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Decshak, I would spockulate that you did !!!
posted by
benzinha
on March 22, 2008 at 8:58 PM
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Yes. Very good, Benzinha. Did I detect a note of StarTrek?
posted by
WindTapper
on March 21, 2008 at 10:28 AM
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Re: Amen, benzinha
Thanks TAPS, I believe in reading as many different points of view around here as I can take on without tossing up my cookies. Thanks for reading mine and for commenting.
posted by
benzinha
on March 19, 2008 at 11:17 PM
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Re: Benzinha
WileyJan, an affectionate term in Iran......pronounced John, just like your name....
WileyJanMon, thank you for getting out of your comfy bed ( I saw the picture) and for writing....
The good news is that America will not take over Canada until after you and I have passed and we will never know about it and can still, today, be friends.
posted by
benzinha
on March 19, 2008 at 11:12 PM
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Re: Whoa!
Your second sentence, that it's Obama's people, etc. made me laugh out loud and it made my dogs jump. According to their (diabolical?) plan......Pinkie and the Brain is it??
Your choice of his first and middle names is telling, too. And anyone who wants Condi Rice doing anything more than catering to her man Bush, is asking too much, in my opinion. I admire strong women, I just get upset when they link their arm through that of a tyrant like our president. I always hoped that in private she would say, "Shame on you," periodically, but she likes her position and would never tell him the truth about himself.
Obama can't destroy this country from within, that plan was already thought up and executed by our present president. I stand witness to all that is crumbling around us this week. His work, his plan, his destruction, not a wannabe candidate's, but our present leader's.
But, you will probably contort your thoughts around the idea that Just Obama's desire to run this nation is what is causing it to fall apart now in the last days of Bush's supremacy.
Thanks for feeling flattered. It is fun to find your name on other blog posts. I read you, even if I don't stop always to comment.
posted by
benzinha
on March 19, 2008 at 11:10 PM
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Amen, Benzhina. I haven't read the blog post you are referencing but I surely do agree with this one.
posted by
TAPS.
on March 19, 2008 at 11:01 PM
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Re: great post...
I agree homegirl, he is just a man, like that line from Jesus Christ Superstar. He's a man, he's just a man.....and apparently, he's a pretty decent and good one, if we are just talking about his being a man.
And yes, my son is a black man, not anything else in anyone else's eyes, anyone outside the family, except for the progressive friends and community that we do grow in this city, in some little spots, here and there......
Obama's grandparents did a really good job; they raised a presidential candidate.
I think that I might scream someday soon over this whole stupid, dazzle us with iguana poop news coverage. They leave Hillary alone, as they want her to run against McCain and they make Obama tap dance as fast as he can while pundits shoot guns at his feet.
I would love to have the news stations go off the air for the remainder of the time left until the elections and only have them come back up when the president is chosen. I pray for this daily.
posted by
benzinha
on March 19, 2008 at 10:58 PM
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Re: Samantha39, it is time for a man to run, but it may not be his turn to
win. I just smile at the nation's baby steps towards a fuller democracy and representational government.
I truly await campaign finance changes. I would really like to see what a poor man might do to reduce debts and to get bureaucracy leashed and trained to a leaner running weight.
posted by
benzinha
on March 19, 2008 at 10:50 PM
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Re: A well written post
Thanks SEEDLINGS for reading and for leaving thoughtful comments.
My friends are all people and only become people of a certain race when someone outside my circle comments upon it.
Obama has courage or he wouldn't have dared to face our silly nation and try to lead us somewhere better.
But, of course, Hillary has courage, too. As the first woman to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate, she has a long testosterone row to hoe, as it were.....let her get tears in her eyes or truly attack some total idiot as the female dog that she would be called, and well.....
For all the accumulated years of democracy and history of this nation, we sure are still today an immature and thoughtlessly foolish bunch.
posted by
benzinha
on March 19, 2008 at 10:47 PM
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Benzinha
Benzinha, sorry I haven't been here for way too long, just been involved elsewhere more. Good post my friend, but I'm happy I'm in Canada right now.
posted by
WileyJohn
on March 19, 2008 at 9:10 PM
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Whoa!
I'm on a roll.....my name in two different posts at the same time......
The only people make this a race issue is the Obama people....and that is according to their plan.
My issue has absolutely nothing to do with Barack Hussein's race....I wanted Condi Rice to get appointed Vice-President so she could run this year....but it didn't happen......As far as Obama, it has all to do with his far left positions and ideas.....ideas that will destroy this country from within.....
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on March 19, 2008 at 5:15 PM
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great post...
I think what bothers me the most is that people see him only as black when he was born of a WHITE woman. He is a presidential candidate... not a black candidate.
posted by
homegirl
on March 19, 2008 at 5:04 PM
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It is a touchy subject..but I know lots of people who want to
bury that subject. Lots of my relatives support him and are
leaving any stupid prejudice from their parent or grandparents
behind and ready to put a bridge in that gap. I'm praying
now is the time..if not know when??
posted by
Samantha39
on March 19, 2008 at 3:43 PM
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A well written post
and a post that indeed needed to be written! Outstanding
I am sick to death of the 'race issue'...get over it already and get on with what should be the 'issues' in America today. Good Lord we are still bickering over color in 2008! How stupid, how little and how embarrassing is it to an American today if this is what we have been using the airwaves for. I feel sorry that Obama almost feels that he has to apologize for his race, back track to his childhood and 'explain.' This has gone to far. Do we Americans want a leader or are we so used to picking apart our leaders that it doesn't really matter? Lets all stand up and be people, not color, not by what we did in our past, but by how and where we stand as men and women today.
posted by
SEEDLINGS
on March 19, 2008 at 3:31 PM
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