Friday Open Thread | 86 comments (86 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Charles Krauthammer criticized McCain for attempting a third "hail Mary" with his "suspension" of his campaign, from which he had to climb down:

(McCain's) frenetic improvisation has perversely (for him) framed the rookie challenger favorably as calm, steady and cool."

Krauthammer still appears to prefer that McCain win, but not enough to overcome his own need to make sagacious comments. He continues:

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said of Frankin Roosevelt that he had a "second-class intellect, but a first-class temperment." Obama has shown that he is a man of limited experience, questionable convictions, deeply troubling associations... and an alarming lack of self definition--do you really know who he is and what he stands for? Nontheless, he's got both a first-class intellect and a first-class temperment. That will likely be enough to make him president.

Perhaps he is now concerned to assure access and relevance under an Obama Administration.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 12:47:51 PM EST

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Perhaps he is now concerned to assure access and relevance under an Obama Administration.

They're all, with notable exceptions, a bunch of whores who will say/print anything for their own profit. The days of Walter Cronkite et al are long over.

They tried to assimilate me. They failed.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 12:57:06 PM EST
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Krauthammer? Nah. Krauthammer is a propagandist. He won't say/print anything, the ideology remains the same. Once the persons he may hope would act accordingly changes.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 01:30:39 PM EST
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Poor wittle Chuckie. Running out of material to fill his nausea-inducing columns since the Stray Cock Express allowed his psychosis to get out in the open, apparently.

I wouldn't give him access. Give Gene Robinson access, if we're choosing a WaPo columnist.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 01:19:28 PM EST
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My operative word was that he might be concerned to preserve access... Still it is a nice quote to have to throw back at Mac in ads.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 02:39:55 PM EST
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Just backing off from the Cottage Cheese/Lime Jello Disaster™

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 02:50:25 PM EST
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i've never seen him interview anyone, is it his style?

what an assclown, he always looks like someone pissed in his drink and he had just drunk it anyway.

the lip curl almost at elvis level.

he does have a good brain, but what an attitude!

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 04:33:32 PM EST
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His politics make it difficult for me to be as charitable to him as you are, melo.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 09:38:30 PM EST
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i know, i have a hard time separating the personal from the political too.

he's so cartoon evil, even the name is sci-fi.

a figment of a diseased image-in-nation

...with good brain bloodflow-

even gwb could get smirking lessons

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sat Oct 4th, 2008 at 08:05:07 AM EST
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I love how we attach random words to the end of the word "ass" in the blogosphere (asshat, assclown, etc). I don't quite get it, but I've always found it hilarious.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Sat Oct 4th, 2008 at 09:05:39 AM EST
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Just another aspect of the medium.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Sat Oct 4th, 2008 at 10:39:56 AM EST
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Aspect.

Get it?

Ass-pect.

(I am unappreciated. :-(

:-D

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Sat Oct 4th, 2008 at 01:36:09 PM EST
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