[GCFL-discuss] Resolutions

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

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.

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

Lance
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List
<gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> wrote:

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