Obama....Is the Messiah Complex over?

[Barrister]

Dynamite stuff, and delivered flawlessly.  He can make a strong emotional appeal and gloss over that he's enacting policies that he was critical of a year ago.

That is certainly his strength. Rhetoric. And I'm a leftie.  But I never fell for his charm.

If I were to write an essay, my thesis would be this: America is the anti-thesis of democracy. In truth there are two political parties. One black, the other a dark shade of blue. And that is the extent of the political spectrum. America calling itself a democracy is no different than East Germany calling itself the Democatic German Republic.  America is a hair's breath away from a one-party state. It gives the illusion of there being a multi-party democracy by holding elections every four years. Even North Korea holds elections.

In truth though, nothing can change that basic fundemental that it is the same people, or more accurately, the same influence, that runs the country; no matter who's in power.

never felt so appropriate.

[Habbaku]

a hair's breath

Please stop using idioms you don't even know.

[garbon]

Please stop using idioms you don't even know.

My hair needs to breathe!

[Habbaku]

I hope my next job has French benefits.

[garbon]

You'd better watch it, mister. You're skating on tinged ice.

[grumbler]

Josephus, stop trying to make a slick purse out of a sow's ear.

[Razgovory]

Please stop using idioms you don't even know.

My hair needs to breathe!

Then lay off the dye.

[Razgovory]

Josephus, stop trying to make a slick purse out of a sow's ear.

wuz dat mean.

[garbon]

Josephus, stop trying to make a slick purse out of a sow's ear.

I don't know, that's a pretty sick purse, man.

[Josephus]

Breadth.
You wouldn't know I'm an editor in real life.

Garbon, Habbaku, et.al. I shall be watching your every post from now on. Let him that's never made a spelling error, left a "d" out of a word, cast the first stone,etc.

I shall be watching you all with eagle lies.

[garbon]

You wouldn't know I'm an editor in real life.

Indeed.  An editor would likely have whisked away everything after the word "charm."

[saskganesh]

You wouldn't know I'm an editor in real life.

Indeed.  An editor would likely have whisked away everything after the word "charm."

likely only in a substantive edit, not a copy edit.

[Josephus]

Aah,  I see. It's not the minor spelling error that got your panties in a knot. It's my argument that the Republicans and Democrats are so close together on the political spectrum, you can hardly tell them apart.

But since you couldn't put together a half-decent and intelligent rebuttal, you opted to pick on the typo.

[garbon]

I played along with Habbs because it was fun.  Your sad ramble was like a Raz post or the homeless man that yells at you on the street. It is unseemly to respond to such things.

[Eddie Teach]

Aah,  I see. It's not the minor spelling error that got your panties in a knot. It's my argument that the Republicans and Democrats are so close together on the political spectrum, you can hardly tell them apart.

But since you couldn't put together a half-decent and intelligent rebuttal, you opted to pick on the typo.

The reason the parties are so similar on certain issues is because the American electorate agrees with them, not because our system is undemocratic.