Friday, March 7, 2008

What's on your mind this weekend?

This is a generic open post for everyone to discuss news stories or anything else from this week.

So, what's on your mind this weekend?

Posted by Jay at 3:33 PM

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Anonymous said...

If the "are you qualified to vote" post is any indicator, a significant portion of Gary's listening audience is ridiculously Republican partisan and/or intensely cynical.

When I lived in York and listened to the show I remember hearing the phrase 'partisan garbage' come through the radio a few times when someone would challenge Gary's position on an issue. I rarely heard someone say 'Democrats know how to do things right and Republicans are just losers'. But if you challenged Gary's position on an issue it was regularly blasted as a 'partisan' position you were taking.

I wonder...did Gary reflect and share any disdain for the truly 'partisan garbage' from comments on that post on his show?

March 7, 2008 at 5:34 PM
Anonymous said...

This post is an excellent essay by that most gifted of writers, Mark Morford, of the SF Gate.

He's looking at the smear campaign the Repubs would possibly use against Obama, should Obama triumph as Dem pick.
I am myself unconvinced that Ma Bill Clinton is going to go away . . . the power is too entrenched, she has a lot of dirty tricks and powerbrokers to call on to insure her gaining the superdelegate count.
I don't trust the Clintons.
They are consummate powermongers, and this is what distinguishes them from Obama in my estimation. He seems more focused on what can be done, the possibilities, the power as means to an end; she is more focused on becoming the person at the top, the end justifying the means.

I distrust power in general. . . and in greedy hands it all too familiarly becomes Shakespearean drama of the worst kind.

From the linked post:

" The true difficulty facing the GOP's henchmen in the coming months will be how to get those who are just a tiny bit smarter, calmer, less easily swayed, those on the right who might actually be a bit impressed and charmed by Obama's obvious intelligence and oratory power, to hate him, fear him, find his genuinely moving brand of hope and inspiration to be suspicious and problematic and even deeply dangerous.

It won't be easy. Because at the same time, they must make their own unlikely candidate, a feisty but fuzzy 71-year-old war hawk whose entire campaign is apparently now being fueled by a giant hunk of Cold War phlegm, the nauseating notion that not only is a perpetual state of war and aggression desirable for America, but is actually essential to a healthy and functioning nation, they must make John McCain's musty, patriarchal brand of regurgitated Republicanism seem fresh and visionary and not horribly regressive and embarrassing."

March 8, 2008 at 11:03 AM
Anonymous said...

Hey Jay, what's happening? Good luck on the show tomorrow! Here's a link to my World Record video. If you have a place for it, thanks. Talk to you soon! =Dave

March 9, 2008 at 10:06 PM
Anonymous said...

Oops, forgot the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Wbb8r8PUs

March 9, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Gary Sutton said...

Reality-Based,
Regarding the post in "are you qualified to vote," frankly I thought it either totally sarcastic or highly delusional. Either way, it didn't deserve a response except to let it be someone's offering. When it comes to partisan offerings, I would suggest that there are a lot of ways that people do that here. Their rhetoric is just not quite as blatant as the writer in question. GS

March 10, 2008 at 7:02 AM
Anonymous said...

Jay, you gotta check out this story regarding Hillary Clinton that hasn't seemed to hit the National headlines. BTW, the only way I know about this is the Company they are referring to is International Profit Associates, the same company I was just scammed by. =Dave

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/international-profit-associates

March 10, 2008 at 9:21 AM
Anonymous said...

Gary,

When it comes to partisan offerings, I would suggest that there are a lot of ways that people do that here.

Could not agree more. Funny that you focus on only the most ridiculous comment when there were multiple comments full of partisanship. I've noticed that when it is the Republican version of partisan hackery you are sure "to let it be someone's offering" to the discussion. However you just have to respond when to the 'garbage' when someone takes a position with a Democratic bend.

Weird how that works out!

March 10, 2008 at 12:00 PM

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