tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post7601201734845654930..comments2024-01-09T15:21:52.135-08:00Comments on Sayet Right: Thoughts on Last Night's ForumEvan Sayethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989761214143022432noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-37944601158316553902008-08-30T02:34:00.000-07:002008-08-30T02:34:00.000-07:00LOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00812877792709736341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-90773279756464266332008-08-27T19:34:00.000-07:002008-08-27T19:34:00.000-07:00above his pay grade<A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwmfj2t2w0s" REL="nofollow">above his pay grade</A>(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-59826100947597891092008-08-27T08:37:00.000-07:002008-08-27T08:37:00.000-07:00...the difference is, on the one hand, that the en......the difference is, on the one hand, that the ends don't justify the means, or, on the other, "by any means necessary."Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00812877792709736341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-57282168149184681212008-08-25T11:16:00.000-07:002008-08-25T11:16:00.000-07:00"(McCain's) moral record is bad and only cares abo..."(McCain's) moral record is bad and only cares about women and money."<BR/><BR/>So. Who doesn't?Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00812877792709736341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-86055498224807165262008-08-25T10:34:00.000-07:002008-08-25T10:34:00.000-07:00Joe Biden has a Kojack moment, and morph's into sp...Joe Biden has a <A HREF="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12760.html" REL="nofollow">Kojack</A> moment, and morph's into spokesmodelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-9552579650164187792008-08-25T10:30:00.000-07:002008-08-25T10:30:00.000-07:00Uncle Hussein's Cabin<A HREF="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D92PDQ0O0&show_article=1" REL="nofollow">Uncle Hussein's Cabin</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-23973919104718680792008-08-25T09:02:00.000-07:002008-08-25T09:02:00.000-07:00Okay. So you're going to vote for him, then, righ...Okay. So you're going to vote for him, then, right?Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00812877792709736341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-34288523761235978882008-08-25T08:12:00.000-07:002008-08-25T08:12:00.000-07:00Mr. McCain will die shortly after taking office. H...Mr. McCain will die shortly after taking office. He has many diseases including dementia and melanoma. He also has venereal diseases maybe AIDS as I have said he is not G-dly in any sense. Mr. Dr. Dobson has made that clear and many others. He is a playboy and reckless. His moral record is bad and only cares about women and money. He is not a conservative. But his VP will be G-ds man on this planet and will transform this world. Libs will conform of be ended as they have caused terrible horrors for all since the beginnings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-35175361099717153232008-08-25T01:31:00.000-07:002008-08-25T01:31:00.000-07:00Sorry, I meant J_sus. (whatever)Sorry, I meant J_sus. (whatever)Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00812877792709736341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-62453384459125048842008-08-25T01:30:00.000-07:002008-08-25T01:30:00.000-07:00You're not a Christian. I'm familiar with Holy Wr...You're not a Christian. I'm familiar with Holy Writ, and that's not prophecied anywhere. And how does McCain get "called to Jesus" in your vision, anyway?Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00812877792709736341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-18829281976887724572008-08-24T17:58:00.000-07:002008-08-24T17:58:00.000-07:00Mr. McCain will win as false president because of ...Mr. McCain will win as false president because of his war. Then, he will be called to Jesus and a true G-dly man will become president. That may not be clear but soon will be understood.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-49042483153619468762008-08-24T16:35:00.000-07:002008-08-24T16:35:00.000-07:00Huh?!?Huh?!?Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00812877792709736341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-80232929026741243262008-08-24T10:51:00.000-07:002008-08-24T10:51:00.000-07:00It does not mattar what Mr. McCain knows or does n...It does not mattar what Mr. McCain knows or does not know. <BR/><BR/>Jesus has already saved this planet.