Comments on: God Is Not Great, Neither is Obama, and Obama is Not God

By: buzzchilly

buzzchilly — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:08:26 +0000

Bart said it best . . . Those who worship Obama want a pony.

If they don’t get their pony, I wouldn’t be surprised if they demand that he run as an independent. Obama may be so full of himself by then that he’ll pull a lieberman and do it.

By: Rainlander

Rainlander — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:05:37 +0000

From what I’ve read on the newsite forums posted by Obama supporters,I gather them to be zealots.
I think theres something in the Human Psyche,maybe racial memory of single combat warriors and in these hysterical times it seems a plausible notion.
Anyone else is just a pretender to the throne and worthy of derision to prop up the hopes and dreams generated by the would be benefactor.
In a perfect world Obama would be a perfect candidate,but to my mind He is a politician first and foremost.
I wonder how long He could resist the attack dogs of the far right and the temptation of taking the lobby and PAC money like so many have before him and become the cuddly little lapdog of the special interest groups and by that I mean the Elite 2% and not the minorities
scraping bottom at 93% of the worlds population.

By: RS Janes

RS Janes — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:57:39 +0000

Gerry, calm down a little. I would have voted for Edwards in the primaries, but he quit before Super Tuesday.

Here’s my take on Obama, both from meeting him and knowing members of his family: He’s a progressive at heart, but he’s also a poliotician who thinks you have to get elected first before you can make a difference. Face it, Kucinich and Gravel are terrible politicians — Dennis had the years since 2004 to set up a viable campaign operation in both Iowa and NH and he didn’t. He also had that time to deflect those ‘you’re crazy’ questions, which he got in 2004, about his vegan diet and UFOs, etc. — and he didn’t come up with a good comeback. And while Mike Gravel often made sense, he just as often did something that convinced many he was out of his gourd and pissed on his own chances.

Obama has a history in Illinois and in the US Senate of being a ‘measured liberal’ — he gets things done in small increments, and does it by building coalitions. As he’s said, he can pick up the voters who have Hillary as their first choice, and independents and some Republicans, but there are Obama voters who will NEVER vote for Hillary under any conditions. May not be fair, but that’s the reality. And, yes, he inspires people, especially younger voters. So did JFK, RFK and MLK. I would think that would be a plus. That’s why I think he’d be the better Dem nominee.

If Hillary is the nominee, I’ll vote for her, but I still wonder what she was thinking voting for the Kyl-Lieberman act to give Bush an opening to start a war with Iran, and why she ever brought up supporting a flag burning amendment, among other things. Still, she’d be better than McCain or any other GOP candidate. I hope if she gets the nod, the majority of voters see it that way as well.