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Politics | Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 6:32:46 pm PDT

This election is bringing back bad memories for Michael Dukakis.

Former Gov. Michael Dukakis said Monday that John McCain’s presidential campaign is using the same race-based tactics that were used against him in his 1988 presidential run. ...

Asked if he considered the ad to be in the same vein as the infamous ‘Willie Horton’ ad ad run by a third party group in support of George H.W. Bush in the 1988 presidential campaign, Dukakis told PolitickerMA.com: “Essentially, yes.”

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1 pingjockey  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:34:21pm

I thought some donks ran the Willie Horton ad first?! Like in the primaries maybe?

2 vbspurs  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:34:29pm

So does Willie Horton.

3 HelloDare  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:34:51pm

Dukakis is black? Since when?

4 big L  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:35:57pm

Huh? Dukakis was hard to figure out 20yrs ago. Still the same.

5 rupert  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:36:05pm

Since Dukakis is complaining...
now I guess I will vote for Obama.

6 doriangrey  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:36:11pm

re: #3 HelloDare

Dukakis is black? Since when?

Dukakis is a douche bag...

7 BigPapa  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:36:15pm

Where's that picture of a baby crying...?

8 sbvft contributor  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:36:32pm

Remember Lovitz playing Dukakis on SNL? Other than Reagan whooping his ass, that was my fondest memory of the 88 campaign. Comedy gold.

9 JammieWearingFool  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:36:38pm

Michael Dukakis is still alive?

10 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:36:38pm

Typical democrat- he's still not showing the military the respect it's due.

Mikey- give the tank photo-op some props, man.

11 BigPapa  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:37:11pm

The entertainment to politik quotient rises again.

12 vbspurs  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:37:15pm

re: #1 pingjockey

I thought some donks ran the Willie Horton ad first?! Like in the primaries maybe?

It was Al Gore who brought up the spectre of Willie Horton.

The first person to mention the Massachusetts furlough program in the 1988 presidential campaign was Al Gore. During a debate at the Felt Forum sponsored by the New York Daily News, Gore took issue with the furlough program. However, he did not specifically mention the Horton incident or even mention Horton's name, instead asking a general question about the Massachusetts furlough program.

13 sbvft contributor  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:37:19pm

re: #8 sbvft contributor


...sorry - Bush

14 lone_wolf_in_illinois  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:37:27pm

re: #7 BigPapa

Right here.

15 daledog  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:37:44pm

Oh yes, I forgot. Factual ads = racism. My mistake.

16 pingjockey  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:37:49pm

Hey Mike! Go climb back in that tank. That picture was a dumb as Kerry in the bunny suit climbing out of the shuttle!

17 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:38:10pm
18 WhiteRasta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:38:24pm

Michael who?

19 PoorMan  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:38:26pm

Who?
Oh, right... Michael Dukakis...
Isn't that a name on a Trivial Pursuit card?

20 pingjockey  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:38:51pm

re: #12 vbspurs
Thanks. I knew someone else had alluded to it before GHWB.

21 daledog  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:39:25pm

re: #8 sbvft contributor
Thank you for reminding me about this. The Dems just keep serving up the losers, don't they?

22 BigPapa  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:39:29pm

re: #14 lone_wolf_in_illinois

Thanks Wolf! Love it.

23 doppelganglander  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:39:36pm

IIRC, Algore was the one who first introduced the topic of Willie Horton, before the National Security PAC put out the tv ad. For you young whippersnappers, you can see it here.

24 doriangrey  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:39:39pm

re: #16 pingjockey

Hey Mike! Go climb back in under that tank. That picture was a dumb as Kerry in the bunny suit climbing out of the shuttle!

Heh heh heh...

25 looking closely  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:39:41pm

Yeah, we all know GWB was a big Greek-O-phobe.

And I got news for the ex-Governor.

If there is anyone playing the race card here, its Obama. . .again and again accusing his adversaries of racism via his subordinates.

One would be led to believe that Obama's deck has about 15 race cards in it.

26 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:39:41pm

Race-based.. wha? hunh?

27 neocon hippie  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:39:50pm

Maybe their internal polls are not looking good if there's this concerted effort to push the race card. Gotta have their proverbial ducks in a row if they go down to defeat in six weeks.

28 loppyd  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:39:51pm

Funny, but I thought this had something to do with it.

Bernard Shaw: "Governor, if Kitty Dukakis [his wife] were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?"

Dukakis: replied coolly, "No, I don't, and I think you know that I've opposed the death penalty during all of my life..."

29 HelloDare  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:40:10pm

Dukakis? Is that the guy who played in Hogan's Heroes? I have a vague recollection of him with a helmet on.

30 BigPapa  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:40:53pm

re: #17 buzzsawmonkey

Who hears a Horton?

Dr Suess reference: two points.

31 DanVanSmak  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:41:05pm

And, in other news today, Dan Quayle snickers, raises a shot glass full of whiskey in a toast to Sarah Palin, downs it, and chases it home with a beer. I know that's what *I* would be doing if I was Mr. Quayle. Ah what the hell...I think I just talked myself into it...cheers!

*out*

32 JammieWearingFool  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:41:05pm

re: #8 sbvft contributor

Remember Lovitz playing Dukakis on SNL? Other than Reagan whooping his ass, that was my fondest memory of the 88 campaign. Comedy gold.

Um, it was the elder Bush who threw a beating on Dukakis.

33 nyc redneck  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:41:25pm

re: #9 JammieWearingFool

Michael Dukakis is still alive?

yes, and hollering for a week end pass for willie horton.

34 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:41:31pm
First, Dukakis said, the McCain ad is based on a lie. Raines isn't one of Obama's closest economic advisors, he said. Other members from Fannie Mae have advised Obama but the McCain camp chose to focus the ad specifically on Raines, an African American.

"Why did they pick that person from Fannie Mae?" he asked rhetorically.

Well, Tanky D- it's because the msm reported that Raines was advising 0bama.

But there are other from Fannie advising 0bama? You realize that's not much better, don't you?

35 Pullus Iulius  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:41:42pm

re: #19 PoorMan

Who?
Oh, right... Michael Dukakis...
Isn't that a name on a Trivial Pursuit card?

You know - Lloyd Bentsen's running mate. Decidedly the lesser half of that ticket.

36 sbvft contributor  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:42:29pm

re: #32 JammieWearingFool

yeah - i corrected myself (see comment 13). as soon as i hit post - i knew it. DOH!

37 loppyd  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:42:32pm
38 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:42:43pm

re: #25 looking closely

Yeah, we all know GWB was a big Greek-O-phobe.

And I got news for the ex-Governor.

If there is anyone playing the race card here, its Obama. . .again and again accusing his adversaries of racism via his subordinates.

One would be led to believe that Obama's deck has about 15 race cards in it.

That cheap-shot polital hack Obama thinks the same kind of mafia-style, get-your-dirty-work-done-by-others style will work the same in the national spotlight as it did in Chicago, where people areway too worried about getting shot to research the politicians. And he's wrong.

39 HelloDare  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:42:50pm

Michael Dukakis. Who knows, if he were elected he may have eclipsed Jimmy Carter.

40 really grumpy big dog Johnson  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:43:00pm

The ad don't have McCain's seal of approval, therefore nobody can hang the race card on him.

And he wouldn't have approved it in the first place.

41 CommonCents  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:43:46pm

Sorry, I'm only hearing the words black and race in my LEFT EAR! Maybe I'm missing something.

42 little boomer  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:43:48pm
43 HelloDare  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:44:18pm

re: #37 loppyd

This probably had something to do with him losing as well...

And Obama is so much scarier than Dukakis.

44 sbvft contributor  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:44:25pm

re: #42 little boomer

That was devastating!

SNOOPY!

45 lawhawk  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:45:11pm

re: #35 Pullus Iulius

Which is strikingly similar to the current contest and Democrats' ticket - where Biden has more time in office than Obama (though I'd be careful to call it experience, or to equate experience with knowledge).

46 Dr. Shalit  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:45:13pm

Ok Everyone -

The Black Man who ultimately brought down Gov. Dukakis was NOT willie Horton - His name is BERNARD SHAW.

-S-

47 looking closely  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:45:15pm

re: #27 neocon hippie

Maybe their internal polls are not looking good if there's this concerted effort to push the race card. Gotta have their proverbial ducks in a row if they go down to defeat in six weeks.

The line is already set and has been for months.

If Obama loses in November, its because of racism on behalf of the American electorate.

48 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:45:16pm

re: #28 loppyd

Funny, but I thought this had something to do with it.

Bernard Shaw: "Governor, if Kitty Dukakis [his wife] were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?"

Dukakis: replied coolly, "No, I don't, and I think you know that I've opposed the death penalty during all of my life..."

That was what put him down politically. Would that Obama has such a moment at the debates.

49 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:45:26pm

re: #37 loppyd

This probably had something to do with him losing as well...

He had to be the goofiest candidate ever...ridiculous

50 DeliLama  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:45:32pm

So does this mean Biden is going to say to Palin something like, "You, madam, are no Michael Dukakis."

51 loppyd  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:45:41pm

re: #42 little boomer

That was devastating!

RIP Lee Atwater.

52 Quintus_Arius  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:46:02pm

This election is too important for niceties. Break their kneecaps.

Whatever it takes. Obama/Biden must be defeated. Oh, and by the way, the other side feels the same way. Now we know.

53 loppyd  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:46:13pm

re: #48 Dark_Falcon

That was what put him down politically. Would that Obama has such a moment at the debates.

Maybe he'll call McCain a typical white person?

54 JammieWearingFool  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:46:16pm

re: #36 sbvft contributor

yeah - i corrected myself (see comment 13). as soon as i hit post - i knew it. DOH!

No problem. Maybe we need a 30 second window where we can self delete. Lord knows I've had enough comments I wanted to fix as soon as I hit post.

55 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:46:19pm

re: #47 looking closely

The line is already set and has been for months.

If Obama loses in November, its because of racism on behalf of the American electorate.

I guess that will REALLY tick Michelle off eh?

56 nyc redneck  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:46:23pm

dudakis should shut his gob.
why does he want to draw attention to the murdering rapist willie horton who he coddled and so stupidly allowed out of prison.
another reminder of the dangerous dems.

57 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:46:34pm

So now showing two black men and a white woman in a commercial is racist? Someone better alert all the ad agencies.

58 vbspurs  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:46:59pm

re: #49 Wishing

He had to be the goofiest candidate ever...ridiculous

How soon we forget...

59 cicero05  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:47:19pm

The Dems should start a museum. They can call it the Carter Instititue of Pathetic Sobbing Crybaby Losers.

60 wong fei hung  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:47:21pm

Dukakis? Somebody dug up Dukakis for a quote?

LMMFAO

-WFH

61 FrogMarch  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:47:33pm

The left are just like... "how dare McCain run ads that make the Messiah look bad. McCain was supposed to roll over and die for the messiah. It's exhausting yelling "lies lies lies". At some point we might have to answer something. "

62 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:47:49pm

re: #58 vbspurs

How soon we forget...

I sit corrected...Thank you.

63 really grumpy big dog Johnson  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:47:54pm

Gosh, the article said it was a third party ad. But it was a McCain campaign ad, no doubt.

The real problem is there is no racial anything in that ad. The acts of someone who did a bad job in government are blind to color.

What a two-faced lie! Is this how the rest of the election is going to be, nothing but lie after lie? How many dems will actually WATCH that ad?

64 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:48:09pm

The Willie Horton ad wasn't racist, btw.

65 HelloDare  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:48:15pm
66 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:48:19pm

re: #57 Sharmuta

So now showing two black men and a white woman in a commercial is racist? Someone better alert all the ad agencies.

And saying, "typical white woman" is not racist at all. Dem's the rules..

67 loppyd  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:48:49pm
68 doppelganglander  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:48:56pm

re: #37 loppyd

This probably had something to do with him losing as well...

Before he got into that tank, he should have learned a lesson from Calvin Coolidge.

69 MandyManners  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:48:59pm

re: #1 pingjockey

I thought some donks ran the Willie Horton ad first?! Like in the primaries maybe?

That's my recollection.

70 CommonCents  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:48:59pm

re: #48 Dark_Falcon

That was what put him down politically. Would that Obama has such a moment at the debates.

The question would never be asked. Instead, "President Obama, sorry I mean Senator Obama, how is it that you are such an attractive candidate with all the qualities of hope and change we've been looking for?"

-- quick the barf bag!

71 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:49:27pm

re: #53 loppyd

Maybe he'll call McCain a typical white person?

He's not that stupid. Even he knows that McCain is not typical. Heroism of the kind he has shown is so noticeable because it is rare.

72 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:49:32pm

re: #69 MandyManners

That's my recollection.

Al Gore, I believe.

73 kevinmumaw  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:49:33pm

Dukakis compares everything to Willie Horton. There wouldn't be Willie Horton ads if he hadn't let a convicted murder out of prison on a weekend pass. Which reminds me...the Democrats have nominated some real winners for president, haven't they?

74 sbvft contributor  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:49:37pm

The McCain camp said they're gonna bring up The Good Reverend pretty soon... I... CAN... NOT... WAIT. There's at least 10 commercials worth of material. G*D D*MN AMERICA.

75 jamgarr  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:49:52pm

re: #28 loppyd

Funny, but I thought this had something to do with it.

Bernard Shaw: "Governor, if Kitty Dukakis [his wife] were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?"

Dukakis: replied coolly, "No, I don't, and I think you know that I've opposed the death penalty during all of my life..."

Bernie Shaw! - now there's a blast from the past. Edward R. Murrow he weren't.

76 vbspurs  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:49:56pm

re: #62 Wishing

I sit corrected...Thank you.

Hehe.

What makes you laugh more? The effeminate little wave, the effete bike shorts, the girlie multi-coloured helmet and matching shirt, or the quite ridiculous local pandering to the Milwaukee Panthers?

God, what a disaster.

77 Pullus Iulius  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:50:03pm

re: #45 lawhawk

Though one difference is that I know people who voted for Dukakis because they liked and respected Bentsen. Except maybe for immediate family, I don't think that applies with Biden.

78 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:50:17pm

re: #66 cliffster

And saying, "typical white woman" is not racist at all. Dem's the rules..

Yeah- because only typical white people are racists.

79 loppyd  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:50:28pm

BBIAM

80 pingjockey  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:50:45pm

I have faith obambi will melt during the debates. No teleprompter, no grasp of specifics of any idea/policy he has vaugely addressed/ no stage presence, he's gonna look like a school kid on stage.

81 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:50:47pm
82 vbspurs  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:50:48pm

re: #65 HelloDare

UK firm strikes Obama presidential coin.

Brummies are well known in Britain for not being the sharpest knives in the drawer. Please forgive them.

83 Perplexed  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:50:51pm

Dukakis bumped his head a couple times too many while getting into the tank. He did let Willie Horton out for a bit of a walk-about before Willie found himself back in jail. Dukakis failed as an administrator by not accepting responsibility for his actions. All Dukakis would have had to have done was to have said " Yes, I did it. Willie Horton did what he did as well and now finds himself back in jail."

84 doppelganglander  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:51:02pm

Speaking of race hustling, Rev. Al was on Hannity and Colmes a few minutes ago, looking very thin. Is he sick or did he just call Jenny?

86 lifeofthemind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:51:20pm

Watching PBS trying to explain Reagan, as they would explain a Martian.

87 jorline  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:51:26pm

Olivia sprung the Willie Horton ad.

88 MandyManners  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:51:43pm

Didn't that goober say he would not kill to defend his wife, Kitty, from a rapist?

89 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:51:56pm

re: #84 doppelganglander

Speaking of race hustling, Rev. Al was on Hannity and Colmes a few minutes ago, looking very thin. Is he sick or did he just call Jenny?

He's lost his audience. It's got to be very depressing to the hustler.

90 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:52:01pm

re: #70 CommonCents

The question would never be asked. Instead, "President Obama, sorry I mean Senator Obama, how is it that you are such an attractive candidate with all the qualities of hope and change we've been looking for?"

-- quick the barf bag!

That what they'd like to ask. It's up to us to make sure they need to ask something else. The Jawa story was a good start but more is needed. The press must be forced to ask Obama questions that cannot be answered with a platitude.

91 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:52:13pm
92 MandyManners  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:52:39pm

re: #72 Archimedes

Al Gore, I believe.

Didn't anyone call Dukie on his claim?

93 vbspurs  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:52:43pm

re: #87 jorline

Olivia sprung the Willie Horton ad.

Olympia? ;)

94 alien_mind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:52:44pm

re: #57 Sharmuta

So now showing two black men and a white woman in a commercial is racist? Someone better alert all the ad agencies.

i'm still trying to figure that one out.

95 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:53:15pm

re: #76 vbspurs

Hehe.

What makes you laugh more? The effeminate little wave, the effete bike shorts, the girlie multi-coloured helmet and matching shirt, or the quite ridiculous local pandering to the Milwaukee Panthers?

God, what a disaster.

the goofy grin and little girly wave...case closed

96 CommonCents  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:53:17pm

re: #74 sbvft contributor

The McCain camp said they're gonna bring up The Good Reverend pretty soon... I... CAN... NOT... WAIT. There's at least 10 commercials worth of material. G*D D*MN AMERICA.

I'm still waiting for the Rezko exposee. That should be played from today until the election. The reverend bit has already been beaten to death when it first broke. Rezko hasn't been touched (outside of prison).

97 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:53:27pm

re: #85 HelloDare

Obama already made a better commercial.

You racist!

98 HelloDare  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:54:17pm

re: #82 vbspurs

Love your avatar. Quite fetching.

99 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:54:46pm

re: #83 Perplexed

Dukakis bumped his head a couple times too many while getting into the tank. He did let Willie Horton out for a bit of a walk-about before Willie found himself back in jail. Dukakis failed as an administrator by not accepting responsibility for his actions. All Dukakis would have had to have done was to have said " Yes, I did it. Willie Horton did what he did as well and now finds himself back in jail."

Willie Horton was an evil POS, who went on a murderous rampage after he was let out of jail. Dukakis should be feeling guilty for aid an abetting in the crime. That's the real issue.

100 vbspurs  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:54:49pm

re: #95 Wishing

the goofy grin and little girly wave...case closed

I swear Al-Qaeda would've weed themselves laughing if he had become President. Same with Obama, another metrosexual wussy.

101 jorline  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:55:04pm

re: #93 vbspurs

Olympia? ;)

LMAO...see the whole family made an impression on me.

vbspur...from San Antonio? Love the new avatar also.

102 HelloDare  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:55:19pm

re: #97 Sharmuta

You racist!

That was his mother's side of the family speaking.

103 MandyManners  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:55:21pm

re: #85 HelloDare

Obama already made a better commercial.

We cannot let that man become Commander in Chief.

104 Arkay  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:55:22pm

Hey, where I come from, Willie Horton's a hero.

105 Thanos  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:55:35pm

re: #96 CommonCents

I'm still waiting for the Rezko exposee. That should be played from today until the election. The reverend bit has already been beaten to death when it first broke. Rezko hasn't been touched (outside of prison).

I got your Rezko right here

106 vbspurs  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:55:38pm

re: #98 HelloDare

Love your avatar. Quite fetching.

Wow, I'm very humbled at the amount of compliments on the avatar. Shame I'll have to find a new one on Nov. 5th. ;)

Well, I wish you all good night! Bye, HelloDare, guys!

107 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:55:40pm

Personally, i think it would be a mistake to bring Wright up again..the anti-American stuff is already burned in our brains...MCCain has plenty of material, no need to backtrack...

108 sbvft contributor  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:55:42pm

re: #91 buzzsawmonkey

There was supposed to be a "Gnaw gnaw gnaw" in there.

GNAW GNAW GNAW - LOL.

...ITZ IN THA BYE-BULL.

109 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:56:34pm

re: #99 Archimedes

Willie Horton was an evil POS, who went on a murderous rampage after he was let out of jail. Dukakis should be feeling guilty for aid an abetting in the crime. That's the real issue.

aid an abetting = aiding and abetting

typing not so good.

110 vbspurs  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:56:37pm

re: #101 jorline

LMAO...see the whole family made an impression on me.

vbspur...from San Antonio? Love the new avatar also.

Alas, no. I don't know anything about b-ball. I'm British and Spurs are my childhood soccer club. :)

111 HelloDare  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:56:43pm

re: #106 vbspurs

You should keep the avatar, like a trophy on the wall.

112 nyc redneck  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:57:13pm

re: #88 MandyManners

Didn't that goober say he would not kill to defend his wife, Kitty, from a rapist?

she should have d-i-v-o-r-c-e-d him.

113 Thanos  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:57:13pm

re: #107 Wishing

Personally, i think it would be a mistake to bring Wright up again..the anti-American stuff is already burned in our brains...MCCain has plenty of material, no need to backtrack...

It's a long campaign, there will be a rinse and repeat cycle.

114 MandyManners  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:57:31pm

re: #100 vbspurs

Awesome avatar!

115 Dr. Shalit  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:57:34pm

re: #65 HelloDare

UK firm strikes Obama presidential coin.

"H-D" -

If the "Boys in Birmingham" are really smart - they would get a John + Sarah coin pattern ready to go.

-s-

116 doppelganglander  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:57:41pm

re: #89 Archimedes

He's lost his audience. It's got to be very depressing to the hustler.

He did seem kind of subdued, like his heart wasn't really in it. Maybe he needs a good arson/riot to cheer him up.

117 Arkay  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:57:44pm

er... hero.

118 HelloDare  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:57:55pm

re: #104 Arkay

Hey, where I come from, Willie Horton's a hero.

That's what cost Dukakis the election. The baseball vote.

119 MandyManners  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:58:17pm

re: #112 nyc redneck

she should have d-i-v-o-r-c-e-d him.

I would've.

120 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:58:17pm

re: #114 MandyManners

Awesome avatar!

Scary.

121 loppyd  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:58:18pm

Biden steps in it. Again.

Biden on Obama’s e-mail ad: “I thought that was terrible”

Video included. Via Hot Air.

122 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:58:19pm

re: #110 vbspurs

Alas, no. I don't know anything about b-ball. I'm British and Spurs are my childhood soccer club. :)

Is there any such thing as "spurs" in England?

123 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:58:26pm

re: #96 CommonCents

I'm still waiting for the Rezko exposee. That should be played from today until the election. The reverend bit has already been beaten to death when it first broke. Rezko hasn't been touched (outside of prison).

And Ayers! Just some guy in the neighborhood my left toe!

124 Kreuzueber Halbmond  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:58:48pm

HLF Prosecutor: Think Like a Terrorist Organization

Jurors looked alert and attentive as prosecutors started reading. But by the time they got to Count 32 - a lengthy list of financial transactions - several members of the jury appeared to be restless and fidgety.

/Yawning jury could portend hung jury?

125 CommonCents  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:59:15pm

re: #105 Thanos

I got your Rezko right here

Many thanks. That's a start but like you say, "there's much more that could be said".

126 really grumpy big dog Johnson  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:59:19pm

OT

I recently heard that in four key media markets, political ads are being run an average of over 190 times per day.

Including my own. It's practically all we are getting her right now.

127 nyc redneck  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:59:32pm

re: #119 MandyManners

I would've.

you and me both.

128 wiffersnapper  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 6:59:38pm

People still care about what Dukakis has to say?!

129 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:00:18pm

re: #128 wiffersnapper

People still care about what Dukakis has to say?!

"still"?

130 WhiteRasta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:00:58pm

re: #127 nyc redneck

If I were his wife, I'd have divorced him, after doing the Lorena Bobbit thing.

Then sued his bitch ass.

131 HelloDare  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:01:06pm

Here's another great ad for McCain that Obama did. Please ding it up so other's will see it. It's in the spinoff links.

132 CommonCents  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:01:09pm

re: #123 Dianna

And Ayers! Just some guy in the neighborhood my left toe!


O'Reilly was doing a bit on Ayers on The Factor tonight. I missed it but at least someone is talking about it.

133 nyc redneck  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:01:20pm

that stupid lib let a killer out of jail who killed and raped a woman.
that fool facilitated murder. that's a lib for you.

