tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640358.post3120788447315753058..comments2023-10-31T06:25:46.016-04:00Comments on SLANTblog: After ObamaF.T. Reahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02042465274190082050noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640358.post-47360698688687690452008-11-08T22:50:00.000-05:002008-11-08T22:50:00.000-05:00I'm a relatively young McCain voter, not because I...I'm a relatively young McCain voter, not because I liked McCain, but because I can see through Obama. <BR/><BR/>Regardless, I accept Obama as my new President and wish him the best.<BR/><BR/>But I just don't get the "change" thing. I just can't see why someone would justify voting for anyone just because "we need a change." We were going to get a change either way. I think that if Obama is able to get his policies through, we may just find out what "change" means. And that's what scares me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640358.post-62271672841679657512008-11-07T12:45:00.000-05:002008-11-07T12:45:00.000-05:00Barack Obama is a Communitarian, although you will...Barack Obama is a Communitarian, although you will not have heard him use the term during his election campaign. Americans will get a shock when the truth of his hidden agenda becomes known and they find out his real intentions. Bear in mind that Obama is simply a front-man for the New World Order Communitarians. <BR/><BR/>More here: <A HREF="http://www.stopcp.com/cpphilosophy.php" REL="nofollow">Common Purpose Communitarian philosophy</A>Stop Common Purposehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15009439532764648866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640358.post-84051901542114121622008-11-07T11:10:00.000-05:002008-11-07T11:10:00.000-05:00HEK,As we should already know, winning and governi...HEK,<BR/><BR/>As we should already know, winning and governing are two different things.<BR/><BR/>The way the sitting president won, with Karl Rove guiding the way, made it especially difficult to govern.<BR/><BR/>Obama doesn't have that handicap. Nor did he need to go, hat in hand, to kingmakers for most of his money. So, Obama enters the White House with less of a debt to such traditional forces than any president in a long time.<BR/><BR/>That doesn't mean he will be successful. But both of those changes in the way of doing business seem to me to be good signs. Then he'll need all his talent to persuade and lots of good luck.F.T. Reahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02042465274190082050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640358.post-5148136952173358062008-11-07T09:37:00.000-05:002008-11-07T09:37:00.000-05:00I guess the question before us now is: will the Ob...I guess the question before us now is: will the Obama presidency bear out the aphorism of French critic, journalist and novelists Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. <BR/><BR/>The most familiar, "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" — "the more it changes, the more it's the same thing", or more Murrican English: "the more things change, the more they stay the same" (from Les Guêpes, January 1849).<BR/><BR/>Because he's inheriting a rasher of scheit. And those who didn't vote for him, and even more than a few who did, aren't liable to allow him much margin of error. People are already howling about the Rahm Emmanuel/Josh Lyman appointment. <BR/><BR/>All I know is, the spontaneous eruption of jubilation that we witnessed on the streets of Richmond caused me both elation and concern. As Nabokov wrote, from the hallelujah to the hoot is but a step. So it is with politics. <BR/><BR/>And with so much expected of Obama and his administration, he is bound to fail some constituency along the way who'll scream betrayal.<BR/><BR/>We know he knows how to be popular. His true test will be bearing up when he isn't.HEKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17875404162768628296noreply@blogger.com