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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 07:24 AM Original message |
Why hope matters. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 07:27 AM Response to Original message |
1. HOPE is the reason Obama will win. Bitterness and Pettiness are the reasons Hillary will lose. |
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Yossariant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 07:28 AM Response to Original message |
2. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 07:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Then the inspiration must be good. |
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Yossariant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 08:01 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Yeah, like being "inspired" to invade Pakistan is good. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 08:08 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Or Iraq. |
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Yossariant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 08:15 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Hope for the past. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 08:17 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Or to shake it off. |
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Yossariant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 08:27 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Hey, it's your premise. And I'm not at all surprised that it is selective. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 08:32 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. There can be comfort in the past, but promise in the future. |
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Yossariant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 08:33 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Ah! I see. You default position is that the invasion of Iraq is a "comfort." Way to go. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 08:44 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Not exactly. |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
3. Keep Hope Alive! |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 08:20 AM Response to Reply #3 |
15. Keep trucking! |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 08:25 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Dreams are the light we see in the distance. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
4. The implication is that without Obama we're hopeless. Sorry, no dice. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 08:55 AM Response to Reply #4 |
24. No, my theme is hope. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 10:21 AM Response to Reply #24 |
31. And my experience is that the people of this country are not hopeless or helpless. |
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Double T (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
5. HOPE like MOTIVATIONAL SPEAK is a whole lot of BS. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 07:46 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Words. |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 09:49 AM Response to Reply #5 |
29. That statement is a "whole lot of BS" |
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Birthmark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
6. Hope is like a lighthouse keepers' beam |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 07:50 AM Response to Original message |
8. just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given ... |
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earthlover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 07:53 AM Response to Original message |
9. Hillary: despair from day one! |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 09:04 AM Response to Reply #9 |
25. Yes to this: |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 08:34 AM Response to Original message |
20. He who has never hoped can never despair. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 08:39 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. "However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup." |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 09:12 AM Response to Reply #21 |
26. But a full pint cup is better than an empty one. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 10:22 AM Response to Reply #26 |
32. A stitch in time saves nine. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 11:37 AM Response to Reply #32 |
36. I can go as long as you can, but hope itself is substance |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
23. We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 10:24 AM Response to Reply #23 |
33. Just Add Happy. |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
27. YES WE CAN! |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
28. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
30. As someone who has worked on campaign strategy before, |
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Tommy Jefferson (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
34. Does "Hope" substitute for rational action? |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
35. Hope matters. |
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