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Lileks: Medved and Hewitt ask Obama supporters why they support him
LILEKS (James) the Bleat ^ | February 20, 2008 | James Lileks

Posted on 02/21/2008 10:45:16 AM PST by EveningStar

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On the radio today Medved and Hewitt both asked Obama supporters to call and say why they were supporting their man. Specifics, please. The replies were rather indistinct...

(Excerpt) Read more at lileks.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; cuzheblack; cuzhebringmomoney; cuzhecute; cuzheyoung; lileks; obama
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To: EveningStar

This is great stuff...once he gets the nomination.
Let’s first allow him to dispose of the queen, the we go after him for his emptysuitedness.


61 posted on 02/21/2008 12:24:02 PM PST by threeleftsmakearight
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To: The_Republican

Just as the NYT has jumped the gun in attacking McCain. They should wait until it is too late for Republicans to replace him. If he melts down at some point in the next 4 months, the party could pick a different candidate at the convention.


62 posted on 02/21/2008 12:24:20 PM PST by Defiant (The new GOP: A slightly slower road to socialist authoritarianism. Hoorah!)
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To: oldbill
Obama will be the next President. We are getting what we deserve. Conservatism will rescue us from the mess Obama and Reid and Pelosi and the RINOs will create. I survived Carter and an overwhelming Democrat majority. We got Reagan, who always said that there must be a pony under all that horses**t we had to endure. 2012 will be a great year!

There's nobody likie a Reagan on the scene & if so the media will denounce him so bad that nobody will vote for him. More probable, he couldn't get the pubbie nomination. Some years ahead you will see that we are in the "21st Century Dark Ages" & this will continue for many generations.

63 posted on 02/21/2008 12:25:33 PM PST by Digger (If RINO is your selection, then failure is your election)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I think part of Obama’s appeal is that he speaks very well, and speaks in enough generalities that people come way thinking they support his stands on issues, though they don’t know what those issues are.

Yep. The guy sounds like a tabloid horoscope. Vague enough to fit anyone, rosy enough to be enticing...

64 posted on 02/21/2008 12:27:57 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Puppage
How can one support his stance on any issues when he never mentions them?

That crowd does not want to hear about the issues, it's about how they feel. No thought required.

65 posted on 02/21/2008 12:30:24 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: rickomatic
Originally attributed to her here and here.
66 posted on 02/21/2008 12:33:17 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: EveningStar

67 posted on 02/21/2008 12:35:35 PM PST by Caleb1411 ("These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own." G. K. C)
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To: Constitution Day

Thanks for the Lileks gem! I love some of those calls from people who think recycling is (or should be) a presidential priority! Let’s all HOPE they forget to CHANGE their calendars and vote FOR UNITY on the wrong day, LOL.


68 posted on 02/21/2008 12:45:22 PM PST by alwaysconservative (The "Run Hillary Run" bumpersticker: on the back bumper for Dems, on the front for Republicans!)
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To: maryz

The same thing with Peter Sellers in “Being There”. Completely vacuous and empty, but everyone made him into what they wanted him to be.


69 posted on 02/21/2008 12:46:56 PM PST by alwaysconservative (The "Run Hillary Run" bumpersticker: on the back bumper for Dems, on the front for Republicans!)
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To: kingattax

I just listened to a podcast of these interviews. The interviewees were just amazing. . . I’m for OB because he’ll pay my college tuition, he’ll fix ‘global warming,’ he’ll bring us together. When admitting that several hundred thousand jihadists want to kill us, they had no idea how OB would protect us but they love his being against any war! Absolutely idiotic, ill-informed, and irrational. This is what we get from our public trough. . . no education whatsoever, just feelings.


70 posted on 02/21/2008 12:56:52 PM PST by SouthCarolinaKit
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To: EveningStar

Let’s see, the most common reasons given that I’m supposed to “get over it” and vote for McCain...

1) He’s a republican

2) He’s not Obama or Hillary

Yeah, we can laugh at the Obamiacs. The reasons our side gives are so much more intellectual this campaign. We’re screwed.


71 posted on 02/21/2008 1:14:11 PM PST by GATOR NAVY (Your parents will all receive phone calls instructing them to love you less now.)
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To: Blue State Insurgent

>>If you vote against Hillary you will be labeled a sexist by your own wife.

You must be kidding...my wife is vehemently against Hitlery, and even more so against Obama.

Her theory about Obama’s popularity is that it has to do with his name: Americans have been so dumbed-down by the public schools that they embrace the candidate whose name most resembles baby talk.


72 posted on 02/21/2008 2:25:08 PM PST by oblomov
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To: EveningStar

He will meet with the Iranians, personally, and conduct a frank personal interrogation about their nuclear intentions

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We know their intentions. The little turd that runs their country said Israel and the United States are going to disappear. What’s left to discuss?


73 posted on 02/21/2008 4:11:15 PM PST by Old Lady
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To: oldbill

2012 a great year? Dream on. In four years the dems will fix it that even alligators can vote. We’ll never see another Republican president. (Remember those 20,000,000 wetbacks waiting in the wings!)


74 posted on 02/21/2008 4:23:24 PM PST by Dionysius (Jingoism is no vice.)
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