DebateAnything.com  

Go Back   DebateAnything.com > The Debate Lounge > Political & Government

Notices

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
  #91 (permalink)  
Old 09-09-2008, 03:03 PM
SAMSON's Avatar
Abominable Troll
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Where the Deer & Antelpoe Play
Posts: 26,639
Blog Entries: 2
SAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable Salami
Send a message via AIM to SAMSON
Default

I'm not sure whether I'm more impressed that you'd once again Resource Blogs to make a point, or that you omitted the word "Penis" from the post.
__________________
Banned Before Bored
Reply With Quote
Sponsored Links
  #92 (permalink)  
Old 09-09-2008, 04:59 PM
Powerboss's Avatar
Digital Anti Fog
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: AZ
Posts: 1,969
My Mood:
Powerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond repute
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by SAMSON View Post
I'm not sure whether I'm more impressed that you'd once again Resource Blogs to make a point, or that you omitted the word "Penis" from the post.

Hey, Penis is your word Samson.

Either way, Is the story untrue?
Of course we know the routine, you whine about blogs and when challenged about the validity, you provide not a shred of evidence that discredit's what's been posted.
__________________
Reply With Quote
  #93 (permalink)  
Old 09-09-2008, 05:01 PM
boedicca's Avatar
High Bitch
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: The Land of Funk
Posts: 9,000
My Mood:
boedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond repute
Default

Thank the Goddess for Blogs!

They are keeping the MSM honest.
__________________
One's Blog

Friends Don't Let Friends Use:

Reply With Quote
  #94 (permalink)  
Old 09-09-2008, 08:11 PM
L-car114's Avatar
The Anti Samson
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Down on the corner
Posts: 3,309
My Mood:
L-car114 has a reputation beyond reputeL-car114 has a reputation beyond reputeL-car114 has a reputation beyond reputeL-car114 has a reputation beyond reputeL-car114 has a reputation beyond reputeL-car114 has a reputation beyond reputeL-car114 has a reputation beyond reputeL-car114 has a reputation beyond reputeL-car114 has a reputation beyond reputeL-car114 has a reputation beyond reputeL-car114 has a reputation beyond repute
Default

McPalin rattles Team Obama
The Democratic ticket finds itself trapped by a McCain-Palin double-team.
Jonah Goldberg

September 9, 2008

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.)

So after the halftime show of the political conventions, to strain the sports metaphor a bit further, it looks as if the change-up in strategy has Team Obama rattled and in danger of choking. Polls -- the closest thing we have to a scoreboard -- show that McCain, at least temporarily, has taken the lead. The Real Clear Politics average of national polls since Friday shows McCain ahead by a razor-thin (and statistically meaningless) 2.9 percentage points. The USA Today-Gallup poll has McCain leading by a whopping 10 points among likely voters (and four points among registered voters), though that's almost surely an overstatement.

The McCain-Palin convention bounce also all but closed the ticket's gender gap. According to Rasmussen, Obama had a 14-point lead among women; now it's three. According to the latest ABC/Washington Post poll, McCain now has a 12-point lead among white women.

Still, there's a lot of pressure on Sarah Barracuda. Called up from the political minors, she could yet wilt under the hot lights. But that's looking less and less likely.

The outrageous attacks on Palin out of the block (She banned books! She opposed family planning edu***ion! 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.

Palin's more sober critics, mostly on the right, worried that picking her would undermine McCain's claim to "experience." Almost the exact opposite has happened. Thanks to the double-team strategy, Obama has found himself in the awkward position of sounding as if he's running against the GOP's vice presidential nominee. When Obama compared his own experience to Palin's tenure as mayor of Wasilla (leaving out her current job as governor), he ran right into the pick the McCain campaign had set, leaving McCain a clearer path to victory.

The more Obama has to explain why being a community organizer -- or a state legislator, or a one-term senator with few accomplishments under his belt -- is better preparation for the presidency than being a mayor or governor, the more he volunteers his own shortcomings when compared with McCain.

Besides, on paper, Obama doesn't stand up very well against Palin. All of the mythic themes of Obama's political narrative -- the ethics reformer, the bipartisan, the new kind of politician -- all look like press-release material next to Palin's accomplishments. Obama voted the Democratic Party line more often (97%) than McCain voted in accord with President Bush (90%). In Washington, Obama's supposedly "sweeping" ethics reform -- which forces congressmen to eat lobbyist-provided meals standing up instead of sitting down -- and his feckless reforms in Illinois make him look the Bambi to Palin's Godzilla.

Obama's idea of ethics reform is to mandate clean sheets in the brothel. Palin's is to tear it down.

The most unsportsmanlike conduct in the days to come will be the search for Palin gaffes, of which there undoubtedly will be many. The media will call fouls on her that they never call on the other candidates. Over the last week, Obama misspoke and referred to his "Muslim faith" on ABC's "This Week" and told a rally how excited he was to be in "New Pennsylvania." Perhaps that's one of the 57 states he once claimed to campaign in?

