Jon Stewart poking fun at Obama

The video is a riot.

"self-aggrandizement in lieu of substance, unadulterated hunger for power and social climbing."

Doesn’t that make him perfectly qualified to be president?

Sorry I missed Stewart's comments. My first thought though is, Was it funny?" If it was - good. HUMor and HUMility have the same root for a good reason - we need both. No one would run fro prsident if they did not suffer from "presumptuous[ness] and self-aggrandizing'. The trick will be to see how Obama - or any candidate deals with this. If he can kick the dust off his sandals (or Gucci's), smile with everyone, and move along - that is good. If he gets defensive and tries to make it seem like something else - not so good (status quo politics).

Oh, and I will add 'Mission Accomplished', with all THAT meant, was far more significant than the seal. After all, we are talking about a war, where people die more often after that statement than ever died before.

You don't see any difference in the level of significance? Because when I talk about the 'Mission Accomplished', I'm not talking about a verbal faux pas or a political slip to mock.

It is, for me, about the whole policy and goals of the current military action, and this administration's role in it.

"It's important for the public to know that he's presumptuous and self-aggrandizing and demonstrates poor judgment."

i see nothing wrong with being presumptuous (is that your argument for the "mission accomplished" banner?) and you have yet to provide evidence any case of poor judgment on obama's part (other than his presumption that conservatives could ever focus on the issues).

how many candidates use the phrase "when i'm president...?" yup, all of them, i'd bet.

so, like i intended to say from the get-go:

*YAAAAAWN*

now, here's a wake-up call. you were asking about obama's bounce. apparently you asked too early. two polls have obama ahead of mccain by double digits. it's hard to not come across as boastful to the losers when you're clearly the better and preferred candidate.

on to public financing...

since you don't seem to know how it works, i don't highly regard your opinions on the subject. but, assuming that you did a little homework after being ridiculed for your own gaffe, i'll humor you this once.

seems to me that public financing is a good system. candidates aren't required to take it and tax payers aren't required to pay it. but it's there to help a handicapped candidate. in this case, there's something to be said about obama's alternate public financing (it is the public financing his campaign, after all). mccain is welcome to make the same play. didn't you just try to make the case that he can be competitive? or he can take money from corporations, lobbyists, and from his own huger coffers, as is the republican norm. or he can do what he's doing. just because he's losing because he painted himself into a corner, you all sound like sour grapes now.