I stand corrected as to who said what. Nevertheless that was the comment to which I was responding when you asked if I was speaking for all of the Obama supporters. As I was responding as a level headed American my comment stands. As that was the comment to which you were referring.
You know when my grandmother was in her seventies she started to act just that way - changing her mind rather suddenly and taking the polar opposite view. Eventually we found out that she was having a series of mini strokes and suffering brain damage. It caused a form of senility.
The same thing is happening with my mom, now 91. She's been a Democrat all her life, but she doesn't like Obama because he beat her dear, hard-working Hillary. She'd rather vote for McCain, with positions totally opposite Hillary's, than for Obama whose platform is very close to hers. My siblings and I all thought it had to be her racism. (She denies she's racist, even though she asked me, "If I don't meet the buyers of my house, how will I know if they're white, black.....green or yellow?")
It never occurred to me that her drastic change regarding politics could be due to the mini-strokes she suffered.
I am wondering the same thing about my ex father in law. He has been pretty liberal but now is convinced that Obama was born in Indonesia and therefore can't be president - and it isn't enough that his mother is a white American citizen he wasn't born on US soil, when I asked him about McCain being born in the Panama Canal Zone he said that 'well his father is an Admiral' so therefore it is ok. Racism or old age? Who knows - at this point he won't be voting anyway probably unless I drive the 3 hours down to take him to the polls.
"I don't think it backfired. Everyone is entitled to change their minds."
Just guessing, but do you apply the same standard to Democratic politicians? Did you apply the same standard to Kerry when he said he was for the bill before he was against it? Because to me that sounded pretty confusing. I am a Democrat but I admit it when my candidate sounds like a fool.
And to me McCain looked liked a foolish fop. Now that you are bringing it up again, let's take this opportunity recap for everyone, just like we recapped Kerry's stupid flip flop over and over in 2004:
1. Two weeks ago, in the face of what many are calling the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, McCain says the fundamentals of the economy are sound
2. McCain's poll numbers drop like a rock as he backpeddles from his silly statement that the economy is sound. McCain says when said "fundamentals" he meant the American worker; McCain says therefore Obama was insulting the American worker when Obama criticized McCain's rosy statement that the fundamentals of the economy are sound. You can't make this stuff up! It's too stupid and insulting to the intelligence of the American people.
2. Last Wednesday McCain cancels his Letterman appearance to "suspend" his campaign to rush down to Washington because he says the crisis is so severe. But it turns out McCain doesn't really suspend his campaign and he gets appropriately shellaked by Letterman - boy that was ugly, and it lasted two nights. Letterman kept wondering why McCain couldn't at least get Palin to stand in for him if he had to cancel at the last minute - he kept musing, isn't that her job, to stand in for the Pres? In fact, Letterman got so caustic that McCain had to pump $5 million more dollars into ads in Letterman's home state of Indiana.
3. McCain declares the debates are off. He's not going. No multitasking for him thank you very much. Not in the face of this urgent crisis which just a week and a half before he said didn't exist.
4. Anyway, Thursday morning McCain rushes down to D.C., even though he said he was going down Wednesday night, but whatever. In D.C., McCain attends a meeting at the White House in which he and the Republicans essentially throw into the garbage all the round the clock bipartisan emergency negotiations earlier in the week. McCain's alternative plan is reportedly is all of one page. Senator Dodd, Chair of the relevant Senate Finance Committee keeps wondering on camera whether this is a rescue plan for America or a rescue plan for John McCain.
5. As the bailout negotiations tank because McCain gummed them up and it looks like Obama is going to debate with an empty chair, McCain declares he will go to the debate after all if the bailout plan is done before the debate. How foolish is that? There is no way the plan is getting done by Friday night after McCain's antics.
