It's definitely much better for the party to have a non-inspirational nominee

[CTLawGuy]

I mean look at

Walter Mondale,
Mike Dukakis,
Al Gore (2000 version),
John Kerry.

Oh man what awesome candidates.

and look how badly John F. Kennedy, and Bill Clinton did.

Man, boring policy-wonkishness is the way to go.

Bore me to the polls!!!!!!

[sandnsea]

1. I didn't find any of them non-inspirational

And I would say they all suffered more from media assaults than true borishness.

But since we do have an inspirational candidate with great policies and a proven record, I don't see any reason not to go with him!

[Mojorabbit]

21. I have to admit

I held my nose when I voted for Dukakis.... But that was a looong time ago.

[sandnsea]

22. I liked him okay

He is the last Dem who was able to run on fairly pure liberal values though, anti-death penalty and all. When Obama says Reagan transformed the national conscience, I guess the people who criticize that forget just how liberal liberal used to be. It sure wasn't like Clinton "liberalism".

[Mojorabbit]

24. You are so right with

your statement,"It sure wasn't like Clinton "liberalism"."
It worries me that in the decades since that election, people who grew up only have known liberal lite. It is not liberal.
At least I have memmories of what it used to mean. The right has had a long time to frame things and the left has not fought hard enough to counter it. They mostly have assimilated to a large degree throwing out a few bones to keep the left in check.

[sandnsea]

25. I don't know for sure what Obama will do

But I do know for sure what Hillary will do because I lived it when I lived in Arkansas in the 80's, and we all saw it since 1992. We'll certainly just continue the slide into warmed-over Reaganism and it will be more palpable in comparison to full on Bush politics that nobody will even notice how far away it is from what it should be. I mean it took decades to create the conditions for Katrina to kill the people of New Orleans. The same catastrophe could happen in just about any major city. We need BIG IDEAS to tackle all these problems, city and country and all over the globe.

[Tennessee Gal]

2. Well, there is inspirational discussion with depth of knowledge and experience

and there is inspirational rhetoric for the purpose of hiding a lack of knowledge and experience.

I choose the former.

[niceypoo]

3. Inspiration doesnt come from politicians

...reading scripted stump speeches written by professional speech writers.

Substance is what we expect from a presidential nominee.

[HughMoran]

4. I think both of our candidates are inspirational

so that's not an issue IMHO

[jenmito]

5. Hey-wasn't Bill Clinton "the man from a place called Hope"? It was good enough for him, but not for

Obama? :shrug:

[HughMoran]

6. You may have missed the point

1) the post appears to be sarcastic
2) why do you always always always personalize it to be about Obama?

[jenmito]

8. Um, no I didn't. I know the OP was being sarcastic. I was agreeing with

him. You must have missed MY point.

[HughMoran]

9. perhaps

You say the same thing all the time, so I can't determine if you are kidding or serious

[jenmito]

10. Got a link to my other posts saying the same thing all the time? TIA.

[HughMoran]

14. I've read far too many

...but I can't search so I'm SOL as far as your one-note posting.

I know what I read though.

[jenmito]

15. It should be easy to find one. I post many times a day. So either find one or take back what

you said until/unless you're able to back up your claim.

[HughMoran]

16. I won't take it back

I find your prObama posts to be mindless and without substance.

[jenmito]

18. Then you're a liar and I won't be responding to your nonsense anymore.

:hi:

[HughMoran]

20. Good

Your idiotic posts do nothing for me anyway.

[BeyondGeography]

7. I'll never forget the '84 convention; two of the best speeches ever given

by Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson...and then came Mondale. It was his turn and he was a good, competent politician, but what a what a letdown after all those rhetorical fireworks. At the very least, it was widely thought, Cuomo would use the '84 keynote as a launching pad for the '88 election, but that never happened. Instead, we wind up with Dukakis, the world's only passionless Greek...

[sandnsea]

23. world's only passionless Greek

lololol. Olympia took it all. lol.

Yeah, Mario Cuomo, wow. I will never forget it either. It was like, oh my god, this is what old-fashioned Democratic politics is all about!

[Cha]

11. Not only is hilary non inspiriational..

she lies to get herself some votes and supporting the military complex as a senator is not my idea of a person who's in it for the greater good of all.. so what fresh hell will they bring to the whitehouse redux?

[JVS]

12. Stevenson 08! Third time's a charm

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

13. Since JFK all but lost in 1960 you might want to shorten your list to Clinton

[JVS]

17. Should we have just let Humphreys lose to Nixon 8 years ahead of time and got it done with then?

I

[Hippo_Tron]

26. Kennedy won in 1960

Yes he stole Illinois but he would've won without it anyway. And if you think that Nixon didn't also have his people steeling votes then I've got a bridge to sell you.

[cooolandrew]

19. LOL. hillarious but Kerry and Gore get a pardon for recent years.