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McCain is no Hillary

How can Hillary supporters even "think" about voting for John McCain now that she is not in the contest anymore? Have they lost sight of what it would mean to have McCain as president? Another four years of ...

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jimbo

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Aug 30, 2008
 
By choosing Palin McCain is certainly showing that he is no Bush. Obamas argument hat it will be a 3rd term for Bush if we elect McCain is getting old. If we elect Obama we get Omarosa- oops I mean Mad Michelle--- in the White House with terrorists like Ayers and Odinga., racists like Wright and criminals like Rezko too. Throw in the Mid East connection and the Iraqi billionaire supporting Bammy and George Soros - the radical mind behind Moveon.org Do you really want this cast of villains running our country.??? That is Change you cannot believe in !!!! Obama is NOT the ONE !!! That racist Oprah neglected to tell us all about Bammys sordid life and secrets and scandals and all the Chicago filth that he carries around.!!! Watch for more shocking secrets to emerge on Obama and the media will have egg all over their faces for backing this radical racist.!!
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Aug 30, 2008
 
Biden may have a lot of experience, but you elect a President not a Vice President.

Obama has none ! Oh yeah, he has 143 days in an official elected position as Junior senator !
Vote MILF for VP

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Aug 30, 2008
 
Hey ultra-liberals...

Lay off of Sarah Palin!

She's a hot MILF who is a h-e-l-l of a lot better looking than Hitlery Rotten Klintoon and the other lesbians who predominate the Democratic Party!
HMA Dumb as Dirt

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Aug 30, 2008
 
Vote MILF for VP wrote:
Hey ultra-liberals...
Lay off of Sarah Palin!
She's a hot MILF who is a h-e-l-l of a lot better looking than Hitlery Rotten Klintoon and the other lesbians who predominate the Democratic Party!
Your desparation is showing. McCain just had a Bush moment when he selected Palin...his answer to the Shrub's Harriet Meyers nomination to the Supreme Court. LOLOLOL
HEY MIDDLE AMERICA

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Aug 30, 2008
 
HMA Dumb as Dirt wrote:
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Your desparation is showing. McCain just had a Bush moment when he selected Palin...his answer to the Shrub's Harriet Meyers nomination to the Supreme Court. LOLOLOL
the only people saying that are the loony loony lefties...which means the choice for veep was right on the mark...what happened to that speech...where did it go...what event overshadowed it to the point it was forgotten overnight LOL LOL

What Palin Does

1. Steps on the story of Obama's speech (and convention), and possibly the bounce coming from them, and wipes them off the news cycle. The Sunday news shows will be all-Palin, all of the time.

2. Sends Republicans into their convention on a huge head of steam.

3. Wipes out the image of McCain as the crotchety elder and brings back that of the fly-boy and gambler, which is much more appealing, and the genuine person.

4. Revs up the base AND excites independents, which no one else in the party, or perhaps in the world, could have accomplished.

5. Puts youth, change, and history on both of the tickets.

6. May detach some young people, especially women.

7. May attach some women pissed off about Hillary.

8. As a pro-life super-achiever, puts feminists in a tizzy.

9. Revives some of the double-edged nature of the Democratic primary, which featured a black vs. a
female trail-blazer, and put both sides on notice on sensitivity issues. Democrats used to raising charges of racism against Obama's critics may face charges of sexism and/or condescension if they try to diss her.

10. Steps on Obama's claims to have been a reformer, as he reformed nothing (much less the corrupt mare's nest of Chicago arrangements), while she was a dragon-slayer up in Alaska.

11. As a mother of five, one a Down Syndrome baby, helps her side take on the Democrats on abortion extremism and the Born Alive bill.

12. Reignites the deep and unhealed stresses inside the Democrats, some of whom will now wonder more loudly than ever why they didn't pick Hillary.

