<p>Hindoo, if you & interesteddad seriously call Obama ‘The One’ I salute you for pi**ing a lot of people off. Nothing more fun for me to watch than the right foaming at the mouth…</p>
<p>Obama may not win the election: but it won’t be because he’s not the smarter, better, more passionate, more COMpassionate candidate who made history before he became part of history</p>
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<p>Don’t forget Oprah Winfrey. She coined the phrase introducing **The One ** on her vacuous celebrity stadium tour.</p>
<p>This letter from liberals is no different from efforts by the right to persuade McCain to stick with conservative planks in the platform.
I don’t refer to Obama as The One; but I have occasionally referred to him as God’s Anointed.</p>
<p>Just for the record, my decision tree is as follows:</p>
<p>a) Does the candidate have the experience on the national stage to be President? If yes,</p>
<p>b) Does the candidate have suffficient gravitas to Commander in Chief? If yes…</p>
<p>c) Is there enough in the candidate’s record to let me vote for him or her?</p>
<p>I never even get to c) if the candidate fails a) or b) as does The One.</p>
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<p>d) does the candidate show signs of Alzheimers? </p>
<p>By the way, your decision tree clearly isn’t of importance to the people who elected Bush twice</p>
<p>Question: If Obama is The One, should McCain be called The Other? Or, in the words of Paris Hilton (whom McCain has quoted approvingly anent a slightly different issue but in the same ad), The Wrinkly White Haired Guy? Just asking.</p>
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<p>That never stopped Ron Reagan from winning landslide victories over the usual out-of-touch Democratic nominees.</p>
<p>“Question: If Obama is The One, should McCain be called The Other?”</p>
<p>Hopefully, The Runner-Up.</p>
<p>Nah - McCain should be called “The Better One”!</p>
<p>I post this knowing full well that McCain is a very complex guy w/ a penchant for cringe-worthy jokes or comments occasionally. I’ve come to terms w/ his “rough edges” in the same way that I’ve come to realize that I wouldn’t WANT to venture into a male locker room, sit in the dugout (I have!) or huddle in a foxhole w/ a bunch of guys. Men are men - they aren’t women - and we shouldn’t expect them to act like women. If they are crude or vulgar every now & then, I accept that - that’s part of what makes them MEN (such as they are!).</p>
<p>After being married for 25 years & becoming the mother of 3DS, I’ve realized that MEN are the ones who pick up the weapons to defend us in battle, MEN are the ones climbing into the cockpits to be slingshot off the deck of a rolling carrier, MEN are the ones to stand at home plate facing a 95 m.p.h. fastball, and MEN are the ones who populated that dark dark place all alone in Hanoi 40 years ago. If they want to spit, curse, make crude jokes, or any other thing that reminds them that they have external gonads, well who are we to say they can’t ot shouldn’t?</p>
<p>Therefore, I may cringe at McCain or other men sometimes, but I also thank God for them and for knowing if someone came into our house to harm our family, my DH would be man enough to defend us.</p>
<p>(Yes, I know there are women pilots, etc. I never said we weren’t SUPERIOR! We are - because we can do some of those things & not be vulgar too!).</p>
<p>Yes, groupie, some of them. He is also Retired Navy.</p>
<p>And for the record, he is not generally crude & neither are our sons, but he hasn’t had to really see hard combat or sit in a POW cell either.</p>
<p>I’m still not convinced JM knew the Buffalo Chip was a topless beauty contest & even if he did, he was just being silly - candidates for POTUS aren’t allowed to kid around??</p>
<p>And FWIW, I like a man’s man.</p>
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<p>Oh, for Pete’s sake, bz!</p>
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<p>Not if they’re Obama, apparently:rolleyes:</p>
<p>Back to the original topic. The far left is correct that Sen. Obama has abandoned his principles articulated during the nomination process and which lead to his victory against Sen. Clinton. I believe that if Sen. Clinton had been the nominee, she would not be changing her positions the way Sen. Obama is. Agree?</p>
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<p>Of course she would. Only the stupidest of stupidest politicians wouldn’t after that heated primary campaign. I hope she wouldn’t be so foolish to think that she could win with her leftist ideas (though not as far left as Obama) despite what history has shown and despite her husband winning on centrist policies.</p>
<p>They both knew what would happen when they got to the general election but you gotta do what ya gotta do to get there in the first place. Obama just got there, and she didn’t.</p>
<p>I’m not so stupid to believe Obama to be “THE ONE” (though I do consider him to be less sleazy than other politicians). He is human and has his faults. He lies etc. just like any other human on this planet. I will vote for him though for a myriad of reasons, and because at the end of the day I just plain ol’ like him better than the opposition. (and because I’d blow my brains out before I ever voted for a Republican)</p>
<p>All nominees (well, all who want to win) move to the center after the primaries. Some of them move back to the left or right after they win. Hillary was perhaps a bit closer to the center than Obama was, so she may not have moved as much. I guess Giuliani wouldn’t have had to move toward the center–but the fact that he was closer to the center was part of what kept him from getting the nomination.</p>
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<p>Yes, but interesteddad believes he’s THE ONE, and I, for one, will not disabuse him of that notion. Such adoration is endearing. :)</p>