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For One Missouri Newspaper, It's Obama Versus McCain
An Obama aide sent me this front page from today's Southeast Missourian -- a sign that visits like yesterday's stop in Cape Girardeau, in the swing state of MO, may start garnering him the sort of general-election-has-begun local coverage he's looking for.
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Today Obama hits Michigan, and expect to see more of these visits in coming days.
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I actually considered endorsing Obama last night, thinking, well, compared to most politicians he's not that bad, probably not dumb, and maybe even up to the job, despite a lack of any clear evidence to prove it. But then I thought, the three presidents in modern (post 1900) history with the least experience, by far, are W, Obama (assuming he were elected) and JFK. And W and JFK are actually among the worst, along with Harding.
W and JFK: loutish rich kids who went to Ivy institutions based on family money and social class. Undistinguished academic careers.
Obama: pompous middle-class kid who goes to Ivy institutions based on checking the "AA" box. Undistinguished academic career.
W: "businessman" living off sweetheart deals from people wanting a connection to Sr.
JFK: "writer" of Pulitzer winning book, written by someone else.
Obama: "law professor" who never published a single scholarly article, usually a requisite to teach law.
W: governor for a few years
JFK: Senator for a term
Obama: Senator or a few years
Performance:
W: well, pretty obvious
JFK: because he got assasinated, people get all weepy over Kennedy, but he was in fact not at all that good a president.
Obama: well, as Borat says, if you want, you can let a monkey fly a plane, but watch out, you don't know what's gonna happen!
So you have guys who never actually accomplished anything on their own, who are privileged by one reason or another, whose purported achievements are actually make-believe, and then they have the serious responsibilities of the presidency to handle.
Sorry, Obama's not proven and definitely not ready.
May 14, 2008 9:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
"I actually considered endorsing Obama last night, thinking, well, compared to most politicians he's not that bad, probably not dumb, and maybe even up to the job, despite a lack of any clear evidence to prove it."
You should actually be running extremely fast with a sharp pair of scissors, playing Russian Roulette with a full handgun, or jumping out of a helicopter with a faulty parachute for Christs sake - anything to stop your dumb ass from being so fundamentally lazy, how many times are you going to re-post the same drivel. Kill yourself already.
May 14, 2008 9:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Please, don't feed the trolls.
May 14, 2008 11:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Obama: pompous middle-class kid who goes to Ivy institutions based on checking the "AA" box. Undistinguished academic career.
Pompous!! I love it. The internet is for fucking crazies.
May 14, 2008 9:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
President of Harvard Law Review isn't "undistinguished."
May 14, 2008 9:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Please, do not feed it.
May 14, 2008 9:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
This troll has been banned numerous times under various screen names. Report Milla variants to:
talk@talkingpointsmemo.com
May 14, 2008 9:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just to be clear, the troll I was referring to was Godzilla!Milla, not AdAbsurdum!
May 14, 2008 9:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yep!!
May 14, 2008 9:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Can you not just ban the commenter's IP address?
May 14, 2008 10:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
I know better than to reply, but I cannot resist myself...
But wait! He seems open minded but, dammit, the evidence is simply overwhelming to any reasonable mind....
Is he saying sorry to himself? To us? Why to us, if he was the one on the cusp of 'endorsing.' If its just for himself, then why f*ing post? What a loser.
If only...IF ONLY..Obama had proven himself. Damn. Oh well, nothing to see this election cycle. Move on, folks.
May 14, 2008 10:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sure Obama's gonna miss rolling out an endorsement from Godzilla. Imagine what that would do for his favorability ratings among hardworking Americans and patriots.
May 14, 2008 9:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
WSJ:
Three former chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission will publicly endorse Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's bid for the presidency Wednesday, including one who served under President Bush.
William Donaldson, who was SEC chairman for about 2½ years from early 2003, along with Clinton and Reagan appointees Arthur Levitt and David Ruder, will join former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker in endorsing Sen. Obama, his campaign said. Mr. Volcker endorsed Sen. Obama in January.
May 14, 2008 9:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Greg, Eric ... time for another troll alert - the infamous Milo/Mila/Ludmilla/Yilla "thing" is back, this time under the guise of Godzilla. I have to say, though, I am pretty impressed with his tenacity. You'd think after getting banned 4 or 5 times he/she would give up. ;)
May 14, 2008 9:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Come on.
No one has done more for Missourians than Barack Obama.
May 14, 2008 9:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
well, for people who are supposed to be ignoring me, I'd say I've got your full attention. which is good, because you fools need someone like me to set you straight.
May 14, 2008 9:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's like the freak show at the carnival...It's hard to look away.
May 14, 2008 10:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
I am shaking so much my latte almost spilled on the floor of my Prius...!
Now that we have your attention Godzilla, what do you want to say? (stop sniggering at the back!)
May 14, 2008 10:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Please, don't feed the trolls.
May 14, 2008 11:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Curious. I live in Austin and have about a 30 minute commute in the mornings. I listen to NPR religiously and they usually have a rundown of the democratic primary during Morning Edition. Today, after Hillary's big win in West Virgina - not a word about it. The coverage was on the tragedies in China and Burma.
Anybody else noticing something similar today?
May 14, 2008 10:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ditto on NPR. Also, in my local paper, the news was bottom of the fold, lower right hand corner.
May 14, 2008 10:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, but I too live in Austin and listen to NPR on the way to work, so no surprise there.
May 14, 2008 10:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
It was on page FIVE of the San Antonio paper. (Not a lot of pages in the Express-News.)
May 14, 2008 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well sure.
He wants to talk about almost anything after getting his clock cleaned in W.Va. He will continue to pretend that state doesn't exist/doesn't count.
After all, they are all just bitter "typical white" people clinging to their guns and religion.
May 14, 2008 10:27 AM | Reply | Permalink