<div dir="ltr"><div>Interesting goal Siarlys. I eagerly wait to see and all that you have to present. As you said I am in limbo and appreciate all input.</div>
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<div>Speaking of politics, yesterday I saw an ad for OR Senate. The challenger has done some wild stuff while in office and is now after a Senate seat. Gordon (been a Senator for years) did an ad addressing that this challenger spent huge $$ to upgrade the furnishings of his office... Well the challenger came back with actual footage of the ad and attacked Gordon. I think is the first time I've seen candidates actually attack each other's ads... CRAZY</div>
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<div>Lance<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">My goal for the next two months is to inspire two members of this<br>discussion group to vote for Barack Obama in November. Jeanene is out,<br>
and no doubt takes that as a compliment, which she is entitled to do. For<br>very different reasons, greenBubble is also a lost cause this time<br>around, although I think he may vote to re-elect President Obama in 2012,<br>
after seeing four years of results. There is much on greenBubble's mind<br>that he just can't trust to an unknown variable about whom so many things<br>are said.<br><br>I think my best prospects are Lance, and John Price. Lance, of course,<br>
has said that he is thinking very carefully about which candidate to<br>support (now that we know Hillary will NOT be the VP pick), and has many<br>principled concerns to weigh. As for John, there are already many combat<br>
veterans, who have voted in the past for Ronald Reagan or even George W.<br>Bush, who have openly endorsed Obama. This is a man who may take<br>Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia... why not<br>Alabama? Besides, how could anyone with a sense of humor vote for McCain?<br>
<br>I have my own doubts of course. It is always a disappointment to me when<br>a candidate I intend to vote for does not take exactly the same position<br>that I would take if I were the candidate, when they turn out to be a<br>
unique individual, not a clone of my own mind, when they answer a<br>question half-baked, while I can see a brilliant answer they should have<br>given. I am tempted to reference Sen. Biden as "Obama's Cheney" --<br>
because there are some slight similarities in picking someone who has<br>what the man at the top of the ticket hasn't got. I used to refer to<br>Cheney as "Bush's brain." Biden's role is a little different, but worth<br>
some laughter along the way.<br><br>Here's my first offering:<br><br>Barack Obama will do more than any other candidate to inspire the rest of<br>the world to love and respect the USA again. Given the right tools,<br>
McCain could inspire the world to fear the USA again -- but really, with<br>the Bank of China holding a huge part of our national debt, and foreign<br>companies buying a good part of our economy, he might just make the world<br>
laugh if he tried. Our armed forces are stretched thin. We used to<br>INSPIRE people around the world. The used to look to us with HOPE (no pun<br>intended). Obama could inspire people to actually look favorably on<br>America.<br>
<br>I read an article by a reporter hanging out in Egypt, listening to<br>average Joes in corner coffee houses or whatever, asking each other "Can<br>you imagine that happening here? No way." The reporter filled in between<br>
the lines: a Coptic Christian elected president of Egypt? A Shia Muslim<br>become prime minister of Saudi Arabia? A Bahai become president of Iran?<br>But we can cheerfully elect the son of a Kenyan goatherd and a woman from<br>
Kansas whose sister is half Asian.<br><br>Sure, liberals claim him as their own, but where else do they have to go?<br>They may not identify with "we worship an awesome God in the blue<br>states," but Mr. Chambers from Nebraska hasn't got a chance. Is<br>
<a href="http://moveon.org/" target="_blank">moveon.org</a> going to endorse McCain? The libertarian candidate? His books<br>are not liberal books, and in my mind, what a candidate wrote at length<br>before the campaign is a better guide to the judgment they will bring to<br>
office. The whole point is to break up the old tired polarities of<br>American politics, which make sense only to the commentators, who have<br>done their best to redefine him in their own terms.<br><br>More to follow, if anyone cares enough to take pot shots.<br>
<br>Siarlys</blockquote></div></div>