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Gipse,
For crying out loud, vote for Obama.
For me, in a head to head match up between Palin and Obama, I would vote for Palin any day of the week.
That doesn't mean that Obama is a bad choice. It just means that I have a hell of a lot more confidence in Palin than I have in Obama
[QUOTE=Jackson]First, in my experience, the "A" students usually end up working for the "C" students.[/QUOTE]Beyond ridiculous.
[QUOTE=Jackson]Second, Palin has political "balls", and Obama doesn't.[/QUOTE]With the exception of her interview with Katie, Palin has been hidden from the press, what balls? I didn't want the bridge, oh yes I did, but not really. I'm for gay marriage except when I'm not.
[QUOTE=Jackson]Third, you're still comparing the top of the Dem's ticket with the bottom of the Republication's ticket.[/QUOTE]I know, to quote myself.
"Again while I'm not voting for McAngryOldGuy I could live with him and due to the idea of concentrating so much power in one basket would grudgingly admit that it might be better for the country over the long haul to split that power up and have some opposition among the three branches. Brother think, don't react, think! Sarah Palin one heartbeat away from running this country for four years."
[Quote=Jackson]How about comparing Obama's resume to McCain's resume?[/QUOTE]I have no real problem with McCain except how he started pandering to the religious wacko's of your party around 04 to get this nomination. If he wins I think he will put them back in the closet. I do like the direct factual answers Obama gave in the debates, McCain was vague "My friends I can fix the economy, my friends I can get Bin Ladin, my friends I can solve the deficit" without ever really saying how. I've said for years, as recently as the post you quoted that I honestly can't say he scares me, and I think he would do an OK job.
But if he gets elected and dies (1 in 3 men 72 years of age will be dead by 76) then the bad disney movie plot becomes a reality. The hockey mom, who doesn't know the name of the President of France (a historic ally) becomes President of this country. She said that "they (her and McAngryOldGuy) would work to expand the powers of the VP's office." I wonder if she knows that the powers of the VP are defined in the Constitution? I wonder if she knows we have a Constitution? I wonder if she knows The House makes the budget and The Senate does treaties? McCain could die and she would be President, do you get that? A religious whack job that said "God is doing something with Alaska" right after her preacher was talking about how God is readying Alaska for the post Armageddon world would be President if the old guy croaks. But, you know, she has "balls" so I guess it's ok. Jax I know you, you're not this dumb, you have to be as frightened about this as I am.
Just to show you that I can cross the aisle, the person I wish I could be voting for this election is a Pub, Colin Powell. Now that is who I wish I could be voting for.
Defeat fears put Hollywood on edge.
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November 3, 2008
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A HIDEOUS new affliction is creeping through the ranks of America's creative community.
The further Barack Obama edges ahead of John McCain in the million and one polls that are coming out the more pernicious the nagging fear becomes.
What if he loses?
Barely a left-wing pundit, barely an Oscar-nominated softie can sleep a wink these days for fear of the race riots and international humiliation that will ensue should "The One" be defeated on Tuesday.
They think he's going to win, of course, but their hearts still bear the scars of 2000 and 2004.
The comedian Chris Rock is at least capable of joking about it. "If Obama loses?" he replied to a question from talk show host Bill Maher. "Well, that Wednesday after election day, anybody. Any activity in your life that involves black people, it's not going to get done. If you're at the airport? No one's going to get your bags."
But for others, the dread is nameless and paralysing. Erica Jong, author of the 1970s feminist bible Fear of Flying, has developed a new complex in recent weeks - the fear of an Obama flogging.
"If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me," she told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera last week. "My back is also suffering from spasms, so much so that I had to see an acupuncturist and get prescriptions for Valium.
"Yesterday, Jane Fonda sent me an email to tell me that she cried all night and can't cure her ailing back for all the stress that has reduced her to a bundle of nerves."
The American shock-jock Rush Limbaugh, on hearing this last detail, had a direct, if crude, response. "Maybe you should try getting off your back, Jane!" he roared. (The two are not friends. Hollywood in general is on red anxiety alert for an Obama loss.
Crack teams of chiropractors are at the ready, and Nissen huts full of qualified shrinks and aromatherapists line Rodeo Drive to soothe the tortured brigades of the psychologically wounded should "The One" be robbed of victory.
Actress Susan Sarandon has already issued a veiled threat to the public.
"It's a critical time, but I have faith in the American people," she told Britain's Telegraph newspaper with a touch of implied menace in June this year. "If they prove me wrong, I'll be checking out a move to Italy. Maybe Canada, I don't know. We're at an abyss."
Sarandon's words qualify her for membership of a small but committed group of Potential Canadians (PCs) in American artistic and creative circles.
Barbra Streisand vowed to emigrate to Canada in 2000 if George Bush were ever elected President, an undertaking she refreshed four years later at the prospect of his re-election.
But she was still sufficiently resident in California on September 16 this year to host a $US2500 ($3800) a head fund-raiser for Obama at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
The actor Alec Baldwin and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder made similar threats in 2000, as did Robert Redford in 2004, but none has since enriched the Canadian cultural scene.
In fact, Canadian immigration records show that arrivals from the United States actually slowed in the six months after George Bush's re-election in 2004.
I am not sure who will prove to be best for our country for the next 4 years, but I would vote for McCain if I was sure these fucking fruitloops would leave the country
Badonk a donk.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzyT9-9lUyE[/url]
[QUOTE=Jackson]Because the alternative is so much worse.[/QUOTE]Better get used to it. LOL!