<BR/><BR/>He only wants a man from the party of G-d to run it.<BR/><BR/>Mr. McCain is not a G-dly man but his Vice President will be and it is G-ds plan to take Mr. McCain home soon after the election to make room for that man.<BR/><BR/>So libs can only reneder a nashing of teeth on the sideline.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-8515035566684321662008-08-24T09:47:00.000-07:002008-08-24T09:47:00.000-07:00"Is a man who is just discovering the Internet qua...<I><BR/> "Is a man who is just discovering the Internet qualified to lead a restoration of America’s economic and educational infrastructures? Is the leader of a virtually all-white political party America’s best salesman and moral avatar in the age of globalization? Does a bellicose Vietnam veteran who rushed to hitch his star to the self-immolating overreaches of Ahmad Chalabi, Pervez Musharraf and Mikheil Saakashvili have the judgment to keep America safe?"<BR/></I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-31102879518229527812008-08-24T09:44:00.000-07:002008-08-24T09:44:00.000-07:00After Years of Bush and Cheney Incompetence, the T...<I>After Years of Bush and Cheney Incompetence, the Taliban are Winning the War in Afghanistan. Wasn't that Another War that Was Supposed to be Over Years and Years Ago? 8/24<BR/></I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-73036630051812782402008-08-24T07:07:00.000-07:002008-08-24T07:07:00.000-07:00What the plagiarisst--Senator Obama and Biden--hav...What the plagiarisst--Senator Obama and Biden--have been doing with their new "John-McCain-Is-Out-Of-Touch!" schtick is tearing pages out of old campaign playbooks that worked, particularly from (Man From) Hope and (It's-Time-To) Change (i.e. after 12 years of Reagan/Bush 41) Bill Clinton, who succesfully used the "Out-of-Touch" line against Bush 41 in '92.<BR/><BR/>That was done by pointing stuff out that the 12-year veep and president was unaccustomed to vis-a-vis novel, private sector technologies that the average Joe & Jane presumably we're not, like the price of milk & eggs at a supermarket and the existence of price scanners.<BR/><BR/>"Bush doesn't know the price of a dozen eggs! He's never seen a price scanner! No wonder we're in The Worse Economy Since The Great Depression! HE'S OUT OF TOUCH!"<BR/><BR/>Of course, by then, what was a shallow recession had already begun to recover, and one certainly can't blame any president who was catered to by White House chefs for 4-8 years to not be on top of supemarket prices and technologies.<BR/><BR/>To hold 41's ignorance of them after being a vice president for 8 years and a president for 4 was absurd.<BR/><BR/>But it worked to some extent.<BR/><BR/>(note: Clinton unabashedly confessed that he "had to learn how to use an ATM machine" after eight years as president--even when ATM machines were around before Bush 43's presidency--but the Clinton-loving MSM that time cooed in endearment).<BR/><BR/>And, of course, back in the day when names--middle or otherwise-- were supposedly very relevant (i.e. when a Republican had an exploitable one), lotsa lols were shared at the expense of Vice President Danforth Quayle, whose Christian name was proof of his rich WASP male vintage, i.e. he was "Out-Of-Touch").<BR/><BR/>(Of course, to ponder Juliet's "What's-In-A-Name?" reverie and apply it today is out of bounds.)<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, liberal Ivy League lawyer Bill Clinton "felt our pain"--as Obama regularly assurres us though careful not use that phrasing. <BR/><BR/>However, to have liberal Democrats call conservative Republicans (however chimeric) "Out-of-Touch" and think they can get away with it is an easier task to pull off when hailing from southern, backwoods Arkansas than it is coming from a state like Massachusetts, or Michigan, or Delaware, for that matter, northern liberals having poor electoral track records on the national stage.)<BR/><BR/>And that's precisely the strategem the Obama campaign has lifted and is now trying to apply to John McCain.<BR/><BR/>It is not in reaction to McCain actually having demonstrated rarefied behavior that could legitimately be interpreted to indicate an unacceptable, Antoinettesque elitism, but was pre-meditated and waited for the slightest opportunity to trigger an onslaught of readied material-- as role-modeled from the succesful, 1992 campaign. <BR/><BR/>And so, much like Bush 41's unfamiliarty with supermarkets--and Danforth's Christian name-- caused a pouncing, cavalcading attack on their Everyman credentials, so, too, did McCain's uncertainty about the number of residences he and his wife owned--particularly in an economy wuith record foreclosures-- unleash the prepared charges of him being "out-of-touch," now the current, Democrat theme of the attacks, as the unleashed Biden immediately engaged in.