134 Thanos  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:01:30pm

re: #125 CommonCents

Many thanks. That's a start but like you say, "there's much more that could be said".


Yep, there's lots of material there, including mr "Oil for Food" Auchi.

135 Caboose  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:01:33pm

Isn't Dukakis what babies do in their diapers? Or when you are potty-training a toddler?

c'mon, Bawakie, dukakis! Your li'l tum-tum will feel aw-better when you dukakis in your poo-poo-pot! That's it, unnghh. Good boy, you are so good at dukakis! We will put on your brand new, clean red pants with Uncle Che on them as soon as we wipe all the dukakis off your widdle bottom! No, your Fidel pants are in the wash because you had a widdle accident in them yesterday at your playdate with William & Tony over at Jerry's church."

136 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:01:39pm

re: #127 nyc redneck

you and me both.

After I'd spoken to him very firmly, in a calm voice, telling him why this is unacceptable.

137 kynna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:02:17pm

Wow. Michael Dukakis. Now that guy had some ears.

Oops! Was that racist?
/

138 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:02:24pm

re: #130 WhiteRasta

If I were his wife, I'd have divorced him, after doing the Lorena Bobbit thing.

Then sued his bitch ass.

AAaahhhAahadddggkkd.. Lorena Bobbit. That's not cool!

139 lawhawk  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:02:47pm

McCain could run a very simple ad.

Entitled character.

You know people by the company they keep.

Then run through the rogues gallery of thugs, terrorists, and racists Obama has chosen to associate with.

Tony Rezko.
Jeremiah Wright.
Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.

Do you really want someone who associates with terrorists, racists, and criminals to be President?

140 alien_mind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:03:10pm

re: #107 Wishing

Personally, i think it would be a mistake to bring Wright up again..the anti-American stuff is already burned in our brains...MCCain has plenty of material, no need to backtrack...

you do realize that something like 25 percent of the electorate has probably never heard of Rev Wright. its burned into the minds of junkies like us who live on this stuff day and night, but many many people don't even pay attention until debate time. for those people there needs to be some Wright reminders during crunch time.

also Rezko and Ayers.

141 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:03:14pm

re: #137 kynna

Wow. Michael Dukakis. Now that guy had some ears.

Oops! Was that racist?
/

Nope, you're good. He's white. Fair game.

142 WhiteRasta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:03:15pm

re: #133 nyc redneck

The criminal is the victim and the victim is the criminal.

Liberal/socialist idiot-think.

143 USCMSNE  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:03:16pm

re: #65 HelloDare

UK firm strikes Obama presidential coin.

File that one beside the "19-0 Perfect Season" trademark.

144 loppyd  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:03:17pm

re: #121 loppyd

Biden steps in it. Again.

Biden on Obama’s e-mail ad: “I thought that was terrible”

Video included. Via Hot Air.

skip to 4:18 to avoid the fluff

145 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:03:25pm

re: #132 CommonCents

O'Reilly was doing a bit on Ayers on The Factor tonight. I missed it but at least someone is talking about it.

It'll all start coming back up again in late October, just you wait and see.

146 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:03:28pm

re: #131 HelloDare

Here's another great ad for McCain that Obama did. Please ding it up so other's will see it. It's in the spinoff links.

Where in the spinoffs?

147 Killian Bundy  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:03:45pm
Former Gov. Michael Dukakis said Monday that John McCain’s presidential campaign is using the same race-based tactics that were used against him in his 1988 presidential run. ...

/excuse me, wasn't he the white guy in the tank?

148 Alouette  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:04:05pm

re: #106 vbspurs

Wow, I'm very humbled at the amount of compliments on the avatar. Shame I'll have to find a new one on Nov. 5th. ;)

You need to put lipstick on it.

149 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:04:55pm

re: #140 alien_mind

um, is there a 12 step program?

150 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:05:08pm

re: #133 nyc redneck

that stupid lib let a killer out of jail who killed and raped a woman.
that fool facilitated murder. that's a lib for you.

And then try to deflect from that real crime by claiming it's racist to point this out. Never, ever cave into leftists. If you stick to your guns, and you're in the right, you will prevail. Sadly, most republicans don't do that.

151 HelloDare  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:05:39pm

re: #146 Sharmuta

Where in the spinoffs?


So is Obama lying then or now?

152 little boomer  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:06:12pm

Yup, you want to have America thinking of Dukakis and Obama as a unit if you're McCain.
Dukakis/Obama/Dukakis/Obama/Dukakis/Obama/Dukakis/ Obama/Dukakis/Obama/Dukakis/Obama/Dukakis/Obama/Du kakis/Obama/Dukakis/Obama/Dukakis/Obama/Dukakis/Ob ama/Dukakis/Obama/Dukakis/Obama/Dukakis/Obama/Duka kis/Obama/Dukakis/Obama/Dukakis/Obama/Dukakis/Obam a/

153 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:06:26pm

If we show black people in ads, that's racists, but if we don't show black people in ads, then we're not being sensitive to diversity.

You can't win with these people.

154 Ruthless  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:06:33pm

I don't think the Rev. Wrong, er, Wright issue has been brought to the attention of most Americans. We Lizardoids are very much aware of it, but the average voter has nothing like the knowledge we have thanks to Charles and all of you. I think the McCain campaign would make a grave mistake not to make a wide audience aware of Rev. Wright and his hatred of America, and to connect the dots to Obama's 20 years listening to this evil man's spewing of racist garbage.

155 MandyManners  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:06:39pm

re: #136 Dianna

After I'd spoken to him very firmly, in a calm voice, telling him why this is unacceptable.

He would've come home to find his clothes scattered on the front lawn. But, first, I would've sliced his ties into itsy-bitsy pieces.

156 FrogMarch  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:06:48pm

Reines happens to be black.

The dems are setting race relations back 50 years with this crap.

157 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:07:10pm

re: #151 HelloDare

It's not at the top of this thread.

158 J.S.  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:07:11pm

re: #105 Thanos

Jonah G. was on Glenn Beck tonight, and Jonah made an excellent point -- which was that Obama (through his associations -- whether it's with Rev Wright, Acorn, Ayers, Rezko, etc, etc., which illustrates Obama's total lack of judgment) Obama cannot say, "No." Obama cannot say, "No," whenever it comes to favoring cronies, "friends", relatives -- Obama caves; or Obama cannot say, "No," Obama doesn't have the necessary discipline -- and he can't say "No" to them or to corruption. McCain, on the other hand, is visibly dismayed by corruption...

159 TheMatrix31  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:07:20pm

re: #153 Sharmuta

If we show black people in ads, that's racists, but if we don't show black people in ads, then we're not being sensitive to diversity.

You can't win with these people.

THESE PEOPLE?!?!?!?!?

160 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:07:28pm

re: #153 Sharmuta

If we show black people in ads, that's racists, but if we don't show black people in ads, then we're not being sensitive to diversity.

You can't win with these people.

"these people"? Who are you, Ross Perot? ;)

161 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:07:44pm

re: #156 FrogMarch

Reines happens to be black.

The dems are setting race relations back 50 years with this crap.

And gender relations back 75 years with the Palin tactics.

162 Truck Monkey  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:07:49pm

re: #58 vbspurs

How soon we forget...

I just wet my pants a little.

163 HelloDare  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:08:37pm

re: #157 Sharmuta

It's not at the top of this thread.

It is if you set it for 25 links. About 17 down.

164 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:08:47pm

re: #159 TheMatrix31

THESE PEOPLE?!?!?!?!?

I'm a smurf, so I can say that.

165 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:08:53pm

re: #153 Sharmuta

If we show black people in ads, that's racists, but if we don't show black people in ads, then we're not being sensitive to diversity.

You can't win with these people.

That's the point. They set the standard, but never tell you what the standard is. When you ask for clear guidelines to avoid offending them, they scornfully say that you're rigid and un-nuanced. There level of sophistication has become as bad as certain esoteric styles of mysticism.

166 nyc redneck  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:09:00pm

re: #136 Dianna

After I'd spoken to him very firmly, in a calm voice, telling him why this is unacceptable.

i can see why you would want to do that for yourself but i doubt that such a misguided lib would get the gist of your valid complaint.
what kind of sob would not protect his wife and family from a RABID PREDATOR?
a coward hiding behind a phony sense of moral righteousness.

167 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:09:01pm
168 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:09:15pm

re: #163 HelloDare

OH! You put it in the link viewer. I never look in there.

169 alien_mind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:10:20pm

re: #149 Wishing

um, is there a 12 step program?

i don't know, i think i'm still in denial that there is even a problem.

170 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:10:31pm

re: #155 MandyManners

He would've come home to find his clothes scattered on the front lawn. But, first, I would've sliced his ties into itsy-bitsy pieces.

I am a believer in verbal flensing. No man I've taken apart has ever done more than crawl away, and pray I never have cause to speak to him again.

171 Killian Bundy  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:10:35pm

re: #147 Killian Bundy

/excuse me, wasn't he the white guy in the tank?

Or was he the white guy in the bunny suit?

Or are we talking about Al Franken?

/I'm confused now

172 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:11:01pm

re: #164 Sharmuta

I'm a smurf, so I can say that.

You're small and blue, and wear a funny hat? Pic, plz

173 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:11:20pm

re: #169 alien_mind

i don't know, i think i'm still in denial that there is even a problem.

Yeh, we will have to sit in the back of the room and pray they dont call on us lol

174 sbvft contributor  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:11:22pm

re: #140 alien_mind

you do realize that something like 25 percent of the electorate has probably never heard of Rev Wright. its burned into the minds of junkies like us who live on this stuff day and night, but many many people don't even pay attention until debate time. for those people there needs to be some Wright reminders during crunch time.

also Rezko and Ayers.

Very good point. Of course we've seen it all a million times, but the average American maybe saw it once or twice. When it finally hit the MSM, it was like a 3-day story and then the MSM buried it. Americans have a short memory - which is a good - and bad - thing. If the ad is done right and run enough, it could be devastating - worth maybe 4-5 points. The election could hinge on Wright. They better not drop the ball on this.

175 HelloDare  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:11:34pm

re: #168 Sharmuta

OH! You put it in the link viewer. I never look in there.

I never use the link viewer. It's in the regular Top Rated Links. I didn't post it.

176 Scion9  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:11:44pm

re: #77 Pullus Iulius

Though one difference is that I know people who voted for Dukakis because they liked and respected Bentsen. Except maybe for immediate family, I don't think that applies with Biden.

Yeah, until he was attached to Obama the nutroots were after Biden's blood too, just like they were Lieberman's. He is part of the NWO afterall.

177 Thanos  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:11:45pm

Another link to Lyndon Larouche? Wtf.

178 CommonCents  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:12:17pm

OT

Obsession - Radical Islam's War Against the West was put in our local newspaper (Grand Rapids MI) last Sunday. The local news just did a piece interviewing any muslim they could find in the local area to get their personal feelings and pushed a bunch of those discrediting lines. i.e. "It's not clear where the Clarion Group gets their funds." and "We're not sure who all is involved in the group". Like it is some sort of shadowy organization.

I'll be back in a bit after I draft my response to Channel 17 WXMI Grand Rapids and the Grand Rapids Press.

179 alien_mind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:13:17pm

re: #165 Dianna

That's the point. They set the standard, but never tell you what the standard is. When you ask for clear guidelines to avoid offending them, they scornfully say that you're rigid and un-nuanced. There level of sophistication has become as bad as certain esoteric styles of mysticism.

they don't have to define it anymore. they simply say they know it when they see it. the racism that is.

180 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:13:21pm

re: #172 cliffster

You're small and blue, and wear a funny hat? Pic, plz

Click my avatar.

181 FrogMarch  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:13:37pm

re: #161 Sharmuta

And gender relations back 75 years with the Palin tactics.

no kidding.

182 WhiteRasta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:13:39pm

re: #177 Thanos

Thanos, I do apologize. I had no idea.

183 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:14:07pm

re: #180 Sharmuta

Click my avatar.

Lol --- what a pretty blue girl.

184 Inquisitive  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:14:25pm

Wow, am I really at LGF? ., or did I land in Oz? A person doesn't get to stop by and visit for a few days and someone moves things around and even changes the color of things. Is it freshly painted or can I click and not smear anything? Wouldn't want to mess up Charles's new look. What is this... new colors for fall?
By the way ...Charles...love the new colors.

185 FrogMarch  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:14:47pm

re: #171 Killian Bundy


Or are we talking about Al Franken

ha!

186 alien_mind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:15:06pm

re: #173 Wishing

Yeh, we will have to sit in the back of the room and pray they dont call on us lol

or hope they don't spring one of those interventions on us either!

187 Kreuzueber Halbmond  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:15:09pm

re: #171 Killian Bundy

Or was he the white guy in the bunny suit?

With ears.

188 Killian Bundy  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:15:12pm

Hey Obama . . . let's see your medical records.

/down to a pack a day yet?

189 MandyManners  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:15:45pm

re: #170 Dianna

I am a believer in verbal flensing. No man I've taken apart has ever done more than crawl away, and pray I never have cause to speak to him again.

There are times when words fail me.

190 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:15:57pm

re: #180 Sharmuta

Click my avatar.

Ahh, duh. Sorry, Smurfette!

So you are Gwen Stefani?

191 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:15:59pm

re: #186 alien_mind

or hope they don't spring one of those interventions on us either!

I'll just say that it is all your fault. And then whine. VOE (Victims of Everything)

192 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:16:25pm

re: #179 alien_mind

they don't have to define it anymore. they simply say they know it when they see it. the racism that is.

The problem is that - since they will not define it - there is no standard. So you end up with that astonishing, disgusting poster some leftist did of Michelle Obama as an "uppity woman" being whipped. He thought it was criticizing Republicans; I was just flabbergasted that he'd have portrayed Michelle Obama as the eroticized victim of white men. That was just disgusting, and he couldn't see it, because his intentions were otherwise.

193 FrogMarch  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:16:39pm

re: #187 Kreuzueber Halbmond

With ears.

He needs a cotton tail.

194 Truck Monkey  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:16:52pm

re: #112 nyc redneck

she should have d-i-v-o-r-c-e-d him.

Too busy drinking the Lysol from the spray can.

195 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:17:03pm

re: #187 Kreuzueber Halbmond

With ears.

He doesn't look like the other presidents on our money. So that's why he wasn't elected!

196 kevinmumaw  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:18:00pm

OT: Democrat Senate is Responsible for Financial Meltdown

Greenspan's Warning

The clear gravity of the situation pushed the legislation forward. Some might say the current mess couldn't be foreseen, yet in 2005 Alan Greenspan told Congress how urgent it was for it to act in the clearest possible terms: If Fannie and Freddie ``continue to grow, continue to have the low capital that they have, continue to engage in the dynamic hedging of their portfolios, which they need to do for interest rate risk aversion, they potentially create ever-growing potential systemic risk down the road,'' he said. ``We are placing the total financial system of the future at a substantial risk.''

What happened next was extraordinary. For the first time in history, a serious Fannie and Freddie reform bill was passed by the Senate Banking Committee. The bill gave a regulator power to crack down, and would have required the companies to eliminate their investments in risky assets.

But the bill didn't become law, for a simple reason: Democrats opposed it on a party-line vote in the committee, signaling that this would be a partisan issue. Republicans, tied in knots by the tight Democratic opposition, couldn't even get the Senate to vote on the matter.

But we now know that many of the senators who protected Fannie and Freddie, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Christopher Dodd, have received mind-boggling levels of financial support from them over the years.

Audacious, no?

197 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:18:50pm

re: #190 cliffster

Ahh, duh. Sorry, Smurfette!

So you are Gwen Stefani?

Actually- Gwen really pissed me off with her stunt in Indonesia, but due to all the politics of misogyny running rampant, I found this song fitting so I'm cutting her just a little slack. I, however, would never name my kid Zuma.

198 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:19:49pm

re: #180 Sharmuta

Click my avatar.

Your witty style, plus the outlook you seem to have from your posts, plus your profile, make me want to ask you a philosophical question, but I'll save it for some later-night open thread time.

199 FrogMarch  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:19:54pm

re: #195 Archimedes

He doesn't look like the other presidents on our money. So that's why he wasn't elected!

You're right! Lurch on money -- never... gonna... happen.

Hey! making fun of white doods is fun and easy - and free of racist incriminations. weee.

200 Scion9  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:20:23pm

re: #107 Wishing

Personally, i think it would be a mistake to bring Wright up again..the anti-American stuff is already burned in our brains...MCCain has plenty of material, no need to backtrack...

The anti-American stuff is burned into our brains, but the fact that Obama lied and spun and backtracked over Wright before finally disassociating himself from his Church of over 20 years hasn't.

That can be pointed out in a short ad, clearly dating the statements made by Obama about Wright, and the statements made by Wright, as well as how it was affecting him in the polls. Wright was able to spew his racist, antisemitic, anti-American garbage for 20 years and well into the Presidential race up until it started hurting Obama politically.

Throwing in Wright's quote about knowing that Obama would have to 'distance' himself from him for political reasons couldn't hurt either. Just because Hannity, and Rush and O'Reilly harped on it, as well as Conservative blogs doesn't mean the truth reached undecided and Centrist Dems, because MSNBC, CNN et al spun the whole fiasco as a Obama being an examplar of post-racial politics with his overtly racist speech and affiliations over the course of his entire adult life.

The fact that Wright made anti-American statements is burned into everyone's minds, but the truth of his relationship to Barack Obama, and just who Barack Obama is, has not.

201 loppyd  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:20:35pm

bedtime for Bonzo.

'night Lizard Nation...

202 J.S.  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:20:48pm

re: #196 kevinmumaw

The McCain camp NEEDS to hammer this message home -- NOW...and stress the urgency

203 WhiteRasta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:21:24pm

Charles:

Please delete my link above. I had no idea I was shilling for a Nazi.

No offense intended towards anyone.

204 Blastforth  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:21:35pm

Here's another look down memory lane: NBC reports on Biden's departure from the '88 race. Those were the days when NBC believed in good journalism.

205 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:21:49pm

Bummer posted this on a previous thread:

LOL!
[Link: i261.photobucket.com...]

206 nyc redneck  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:22:23pm

the libs are up to no good w/ this these racial implications.
hollering like stuck pigs to divert attention from the fact that we don't like these candidates simply because they are bad choices.
race is immaterial. look at dudkakis. the guy is a white lib who facilitated murder.
obama is the most liberal left wing commie candidate to ever run for potus.
a bad choice, no matter his color.
we must ignore the race card that they are desperately trying to play.
i don't care abt. race. most americans don't.
see how devious the dems are. unstable, out of touch losers.
we must focus on the issues.
because they can not.

207 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:22:26pm

re: #203 WhiteRasta

Charles:

Please delete my link above. I had no idea I was shilling for a Nazi.

No offense intended towards anyone.

It's OK; mistakes happen.

208 MandyManners  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:22:37pm

re: #201 loppyd

bedtime for Bonzo.

'night Lizard Nation...

Sweet dreams!

209 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:22:59pm

re: #196 kevinmumaw

Democrats will be democrats.

But Republicans caved time and time again, on every issue that's important, on the coattails of a clear electoral mandate. They are complete wusses and I hate them.

210 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:23:06pm

re: #165 Dianna

That's the point. They set the standard, but never tell you what the standard is. When you ask for clear guidelines to avoid offending them, they scornfully say that you're rigid and un-nuanced. There level of sophistication has become as bad as certain esoteric styles of mysticism.

If it weren't for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.

211 FrogMarch  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:23:31pm

re: #196 kevinmumaw

Audacious, no?

audacious, yes.


And the dems in congress have the audacity to say they want "oversight" oover the bail-out. That's socialist code for - they want to skim more off the top.

212 kevinmumaw  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:23:32pm

re: #202 J.S.

The McCain camp NEEDS to hammer this message home -- NOW...and stress the urgency

Agreed. This has Democrat fingerprints all over it. the fact that they are not running for cover is an indication of how 1) clueless; 2) arrogant; 3) truly clueless; or 4) all of the above; they truly are.

213 joncelli  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:23:35pm

re: #47 looking closely

Arianna Huffenpuff was on Larry King while I was riding the exercise bike. She's selling that line like it's going out of style: If Obambi loses, it's because Americans are racists, dahlink.

214 MAV  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:23:41pm

RE:#151 HelloDare
So is Obama lying then or now?

[Link: obamawtf.blogspot.com...]
And the hits just keep on comin...

215 kynna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:23:52pm

To be fair, Michael Dukakis didn't say he wouldn't kill to protect his wife.

Here's a rundown of that moment from the second debate with HW Bush:

CNN's Bernard Shaw opened the debate with this question to Gov. Dukakis: "Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?" Dukakis responded, "No, I don't, Bernard. And I think you know that I've opposed the death penalty during all of my life. I don't see any evidence that it's a deterrent, and I think there are better and more effective ways to deal with violent crime. We've done so in my own state." Dukakis went on to talk about the drop in Massachusetts' crime rate and segued into the need for international cooperation in the war against drugs.
The question was meant to give Dukakis an opportunity to show -- and the voters an opportunity to see -- the emotional side of a candidate dubbed by many as the "Ice Man." Shaw had said that the voters had a difficult time getting a "feeling fix" on Dukakis, and felt that only a very personal question could elicit an emotional response. (In fact, he feared that he might be criticized for asking a too-easy question.) But Dukakis' response did just the opposite. Dukakis' passionless response was the news out of the debate.

It is from CNN, but the quote is verbatim. It's actually a pretty good response on his part. That the law he favors is the law he's prepared to live by. But he was so completely without charisma and so arrogant it just came out like he didn't like his wife.

I wasn't going to vote for him either way. But I didn't fault him for this answer, even though I disagree with him on the premise.

216 Truck Monkey  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:23:53pm

re: #188 Killian Bundy

Hey Obama . . . let's see your medical records.

/down to a pack a day yet?

Poor bastard. If I was to start a run for the presidency I would only increase my intake. Probably start sniffing glue as well.

just sayin'

217 spidly  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:24:06pm
218 profitsbeard  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:24:13pm

Dukakis tanked.

Because he was weak and a deceiver.

Obama is more cautious with appearances.

Because he is even weaker and more deceptive.

The debates will expose him.

219 WhiteRasta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:24:22pm

re: #207 Dianna

CRAP! I can't believe I did that.

D'oh! The name did not even ring a bell with me.

220 kevinmumaw  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:24:28pm

re: #202 J.S.

BTW, McCain voted FOR that bill. He should have been all over this last week.

221 Truck Monkey  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:25:16pm

re: #187 Kreuzueber Halbmond

With ears.

Was this moron ever funny? He very well might be the next senator from MN. I just threw up in my mouth a little.

222 sparrowlake  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:25:22pm

re: #88 MandyManners

Didn't that goober say he would not kill to defend his wife, Kitty, from a rapist?

Gooober
ROTFL

223 Kreuzueber Halbmond  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:25:38pm

re: #193 FrogMarch

re: #195 Archimedes

All Democrat candidates need a funny suit.

224 SpartanWoman  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:25:38pm

re: #200 Scion9

It's important to bring it up again, people are paying more attention now and if nobody brings it up Obama supporters will believe they have successfully "debunked" the story.

225 Killian Bundy  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:27:02pm

re: #216 Truck Monkey

Poor bastard. If I was to start a run for the presidency I would only increase my intake. Probably start sniffing glue as well.

just sayin'

Vote Obama!

/he knows which end of the crack pipe to suck on

226 Thanos  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:27:16pm

re: #220 kevinmumaw

BTW, McCain voted FOR that bill. He should have been all over this last week.

I suspect he's holding that for the upcoming debate.

227 MAV  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:27:44pm

re:214


[Link: obamawtf.blogspot.com...]

228 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:27:48pm

re: #203 WhiteRasta

Charles:

Please delete my link above. I had no idea I was shilling for a Nazi.

No offense intended towards anyone.

I thought La Rouche was more of a commie. He's a strange bird.

229 Occasional Reader  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:27:56pm
Former Gov. Michael Dukakis

Say what else you will, he was wonderful in Moonstruck.

/what?

