Comments on: Give ‘Em Hell, Mike Gravel http://skunkcabbage.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/give-em-hell-mike-gravel/ soup and books Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:38:40 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: skunkcabbage http://skunkcabbage.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/give-em-hell-mike-gravel/#comment-251 skunkcabbage Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:30:43 +0000 http://skunkcabbage.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/give-em-hell-mike-gravel/#comment-251 Yeah, I enjoy the angry grandpa delivery, too. If you go to Gravel's web site it mentions that he filibustered Nixen for 5 months to end the Viet Nam draft. Direct democracy stuff is interesting, but I'm itchy about a sales tax rather than income tax. The Biden "yes" was pretty good. He has some charisma. Kucinich whipping it out was a bit melodramatic, but if he doesn't grandstand (and possibly even if he does) the press will disappear him in summaries of the debate. Clinton really said nothing worthwhile. It's interesting to watch the bourgeois press eat her up. Serious about war and business, really, what's not to like from their perspective. Yeah, I enjoy the angry grandpa delivery, too. If you go to Gravel’s web site it mentions that he filibustered Nixen for 5 months to end the Viet Nam draft. Direct democracy stuff is interesting, but I’m itchy about a sales tax rather than income tax.

The Biden “yes” was pretty good. He has some charisma.

Kucinich whipping it out was a bit melodramatic, but if he doesn’t grandstand (and possibly even if he does) the press will disappear him in summaries of the debate. Clinton really said nothing worthwhile. It’s interesting to watch the bourgeois press eat her up. Serious about war and business, really, what’s not to like from their perspective.

]]> By: cerebraljetsam http://skunkcabbage.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/give-em-hell-mike-gravel/#comment-244 cerebraljetsam Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:36:05 +0000 http://skunkcabbage.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/give-em-hell-mike-gravel/#comment-244 Gravel: very funny man! Sadly, the drunken-angry-grandpa-chastising-grandchildren form of delivery probably obscured the fact he had some really good things to say. Makes me want to hear him speak more often (sadly not because I think he is a good politician--more in a way that I like to listen to Lewis Black). I gotta say, though, the prize for the wittiest answer goes to Biden's "yes." Re: Obama and Clinton from the perspective of the MSNBC post-debate analysis: "Clinton is in politics grad school, whereas the debate has shown that all the other people are still undergrads." Hmmm... Even Pat Buchanan praised her in the highest tones, but that is obviously tainted by ulterior motives. In any case, I do have to agree that I was somewhat disappointed by Obama. Kucinich was good, but too often his solid arguments were overshadowed by what seemed to be a too artificial and staged delivery (see the "look at me holding the constituion" bit). A bit too over the top for me, making it too theatrical, hence diverting attention from his great arguments. Gravel: very funny man! Sadly, the drunken-angry-grandpa-chastising-grandchildren form of delivery probably obscured the fact he had some really good things to say. Makes me want to hear him speak more often (sadly not because I think he is a good politician–more in a way that I like to listen to Lewis Black).

I gotta say, though, the prize for the wittiest answer goes to Biden’s “yes.”

Re: Obama and Clinton from the perspective of the MSNBC post-debate analysis: “Clinton is in politics grad school, whereas the debate has shown that all the other people are still undergrads.” Hmmm… Even Pat Buchanan praised her in the highest tones, but that is obviously tainted by ulterior motives. In any case, I do have to agree that I was somewhat disappointed by Obama. Kucinich was good, but too often his solid arguments were overshadowed by what seemed to be a too artificial and staged delivery (see the “look at me holding the constituion” bit). A bit too over the top for me, making it too theatrical, hence diverting attention from his great arguments.

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