“They’re Just Not Used To Somebody Really Smart”
September 17, 2008 1:35 pm Current Events, PoliticsApparently, surrounding myself with certified genius level IQ friends is not good enough for Joe Biden.
Joe Biden: The Republican party and some of the blogs and others on the far right, are trying very hard to paint a picture of this man, they’re trying the best as they can to mischaracterize who he is and what he stands for.
All this stuff about how different Barack Obama is, they’re not just used to somebody really smart. They’re just not used to somebody who’s really well educated. They just don’t know quite how to handle it. Cause if he’s as smart as Barack is he must not be from my neighborhood.
Golly! I had no idea I lived around a bunch of hillbilly imbeciles. I just wouldn’t know how to handle myself around someone who has spent so much time in the hallowed halls of academia. I’m not even sure what that word means. It kinda sounds like a disease. It’s alright though, the Obamessiah is going to heal our souls. Right after he wins the negative ad contest.
“If we’re going to ask questions about, you know, who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily,” Obama said.
But we’re still decent people apparently.
The one thing that I want to insist on is that, as I travel around the country, the American people are a decent people. Now they get confused sometimes. You know, they listen to the wrong talk radio shows or watch the wrong TV networks, um, but they’re, they’re basically decent, they’re basically sound.
We’re just confused. And clinging to those things we can actually understand like God and guns.
Enough! I am sick and tired of the left looking down there noses at those of us that actually give a damn. No, I don’t understand the mind of someone that has spent their lives in the hallowed womb of progressives known as ivy league schools only to be birthed into the pit of socialist uprising. I’m not accustomed to the thoughts of someone that puts his children under the tutelage of a blatantly racist pastor. I don’t know how one could possibly associate with an unrepentant domestic terrorist.
I don’t consider an attorney as presidential material. Lawyers have no concept of right and wrong, only that which they can convince a jury (or a mass of mindless fans). Truth is a concept that has no real place in the practice of law. It’s all about bending the events to fit your narrative.
And, by the way, it’s Conservatives that listen to the right radio stations. Liberals listen to what is left.
September 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Aw, shucks! I wisht I cud b as smurt as Obawma! Tha’d be grate!
September 17th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Sometimes tough times call for smart people to lead… Barack Obama has had many obstacles to overcome and excelled at Harvard .. he has championed legislation to keep America safe.. I mean John McCain is a self described “Wife Beater” http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/06/mccain-gambles.html I mean I know God is important, and Guns are great (they help me win fights all the time) but we really need to put into office leaders with experience (not just getting shot down and rescued in VietNam) but Joe Biden has passed some landmark legistlation for women’s rights.. and I was so excited to see Gov. Palin be on the GOP ticket, but after her interviews I realize she really doesn’t know much about foreign politics.. and now more than ever if we are going to save our nation we the people can’t play deaf dumb and blind anymore.. we need people smarter than us to lead us .. we NEED the tax cuts that Obama is going to deliver, we really need good people in the white house .. Because George WWIII Bush has set us down a pathway toward obliteration… Jennifer, I know you are smart, and I love your blog but you have to understand that this is so important now to make sure we have good sound leadership and NOT more nightmare nuclear diplomacy based on nothing but lies.. See the truth.. Believe in America
September 17th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
I agree that it is absolutely important for us to have good sound leadership, but I’ve yet to see any evidence that Obama can deliver that. He doesn’t have any leadership experience and so he asks us to trust his judgment. Quite frankly, I’ve not seen many judgments of his that I find trustworthy. And the only interview I’ve seen with Sarah Palin was the horribly slanted and maliciously edited propaganda with Charles Gibson. The leading/loaded questions and lack of research was disgusting. I’m all for asking her the hard questions, but really ask them and let her answer. Don’t cut her answers in such a way as to fit a particular image. I have to wonder why we still have not seen a full transcript of the interview.
Rising through the ranks in the Navy does require leadership skills. Passing on the chance to cut your torture time short shows amazing judgment and character. Calling a church your home for 20 years and then tossing it aside because it’s bad for your image does not show excellent judgment and character. Saying one thing to one group of people and then deriding them when you are away does not demonstrate leadership qualities.
And the ‘wife beater’ thing was clearly a joke. An ill thought one but nothing more than a joke.
September 17th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
“Sometimes tough times call for smart people to lead…”
I agree completely.
“Barack Obama has had many obstacles to overcome and excelled at Harvard ..”
Such as?
“he has championed legislation to keep America safe..”
Example?
“I mean John McCain is a self described ‘Wife Beater’”
Out of context. The alluded to passage in your link reads, “To be clear, McCain was alluding to the fictitious leading question ‘When did you stop beating your wife, senator?’ It’s a bit of distasteful DC yuckery so commonly quoted it’s hackneyed.”
Distasteful? Yes. As concerning as a Marxist who only renounced his anti-America, racist preacher after he was found to be unpopular? I think not.
“I mean I know God is important, and Guns are great (they help me win fights all the time)”
The subtleties of your sarcasm astonish me.
“but we really need to put into office leaders with experience”
Yes. Of which, Obama lacks.
