Hey, zeke. A Question.

Serious question: Do you think Obama is secretly a Republican?

Or, do you think that Iowa's going to come down to as few as a thousand votes, and that all three of the frontrunners have targeted the caucusers that can put them over the top, and, that for Obama, those voters are Independents and Republicans under 50?

Further, do you think it's possible that rather than being as clueless and naive as some would have you believe, the guy's a smart politician who sees, as you do, that the above referenced likely caucusers are looking at the GOP field, being given a choice between Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney and not seeing a real choice there and maybe being willing to take a look at the other side?

Maybe, just maybe, a tack ever so slightly rightward isn't a bad thing for the Obama campaign right now?

Just a hunch.

 

Too bad John Brown's body is a-moudlerin' in the grave. He was batshit, but I'd vote for him over any of the Dems. The country does indeed need a shake-up, not a tweaking.

JB's corpse in '08!


Carry on with the actual discussion. I'm too busy following the slaughtered cattle and harvested wheat around here to follow national news in any consistent fashion.

 

I thought for sure this thread would be about Don Henley.

 

Nobody on the road,
nobody on the beach.
I feel it in the air,
the summers out of reach

Empty lake, empty streets,
the sun goes down alone.
I'm driving by your house
though i know that you not home...

And i can see you
you brown skin shining in the sun
you got your hair combed back
sunglasses on baby

and i can tell you
my love for you will still be strong
after the boy of summer have gone.

out on the road today
i saw a dead head sticker on a cadillac
a voice inside my head said don't look back
you can never look back

i thought i knew what love was
what did i know
those days are gone for ever
i should just let them go and...

i can see you
your brown skin shining in the sun
you know your walking real slow
smiling at everyone

i can tell you
my love for you will still be strong
after the boys of summer have gone.

I never will forget those nights
i wonder if it was a dream
remember how you drove me crazy?
remember how i made you scream?

now i don't understand what happed to our love
now baby gonna get you back
gonna show you what i'm made of...

i can see you
your brown skin shining in the sun
you got your top pulled down,
radio on baby

and i can tell you
my love for you will still be strong
after the boys of summer have gone.

 

God bless you Tomas.

God. Bless. You.

 

it had to happen.

 

You know, it will be my luck that I'll be standing somewhere on election night, watching President-elect Obama give his victory speech and that song will start blaring.

If that happens, Tom, I will hunt you down! I know where you live!

 

That's a good thing.

It'll be good preparation for November.

 

My God. I could see this shaping up as Zeke and Yawn on one side, Fenian on the other. I don't mind Edwards. I loathe Chegal. Biden doesn't run from the war. But Edwards seems to be for the middle class in ways that others aren't.

More to the point: this is interesting, watching a bestest buddies quarrel. Can it get nasty? That would heighten the level of fun...

 

damn ... never should have sent you that pic. damn.

the only thing that could make this worse is if yawn showed up.

 

Kind of like hearing "Don't....stop...thinking about tomorrow...."

 

If this is purely a tactic, it's a reekingly Clintonian one.
It does seem to predate the campaign, though, if the Lieber-love is any indication.