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Audacious Elitism

4.15.08 @ 12:01AM

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My guess is that he never spoke to a single small-town Pennsylvanian in his life until this campaign, and then only to people who want to hear what he wants to say, while he hears what he wants to hear.

I'm actually surprised that he didn't just call us "typical po' white folk" while he was at it, because it is crystal clear to me that that is exactly what he meant.
-- A. C. Santore

Perhaps Obama can title his next book The Audacity of Prayer: Opiate of the Proletariat.
-- Wolf Terner
Fair Lawn, New Jersey

FIRED FIORINA
Re: Shawn Macomber's Don't Be a Stranger:

The main problem about electing McCain -- at least from a conservative point of view -- has always been McCain. Despite Macomber's opinion that "...it seemed fairly obvious that McCain was lucky to have Carly Fiorina aboard," it appears to me that one new problem is Fiorina herself.

I don't know exactly what caused her to fail at Hewlett-Packard, but an infatuation with Hegel just might be part of it. An overly-theoretical, not to say airy-fairy and artsy-bartsy, view of politics doesn't spell success to me, nor does an appreciation of Beethoven based on his "angst." I too prefer Ludwig to Amadeus, but it has to do with his music rather than his personal suffering.

"There was also feel-good talk..." Macomber informs us. Wonderful -- just wonderful! As if we hadn't already had too much of that from Angry John with his concerns about global warmenizing.

Finally, Macomber says Fiorina assures us that McCain knows where there are bodies and levers and pressure points, and that "One thing people know about John McCain is that he walks the talk."

The idea that McCain is merely walking the talk is what concerns me. That, and my fear that Carly Fiorina merely talks the walk.
-- Richard Donley
New Lyme, Ohio

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Fiorina run Hewlett-Packard into the ground? Wasn't she fired? If memory serves correctly, Fiorina was grossly incompetent. McCain is going to have to do better than that.
-- Louise
Maryland

If this addition of Carly to the McCain's is supposed to be a positive I am sorry for the snow job she is pulling on you. Just remember what she did to HP. I worked for HP for 29+ years I saw up front the turmoil she created. CEO need to be accountable and she never was until Patricia Dunn called the Board out on her.

McCain was never my candidate and this confirms that I will vote for none of the above.
-- Jim Sullivan

Hmm, I would rather she prefer Bach to either Mozart or Beethoven, Mr. Macomber. But, I'll try to keep an open mind.
-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

LICENTIOUS LIBERTARIANS
Re: Robert Stacy McCain's Barr Set High:

If Bob Barr wants to be the losing Libertarian Presidential candidate he needs to embrace legalizing pot, sanctioning homosexual marriage (an AIDS insurance scam) and rejecting social conservative ideas. This is a fringe movement that appeals to many good Americans who would prefer grousing to governing. A vote for the Libertarian Party, however well intentioned, is a vote to avoid responsibility and help Democrats -- the party of slavery then and now.
-- Michael Tomlinson

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