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Message 779192 - Posted: 5 Jul 2008, 17:25:00 UTC

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Message 779564 - Posted: 6 Jul 2008, 6:55:47 UTC

Well... looks like I'll have to get this thread rolling:

The president will implement the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007, (H.R.5122), after a second, larger, staged attack within the US. Obama will never see office because of this.

Israel, the US, and GB will attack and possibly nuke Iran no matter how well Iran complies with inspections and requests.

Oil prices will continue to rise, forever.



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Message 803909 - Posted: 1 Sep 2008, 4:46:58 UTC

Looks like we're gonna get our female president... just not the one I thought... ;)

(I choose to keep the rest of my soothsayings to myself. But if I were you, I'd start praying!)
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Message 803918 - Posted: 1 Sep 2008, 6:17:05 UTC

You think McPalin is going to win?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN5xbWtNSU


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Message 803925 - Posted: 1 Sep 2008, 6:55:08 UTC - in response to Message 803918.  

You think McPalin is going to win?

I think she'll be getting a promotion... ;)
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Message 803933 - Posted: 1 Sep 2008, 7:56:29 UTC

Yeesh...


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Message 804396 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 0:23:30 UTC - in response to Message 803918.  

You think McPalin is going to win?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN5xbWtNSU


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McPalin? lol...

“Moments after the media confirmed McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin, the Obama campaign released an obviously hastily composed statement claiming that experience was no longer ‘on the table’ as an issue for the duration of the campaign. Setting aside the arrogance of dictating what will and will not be an issue, the Democrats claimed that a two-year governor of a small state (which happens to be bigger than half the continental U.S.) whose previous offices were that of mayor and city council member is not qualified to be Vice President of the United States. This charge was made by the campaign of a candidate who has only been in the United States Senate for four years and has spent two of those running for president; all the while studiously avoiding any legislative issues that may have hampered his effort or ambition. The Obama campaign’s initial reaction, however, was telling. Having spent the last month unable to drive a message, they immediately attacked their new opponent and denigrated her experience as a small-town mayor. One could venture a guess that most folks in Kansas or similar places know who their mayor is far better than they know their U.S. Senators. Continuing a narrative that will haunt the Obama campaign into the fall, they turn their noses up at ‘regular’ Americans, who have worked hard for what they believe in and reached great heights. Apparently you’re only allowed to pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you’re at the top of the ticket.” —Rich Galen

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Message 804403 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 0:45:14 UTC

4 years Senate > 1.5 years Governor

Your only allowed to pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you are a performer in Cirque Dis Olay.


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Message 804404 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 0:49:45 UTC - in response to Message 804403.  

4 years Senate > 1.5 years Governor

Your only allowed to pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you are a performer in Cirque Dis Olay.

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Speaking of senators... looks like we'll have another Cheney.

“Joe Biden is Barack Obama’s Dick Cheney. Biden’s age and experience stand in stark contrast to Obama’s lack of both. Like Cheney, Biden is unlikely after two terms as vice president to ever seek the presidency in his own right. That will give him the freedom to be the power behind the throne. And if (God forbid) Barack Obama is elected president, he is going to need a lot of guidance. His reckless, naive foreign policy initiatives at this crucial point in history could put the entire free world at risk. Neither Barack Obama nor Joe Biden has ever run anything. Neither has served in an executive capacity, such as governor of a state or CEO of a major corporation. Both are bloviating legislators in the United States Congress, the ratings of which have hovered at or near single digits in most the recent public opinion polls. But hopefully... Biden will at least have the seasoning to keep Captain America from getting us all killed while he’s playing his big role on the world stage.” —Doug Patton

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Message 804408 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 1:09:39 UTC - in response to Message 804404.  

Neither Barack Obama nor Joe Biden has ever run anything.

Been to Arizona lately? ;)
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Message 804410 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 1:13:24 UTC - in response to Message 804404.  
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4 years Senate > 1.5 years Governor

Your only allowed to pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you are a performer in Cirque Dis Olay.