<BR/><BR/>McCain, he said, would have to “figure out which of the seven kitchen tables to sit at” concerning his economic situation.<BR/><BR/>i.e. He's "Out-of-Touch" with Joe & Jane America.<BR/><BR/>Of course, as in '92, the shameless nerve of it is that the strategem is not so much one of targeting a slippage of privileged wealth and lifestyle and hyperbolically presenting it as evidence of some sort of monarchical (i.e. un-American) character--that's the process--but more a projection meant to deflect attention away from the far more conceited, elitist attitudes and lifestyles--and contempt for Gun & Bible "clingers"-- of the Left, a stigma earned and stickier than the blood on Lady Macbeth's hands.<BR/><BR/>So Obama/Biden--like Clinton/Gore--are projecting, with the former plagiarizing a campaign tactic from the latter to boot.<BR/><BR/>Clinton's vice president was Gore. If there was ever an arrogant, elitist, and priveleged politician who is out-of-touch with the commoner, it's him. <BR/><BR/>Of course, like Clinton's "Aw shucks" Arkansas pedigree, and with Gore's own roots in southern Tennessee, it was easy for unknown quantities to introduce themselves <BR/>to the nation as good-ol'-boys, if only by regional association.<BR/><BR/>Politicians with incontrovertibly liberal records and coming from northern states like Michigan and Delaware--like Kerry from Massachusetts--are going to have a tougher time with the charade.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00812877792709736341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-48575437056964827042008-08-23T18:43:00.000-07:002008-08-23T18:43:00.000-07:00There she is. I push the button and she comes run...There she is. I push the button and she comes running.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00812877792709736341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-16874260770970001872008-08-23T18:06:00.000-07:002008-08-23T18:06:00.000-07:00haha...wow...this guy is craaaaaaaaaaacking...ever...haha...wow...this guy is craaaaaaaaaaacking...ever see a poor dope so wound up...just push one more...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-77084327571748761022008-08-23T16:11:00.000-07:002008-08-23T16:11:00.000-07:00Two northern liberal lawyers on the Democratic tic...Two northern liberal lawyers on the Democratic ticket. <BR/><BR/>And they say a war hero from Arizona who married a beer distributor's daughter is "out of touch."Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00812877792709736341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-21042884167339607552008-08-23T15:23:00.000-07:002008-08-23T15:23:00.000-07:00"Obama may still win, of course, proving that Amer..."Obama may still win, of course, proving that America is not only ready for a black president, but a cultural liberal as well. If he loses, though, you can be sure Democrats will claim he lost not because he is a black and more charming Michael Dukakis, but simply because he is black. Because liberals are never wrong."<BR/><BR/>Jonah Goldberg<BR/><BR/>They've already started. <BR/><BR/>"It's all boiling down to a nasty core of twisted, lowbrow sociopaths at the bottom and their greedy sociopath manipulators at the top."<BR/><BR/>Unconscious, unadulterated projection.<BR/><BR/>Like I said, "The 'parrot freaks' are the mindless minions--like Anon-- who get their talking points, soundbites, and propaganda--the Kool Aid-- from their gurus higher up in the food chain (Daily Kos, Moveon, Common Dreams, Huffington Post, etc.)."<BR/><BR/>They're low-level footsoldiers dispatched for The Glorious Revolution and thrown at Right Wing blogs like terrorists with explosive vests.<BR/><BR/>They're cannon fodder.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00812877792709736341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-66393262521529787642008-08-23T14:37:00.000-07:002008-08-23T14:37:00.000-07:00"Barack ain't ready," Biden told Stephanopoulos."S..."Barack ain't ready," Biden told Stephanopoulos.<BR/><BR/>"Sure, I'd be McCain's veep," he added. <BR/><BR/>lolJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00812877792709736341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-84341940489949794752008-08-23T11:39:00.000-07:002008-08-23T11:39:00.000-07:00The Clintons are being squeezed out of the loop, t...The Clintons are being squeezed out of the loop, to the credit of the Democratic Party. <BR/><BR/>I don't think they'll go quietly into the night, though, but rage against the dying light.