Comments on: https://myrobotispregnant.com/2008/08/06/2055/ tough guy poetry and manly stories of loneliness Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Lyle_s https://myrobotispregnant.com/2008/08/06/2055/comment-page-1/#comment-10879 Lyle_s Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:39:04 +0000 http://myrobotispregnant.com/?p=2055#comment-10879 We'll see. Something tells me the November election will be a real eye-opener as to just how far we've really come. I suspect that political correctness is actually setting us back when it comes to social progress. We’ll see. Something tells me the November election will be a real eye-opener as to just how far we’ve really come. I suspect that political correctness is actually setting us back when it comes to social progress.

]]> By: Rolston https://myrobotispregnant.com/2008/08/06/2055/comment-page-1/#comment-10875 Rolston Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:37:33 +0000 http://myrobotispregnant.com/?p=2055#comment-10875 I don't have facts, just heresay, that Bush did an awful job running Texas, same with most other jobs he was given. Doing something terribly for a long time isn't necessarily the type of experience you want in your guy. Anyway, the voice in the original article is more about the joy people should feel that for better or wors, the Democrats picked a "black" man. Black people couldn't marry white people in the 1960's in America. White people are starting to accept black people. That's good news to me. Our country is too fucked for it to really matter if a dead black man wins the next election. But at least before we imploded we showed some growth in positive directions. I don’t have facts, just heresay, that Bush did an awful job running Texas, same with most other jobs he was given. Doing something terribly for a long time isn’t necessarily the type of experience you want in your guy.

Anyway, the voice in the original article is more about the joy people should feel that for better or wors, the Democrats picked a “black” man. Black people couldn’t marry white people in the 1960′s in America. White people are starting to accept black people. That’s good news to me. Our country is too fucked for it to really matter if a dead black man wins the next election. But at least before we imploded we showed some growth in positive directions.

]]> By: Lyle_s https://myrobotispregnant.com/2008/08/06/2055/comment-page-1/#comment-10866 Lyle_s Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:48:54 +0000 http://myrobotispregnant.com/?p=2055#comment-10866 Well, from a political experience standpoint, Bush doesn't have much but I'd put 5 years running one of our larger states up against a spattering of US Congress and state senate experience any day. Governors are leaders. Senators and representatives are individual contributors to a larger entity. I think that's why most presidents are ex-governors and rarely come from the senate. Bush also has a long leadership resume from the private sector. Obama doesn't have any real leadership background but, in reviewing his Wikipedia bio, one thing jumps out at me. This guy does a great job of creating something out of nothing. That probably sounds snarky but it's at least half compliment. He's spun up a number of Board of Directors in his time in Chicago. Well, from a political experience standpoint, Bush doesn’t have much but I’d put 5 years running one of our larger states up against a spattering of US Congress and state senate experience any day. Governors are leaders. Senators and representatives are individual contributors to a larger entity. I think that’s why most presidents are ex-governors and rarely come from the senate. Bush also has a long leadership resume from the private sector.

Obama doesn’t have any real leadership background but, in reviewing his Wikipedia bio, one thing jumps out at me. This guy does a great job of creating something out of nothing. That probably sounds snarky but it’s at least half compliment. He’s spun up a number of Board of Directors in his time in Chicago.

]]> By: Rolston https://myrobotispregnant.com/2008/08/06/2055/comment-page-1/#comment-10859 Rolston Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:07:16 +0000 http://myrobotispregnant.com/?p=2055#comment-10859 but why was Bush more qualified? but why was Bush more qualified?

]]> By: Rolston https://myrobotispregnant.com/2008/08/06/2055/comment-page-1/#comment-10858 Rolston Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:05:56 +0000 http://myrobotispregnant.com/?p=2055#comment-10858 it feels like they found a half black sellout after all these years. Democrats suck. it feels like they found a half black sellout after all these years. Democrats suck.

]]> By: Lyle_s https://myrobotispregnant.com/2008/08/06/2055/comment-page-1/#comment-10849 Lyle_s Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:44:55 +0000 http://myrobotispregnant.com/?p=2055#comment-10849 Imagine how great this would be if he was actually qualified to run our country! Progress as the expense of progress, I'm afraid. I can think of many black candidates I could have gotten behind. Not this guy, though. Imagine how great this would be if he was actually qualified to run our country!

Progress as the expense of progress, I’m afraid. I can think of many black candidates I could have gotten behind. Not this guy, though.

]]> By: Rolston https://myrobotispregnant.com/2008/08/06/2055/comment-page-1/#comment-10838 Rolston Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:49:25 +0000 http://myrobotispregnant.com/?p=2055#comment-10838 <a href=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/magazine/10politics-t.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&em rel="nofollow">NYT</a> ...he told me a story about watching his father, a South Carolina sharecropper with a fourth-grade education, weep uncontrollably when Cummings was sworn in as a representative in 1996. Afterward, Cummings asked his dad if he had been crying tears of joy. “Oh, you know, I’m happy,” his father replied. “But now I realize, had I been given the opportunity, what I could have been. And I’m about to die.” NYT
…he told me a story about watching his father, a South Carolina sharecropper with a fourth-grade education, weep uncontrollably when Cummings was sworn in as a representative in 1996. Afterward, Cummings asked his dad if he had been crying tears of joy. “Oh, you know, I’m happy,” his father replied. “But now I realize, had I been given the opportunity, what I could have been. And I’m about to die.”

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