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2008-06-01 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Mike 2008-06-01 00:16|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Selling out to whitey to get the big office.

Posted by Kelly 2008-06-01 01:22|| 2008-06-01 01:22|| Front Page Top

#2 In that speech Obama famously said he could not more disown the Reverend Jeremiah Wright than he could disown the black community or his own grandmother...

He's currently batting 2 for 3. Black community...check your six.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2008-06-01 01:23|| 2008-06-01 01:23|| Front Page Top

#3 As Gateway Pundit noted, it's getting very crowded under that bus.

Posted by Seafarious 2008-06-01 02:09|| 2008-06-01 02:09|| Front Page Top

#4 When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Jimmy Carter said, "I now understand Soviet intentions." Maybe a prospective president should have a good grasp of the enemy. All I am hearing from Obama is how we need to value diplomacy, notwithstanding entrenched positions of an enemy. Chamberlain said he understood Hitler; sure didn't.

Posted by McZoid 2008-06-01 03:53|| 2008-06-01 03:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Selling out to whitey to get the big office.

Whitey, for the most part, ain't buyin'...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-06-01 04:12|| 2008-06-01 04:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Oi vey, oi vey.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-06-01 04:50|| 2008-06-01 04:50|| Front Page Top

#7 He's on the right track with leaving Trinity. His next steps should be to divorce Michelle, buy an F-150 and a bass boat, start attending NASCAR races, and move to Nashville. We can take another look at him in 2020.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-06-01 07:25|| 2008-06-01 07:25|| Front Page Top

#8 He's quit cigarettes and picked up Copenhagen.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-06-01 07:51|| 2008-06-01 07:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Can a fake southern accent, ala Hillary, be far ahead?

Posted by ed 2008-06-01 07:57|| 2008-06-01 07:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Obama: Now with half-white!

Posted by Excalibur 2008-06-01 08:23|| 2008-06-01 08:23|| Front Page Top

#11 From Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, "The Martian" Nov '49 -

"LaFarge and his wife Anna have forged a new life for themselves, but they still miss their dead son Tom. A night thunderstorm startles the elderly pair, who see a figure standing outside their home in the rain. Anna retires to bed afraid, while LaFarge believes that somehow, Tom is standing before him. He leaves his house unlocked.

That morning, "Tom" is busy helping Anna with chores. LaFarge sees that Anna is somehow unaware of Tom's death, and after speaking privately with him, LaFarge learns that "Tom" is a Martian with an apparent empathic shapeshifting ability: it appears as their dead son to them.

Later that day, Anna insists on a visit to the town. "Tom" is deathly afraid of being so close to so many people. LaFarge promises to keep him close, but at the town they become separated. While searching for "Tom," LaFarge hears that the Spaulding family in town has miraculously found their lost daughter Lavinia. Desperate to avoid a second devastating heartbreak to his wife, LaFarge stands outside Spaulding's home and finds "Tom" now masquerading as Lavinia. He is able to coax "Tom" to come back, and they run desperately back for their boat to leave town. However, everyone "Tom" passes sees a person of their own â a lost husband, a son, a criminal. The Martian, exhausted from his constant shape-changing, spasms and dies."

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-01 08:23|| 2008-06-01 08:23|| Front Page Top

#12 "If so, then was a grievous fault - and grievously hath Caesar answered it."

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-06-01 12:38|| 2008-06-01 12:38|| Front Page Top

#13 That was a heartbreaker of a chapter P2K.

I takes to my sandship

Posted by George Smiley 2008-06-01 13:01|| 2008-06-01 13:01|| Front Page Top

#14 None lacking ambition will run for POTUS in any case. Question for any voter is: what kind of POTUS will this candidate be?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-06-01 13:14|| 2008-06-01 13:14|| Front Page Top

#15 OTOH, FOX NEWS + CNBC/MSNBC this AM > in time of WAR, NATIONAL CRISES, + UNCERTAINTY, AMERS WILL PREFER A WHITE REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVE MALE WID MIL CREDENTIALS-EXPERIENCE AS POTUS come elex time, and 2008 DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ANY EXCEPTION TO THIS ADAGE.

SAME > The DEMS are making substantial gains in MAJOR RED-GOP STATES FORMERLY WON BY DUBYA.

* PUNDIT CONVENTIONAL WISDOM > 2008 ELEX- JAN 2009 > GOP POTUS + MOSTLY DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS. AMER VOTERS TRUST THE GOP MORE IN FOREIGN POLICY, FIGHTING WARS, + ECON MACROS, DEMS IN ALTERNATIVE VIEWS + "COMMON MAN" MORALISM + WELFARE SPENDING???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-01 18:34|| 2008-06-01 18:34|| Front Page Top

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