13. Counters Michelle in a way Cindy couldn't.

14. Counter-intuitively, makes the issue of Obama's light resume more potent than ever. Her lack of experience is no more than his is. And he's--to use a term from Alaska, and the Iditarod--their lead dog.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

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Aug 30, 2008
 
McCain's pick of Palin is nothing more than a desperate, cynical, gimmick. It also has angered many women who find it patronizing and condescending.

The proof of the desperation is found in the fact that McCain had only ever met Palin once. McCain watched Obama's speech, panicked, and picked Palin.
HEY MIDDLE AMERICA

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Aug 30, 2008
 
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:
McCain's pick of Palin is nothing more than a desperate, cynical, gimmick. It also has angered many women who find it patronizing and condescending.
The proof of the desperation is found in the fact that McCain had only ever met Palin once. McCain watched Obama's speech, panicked, and picked Palin.
you really want people to believe that mccain saw "that speech" (which is now missing and nobody is looking for it LOL) and picked palin and had her on a plane minutes later on her way to dayton...that is really desperation and just plain delusional...like your daily rantings LOL
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

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Aug 30, 2008
 
John McCain was contemplating who would be a good pick to succeeed the oldest ever elected president. John McCain was contemplating who would be a good pick to succeeed a president with a history of cancer.

So who did John McCain select?

A governor from a sparsely populated state with no national or international experience who has been in office for only two years.

Why would John McCain do that?

It's obvious it wasn't because his veep pick is ready to assume the presidency.

John McCain's pick of this veep nomonee is just a cheap, gimmicky, cynical ploy, in his desperate attemt to become president.
Josephine Mendez

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Aug 30, 2008
 
Dear Mr. Editor,
I saw on the news the other day a story about a woman’s three Siberian Husky dog getting out of her house and killing another dog. In the story it discussed a new law in Broward County about dogs being put down on their first fight/bite in which another dog may have been killed. Don’t get me wrong I am all for responsible dog owners. Here is my dilemma. I have two large dogs, both over a 100 pounds. All they want to do is play with their ball and Frisbee when we go out.
So as a responsible dog owner, I was taking my dogs to the dog park in Coral Spings, yet other dog owners are not. In the dog park there is a section located for small dogs and one for large dogs . Honestly my dogs do not play well with small dogs. They trample them, Step on them and body check them. I know this, so to avoid probables I had been taking them to an empty field, when the park was full.
I was told I could no longer do that. So I had to return to the dog park. I had to deal with the people that bring their Yorkies, Beagles and Jack Russels into the large section and then get upset and rude with me if my dogs trample them. Their dog nip and antagonize my dogs yet they see nothing wrong with their actions. Now my dogs being the size that they are if they turn around and injure their dog, why should I be in the wrong? If Broward is going to enforce a new no second chance law for dogs then they need to enforce the park rules as well. It is only fair to the responsible owners.
Dog Lover
Josephine Mendez
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#10
Aug 30, 2008
 
The supposed big schism between Obama and Hillary supportes is a canard that distracts from the true fundamental divide brought about by the Obama campaign. That divide is simply the old established order vs. the younger political power sources ascending to control. If you can understand this more basic divide, you'll see that Hillary represented the old order upon which women were, unfortunately, pinning their "glass ceiling" hopes on. We will have a woman President in the near future, she will not have risen to power on the coat tails of her husband but rather on her own merits. She won't be basing her political campaign on an attitude of entitlement, and she won't be trying to use advances in the "glass ceiling" issue to distract attention from any weaknesses in her campaign.
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Aug 30, 2008
 
