Comments on: Poor Napoleon

By: Write

Write — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:49:08 +0000

The major news media write these days again and again that Barack Hussein should win over female vote of Hillary’s supporters, see ABC for example. Hmm, I am not a female (sure!) wont vote for Obama-baby or McCain (again sure!) so ABC and the likes have counted me out. BUT NEVER COUNT OUT A CLINTON! You will see she will become a President next January. That’s the point. In the meantime Barack can continue to inhale until the year 2016 and John to distance himself away from Bush until he founds himself in his Arizonian house.

Yes, I will write-in Hillary no matter what the ballot will look like on the Election day. Go on, Hillary!

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:12:40 +0000

I’d personally love it if he’d bring in the Jefferson Airplane to dust off and reprise *Gotta Revolution* (c. 1969). But I think we have to accept that it’s the calm before the Nobody-Knows-What. The netroots are circling Joe Lieberman again, but Reid et. al. won’t give up his head on a stake until they see what’s up for the next Congress, which suggests that they don’t necessarily see a Senatorial landslide in their immediate future. There could be a major terrorist attack. The markets might tank on a 1929 scale. I think Obama is doing what HRC would also have done: recognizing that s/he’s asking the country literally to do what it’s never done before, and, as obviously virtuous as that is, playing things pretty carefully. Academics and the commentariate have the luxury of wargaming it however they like, but it is pretty much unmapped territory out there. I’d be surprised if the candidates and parties didn’t move very carefully over that territory. Clinton would have been a bit more of a risktaker I think, because she’s more experienced and has more of an intellectual than an intuitive approach to political strategy, but not by that very much I’d guess.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:54:07 +0000

p.s. Well, Hillary Clinton today voted the right way on FISA, and the other guy? Not so much.

See Lambert’s post at Corrente, which he calls, “Just sayin’.”

By: Historiann

Historiann — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:42:38 +0000

Hi Roxie–welcome back! I’ve enjoyed your vacation snaps. No, Springsteen isn’t on board yet–but I’m pretty sure they’ll enlist someone big to ensure they can fill the stadium. I just used him and Stevie Wonder because Wonder has played pre-speech events for Obama before, and Springsteen was big in Kerry/Edwards ‘04, as you recall.

And SF: both McCain and Obama are lurching to the right, and to the status quo, so yeah, it’s pretty dull now. (But, this is just the calm before the post-Labor Day storm, of course.)

By: SF

SF — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:53:01 +0000

I also want to say that I had expected a really interesting campaign season. I thought Obama was going to be just as feisty with McCain as he was with HRC. Things have gotten so boring and anticlimactic. Of course, going back to an earlier discussion, the media plays a role in the dumbing down/boring up of the political discourse. I have the feeling that HRC would have made things more interesting and intense.

By: Roxie

Roxie — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:24:23 +0000

The moms are jet-lagged and just catching up on the news, but is Bruce Springsteen actually performing at Emperor Barack’s coronation rally, or were you mapping out a fantasy? Please confirm, and thanks for helping us get back in the loop, Historiann!

By: Historiann

Historiann — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:52:41 +0000

Hi hysperia–right on about the “Left” in the U.S.

I’d take another LBJ in a heartbeat, quite frankly. He was a crude man, and a bully, but he got stuff done. We need someone with his mojo now, not equivocation or “post-ideological” leadership. Vietnam will probably continue to overshadow his courageous leadership on Civil Rights and the War on Poverty, however, which is tragic.

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By: hysperia

hysperia — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:41:01 +0000

I watched CNN News tonight for a godforsaken ten minutes just so that I could hear all about Obama’s “sensitivity” to being accused of disappointing “the lefties”. Ah, I truly don’t mean to be rude but I question whether the US really has a “left”. But, apart from that, Carl Bernstein then smugly commented that “as for the left, they’ll NEVER be satisfied”, as if that is the fault of people on the left rather than of those who are constantly betraying them. He went on to say that Obama is “post-ideological”. Jehosaphat! From whence did he pull that and what the hell does it mean?!?

I just have to say, poor LBJ. Yeah, he showed every sign of being a bully but he is also the man who, through acts of pragmatic political genius, finally managed to get civil rights legislation passed. I know it’s impossible to say, but personally, I seriously doubt that JFK, for all the talk of Camelot, would have gotten that job done. He really wanted to avoid that issue and he and RFK constantly admonished MLK to “be patient”. And shut up!

Ah Barackstar. He really did seem hurt when I watched him complaining about the reaction of some of his constituents to the betrayals of the last weeks. Maybe he just wants us to LIKE him. REALLY like him!

By: Historiann

Historiann — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:17:18 +0000

Yeah, well, Steveeboy–I don’t need to win a single electoral college vote this fall now, do I?

And, by the way: this is not a post about elites versus the working class. It’s a post about the dangers of living up to stereotypes!