230 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:28:31pm

re: #200 Scion9

Well said...

231 MandyManners  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:28:44pm

re: #215 kynna

To be fair, Michael Dukakis didn't say he wouldn't kill to protect his wife.

Here's a rundown of that moment from the second debate with HW Bush:

It is from CNN, but the quote is verbatim. It's actually a pretty good response on his part. That the law he favors is the law he's prepared to live by. But he was so completely without charisma and so arrogant it just came out like he didn't like his wife.

I wasn't going to vote for him either way. But I didn't fault him for this answer, even though I disagree with him on the premise.

Thank you for the clarification!

232 SpartanWoman  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:29:16pm

Miserable Pal in a BMW attempted to murder a group of Israeli soldiers by driving into them...1st bulldozers, now this

233 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:29:27pm

re: #223 Kreuzueber Halbmond

re: #195 Archimedes

All Democrat candidates need a funny suit.

Oh yes, that was the time he was "taken care of" in Frankenstein's laboratory. Abbey something's brain was put in him by mistake.

234 Scion9  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:30:21pm

re: #211 FrogMarch

Audacious, no?

audacious, yes.


And the dems in congress have the audacity to say they want "oversight" oover the bail-out. That's socialist code for - they want to skim more off the top.

Exactly right. Harry Reid has already stated that '700 billion is just the beginning'.

They are already eagerly pork-barreling as much as they possibly can into this bail out to destroy our economic system.

235 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:30:25pm

re: #233 Archimedes

Oh yes, that was the time he was "taken care of" in Frankenstein's laboratory. Abbey something's brain was put in him by mistake.

Abbey Normal!

236 ciaospirit  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:31:04pm
First, Dukakis said, the McCain ad is based on a lie. Raines isn't one of Obama's closest economic advisors, he said. Other members from Fannie Mae have advised Obama but the McCain camp chose to focus the ad specifically on Raines, an African American

Could it possibly be the focus is on Raines because he bilked the most money? About $110 million.

237 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:31:10pm

re: #217 spidly

beetle baily!

Caption: I don't mind if my wife is raped.

238 kevinmumaw  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:31:17pm

re: #209 cliffster

My wife, quite the looker, is a Democrat, God bless her . She's not voting, because she does not like Obama. However, she believes Obama is a Muslim (I remind you, she is a LIBERAL democrat), and we had an argument tonight about the official language of Denmark. She is convinced it is English, because she saw a Danish Tourism website and it was in English. I insisted it was Danish. She also insisted Montana was much closer to North Carolina than Nevada. We have houses in both states, and her mom just moved from Oregon to Montana. We are trying desperately to remain as far from her as possible. Mom-in-law is a certified moonbat.

239 solomonpanting  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:31:29pm
Dukakis said it is very difficult to accuse a rival campaign of being racist

I see he's up to the task.

240 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:31:54pm

re: #226 Thanos

I suspect he's holding that for the upcoming debate.

In the debate, will there be tele-prompters?

241 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:32:03pm

re: #215 kynna

Except for one problem - if a person rapes and murders a woman, he should be put to death. So he might be been bravely sticking to his ideology, but his ideology is stupid.

242 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:32:06pm

re: #234 Scion9

Exactly right. Harry Reid has already stated that '700 billion is just the beginning'.

They are already eagerly pork-barreling as much as they possibly can into this bail out to destroy our economic system.

Sorry, but in my opinion, the bill itself is going to destroy our economic system, at least the capitalistic one we know. They couldn't pour on enought pork to do anywhere as much damage as the base bill is going to do itself.

243 FightingBack  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:32:42pm

re: #215 kynna

I thought he shoulda said, after making eye contact with Kitty, "Death Penalty?"The only question about the death penalty is whether I would get it for killing him."
But his eyes didn't even move in her direction.

244 Killian Bundy  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:33:33pm
the infamous ‘Willie Horton’ ad

/whatever happened to Willie anyway?

245 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:33:36pm

re: #238 kevinmumaw

I'm not exactly the world's whiz at United States geography, but I think I'd do better than that!

246 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:33:37pm

re: #154 Ruthless

I don't think the Rev. Wrong, er, Wright issue has been brought to the attention of most Americans. We Lizardoids are very much aware of it, but the average voter has nothing like the knowledge we have thanks to Charles and all of you. I think the McCain campaign would make a grave mistake not to make a wide audience aware of Rev. Wright and his hatred of America, and to connect the dots to Obama's 20 years listening to this evil man's spewing of racist garbage.

That's what the 2nd & 3rd weeks in October are for.
:)

247 Truck Monkey  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:33:42pm

re: #223 Kreuzueber Halbmond

re: #195 Archimedes

All Democrat candidates need a funny suit.

Is it me, or does The Obamessiah look jaundiced. Dude looks the color of the nicotine stains on my fingers.

248 Thanos  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:33:45pm

re: #228 Archimedes

I thought La Rouche was more of a commie. He's a strange bird.

Larouche is a chameleon, right or left don't matter to him, populism and conspiracy theories do. He's expert at pushing fringe group buttons through agitprop at both ends of the spectrum.

249 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:33:45pm

re: #236 ciaospirit

Could it possibly be the focus is on Raines because he bilked the most money? About $110 million.

No- clearly it racist. Facts be damned!

250 WhiteRasta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:33:50pm

re: #228 Archimedes

He is a POS.

I'm sorry I dirtied up Charles' blog linking to this character.

A genuine error made in good faith.

251 Thanos  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:34:20pm

re: #240 Wishing

In the debate, will there be tele-prompters?

Dunno about that, but you can't script too much in a debate forum.

252 sparrowlake  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:34:33pm

re: #238 kevinmumaw

My wife, quite the looker, is a Democrat, God bless her . She's not voting, because she does not like Obama. However, she believes Obama is a Muslim (I remind you, she is a LIBERAL democrat), and we had an argument tonight about the official language of Denmark. She is convinced it is English, because she saw a Danish Tourism website and it was in English. I insisted it was Danish. She also insisted Montana was much closer to North Carolina than Nevada. We have houses in both states, and her mom just moved from Oregon to Montana. We are trying desperately to remain as far from her as possible. Mom-in-law is a certified moonbat.

She blonde? ;)

253 stevieray  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:34:52pm

Now Obama is promising to cut federal spending! this is the guy who had been promising hundreds of billion in new spending!

Hey Obama, you can't be on every side of every issue!

254 ciaospirit  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:35:07pm

Video, Fannie Mae CEO calling Obama and the Dems the "Family" and "Conscience" of Fannie Mae. Be sure to check out Michelle O clapping proudly for BHO being praised by CEO of Fannie Mae and the CEO kissing up to the Black Caucus. John Gibson at the end is good.

255 MandyManners  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:35:16pm
256 SpartanWoman  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:35:45pm

re: #249 Sharmuta

No- clearly it racist. Facts be damned!

This constant racist crap is getting to be very annoying. You play the race card too often, Obama, and people will be immune to your whining

257 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:35:48pm

re: #251 Thanos

Well, uh, then good, uh, well...it, uh, could be, how do u say, uh, over early.

258 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:35:51pm

re: #88 MandyManners

Didn't that goober say he would not kill to defend his wife, Kitty, from a rapist?

I think you're right. That certainly told America an awful lot about the man. huh?

259 Thanos  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:35:56pm

re: #250 WhiteRasta

He is a POS.

I'm sorry I dirtied up Charles' blog linking to this character.

A genuine error made in good faith.

Like I said above don't feel bad, he suckered me once back in the '80's with his pro nuclear energy stance. That lasted about two weeks until I visited the university library and read more on someone's advice.

260 pingjockey  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:35:58pm

re: #253 stevieray
He will cut federal spending the same way billy jeff did...gut the military.

261 MandyManners  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:36:05pm

re: #226 Thanos

I suspect he's holding that for the upcoming debate.

It might be too late. BHO and his minions are going whole-hog on blaming the GOP for this mess.

262 SpartanWoman  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:36:06pm

re: #253 stevieray

Now Obama is promising to cut federal spending! this is the guy who had been promising hundreds of billion in new spending!

Hey Obama, you can't be on every side of every issue!

why not?

263 jaunte  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:36:24pm

re: #253 stevieray

I'm not so sure. I think he's up to 11-dimensional pandering, now.

264 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:36:25pm

re: #253 stevieray

Now Obama is promising to cut federal spending! this is the guy who had been promising hundreds of billion in new spending!

Hey Obama, you can't be on every side of every issue!

Sure he can- he'll just slash military funding.

265 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:36:36pm

re: #260 pingjockey

He will cut federal spending the same way billy jeff did...gut the military.

GMTA!

266 nyc redneck  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:36:37pm

re: #254 ciaospirit

Video, Fannie Mae CEO calling Obama and the Dems the "Family" and "Conscience" of Fannie Mae. Be sure to check out Michelle O clapping proudly for BHO being praised by CEO of Fannie Mae and the CEO kissing up to the Black Caucus. John Gibson at the end is good.

well i bet that helped michelle's kids.

267 pingjockey  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:37:15pm

re: #265 Sharmuta
Damn! You be quick and stuff!

268 David IV of Georgia  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:37:19pm

re: #185 FrogMarch

Or are we talking about Al Franken

ha!

Somehow that is how I always think of him, 'cept he should be crying.

269 Kreuzueber Halbmond  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:38:13pm

re: #247 Truck Monkey

Is it me, or does The Obamessiah look jaundiced. Dude looks the color of the nicotine stains on my fingers.

I'll just go by what he said about himself - not looking like the other presidents on the dollar bills.

270 pingjockey  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:38:54pm

re: #268 David IV of Georgia
How can anyone take Al Franken seriously as a candidate for senate? The man is a loon, fool, asshat, and a sorry ass comedian to boot!

271 Thanos  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:39:02pm

re: #261 MandyManners

It might be too late. BHO and his minions are going whole-hog on blaming the GOP for this mess.

Naw, it's never too late for the truth. The american people muddle their way to it eventually, MSM be damned. Still plenty of time to pound this theme, the financial rags are starting to sing in chorus about Congress's faults in this.

272 MandyManners  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:39:23pm

re: #258 unrealizedviewpoint

I think you're right. That certainly told America an awful lot about the man. huh?

See No. 215 by kynna, please.

273 J.S.  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:39:30pm

re: #261 MandyManners

Exactly. McCain in order to gain the upper hand has GOT to come out now and hit hard.

274 kevinmumaw  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:39:35pm

re: #252 sparrowlake

She blonde? ;)

hehe. No, she's tall, brown eyes, brown hair, Jewish/Puerto Rican. And I'm not making fun of her, I'm a little frustrated having to argue such simple points. So of course, I dropped it, in hopes of not becoming a born-again virgin.

275 MandyManners  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:40:07pm

re: #271 Thanos

Naw, it's never too late for the truth. The american people muddle their way to it eventually, MSM be damned. Still plenty of time to pound this theme, the financial rags are starting to sing in chorus about Congress's faults in this.

Do most Americans read the financial rags?

276 Racer X  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:40:22pm

re: #253 stevieray

Now Obama is promising to cut federal spending! this is the guy who had been promising hundreds of billion in new spending!

Hey Obama, you can't be on every side of every issue!

McCain is going to call him on this bullshit - just watch. Obama is getting tee'd up for the debates.

As I, uh, have, um, said, um, before, um, ...

277 mama winger  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:40:31pm

I got this email from the Progressive Democrats of America.

[Link: blog.pdamerica.org...]

On this page it has a poll. I cannot make any sense of it. Is it just me?

PDA Poll

Will this current trend hold or will some women drift back to Obama?

* Yes (65%, 20 Votes)
* No (35%, 11 Votes)

Total Voters: 31


That's it. No reference to what the heck they are talking about as far as I can see. And read the question: How do you even answer that with a yes or no?.

278 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:41:04pm

re: #274 kevinmumaw

And I thought I could be unreasonable!

279 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:41:22pm

re: #270 pingjockey

How can anyone take Al Franken seriously as a candidate for senate? The man is a loon, fool, asshat, and a sorry ass comedian to boot!

But he's Good Enough, he's Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like him.

280 MandyManners  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:41:27pm

re: #273 J.S.

Exactly. McCain in order to gain the upper hand has GOT to come out now and hit hard.

I wonder how the ad could portray the truth.

281 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:41:27pm

re: #275 MandyManners

Do most Americans read the financial rags?

They read the summaries.

282 kevinmumaw  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:41:46pm

re: #226 Thanos

I suspect he's holding that for the upcoming debate.

I hope not, because this is an emotional issue in which most Americans know very little about. He who strikes first and hardest wins, truth be damned.

283 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:42:15pm

re: #277 mama winger

Just say no. It's almost always a good answer.

284 rp1138  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:42:18pm

re: #85 HelloDare

Obama already made a better commercial.

So he'll cut funding on "unproven" missile defense systems.

"So why did you cut the funding for that missile defense system?"

"Because it was unproven."

"So why was it unproven"

"Because we cut the funding."

If this country's previous leaders had thought that way, we would have fought World War II with smoothbore muskets and ridden to battle on horseback or in wagon trains. The Strategic Air Command would have used hot air balloons, and Japanese Navy could have sank the entire US Navy down to the last rowboat with nothing more than an old destroyer.

285 Thanos  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:42:29pm

re: #275 MandyManners

Do most Americans read the financial rags?

No, but the general reporters do, and they can't go against the tide too much longer without being outted for outright lieing.

286 kevinmumaw  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:42:31pm

re: #278 Dianna

And I thought I could be unreasonable!

What can I say, she's Puerto Rican, Jewish, and slightly neurotic. I will never win that fight.

287 pingjockey  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:42:36pm

re: #279 Walter L. Newton
People like him?! What people? I know, people who've never met him!

288 Killian Bundy  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:42:42pm

Wrangle on US rescue oversight intensifies

Yes, by all means, could we please [expletive deleted] around with this some more?

/boy, I sure hope all you people who stayed home in 2006 are enjoying Speaker Pelosi

289 David IV of Georgia  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:42:49pm

re: #270 pingjockey

How can anyone take Al Franken seriously as a candidate for senate? The man is a loon, fool, asshat, and a sorry ass comedian to boot!

You are being much too kind. He is not worth me bothering to scorn, belittle, or patronize.

290 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:42:59pm

re: #272 MandyManners

See No. 215 by kynna, please.

thnks

291 pat  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:43:41pm

Asked if he considered the ad to be in the same vein as the infamous ‘Willie Horton’ ad ad run by a third party group in support of George H.W. Bush in the 1988 presidential campaign, Dukakis told PolitickerMA.com: “Essentially, yes.

Except the Horton ad was spot on. Horton BTW tied up a young couple and castrated the male in front of his fiance, then raped her in front of the male. Sweet guy. Try to get the full story now. it has been buried deep.

292 WhiteRasta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:44:09pm

Charles:

Thank you for deleting that nastiness. I will be more careful in future.

Thank you Thanos for pointing out the error of my ways!

293 LEGION  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:44:12pm

DDDUUUHHH! SO THE *BLANK* WHAT? Willie Horton was a good ad! It brought the truth out about the demonrats! So they don't like it? We do! Same with the Swift Boaters! Nobody knew nuttin' honey 'bout kooky kerry's tour in 'Nam. They brought the truth out! Him tossing medals over the White House Fence. Him lying about being in Cambodia during Christmas when he was at a party- and him saying Nixon sent them there when Nixon didn't even take office till January. Lies lies lies brought to light by the truth- too bad they don't like it! Their LIES must be exposed!

294 pingjockey  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:44:47pm

re: #289 David IV of Georgia
Heh! See yez later. Have a good evening!

295 sparrowlake  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:44:47pm

re: #255 MandyManners

I'd rather vote for Ernest T. than BHO.

I loved that show.
Barney Fife rules!

296 alien_mind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:44:58pm

this guy has to be saying "I told you so". NYTimes article from 1999


Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending

"In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders...

"In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980's."

''From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,'' said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ''If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.''

297 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:44:59pm

re: #287 pingjockey

People like him?! What people? I know, people who've never met him!

That was a take-off on his comic character "Stuart Smalley." Maybe my scarcasm was too nuanced.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

298 joncelli  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:45:10pm

re: #218 profitsbeard

The debates are getting more and more important as the economy tanks. McCain has to hit hard, and Sarah has to really show Biden up. It's a bunch of pressure and it's got my BP up.

299 ciaospirit  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:45:16pm

re: #266 nyc redneck

well i bet that helped michelle's kids.

That video really brings home how the government, pressured by, among other Dems, the Black Caucus, to give risky loans.

300 nyc redneck  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:45:16pm

re: #292 WhiteRasta

not to worry. i bet everyone here has been deleted at least once.

301 Fat Jolly Penguin  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:45:16pm

re: #284 rp1138

So he'll cut funding on "unproven" missile defense systems.

"So why did you cut the funding for that missile defense system?"

"Because it was unproven."

"So why was it unproven"

"Because we cut the funding."

302 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:45:20pm

re: #285 Thanos

No, but the general reporters do, and they can't go against the tide too much longer without being outted for outright lieing.

huh? what? the outting is daily! they care not.

303 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:45:38pm

re: #267 pingjockey

Damn! You be quick and stuff!

Time is money.

304 Thanos  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:46:36pm

re: #302 unrealizedviewpoint

huh? what? the outting is daily! they care not.

Well ya, you do have a point there.

305 Scion9  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:46:40pm

re: #253 stevieray

Now Obama is promising to cut federal spending! this is the guy who had been promising hundreds of billion in new spending!

Hey Obama, you can't be on every side of every issue!

I'm not sure he knows what the word 'cut' means, given his definition of tax 'cuts'.

306 mama winger  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:47:12pm

re: #305 Scion9

I'm not sure he knows what the word 'cut' means, given his definition of tax 'cuts'.

He'll gut the military. Of that I am sure.

307 kevinmumaw  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:47:27pm

re: #296 alien_mind

this guy has to be saying "I told you so". NYTimes article from 1999


Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending

"In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders...

"In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980's."

''From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,'' said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ''If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.''

Veeery Interesting. Sounds like this was called almost a decade ago. Congress should be imprisoned.

308 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:47:28pm

re: #298 joncelli

The debates are getting more and more important as the economy tanks. McCain has to hit hard, and Sarah has to really show Biden up. It's a bunch of pressure and it's got my BP up.

IMO, Americans will give Sarah a pass should she expectantly stumble. On the other hand if McCain stumbles oh, oh..

309 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:47:44pm

re: #299 ciaospirit

That video really brings home how the government, pressured by, among other Dems, the Black Caucus, to give risky loans.

Sometime, look up the Greenlining Institute. That's another disaster occurring under the radar, and it's going to be very, very bad.

310 kevinmumaw  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:48:47pm

re: #298 joncelli

The debates are getting more and more important as the economy tanks. McCain has to hit hard, and Sarah has to really show Biden up. It's a bunch of pressure and it's got my BP up.

I bet you Biden drops out. He is ignored by the media, and when he does show up, he sounds dejected and depressed. He's not in this thing anymore.

311 ciaospirit  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:49:34pm

re: #309 Dianna

Sometime, look up the Greenlining Institute. That's another disaster occurring under the radar, and it's going to be very, very bad.

Multi-ethnic communism.

312 FrogMarch  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:49:37pm

BTW - At the end of McCain's ad - the ad showing Reines - the woman looks like she might be Hispanic.

313 pat  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:49:50pm

re: #310 kevinmumaw

I bet you Biden drops out. He is ignored by the media, and when he does show up, he sounds dejected and depressed. He's not in this thing anymore.


It ain't that easy. Makes Obama look like the unprepared ignorant fool he is.

314 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:49:57pm

re: #279 Walter L. Newton

But he's Good Enough, he's Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like him.

Except Stuart was a likable loser. Franken's just an ass.

315 Alouette  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:49:58pm

re: #310 kevinmumaw

I bet you Biden drops out. He is ignored by the media, and when he does show up, he sounds dejected and depressed. He's not in this thing anymore.

Hillary will not settle for being second choice for second place. But she may haggle with Obama to reverse the ticket order.

316 LEGION  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:50:00pm

From Ann Coulters September 17th column--
David Freddoso's magnificent new book, The Case Against Barack Obama describes the forefather to "community organizers" like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton -- the famed Saul Alinsky.

Alinsky is sort of the George Washington of "community organizers." If there were an America-hater's Mount Rushmore, Saul Alinsky would be on it. He tried to hire Hillary to work for him right out of Wellesley. A generation later, those who had trained with Alinsky did hire Obama as a community organizer.

In Freddoso's book, he quotes from the dedication in the first edition of Alinsky's seminal book, "Rules for Radicals," where Alinsky wrote:

"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: From all our legends, mythology and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer."

I suppose it could have been worse. He could have dedicated his book to George Soros.

Even liberals eventually figured out that they shouldn't be praising Satan in public, so the Lucifer-as-inspiration paragraph was cut from later editions of Alinsky's book. (But on the bright side, MSNBC adopted as its motto: "Who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which.")

So I say with this backing- the Democrats- or demonrats - are DEVIL WORSHIPERS!

NO /

317 mama winger  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:50:25pm

re: #308 unrealizedviewpoint

IMO, Americans will give Sarah a pass should she expectantly stumble. On the other hand if McCain stumbles oh, oh..

I think it would be wise for the McCain campaign to get out in front of this - start talking about Democrats waiting for the 'gotcha' moment - talk about how most Americans realize that this is not a contest to see who makes a slip of the tongue, but is a much more serious consideration than mere political gamesmanship.

318 Racer X  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:50:57pm

re: #314 Sharmuta

Except Stuart was a likable loser. Franken's just an ass.

I hated that Stuart Smalley character.

319 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:51:24pm

re: #304 Thanos

Well ya, you do have a point there.

Pardon me. Maybe I misunderstood. You said:


No, but the general reporters do, and they can't go against the tide too much longer without being outted for outright lieing.

They outright lie demonstrably daily. Maybe I'm late to your discussion, missing something? ?

320 mama winger  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:51:33pm

I also think we should stop using the term 'community organizer' and start talking about it as 'street agitator'.

321 kevinmumaw  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:51:52pm

re: #313 pat

He'll cite some health reason. Media's been talking a lot about his aneurism from '88. That's has pretty much been all his press. Obama probably sent an email to NYT to play up the health concerns of Biden...then he'll step aside for Hillary.

322 mich-again  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:52:01pm

He still looks like the same Zorba the Clerk that rode around in the tank wearing the helmet. Uh he was wearing the helmet not the tank.

Dukakis can take over and be Dick Clark for the next 50 years on New Years Eve.

323 mama winger  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:52:18pm

We have to own the words. We have to frame the debate. He who defines the language wins the contest.

324 WhiteRasta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:52:22pm

re: #307 kevinmumaw

This is called "Social Justice" and "Affordable Housing" by pie in the sky socialists.

Not to worry there is plenty more, where that came from.

The taxpayers have bottomless wallets.

325 David IV of Georgia  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:52:40pm

re: #306 mama winger

He'll gut the military. Of that I am sure.

BB guns (.177 cal.) are an effective weapon against varmints and small children (having once been a BB pummeled small child myself). Why should the military be armed with anything less? If Mexico decides to invade, we can shoot out the lights and mirrors on their military vehicles.

326 FightingBack  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:53:01pm

re: #323 mama winger

We have to own the words. We have to frame the debate. He who defines the language wins the contest.

You go, Girl. Welcome back!

327 kynna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:53:07pm

re: #241 cliffster

Except for one problem - if a person rapes and murders a woman, he should be put to death. So he might be been bravely sticking to his ideology, but his ideology is stupid.

That's what I was saying. I disagree with him on the fundamental premise, but I have to give it up for him standing by his beliefs.

'Course it was a pretty stupid question anyway, considering it's not applicable to anything that would happen or that he could affect. I mean, even if he'd become president and someone he loved was raped and murdered, it's not like he'd be doing the sentencing. His feeelings have nothing to do with it in the real world.

328 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:53:24pm

re: #314 Sharmuta

Except Stuart was a likable loser. Franken's just an ass.

I was being scarcastic. I was making fun of Franken by referring to his annoying character, Stuart.

