• comment on a post On the VP over 4 years ago

    just reads like concern trolling.

    I'm just exhausted with the whole process at this point and want it to be over.

  • when you include Michigan and Florida is if you give him 0 votes from Michigan, where he wasn't on the ballot, no candidate campaigned, and nothing remotely resembling a democratic election occurred.

  • And how much of Hillary's comes from New York state?  

    New York makes up for almost of Clinton's advantage in superdelegates.

  • And I'm sure his supporters in the United States are limited to easily impressed 20-year-olds and wild-eyed sexists?  That comment is pathetic and wrong just on the face of it.  He wouldn't be winning the popular vote right now now would he if your comment had the least bit of truth to it?

    I'm genuinely curious what you're going to do with yourself once Obama wraps up the nomination...

  • I don't feel like Clinton ever takes strong stands on anything.

    But that doesn't really interest me.  What I'm curious about is how the two of us, as Obama and Clinton supporters, can communicate.  

    I think it's interesting that we work from the same criteria, reach opposite conclusions, and need to find some way to work together during the general election.

  • in most cases, of these world leaders that she met briefly ten years ago, few of them are still in positions of influence.

  • you'd find a lot of people intrigued by Obama and ready to work with him.  They're as interested in as dramatic a change as possible from Bush as the American people are.  A fresh page is exactly what we need.

  • Funny that I don't feel particularly listened.  Not on Iraq.  Not on welfare reform or NAFTA.  

    I feel like you're inventing distinctions between the candidates just to make yourself feel better about your choice.  

    You can hardly argue that Obama, with a career in community organizing and the kind of detailed state-level legislating that Clinton skipped over, never picked up the ability to listen.

  • that you mock stopover trips after presenting a list of mostly very brief visits.  Coffee with the First Ladies of Iceland or Kazakhstan, then a meeting with schoolchildren in Halifax?  Picking up a present from a child in Bosnia?

    And you know as well as I do that Obama has traveled extensively, including Europe.  If you were actually interested in his travels, you could read his biography.

    We disagree fundamentally.  I've been living here for years: Europeans don't care if someone has specifically visited their particular country, they want someone who understands their concerns.  And Obama has deeper, more intense, familial connections to worlds outside the United States, and that's ultimately more important to me, making a decision as a voter, than who went where in 1995.

    In the end, I think this argument is tiresome and not particularly informative.  You exaggerate Clinton's experience and deflate Obama's, when in the end, you and I, and Clinton and Obama, are all working for the same team.

  • The Canadian government is conceding that they can't vouch for the accuracy of the memo.

  • And the phrase is in there.  It's a news broadcast from CBC.

  • on a comment on Hillary Clinton and One Africa over 4 years ago

    for proposing doubling foreign aid to fight poverty internationally.  She came at him from the right, arguing that he wouldn't be able to pay for it.

    Kind of more mixed than the diary makes it out to be, no?

  • on a comment on Cuba: Differences in Approach over 4 years ago

    of a journalist.  That is not "hundreds."  Russia's problems are bad enough that you don't need to invent any.

    I never argued that Russia doesn't have authoritarian tendencies, but we can't afford them as an enemy, anymore than we can afford China as an "enemy" --- which actually is a full-fledged dictatorship and is totally without freedom of the press.

    It's worth arguing with Russia over valid things --- transparent democratic principles, freedom of the press, etc. --- but antagonizing Putin as Bush has with his missile defense shield proposal for eastern Europe or pissing off Putin by joking at his expense to the tune of 'you have no soul'....  I'm gonna guess that's not so constructive.

  • on a comment on Cuba: Differences in Approach over 4 years ago

    for direct talks.  On the contrary, that sentence implies an exchange.

  • on a comment on Cuba: Differences in Approach over 4 years ago

    I understand how easy it is to get caught in the Hillary love spin, where all the jokes your candidate makes about other nuclear powers are "exceptionally minor" while your opponent's jokes are a matter of massive death.

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