Compared to the last two candidates for potus, you could’ve dressed two semi-retarded limbless baboons in leisure suits and had them look like quality candidates this time around.
But I do agree that Obama’s probably the most qualitiest candidate we’ve had, in my lifetime anyway. McCain, not so much…
If you look at him as a “decorated war veteran/POW and reformer who pissed off lots of stuffy Washington insiders” he seems much more palatable than “former reformer who sold out for one last run at the Presidency”.
I don’t believe he’ll have any more time for the conservative nutcases after the election than he ever did before seeking the nomination.
I’ll play.
Lord Obama is on record as saying he supports Canadian’s rights because he believes people are born that way and don’t choose it, and that he does believe Canadians can attain salvation. You’re going to love him as Autocrat of the Americas (and there’s even talk of a bilingual coronation in Montreal when he comes to liberate you).
Hey, he’s a noble American if ever there was one. But I don’t think much of him as a candidate for president. Because he ultimately is a former reformer who sold out for one last run at the Presidency. Plus, he’s kind of a mean, crotchety ol’ boar (and bore).
I agree, I think he’s a total sellout on most-to-all of his socially conservative positions. I can’t say he’s a real liberal, but I truly believe that he mostly doesn’t give a shit on issues like abortion and gay rights. I also think if his own party hadn’t stabbed him in the back and allowed him to become president 8 years ago, we’d be looking at 16 years of Republican presidents, minimum.
I’m on the fence about people like Bobby Jindal. On one hand, it could be a massive fakeout because he knew it would be hard to rise fast in the Democratic Party as an Asian. He tends to softpedal the hatertalk in public and drive focus to his economic policy. On the other, he can be pretty convincing about having drunk the krazy-aid. But intelligent design, what? He has a freaking bio degree from Brown. Maybe he holds pujas under cover of dark.
I feel like sheep doing it, but ok.
I was living in Louisiana when Jindal made his first run for the governorship and narrowly lost. I often wonder how Katrina would have been handled were he in office at the time. He seems quite intelligent. But he believes in ID? Oy gevalt. My formerly fairly good opinion of him (and I say this as a lifetime Democrat) just took a serious nosedive.
So I have to say: cite? Not that I’m disagreeing, just wondering where you’ve seen that info. It certainly never came out in his pre-Katrina run for governor.
ETA: I decided not to be so lazy and ask someone else to look; I found this New York Times article (registration required, I believe) that discusses it. He appears to be not so much a proponent of ID as not an opponent. Which doesn’t change my newly-altered view, alas.
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I had a little meltdown in another thread talking about Jindal; don’t get me started on him.
I had to tease my Great-Aunt, who’s 80 yrs old and a diehard Republican, by not pointing out my Obama bumper sticker (Illinois Senate run, we’re Old School) until AFTER we’d reached our destination. She then tried to peel it off our Honda. No dice, that sucker is stuck on good.
Oh, what the heck… I’m in!
Hey, if I did it for the likes of Leaffan, I can certainly do it for Barack.
I was going to do “Obama Country for Old Men,” but someone else can have it if they want (making it “Nobama” is one letter too long, unfortunately).
I never said we had two candidates that I would vote for.
I’m in! First time in 8 years that I’ve had something in my location field.
I’ll show you Obama’s hat!
That looks like a still from a 70s blaxploitation film.
*Who’s the black nominee
who’s gonna whoop ass on the GOP?
Barack!
Damn right!
Who is the Hawaiian
Who left Bill and Hill all cryin’?
Barack!
Can ya’ll dig it?
*
Me too. I’m still surprised at my fellow Iowans. Hell, I thought we were backward too.
I’ll second that. I like McCain, like him a lot and respect the hell out of him. It’s funny, I always vote Democrat because I like Democrat policies better, but I always like Republican PEOPLE better overall. The best folks I’ve personally known have been Republicans. If Dems weren’t such a browbeating holier-than-thou lot, I could actually consider joining their party.
That Barack is one bad ass mother f—
SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
