NOW Democrats take notice of Obama's flaws?!?! Hilarious!!!! The most LIBERAL things about this Party’s best members is the sense of humor they must possess (or cultivate) in order to tolerate being affiliated with it--particularly its more idealistic members. And, NO, I’m not being ironic. I seriously wonder if the majority of registered Democrats aren’t unconsciously self-loathing; improvers of humankind who secretly derive masochistic enjoyment from GOP electoral successes. Losing ramifies their pathological self-righteousness, and this perversely fortifies them. The evidence would seem to anecdotally support such a hypothesis, would it not? After all, Democrats are most adept at losing presidential elections. Get used to making lemonade, young Dem's, while your Republican counterparts eat steak (served rare).

For those of you who have only recently started to notice, Obama’s myriad defects were evident to all but the dullest individuals early last autumn! His specious and ultimately cynical claims of being a "post-partisan", "post-racial" candidate only ever struck intelligent individuals as post-credible.

Obama is a presumptuous neophyte and completely out of his depth. He is merely play-acting at being "presidential", as his affected gravitas demonstrates. The pacing of and pauses in his rhetorical oratory aren’t a product of profundity, people; he is a former pot-head and mentally addled as a consequence. He’s just slow, like so many of his faction, I’m afraid. He is the left's equivalent of "W".

It is too bad he came on the scene (at least) eight years prematurely. To reverse a charge often directed by his hysterical followers at his opponent (who also happens to be his better), “is there anything he won’t stoop to in order to win?” …“Change we can believe in”… BAH!

Such a transparently pandering ploy leaves us incredulous that Obama's fantasies about change are anything other than comprehensively ridiculous, and raise worrying questions about the sophistication of average voters. More significantly, it begs the question, what do these Democrats really desire? And is it not laughably unrealistic?

This November it will be either Clinton or McCain for this Democrat. The ONLY “change we can believe in” (snicker) must be instigated with one possessing experience--Obama's zombified supporters' efforts to downplay his utter lack of any notwithstanding.

(Let's hope the Democratic super-delegates fix this problem...)

MJM:

This November it will be either Clinton or McCain for this Democrat. The ONLY “change we can believe in” (snicker) must be instigated with one possessing experience--Obama's zombified supporters' efforts to downplay his utter lack of any notwithstanding.

(Let's hope the Democratic super-delegates fix this problem...)

Looks like you have just finished Clinton's Koo-Aid. Come November, Clinton's name will not be on the ballot. It will be Obama vs McSame, and Obama will win handily. The greater part of the voters will be 'zombified' again to choose Obama over McSame.

MJM:

(Let's hope the Democratic super-delegates fix this problem...)

Why did we bother with the primary process, then? We should simply have anointed Hillary the heir presumptive as we were supposed to back in January and spared everyone the fuss, not to mention exposure to the parade of pant suits.

Note: I am not saying that Obama is without flaw or that Hillary wouldn't actually be a better candidate but simply that we've gone through a process that everyone understood and to which everyone agreed, and that it's a little bit precious to want to overturn the results now that they haven't gone Hillary's way.

"Obama is a presumptuous neophyte and completely out of his depth. He is merely play-acting at being "presidential", as his affected gravitas demonstrates. The pacing of and pauses in his rhetorical oratory aren’t a product of profundity, people; he is a former pot-head and mentally addled as a consequence. He’s just slow, like so many of his faction, I’m afraid. He is the left's equivalent of "W"."

You're right, how could I not have seen this before? We're doomed in November! There's no way Obama could beat a veteran Senator, someone with decades of connections and a huge party fundraising apparatus to draw upon, someone who can appeal to white working-class voters and highlight Obama's inexperience, someone who...

...oh, wait a minute.

Doubts over Obama are receding.

Doubts over McCain are emerging.

Just thought I'd clear that up for you...

** snore ***

Boy the Republicans are really running scared this year aren't they?

You rage on as if the Democrats had a better option than Obama. They did in someone like Biden. But Hillary?

If you want to lose an election, run Hillary. She is nails down a blackboard to so many Americans. She is dishonest, cynical, unprincipled, self-pitying, manipulative, selfish. And let's not even touch on her corruption. She will always put her own political advantage ahead of the country. (See her current end game to seize the nomination from Obama.)

The GOP would eat her alive in a presidential campaign. Any way you slice it, this election is going to be close. But what you do not understand is that Obama has the power to the Democrats' Reagan, the guy who manages to bring many Republicans and independents into the Democratic fold for a couple of generations.

It is difficult to understand the desire for change in this country, on both the right and the left. I write this as a life long Republican. The rank and file Republicans are up in arms too, and aren't too crazy about McCain or what we all see as a continuation of the Bush years.

Obama is not being praised for his ideas. He is just another standard lefty. That means he wants to take your money away from you, and take control over your life for you. He wants a big, fat, soft-socialist, Euro-style government just like every other Democrat in power. Period.

But people are being drawn to his character, his decency, the way he has run his campaign, his judgement. To his credit the Wright flap didn't turn people off too much to him. Instead they saw someone deal with a bad situation like an adult and treated us all like adults. How rare for politicians to not talk down to us.

Let's face it, he's apparently a very good manager or knows how to get good talent to help him manage. Compared to Hillary's classically Clintonian soap opera? She's run out of money, had no Plan B, etc. Don't even start to try to argue that she's more competent from an executive standpoint.

No. Obama is the best the Dems could get this season. Hillary would be dead on arrival. I would rather vote for my cat than her. So would so many current disgruntled Republicans and independents who are currently looking at Obama.

PS: I think you used "ramify" wrongly.

Just some stylistic suggestions for MJM.

If you want people to actually read your long-winded, name-calling rants, it would be better to edit for length. I, like most, tend to skip comments that occupy more than a single computer screen - since this is the most positive indicator of a boring, predictable, long-winded rant (like yours) -- which also warns readers to skip your posts entirely in the future.

Also, better writing would help. Skip the chains of $5 words and purple prose. Just because you string together important sounding words does not mean that you have something important to say.

Try thoughtful analysis and trenchant wit instead. It's more effective.

All I want to know is when Hillary is going to start working on getting us that gas tax holiday? And another question, why didn't Bill and Hillary start working on an alternative energy strategy when they were in the WH? See, I'm giving Hillary some experience credit for her time with Bill.

Do you mean, incorrectly? ;-)

I appreciate your advise, Knute, and how painful it must have been for you to use "trenchant" (an "important sounding word") in your response. Question: would you have been better persuaded by unimportant sounding words?

I seriously wonder if the majority of registered Democrats aren’t unconsciously self-loathing; improvers of humankind who secretly derive masochistic enjoyment from GOP electoral successes. Losing ramifies their pathological self-righteousness, and this perversely fortifies them.

I used to wonder about that. No longer. Now, I know it to be true.

Dear MJM,

I think you meant "advice" rather than "advise."

Thank you for your continued cooperation.