Comments on: Sunday Open Thread

By: ruthdfw

ruthdfw — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:08:53 +0000

my only concern is that this will set them up for unnecesary criticism about giving the oppt to someone else in the party.

By: 99 Percent Sure

99 Percent Sure — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:19:27 +0000

As usual, you hit the nail on the head, CraigHickman. I initially didn't support Obama because I saw no real differences in him and the Clintons; I saw both of them as corporate candidates. Obama has incorporated more populist policies in his campaign, and he has rejected public campaign financing, but he still has corporate bundlers. I understand that, to some extent, they are a necessary evil.

Though he slung his schlong outside of marriage, I like Edwards because he rabidly attacked corporatism; IMO, he had a great populist message. I still like his poverty eradication plan as well.

By: 99 Percent Sure

99 Percent Sure — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:06:59 +0000

From the start, Michelle Obama has been prominent on the stump for her husband. She appeared before thousands at UCLA along with O!, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger, a couple of days before Super Tuesday. In fact, her speech was so persuasive that I became an Obama supporter at that moment, voting for him rather than Edwards on Super Tuesday, since Edwards had already suspended his campaign. The Clintons were never an option, nor were any of the other primary candidates.

Mrs. Obama became a target for the neo-cons et al. because she was so out front from the start of the campaign.

This is a different time and a different campaign like no other, so it is perfectly reasonable that she would be a speaker at the 2008 DNC Convention.

By: CraigHickman

CraigHickman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:01:43 +0000

According to many in these parts, he, in fact, did endorse Hillary before talking about himself and then stating his support for Barack almost like an afterthought.

I didn't see it that way when it happened, but now I do.

By: Teacher

Teacher — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:53:38 +0000

YES! It looks like you've nailed it. Except, if he was part of the Clinton machine, he would have endorsed her instead of O. If she literally had half of the popular vote (18 million) and was REALLY winning, why wouldn't he give her further validation?

By: CraigHickman

CraigHickman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:50:30 +0000

You think like I do.

By: CraigHickman

CraigHickman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:38:53 +0000

So if he chooses the Mormon Romney as his running mate, there will be some merging, if you will.

By: CraigHickman

CraigHickman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:37:39 +0000

He wasn’t a very good running mate for John Kerry, and as a presidential candidate, he always struck me as being about 2 inches deep.

2 inches, huh?

Go Gail.

By: CraigHickman

CraigHickman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:31:36 +0000

I think he's right of Bill Clinton, quite frankly.

But he's has more a grasp of the human condition than Hill Billy Jeff ever will.

That's why folks think, erroneously, that he's a left winger.

By: CraigHickman

CraigHickman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:29:20 +0000

EE knows she married an egomaniac. How can she not know who her husband of all those years is.

Same way Hillary knows Bill is a predator.

In both cases, the women accept who their husbands are and clearly know what's up.

No shame in that game.

Politically, however, they deceived folks.

I don't pity them one bit.

By: CraigHickman

CraigHickman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:11:28 +0000

Say it again.

By: CraigHickman

CraigHickman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:10:07 +0000

I thought the same thing.

By: ruthdfw

ruthdfw — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:08:53 +0000

my only concern is that this will set them up for unnecesary criticism about giving the oppt to someone else in the party.

By: 99 Percent Sure

99 Percent Sure — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:19:27 +0000

By: 99 Percent Sure

99 Percent Sure — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:06:59 +0000

By: CraigHickman

CraigHickman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:01:43 +0000

According to many in these parts, he, in fact, did endorse Hillary before talking about himself and then stating his support for Barack almost like an afterthought.

I didn't see it that way when it happened, but now I do.

By: Teacher

Teacher — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:53:38 +0000

By: CraigHickman

CraigHickman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:50:30 +0000

You think like I do.

By: CraigHickman

CraigHickman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:38:53 +0000

So if he chooses the Mormon Romney as his running mate, there will be some merging, if you will.

By: CraigHickman

CraigHickman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:37:39 +0000

He wasn’t a very good running mate for John Kerry, and as a presidential candidate, he always struck me as being about 2 inches deep.

2 inches, huh?

Go Gail.