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Wednesday October 10, 2012 · 10:43 AM PDT

2012/10/10 · 10:43

Yesterday a friend shared a political "joke" online -- it's apparently a "comical" slam on the President that's been around for some time and is certainly not unique in this election season...but something about it rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe it was the (literally) off-color content, maybe it was the way that it furthered one-dimensional inaccurate representations and clumsily pushed hot button issues/terms (regrettable tactics that now also pervade media coverage and the debates themselves), or maybe I was just feeling grumpy.

I jotted a comical response that employed the same fictional, tongue-in-cheek approach but showed the counter-veiling stereotype...perhaps it wasn't mature, but it was fun, and hopefully illuminating to some who are so ensconced in anti-Obama rhetoric that they rarely come up for a breath of reality. At least I admit that my side is a (slight) exaggeration ;)

I include both posts/sides below -- enjoy one, the other, or both...

Sensei

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Tuesday February 26, 2008 · 11:26 AM PST

2008/02/26 · 11:26

With her campaign nearly as dead as the famous mountaineer for whom she falsely claimed being named, Hillary Clinton has found yet another voice -- and this time it's ugly and irrational.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, but her campaign's latest course threatens both party unity and the Clinton legacy, trespassing far beyond the pale of reasonable politics...or logic.

Over this past weekend Mrs. Clinton manically transformed from being honored by Obama to outraged by him, from opposing "Rovian" tactics to employing them, from promising change to mocking it, and from bragging about her White House experience to dismissing it when convenient.

In short: from viable to vile.

Read on for details and reality checks on her ridiculous, illogical and hypocritical efforts to salvage the glass slipper that just doesn’t seem to fit.

Sensei

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Monday February 18, 2008 · 10:45 AM PST

2008/02/18 · 10:45

Universally hailed as a hero, John McCain is often given a free pass on his personal background by virtue of his POW status...but with his presidential nomination presumably sealed, is it time to remove his veil and our kid gloves?

How many voters realize that the affable, acceptable driver of the "Straight-Talk Express" has a sketchy political record, a sordid private life and an upbringing that mirrors the despised executive that he seeks to replace?

Go below the fold for details...

Sensei

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Monday July 09, 2007 · 1:02 PM PDT

2007/07/09 · 13:02

Mission Accomplished? Yes, actually.

It's been 50 months since the infamous photo-op, codpiece and macho rhetoric from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, and history has seen that moment turn from a shining image of Neocon triumph into a running joke and haunting symbol of Bushie bravado and incompetence. Countless cartoons and commentaries have skewered the stunt, while modern-day-Murrow, Keith Olberman, signs off each Countdown broadcast with a count-up of days since the ill-fated proclamation.

Are these endless liberal lampoons fair? Do they rally support or cast the party as a vulture more interested in picking at a corpse than setting things right?

The more accurate and embraceable way to decry the handling of Iraq is to clearly lay full blame where it belongs: at the foot of the architects of a post-Saddam Iraq. Get your bumper stickers. Circulate the talking points. Get all candidates on message. Repeat after me:

"WE WON THE WAR -- WE HAVE LOST THE PEACE."

Read on for further analysis of the best use of "Mission Acomplished" and how minds can be changed through the strength of syntax...

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Friday July 06, 2007 · 10:18 AM PDT

2007/07/06 · 10:18

Who presents a greater threat to American society - international terrorists, or the current caretakers of the federal government?

The recent United Kingdom bombing buffoonery provided further evidence that the rhetorical bark of the global jihad may be worse than its operational ability to bite. Conversely, President Bush's liberation of Scooter Libby confirmed that there are no legal or ethical boundaries that this administration will not cross to satisfy its own ends.

Is the War on Terror more dangerous than the terrorists? Is Al Qaeda merely a straw man cast as a formidable foe in order to cow the masses and keep neo-cons in power? Read on for a discussion of the true nature of the threat posed by each side of this tangled equation...

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