As John Lennon once said, strange days indeed

[wyldwolf]

A candidate, on DemocraticUnderground, is being commended for Sister Souljah moments and for being most favored by CEOs.

Most peculiar, mamma, whoa!

[jefferson_dem]

1. LOL! That's what we call "new politics"...

Get used to it.

[wyldwolf]

2. you mean "New Democrat" politics. Have him officially join the DLC and make an honest man of him

[MannyGoldstein]

3. He Doesn't Love War

I don't think they'd let him in.

[Tellurian]

7. Obama will continue the Bush/Cheney agenda and that is WAR!

we've posted numerous statements on Obama's increasing troops and continued aggression in the ME..

Your farcical comments continue to tow the line of denial of what and who your candidate truly represents.

[Ethelk2044]

8. That is what Hillary has been pushing. She even took up for the war stating it was going well.

Then she tried to back track once she realized she made a mistake for speaking what she believes. He is the one who has been against it.

[Tellurian]

9. Are you going to vote for whoever is the Dem nominee?

[Clintonista2]

10. Then why did he vote to fund it most of the time?

Stop deluding yourself.

[MannyGoldstein]

11. Obama's Clearly On Record As Being Against Starting The War

Mrs. Clinton voted to start for this war.

Once war begins, everything changes - as Colin Powell said, "We break it - we own it".

I'm not necessarily in agreement with the previous efforts to fund the war - but I'm not sure that they were wrong either (except in retrospect, which makes everything crystal clear).

[Clintonista2]

13. What he DOES is more important than what he SAYS

Tell me, if he's been "against the war from the start", then why did he SPEAK OUT AGAINST and VOTE AGAINST the Kerry-Feingold amendment, which would have funded troop withdrawls? No Obama supporter to date has ever been able to answer that question.

[MannyGoldstein]

14. As I Said, Everything Changed Once We Started The War

Going to war vs. not going to war was a crystal clear vote. Once we were there, the choices were not clear at all.

[Clintonista2]

15. So we shouldn't bring the troops home?

Very sad to be reading that, on DU of all places. By the way, that amendment was introduced in 2006, 3 years after the start of the war. You're telling me that after 3 years there were no clear choices? Funny how it's only taken him 4 years to realize that a troop withdrawl is the solution. So much for "against the war from the beginning", eh?

[jefferson_dem]

16. You know that Obama has long held that we need to be as responsible leaving Iraq

as we were irresponsible going in. Cleaning up Chimpy's clusterfuck in Iraq (that Hillary rubber-stamped) is not easy, y'know...

[Clintonista2]

19. Are you familiar with the Kerry-Feingold amendment?

It funded phased redeployment of American troops over the course of a year. Soon after announcing his candidacy for the presidency, he said he would introduce legislation calling for... phased redeployment of American troops (http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/01/obamas_turn_says_hell_introduce_iraq_legislation_calling_for_phased_withdrawal.php). What changed? I think you know the answer to that one.

[MannyGoldstein]

17. Yes, That's Exactly What I Said...

...not.

This might be helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

[Odin2005]

4. Uh, no.

Obama emphasizes that Most Americans fundamentally agree on most things AND MOST OF THOSE THINGS WE AGREE ON ARE PROGRESSIVE. That's quite a bit different from DLC fake "bipartisanship".

[ellacott]

5. So, Sister Souljah moments aren't commendable? n/t

[zulchzulu]

6. I love that tune...fun to play on guitar

Nobody Told Me-John Lennon

Everybody's talking and no one says a word
Everybody's making love and no one really cares
There's Nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs

/ A Asus2 D D6D / / A E D Bm /

There's always something happening and nothin' going on
There's always something cooking and nothing in the pot
They're starving back in China, so finish what you got

{Refrain}
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Strange days indeed, strange days indeed

/ G D Em - / / / C G D D6D C G A - /

Everybody's runnin' and no one makes a move
Well everybody's a winner and nothing left to lose
There's a little yellow idol to the north of Katmandu

Everybody's flying and no one leaves the ground
Well everybody's crying and no one makes a sound
There's a place for us in movies, you just gotta lay around

{Refrain}
... most peculiar mama

Everybody's smoking and no one's getting high
Everybody's flying and never touch the sky
There's UFO's over in New York and I ain't too surprised

{Refrain}
... most peculiar mama, whoa

Note:
The break is loosely Bm C#m D E Bm E D Bm...

[AtomicKitten]

12. It's the E ticket ride.

[Colobo]

18. John Lennon is very overrated as a vocalist.

I can't stop saying it.

[Norrin Radd]

20. Really?

I think it's skillful how he is able to sing "Nobody told me there'd be days like these" in that song as if it were one word.

[Colobo]

21. His voice was pretty average and

his terrible rendition of Twist And Shout (I've heard the sore throat story) is nothing to be proud of.

[Scriptor Ignotus]

22. nailed Twist and Shout on one take

I respectfully disagree. Besides, he isn't known primarily as a vocalist, he's mainly known as a songwriter (along with Paul and among other things of course).

[Colobo]

23. His Twist and Shout version sucks Big time, and regardless of his sore throat.

The Isley Brothers sang Twist and Shout. John Lennon ruined Twist and Shout.

[Norrin Radd]

24. I've always preferred vocalists who have a voice with a unique or strangely cool sound,

as opposed to someone with a sterile control over vocal range and pitch. But that's just me.

[Colobo]

25. That's cool. Lennon was a very talented songwriter, that we agree.