Does It Bother You That Obama's Middle Name Is Hussein? (1 Viewer)

[Shawn]

I'm a lot like you in that I always hedge my risks.

The difference is I see Hillary as a sure losers. She has way too much baggage to be exploited and unlike Bill she's not good at brushing these things off.

Obama on the other hand I think gives the Dems a fighting chance because the only really things to attack are cultural. Also, with cultural things you run a 50 - 50 on success. Sometimes they work, sometimes they back fire. The Clintons learned this as it backfired brutally on them trying to play the race card. With Hillary's scandals and high degree of personal conflict it all sticks 100% of the time.

I see Hillary as being a sure fire loser and Obama as being a possible winner.

I agree with you again, and I explained at length in another thread.

I've been amazed at how many Republicans I've met that have said they weren't completely averse to Obama. Many said they might vote for him, depending on the GOP candidate. Obviously McCain's success clouds thing, but in every case the same people said they would vote for Joseph Stalin before they'd vote for Clinton.

 

[Taurus]

Wow, all this debate and discussion from the talking heads. It's like they just weren't watching these past 40 years.

Ever since Nixon, the Presidency has always been about charisma and personal likeability. Obama has it, Hillary doesn't. McCain also has a fair amount of it in a rough-and-tumble way.

 

[V Chip]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/obama.asp

Fixed.

Do America a favor and register independent.

Fixed.

 

[THAJCODE]

Thread rating: 14 votes, 1.0 average.

 

[Thorin]

Wow, I didn't expect 20 people to say it bothered them / suspicious. That's a lot of foil hats.

 

[Shawn]

Wow, I didn't expect 20 people to say it bothered them / suspicious. That's a lot of foil hats.

No kidding.Unbelievable, really.

Talk about a thread to make you cynical about people.

You'd think it was 1933.

 

[thewyrm]

Let's just say hypotheticaly that he was a Muslim (muslum?). What difference would that make? It's like all those yay-hoos that refused to vote for JFK because they thought if he got elected he would give American leadership to the Pope.

 

[CanadianSaint]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhaw yar garsh dum right it dun bother me.

 

[RebSaint]

That political culture of fear in the post 9-11 world? Yep, here's your results.

 

[Optimusaint]

McLovin

Fogell: Yeah. It was between that or Muhammed.
Seth: Why the **** would it be between THAT or Muhammed? Why don't you just pick a common name like a normal person?
Fogell: Muhammed is the most commonly used name on Earth. Read a ****ing book for once.
Evan: Fogell, have you actually ever met anyone named Muhammed?
Fogell: Have YOU actually ever met anyone named McLovin?

 

[Saint77]

After considerable deliberation, I am more bothered that his middle name isn't Miguel.

Reconquista!

 

[TPS]

>>No kidding.Unbelievable, really.
>>Talk about a thread to make you cynical about people.

Well let's face it. I don't think anyone would argue that the majority of Americans are pretty ignorant. Just because there's a lot of talk on EE and smart people from many different races, creeds, political views, etc. doesn't exempt the Everything Else board casting at least somewhat of a mirror image on the country at large.

It's an if P then a little less Q phenominon. In other words, if McAmerica is made up of a bunch of doltish individuals, chances are some of that will filter into the cyber world. As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him intelligent.

TPS

 

[Thorin]

Well let's face it. I don't think anyone would argue that the majority of Americans are pretty ignorant. Just because there's a lot of talk on EE and smart people from many different races, creeds, political views, etc. doesn't exempt the Everything Else board casting at least somewhat of a mirror image on the country at large.

It's an if P then a little less Q phenominon. In other words, if McAmerica is made up of a bunch of doltish individuals, chances are some of that will filter into the cyber world. As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him intelligent.

TPS

Well TPS, while your tone is kind of elitist IMO, I couldn't agree with you more on this one.

 

[Jonesy77]

Let's just say hypotheticaly that he was a Muslim (muslum?). What difference would that make? It's like all those yay-hoos that refused to vote for JFK because they thought if he got elected he would give American leadership to the Pope.

Honestly, I'm a little skeptical about a president who is devoutly religious at all. Muslim, Christian, Jewish, you name it. To me, it's marginally different than a president saying that a leprechaun or dragon is guiding him to make decisions.

 

[JimEverett]

It is a little known fact that in 1948 a man born of American and Japanese parents named Suzuki Tojo Reijiro came within a hair of beating Tom Dewey for the 1948 GOP presidential nomination. Many historians think his name hurt him.