Comments on: Sound Byte Politics

By: Little Miss Attila

Little Miss Attila — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:18:04 +0000

Dude!... It's, like, the Presidency, here. That's so heavy. 'S like, hope and change and shit. Oh, wow. It's cosmic. You know what I mean?......

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:12:00 +0000

I agree with Steve above. How can you compare the empty Obamessiah with the detailed Gingrich’s “Contract with America”?

There is no comparison. Surprised at you James.

By: Tlaloc

Tlaloc — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:18:54 +0000

Ah!

I was wondering at the source of the current recession. Apparently Hitch stumbled out of his local dive bar long enough to blearily hunt and peck another idiotic screed.

The good news is that his stimulus program for purveyors of Wild Turkey should be back on track by now.

(I would feel bad mocking his alcoholism if he wasn't such a piece of &*^% scum^%$# who really should be dead by now so as to raise the collective human morality score, but since he is, yeah I don't feel bad at all.)

By: Steve Plunk

Steve Plunk — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:29:15 +0000

Gingrich coupled his rhetoric with solid policy proposals containing both tactical and strategic goals. Obama's campaign seems to be big on words but lacking in the substance to support them. It's called hollow rhetoric and it's far different than the "Contract with America" which was accepted as a brilliant political action plan. I'm afraid if the Dems actually articulated their positions rather than using hollow rhetoric voters would abandon them very quickly.

By: KJ

KJ — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:11:02 +0000

In truth, campaigns are really about who can promise the most and be believed by the majority while knowing full well that those that make those promises can neither deliver nor intend to deliver on those promises.

Yes, this is cynical, but history proves it to be true.

By: Zelsdorf Ragshaft III

Zelsdorf Ragshaft III — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:54:42 +0000

Legion, do you know what an empty suit is? How about an empty suit with funny ears? I have a job. My house and car are paid for. I am invested in the stock market. I am by no means wealthy, yet my hope is for peace based upon the strength of our nation, for lower taxes, for less government interference in my life. I don't want to be told what I should buy or what I should use. Who I have to like or what, if anything, I can smoke. (I don't smoke). Mostly, I do not want to pay for stuff you should pay for. It is not the job of government to take away from me to give to someone else. If I want to help anyone, that is up to me, not some idiot in Washington DC or Sacramento, CA. I have the feeling what Obama or Clinton want to do is change how we do things in this country. If I wanted to live in a socialist state, I would move north. Seems to me, the job of what government is supposed to do in this country is pretty well laid out in the Constitution of the United States. I do not fathom what part of that people like you fail to understand.

By: legion

legion — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:00:58 +0000

Wow. Talk about tone-deaf. Does Hitch not realize that his own blithe generalizations _are_ the shallow discourse of our political campaigns?