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Obama’s arrogance is simply astounding, not to mention the accuracy of his Opposite Land Foreshadowing.

Is this real?

My friend, and longtime gay community photographer, Bill Wilson sent over this photo, which he took this morning, of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom at Glide Memorial Methodist Church in the Tenderloin neighborhood. Very pleased to see Gavin deploring the direct mail piece with all his boy-king fury.

I didn’t want to get out my Jump to Conclusions mat out too quickly, but would it be wrong to offer up a hearty laugh at the prospect of a “Glide Memorial Methodist Church in the Tenderloin neighborhood” of a gay community? I mean, come on!

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! The solution to all our problems!

“I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car, I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage! You know, if I help him, he’s gonna help me.”

David Harsanyi, in his piece If It Redistributes Like a Duck,

Now, I’m not suggesting Obama intends to transform this nation into 1950s-era Soviet tyranny or that he will possess the power to do so. I’m suggesting Obama is praising and mainstreaming an economic philosophy that has failed to produce a scintilla of fairness or prosperity anywhere on earth. Ever.

And there it is. If you could bear to think rationally and get past all the warm, fuzzy hope for change that will hopefully change us — buffered of course by the pointedly objective sense of fairness the government has time and again proven to embody —  the thought may have occurred to you that the kind of change Obama is proposing is certainly a departure… a departure from a system that works remarkably well to a system that has yet to ever prove itself. And believe me, it’s had the opportunity.

It’s not that we don’t have room for improvement economically, but why this ignorant push to throw out the baby with the bath water?

This is the kind of genius that I wish I could churn out. Hmm… maybe if I got more sleep…

I do admit I am a little worried about Ahmedwhatshisname getting nukes and Putin rolling into Europe, with only Obama’s charisma to stop them.  I had never really thought of let’s all play nicely together as a foreign policy since it doesn’t even work with kids.  But hey, is that really my problem?  He has like a zillion brilliant foreign policy advisers and I’m sure they’ll figure something clever out.  I can no longer afford a trip to Israel anyway and I assume pictures of it will be archived on the internet.

When hot meets cold, neither stay the same.
But baby, I think we have changed the laws of chemistry.
Because I am here, ready to test this theory of ours,
But you are there, distant and unwilling to find out the solidity of this formula’s tried answers.

We are seasonal,
but different orbits and different patterns.
Yours is the stronger, mine is more suseptable.
Yours draws me in and once my foot has stepped over the line, you draw a fence…then a wall.

I am pounding on the bricks standing out in this winter.
Hoping one of these clay obstacles will understand.
And I can not remian the same, but you…you behind your wall, you don’t change.
You don’t care. Snowflakes fall off my face, fall in my eyes, fall from my heart.

I don’t know how you sustain your composure,
when I am all but placid behind this guise.
I set out to warm you, to soften that stern embrace,
but your twisted treason leaves me standing in the cold,
No longer do I tilt my head, my once inquisitive eyes no longer want the tried answers.

I enjoy conversations on other blogs, and in one I’ve been following lately, a foreign Socialist interjected with his thoughts. Mine follow.

Not to break up this discussion or anything; but SO WHAT if obama has a preference for marxism? SERIOUSLY? This absurd clinging of the United States to pure capitalism is precisely what has caused its downfall. Hellooo? Economical crisis anyone? Caused, in fact, by pure, uncontrolled, capitalism?

Most european nations and governments apply certain socialist principles to their democratic governments to promote their citizens rights and give them a better life, all the while preventing big companies from taking over and those who are too greedy from having ALL the money (even rich, powerful countries like the UK and Germany). True, it isn’t PURE capitalism, but that’s why it’s good. It seems that at some point you americans decided that letting people fight for their lives and money in an unfair race where some started almost at the end is better than giving everyone the chance to live dignified lives. I thought this was about PEOPLE. about making the world a BETTER place for EVERYONE. But maybe I was wrong.

I just find it astounding how so many of you let the outdated anticommunist propaganda of the past affect you, to the degree that, while the world has moved on and decided to work with the best of both systems, you still doggedly cling on to one that has proven itself insufficient. SERIOUSLY.

socialism and communism aren’t evil, they just trust humans too much. STALIN was evil. BIG difference.

- roxesdios

More…

I think Obama will probably take the Presidency here in a week, but the disparate polls should bring us pause. How is it that consistently over the past few weeks there have been some polls with Obama up by as much as 12 points and other that put the two candidates firmly within the margin of error of each other? Obivously, there are discrepancies in the way that different polling organizations present the data, but what I want to look at is the undecideds. My hypothesis is simple, short, and may prove to be completely right or way off base here in a week. 

With all the media coverage and fawning over Obama that we’ve seen, my guess is that if someone hasn’t made up their mind about Obama yet, they probably won’t now.

They’ve certainly had ample opportunity. Why are they still undecided? Are they holding out for more information on Obama or are they waiting to see if McCain loses all his marbles? I suspect the latter, and so if McCain proves sane over the next week, I think you’ll see the vast majority of undecided voters break for McCain. The big difference maker will be this: are the polls giving Obama a huge margin right or are the ones showing a dead-heat correct? Only one of the scenarios will have my theory giving McCain the presidency. It’s quite an uphill battle for him.