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Here’s to hoping the Sundance Kid is correct…
Posted by Duncan on July 12th, 2008
“I think Obama is not tall on experience . . . but I believe he’s a really good person. He’s smart. And he does represent what the country needs most now, which is change.
“I hope he’ll win. I think he will. If he doesn’t, you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye. I think we need new voices, new blood. We need to get a whole group out, get a new group in.”
Now if you were a stockholder in a company… and the PR department came out and said that the new CEO was “not very tall for experience”, but he was “smart” and a “good person”, would that make you feel secure that the company was going to be heading a good direction. Or would you plan to sell your stock and invest in a company where the CEO might have a clue ’bout running said company? Too bad we can’t take our capital elsewhere when you’re talking ’bout Uncle Sam…
As far as the fate of the Democrat Party if Obama loses…. well…. here for some Hope™ and Change™ I can believe in…
July 12th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
LOL… Now thats ridiculous. How does a “smart”, “good” and inexperienced person lead a country! If Obama wins lets see what changes he brings.
July 12th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Duncan, just read your comment on Bob Barr’s website about considering switching to the Libertarian Party. My advice: Do it! After a life-long Republican, whose dad was a county chairman, I joined the LP in March this year after Huckabee bowed out of the race. I supported Huckabee for several reasons, most notably the FairTax. I’m glad I joined because it increases the LP’s numbers and it just makes sense to be a member.
I guess technically I’m still in the Republican Party? I don’t know, but I’m a card-carrying Libertarian now. I’d join while it can make the most difference in Barr’s campaign this summer, going into the fall.
good luck! John
July 12th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
John,
I am strongly considering it. For me its a big decision, since as long as I can remember my beliefs seemed to parallel the Republicans, but the more I study and the more that I see the direction this country is going in, I am beginning to think that I am going to have to make a break and support a different group that I find myself closer aligned to than I thought before. I am still working it out in my head, but like I said at Barr’s site, I am teetering so awfully close….
July 12th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Now if you were a stockholder in a company… and the PR department came out and said that the new CEO was “not very tall for experience”, but he was “smart” and a “good person”, would that make you feel secure that the company was going to be heading a good direction.
You hit this dead on. They want this man to lead the most powerful counry in the world. This is not a ‘learn on the job’ kind of job.
July 13th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Sunday, at 12:30 and 5:30 pm Atlanta radio’s 920 WGKA is interviewing some soldiers who were in Iraq, two have turned against the war, one still thinks the war is just.
I’m just letting interested parties know.
Here’s the link:
http://920wgka.townhall.com/
there is a listen live button in the upper left corner of the web page.
Cheers !!
July 13th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Obama has no leadership skills or experience. His would be a presidency of advisors and no one else would pull the strings except this group. While some say this is true of Bush, at least he knew how to lead…having been a governor and his time in the business world.
Obama is puppet candidate. He’s been put up for sale and people are buying him. They want change? Sure…change back to the future of the 1990’s being led by someone who’s never even served on a committee. Or led a boy scout troop. Or anything else.
Sheesh.
July 13th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Isn’t it funny how the deranged left thought that Bush was the dumbest of imbeciles controlled by a few power mongers, but at the same time was brilliant enough to stage 9/11? Wish they’d get it right instead of him being a brilliant retard….
And Obama, I don’t know how much of his policies will be shaped by his advisors, and how much of it will be shapped by polls…
July 13th, 2008 at 11:53 am
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July 13th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
And also brilliant enough to lie or “mislead” us into invading Iraq.
July 16th, 2008 at 8:04 am
John and Duncan, like I hear both of you saying, McCain doesn’t thrill me and where has the “conservative” Republican Party gone?
Well, the answer is that we, all of us, have allowed it to get sicker and sicker and sicker without saying anything and now that it is so damn sick it nominates McCain we throw our hands up in disgust and say we might vote for Barr and libertarianism. Well, Barr was a repub for so long what changed him? MAYBE he’s just like the rest of them, an “opportunist?”
We may well loose this election, but if we do, let it be because we were out hustled, not because we sat on our collective asses. I’ve heard “McCain is the lesser of two evils so why should I vote for him? He’s still an “evil” person!”
The answer is easy. Don’t vote for him (or work to reclaim conservatism and let the GREATER evil win. Would that help anyone?
A McCain presidency will leave a bad taste in my mouth, but given his age, it would be a springboard for positive conservative growth. An Obamamessiah presidency will not leave a bad taste, it will rob me of the ability to taste if you get my drift.
Cheers and on to November!
July 17th, 2008 at 10:34 am
I dunno GM.
Lesser of the evils will always be the argument. I’m tired of it cause nothing ever changes.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I am in agreement with Raven. My uncle gave me the same argument that this is not the year to let a Dhimmicrat win, that McCain has to get elected and after he is then we can try to fix the Republicans. I replied that EVERY election year seems to not be the year to vote third party, and the Republicans fall further and further to the left. I know the arguments, especially as the Supremes (and nominations) are concerned, but when do we finally say enough is enough? When I can’t tell the two parties apart and my freedoms are flushed in the name of the general welfare of our Great Society?