“(not just getting shot down and rescued in VietNam) but Joe Biden has passed some landmark legistlation for women’s rights..”
*spelling* What kinds of landmark legislation for women’s rights?
“and I was so excited to see Gov. Palin be on the GOP ticket,”
Me too!
“but after her interviews I realize she really doesn’t know much about foreign politics..”
How do you know? What do you mean? Do you have any examples?
“and now more than ever if we are going to save our nation we the people can’t play deaf dumb and blind anymore..”
Whose playing deaf, dumb, and blind?
“we need people smarter than us to lead us ..”
What we need is leadership that won’t choke when his (or her) teleprompter shuts down. I will concede that Barry is smarter than me if he can beat me at checkers and explain to me how a four-stroke engine works.
“we NEED the tax cuts that Obama is going to deliver, we really need good people in the white house ..”
How is he going to start all the programs that he has talked about (Socialist Healthcare, ending World Poverty, etc., etc.,etc…) AND cut taxes? Good people who refer to a grandparent who basically reared him with racial dismissal? Marty, that’s not good people. If you are looking for somebody to make tax cuts, it’s going to take someone who has cleaned up government excess from an executive position already. –you know, somebody like Governor Sarah Palin! 2012!
“Because George WWIII Bush has set us down a pathway toward obliteration…”
If ‘pathway toward obliteration’ you mean ’successfully stopped terrorist attacks on American soil for 7-years’ then you are correct, I suppose.
“Jennifer, I know you are smart,”
But, not as smart as the Obamassiah, apparently.
“and I love your blog”
Wait, here it comes! Wait for it!
“but you have to understand that this is so important now to make sure we have good sound leadership and NOT more nightmare nuclear diplomacy based on nothing but lies..”
Boom! There’s the ‘lies’ rhetoric again. ‘Lies, lies, lies…’ Where does this ‘lies’ BS come from? They always talk about all the ‘lies,’ but can never support it in a way that makes sense. That’s why they always use the word so vacuously. But, wait! There’s more!
“See the truth..”
…and the truth shall set you free? *Jennifer, Obama will save your soul. Can’t you see that?*
*Believe in America*
The People’s Republik of America.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
He actually did fight for the Civil Rights for Women section of the Violence Against Women Act. He wanted crimes based on gender to be considered hate crimes.
Of course, that hate crimes thing gets awful close to thought crimes. Doing violence to another human being should elicit a certain punishment. The motivating factors are evidence, not crimes in and of themselves.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
McCain + Palin = McPain
We cannot afford 4 more years of the same policies as George Bush.
There are many issues to be concerned when you cast your vote: economy, stem-cell research, reproductive rights, foreign policy, civil rights, healthcare.
Just make sure you know where your candidate stands on these important issues before casting your vote.
God bless!
Vote for change Obama / Biden ‘08
New name, same old talking points. It’s joe/medic/whatever again
September 18th, 2008 at 2:31 am
Thanks Michael, you saved me the trouble of having to tear Marty’s argument apart like Misto with a catnip toy.
And to add to it, McCain does have more leadership that “just getting shot down” which is a snide dismissal of his service, torture and sacrifice for his country.
John McCain’s military service included leading a squadron of men and I will bet that Marty has never had that kind of responsibility and yes, it’s a tougher and harder job than being a community organizer.
And while John McCain may not heal my soul, and least he didn’t sell his to get where he is today.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:17 am
I have all the respect in the WORLD for John McCain.. he is a true American hero.. In fact I really miss the old John McCain and thats why I guess I am a bitter still on the fence about the whole thing.. I mean John McCain used to be such a straight talker.. even if it was politcally incorrect at least we could count on the truth from him.. But it just seems that the Neo-con movement that takes corporate greed & interests and cleverly puts them ahead of the common American people.. Then I learned that he teamed with Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., to study the dangers of nuclear proliferation and pass legislation meant to keep nuclear material from falling into the hands of terrorists… And I was thinking man this guy’s really got it.. and I was thinking of how him and Joe Biden (who is really good friends with John McCain and really deserves a lot of respect) they could really do some good stuff for us.. Although I WOULD LOVE to see a McCain / Palin administration they would have some positive impact on the country… but with the current economic meltdown that we’re experiencing we don’t need the Keeting 5 John McCain and we don’t need the John McCain that wants to say whatever it takes to get elected.. I guess we’ll see what comes from the debates… Its just that the more I learn about “The Bad Guys” the more I learn that Joe Biden would do great great things if he headed the Senate, and as much as it pains me to admit I think Barack could assemble a really good cabinet that would take a wholistic view of international and national issues.. I mean some of our soldiers NEED to come home.. this 2 – 3 tour shit has got to stop and I do have 2 relatives STILL serving in Iraq and were actually stop-lossed so I am a little biased but i mean 3,000 people roughly died from the terrorist attact on 9/11/01, and now over 4,000 soldiers have died fighting this endless war in Iraq with people that just simply don’t want America to occupy their land anymore .. I try to see it from their point of view, if we had some other country’s military presence here in this country I would go ballistic too, so would a lot of people… we just need to get smarter people in office and Sarah Palin and McCain I am starting to think may not be the best fit… sigh, i just don’t know … thanks for letting me rant
September 18th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Marty-Come by and rant anytime.
