“Happy Days” Are Here Again

Obama would make a good Fonz, the cool guy in a leather jacket who could just snap his fingers in a crowd to demand attention. But then some would say that resembles Rovian creativity a bit too much.

>>>Elitist:

"I don't care attitude gave America 8 years of Bush. We can't afford to sleep in this election."
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I DIDN'T vote for Bush....

But because I agree we can't afford to sleep through this election....
I WON'T be voting for Barack!

I like a man who finishes one job before he begins another.

The only things Obama has completed were the two semi-autobiographical novels loosely fashioned after his life and well written albeit untrue... sort of a/la James Frey.

In Chicago, we stil have low rent housing developments begun when he was a state senator about nine years ago. which are still in the development stage.

In fact, the only thing which has risen in Chicago ... has been the sales tax.... and that takes the cake for now being the highest in the country!

In the senate, he has still to call a meeting for his Afghanistan/ UN committee.

I like a President who has accomplished something more than just hiring a great campaign organizer... otherwise, we can just electe Axelrod...

HILLARY OR MCCAIN

BUT ALWAYS...

COUNTRY BEFORE BROKEN DOWN DNC PARTY

since mccain is much older, does that mean that only the young and stupid will vote for nobama?

People are getting over sensitive with the racial stuff. And its not good, because when someone actually says, does something racist, which I predict is bound to happen between now and november, the media reaction is going to have people rolling there eyes because they will have heard people cry wolf once too often.

Bill Clinton's South Catrolina comment about Jesse Jackson at least sounded racist, because Clinton seemed to be suggesting Obama won that State because of the color of his skin. Beyond that I have not yet heard much truly racist happen. Maybe some of the Jeremiah Wright furore was caused by a lack of racial understanding, on both sides. But I don't really think it descended into racism. Wright was making some fair criticisms of America, albeit in inflammatory language, and some of the response to Wright took him toooo literally. Right now thoughI say get on with looking at policy and issues of character, and leave race out of the race.

To discuss the interesting point raised: the "too skinny" thing isn't about blackness, but it IS just ridiculous. The WSJ is just grabbing at straws.

On the other hand, as Gergen noted to you last weekend, the "uppity" line is DEFINITELY all about race. Somehow Obama doesn't know his place, and that's just not OK. Never mind that his is basically a Horatio Alger story. Come on, why is it news that people running for president to have some self confidence? Isn't that what we want in a leader, after all?

It also has the side benefit of kissing up to Bill Clinton. THAT is an interesting story in itself: McCain's people are stroking the big dog's wounded ego.

It still amazes me that the Republicans after being in power the last 8 years, have the nerve to try and change the debate from real important issues challenging America right now and if not rectified will send America down the road of history like ancient Rome.
I for one want dialog pertaining to the issues, not lies, distortions, character assasination and Paris/Britney.
We should expect and demand more from our politicians. The I don't care attitude gave America 8 years of Bush. We can't afford to sleep in this election.

Obama 08

Obviously liberals aren't ready for a black man to be president. They're constantly seeing the racist bogeyman lurking around every corner. For people who claim to not care about skin color, they sure do concentrate on it and talk about it a lot. And let's not forget that we've a substantial number of them say that they'll vote for Obama just because he's black - something about atonement and moving on. Well guess what; there are plenty of us who have "moved on" to the point where we don't have to consider race when we vote. We can vote on experience and qualifications without any qualms of guilt!

Let's have a law similar to Godwin's Law from the Usenet days. Godwin's Theorem is that the longer a discussion goes on any topic, the probability someone will be compared to Hiter approaches 1 (a certainty for the Harvard business grads here).

We are announcing Obama's Law: the longer a discussion of Obama's failure to get higher poll numbers go or any discussion of a flaw in Obama's campaign goes, the probability of someone being called a racist approaches 1 (a certainty for the Harvard grads here).

The penalty for violating Godwin's law ais the violator is immediately pronounced the loser and the thread stops. The penalty for violating Obama's Law is the person is disqualified from voting in November and has to scrub Laura Bush's kitchen floor in Crawford.

Like the death penalty, it should reduce recurrence and recidivism.

There's no doubt that the Obama campiagn (and their minions in the media) will brand anyone and everyone a closet racist if they say, well, ANYTHING about Obama. This stupid little game that they are playing only makes them look completely foolish to regular Americans. Trying to always be the victim is going to come back to haunt Obama.

Discussion of Obama's tremendous self-regard

What evidence do you have of "Obama's tremendous self-regard" in relation to other politicians? You have to be a little full of yourself to run for political office, surely you as a political reporter must have seen this in every person you have covered. Are you suggesting that McCain somehow is a humble man who doesn't have a huge ego?

I will not vote for Senator Obama because he is not honest, never has been and never will be. A liar is a liar and it has nothing to do with race.
But of course, some Obama supporter will want to call me racist.

Seems like a discussion about ANYTHING hurts Obama. The more discussion, the more he is revealed as a big-talking grievance prince who would throw away the things that have made this country great for 2 centuries. You know, little things like capitalism, self-reliance and personal responsibility.

Can we talk about McCain's appearance without it being viewed as ageism?

I do think it's a stretch to connect being skinny with being black. There are times I've thought George Bush was getting a bit too thin.

I don't care if Obama was a green alien from Mars. I want the bums thrown out!

I'm tired of this paralysis by over racial analysis.

Who cares if it's true or not?

Just another distraction from the fact that John McCain doesn't speak for his own campaign.

maybe barack should just stop talkiing about himself all the time.

problem solved. nobody can be called racist, and nobody can be baited by what he's saying.

win/win for everyone!

Obama is the one who keeps bringing up the fact that he is "skinny." All of that, "I may be skinny, but I am tough" stuff. Character on Happy Days was "Sticks."

How about these for code words? Barack "I'm not sent from Central Casting" Obama.

Or these? "Who sent you?"

The Slate article sounds to me like a stretch.

But google "the brute caricature" and you might find some parallels with some of the imagery slipped in there by Republican talking heads, especially Pat Buchanan who recently compared Senator Obama to a bull being taunted by a matador in one of his columns.

JerfyT: "Your blindness to subtle racism is really pathetic."

I don't think it's subtle racism at all ... I believe we're seeing subtle weightism. Weightism can be hard to spot and sometimes is mistaken for body fatism.

I saw that column, and I concluded it HAD to be a joke, because surely, the writer wasn't serious.

I'm pretty tired of being told that, if I don't like Obama (particularly as I am a liberal) then it must be b/c I'm racist. Can it be his inexperience, his arrogance, his flipflopping? Nope, it's his skin color, say the zealous ones on Huffington Post.