Comments on: Obama’s pride a stumbling block: Fineman

By: Slip Slidin’ Away | sassafrassin.com

Slip Slidin’ Away | sassafrassin.com — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:04:57 +0000

[...] found a guy who pretty much nails Obama’s affliction in a single, damning word: Pride. Go to HotAir and read it for yourself. HotAir adds a further bit of refinement: The real problem for Obama now isn’t pride at all, but [...]

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:54:21 +0000

I had a politically aware friend tell me in the summer that BHO’s pride would be his undoing. Pride ruined the Dukakis campaign and it’s ruining Barry’s.

By: Disturb the Universe

Disturb the Universe — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:06:42 +0000

Pride is the worst of the 7 Deadly Sins.
It was Satan’s sin.
Read Dante’s Inferno, Obama!
At the gates of Hell it reads:
“Abandon hope, ye who enter here.”

By: E.T.Cook

E.T.Cook — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:03:48 +0000

Obama isn’t afflicted with pride, so much as hubris and conceit.

Just as profits shouldn’t have a negative connotation, pride should not either.

By: baldilocks

baldilocks — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:08:45 +0000

All you amateur shrinks are dead on I think. One thing you’re missing about O’s feelings toward women: he doesn’t hate all women, just white ones. I think that the reasons are obvious.

By: baldilocks

baldilocks — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:26:37 +0000

The pass on the town-hall debates? He was flying high in public opinion and didn’t see the need to risk it. Public financing? He gave in to the adulation, and the money. The 50-state strategy (which Fineman limits to a 22-state strategy)? Obama saw himself as a Second Coming and wanted a national mandate.

He’s a short-term thinker like most Democrats and not a few Republicans.

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:18:12 +0000

The real problem for Obama now isn’t pride at all, but the sense that he’s nothing more than an empty suit. The fake seals, the fake Greek temple — all of that façade has given American voters a sense that the façade is all there is.

Toto.

We always knew.

The country looked up, and learned.

Thankfully, not when it would have been too late.

By: texette

texette — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:14:05 +0000

Obama is a sociopath. Period.

He despises women.

By: pambi

pambi — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:30:11 +0000

If the Hill actually assumes the VP slot, that implies that they actually think (enough) American women are shallow enough to jump back to the Dimwitt side !!?? What an insult !
After having seen and met Sarah ? ROFLOL !!
T’aint no way !!

By: Marines for Mccain

Marines for Mccain — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:04:39 +0000

You filthy racist heathens!!!! Wow didnt you hear him say “There will be a voice from heaven and you will experience an epiphany ,saying you must vote for Barak” Gee you think he could just make this stuff up?

By: MarkTheGreat

MarkTheGreat — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:59:37 +0000

The Emperor has no clothes

SilverStar830 on September 11, 2008 at 2:21 PM

The clothes have no emperor.

(Empty suit)

By: Star20

Star20 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:48:45 +0000

If you think the Dems are panicking now, just wait ’till the debates start.

By: Fortunata

Fortunata — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:41:23 +0000

maverick muse on September 11, 2008
NNtrancer on September 11, 2008 at 1:18 PM

Blimey you guys are scaring me. Sometime in the 30s the Germans elected a former street thug community organizer with links to known terrorists, a narcissist, but an electrifying orator with serious issues with women and repressed (or was it?) homosexuality, and a vicious hatred of part of his own ancestry…he also had some strange pseudo-religious beliefs…what was his name a again????

By: MarkTheGreat

MarkTheGreat — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:34:47 +0000

NNtrancer,

There is much wisdom in your words.

By: MarkTheGreat

MarkTheGreat — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:34:09 +0000

freeus,

I don’t think the problem is that the Democrats don’t learn from history. It’s more that Democrats don’t believe history has anything to teach them.

I’m reminded of a Marxist I once debates. He was quite willing to admit that every time communism has been tried, it has failed. His response that the reason communism failed had nothing to do with the theory. Rather it was the flawed men that tried to implement it. This time, with better men in charge, it will work.

The Democrats know in the core of their being, that whatever they try, will succeed, so they don’t need to worry about studying other people’s mistakes.

By: Romeo13

Romeo13 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:28:36 +0000

jerseyman on September 11, 2008 at 3:19 PM

Problem is that under the Constitution, you can’t make Ip post facto law… so the law has to stand or be overturned as unConstitutional at the Supreme level…

Dam, if that happened I’ve have to go buy stock in a popcorn company….

By: petefrt

petefrt — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:26:08 +0000

This just might be a ‘NUCLEAR’ option should Obama/Dems decide they have lost, throwing everything into a big mess. Florida 2000 on a national scale.

jerseyman on September 11, 2008 at 3:19 PM

My bet is the Dems have a variety of ‘NUCLEAR’ options, such as this, on the shelf. I don’t expect them to accept an election defeat without a court fight of some sort.

By: MarkTheGreat

MarkTheGreat — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:22:29 +0000

I don’t believe Edwards would have helped Obama much. Two pretty boys, both empty suits. One half way through his first term, the other had to retire after his first term because he knew he couldn’t be re-elected.

By: petefrt

petefrt — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:21:26 +0000

MarkTheGreat on September 11, 2008 at 3:18 PM

Toricelli? Here I was just starting to feel better, and you have to bring this up.

By: jerseyman

jerseyman — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:19:38 +0000

Changing candidates on the ballot after deadlines have passed would require state judicial review as in New Jersey with respect to Toricelli. Each state would have to come up with a decision based upon the circumstances/reason for the change. Some states would allow a change, others would not. How it would play out on any appeals that go to the Supreme Court is anyone’s guess. Once a State Court rules against a deadline set by the legislature (as in Florida, 2000), a Pandora’s box opens and anything can happen.

This just might be a ‘NUCLEAR’ option should Obama/Dems decide they have lost, throwing everything into a big mess. Florida 2000 on a national scale.

By: petefrt

petefrt — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:18:59 +0000

Romeo13 on September 11, 2008 at 2:53 PM

Thanks, Romeo. That’s good news… I think. I’m glad to hear it.

By: MarkTheGreat

MarkTheGreat — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:18:47 +0000

Just like in the Tom Delay case, there are very strict time limits of when a party can change the ballot…

Romeo13 on September 11, 2008 at 2:53 PM

That’s what the Republican’s believed in New Jersey. But all you need is one judge who believes that the needs of the Democratic party out weigh something as trivial as the law, and it will happen.

A few years back, the Democratic nominee for Senate Toricelli, got himself in some legal hot water, and resigned from the race after the deadline had passed.

The Democrats shopped around and found a judge who was willing to accept their argument that a law that was passed to handle the case of a candidate dying could also be interpreted to include resigning.

By: tballard

tballard — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:09:54 +0000

Good advice from the Bible:
Don’t bear false witness against your neighbor…
The love of money is the root of all evil…
Pride goeth before the fall…

Let’s especally hope that last one holds this year…

RocketmanBob on September 11, 2008 at 12:15 PM

People always get Proverbs 16:18 wrong. What it actually says is:

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

By: eaglewingz08

eaglewingz08 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:00:18 +0000

Barry Potemkin Obama. A rose by any other name.

By: Romeo13

Romeo13 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:53:04 +0000

petefrt on September 11, 2008 at 2:14 PM

Just like in the Tom Delay case, there are very strict time limits of when a party can change the ballot…

If Biden got sick? not good reason to cirvumvent the law… there are even cases of DEAD people remaining on the ballot.

Now, if he says he can’t run due to illness, but is elected, sounds to me like the Constitution takes over, and Pelosi becomes the VP under Obama…