Leelila_Strogov's Blog

After the bashing that you just gave McCain, I'd say your statement that Obama "appears to be getting the brunt of it" is rather telling. Remember when reporters reported the news, and didn't interject their views into it? Obama based his whole candidacy on "cutting and running". But forgive me for stating the truth.

It's no wonder why they call Presidential campaigns a political circus, isn't it? Leelila, you have brought us some very intelligent observations. Are you ready to see the "ringmaster" in action?

esau -- love the comment about putting erasers on pencils. yes, i suppose almost all of these relationships stand to be renewed... or not.

happyg -- i'm sorry you perceived me as having given anyone a bashing. i actually wasn't offering up an opinion of any kind; just an observation. frankly, i'm one of those who would be happy to see either mccain or obama in the white house, and happen to think mccain is being unduly criticized for what happened with his first wife (after all, breakups are seldom very tidy, and it was almost thirty years ago). my only reason for stating that obama is getting the brunt is his slip in the polls.

sebar -- thanks for the defense, and the viewpoint. so i take it you believe the term "decent politician" to be a paradox?

mystere -- a circus is the appropriate word indeed... i'm ready!

Let me be really Jewish and answer a question with a question, because I know I'll get away with it... ;)

Do you take politician's as a Curry's Paradox, even though they are the most illogical group ever?

I know this comment has nothing to do with this subject, but I love it!

PARIS - France has denied citizenship to a veiled Moroccan woman on the grounds that her "radical" practice of Islam is incompatible with basic French values such as equality of the sexes.

"She has adopted a radical practice of her religion, incompatible with essential values of the French community, particularly the principle of equality of the sexes," said a ruling by the Council of State handed down last month and sent to Reuters on Friday to confirm a report in Le Monde.
The woman's application for French nationality was rejected in 2005 on grounds of "insufficient assimilation". She appealed to the Council of State, which last month approved the rejection.

VIVA Le FRANCE!!!

Barack Obama spoke to the National Council of La Raza and in one sentence managed to do what most Hot Air readers would consider the impossible — he put distance between himself and John McCain on immigration. Calling the ICE terrorists, Obama made his position on border security and immigration enforcement plain. He thinks they’re fascist:

When communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids, when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel, when all that is happening, the system just isn’t working, and we need to change it.
So now the US government is a terrorist organization? Not only does this demonstrate his demagoguery on immigration, it also shows his cluelessness in the war on terrorists. If he can’t tell the difference between al-Qaeda and ICE, then not only should he not be President, but Illinois needs to answer for his selection as a Senator.

I remember a history teacher once saying that both parties change there positions so much that they are exactly opposite of where they were 40 years ago.

Mc Cain won my heart with the torture thing. Obama lost me on the Planned Parenthood thing. What to do what to do as they both move more toward the center?

Well... I'm black so if they're going to be twins then I'll do what I do when I play roulette. After all... when it get's right down to it I think that Republicans and Democrates all look alike. Democrates like to use bombs and missles and Republicans like to put boots on the ground... which makes more sense to me but what the hey... eight years of "Oops! Sorry China was that your embassy?"

Anywho... I'm not afraid of Senator Obama being elected President but I would prefer Senator Mc Cain. Something about being a veteran makes me prefer a veteran as in the Army I found that we we're all green. Lite green to the front... dark green to the rear.

McCain does seem to be slowly nudging to the center except on meeting with racist group La Raza "The Race"...he derrier kissed them bigtime.

“Sen. Obama said this morning that he wants a foreign policy that is tough, smart and principled,” said Lieberman. “This afternoon I want to ask my colleague who I respect and like a couple of direct questions: Was it tough when Sen. Obama voted to order U.S. troops to retreat from Iraq on a fixed timeline regardless of the recommendations of our military commanders or conditions on the ground? Was it smart when Sen. Obama opposed the surge and predicted that it would fail to improve our security? … Was it tough and principled when Sen. Obama said he would be open to changing his plan on Iraq after going there and talking to General Petraeus, which I think was the right position, only to change that position hours later after being heatedly criticized by organizations like MoveOn.org? I say respectfully the answer to all those questions is, no.”

McCains achilles heal within his own base is the Illegals in the country. He should stay as far awway from them as possible, rethink his position on amnesty and join the majority of Americans. I think the Senate is too far removed from the real world to understand our feelings toward amnesty maybe they need to spend more time in our world and less time in Washington's fantasy land. If we can't enforce our laws with the Border Patrol we need to fortify that strip of land. I can hear the shouts of racist already but forget it, I work with and are friends with many legal Mexicans and many of them agree.
Don