[QUOTE=Jackson]How about comparing Obama's resume to McCain's resume?[/QUOTE]Maybe resumes and experience aren't the germane qualities. Ken Adelman, a lifelong Republican who campaigned for Goldwater, was hired by Donald Rumsfeld at the Office of Economic Opportunity under Nixon, was assistant to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld under Ford, served as Reagan's director of arms control, and joined the Defense Policy Board for Rumsfeld's second go-round at the Pentagon, in 2001, is voting for Obama this year. Here are his thoughts:
[I]"Why so, since my views align a lot more with McCain's than with Obama's? And since I truly dread the notion of a Democratic president, Democratic House, and hugely Democratic Senate?"
"Primarily for two reasons, those of temperament and of judgment."
"When the economic crisis broke, I found John McCain bouncing all over the place. In those first few crisis days, he was impetuous, inconsistent, and imprudent; ending up just plain weird. Having worked with Ronald Reagan for seven years, and been with him in his critical three summits with Gorbachev, I've concluded that that's no way a president can act under pressure."
"Second is judgment. The most important decision John McCain made in his long campaign was deciding on a running mate."
"That decision showed appalling lack of judgment. Not only is Sarah Palin not close to being acceptable in high office—I would not have hired her for even a mid-level post in the arms-control agency. But that selection contradicted McCain's main two, and best two, themes for his campaign—Country First, and experience counts. Neither can he credibly claim, post-Palin pick."[/i]
Temperament and judgment.
Here's the original article:
[url]http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2008/10/not-quite-colin.html[/url]
And a follow up:
[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ken-adelman/why-a-staunch-conservativ_b_137749.html[/url]
[QUOTE=El Alamo]Gipse.
For crying out loud, vote for Obama.
For me, in a head to head match up between Palin and Obama, I would vote for Palin any day of the week.
That doesn't mean that Obama is a bad choice. It just means that I have a hell of a lot more confidence in Palin than I have in Obama[/QUOTE]I'm sure the passengers of the Hindenburg and the Titanic spoke with as much clarity and confidence. One has to wonder "confidence in Palin" to do what? Maybe a move to live in Alaska is in order where you can live out your beliefs in a secession oriented culture and you can support her living at her home, pay for her children's transportation around the state, help with the yard sale of those Neiman Marxist clothes, gander at Russia across the straits, keep the non-white races in their places, make strategic planning for the neo-con counter movement, plunder the environment. The list of possibilities is really remarkable once you get started thinking about it.
Well said!
[QUOTE=StrayLight]Maybe resumes and experience aren't the germane qualities. Ken Adelman, a lifelong Republican who campaigned for Goldwater, was hired by Donald Rumsfeld at the Office of Economic Opportunity under Nixon, was assistant to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld under Ford, served as Reagan's director of arms control, and joined the Defense Policy Board for Rumsfeld's second go-round at the Pentagon, in 2001, is voting for Obama this year. Here are his thoughts:
[I]"Why so, since my views align a lot more with McCain's than with Obama's? And since I truly dread the notion of a Democratic president, Democratic House, and hugely Democratic Senate?"
"Primarily for two reasons, those of temperament and of judgment."
"When the economic crisis broke, I found John McCain bouncing all over the place. In those first few crisis days, he was impetuous, inconsistent, and imprudent; ending up just plain weird. Having worked with Ronald Reagan for seven years, and been with him in his critical three summits with Gorbachev, I've concluded that that's no way a president can act under pressure."
"Second is judgment. The most important decision John McCain made in his long campaign was deciding on a running mate."
"That decision showed appalling lack of judgment. Not only is Sarah Palin not close to being acceptable in high office—I would not have hired her for even a mid-level post in the arms-control agency. But that selection contradicted McCain's main two, and best two, themes for his campaign—Country First, and experience counts. Neither can he credibly claim, post-Palin pick."[/i]
Temperament and judgment.
Here's the original article:
[url]http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2008/10/not-quite-colin.html[/url]
And a follow up:
[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ken-adelman/why-a-staunch-conservativ_b_137749.html[/url][/QUOTE]
I'm not going to make any predictions, because anything can happen between now and Wednesday morning.
However, with ads like this:
[url]http://www.englandforobama.com/barack-obama-yes-do-some-community-organising[/url]
and endorsements like this:
[url]http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/10/13/081013taco_talk_editors?foo=bar[/url]
and the electoral polls looking like this:
[url]http://www.electoral-vote.com[/url]
I'm kind of thinking that our next President is going to be a skinny half-black guy with a funny name. LOL! (And perhaps our long national nightmare will finally be over.
P. S. Why don't Republicans believe in evolution?
Because they started with Abraham Lincoln and ended with George W. Bush.
[QUOTE=StrayLight]
P. S. Why don't Republicans believe in evolution?
Because they started with Abraham Lincoln and ended with George W. Bush.[/QUOTE]Belly laugh on that one!:)
He must of had a lightening bolt premonition of things to come.
[QUOTE=Bacchus9]He must of had a lightening bolt premonition of things to come.[/QUOTE]Two major belly laughs in one day! I hope to have even a bigger one tomorrow night.;)
Chavez gave an indication yesterday that he would do us a favor talk to Obama.
The Iranians are commemorating the 1979 seizure of our embassy.
I will sleep so much better at night knowing that they might like us.
[url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081103/ts_nm/us_iran_usa_1[/url]
[url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081103/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_us_obama_2[/url]
Too bad Saddam is dead.
Sidney,
I am now completely convinced that the accumulation of all the years and all the smelly dominican pussy has totally fried your brain. You are obsessed with Obama to the point of ridiculousness. This guy IS going to be your President and will lead the USA back from the edge of the cliff it now faces. You should stand up on Jackson's shoulders and kiss Obama's black ass to thank him for all the good things he is going to do for the USA.
Suerte,
Rock Harders