Now, being able to imagine yourself tossing around the pigskin with the President, or perhaps imagining yourself doing a couple of keg stands with him after a very manly day out in the woods hunting elk with your new semi-automatic RPG with laser scope… THAT’s the kind of President we really need. All these liberal “qualifications” like education and such? Puh-lease.

Michael Steele’s unconscious told the interviewer the quite obvious truth about how the repugs view minorities and he (Steele) thought he was making a funny.

People who hate Obama hate him, I think, because their political experience has trained them to appreciate any president but one who is actually qualified and earnestly trying to make balanced decisions that will promote more good than harm.

Many feel that reagan was earnest in this way, and I’ll go along with it: I don;t really know.

But he was undoubtedly unqualified.

Same with Carter. Although Carter did a brilliant job of assessing the major challenges to be addressed in the final 1/4 of the 20th century (energy/environment, period), he lacked the political chops to pull it over.

Obama is, I believe, that intelligent and accomplished street-savvy survivor who can actually take the political Hippocratic Oath and use it as more than an excuse to do next to nothing.

This, I think, freaks a whole buncha people the fuck out.

This is scary.