Chicagoist: People Drink the Obama Kool-Aid, but Obama Zinfandel?

verbingle

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:55:06 -0600

Obama doesn't connect with the less economically motivated people because he does not understand them. He understands people who are focussed on money, and who believe that money makes the world go round. He understands them so well, that he is a messiah. But he is just an upitty American to people who don't think life is about having a good job and getting a good education. BTW- That is why he gets on the Latinos' nerves.

Chuck Sudo

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:33:40 -0600

You still can't construct a haiku. I thought you'd learned something besides the John Thompson scowl.

Spook

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:29:36 -0600

grasping for straws bollweevil in cotton brain Chuck keeps buying bridges

Chuck Sudo

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:10:46 -0600

Forty year old Spook tends to overcompensate for his lighter skin

Spook

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:14:09 -0600

Su su Sudo how easy it is to sit back on the side lines and pass judgement on the haikus of others because you are about bankrupt in Haiku as a prime loan issued in an underserved southside community

Chuck Sudo

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:54:42 -0600

"Didn't know the Spook could read minds did you?" About as well as you can construct haikus, apparently.

Spook

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:46:20 -0600

Rachelle's thoughts..... "its like soooo much easier for me as a goo goo liberal to like cope with The Spook by placing every thing he/she says in a Black and white context, because the class,economic,and historical perspective that Spook brings makes my midwest sensibility head hurt" Didn't know the Spook could read minds did you?

Rachelle Bowden

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:25:38 -0600

matty, is that your best spook impersonation?

Ferdy

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:33:18 -0600

Chuck, I love rose. I just hate white zin. By the way, I love just plain zin, too, which is red, y'all.

Chuck Sudo

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:23:55 -0600

You're generalizing, Ferdy. Not all rosés are terrible. It's easy to peg Elizabeth Kucinich as the "What is his wife drinking? candidate. But the man's gotta have some skills.

matty

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:23:12 -0600

Why not black zinfandel? Why's it got to be white? Ain't that a bit racialist?

E

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:20:16 -0600

Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for white zinfandel?

Ferdy

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:54:49 -0600

White zin sucks! That's reason enough not to vote for him.

Spook

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:43:30 -0600

O'Bama has never been committed to issues of poor and working class folk. Even during the year he spent as an "organizer" his “moderate pragmatic” approach was from Saul Alinsky who focused more on white ethnic working class issues. Hillary on the other had has more experience advocating for those at the bottom of the heap, including Black folk and women And I see another "liberal" white male with a hip O’bama print t shit, I’m going for the throat, word is bond, and that’s on every thing

matty

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:32:31 -0600

I want to be known as the pbr voter who sometimes drinks wine but usually, depending on the amount of money i have, i stick to mid range beers like sam adams because it's easier to sip on and doesn't go down like water.

Mr_Smith

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:16:17 -0600

More importantly: who is the "box wine" candidate and who is the "wine cube" candidate? I can already say with some confidence that Mike Gravel is the Boone's Farm candidate and Dennise Kucinich is the "Who cares what he drinks, have you SEEN that dude's wife? How did THAT happen?" candidate.

Spav1

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:55:18 -0600

Hillary is polling better with "beer track" people simply because she is better known. One dilemma in electoral politics is that people who are less educated (i.e. beer track) are more easy to influence or "educate" but are much harder to reach (because they aren't as involved in reading newspapers, blogs etc). On the other hand, "wine-trackers" have much more set opinions but are at the receiving end of most political messages. While clearly this is not Obama's fault, he must figure out a way to get his message more on point for the "beer track". The "rising cost specialty vegetables at Whole Foods" certainly isn't going to help him in that area.

Chuck Sudo

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:41:24 -0600

Speaking solely for myself as a documented beer drinker, my reservations with Obama lay in the lack of substance behind his style, not my education, net worth, or lack thereof. Although it is nice to see the Tribune trading in antiquated notions of who drinks beer and wine and how that correlates at the ballot box. Maybe we'll see a "Kool Aid-track" for the leading GOP candidates in the paper soon.