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spiff

I don't think so, "PC" has almost become a derogatory term. Me too, Jim Morrison rocked as well!

panama hat

Jet, how do you spell 'White Trash'?

Look in the mirror and say j e t g o r d o n

This has nothing to do with 'socialist hubris' or any other label that you wish to place upon people to justify your actions. Stop hiding behind labels, you make yourself look the fool time and again.

Trick question Jet: Define legal tender.

I am appalled at the kind of rubbish that comes out of your posts and am grateful that this is a virtual forum only, though in real life it is easier to avoid people like you.

White trash, pure and simple. You try your best to align yourself with what you believe to be alike-thinkers, but there really is no-one, really, is there?! Well, maybe BG, but he is witty at times.

You really are a sad person, but I would like to see a post from you actually making valid points instead of, unsuccessfully, trying to score political points in a forum where they don't exist.

Jet Gorgon

Geez, at the least, could you spell my name correctly?

AntRobertson

I'm saying nothing more or less than I wrote in that post, atta.

I'm not entirely sure why that would cause you difficulties, it's really quite straightforward and simple.

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PH

"Trick question Jet: Define legal tender."

What the fuck does this have to do with the US elections?

Seems like Jet has gotten you panties in a knot, chill dude.

panama hat

It has plenty to do with the issue at hand, I find Jet's posts unhelpful and irrelevant to the extreme, nothing but slurs and aggression.

If you don't wish to read my posts, then either skip over them or place me on ignore, it is not the first time that posts go off on tangents, nor will it be the last.

Why not ask Jet what her posts have to do with the elections . . . why not scroll back and let me know the results.


It is at this point of the campaign where debates should be aired and scheduled, let's face it, there are only a few weeks left and all the slanderous and meaningless ads - from both sides - are nothing but diversion from the issues.

Debates, let the candidates justify their worth.

ChiangMai noon

I've enjoyed your recent postings.

your accurate scribblings about jet deserves plenty of green, but you could always do the same for her and put her on ignore.
I've considered it, but I rather like her posts outside of the issues forum.
In here, she is consistently awful.

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Heh..."If Bill Clinton could juggle 5 chicks, Sarah Palin can manage five kids."

This article almost made me blow a Skol beer outa my nose it's so funny! "Y’know, there’s nothing worse than having a woman hand you your own testicles in a fight. And that’s exactly what Palin did to the Jobama ticket Wednesday night at the RNC. She verbally dismembered their party’s petty personal smears about her family, her “lack” of experience, and the flaming liberal’s vapid platform."

Read it all

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Jet Gorgon

Your opinions and you're welcome to them. I would beg to differ on all counts. The reason I get snippity here is that the misogynist lefties get pretty free rein with their comments. I think I'm one of the few chicks in issues, so I put my gloves on now and again. Some of the boys have even told me to do so. No skin off my nose.

sabang

Of recent, their campaign seems to be what you would expect of a Democratic Party nominee, as this article points out-


"Over the years, Republicans have used lots of tactics to win presidential elections. But here's one I never expected to see: running as Democrats.
That's the idea behind the latest TV spot for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

It brags about things that are generally more congenial to Democratic voters than to Reaganites. McCain, it tells us, "took on the drug industry," while Palin "took on Big Oil." It goes on: "He battled Republicans and reformed Washington. She battled Republicans and reformed Alaska." Not a word about battling Democrats. If you didn't know better, you'd think they had just been nominated by the party of Roosevelt and Clinton.

This is just the latest feint in that direction. An earlier McCain ad (video is below) said, "Washington is broken," and "We're worse off than we were four years ago"--neglecting to mention that his party has controlled the presidency for the last eight years and both houses of Congress for most of the last 14. Usually, when you say the country is worse off than it was four years ago, you're asking voters to evict the president's party.

That commercial, too, sounded themes shamelessly plagiarized from John Edwards: "Only McCain has taken on Big Tobacco, the drug companies . . . He'll reform Wall Street, battle Big Oil." Anti-capitalist populism may be dead in the Democratic party, but it seems to have found new life in the GOP.

Will this work? There's no telling, but if McCain and Palin think it's a good idea to impersonate Democrats, Barack Obama and Joe Biden might want to make sure voters know who the real Democrats are. "

Steve Chapman | Chicago Tribune | Blog

There is a certain irony that, in their best hope to get elected, the McCain Palin ticket basically has to admit that their own Republican Party has been shite for the last 8 years, and has damaged the country.

