Comments on: Excuse Me?

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:42:28 +0000

true. i sometimes resort to grave maturity in the face of yelling and screaming.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:54:18 +0000

I have no problem with “influencing”, it’s the yelling and screaming that get annoying.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:42:39 +0000

actually my positive thinking tends to be i'm positive things are going badly, but that's never kept me from trying to influence other people's thinking.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:25:50 +0000

I noticed. It’s not going to happen, but sometimes you need to think positively, especially after you discover a fresh hairball in your shoe.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:43:40 +0000

There’s always the hope that the convention will deadlock and we can get Gore/Edwards. talk about the audacity of hope! but yeah, i went surfing for something to put on my blog shortly after edwards' announcement in new orleans.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:58:39 +0000

There’s always the hope that the convention will deadlock and we can get Gore/Edwards. [I know no it’s not going to happen, but I don’t hear any sopranos warming up.]

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:56:39 +0000

Edwards has only suspended his campaign. So I voted for him and his delegates this morning. I’ll vote for whichever Democrat wins the nomination in November, but I’m unlikely to be very happy about it. But Bryan is right: there’s not a pennyworth of difference between Obama and Clinton on just about any issue you care to name. This fantasy that so many of Obama’s supporters are spewing everywhere they go about how he’s so much more liberal/progressive than the DLC-er Hillary is just that: fantasy. The facts do not support the fantasy, not that that detracts from the Obamabots’ worship of the god of their idolatry.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:36:07 +0000

I see a vast gulf between them, so I guess it’s a matter of perspective. I couldn’t possibly vote for Hillary Clinton now or in November, but I’ll support Barack Obama. Whether you see it the same way or not, if enough people do, then that’s how the elections will go, and hopefully it will be for the best.

It’s not like we have a choice of going with John Edwards or Dennis Kucinich at this point, however much we might prefer either of them.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:48:15 +0000

Chill out, Michael, I don’t support either of them, and never have. I don’t see a dime’s worth of difference between them on most issues, although I would give a slight edge to Clinton’s unworkable health care plan versus Obama’s. Kucinich had the only plan that would really work and save money while providing universal coverage.

I backed Edwards because he was viable and was a lot closer to my views than anyone else when I made my choice.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:23:53 +0000

Barack Obama has been very clear, he is for decriminalization, not legalization. I’d rather he be for legalization, but frankly this is a stupid debate to be having in this context, since Hillary Clinton is against decriminalization or legalization.

The idea that anyone could vote for Hillary Clinton, on the grounds that Barack Obama is insufficiently supportive of the right of cannabis users, is absurd on its face.