Why does Barack Obama inspire you:

lols
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/10/30/nyregion/30obama0.600.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/us/politics/30obama.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

he is truly the first democrat I've been excited about since Clinton.

Well, he can't meet THAT standard unless senators suddenly acquire the power to execute brain-damaged inmates.

she was prob referring to this dude:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_(vice_president)

d'oh! i mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_%28vice_president%29

George Clinton, the Vice President of Funk?

George Clinton, the Vice President of Funk?

-- Tuomas, Monday, October 29, 2007 10:31 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29205

i don't see what they're getting at with that NYT piece. some stuff in his book is glazed over, some is embellished, but he was really bright and smart anyway?

Yeah, it's pretty much

"KIND OF A LITTLE BIT SHOCKING HEADLINE...

...okay, we ain't got shit."

"I remember the first time I interviewed someone from Morgan Stanley and I got cheese on my tie because I thought my tie was a napkin."

waht

I'll be inspired when he follows through on his recent promise to clearly point out what a reactionary recidivist liar Rodham is.

He's got nothing to lose, that's for sure.

i suppose there's the prospect of going back to the senate as a back-bencher who's pissed everybody off..

writing books is a lot more honorable and profitable than being a senator, though.

if he gets cracking at it and finds his champion issue maybe he could get a nobel prize too

xp

but it doesn't have as much cred as being a Party whore

I want to like him; his last book was surprisingly vivid, and he's an intermittently eloquent speaker. But he doesn't stand a chance. I doubt Hils will forgive him enough to emasculate him by offering him the VP slot.

"I remember the first time I interviewed someone from Morgan Stanley and I got cheese on my tie because I thought my tie was a napkin."

"I remember the first time I interviewed someone from Morgan Stanley and I got cheese on my tie because I thought my tie was a napkin."

"I remember the first time I interviewed someone from Morgan Stanley and I got cheese on my tie because I thought my tie was a napkin."

"I remember the first time I interviewed someone from Morgan Stanley and I got cheese on my tie because I thought my tie was a napkin."

I doubt Hils will forgive him enough to emasculate him by offering him the VP slot.

Not even as assassination insurance?

Would it do any good to have him as VP?

not for him, no

can't see how - he's from a really blue state and it would rather undermine Hillary's image as candidate with real experience to nominate someone with so little as VP, i think her plan is pick someone who she believes is truly ready to take over as president.

I figure Hil's veep won't be able to win.

btw, Obama is inspiring droves of gay supporters to abandon his campaign over this "ex-gay" religioso who's been touring with him and said some dopey shit last Sunday:

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2007/10/obama-spins-mcclurkin.html

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2007/10/homoquotable-andrew-sullivan.html

http://www.cruelty.com/money/images/L90617482R_detail.jpg

Is the lesbian U.D. dollar worth more than the ordinary U.S. dollar in the world currency market?

I pretty much hate single-issue activists, as a rule.

I'm sure Hil's lipservice while doing nothing to chance the status quo suits "gay activist leaders" because now they've MADE A NAME FOR THEMSELVES

I hate one-issue activists too, unless their issue is buying me delicious meals and alcohol. (Someone plz to take up this cause.)

Also - "HomoQuotable"?

is now a good time to point out grandpa packin' heat up in that picture?

oh god, grossburger. thanks, jorl.

just here to help, ma'am.

yeow!!!

no they're not - Gandhi was born in the 19th century, Carter in the 20th. nonetheless "cultural norms" /= individual people.