6. Friday McCain declares he's coming to the debate after all, even though the plan is not done.
7. At the debate, McCain offers no explanation for all his antics over the economic crisis. Instead, McCain declares that the solution to all our problems is to eliminate earmarks, and that earmarks have tripled over the past five years. Turns out the truth is that earmarks account for only a tiny fraction of our spend and they actually have declined over the past five years. McCain gets thrashed in the debate, even during the foreign policy portion where he's supposed to be such an expert.
Talk about keystone cops, or fops. That's McCain and Palin.
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It is one thing to change your mind on an issue over a period of time as more information comes in.
Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say John McCain is having that issue...
The same thing is happening with my mom, now 91. She's been a Democrat all her life, but she doesn't like Obama because he beat her dear, hard-working Hillary. She'd rather vote for McCain, with positions totally opposite Hillary's, than for Obama whose platform is very close to hers. My siblings and I all thought it had to be her racism. (She denies she's racist, even though she asked me, "If I don't meet the buyers of my house, how will I know if they're white, black.....green or yellow?")
It never occurred to me that her drastic change regarding politics could be due to the mini-strokes she suffered.
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http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/october/meet_the_new_health_.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTBYQlQ7yM
"I don't think it backfired. Everyone is entitled to change their minds."
Just guessing, but do you apply the same standard to Democratic politicians? Did you apply the same standard to Kerry when he said he was for the bill before he was against it? Because to me that sounded pretty confusing. I am a Democrat but I admit it when my candidate sounds like a fool.
And to me McCain looked liked a foolish fop. Now that you are bringing it up again, let's take this opportunity recap for everyone, just like we recapped Kerry's stupid flip flop over and over in 2004:
1. Two weeks ago, in the face of what many are calling the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, McCain says the fundamentals of the economy are sound
2. McCain's poll numbers drop like a rock as he backpeddles from his silly statement that the economy is sound. McCain says when said "fundamentals" he meant the American worker; McCain says therefore Obama was insulting the American worker when Obama criticized McCain's rosy statement that the fundamentals of the economy are sound. You can't make this stuff up! It's too stupid and insulting to the intelligence of the American people.
2. Last Wednesday McCain cancels his Letterman appearance to "suspend" his campaign to rush down to Washington because he says the crisis is so severe. But it turns out McCain doesn't really suspend his campaign and he gets appropriately shellaked by Letterman - boy that was ugly, and it lasted two nights. Letterman kept wondering why McCain couldn't at least get Palin to stand in for him if he had to cancel at the last minute - he kept musing, isn't that her job, to stand in for the Pres? In fact, Letterman got so caustic that McCain had to pump $5 million more dollars into ads in Letterman's home state of Indiana.
3. McCain declares the debates are off. He's not going. No multitasking for him thank you very much. Not in the face of this urgent crisis which just a week and a half before he said didn't exist.
4. Anyway, Thursday morning McCain rushes down to D.C., even though he said he was going down Wednesday night, but whatever. In D.C., McCain attends a meeting at the White House in which he and the Republicans essentially throw into the garbage all the round the clock bipartisan emergency negotiations earlier in the week. McCain's alternative plan is reportedly is all of one page. Senator Dodd, Chair of the relevant Senate Finance Committee keeps wondering on camera whether this is a rescue plan for America or a rescue plan for John McCain.
5. As the bailout negotiations tank because McCain gummed them up and it looks like Obama is going to debate with an empty chair, McCain declares he will go to the debate after all if the bailout plan is done before the debate. How foolish is that? There is no way the plan is getting done by Friday night after McCain's antics.
6. Friday McCain declares he's coming to the debate after all, even though the plan is not done.
7. At the debate, McCain offers no explanation for all his antics over the economic crisis. Instead, McCain declares that the solution to all our problems is to eliminate earmarks, and that earmarks have tripled over the past five years. Turns out the truth is that earmarks account for only a tiny fraction of our spend and they actually have declined over the past five years. McCain gets thrashed in the debate, even during the foreign policy portion where he's supposed to be such an expert.
Talk about keystone cops, or fops. That's McCain and Palin.
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