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Submitted by Ender on Tue, 2008-06-03 09:09
Wh6rrM Great, thanks for sharing this blog article.Thanks Again. Awesome.
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C'mon Ender...Obama has a big enough bandwagon for you.
I mean, look at what McCain stands for...this week at least. he wants open borders to all cheap undocumented workers. He (and his Financial guru Phil Gramm) wants to allow banks to continue to make bad loans to people who won't pay them back and bill the rest of us, move more corporations off shore so it's just us holding down the tax base. Hey, also don't forget the joys of 100 years in Iraq, even if all the Iraqi principles (except PM Maliki) want the US Forces out.
You have to admit, Barack is very tempting....
eh
Sorry, Barack is not tempting for me. He is a liberal. Liberals are not tempting :)
While I don't agree with McCain on some things, he is a lot closer policy-wise to what I want in America than Barack.
Also I just got this lovely thing from Redstate
which makes me like Barack even less.
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." AR
So you'll vote instead
For the guy who sought the endorsement of the minister who says Hitler was fulfilling God's will in the Holocaust.
qui tacet consentire
of course
Plus Hagee is not as bad as the liberals make him out to be. Certainly a lot better than the characters Obama is associated with.
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." AR
That's funny. Let's compare shall we:
Rev Wright said God Damn America because of slavery & racism.
Hagee (& the other McCain Revs) said God Damn America because of gay rights.
Hmmm - I'm going with Wright & Obama on that one.
McCain's Cheif Economic Advisor Phil Gramm tried to get the state of Texas to sell bonds to buy life insurance on state employees.
Not insurance to help support the employees' families, you understand. No, that would be liberal. Insurance whose proceeds were to go to Gramm's employer, UBS, which would use them to pay off the bonds and then share the profit with various state pension plans.
The fact that Phil Gramm was peddling this ghoulish scheme tells you right away you don't want his hands anywhere near the levers of power, which is where they would be should John McCain become President. (The fact that the Republican-dominated government of Texas decided to take a pass suggests either that their morals are better than Gramm's or that they have more political sense than he does.)
So in Phil Gramm, chief economic adviser to John McCain, we now have:
1. The Senator whose financial deregulation bill helped create the current crisis;
2. The man who cashed in on that accomplishment by becoming the vice chairman of a big Swiss bank, which until two years ago was running a tax-evasion racket for U.S. millionaires on the side;
3. The lobbyist for that bank (awash in bad mortgage-backed paper) who crafted John McCain's non-response to the foreclosure problem; and
4. The sponsor of a scheme in which that bank and the State of Texas would gamble on the deaths of Texas schoolteachers and other public employees.
In short, Phil Gramm is the poster child for the heartless, corrupt, revolving-door Washington which John McCain has always railed against and has always exemplified.
Barack Obama has no one that I could compare in this manner.
Once again - I'm going with Obama on this subject.
So...come on down! The bandwagon wants you!
Ooops, you have a typo. Let me fix that for you...
There, all fixed. Thanks for pointing this out.
I'm the Bugs Bunny of Swords Crossed!
-4 Strongly Disagree - 0 Meh - Strongly Agree +4Perhaps you are correct
Fascism appears to be making a popular comeback.
Just this morning FIA President Max "Mad Max" Mosley won a vote of confidence. The FIA is the international motorsports governing body.
Mosley, whose father was a famous British fascist, was caught on videotape with five hookers doing a Nazi labor camp/S&M fantasy thing.
qui tacet consentire
You have been reduced to citing sports figures as examples?
Gee, sucks to be you, I guess. Good luck with that, OK?
(Just yanking your chain a bit.)
I'm the Bugs Bunny of Swords Crossed!
-4 Strongly Disagree - 0 Meh - Strongly Agree +4Bush Guilty of “Gross Incompetence and Dereliction of Duty”
Guess who said that? It's Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the man who led American ground forces in Iraq from 2003-2004. C&L has some excerpts from Sanchez's new book
which is titled "Wiser in Battle - A Soldiers Story 
". Here's one good one:
"In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service."
Obviously we have a case here of someone who really, really hates our troops.
it's over
AP is reporting that Hillary will acknowledge Obama's victory tonight.
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." AR
That's my girl! You go Hill!
Clinton Denies Plans to Concede Race to Obama
I'm the Bugs Bunny of Swords Crossed!
-4 Strongly Disagree - 0 Meh - Strongly Agree +4I still think it will be more a concession speech
But you know that I of course prefer a fight at the convention.
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." AR
Holy crap!
This looks nasty:
Car crashes into bike race; one dead
I'm the Bugs Bunny of Swords Crossed!
-4 Strongly Disagree - 0 Meh - Strongly Agree +4That's awful!!
If the guy who did this was, indeed, driving while drunk, he should be pulled off the road, stripped of his driver's license, and sent to jail for awhile, especially because his irresponsible behaviour resulted in the death of one of the bicycle racers.
The police also didn't handle the situation very well. They should've cordoned off at least that part of the highway where the bicycle race was going on and closed it to motor vehicular traffic of any kind.
If the guy who did this was,
A couple months ago, near Toledo, Ohio, a man was drinking at a bar with friends. Instead of walking across a parking lot to his hotel, he got in his truck and went to Taco Bell, the employees there noticed he was drunk and called the police. The man left before the police arrived, went the wrong way on the highway and ended up killing five people
.
The driver was probably too drunk to actually decide to drive. IMO, its more of case of guy deciding to drink and then blacking out.
In our society, people are rewarded for pretending to be certain about things they're clearly not certain about. -- Sam Harris,
Obama's current ex-pastor admits he lies ...
or at the very least he hides his "real" views from people outside of the church.