329 kevinmumaw  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:53:27pm

re: #318 Racer X

I hated that Stuart Smalley character.

I second that. I could watch SNL, laugh nonstop until Franken came on, then stone cold silence. And I never knew who he was until just recently. He is an alleged comedian. Completely not funny.

330 mama winger  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:53:35pm

street agitator

black supremacists

socialists

marxists

331 mich-again  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:53:39pm

Obama got there by the hands of others. And if he is President the oval office will be in the hands of others.

332 Thanos  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:53:49pm

Bwahaha...

Axelrod called

333 really grumpy big dog Johnson  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:54:03pm

re: #308 unrealizedviewpoint

IMO, Americans will give Sarah a pass should she expectantly stumble. On the other hand if McCain stumbles oh, oh..

If Palin is brilliant in the debate against Biden, the media will report it as "Palin stumbled and bumbled her way through a forgettable performance that lasted far too long for rmost discerning viewers".

They cannot free themselves from the prism glass.

334 Killian Bundy  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:54:12pm

Naomi Wolf: Sarah 'Evita' Palin to Usher in Rovian Police State

It sounds like the rabid rantings of some poor demented shlub posting at the Democratic Underground. Instead, it is Al Gore's former fashion adviser, Naomi Wolf, indulging in sanity-challenged fantasies on her Huffington Post blog. The target of Wolf's derangement is Sarah Palin and it is so over the top that one might suspect Wolf is an agent provocateur working for conservatives in order to discredit the left. Think I'm kidding? Check out this sampling of Wolf's plunge off the political deep end (emphasis mine):

Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah "Evita" Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state.

You have to understand how things work in a closing society in order to understand "Palin Power." A gang or cabal seizes power, usually with an affable, weak figurehead at the fore. Then they will hold elections -- but they will make sure that the election will be corrupted and that the next affable, weak figurehead is entirely in their control.

/I'm tellin' ya, they just can't handle Sarah's Naughty Monkey Double Dare Pumps

335 mama winger  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:54:15pm

political hacks

voter fraud

gaming the system

336 Blastforth  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:54:21pm

re: #296 alien_mind

Thanks for posting that link. Its going in my scrapbook! Please spead the word/

337 kevinmumaw  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:54:23pm

re: #324 WhiteRasta

This is called "Social Justice" and "Affordable Housing" by pie in the sky socialists.

Not to worry there is plenty more, where that came from.

The taxpayers have bottomless wallets.

They can call it whatever they want. Just take responsibility when it explodes in our faces.

338 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:54:57pm

re: #317 mama winger

I think it would be wise for the McCain campaign to get out in front of this - start talking about Democrats waiting for the 'gotcha' moment - talk about how most Americans realize that this is not a contest to see who makes a slip of the tongue, but is a much more serious consideration than mere political gamesmanship.

I just hope John McCain has ample sleep, plenty of good rest for an extended period prior. Ahh, he should head home now. Sarah, no rest, hit the practice podium.

339 lifeofthemind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:55:20pm

The facts are that the Democrats created the mortgage fraud cancer and that McCain specifically fought to drain that swamp. Now the Democrats have saddled the taxpayers with the costs incurred and hope to allow their apparatchiks and the corporate welfare enablers they funded to escape with hundreds of millions of stolen wealth.

The worst thing I've heard from McCain this year is the idea of bringing Andrew Coumo into his administration.

340 Thanos  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:55:35pm

re: #319 unrealizedviewpoint

You are missing that I agreed with you?

341 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:55:44pm

re: #311 ciaospirit

Multi-ethnic communism.

Yep. And they're going to gut private foundations, unless said foundations get some backbone.

342 mama winger  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:55:59pm

People like people who are authentic.

They will like Sarah and John.

343 soccerdad  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:55:59pm

re: #274 kevinmumaw

hehe. No, she's tall, brown eyes, brown hair, Jewish/Puerto Rican. And I'm not making fun of her, I'm a little frustrated having to argue such simple points. So of course, I dropped it, in hopes of not becoming a born-again virgin.


Oh you are smarter than me my friend. Sounds like a 'conversation' with my wife. I love her now and always will. No but. She is continually spouting the same tripe about Bush that he ran an oil company into the ground, he's just out for oil, etc.
I've been celibate again for about two months since I reminded her that Bush is not running in this election!

344 mich-again  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:56:14pm

re: #332 Thanos

Ha. Axelrod is the front guy in the Rovian plot, Operation Stick in Spokes. Thus the name.

345 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:56:19pm

Now for something completely different.

Nigel Tufnel on why aliens didn't build Stonehenge

346 tblot  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:56:43pm

Hi everyone been gone for awaile but just reading you guys is interesting wait tell oct. Should be an interesting election with the internet fact checking all the bs for most amercans

347 mich-again  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:56:51pm

re: #333 really grumpy big dog Johnson

They cannot free themselves from the prism glass.

You named it.

348 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:57:01pm

re: #328 Walter L. Newton

I was being scarcastic. I was making fun of Franken by referring to his annoying character, Stuart.

Oh- I got your joke. I'm just saying if I had to pick between Al or Stuart, I'd go with Stu.

Remember the episode where he got Michael Jordan to say that line?

349 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:57:25pm

re: #310 kevinmumaw

I bet you Biden drops out. He is ignored by the media, and when he does show up, he sounds dejected and depressed. He's not in this thing anymore.

Well on The View today, Bubba said the hilmeister would accept the VP if offered..as her *duty*

350 neocon hippie  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:57:29pm

re: #310 kevinmumaw

This has about as much likelihood as the pre-DNC rumblings that Hillary would stage some sort of coup. No one except the die-hard kool-aid drinkers would trust the wacky Baracky's judgment. And there's no way that Hillary would attempt to rescue his campaign.

351 Thanos  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:58:02pm

Rusty from Jawa is on radio now here

[Link: www.talktorusty.com...]

352 Scion9  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:58:12pm

re: #306 mama winger

He'll gut the military. Of that I am sure.

Yeah, but he is already committed to gutting the military, and then spending those funds and more elsewhere. Rearranging where the funds go isn't a 'cut', gutting the military or not. Decreasing federal spending isn't even on the table.

353 Thanos  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:58:43pm

oops nevermind, just ending... wrapping up now. sorry

354 mama winger  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:59:03pm

re: #352 Scion9

Yeah, but he is already committed to gutting the military, and then spending those funds and more elsewhere. Rearranging where the funds go isn't a 'cut', gutting the military or not. Decreasing federal spending isn't even on the table.

True dat.

355 nyc redneck  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:59:18pm

re: #320 mama winger

I also think we should stop using the term 'community organizer' and start talking about it as 'street agitator'.

street hustler/agitator.

356 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:59:40pm

re: #333 really grumpy big dog Johnson

If Palin is brilliant in the debate against Biden, the media will report it as "Palin stumbled and bumbled her way through a forgettable performance that lasted far too long for rmost discerning viewers".

They cannot free themselves from the prism glass.

And I hope they do say such a thing. The American people are already awakening to the bias this election and they're not going to buy it if the msm says the debate was something other than what they saw with their own eyes.

So I hope they do distort it. May the mask continue to drop for all Americans to see.

357 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:59:59pm

re: #321 kevinmumaw

He'll cite some health reason. Media's been talking a lot about his aneurism from '88. That's has pretty much been all his press. Obama probably sent an email to NYT to play up the health concerns of Biden...then he'll step aside for Hillary.

Biden ain't leavin' - and Hillary would much rather run against Sarah in '12. She's a sharp one. She knows where Obama's candidacy is going.

358 rp1138  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:00:05pm

re: #355 nyc redneck

street hustler/agitator.

I'm partial to Chicago street thug, myself.

359 joncelli  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:00:13pm

re: #349 Wishing

Well on The View today, Bubba said the hilmeister would accept the VP if offered..as her *duty*


Curiouser and curiouser. Maybe this is the October surprise to remove the Palin factor...

360 mama winger  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:00:15pm

re: #355 nyc redneck

street hustler/agitator.

Yes. Chicago machine street hustler. Tie him to dirty Chicago politics. That evokes a negative image in everyone's mind.

361 kevinmumaw  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:00:59pm

re: #343 soccerdad

Oh you are smarter than me my friend. Sounds like a 'conversation' with my wife. I love her now and always will. No but. She is continually spouting the same tripe about Bush that he ran an oil company into the ground, he's just out for oil, etc.
I've been celibate again for about two months since I reminded her that Bush is not running in this election!

I've learned the important stuff in my 38 years. At least she's not a moonbat. She's more conservative in some areas than I am...I'm not even that conservative, but she does get taken in by stuff she sees on the internet quite frequently. I don't know how many times I've been busted muttering to myself "...Oh, Jesus Christ..."

362 acapesket123  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:01:33pm

re: #39 HelloDare
Ain't NO doubt!

363 TheMatrix31  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:01:42pm

re: #342 mama winger


They will like Sarah and John.

Come with us if you want to live!

364 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:01:45pm

re: #349 Wishing

Well on The View today, Bubba said the hilmeister would accept the VP if offered..as her *duty*

You have got to be kidding me! There is no way that Hillary Clinton would do something that stupid, because it would be the end of her presidential ambitions to be tied to a losing Obama ticket.

365 kevinmumaw  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:02:04pm

re: #349 Wishing

Well on The View today, Bubba said the hilmeister would accept the VP if offered..as her *duty*

I wonder how that would play. McGovern was the last guy to pull that one.

366 spidly  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:02:47pm

re: #359 joncelli

Curiouser and curiouser. Maybe this is the October surprise to remove the Palin factor...

got a chain email thingy insisting that Obama will pull out and Hillary will step in in a couple weeks.

367 mich-again  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:03:05pm

re: #350 neocon hippie

And there's no way that Hillary would attempt to rescue his campaign.

Don't be so sure. If she could really work her way into making Obamarod beg she might just cut a deal.

368 kevinmumaw  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:03:21pm

re: #350 neocon hippie

This has about as much likelihood as the pre-DNC rumblings that Hillary would stage some sort of coup. No one except the die-hard kool-aid drinkers would trust the wacky Baracky's judgment. And there's no way that Hillary would attempt to rescue his campaign.

I bet she would. She is still Hillary Clinton, afterall. She still has her eyes on the prize.

369 David IV of Georgia  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:03:29pm

OT That church in Arkansas that is having Child porn problems is run by Tony Alamo Ministries. It has long been considered a cult, although it has tried to revamp its image from time to time. In 1985 I read one of their tracts in Chicago:

It claimed that Ronald Reagan, the FBI and the Pope were collectively the antichrist.

370 mama winger  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:03:55pm

I don't know of one Obama decision that has gone right.

The surge ? wrong

VP? wrong

Wife? - wrong

Church ? - wrong

What has the man ever been right on?

371 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:03:56pm

re: #359 joncelli

Curiouser and curiouser. Maybe this is the October surprise to remove the Palin factor...

It wouldn't work. It would look desperate and foolish.

Unless, heaven forfend! poor Biden dropped dead. And no, I don't for one moment believe that this is going to happen!

372 mama winger  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:04:45pm

re: #369 David IV of Georgia

It claimed that Ronald Reagan, the FBI and the Pope were collectively the antichrist

You mean they're not?

Shoot. There goes my Sunday School lesson for this week.

373 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:05:04pm

re: #364 Dianna

You have got to be kidding me! There is no way that Hillary Clinton would do something that stupid, because it would be the end of her presidential ambitions to be tied to a losing Obama ticket.

I agree- the PUMAs are saying they won't go for it anyways and I really think it would backfire on 0bama. How could he offer her the spot now when it's well known he never even vetted her before he picked biden? I think it will reek of desperation and the American people will see it for what it is.

374 JohnAdams  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:05:16pm

re: #356 Sharmuta

I too believe the majority of Americans are honest hard-working people. The thing they hate the most are the elitist intellectual snobs they've always hated since those people were high-school geeks and slackers and they recognize them in people like Colbert and Sandra Bernhard (what a miserable, not funny, low-life piece of sewer trash she is). Most people are able to see through the bribes and extortion the power-hungry lefty elitiests put up. Only the truly desperate buy it, and that is the shaky coalition the Obama-nation is counting on. My guess (hope!) is that they come up just short again.

375 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:05:17pm

re: #366 spidly

got a chain email thingy insisting that Obama will pull out and Hillary will step in in a couple weeks.

Do you have any idea what a dangerous disaster that would be for the American political system?!

376 David IV of Georgia  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:05:27pm

re: #370 mama winger

I don't know of one Obama decision that has gone right.

The surge ? wrong

VP? wrong

Wife? - wrong

Church ? - wrong

What has the man ever been right on?

Maybe he's hoping for change.

377 mama winger  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:05:49pm

re: #376 David IV of Georgia

Maybe he's hoping for change.

LOL :)

378 kevinmumaw  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:05:56pm

Past my bedtime. It's been fun. Later.

379 Killian Bundy  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:06:09pm

re: #370 mama winger

What has the man ever been right on?

/Marlboros

380 mama winger  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:06:23pm

It's late on my end too.

Goodnight everyone.

381 kynna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:06:39pm

re: #367 mich-again

Don't be so sure. If she could really work her way into making Obamarod beg she might just cut a deal.

The PUMAs say they won't vote for the dems unless she's at the top of the ticket. I wonder if they'd do it for her if she asked. Or if she'd just be getting on the ticket to have the national election prestige for 2012.

She has to run in 2012 or it's over for her, IMO. She can't run if Obama wins. So if she jumped in as VP, I don't think she'd be out there running for keeps. Her goals do not include her being a VP for 8 years.

382 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:07:09pm

re: #375 Dianna

Do you have any idea what a dangerous disaster that would be for the American political system?!

As if their convention wasn't enough of a farce, they would toss the entire thing on it's head. That's not happening either.

383 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:07:14pm

Goodnight, kevinmumaw and mama winger.

384 Silhouette  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:07:31pm

re: #369 David IV of Georgia

It claimed that Ronald Reagan, the FBI and the Pope were collectively the antichrist.

I thought it was Emeril, the Department of the Interior, and the Naked Brothers Band.

385 rp1138  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:07:41pm

Look what the Japanese are building.

[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]

They're spending nine billion on it.
Think of all the amazing things we could with that 700+ billion we're spending on the bail out. All that money flushed down the government toilet, and all we get out of it is a bunch of fat-happy Democrat pigs in congress at the feeding trough.

386 David IV of Georgia  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:07:45pm

re: #372 mama winger

You mean they're not?

Shoot. There goes my Sunday School lesson for this week.

That was one tract I'll never forget—being that close to the archetype of all insanity is quite memorable.

387 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:08:30pm

re: #382 Sharmuta

It better not!

And if it looked like it might, I don't think Hillary Clinton would risk that level of illegitimacy.

388 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:08:41pm

re: #381 kynna

The PUMAs say they won't vote for the dems unless she's at the top of the ticket. I wonder if they'd do it for her if she asked. Or if she'd just be getting on the ticket to have the national election prestige for 2012.

She has to run in 2012 or it's over for her, IMO. She can't run if Obama wins. So if she jumped in as VP, I don't think she'd be out there running for keeps. Her goals do not include her being a VP for 8 years.

Exactly. It's 2012 or bust and she knows it.

389 solomonpanting  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:08:42pm

re: #384 Silhouette

I thought it was Emeril, the Department of the Interior, and the Naked Brothers Band.


It was. And it was in the parlor with the candlestick.

390 lifeofthemind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:08:43pm

goodnight mw & km

391 really grumpy big dog Johnson  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:09:07pm

re: #334 Killian Bundy

Naomi Wolf: Sarah 'Evita' Palin to Usher in Rovian Police State


/I'm tellin' ya, they just can't handle Sarah's Naughty Monkey Double Dare Pumps

Wolf is descending into the nightmare world of paranoid schizoprenia. I suspect that before too long she will need to be placed in treatment for her disorder, for her good and the good of those closest to her.

392 Beller0ph1  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:09:17pm

re: #284 rp1138

Wow. That sounds like something out of Catch 22. Though I wouldn't expect anything less from 0bama IF he becomes President .

393 sparrowlake  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:09:18pm

re: #360 mama winger

Yes. Chicago machine street hustler. Tie him to dirty Chicago politics. That evokes a negative image in everyone's mind.

Bagman.

394 mich-again  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:09:24pm

re: #376 David IV of Georgia

Wife? - wrong

Why? She seems nice enough and she makes more money than him. Whats not to like?

395 TheMatrix31  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:09:46pm

re: #385 rp1138

Look what the Japanese are building.

[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]

They're spending nine billion on it.
Think of all the amazing things we could with that 700+ billion we're spending on the bail out. All that money flushed down the government toilet, and all we get out of it is a bunch of fat-happy Democrat pigs in congress at the feeding trough.

**insert moron here**

What about all the BILLIONS OF DOLLARS we've spent on an UNJUST WAR FOR OIL where Bush LIED and people DIED?!?!

/

396 lifeofthemind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:10:00pm

re: #389 solomonpanting

It was. And it was in the parlor with the candlestick.

heh heh heh my brilliant plan is working, the fools are distracted and have missed me completely.

397 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:10:22pm

re: #370 mama winger

I don't know of one Obama decision that has gone right.

The surge ? wrong

VP? wrong

Wife? - wrong

Church ? - wrong

What has the man ever been right on?

Even his timing running for President was wrong. It was too early. He should have waited. It's just too early in his career. It's probably gonna cost him the presidency, as he ain't gonna get a second shot at it. The donks won't give him a second look. It's all Hillary in '12.

398 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:10:47pm

re: #387 Dianna

One has to wonder if they're not spreading these crazy rumors to see if they can't get us panicked.

HEY 0bamabots! I'm not buying it. We're not buying it! Go back to astroturfing.

399 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:10:58pm

re: #379 Killian Bundy

/Marlboros

I believe those are Kools...brown filter throws ya...

400 Silhouette  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:11:05pm

re: #394 mich-again

Why? She seems nice enough and she makes more money than him. Whats not to like?

Plus, she was proud of the USA once.

That's at least one more time than Ayers, Wright, and a whole host of other Obama mentors/pals.

401 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:11:15pm

re: #394 mich-again

Why? She seems nice enough and she makes more money than him. Whats not to like?

She only looks and sounds angry. hehe

402 lifeofthemind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:11:43pm

re: #393 sparrowlake

Bagman.

Nah, that is like a real job, I doubt they ever trusted him with the bag, Barack was just the windbag

403 Ojoe  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:11:59pm

What's this race business?

It's just a pissing contest at this point,

and it's all yellow.

404 tronman  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:12:06pm

Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit,
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit.
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit,
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit.

405 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:12:33pm

re: #385 rp1138

Look what the Japanese are building.

[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]

They're spending nine billion on it.
Think of all the amazing things we could with that 700+ billion we're spending on the bail out. All that money flushed down the government toilet, and all we get out of it is a bunch of fat-happy Democrat pigs in congress at the feeding trough.

The space elevator idea has been around for a while. There is research being done in the U.S. with nanotechnology. Apparently it's feasible to make incredibly strong and light "rope" at the nano-scale.

406 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:13:28pm

re: #374 JohnAdams

I think what it comes down to is just a couple things:

On leadership- the American public wants a rock, not a waffler.

On personality- we like people we can relate to.

This adds up to John McCain and Sarah Palin. We're going to win.

407 gmsc  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:13:32pm

Ah, yes, Michael Dukakis - yet another lawyer who has made a White House run. Has that become a prerequisite for running as a Democrat?

408 Ojoe  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:13:49pm

re: #375 Dianna

It is a smoking wreck, the American political system already.

It might be better after November.

409 JohnAdams  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:14:12pm

re: #403 Ojoe

It's only starting to get dirty. By the time it's done the poor little Down's Syndrome baby will show up in an attack ad. The DNC is flipping desperate.

410 jcw46  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:14:34pm

re: #320 mama winger

I also think we should stop using the term 'community organizer' and start talking about it as 'street agitator'.


"Ward heeler" is what they're known as in Chicago.

411 Killian Bundy  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:14:36pm

Woman whose dogs mauled neighbor gets 15 to life

SAN FRANCISCO -- A woman whose dogs viciously attacked and killed her neighbor in the hallway of their apartment building seven years ago was sentenced Monday to 15 years to life in prison.

Marjorie Knoller was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2001 mauling death of Dianne Whipple, but a judge later reduced the charge to involuntary manslaughter and sentenced her in 2002 to a four-year prison term.

/no more dog sex for Marjorie

412 arethusa  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:14:52pm

re: #368 kevinmumaw

I bet she would. She is still Hillary Clinton, afterall. She still has her eyes on the prize.

I would bet big against Obama-Biden suddenly becoming Obama-Clinton. It doesn't do anyone any good; if he loses, she loses, too, and if he wins, she has to wait till 2016, when there will be more young guns against her. Obama looks like McGovern in 1972: weak and ineffectual, and manipulative to boot. Plus, Biden doesn't really antagonize anyone; HRC would antagonize a ton of independent voters Obama needs, and what she might make up in women doesn't necessarily balance that out.

I get to vote against Al Franken in 6 weeks. Can't wait.

413 mich-again  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:15:07pm

re: #388 Sharmuta

Exactly. It's 2012 or bust and she knows it.

There is another possibility. She may really want a seat on Supreme Court where she can be a hero in the spotlight forever without ever having to campaign for her job again. And she can finally dump Bill because she won't need his rich buddies to bankroll her.

414 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:15:10pm

re: #409 JohnAdams

It's only starting to get dirty. By the time it's done the poor little Down's Syndrome baby will show up in an attack ad. The DNC is flipping desperate.

done already.

415 jaunte  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:15:16pm

re: #404 tronman

Here are some sounds to go with that:
[Link: www.archive.org...]

416 Ojoe  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:15:26pm

re: #409 JohnAdams

I want the D party to be shown the door to a howling political wilderness after this.

417 Scion9  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:15:32pm

re: #364 Dianna

You have got to be kidding me! There is no way that Hillary Clinton would do something that stupid, because it would be the end of her presidential ambitions to be tied to a losing Obama ticket.

I'm pretty sure what he actually said is that she would have, had she been asked out of duty, but that she did not really want to have 2nd billing.

He also, coincidentally gave a Clinton-esque condemnation of the character related attacks on Sarah Palin and her family.

418 Silhouette  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:16:04pm

re: #407 gmsc

Ah, yes, Michael Dukakis - yet another lawyer who has made a White House run. Has that become a prerequisite for running as a Democrat?

Probably why they think a sitting governor is unqualified, but a guy who headed a club in college is, as long as that college was law school.

419 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:16:07pm

re: #414 unrealizedviewpoint

done already.

Not an ad, a skit I believe.

420 JohnAdams  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:16:29pm

re: #406 Sharmuta

I think what it comes down to is just a couple things:

On leadership- the American public wants a rock, not a waffler.

On personality- we like people we can relate to.

This adds up to John McCain and Sarah Palin. We're going to win.

I have had that idea for several months too.

When people pull the curtain on election day, a lot of decisions are going to be made on basic feelings of comfort and familiarity.

421 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:16:38pm

re: #408 Ojoe

It is a smoking wreck, the American political system already.

It might be better after November.

I'm not quite that pessimistic!

422 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:16:47pm

re: #411 Killian Bundy

Woman whose dogs mauled neighbor gets 15 to life

/no more dog sex for Marjorie

i am delighted...I lived in the Bay Area when all that happened...GOOD! That woman was a witch and WANTED her dogs to kill someone

423 Moe Katz  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:16:56pm

re: #404 tronman

Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit,
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit.
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit,
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit.

424 livefreeor die  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:17:08pm

re: #407 gmsc

Ah, yes, Michael Dukakis - yet another lawyer who has made a White House run. Has that become a prerequisite for running as a Democrat?

I lived in Massachusetts at the time and couldn't believe that of all the people in the US, the Donks picked him. He was such a zero. There was a great bumpersticker at the time that showed a cartoon figure in various stages of hysterical laughter with the caption, "Dukakis for WHAT?"

