Comments on: Picture of a campaign

By: Sue R

Sue R — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:50:02 +0000

I think he’ll turn out to be the Princess Diana of Presidents.

By: DaveW

DaveW — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:19:00 +0000

What I find amusing is that so many of the people who profess to loathe branting and modern capitalist commericailsism have so completely bought the into the Obama brand.

Obama is a superbly marketed product. I really admire his marketing team – they are right up there with the guys at Apple. And I mean that seriously, though I loathe Obama and his politics, there is no denying the genius behind the branding. We’ll all be paying the price for a couple of decades of course, like we were for wankers like Nixon and Carter.

Heck, you gotta admire the chutzpah of somebody who can carry off selling a Ponzi scheme like his stimulus package, right as Madoff’s was collapsing.

By: All Must Have Spiders

All Must Have Spiders — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:41:33 +0000

I very much hope he will take swift action on climate change

Yeah, that ought to be amusing in a King Canute sort of way.

‘Global Warming, uh, I mean Climate Change – I command thee to halt!’

Now all we need is some sort of device to control the activity of the sun. Sounds a bit far-fetched, but if anyone can do it, Obama can. He is The Lightworker after all.

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:53:31 +0000

The Poster? Great!…….If you like Nazi/Fascist/Stalinist 30s “Forward/Avanti”-style totalitarian, adoring, “Great Man/Maximum leader” cult-of-personality stuff.

By: Doktor Wer

Doktor Wer — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:18:29 +0000

Obama camp 'prepared to talk to Hamas' "This would really be dependent on Hamas's military wing having suffered a real, almost decisive, drubbing."

By: Hot Dog Stands on the Moon

Hot Dog Stands on the Moon — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:00:52 +0000

Liberals and progressives will be angry when it turns out Obama is not the reincarnation of Emma Goldman, and he hasn’t bombed Israel. In fact his choices thus far have been rather centrist. ‘Bloggers’ like Glenn Greenwald have a bug up their ass that Obama didn’t singlehandedly vote against telcom immunity, hasn’t wrapped himself in a Palestinian flag, nuked the Jews and hasn’t called for the entire US government to be executed for warcrimes. And he’s ‘mainstream’ leftist. In other words he’ll be an effective pragmatist and the far left anarchist MacBook Marxist Hamas wannabes will be screaming, like they always do.

By: Doktor Wer

Doktor Wer — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:06:20 +0000

Benji, stop talking out of your arse, there's a good lad. Obama's rating is declining, down 5 points in just a few days: http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx. Remember: this is the very best time for him. After his inauguration, it's all downhill.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:57:17 +0000

“When people think of a portrait of Obama, they think of this image.” The symbolism is disgusting. It's a rip-off of Soviet poster art.

By: mar

mar — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:50:28 +0000

I think Bill would only be the nine, there wouldn’t be a six in his equation.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:41:51 +0000

Tim

Bill Clinton is a sexual Olympian. I am sure that’s part of his morning work out.