tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550315839527219940.post3780880558966723601..comments2023-10-11T02:43:45.437-07:00Comments on CASAMURPHY: Trick or Treat?Laynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11202742050661813668noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550315839527219940.post-81386134544831834092008-10-29T22:21:00.000-07:002008-10-29T22:21:00.000-07:00Frankly I am baffled. It's like you are people I ...Frankly I am baffled. It's like you are people I don't know. Maybe I have been in NorCal too long. Maybe you have stayed in SoCal too long. To say that there is little difference between the two is deep crackpotedness. Deep.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11744997942078418500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550315839527219940.post-38119556688065477232008-10-29T12:48:00.000-07:002008-10-29T12:48:00.000-07:00Obama raised the money wisely, he has shown his st...Obama raised the money wisely, he has shown his stellar organizational powers by hiring the best campaign staff and using modern technology to help. I have no doubt that the cabinet he will install in the whitehouse will be of the same quality. To not spend the campain money to it's best use would be as ridiculous as the GOP funding Palin's wardrobe and makeup. The only major TV channel that is not showing Obama's spot is ABC, so maybe there's something else to watch. (I don't know, I don't have cable or dish.) What I do know about the 30 min. spot is that it's not going to be an all talking head thing. Maybe it'll clinch those last undecided voters. Maybe it'll dispel some of those ugly rumors still flying around. Maybe it'll calm some right wing fears. This is something he planned on doing since he got the dem. nomination. I don't think you will be disappointed, if you choose to watch.Carihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14737996892045563243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550315839527219940.post-46523697795970619342008-10-28T18:48:00.000-07:002008-10-28T18:48:00.000-07:00I wonder how many of those 100 hours of community ...I wonder how many of those 100 hours of community service sign-ups, however well-intentioned, will result in $4000 worth of labor from sullen, goldbricking, or conniving post-teens? That sort of program, although I support it in theory, would be better tied to class credit, as the sort of "sign me off so we can both get out of here sooner" situations don't result in much quality effort. I saw this effort abused in my days of inner-city teaching near USC, and those Trojans, getting credit themselves, did nearly nothing substantial to assist students. <BR/><BR/>Good post, and I also agree that Obama failed to take the high road that McCain helped to blaze, whatever his many failings, in hopes of lessening the clout of the political juggernaut fueled by capitalism, cronyism, and favoritism. For all his rhetoric, Obama's beholden to the same masters, whatever their complexions, as his rival. Obama will have a lot of folks lining up, hand extended, to "remind" our new president of his obligations to the powers that be-- those outside the Oval Office who will not be his marionettes, but his relentless and severe puppeteer.<BR/><BR/>If Ms. Palin did shop at Out of the Closet, she supports gay rights, sort of, right? Listening to her as she blathered out of your Net hookup to Politico about her $35 wedding ring and Inuit earrings, I thought again it was parody. Until print confirmed her frugality. Five kids to raise, and one more on the way. <BR/><BR/>The Candies Foundation, soon to interrupt a hit gal program with a PSA, tells us in a NYT ad that 3:10 American teens get pregnant, that this costs us $9 billion, that 4:10 go on welfare, and that 4:5 do not marry the child's father. Levi's a coming, as the song goes.John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"https://www.blogger.com/profile/16616876266772470719noreply@blogger.com