I’m voting for Bob Barr, if he wins the Libertarian nomination. Or John McCain otherwise.

Heck, we already had presidents named Washington and Jefferson. What’s the big deal with “Obama”?

I wasn’t aware that the “have a beer with this person” question was a “fault line in the electorate” in the 2000 or 2004 elections.

Yeah - because “the guy you’d rather have a beer with” has worked out so well.

I wonder how many people who say that would have no problem with Bobby Jindal on the GOP ticket?

Are we ready to Embrace the Cool?

If we’re voting for student body president, then sure. Hell yes.

But for the President of the United States, many people expect more than just “the coolest guy in the race”.

I’m not worried about the statement from this voter in terms of the elements of anti-Obama sentiment it represents, rather, this sentiment offends me because American has allowed this sort of stupidity to fester in its midst.

The archetype of the people I grew up with was, like Obama, as he put it, “a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too.” It’s a shame that some people are so insulated from what America is all about that they don’t understand that someone with a name like Obama *does* sound right for an American president. So does Kennedy or Patel or Chang, for that matter.

Now these comments of mine are not nice and not charitable, but they are no different from the racist comments of our West Virginia friends who would condemn Obama for his race, his alleged intention to put more black Americans in positions of government responsibility (i.e. to lord it over the hillbilly honkey, shudder), and his name.

For the record, I don’t want President Billy Bob either, so maybe I am no better than the inbreds in the WV hollows. There are a lot of nice people with roots in West Virginia; the more ambitious of them are called Pittsburghers and Baltimoreans now. West Virginia doesn’t want an “Obama” as President because that would show just how backwater the state is - a black man can become President, but it’s still a backwater in the hills. Again, if this is unkind, I really don’t care. I am tired of having politics run down to the lowest inbred common denominator, which is exactly what Hillary is doing on her repeated Archie Bunker campaign. If West Virginia doesn’t like it, good. Let them cry all over their Dolly Parton album collection. Hope it hurts the poor, armed Klansmen and their cousin wives.

Sing along with the chorus, y’all: Oh-bah-mah! Oh-bah-mah! Oh-bah-mah!

“Hillary will win West Virginia. Period.”

How do they know? I don’t know, but it certainly IS definitive.

The greatly Ironic Thing about Talk Left and MYDD today is that they have taken time out from demanding that Obama supporters, Blogs that lean towards Obama, and of course Obama himself start kissing Hillary supporters asses to DENOUNCE Obama’s loser voters for the thumping Obama will take in WV. A Hillary State.

People in WV oppose abortion, any legal status for homosexual couples, and 70% own guns and (according to CNN) are “Values Voters”.

And they will vote for Hillary Clinton because she shares their antiabortion, NRA, anti-Gay stands?

“Hillary will win West Virginia. Period.” Obama supporter BTD at Talk Left.

Who knew? (Talk Left and Taylor Marsh, that “working class Scotch Irish gun loving decades ago Beauty Queen, and MyDD, but who else knew?

You’re right, these stories aren’t “good” in the sense that they aren’t intelligent or thought-provoking. I suppose what I meant is that controversy leads to higher ratings (I don’t know if this is actually true, but I believe the networks believe this) and in the minds of some journalists, this is a good thing.

Vanessa

Yeah, but his SURROGATE is, jackass. A man who has pledged to continue the same ruinous policies of the last seven years.

Please go somewhere and buy a frickin’ CLUE.

I’m gonna go out on a limb here: Bush will not be elected to a third term.

It’s going to be cool-not cool.

Are we ready to Embrace the Cool?

I agree completely with the point you are making, but let’s at least not refer to these as “good” news stories. They have nothing to do with “good” journalism and using the word to describe them gives them a legitimacy they do not deserve.

Call them what they are. They make, at best, popular news stories or, most accurately, sellable news stories

President Obama. President Obama. President Obama. President Obama. President Obama. President Obama. President Obama. President Obama.

There, that wasn’t so bad.

Jerome Armstrong wouldn’t lie, would he??