Reply #107: Focus, David, Focus [View All]

[OmahaBlueDog]

1. This is what the primaries are for. We bash each other now and expose the weaknesses now so we get the best candidate later. I don't know where we got the idea that just because we're in the same party we should all join hands and sing Kumbayah during the primaries. That;s the bullshit we need to ixnay.

2. OMG -- you're turned off by Bill's behavior. Boo-hoo! Do you know how George W. Bush won the job? He did so through a series of personal attacks on John McCain, followed by endless ads with Al Gore saying how he invented the internet, followed by some vote rigging, followed by swift-boating John Kerry 4 years later. What Hill is dishing out now are love taps compared to what the GOP's gonna dish on Barack Hussein Obama. I love Obama's optimistic approach, and he's a gifted speaker who looks to have the seeds of being a great leader, but if Obama (and his supporters) can't deal with this, he isn't tough enough for the job of POTUS.

3. Ted is lecturing Bill and Hill on how they should behave? Tell Ted to put his pants back on and let us know how his last Presidential run ended when he sobers up! Ted Kennedy is in no position to lecture the Clintons (or anyone) on anything! He's a bad example,like a GOP candidate quoting Larry Craig, and I wouldn't bring him up if I could avoid it.

4. Nader, Bloomberg, Perot, John Anderson, Gene McCarthy, George Wallace -- there's always a 3rd party guy, an indy who thinks he can beat the system. We've dealt with it before; sometimes it helps us (Perot), sometimes it sticks us with 8 years of war and a rotten Supreme Court (Nader).

5. Obama's made his own share of comments that will come back and bite him in the butt -- especially the Reagan references. IBD just ran a nasty editorial on how "troubling" they found Obama's church. Were Obama supporters under the impression this would be easy and/or civilized?

6. Look on the bright side: I had the displeasure to hear Mark Levin last night. He told his listeners that Mike Huckabee and John McCain are liberals and that Fred Thompson has to be the man South Carolina elects. His listeners agreed, criticizing McCain-Feingold and other evidence that John is waay too chummy with the wrong side. The GOP is about as divided and distraught as I've seen them since '76.

7. Donald Trump told Jim Cramer (Mad Money) that we are "in a recession" and that certain parts of the economy are in "a depression." Even our esteemed President is heading straight down the interventionist path. My point -- the Republicans policies have caused great harm to this country, they are out of answers (if they ever had any), and either Clinton or Obama (or Edwards, for that matter) will be worlds better than the alternative.

This is kind of like pre-season football -- we hit each other, find the flaws in our game, and get ready for the serious play ahead. The point is that we can be as pissed off as we want to be at one another now, but after Denver we get our heads straight and put this behind us.