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Speaking of senators... looks like we'll have another Cheney.

“Joe Biden is Barack Obama’s Dick Cheney. Biden’s age and experience stand in stark contrast to Obama’s lack of both. Like Cheney, Biden is unlikely after two terms as vice president to ever seek the presidency in his own right. That will give him the freedom to be the power behind the throne. And if (God forbid) Barack Obama is elected president, he is going to need a lot of guidance. His reckless, naive foreign policy initiatives at this crucial point in history could put the entire free world at risk. Neither Barack Obama nor Joe Biden has ever run anything. Neither has served in an executive capacity, such as governor of a state or CEO of a major corporation. Both are bloviating legislators in the United States Congress, the ratings of which have hovered at or near single digits in most the recent public opinion polls. But hopefully... Biden will at least have the seasoning to keep Captain America from getting us all killed while he’s playing his big role on the world stage.” —Doug Patton



Who's Doug Patton...


Doug Patton: Mr. Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and public policy adviser. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including The Conservative Voice and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net


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Message 804412 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 1:15:57 UTC - in response to Message 804408.  

Neither Barack Obama nor Joe Biden has ever run anything.

Been to Arizona lately? ;)


Yeah, we don't have great options this election... again.

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Message 804419 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 2:02:35 UTC

Obama’s Fear of a Woman

Now to a real patriot, a woman who will be John McCain's vice-presidential running mate, but who is far more qualified on all levels than Obama to be president. The title begins with the fact that Obama is afraid of a woman. That woman is Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska. Obama launched his first attack on Governor Palin before John McCain had time to make the official announcement.

McCain was set to introduce Palin at noon. Some reporters pieced together flight information on the various "short-list" candidates, and reported that Governor Palin was to be McCain's running mate. Within 15 minutes, without doing any research on the Governor, Obama made a hasty and unfounded attack public.

He said that McCain had chosen "the mayor of a town of 9,000, with zero foreign policy experience." If Obama's handlers knew anything about politics outside of Washington, DC they would have stopped him before he put his foot in his mouth (yet again) by missing the fact that she is the Governor of largest state in the Union. (Although much smaller in terms of population, Alaska is twice the size of Texas, and almost six times the size of California.)

Yes, she was a mayor, and a darned good one if you ask the people she led. And she used that beginning as a stepping stone to greater and greater responsibilities until she defeated a corrupt incumbent governor, and embarked on a successful crusade to crush corruption in Alaska. (Before Palin, Alaska had the same reputation for political corruption as Chicago, where Obama learned his politics.)

As to foreign policy experience, she is the Chief Executive of a state that is uncomfortably close to Russia, and was once owned by Russia. She is also the Commander in Chief of the Alaska National Guard, which would be our first line of defense should Russia try to do to Alaska what it recently did to another former Russian posession, the nation of Georgia. (You may say even Russia is not that crazy, but that's what everyone was saying about Georgia just a few weeks ago.) So I would put her knowledge of foreign policy way ahead of Obama, who served just 143 days as a junior senator before his arrogance persuaded him that he was capable of running a nation. His only foreign policy experience has been the blunders he has made during his campaign for the Oval Office. His mistakes during his pronouncements on international affairs made his inexperience and lack of preparation painfully evident.

As far as the other two people in this race, McCain's foreign policy experience overwhelms that of Joe Biden. And Biden was added to the Obama ticket with the express purpose of propping him up in this critical area where everyone (including his own party members) acknowledged his weakness.

So where Obama picked his running mate to try to make his ticket credible, McCain further strengthened an already strong campaign by bringing aboard someone who had vital experience that Obama, Biden and even McCain lacked: executive experience.

Rudi Giuliani put it best when he spoke Sunday on "Face the Nation." "She's vetoed legislation; she's taken on corruption in her party and won. She took on the oil companies and won. She administered a budget successfully." Obama, meanwhile, has "never run a city, he's never run a state, he's never run a business, he's never administered a payroll, and he's never led people in crisis."

