Comments Posted By michael reynolds
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IT'S GETTING CROWDED UNDER OBAMA'S BUS
All I can say is we better snap out of it before we elect the most incompetent, the most naive, and perhaps the most dangerous man ever to run for the office of the president.
Run! Ruuuuun! Flee the Obama! Vote instead for, um. . . Wait, it'll come to me.
Post #18,284 in which a conservative blogger tries to terrify us with the specter of Obama. I figure we're about two weeks away from desperate righties accusing Obama of being a flesh-eating zombie. I mean, seriously, does the man eat human flesh? Because I've heard there's a videotape somewhere of Obama snacking on a very suspicious-looking thigh bone. Maybe you and Captain Ed can locate it.
Your hero H.L. would have sniffed this guy out before he even declared his candidacy. He would have turned this hypocritical jackanape into ground meat and cooked him for lunch.
Guys like Mencken used to be the real gatekeepers in this country. Pity the press is more cheerleader than vetter these days.
ed.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 12.06.2008 @ 07:08
ENEMIES OF AMERICA! BE OF GOOD CHEER - HOPE IS ON THE WAY!
Retire:
You make my point perfectly. You announce that you're making the case for McCain and promptly launch into Obama-bashing. "Things can get a lot worse?" Is that going to be the GOP rallying cry this year? "Sure, Bush is an incompetent and we've sacrificed any claim to we may have as a party to be taken seriously, but Obama: booga booga booga!"This will totally work for you guys. Absolutely keep this up. The key to victory is demonizing your opponent while maintaining a stony silence about your own alternative.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 10.06.2008 @ 00:52
And once again, Paranoid Obama Obsession Psychosis rears its tedious head. This rant was just kind of stupid. Which is odd because you're not a stupid man or a stupid writer. But you're sounding unhinged. (Which does not differentiate you from most conservative bloggers.)
Lacking any capacity to make a case for Senator McCain you chew and chew and chew over the Obama cud, getting ever stranger in your analyses, ever more divorced from anything that anyone but your fellow obsessives could find relevant.
You're arguing that Mr. Bush has let baby Assad run wild and free so we'd better look out when Obama is elected? Really? That's your position? Flee from Obama because he may agree to talk to the Syrian dictator who is currently in talks with Israel? Um . . . what?
You know what? Your team's got nothing. You know that and have written about it very convincingly. But you're imagining that you can fill the emptiness with Obama-bashing of an ever more strained and desperate caliber. But the absence of any kind of positive agenda is only highlighted by the shrillness of your attacks. The entire GOP platform can be summed up in two words: fear Obama.
It's getting old. It'll just get older. If you guys just keep digging that hole, Obama will carry 40 states.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 9.06.2008 @ 15:58
THE ALIENS HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED
The only real question here is: what effect will the alien invasion have on the election?
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 1.06.2008 @ 05:27
REACTION TO NORTH CAROLINA AD A TASTE OF THE FUTURE
This is a case where the truth -- even a cynical truth -- would have helped Obama. I strongly suspect he joined the church for purely political reasons: 8,000 congregants in his district and instant street cred in a low income black population from which he is, by virtue of his personal history and top-notch education, distanced.
"Why did I join this church? I was a community organizer, and the church gave me a platform. And I was an aspiring politician and I knew the church would help me gain traction in my district. If I wanted to do good, I knew I would have to compromise with people I didn't entirely agree with. This was one of those compromises."
He'd have taken some sneering hits for being a cynic, but let's face it, all politicians have a degree of cynicism. So do voters. It would have cauterized the wound.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 26.04.2008 @ 12:34
A CORRECTION, A RETRACTION, AND A PREDICTION
Dude. I think maybe that third nine should be an eight. Which totally invalidates your point.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 24.04.2008 @ 21:58
That's a pretty fair analysis. Of half the problem.
Yes, liberals think the people are uneducated simpletons whose core beliefs are nothing but ignorance. But conservatives do exploit race and gender and do it in the service of the money wing of the Republican party. The GOP has been using evangelicals and values voters as foot soldiers in the service of an agenda that comes down to "Money: More."
Sheep are for shearing, Rick, and both parties stay busy with the clippers.
Is Obama an elitist? To paraphrase you: duh. So am I. So are you. So is everyone in the leadership of both parties. Just about everyone who holds power, or makes money, or has influence, is an elitist. Successful people tend to believe in their own superiority. I'm pretty sure John McCain and Hillary Clinton also have rather high opinions of themselves, and correspondingly low opinions of any number of people who disagree with them. And Obama's snotty remark about people "clinging" to religion finds its counterpart in Republican's contemptuous attitudes toward people with whom they disagree.
The question is, who is going to do something about people with no health insurance? Who is going to win the war against terrorists? Who is going to figure out how to address the trillions of dollars' worth of promises we've made and can't keep? There's a long list of serious problems and rather than ask ourselves who, among the remaining inadequate three, (and we're not talking Washington, Lincoln and FDR) is going to actually do something useful, we're spending our time playing gotcha and discovering that McCain is cranky, Hillary is phony, and Obama's arrogant.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 13.04.2008 @ 09:58
OBAMA BELIEVES IRAQI GOVERNMENT BEHIND IRANIAN "SPECIAL GROUPS"
gayle:
Thanks for demonstrating the difference between adult conversation on important issues, and the raging, silly, superficial discourse typical of too many people online.It would be great if we could start to deal with actual issues, actual problems actually facing the country. You'd rather name call.
Whatever.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 10.04.2008 @ 17:13
I agree with Rick. I am so weary of these idiot gotcha moments. It's tiresome. It's boring. It's irrelevant. There are plenty of actual differences between Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain for us to talk about. And from where I sit both men deserve respect and the assumption that they are worthy representatives of their parties.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 9.04.2008 @ 21:13
Ah, baseball. Statistics, steroids and sloooooowness, all together in one sport.
I kid. I kid the baseball cultists.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 5.04.2008 @ 09:03
