On Apr 4, 8:28 pm, kujebak <kuje...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 4, 1:09 am, Stan R <aus...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Paul J Kriha contributed these words of wisdom on 04/04/08 16:05:
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> > > "Karel Kriz" <ka...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >news:karel-E81B00.17371803042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >> In article
> > >> <24a7a531-8541-4c78-9c39-0fbb5486d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> kujebak <kuje...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >>> On Apr 3, 8:12 am, Karel Kriz <ka...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >>>> In article
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> > >>>> I do not have a predicament because I don't take xenophobic and
simple
> > >>>> minded mini movies seriously.
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> > >>> It very much looks like you're going to have to vote for Obama
> > >>> in November. You don't consider that a predicament?
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> > >>>> K
> > >> That's very far from a given. That particular bridge will be
crossed
> > >> when we come to it. Personally, I do not care for Obama, but not
for the
> > >> reasons you might think.
> > >> Karel
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> > > Oh, this is getting too hard, you're trying to make me think
> > > about what I think that kujebak thinks that Karel is thinking
> > > about his reasons for not caring for Obama. Damn, now
> > > I am thinking what would Obama think about all this if he
> > > read this thread.
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> > > Bugger it, it's all somewhere far far away. I better get up
> > > and pour myself another glass of Chassagne-Montrachet.
> > > You cost me money you lot, you really do. Ruddy furriners.
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> > As far as I can tell from my vantage point a long way away from the
US,
> > Obama does not really "think" too deeply on any subject beyond how to
> > get elected.
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> > I guess that makes him no different to most politicians. On the "not
> > think too hard" motif, it also does not make him too different from
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> Who's Charlie Cross? Oh, you mean Carlos Cruz, our Carlito,
> from Mission Viejo, south of Los Anjeles. Although, I'm sure,
> he would vociferously defend his position (on the Obama factor)
> as something individual, and particularly unique, I would like
> to point out that his view is in fact very typical of of the vast
> majority of the white liberal electorate in this year's U.S. pre-
> sidential election. Not only are these people not looking forward
> to November, they refuse to even think past the Democrat party
> convention in August, as if something was going to come down
> from heaven to resurrect the Clintons' chance for the White House.
> Well, it ain't, because miracles don't happen to unbelievers, and
> America could very well have its first (really) black president this
> fall.
I admit that as I don't live in the US, I am not really taking as much
interest in the Presidential race as you must do. My attention lately
has been fully engaged by the US-initiated meltdown of the credit
markets...!
Nevertheless I would still hazard an opinion that if Obama wins the
Democratic nomination, he will be more likely to lose to McCain than
Clinton.
There is an interesting analysis of this topic here:
http://engram-backtalk.blogspot.com/2008/04/barack-obama-vs-john-mccain.html
> Someone nobody knows absolutely nothing about, and that is
> what's truly scary. His qualifications for the job notwithstanding.
Populism pays. It always has and always will. Particularly these days,
with the dumbed down electorate that we have thanks to the "advances"
in modern education and teaching methods, it's quite easy to
understand why messianic populists can get quite some traction and why
conmen of the century like Al Gore can become so revered in some
circles - and particularly the media - that they stand a real chance
of damaging western economies for good; despite the increasing
evidence and all those dissenting scientists.
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