Habeas Corpus

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From another forum:

@R. Shearer:I don’t believe the conspiracies, but it wouldn’t surprise me if OBL is now registered to vote in Cook County…as a Democrat.
He would have wanted it that way, it seems -- in 2004, he was rattling off the Democrats' talking points in his pitch for John Kerry

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[cateagle]

IMNSHO, calling the incumbent "Horrifically incompetent" is rather an understatement. If you're familiar with religous terms, you might appreciate why I refer to him as the "Obamanation of Desolation".

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It amazes me that he is both (a) a relatively poor reader of speeches, and (b) highly praised for his speaking ability.

The oddly stilted feel of the UbL announcement was not because of the speechwriters; President Obama simply paused at odd places, and inflected words in unusual, awkward-seeming ways.

This effect has been event from Obama the candidate to current events.

Triumphant self-promotion was written into the speech -- by someone on staff. The president's reading of it had the feel of mundane economics.

I'm very pleased that he did what he did -- whatever it really was -- and allowed the operation against Usama bin Ladin to go forward. But the poll numbers (an average of only a 5% bounce on the news) suggests that his showmanship over the event did not succeed where it needed to.

Frankly, I am not disappointed at that. Nor surprised.

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[cateagle]

ANd I agree on both points. I'm most certainly not disappointed that he got little, if any, "bounce" and I'm certainly not surprised given what I've seen of his showmanship. Then again, when he first started running, I did a rif on John 1:46, "Can anything good come out of Chicago politics?" I couldn't leave it at just "Chicago" since my parents were born there as was I. *grin*

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Not to mention my own Lady_Anne.

It's not where he's from, it is what he has made of himself. A small part of that is connected to what he started as, but at some point an adult has to say "this is not going to control my life" and he takes responsibility, or looks weak. It would be like continuing to blame Bush years into your own presidency.

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[deckardcanine]

In 2008, Obama's odd speech pattern was one of the few ways SNL felt comfortable making fun of him.