Comments on: Pull My Finger

By: PGE

PGE — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:10:21 +0000

Re: Family exaggerating when telling stories to kids.
When I was little, my dad used to tell us exciting war stories about his experiences on Mindinao during WWII. I think I was in my early teens before he told us the truth: he was 4F and was stateside the entire time. Ha, ha, ha. The thing is, if he hadn’t come clean, I’d probably believe to this day that he had served in the Phillipines.

By: Doobie

Doobie — Sat, 31 May 2008 07:46:28 +0000

Bush and Cheney wear flag pins. Does this mean they’re more patriotic than Obama?

By: Michael Harrington

Michael Harrington — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:40:04 +0000

There is a pretty signifigant difference between thinking your great uncle helped liberate one Nazi camp rather than another on one hand, and claiming you were under fire at a peaceful and routine meet and greet at an airport that was extensively filmed and covered by the press, on the other.

By: greg

greg — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:22:57 +0000

I can’t take anyone seriously who would use the term “the flag pin issue”. The fact that Hillary supporters would actually take something that superficial into consideration when deciding who should be the next president makes me realize that their judgment is as pathetic as Hillary’s in October 2002.

By: Brad Gutting

Brad Gutting — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:03:14 +0000

I’ll remind you that there is no “winner” until the votes at the convention are tallied. If you’re gonna parse everything that Clinton does and says, you’ll have to deal with it yourself.

As for Obama’s slip-up, it’s relevant to Clinton’s supporters because he makes a point of slicing-and-dicing all of her slip-ups.

Obama himself has offered around 6 different explanations of Rev. Wright (ranging from “I wasn’t there” to “he only said it sometimes” to “I disagree but still like him” to “now that he’s a liability, he’s gone”). Similarly, there’s the flag pin issue. That’s been “it’s just a symbol so I don’t wear it” to “I never said that” to “sometimes I wear it.” Again, he’s always reacting to the political environment around him.

That’s not a criticism. It’s doing what you gotta do. But for whatever reason, various people’s revulsion of Clinton is often justified by the same behavior in her. It’s sort of hypocritical.–you probably don’t see it that way, being such a strong Obama supporter and equally strong critic of Clinton, but that doesn’t change the reality.