FishingBanter - View Single Post - So, OK, he's for change, he gives Chris Mathews a feeling "up his leg," and...

**Ken Fortenberry[_2_]** · February 15th, 2008, 10:38 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

wrote:

Folks who call others "inspiring" or "persuasive" have always both
saddened and amused me when they do so. ...

It must suck to be as cynical as all that, on the other hand
I suppose it's a good thing to be easily amused.

Um, well, as to "true colors," I'd offer that there have been little
more than hints, even assuming they are not red herrings, in "revealing"
Obama, but those few hints indicate that he ain't exactly married to
this color or that (and while a pun isn't exactly _intended_, it ain't
not intended, either...).

"Little more than hints" ? Are you serious ? Have you actually
read "The Audacity of Hope" ? No presidential candidate in his
or her right mind is going to spell out policy specifics in the
primaries. Presidents do not rule by fiat so anything they propose
will necessarily be watered down and transmogrified in Congress
anyway. And like Huckabee said the other day, when you elect a
president you don't want the guy who can fix the carburetor you
want the guy who can drive the car.

And if Obama is "the real deal," and
literally means what he says, I'd offer that he doesn't want your
support, at least until you can get past being so rabidly anti-GOP...
after all, they were, IIRC, the party of ideas not so long ago...

Yeah, the party of bad ideas and they remain so. Look there's
nothing wrong with voting for Obama because he's not a Republican.
In fact that's reason enough to vote for him.

--
Ken Fortenberry