Since Priceless nuked all his threads as a way of saying "farewell for now"*, I thought I'd start up another Obama thread so you O-philes and O-phobes can duke it out here and maybe free up some breathing room in the politics thread for at least some discussion of House and Senate elections.
As an added inducement, I'll only post this one thread-starter and then leave y'all to have fun without me.
A few people have pointed out that, while I am critical of Obama's policies, I rarely say anything about the man himself. Partly because I learned manners from Thumper; what point is there for me to say that he reminds me of Harold Hill or Elmer Gantry except lacking their residual conscience?
It was when I saw the following quote that I thought of reviving an Obama thread, like the XXIII we have had before.
Rarely have I seen a figure in public life who is so persistently, consistently angry.
If I had to pick a word to describe my feelings, it would be pity.
His father left. His step-father sent him away. According to his autobiography, he made a conscious decision to invent himself as a certain kind of persona. He spent a decade listening to Jeremiah Wright preach anger and kept coming back.
It's hard not to be moved by his apparent suffering.
I'd have preferred he picked a different method of addressing his psychological problems, that's all.
* I have a daydream that in several months, Priceless returns, and tells us that he started an internet business which is going very well for him. that he was really angry when he left; then he decided to show people he was a bigger man than his anger, and came back to share the good news with us.
As an added inducement, I'll only post this one thread-starter and then leave y'all to have fun without me.
A few people have pointed out that, while I am critical of Obama's policies, I rarely say anything about the man himself. Partly because I learned manners from Thumper; what point is there for me to say that he reminds me of Harold Hill or Elmer Gantry except lacking their residual conscience?
It was when I saw the following quote that I thought of reviving an Obama thread, like the XXIII we have had before.
Rarely have I seen a figure in public life who is so persistently, consistently angry.
If I had to pick a word to describe my feelings, it would be pity.
His father left. His step-father sent him away. According to his autobiography, he made a conscious decision to invent himself as a certain kind of persona. He spent a decade listening to Jeremiah Wright preach anger and kept coming back.
It's hard not to be moved by his apparent suffering.
I'd have preferred he picked a different method of addressing his psychological problems, that's all.
* I have a daydream that in several months, Priceless returns, and tells us that he started an internet business which is going very well for him. that he was really angry when he left; then he decided to show people he was a bigger man than his anger, and came back to share the good news with us.
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