jimbo wrote:
If we elect Obama we get Omarosa- oops I mean Mad Michelle--- in the White House with terrorists like Ayers and Odinga., racists like Wright and criminals like Rezko too. Throw in the Mid East connection and the Iraqi billionaire supporting Bammy and George Soros - the radical mind behind Moveon.org Do you really want this cast of villains running our country.??? That racist Oprah neglected to tell us all about Bammys sordid life and secrets and scandals and all the Chicago filth that he carries around.!!! Watch for more shocking secrets to emerge on Obama and the media will have egg all over their faces for backing this radical racist.!!
It' just amazing that this sick rascist wants to turn the tables and call anyone who loves America a rascist.
We've had so many years of politics based on hate mongering and diviseness under the Republiscums and look where it's gotten us. An economic depression, a military badly weakened by the fiasco of the Iraq war which threatens our security and has alienated us from our allies, the treason commited by the criminally insane Bush/Cheney regime of using our military so the oil corporations can control the Iraqi oil fields. Obama's succesful political campaign has been accomplished without any racial dynamic, instead responding to the race baiters with his speech in Philadelphia which still resonates with truth and insight for all Americans and does more to heal and advance race relations in American than any thing since the Martin Luther King campaign to end the moral scourge of rascism. America has turned away from sick bozos like this poster, thank goodness. God Bless Senator Barak Obama!
HEY MIDDLE AMERICA

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Aug 30, 2008
 
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:
John McCain was contemplating who would be a good pick to succeeed the oldest ever elected president. John McCain was contemplating who would be a good pick to succeeed a president with a history of cancer.
So who did John McCain select?
A governor from a sparsely populated state with no national or international experience who has been in office for only two years.
Why would John McCain do that?
It's obvious it wasn't because his veep pick is ready to assume the presidency.
John McCain's pick of this veep nomonee is just a cheap, gimmicky, cynical ploy, in his desperate attemt to become president.
the last "old guy" elected was the great ronald reagan who presided over a demonrat controlled congress and did a very very good job...sounds like deja vu all over again...and the great ronald reagan's veep was also elected...palin will be the first woman president
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

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Aug 30, 2008
 
Obama The Fraud wrote:
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If Mcmonkey Obama is so much for change why did he pick an old democrat as his running mate?
You wrote "Mcmonkey"... ha,ha,ha,ha,ha...

You are so funny! So witty! So mature... for a 3rd grader!

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Aug 30, 2008
 
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:
McCain's pick of Palin is nothing more than a desperate, cynical, gimmick. It also has angered many women who find it patronizing and condescending.
The proof of the desperation is found in the fact that McCain had only ever met Palin once. McCain watched Obama's speech, panicked, and picked Palin.
The more I read your posts, all claiming that picking Palin, was a sign of desperation, the more sure I am that it the left that is growing disparate. As I said to you before, I had been hoping for Palin for several months now. She brings a lot to the table: a reformer, executive experience, the ability to get things done as we see with the gas pipeline, a conservative, and, I expect, a quickness on her feet that will run rings around Biden in the VP debate. It will be fun to see Biden run out of time before he even begins to answer the question. The contrast will be suburb.

For some reason I ended up on Barbara Boxer's email list. It is quite instructive. Yesterday, her email pointed out that Palin "not one hour's worth of experience on national issues". Notice how Boxer tiptoes around Obama's lack of executive experience. Boxer is hoping we won't notice the word parsing.

The second complaint I am seeing from the Democrats is that Palin has children and shouldn't be away from them. It is fun to see the party of the feminists running with that one.

Look, the fear coming from the Democrats over Palin is palpable. They know this is a game changer and they are desperately trying to disparage her without annoying the Hillary Democrats or the feminists. They are not pulling it off.

It is fun to see the "changey, hopey" guy make the safe conservative pick, while the maverick rides again. I still claim McCain is out politicking changey, hopey. Apparently, experience is helpful.

