House of Eratosthenes

Yesterday, Senator Obama got a little testy on this issue…He said that I am questioning his patriotism. Let me be clear: I am not questioning his patriotism; I am questioning his judgment.

Zing! I still don’t support you, Maverick, and I think this is a case of the pot calling the kettle…wait, I don’t wanna go there. Anyway. On some other issues, your judgment is not so hot. But I’m gonna have to hand it to ya there. That’s gonna leave a mark. Couldn’t happen to a nicer fella.

McCain continues — and The Chosen One responds.

“Senator Obama has made it clear that he values withdrawal from Iraq above victory in Iraq, even today with victory in sight. Over and over again, he has advocated unconditional withdrawal — regardless of the facts on the ground.”

Speaking at the VFW convention in Florida yesterday, Obama said McCain should acknowledge his patriotism. “I will let no one question my love of this country,” the Democrat said. [emphasis mine]

Obama Won't Let You Say It Morgan’s mind wanders…

CITY STREET: A man is waiting at a bus stop, and he gets bored. He begins to mumble his thoughts aloud. “Hmmm,” he thinks, “I wonder if Barack Obama loves America?” SEVERAL UNIFORMED PARAMILITARY CONSTABLES run up and surround the man, the patented Obama Logo^TM imprinted on their shiny new helmets. “I’m sorry, sir,” says the tallest one, “you’re going to have to come with us!”

Look at that. Another democrat for free speech.

But here’s what absolutely blows me away. I mean, really; I’m still undecided about voting for McCain, but at this point I’m starting to seriously think about putting money on him. How can Obama win? Seriously? You want to know what I’m talking about…head on over to Martin’s blog, and check the comments (north of 200, and growing, as of this writing).

Just look at all that garbage. Obama just said, plainly, that he’s going to try to control this debate by refusing to allow anyone to question his patriotism. He’s going to try to give orders to people about what to say and what not to say, what to think and what not to think.

My son had a bad day at school on Tuesday. That night he was saying he wouldn’t be going anymore. That ritual tirade sounded ingenious, inspired and brilliant, compared to what Obama said. What the hell does he mean, he won’t let anyone? It’s a cliche, for one thing; over four years old! For another thing, it’s unenforceable. Hey, Barack, I’m questioning your patriotism! Look at me! Whee, I just did it again! For another thing, it’s a contradiction because America is supposed to be a place where you can say whatever you want and think whatever you want — it’s our democrats who keep telling us it’s so. They also repeat over and over again that it’s the Republicans who are trying to take our freedoms away. And they want to contradict themselves on that within just a few syllables?

Hey, I think I can do that too.

“I will not permit anyone to question my willingness to permit people to question things.”

“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

“Equal opportunity employer, women and minorities encouraged to apply.”

“I’m from the Government; I’m here to help you.”

When did it become unreasonable to expect blatant contradictions to occur across a few sentences, or maybe even paragraphs, from each other?

But out of the hundreds of comments on Jonathan Martin’s blog, most of them, or large chunk of them, are of this flavor: “Hooray, this is an issue we can use to help him win!” No, that’s not what you’re thinking — by “him,” they mean OBAMA!

“Mike” (8/20/08, 11:56 AM) is a good model cookie-cutter, by which a number of other morsels have been cut from the dough.

Of course McRove is questioning your patriotism, they’re republicans – that’s what they do! Now he’s trying to weasel out of it. You should repeat this every day until the election – McCain said you would “rather win an election if losing a war was the cost. He said it. Now whack him over the head with it!

+++snicker+++ By all means, Barry Hussein. And while you’re at it, whack us over the head with how you’re not going to let him say it anymore. Or anybody else either.

These people have no common sense at all. Normally, I’d worry about that — in fact, I still do. But common sense is something you have to have, in order to make things happen and get what you want.

Al Gore, Howard Dean, John Kerry, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama. They all expected things to happen, they all used diseased logic — not just weak, but badly diseased — and each and every single one of them must have really expected things to happen as they said they did, because they went very far in staking their reputations on it happening.

To believe Obama will win, I have to believe, first, that he’s going to break some kind of pattern here.

Well…it still is possible. God help us if it happens. But Dear Lord, I don’t wanna be that guy. With a fan base like this, he could use all the help he can get. And he’s not gonna get it.

“I’m still undecided about voting for McCain”

Now Morgan, you’re obviously an intelligent gent but I fail to follow your faulty logic. You are not voting for Obama, can I safely assume? You’re “undecided” about voting for McCain. There are only two choices and no, staying home is not a choice so don’t even go there.

So in conclusion, you’re either holding your nose like the rest of us and voting for the Maverick or…what, moving to Canada in the next couple months?

Since you’ve ignored me when I’ve thrown it at ya’ at Rick’s place, what say you here at your place?
- tim | 08/21/2008 @ 12:13
Why, it should be obvious. I’m doing to McCain exactly the same thing liberal democrats do to McCain, just before he does exactly what they want. In politics, the 800-pound gorilla is the guy who hasn’t made up his mind. The guy who knows exactly what he’s going to do from the very first minute, is the least powerful.