In other words, he says things behind the scenes that he won't say in public. Hmmm. Why would a person of integrity need to have two sets of statements, one public and one private? Because in public he doesn't say what he means, he only says what he thinks will fly. My, what in interesting insight into the culture of the church that Obama called home for 20 years.
I'm the Bugs Bunny of Swords Crossed!
-4 Strongly Disagree - 0 Meh - Strongly Agree +4More guilt by association? Bah.
Pfelger is not from Trinity. He's a Catholic priest.
There are plenty of things I'll say to friends and family that I wouldn't want broadcast to the world at large. In fact, just now I said to a co-worker, "Jees, this guy GoRight is a real #$^%#!," but I wouldn't say that on a public blog... Uh... oops! :)
Most importantly, however, if you honestly think that a candidate is answerable for the character of every person that ever breathed the same air as him, then you will never find a candidate worth voting for.
We are the environment. There is no distinction. What we do to the earth we do to ourselves. —David Suzuki
Oops, I stand corrected.
I thought that odd. So was he a guest speaker or what?
Either way, he was speaking at Trinity, I guess I am assuming since this was a Trinity related piece and it was their live streaming that was involved, and obviously was saying things that he thought that congregation would resonate with behind the scenes but which aren't suitable for public consumption?
The point is not guilt by association. That is a strawman you have created as a distraction. The point is to look for clues as to Obama's character so we can judge him based on the content of that rather than the color of his skin. He obviously felt comfortable enough as part of that culture to stay there for 20 years, so the nature of that culture is a valid way to assess how his true beliefs tend to align with his rhetoric. It's not like this was a casual relationship he had with that church, they have a 20 year history.
Heh. I understand this. But I guess it must be a liberal thing ... saying things behind people's backs that you wouldn't say to their face (i.e. in public). That's what this is, right?
UPDATE:
Yes, he was speaking at Trinity. From the same article I posted above ...
I'm the Bugs Bunny of Swords Crossed!
-4 Strongly Disagree - 0 Meh - Strongly Agree +4Comedy
Not exactly, although in Pfelger's case there is definitely a strong element of that. He would likely not have said the things he said if Hillary had been present. But it is also what you are willing to reveal about yourself, in public vs. among friends. You may be right that this is not a valid defense of Pfelger, but I honestly do believe that there are non-sinister reasons for "a person of integrity... to have two sets of statements, one public and one private." Among them is the knowledge that people that know you well are better able to judge how serious you are about certain statements - it's easier to do an over-the-top joke with elements that you truly beleive when you know the audience.
My honest impression of Pfelger is that he was squarely in comedian mode during these particular statements. He certainly had a better comedic delivery than anything I've ever seen from Ann Coulter, who, and I believe you agree, is probably judged best as a comedian as well.
And as far as what this shows about Obama's character, I guess I'd rather have a president who is not easily offended, not quick to judge harshly, able to hear arguments that he disagrees with, and has a sense of humor. (Bush at least qualifies on the last, not sure about the rest.)
We are the environment. There is no distinction. What we do to the earth we do to ourselves. —David Suzuki
In some respect I'm glad for the obsession with Obama's pastor.
It shows there's not a lot much more to attack him on. So please, run this into the ground so people are tired of hearing about it by November, and we'll still have plenty of ammo to toss at McCain. Cheers!
Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. - Ambrose Bierce
Nice son you got there, shame if something were to 'appen to 'im
Italics Eric Martin, bolding mine. Friedman's site goes into great detail, if you like reading that sort of thing.
I guess when herding in idiots, criminals, and disabled wasn't enough to keep recruitment/retention levels up- well you gotta make em an offer they can't refuse.
I came. I saw. I posted.
Veni, Vidi, Bitchy.
Meh.
This is retarded. If you actually read the Friedman piece it is clear that:
(1) They wanted to get in contact with Friedman, that's it.
(2) We never really hear the NCO's side of the story because Friedman, assuming this is a valid rendition of what occurred, never gave them a chance to explain. He just assumed their intent.
(3) Pressuring his mom would make no difference to Friedman's decision, so what would be the point?
(4) If Friedman is actually eligible to be involuntarily recalled as was implied, I can only assume that the Army already has a valid address to contact him ... so again, what would be the point of hassling his mom?
You hear what you want to hear, I guess.
I'm the Bugs Bunny of Swords Crossed!
-4 Strongly Disagree - 0 Meh - Strongly Agree +4I can commiserate.
But then again I never have seen a presidential candidate I thought remotely good for the job.
I came. I saw. I posted.
Veni, Vidi, Bitchy.
And you never will....
Most likely true. -nt.
I came. I saw. I posted.
Veni, Vidi, Bitchy.
Not suprisingly,
the office was never designed to be the powerful, kingly monolith our modern political culture (ancient and instinctive human nature?) has come to want it to be.
Expecting so much of one man is always going to be a disappointment for most everyone....and then we renew our search for the holy grail four years later and so on.
Suckers, we humans.
Environmental wacko wackiness ...
Just follow the link, you'll see what I mean. Enough said.
I'm the Bugs Bunny of Swords Crossed!
-4 Strongly Disagree - 0 Meh - Strongly Agree +4Here's a global warming article for the centrists among us ...
it's a refreshingly neutral discussion of the debate.
I'm the Bugs Bunny of Swords Crossed!
-4 Strongly Disagree - 0 Meh - Strongly Agree +4This Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server is disappointing me!
Have I mentioned how much I loathe MS and their compulsive inability to design a user interface that isn't torture.
Retards.
I came. I saw. I posted.
Veni, Vidi, Bitchy.