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Re: obama dances…a little

Dave J — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:55:28 -0000

I cannot imagine the degree to which a person must alter them self to attain public office. Just as you say Fredric, anyone can find a way to point at anyone else and come up with a way to show that they are a sellout.

My biggest concern in electing anyone to represent me, is to what degree will they drop the act once in office? To what level can they be effective with the constant fear of a witch hunt?

DJ

Re: Pick Me Up?

Dave J — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:58:47 -0000

For around a year now I have been drinking green tea. I used to drink coffee in the morning, and again after supper. All totaled it was about 6 cups a day. I was deeply entrenched in the culture of drinking coffee, and totally addicted to the boost it gave me.

I was afraid that quitting would be an ordeal, but it really wasn't. I was over it in about 3 weeks of cold turkey. The tea helps with such a transition, because it does have caffeine in it (in much smaller amounts) and it gives you something to warm your throat and belly, which replaces the comfort factor we lose by eliminating coffee from our daily intake.

Re: naggers annoy me too

Dave J — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:02:36 -0000

I started off annoyed at the beginning of the episode, during the Wheel of Fortune bit, but then gradually warmed up to the approach they were taking. Depicting him as experiencing a feeling of isolation and a dejected self confidence was a very honest statement of the effects exclusion has on a person.

I found it humorous when he was at the beatnik comedy club type venue and he went off on some Jack Kerouac / Saul Williams spoken word and the people in the audience looked at him like.. say what?

Then came the moment when he was addressing the group of black educators and it took a turn for the worst. I mean, I understand poking fun at a thing, but at the same time, there are people out there that just don't get it, and it becomes a furtherance of negative stereotypes.

The end result was the message that even if we were able to walk a mile in another man's shoes, in the end, we set empathy aside, and come out of the experience thinking that we have it worse than anyone else. But then again, people are pretty darn selfish.

I have very mixed feelings over this episode.

Re: obama: “you don’t run for second”

Dave J — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:22:48 -0000

I hope that whomever ends up winning the primary, that the other candidate joins them as V.P.

Democrats have a strong field this time around, and I see them both as having unique qualities to offer.

Hard to choose just one, so I have my fingers crossed in favor of a team-up one way or another.