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Saturday, December 09, 2006

Obamaspeak

the last thing i want in a presidential candidate is a well-spoken, slick, fluffball...
It's depressing to think that we'll have to endure Obamaspeak for months, if not years to come: a pulp of boosterism about the American dream, interspersed with homilies about "putting factionalism and party divisions behind us and moving on". I used to think Senator Joe Lieberman was the man whose words I'd least like to be force fed top volume if I was chained next to a loudspeaker in Camp Gitmo, but I think Obama, who picked Lieberman as his mentor when he first entered the US Senate, is worse. I've never heard a politician so desperate not to offend conventional elite opinion while pretending to be fearless and forthright.

when i stop and think that we've got almost two years to drown in candidate blatherings, i get very depressed indeed...

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