605 million altogether, the freshman senator shows no concern over the appearance of buying the presidency. Imagine for a moment the national political conversation that could be going on now if rich Republicans had raked in that much loot for one campaign.
3 comments October 23rd, 2008
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Come Inauguration Day, cialis buy pharmacy the pressure groups will be tearing up the playing field to score points with the man. Black folks aren’t going to be any different. Obama’s shadow base is revving up to produce a monumental turnout. That gives them major dibs on Obama.America’s black leadership needs to get steppin’. It’s not too early to start mapping an agenda. Start with equitable educational opportunities for African Americans. Fifty-four years after Brown v. Board of Education, mind black schoolchildren are still relegated to the bottom of the educational opportunity barrel.
Urban schools need more resources than their relatively meager tax bases can support. Expand school choice options like vouchers, build more charter schools, ramp up federal funding. The New Triers are not going to move over for the Simeons. It’s time to jettison the fraudulent No Child Left Behind initiative and replace it with a creative, no-nonsense plan.
Black America should demand that Obama cease his shameless pandering to the People of the Gun and launch a full-throttle crusade for sensible gun control. While he has been out on the campaign trail, dozens of Chicago children have been slaughtered in the streets.
Everyone is for “affordable housing.” Yet the federal government has retreated from its decades-long commitment to housing the poor. The funding is paltry and our political will is paralyzed. For instance, Chicago has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to transform public housing. The national experiment has been a boon for the elites and a bust for the poor.
Job One for black advocates: Back top Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett for HUD secretary. She is well-prepared for the treacheries of the Washington Beltway. Jarrett has stood down an array of Chicago characters, from cranky transit riders, vociferous public housing activists and mendacious aldermen. Her prescriptions will have the president’s ear.
Don’t get me wrong. Obama will prevail precisely because he is the New Black. He is a candidate who knows how to reach across race and ethnicity, to build — and govern — beyond the base.
Still, he will step into the Oval Office courtesy of overwhelming turnouts dug out of the red hills of Georgia and the gritty concrete of Newark.
There will be a debt to pay.
Black folks will be ecstatic about making history, but they won’t settle for history. We are still treading on an uphill climb. A national black agenda is non-negotiable. There may be a New Black coming to the White House, but it’s still the same old USA.
I wonder if someone should tell her that victorious black politicians who win using multi-ethnic coalitions are very unlikely to pay special attention to a black “agenda.”
See, an African-American Democratic President KNOWS black people are going to vote for him no matter what. He can basically take their support for granted. What he can’t afford to do is make the whites and Latinos who voted for him feel like they got a bait and switch.
Trust me, if Barack Obama is our next President, he is going to do everything in his power to make sure it doesn’t seem like he’s carrying out a “national black agenda.”
At least, not until a second term.
1 comment October 21st, 2008