Everybody’s got boring lives so they just sit around and talk about someone else’s.
she understood the presidential premium on flexibility.
Obama’s attitude could be seen a cavalier – or deeply cynical. But is also reflected an instinctive disdain for the conventional rules of politics. To Obama, the ritual parsing of these kind of statements was a tedious preoccupation of the media, an obsession few Americans shared.
No one ever thinks they don’t have the experience to do this. No one thinks that way. He wouldn’t have gotten tot his point and then said, “Oh, I don’t have the experience.” You don’t think about your weaknesses. You think about your strengths.
Edwards calmly agreed – so calmly, in fact, that Scher took it as a clear indication that he and Hunter were having an affair. If someone accused me of cheating on my wife, I’d say, “Go fuck yourself!”
it was easy to run against a man, but devilishly hard to run against a cause.
The insurgent candidate was running on inevitability. He was going to win because he was going to win.
I have a lifetime of experience I will bring to the White House.
Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience he will bring to the White House.
And Senator Obama has a speech he made in 2002.
I’m embarrassed to admit that after all these years in politics I failed to interpret your previous assurances as typical rhetorical gloss routinely used in politics to make self-interested partisan posturing appear more noble. I understand how important the opportunity to lead your party’s effort to exploit this issue must seem to a freshman Senator, and I hold no hard feelings over your earlier disingenuousness.
I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform, any lectures on my regard for those who did.
This shit would be really interesting if we weren’t in the middle of it.