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TheGlobalizer
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« on: June 30, 2011, 04:58:36 PM »

Kerry.  He'd be bad but he's enough of a politico that he'd probably be a weak version of Bill Clinton.
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TheGlobalizer
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« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2011, 01:30:11 PM »

Kerry.  He'd be bad but he's enough of a politico that he'd probably be a weak version of Bill Clinton.

In my view, Obama is almost exactly that.

In my view, Obama is a weak version of Trotsky.

That's not entirely a criticism, but it's certainly not a compliment.
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TheGlobalizer
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E: 6.84, S: -7.13

« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2011, 05:49:04 PM »

He has an unproductive fetish towards labor/government commingling and integration, and a loathsome view towards powerful groups.  I'm not saying he's trying to impose a communist/Soviet state -- there's no path to success for that -- but I'm having a hard time seeing where he'd stop if he had the unfettered latitude to push it.

I actually find it rather endearing and earnest, but for the social upheaval and economic destruction it would cause.

At the end of the day, though, he's a cynical pragmatist, and so pits power against power.
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TheGlobalizer
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Posts: 3,286
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Political Matrix
E: 6.84, S: -7.13

« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2011, 06:01:12 PM »

Kerry.  He'd be bad but he's enough of a politico that he'd probably be a weak version of Bill Clinton.

In my view, Obama is almost exactly that.

In my view, Obama is a weak version of Trotsky.

That's not entirely a criticism, but it's certainly not a compliment.

Thanks for confirming that I don't need to pay attention to you. It soemtimes can be hard to distinguish between the ordinary boring, yet normally intelligent Internet Libertarian, and the crazy Internet Libertarian who bases his ideas of this really deep blog he reads by this really clever guy.

Hey, at least I didn't say he was a weak Mao or Stalin, because he's not.

Nice ad hominem, though.
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