425 JustMyView  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:17:37pm

re: #349 Wishing

Well on The View today, Bubba said the hilmeister would accept the VP if offered..as her *duty*

Actually, he said she would have accepted it as a duty, had it been offered. He was referring to the past.

426 kcladderman  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:17:39pm

re: #413 mich-again

There is another possibility. She may really want a seat on Supreme Court where she can be a hero in the spotlight forever without ever having to campaign for her job again. And she can finally dump Bill because she won't need his rich buddies to bankroll her.

Oh come on now

427 tronman  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:17:48pm

re: #415 jaunte

Here are some sounds to go with that:
[Link: www.archive.org...]

Hey I figured if Dukakis wants to talk about Horton...

428 JohnAdams  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:18:04pm

re: #412 arethusa

Can I get an absentee ballot? I'm astonished "weird Al" even made it to the general.

429 kynna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:18:10pm

re: #370 mama winger

I don't know of one Obama decision that has gone right.

The surge ? wrong

VP? wrong

Wife? - wrong

Church ? - wrong

What has the man ever been right on?

Sex Ed? - wrong

Campaigning in Europe? - wrong

Women as voters? - wrong

Russia? - wrong

UN? - wrong

China (better infrastructure)? - wrong

Terrorism? - wrong

Economy? - wrong

Americans (bitter gun clinging bible thumpers)? - wrong

Infanticide? - wrong

Nup, I don't think he's been right yet. Unless you count his assumption that the media will carry his water. He's been pretty dead on as far as that expectation is concerned.

430 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:18:56pm

re: #411 Killian Bundy

Woman whose dogs mauled neighbor gets 15 to life

/no more dog sex for Marjorie

It will never be good enough. As my old professor used to say, "Use a gun, go to jail. Use a dog, get a fine."

Terrible people, and I was so very angry.

431 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:19:10pm

re: #425 JustMyView

Actually, he said she would have accepted it as a duty, had it been offered. He was referring to the past.

So the *duty* part is only past tense. How odd.

432 gmsc  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:19:41pm

re: #424 livefreeor die

I lived in Massachusetts at the time and couldn't believe that of all the people in the US, the Donks picked him. He was such a zero. There was a great bumpersticker at the time that showed a cartoon figure in various stages of hysterical laughter with the caption, "Dukakis for WHAT?"

That reminds me, I like the bumper sticker idea from another thread on here - "Vote the hero, not the zero!" How do Obama supporters argue against that without admitting, well, the obvious?

433 ciaospirit  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:19:51pm

re: #366 spidly

got a chain email thingy insisting that Obama will pull out and Hillary will step in in a couple weeks.

I got a chain email that says Obama is going to replace Biden on October 5 with Hillary. Most lizards don't think so, but hey anything's possible.

434 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:20:09pm

re: #413 mich-again

There is another possibility. She may really want a seat on Supreme Court where she can be a hero in the spotlight forever without ever having to campaign for her job again. And she can finally dump Bill because she won't need his rich buddies to bankroll her.

That's been tossed out a couple of times too, and I just don't think she'd get past the confirmation hearings. She has no experience. I know it's not necessary for the Court, but the public will not have any of it- look at how Meyers was treated. I just don't see it happening.

435 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:20:24pm

re: #413 mich-again

Just a speculation, but I would actually bet that Hillary never dumps Bill. There's something very odd there.

436 Macker  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:20:35pm

Hey Mikey! Be glad you won 10 states!

437 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:20:36pm

re: #429 kynna

Sex Ed? - wrong

Campaigning in Europe? - wrong

Women as voters? - wrong

Russia? - wrong

UN? - wrong

China (better infrastructure)? - wrong

Terrorism? - wrong

Economy? - wrong

Americans (bitter gun clinging bible thumpers)? - wrong

Infanticide? - wrong

Nup, I don't think he's been right yet. Unless you count his assumption that the media will carry his water. He's been pretty dead on as far as that expectation is concerned.


question?

What is this guy doing in this race still. If the donks ever get a candidate, we're toast. hehe

438 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:20:43pm

re: #433 ciaospirit

I got a chain email that says Obama is going to replace Biden on October 5 with Hillary. Most lizards don't think so, but hey anything's possible.

I think Bubba gave the nod on the view..

439 Dublin(CA)Dude  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:21:29pm

re: #430 Dianna

It will never be good enough. As my old professor used to say, "Use a gun, go to jail. Use a dog, get a fine."

Terrible people, and I was so very angry.

This has finally convinced me that there is justice in this world. She got less than she deserved.

440 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:22:03pm

re: #435 Dianna

Just a speculation, but I would actually bet that Hillary never dumps Bill. There's something very odd there.

I actually think they are very much in love, with an arrangement. He looks, he does, she looks away. All's okay. Not so uncommon.

441 Optimizer  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:22:10pm

re: #9 JammieWearingFool

Michael Dukakis is still alive?

I thought the same thing, when I saw him in the Dem convention coverage. I was really taken aback at how much of an angry, bitter, crazed moonbat he was. Not statesman-like at all.

But the REAL question is, "Why the hell is anybody still talking about this guy?" He's been completely irrelevant for some time now. I guess we'll scrape all the way at the bottom of the barrel, just so that we can claim racism has much of anything to do with this race.

442 Macker  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:22:10pm

re: #433 ciaospirit

NEVER count out the Torch Option...

443 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:22:36pm

re: #425 JustMyView

What?

I don't believe it! I updinged you!

However, it was a sensible remark, so I guess I will get away with it.

444 alien_mind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:22:47pm

OT: George Micheal arrested in a public bathroom. AGAIN!

445 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:22:50pm

re: #435 Dianna

Just a speculation, but I would actually bet that Hillary never dumps Bill. There's something very odd there.

She's grown accustomed to his face.

446 Intrepid  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:23:06pm

re: #349 Wishing

Well on The View today, Bubba said the hilmeister would accept the VP if offered..as her *duty*

Actually, I heard him say that if Obama had called (meaning, back when he was making his decision), Hillary would have accepted out of "duty". But, he said, she did not want to be his VP pick.

Given the fact that Obama didn't call - didn't even vet her - and there is a real potential of him losing the election, there is no way she'd accept now. She wouldn't get back the vast majority of the PUMAs who have switched to McCain/Palin because there is no way in God's green earth these folks would ever vote for Obama EVEN IF Hillary is on the ticket.

And Bubba today spoke of Sarah in very glowing terms, as he did when Greta interviewed him. You can bet your bottom dollar that if there was any chance that Hillary would jump on the ticket with Obama, then Bill would not be saying the things he's been saying.

447 livefreeor die  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:23:24pm

re: #441 Optimizer

I thought the same thing, when I saw him in the Dem convention coverage. I was really taken aback at how much of an angry, bitter, crazed moonbat he was. Not statesman-like at all.

But the REAL question is, "Why the hell is anybody still talking about this guy?" He's been completely irrelevant for some time now. I guess we'll scrape all the way at the bottom of the barrel, just so that we can claim racism has much of anything to do with this race.

He was as arrogant as they come. His bitterness is similar to Jimmy Carter's-no one "appreciated" him enough.

448 Wide Right  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:23:34pm

re: #395 TheMatrix31

Sorry Matrix, down dinged by mistake.

449 mich-again  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:23:38pm

re: #426 kcladderman

Oh come on now

Think outside the box!

450 mich-again  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:24:08pm

re: #435 Dianna

Just a speculation, but I would actually bet that Hillary never dumps Bill. There's something very odd there.

She picks up his scraps? Ha.

451 gmsc  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:24:13pm

re: #429 kynna

Sex Ed? - wrong

Campaigning in Europe? - wrong

Women as voters? - wrong

Russia? - wrong

UN? - wrong

China (better infrastructure)? - wrong

Terrorism? - wrong

Economy? - wrong

Americans (bitter gun clinging bible thumpers)? - wrong

Infanticide? - wrong

Nup, I don't think he's been right yet. Unless you count his assumption that the media will carry his water. He's been pretty dead on as far as that expectation is concerned.

Hey, just ask Obama supporters about his accomplishments!

(Courtesy of The Obama File)

452 Dublin(CA)Dude  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:24:21pm

re: #445 Sharmuta

She's grown accustomed to his face.

Thanks, I'd forgotten just how good Nat King Cole was!

453 nyc redneck  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:24:30pm

re: #433 ciaospirit

I got a chain email that says Obama is going to replace Biden on October 5 with Hillary. Most lizards don't think so, but hey anything's possible.

yes,i got a chain email that said oct. 5, obama is going to strip naked and run thru central park screaming, 'where's my waffle wheres' my waffle, i want my gd waffle?"

454 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:24:55pm

re: #448 Wide Right

Sorry Matrix, down dinged by mistake.

You can fix that now.

455 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:25:10pm

re: #452 Dublin(CA)Dude

Thanks, I'd forgotten just how good Nat King Cole was!

My pleasure. I love Nat.

456 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:25:14pm

re: #446 Intrepid

Actually, I heard him say that if Obama had called (meaning, back when he was making his decision), Hillary would have accepted out of "duty". But, he said, she did not want to be his VP pick.

Given the fact that Obama didn't call - didn't even vet her - and there is a real potential of him losing the election, there is no way she'd accept now. She wouldn't get back the vast majority of the PUMAs who have switched to McCain/Palin because there is no way in God's green earth these folks would ever vote for Obama EVEN IF Hillary is on the ticket.

And Bubba today spoke of Sarah in very glowing terms, as he did when Greta interviewed him. You can bet your bottom dollar that if there was any chance that Hillary would jump on the ticket with Obama, then Bill would not be saying the things he's been saying.

Could be so..he surely sounded like the O losing wouldnt be a bad thing. lol

457 livefreeor die  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:25:15pm

re: #453 nyc redneck

yes,i got a chain email that said oct. 5, obama is going to strip naked and run thru central park screaming, 'where's my waffle wheres' my waffle, i want my gd waffle?"

From your mouth to God's ears.

Of course, the only coverage of that would be on Fox.

458 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:25:19pm

re: #439 Dublin(CA)Dude

This has finally convinced me that there is justice in this world. She got less than she deserved.

She did.

The dogs had to be put down - and I was all in favor - but I was furious that some middle-class lawyer kept a pair of unguided missiles around for a thrill.

459 ciaospirit  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:26:03pm

re: #453 nyc redneck

yes,i got a chain email that said oct. 5, obama is going to strip naked and run thru central park screaming, 'where's my waffle wheres' my waffle, i want my gd waffle?"

hahahahahahaha

460 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:26:13pm

re: #445 Sharmuta

She's grown accustomed to his face.

I still have no sound.

461 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:27:46pm

re: #450 mich-again

She picks up his scraps? Ha.

I don't know. I do not pretend to a deep knowledge of the human heart, but I've watched her around him, and even when she's furious with him, avoiding his touch, she turns towards him.

It's a very female thing.

462 really grumpy big dog Johnson  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:27:50pm

re: #448 Wide Right

Sorry Matrix, down dinged by mistake.

You can upding once to negate it now.

463 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:27:52pm

re: #458 Dianna

She did.

The dogs had to be put down - and I was all in favor - but I was furious that some middle-class lawyer kept a pair of unguided missiles around for a thrill.

What happened with the husband?

464 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:27:59pm

re: #460 Dianna

I'm sorry. Let me know when you get it back, and I will link you some Nat King Cole.

465 Macker  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:28:21pm

re: #445 Sharmuta

She's grown accustomed to his face.

If you mean Shrillary with Bill, then there, fixed that for ya! (Click on the link)

466 kynna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:29:00pm

re: #437 unrealizedviewpoint

question?

What is this guy doing in this race still. If the donks ever get a candidate, we're toast. hehe

Here's a few more:

Number of states? - wrong

Number of years a president can serve? - wrong

Stage dressing for most important speech of his life? - wrong

*snort*

This is painfully fun. ^_^

467 Moe Katz  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:29:04pm

Me too. The jive period especially.

468 Lynn B.  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:29:05pm

Amazing. Hitchens invokes the ghost of Dukakis haunting the Obama campaign (see also LGF thread earlier today) and presto! ... magically Dukakis appears to verify the analogy.

Brilliant!

/not so much, but thanks, Mike. Please drop by any time.

469 mich-again  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:29:10pm

re: #460 Dianna

I'll sing it. I've growwwn Ah-CUSTomed to her fa-a-a-a-ace. ..

470 gop_patriot  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:29:19pm

re: #334 Killian Bundy

Naomi whatsherface said:

You have to understand how things work in a closing society in order to understand "Palin Power." A gang or cabal seizes power, usually with an affable, weak figurehead at the fore. Then they will hold elections -- but they will make sure that the election will be corrupted and that the next affable, weak figurehead is entirely in their control.

The only "cabal" and "affable, weak figurehead" in this election that this sentence could possibly be describing are the Democrat party and Obama.

471 galloping granny  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:29:48pm

re: #387 Dianna

It better not!

And if it looked like it might, I don't think Hillary Clinton would risk that level of illegitimacy.

Here's the conversation Bill had with The View - [Link: blogs.abcnews.com...]

It does not sound to me in the least like any kind of a trial balloon for a what if. . .

472 livefreeor die  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:29:48pm

re: #461 Dianna

I don't know. I do not pretend to a deep knowledge of the human heart, but I've watched her around him, and even when she's furious with him, avoiding his touch, she turns towards him.

It's a very female thing.

At this point in her life, it's either some companionship or being alone. I doubt she would easily find someone else to share a space with her.

473 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:29:56pm

re: #462 really grumpy big dog Johnson

You can upding once to negate it now.

Actually you go back & forth, back & forth. like a seesaw. I just did on your post.

474 spidly  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:30:33pm

re: #404 tronman

Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit,
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit.
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit,
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit.

I prefer a brim full of asha on the 45
or perhaps
staging the plaguing of the raised platform making the dope, dope and the dope, dope

475 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:30:50pm

re: #463 Wishing

Not enough. I believe he paid some fines. He may have lost his law license, because the police found some very bad stuff, but I don't know that he ever really got charged with much.

476 gmsc  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:31:26pm

re: #466 kynna

Here's a few more:

Number of states? - wrong

Number of years a president can serve? - wrong

Stage dressing for most important speech of his life? - wrong

*snort*

This is painfully fun. ^_^

Number of bombs dropped on Pearl Harbor? - wrong

The purpose of Memorial Day? - wron

So many of the forgotten classic Obama gaffes can be found here.

477 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:31:31pm

re: #469 mich-again

I'll sing it. I've growwwn Ah-CUSTomed to her fa-a-a-a-ace. ..

Mich! I'll see it tomorrow, at work, when Sharmuta links it for me. Don't strain yourself!

478 Intrepid  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:31:36pm

re: #411 Killian Bundy

Woman whose dogs mauled neighbor gets 15 to life

/no more dog sex for Marjorie

OH YES! I followed this trial. She and her husband showed an astounding lack of control over their two Pressa Canario dogs, and several people in their building and in the dog park had reported them to the police before the dogs killed their neighbor.

And the lawyer for Marjorie Knoller, in her closing argument, crawled on the courtroom floor trying to reinact something. It was disgusting.

(dang, can't remember what the lawyer's name was! she was quite a doozy)

479 livefreeor die  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:31:39pm

re: #475 Dianna

Not enough. I believe he paid some fines. He may have lost his law license, because the police found some very bad stuff, but I don't know that he ever really got charged with much.

So how did he get fined and she got fifteen years? Interesting outcome.

480 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:31:40pm

re: #475 Dianna

Not enough. I believe he paid some fines. He may have lost his law license, because the police found some very bad stuff, but I don't know that he ever really got charged with much.

Too bad...both deserved to do time ...for a LONG time

481 galloping granny  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:31:43pm

re: #412 arethusa

I would bet big against Obama-Biden suddenly becoming Obama-Clinton. It doesn't do anyone any good; if he loses, she loses, too, and if he wins, she has to wait till 2016, when there will be more young guns against her. Obama looks like McGovern in 1972: weak and ineffectual, and manipulative to boot. Plus, Biden doesn't really antagonize anyone; HRC would antagonize a ton of independent voters Obama needs, and what she might make up in women doesn't necessarily balance that out.

I get to vote against Al Franken in 6 weeks. Can't wait.

I would bet big right along side you.

482 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:32:10pm

re: #469 mich-again

I'll sing it. I've growwwn Ah-CUSTomed to her fa-a-a-a-ace. ..

You crack me up!

483 stevieray  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:32:43pm

re: #471 galloping granny

Here's the conversation Bill had with The View - [Link: blogs.abcnews.com...]

It does not sound to me in the least like any kind of a trial balloon for a what if. . .

Sounded to me like a "... don't you even think of it, Obama..." to me.

484 really grumpy big dog Johnson  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:32:49pm

re: #473 unrealizedviewpoint

Actually you go back & forth, back & forth. like a seesaw. I just did on your post.

Charles just keeps on adding elegant little details like that. :)

485 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:32:59pm

re: #471 galloping granny

Still no sound!

I'll look tomorrow.

486 nyc redneck  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:33:01pm

re: #458 Dianna

She did.

The dogs had to be put down - and I was all in favor - but I was furious that some middle-class lawyer kept a pair of unguided missiles around for a thrill.

the victim in this case was actually being stalked by the male dog (bane iirc). i don't think the female attacked the woman who was terrified of the dogs. and for wks was afraid to leave her apt. she should have armed herself. sometimes it comes down to knowing your life is in danger and you may not be able to wait for the authorities. i feel so bad for this gal. her behavior of utter and abject fear which she exhibited around the dogs made them zero in on her as a suitable prey animal.
those dogs were out of control and the keeper had no idea how to handle them. she should have gotten more time for this irresponsible behavior.

487 spidly  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:33:28pm

re: #481 galloping granny

I would bet big right along side you.

what about your tax break, walkin' around money, and all the goodies?

488 SpartanWoman  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:34:01pm

Speaking of "Palin Power" I bought cute little barracuda pendants for myself, my daughters and select friends..sort of wearing an unobtrusive campaign button

489 Macker  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:34:40pm
490 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:34:44pm

re: #484 really grumpy big dog Johnson

Charles just keeps on adding elegant little details like that. :)

An addition for the small undecided electorate here at LGF.

491 Dublin(CA)Dude  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:34:59pm

re: #463 Wishing

Her husband spent two years in jail. She did four, but was stupid enough to go back to court to get her law license returned. By doing so, she reopened the case in appeals court and they turned around and said that the original judge was wrong to overturn her conviction on second degree murder. Today's decision was the result of her efforts to get her law license back.

492 livefreeor die  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:35:03pm

re: #483 stevieray

Sounded to me like a "... don't you even think of it, Obama..." to me.


I think the "Addicted to Love" stunt at the Donks' convention sealed Obama's fate. Bill's just going to watch him squirm for the next six weeks.

493 reine.de.tout  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:35:37pm

I am just now seeing this:

UN Anti-Ahmadinejad Rally Becomes Anti-Obama Rally

Ain't it wonderful?

494 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:35:41pm

re: #479 livefreeor die

So how did he get fined and she got fifteen years? Interesting outcome.

She (Marjorie) was in charge of the dogs when they killed Diane. And - contrary to her lawyer's nonsensical claims and bad acting - Marjorie Knoller made not the slightest effort to stop the dogs savaging the victim. She yelled at them from many feet away.

I need to stop typing about this.

495 Moe Katz  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:36:06pm

re: #473 unrealizedviewpoint

Actually you go back & forth, back & forth. like a seesaw. I just did on your post.

Yep, the only catch is you can't go back to neutrality. It's either up or down once you've dinged.

496 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:36:29pm

re: #491 Dublin(CA)Dude

Her husband spent two years in jail. She did four, but was stupid enough to go back to court to get her law license returned. By doing so, she reopened the case in appeals court and they turned around and said that the original judge was wrong to overturn her conviction on second degree murder. Today's decision was the result of her efforts to get her law license back.

Holy Wow!
Justice!
That and the tree sitters all in one day!

497 Yankee Division Son  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:37:08pm

OT-
Biden says ad that mocked McCain was 'terrible'

Asked why it was done, he said: "I didn't know we did it and if I had anything to do with it, we'd have never done it."

Good to see your right on top of things Joe..

How long did that ad run?

498 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:37:21pm

re: #491 Dublin(CA)Dude

Her husband spent two years in jail. She did four, but was stupid enough to go back to court to get her law license returned. By doing so, she reopened the case in appeals court and they turned around and said that the original judge was wrong to overturn her conviction on second degree murder. Today's decision was the result of her efforts to get her law license back.

Ahh those wheels grind slowly, but ever so fine!

499 spidly  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:37:27pm

re: #493 reine.de.tout

I am just now seeing this:

UN Anti-Ahmadinejad Rally Becomes Anti-Obama Rally

Ain't it wonderful?

great post there:

D'oh!

Thanks, guys, for doing what we all thought was impossible: getting Jewish New Yorkers to take a serious look at McCain.

Obama, the Republicans' secret weapon.

This is what happens when you send a cheap, fraudulent, affirmative-action street thug from Chicago to do a real man's job.

500 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:37:36pm

re: #495 Moe Katz

Yep, the only catch is you can't go back to neutrality. It's either up or down once you've dinged.

Yeah, but I could sit here for 10 full days (till posts are closed) changing my election.

501 freedombilly  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:37:37pm

Man do I want a photo-op of Obama with a helmet driving a tank!

502 reine.de.tout  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:37:44pm

re: #496 unrealizedviewpoint

Holy Wow!
Justice!
That and the tree sitters all in one day!

And this too:

re: #493 reine.de.tout

I am just now seeing this:

UN Anti-Ahmadinejad Rally Becomes Anti-Obama Rally

Ain't it wonderful?

Today is a grand day!

503 jcw46  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:38:27pm

re: #373 Sharmuta

I agree- the PUMAs are saying they won't go for it anyways and I really think it would backfire on 0bama. How could he offer her the spot now when it's well known he never even vetted her before he picked biden? I think it will reek of desperation and the American people will see it for what it is.


It was reported that Hillary wasn't vetted at her request. She said that she would allow herself to be vetted only if the position would be hers.
Unfortunately I can't recall the source for that.
Found this but the link to the NYT is dead so I didn't find the original reportage. Maybe the NYT disappeared it so that they could claim Hillary was never vetted on purpose by Obama? These lefties try to screw each other around, let alone their opponents.
I do agree with the rest of what you said.

504 galloping granny  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:38:31pm

re: #485 Dianna

Still no sound!

I'll look tomorrow.

I didn't notice the no sound - have the speakers off. I read the transcript below - though I did see the clip earlier today.

505 livefreeor die  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:39:16pm

re: #501 freedombilly

Man do I want a photo-op photo shop of Obama with a helmet driving a tank!

Fixed it!

506 Moe Katz  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:39:28pm

re: #500 unrealizedviewpoint

Yeah, but I could sit here for 10 full days (till posts are closed) changing my election.

Obsessive Compulsive Dinging Disorder

507 livefreeor die  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:40:36pm

re: #494 Dianna

She (Marjorie) was in charge of the dogs when they killed Diane. And - contrary to her lawyer's nonsensical claims and bad acting - Marjorie Knoller made not the slightest effort to stop the dogs savaging the victim. She yelled at them from many feet away.

I need to stop typing about this.

I'm sorry. It's good to know that justice was finally served, at least a little more.

508 nyc redneck  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:40:38pm

those dogs belonged to one of her clients in prison. he had used them to guard his drug headquarters in mexico. after he was put away the attorney took these huge creatures from an out door setting to a small apt. it was a disaster waiting to happen. but what is so important is that the woman who was killed did not see this coming tho she had already had bad encounters w/ these animals. really a shame.

509 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:40:54pm

re: #493 reine.de.tout

I am just now seeing this:

UN Anti-Ahmadinejad Rally Becomes Anti-Obama Rally

Ain't it wonderful?

It's amazing ... will the press report on it? Regardless, that's pretty neat.

510 doriangrey  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:41:12pm

Yea...Chargers kick the Jets asses...48 to 29...

511 galloping granny  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:41:20pm

re: #493 reine.de.tout

I am just now seeing this:

UN Anti-Ahmadinejad Rally Becomes Anti-Obama Rally

Ain't it wonderful?

