I was disappointed with Barack Obama’s reaction to the exit of Mitt Romney. He said that Romney ran a “ineffective campaign”. Stating this, on the very day that Mitt backed out, showed a lack of class that Obama usually displays and illustrates his lack of political maturity. Not only was it in bad taste but it was also wrong. Mitt Romney ran an exceptional campaign but unfortunately he faced religious bigotry and a split in the conservative base with Mike Huckabee. Obama could have scored some political points in Utah if he had of been more gracious but instead he opted for one last dig.
hildebeast: I had my husband bomb the shit out of the Balkans.
mcStain: We bombed Vietnam into rubble, we’ll bomb everyone we want to just the same.
I’m so ready for change. Got any change?, we need to do political laundry.
After near 8 years of unopposed bush, what makes anyone think our leaders have any brains, class, or sand, given that we as a group led by the imbecile have been running roughshod over just about anyone in our path.
“ineffective campaign” means “ineffective campaign”. Some may interpret that as an insult (cry babies), but I see it as an empirical observation and quantitatively true.
Romney out spent McCain by like a thousand percent and still got his butt kicked.
To claim religious intolerance is calling the kettle black. Most Americans do not care about religion so much as personality. The media wold have us believe otherwise, but if you count up the evangelical vote, you find them to be a minority huddled on the far right and given an exaggerated preeminence by the Republican Party itself.
When one lives by true principles, one being honesty, one is forced to acknowledge that ninety percent of Mormons voted for Romney. Is one then to believe that if the populations of Evangelists and Mormons were reversed, that a Christian candidate would stand a chance against a Mormon one?
Please Ken, search your soul for the true answer and let me know.
Ken, if you truly stand for either religious tolerance, you will find it on the Left and in the middle.
Harry Reid anyone? And how do you explain that Mitt won Massachusetts.
I’m guessing right about now, Mitt is wishing he had stayed back east and to the left of McCain where instead of the 180 degree about face and into the cloak of religious piety.
Only those who really wanted to project Mitts religion onto his leadership credentials bought that about face. Everyone else saw it as a disingenuous sell-out to the New Rovian standard.
Allow me be more explicit. Mitt Romney proved beyond anyone’s doubt that he would do or say anything to get elected.
“count up the evangelical vote, you find them to be a minority huddled on the far right and given an exaggerated preeminence by the Republican Party itself”.
Indeed, as similar in their way as the over representation of the left wing of the progressive party that has infiltrated the democrat party to its detriment.
Yet, as Hegel might agree, no one ever created division and chaos so necessary for fleecing the People by embracing the sensible middle of the political spectrum.
The extreme left and right are the handy tools of this modus operandi.
Search your soul? On the one hand Cliff, you applaud the religious tolerance of the left, while at the same time making the above backhanded slap of the religious right. Once again the divisive disingenuous nature of extremists no matter the ilk, greets us with nearly every thought.
Cliff Lyon
February 8th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I was disappointed with Barack Obama’s reaction to the exit of Mitt Romney. He said that Romney ran a “ineffective campaign”. Stating this, on the very day that Mitt backed out, showed a lack of class that Obama usually displays and illustrates his lack of political maturity. Not only was it in bad taste but it was also wrong. Mitt Romney ran an exceptional campaign but unfortunately he faced religious bigotry and a split in the conservative base with Mike Huckabee. Obama could have scored some political points in Utah if he had of been more gracious but instead he opted for one last dig.
February 8th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Yeah, we got a real classy bunch of candidates.
o’bomber: I’ll bomb Pakistan and Iran.
hildebeast: I had my husband bomb the shit out of the Balkans.
mcStain: We bombed Vietnam into rubble, we’ll bomb everyone we want to just the same.
I’m so ready for change. Got any change?, we need to do political laundry.
After near 8 years of unopposed bush, what makes anyone think our leaders have any brains, class, or sand, given that we as a group led by the imbecile have been running roughshod over just about anyone in our path.
February 9th, 2008 at 6:07 am
“ineffective campaign” means “ineffective campaign”. Some may interpret that as an insult (cry babies), but I see it as an empirical observation and quantitatively true.
Romney out spent McCain by like a thousand percent and still got his butt kicked.
To claim religious intolerance is calling the kettle black. Most Americans do not care about religion so much as personality. The media wold have us believe otherwise, but if you count up the evangelical vote, you find them to be a minority huddled on the far right and given an exaggerated preeminence by the Republican Party itself.
When one lives by true principles, one being honesty, one is forced to acknowledge that ninety percent of Mormons voted for Romney. Is one then to believe that if the populations of Evangelists and Mormons were reversed, that a Christian candidate would stand a chance against a Mormon one?
Please Ken, search your soul for the true answer and let me know.
February 9th, 2008 at 6:20 am
Ken, if you truly stand for either religious tolerance, you will find it on the Left and in the middle.
Harry Reid anyone? And how do you explain that Mitt won Massachusetts.
I’m guessing right about now, Mitt is wishing he had stayed back east and to the left of McCain where instead of the 180 degree about face and into the cloak of religious piety.
Only those who really wanted to project Mitts religion onto his leadership credentials bought that about face. Everyone else saw it as a disingenuous sell-out to the New Rovian standard.
Allow me be more explicit. Mitt Romney proved beyond anyone’s doubt that he would do or say anything to get elected.
Life-long hunter?
February 9th, 2008 at 9:33 am
“count up the evangelical vote, you find them to be a minority huddled on the far right and given an exaggerated preeminence by the Republican Party itself”.
Indeed, as similar in their way as the over representation of the left wing of the progressive party that has infiltrated the democrat party to its detriment.
Yet, as Hegel might agree, no one ever created division and chaos so necessary for fleecing the People by embracing the sensible middle of the political spectrum.
The extreme left and right are the handy tools of this modus operandi.
Search your soul? On the one hand Cliff, you applaud the religious tolerance of the left, while at the same time making the above backhanded slap of the religious right. Once again the divisive disingenuous nature of extremists no matter the ilk, greets us with nearly every thought.