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Irish:
You nominated a woman who I doubt could find Europe on a map. She's an ignoramus. She's another George W. Bush type: long on charm and bluster, short on knowledge or curiosity.She was a purely tactical pick in no conceivable way the best person for the job. And by picking her to be one 72 year-old heartbeat away from the presidency, McCain sold out his country for his ambition.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 15.09.2008 @ 02:47
Note to my fellow Obama supporters:
Obama has accomplished essentially nothing in the public sphere. It's a fact. Live with it.
My reasons to support Obama over McCain are 1) I prefer Obama's positions to McCain's, 2) I think Obama will do a better job of uniting the country, 3) I think McCain is a man of the past and Obama is a man of the future.
Stop pretending Obama is something he's not. It's waste of time and you're playing a losing game.
The appropriate response to accusations about Obama's lack of experience is to laugh and say, "You gave up that argument when you nominated the mayor of Wasilla." And then talk policy.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 14.09.2008 @ 14:28
Tim:
I think we're on the same side in terms of who we support. Diss McCain for his policies or even the man he seems, sadly, to have become in this campaign. But lay off the man's service.I don't know about you, but I've never taken fire for my country. I didn't spend 5 years in a cage in North Vietnam, and I'm guessing you didn't either. I think McCain is past his prime. And I think he's sunk pretty low in this race.
But when he was still John McCain he was a better man than me, Gunga Din. You, too, I'm guessing.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 13.09.2008 @ 17:53
Your own website puts the lie to your spin. The fact that you and other Obama supporters felt the need to rationalize the attacks with pictures of how he could have used the computer despite his injuries shows the effectiveness of the anti-Obama pushback. If Obama’s message was really as strong as you claim, why did you and others feel the need to bolster it? Seems to me an effective message should have spoken for itself, no?
Yeah, not so much. I do enjoy pointing out GOP bottom-feeding. That's always a plus. As to the net effect, I guess we can both wait and see how the polls look in a few days. Because right now it looks to me like 1) we're talking about McCain and not Palin, and 2) we're discussing McCain's age. His heroism -- and I have never had the slightest reluctance to say that McCain is not just a hero, but has in the past been one of my personal heros -- is a known factor. His being past his sell-by date is not.
My guess is your convention bump is about played out.But who knows? We'll see what we see.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 13.09.2008 @ 16:06
Slublog:
I've been biting my tongue, not wanting to help the "enemy," but you're getting played. You ought to see it. It's straight out of the GOP playbook.
Democrat message: McCain is old and out of touch. (I happen to think that's true, but purely as a question of tactics, setting aside morality, it doesn't matter.)
Now, what you all could have done was say, "No way, he's online all the time. He just doesn't do much typing himself, because of his war injuries."
Instead you all launched into full Republican phony outrage mode, screaming and yelling and rending your garments in the usual display of bogus affront. Thus magnifying the Dem's message.
The voter's take-away is: McCain is really old and out of touch.
Someone needs to have a talk with whoever launched this counter-attack. Wrong way Obama? Um, nope. Not this time.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 13.09.2008 @ 14:04
So, McCain is using a computer. And at the same time can't because he was a POW.
Well, thank God we've cleared that up.
Same tired phony outrage from the same tired phonies.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 13.09.2008 @ 13:07
I'll set aside specific quibbles and address the core issue you raise.
We aren't united because we aren't going anywhere. You can't rally a people behind a cause that doesn't exist, that they don't perceive. We've become a backward-looking people. Left as well as Right, we are turning European.
What are we after? What do we want? What are we setting out to do as a people?
The Right's answers are all strictly individual: get ahead, succeed. The Left's answers are all strictly governmental: more for this program or that.
But none of it forms a picture of where we are going, what we need to accomplish. The Right wants to exaggerate some threats and ignore others. The Left is a perfect mirror, exaggerating different threats. Both are wrong. It won't be Islamicists or global warming that destroy us. It will be aimlessness, passivity, trivialization and a sort of society-wide lack of focus.
We don't need a threat to unite us, that's why 9/11 didn't do the job. We need an idea of what we want to create. We need a future. And the future will have to be more than killing Osama and driving a Prius.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 12.09.2008 @ 06:49
OBAMA'S SPEECH: NOT BAD AT ALL
Dan:
Republican thinking on this is just as transparent, and just as wrong as yours. She'll tap the "Clinton vote?" I doubt it. She doesn't even support the rape and incest exceptions on abortion. She actually manages to have less experience than Obama. She's unvetted in a national campaign. She'll be seen as anti-environment. And she'll be seen, I suspect, as a condescending pander.She'll somehow attract Democratic women? How is that exactly? is it that women are so dumb they can't busy their little heads with issues but will vote for anyone with two X chromosomes?
How the mighty have fallen. The GOP reduced to setting lame gender traps for Clinton voters.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 29.08.2008 @ 16:45
I'd maybe make it a straight "B." I agree with you assessment in general and even agree that he'll run out a 5-6 point lead.
The Palin thing rests on a knife edge. Could end up looking like Republican affirmative action. Or she could charm her way into America's heart. I doubt it will matter much either way.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 29.08.2008 @ 10:26
HALFWAY HOME AND DEMS STILL CAN'T FIND UNITY
The Dems will be united when the vote comes. Stage one was Hillary opening the door for them. What will herd them through will be attacks on McCain. The PUMA's are enjoying the attention being paid them, and like any other "victim" group they're reluctant to do anything that will lessen their celebrity.
McCain will get the Reps, Obama will get the Dems. The Indies will break for Obama because McCain is a man of the past, and in the end this won't be "experienced" versus "inexperienced," no matter how much the GOP tries. It'll be past versus future. Americans vote for the future.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 28.08.2008 @ 05:42
