Comments on: Obama’s temperament and Roedjak

By: Khürt Louis Francis Elliot Williams

Khürt Louis Francis Elliot Williams — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:33:10 +0000

For me Obama represents change. For some people change is scary. Some would rather go for the bad thing they are familiar with than take a chance on the unknown. Risk aversion. Everyone wants a guarantee.

Life is risk. The only guarantee is death ( sooner or later ).

By: Philip Sheldrake

Philip Sheldrake — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:16:31 +0000

Retweet from a couple of days ago: “Just realised I don’t know any Brit who’s stated they want McCain to win, yet as many are right as left.”

Obama is the only way for the US to start reclaiming its position in the world after eight simply monumentally appalling years. Most every European recognises that. Let’s hope all Americans, with and without passports, realise this too.

By: Doc Searls

Doc Searls — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:52:15 +0000

Why do you say that, solltex? The guy’s life has been an open book, and includes two books that he has written himself, mostly about himself. For what it’s worth, I know people who know him, and have good things to say about him.

By: solltex

solltex — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:31:05 +0000

we don’t know who he his

By: Mike Warot

Mike Warot — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:20:09 +0000

I’m from Indiana, which apparently is a swing state this time around. Most of my friends and family are going to vote for Obama… the rest are convinced that they are all crooks, and neither deserves a vote.

Those friends are the ones I worry about the most… because I think they represent most of the country. They are willing to go along with a sellout to his own party, who picked a clueless hockey mom in desperation (or perhaps as life insurance?) as the next President of the United States.

We need to get past the idea that anyone can just jump in and be President because they are just like us, and thus would (theoretically) represent us. Most of us aren’t good enough to be President… because we’re not …. Presidential.

I remember a time not to long ago when Competence was considered to be a crucial component of running for office. The Bush years seem to have lowered our expectations to the point that anyone who can read a teleprompter and look good doing it can get elected.

We need adults in charge, not someone who is bitter and might not survive 4 years. And especially not someone whose main accomplishments seem to be putting huge parking lots into a formerly picturesque town and turning it into the “armpit of Alaska”.

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:33:35 +0000

So far, Obama’s seeming detachment has been exploited by his opponents as proof that “we don’t know who he his” or as a sign of his supposed smugness and intellectual superiority. And, for, quite a number of Democrats Obama’s politeness and fixed smile are an unsettling suggestion of a lack of the politically requisite instinct to go for the jugular.