tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1220057250271426855.post522076892721488963..comments2023-06-08T10:14:58.258-04:00Comments on The Yeoman Farmer: AstonishingTYFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507074580402175405noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1220057250271426855.post-16536028314023832882008-08-31T16:27:00.000-04:002008-08-31T16:27:00.000-04:00I don't follow the campaigns. I am already terrifi...I don't follow the campaigns. I am already terrified by one candidate and resigned to the other. So I didn't see Senator Obama's acceptance speech. I prolly could find it on youtube, but I'd rather not, so when I read your post I wondered if in your quote Obama was speaking about McCain or himself. Since the previous commenter gave a little more context, it's clear that he means McCain, but he may be implying, (as the above comment infers) "They're doing it, so don't blame me if we do it too."Michael Francis Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14530616271412726929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1220057250271426855.post-64845061398032640212008-08-29T15:08:00.000-04:002008-08-29T15:08:00.000-04:00Let's include the whole quote, to be fair:"I know ...Let's include the whole quote, to be fair:<BR/><BR/><I>"I know there are those who dismiss such beliefs as happy talk. They claim that our insistence on something larger, something firmer and more honest in our public life is just a Trojan Horse for higher taxes and the abandonment of traditional values. And that's to be expected. Because if you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.<BR/><BR/>"You make a big election about small things."</I><BR/><BR/>This seems to me a pretty straightforward description of how campaigns are run; I've done it and I imagine you have too. To the extent that this particular statement is about McCain, his record includes a lot of positions that won't make it into his ads because he's on record holding the opposite view. So the campaign becomes about . . . whether a legal headhunter would be impressed by his resume? <BR/>I shudder to think that we would be governed by people who made partner in large firms. Have you met many of them? -- JDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com