Comments on: Credit where it’s due http://www.longstraighthighway.com/2008/10/10/credit-where-its-due/ amusements for gentlemen and scholars Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: houlios http://www.longstraighthighway.com/2008/10/10/credit-where-its-due/comment-page-1/#comment-2537 houlios Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:57:01 +0000 http://www.longstraighthighway.com/?p=613#comment-2537 Eng. Eng.

]]> By: houlios http://www.longstraighthighway.com/2008/10/10/credit-where-its-due/comment-page-1/#comment-2538 houlios Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:54:32 +0000 http://www.longstraighthighway.com/?p=613#comment-2538 Yeah, it is sad. I've had a soft spot for McCain in my heart for years so watching all this makes me a lot more pissed off than if I'd always thought he was a run-of-the-mill GOPer.<br><br>Re: going beyond anti-intellectualism etc. I like this quote by David Frum from the National Review on the conservative base in this election:<br><br>"There's a photograph circulating on conservative blogs that shows Palin lounging on a motorcycle, paired with another of Obama in a helmet on a bicycle. It's headed: "All you need to know." Personally I need to know a little more. That's not even insufficient information. It's anti-information — a denial that information matters.<br><br>You can enjoy a motorcycle and be pro-choice. Or antiwar. Or in favor of immigration amnesty. Or for that matter, in favor state control of the means of production!" Yeah, it is sad. I've had a soft spot for McCain in my heart for years so watching all this makes me a lot more pissed off than if I'd always thought he was a run-of-the-mill GOPer.

Re: going beyond anti-intellectualism etc. I like this quote by David Frum from the National Review on the conservative base in this election:

“There's a photograph circulating on conservative blogs that shows Palin lounging on a motorcycle, paired with another of Obama in a helmet on a bicycle. It's headed: “All you need to know.” Personally I need to know a little more. That's not even insufficient information. It's anti-information — a denial that information matters.

You can enjoy a motorcycle and be pro-choice. Or antiwar. Or in favor of immigration amnesty. Or for that matter, in favor state control of the means of production!”

]]> By: houlios http://www.longstraighthighway.com/2008/10/10/credit-where-its-due/comment-page-1/#comment-1253 houlios Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:57:01 +0000 http://www.longstraighthighway.com/?p=613#comment-1253 Regardles of what anyone thinks about unions and their future - there is one candidate more favorable to unions than the other so it seems pretty logical that unions and their members might be inclined to vote for "that one." Regardles of what anyone thinks about unions and their future – there is one candidate more favorable to unions than the other so it seems pretty logical that unions and their members might be inclined to vote for “that one.”

]]> By: houlios http://www.longstraighthighway.com/2008/10/10/credit-where-its-due/comment-page-1/#comment-1252 houlios Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:54:32 +0000 http://www.longstraighthighway.com/?p=613#comment-1252 Yeah, it is sad. I've had a soft spot for McCain in my heart for years so watching all this makes me a lot more pissed off than if I'd always thought he was a run-of-the-mill GOPer.<br><br>Re: going beyond anti-intellectualism etc. I like this quote by David Frum from the National Review on the conservative base in this election:<br><br>"There's a photograph circulating on conservative blogs that shows Palin lounging on a motorcycle, paired with another of Obama in a helmet on a bicycle. It's headed: "All you need to know." Personally I need to know a little more. That's not even insufficient information. It's anti-information — a denial that information matters.<br><br>You can enjoy a motorcycle and be pro-choice. Or antiwar. Or in favor of immigration amnesty. Or for that matter, in favor state control of the means of production!" Yeah, it is sad. I've had a soft spot for McCain in my heart for years so watching all this makes me a lot more pissed off than if I'd always thought he was a run-of-the-mill GOPer.

Re: going beyond anti-intellectualism etc. I like this quote by David Frum from the National Review on the conservative base in this election:

“There's a photograph circulating on conservative blogs that shows Palin lounging on a motorcycle, paired with another of Obama in a helmet on a bicycle. It's headed: “All you need to know.” Personally I need to know a little more. That's not even insufficient information. It's anti-information — a denial that information matters.

You can enjoy a motorcycle and be pro-choice. Or antiwar. Or in favor of immigration amnesty. Or for that matter, in favor state control of the means of production!”

]]> By: Daniel http://www.longstraighthighway.com/2008/10/10/credit-where-its-due/comment-page-1/#comment-1251 Daniel Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:24:14 +0000 http://www.longstraighthighway.com/?p=613#comment-1251 The level of ignorance in the crowds at this late date is shocking. 20 months Obama has been campaigning, and they still think he's an Arab or a secret Muslim terrorist or whatever. That goes beyond anti-intellectualism to anti-realityism or anti-truthism, or something like that.<br><br>At least it seems like for a moment he realizes what a bad idea it was to start pandering to the racists and xenophobes. If there is a decent guy still in there somewhere, that means there's a part of him that's hating every minute of his own campaign. And that kind of makes me feel sorry for him, actually. The level of ignorance in the crowds at this late date is shocking. 20 months Obama has been campaigning, and they still think he's an Arab or a secret Muslim terrorist or whatever. That goes beyond anti-intellectualism to anti-realityism or anti-truthism, or something like that.

At least it seems like for a moment he realizes what a bad idea it was to start pandering to the racists and xenophobes. If there is a decent guy still in there somewhere, that means there's a part of him that's hating every minute of his own campaign. And that kind of makes me feel sorry for him, actually.

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