what are barack obama's flaws?

seriously that's the funniest shit i've read in a minute

Before joining the newspaper, she was a senior adviser for the Republican National Committee and was appointed a public affairs director in the Department of Health and Human Services by President Bush.

Right now Obama is holding his cards so tightly to his vest it would be about impossible to discern any of his intentions once elected, apart from those carefully-shaped and electorally-advantageous ones which are officially embalmed in his stump speech soundbites. Very few of those will survive contact with political reality.

We won't see him really shake loose from this mode until after Nov. 4. I wonder if he'll ever come to a point in his presidency where he can cut loose and start freewheeling a bit. Or if that is contrary to his nature.

Is that a paraphrase from a post on The Corner?

If so, then it was transmitted to my brain via the luminiferous ether, because I don't read The Corner.

This is simply my impression of the last month and a half since the Republican convention. This stage of the election is all about caution if you're the clear front runner and the undecided vote is not especially large. The election is his to win or lose. He's playing not to lose. Not a very astonishing choice, really.

As for political reality, adding an extra trillion dollars in federal debt in the past 50 days has left Obama very little wiggle room for attaining his platform.

As for 'his nature', he strikes me as quite circumspect and cautious by nature. He speaks in bold strokes, but seems to act with containment. I could be wrong. He'll no doubt grow and change in the job.

No president in my lifetime has grown in the job, except malevolently.

Maybe you're the problem.

You never know.

Not saying that O can't do it, but FISA and "I love markets" are not encouraging signs.

didn't tell liar/homicidal fuckup Colin Powell to shove his endorsement

seems intent on winning election, within grasp with fortnight to go.

besides - not that he shouldn't - but has he even responded yet? i've heard him mention it in a speech, but nothing else.

Oh, with supporters like these....

"On that Saturday 10,000 households in Scranton were canvassed for Obama and another 5,000 canvassed on Sunday. I realized that we did just what the "Chicago Machine" would do. I had seen it often enough in my youth: the Ward Boss, the Precinct Captains, and the Block Captains...caring and knowledge of the individual affairs of each citizen goes with the system...The audacity of it: to build a nationwide machine based on the Chicago Machine. Now nobody groan - the Chicago Machine WORKS. We have seen the birth of a huge, wonderful Machine, the new Dem Machine, which will carry us all forward into an Age of Mutuality."
-- Martha Miller

"Being a liberal and a young upstart, I always questioned things - especially my superiors. Over the last month I have stopped this habit...By and by, the Mother Brain has earned my respect. Instead, I take comfort knowing that my time is not taken for granted; my superiors use me efficiently and intelligently. To me, that matters more than you know."
-- Ryan Kushner

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beverly-davis/otb-campaign-journals-oba_b_135285.html

I realized that we did just what the "Chicago Machine" would do.

holy shit.

build a nationwide machine based on the Chicago Machine

holy shit.

the Chicago Machine WORKS

christ on a cracker.

Well, a mirrorworld anti-Chicago Machine where there's no neighbourhood coercion or turkeys, yeah?

I think you get the option to be wired into the Machine OR Mother Brain.

"the new Dem Machine, which will carry us all forward into an Age of Mutuality."

Somewhere, Huxley laughs?

xpost to suzy: or graft, bribery, extortion, racism, waste, arrogant flaunting of all of the above, and on, and on, and on...

This is a book that person, however well-meaning, has obviously not read.

The other day my mom started foaming about La Machine Chicago - and tying O to same - based on living there for one year only. Try to argue with her and she's all OH YEAH, I BEEN TO HYDE PARK - IN '67.

I think she should have stuck around for 1968.

http://bp1.blogger.com/_WriF8m2mVt0/SBe9zYQnloI/AAAAAAAABs8/4xsk-CjVrQo/s400/David+Douglas+Duncan--Dem+Con+68.jpg

(What makes that photo is the banner in the distance reading "HELLO DEMOCRATS!")

It's possible that he's a little TOO awesome ...

haha Dr. Morbius you should e-mail John Dean, tell him you found the liberal authoritarians finally, they're no longer a theory.

were they ever just a theory?

I think they're a whole corner of that ideology graph thingy, actuellement.

I think that well-known ideology graph thing (http://www.politicalcompass.org/index) is pretty clearly a libertarian indoctrination tool.
There's a whole body of literature surrounding the concept of authoritarianism, and as far as I know to align libertarianism as its polar opposite strongly misrepresents authoritarianism.

don't confuse Political Compass for the World's Smallest Political Quiz. The former makes conservatives foam at the mouth because it (generally) pegs them as authoritarians, and libertarians foam because its emphasis on value questions highlights their proximity to conservatives.

(but the idea of a 2-axis or 3-axis ideology guide is generally pretty stupid as a rule)

ah, okay, thanks!

to align libertarianism as its polar opposite strongly misrepresents authoritarianism

Who did this? we're talking about LIBERAL authoritarians. the Daleys, Humphrey, all the Dem senators not named Feingold, etc.

You just KNOW those two Obama Youth robots quoted on HuffPost are going to cluck their tongues at anyone who protests President Bam governing (and bombing) from the "center." "He has to do this to get re-elected!"

you are truly a seer

despite yr condescension i think most of us are pretty aware around these parts that obama will not be ushering in a totally post-partisan age. yes, people will be there to cheerlead whatever he does. i dont see why u think thats news to anyone.

uh, we are IN a postpartisan age, that's the problem.

wtf are you talking about never mind

morbs/feingold 08

but morbs like 48.5% of this country maintains a polar opposite view than you (and the other 48.5% or so) on practically every single issue there is. how do you propose anything ever getting done? short of the blue coastal states seceding from Jesusland?

p.s. i think it's a little early to take Barry to task for countries he hasn't bombed yet.

he's way smarter, more likable, and likely more decent than we've had in decades. give him a shot.

^^^ otm

Wanting the moon is understandable, but is no reason to turn down the offer of a few genuine moon rocks.

I am giving him a shot. But I think liberal reforms have been deemed impractical by the entire ruling class since at least 1980. Time will tell if the New Depression shifts the spectrum.

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=populism_without_pitchforks

He's apparently a "communitarian populist!" Thanks, intellectually lazy "progressive" JACKASS. Perhaps you would consider investing in a DICTIONARY before you become a WRITER.

"Communitarian Populism!!" You know, how Hitler rolled!! Jesus Christ. Obama's greatest flaw really is having supporters like these.

and yes I already feel guilty for linking that piece and possibly causing other people to try and read it

no its cool i saw the populism without pitchforks in the url before i clicked

Him being the antichrist could be a problem, apparently.

http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/images/Picture%205-166.jpg

(lol)

Topeka KS 66604

LOL at one medieval thought accusing something incredibly dense like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arminianism of being satanistic.

Amen.

amen xp!

I'll amen if the screed writer can learn to spell 'worshipped'. HAHA.

the most impressively irritating thing in the world is the font used by Phelps' propaganda posters