I'm disappointed in Obama, and that's a good thing

[alinaf]

I'm disappointed in Obama. Why did he have to lie? Look so smug? Repeat passages from his last debate verbatim? Why couldn't he answer questions more directly? Appear more energetic? WTH? But then again, I'm not Joe the Plumber. Barack doesn't care about my vote. He knows he's got it. Why the hell would I ever think I'd get a guy in the white house who will represent me? Everyone wants someone to represent them. And a box of chocolates. And a long-stemmed rose.

I'm Joe's broken sense of entitlement.

Perhaps enough people found him convincing last night. Or simply not enough people liked McPain, which is more likely. Barack has definitely shown he has many faces, a true politician. And in this case it's a compliment.

Comments

[marrazm.livejournal.com]

It always amazed me how people thought Obama is "different". They are all the same :)

[alinaf.livejournal.com]

abso-fucking-lutely
ps: ty v NY byvaesh' na vyxodnyx? :) Nado zatusovat'sya!!

[marrazm.livejournal.com]

ty budesh smeyatsya no ya uezzhayu na sleduyushie dva vyhodnyh. But I am going to have an election night party! I will send the email soon!

[alinaf.livejournal.com]

Misha! Eto uzhe ne smeshno!!
Davaj election party! Ya esche ne znayu kak my eto sdelaem, no my pridem :)

[ingwall.livejournal.com]

Obama is different in symbolic terms, not personal. That's one of the reasons I'll be voting for him. I think I'll write a posting about this soon.

[alinaf.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to the posting :)
ps: What was the answer to the Gasting on Hudson question? And we want more questions - work is boring :)

[ingwall.livejournal.com]

Archie Goodwin. :)

[alinaf.livejournal.com]

This is so over my head, I don't even get the answer :(

[ingwall.livejournal.com]

Captain Hastings is a Watson-type sidekick of the great detective Hercule Poirot. Archie Goodwin is a Watson-type sidekick of the great detective Nero Wolfe. While Poirot is chiefly London-based, Nero Wolfe is New York-based, therefore Archie Goodwin can be said to be "Hastings-on-Hudson".

[alinaf.livejournal.com]

Great, thanks. I'm completely not familiar with Stout and Nero Wolfe. Probably read like 1 story 15 years ago. Go figure :)

[muphta.livejournal.com]

Leave people their hopes, or the next appointed presidential candidate of change will have nothing to work with. :)

[mashats.livejournal.com]

my thoughts exactly...

[yelya.livejournal.com]

Obama? Lied? Oh, no!!!! How could this ever happen? Isn't he, like, cool, and, like, for change and stuff?

[rezkiy.livejournal.com]

Ты что, серьезно собираешься голосовать за левых??? Я понимаю что права, все дела, прекратить войну. А ЭТО http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121910303529751345.html?mod=googlenews_wsj ??? Мне своя рубашка ближе к телу...

[alinaf.livejournal.com]

Esche kak sobirayus'. A tebya eto tak udivlyaet? Po mne, luchshe pust' den'gi idut na social'nye programmy, chem na Iraq.

Ya vot byla studentkoj - nichego ne zarabatyvala, poluchala financial aid. Potom aspirantkoj byla, s malen'koj stipendii $25K u menya nalogi prakticheski ne brali. Potom rabotala v universitete - s moej melkoj zarplaty $40K tozhe prakticheski nichego ne brali. Sejchas zarabatyvayu normal'no i sovsem ne protiv platit' nalogi. Na moj vzglyad, spravedlivaya sistema.