A thousand words just to say that Obama has a hello? Come on, there must be a better and more concise way to tell us that someone is smitten. In the political culture I grow up in, about 40 miles from Jerusalem, we treated politicians as everyday guys and looked into their agendas rather than their mythology.

Posted at January 30, 2008 6:50 AM in response to Obama and the American Jewish Vote

The public doesn't have the Netroots narrow prism. As a result, the following comments may not necessary mean anything. Personally, I will move from Edwards to Clinton because Obama/Reagan scares me. I also think that Obama is to the right of Clinton.

The dynamics of the next week will be more important than anything we perceive of Edwards' people now.

Posted at January 30, 2008 6:35 AM in response to Edwards Dropping Out Discussion

The hatred for the Clintons is backed by intelligent argument by people who using the same arguments in the 50s hated Blacks and in the 30s hated the Jews.

These people were not less prominent or less respect, except the hatred of Blacks and Jews was then the coin of the realm. Now the coins are the Clintons!

Don't vote for them, but please stop the hatred it's disgusting.

Posted at January 28, 2008 5:39 PM in response to Teddy Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Toni Morrison -- and me!

Just forgot to mention that in Esperanto the word for triangulation is Obama.

Posted at January 28, 2008 3:55 PM in response to Teddy Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Toni Morrison -- and me!

There is nothing the Clintons do that Obama does not, no matter how many sets of three monkeys you employ.

Those who don't believe in miracles aren't realists: Edwards it is and let the other two pretenders beat each others brains out.

Posted at January 28, 2008 3:52 PM in response to Teddy Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Toni Morrison -- and me!

May be Bloomberg doesn't believe that Obama is centrist enough. May be Obama, to block a Bloomberg run, should join Boren, Nunn and Broder; this will emphasize his commitment to the bi approach.

Posted at January 11, 2008 5:03 AM in response to Bloomberg Should

I agree that Obama is not a progressive, never was and never will. I will shy away from the term demagogue because I believe that Obama's campaign was modeled to mimic Bush's 2000 campaign. This may be a tactic only and once he wins, he'll beome more substantive and less slogany.

I know, there is very little support to what I said in our history.

Posted at January 4, 2008 8:58 AM in response to Obama Delivers on the Ground

Absolutely! The Pakistani war by Obama suddenly clarified to me that Obama is simply a fraud! Despite Edwards, he isn't nice. He invented the empty phrase change, which means absolutely nothing. He even said, 2 days ago, that he'll bring change the way he alway has. What? This guy got to be in forties without leaving a mark. His only claim to fame is the invention of the present vote. Does it remind you of another fraud named Bush?

So many people tend in his direction with a tin ear to everything he says. I, too, am an avid Edwards supporter, but Obama wins a lot of vote from Hillary hatred among the left-wing (conspiracy); those people hated Bill almost as much as the right wing except that the left hated his compromises.

I hope, for the good of the progressive movement, that Iowa buries Obama; I don't hold my breath though. After all, Iowa chose Kerry.

Posted at December 31, 2007 4:57 AM in response to Agonizing Over the Candidates and Who They Really Are

Kissinger may be evil, but wise and knowledgeable enough. Bush and Cheney are evil, but Cheney is quite intelligent. Zbig is not!

Posted at December 31, 2007 4:28 AM in response to Agonizing Over the Candidates and Who They Really Are

Zbigniew Brzezinski is a clown! Speaking earnestly with a foreign accent doesn't a Kissinger make.

The Middle East story is old and worn; it's raised whenever one has nothing to say. There are at least five more important issues and climate control and the international implications of it are way more important.

Can we, at this late hour, start and deal with details instead of Zbigniew Brzezinski type sound bytes?

Posted at December 30, 2007 4:49 PM in response to Agonizing Over the Candidates and Who They Really Are