Yes - but also sad that idiots had to politicize this. With both Hillary and Sarah at that demo today they would likely have gone well over 100K people and made a real statement. The big statement today had nothing whatever to do with Ahmadinnerjacket.

512 reine.de.tout  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:41:35pm

re: #508 nyc redneck

those dogs belonged to one of her clients in prison. he had used them to guard his drug headquarters in mexico. after he was put away the attorney took these huge creatures from an out door setting to a small apt. it was a disaster waiting to happen. but what is so important is that the woman who was killed did not see this coming tho she had already had bad encounters w/ these animals. really a shame.

Didn't this lawyer and her husband later on adopt the client that was in prison?

513 livefreeor die  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:41:39pm

re: #509 Archimedes

It's amazing ... will the press report on it? Regardless, that's pretty neat.

If there's that kind of sentiment brewing in NYC on a large scale, things are looking up!

514 Moe Katz  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:41:50pm

re: #508 nyc redneck

those dogs belonged to one of her clients in prison. he had used them to guard his drug headquarters in mexico. after he was put away the attorney took these huge creatures from an out door setting to a small apt. it was a disaster waiting to happen. but what is so important is that the woman who was killed did not see this coming tho she had already had bad encounters w/ these animals. really a shame.

The client in prison was a white supremacist whom she and her husband had legally adopted as their son. There is some major weirdness there.

515 SpartanWoman  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:41:58pm

re: #509 Archimedes

It's amazing ... will the press report on it? Regardless, that's pretty neat.

The channel 2 reporter is one of the rare ones who are willing to confront the Obama crowd at the network

516 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:42:07pm

re: #512 reine.de.tout

They had done that before hand.

517 gop_patriot  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:42:36pm

re: #499 spidly

That comment caught my eye also, but you beat me to posting it! :)

518 JacksonTn  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:42:46pm

re: #334 Killian Bundy

Isn't Naomi Wolf the woman who channeled a 13 year old boy? She is an idiot.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

519 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:42:47pm

re: #506 Moe Katz

Obsessive Compulsive Dinging Disorder

Those suffering with this malady (OCDD) may be spotted with LGF Spy.

520 Killian Bundy  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:42:52pm

re: #478 Intrepid

(dang, can't remember what the lawyer's name was! she was quite a doozy)

/Nedra Ruiz

521 solomonpanting  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:42:54pm

re: #493 reine.de.tout

I am just now seeing this:

UN Anti-Ahmadinejad Rally Becomes Anti-Obama Rally

Ain't it wonderful?

The brouhaha started after Clinton pulled out after she learned Palin was invited. Three organizations supporting the rally threatened to pull out unless Palin was disinvited. She was but organizers didn't stop there.
They were furious Monday about the political signs brought by some at the rally, like an anti-Obama sign that said, "Jews Against Obama & Ahmadinejad."

They were angry that some who attended turned the rally into a political event?
Why does everything emanating from the Dem's side (Democide?) appear to be some sort of ironic alter universe?

522 gmsc  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:43:53pm

re: #502 reine.de.tout

Today is a grand day!

Anybody have a link to "What a Wonderful World"? (Louis Armstrong's version, that is - Sam Cooke's version is more of a description of Obama)

523 reine.de.tout  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:44:17pm

re: #519 unrealizedviewpoint

Those suffering with this malady (OCDD) may be spotted with LGF Spy.

Was about to upding you on this, but thought somebody might be spying . . .

524 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:44:20pm

re: #508 nyc redneck

those dogs belonged to one of her clients in prison. he had used them to guard his drug headquarters in mexico. after he was put away the attorney took these huge creatures from an out door setting to a small apt. it was a disaster waiting to happen. but what is so important is that the woman who was killed did not see this coming tho she had already had bad encounters w/ these animals. really a shame.

I think you folks might be confusing the real life story with an episode of Law & Order.

525 SpartanWoman  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:44:51pm

re: #521 solomonpanting

They were angry that some who attended turned the rally into a political event?
Why does everything emanating from the Dem's side (Democide?) appear to be some sort of ironic alter universe?

The angry one, Ms Shorenstein, is a major Dem supporter, that's why she was so snootily incensed by the signs.

526 nyc redneck  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:45:24pm

re: #512 reine.de.tout

Didn't this lawyer and her husband later on adopt the client that was in prison?

i think there was an adoption. how strange.

527 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:45:27pm

re: #522 gmsc

Anybody have a link to "What a Wonderful World"? (Louis Armstrong's version, that is - Sam Cooke's version is more of a description of Obama)

Here

528 Dublin(CA)Dude  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:45:39pm

re: #512 reine.de.tout

Didn't this lawyer and her husband later on adopt the client that was in prison?

They adopted him before the attack, and the dogs were linked to him. There was an undercurrent of deviant sexual activity between Majorie and the animals that was quashed by the media, and deviat activity between Cornfed, Marjorie and her husband, i.e. three way activity, also quashed by the media.

These were two time bombs waiting to go off, hundred plus pound dogs with a history of violence kept in a 900 square foot apartment. Both of them, Marjorie and her husband should have received much harsher sentences, but we have to accept what the courts did. By the way, the judge that was overturned on appeal, the one who over-ruled the jury and rejected their conviction of second degree murder, was none other than the son of Earl Warren, remember him?

529 solomonpanting  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:46:11pm

re: #522 gmsc

Anybody have a link to "What a Wonderful World"? (Louis Armstrong's version, that is - Sam Cooke's version is more of a description of Obama)

Here

530 nyc redneck  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:46:22pm

re: #524 unrealizedviewpoint

I think you folks might be confusing the real life story with an episode of Law & Order.

the real life story preceded the law and order story.

531 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:46:23pm

re: #522 gmsc

Anybody have a link to "What a Wonderful World"? (Louis Armstrong's version, that is - Sam Cooke's version is more of a description of Obama)

532 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:46:41pm

re: #524 unrealizedviewpoint

No, we're not.

I have an advance copy of one of the books about it. I can't remember where it's hiding at present, but reading it was...revolting.

Knoller and her husband are disgusting.

533 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:46:41pm

re: #527 Wishing

Here

Oh, yeah, one of my favorite songs.

534 Killian Bundy  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:47:04pm

re: #526 nyc redneck

i think there was an adoption. how strange.

/not to mention plenty of sex with the dogs

535 gmsc  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:47:13pm

re: #527 Wishing

Here

Thanks! That's great!

536 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:47:39pm

re: #535 gmsc

YVW

537 pat  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:47:55pm

re: #334 Killian Bundy

Naomi takes it doggy style. Beta bitch.

538 wright1  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:48:00pm

re: #441 Optimizer

I thought the same thing, when I saw him in the Dem convention coverage. I was really taken aback at how much of an angry, bitter, crazed moonbat he was. Not statesman-like at all.

But the REAL question is, "Why the hell is anybody still talking about this guy?" He's been completely irrelevant for some time now. I guess we'll scrape all the way at the bottom of the barrel, just so that we can claim racism has much of anything to do with this race.

Exactly, Michael Who? Tell me why I should care? But you know, in a period where Sarah Palin has been satirized for having an incestuous husband, had her e-mail hacked, been part of a concerted effort to smear her if not destroy her, by surrogates for the Obama campaign as per the JAWA report, and has been the recipient of nearly every biased report in the MSM , I am not surprised that they are taking Mike out of mothballs...heck, throw the kitchen sink at her. But I must say, they may just have another problem they did not foresee, his name is Bubba and I do not think he is a fan of BHO. I wonder if McCain has a new fan.

539 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:48:08pm

re: #530 nyc redneck

the real life story preceded the law and order story.

They used to base many of their story lines on actual events, but they also sensationalized them a tad. Not here?

540 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:48:11pm

re: #530 nyc redneck

the real life story preceded the law and order story.

And was much, much sicker and raunchier than network TV could manage to be, except by implication.

541 rp1138  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:48:42pm

re: #405 Archimedes

The space elevator idea has been around for a while. There is research being done in the U.S. with nanotechnology. Apparently it's feasible to make incredibly strong and light "rope" at the nano-scale.

Yeah, I've been following it for years, it just seems like we've got our collective thumbs up our butt about it, along with a lot of other great ideas.

I for one, am looking forward to nanotechnology.

Or, should I say, I for one, welcome our new nanobot overlords,,,

542 nyc redneck  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:48:46pm

re: #534 Killian Bundy

i'm scarred for life, now.
yuk.

543 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:49:20pm

I love this version:
What a Wonderful World:

544 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:49:38pm

re: #539 unrealizedviewpoint

They used to base many of their story lines on actual events, but they also sensationalized them a tad. Not here?

Trust me, it was worse.

545 nyc redneck  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:49:48pm

good night all,
weet dreams to you.

546 lifeofthemind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:50:01pm

re: #512 reine.de.tout

Didn't this lawyer and her husband later on adopt the client that was in prison?

It was a very strange case partly because there was an effort to rush the prosecution, even strange or guilty as sin people deserve a fair trial. That campaign was based on the irrelevant condition of the dead woman's sexuality.

547 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:50:15pm

re: #539 unrealizedviewpoint

This was an actual event...and the show could not do justice to the brutality and outright bizarre-ness of it

548 alien_mind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:50:18pm

so the dems evacuate New York to avoid tangling with hurricane Sarah, and still end up catching some flying shrapnel to the face.

549 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:50:22pm

re: #545 nyc redneck

Sleep well!

550 Dianna  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:51:21pm

Dog walking and bed time for me.

Have a good night, all.

551 Intrepid  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:51:22pm

re: #520 Killian Bundy

/Nedra Ruiz

Oh yes, good ol' Nedra. Yikes, what an awful display of trial-lawyering, if I can use that term. Even the judge cringed.

552 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:51:31pm

re: #548 alien_mind

She is not to be trifled with!

553 reine.de.tout  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:51:55pm

re: #550 Dianna

good night!

554 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:52:18pm

re: #551 Intrepid

Oh yes, good ol' Nedra. Yikes, what an awful display of trial-lawyering, if I can use that term. Even the judge cringed.

In this case, it could be said that the lawyer was crazier than her whacko clients

555 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:52:59pm

re: #538 wright1

...

O. I wonder if McCain has a new fan.

Absolutely. Bubba don't want no outright socialists in there destroying his country. He knows better. Heck, even Hillary knows better. This guy Barry is dangerous. His kids and grand kids gotta come up here. Hillary will tear it down real slow. But Obama? One swell swoop. bam!

556 Intrepid  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:53:33pm

re: #524 unrealizedviewpoint

I think you folks might be confusing the real life story with an episode of Law & Order.

Uhm, no - the L&O episode was based on the actual events. I watched the trial.

(unless you posted without a sarc tag, in which case...heh heh heh)

557 lifeofthemind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:54:51pm

re: #545 nyc redneck

good night all,
weet dreams to you.

Goodnight

558 jcw46  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:55:27pm

re: #494 Dianna

She (Marjorie) was in charge of the dogs when they killed Diane. And - contrary to her lawyer's nonsensical claims and bad acting - Marjorie Knoller made not the slightest effort to stop the dogs savaging the victim. She yelled at them from many feet away.

I need to stop typing about this.

From experience:
If a large dog attacks you and sinks their teeth into you;
Do not try to push them away or hit them. They may not stop and you will have wasted time. Dogs feel pain differently and react to it differently.
You MUST make them HURT. Gouge their eyes, twist their ears. If reachable grab their genitalia and twist. You have nothing to lose doing this. Too bad if the poor little doggy gets hurt! THEY'RE TRYING TO EAT YOU!
I took some bad wounds from an attack because my dog-loving nature wouldn't let me even try to DAMAGE it while it was chewing on my leg!
Make your mind up now that if attacked you will inflict maximum harm immediately. (I'm not talking about nips or bared teeth, I'm talking about actual bites intended to take a chunk out of you.) I was only saved by the fact that my leg was too large for the dog to close their mouth sufficiently to exert maximum force and shake so they could remove flesh. Otherwise I'd be missing a limb today. BE WARNED!

559 wright1  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:55:47pm

re: #555 unrealizedviewpoint

Absolutely. Bubba don't want no outright socialists in there destroying his country. He knows better. Heck, even Hillary knows better. This guy Barry is dangerous. His kids and grand kids gotta come up here. Hillary will tear it down real slow. But Obama? One swell swoop. bam!

It is simpler than that - WJC will never, ever forgive Obama for calling or suggesting that he "America's first black Prez" was or might be racist. WJC is all about legacy and BHO, well f*** up. Both WJC & Hillary are not happy.

560 nigella  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:57:53pm

Sorry really, really late to this thread, who complains...?

561 Intrepid  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:58:44pm

re: #554 Wishing

In this case, it could be said that the lawyer was crazier than her whacko clients

It was certainly a hoot-nanny born in wacko-ville, that was for sure.

562 spidly  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:58:51pm

heroes on in a couple minutes

563 Alberta Oil Peon  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:59:15pm

re: #259 Thanos

Like I said above don't feel bad, he suckered me once back in the '80's with his pro nuclear energy stance. That lasted about two weeks until I visited the university library and read more on someone's advice.

I remember running into some LaRouche-bots at LAX back in the '80s. Clean-cut young people, they'd have made Moonies look scruffy. Peddling magazines for the "Fusion Energy Foundation", one of LaRouches brainstorms. I actually subscribed, for basically the same reasons as you. Didn't take long to realize they weren't about raising money for fusion research.

564 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 8:59:40pm

re: #559 wright1

It is simpler than that - WJC will never, ever forgive Obama for calling or suggesting that he "America's first black Prez" was or might be racist. WJC is all about legacy and BHO, well f*** up. Both WJC & Hillary are not happy.

ahh. I don't know.. that stuff just fluffs off. That's politics.
The Clinton's are still just wondering - Where'd he come from?

565 Syrah  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:00:02pm

If today is a portent of things to come, the rest of 2008 is really going to be a bummer.

It was a very very bad day at work. Tomorrow promises to be no better. (I feel like I am the Deck Chair Steward on the Titanic.)

It's time to polish up the resume. Just the thing that I want to have to do while all the headline news is screaming about an impending global economic catastrophe.

On the upside, most of my oil stocks went up. Silver linings and all that.

Gah. . . .

If I didn't have to get up and be on the road before sunrise I would crawl into bottle and drink the days cares and worries away.

Chocolate.

I have some chocolate around here . . . Dutch chocolate . . . very good . . . mmm.

566 lifeofthemind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:00:32pm

re: #560 nigella

Sorry really, really late to this thread, who complains...?

Complaints? Down the hall third door on the right.

567 Thanos  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:00:36pm

Time for me to get some sleeps, I'll leave you with some Kipling.

The Gods of the Copybook Headings

by Rudyard Kipling

I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will bum,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return.

568 ggt  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:00:56pm

Good Evening Night Lizards! Overall, it was another pleasant and warmish day in the Very Far Western Suburbs of Chicagoland.

Has Axelrod been thrown under the bus yet?

How is everyone and what are we talking about?

569 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:01:20pm

re: #541 rp1138

Yeah, I've been following it for years, it just seems like we've got our collective thumbs up our butt about it, along with a lot of other great ideas.

I for one, am looking forward to nanotechnology.

Or, should I say, I for one, welcome our new nanobot overlords,,,

Taxes and regulations, heaped on taxes and regulations have real effect on productivity. In the 1800s, America was alive and vibrant with creativity and innovation. We have been since then as well, it's just that it's been continually slowing down.

570 pat  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:02:00pm

re: #558 jcw46

also nose, but you are right

571 Thanos  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:02:02pm

re: #563 Alberta Oil Peon

I remember running into some LaRouche-bots at LAX back in the '80s. Clean-cut young people, they'd have made Moonies look scruffy. Peddling magazines for the "Fusion Energy Foundation", one of LaRouches brainstorms. I actually subscribed, for basically the same reasons as you. Didn't take long to realize they weren't about raising money for fusion research.

Yep, that was probably the same pamphlet they gave me.

572 nigella  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:02:11pm

O.K., O.K. I was trying to be too clever by half... Point being who is Dukakis?

573 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:02:19pm

re: #565 Syrah

You need to listen to your URL =)

574 Lynn B.  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:02:34pm

re: #493 reine.de.tout

I am just now seeing this:

UN Anti-Ahmadinejad Rally Becomes Anti-Obama Rally

Ain't it wonderful?

Reine,

I wish.

But this update kind of contradicts that, no?

UPDATE: Iranian activist Banafsheh Zand Bonazzi was at the rally and mentioned that there were several pro-Palin signs in the crowd but that there were not many anti-Obama signs.

575 wright1  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:03:00pm

re: #568 ggt

Good Evening Night Lizards! Overall, it was another pleasant and warmish day in the Very Far Western Suburbs of Chicagoland.

Has Axelrod been thrown under the bus yet?

How is everyone and what are we talking about?

Well your Cubs beat my Mets and that is not a good thing!

576 wright1  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:03:30pm

re: #572 nigella

O.K., O.K. I was trying to be too clever by half... Point being who is Dukakis?


Exactly!

577 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:03:37pm

re: #568 ggt

Good Evening Night Lizards! Overall, it was another pleasant and warmish day in the Very Far Western Suburbs of Chicagoland.

Has Axelrod been thrown under the bus yet?

How is everyone and what are we talking about?

Bloodbaths is the topic...man and beast

578 galloping granny  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:03:49pm

Is anyone else having trouble raising [Link: rushlimbaugh.com...] ?

579 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:05:03pm

re: #578 galloping granny

Is anyone else having trouble raising [Link: rushlimbaugh.com...] ?

I haven't been to his site in a while. It sure is loud!

580 joncelli  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:05:08pm

G'Night lizards. Morning comes too soon.

581 Kosh's Shadow  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:05:11pm

re: #555 unrealizedviewpoint

Absolutely. Bubba don't want no outright socialists in there destroying his country. He knows better. Heck, even Hillary knows better. This guy Barry is dangerous. His kids and grand kids gotta come up here. Hillary will tear it down real slow. But Obama? One swell swoop. bam!

Yes, I don't think Bill wants Obama to mess up the country too much; Hillary wouldn't want to be president of a screwed up country.
That's why I'd trust her with the presidency more than 0bama - she won't ruin the source of her power.

582 alien_mind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:05:27pm

re: #572 nigella

O.K., O.K. I was trying to be too clever by half... Point being who is Dukakis?

he starred as a lame tank commander in a bad comedy several years ago.

583 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:06:19pm

re: #581 Kosh's Shadow

Yes, I don't think Bill wants Obama to mess up the country too much; Hillary wouldn't want to be president of a screwed up country.
That's why I'd trust her with the presidency more than 0bama - she won't ruin the source of her power.

zackly!

584 galloping granny  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:06:33pm

re: #574 Lynn B.

re: #493 reine.de.tout

I am just now seeing this:

UN Anti-Ahmadinejad Rally Becomes Anti-Obama Rally

Ain't it wonderful?

Reine,

I wish.

But this update kind of contradicts that, no?

UPDATE: Iranian activist Banafsheh Zand Bonazzi was at the rally and mentioned that there were several pro-Palin signs in the crowd but that there were not many anti-Obama signs.

How? One "eye witness" vs. another in a crowd. And do keep in mind that instead of 45K like year before last or 25K like last year, this year's "rally" drew all of 2000 people. Not many at all for a prime time NY event planned for months. The event was a good demonstration - of people staying away in protest.

585 wright1  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:06:51pm

re: #576 wright1

If you are serious, I cannot teach you but you should google him - he is from the species Dukakisis and he is known to exhibit camoflauge when not under attack.

586 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:07:25pm

re: #569 Archimedes

Taxes and regulations, heaped on taxes and regulations have real effect on productivity. In the 1800s, America was alive and vibrant with creativity and innovation. We have been since then as well, it's just that it's been continually slowing down.

At some point we'll lose America's core if we keep this up.

587 solomonpanting  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:08:58pm

re: #572 nigella

O.K., O.K. I was trying to be too clever by half... Point being who is Dukakis?

He was the "player to be named later" in a trade for Marv Throneberry.

588 ggt  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:09:06pm

re: #558 jcw46

What you write is exactly true. People also don't understand that dogs have very, if any, muscle control of their lower jaw. You can ram your fist into their mouth and pull down, breaking their jaw. Or simply ram your fist down their throat --you may get some damage from scraping the teeth, but the dog will be stopped.

If the owner can't control their own dogs . . . (grrr)

If my dogs behaved that way, there would be no need for Animal Control to come --just the garbage haulers.

Seriously -- I'm the Alpha Bitch and they know it.

(right now, I'm in the recliner and they are on the couch :)

589 lifeofthemind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:09:20pm

re: #574 Lynn B.

UPDATE: Iranian activist Banafsheh Zand Bonazzi was at the rally and mentioned that there were several pro-Palin signs in the crowd but that there were not many anti-Obama signs.

I was there. Why is that a problem? People did not fall into the trap of looking like negative wingnuts and getting the crowd hostile to McCain. There were several dozen Black Christians who were there to support Israel and I did not ask their take on Obama. There was no reason to. Most of the crowd were High School students and there were about 400 Canadians present.

590 Russkilitlover  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:10:09pm

Sharmuta - are you about tonight? I went to our local RNC offices today and they had a notice on the door - back at 1:00. Well, it was 1:20 when I was there and they I waited around for another 20 mins. This is a recurrent problem in this small town I live in - hours of operation don't seem to mean much. I don't hold it against them, because it is the same "meme" throughout this town - hours of business are XX-ish to XX ish, and if they feel like working they will; if something comes up, they won't! Very different from the structure I am used to, but I WILL try again tomorrow and the day after, if necessary.

591 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:10:24pm

I have a fat cat.

592 ggt  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:10:33pm

re: #575 wright1

NOT my Cubs, this is a Sox household.

:)

593 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:11:07pm

re: #581 Kosh's Shadow

Yes, I don't think Bill wants Obama to mess up the country too much; Hillary wouldn't want to be president of a screwed up country.
That's why I'd trust her with the presidency more than 0bama - she won't ruin the source of her power.

And she's never going to get it if 0bama wins. Her only hope is 2012.

594 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:11:34pm

re: #592 ggt

NOT my Cubs, this is a Sox household.

:)

One Hundred Years! For the love of God, please let them win ONCE!

595 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:11:57pm

re: #590 Russkilitlover

That's too bad. Thanks for the update- I was wondering about you. Keep us posted.

596 ggt  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:12:12pm

re: #577 Wishing

any specific decedents?

597 Syrah  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:12:14pm

re: #573 Wishing

You need to listen to your URL =)

Oh yes, you are right, and I have so many sins to be washed away, . . .

If it was not for my faith, I think I would be in a real mess. I know that the cares and worries of the day are really kind of trivial in the grand scheme of things.

Still, I would like things to work out and for everyone to work together as team as if our very livelihoods depended on it.

Such as it is in the world of business, we work with what tools we have, and sometimes, they break.

But you are right. even if I were to lose everything, I would still be able to count myself among the rich of the earth. The fields and the streams can support me, the forest can shelter me. Life is good, even if at times it can be a little uncomfortable.

And the chocolate helps too.

598 ggt  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:12:43pm

re: #594 Archimedes

Anyone can have a bad century?

599 Lynn B.  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:12:50pm

re: #584 galloping granny

How? One "eye witness" vs. another in a crowd. And do keep in mind that instead of 45K like year before last or 25K like last year, this year's "rally" drew all of 2000 people. Not many at all for a prime time NY event planned for months. The event was a good demonstration - of people staying away in protest.

Exactly. One eye witness vs. another. So not clear whether the anti-Obama sentiment was in fact rampant.

There were only 2000 people? That's pathetic. I thought I read there were a lot more.

600 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:13:06pm

re: #597 Syrah

Chocolate always helps. It's proof that God loves us.

601 Tigger2005  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:14:21pm

re: #569 Archimedes

Taxes and regulations, heaped on taxes and regulations have real effect on productivity. In the 1800s, America was alive and vibrant with creativity and innovation. We have been since then as well, it's just that it's been continually slowing down.

