Bcbeauty,
It is quite apparent from your language and temperament that you have totally embraced Senator Obama's message of "Change". Judging from your post, however, I am unsure of whether, it is a change for the better that he is preaching to people like you. As for computer and keyboard, I do have a passing familiarity with them, you see, I am a software engineer by training and a management consultant by profession.
Also, again based upon your post, you have a passing familiarity with the English language, so you may want to take up a remedial Enlish course.
Lastly, please spell it God, not with a small g.

Posted at March 20, 2008 12:53 PM in response to What Extraordinary Speech?

Hi DF, I am unsure whether you got the point. To clarify, Geraldine has already "arrived" and told the truth. And this from the WSJ editorial " The Wall Street Journal editorial page asks:

"Is it just us, or does Barack Obama seem a mite too quick to play the race card when facing criticism from political opponents? . . .

"Though Ms. Ferraro resigned from the Clinton campaign, her remarks reveal little more than a firm grasp of the obvious, even if she could have found a less artless way to express herself. There is no disputing that Mr. Obama's skin color has been a political boon for him to date. And the suggestion that saying so aloud betrays racial animus implies that only the Illinois senator can discuss the issue of race in regard to his candidacy."

BTW, remember the name John Edwards? Why do you think he did not get any traction whatsoever?

Posted at March 14, 2008 5:37 PM in response to Geraldine's Truth Hurts

Hi Laura, You are making me feel guilty with your niceness. It is really so rare nowadays to have a civil discourse, specially in these blogs. But you are as fresh as morning sunshine on a spring day - I hope I am reciprocating appropriately. And, BTW, I am middleaged too, with failing eyesight so did not notice any misspellings.

Posted at March 14, 2008 3:43 PM in response to Even Paranoids Have Enemies

Cripes yourself Laura. Looks as if you are again, shooting without looking first. This is what you wrote, “Hillary is going to have to increasingly claim that everyone is out to "get" her. She's going to look absolutely ridiculous. First it's the vast right-wing conspiracy. Then, it's the unfairly biased television media. Now I'm starting to hear that it's liberal print journalism and the blogosphere as well.”
And here are some examples that you may have knowingly or unknowingly missed:

• Her cleavage
• Her cackling laugh (by someone who always sounds as if his peanuts were run over by a eighteen wheeler – if you catch my drift)
• Her clapping
• Her reading from scripts (although the Great Oprah herself was plainly seen reading from a script while she endorsed Obama)
• Her fake crying (even her great admirer Brit Hume disagreed)
• Two thirds of the Democrats being against her and her only, even when HRC, Edwards and Obama each got one third of the votes in one of the polls
• Her seemingly demeaning Dr. King by stating that Dr. King worked with President Johnson to bring about the historic change (in fact Bill Moyers, who was a White House staffer at the time, had a detailed report on what really transpired, but I am not complaining about your being ignorant of it)
• Her quoting Dr. King with full attribution being compared to Obama’s, without attribution, quoting Deval Patrick quoting Dr. King and the Constitution.
• Her being a racist based upon Orlando Patterson’s Op-Ed piece in NYT, which was so ludicrous that all three of the present guests (including Clarance Page, who is an African American) disagreed.

Always remember Laura, even paranoids have enemies.

Posted at March 13, 2008 5:28 PM in response to Keith Olbermann to Make a Special Comment about Ferraro and the Clinton Campaign Tomorrow Night

The reasons you cite Laura, for voting for Obama "I like his ideas, I like his track record, I like his temperament, I like his demonstrable good judgment, I like his management and leadership skills, and I like his grassroots, bottom-up approach to both his campaigning and his ideas about political reform" leaves me totally bewildered as to where you saw him demonstrate any of these things.
Here is one example I have of “his demonstrable good judgment”, from LA Times, dated January 24, 2008, which said in part (and you can easily locate and read the whole article) that on June 11, 2002 Obama joined Republicans in voting to close the child welfare office and claimed that he just pressed the wrong button. Similar things had happened four more times since 1997. By the way, 2002 was also when he had given the now famous speech opposing the war which all of his supporters cite as an example of his “judgement”
Here is another example, Obama's calling Reagan a "Transformative Leader". The only transformation I saw Reagan do was to tarnish the entire African American community by raising the images of "Welfare Queens" and "Strapping fellas buying steaks with food stamps", and don't let anybody tell Reagan meant people like Nancy and him and not people like Michele and Barack. After all, none of the Reagan Democrats were African Americans, you know. Then there was Philadelphia, MS. The Reagan administration did not even support Nelson Mandela being freed from South African prison. And this is the man Obama admires.
So my question is, were you overlooking these or were unaware? It reminds of the old saying – “Some people are born great, some people become great and some people have greatness thrust upon them”.

Posted at March 13, 2008 4:12 PM in response to Keith Olbermann to Make a Special Comment about Ferraro and the Clinton Campaign Tomorrow Night

Sarcasm aside, Steve and bdn, I wonder why you should think that I personally would be against a non-white person being president - I am a person of color myself, an American of Asian Indian origin. As for their relative experiences, the empirical facts are that Bubba was Governor of Arkansas for over 10 years, longer than Bush was Governor of Texas and longer than Obama was a State Senator in IL. It is nice to see you sneer at being the Governor of a backwoods state – so what do you call being a State Senator from IL? And there too Obama had flubbed 5 times on important votes including one on June 11, 2002 when he voted with the Republicans in voting to close the child welfare office and claimed that he just pressed the wrong button. So, instead of talking about race let us just talk about qualifications. And that is why I believe what Ferraro said was right – for proof just look at what happened to Edwards. He got no traction whatsoever, you figure why?

