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<p>I do it because it’s funny. The irony that we just removed a dictator in the Middle East who has a similar name is now going to be our president. That seems pretty funny to me.</p>
<p>Ahh. Light bulb goes on. While I was at the drugstore today someone called asking if this Southern California chain drugstore had The New Yorker… I had no idea why. Now I know.</p>
<p>“Also, don’t forget that the money she uses for her charitable works was earned selling beer.”</p>
<p>Oh yes, the dreaded beer… the root of all evil.</p>
<p>From Johnathan Alter’s Newsweek Column, “Pictures Speak Louder than Words”</p>
<p>"For a while, I thought only rightwingers and other Obama haters bought into the lies being spread about him. Then I got a call from Ross Perot, who was trying to plant some dirt about John McCain leaving live POWs behind in Vietnam (untrue, by the way). In the course of the conversation, it became clear that Perot thought Obama was a Muslim. When I informed him that Obama was actually a Christian, Perot was relieved. He didn’t hate Obama; he just had an instinct to believe whatever he happened to see online over what he read in reputable newspapers.</p>
<p>In this, alas, Ross Perot has plenty of company, and among people with a much less conspiratorial bent. Americans have become so distru****l of the mainstream media (MSM) that they instinctively disbelieve much of what they read and hear from us. But if misinformation arrives online from someone they’ve never heard of, they figure it must be true. It’s our newest form of cognitive dissonance."
[New</a> Yorker Obama Cover: Pictures Speak Louder Than Words | Newsweek Voices - Jonathan Alter | Newsweek.com](<a href=“http://www.newsweek.com/id/146217/page/1]New”>http://www.newsweek.com/id/146217/page/1)</p>
<p><—puts down glass of beer in order to type with both hands</p>
<p>Hunt:
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<p>Please provide a list of acceptable business ventures.</p>
<p>Mr. Payne:
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<p>That is because you are neither a whiner nor a hypocrite.</p>
<p>quote from #72:
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<p>That’s funny.</p>
<p>Ross Perot thought the Republicans were going to send aliens in spaceships to kidnap his daughter at her wedding.</p>
<p>Jonathan Alter complaining about people rejecting the media for lack of credibility: that’s rich.</p>
<p>HUnt:
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<p>I don’t don’t see people “whitewashing” the McCains. Most Republicans are holding their noses in order to vote for him. I also don’t see most people attacking the Obamas. Attacks are coming from the rude far right, and the rude far left, against both candidates. </p>
<p>Frankly, I’d bet that 90% of all Americans like the Obamas better than the McCains, but that 55% percent of all Americans will vote for McCain in November (because Obama is far left, sorely inexperienced, and has some questionable associations). From a personality standpoint alone, however, we’d all be WAY happier with the Obamas.</p>
<p>I just don’t know how I am going to listen to and look at John McCain for four years. That isn’t very nice, is it? Sorry. He just really bugs me. I have more respect for an inexperienced, flaming liberal who will destroy our economy and military with the very best of intentions than a guy who is a Democrat but calls himself a Republican. On the other hand, as a thinking American I have to do whatever I can to prevent the highly likeable Barack Obama from being elected, because it would be really, really bad for our country.</p>
<p>“I just don’t know how I am going to listen to and look at John McCain for four years.”</p>
<p>That’s how I feel about both candidates, but more so about Obama.
Since his grandmother speech, which he thought was so profound.</p>
<p>I am hoping that McCain will get someone goodlooking (or hot?) to balance the ticket. Any suggestions out there?</p>
<p>I think Mitt Romney is hot. I can’t believe I am admitting that. I’m in a playful mood, I guess. Obama is hot. Who else…The Governor of California is hot, but he can’t ever be president. Huntsman from Utah is hot. Who else, who else…</p>
<p>Maybe we should just pick the best person (you know, their ideas and all of that). If they are all awful, though, choosing on looks really isn’t so bad, is it? No - that would mean Obama. I can’t do it.</p>
<p>Tega, you are right. The most impt thing in that issue is Ryan Lizza’s article that you’ve provided the link to. It would be a tragedy if the cover kept people from reading the article and fully digesting it. That potential is the only negative I see to the cover. otoh, maybe the cover will attract readers; we’ll see.</p>
<p>I haven’t yet finished Obama’s first book, but so far I think the two most influential people on Obama were Lolo and Gramps. Got his salesman personality and talent from Gramps, and his concept of power from Lolo. Doesn’t seem to actually respect his mother much. May be reading between the lines, but it’s there imo. I think Wright is much less of an influence than most people think. Joining Trinity was a political move. You have to read everything out there to get a handle on this guy, but slowly the puzzle pieces start to fit together.</p>
<p>I also listened to Teri Gros interview Lizza this afternoon on NPR. I suggest hearing the interview on their website when it’s posted. Very illuminating.</p>
<p>mercymom, I have done my research on Obama, and the narrative being perpetuated by his media choir that “he is a different kind of politician” is just baloney. The “journalists” spreading this falsehood are counting on the electorate not doing their homework on Obama, if you have done the bare minimum research on this guy, you would find out that he is your typical dishonest Chicago politician. </p>
<p>There is nothing progressive about his ideas because he has never being a progressive politician. I always want to gag when these “journalist” talk as if he is the second coming of the Messiah. For me. he is not qualified to be the commander in chief because he has done absolutely nothing in his ENTIRE life to indicate that he can handle that position. </p>
<p>For the undecided voters, please read the article I provided above. We have a choice between four (Green, and libertarian included) typical politicians in the fall, and it is better to gather a lot of information about all of them before you make a decision.</p>
<p>“I do it because it’s funny.”</p>
<p>Suuuuure you do. You think it’s funny because it annoys those dang lib’rals.</p>
<p>And RatedPG, in my opinion the media has been much too easy on Bush.</p>
<p>There’s always the SC governor, Mark Sanford. He’s younger, attractive & fiscally conservative.</p>
<p>Not sure if he’s in the running for VP tho’.</p>
<p>And I’m certainly not a fan of Obama’s speeches. I don’t know how he gets the rep of being so great - take away the teleprompter and he stutters and stammers all over the place. I thought one was taught not to say “Uh” in public speaking and he does that constantly!</p>
<p>I don’t find Obama appealing at all, as to me his lack of character overrides any appeal he could have otherwise. </p>
<p>Agree about Mitt Romney. Otherwise, they should think about getting a woman to run with McCain. There is a good shortlist.</p>
<p>“And I’m certainly not a fan of Obama’s speeches. I don’t know how he gets the rep of being so great - take away the teleprompter and he stutters and stammers all over the place. I thought one was taught not to say “Uh” in public speaking and he does that constantly!”</p>
<p>Agree with above. I think his glimmer has been going for awhile. But maybe he’ll win Wyoming, as the Dems didn’t seem to care about PA, MI, FL, CA or TX! They have a habit of trying to blow races with weak, controversial candidates.</p>
<p>I wish they would just save the money and cancel the conventions on both sides, and just declare the candidates by an email vote. The conventions are a sham, anyhow, for this election.</p>
<p>I agree with swatparent… McCain should choose a woman running mate.</p>
<p>Can anyone say the Chicago machine?</p>