Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Dennis Kucinich's Opening During Global Warming Debate

I've been a fairly consistent Barack Obama man thus far...

But this fellow is starting to tickle my areas a whole lot more, particularly since this short speech.
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Shawn M. said...

I like Kucinich. I also like Edwards, but then, Edwards and Hillary are in fact 99% similar. And the latter is the person I'd most like to see as President of the United States.

Kucinich is probably the most like me, but I have to admit that I am not a good cross-section of Americans or what Americans want. I also feel that he (like Barack Obama) would be cock-blocked by Congress and the House - even though they behave now as though they will be able to walk into the ol' White House and do what they want willy-nilly.

Still, Kucinich is a good guy. And I gotta say - Elizabeth Kucinich? I am not offended by her appearance at all. (This is how I pick up ladies now btw. I also use internet shorthand.)

10:44 pm
Shawn M. said...

Also, dude - Barack is kind of garbage, I discovered. I mean, I fell in love with him too after his DNC speech in 2004 - because the speech was so good that it reduced us all to goosebump-covered fangirls.

I came to realize, however, that the man has been giving the exact same motivational speech for the last three years! What's your plan for the budget, Barack? Oh, we're going to give the U.S. back to 'the people?' Yes, I get it - you're a damn populist. You want to be the Common Man - a working class hero, a local shmoe like You and Me. I appreciate the image you are trying to concoct, but man, Edwards is doing the same thing and actually has the background to pull it off. Also he's far more competent?

Let's face it, since Obama's been in the Senate he's done a whole lot of nothin'. Well, not all that much anyhow. I think in about eight years he'll have the know-how and experience he needs, but right now he'll use Republican talking-points (like calling Hillary a "flip-flopper" - sound familiar?) and other vague terms that are just confusing while not actually proposing anything of real substance himself.

Well, he did finally offer up a health care plan - one that was substantially less able to cover the Americans it should, as Hillary's is. He then faked a statistic to make it sound as though where were merely appealing to the richest Americans. Ungh.

Anyhow, enough rambling. You get the point!

10:53 pm
Oliver Brackenbury said...

Yeah, she kind of looks like Julianne Moore if Julianne Moore had surgically grafted a pair of stilts between her knee joints. I appreciate how hard her and Dennis shut down reporters who try to shift shit from important issues to "So, uh hey, does your wife really have a tongue piercing because we read in Maxim that can do things to your wee-wee which are extremely correct...".

I think I like the idea of Obama more than I really know his policies inside out - I think that's called voting with your heart and not your head, but I'm not voting so...um?

I could really fancy me some John Edwards and I would take him over Hilary any day of the week. I just don't find her genuine at all. This may sound like more heart before head business, but I mean that I have seen her trying to please everyone all of the time and I think that is indicative of a lack of sincerity and therefore credibility.

6:28 pm
Shawn M. said...

Yeah. They giggle at her, and meanwhile she has her Masters in International Conflict Resolution? Seems like the kind of thing that could be mighty handy!

In terms of Hillary, I think it's unfortunate that so many individuals view her as a robot, and yet we don't see dudes like Edwards as robots mostly because we are used to men doing that sort of posturing. We both know that I'm no ra-ra feminist, but I think this is one area wherein people are just going to have to get used to women being as manipulative as men.

Hillary isn't as charismatic as Bill, certainly, but between the two of them you have a team that can--and has--run a country. If you look up her voting record and compare it to Edwards', they're almost identical... and yet this image of Hillary is Thatcher-lite is continuously shoved down our throats. I am not saying that she seems all that down-to-earth or trustworthy - simply that when you look at them all from a certain, distanced perspective, they all act like desperate salespeople (even if it shows some times more than others).

2:41 am

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