Comments | explosivespam: Why I Can't Bring Myself to Hate Obama

explosivespam

Why I Can't Bring Myself to Hate Obama

May 18, 2009 08:58

My family and the one conservative friend I have seethe with fury over Obama. And their reasons are sound. His spending is off the charts. He immediately re-commenced funding stem cell research even though there are strong indications of its imminent irrelevancy to science. He went to Europe and kissed so much ass that he gave "first black ( Read more... )

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l_c_chadwick May 18 2009, 21:42:24 UTC

"I like it when he calls for cooperation and seems to mean it ( ... )

l_c_chadwick May 18 2009, 21:44:58 UTC

correction: He spent a good portion of his first hundred days telling the world, "Yeah all those slack-jawed yokels I represent suck but you can love me because I am transcendent."

theglen May 19 2009, 04:21:12 UTC

Obama is hard guy not to like. He's a charming well spoken guy. I don't trust him further than I can throw him, but he seems decent enough. His policies are about to wreck the country, he speaks out of both sides of his mouth, and it strongly looks like he doesn't have a clue what he's doing.

I wonder if he'll have the same calm when the press turn on him.

explosivespam May 19 2009, 12:59:20 UTC

"I wonder if he'll have the same calm when the press turn on him."

What? The press didn't turn on Bill Clinton. What makes you think they'll turn on Obama?

l_c_chadwick May 19 2009, 13:32:17 UTC

Agreed. The press has invested too much of their own credibility in Obama's image. He's too big to fail.

persephone78 May 19 2009, 22:25:52 UTC

They didn't turn on Clinton? Seriously? Is that how you see it?

Because what I saw is a massive turning on Clinton with the whole Lewinski bullshit, and well they should have turned on him.

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thndrstd May 19 2009, 20:10:26 UTC

Obama is tough not to like and those that hate him are those with shriveled black hearts. You can dislike his politics and policies but it's very hard to hate him personally.

After the last eight years of idiocy and incompetence, it's a pleasure to have a president who can complete a sentence and who is genial and composed. Obama is not the messiah some try to make him out to be. But at least a tone of reconciliation with the larger world is more than the U.S. has had since 9/11.

explosivespam May 19 2009, 20:38:43 UTC

That's another thing I really like. Obama has this dignified non-confrontationalism. He could sit politely at the dinner table with Ahmadinejad and bomb his country the next day. He seems beyond pettiness.

persephone78 May 19 2009, 22:38:33 UTC

I've been thinking about your post all day. And now I'm going to try to respond and attempt to put aside my big lefty bias ( ... )

explosivespam May 19 2009, 22:46:49 UTC

Moderate enough that I agree with you almost completely. :)

persephone78 May 19 2009, 23:06:15 UTC

Either I'm moving toward the center or you're moving to the left. Either way, it's freaky! ;)

explosivespam May 19 2009, 23:13:01 UTC

Or maybe George Bush's suckitude has just brought us together. :)

l_c_chadwick May 20 2009, 21:47:36 UTC

In the name of my mother's "if you can't say anything nice" advice, and since I didn't hold to that, let me state emphatically: Obama's a funny dude. I know the presidents' speach at the correspondents dinners are written for them, but Barry did a decent job delivering some good jokes. So... good on him!