Esquire Endorses Obama
Anyway Esquire (start of ad--my favorite magazine; 75 years and 1 month old this
month, and only $10/year to subscribe!--end of ad) endorses Obama for President.
It's actually not soo much that they want you to vote for Obama because he's so great (they have some harsh words for him and how he's not defined "change"), but that you
SHOULD NOT VOTE FOR McCAIN.
They have some seriously harsh things to say about McCain; most of which were news to me (emphasis added):
"[Obama's] Republican counterpart is one of the first presidential candidates in history to RUN AS A PARODY OF HIMSELF. John McCain has decided on a CHEAP AND DISHONORABLE CAMPAIGN. He has embraced the tactics with which he was slandered in 2000, and he has hired the people responsible for them. In so doing, he has become something of a MOCKERY OF EVERYTHING he once purported to be. He has stated that he wouldn't now vote for his own immigration bill. He has operated in VIOLATIONOF THE VERY CAMPAIGN-FINANCE LAW THAT BEARS HIS NAME. And even though his own body bears the scars of torture, he has silenced himself on the issue of the torture sanctioned and designed by the government he seeks to lead, so as not to alienate 'the base.'"
About Palin, they said thia:
"Then, of course, he picked an AGENT OF INTOLERANCE to join him on his ticket. But it is not Governor Palin's religious beliefs that are of concern to us. More to the point, there is no serious debate to be had over Sarah Palin's preparedness to be president of the United States. Because in fact, she is STUNNINGLY UNQUALIFIED, having never taken a position of consequence on an issue of consequence before she was selected in the last days of August. But she has now been put in a serious position to assume the presidency, and her selection is the clearest indication yet of the CONTEMPT that Senator McCain -- transformed into nominee McCain -- now feels for the process of governance."
Finally, and this is another thing I hadn't thought of, but this election is important because the next President will pick Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens' replacement, and decide the fate of our country:
"More than any other recent election, we are voting this year not merely for a president but to overthrow two governments. The one we can see is the one in which constitutional order has been defaced, the national spirit degraded, and the country unrecognizable because so much of the best of itself has been sold off or frittered away. The other one is the far more insidious one, a doppelgänger nation of black prisons, shredded memos, and secret justifications for even more secret crimes. Moreover, the current administration has worked hard not only to immunize itself from the political and legal consequences of the government we can see, but it has also worked within the one we cannot see in order to perpetuate itself.
For the past several months, it has worked to make extricating ourselves from the catastrophe it has wrought in Iraq as hard as possible. It has sought to make permanent the culture of corporate brigandage and predatory incompetence that it has made a hallmark of its stewardship of the country and its government. Salted throughout the vast bureaucracy are dozens of little homeschooled land mines, the products of a dozen cheapjack diploma mills selling patent-medicine history to the spiritually gullible. The fantastical hiring practices that only recently have come to light in the Department of Justice are only the most visible example of this, but the poisonous philosophy that has guided this administration is in all the institutions of the government Barack Obama hopes to lead. It is not dormant. It is there, replicating itself like a virus does in the cells of the body, waiting until it can erupt and debilitate him and his administration.
And nowhere is it more clearly visible than in the federal courts...There is no evidence at all that anything will change under a President John McCain, who has already identified Roberts and Alito as his beau ideals of Supreme Court justices. He has made brave noises about torture and the extraconstitutional prerogatives
of the executive, but President Bush and his men went on and did what they wanted anyway, and McCain walked away, begging for votes from fundamentalists who hate him, meeping his displeasure in ways that were barely audible. The virus will gestate and spread on his watch, all throughout the federal government. Bushism must be ripped out, root and branch, everywhere it has been established, or else the presidential election of 2008 is a worthless exercise in futility. Barack Obama may not be the man to do it, but John McCain, for all his laudable qualities, clearly is neither willing nor able to do so."
(I forwarded this via email to about 100 people, most of whom were positive, but one person responded with this:
"You should NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA. Not unless you want someone who has terrorist friends, bought his house through fraud, wants Taliban and Al-quaeda terrorists to be tried like criminals (such as those who participated in 9/11), wants sky-high taxes on small businesses and approves of little babies being left to die after botched abortions (he voted three times on this to not have babies being brought back to life)."
I actually checked most of these out and found out that most of them are wrong or distortions. So, this person swallowed whole every negative thing out there about Obama, but actually accused me of hurting her feelings for saying bad things about McCain. We ended our exchange by her asking me not to email her anymore, and to take her off this "socialist, communist" mailing list. So, everyone who supports Obama is a socialist/communist. Did you know that?
month, and only $10/year to subscribe!--end of ad) endorses Obama for President.
