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That's a lot closer to the reaction I would have expected.

This, on the other hand, is just plain insane.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Jul 24th, 2008 at 06:12:40 PM EST
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You love us!  You really love us!  Lol.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
by poemless on Thu Jul 24th, 2008 at 06:15:23 PM EST
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Obama definitely got the photo-op he wanted.

I wonder if McCain's minions will use another photo-op of his to mobilise the evangelical base: Obama's meeting with Berlin's openly gay major.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Thu Jul 24th, 2008 at 06:22:07 PM EST
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Was it just me checking to see if his watch was still there in the later pictures?
by Sassafras on Fri Jul 25th, 2008 at 02:42:47 AM EST
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? The watch of whom? Have I missed some story again?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Jul 25th, 2008 at 05:36:47 PM EST
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Remember when George Bush had his watch stolen?

The picture of Obama's hand in the crowd reminded me of that.

But I think it is just me  ;)

by Sassafras on Fri Jul 25th, 2008 at 07:10:40 PM EST
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Heh, LOL! I missed that video with the wath (though I do remember that Bush visit to Albania).

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Jul 26th, 2008 at 03:55:15 AM EST
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Oh THANK YOU GUYS for not being crazy.

The nationalism over there is scaring me.  Am I the only one who has a problem with adulation of a perceived "strong leader"?  I mean, are these people BLIND?  Don't they see what they're admiring?

Waving flags... chanting... crowds... ohhh, hypnotic, yes, Barack, we BELIEVE!

It's scary as hell.

Thank you guys, again, for seeing it for what it is instead of being mindless morons.

by Plutonium Page (page dot vlinders at gmail dot com) on Fri Jul 25th, 2008 at 02:51:41 AM EST
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I am shocked and a bit horrified by the dKos thread tbg posted above.  Insane seems an apt description; not least the comments about beginning to wear flag pins again.  I suppose it's one thing to wear a pin, but another to speak in tones simply delirious.

Such frenzy seems telling about the state of the amurkan subconscious.  and these are the "good guys."

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Fri Jul 25th, 2008 at 07:03:12 AM EST
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Contributors here tend to be better informed and experienced in politics and economics than the run-of-the-mill Kos commenter.

That sound egotistical, and it is, but it also happens to be true.

Obama is a typical demagogue.  He has decent manipulative skills, organizational ability, party connections, and sufficient financial backing to win the presidency.  Listening to what he says, rather than some Pink Lollipop version, it becomes clear he isn't any big change from George:

  •  All Murica, all the time, and if you don't like it we'll kill you.

  •  Let's create a police state

  •  Rah, Rah predatory economic policies

Obviously there are differences as well but those, such as National Health Care, tend to come from a rejection of Conservative ideological positions in order to pacify the populace with Bread, Circuses, and Flu Shots.  ;-)
by ATinNM on Fri Jul 25th, 2008 at 12:05:26 PM EST
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