Comments on: What will Obama change?

By: ymarsakar

ymarsakar — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:08:23 +0000

Hey, wasn’t Kirk that guy from Blackfive who thought winning in Iraq could benefit from having Star Trek knowledge?

I’m not kidding, there was a Cpt Kirk over at Blackfive doing just that a few months ago.

By: ymarsakar

ymarsakar — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:06:14 +0000

Fascism is just the buzz word they spout, nothing more.

Fascism is what they are going to bring about, Z. It is a bit more alerting than spouting off about nothing.

By: ymarsakar

ymarsakar — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:05:03 +0000

Kind of makes you wonder about his fan base, doesn’t it?

He’s a Democrat. That should make your wondering take much less time, Book.

By: GW

GW — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:44:42 +0000

I was going to write a similar essay on Obama, but you have beaten me to it and done a better job than I would have. A great post. Perhaps the only things I would add are that his willingness to freely engage Iran and Syria is incredibly naive and his claim that he will make unapproved forays into Pakistani soil (read act of war) plays well at home, but would likely go a long way to destabilizing the already shakey Pakistani government.

By: wf

wf — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:04:48 +0000

Any guy who talks about creating Heaven on Earth should be setting off alarms. In that way, Obama sure rings my bell.

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:30:07 +0000

Let’s see. I’ve now heard from Obama supporters who accuse me of being racist for not liking him, and who display overt antisemitism in his defense. Kind of makes you wonder about his fan base, doesn’t it?

By: O Balm Ahhh

O Balm Ahhh — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:43:50 +0000

Looks like Obama is in danger of not pandering sufficiently to AIPAC and the racist Jewish supremacist vote.

Not to worry, there’s alway Clinton and Leon Trotsky loving Rudy JewlieAnnie.

Tough break for Obama though.

By: jj

jj — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:42:46 +0000

I have to admit, I get a (small) charge out of seeing all these people standing behind Obama waving signs that say nothing more than “change.” It’s cute, I suppose, in an unfocused, vaguely warm and fuzzy way - but “change” is hardly a program.

I’m kind of curious about what it is these people think they’d like to change. As for Obama himself, I doubt if he has any clue what he’s talking about: he’s a straight Illinois democrat machine ward-heeler,and one of the first things most honorable people would change would be the process that got him the job he currently holds.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:33:46 +0000

Fascists, Naziis, Communists, Socialists - same thugs, different gang colors.

By: Zhombre

Zhombre — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:42:46 +0000

All these lefties crying ‘fascism’ live lives of security, safety, affluence and privilege. They’re cicadas: mere noise. Fascism is just the buzz word they spout, nothing more. They have no concept of actual fascism, actual repression, actual suffering, actual want, actual resistance, actual heroism and no idea how arid their ideas and how puerile their minds are. They are as idiotic as Cindy Sheehan making a “fast for peace” but taking vitamin supplements and having an occasional latte, or these idiots who diminish their tax withholding to protest the war, and wait for the IRS to levy their wages for the unpaid tax so they can call themselves martyrs. Fools. Lately I reread Swift and his insight hits me like a splash of cold water: the Lilliputians are among us.