It is true Obama misrepresents. I chalk it up to inexperience. It would have been better had he not denied he never heard Wright inveigh against whites. As soon as it became apparent no one believed him, he changed his story. I think living in a foreign country gives people insights into other cultures. I also think (hope) Obama is more liberal than he admits. Perhaps in a sense that’s lying although I put it in the white lie category. Hillary’s lie goes to her judgment. It’s a lie without reasonable excuse. Obame instinctively went for damage control. It was wrong, but it wasn’t crazy. Hillary’s lie was crazy.

I’ll do so again:

She included McCain’s “lifelong experience” alongside hers and alongside Obama’s lack thereof, according to her, to illustrate that she will be better able to challenge McCain in the General.

Okay?

And I mentioned the smug and looking-down-the-nose bit in context to the article, which is about Obama being elitist, which I think he is, I do thin he’s smug, that is a trait I do not care for but it doesn’t mean I “Hate” Obama. I do not hate Obama; I do not KNOW Obama. I also distinctly said that being smug is NOT evidence of not being fit for the presidency.

You do seem to interpret things as you want them to be.

I think Obama has made up the whole hope and inspiration stuff to use as a political tool and in lieu of any real experience too. I don’t think he’s pathological. I think pols make crap up a lot.

I’m not bothered by it at all, just as I’m not bothered by Obama saying his having lived in foreign countries as a child makes him more knowlegdeable about other cultures and foreign affairs. It doesn’t. That was a lie and an absurd one, but I saw it for what it was. No biggie.

The Confederate flag does fly atop the South Carolina capital’s dome and CongressCritters publicly invoke the language of racism and slavery. “That ‘boy’ is uppity. Hrmph.” If Trent Lott had admitted his feelings about segregation only a few years later, he’d have been promoted, not stripped of his Senate leadership position.

Rove’s Republican Party proudly resurrects that language, as well as the routine, brutal epithets of McCarthyism, slyly couched as “questions” about whether Obama is a “Marxist” rather than openly accusing him of being a communist when he advocates mildly populist economic policies.

I find their tone reminiscent of the aging landowner in the original In the Heat of the Night. Dumbfounded after a Northern black policeman he slapped was so uppity that he slapped back, and recoiling when the sheriff, standing nearby, admits he doesn’t know what he’s going to do about it, the landowner laments, “There was a time when I could have had you shot.” When that was filmed, a federal anti-lynching statute was a controversial “invasion” of states’ rights. Seditiously, the filmmakers left the landowner powerless, crying in his orchids. Today’s ReichWing wants to rewrite that script with a new sheriff. What are we gonna do about it?

Do we really want a president who drags a teleprompter around with him like it’s a dialysis machine? I don’t. McCain will never get my vote…evah!

Are you comparing McCain to someone else who has to carry around a dialysis machine??? Do you really think McCain is a mastermind terrorist who wants to attack America and bring down the modern world??? Are you saying that McCain is just like Osama bin Laden?

Interesting juxtiposition. They’re both nut-jobs…

And I agree with you ekunin, a friend of mine once said that wanting to be President of the United States should automatically preclude you from the running because you are obviously insane.

That said, there is something pathological about anyone runnning for president. Obama in kindergarten wrote that he wanted to be president, something I can identify with since I wanted to be president when I was in kindergarten. It had to do with being unable to socialize and deciding to show everybody. Insecurity and inferiority breeds a grandiosity so great being on the stump 24/7 is a piece of cake. We probably would be better off chosing presidents by lottery, get someone who doesn’t want to be president, but that’s not in the cards.