Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Fudge

Nephew called on Obama to get his ass in gear and pose a challenge to Hillary, if he's going to do it already.

Social Security "reform" and anti-gay singers are not the way I was hoping Obama would go with it. Tonight might be telling in my continued support of Obama.

Although his Social Security stuff is not as bad as I was reading on the netroots. Eliminating the payroll tax exemption should be an idea we can all get behind.

[UPDATE]: I watched the first hour, but remained unimpressed with all of them. Except maybe Kucinish. Hillary wasn't that bad, but then, later, I heard her at some health care forum talking about "individual responsibility," basically echoing the Republican talking point that argues that there would be no health care crisis if people would stop going to the emergency room when they chip a nail. Plus, there was an op-ed in today's paper praising Hillary for being "serious" about Iran, because, you know, they are days away from having a nuclear weapon and I think we can all agree that would be a horrible, horrible thing. Which made me remember what a horrible, horrible thing it would be to have her in the White House.

2 comments:

wobblie said...

I had the same thoughts about Obama, especially re: the anti-gay stuff.

He also needs to drop the "social security crisis" rhetoric. His plan's not awful, but his framing sucks.

Unknown said...

somebody got his ass in gear and challenged hillary for reals last night. it just wasn't obama.