Ever Have A Feeling You Can't Explain About A Politician?

I revere the Duck... for sheer fluency of articulating her thoughts, which I mostly agree with.

In fact, why the hell isn't our Duck running for Pres? First of all, she talks straight....

and flies right!!!

snood wrote:

And Thomas I saw clips of the speech to which you refer, but didn't detect him trying to imitate MLK.

I'm probably belaboring this point too much. But in BiPolarBear's spirit of brotherhood, I'd like to note that visiting Montgomery has made forgive both Obama and Clinton for their black preacher accents. The place has a powerful aura. If you have a chance to do it, spend a few hours around the Capitol, the Civil Rights Memorial, and the Dexter Avenue Baptist and First Methodist churches. I predict the place will get to you, and you, too, will start talking with a Black Preacher Accent.

It goes against all the current knowledge and belief but Ijust don't think there's much depth to Barrack Obama. Maybe better to say I don't think he's seasoned enough. I don't know. I like the guy, I like a lot of what he says, but something red flags me about his being president. Of course I would vote for him against any idiot the bushublicans put up, but I'm just not sold on the guy. Not this time around anyway.

I really can't explain much past my gut feeling.

I had a gut feeling bush was going to be an indescribable f**k up and a real dick back in 1999 and never bought into any of his bullshit. I'm not comparing the two believe me. Obama is certainly God like in his intelligence when compared to bush.

Anyway does anyone else, any other people planning to vote democrat I mean, get this same vaguely uneasy feeling?

I agree that its probably a common phenomenon that's both benign, and unconscious in most cases. I would certainly say that was more likely the case with Obama than with Clinton, simply because she is well known to be coldly calculating.

Sometimes, adopting the speach characteristics of those to whom one is speaking happens spontaneously. I bet many of the people on a2k have been speaking to someone and found themselves slipping into the other's way of speaking, at least a little. Speaking to dys on the phone last night, I detected myself possibly borrowing his laugh for a moment. It's really no big deal, in most cases.

edgarblythe wrote:

Sometimes, adopting the speach characteristics of those to whom one is speaking happens spontaneously. I bet many of the people on a2k have been speaking to someone and found themselves slipping into the other's way of speaking, at least a little. Speaking to dys on the phone last night, I detected myself possibly borrowing his laugh for a moment. It's really no big deal, in most cases.

Just to set the record straight, I never laugh.

snood wrote:

I agree that its probably a common phenomenon that's both benign, and unconscious in most cases. I would certainly say that was more likely the case with Obama than with Clinton, simply because she is well known to be coldly calculating.

Umm..

Thats about as close as a circular argument as you can get here, isnt it.

"They both did the same thing yeah, but I know that in her case it was faking and in his case just innocent adoption, because I know she is a fake and he is a good guy."

nimh wrote:

"They both did the same thing yeah, but I know that in her case it was faking and in his case just innocent adoption, because I know she is a fake and he is a good guy."

Except that's not what I said. The Clintons are both known for their "triangulating" and being hardballers politically. To say its easier for me to see Hillary as faking it for political rasons than Obama is just using the information commonly available.

Except that's not what I said. The Clintons are both known for their "triangulating" and being hardballers politically. To say its easier for me to see Hillary as faking it for political rasons than Obama is just using the information commonly available.

Thomas wrote:

snood wrote:

And Thomas I saw clips of the speech to which you refer, but didn't detect him trying to imitate MLK.

I'm probably belaboring this point too much. But in BiPolarBear's spirit of brotherhood, I'd like to note that visiting Montgomery has made forgive both Obama and Clinton for their black preacher accents. The place has a powerful aura. If you have a chance to do it, spend a few hours around the Capitol, the Civil Rights Memorial, and the Dexter Avenue Baptist and First Methodist churches. I predict the place will get to you, and you, too, will start talking with a Black Preacher Accent.

You do belabor the point too much. I worked at Walter Reed and lived in DC for 3 years. I don't see Hillary and Obama using black preacher rhythms as being the same thing. But then I have the quaint belief that Obama being black (especially since he's attended a black church for years and listened to a black preacher a lot of sundays) makes one less unseemly in attempting those rhythms.

I guess I just wanted a little clarity about what kind of "uneasiness about him being in the white house" was being talked about. And I agree with those who have suggested we move on in this thread.