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    DEM Primaries/Candidates thread

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    QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 09:47 PM)
    Somehow I don't see the same ho-hum response coming if the name were Hilllary.

    I never liked Hillary, I never liked Kerry, I never liked Gore, I never liked Pelosi, etc. so none of this is even relevant. I already knew that Hillary was more full of s*** than the average politician, how much Hillary-bashing have you seen me do on this board besides me saying "I don't like Hillary"?

    DEM Primaries/Candidates thread

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    QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 09:40 PM)
    Because he bills himself as 'different' than the average politician?

    He's the same as any other Democrat but with much more leadership ability.

     

    My car is "different" than yours, but they both have tires and steering wheels don't they?

    For GOP only

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    QUOTE(mr_genius @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 05:44 PM)
    in the current news atmosphere of attack attack attack, Huckabee hurts the ticket. CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, NY times, ect would go non-stop insane 24-7 news coverage of 'Huckabee gate'.

     

    I agree that Dems hate Romney. Not so sure about independents. But a lot Dems hate McCain too, the GOP isn't counting on the dailykos vote to go Republican. But you are right, if he loses independent votes the GOP would lose, he needs to reconnect with the type of voter that helped get him elected in MA.

     

    Edit: Even though I don't like Romney, I'm just saying he might not be bad on the ticket. He would have to lose the 'used car salesman' persona, that is for sure.

    I think many more left-leaning moderates/independents, e.g. me, are inclined to like McCain and hate Romney than the ones who would just hate them both. I think I'm okay with a McCain White House, but Romney's "surrender to terror" comment and any others like that really bother me, because using extreme "this-or-that" language like that plays directly into the hands of al-Qaida propagandists and although the far right eats that up, it really isn't very helpful. Plus Romney really comes off as a phony to me. I might not agree with a lot of Huckabee's views but at least he's genuine.

     

    Anyway, my main point is that a VP that's too conservative or otherwise unlikable would turn off a lot of the independents IMO.

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    QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 03:41 PM)
    I like the article a lot, except he does't really make the point that hasn't been made, and that is McCain never said we would be AT WAR for 100 years. He even sited examples like Korea and Germany, where there hasn't been a shot fired for over a half century. That still doesn't get the quote not used as something that was never said.

    Yeah I have been trying to defend McCain on this. The next sentence that never gets quoted is a pretty major qualifier but everyone that brings it up always uses it to make him sound like he's some crazed bloodthirsty warmonger which is the total opposite of what he said. However, that IF is a really big IF. There was no insurgency in Germany, Japan, or Korea that is anywhere comparable to what we have going on now and to bring up those as examples is completely ignoring reality. If the insurgency was to suddenly and cleanly end within the next couple of years that'd be completely different. But that's never going to happen.

    Alexei Ramirez to start at CF on Opening Day?

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    QUOTE(CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 01:28 AM)
    You have to remember CC wasn't just throwing fastballs to Ramirez . He was setting him up with the changeup. CC didn't win the CY for nothing. He's a helluva pitcher not just a flamethrower. He K'd Ramirez on one AB with a perfect pitch (fastball) on the outside corner the ARAM swung and missed but most hitters would've just went down looking at that pitch.

    This supports my position that Alexei, talented though he might be, did not really look like he had any business out there yet. If he should've been starting over anyone, it should've been Uribe.

    Your favorite baseball movie ever?

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    QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 02:31 PM)
    Field of Dreams, followed closely by The Natural.

     

    This should really have been a poll.

     

    Has anyone seen 61*? I never got to catch that one.

    I thought about making it a poll but I couldn't help feeling like I'd be leaving one off.

     

    I think I'll make a poll now though based off what everybody's said.

    John Kerry cares about the troops

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    QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 10:41 AM)
    Full quote:

    Cheney: Well, it obviously brings home, I think for a lot of people, the cost that's involved in the global war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. It places a special burden, obviously, on the families. We recognize, I think -- it's a reminder of the extent to which we're blessed with families who have sacrificed as they have. The President carries the biggest burden, obviously; he's the one who has to make the decision to commit young Americans. But we are fortunate to have the group of men and women, the all-volunteer force, who voluntarily put on the uniform and go in harm's way for the rest of us. You wish nobody ever lost their life, but unfortunately it's one of those things that go with living in the world we live in. Sometimes you have to commit military force, and when you do, there are casualties.

     

    I don't think Cheney was saying the biggest burden of grief for soldiers' deaths lies with Bush. I think he was saying the burden of responsibility for the war does. I know many see the man as the devil and I'm not too crazy about him either, but I just don't think he was suggesting that the President grieves more than a parent over the loss of their son or daughter. I think it was just him saying the burden of responsibility is the biggest burden.

    I was actually going to make a post similar to this one, but this was actually before I read the exact quote you just posted... how Cheney comes across in the interview depends a lot on how the reporter quotes him. You can selectively quote that and make it look like he said something terrible and ungrateful.

    Share Your Umpiring Thoughts

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    QUOTE(BearSox @ Mar 31, 2008 -> 09:55 PM)
    I was joking, calm down... of course I want Buehrle and the sox to do well. But I have a hard time seeing either happening over the course of the season.

    Well Ryan Sweeney is batting .000 right now. Looks like he's a complete bust for the A's.

    Share Your Umpiring Thoughts

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    QUOTE(BobDylan @ Mar 31, 2008 -> 09:52 PM)
    :lolhitting

     

    I don't want to see Uribe out there for long. But I do think he's the best option on the current 25 man roster. I'm probably in the minority that thinks that here. And I don't want to place the blame on him for this game. He probably should've turned that DP, but it feels like we're taking the Steve Bartman route here. Nobody remembers the play that happened before it. (In the Sox case, Cabrera's missed grounder. In the Cubs case, Alex Gonzalez's missed DP ball.)

     

    I'm probably over thinking this too. I haven't seen anyone knock him for the missed DP. I'm just assuming that's what people are pissed about when that doesn't seem to be the case.

    Oh I'm not saying the game was Uribe's fault by any stretch, I'm just taking another opportunity to rip on him for sucking because he does in fact suck really, really bad.

    Share Your Umpiring Thoughts

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    QUOTE(BobDylan @ Mar 31, 2008 -> 09:24 PM)
    Why hang blame on Uribe? He didn't do all that bad. He was slow to turn a double play which wouldn't have mattered if Cabrera caught the DP grounder the play before. And K'd three times. (He might've missed a sac fly but for some reason my gut is telling me there were two outs. And he wasn't the only to miss a sac fly opportunity today, anyway.) But he was far from the reason the White Sox lost. I'd put it on Buehrle (obvious reasons), Cabrera (missed DP that led to 7 runs, terrible AB with sacks packed and 0 out) and Guillen for mismangement of PH situations.

    Uribe sucked, as always. He comes through with the occasional double or home run purely because the law of averages says if he awkwardly throws the bat out over the plate like an angry drunken caveman it'll eventually connect with the ball, but more often than not he will chase garbage at eye level or a foot off the plate until he strikes out.

    The Last Roster Spot

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    QUOTE(RME JICO @ Mar 31, 2008 -> 08:27 PM)
    Has Thome changed anything against LHP this year?

     

    He seems much better vs LHP (including ST). Of the 6 HRs he hit in ST, I know a couple were vs LHP. Now he has two more. Yet going into this season he only hit a HR against LHP every 23 AB's and only 6 all last year vs LHP.

    I don't know. Whatever he did, if it happened, I welcome it. Because he sucked pretty bad against LHP the last couple years. But he puts up damn Babe Ruth numbers vs. RHP.

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