It's actually not soo much that they want you to vote for Obama because he's so great (they have some harsh words for him and how he's not defined "change"), but that you
SHOULD NOT VOTE FOR McCAIN.
They have some seriously harsh things to say about McCain; most of which were news to me (emphasis added):
"[Obama's] Republican counterpart is one of the first presidential candidates in history to RUN AS A PARODY OF HIMSELF. John McCain has decided on a CHEAP AND DISHONORABLE CAMPAIGN. He has embraced the tactics with which he was slandered in 2000, and he has hired the people responsible for them. In so doing, he has become something of a MOCKERY OF EVERYTHING he once purported to be. He has stated that he wouldn't now vote for his own immigration bill. He has operated in VIOLATIONOF THE VERY CAMPAIGN-FINANCE LAW THAT BEARS HIS NAME. And even though his own body bears the scars of torture, he has silenced himself on the issue of the torture sanctioned and designed by the government he seeks to lead, so as not to alienate 'the base.'"
About Palin, they said thia:
"Then, of course, he picked an AGENT OF INTOLERANCE to join him on his ticket. But it is not Governor Palin's religious beliefs that are of concern to us. More to the point, there is no serious debate to be had over Sarah Palin's preparedness to be president of the United States. Because in fact, she is STUNNINGLY UNQUALIFIED, having never taken a position of consequence on an issue of consequence before she was selected in the last days of August. But she has now been put in a serious position to assume the presidency, and her selection is the clearest indication yet of the CONTEMPT that Senator McCain -- transformed into nominee McCain -- now feels for the process of governance."
Finally, and this is another thing I hadn't thought of, but this election is important because the next President will pick Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens' replacement, and decide the fate of our country:
"More than any other recent election, we are voting this year not merely for a president but to overthrow two governments. The one we can see is the one in which constitutional order has been defaced, the national spirit degraded, and the country unrecognizable because so much of the best of itself has been sold off or frittered away. The other one is the far more insidious one, a doppelgänger nation of black prisons, shredded memos, and secret justifications for even more secret crimes. Moreover, the current administration has worked hard not only to immunize itself from the political and legal consequences of the government we can see, but it has also worked within the one we cannot see in order to perpetuate itself.
For the past several months, it has worked to make extricating ourselves from the catastrophe it has wrought in Iraq as hard as possible. It has sought to make permanent the culture of corporate brigandage and predatory incompetence that it has made a hallmark of its stewardship of the country and its government. Salted throughout the vast bureaucracy are dozens of little homeschooled land mines, the products of a dozen cheapjack diploma mills selling patent-medicine history to the spiritually gullible. The fantastical hiring practices that only recently have come to light in the Department of Justice are only the most visible example of this, but the poisonous philosophy that has guided this administration is in all the institutions of the government Barack Obama hopes to lead. It is not dormant. It is there, replicating itself like a virus does in the cells of the body, waiting until it can erupt and debilitate him and his administration.
And nowhere is it more clearly visible than in the federal courts...There is no evidence at all that anything will change under a President John McCain, who has already identified Roberts and Alito as his beau ideals of Supreme Court justices. He has made brave noises about torture and the extraconstitutional prerogatives
of the executive, but President Bush and his men went on and did what they wanted anyway, and McCain walked away, begging for votes from fundamentalists who hate him, meeping his displeasure in ways that were barely audible. The virus will gestate and spread on his watch, all throughout the federal government. Bushism must be ripped out, root and branch, everywhere it has been established, or else the presidential election of 2008 is a worthless exercise in futility. Barack Obama may not be the man to do it, but John McCain, for all his laudable qualities, clearly is neither willing nor able to do so."
(I forwarded this via email to about 100 people, most of whom were positive, but one person responded with this:
"You should NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA. Not unless you want someone who has terrorist friends, bought his house through fraud, wants Taliban and Al-quaeda terrorists to be tried like criminals (such as those who participated in 9/11), wants sky-high taxes on small businesses and approves of little babies being left to die after botched abortions (he voted three times on this to not have babies being brought back to life)."
I actually checked most of these out and found out that most of them are wrong or distortions. So, this person swallowed whole every negative thing out there about Obama, but actually accused me of hurting her feelings for saying bad things about McCain. We ended our exchange by her asking me not to email her anymore, and to take her off this "socialist, communist" mailing list. So, everyone who supports Obama is a socialist/communist. Did you know that?