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May 07, 2008
You've Got To Lick It Before You Stick It
Not a day goes by when walking the mean streets of Chicago that a stranger doesn't come up and compliment me on my flag-pin placed neatly on my lapel. Certainly, it doesn't hurt that it complements my flag-pin tie bar perfectly and stylishly, but moreso the fact is that people find it a convenient jumping off point to question me about Barack Hussein Obama.
"How'd that guy get elected senator in the first place?" they almost always seem to wonder, leaving me to explain that he himself was no great shakes, but his opponents were a wife-beater, a beat-wifer, and a carpetbagger. Like in Missouri, he could've been a dead for a month and still beaten those guys at the polls.
"Ah well...But at least he doesn't lack the common sense to try to pass legislation for gas-tax holidays, am I right or am I right?" Oh, friendly stranger, you should stop reading the liberal mainstream media. In fact, while an Illinois state senator, Obama supported a state tax holiday very much like Clinton's proposal, but without the saving mechanism of a windfall profits tax.
"Maybe he's more interested in going right to the source and taking down Big Oil. He doesn't take lobbyist money, after all." Strange friend, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, Sen. Obama has received over $160,000 from the oil and gas companies....In 2005, Sen. Obama voted for the Dick Cheney energy bill, which was written in secret with the oil industry.
"Maybe that's taken out of context, like somebody saying that we shouldn't have to go to war for oil." Oh, well, I've really gotta run, young man. It was nice talking to you, but before I go - and you should probably be getting off to school - let me warn you to appreciate nuance and not take things so literally; twisting words is so Karl Rove or David Axelrod. You know... education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don’t, you get might stuck in Iraq.
Comments
Gee Sacki, you're an Illinois resident - how much is gas there by you? Here it's $3.79 a gallon, and as a lifelong resident of the Lincoln state I - like Obama - realize that the gas tax holiday didn't work (like Obama admitted this past Sunday, saying he made a mistake voting for it back then and that's why he's opposing it now).
As for taking something out of context, where exactly did I do that again? McCain was given the opportunity to clarify his comments about war for oil, and he made things even more confusing. In the meantime, maybe you can explain why the straight talkin' maverick keeps running around saying the Democratic candidates want a single-payer healthcare plan when neither of them do? Oh wait - that's right - McCain and his supporters don't have to take things out of context, they just lie about them.
Just ask Arianna Huffington, who knows who McCain didn't vote for in 2000, because HE TOLD HER SO.
Posted by: The Furnace at May 7, 2008 03:17 PM
So why didn't my retort post? Weird.
Posted by: The Furnace at May 7, 2008 03:19 PM
Weird retort? That's the politics of destruction at work!
Posted by: Sacki at May 7, 2008 03:24 PM
Yeah, but I wouldn't trust Arianna. I lived in California when her ex-husband was running for Senate, and, well, let's just say that her views of the world are quite flexible.
Posted by: Annie at May 7, 2008 04:50 PM
Oh it did post - cool.
McSame! 4 More Wars!
Posted by: The Furnace at May 7, 2008 04:51 PM
Furnace,
In presidential politics, learning from your mistakes is known as flip-flopping. That is a bad thing. It is considered better to "stay the course", right or wrong, because that is a sign of "moral clarity".
Posted by: John at May 7, 2008 05:12 PM
Unless you're John McCain. Then when you flip flop on an issue, the media says that while it appears like you flip flopped, you don't REALLY believe that you're doing it because you have to. Kinda like knowing torture doesn't work because he actually lived through it, then not voting to abolish it. See, he really wanted to get rid of it, but gosh darnit he can't cuz he's a tough guy Republican!
Posted by: The Furnace at May 7, 2008 06:25 PM
But who knows, maybe McCain will renominate Robert Bork to the Supreme Court if he gets elected...
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/07/when-mccain-loved-robert-bork/
Posted by: The Furnace at May 7, 2008 06:27 PM
