> gMone wrote: > Watching Gruss switch into partisan mode was......revealing. >
Heh, well ... you are who you are. As I've said, I'm fairly biased here. I don't personally know Obama but I know people that have worked with him, my wife's a U of C alum, and we spend a LOT of time in the Chicago scene. (she was just off of Grant park during Obama's acceptance and turn down a ticket) The thought that a guy of his caliber is even in politics is surprising. For me he's one of those guys where you say "guys like that should be in politics". And he actually is. But I'd say the same thing for Buffett for example. So I'm not an Obama guy for partisan reasons: I'm not a Democrat and have no historical love or affiliation for the party. And I was perfectly willing to look at other candidates. Romney seems like the best Republican and would've had an equal shot at my vote although he followed McCain down the same suck-up-to-the-Christian-Nationalists path and I couldn't reject a voter segment more. As for McCain, he had my vote in 2000, but in 2008 he's a different guy and I don't like the 2008 McCain. We've seen flashes of 2000 McCain but they're fleeting. If you're still reading, one thing I think is revealing is when people say "I don't really KNOW him" * Obama - people don't "know him" because he's new, he's foreign sounding/seeming, and I think people aren't used to pa rofessor-type guy. Especially a law professor. The truth is he's kind of a boring guy. He's smart, etc, but he's kind of a boring guy at a BBQ. G'd love him because they would talk sports and ESPN for hours. Obama's a sports freak. Other than that he's a geeky family guy when he's not behind the dais. People have a hard time believing that he can give one of those speeches and then go home, kick off his shoes, (and socks which famously pisses off Michele), and watch ESPN. * McCain - people don't "know him" because he's old and we/they thought they knew him but all of sudden he's a totally different guy. And he's kind of angry and mean sounding. And he should be this huge expert on everything and then he goes to Iraq and has to have Lieberman tell him who's who (I DON'T think that was slip - it happened too many times). And during the economic crisis he was completely worthless. Really. I haven't seen worse leadership since Bush and here McCain should really shine because not only is he the nominee of the party in powe (thus could get Paulson directly and coordinate), but he was the Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee for almost a decade! If the experience argument holds water it was here we should see it. But we didn't. I'm convinced McCain is a good guy and a brave guy. But he also strikes me as the guy you don't want to be a WIZZO for because he seems like, for whatever reason, he'll take enormous risks with little justification of pay-back. And his choice of Palin seems to reveal even further that character defect. So good guy, but dangerous guy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:278865 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
