tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18232353.post6155807964163034607..comments2023-12-27T13:35:09.431-07:00Comments on Exile in Portales: Obama and IraqBuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319116022465066060noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18232353.post-11702650362756496612008-07-16T11:15:00.000-06:002008-07-16T11:15:00.000-06:00I dunno Buck. How can I be excited by a man with s...I dunno Buck. How can I be excited by a man with such a name? <BR/>Wikipedia defines it thusly: Barack, pronounced "BUH-ruhtsk", is a type of Hungarian brandy (Pálinka) made of (or flavored with) apricots. The word barack is a collective term for both apricot (in Hungarian sárgabarack, lit. "yellow-peach") and peach (in Hungarian őszibarack, lit. "autumn-peach"). <BR/>Ye gods. Apricot brandy? Yuk.<BR/>Obama? Here: Higashi-Obama Station|東小浜駅|Higashi-Obama Eki is a station on the JR West Obama Line located in Onyū, Obama, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. <BR/>An apricot flavored brandy in a Japanese train station? <BR/>I pass.Catmoveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13192091477404637971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18232353.post-59336087715995991452008-07-15T13:19:00.000-06:002008-07-15T13:19:00.000-06:00Your points are well-taken, Lou. The ignorant wil...Your points are well-taken, Lou. The ignorant will probably remain that way and the Lefties... well, sometimes there's just NO explaining them, or understanding them. Lord knows I try. I don't know <I>why</I> I try, but I do.<BR/><BR/>I was somewhat surprised at all the brouhaha over the cover... from BOTH sides. A LOT of people in this country need to relax and take a deep breath.Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05319116022465066060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18232353.post-58636134648200263682008-07-15T06:54:00.000-06:002008-07-15T06:54:00.000-06:00The NYer magazine may have been mocking the ignora...The NYer magazine may have been mocking the ignorant who demonize Obama, but the ignorant will not get it. Instead, they will look at the cartoon and think, “Wow, them New Yorkers think like us!”<BR/><BR/>Then the liberal idiots will not get it either. They will think, “The NYer had ulterior motives – they may have said they were mocking the ignorant, but they are really mocking Obama.”<BR/><BR/>Very few will look at the magazine, read the article, see the purpose. Maybe the cartoon was just over the heads of too many. Every group has its paranoid.Bag Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01885412195900280096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18232353.post-73775969132480485052008-07-14T19:29:00.000-06:002008-07-14T19:29:00.000-06:00Kris: I hear ya. The man IS scary, in the sense ...Kris: I hear ya. The man IS scary, in the sense that I don't believe we've ever had a candidate more liberal/left than this guy. Not in MY memory, anyway. One could say Carter was as liberal as Obama, or perhaps Dukakis. But I don't think so. Obama's resumé... from his education, to employment, to his voting record just SCREAMS Liberal! Not a good thing, in my book.<BR/><BR/>Pat: Didja miss this part?<BR/><BR/><I>It (ed: the cover) doesn’t mock the Obamas – it mocks idiots who see the Obamas as the type of people who burn the American flag in their study while engaging in a terrorist fist-bump.</I><BR/><BR/>Obama is oh-so-wrong on so many things, but he <I>isn't</I> Muslim, a terrorist, or a flag-burner, nor is his wife. And people who characterize them as such are simply advertising their ignorance. Or worse. It's entirely possible to disagree with someone... anyone... without demonizing them. It's apparently pretty danged difficult, as well.Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05319116022465066060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18232353.post-5385870568372546442008-07-14T17:03:00.000-06:002008-07-14T17:03:00.000-06:00The New Yorker issue by accident got it right on t...The New Yorker issue by accident got it right on the front cover.PRHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429172501061105316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18232353.post-8255733066569398232008-07-14T16:35:00.000-06:002008-07-14T16:35:00.000-06:00Obama is a tool, at the very least. He really does...Obama is a tool, at the very least. He really does frighten me - he knows nothing, absolutely <B>nothing</B> about foreign policy or even domestic policy.<BR/><BR/>The man would be the worst thing to happen to this country since Bill Clinton - and god knows that's saying so much.<BR/><BR/>What frightens me even more is that this trip to Iraq will likely be translated into Obama's expertise - he's been with the troops! He's been on the ground!<BR/><BR/>Will he make up a Bosnia skirmish to prop up his massive ego???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com