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Fri Feb-08-08 12:15 AM
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Impulse Thought Before Bed: I Don't Want A Rock Star In The White House. I Want A President. |
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After zooming through a bunch of threads right before I head to bed, that was the thought that just popped into my head.
Good night DU, and remember to love each other.
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:17 AM
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1. I agree. I don't want mega-celebrity Hillary Clinton to be President either. |
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:17 AM
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2. I don't want an Iraq star as president. nt |
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:17 AM
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3. I want a President, not a crook |
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:18 AM
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Obama isn't a rock star. That's a label coined by the MSM.
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:18 AM
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5. So you didn't like Bill Clinton? |
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:18 AM
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6. Well, you're going to get a famous woman or a rock star. |
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Or a neoconservative scumbag.
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:18 AM
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:19 AM
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8. I do not want a President just based on their name, we did that already with Bush |
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Edited on Fri Feb-08-08 12:19 AM by landonb16
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:19 AM
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9. you wouldn't want John Kerry in the White House ? |
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Edited on Fri Feb-08-08 12:21 AM by JI7
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Fri Feb-08-08 01:03 AM
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:19 AM
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10. I bet you voted for Bill Clinton in 1992, though. |
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:21 AM
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11. I want someone who knows whats going on and does not steal ideas and put them in fancy wrapping! |
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Edwards, no lobbyists,,,Obama steal it.
Started right of the bat didn't he?
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:25 AM
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12. What's funny is I don't consider Obama a "rock star". He's just a brilliant |
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Senator who says and stands for things I agree with. His message and his life story are consistent, positive, and inspiring. His policies are sound. His record in his legislative career is slightly left of Clinton and his foreign policy positions are even more left than Clinton. On some key issues (IWR, cluster, bombs, and kyl lieberman) he didn't stand with the Republicans as Hillary did. He's charismatic enough to get things done and smart enough with good enough judgement to pick the right path.
It's you guys that are trying to make him a cult like figure so you can marginalize him and his supporters.
He speaks in inspirational terms, but that's what great leaders do. It's fundamental to human communication.
Was Vince Lombardi a cult leader because he had a poetic way of saying things? Was Abe Lincoln? Was MLK? Was FDR?
What is so wrong with a little poetry to go with our prose?
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:46 AM
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13. Right Bread, also Churchill |
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Churchill's great gift was oratory. He buoyed the country when England was fighting for its life, when its people were being pounded nearly senseless by the Axis. He was tremendously important in the Allied effort to overcome Hitler, just by his speeches alone. They are a wonderful read, and the recordings of them are wonderful to hear. I believe that Obama will stand as one of the great and inspirational orators of our age.
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Fri Feb-08-08 01:03 AM
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15. As an American citizen, our presidents are public servants. Employees. |
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As a supervisor, I'm looking for someone who knows how to run a country. And, the current employee is such a fuck up that he needs fired, but, apparently relying on his peer group to whom I've granted the authority to demand accountability from their "leader",means I end up fucked, and not in the good way.
I'm not hiring a leader behind whom I'll fall unquestioningly, I'm hiring someone who tells me what needs to be done and who explains to me what I should do to help them make it happen.
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Fri Feb-08-08 01:04 AM
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16. Sixty-four pages. Sixty-four pages of clear, concrete-specific, detailed plans for the White House |
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