Comments on: “The ‘I Want My Mommy’ Election” http://neveryetmelted.com/2008/11/05/the-i-want-my-mommy-election/ The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. -- D.H. Lawrence Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:16:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Scott D http://neveryetmelted.com/2008/11/05/the-i-want-my-mommy-election/comment-page-1/#comment-130745 Scott D Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:50:03 +0000 http://neveryetmelted.com/index.php/the-i-want-my-mommy-election/#comment-130745 You'll recall that the Obama camp's response to Joe the Plumber wasn't that he was wrong, but that he was actually part of the 95% who would be suckled once Obama became president. So what's your beef? You’ll recall that the Obama camp’s response to Joe the Plumber wasn’t that he was wrong, but that he was actually part of the 95% who would be suckled once Obama became president. So what’s your beef?

]]> By: Dai Alanye http://neveryetmelted.com/2008/11/05/the-i-want-my-mommy-election/comment-page-1/#comment-130598 Dai Alanye Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:13:06 +0000 http://neveryetmelted.com/index.php/the-i-want-my-mommy-election/#comment-130598 Let's face it, John McC got the nomination by default when neither Fred Thompson nor Rudy Giuliani was willing to work hard for it. He ran a weak campaign and lost it in an honorable fashion. No doubt he can retire fully satisfied with himself, but I would have much preferred a win from a mean (but conservative) SOB. We now have a character whose whole resume is a lie, whose supporters limned him according to their personal wishes and dreams. Even the wise pundits at Fox News are now re-molding him in their own image as a "pragmatist." And they might just be right, for not even Barry himself is quite sure what he is or believes. Yeah, I buy the pragmatist label, because wasn't that guy Joe Djugashvilli a pragmatist? Soon the disillusioned will appear. First the naive stupes who believe Barack will make their house payments for them, then the simple souls who really believe he will heal the world and slow the oceans' rise. Then either the leftist Kos readers or the pragmatism-loving media experts will dissolve in disappointed credulism, as one or the other must surely be wrong. But not me, because I was disillusioned a long ways back, about three seconds after he announced his candidacy. Let’s face it, John McC got the nomination by default when neither Fred Thompson nor Rudy Giuliani was willing to work hard for it.

He ran a weak campaign and lost it in an honorable fashion. No doubt he can retire fully satisfied with himself, but I would have much preferred a win from a mean (but conservative) SOB.

We now have a character whose whole resume is a lie, whose supporters limned him according to their personal wishes and dreams. Even the wise pundits at Fox News are now re-molding him in their own image as a “pragmatist.” And they might just be right, for not even Barry himself is quite sure what he is or believes.

Yeah, I buy the pragmatist label, because wasn’t that guy Joe Djugashvilli a pragmatist?

Soon the disillusioned will appear. First the naive stupes who believe Barack will make their house payments for them, then the simple souls who really believe he will heal the world and slow the oceans’ rise. Then either the leftist Kos readers or the pragmatism-loving media experts will dissolve in disappointed credulism, as one or the other must surely be wrong.

But not me, because I was disillusioned a long ways back, about three seconds after he announced his candidacy.

]]> By: Sallie Parker http://neveryetmelted.com/2008/11/05/the-i-want-my-mommy-election/comment-page-1/#comment-130585 Sallie Parker Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:18:09 +0000 http://neveryetmelted.com/index.php/the-i-want-my-mommy-election/#comment-130585 What is this great revolutionary struggle that took place in 1884, when my grandmother was two years old and living in Saratoga Springs? Nobody ever told me about it, though I did hear tell of Valley Forge and Ticonderoga a century or so earlier. Is the writer referring something that happened in his ancestral homeland of Lower Shtetlovia...or what? Etc. What is this great revolutionary struggle that took place in 1884, when my grandmother was two years old and living in Saratoga Springs? Nobody ever told me about it, though I did hear tell of Valley Forge and Ticonderoga a century or so earlier. Is the writer referring something that happened in his ancestral homeland of Lower Shtetlovia…or what? Etc.

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