Here's Obama talking about diplomacy...
And cheney...
"...it would seem to say a lot about the state the party is in today if that's becoming the dominant view of the Democratic Party, the basic, fundamental
notion that
somehow we can retreat behind our oceans and not be actively engaged in this conflict and be safe here at home, which clearly we know we won't -- we can't be. So we have to be actively engaged not only in Afghanistan and Iraq, but on a global basis if we're going to succeed in prevailing in this long-term conflict."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060809-2.html (White House website)
Even Paul Begala...
BEGALA: What worries me is this
notion that
somehow there’s a new Democratic Party and we don’t really need all those folks. And we’re — Donna is exactly right. The only way to win this in my party — we’re not the monochromatic Republican Party.
http://thepage.time.com/transcript-from-cnns-election-center/ (Time magazine)
Here's Obama on Ayers...
"This is a guy who lives in my neighbourhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know, and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis. And the
notion that
somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/us-election/clinton-brawls-with-obama/2008/04/17/1208025380749.html (Sydney Morning Herald)
Obama on Iraq...
"The
notion that
somehow we have succeeded as a consequence of the recent reductions in violence means that we have set the bar so low it's buried in the sand at this point... We went from intolerable levels of violence and a dysfunctional government to spikes and horrific levels of violence and a dysfunctional government."
http://files.tikkun.org/current/article.php?story=20080316070840850 (Tikkun)
And back to Obama on diplomacy...
"The
notion that I was
somehow going to be inviting them over for tea next week without having initial envoys meet is ridiculous," he said in an interview outside his Senate office. "But the general principle is one that I think Senator Clinton is wrong on, and that is if we are laying out preconditions that prevent us from speaking frankly to these folks, then we are continuing with Bush-Cheney policies."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/25/AR2007072501959.html (Washington Post)
Hmm, Obama seems to be the principal offender here. I admit that this is a nice construction, expressing as it does the speaker's wonderment that the other side could even
suggest such a thing. They don't even have an idea - just a
notion that they
somehow imagine to be true. But enough!
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