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Kind of like how Gramps said " My fellow prisoners..."
- Classic as well! Ha ha ha...********
- Oddly, if they were both speaking at Abu Ghraib it woulda worked out...TheBlueOne
- Very true.********
- Classic as well! Ha ha ha...
- ukit0
A post from the most popular conservative blog:
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http://www.redstate.com/diaries/…
With only a few weeks left until election day, let's be blunt: McCain-Palin '08 does not seem to be making headway against the polling. McCain has one more debate in which he could, and we should hope that he does.
At the same time, the Senate and House Republicans are going to get crushed. They just are. You can say the polls are biased. You can say the polls are rigged. But do so at your peril. Ignore the numbers and look at the trends.
The Republican numbers in the House and Senate can be salvaged, but in the next few weeks there must be a realistic assessment from the McCain campaign regarding winning his own race versus helping Congressional Republicans mitigate their losses. In the best case scenario, he should be able to help himself and the Congressional GOP. And that is possible in a number of cases.
Right now it is a necessity that we help as best we can.
We must be aggressive and involved. Below are the races where, despite the expected smack down, we have a real possibility of picking up these seats. Note that the Senate side is primarily defending our own.
Give any money you can, then get out there and help.
- I only worry dems will settle scores rather than deal with the enormous problems faced********
- I only worry dems will settle scores rather than deal with the enormous problems faced
- TheBlueOne0
Fuck it..seriously..let's have a new revolution. After this election how about Obama gets to be president of all the States who vote for him and all the other states gets McCain - or fuck, they can keep Bush if they want, they probably do. Then we'll come back in four years time and see how it all worked out.
- hey I'm liking the cut of your jib. let the broke ass middle states fend for themselves and the rich coastal states fend for themselves.threadpost
- themselves. each state keeps its own portion of federal tax revenue and thats it. Im in.threadpost
- I've prayed for that for the last 8 yearshallelujah
- Yes, "they" can keep bush if "they" want... red states have rational people too...SigDesign
- I do think we need a revolution as well! Corporations need to get the HELL out of politics!!!DCDesigns
- ok, when ...?BattleAxe
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Jaz, do you honestly believe Obama is a muslim? give me a break!
- jazX is muslim and a Federalistakoni
- So that makes him Saddam Hussein?TheBlueOne
- either that or gargamale from the smurfsakoni
- He said it, I didn't.********
- quit playing stupidhallelujah
- playing?DrBombay
- TheBlueOne0
Dear John McCain's Campaign,
Look, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt you weren't being overtly or even subtly racist today, but may i suggest yo don't use the word "whip" in any relation to any black man in public discourse.
Or was that "code language" to those crowds you swore you weren't trying to incite?
Good luck,
TBO
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- who is that supposed to be?TheBlueOne
- Bush********
- Looks like Ron Paul on ear steroids.TheBlueOne
- I was thinking Paul Wolfowitz...IRNlun6
- really bad likenessesarthur
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Vote for Obama
by Christopher Hitchenshttp://www.slate.com/id/2202163/…
I used to nod wisely when people said: "Let's discuss issues rather than personalities." It seemed so obvious that in politics an issue was an issue and a personality was a personality, and that the more one could separate the two, the more serious one was. After all, in a debate on serious issues, any mention of the opponent's personality would be ad hominem at best and at worst would stoop as low as ad feminam.
At my old English boarding school, we had a sporting saying that one should "tackle the ball and not the man." I carried on echoing this sort of unexamined nonsense for quite some time—in fact, until the New Hampshire primary of 1992, when it hit me very forcibly that the "personality" of one of the candidates was itself an "issue." In later years, I had little cause to revise my view that Bill Clinton's abysmal character was such as to be a "game changer" in itself, at least as important as his claim to be a "new Democrat." To summarize what little I learned from all this: A candidate may well change his or her position on, say, universal health care or Bosnia. But he or she cannot change the fact—if it happens to be a fact—that he or she is a pathological liar, or a dimwit, or a proud ignoramus. And even in the short run, this must and will tell.
On "the issues" in these closing weeks, there really isn't a very sharp or highly noticeable distinction to be made between the two nominees, and their "debates" have been cramped and boring affairs as a result. But the difference in character and temperament has become plainer by the day, and there is no decent way of avoiding the fact. Last week's so-called town-hall event showed Sen. John McCain to be someone suffering from an increasingly obvious and embarrassing deficit, both cognitive and physical. And the only public events that have so far featured his absurd choice of running mate have shown her to be a deceiving and unscrupulous woman utterly unversed in any of the needful political discourses but easily trained to utter preposterous lies and to appeal to the basest element of her audience. McCain occasionally remembers to stress matters like honor and to disown innuendoes and slanders, but this only makes him look both more senile and more cynical, since it cannot (can it?) be other than his wish and design that he has engaged a deputy who does the innuendoes and slanders for him.
