Comments on: Why Geffen Said What He Said

By: Captain Hate

Captain Hate — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:34:19 +0000

“Bill Clinton, the man who would have been President on 9/11, and perhaps even today, if we didn’t have the 22nd Amendment.”

I know the Clinton-bots prefer to ignore this “inconvenient truth” but he never received 50% of the popular vote in either of his presidential elections. Not even against Bob Dole.

By: Luther McLeod

Luther McLeod — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:11:12 +0000

OT but maybe not. A prediliction of Hil's. And the video of the day. And these folks want to be President?

By: A B

A B — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:22:22 +0000

Obama can win? Why do people think this? The guy is lighter than Edwards!

Can anyone imagine what the debates would look like between Obama and Romney? Or Obama and Guiliani?

Both of those guys would absolutely destroy him.

The fact is, maybe Hillary can’t win. But she’s the stronger of the two candidates.

The Democrats need someone else, and quickly.

By: TomTom

TomTom — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:25:24 +0000

I rather suspect there is a secret account in (only Bill) Clinton’s name somewhere with $50 to 100 million in it deposited by Marc Rich as the price of his pardon. Ten mill for the Clinton library was enough to buy clemency for a billionaire? I don’t think so.

By: dclydew

dclydew — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:09:27 +0000

Some of us who believe in the BIF even consider ourselves to be “thinking people”

I agree. Some people that consider the possibility of something based entirely on faith, with no evidence may be thinking people. However, they remain thinking people, only as long as they realize that their belief is based on “maybe”, “possibly” or “I choose to hold this belief”.

When the person takes the ideas and beliefs, drops the maybe and tries to enforce these ideas upon others as TRUTH… then we might say they become unthinking.

While Amy’s post was quite as direct, I think that may be what she was trying to say with the and march in political lockstep with the Haggards and Dobsons of the world.

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:02:01 +0000

But alas, to envision that soft-focus, nostalgia-tinged decent centrist old-timey campaign between decent centrist Richardson and decent centrist Giuliani, is to dream on ghosts and miracles.

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:15:59 +0000

roger that, Rhod–bottom of the barrel political behavior-wise, we’ve done seen it, no need for any more exhibition, please can’t we just call it even now, we did Whitewater/Jones/Lewinsky (ok, Clintons did it but let’s let that fine point go), they did BDS in revenge, ok, even-steven, ENOUGH already.

By: Barrett

Barrett — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:12:10 +0000

There is a lot “flying” around interm so comments.

In short, Geffen has learned the he cannot trust the Clintonistas, who are nothing more than about obatining power. In addition, he has the money to float a “trial balloon”. No big deal.

Obama is a an inexperienced politician who some folks I know refer to as “gee I just found out I was black when I was 19″ and “maybe I am a Muslim or at least many in the Muslim community think I am depsite my posing as a Christian” candidate.

I don’t know if any of that is true, but I am not sold on Obama from what I know is a cut and run and partial birth abortion.

Hillary is not electable as many have pointed out.

It is a wide open race! Let the games begin.

By: Rhod

Rhod — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:10:35 +0000

Me too, Buddy. We’re emphatic about being really close to the last straw.

And it’s impossible march in lockstep when the Hound of Heaven is snapping at your heels.

By: Dan Wismar

Dan Wismar — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:43:04 +0000

In reply to Amy Alkon,

I would venture to say that the large majority of “the vast swath of people who believe in The Big Imaginary Friend”, in other words, the two hundred million or so believing Christians and Jews in this country, don’t have any idea who Haggard and Dobson even are, much less “march in lockstep” with them.

Some of us who believe in the BIF even consider ourselves to be “thinking people”, your implication notwithstanding.

People who lack a spiritual life, and who flatter themselves as thus more rational than the unenlightened “other”, are akin to (and I quote a popular blogger here) “two-dimensional circles pronouncing on the non-existence of spheres.”