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I mean, I obviously enjoy hearing people’s opinions and reflecting on them, I just never understood what an endorsement is really supposed to do.

Sometimes a “event” serves as a better endorsement or counter-endorsement (disdorsement? ugh) than what someone says about someone else. Well, here is a hilarious punk’d on Sarah Palin, with a phony call from “Nicolas Sarkozy.” Palin seems quite convinced and oblivious all the way through despite many blood-curdling hints:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/USElection/2008/11/01/7275526-cp.html which has some transcript and link to the audio.

We spend a lot of time worrying over the quality of education in America, at least for us in that the next generation can value and respect, if not actually do, science. I’m not sure we spend enough time worrying over the anti-intellectualism that is rampant in this country. There is a large contingent of voters in this nation who value smiles and lipstick instead of ideas. How did our system of education lead to the evolution of such a contingent? Whatever did we do wrong?

Not a single person voted on Obama based on issues over Hillary.

False. One of the reasons I preferred BHO to HRC is the way he approaches a tough issue; BHO understands that people won’t buy into a program unless they have had a hand in creating it.

Don’t get me wrong; had HRC won the D nomination I would have tried my best to help her win the general.

You are right about BHO not being a “messiah” and yes, of course I have doubts about him! I don’t believe in blind faith in anyone and/or anything.

But he is an intellectual; just read his books (which he wrote himself; he employed no ghostwriter). Also, you don’t get hired by the University of Chicago to teach law if you aren’t an intellectual.

Obama is no intellectual. Obama is no messiah and he will assure a republican comeback in a BIG way. Mark my words. Obama SOUNDS like an intellectual but he is FAR from it. He will say and do anything to win. it is as simple as that. and he only cares about one thing- his career. expect him to file papers 143 days after becoming president to become president of the world.

He has been raging for the the last two weeks, sometimes almost too subtle, but still brilliant in using parody and satire as a political scalpel to deconstruct the idiocy of the McCain/Palin nightmare.

Most of my favorite gems are right in this paragraph:

Issues like embryonic stem-cell research and responses to climate change, among others, are contentious for many reasons, but most of these have little to do with science. They comprise a small fraction of the total US science activity, and they do not reflect the deepest or even the most serious challenges in the overall R&D enterprise such as funding imbalances, lagging interest in technical careers and the impact of increased homeland-security measures on the conduct of science.

^_^J.

Sili on Oct 31st, 2008 at 3:36 pm:

Remarkably broad shoulders. Not too great a speaker, though.

Sadly, I fear that this endorsement is likely to turn a number of people away – I only hope that it will not be a significant number.

I can’t imagine that the people who would be turned away from a candidate purely by Nature endorsing that candidate would be very likely to vote for Obama in the first place…or that if such a small thing were enough to change their mind, that it would change over and over on a daily basis depending on which way the wind blew.

On another note, Colbert’s conservatism is really “conservatism,” that is, a very timely satire of modern t.v. politics.

It really is almost a no-brainer. If nothing else ponder the Supreme Court, and that Scalia (the founding laws of the nation are from God) will have a court packed to his liking. We can’t go ever further to the right, for if we do it will at some point become fascism.

Lawrence B. Crowell

We need someone who will try to be forward looking; stick to their convictions; and lead. Sometimes being very analytic can be counter to these goals…on the one hand x is true, but in certain circumstances “not x” may be true…

I am not a manager…but have come to see that effective management is an art, not entirely analytical and very different from “simply being smart”…

I will vote for the more analytically candidate, but sometimes he does seem a bit theoretical and less than decisive…[off topic: i suspect he will be more conservative (maybe moderate is a better word)than most people believe...i do think he is too smart to mindlessly follow the rhetoric of boiler plate liberalism]

Sadly, I fear that this endorsement is likely to turn a number of people away – I only hope that it will not be a significant number.

PS: about Colbert, when he talked about not voting for Obama, “The Word” said that “he isn’t registered”.