<BR/><BR/>Maybe the convention spotlight is part of the divorce settlement. <BR/><BR/>Give Billary an inch, though, and they'll try to grab a mile.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00812877792709736341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-53134322619309881162008-08-23T11:24:00.000-07:002008-08-23T11:24:00.000-07:00"The Obama campaign could not have played this (i...."The Obama campaign could not have played this (i.e. McCain's 'housing problem') better.<BR/><BR/>The fact that the McCain campaign responded with the Ayers/Rezko/Wright/POW kitchen sink says a lot about how damaging they perceive this attack to be. Brilliant."<BR/><BR/>Liars. It was a dumb move that backfired. McCain landed a haymaker with Obama's own "housing problem" and you know it.<BR/><BR/>What happened is that Obama threw a kitchen sink at Mac and Mac threw it plus a dishwasher back, and now you shameless little weasels say: "OO! That kitchen sink Barack threw must've really hurt, because McCain retaliated!"<BR/><BR/>And the fact that you're engaging in such pseudo-ratiionalizing BULLSHIT only proves the superior brilliance of the retaliation.<BR/><BR/>You're liars. Even when McCain self-evidently surges and wipes out Obama's lead, and obviously slaps down a petty attack and delivers its own blow in response that sends the hope and changer running behind a veteran Washington insider--and fellow plagiarist and vanity candidate-- like Biden for help, you still sniff "Barack's petty attack was brilliant," which could only mean the opposite: It backfired.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00812877792709736341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-91443988479918849202008-08-23T10:58:00.000-07:002008-08-23T10:58:00.000-07:00By RON FOURNIER DENVER (AP) - The candidate of cha...By RON FOURNIER<BR/> <BR/>DENVER (AP) - The candidate of change went with the status quo.<BR/><BR/>In picking Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate, Barack Obama sought to shore up his weakness - inexperience in office and on foreign policy - rather than underscore his strength as a new-generation candidate defying political conventions.<BR/><BR/>He picked a 35-year veteran of the Senate - the ultimate insider - rather than a candidate from outside Washington, such as Govs. Tim Kaine of Virginia or Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas; or from outside his party, such as Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska; or from outside the mostly white male club of vice presidential candidates. Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't even make his short list.<BR/><BR/>The picks say something profound about Obama: For all his self-confidence, the 47-year-old Illinois senator worried that he couldn't beat Republican John McCain without help from a seasoned politician willing to attack. The Biden selection is the next logistical step in an Obama campaign that has become more negative - a strategic decision that may be necessary but threatens to run counter to his image...Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00812877792709736341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-91725647894902146742008-08-23T10:47:00.000-07:002008-08-23T10:47:00.000-07:00"Obama's support among Democrats fell 9 percentage..."Obama's support among Democrats fell 9 percentage points this month to 74 percent, while McCain has the backing of 81 percent of Republicans.<BR/><BR/>Support for Obama, an Illinois senator, fell 12 percentage points among liberals, with 10 percent of liberals still undecided compared to 9 percent of conservatives."<BR/><BR/>The dip in support for Obama, who would be the first black U.S. president, cut across demographic and ideological lines. He slipped among Catholics, born-again Christians, women, independents and younger voters.<BR/><BR/>He retained the support of more than 90 percent of black voters.<BR/><BR/>There were no wild swings, there isn't one group that is radically different than last month or even two months ago.<BR/><BR/>'It was just a steady decline for Obama across the board,' Zogby said.<BR/><BR/>Obama's support among voters between the ages of 18 and 29, which had been one of his strengths, slipped 12 percentage points to 52 percent. McCain, who will turn 72 next week, was winning 40 percent of younger voters."Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00812877792709736341noreply@blogger.com