A shorter way of summarizing this is “in politics, if you want to decide things…DON’T.”
- mkfreeberg | 08/21/2008 @ 12:39
OK, I’ll give you the nice analogy.

But, I’m pretty sure Sen. McCain isn’t holding his breath waiting for Morgan Freeberg to verbally declare his endorsement anymore than Cindy is going to spend the weekend with me.

Though, maybe if more people voiced their support for McCain others wouldn’t be “undecided”, human nature and all…people want to be on the winning side, etc.

Carry on.
- tim | 08/21/2008 @ 15:06
Well, you’re right, this is The Blog That Nobody Reads and sometimes it seems my vote is The Vote That Nobody Wants. Just keep in mind the difference between appearance and substance, though. McCain is going to want to put out signals that hopping on his bandwagon is The Thing To Do, because chasing after votes is expensive. You step into his shoes here, and you see this is one of those “never let ’em see you sweat” moments.

But I’m not alone here. There is a deep schism on the Republican side on whether to bother to show up for this guy. And if McCain is smart, he’s going to look cool on the outside, but behind closed doors he’ll be worried sick about how to heal this rift. That’s exactly what I want him doing. Lord knows he’s losing enough sleep over how to keep the liberal democrats and the illegal aliens happy. He might as well lose a few more winks trying to make people like me happy.

Me making him happy, I’m not quite so worried about that. If you want to make McCain happy, just declare loyal, unflinching support for him because Obama is worse. Do it from Day One and do it without reservation, so he’ll understand he doesn’t have to work for your vote. He loves people like that. It means he can close up shop on this side of the aisle, hop on over, and work harder to win votes from liberal hippie democrats. He just loves that.

Except, when he’s done making all those compromises, they just vote for Obama anyway. He’s so much cuter than McCain. Now, the one thing unexplained in my theory here, is WHY McCain continues to fall for it. I dunno. I chalk it up to too many years in the beltway.
- mkfreeberg | 08/21/2008 @ 15:24
So another words, you want him to pander to you. Say whatever will get you your vote while not really meaning it and we get what McCain has always been, a liberal Republican?

We’re gonn’a get that no matter what. But, damn it Morgan, it still WAY better than the Messiah, which I know you know but I just don’t see the point of it all. Yea, yea I’ve got no power because I’ve voiced my vote, I know, I know.

I still think people can be influenced by other people’s support of any & every kind, be it lawn signs, bumper stickers, tv/radio ads, even blogs. I could be wrong, it happens…occasionally.
- tim | 08/21/2008 @ 16:14
So another words, you want him to pander to you. Say whatever will get you your vote while not really meaning it and we get what McCain has always been, a liberal Republican?

Someone needs to define for me, why it is McCain somehow makes good on his promises when he’s pandering to liberal democrats, but it’s somehow untenable for him to follow through on what he says to me. MY position is the moderate one. THEIRS is the extreme one.

I still think people can be influenced by other people’s support of any & every kind, be it lawn signs, bumper stickers, tv/radio ads, even blogs. I could be wrong, it happens…occasionally.

Oh sure, there’s merit to the bandwagon approach. Problem is, we aren’t really trying to figure out what candidate to support — we’re trying to figure out what platform to support. If McCain’s is no better than the other guy’s, I don’t see the point of supporting him. He’ll be a one-term President, and then the two yokels running in 2012 will make both McCain and Obama look as Republican as Genghis Kahn. Because that’s the way you will have asked for it to be set up.

Look what’s happened to healthcare. Look what’s happening to the oil industry. Look at air travel, look at the education system. We pour all kinds of non-capitalist ingredients into those stewpots, get some messy capitalist-socialist mixture going, and it BOMBS. And then the propaganda is, oh look, capitalism failed us — when it didn’t fail us, we failed it. And so we get more and more liberal as time goes on. What was hardcore left-wing before, is now “centrist”; what was centrist before, is thought of as fringe right-wing nutcase stuff. Well, I’m sick and tired of it.

Why does it work that way. Because people want more liberalism? No, they don’t. What’s happening is, conservatives like you have the balls to stick to principles, and declare them — so you end up powerless, because liberals are cowards by nature so they spend right up until election-day-even saying “oooh, I’m just not suuuure about you…” and idjits like McCain really do pander to them. Then, the liberals decide to vote for people like Obama anyway.

Just like I said. If you want to decide things, DON’T. For the last several election cycles, it’s been proven. Look at George W. Bush. He wins an election — then starts compromising, as if he lost it. Only then does his approval rating drop…so what does he do? MORE of it. That’s because the other guys are being wishy-washy, and therefore end up powerful. We’ve been playing this whole game wrong.
- mkfreeberg | 08/21/2008 @ 17:53
“If McCain’s is no better than the other guy’s”

C’mon Morgan, you don’t sincerely believe that.
- tim | 08/22/2008 @ 08:42

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