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krimur - 2008-01-04 16:00:17
I am so psyched that he won. It's like all of the bad karma we endured when Bush was sham-elected has finally started to swing back in the other direction...
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Paula - 2008-01-04 17:10:23
Indeed...
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Bob - 2008-01-05 11:47:37
I was beginning to wonder if he was taking - or to be precise, personifying - the cult of no-personality thing a bit far, but that speach indicates he can rise to the occasion, when there is an occasion. (In which case I haven't a problem with the cult of no-personality, since that's not really what it's about. More like a cult of community, were that not contradictory....)
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Eric - 2008-01-06 17:28:55
Although, you did predict Kerry's win in 2004. . . we'll see what happens. . . ;)
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Sharon - 2008-01-06 22:41:51
Well said, Krimur. And great point, Bob. your comment reads like a streamofconsciousness political haiku. It beautifully captures I think what everyone outside of Iowa was thinking. As for me, I was a fan of Joe Biden. (Now you can react as my family and friends do (but virtually) Biden?! and pelt me with pillows. It's weird. I've always been fascinated by boys who stutter. Biden was a stutterer as a child. (not to mention some other traumatic challenges he overcame) But there was a boy we knew as children --Timmy McCory(great name for a novel character), who stuttered. When his father died suddenly one summer, Timmy's stutter disappeared. Anyway, Biden got a big fat zero in Iowa, but I really enjoyed watching him and the other Democrats give speeches and meet and greet all those regular Midwesterners... almost like a real democracy, rather than what Arthur Miller once called a kind of fake "Democracyland".
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Bob - 2008-01-07 14:14:51
Actually, Sharon, I was thinking Joebee would make a better running mate than Edwards, and not even in an LBJ power-play "Ha! Say I'm "clean"? I will make you my lackey!!" sort of way... but instead in a "We got more important things to do than pay attention to that stuff" way. And I did see (and say) that Bill Clinton was going to be our next president, before his first campaign had officially began, so maybe my sense that, if Obama wins by ten or more in New Hampshire, that it's all over, (including the general election), shortly after it began, may be on target, strangely enough.
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Babble first, ask questions later - 2008-01-07 14:38:57
But one has to be careful when rhythmically babbling, or one can drop one's gramma... just cuz that last comment didn't rhythmic with "it's" all over doesn't make a redundant '"that" it's' okay, when "it is" should have been the call.
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