Carter was born in 1923

jesus slept with hookers

napoleon was a dictator

jefferson hemings etc

Al Gore = fat

But Gandhi and Carter, now thems some fucked up dudes

am i wrong in thinking that carter is the least assailable prez of the 20th century?

can be easily assailed for the thugs he cuddled and the people they killed.

someone tell dumbwhat we're talking about Obama's ex-fag gospel clown, and he's 21st century.

who would've expected a gospel singer to be homophobic

cuddling thugs on the down-low

ringling brothers and ex-fag gospel clown homophobic down-low circus

Coolidge

why are we listening to what a ron paultard has to say about anything

why are you so into weird slander and namecalling

I mean no one here seriously believes Morbius is/was an ardent Ron Paul supporter why keep bringing it up

because he repeatedly supported ron paul and called him a defender of liberty and shit like that?

check the candidates 2008 thread

established republican operative willing to defend ron paul's racism (check 2008 thread) but not barack obama sharing the stage with a homophobe

whatever - its all just a game of "gotcha!" with you. Heaven forbid people's opinions and positions change over time depending on conditions and issues at hand. fwiw I don't recall Morbz ever doing any actual "defending" of Paul's racism (Paul blamed it on some loose-cannon operatives and Morbz accepted that explanation, at least initially) and yes I was on that thread and its more of yr classic "hey let's deliberately misrepresent people to score internet tough guy points" schtick.

Serious question: is it really a "surprise" or "little known fact" that while Gandhi was awesome in certain ways, a huge chunk of his religious views and even political ideologies were things we would today consider totally fucking batshit? The guy wasn't a politician, he was a seriously out-there religious figure.

Morbz did not call Ron Paul an "American Patriot" (that was a youtube comment that *I* posted cuz it was so rofflicious). Morbz "defense" of Ron Paul's racism amounts to one line: "aul didn't write the race thing btw, as we already discussed."

you'd make a terrible lawyer ethan

no nabisco its not surprising at all. nor is it particularly relevant.

oh wow shakey + ethan arguing ABOUT morbius

and me expressing smug condescension about them doing that!

gentlemen we have achieved the ILX politics thread hat trick

lol

i said 'defender of liberty' not american patriot

morbz also posted & said he agreed with a blog post that had shit like

"The man is a danger to the Republic, and its only fitting that he should take umbrage at Ron Paul, the Republic’s last defender in Washington: it’s a classic confrontation of good (Paul) and evil (Benito) — and you couldn’t ask for a more dramatic narrative."

sorry for mentioning peoples political support when they do shit like attack barack obama & jimmy carter

this ethan guy personally advised Carter to let the Shah of Iran enter a U.S. hospital. THANKS FOR REAGAN!

"Evil Benito" sounds cool

the least assailable pres might well be WARREN G HARDING, at least compared to all the others

why is it only ever crackpot libertarians who talk about "the republic"?

All libertarians love New Order.

teapot dome?

I think the point was everyone already knows about Harding's suckitude, so there's nothing hidden/covered up/glossed over with which one could assail his presidency.

o

sullivan say: he's not a boomer

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200712/obama/

http://www.slate.com/id/2171730/pagenum/all

i hear ron paul is going to pick cynthia mckinney as his running mate

http://imgs.xkcd.com/misc/coolest-est.jpg

it's the skateboard that makes it awesome

like homie will take a dude out w/o even disembarking from that shit

If recent polls are any indication, he's not exactly making quick work of Hillary, though. Maybe Master Splinter can impart some advice?

There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.

Didn't someone point out since then that the Selma marches were about 5 years after Barack Obama was born?

"some people got together, something stirred, and i was born"

http://uncutvideo.aol.com/videos/efed81d71a332ce3d9d5d60d4262debf

i like obama's sister

http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_obama_doctrine

american prospect talks to obama's foreign policy advisors. good read.

Golden Girl Rue McClanahan's answer, from the depths of her third decade of senility:

“This is the damnedest election I’ve ever lived through and Obama is the most amazing candidate I’ve ever bumped into,” McClanahan said. “The man has unshakable integrity. He’s the nearest thing to Lincoln we’ve seen.”

http://www.nyblade.com/2008/7-4/arts/main/1228RueSordid.cfm

(let's eat some cheesecake joke here)

http://i.imgur.com/bUPJ4Jw.png

https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/comedians-in-cars-barack-obama.jpg?w=446&h=299&crop=1