Hi David.

BOBO is a neb….that is all

Johnny McTeleprompter just realized it was Friday. All day he thought it was Tuesday. *sigh*

i thought steve clemmons had a good critique:

…his speech in Berlin had a few lines that were disappointingly absent from his remarks in Israel — where he spent more than 30 hours while spending just an hour or so in Ramallah.

He said today in Berlin:

That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another.
The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down.

Had he given those remarks in Israel, at any of the checkpoints that have been added since the Annapolis process began, or at the large divididing wall Israel has constructed, or just about anywhere frankly in Israel or Palestine — it would have been a “game-changing speech.”

John F. Kennedy’s famous “Ich bin Berliner” remarks in the same city were brave, original, impactful. Obama’s speech had high points and deserves applause — but it’s ultimately forgettable because he failed to deliver the most important lines where they most mattered.

Does Bobo understand that every speech George Bush has ever made no matter where it was has made Americans sick to their stomachs? I doubt it. Bobo is a dumbo.

Well, if Obama has left the neighborhood of *David Brooks’* reality, I’d say that that’s a good thing.

Bobo serves a very Bush-like purpose. One merely needs to listen to his position on any given issue, flip it around one-hundred and eight degrees, and voila, now you know what is actually the intelligent and correct response.

Obama has benefited from a week of good images. But substantively, optimism without reality isn’t eloquence. It’s just Disney.
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as in ABC news DISNEY……now there is a REAL FANTASY FEST

Hi, Was BoBo on newshour tonight? I missed the show and I’m hoping that he was challenged on his latest column.

i love ya,but when is the time we get behind our canidate,and stop looking for PERFECT?

I expect the next thing is that he will forget what city he is in - hope he does it on camera.

Me too. I live for those moments. ;-)

i think for the pawltry sum 1,500,000.00$ per year…alas if he could only lie and diss like Limpballs he could make 50,000,000.00 PER YEAR,or 10,000,000.00 PER YEAR like Glenn Beck …”g”

And to think we tell the truth for zero money. What the hell is wrong with us!!! ;-)

He is not the President.
He’s not supposed to give a substantitive policy speech in a foreign country.
He’s a senator running for President.
Steve Clemons is smart enough to know that.
With respect to visiting Ramallah, he VISITED RAMALLAH.
McCain did not.

I missed the show and I’m hoping that he was challenged on his latest column.

Challenging, NewsHour, see the contradiction?

And to think we tell the truth for zero money. What the hell is wrong with us!!! ;-)

not knowing where to send the bill?

we live in Bizzaro world

not my candidate.

but that’s really not the point. my loyalties are with the people of palestine and israel.

and Steve Clemons im sure WOULD have given a much more pithy speech

he is not your canidate? oh okay

“Had he given those remarks in Israel, at any of the checkpoints that have been added since the Annapolis process began, or at the large divididing wall Israel has constructed, or just about anywhere frankly in Israel or Palestine — it would have been a “game-changing speech.” “

Agreed! And it’s not too late for him to give that speech on the U.S./Mexican border either.

excellent point!

I like Steve Clemons. He is wicked smart. But the people wailing about lack of substance in Obama’s speech know he needed to stick to “feel good” oratory in that setting - under those circumstances.

Some walls are better than others. The one on the West Bank, the one along the Mexican border. These are good walls because they’re our walls. This is essentially a riff on Orwell’s Animal Farm where all pigs were equal it was just that some were more equal than others.

excuse me…the polls are close,i for one,do not want 8 more years of Republican rule,and will leave the country,so with all do respect give the guy some due…the rest of the world does

due respsct…..

my loyalties are with the people of palestine and israel.

here’s a song for you then.

girls and boys,

I give you driftglass -

And because he cannot cope with the idea that what he loved is a lie, like Miss Emily, Mr. Brooks has instead set up housekeeping with the putrefying corpse of his Once And Future King.

