I just saw Anne Kornblut of The Washington Post on MSNBC say that the candidates got too wonky on the bailout plan last night. I’m sorry… that’s kind of the whole point. We want our leaders to be wonky. We want them to be detail oriented. Especially after our current leader, who has made clear he isn’t a details guy, we need someone who’s going to do the freaking math.
“just act like I can have a beer with you”-Anne Kornblut
Ah yes.
Just give us politicians saying–”we’re good, that’s bad.”
Are we ever going to stop letting these pundits lower the public
and national discourse? We have definitely been wounded by Bush
in the WH in this manner.
Actually Anne – you’re a moron.
Both of them were evasive about the “deal” – BECAUSE untill they see it they won’t know what’s in it. How could they be be too “wonky” about an agreement that doesn’t exist? Obama specifically said they couldn’t get too far into it becuase they, “hadn’t seen it yet.”
You know what’s funny about that whole “I’m voting for Bush because I feel like he’s the guy I could sit down and have a beer with” thing?
Bush COULDN’T sit down and have a beer with anyone. He is a recovering alchoholic.
He could sit down and have an O’Douls or a Kaliber, I guess.
this kind of crap drives me up the friggin’ walls. douchebag pundits who seem determined to make sure that nothing important gets discussed. though her response would be understandable if she were a closet mccain supporter, as he got his clock cleaned last night.
unless there are people gullible enough to think that repeating the phrase “senator obama just doesn’t understand” endlessly constitutes a well-thought out argument.
ok, there probably are a lot of them. damn it.
I think it’s finally OK to vote for the smart, thoughtful guy insteat of the know-nothing, anti-intellectual, impulsive douche-bag. One would hope that this would always be the case, but now more than ever. One is hopeful.