There are going to be 1 million people in Grant Park in Chicago tomorrow night. (If Obama loses, imagine what they'll do to the city, then imagine what people will do to New York.) On MSNBC, Chuck Todd was saying there's a never-before-seen intensity in Obama's supporters: that they don't want anyone to go after their guy. I saw the cultlike army myself once, up close, and liked what I saw. Sarah Palin said just now in Missouri that the real America fights the wars, and the far left wants to take over the government. So she's feeling it too, and her crowd seemed thin. This is a progressive movement. We're Obama's base, and yes he's going to swing states and reaching out, but the base matters. Clinton's ideological base was the DLC, Bush's AEI. From to Frum. When will the papers get at the inner-political-intellectual-juice of this campaign. David Axelrod, said to be Obama's closest political adviser, is a Lower East Side Jew and a true movement guy. We're coming back in as a major force in American political life. It's been what, 35 years, or even 75.
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"From to Frum."
Nice. :)
"From to Frum" – GOOD ONE!
Axelrod is very impressive.
Fe, Fi, From, Frum….
Is Phil in favor of a cult-like army that will turn violent if its candidate loses? Does he support violence against McCain and third party voters if Obama loses?
David Sirota "fiddled" with one of his pics from Denver and made it into an "artsy" kind of image for his desktop. You can download it here — http://www.davidsirota.com/images/desktop-obama.jpg
It depicts not just Obama, but the massive crowd – and in that, "it is more a picture of democracy, than of an individual candidate".
I think it is more likely that Palin's acolytes will riot in the event of a McCain/Palin loss. Remember all those Brooks Brothers Republicans down in Florida in 2000 'demonstrating' in an effort to stop a lawful recount?
Obama will be center-left in administration, same as he's been for years.
But, listening, reasoning, open.
Coldly calculating, what is the possible greater good. (I LIKE that form of "cold calculation").
It is a new time, a JFK time.
Except for Vietnam, Johnson was a great president. We ended up only remembering Vietnam.
So Richard, you think the 1965 Immigration Act and the USS Liberty great legacy for the greater good of all Americans?
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