I suppose it could be said, as Michael Gerson has alleged, that the Obama campaign's choice of the word erratic to describe McCain is also an insinuation. But really, it's only a euphemism. Anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear had to feel sorry for the old lion on his last outing and wish that he could be taken somewhere soothing and restful before the night was out. The train-wreck sentences, the whistlings in the pipes, the alarming and bewildered handhold phrases—"My friends"—to get him through the next 10 seconds. I haven't felt such pity for anyone since the late Adm. James Stockdale humiliated himself as Ross Perot's running mate. And I am sorry to have to say it, but Stockdale had also distinguished himself in America's most disastrous and shameful war, and it didn't qualify him then and it doesn't qualify McCain now.
- distinguished himself in America's most disastrous and shameful war_salisae_
- my favorite part of this writing_salisae_
- Hitchens feels where this is going even though he was a big supporter of the war himself.
Basta!******** - I'm shocked that an old English boarding school would have a "sporting saying"...TheBlueOne
- it cant be helped
it must be done
down with the pants
and out with the bum******** - that's what he was talking about the old hot to trotskyite********
- Its a brilliant polemic from Mr. Hitchens
as usual********
- MrOneHundred0
Very interesting interview screened on Aussie TV last night with former Pakistan cricket captain, now activist, Imran Khan. The War on Terror from a Pakistani point of view.
- TheBlueOne0
Other Socialist Terrorists:
Why there's one right there in the middle! Next to President Reagan. This commie american-hating bastard is the so-called "philanthropist" who created and oversaw the board where Obama and that bastard Ayers plotted evil American-hating things. This scumsucker, was appointed as an Ambassador by that other evil socialist scumbag Richard Nixon. He even went so far as to introduce our beloved Reagan to that other commie lover, Margaret Thatcher.
Obama-Ayers brought to you by the evil socialist terrorist Walter Annenberg! I'd tell this American hating terroist scum to die if he wasn't already dead!
- Yes this is snark, I needed to make that clear if JazX or Sarah Palin came by and didn't understand my words.TheBlueOne
- Think about this next time you read about this Obama-Ayers connection. The connection was that man there in the middle...TheBlueOne
- ..you know the obvious america-hater.TheBlueOne
- ukit0
http://www.politico.com/news/sto…
The Republican National Committee, growing nervous over the prospect of Democrats’ winning a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, is considering tapping into a $5 million line of credit this week to aid an increasing number of vulnerable incumbents, top Republicans say.
With party strategists fearing a bloodbath at the polls, GOP officials are shifting to triage mode, determining who can be saved and where to best spend their money.
And with the House and Senate Republican campaign committees being drastically outspent by their Democratic counterparts, and outside groups such as Freedom’s Watch offering far less help than was once anticipated, Republicans are turning to the national party committee as a lender of last resort.
A decision is imminent because television time must be reserved and paid for upfront, and available slots are dwindling.
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It bothers you guys to death, that even with the way Bush has handled things over the last 8 years, the Dems aren't pulling a Reagan over Mondale type massacre. It's going to be a lot closer than you all think.
Hey, come to think of that election, the last women VP candidate is being disenfranchised by her own party. I bet Ferraro votes for McCain. Ha!
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maybe peter campbell will save us by buying up all the ad space to sell banana hammocks or foot powder
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- ukit0
Intrade odds:
Obama 76.8
McCain 23.7
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- "You know that Obama...he's an Arab Terrorist. And I seen on the internets him punch John Mccain"BusterBoy
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The current Congress' approval ratings: http://www.realclearpolitics.com…
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALe…
Paul Krugman, whose relentless criticism of the Bush administration includes opposition to the $700 billion financial bailout, won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for his work on international trade patterns.
The Princeton University professor and New York Times columnist is the best-known American economist to win the prize in decades.
The Nobel committee commended Krugman's work on global trade, beginning with a 10-page paper in 1979 that knit together two fields of study, helping foster a better understanding of why countries produce similar products and why people move from the small towns to cities.
Krugman (pronounced KROOG-man) is best known for his unabashedly liberal column in the Times, which he has written since 1999. In it, he has said Republicans are becoming "the party of the stupid" and that the economic meltdown made GOP presidential nominee John McCain "more frightening now than he was a few weeks ago."
But at a news conference, Krugman said he doesn't think he won the prize because of his political views.
"Nobel prizes are given to intellectuals," he said. "A lot of intellectuals are anti-Bush."