Comments on: What Obama Might Do?

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:44:24 +0000

I have another suggestion for Obama – show us your original birth certificate. Not some BS Kos/fact check/LA times forgery. While you are at it, how about your passport information and college transcripts?

Is that too much to ask?

By: nick

nick — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:56:21 +0000

as if PJ bloggers deserve civility.

you are right, after election, my job was done

but I find some topics interesting

so perhaps this is posted by a Lisp or Prolog machine that can pass the test.

But I bet none of you get the Gay reference.

By: Ron Kean

Ron Kean — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:40:15 +0000

The name calling here is weird. It’s like Moe Howard on the stooges.

Why don’t you guys know that name calling only harms the guy doing it.

It demonstrates a lack of maturity.

It’s used rather than to logically explain thoughts and views.

It’s easy to condescend to people who call people names.

By: Bel

Bel — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:53:49 +0000

I’ll admit to now being puzzled by “nick.” This is someone who seems to be a permanent inhabitant of the comments sections of PajamasMedia and a number of right-leaning blogs and throw out non-sequiturish fact-free insults. At first, I was certain he was a GOP operative, paid to rile up and motivate the base, as well as outrage the undecided.

Given that the election’s over, there goes that theory. Furthermore, since despite differences of opinion, I try not to demonize the other side, I refuse to believe that anybody on the left would bloody-mindedly post so much unadulterated drivel.

That leaves only one conclusion: “nick” is an artificial intelligence experiment. I commend the researchers for their valuable work, but they still have a long way to go before they get anywhere remotely within sailing distance of what could be mistaken for intelligence.

3…2…1…

By: Bel

Bel — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:39:43 +0000

“Truth” First:

“As President Obama has said, the road is long”

Wasn’t that Chairman Mao? Given your reverential attitude (and your general insanity, as revealed by your website), it might as well be.

Long Reign Chairman Oba-Mao!

By: nick

nick — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:18:56 +0000

he also said 57 states.

so you think he doenst know we have 50 states?

you are imbeciles who dont know what campaigning is like!

By: nick

nick — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:17:39 +0000

Only reason a state has a BC on file is because it says the party is born in THAT STATE.

you are frigging morons!

By: Hock

Hock — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:41:10 +0000

Horace Wells

Hear, Hear! VDH has turned into a partisan, necon blogging hack. I’ve lost complete respect for him. You’d think a man supposedly this smart would know better than to suckle at Palin’s teat. His inability to recognize her stupidity only confirms that’s he gone off the deep end. He’s a classics professor who’s forgotten who he is and what he’s supposed to be doing. Go back to teaching Greek history and keep your nose out of politics/other history/religion.

By: EDW

EDW — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:29:53 +0000

There are a lot of things that worry me about Democratic control of the country, but The Fairness Doctrine isn’t one of them. The FD is such a blatant attempt to silence opposition that it wouldn’t survive litigation. And while it was tied up in the courts, the fight over it would galvanize conservatives, pour money into the GOP, provide tons of free publicity and hero-status to talkers, and embarrass the small but significant number of liberals who really do value civil liberties. I doubt Obama really wants to be publicly rebuked by at least 5 SCOTUS judges for a forray into fascism.
Even if it was somehow upheld, it would become moot as the AM radio is replaced by the streaming audio player anyway. Rush and Sean could broadcast to the entire country from a server in Greenland, and no FD could stop it.
Also, even though they’re in the tank for the Democrats, I don’t think the news networks would support the FD. The Democrats have already shown a willingness to go after any of the major networks to suppress documentaries they don’t like. They’ve even threatened PBS! And imagine what could happen when Republicans eventually regain power, and have a legislative tool that could be applied to CBS or NPR with a bit of retooling.
I caught a little bit of Rush today (confession: I find talk radio boring for the most part) but the guy really doesn’t sound worried. He knows.

By: Dan A.

Dan A. — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:42:16 +0000

“Few will remember that Bush’s tough decision on the surge, much less that his continued constancy, ensured 26 million Iraqis a new start—and, with a constitutional rather than Saddamist Iraq, made US interests more secure in the region.”

In time it will be realized that Bush willingly, knowingly sacrificed the sum total of his political capital (considerable after 9/11) and his Presidency to embark on a long-term solution to the Islamic-terrorism problem. It was a huge risk. One that (if it works, I don’t think we know yet) will be seen as one of the most astonishing acts of leadership ever. It was the right thing to do, the thing that any one of his recent predecessors should have done, but didn’t. They played it safe and put it off for the next guy. The buck doesn’t always stop there.