Obama -- American Badass

[Troy McClure]

Originally Posted by kagenaki koe

Obama should bring it up himself during the last debate "So, John...is there something about me you want to know about?"

And then after saying that, maybe give him a *wink* a la Gov. Palin.


Or am I just pouring salt on the wound? --Jason

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Originally Posted by Troy McClure

And then after saying that, maybe give him a *wink* a la Gov. Palin.


Or am I just pouring salt on the wound? --Jason

Obama's married. He actually respects that union.

Don't fuck up in that area Obama, my girls will make your life hell.

I guess I should add, if Bush had only one saving grace, respecting his wife would be it.

[Deckard]

"A 106-year-old American nun living in a convent in Rome could well be the oldest person to vote in the 2008 US Presidential election. Sister Cecilia Gaudette, who last voted for President Eisenhower in 1952, has registered to vote and says she will vote for Democrat Barack Obama."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7665925.stm

UNPATRIOTIC LIBERAL TERROR-SUPPORTING TRAITOR!!!!!!!

[cacophony]

well the southern evangelicals already think the catholics are crazy cultists so this news will not shock them.

[cacophony]

also, margaret and helen: octogenarians for obama.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by cacophony

also, margaret and helen: octogenarians for obama.

What an incredible website. Thank you for linking it.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Obama's plans for the economy here

(Still reading it myself so I shall comment later but seems solid enough to me at first blush.)

[Sean]

The Washington Post, a conservative leaning paper, has endorsed Obama today. Their explanation was a bit scathing towards McCain's campaign at times:

The choice is made easy in part by Mr. McCain's disappointing campaign, above all his irresponsible selection of a running mate who is not ready to be president.

But it's also clearly praising Obama:

It is made easy in larger part, though, because of our admiration for Mr. Obama and the impressive qualities he has shown during this long race. Yes, we have reservations and concerns, almost inevitably, given Mr. Obama's relatively brief experience in national politics. But we also have enormous hopes.

...Mr. Obama's temperament is unlike anything we've seen on the national stage in many years. He is deliberate but not indecisive; eloquent but a master of substance and detail; preternaturally confident but eager to hear opposing points of view. He has inspired millions of voters of diverse ages and races, no small thing in our often divided and cynical country. We think he is the right man for a perilous moment.

[cacophony]

i really dislike the practice of newspapers endorsing candidates. it's one thing for editorial writers to endorse a candidate on an individual level. but for the whole publication to do so seems.... wrong. for reasons i can't quite explain.

[Strangelet]

Originally Posted by cacophony

i really dislike the practice of newspapers endorsing candidates. it's one thing for editorial writers to endorse a candidate on an individual level. but for the whole publication to do so seems.... wrong. for reasons i can't quite explain.

Totally agree. you just can't expect them to objectively look into their pet favorites, in other words, like, do their job. And maybe that's the intent as more news outlets are actually advertising their political biases, coddling the consumers, advertising their confrontation free chatter that provides little more service than to assure them they are right to believe what they already believe.

Which is strange when their pet favorite is a thing like an unjustified, pre-emptive, bloody war. Would news paper readership still be plummeting had more news organizations actually looked into the claims of wmds? And not blandly passed over what has turned out to be arguably the least popular foreign policy decision ever made by our government?

And would the reputation of journalism as a profession not be powerless against the opinions of hannity, olbermann, rush, and maddow, if there were no such vaccuum for them to fill and become the new information sources?

I enjoy exposure to all the names mentioned, but if I had to choose between saving olbermann and hannity from a burning building I would be too busy making sure hannity went down to save either of them.

which is a kind of pathetic situation, all summed.