Oh, by the way, Palin has an astounding 80% approval rating form the people she governs. Obama shares in the shameful 9% approval rating of Congress.

Setting aside for a moment the fact that Sarah Palin is far more qualified than is Barack Obama to be president, ask yourself this question. Who would you feel safer with as vice-president, knowing that she or he could become president at any moment: Joe "Politics-as-Usual" Biden, who has run a committee? Or Sarah "The Reformer" Palin, who has very successfully run the largest state in the United States of America?

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Message 804458 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 4:18:19 UTC - in response to Message 804419.  
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Obama is afraid of a woman.

I'm afraid of women too, 'cause they have the power to create a mini-me... ;)
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Message 804482 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 8:32:11 UTC
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this is harsh, but, you wish
( i have the same fear(or hope))
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Message 804523 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 13:14:16 UTC
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Former POW says McCain is "not cut out to be President"


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1780474418039262377

From: http://therealmccain.com/butler


John McCain has been exploiting his prisoner of war experience every chance he gets. He has used this story to justify everything from not knowing how many homes he has to his healthcare plan to his marital infidelities to his taste in music. The McCain campaign is even using his POW story in paid ads. But now a veteran who was a prisoner with McCain in Vietnam is explaining loud and clear that being a POW does not qualify McCain to lead our country.

Dr. Phillip Butler knew McCain as a fellow POW. Watch and listen!

We are sure this video will draw an onslaught of right-wing attacks, but we bring it to you because it is our job to continue to convey the truth together and give these issues national attention. As Dr. Butler has said, McCain does not have the temperament to have his finger near the red button. Get this video to everyone you know—friends, family members, coworkers, and especially those who don't share your political views. The video is designed to reach them. Get it on your social networking sites like Digg. And get it to every blog, newspaper, and TV station that has ever overplayed McCain's POW story. It is time to fight back with truth!

The mainstream press has already begun to call out McCain for overusing his POW story. And it's cut across all political persuasions. * "Whether he's deflecting criticism over his health-care plan or mocking a tribute to the Woodstock music festival, Senator John McCain has a trump card: the Hanoi Hilton. — Edwin Chen, Bloomberg * "Noun, Verb, POW" — Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic Monthly * "The McCain campaign's constant invocation of the candidate's POW past is weird bordering on irrational..." — Ana Marie Cox, TIME * "I think they are going to it way too many times." — Howard Fineman, Newsweek

Remember how Joe Biden got the press to refer to Rudy Giuliani as "A noun, a verb, and 9/11"? Well, let's actually take Andrew Sullivan's lead here and get the media to boil McCain down to a similar phrase: "A noun, a verb, and POW." Considering how often the McCain campaign invokes his POW story, isn't that what they're already doing?
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Message 804543 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 13:53:05 UTC - in response to Message 804396.  

You think McPalin is going to win?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN5xbWtNSU


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McPalin? lol...

“Moments after the media confirmed McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin, the Obama campaign released an obviously hastily composed statement claiming that experience was no longer ‘on the table’ as an issue for the duration of the campaign. Setting aside the arrogance of dictating what will and will not be an issue, the Democrats claimed that a two-year governor of a small state (which happens to be bigger than half the continental U.S.) whose previous offices were that of mayor and city council member is not qualified to be Vice President of the United States. This charge was made by the campaign of a candidate who has only been in the United States Senate for four years and has spent two of those running for president; all the while studiously avoiding any legislative issues that may have hampered his effort or ambition. The Obama campaign’s initial reaction, however, was telling. Having spent the last month unable to drive a message, they immediately attacked their new opponent and denigrated her experience as a small-town mayor. One could venture a guess that most folks in Kansas or similar places know who their mayor is far better than they know their U.S. Senators. Continuing a narrative that will haunt the Obama campaign into the fall, they turn their noses up at ‘regular’ Americans, who have worked hard for what they believe in and reached great heights. Apparently you’re only allowed to pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you’re at the top of the ticket.” —Rich Galen


My views on NoBama is this: He has not even been in the cub scouts. It is arrogant to the max to think that he could be the commander in chief of the most powerful army in the world. But then If he gets rid of the military just think oif all of the Socialist programs he could start. Remember he said he was a Progressive. A progrerssive is one step above a Communist and it takes very litrtle for a Progressive to turn the page. My voice ways: NoBama, no Socialism, No way. As the left seems to like little catchy sayings that is mine.

