Comments on: Seeing Barack in Houston http://ifedeli.com/2008/02/24/seeing-barack-in-houston/ the ordinary misadventures of flapjack fedeli Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:07:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Enkaybee http://ifedeli.com/2008/02/24/seeing-barack-in-houston/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Enkaybee Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:32:50 +0000 http://ifedeli.wordpress.com/?p=37#comment-6 He was in Madison, Wisconsin a couple weeks ago and I saw him there. He didn't pull the "making more in 10 minutes" line, but he repeated a lot of stuff from his previous rallies. I'd really like to see him say some new things. I'm afraid his momentum might be lost if he doesn't. I'm ashamed to see so many people cheer at that too. Not because it's a gross exaggeration (a CEO would be making $992,000,000/year in that scenario), but because it focuses too much on what he can't do (convince companies to pay their CEO's less) and not enough on what he plans to do (give money back to the people who need it). He was in Madison, Wisconsin a couple weeks ago and I saw him there. He didn’t pull the “making more in 10 minutes” line, but he repeated a lot of stuff from his previous rallies. I’d really like to see him say some new things. I’m afraid his momentum might be lost if he doesn’t.

I’m ashamed to see so many people cheer at that too. Not because it’s a gross exaggeration (a CEO would be making $992,000,000/year in that scenario), but because it focuses too much on what he can’t do (convince companies to pay their CEO’s less) and not enough on what he plans to do (give money back to the people who need it).

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