Is that all he said? Anybody else have any thoughts?
by
Angel of Dearth
10/31/2008, 7:34 PM #
First sentance in the London Times:
Barack Obama’s senior advisers have drawn up plans to lower expectations for his presidency if he wins next week’s election
"C'mon, baby. That was just pillow talk. You know you want to vote for me. C'mon. You know you do."
Tom "Bashful" Daschle
Tom Daschle, the party’s former leader in the US Senate and a strong contender for the post of White House chief-of-staff in an Obama administration, said last month that the winner next week would have only a 50 per cent chance of winning a second term in 2012.
That's the spirit! Looking forward to winning and . . .and then losing. He's the guy I'd want working for me! Whatever.
If he wins, Mr Obama will inherit a Democratic-controlled Congress, and might even have the benefit of a 60-seat filibuster-proof “supermajority” in the Senate. Such a scenario would allow him to push through legislation largely unfettered by Republican opposition. Yet it also means that should the country still be mired in recession in three years’ time, voters — who have short memories — will probably blame him and the Democrats on Capitol Hill.
As they should. But they should blame him today because it's his FUBAR today!
I thought he was the MAN! He was "the one" according to Oprah. Spike Lee said we're going to have to measure time in terms of "Before Obama" and "After Obama." In no way does this sound like he'll bring about "change."
Having pledged on the campaign trail to close Guantanamo Bay, he is also determined to make early moves to rid America of the controversial prison. Yet what to do with the remaining inmates looms as an intractable problem, as many of their home governments refuse to allow them to return.
No problem. I'm sure he'll find room in this great big country of ours for them. We accept all who come to our shores! And let's not forget. We are the ones to blame for their condition. Welcoming them into our country is the least we can do to rehabilitate ourselves with the rest of the world. Supermax is too escape proof. Better make it a country-club prison assignment. Nice, easy living. . .the best way to destroy your enemies is make them your friends, right? Show them we're not all that bad.