[lbo-talk] peaceniks silent as Obama assembles team of hawks

[Dorene Cornwell]

(variant of the Give him a chance...)
"It's only been 3 days, a month.... since he was elected."
"Cripes he's not even sworn in yet."

Others?

DC

On 11/29/08, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:01:58 -0500
> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> > I got to ask an aunt-in-law, a
>> > prototypical Volvo-driving, Harvard-teaching liberal Democrat, how
>> > to handle this. Her answer: "He's just saying it for the
>> > election."
>
> Oh, *that* was the "she" in question. Sorry, missed this
> message.
>
> And fair enough. They don't just have one canonical
> response. They have have, what, three?
>
> 1) Would you prefer Bush?
> 2) He only said that to get elected.
> 3) Hey, give him a *chance* already.
>
> There may be a few more. Contributions
> solicited.
>
> Does anybody else know and love the Myles
> Na gCopaleen "Catechism of cliche?"
>
> --
>
> Michael Smith
> mjs at smithbowen.net
> http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org
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