The Respectfully Republican Conversation

Yep--We Americans are an embarrassing lot ......................................

http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/im_having_a_hard_time_selecting_my_favorite_part_of_this_video

Good name for you pet, Paulette.  Glad he/she doesn't have NoMoBo.  LOL

I think Obama should speak all the languages he has learned.  And, MO should show us what she knows.  And, perhaps the children can do one more interview and show us how well they can speak a foreign language.

My brother married a Spanish lady..now divorced..but loved her to death.  The had three children.  Not one was taught Spanish (Mexican).  I never understood that.  I wasn't taught Polish.  My mom and her parents always spoke in Polish.  I wouldn't remember it by now anyway.  Plus, who's here in the states that I would speak Polish with. 

Obama is just pandering to the Latinos.

Rosemary, Fox is trying to be nice.  That's why they aren't showing all of  JJ's no-no. 

Well, it sure will be nice when BO (Peeeewwwww) let's us know his own original issues.

Shirley

Jesse says he's talking down to the Blacks and I think he's talking down to everyone.  Since when do our Presidential hopefuls give us these types of lectures?  Soon I expect him to be on a commercial telling us about proper place settings for our dinner table.  I think he's using this ploy to personally sidestep the issues and he'll let his minions do all the issue speak for him on the various shows.  Obama will do this and Obama will do that, and meanwhile Obama doesn't know what he'll do about any thing.

Good morning everyone.............it is amazing how Obama really cannot speak without pissing off at least half the people that are listening including Hillary supporters..............maybe he will give his acceptance speech in French or Spanish or better yet in the native language of Hawaiian......hmmmmmm.......anyway for anyone that is interested today on Rush's show guest host will be Mark Steyn.........he is great.........you can see his website at  www.steynonline.com   I believe he is British (love his accent) but he is a true conservative and smart as a whip.........plus he is adorable..........and as far as Rev. Jackson is concern and for that matter Al Sharpton if Obama does become President their race baiting and black victim mentality is over is it not?.......Shokk

Ya gotta love it.

Spike Lee quote talking about Obama's election:

``When that happens, it will change everything. ... You'll have to measure time by `Before Obama' and `After Obama,''' Lee said during the panel. ``It's an exciting time to be alive now.'' 

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He's going to be at the inauguration (Is that what they call it?)

I had no idea what the BO/AO meant till now.....................Anno Obamani?????

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This Krauthammer article is from NRO online--still as relevant as it was back in February:

Obama 2008's messianic fervor won’t last.

By Charles Krauthammer

There’s no better path to success than getting people to buy a free commodity. Like the genius who figured out how to get people to pay for water: Bottle it (Aquafina was revealed to be nothing more than reprocessed tap water) and charge more than they pay for gasoline. Or consider how Google found a way to sell dictionary nouns — boat, shoe, clock — by charging advertisers zillions to be listed whenever the word is searched.

And now, in the most amazing trick of all, a silver-tongued freshman senator has found a way to sell hope. To get it, you need only give him your vote. Barack Obama is getting millions.

This kind of sale is hardly new. Organized religion has been offering a similar commodity — salvation — for millennia. Which is why the Obama campaign has the feel of a religious revival with, as writer James Wolcott observed, a “salvational fervor” and “idealistic zeal divorced from any particular policy or cause and chariot-driven by pure euphoria.”

“We are the hope of the future,” sayeth Obama. We can “remake this world as it should be.” Believe in me and I shall redeem not just you but your country — nay, we can become “a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world, and make this time different than all the rest.”

And believe they do. After eight straight victories — and two more (Hawaii and Wisconsin) almost certain to follow — Obama is near to rendering moot all the post–Super Tuesday fretting about a deadlocked convention with unelected superdelegates deciding the nominee. Unless Hillary Clinton can somehow do in Ohio and Texas on March 4 what Rudy Giuliani proved is almost impossible to do — maintain a big-state firewall after an unrelenting string of smaller defeats — the superdelegates will flock to Obama. Hope will have carried the day.

Interestingly, Obama has been able to win these electoral victories and dazzle crowds in one new jurisdiction after another, even as his mesmeric power has begun to arouse skepticism and misgivings among the mainstream media.

ABC’s Jake Tapper notes the “Helter-Skelter cultish qualities” of “Obama worshipers,” what Joel Stein of the Los Angeles Times calls “the Cult of Obama.” Obama’s Super Tuesday victory speech was a classic of the genre. Its effect was electric, eliciting a rhythmic fervor in the audience — to such rhetorical nonsense as “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. (Cheers, applause.) We are the change that we seek.”