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Message 804550 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 14:26:06 UTC - in response to Message 804523.  

Former POW says McCain is "not cut out to be President"


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1780474418039262377

From: http://therealmccain.com/butler


John McCain has been exploiting his prisoner of war experience every chance he gets. He has used this story to justify everything from not knowing how many homes he has to his healthcare plan to his marital infidelities to his taste in music. The McCain campaign is even using his POW story in paid ads. But now a veteran who was a prisoner with McCain in Vietnam is explaining loud and clear that being a POW does not qualify McCain to lead our country.

Dr. Phillip Butler knew McCain as a fellow POW. Watch and listen!

We are sure this video will draw an onslaught of right-wing attacks, but we bring it to you because it is our job to continue to convey the truth together and give these issues national attention. As Dr. Butler has said, McCain does not have the temperament to have his finger near the red button. Get this video to everyone you know—friends, family members, coworkers, and especially those who don't share your political views. The video is designed to reach them. Get it on your social networking sites like Digg. And get it to every blog, newspaper, and TV station that has ever overplayed McCain's POW story. It is time to fight back with truth!

The mainstream press has already begun to call out McCain for overusing his POW story. And it's cut across all political persuasions. * "Whether he's deflecting criticism over his health-care plan or mocking a tribute to the Woodstock music festival, Senator John McCain has a trump card: the Hanoi Hilton. — Edwin Chen, Bloomberg * "Noun, Verb, POW" — Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic Monthly * "The McCain campaign's constant invocation of the candidate's POW past is weird bordering on irrational..." — Ana Marie Cox, TIME * "I think they are going to it way too many times." — Howard Fineman, Newsweek

Remember how Joe Biden got the press to refer to Rudy Giuliani as "A noun, a verb, and 9/11"? Well, let's actually take Andrew Sullivan's lead here and get the media to boil McCain down to a similar phrase: "A noun, a verb, and POW." Considering how often the McCain campaign invokes his POW story, isn't that what they're already doing?



No hotheads near the red button, Michael. The cold war is over and we are the ones sending weapons and training to Georgia to instigate a "situation" so we can get our "missile defense" situated.

The cold war is over but the imperial mentality is alive and well with the military industrial complex. They do well with the neanderthals. (Not extinct.)


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Message 804567 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 16:33:56 UTC - in response to Message 804543.  

My views on NoBama is this: [opinion snipped]

Oh lookie, another 'pet name'... Just like the ones we had back at the schoolyard during recess... ;)
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My views on NoBama is this: He has not even been in the cub scouts. It is arrogant to the max to think that he could be the commander in chief of the most powerful army in the world. But then If he gets rid of the military just think oif all of the Socialist programs he could start. Remember he said he was a Progressive. A progrerssive is one step above a Communist and it takes very litrtle for a Progressive to turn the page. My voice ways: NoBama, no Socialism, No way. As the left seems to like little catchy sayings that is mine.


Obama's ability to think on his feet:

Grasping at straws: “Well, you know, my understanding is that, uh, Governor Palin’s town of Wasilly [sic] has, uh, 50 employees, uh, uh, we’ve got 2,500, uh, in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. Uh, uh, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. Uh, so I think that, uh, our ability to manage large systems, uh, and to, uh, execute, uh, I think has been made clear over the last couple of years. Uh, and certainly, in terms of, uh, the legislation that I’ve passed just dealing with this issue post-Katrina, uh, of how we handle emergency management. The fact that, uh, many of my recommendations were adopted and are being put in place, uh, as we speak indicates the extent to which we can provide the kinds of support and good service that the American people expect.” —Barack Obama

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