You've omitted what I consider the darkest blot on his career: it was Holbrooke who authorised additional arms to Indonesia to aid them in their blockade of East Timor. (This was a time when Indonesia's suppression of East Timorese was fundamentally genocidal.)
]]>I'm committed to the principle of appropriate consequences for decisions/actions. I think Lieberman's have all been hugely neoconservative and that he's been over the top ever since 9/11. He should be reaping the consequences of that now: I think he'd be dangerous as Head of that Committee in an Obama administration. He'd use his power against Obama the moment he disagreed with him.
Basically my point is that his neocon views are what led to him opposing Obama so vociferously during the campaign and he needs to reap the consequences of that so that he doesn't get the chance continue the same approach during this Administration.
]]>It would have gone to the H of R to decide, so Obama would have won.
]]>After watching his acceptance speech so heavy on bipartisanship, his entire campaign having been so heavily based on it, his first initiative was to offer the CoS to the most aggressive, conflict prone partisan you could imagine?
It's a terrible decision if it's true.
]]>And President Obama will order delivery of lithium free of charge to all Moveon.org members until 2011.
]]>The whole thing's the pits.
]]>Hannity had Steele and Pawlenty on talking about it and they said McCain and Palin are going to be screaming it to the rooftops at all their rallies on Monday. So it's going to hit the MSM.
How many ordinary folk do you think will continue to want to vote for someone who's promised to send their electricity bills through the roof?
This election is enough to make raving manic depressives out of the most normally level headed of us.
Obama holds a wide lead over John McCain among those who say they have already voted (32% of all likely voters) or say they plan to vote before Election Day (7%). However, it is not quite as large as it was a week ago. More significant, the race is about even among voters who plan to vote on Election Day: 46% support McCain while 45% favor Obama.
39% for Obama; But McCain leads among the 61% who will vote on election day.
Can someone explain to me how that adds up to an Obama 6 point lead?
]]>sigh. Wish I had your optimism. I take it you don't read Huffington Post:
check out this deeply shocking stuff on Huffington:
(most shocking being how it shows the way the Democratic machines have their heads in the clouds on it)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-fitrakis-and-harvey-wasserman/beware-the-twin-towers-of_b_139299.html
(He'll never make that mistake again.) sigh
]]>I think if McCain wins it will be because of Republican voter suppression - as witness all those people in NC who thought they'd voted for Obama but hadn't; and young people didn't come out in the numbers needed. I also think Obama will have lost a lot of votes because of his `spreading the wealth` around gaffe.
]]>That's not true. He was defeated in Chicago and, according to reports, was pretty devastated by that loss - and learned from it.
In general, my impression of him is that he has superb CEO qualities - he appoints good people, insists on `no drama`, is superb at listening to all points of view and then synthesises them and I think everyone's learned from this campaign that he's superb in a crisis.
]]>http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/22/171041/50/694/639001
]]>Actually the repubs are very keen to remind everyone that Jesus told people to go and give to the poor, but he didn't tell them to go and give other people's money...
]]>After all the efforts at overcoming the inadequate C-in-C perception seemed to have worked, with the economy dominating, it's incomprehensible to all rational Obama supporters, and no doubt to his campaign, that Biden would come up with this one now.
It's enough to make grown men weep.
]]>The entire thing's a heartbreaker
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