Rick
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Aug 30, 2008
 
there are no hillary supporters who are going to vote for mccain. this is rubbish put out and spinned over and over by the republican party.

furthermore mccain's choice makes it very clear how stupid it is to vote for gender or race.

all democrats and many non partisans and republican s will put obama in office in a landslide election because we are all sick of the bush administration and the damage it has done to our country. not even ronald reagan or richard nixon could save the republicans this year...they have gone to far and need to be sent home...
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Aug 30, 2008
 
The dems have reason to run scared. They put Obama on the ticket as a last of hope of a desperate group of people because there were no qualified people to run for office. So now, when McCain so handily upped the anti, they cry "foul", and "cheat" and try to dissemble. What a group of disorganized idiots! As far as what Barbara Boxer wrote on her website? Why California re elects her is a total mystery...mostly it is because many in California are sheep!
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Aug 30, 2008
 
Rick Caird wrote:
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The more I read your posts, all claiming that picking Palin, was a sign of desperation, the more sure I am that it the left that is growing disparate. As I said to you before, I had been hoping for Palin for several months now. She brings a lot to the table: a reformer, executive experience, the ability to get things done as we see with the gas pipeline, a conservative, and, I expect, a quickness on her feet that will run rings around Biden in the VP debate. It will be fun to see Biden run out of time before he even begins to answer the question. The contrast will be suburb.
For some reason I ended up on Barbara Boxer's email list. It is quite instructive. Yesterday, her email pointed out that Palin "not one hour's worth of experience on national issues". Notice how Boxer tiptoes around Obama's lack of executive experience. Boxer is hoping we won't notice the word parsing.
The second complaint I am seeing from the Democrats is that Palin has children and shouldn't be away from them. It is fun to see the party of the feminists running with that one.
Look, the fear coming from the Democrats over Palin is palpable. They know this is a game changer and they are desperately trying to disparage her without annoying the Hillary Democrats or the feminists. They are not pulling it off.
It is fun to see the "changey, hopey" guy make the safe conservative pick, while the maverick rides again. I still claim McCain is out politicking changey, hopey. Apparently, experience is helpful.
Rick
Rick,

"Run rings around Biden," you've got to be kidding?

On what issue? Snow mobile racing? Fish prepping? Moose burgers?

It sure isn't going to knowledge of national and international affairs.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

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Aug 30, 2008
 
Rick,

Maverick McCain with all his name ID, years in the Senate, and Cindy's beer money ought to be leading the skinny black guy with the funny name by a country mile.

But as of today, Obama is 8 points up in the Gallup tracking poll.
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Aug 30, 2008
 
Rick Caird wrote:
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The more I read your posts, all claiming that picking Palin, was a sign of desperation, the more sure I am that it the left that is growing disparate. As I said to you before, I had been hoping for Palin for several months now. She brings a lot to the table: a reformer, executive experience, the ability to get things done as we see with the gas pipeline, a conservative, and, I expect, a quickness on her feet that will run rings around Biden in the VP debate. It will be fun to see Biden run out of time before he even begins to answer the question. The contrast will be suburb.
For some reason I ended up on Barbara Boxer's email list. It is quite instructive. Yesterday, her email pointed out that Palin "not one hour's worth of experience on national issues". Notice how Boxer tiptoes around Obama's lack of executive experience. Boxer is hoping we won't notice the word parsing.
The second complaint I am seeing from the Democrats is that Palin has children and shouldn't be away from them. It is fun to see the party of the feminists running with that one.
Look, the fear coming from the Democrats over Palin is palpable. They know this is a game changer and they are desperately trying to disparage her without annoying the Hillary Democrats or the feminists. They are not pulling it off.
It is fun to see the "changey, hopey" guy make the safe conservative pick, while the maverick rides again. I still claim McCain is out politicking changey, hopey. Apparently, experience is helpful.
Rick
If there's any desparation it's from the John McSame...choosing Dan Quayle with boobs thinking that all the Hillary supporters will now vote for him. Pure delusion, sort of like your St. Ron believing so strongly that ketchup was a vegetable that he became one himself.

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Aug 30, 2008
 
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:
Rick,
Maverick McCain with all his name ID, years in the Senate, and Cindy's beer money ought to be leading the skinny black guy with the funny name by a country mile.
But as of today, Obama is 8 points up in the Gallup tracking poll.
Can you say "bounce"? Wait for two weeks after the Republican convention before taking any of the polls seriously.

Rick
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