Yeah, and the same people who ramp up the taxes and regulations, also dream about all the amazing inventions that we're gonna come up with to save the planet. But even if the collective manages to invent anything (unlikely), it will be impossible to implement, due to all the legal hurdles.

But the Left is incapable of seeing how its own policies make the world of its dreams impossible.

602 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:14:27pm

re: #598 ggt

Anyone can have a bad century?

That's a very philosophical approach, ggt. Nice and reasoned approach.

603 lifeofthemind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:14:54pm

Admiral Mike Mullen is on Tavis Smiley. The Service Dress Khakis look great but I wish they'd get rid of the polyester and go back to cotton. Smiley is a very hard left figure but he makes an effort to keep his show open so he gets a range of interviewees. Certainly better than Bill Moyers.

604 Lynn B.  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:15:08pm

re: #589 lifeofthemind

I was there. Why is that a problem? People did not fall into the trap of looking like negative wingnuts and getting the crowd hostile to McCain. There were several dozen Black Christians who were there to support Israel and I did not ask their take on Obama. There was no reason to. Most of the crowd were High School students and there were about 400 Canadians present.

I didn't say it was a problem. I was just questioning a report that it had turned into an "anti-Obama rally."

605 gop_patriot  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:16:02pm

re: #543 Archimedes

This is my favorite version of that song... :)

606 ggt  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:16:24pm

re: #602 Archimedes

rationalisation and justification work everytime.

/teehee

607 gmsc  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:16:53pm

re: #600 Sharmuta

Chocolate always helps. It's proof that God loves us.

If chocolate is proof that god loves you, why did cacao beans remain unknown in Israel until the New World was discovered?

(Just a weird thought I had.)

608 Aussie Stinger  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:16:56pm

Bill Clinton defends Sarah Palin, castigating those who denigrate her:

[Link: www.smh.com.au...]

He won't be popular for a while amongst the Left.

But good for him.

609 Syrah  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:17:13pm

re: #605 gop_patriot

This is my favorite version of that song... :)

That man had the voice of an Angel.

610 lifeofthemind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:17:16pm

re: #599 Lynn B.

Exactly. One eye witness vs. another. So not clear whether the anti-Obama sentiment was in fact rampant.

There were only 2000 people? That's pathetic. I thought I read there were a lot more.

That seems the right estimate. Obama's thugs threatening the Jewish sponsors with loss of tax exemption really damped it down. Pity they had a good speaker list.

611 ggt  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:17:46pm

re: #607 gmsc

Proof that G-d wants us to explore and prosper.

612 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:17:57pm

re: #607 gmsc

He works in mysterious ways.

613 lifeofthemind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:19:10pm

re: #604 Lynn B.

I didn't say it was a problem. I was just questioning a report that it had turned into an "anti-Obama rally."

Quite right, it stayed positive.

614 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:20:08pm

re: #601 Tigger2005

Yeah, and the same people who ramp up the taxes and regulations, also dream about all the amazing inventions that we're gonna come up with to save the planet. But even if the collective manages to invent anything (unlikely), it will be impossible to implement, due to all the legal hurdles.

Absolutely. Legal hurdles are another big obstacle.


But the Left is incapable of seeing how its own policies make the world of its dreams impossible.


Some environmentalists are just anti-capitalist and want to send us back to the stone age, so I think they want to see us destroyed. They are the ones driving the environmental movement. Most, however, are people who have naively glombed onto the movement and are looking for "solutions" to non-existent problems.

615 Syrah  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:20:16pm

re: #607 gmsc

If chocolate is proof that god loves you, why did cacao beans remain unknown in Israel until the New World was discovered?

(Just a weird thought I had.)

Because it is only one of innumerable proofs of Gods love for us. From cool clear water to the warm and fertile soil at our feet, Gods blessing are too many to count.

616 lifeofthemind  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:20:19pm

Goodnight ladies

617 ggt  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:20:29pm

re: #608 Aussie Stinger

" I get why she's hot out there,"

What else would Bill say? Too many jokes.

618 Lynn B.  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:20:37pm

re: #610 lifeofthemind

That seems the right estimate. Obama's thugs threatening the Jewish sponsors with loss of tax exemption really damped it down. Pity they had a good speaker list.

Once more with feeling ... there is NO WAY anyone could have taken such a threat seriously. That there were threats, I have no doubt. That they capitulated to threats, ditto. But whatever threats they capitulated to were not related to tax exemptions, I promise you.

619 Russkilitlover  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:21:08pm

re: #608 Aussie Stinger

Bill Clinton defends Sarah Palin, castigating those who denigrate her:

[Link: www.smh.com.au...]

He won't be popular for a while amongst the Left.

But good for him.

It's a "Clintonian" affectation. Hillary's sights are set on 2012 now, so defeating BHO is in their interest. The "enemy of my enemy" paradigm is in play, and take this Clinton support with a way eye and a HUGE grain of salt.

620 rp1138  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:21:23pm

re: #604 Lynn B.

I didn't say it was a problem. I was just questioning a report that it had turned into an "anti-Obama rally."

Don't forget: to the MSM and the Dems, any gathering of more than five people who aren't singing the messiah's praises qualifies as an anti-Obama rally.

621 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:21:31pm

re: #596 ggt

any specific decedents?

Let's see...so far: Obama, Dukakis, a nice gal in California...and there were others...

622 gmsc  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:21:44pm

re: #612 Sharmuta

He works in mysterious ways.

Here's two of them - David Hasselhoff and Adolf Hitler!


(George Carlin quote. Sorry, that comes to mind every time I hear "God works in mysterious ways.")


re: #611 ggt

Proof that G-d wants us to explore and prosper.

Interesting thought. My own internal response to my question was simply, "It's not the ONLY way . . ."

623 realwest  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:22:37pm

Hey all y'all - REALY late to the party tonight! What have I missed and what are we talking about?!

624 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:22:45pm

re: #597 Syrah

Shake off the day's disappointments and enjoy the down time...and dip the chocolate in a warm cuppa coffee...yum!

625 Syrah  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:23:12pm

re: #623 realwest

Hey all y'all - REALY late to the party tonight! What have I missed and what are we talking about?!

Chocolate and the blessings of God.

626 Moe Katz  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:24:01pm

re: #619 Russkilitlover

It's a "Clintonian" affectation. Hillary's sights are set on 2012 now, so defeating BHO is in their interest. The "enemy of my enemy" paradigm is in play, and take this Clinton support with a way eye and a HUGE grain of salt.

Or maybe he wants the Dems to win and has figured out that the attacks on Palin will backfire.

627 RJ77  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:24:03pm

Meanwhile, Obama's supporters resort to goon tactics and vandalism:

[Link: roblogpolitics.blogspot.com...]

628 Russkilitlover  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:25:06pm

re: #619 Russkilitlover

'Way eye," s/b wary eye! PIMF

629 Lynn B.  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:25:17pm

re: #620 rp1138

Don't forget: to the MSM and the Dems, any gathering of more than five people who aren't singing the messiah's praises qualifies as an anti-Obama rally.

LOL and so true. But this report came from Gateway Pundit (via Reine #493 above), neither of whom could be accused of being either MSM or Dem.

630 looking closely  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:25:22pm

re: #370 mama winger

I don't know of one Obama decision that has gone right.

The surge ? wrong

VP? wrong

Wife? - wrong

Church ? - wrong

What has the man ever been right on?

He dared to seek the Democratic nomination for President and actually got it.

631 Syrah  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:26:29pm

re: #590 Russkilitlover

I am glad that you are determined to be persistent. In California GOP politics, persistence and tenacity is what will get you in the door. Push.

632 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:26:32pm

Good night all...

633 Russkilitlover  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:27:01pm

re: #626 Moe Katz

Or maybe he wants the Dems to win and has figured out that the attacks on Palin will backfire.

I can't see how a BHO win benefits the Clintons. It's their worst case scenario. And they are far, far, far from defeated.

634 Russkilitlover  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:28:42pm

re: #633 Russkilitlover

I can't see how a BHO win benefits the Clintons. It's their worst case scenario. And they are far, far, far from defeated.

Calif GOP operations are so completely weak, that I want to step in and clean house! Gutless, wayward, ineffective, and adrift, describe them best.

635 Intrepid  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:29:20pm

re: #609 Syrah

That man had the voice of an Angel.

How did he die?

636 realwest  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:29:56pm

re: #625 Syrah
Hi Syrah! Gee, I always thought Chocolate WAS a blessing from God! LOL!
How are you doing tonight?

637 gmsc  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:30:52pm

re: #625 Syrah

Chocolate and the blessings of God.

Which started, ironically, by talking about Obama.

638 Wishing  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:31:04pm

Had to dash back in and post this: more lovely behavior from the ROP'ers:
Oy!

639 Russkilitlover  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:31:12pm

re: #634 Russkilitlover

Calif GOP operations are so completely weak, that I want to step in and clean house! Gutless, wayward, ineffective, and adrift, describe them best.

#590 - Syrah - I meant this to be a response to your comment. Don't know what happened...

640 Moe Katz  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:31:33pm

re: #633 Russkilitlover

I can't see how a BHO win benefits the Clintons. It's their worst case scenario. And they are far, far, far from defeated.

You're assuming they'd try to throw the election for the long-shot possibility that Hillary could get the nomination next time around. I wouldn't rule that out but ...

641 realwest  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:32:11pm

re: #609 Syrah
Ah, mine too - although I'd never heard of him until - waaay back in the day when Charles would put up a musical thread, he included that song in the list of songs.
I've probably only played it about 50 times already.

642 Moe Katz  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:34:47pm

re: #640 Moe Katz

You're assuming they'd try to throw the election for the long-shot possibility that Hillary could get the nomination next time around. I wouldn't rule that out but ...

If fact, even if she could get the nomination in '12, she'd then likely be running against an incumbent.

643 itellu3times  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:35:13pm

El Bubba Clintona on Letterman tonight, any of you right-coasters see it yet?

644 Adina in Judea  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:36:11pm

re: #640 Moe Katz

re: #633 Russkilitlover

I can't see how a BHO win benefits the Clintons. It's their worst case scenario. And they are far, far, far from defeated.

You're assuming they'd try to throw the election for the long-shot possibility that Hillary could get the nomination next time around. I wouldn't rule that out but ...

They wouldn't try to openly throw the election, but I don't think they intend to make a full effort to help Obama win either.

They can tell themselves that they need to save whatever good will they have for 2012 in case Obama loses, but I think there's a good chance that they're hoping Obama will lose so that they can regain their status in the party and let Hillary run again in 2012.

645 realwest  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:36:46pm

re: #635 Intrepid
Well Izzy was always HUGE - once had to have a crane lift him up onto the stage and, iirc he died of a massive heart attack.
I believe Charles referred to him as the Gentle Giant with an Angel's voice.

646 the Boodge  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:37:30pm

Here's a sneak peek at the new BHO campaign poster: [Link: politicallywhat.blogspot.com...]

647 Adina in Judea  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:38:01pm

re: #642 Moe Katz

If fact, even if she could get the nomination in '12, she'd then likely be running against an incumbent.

Bill won against an incumbent in 1992.

I don't think Bill and Hill see it as a problem for her.

648 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:38:07pm

re: #605 gop_patriot

This is my favorite version of that song... :)

Hey, very nice. He segued from one song to the other without missing a beat.

649 williwonka  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:38:17pm

re: #457 livefreeor die

From your mouth to God's ears.

Of course, the only coverage of that would be on Fox.

Wrong! the only coverage would be a fig shaped waffle.

650 Syrah  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:38:19pm

re: #636 realwest

Hi Syrah! Gee, I always thought Chocolate WAS a blessing from God! LOL!
How are you doing tonight?

It was a rough day at the grindstone factory. Things are improved. Good family, good food, good friends and good chocolate help heal the hurts of the day.

651 jwb7605  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:38:22pm

re: #284 rp1138

So he'll cut funding on "unproven" missile defense systems.

"So why did you cut the funding for that missile defense system?"

"Because it was unproven."

"So why was it unproven"

"Because we cut the funding."

If this country's previous leaders had thought that way, we would have fought World War II with smoothbore muskets and ridden to battle on horseback or in wagon trains. The Strategic Air Command would have used hot air balloons, and Japanese Navy could have sank the entire US Navy down to the last rowboat with nothing more than an old destroyer.

I respectfully disagree.
Rifling had already been proven in muskets by that time.
Furtherless, they would have used caplocks, not flintlocks or wheellocks.
/

652 Moe Katz  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:38:58pm

re: #644 Adina in Judea

I think there's a good chance that they're hoping Obama will lose so that they can regain their status in the party and let Hillary run again in 2012.

Do you think they'll mark their own ballots for the Republican ticket?

653 realwest  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:40:22pm

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but Obama has had a lot of TV ads (well, two really, but broadcast many time each) here in North Carolina - again with trying to tie McCain in with Bush on the econony. And according to something I read from Rueter's a majority of Amercian voters trust Obama more than McCain on the economy. That's what his ads hit on over and over and over - McCain, I don't think, has had any ads here in North Carolina.

654 Adina in Judea  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:41:14pm

re: #652 Moe Katz

re: #644 Adina in Judea

I think there's a good chance that they're hoping Obama will lose so that they can regain their status in the party and let Hillary run again in 2012.

Do you think they'll mark their own ballots for the Republican ticket?

No, but I'm sure they realize that they don't have to do this.

They can mostly sit back and watch The One fall (as they predicted he would.)

655 ggt  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:41:26pm

re: #621 Wishing

oh, the horror!

Sorry, I missed it. :)

656 hermeneutics  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:42:07pm

re: #650 Syrah

It was a rough day at the grindstone factory. Things are improved. Good family, good food, good friends and good chocolate help heal the hurts of the day.

Sending my best good wishes to you, Syrah.

657 Charles  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:42:31pm

Testing...

658 realwest  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:42:34pm

re: #650 Syrah
"Good family, good food, good friends and good chocolate help heal the hurts of the day."
Indeed they do,although I'd nitpick and put good friends before good food, but "comfort food" is called that for a reason!

659 Syrah  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:42:35pm

re: #637 gmsc

Which started, ironically, by talking about Obama.

Can't keep good lizards down. Come hell and high water, we will still know and enjoy what is best in life.

660 realwest  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:43:18pm

re: #657 Charles
Ah geez, Charles, I didn't study or anything. Man I HATE pop quizzes!

661 Adina in Judea  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:43:20pm

re: #653 realwest

That's what his ads hit on over and over and over - McCain, I don't think, has had any ads here in North Carolina.

McCain does have ads running on TV in North Carolina.

662 hermeneutics  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:43:20pm

I wonder what Charles is testing tonight.

663 ploome hineni[deleted]  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:44:11pm
664 realwest  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:44:38pm

re: #655 ggt
Hey hi ggt - how are ya today - allergies any better (and - forgive me for asking - but what is it you're allergic too? Sure hope it's not chocolate!)?

665 gop_patriot  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:44:41pm

re: #648 Archimedes

Hey, very nice. He segued from one song to the other without missing a beat.

I read somewhere that he finished up writing his version of the song in the middle of the night, and went straight over to the recording studio and recorded it in one take. Whether or not that is true, I don't know, but it makes for a good story. :)

666 Archimedes  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:45:29pm

re: #602 Archimedes

That's a very philosophical approach, ggt. Nice and reasoned approach.

Their motto is "Wait Till Next Year!"

667 realwest  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:45:48pm

re: #661 Adina in Judea
OK, I'll take your word for it - I don't watch TV all that much, but all I seem to see are adds for Obama and ads for Bev Purdue.

668 gop_patriot  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:46:55pm

re: #645 realwest

Not a heart attack, but a "weight-related respiratory illness" of some kind. I don't know exactly what that means, but there you are. (had to look it up btw) :)

669 ggt  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:48:11pm

re: #660 realwest

There is a TEST? Yikes.


How are you rw?

670 ggt  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:49:24pm

re: #664 realwest

Well, I am faring better than others who don't take their allergy meds. Still rough around here tho. Thanks for askin'.

I'm allergic to Mother Nature.

671 realwest  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:50:10pm

re: #668 gop_patriot
Huh - well whatever, I sure wish he was still with us and still singing with that truly angelic voice of his.

672 Adina in Judea  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:50:29pm

re: #667 realwest

re: #661 Adina in Judea
OK, I'll take your word for it - I don't watch TV all that much, but all I seem to see are adds for Obama and ads for Bev Purdue.

Obama has one TV ad that shows his face in a closeup. He's speaking directly to the camera and smiling his goofy smile (the one where his ears wiggle, I think.) It's jarring - but it's also badly edited.

At the end, he says "I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message because..."

The screen goes to black and then shows written words while he's still talking about why he approved the message. It looks like a mistake. Also, it seems like he can't shut up when he explains WHY he approved the message.

I don't watch much TV either but I've been trying to catch a few things here and there while I'm in North Carolina.

673 gop_patriot  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:50:30pm

Are the little white boxes in the spinoff links new? (the ones around the numbers and the -/+ )

674 Syrah  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:50:38pm

re: #635 Intrepid

Wikipedia says he died of weight-related respiratory illness.

675 gop_patriot  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:52:11pm

re: #671 realwest

Huh - well whatever, I sure wish he was still with us and still singing with that truly angelic voice of his.

Oh, me too. I love to listen to Hawaiian music, and his was some of the best.

676 realwest  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:52:13pm

re: #670 ggt
LOL! Alleregic to Mother Nature - whoa, now that's something Claritan or any other allergy medicine probably won't help you with!
Me, I get slight allergic reactions to trees and grass.
Started right after Vietnam!

677 pat  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:52:25pm

It is important to understand that McCain has never met an enterprise that he felt did not need his regulatory ministrations. This man believes that his sense of 'honor' entitles him to determine the way everyone else conducts themselves. Free speech, the Second Amendments, property rights, mean nothing to McCain. While he professes faith in 'the American worker', he actually has none.
Where Obama is narcissistic, believing that he is smarter than everyone else, even though he is unaccomplished and illeducated, McCain believes that he is the most honest person in America. There is a difference: Obama has chosen a jackass as a running mate, McCain has chosen a pitbull. One I would trust.

678 gop_patriot  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:53:18pm

re: #674 Syrah

Wikipedia says he died of weight-related respiratory illness.

Thank you for the link, I forgot to put it in my comment. Duh...

679 realwest  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:53:50pm

re: #672 Adina in Judea
How long are you here in North Carolina? And whereabouts (I'm in a suburb of Charlotte)?

680 pat  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:55:59pm

re: #678 gop_patriot

Saw him live. A different sort of person. In the good sense. once was a bad boy, then sort of changed.

681 Pawn of the Oppressor  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:56:48pm

re: #213 joncelli

Arianna Huffenpuff was on Larry King while I was riding the exercise bike. She's selling that line like it's going out of style: If Obambi loses, it's because Americans are racists, dahlink.

I'm about ready to put these condescending, vapor-brained fuckwits on the slow boat to ANYWHERE. Can we just eject them out the collective national airlock already? I am so very, very tired of leftie/"liberal"/Dem types who think they're so much smarter than everybody.

I moved out of the Northeast to escape that attitude, and now it's leaking into every corner of life because of this stupid election. I hope McPalin wins in a freaking monumental landslide just to shut these idiots up.

/Sick of it.

682 Adina in Judea  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:57:18pm

re: #679 realwest

re: #672 Adina in Judea
How long are you here in North Carolina? And whereabouts (I'm in a suburb of Charlotte)?

I'm in the Raleigh area (Research Triangle Park) because I need to be onsite for a job. I will be here for another three months or so. Then I can work remotely from Israel.

North Carolina is nice!

683 The Other Les  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:59:01pm

There are day that I feel like the magic user in the bottom right panel.

[Link: www.giantitp.com...]

Good night.

684 realwest  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:00:57pm

re: #682 Adina in Judea
Yep! North Carolina is beautiful! I was born here, but lived most of my years away from the state (most of them - 35 - in Manhattan) and as much as I do love North Carolina and the people here, NYC is always gonna be my hometown!
What kind of job - if you don't mind me asking?

685 Intrepid  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:01:36pm

re: #674 Syrah

Wikipedia says he died of weight-related respiratory illness.

He got up to over 700 pounds, and his brother had died early of a heart attack. A body just cannot keep that much weight on it for long periods of time if one has a family history of a bum ticker.

So sad - he was truly talented. And he left behind a widow and young daughter.

686 realwest  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:03:43pm

re: #685 Intrepid
See now you've done it - no one's posting anymore!
LOL!

687 Mr Spiffy  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:04:16pm

re: #343 soccerdad

Oh you are smarter than me my friend. Sounds like a 'conversation' with my wife. I love her now and always will. No but. She is continually spouting the same tripe about Bush that he ran an oil company into the ground, he's just out for oil, etc.
I've been celibate again for about two months since I reminded her that Bush is not running in this election!


That was me 4 years ago when I mentioned "Global Warming" time has worked wonders on her attitude
(not being flooded by melting ice caps has helped too)

688 Adina in Judea  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:04:44pm

re: #213 joncelli

Arianna Huffenpuff was on Larry King while I was riding the exercise bike. She's selling that line like it's going out of style: If Obambi loses, it's because Americans are racists, dahlink.

The Dems are going to threaten voters with this line right up to November.

Among other threats...

"Gee, what will the world think if Obama isn't elected?"

Perhaps the Dems should be wondering why a world that hates America wants Obama to win (and how this looks to American voters.)

689 jwb7605  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:05:45pm

re: #330 mama winger

street agitator

black supremacists

socialists

marxists

re: #335 mama winger

political hacks

voter fraud

gaming the system


Somehow I sense a progressive pattern here. Not sure ...

Anyhow, tonight I spent some time with my neighbor, daughter, son-in-law, and their friend from Switzerland who is emigrating permanently to the U.S.A.
The guy from Switzerland speaks French mostly as his second language, and English rather well. He's married to a dual-citizenship woman.

We're having a homemade chips-and-salsa discussion, one thing leads to another and I said "So have you guys heard about the story behind the Palin e-mail hack?" My daughter is 8 months preggie.

The guy from Switzerland says "yes, it was done by the son of a Democrat congressman".
I said "Yes, but he was only at the state level. That's not the point".
My daughter says "so what's the point?"
I said "You guys might want to move to Tennessee".
Daughter (sucked in) says "Why?".
I said "The interesting thing is the legislation he was sponsoring. If it ever got through, you could legally change the sex of my granddaughter to read "my grandson, if you lived in Tennessee".
My daughter said "WHAT? How?"
So I explained the bill.
My son-in-law said "Holy shit. That's completely fucked".
I said "Yeah, it is. But it does explain a bit about how that kid's attitude and outlook might have been affected. It implies a lot about how he might have been raised".
The guy from Switzerland said "Well, he is a Democrat".
I said "Yes, but that's not the point. The point is that it shows a lot about how kids are raised and how that affects them as they grow up. Doesn't matter whether that is a Democrat or Republican."
The guy from Switzerland said "I've only been here for six months, and only a Democrat would do something like that".

I like my daughter and son-in-law's friend from Switzerland, who considers himself on the "French" side of Swiss, not German.

I was assuming that my son-in-law and daughter were going to vote for Obama, mainly because they are the classic definition of a Yuppie.

I don't think I'm all that sure, now.

690 Intrepid  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:06:23pm

re: #686 realwest

See now you've done it - no one's posting anymore!
LOL!

I didn't do it! (shaking in my boots, or would be if I were wearing any)

Heh. Didn't mean to be the bummer in the room. Sorry!

691 realwest  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:06:37pm

Well all y'all - it's been too short for me, but still grand!
I have to get some sleep NOW!
I sure hope you all have a GREAT EVENING/EARLY MORNING and that I get the chance to see you down the road!

Goodnight, all.

692 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:07:06pm

re: #686 realwest

See now you've done it - no one's posting anymore!
LOL!

Roger that - I just came back, and I'm already depressed!

693 Adina in Judea  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:08:21pm

re: #684 realwest

Yep! North Carolina is beautiful! I was born here, but lived most of my years away from the state (most of them - 35 - in Manhattan) and as much as I do love North Carolina and the people here, NYC is always gonna be my hometown!