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Jet Gorgon

^ Ironic but not insane. They want to show a "new" "old old" party to distance themselves from Bush. Halt pork spending and corruption. Get back to personal responsibility, small government.

sabang

That is a platform I would entirely support- but neither Party will deliver it.

Jet Gorgon

^ You're right. Which could maybe do it a wee bit better?

Bugs

Isn’t this the exact opposite of what the blue team has been saying? McCain = 4 more years of Bush; McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time.

The 90% voting with Bush bit always gets a chuckle out of me. First off because Bush is not part of the senate, he does not propose any bills for the senate to vote on (with the exception budget related items), and he does not cast any votes in the senate. McCain can not vote with Bush because Bush don’t vote. McCain has voted along party lines 90% of the time in 2007. Many feel this is damning enough and gives support to Obama’s claims that McCain is not bipartisan. But if anyone bothers to take a look at the numbers I think they’ll find Obama has voted along party lines something like 97% of the time. Some real bipartisan ship being shown there as well I guess?

FactCheck.org: FactChecking Obama
So folks can choose to vote for McCain who has voted 90% of the time along party lines - the party with the President who has the worst approval rating ever.

Or folks can choose to vote for Obama who has voted 97% of the time along party lines - the party who control Congress, which has the worst approval rating ever.

Some choices?

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Norton

Voting along party lines 90%+ is hardly unusual. Where they did not vote along party lines is of more interest to me.

Bugs

I would agree to some extent. But one of the other problems with congress right now is too much fluff gets passed that effects too few people, and not enough real wide reaching stuff is getting done to address the real problems.

Here is a guy that seems to be in the same position as some of the other independent voters out there right now:
Both Obama and McCain are wrong for president - Community Writers Blog - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com

A great one-liner:

pai nai ma

^ So given the choice between stopping the war (obama) and saving some money on taxes (mccain), what does a concerned voter do?

duh.......

Bugs

This article is a great little sports metaphor piece on all the press being given to Palin, and how the choice seems to be working (right now for McCain). While Biden and Obama seem to be having problems keeping their eye on the ball.

McPalin rattles Team Obama - Los Angeles Times

Quote:

Barack Obama, a famous fan of pickup basketball, must recognize his plight: It's two on one now. John McCain drafted Gov. Sarah Palin, the star point guard from the Wasilla Warriors, to double-team Obama. (McCain's team doesn't care if no one covers Joe Biden, who seems to spend most of his time yelling to the media, "I'm open! I'm open!" But when he gets the ball, all he does is talk about what a great player he is and dribble in place.)

They used to call Regan the teflon president because it seemed like no matter how much shit the other side thru at him nothing seemed to stick. Hell, he got Olly North to fall on his sword for him. Right now Palin is looking like the teflon VP candidate. Not only does nothing seem to stick (ie really seem to matter to the majority of voters) the blue team is wasting time and energy going after the #2 person on the ticket and giving the #1 person on the ticket a free ride.

Quote:

The outrageous attacks on Palin out of the block (She banned books! She opposed family planning education! She's a creationist!) have missed the mark. And the eagerness of the mainstream media to go after her family life has backfired as well. For instance, the Washington Post's Hanna Rosin wrote sneeringly in Slate magazine of Palin's "wreck of a home life." Would Slate say that Obama, conceived out of wedlock to a teen mom, comes from a "wreck" of a family? I somehow doubt it.

This is kind of sad, but if McCain pulls off a win in Nov, they way things are going much of the credit will go to Palin (much more so than any past VP candidate) - MVP Palin stepping onto the floor.

Quote:

Fair or not, that's how it works in the pros. But so far, it still looks as if the MVP title is hers to lose.

Norton

I agree. They need to keep their eye on the ball and forget about Palin.

Palin has yet to face the national press and TV media. The Repubs have her sequestered and no interviews are being granted which is unprecedented for a newly nominated VP. She is scheduled to do an interview soon so time will tell how she does. Face to face interviews with the hardened national political media is a whole different ball of wax than an acceptance speech or speeches at McCain rally's. All the hard "issues" that are troubling many will be addressed by the media. Obama got the same regarding his preacher, his patriotism and the lot. Palin should expect no less. Her ability to field the questions and the credibility of the answers will be the test.

Of course the Republicans will scream about the "liberal" media no matter how legitimate the questions.

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spiff

Suddenly, quoting blogs has become illegitimate as well, since the shoe is on the other foot! LOL