And let's not forget Biden, whose gaffes are the unavoidable byproduct of his limitless gasbaggery. Biden could shout on "Meet the Press," "Get these squirrels off of me!" and the collective response would be, "There goes Joe again." But if Palin flubs the name of the deputy agriculture minister of Kyrgyzstan, the media will blow their whistles saying she's unprepared for the job.

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.


Reply With Quote
  #95 (permalink)  
Old 09-10-2008, 02:43 AM
SAMSON's Avatar
Abominable Troll
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Where the Deer & Antelpoe Play
Posts: 26,639
Blog Entries: 2
SAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable Salami
Send a message via AIM to SAMSON
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Powerboss View Post
Hey, Penis is your word Samson.

Either way, Is the story untrue?
Of course we know the routine, you whine about blogs and when challenged about the validity, you provide not a shred of evidence that discredit's what's been posted.
Ridiculous.

I guess I'll go find a Blog that claims McCain is an Alien Penis, then I'll claim its True until PB proves differently.
__________________
Banned Before Bored
Reply With Quote
  #96 (permalink)  
Old 09-10-2008, 04:35 AM
Powerboss's Avatar
Digital Anti Fog
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: AZ
Posts: 1,969
My Mood:
Powerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond reputePowerboss has a reputation beyond repute
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by SAMSON View Post
Ridiculous.

I guess I'll go find a Blog that claims McCain is an Alien Penis, then I'll claim its True until PB proves differently.
Go right ahead.

Just as predicted though. You stay true to form.
__________________
Reply With Quote
  #97 (permalink)  
Old 09-10-2008, 05:11 AM
SAMSON's Avatar
Abominable Troll
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Where the Deer & Antelpoe Play
Posts: 26,639
Blog Entries: 2
SAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable Salami
Send a message via AIM to SAMSON
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Powerboss View Post
Go right ahead.

Just as predicted though. You stay true to form.
As do you....

Any Weirdo's Blog is Fodder for PB.
__________________
Banned Before Bored
Reply With Quote
  #98 (permalink)  
Old 09-10-2008, 04:52 PM
boedicca's Avatar
High Bitch
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: The Land of Funk
Posts: 9,000
My Mood:
boedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond reputeboedicca has a reputation beyond repute
Default

Back on topic.

Obama hit a new low with his "lipstick on a pig" comment. But lost in the news is the smear against McCain as an "old fish". Given that he claims his presidential campaign itself is sufficient experience to be President, does this mean he will leaders in the Middle East "towelheads" or "camel jockeys"?
__________________
One's Blog

Friends Don't Let Friends Use:

Reply With Quote
  #99 (permalink)  
Old 09-11-2008, 12:19 AM
SAMSON's Avatar
Abominable Troll
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Where the Deer & Antelpoe Play
Posts: 26,639
Blog Entries: 2
SAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable SalamiSAMSON Abominable Salami
Send a message via AIM to SAMSON
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by boedicca View Post
Back on topic.

Obama hit a new low with his "lipstick on a pig" comment. But lost in the news is the smear against McCain as an "old fish". Given that he claims his presidential campaign itself is sufficient experience to be President, does this mean he will leaders in the Middle East "towelheads" or "camel jockeys"?

How long do fish live?


Shit, if I get a Goldfish that lives longer than a month or two, it is an "Old Fish."
__________________
Banned Before Bored
Reply With Quote
  #100 (permalink)  
Old 09-12-2008, 10:19 AM
Fidget's Avatar
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 201
Fidget has a reputation beyond reputeFidget has a reputation beyond reputeFidget has a reputation beyond reputeFidget has a reputation beyond reputeFidget has a reputation beyond reputeFidget has a reputation beyond reputeFidget has a reputation beyond reputeFidget has a reputation beyond reputeFidget has a reputation beyond reputeFidget has a reputation beyond reputeFidget has a reputation beyond repute
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Fidget View Post
Nah, I don't think. He is on the shy side of the American Dream of 2.4 children. Shows that he has self-restraint and tailors his obligations to fit his abilities.

Palin on the other hand is a casebook narcisistic personality "I want it, I get it. And never mind my kids, I'm a adept at appointing stand-ins - I make damn sure the 2nd last one is old enough to hold the youngest while I strut my stuff". I have 5 - at least one of them wll be at Bristol's side when she pops no matter what champagne party I'm at.
And I can assure the American people that either they or my children will have reliable standins when I have to deal with either of them.
Pardon, but I am not at all criticizing anyone for having any amount of children! What I'm saying is that he has self-restraint and tailors his obligations to fit his abilities. I don't think anyone with 5 children - one of them an infant - has both the time to properly take care of their needs and the needs of a whole country! And if you'll pardon the sexism, I think that young children rely on their mothers for their emotional needs more than they do their fathers. and I also think that personally speaking Obama is more family-oriented than Palin, I just happen to think she's a me-me type.

Now go ahead and take that in the worst light you can - geeez....

Last edited by Fidget; 09-12-2008 at 10:21 AM.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 09:37 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.7.2
Copyright ©2000 - 2009, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Search Engine Friendly URLs by vBSEO 3.2.0