Comments on: I Think I am Voting for Obama http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tehag http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html/comment-page-1#comment-13883 tehag Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:05:18 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html#comment-13883 <p>"When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some other country where they make no pretense of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy."</p> <p>Wow. Lincoln sure got that one wrong. It's despotism, all right, but its price is the sale of one's integrity-to wit: it is required to pay obeisance to official morality which is known and felt to be false. Read de Custine on the behavior of officials, court, and czar. Within sixty years the pretenses of Communism made every Russian a hypocrite.</p> “When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some other country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”

Wow. Lincoln sure got that one wrong. It’s despotism, all right, but its price is the sale of one’s integrity-to wit: it is required to pay obeisance to official morality which is known and felt to be false. Read de Custine on the behavior of officials, court, and czar. Within sixty years the pretenses of Communism made every Russian a hypocrite.

]]> By: Dennis http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html/comment-page-1#comment-13882 Dennis Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:01:14 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html#comment-13882 <p>Dear Mr. Meyer:<br /> Please don't. You know better. It just hurts. Even NPR was pointing out his qualifications last week as someone who really is more qualified because,"he's been campaigning for 1 1/2 years and you learn a lot that way."<br /> Can you live with that kind of a puppet? He would be worse than Bush!</p> <p>From johnrlot.blogspot.com, I found these two gems:</p> <p>Do you think that Obama supporters will get this joke? <br /> I may have given away too much in the headline. I wrote Jeff back saying that I think a lot of Obama supporters would read this and think that this letter makes perfect sense:</p> <p>Can't Afford<br /> I was planning on voting for Sen. John McCain, but given his vice-presidential pick, I'm voting for Sen. Barack Obama instead. As a nation, we simply can't afford to have an inexperienced, unqualified political neophyte one heartbeat away from the Oval Office. We need an inexperienced, unqualified political neophyte in the Oval Office.<br /> JEFF BISHOP<br /> Winston-Salem</p> <p><br /> BLANKLEY on media bias <br /> Tony Blankley has this piece in the Washington Times:<br /> The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight out propagandists for the Obama campaign. While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08 for the first time, the major media are consciously covering for one candidate for president and consciously knifing the other. This is no longer journalism — it is simply propaganda. (The American left-wing version of the Volkischer Beobachter cannot be far behind.) And as a result, we are less than seven weeks away from possibly electing a president who has not been thoroughly and even half way honestly presented to the country by our watchdogs — the press. . . .</p> Dear Mr. Meyer:
Please don’t. You know better. It just hurts. Even NPR was pointing out his qualifications last week as someone who really is more qualified because,”he’s been campaigning for 1 1/2 years and you learn a lot that way.”
Can you live with that kind of a puppet? He would be worse than Bush!

From johnrlot.blogspot.com, I found these two gems:

Do you think that Obama supporters will get this joke?
I may have given away too much in the headline. I wrote Jeff back saying that I think a lot of Obama supporters would read this and think that this letter makes perfect sense:

Can’t Afford
I was planning on voting for Sen. John McCain, but given his vice-presidential pick, I’m voting for Sen. Barack Obama instead. As a nation, we simply can’t afford to have an inexperienced, unqualified political neophyte one heartbeat away from the Oval Office. We need an inexperienced, unqualified political neophyte in the Oval Office.
JEFF BISHOP
Winston-Salem

BLANKLEY on media bias
Tony Blankley has this piece in the Washington Times:
The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight out propagandists for the Obama campaign. While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08 for the first time, the major media are consciously covering for one candidate for president and consciously knifing the other. This is no longer journalism — it is simply propaganda. (The American left-wing version of the Volkischer Beobachter cannot be far behind.) And as a result, we are less than seven weeks away from possibly electing a president who has not been thoroughly and even half way honestly presented to the country by our watchdogs — the press. . . .

]]> By: David Johnson http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html/comment-page-1#comment-13881 David Johnson Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:58:34 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html#comment-13881 <p>Your vote doesn't matter. Seriously. Stop believing those PSAs and MTV commercials. As an individual your vote is meaningless. Voting is not a market, you voice does not count because it is drowned out by everyone else. So stop deciding whether to vote for Obama or McCain, Stalin or Hitler. Vote for Barr instead. Your vote still won't make a difference, but if you're going to vote, at least vote for someone who doesn't fit into the "lesser evil" cubbyhole.</p> Your vote doesn’t matter. Seriously. Stop believing those PSAs and MTV commercials. As an individual your vote is meaningless. Voting is not a market, you voice does not count because it is drowned out by everyone else.

So stop deciding whether to vote for Obama or McCain, Stalin or Hitler. Vote for Barr instead. Your vote still won’t make a difference, but if you’re going to vote, at least vote for someone who doesn’t fit into the “lesser evil” cubbyhole.

]]> By: The other coyote http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html/comment-page-1#comment-13880 The other coyote Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:00:15 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html#comment-13880 <p>I'm with Valens. I spent some time around McCain in the mid-1990's and while I thought he was kind of an ass#$%^, he was at least sincere - even when he was absolutely, positively wrong. </p> <p>Which was, oddly enough, refreshing.</p> I’m with Valens. I spent some time around McCain in the mid-1990′s and while I thought he was kind of an ass#$%^, he was at least sincere – even when he was absolutely, positively wrong.

Which was, oddly enough, refreshing.

]]> By: Brandon http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html/comment-page-1#comment-13879 Brandon Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:09:21 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html#comment-13879 <p>I have begun to think the exact same thing.</p> I have begun to think the exact same thing.

]]> By: ArtD0dger http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html/comment-page-1#comment-13878 ArtD0dger Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:10:16 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html#comment-13878 <p>On the contrary, selecting the least bad is formally indistinguishable from selecting the most good. I'm not trying to be hip and cynical like Billy Beck, I simply decline to invest emotionally in politicians and risk committing the error of adopting their views rather than them mine (weak as that latter mechanism may be).</p> On the contrary, selecting the least bad is formally indistinguishable from selecting the most good. I’m not trying to be hip and cynical like Billy Beck, I simply decline to invest emotionally in politicians and risk committing the error of adopting their views rather than them mine (weak as that latter mechanism may be).

]]> By: JoshK http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html/comment-page-1#comment-13877 JoshK Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:02:31 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html#comment-13877 <p>We're just screwed either way. We're going down the same path as Latin America. More windfall profit taxes to come....</p> We’re just screwed either way. We’re going down the same path as Latin America. More windfall profit taxes to come….

]]> By: Billy Beck http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html/comment-page-1#comment-13876 Billy Beck Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:19:36 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html#comment-13876 <p>You people have been voting for the lesser of two evils for so long that evil is all that's left, now.</p> <p>I wish I could feel sorry for you, but I don't.<br /> </p> You people have been voting for the lesser of two evils for so long that evil is all that’s left, now.

I wish I could feel sorry for you, but I don’t.

]]> By: DreamLiner http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html/comment-page-1#comment-13875 DreamLiner Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:02:06 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html#comment-13875 <p>Yikes! That's like saying I'm voting for Stalin because I don't like Chamberlain</p> Yikes! That’s like saying I’m voting for Stalin because I don’t like Chamberlain

]]> By: tomw http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html/comment-page-1#comment-13874 tomw Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:48:06 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/09/i-think-i-am-vo.html#comment-13874 <p>Why not vote FOR Palin???</p> <p>tom</p> Why not vote FOR Palin???

tom

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