| Do you think choosing Sarah Palin was a mistake for McCain? |
| Yes. She is way too inexperienced to potentially serve as President |
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| Yes, she may be inexperienced, but she has charm...and thats what counts. |
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| She has enough appeal to the masses to make her choice acceptable. |
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| No. She lives next to Russia, so has enough experience for me. |
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| Is it too late to get Tina Fey on the ticket? |
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| I think she was an excellent choice. |
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The baby names list just really smacked me in the funny bone, geo. It doesn't even have anything to do with Sarah Palin. You turned me silly. |
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| The baby names list just really smacked me in the funny bone, geo. It doesn't even have anything to do with Sarah Palin. You turned me silly. |
It is quite interactive, like one of those cardboard Christmas posters with things behind the doors. Don't her kids have weird names? Maybe not carport or flake. A dart is as good as any other method of choosing. I look forward to seeing the oil derricks in Bethesda. And if you open the windows you can see the dinosaur. Science in the bin is a nice touch. Don't touch the hotline to Moscow Sarah! |
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Why is there a dinosaur walking outside the oval office windows?
Is it a statement about creationism or possibly cloning?
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Why is there a dinosaur walking outside the oval office windows?
Is it a statement about creationism or possibly cloning?
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Or maybe that a Palin (McCain) administration would put us back way into the past. |
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| That was funny! Thanks for posting it, geo! I was going to be Palin for a Halloween party, but thought everyone was going to do the political costume thing. I should've done it though because there wasn't even one politician there. |
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Sarah Palin's War on Science
The GOP ticket's appalling contempt for knowledge and learning.
By Christopher Hitchens http://www.slate.com/id/2203120/
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| This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just "people of faith" but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity. |
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I'm with you 100% on this one!
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| Me too. I just read that article and called my wife in frustration to tell her I'm voting for Obama. I shit you not. |
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I'm with you 100% on this one!
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I have heard talk that Palin is trying to be the face of the Party now too...that she has visions of being the nominee for the next go round!
She is a retard...I do not get how this can even be a consideration! |
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| Me too. I just read that article and called my wife in frustration to tell her I'm voting for Obama. I shit you not. |
Honestly...I cannot see how anyone would vote for Palin/McCain at this point. At least anyone who really thinks about things. Obama may not be perfect to all, but he is obviously the guy that has the best chance to work with both parties and has the composure of a President. And he is damn intelligent.
I still do not know how any other than the base can be undecided. |
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Come on, Nick. There are plenty of negatives to Obama. Don't be so biased that you skip right over his weaknesses. I'm at least willing to admit the strengths and weaknesses in both candidates. This isn't so glaringly obvious of a choice for millions of people and we're not all morons. It is more of a teeter-totter with Obama lower down than McCain. But both are humans with strengths and weaknesses.
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You have to know that a sentence such as this is an extreme insult and personal cut to the millions and millions of thinking and caring conservatives. And I'm one of them. You're implying that conservatives that are voting for McCain aren't thinking about things as deeply or rationally as you, and this is not necessarily the case. Some people simply feel McCain is better able to defend the US against terrorism. Some people don't believe in "redistributing the wealth." Some people find Obama's ties to several shady characters as unacceptable and a direct reflection on his judgment.
You're insulting me when you make comments about how thinking people could never vote for McCain. I tend to think I'm a thinking person. Most people that know me consider me to be a deep thinker. So your words cut and I take them very personally. |
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| Come on, Nick. There are plenty of negatives to Obama. Don't be so biased that you skip right over his weaknesses. |
I do not think I said Obama did not have weaknesses....but the weaknesses McCain has been beating into the ground are not anything of any real concern or are just not as poignant as the sheep believe. And from what I have seen...McCain or Republicans have had contact with the same people in the same ways Obama has. Obama is not a terrorist...no matter how briefly he may have been in contact with people who we consider terrorists...and the word is loosing its import because of overuse BTW.
Only the base is really on the McCain side now Chris (you and a few other of my life-long Republican friends tell me this is true!!)...and of course there may be some others, but my point is they are pandering to the base. I used to like and respect McCain. No more...he is erratic and an attack machine now.
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I am sure my comments about the Christian religion & Christians rile their feathers too, but I stand by those as well...and...you are not voting for McCain. So...I do not see the problem.
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You're implying that conservatives that are voting for McCain aren't thinking about things as deeply or rationally as you, and this is not necessarily the case. Some people simply feel McCain is better able to defend the US against terrorism. Some people don't believe in "redistributing the wealth." Some people find Obama's ties to several shady characters as unacceptable and a direct reflection on his judgment.
You're insulting me when you make comments about how thinking people could never vote for McCain. I tend to think I'm a thinking person. |
Yeah but...you are voting for Obama. I do not see where you are getting so upset. lol |
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