That was too much for Time’s Joe Klein. “There was something just a wee bit creepy about the mass messianism ... ,” he wrote. “The message is becoming dangerously self-referential. The Obama campaign all too often is about how wonderful the Obama campaign is.”You might dismiss the New York Times’ Paul Krugman’s complaint that “the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality” as hyperbole. Until you hear Chris Matthews, who no longer has the excuse of youth, react to Obama’s Potomac primary victory speech with “My, I felt this thrill going up my leg.” When his MSNBC cohosts tried to bail him out, he refused to recant. Not surprising for an acolyte who said that Obama “comes along, and he seems to have the answers. This is the New Testament.”

I’ve seen only one similar national swoon. As a teenager growing up in Canada, I witnessed a charismatic law professor go from obscurity to justice minister to prime minister, carried on a wave of what was called Trudeaumania.

But even there the object of his countrymen’s unrestrained affections was no blank slate. Pierre Trudeau was already a serious intellectual who had written and thought and lectured long about the nature and future of his country.

Obama has an astonishingly empty paper trail. He’s going around issuing promissory notes on the future that he can’t possibly redeem. Promises to heal the world with negotiations with the likes of Iran’s Ahmadinejad. Promises to transcend the conundrums of entitlement reform that require real and painful trade-offs and that have eluded solution for a generation. Promises to fund his other promises by a rapid withdrawal from an unpopular war — with the hope, I suppose, that the (presumed) resulting increase in American prestige would compensate for the chaos to follow.

Democrats are worried that the Obama spell will break between the time of his nomination and the time of the election, and deny them the White House. My guess is that he can maintain the spell just past Inauguration Day. After which will come the awakening. It will be rude.
 

I was listening to Fred Barnes today on Bret Hume.  He simply said, Obama's winning.  Will he continue I don't know?  Will he shoot himself in the foot with the gun he used to oppose to owning, but now approves of owning?  McCain better get ont he ball.  As they said, McCain has thirty years of things to criticize (my word) by Obama.  Obama as no paper trail except for the State Senate.  McCain better start coming down hard on Obama's flip-flops.  And he better start talking about ENERGY...drilling and alternatives.

One of my dds (the gypsy one..LOL), who just happens to be liberal as far as I can tell, sent me something from one of the airlines explaining, supposedly, in simple language about how the speculators are causing oil to go up.  I, of course, will read it.  And try to understand it.  However, there is a debate about that.  I asked her how she felt about drilling plus alternatives.  She didn't know..she'd have to research and read more.  Well, I asked her about our National Security because we depend on foreign nations to provide most of our oil.  I need to have her "deprogrammed."  I'm not quite sure where this child stands and it DRIVES me nuts. 

Rosemary, I wonder where Obama will want his "coronation" to be held.  On Mt. Rushmore?  They could have his face carved up there because he would make history!  And I don't mean because of his race.  I mean because he's the biggest BSer I think I've EVER seen run for president.  Have to give him credit for something.  I bet he never has to take MOM's (Milk of Magnesia) cause "it's" dripping out of his mouth constantly.  Oh, that was so not nice!

Shirley

I checked this thread hoping to see a respectful Republican thread that says some good things about the Republicans (even tho I am an Obama supporter, I am always willing to listen to other views). However, all I see is Obama bashing.  Can't you find some good things about your candidate and party?

Very well said, Rosemary.

Hmmmm....please don't tell me he can walk on water TOO!

Shirley

I posted in a different thread that I wish I was a tenth as courageous as Tony Snow.  He certainly is/was an inspiration.  He always had a smile on his face.  I am sad that he didn't get the chance to see his children grow and hold those grandchildren on his knew which he so wanted to do.

I need to think of myself as being very fortunate.  I have seen my children graduate from high school and college.  I have seen them marry.  And I have be blessed with two grandchildren that I have been so fortunate to have rocked to sleep, read them a bed time story, hug, play and kiss.

He will be so missed.  I am sorry that he will miss out on the most important things in life..his family.  I am even more sorry for the wife and children he left behind.  God bless them.

Shirley

I'm beginning to get very peeved over this adoration for a person without checking the issues of what he stands for.

It dawned on me that if they do get in, the dems, and they do raise taxes, (like that won't happen) that might end our plans of my husband retiring next year.  If we take a lump sum payment it will be taxed at a much higher rate then this year.  So that would be dumb to do. We'll have to wait it out till Obama and Co. get their heads handed to them in the next election, or we get enough Republicans in to repeal his taxing.  I wonder if AARP is paying attention to this?

By the way Shirley, I sent my son the story of how his Obama vote will increase his small business taxes next year.  He might be very patriotic and enjoy paying more.