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Arrogant Obama's Short-Lived Presidential Seal

June 24, 2008 09:38 AM ET | Bonnie Erbe | Permanent Link | Print

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Is every other sentence a lie, or is there no such thing as a "lie"? Which one fits your candidate?

America is doomed

I'm blown away by the total ignorance, and lack of interest in doing anything about it in these responses. The comments to this article are from obviously uneducated people who are just blindly supporting someone because of his party affiliation and smooth talking, never mind that every other sentence is a lie! It must be that people can relate. There is no morality left in America. There is no right or wrong. There's no such thing as a "lie" during a campaign.

WAKE UP! GET SOME EDUCATION! DO SOME RESEARCH ABOUT YOUR CANDIDATE. I probably used too many 3 syllable words to be understandable to most...

Sean of NY. Thanks for pointing out the obvious to these idiots. All you have to do is take ten seconds to look around and you would find the McCain pins that you can buy for up to $5000. Please research before you say misleading things like this. It's not my job and I do it, but it is yours, is it too much to ask for that?

hi, i do research

John McCain’s own caucus — the National Republican Senatorial Committee — uses three different likenesses of the official seal…for fundraising purposes.

you can look these up and google them if you want:

Republican Presidential Task Force

Republican Senatorial Inner Circle

Republican Presidential Round Table

Bonnie, you're snotty little hit-job on the Obama seal is pathetic. You're supposed to be a journalist, but you're incapable of doing a simple search to realize how ironic you sound? Or maybe you did know about the Republican use of the seal and you're just incapable of being the slightest bit objective.

Even your bio blurb is pretentious; "Bonnie Erbe has covered Washington politics since God was a baby. Because of that, and the fact that she's a native New Yorker, nothing much surprises her anymore." Those two sentences are rank with condescending crap, much like your two paragraphs about the Obama seal.

Nose up in the Air Arrogance

He can't walk into a room without literally having his nose stuck way up in the air. In most shots of him he seems to have his nose way up and be looking down at everybody like a person who is looking down through his bifocals. He actually LOOKS incredibly stuck up and his attitudes and beliefs cement that fact. The people who deny must be blind and they just chose to ignore this, probably because they are the same and look down on the rest of us "common people," just like Obama does, and they think it is justified to be arrogant if, in their opinion, you are "better" than everyone else. I don't dislike him, but he IS arrogant and elitist, and that is the first thing that turned me off to him.

Mark

Obama Arrogant, Bush is not

Bush supporters had no problem with how arrogant Bush is/was when it came to his great "shock & awe" speech and the general arrogance of his demeanor and behavior in general. He is allowed, Obama is not.

Obama's Illinois Record

As someone who lives in Illinois and has to live with the results of his Senate term,

all I ask is before you shower Obama with praise and coronate him as president is to check out his record and how his decisions have affected the lives of Illinois residents.

We have the highest gas taxes in the country. Thanks to Chicago politics we are still known as having the most corrupt politicians in the country.

Obama was no different as any other Illinois politician then and he is no different now. The only difference Obama had as a illinois senator was he was so busy preparing to run for president while in the Illinois senate, he didn't have the guts to take a stand on ANY controversial issue, he merely voted PRESENT on all votes that could come back and haunt him during his presidential bids.

Thanks for your time

Sign of your stupidity.

It ain't a sign of much else.

I Get It

Bonnie's comment doesn't seem like a big deal. But think about it: this is a sign of what is bubbling underneath. Now, I am a None of the Above voter and certainly no Republican. Beware the presumption this expresses.

Yawn

I wish GOPers would at least pretend to stop using the same diversionary tactics and talk about what they LIKE about McCain. This post is so typical and freaking boring.

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About Bonnie Erbe

Bonnie Erbe is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe. She also writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column for Scripps Howard News Service.

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