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To: Road Walker who wrote (519498)	10/9/2009 2:19:44 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576130

It's hurting the democrats. obama has become a world wide joke. You should here the callers to talk radio here in DC. Even the blacks are calling it a joke

To: Road Walker who wrote (519498)	10/9/2009 4:09:09 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1576130

You forgot to accuse me of racism and loving terrorists. Didn't you get the morning Axelturf email, comrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (519498)	10/9/2009 4:10:29 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1576130

.... The floodgates open for talk-show jokes. The American public will begin thinking forbidden thoughts -- "There really is a powerful whiff of affirmative action boosterism about everything this guy does, isn't there?" And they will also begin noticing Obama's outsized ego, and worrying about further feeding that bloated, dangerous monster. ...... Woody Allen observed that 80% of success was just showing up. For Barack Obama, that's 99.9%. And this highlights the already-wide and quickly-expanding gulf between Obama's reach and his grasp, his reputation and his resume, his accolades and his accomplishments, his words and his deeds... and his hopes and his actual changes. There has long been an elephant in the room, best ignored, at least best ignored for Obama's political sake. The Nobel Prize committee has painted that elephant in hot-pink and gold-flake and thrown a ten thousand watt spotlight on it. The elephant can no longer be ignored. Obama will become a laughingstock because of this. Is this his fault? Partly, sure. But not mostly his fault. But then, neither it is the fault of a mediocre actor who awakes one day to the grim news he has been honored far beyond his abilities, and now will be ridiculed far beyond his culpability for that. Posted by Ace ace.mu.nu