I'm just really really tired of the media telling me what to think. It was just friggin' Iowa, you guys, not the Sermon on the Mount.
Gabor Steingart in Des Moines, Iowa for Spiegel Online:
Like Georgie had such wonderful training before he took the driver's wheel and drove our country into the ditch. Anyone who will become president will be getting heaps of advice... it just depends on what quality of advice and how well the new president will listen...Once upon a time there was a young African-American candidate who wanted to become president. Obama's story sounds like a fairy tale, and one would like to believe it. But despite his impressive victory in Iowa, he has scant hope of reaching the White House.
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Some 250,000 voters in Iowa reached their decision and chose Barack Hussein Obama -- young, African-American visionary who represents Illinois in the US Senate. He presents himself as a mixture of Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy. This January night is a "defining moment in history," he says. He pledges to be an "agent of change." After the bad years of President George W. Bush, many around the world are hoping that America will return to virtue and peace.
But the Iowa snow king has scant hope of reaching the White House. He's too young, too inexperienced, too vague, and for many Americans, too black. His magic words about the era of change, of hope, of an America he will unite -- all that will evaporate like morning mist.The fact is that Obama is an unknown quantity. He sat in the US Senate for half a term without attracting any attention whatsoever. One intense speech at the Democratic convention in Boston in 2004, that was it.
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Agreed, the advisors they pick are more important, though I'm wondering -- as the comic on left toon lane suggests -- about the whole "reach across the aisle" thing
Reaching across the aisle has sort of a suggestive quality about it. How about 'plays well with others' or 'does not run with scissors'...
But this isn't kindergarten, this isn't the old days of camaraderie and bipartisanship. We just got royally screwed by the Republicans and now they are backing up against the wall and demanding why we can't be friends.
I don't want to talk about reaching across the aisle until there is one Republican who will admit that Georgie and Dick's excellent adventure was a complete disaster.
The truth is staring at us from the ripped out sections of our Constitution and smoking out of the bomb blasts on the ground in Iraq, but still the idiot Republican presidential candidates tell us they will be even more like Bush than Bush.
Until they stop trying to show their muscles and out-Gitmo each other, there should be no reaching across anything except reaching over to lock the doors. Enough.
This frothing of the mouth and idiotic blather has to stop and sanity has to return before there is any kind of bipartisan action.
Because the neocon zombies aren't dead enough yet and could come back at any minute. We still have a lot of purging, bleaching, and cleaning up to do.
Then we can be magnanimous.
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