The anti-gun stance of both of the dems really concerns me. Not only because I am a gun enthusiast, but I believe it says something about their personal beliefs. It tells me that they don’t have faith in the American people. I don’t want a leader that thinks we need babysitters. I don’t want a leader that thinks they know better than I do how to spend my hard earned money.
I disagree about Barack assembling a good cabinet. We’ve seen the kind of people he has assembled to advise him already. I really don’t think we need a guy like Ayers making decisions. Clearly, he is not a good judge of character.
I’m still learning about Joe Biden. He’s clearly arrogant and condescending. He continues to slander the dead man that was driving the car that hit his wife’s car killing his wife and daughter. The man was not drunk. Despite continued requests from the man’s family to set the record straight, he has not.
I have plenty of problems with John McCain. He is far from my first choice for president, but he is far above his competition. And obviously, I’m a huge fan of Sarah Palin.
September 18th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Marty,
Rant or no, suffice it to say that I have a whole lot more respect for Comment #7 than I do for Comment #2. Even so, I’m with Jen on this one. Before Palin entered the scene, I was concerned that this would come down to a vote between the proverbial Giant Douche and Turd Sandwich. Sarah Palin kind of tilted the scales for me. It was a calculated move my McCain to generate support – and for good reason! Honestly, that choice has made me reexamine my original impressions of J-Mc. I certainly wasn’t getting excited about the idea of voting for a big-government anti-gunner (shudder), but I previously didn’t think that McCain had much to add to the mix.
Let’s go back to the first half of my last sentence. There are laws in place against going on a shooting rampage. There are other laws concerning the transportation and usage of firearms. I abide by these laws. Anyone who continues owning firearms does as well. This does not represent the microscopic cross-section of criminals with guns, these are the vast majority that simply enjoy the sport or want to exercise the right to protect themselves and their loved ones in the seconds that a crime will occur since the police are only minutes away. That should be enough. When an executive hopeful is so vocally pro-gun-control and anti-gun, I have to wonder why he wants to set us up to exert ultimate control over us.
There are a lot of mean things that people say about GWB. If you want lies, I give you Obama: it is impossible to reconcile the promises he is currently making. For instance, if I told you that if you go bowling with me I’ll grant you three wishes, you would know I’m lying because this isn’t a fantasy world. Similarly, one cannot balance the budget, give major tax breaks, AND start a bunch of expensive government programs. His empty promises are of Marxism, which historically destroys economies – take a look at any country that has adopted such governments. People have accused the Bush Administration of totalitarianism, but that requires disarming society – which he has not.
Bad intelligence led us to Iraq. That is unfortunate. What is more unfortunate is that we did not finish the job when we started it nearly twenty years ago. The war in Iraq is not over, but the surge has worked. We are on the cusp of a great victory, and the left wants to turn and run. Just like in Desert Storm, that would guarantee failure and the worthlessness of the deaths that you mentioned in your above comment. We can’t leave. Not until the job is done. I am saddened by the loss of the good men and women that have served, but let’s not let their loss be in vain.
As far as taxes to programs and the Robin Hood philosophy are concerned: In the United States of America, we should certainly help each other by choice – not because anyone made us do it. We are not here to serve the government, they are there to serve us – or that is how the Founding Fathers designed it, and that is how many of us feel it should continue to be. Frankly, to those that believe that they would prefer to live in an unarmed and socialistic or communistic society, there are plenty of other countries that they could move to that fit the bill nicely. Quit trying to screw with my home country.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Total killed at Pearl harbor – 2,350
Total US military Deaths in WWII – 416,000
Gee, how stupid we were to keep fighting World War II when we only lost 2,350. D-Day had quite a few more deaths than that. We should have just said “Well, our boys need to come home” and to hell with what happens down the road because we gave up fighting something that was really, truly evil.
Marty, you are a fool when you decided that all you are going to look at when deciding if we should continue to fight is how many of our men have died. I am former military and we all VOULENTEERED for this so we knew what we were getting into.
But, if you insist on using a body count like some form of macabre investment game then let us look at the return that we have gotten on our investment.
Total military personnel killed in Iraq – 4,080
Total Terrorist/insurgents killed in Iraq – 19,429
Gee, a pretty good return on the investment wouldn’t you say?
No one wants to see any more of our military die in action, but the alternative is to cede the fight to people who have no qualms about killing anyone who will not bow to their will. We have not had another attack on US soil since 9-11 because the terrorist know right now that we have the will to take the fight to them and will keep fighting until they are all dead.
So, they are waiting. They are waiting till we elect a president who will be soft on them the way Carter and Clinton were. They are going to wait until we give up. If we leave them alone and don’t press the fight the way we are now, all that will do is encourage them and then we will do this dance all over again.
And on the current economic situation, I think more blame should be tilted toward Clinton who got banking rules put in place that forced the home loan agencies to give loans to people who really couldn’t afford them. The alternative the banks faced were huge fines that would have sent them under.
So, give out risky loans or get fined out of business by the government – what a choice.