He sleeps with it.

Chats with it.

Holds tea parties with it.

And will not tolerate any back sass about its goodness and purity.

Like so many Modern Conservatives, David Brooks has been fucking the moldering remains of something long dead, gone and rotten for so long, it started to seem normal to him. And sharing a political marriage bed with a corpse in a kind of ideological necrophilia also just so happens to very much suit the despicable goals of the vile, little monsters who actually own and operate Brooks’ Party and his Movement.

4 parts - has everything - Gilliard, darkblack, hell, there’s even some Faulkner

Part I starts here

I’m not complaining about the speech. I’m complaining about the complaining about the speech. I loved the speech.

I think it’s still too early for substantial foreign policy speeches, from either presumptive candidate; after the conventions, more likely, and how substantial is still questionable. (I don’t think we’ll be seeing one from McSame between now and November.)

me too…one can NOT say he isnt a thoughtful man.damn im tired of the impossibly high bar set for him

he is totally incapable

The problem that Obama has with progressives is that his main plank is “Vote for me. I don’t support your issues but you have nowhere else to go.”

707

he is correct,i hate to admit it

Jon Stewart once famously said, “I’m not your monkey.” Brooks OTOH is their monkey.

yep. I’ve got a big problem with that. Not looking for perfect, but not giving my vote away on the cheap.

that’s yer two party system for ya.
I’d be happier with a parliamentary system myself.

well it pays well,and he is mediocre at best

All candidates should be careful what they say especially about foreign policy because they may find out something once they take office that makes their former position impossible. They simply don’t know everything now.

and just what is the alternative,if i may ask,i really want to know?

There’s a great Bill Moyers on with Jane Mayer author of the Dark Side.

I’m voting against Joe Lieberman’s foreign policy this November.

Didn’t we try the regular guy before? And wasn’t he a total disaster for all of us?

“g” a thoughtful response….BHO is a smart cookie

well it pays well,and he is mediocre at best

Not to mention the bananas.

was that Kerry?…yea real fire in the belly/

I wish I had one. For the moment, I don’t plan on voting for anyone above the level of state rep. and state senator. That could change, but that’s how I’m feeling right now.

lol

Didn’t we try the regular guy before? And wasn’t he a total disaster for all of us?

I have no problem with uppity. I’m pretty uppity myself.

hope you like this guy and the rodeo queen

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I give you driftglass -…

thanks - off to read.

Brooks is to Drifty what Billo is to Olbermann.

BHO aint perfect………….but look who was king for 7 1/2 years…an angry booorish SOCIOPATH

eli is upstairs

I’m also voting against offshore drilling and a nonrenewable resource economy.

thank you. and here’s one for you: In One World

it’s very beautiful.

here’s to hope.

Lina, you are onto something there. Maybe we should be implying that it’s really Joe Lieberman’s foreign policy that McTeleprompter is running on. That means Joe & Johnny both want American soldiers to continue to die for Israel and we all know how much Lieberman is detested by most Democrats in this country!

Wow girl, I like it. ;-)

I don’t get why people haven’t learned the lesson of the past administration. Mediocrity in leadership just encourages mediocrity in all phases of life. Bush is probably the most intellectually lazy president of this century. He knows nothing and doesn’t want to know anything but what he already believes. These Republican pundits are so jealous of the fact that a truly bright and inspiring person is running on the Democratic ticket that they want to destroy him. Sad for America, Sad for Americans.

Perhaps not. But what is really galling is when you can say the same thing, in spades, about the people who are running our foreign policy.

Right now, our policy is in total disarray and has been since 2003. What the rest of the world thinks of us is an important issue. How we get along with other countries makes the difference in whether we are working to end terrorism and serious world problems by ourselves our in accord with other like-minded countries. This adminimstration has forgotten that, and it has cost us in lives and money. I’m looking forward to a time when the US can once again count on its allies and be counted on to listen to its allies.