Can you say braindead flaming moonbats?

[AAAintheBeltway]

Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:

Only lack of experience keeps Obama from being more scandalized. Geez AAA, this guy can't even get out of the South Side of Chi-town without two biggies. Can you imagine by the time he's 60 and has 3 terms in D.C.?

Obama has character issues. It's not just Rezko and Wright but also the NAFTA/Canada/Goolsbee flap and the way Obama tries to slime out provable accusations. You nailed it best. He's just a black John Edwards.

OK, but I was focusing on their skill at extricating themselves from scandals. Of course, one big advantage the Clintons have always had is the sheer volume of scandals they are involved in. It is a challenge for the media, even if they were interested, to dig very deeply into them. Obama has had a bit of bad luck to be involved with a crazed preacher and a guy who would have fit in nicely in Al Capone's day. They are each so cartoonish that the voters get it immediately.

There is something else. Clinton always had the ability to get voters on his side during his troubles. He would turn on the charisma, look contrite and say something about criticism never feeding a hungry child. Obama tried the same routine but it fell flat, at least with voters (liberal journalists are still swooning). It came across not as endearing but as vaguely hostile and inappropriate. Voters might have wanted to give Clinton a nuggie then hug him. By contrast, they quickly stepped back from Obama.

 

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Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

OK, but I was focusing on their skill at extricating themselves from scandals. Of course, one big advantage the Clintons have always had is the sheer volume of scandals they are involved in. It is a challenge for the media, even if they were interested, to dig very deeply into them. Obama has had a bit of bad luck to be involved with a crazed preacher and a guy who would have fit in nicely in Al Capone's day. They are each so cartoonish that the voters get it immediately.

There is something else. Clinton always had the ability to get voters on his side during his troubles. He would turn on the charisma, look contrite and say something about criticism never feeding a hungry child. Obama tried the same routine but it fell flat, at least with voters (liberal journalists are still swooning). It came across not as endearing but as vaguely hostile and inappropriate. Voters might have wanted to give Clinton a nuggie then hug him. By contrast, they quickly stepped back from Obama.

 

[piezoe]

Pabst, you are grasping at straws. But I have respect for you, and your opinions. I think that you will change your mind re Obama. I hope so.

 

[ByLoSellHi]

Warren Buffet must be a braindead, flaming moonbat.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293474,00.html

Billionaire Warren Buffet Hosts Fundraiser for Barack Obama

Thursday, August 16, 2007

OMAHA, Neb. — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett says it can get a little lonely being a Democrat in Nebraska.

The last Democrat to carry the state in a presidential election was Lyndon Johnson, in 1964.

But Buffett had plenty of company Wednesday night at a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama — and local organizers say Obama made a valuable investment.

"I think his stock in Nebraska goes up from here," said Omaha businessman Harley Schrager, who co-hosted the event with Buffet and others.

The total raised wasn't immediately available, but the minimum price to get in was $500 a person, and organizers estimated the crowd at about 200. About 40 of those people attended an earlier reception, and each donated at least $2,300.

Obama said two Nebraskans — U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson and former Sen. Bob Kerrey — are proof that a Democrat can win in a historically red state.

"We can elect Democrats here, but we've got to show up," Obama said.

Obama called Buffett "one of those people I listen to," but said the support from the so-called Oracle of Omaha alone isn't enough to get elected, and he appealed to the gathered business people, lawyers and local politicians for their help.

Buffett hasn't endorsed a presidential candidate yet, but he said Wednesday that Obama "is going to bring outstanding ideas to a new administration."

He's said previously he'd be happy with either Hillary Rodham Clinton or Obama, and has also spoken favorably about the presidential prospects of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who recently left the Republican Party to become an independent.

Buffett, 76, runs Omaha-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc., which has assets of more than $260 billion and more than 60 subsidiary business. He helped Clinton raise at least $1 million for her campaign at a June event in New York.

Obama took questions from the crowd, and was asked: "Why you and not Mrs. Clinton?"

"I think very highly of Senator Clinton," Obama responded. "I think she is tough. I think she is capable."

But he said while Clinton may be capable of being president, he can not only win the election but also unite the country and get things done in Washington.

 

[Pa(b)st Prime]

Quote from piezoe:

Pabst, you are grasping at straws. But I have respect for you, and your opinions. I think that you will change your mind re Obama. I hope so.

If the only choice was a dem I'd vastly prefer Obama to Clinton.

He's far smarter than her. IMO he's a nicer person than her. (how strange is it that I lived 7 blocks from where Obama lives now and I lived most of my life 2 blocks from where HC lived as a toddler)

My beef with Obama is policy. Illinois is a fiscal mess and he left the State Senate in worst shape than when he came in. He's just not a guy who's accomplished anything in government. Zero. His domestic agenda is part FDR and part LBJ. Talk about using a pair of loozer blueprints......

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:


...My beef with Obama is policy. Illinois is a fiscal mess and he left the State Senate in worst shape than when he came in. He's just not a guy who's accomplished anything in government. Zero. His domestic agenda is part FDR and part LBJ. Talk about using a pair of loozer blueprints......

Obama's entire campaign reminds me of The Emperors New Cloths

Plot summary

An emperor who cares too much about clothes hires two swindlers who promise him the finest suit of clothes from the most beautiful cloth. This cloth, they tell him, is invisible to anyone who was either stupid or not fit for his position. The Emperor is nervous about being able to see the cloth himself so he sends his ministers to view it. They see nothing yet praise the cloth. When the swindlers report a suit of clothes has been fashioned, the Emperor allows himself to be dressed in their creation for a procession through town. During the course of the procession, a small child cries out, "But he has nothing on!" The crowd realizes the child is telling the truth and begins laughing. The Emperor, however, holds his head high and continues the procession.