The pick is getting increasingly impossible to justify I am sure if McCain looses a large part of the blame will be put on the VP pick.
Right because Bush and his cronies with their CEO positions in the oil and energy industries or Bush running his business in the ground but making out cleaner than a Better Homes and Garden photo shoot were all the benchmarks of a fair, competent administration with no hidden agendas of their own.
I’d take anything Obama might have up his sleeve. At least he won’t send thousands of young Americans (and thousands more of the “brown people” blocking their total control of oil pipelines) to their deaths just to make a better profit for himself and his Cabinet’s personal interests.
In the US, that’s black enough. We’re talking about a place where the idea of “hexadecaroons” and the “one-drop rule” existed.
The pick is getting increasingly impossible to justify I am sure if McCain looses a large part of the blame will be put on the VP pick.[/quote]
The only justification he needed was having a woman to help boost his rating. He just happened to pick the wrong one.
In America, knowing your average Joe Blow Bluecollar, which pair would most likely be chosen to head the country: 1) a black man in charge with a white man standing behind him or 2) a white man in charge with a white woman standing behind him? Choosing a woman was an extremely smart move on McCain’s part. Letting that woman be Sarah Palin was an extremely stupid one.
That’s bullshit. I already posted a record of the legislation he wrote during his scant two years as a senator on the Democratic Candidate thread. Look it up. Hardly anything to give Pol Pot or Josef Stalin a hard-on. You guys always come back to the same well-worn lines. What you haven’t realized is that they’re finally beginning to lose traction after several decades. And as for McCain’s nasty campaign, I think independent voters are saying, “Bill Ayers? Reverend Wright? I don’t give a F*** about this bullshit. I’m worried about the economy, global warming, health insurance, and keeping my house!”
I hope Obama is as liberal as one can be.
I hope he’s a socialist! 
HG
I hope he really is a Muslim. That would be funny.
Yeah, that would be funny indeed; imagine no more Christmas, Easter or Halloween holidays, or more significantly, holiday TV specials coming out of the Bowels of Hollywood . What a relief! and Maccas would go out of business in the first Ramadan. even better!
still, we’d have to put up with “Praise Allah”-thons instead…
Maybe he could insist all classrooms have a little pointer so the kiddies know the direction of Mecca. That way they’d get geography and religion. What’s not for a Republican to like?
HG
I both hope and believe that he will be significantly less liberal as president than he has been up to this point in his career. I listened to a debate between a couple of his colleagues on the faculty at the University of Chicago a while back (two very sharp guys who had known him a long time), and one of the things they both agreed on was that Obama will be more a lot more conservative as president than most people expect.
I have a strong suspicion that they are right, which is one of the reasons I am not nearly as fearful about the coming period of of Democratic super-majority rule as I otherwise would be.
By conservative, you mean the girls will have to wear the hijab? Das Kapital rather than Pol Pot?
HG
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]By conservative, you mean the girls will have to wear the hijab? Das Kapital rather than Pol Pot?
HG[/quote]
[quote=“Powell drops the hammer on McCain”]The scene is the Straight Talk Express, the old Straight Talk Express, in 1999 — the one stuffed with reporters asking John McCain question after question and getting answer after answer, hour after hour. McCain is enjoying himself, even when the reporters, having exhausted all serious topics, turn goofy and play “favorites” with him, asking him his favorite tree (cottonwood), favorite breakfast cereal (Raisin Bran) and favorite toothpaste (Colgate).
And then there is this exchange that I recorded for history:
Favorite word, a reporter asks.
“Principle,” McCain says.
Favorite dead hero.
“Uh, Julius Caesar,” McCain says.
Favorite dead hero within the last 2,000 years.
“OK, off the top of my head, Lincoln,” McCain says. “Although the more I read and study, the more intrigued I am by Teddy Roosevelt.”
[b]Favorite living hero.
“Colin Powell,” McCain says instantly. “Served his country. A wonderful man.”
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And John Lewis is one of the wisest men McCain knows… and neither thinks much of McCain today.
Time for a Hail Mary, John. Fire the advisers, throw Palin under a bus, do a mea culpa, and tell the folks what you really think. If you’re going to lose anyway, be your own man again. Hell, it’s a better strategy that you’re working with as it is.
[quote=“Jaboney”]Favorite dead hero.
“Uh, Julius Caesar,” McCain says.[/quote]
Hmmm… his hero is a man who invaded his own country, destroyed its democratic system, and became dictator for life?
[quote=“Chris”][quote=“Jaboney”]Favorite dead hero.
“Uh, Julius Caesar,” McCain says.[/quote]
Hmmm… his hero is a man who invaded his own country, destroyed its democratic system, and became dictator for life?[/quote]
And Caesar was an honorable man.
[quote=“Mucha Man”][quote=“Chris”][quote=“Jaboney”]Favorite dead hero.
“Uh, Julius Caesar,” McCain says.[/quote]
Hmmm… his hero is a man who invaded his own country, destroyed its democratic system, and became dictator for life?[/quote]
And Caesar was an honorable man.[/quote]
Sure he was, he gave us the salad, bum dum. Thank you