tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post7551166198024617761..comments2024-01-04T07:21:18.243-05:00Comments on John In Carolina: Michelle Obama’s Convention SpeechUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-69777405233669659962008-08-26T23:04:00.000-04:002008-08-26T23:04:00.000-04:00MJ, Your comments are completely unrelated to the ...MJ, <BR/>Your comments are completely unrelated to the substance of the post at hand. "Hope and Change" is nothing new, those are meaningless words used by virtually every politician to appeal to the shallow. Like most folks, I'm concerned with honesty, integrity, character, and courage. <BR/>I would never take my children to a church where the reverend shouts "God Damn America". In fact, I don't know anyone who would. Would you?<BR/>Likewise, unless Barack Obama can offer a reasonable explanation for why he took his children to that hatefest, he will never get my vote. And there are millions of voters who feel the same way.TruthHurts001https://www.blogger.com/profile/01183674558757778892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-12003301615528707402008-08-26T18:58:00.000-04:002008-08-26T18:58:00.000-04:00I think Phyllis "Lack of Intellectual Rigor" Chesl...I think Phyllis "Lack of Intellectual Rigor" Chesler (born 1940)is a weak source for an opinion on anything. I think she has decided her identity group are the losers in a very big victims' contest. She seems to hate people because of their religion or the color of their skin.<BR/><BR/>It is ironic that someone with the serious mental baggage she displays would be a professor of psychology. She sounds nutty. I hate to generalize, but what do you expect when the woman is also a professor of women's studies. I doubt she would be safe around house plants, never mind students. <BR/><BR/><BR/>From Wikipedia on her new book:<BR/>[I took the N-word spelling out of her quote. She is really a piece of work. She hates Obama - surprise surprise.]<BR/>"Chesler has recently become known for her campaign against what she considers to be a "new anti-Semitism". She has written about this concept in her book The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It (2003).<BR/><BR/>A 2003 review in Publishers Weekly describes Chesler's book as a "passionate, highly personal jeremiad" that argues "in our contemporary world anti-Zionism is nearly inseparable from anti-Semitism". The reviewer adds that the book "too often undercuts itself when its author intends to be provocative", citing lines such as "African-Americans (not Jews) are the Jews in America but Jews are the world's n******". The piece concludes that "Chesler's tone and lack of intellectual rigor will not help her ideas to be heard by those who do not already agree with her".[7]"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-78355879471494092672008-08-26T17:45:00.000-04:002008-08-26T17:45:00.000-04:00To Anon @ 1:09,There's reasonableness in what you ...To Anon @ 1:09,<BR/><BR/>There's reasonableness in what you say.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, if enough of us keep asking the questions, that will have an effect regardless of whether the Obamas answer them forthrightly and fully.<BR/><BR/>The questions are in themselves informative just as are questions such as these:<BR/><BR/>Why did you have that kind of relationship with someone who didn't and doesn't regret attempting to bomb abortion clinics?<BR/><BR/>or <BR/><BR/>Why did you have that kind of relationship with someone who didn't and doesn't regret attempting to bomb the Pentagon?<BR/><BR/>To M.J.,<BR/><BR/>Please reread my post.<BR/><BR/>I did not say what you attribute to me.<BR/><BR/>Also, the questions are extremely important.<BR/><BR/>Can you understand why millions of Americans are bothered by the Obamas' failure to answer them?<BR/><BR/>Thank you both for commenting.<BR/><BR/>JohnJWMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08275423713054782480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-32589136727569222012008-08-26T17:23:00.000-04:002008-08-26T17:23:00.000-04:00There are, I'm sure, enumerable answers to the que...There are, I'm sure, enumerable answers to the questions you'd like answered. As in any compaign effort, candidates adjust their answers to suit their audience.<BR/><BR/>What I do know is that we all want an ideal candidate in office. What we have are Obama and McCain as options.<BR/><BR/>I'd much rather have a champion of hope and change this time around, than another member of the 'Good Ol' Boys' Club.<BR/><BR/>You call it normalization, I call it realization. There is by far much more "normal" about Barack Obama than there is about John McCain. What I think we all need to accept is that the face of America is changing and the historical face that we cleave to attach to America has in all actuality already changed.<BR/><BR/>So, back to the answers to your questions, I don't know how one might answer them. Perhaps, you want to reconsider what the demographic make-up is of both constituent bases and start wondering which will be more "normal" twenty years from now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-44797118932850306772008-08-26T13:09:00.000-04:002008-08-26T13:09:00.000-04:00John: I fear those questions will never be asked a...John: I fear those questions will never be asked and will never be answered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com