tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post7295393293223177493..comments2024-01-28T22:16:50.852-06:00Comments on Mr. Dilettante’s Neighborhood: Waiting for GaffemanMr. Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13920907647566015611noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-28385072575934039962008-02-19T20:36:00.000-06:002008-02-19T20:36:00.000-06:00i didnt see o-babe's remark as anti-american, nor ...i didnt see o-babe's remark as anti-american, nor as solipsism, nor freudian.<BR/><BR/>in saw it for what it was: prepared words, a speech, or prepared outline, crafted to play to the audience.<BR/><BR/>is everybody forgetting? this is political campaigning here. rounding up the base, and turning them out. its done with words that play to the emotions of the audience.<BR/>i'm just shocked to hell to hear someone from the left say they were proud of america, for any reason, and actually have it play well with their audience.<BR/><BR/>this is the news. not what she said, but the positive reaction of who she said it to.Ginohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09606046924332159076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-5692950970400736322008-02-19T17:34:00.000-06:002008-02-19T17:34:00.000-06:00I take your point, RH. My preference is to go afte...I take your point, RH. My preference is to go after the actual candidate. And Sen. Obama has now given us something to use. Watch this space....<BR/><BR/>Best,<BR/>MarkMr. Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920907647566015611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-46674276342451710362008-02-19T17:15:00.000-06:002008-02-19T17:15:00.000-06:00I'm not so sure Ms. Obama's remark was attibutable...I'm not so sure Ms. Obama's remark was attibutable to solipsism as much as a Freudian slip of a blame America first attitude. Regardless, the campaign is spinning it as a "what she meant to say was" situation.<BR/><BR/>"We hate it when it happens to us. We shouldn't do the same thing to the other side."<BR/><BR/>Maybe we should do it to the other side more often. I'm getting real tired of the double standard.<BR/><BR/>George Allen's "mukaka" comment was completely blown out of proportion and (arguably) cost him the election and the Republicans control of the Senate. As I am writing this Jason Lewis has just pointed out that Trent Lott was not extended the courtesy of getting the benefit of the doubt when he mis-spoke and it cost him politically.<BR/><BR/>Time to take the gloves off when dealing with liberals!Right Hookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02381659078828845900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-48164668387187648652008-02-19T14:11:00.000-06:002008-02-19T14:11:00.000-06:00Correction - Biden plagiarized Neil Kinnock.Correction - Biden plagiarized Neil Kinnock.Mr. Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920907647566015611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-32843944964731385472008-02-19T08:42:00.000-06:002008-02-19T08:42:00.000-06:00I saw that this morning, anonymous. Using someone ...I saw that this morning, anonymous. Using someone else's words without attribution is more serious than Michelle Obama's solipsism. What Obama did isn't plagiarism per se, but it's intellectually lazy, which is something I have on good authority that Democrats never are. You might remember 20 years ago that Joe Biden got in trouble for essentially copying a speech given by Arthur Scargill, a British labor leader. Now Obama has done the same thing with the words of Deval Patrick.<BR/><BR/>Here's the question. What's more disturbing, that Biden and Obama lift words from others, or that they lift words from people as singularly unimpressive as Scargill and Patrick?Mr. Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920907647566015611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-30516930441199873672008-02-19T07:03:00.000-06:002008-02-19T07:03:00.000-06:00I'm surprised that you didn't mention how Obama to...I'm surprised that you didn't mention how Obama took someone else's speech and used it as his own, only attributing it to the original orator after being called out by the Clinton Campaign. <BR/><BR/>Someone should take this and use it. In truth he has no new ideas, only respun old ones. They sound nice when recited through his silver tongued lips but, does he really bring anything new to the table?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-21307366614337391042008-02-18T23:14:00.000-06:002008-02-18T23:14:00.000-06:00That's fair.That's fair.W.B. Picklesworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03187309512838841997noreply@blogger.com