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9.2.08 @ 12:01AM

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Barack praised Bill Clinton for his leadership early in his speech in Denver. He then chastised the Bush Administration for not having followed bin Laden to the cave in which "he lives," claiming John McCain's approach would be the same.

Last I checked, Bill Clinton was the guy who dropped the ball on having the trigger pulled when it came down to the business of killing the man who ultimately is responsible for the greatest attack on America.

Barack may win the race for The White House. Still, I'm betting the words of one of our Founding Fathers will come to the fore of the collective realizations of all Americans soon thereafter: "The majority are not always right."
-- Michael S. Smith II
Charleston, South Carolina

Hubris leads to Ate which in turn leads to Nemesis, but in ground zero of the Obama nation people seem heedless of this bit of Greek wisdom (although they do take to Greek architecture, I suppose).

In the nation at large mere mortals don't yet know who their next president will be, but in Hyde Park the debate which rages concerns something far in the future: where Mr. Obama's presidential library is to be located.

The Hyde Park Herald (August 20) recently published a small sample of residents' ideas on the subject. I will spare you them but I think one is particularly noteworthy because of the degree to which the person is besotted:

"...a library is thinking a bit on the small side. My vision is a complex that includes everything a community needs to ensure that any child can be given the tools necessary to become whatever their dreams lead them to. This complex will at least...include a head start program, a preschool, a parent learning center, an elementary school, a middle school, a high school, adequate physical and sports education facilities, a Presidential library (of course), an adult continuing education center and other such dream achievement facilities. The jobs, contracts, and other associated business opportunities that would go into planning, building, opening and running this great new place of hope would go first to the people in the community that it directly serves and it would be administered with the best evidence based practices that science and social services know. The idea is big, the possibilities endless."

Another person suggests the conversion of an abandoned church. Yes, that might do.
-- Michel Santaquilani
Hyde Park/Chicago, Illinois

Phil says that the GOP "brand name" is in trouble. This points to a larger problem that the GOP must address. This is not a Wall Street/Madison Avenue ad campaign and that is the root of the GOP problem. We win when we call upon the better angels of the American people to be the individualist cowboys and pioneers that they are and not the wimpy little state dependent masses that the Dems want them to be.

There is a wing of the GOP that resides on Wall Street and Madison Avenue and when I here CRAP like "GOP branding" I know that they have become too influential. They are important to us and we love them but there are times when the one must do the manly thing and ignore the cost because of the greater good that will follow. The Wall Street types do not do this well and the Dems are too cowardly to do anything involving deadly force like war without flinching.

Our candidate can be jerk sometimes but I think it is safe to say that we can count on him to do what is required even if it is difficult and unpopular. I include Sarah Palin in that group given what she has done in Alaska as governor.

By the way, has Barack Obama or Joe Biden ever run anything besides their mouths? (I stole from Marion Berry.)
-- Jeff Seyfert

The expression "tongue in cheek" means the speaker does not believe what he is saying.

I hope someone in Spectator land taped Clinton's speech to confirm what I saw. I hope it will make it to You Tube.

Twice in a row, when Clinton said something positive about Obama, he very clearly put his tongue in his cheek.
-- Fred Edwards

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