Comments on: This Is My Movie http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/10/11/this-is-my-movie/ Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:59:36 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: bmzim http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/10/11/this-is-my-movie/#comment-2692 bmzim Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:16:34 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/10/11/this-is-my-movie/#comment-2692 <p>Credit where due — don’t forget that one of the Dems who spoke out against the war was the <em>senior</em> senator from Illinois. Durbin was up for re-election in 2002, but that didn’t stop him. Not that this takes anything away from Obama’s record, but it does give some background to the tight teamwork between IL’s two senators.</p> Credit where due — don’t forget that one of the Dems who spoke out against the war was the senior senator from Illinois. Durbin was up for re-election in 2002, but that didn’t stop him. Not that this takes anything away from Obama’s record, but it does give some background to the tight teamwork between IL’s two senators.

]]> By: Kilo http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/10/11/this-is-my-movie/#comment-2684 Kilo Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:02:30 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/10/11/this-is-my-movie/#comment-2684 <p>To be fair, that should say “…without being corrupt or looking the other way in order to get ahead”<br /> You could of course be corrupt without validating Kristol’s point.</p> <p>ABC Foreign Correspondent program transcript/video here…<br /> abc.net.au/foreign/content/2008/s2341480.htm</p> To be fair, that should say “…without being corrupt or looking the other way in order to get ahead”
You could of course be corrupt without validating Kristol’s point.

ABC Foreign Correspondent program transcript/video here…
abc.net.au/foreign/content/2008/s2341480.htm

]]> By: Kilo http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/10/11/this-is-my-movie/#comment-2683 Kilo Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:52:58 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/10/11/this-is-my-movie/#comment-2683 <p>This really amounts to nothing more than Kristol challenging someone to match him up to McCain’s catchphrase. But he does have a point, just not the one he poses.</p> <p>You could search for anecdotes of Obama’s unpopular stances, but WTF would the point be ? To score a point against someone wholly uninterested in honest assessments based on facts ? </p> <p>On the other you could examine just how realistic his popular stances are…<br /> realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/obamas_magic.html</p> <p>There were actually a few liberal bloggers in the wake of the $700b proposal noting that with this and the economy and the defecit, there goes your health plan. Joining the dot (not plural) to the candidate making no modifications to those proposals…. not so much.</p> <p>So yeah, he does have a point about Obama being a populist avoiding inconvenient stances. </p> <p>Speaking of which, our (Oz) foreign affairs programs have featured interviews with Chicagophiles on the question of just how does a Chicago politician make it this far without being corrupt. When black democrat colleagues, who clearly don’t want to hurt him sit there in silence and say “you figure it out” in response, it tells you there’s a lot of people doing that same avoidance of the inconvenient.</p> <p>Plus, you know he’s a Muslim cyborg, so there’s that too.</p> This really amounts to nothing more than Kristol challenging someone to match him up to McCain’s catchphrase. But he does have a point, just not the one he poses.

You could search for anecdotes of Obama’s unpopular stances, but WTF would the point be ? To score a point against someone wholly uninterested in honest assessments based on facts ?

On the other you could examine just how realistic his popular stances are…
realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/obamas_magic.html

There were actually a few liberal bloggers in the wake of the $700b proposal noting that with this and the economy and the defecit, there goes your health plan. Joining the dot (not plural) to the candidate making no modifications to those proposals…. not so much.

So yeah, he does have a point about Obama being a populist avoiding inconvenient stances.

Speaking of which, our (Oz) foreign affairs programs have featured interviews with Chicagophiles on the question of just how does a Chicago politician make it this far without being corrupt. When black democrat colleagues, who clearly don’t want to hurt him sit there in silence and say “you figure it out” in response, it tells you there’s a lot of people doing that same avoidance of the inconvenient.

Plus, you know he’s a Muslim cyborg, so there’s that too.

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