Earlier this week, my staunch conservative and evangelical friend at the gym walked over to me and said the following:
"I'm happy to be wrong."
For a moment I thought I was in a parallel universe in which men flew, cars ran on garbage, and commenters on Kevin Baker's blog were rational. I asked him what he meant and what exactly he was wrong about. He went on to tell me how happy he was that President Elect Barack Obama picked James Jones to be National Security Adviser. He repeated how wrong he was about Obama being "soft" on military issues and even went as far to say that it was a better pick than Condeleeza Rice. Wow!
It does my heart proud to see this type of reflection coming from someone who I thought incapable of looking inward. It gives me...hope:)
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I might actually wait for a little thing called results before making judgments. You only call it Reflection because you agree with it. You're too transparant.
hey rld, don't you know it isn't about the results, it's all about having good intentions.
I have to admit at being amused at the early disgruntlement of the left - they elected a cipher and NOW they are finding out who they really got. Very much like the right did with Bush eight years ago.
Yes, let's do wait for results. I'll be very interested in your take should they prove to be more positive than George Bush's results.
Juris, you are predicting that Obama is a cipher like Bush and yet agreeing with rld on results first? Hmm...
I'll be very interested in your take should they prove to be more positive than George Bush's results.
LMAO, I've heard of setting the bar low, but burying it before you start?
And in case you were too tone dear to note it M, Bush has been a big disappointment to the majority of the right. I see the same thing happening with Obama - just with the left this time. As you note, Obama is not looking particularly 'soft', and that is exactly what a large part of the left wants.
"dear" s/b "deaf" in the previous. durn sleepy fingers in the morning.
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