Obama08's Comments (5)

“"Progressives invented the American ideal and inspired the American Revolution. Conservatives, then known as Tories, opposed it. Since then, every major advancement in American freedom, democracy, social justice, and economic opportunity has been fostered, fought for, and won by progressives against conservative resistance. Now who's anti-American?"

-- Mike Lux, "The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be"”

“I agree that the invocation is ceremonial and in no way means Obama embraces any of Warren's views. What bothers me about it, though, is that it would not be acceptable to have a pastor who espoused racist or antisemitic views give the invocation, but it is OK to have one that is anti-gay. The man said that gay marriage and pedophilia are the same thing to him. To me that is just as reprehensible as racism.”

“I have to agree. I'm as impressed with Obama's serenity as the next guy, but Neocons should be imprisoned for misleading this country into a war that has killed millions, not given positions of authority where they can do more damage.”

“Bob,

I agree with you (I always do!) about what this move says about the kind of man the President-Elect is. He's definitely a bigger man than I would've been.

My concern, though, is that Joe Lieberman is a NEOCON, and it scares me that he's let anywhere near the homeland security chairmanship or anything related to foreign policy. The reason he forsook his own party and his own domestic policies to support McCain was that it was even more important to him to support the neocon/Israeli agenda in the Middle East. If it were up to him we'd be at war with Iran right now.

I just hope those better angels haven't just given Lucifer a gavel.”

“"McCain isn't a candidate anymore, but a negative research dump-- a heedless purveyors of distortion and untruth, a man who started off running on his experince, but ends up now as a right-wing caricature stumbling toward defeat with dishonor."

I've never heard it put any better than that! I had a lot of respect for John McCain before this campaign. I'm about as liberal as you get, but I would've considered voting for him over Gore in 2000. But now he's flip-flopped on the Bush tax cuts, on HIS OWN immigration and torture bills, and has sunk to the level of smears, distortions, and lies typical of his party. He was once a better man than that. It's very sad.”