Posted at March 13, 2008 1:40 PM in response to Keith Olbermann to Make a Special Comment about Ferraro and the Clinton Campaign Tomorrow Night

What Geraldine did was stating the obvious. And believe me, truth hurts, and based upon the peoples’ reactions she has clearly spoken the truth. As Gandhi (please don’t worry if you are unfamiliar with the name, he is one of those “Macacas”, like me) had said, "It takes two people to speak the truth, one who will say it and the one who will hear it." Unfortunately the second person is missing here.

And BTW, your breathless talk about the great Mr. Olbermann commenting about HRC has me shaking in my booties. However, there are other folks at that network who have already said the following things about her which she has survived so far:

• Her cackling laugh (by someone who always sounds as if his peanuts were run over by a eighteen wheeler – if you catch my drift)
• Her clapping
• Her reading from scripts (although the Great Oprah herself was plainly seen reading from a script while she endorsed Obama saying how great he was)
• Her fake crying (even her great admirer Brit Hume disagreed)
• Two thirds of the Democrats being against her and her only, even when HRC, Edwards and Obama each got one third of the votes in one of the polls
• Her seemingly demeaning Dr. King by stating that Dr. King worked with President Johnson to bring about the historic change (in fact Bill Moyers, who was a White House staffer at the time, had a detailed report on what really transpired, but I am not complaining about your being ignorant of it)
• Her quoting Dr. King with full attribution being compared to Obama’s, without attribution, quoting Deval Patrick quoting Dr. King and the Constitution.
• Her being a racist based upon Orlando Patterson’s Op-Ed piece in NYT, which was so ludicrous that all three of the present guests (including Clarance Page, who is an African American) disagreed.

I, therefore, think she will survive this current onslaught too.

Posted at March 12, 2008 5:20 PM in response to Keith Olbermann to Make a Special Comment about Ferraro and the Clinton Campaign Tomorrow Night

What Geraldine did was stating the obvious. And believe me, truth hurts, and based upon the peoples’ reactions she has clearly spoken the truth. As Gandhi (please don’t worry if you are unfamiliar with the name, he is one of those “Macacas”, like me) had said, "It takes two people to speak the truth, one who will say it and the one who will hear it." Unfortunately the second person is missing here.

And BTW, your breathless talk about the great Mr. Olbermann commenting about HRC has me shaking in my booties. However, there are other folks at that network who have already said the following things about her which she has survived so far:

• Her cackling laugh (by someone who always sounds as if his peanuts were run over by a eighteen wheeler – if you catch my drift)
• Her clapping
• Her reading from scripts (although the Great Oprah herself was plainly seen reading from a script while she endorsed Obama saying how great he was)
• Her fake crying (even her great admirer Brit Hume disagreed)
• Two thirds of the Democrats being against her and her only, even when HRC, Edwards and Obama each got one third of the votes in one of the polls
• Her seemingly demeaning Dr. King by stating that Dr. King worked with President Johnson to bring about the historic change (in fact Bill Moyers, who was a White House staffer at the time, had a detailed report on what really transpired, but I am not complaining about your being ignorant of it)
• Her quoting Dr. King with full attribution being compared to Obama’s, without attribution, quoting Deval Patrick quoting Dr. King and the Constitution.
• Her being a racist based upon Orlando Patterson’s Op-Ed piece in NYT, which was so ludicrous that all three of the present guests (including Clarance Page, who is an African American) disagreed.

I, therefore, think she will survive this current onslaught too.

Posted at March 12, 2008 5:19 PM in response to Keith Olbermann to Make a Special Comment about Ferraro and the Clinton Campaign Tomorrow Night

What Geraldine did was stating the obvious. And believe me, truth hurts, and based upon the peoples’ reactions she has clearly spoken the truth. As Gandhi (please don’t worry if you are unfamiliar with the name, he is one of those “Macacas”, like me) had said, "It takes two people to speak the truth, one who will say it and the one who will hear it." Unfortunately the second person is missing here.

And BTW, your breathless talk about the great Mr. Olbermann commenting about HRC has me shaking in my booties. However, there are other folks at that network who have already said the following things about her which she has survived so far:

• Her cackling laugh (by someone who always sounds as if his peanuts were run over by a eighteen wheeler – if you catch my drift)
• Her clapping
• Her reading from scripts (although the Great Oprah herself was plainly seen reading from a script while she endorsed Obama saying how great he was)
• Her fake crying (even her great admirer Brit Hume disagreed)
• Two thirds of the Democrats being against her and her only, even when HRC, Edwards and Obama each got one third of the votes in one of the polls
• Her seemingly demeaning Dr. King by stating that Dr. King worked with President Johnson to bring about the historic change (in fact Bill Moyers, who was a White House staffer at the time, had a detailed report on what really transpired, but I am not complaining about your being ignorant of it)
• Her quoting Dr. King with full attribution being compared to Obama’s, without attribution, quoting Deval Patrick quoting Dr. King and the Constitution.
• Her being a racist based upon Orlando Patterson’s Op-Ed piece in NYT, which was so ludicrous that all three of the present guests (including Clarance Page, who is an African American) disagreed.

I, therefore, think she will survive this current onslaught too.

Posted at March 12, 2008 5:19 PM in response to Keith Olbermann to Make a Special Comment about Ferraro and the Clinton Campaign Tomorrow Night