Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[ice grillin you]

good ole fishtown....the mississippi of philadelphia

[PhillyGirl]

I can't stomach the fact that that bitch is going to be at the game tonight.

And speaking of can't stomach....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1070975/Man-shot-times-street-racist-gunman--wearing-Barack-Obama-T-shirt.html

[ice grillin you]

even worse....its the home opener isnt it...not tonight

[Rome]

I couldn't care less about this retarded election at this point but the fact that the Flyers are using Palin like a two dollar whore to sell their sport is farging awesome.

[Geowhizzer]

First time I've seen something this overt.  Of course it was on a jacked-up truck that looks to get about 5 mpg.  Snapped a picture at a red light.

I've seen the attitude from several of my students (apple doesn't fall far from the tree), but not this obvious.

[henchmanUK]

Another British article on Palin.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/martin_samuel/article4894253.ece

[MDS]

is having that on the back of your car illegal? i mean, freedom of speech is one thing, even for these filthy racists, but overt racism on public property (car is private but its on city roads) that can easily be viewed by anyone should come into question. thats just obscene and beyond offensive to society.

[phillymic2000]

The nut job can put it on his/her car, and the other nut jobs can put Palin is a C##t on their t-shirt. There are a couple of issues I cannot get over with Obama to vote for him, healthcare and his record of voting. After seeing Palin and hearing the two debates it's clear I do not fall on McCain's side either. His selection of Palin was just plain wrong and disgraceful. There is no way I can vote for McCain. I am so fargin dissapointed in the whole system it is not even funny. THe A-holes at AIG should be farging strung up for their little get away, and for the fed to give them another 38billion today should signal that the ones in charge are idiots. Where is the oversight that both Obama and McCain talked about last night. Paulson and Bernanke should be kicked out and start with someone else. I am so farging pissed off at this government fargin start the revolution. Farg em all. they are all in it to make money for themselves, dems repubs all of them.

[Cerevant]

What I don't get, is why people are perfectly fine with having their employer take money out of their pay to buy them health insurance, but get all upset when the government wants to take money out of their pay to buy them health insurance (if their employer won't do it for them).

[Diomedes]

the answer is that people trust corporations more than government

why is another question.  I think it has a lot to do with the way we educate people (or fail to do so).

[Cerevant]

I can certainly see the argument against single-payer, government run insurance - we certainly don't need yet another huge bureaucracy.  I just don't get the argument against government subsidy for those not already covered by their employer - especially when the US already pays more per capita for health care than any country with socialized medicine.

[rjs246]

One of the things that has been overlooked in the media and not talked about at all here is Obama's pledge to eliminate failing/inefficient government programs. At this point we have no idea whether he'll actually do that or not, but if he does that represents an extremely important step for the Democratic party. The idea of "government waste" has been hung on their necks for years and if their newly elected leader can actually make progress towards streamlining the government's role it will be hard to make that argument against them anymore.

A government that can focus on spending its money in ways that actively benefit the populace (infrastructure, education, etc) is a good government and one that can easily justify its taxation policies, whatever they may be.

[ice grillin you]

david brooks well known conservative columnist yesterday

[Sarah Palin] represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party. When I first started in journalism, I worked at the National Review for Bill Buckley. And Buckley famously said he'd rather be ruled by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. But he didn't think those were the only two options. He thought it was important to have people on the conservative side who celebrated ideas, who celebrated learning. And his whole life was based on that, and that was also true for a lot of the other conservatives in the Reagan era. Reagan had an immense faith in the power of ideas. But there has been a counter, more populist tradition, which is not only to scorn liberal ideas but to scorn ideas entirely. And I'm afraid that Sarah Palin has those prejudices. I think President Bush has those prejudices.

Obama has the great intellect. I was interviewing Obama a couple years ago, and I'm getting nowhere with the interview, it's late in the night, he's on the phone, walking off the Senate floor, he's cranky. Out of the blue I say, 'Ever read a guy named Reinhold Niebuhr?' And he says, 'Yeah.' So i say, 'What did Niebuhr mean to you?' For the next 20 minutes, he gave me a perfect description of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought, which is a very subtle thought process based on the idea that you have to use power while it corrupts you. And I was dazzled, I felt the tingle up my knee as Chris Matthews would say.

And the other thing that does separate Obama from just a pure intellectual: he has tremendous powers of social perception. And this is why he's a politician, not an academic. A couple of years ago, I was writing columns attacking the Republican congress for spending too much money. And I throw in a few sentences attacking the Democrats to make myself feel better. And one morning I get an email from Obama saying, 'David, if you wanna attack us, fine, but you're only throwing in those sentences to make yourself feel better.' And it was a perfect description of what was going through my mind. And everybody who knows Obama all have these stories to tell about his capacity for social perception.

[rjs246]

And the other thing that does separate Obama from just a pure intellectual: he has tremendous powers of social perception. And this is why he's a politician, not an academic.

I don't know if everyone can appreciate this, but for people who take pride in their intelligence this is exceptionally high praise.

Quotes like this, especially from right-leaning columnists, renew my excitement about the idea of Obama as our President. I may not agree with everything that he believes, but I have a whole lot of respect for him when it comes to a whole lot of topics and it will be nice to feel that way about a president again.

[Seabiscuit36]

And the other thing that does separate Obama from just a pure intellectual: he has tremendous powers of social perception. And this is why he's a politician, not an academic.

I don't know if everyone can appreciate this, but for people who take pride in their intelligence this is exceptionally high praise.

Quotes like this, especially from right-leaning columnists, renew my excitement about the idea of Obama as our President. I may not agree with everything that he believes, but I have a whole lot of respect for him when it comes to a whole lot of topics and it will be nice to feel that way about a president again.

agree, he is change, not just a word