bleeargh
so anyway, who better to promote understanding between Christianity and Islam than a Christian who started two wars against Muslims?***
on the subject of men with no sense of irony, this is why i'm uncomfortable with Obamania:
What the public has yet to see clearly is his hidden side: his imperious, mercurial, self-righteous and sometimes prickly nature... He can be cold and short with reporters who he believes have given him unfair coverage... He is, in fact, a man of raw ambition so powerful that even he is still coming to terms with its full force.
this could be a description of Blair. as Alistair Campbell revealed, Blair flat-out lied his way into power. he was not a progressive, had no time at all for progressives. he was a Blairist and nothing else.
of course, MacAskill is utterly clueless, so he has to be taken with a cartload of salt. Obama is nothing like Carter, and it's typical of MacAskill to run with something so dumb: his columns are so unilluminating that he must be thankful that apparently his editor doesn't read the American press and realise how far off the mark he often is. but the quote i gave was from a biography by someone who has had access (and presumably doesn't any more).
Obama sets off my bullshit meter. where MacAskill is not wrong is in reporting that people ask: "Change? But how? And to what?" this too was Blair all over. he talked about change, but it turned out in many ways to be change for the worse.
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still, he's got to be better than McCain. but i think that "how much better?" is going to be a key question, particularly given that a lot of Americans will not be all that keen on trusting a black man.
posted by Dr Zen @ 10:20 am
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Hmmm, they all set off my BS meter. Obama sets it off the least. Then McCain. Last of all Hilary.
IMO, a dem has to win. We need someone from a different place here to simply clean up the trashed foreign relations we have now.
Not looking for perfect. Just looking for not driven by a fucking lobotomized chimp.
And I'm a republican. Actually, I'm not really one of those anymore, just still registered. But I'm not a democrat, and I'm not really a libertarian.
I'm an Anthonarian. I'm tired of not being able to look at one candidate and say, "Yes, that person stands in the gap for me."
I think Obama is the lesser of three evils, and maybe not so evil as simply a little young...
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