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To: Rambi who wrote (91153)	10/21/2008 5:48:42 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541299

My Two Things: 1) The timing of that book clearly suggests a motive beyond what you ascribe to it. 2) What exactly ARE Obama's achievements? McCain has a number of bi-partisan bills named after him, McCain-Feingold, for example. I dislike political rallies, revival meetings, and all such gatherings designed to pump up one's emotions. No doubt some of the people cheering at Palin's rallies are thinking with their emotions rather than their brains, but you have to grant that she has both feet on the ground and has real-world experience. The picture I saw of Obama's rally in St. Louis, where it was claimed 100,000 people crowded on some kind of grassy mall to see him, clearly indicated a cult following.

To: Rambi who wrote (91153)	10/21/2008 5:54:28 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541299

Messiah has taken on an interesting meaning for the right. It now means "a person looked up to, or liked, who I do not think should be liked". Because the right (or perhaps I should say far right) do not understand Obama's appeal- his education (they are, after all, anti-intellectual), his intelligence (look at who they put up for election, speaks for itself), and his ability to speak (again, look at their candidates- rhetoric is obviously not a selling feature)- they cannot separate admiration based on praiseworthy qualities, from "Messiahness" (aka- praise they do not think is merited). At this point, one can only pity people so out of touch with how other people might feel. I think most people here can understand why the right doesn't like Obama- but the right cannot understand why everyone doesn't think like they do. Their failure to so completely misunderstand their countrymen should lose them the presidency, the congress, and many state races. I look forward to them being hoist on their own petard of intellectual stagnation. Their will be great poetic justice in their failure.

To: Rambi who wrote (91153)	10/21/2008 5:59:37 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541299

This is sort of off-topic, but since you are a librarian I thought you probably know about a plug-in for the FireFox browser that allows you to link any word on the internet to the search window for your public library. It's called Hyperwords. Here's the link where you can get it if you don't already have it. addons.mozilla.org For example, I right clicked on Barack Obama and the search my public library returned had ten books on Obama. I didn't have to log in to my library at all, just right click. Rambi, please don't take offense at a suggestion in a field where you are the expert and I'm not. I'm just enthusiastic about this particular plug-in and thought you'd probably know about it.