leftofthedial
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Tue Feb-12-08 01:39 AM
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Shallow rhetoric aside, American need radical change |
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Which candidate offers it?
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Tue Feb-12-08 01:40 AM
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1. Between Obama, Clinton, or McCain? Obama, hands down. nt |
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Tue Feb-12-08 01:41 AM
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2. just relatively, by comparison with the other two? |
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Or does he truly, deeply represent radical change?
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Tue Feb-12-08 01:44 AM
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3. Process of elimination. |
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Hillary is running as a third Clinton term.
McCain is running as a third Bush term.
Obama's running as his own man. Whether he IS his own man will remain to be seen, but unlike the other two, he's got a chance greater than ZERO of producing change. :shrug:
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Tue Feb-12-08 01:46 AM
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Tue Feb-12-08 01:48 AM
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6. Respectfully, you are wrong. Immediately he'll change the face of |
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this country by sending out true diplomats to chat with people for a change instead of threatening people. That will be a huge start. If America has the balls to hire a black man to do our bidding, I think that will be huge, and I hope we have the faith in him (I do) to do so.
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Tue Feb-12-08 01:51 AM
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7. You know what I'm saying. |
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I personally think Obama can BRING IT in the White House if we give him a chance.
The worst thing that can happen? He's a triangulator like Clinton. But since we KNOW Clinton was a triangulator, why should we settle for that? :shrug:
Eh, I'm sorta cynical. :pals:
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Tue Feb-12-08 01:26 PM
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8. he's a corporatist, his record is . . . squishy and ambiguous at best |
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he'll make us a friendlier uber-capitalist nation, but I don't see ANY chance for real change. change needs to be more than skin deep (pun intended).
he is more of an unknown quantity than Clinton, but I'm not satisfied with a choice between an oligarch I know and an oligarch I don't know as well. Assuming that a politician will pleasantly surprise you strikes me more as gullibility than optimism.
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Tue Feb-12-08 01:44 AM
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4. Well, Obama's got the shallow rhetoric, so he's half-way there! /nt |
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