Formidable Is As Formidable Doesn’t
Telegraph - Barack Obama’s wife knows she’s formidable, by Liz Hunt
I just hope she doesn’t decide she needs to act on her formidableness. I like Michelle Obama (so much, in fact, I think I’d actually rather her husband win than John McCain, but that might be the heat of the moment (Florida’s exit polls) speaking), and that would ruin things.
Post-Florida results Update:
Okay, here’s what’s going to happen. McCain, god… McCain… is going to win the nomination. And so, please, is Obama. So it’ll be a cranky old idiot up against the guy who married Michelle Obama (if anyone out there happens to know about all the skeletons being ignored by the media in her closet, please, for pity’s sake, don’t tell me what they are, not now). Which will be disasterous and people will get killed. But then four years will pass and Giuliani will run again and he. won’t. be. as. idiotic as he was this time around. And then everything will be alright. We’ll laugh and frolic and hold hands and prance through meadows, and everything will be happiness and light.
Peter says of all the candidates McCain’s the only one he’s never liked.
Btw, I’ve been thinking: since I just announced to Peter “I’d rather commit seppuku than vote for John McCain,” that’s actually alright since I vote in California, right? And since Peter votes in Washington, that’s okay too. Right?
January 30th, 2008 at 12:23 am
A couple of years ago I saw McCain on some talk show and he made a joke about Dick Cheney´s heart condition. The audience hooted and hollered. And I said to myself, wow, I wish this guy were president.
Rest assured: since primary voters apparently insist on voting for the next guy in line, Rudy and Mitt and Mike and Fred can all run in 2012 and 2016. Some day it will be their turn and they will still be younger than McCain is now. Huckabee will be younger in 2020. Imagine that.
Having said that, McCain would probably make a better president than either Clinton or Obama, all things considered. But there is an enthusiasm gap.
January 30th, 2008 at 6:07 am
What do you love about Michelle Obama?
January 30th, 2008 at 8:24 am
The great hope of an Obama presidency is that actually nothing would change - because it would be a total logjam stalemate and nothing would even happen — apart from happy noises coming out of peoples’ mouths and the campfire songs. Anyhow, that’s the Happy Place to which I retreat…
January 30th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Scenario: Within months after the inauguration, Obama will be forced to bomb a small country. Millions die from massive cognitive dissonance.
January 30th, 2008 at 9:20 am
I think she’s twinkley. And that’s all I know about her. So it’s easy to love her.
Good scenario. Good happy place to which to retreat to, as well. I think I might crash there sometime.
January 30th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Ah. He’s twinkly too, and I love him (Barry, I mean). Except for every policy position he’s ever taken, he’s my guy! The first half of every speech he ever gives is like Reagan. Then he gets to the specifics and I about die of cd as wf suggests.
January 30th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Hee.
Ah, there lies the secret to my regard for his wife. I don’t hear her speeches.
January 30th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
RC2, he has taken positions? But he promised to be a uniter. Why would he take positions? Is it the change thing? That´ll be the end of him.
January 30th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
He has a state-legislature & Senate voting record (although he does have a tendency to vote “present”). But here’s an example. I kind of tear up at this until the end, where my head spins with the can’t get there from here-ness of it all.
January 30th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Nobody ever said he didn´t speak well. There are even a couple of good points there. No tears from me, though I may weep for the future later on.