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Friday 31 Oct 2008

This is gonna hurt me more than it does you

7 comments Og | Uncategorized

7 Responses to “This is gonna hurt me more than it does you”

1. on 31 Oct 2008 at 11:44 am   Nathan
   
   

   Amen, Og. I told my wife (the Hillary-hater and probable Obama voter) pretty much the same thing the other night and she nearly fainted over the fact that I would say such a thing.

2. on 31 Oct 2008 at 2:01 pm   Morenuancedthanyou
   
   

   Ultimately, it might prove to have been worth having Obama around in order to get rid of the Clintons. They were all heading in the same direction, just at different speeds.
   Also, no matter how silver-tongued he is, Obama probably lacks the political ability of the Clintons to “triangulate” on issues.

3. on 31 Oct 2008 at 2:15 pm   Og
   
   

   You may be right, More, but Obama has the Daley machinebehind him, and no matter how powerful it was, the Clintom machine pales by comparison to the Daley machine.

4. on 31 Oct 2008 at 3:11 pm   Morenuancedthanyou
   
   

   I thought of the Chicago machine, but I wonder if it is a wash. On your side of the argument, Obama and ACORN have brought Chicago-style politics onto the national level (and will non-Chicago Americans put up with it?). But on the local stage, doesn’t the machine simplify Obama’s political decisions and maneuvering simply by existing? I’m saying he will be in a different political environment on the national stage. The question is whether the Chicago/ACORN machine have the power to intimidate his opponents in the national environment.
   Maybe they do. But his lie-low strategy in the Senate, mentioned in Mrs. du Toit’s post, does not bespeak a forceful personality with the ability to lead a nation down a primrose path; it looks more like a politician who has been selected by the machine and relies on the machine, rather than his own leadership abilities, to silence the opposition.

5. on 31 Oct 2008 at 3:16 pm   Og
   
   

   Oh, hell, the lie-low is what he will continue to do. Obamunists will work for him, obeying their master(and by default, his master Dick Daley) so he continues to look (as biden said) “Clean and articulate”

6. on 31 Oct 2008 at 9:01 pm   mts
   
   

   Given a choice of being hit five times with a horsewhip (Hillary) or ten times (Obama), I’d choose five, but still, I’d rather not get hit with the whip at all.

   Are conservatives (no, that does not always equal Republicans) ever going to get their act together and reclaim at least some power, or is it going to be what Leo Durocher said about the early Mets, “Does anyone around here know how to play this game?”

7. on 02 Nov 2008 at 12:55 pm   The Rich Wasp
   
   

   In that same vein, it seems I might have to apologize to Hillary for snickering when she said 8 years of being First Lady counted as Executive Branch experience. It certainly makes her more qualified than Obama.

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