Impulse Thought Before Bed: I Don't Want A Rock Star In The White House. I Want A President.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

After zooming through a bunch of threads right before I head to bed, that was the thought that just popped into my head.

Good night DU, and remember to love each other.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

1. I agree. I don't want mega-celebrity Hillary Clinton to be President either.

[Whisp]

2. I don't want an Iraq star as president. nt

[sandnsea]

3. I want a President, not a crook

:shrug:

[jkshaw]

4. OMC

Obama isn't a rock star. That's a label coined by the MSM.

[Seen the light]

5. So you didn't like Bill Clinton?

That surprises me OMC.

[readmoreoften]

6. Well, you're going to get a famous woman or a rock star.

Or a neoconservative scumbag.

[Lebam in LA]

7. K&R

[DUyellow]

8. I do not want a President just based on their name, we did that already with Bush

[JI7]

9. you wouldn't want John Kerry in the White House ?

:)

[BrightKnight]

14. I would - n/t

[scheming daemons]

10. I bet you voted for Bill Clinton in 1992, though.

:eyes:

[REDFISHBLUEFISH]

11. I want someone who knows whats going on and does not steal ideas and put them in fancy wrapping!

Edwards, no lobbyists,,,Obama steal it.

Started right of the bat didn't he?

[Bread and Circus]

12. What's funny is I don't consider Obama a "rock star". He's just a brilliant

Senator who says and stands for things I agree with. His message and his life story are consistent, positive, and inspiring. His policies are sound. His record in his legislative career is slightly left of Clinton and his foreign policy positions are even more left than Clinton. On some key issues (IWR, cluster, bombs, and kyl lieberman) he didn't stand with the Republicans as Hillary did. He's charismatic enough to get things done and smart enough with good enough judgement to pick the right path.

It's you guys that are trying to make him a cult like figure so you can marginalize him and his supporters.

He speaks in inspirational terms, but that's what great leaders do. It's fundamental to human communication.

Was Vince Lombardi a cult leader because he had a poetic way of saying things?
Was Abe Lincoln?
Was MLK?
Was FDR?

What is so wrong with a little poetry to go with our prose?

[jkshaw]

13. Right Bread, also Churchill

Churchill's great gift was oratory. He buoyed the country when England was fighting for its life, when its people were being pounded nearly senseless by the Axis. He was tremendously important in the Allied effort to overcome Hitler, just by his speeches alone. They are a wonderful read, and the recordings of them are wonderful to hear. I believe that Obama will stand as one of the great and inspirational orators of our age.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

15. As an American citizen, our presidents are public servants. Employees.

As a supervisor, I'm looking for someone who knows how to run a country. And, the current employee is such a fuck up that he needs fired, but, apparently relying on his peer group to whom I've granted the authority to demand accountability from their "leader",means I end up fucked, and not in the good way.

I'm not hiring a leader behind whom I'll fall unquestioningly, I'm hiring someone who tells me what needs to be done and who explains to me what I should do to help them make it happen.

[Political Heretic]

16. Sixty-four pages. Sixty-four pages of clear, concrete-specific, detailed plans for the White House

http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/ObamaBlueprintForChange.pdf

He's not a rock star. He's a leader.

Good night.