It's interesting that you returned!

What kind of job - if you don't mind me asking?

Software engineering.

Speaking of which - I have to go sleep! I took a nap this evening (bad idea) so I'm up a bit late.

Take care!

694 Intrepid  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:09:16pm

re: #691 realwest

Well all y'all - it's been too short for me, but still grand!
I have to get some sleep NOW!
I sure hope you all have a GREAT EVENING/EARLY MORNING and that I get the chance to see you down the road!

Goodnight, all.

'Nite, Realwest! Sleep well!

695 realwest  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:09:31pm

re: #690 Intrepid
Oh come on, ya know I was just kidding you! It was a natural lull while folks were studying up for Charles' Test - I chose to leave before he could give it!
Goodnight, again - hope to get the chance to see you down the road!

696 Syrah  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:10:03pm

re: #639 Russkilitlover

Don't let the poor state of the local GOP discourage you. I would encourage you to look at it as an opportunity rich environment where a person of determination and talent will stand out and be able to do great things.

There is a terrible amount of petty infighting in the local GOP organizations. The abortion issue is a real problem. It makes people on both sides of the issue forget that they are there to help elect Republicans. When I was active in Santa Clara County, I was able to stay clear of most of the silly squabbling and participate in as many useful and enjoyable party building activities as I was able to find time for. The trick is to get past the people who think that the local party organization is about specific issues and through to those that know that the local party organization is at its best and most useful when it is focused on what is best for all Republicans, not just the ones that fall on this or that side of a particular issue.

The Party itself is by its very nature about "the big tent." Factions are about specific issues.

The Party needs to be able to transcend its internal factions and work for the party as a whole. Easy in theory, but difficult in practice. Humans are emotional creatures. Sometimes, we let our feelings cloud our judgment.

Be persistent. Be tenaciousness. It will pay off.

697 gop_patriot  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:14:54pm

re: #680 pat

Saw him live. A different sort of person. In the good sense. once was a bad boy, then sort of changed.

That's really cool that you got to see him live.

698 jwb7605  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:15:01pm

re: #695 realwest

Oh come on, ya know I was just kidding you! It was a natural lull while folks were studying up for Charles' Test - I chose to leave before he could give it!
Goodnight, again - hope to get the chance to see you down the road!

What the heck is Charles' test, and where is the cheat sheet?

699 Intrepid  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:16:08pm

re: #696 Syrah

Would some sort of encouragement from Gov Arnold help the CA GOP? It appears he is so busy with CA's budget crisis that he hasn't done anything for the national ticket.

Could Arnold help, or is it more precinct-based?

700 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:16:45pm

re: #698 jwb7605

What the heck is Charles' test, and where is the cheat sheet?

You just failed the test. There'll be a makeup test tomorrow evening, better bone up!

701 Purple Prose  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:17:35pm

OT:

George Harrison extolling capitalism:

GEORGE: "So, you know, why bother working? But if my tax is cut then I'd do four times as much work, I'd make four times as much money. They'd take less tax but they'd make more from me. But they cut their own throat. They do it all over the show, every place you look in Britain it's the same. I mean, it makes me sick sometimes. It's like, one big Coronation Street. And that's Britain. Now in America, there's more people. And there's more good people, there's more bad people. But just generally there's more of everything. So more things get heard, more things get done and, you know, it really pays."

[Link: www.geocities.com...]

702 jwb7605  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:17:40pm

re: #700 cliffster

You just failed the test. There'll be a makeup test tomorrow evening, better bone up!

crap. Story of my life.

703 Intrepid  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:19:21pm

re: #698 jwb7605

What the heck is Charles' test, and where is the cheat sheet?

True, true, false, true, yes, a, c, c, NEVER, The Dog, and IZ.

704 Mr Spiffy  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:20:38pm

re: #385 rp1138

Look what the Japanese are building.

[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]

They're spending nine billion on it.
Think of all the amazing things we could with that 700+ billion we're spending on the bail out. All that money flushed down the government toilet, and all we get out of it is a bunch of fat-happy Democrat pigs in congress at the feeding trough.


carbon fiber nanotubes? I'll hold out for transporter technology
(We've been hearing about a space elevator for years)

705 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:21:54pm

re: #703 Intrepid

True, true, false, true, yes, a, c, c, NEVER, The Dog, and IZ.

haha. Actually, it's: True, false, a, none-of-the-above, PRESENT, and "hell, no, that wasn't my monkey".

706 jwb7605  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:23:00pm

re: #703 Intrepid

True, true, false, true, yes, a, c, c, NEVER, The Dog, and IZ.

When in doubt, dive bomb charlie.
crap. There are two charlies.

DO OVER!

707 ggt  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:24:18pm

Well, Lizards, Izzy is wonderful way to end the day. What a perfect lullaby.

weet dreams!

708 Mr Spiffy  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:24:43pm

re: #404 tronman

Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit,
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit.
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit,
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit.

My dad had a version not suitable for repeating
(fond memories)

709 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:24:59pm

So I went to the johnmccain.com site and signed up to Volunteer!. One of the things he suggests is taking the fight to the web. Blogs, even! You can pick a demographic, it tells you some blogs to go to. Default is, Liberals. Blogs to go to:

ColoradoPols
Crooks and Liars
John Amato’s blog
DailyKos
MyDD
Think Progress

Now, mind you he's not encouraging any viral advertising attacks...

710 Intrepid  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:25:52pm

re: #705 cliffster

haha. Actually, it's: True, false, a, none-of-the-above, PRESENT, and "hell, no, that wasn't my monkey".

Crap - he gave us different tests so we couldn't cheat of each other. Teachers do that all the time just to foil us "cheat sheet" salesfolk.

/no good sales tonight!

711 Intrepid  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:27:41pm

re: #707 ggt

Well, Lizards, Izzy is wonderful way to end the day. What a perfect lullaby.

weet dreams!

Sleep well, ggt! Dream of a pure Chicago without thugs - a stretch, since it's been that way since the days of Capone.

712 Inquisitive  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:27:45pm

re: #697 gop_patriot

That's really cool that you got to see him live.

I have been listening to his songs since you posted the Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World link...he really had a great voice. Listened to his version Wind Beneath My Wings and it was wonderful.

713 jwb7605  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:28:25pm

re: #709 cliffster

So I went to the johnmccain.com site and signed up to Volunteer!. One of the things he suggests is taking the fight to the web. Blogs, even! You can pick a demographic, it tells you some blogs to go to. Default is, Liberals. Blogs to go to:

ColoradoPols
Crooks and Liars
John Amato’s blog
DailyKos
MyDD
Think Progress

Now, mind you he's not encouraging any viral advertising attacks...

Since it's been a long evening, can you turn (at a minimum) ColoradoPols into a linky?

714 Syrah  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:31:23pm

re: #699 Intrepid

Would some sort of encouragement from Gov Arnold help the CA GOP? It appears he is so busy with CA's budget crisis that he hasn't done anything for the national ticket.

Could Arnold help, or is it more precinct-based?

Arnold would have to work through too much of his own baggage to be of much help when it comes to making the County Central Committees more useful and effective.

In California, the local committees are made up of people elected by the voters int their county. They are way down ballot. Most voters have no clue who the people are that they are voting for or against. Its a crapshoot way too much of the time.

I think that the local parties would be better and more effective if they were not made up of locals elected out of the community but by people appointed by the state party. If the state party appointed the local Committee members to their posts, they would more likely then not feel that they have an allegiance to the state party over and above just their own ego. But that is just my opinion on the matter.

715 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:31:41pm

re: #713 jwb7605

Since it's been a long evening, can you turn (at a minimum) ColoradoPols into a linky?

Not one I'd ever heard of, but apparently they think Colorado will be a knock down drag out. Here 'tis

716 Intrepid  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:31:45pm

re: #709 cliffster

Well now, that's very interesting and compelling, especially for those of us who live in a dark red or dark blue state. (TN here, dark red)

We really don't have much to do in the way of local campaign work, so maybe we can do some work on the webz.

The PUMA sites I read all have action calls to all their members - they're working hard in getting out the message AGAINST Obama (primarily) and for McCain/Palin. They're all Hillary supporters and it's great to see how much work these folks are doing to make sure Obama isn't elected.

Should we do any less, I ask?

717 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:32:52pm

re: #696 Syrah

Don't let the poor state of the local GOP discourage you. I would encourage you to look at it as an opportunity rich environment where a person of determination and talent will stand out and be able to do great things.

There is a terrible amount of petty infighting in the local GOP organizations. The abortion issue is a real problem. It makes people on both sides of the issue forget that they are there to help elect Republicans. When I was active in Santa Clara County, I was able to stay clear of most of the silly squabbling and participate in as many useful and enjoyable party building activities as I was able to find time for. The trick is to get past the people who think that the local party organization is about specific issues and through to those that know that the local party organization is at its best and most useful when it is focused on what is best for all Republicans, not just the ones that fall on this or that side of a particular issue.

The Party itself is by its very nature about "the big tent." Factions are about specific issues.

The Party needs to be able to transcend its internal factions and work for the party as a whole. Easy in theory, but difficult in practice. Humans are emotional creatures. Sometimes, we let our feelings cloud our judgment.

Be persistent. Be tenaciousness. It will pay off.

All of this is true. I feel the best way to deal with this is to get highly organized people to start working at the grassroots party level. When I joined my local party, the chair thought I was a breath of fresh air. All I said was, "Is our goal here to get more Republicans elected?" But somehow this was a novel concept to this group (besides him). He still calls me to get involved when he needs people. That's what the Republicans need- just more commonsense people getting involved. It could go a long way.

718 lostlakehiker  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:34:06pm

re: #681 Pawn of the Oppressor

I'm about ready to put these condescending, vapor-brained fuckwits on the slow boat to ANYWHERE. Can we just eject them out the collective national airlock already? I am so very, very tired of leftie/"liberal"/Dem types who think they're so much smarter than everybody.

I moved out of the Northeast to escape that attitude, and now it's leaking into every corner of life because of this stupid election. I hope McPalin wins in a freaking monumental landslide just to shut these idiots up.

/Sick of it.

That isn't going to happen. Next best scenario, if the only thing you care about is that they learn some humility: they win. Then they run the show for the next four years, and run the country as far into the ground as a government can, and then, THEN, comes the landslide.

But shame on me, for thinking along those lines. "The worse, the better" is terrible folly. If we elect the right guy, it won't be gameoverwewin. Problems will continue, because the problems of a civilization are far bigger than one man, or one election cycle. If we elect the wrong guy, that won't mean absolute ruin, and we shouldn't even think about gloating about how bad it will be. We should think hard about how to contain the damage, cooperate in salvage efforts when their ideas go wrong, and cooperate in making them work when, against all odds, some of them show some chance of working.

719 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:35:47pm

re: #714 Syrah

Arnold would have to work through too much of his own baggage to be of much help when it comes to making the County Central Committees more useful and effective.

In California, the local committees are made up of people elected by the voters int their county. They are way down ballot. Most voters have no clue who the people are that they are voting for or against. Its a crapshoot way too much of the time.

I think that the local parties would be better and more effective if they were not made up of locals elected out of the community but by people appointed by the state party. If the state party appointed the local Committee members to their posts, they would more likely then not feel that they have an allegiance to the state party over and above just their own ego. But that is just my opinion on the matter.

Wow- that's actually on the ballot? We elect our local party chairs and officers at the local conventions.

720 pat  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:37:54pm

re: #717 Sharmuta

He thought you were a 'breath of fresh air' because you are. Simple.

721 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:38:02pm

re: #709 cliffster

So I went to the johnmccain.com site and signed up to Volunteer!. One of the things he suggests is taking the fight to the web. Blogs, even! You can pick a demographic, it tells you some blogs to go to. Default is, Liberals. Blogs to go to:

ColoradoPols
Crooks and Liars
John Amato’s blog
DailyKos
MyDD
Think Progress

Now, mind you he's not encouraging any viral advertising attacks...

Gee- I thought he wasn't savvy...

722 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:38:14pm

re: #720 pat

*blush*

723 cliffster  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:38:37pm

re: #716 Intrepid

Well now, that's very interesting and compelling, especially for those of us who live in a dark red or dark blue state. (TN here, dark red)

We really don't have much to do in the way of local campaign work, so maybe we can do some work on the webz.

The PUMA sites I read all have action calls to all their members - they're working hard in getting out the message AGAINST Obama (primarily) and for McCain/Palin. They're all Hillary supporters and it's great to see how much work these folks are doing to make sure Obama isn't elected.

Should we do any less, I ask?

I'm in TX. McCain will probably never set foot here until after the election, and we don't want him to. Texas is in the bag, so he needs to go where the fight is. But you're right, that there's something we can all do, that's why I signed up tonght. Here's the other sites the old man says you need to troll:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/
You know this one
http://www.mydd.com/
http://thinkprogress.org/

And the first one again:
http://www.coloradopols.com/

724 funky chicken  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:38:46pm

Has anybody asked Franklin Raines how he feels about having Michael Dukakis compare him to Willie Horton?

Who's the racist now, Mr. Dukakis?

725 saltmarsh  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:39:09pm

:Mr. Obama, you headed up the Chicago Annenburg Challenge for a number of years didn't you?

:Yes I did. I was the chairman from the get go on that baby. Those were some heady times, the feeling of power when I'd rap my gavel and make those white boys sit up straight. Sometimes Michelle would come by after the meetings and we'd take turns just rapping that gavel. We have two girls you know.

:Well, that sounds like some serious executive experience to me. As Chairman you oversaw the dispersement of 161 million dollars. What were you able to accomplish.

:We were able to spend damn near every bit of it. When we got through wasn't hardly any left.

:Didn't a good bit of that money go to William Ayers, who was also on the board with you?

:That's right, Bill got the Annenburg fund to give him 48 million in seed money to get the ball rolling and then his daddy convinced some others to act neighborly and be patriotic and next thing you know we had 161 million dollars.

:And what did Mr. Ayers do with the money?

:He spent damn near all of it. When he got through wasn't hardly any of it left.

:Several proposals were presented to the board with the goal of improving students math and science scores. What happened to those proposals.

:R-e-j-e-c-t-e-d. Total waste of time and money. Most of these students were never gonna graduate. Gang banging and all. And the ones who do make it out of there don't need math and science for the jobs available to them. It was an insult to the board to even bring proposals like that before us.

:Well what did you spend the money on.

:We trained a lot of community organizers. You never can tell where a community organizer is gonna end up.

726 funky chicken  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:39:55pm

re: #709 cliffster

So I went to the johnmccain.com site and signed up to Volunteer!. One of the things he suggests is taking the fight to the web. Blogs, even! You can pick a demographic, it tells you some blogs to go to. Default is, Liberals. Blogs to go to:

ColoradoPols
Crooks and Liars
John Amato’s blog
DailyKos
MyDD
Think Progress

Now, mind you he's not encouraging any viral advertising attacks...

Ugh. no can do. I can make calls, knock on doors, stuff envelopes. But engage in conversation with that bunch? shudder

727 funky chicken  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:42:12pm

I like the PUMA blogs. But mydd? crooks and liars? just can't stomach it.

728 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:43:50pm

I think we should engage with the PUMAs- they might be more willing to got to liberal sites. One PUMA site has been linking to LGF a couple of times now. They could use out help getting info to spread to their fellow travelers themselves.

729 OtisMyMan  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:44:56pm

OT: Hendrix doing "Wild Thing" on VH1Classic right now.

730 gop_patriot  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:46:48pm

So, Charles, whatcha testing? New and exciting additions, or behind the scenes stuff?

731 Bobblehead  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:47:27pm
732 Syrah  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:47:46pm

re: #719 Sharmuta

Wow- that's actually on the ballot? We elect our local party chairs and officers at the local conventions.

Yep. In California and in Washington state, the local Party is made up of people who are listed on and elected from the popular ballot.

It is in my opinion the best way to make the local Parties as infective as possible.

Popularly elected local Parties are too often little more then debating societies. That does not mean that they can't be good, just that the odds are stacked against them.

733 jwb7605  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:49:57pm

re: #715 cliffster

Not one I'd ever heard of, but apparently they think Colorado will be a knock down drag out. Here 'tis

Thanks.
I'd not heard of it (old, conservative, therefore not Internet savvy).
Firefox "Title" reads
ColoradoPols.com - the most widely read and discussed political website in Colorado

My choices appear to be:
Moby
Troll
upfront, usually my first choice, is not a good idea.

I'll sleep on it, and if anything interesting develops, will post accordingly.

Thanks for the link!

734 Syrah  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:51:54pm

re: #732 Syrah

infective = ineffective

Aren't spell checkers just grand!

735 Moe Katz  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:54:55pm

I understand a lot of money has been made lately in short selling. What am I offered for my shorts?

736 lostlakehiker  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:54:58pm

re: #80 pingjockey

He won't. If he were the type to wilt in debate, Hillary would have wilted him. She's enough to make any man slump.

/snigger

737 Mr Spiffy  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:57:07pm

re: #518 JacksonTn

Naomi Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American author, political consultant, and public intellectual

WTF is a "public intellectual"?

738 Moe Katz  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:58:48pm

re: #737 Mr Spiffy

Naomi Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American author, political consultant, and public intellectual

WTF is a "public intellectual"?

A recognized, marketable talking head?

739 Sharmuta  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 11:00:11pm

re: #732 Syrah

Yep. In California and in Washington state, the local Party is made up of people who are listed on and elected from the popular ballot.

It is in my opinion the best way to make the local Parties as infective as possible.

Popularly elected local Parties are too often little more then debating societies. That does not mean that they can't be good, just that the odds are stacked against them.

I like our method- you get involved, go to your local convention, meet your fellow republicans, and have an opportunity to ask questions of those seeking officer positions. It does tend to favor those who have been involved for awhile, but I was an officer shortly after joining my local group because they came to like what I had to say in a short time.

I think having the state party appoint people isn't a great idea. It opens the door to cronyism. It's better to let the people decide, but a popular ballot? That's a little much.

740 Intrepid  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 11:02:09pm

re: #728 Sharmuta

I think we should engage with the PUMAs- they might be more willing to got to liberal sites. One PUMA site has been linking to LGF a couple of times now. They could use out help getting info to spread to their fellow travelers themselves.

Sharm - you registered at the HillaryClinton Forum? They and PUMAPac seem to be the most "activist" Puma sites.

And both are welcoming of Republicans, as long as we wipe our feet and mind our manners.

741 lostlakehiker  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 11:03:26pm

re: #724 funky chicken

Has anybody asked Franklin Raines how he feels about having Michael Dukakis compare him to Willie Horton?

Who's the racist now, Mr. Dukakis?

Somebody who does oh, say, gabillions of damage to the national economy, has done more damage than any Willie Horton ever did. And Raines and his crowd [of honkies, let's be clear---race has nothing nothing NOTHING to do with this] funneled a lot of spare change to Obama. Greasing palms is essential when you're playing fast and loose with the rules.

742 RTLM  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 11:03:53pm

I once rode the LAX parking lot bus to Lot C with Mike and Kitty Dukakis. They were the only other people on the bus. Besides the friend I was with.

Feb, '97

The only reason I remember is that we booked our flight back to L.A. from Denver enroute to Jamaica. We went back to drop our skiis and snow gear off in the car after a week in Vail. We needed our pre-positioned beach gear. Then it was off to Hedonism II.

We got back to L.A. late February.

743 NY Nana  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 11:04:41pm

re: #735 Moe Katz

What am I offered for my shorts?

/This many Quatloos!

G'nite, and sweet dreams to all! I am actually really, truly going to sleep. Honest.

744 rawmuse  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 11:05:07pm

re: #735 Moe Katz

I understand a lot of money has been made lately in short selling. What am I offered for my shorts?

Naked shorts?

745 Mr Spiffy  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 11:05:28pm

re: #558 jcw46

From experience:
Make your mind up now that if attacked you will inflict maximum harm immediately. I was only saved by the fact that my leg was too large for the dog to close their mouth sufficiently to exert maximum force and shake so they could remove flesh. Otherwise I'd be missing a limb today. BE WARNED!

Excellent political advice regarding the Dems

746 Intrepid  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 11:06:44pm

re: #737 Mr Spiffy

Naomi Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American author, political consultant, and public intellectual

WTF is a "public intellectual"?

A close associate of a "community organizer".

747 Syrah  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 11:12:25pm

re: #739 Sharmuta

I like our method- you get involved, go to your local convention, meet your fellow republicans, and have an opportunity to ask questions of those seeking officer positions. It does tend to favor those who have been involved for awhile, but I was an officer shortly after joining my local group because they came to like what I had to say in a short time.

I think having the state party appoint people isn't a great idea. It opens the door to cronyism. It's better to let the people decide, but a popular ballot? That's a little much.

I think I like your method too. Our current method is worse then terrible.

Electing the party members popularly at large only makes the local parties too much about the elected members ego's and personal agenda's over what is good for the party.

Our current method is so bad that cronyism would be an improvement.

748 OtisMyMan  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 11:24:03pm

Community Organizer = Shit stirrer

749 OtisMyMan  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 11:26:59pm

re: #735 Moe Katz

I understand a lot of money has been made lately in short selling. What am I offered for my shorts?

Yo, Moe, I got no dough, please leave em on cause we want no show!

750 hermeneutics  Mon, Sep 22, 2008 11:31:09pm

re: #737 Mr Spiffy

Naomi Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American author, political consultant, and public intellectual

WTF is a "public intellectual"?

An academic capable of writing clearly.

751 aaron's rantblog  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 12:23:28am

Gotta admit... again... I was way ahead of the curve on this one.

I. Obama as Commander in Chief

II. Obama as Commander in Chief says, "Let's roll... over!"

752 aaron's rantblog  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 12:39:23am

Oh, my... an anagram for public intellectual is inculpate libel cult. Kinda fits given what the Dhimmicrats are doing to Palin.

And of course there's I call Blue Cult inept, where the Dems are the "blue cult".

753 LC LaWedgie  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 1:23:27am

The media's still left in the tank for Obama... they're never right.

754 yesandno  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 3:26:30am

And to think I have such fond memories...

The grass is always greener on my side!

755 Ward Cleaver  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 6:19:02am

re: #8 sbvft contributor

Remember Lovitz playing Dukakis on SNL? Other than Reagan whooping his ass, that was my fondest memory of the 88 campaign. Comedy gold.

With the podium that was raised up electrically, and Dukakis' (Lovitz's) use of the word "swarthy" to describe himself? That left a mark.

756 TheHardHat  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:19:24am

Dukakis seems to have forgotten his Massachusetts Miracle problem. He was the leader of the state with the miracle economy. He was going to bring to America all the good he brought to Massachusetts. Except that the typical Liberal economic result kicked in. There were massive failures in the housing market due to years of Liberal rent restrictions. State revenue was falling and taxes were going up, again. Californians may have lead the first modern tax revolt, but the folks in Mass also put their foot down to additional new taxes. Dukakis had a tax revolt on his hands.

Dukakis barely held on to his own state and that state is one of the most Liberal in America. His own people didn't want him to be President.

Let's not forget, the photo of Dukakis in a tank turret with a helmet falling down over his eyes. He looked like a kid playing 'Army'!

Why is it that Liberal leaders from states with the worst economic messes, think they can help America by doing to America what they did to their own states? I must be a racist to reject failure as an option.

757 leereyno  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 8:34:39am

Maybe I'm mistaken about this, but wasn't Raines IN CHARGE of Fannie Mae? Does the fact that he's a black man exempt him from criticism for the damage he did?

This is the same crap that the left spews anytime anyone calls someone who is a member of a designated "minority" group on their bullshit. If Raines was a woman, they'd scream sexism. If Raines was gay, they'd scream homophobia. If Raines was left handed, they'd try to pretend he was disabled, and scream about that too.

Anytime conservatives ignore group identity and hold someone accountable as an individual based upon understood principles, the left screams discrimination.

Whatever happened to judging someone by the content of their character?

758 sevoguy  Tue, Sep 23, 2008 9:04:43am

Dukakis didn't lose the election because he was stupid and didn't have a plausible campaign. He lose it because of that damn UNIBROW of his.


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