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QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Jul 31, 2008 -> 08:39 PM) You f***ing sackless pussies Stop it.

QUOTE (Nokona @ Jul 31, 2008 -> 02:54 PM) Oh please, theres a line between attacking issues (which McCain said he'd do) and with what's going on now. He's grasping at straws Obama's inexperienced and is being portrayed to the masses as a rock star. 200,000 people (AFTER attending a free concert, by the way, which is hardly EVER reported) are screaming OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA!!! Now, what the hell does Germany have to do with OUR election? Oh, that's right, we need the Europeans opinion and good graces on EVERYTHING again, because they love America so much (ahem) and REALLY care about who our president is. Right. Europe loves Europe, and ONLY if WE agree with them (and NOT that they agree with us, notice the difference here) do they like us. I don't give a rip if the pope were president, it will always be that way. He's against drilling - HE IS. So what's "NEGATIVE" about pointing both of these things out? Is Obama ready to lead? It's a damn good question, and asking it is not "negative", it's rhetorical, to make people think about it. OH OH MCCAIN'S DESPARATE! Whatever. And again, Obama walks on water and gets a free pass.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 31, 2008 -> 02:20 PM) I just got to thinking... John McCain said today that he is proud of the campaign he is running: "I'm proud of the campaign that we have run." That sure would look good in an ad. "John McCain say's he's proud of his negative campaign...." You are so f***ing blinded by the rhetoric that you can't get yourself out of it. It's a CAMPAIGN. If you advertise about your opponent's weaknesses, everyone comes running out of the woodwork screaming "NEGATIVE!!!!!!!!!!!" Well, no s***, of COURSE it's negative toward your guy!

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 31, 2008 -> 03:23 PM) Putting him in CF is a huge mistake. I'm not crying about it, I just don't see why all the giddiness. Which is fine. There are some that are saying stupid things. Even keel, for me, is just about right. It gives us options we didn't have... and there's good and bad elements to it. That's how you roll the dice.

QUOTE (kwolf68 @ Jul 31, 2008 -> 03:17 PM) Because we didn't give up 'anything' makes it a good deal? Why wouldn't it be? You put a future HOF in your lineup with some pop for pieces that weren't going to be here anyway? I don't know why everyone's crying about this. It gives us more options then we had at a very minimal price.

QUOTE (jenks45monster @ Jul 31, 2008 -> 01:48 PM) Really? They confirmed the trade at 10-something this morning. That would leave him 8 hours and some-odd minutes before game time... I know you don't want to read 50+ pages of s***, but go read the last 5 pages or so of the thread that's pinned, and every question you have asked is answered.

5 picks in the first and sandwhich rounds is not a bad place to be to restock (and that's where we sit right now).

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 31, 2008 -> 12:51 PM) I will write up an essay on why I chose Obama over Clinton and why I support him when I finish up my summer school classes, and attached will be why he is important beyond the issues. I think you and BigSqwert have a lot of value to this conversation... at least how I'm thinking about it. I just need to get some time, whatever the hell that is.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 31, 2008 -> 12:48 PM) I already responded, and you didn't read it because of your selective reading. The truth is, all you care about is Obama too, just admit it. Well, I mean on the issues, and explaining my perspective beyond short snippets. The problem is that's pretty time consuming. I really would enjoy a really good debate about it, but unfortunately, I don't have a lot of time right now.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 31, 2008 -> 12:47 PM) I guarantee that's the off shore drilling because when people are asked: do you think Obama is arrogant? Yes 36% No 64% Do you think McCain is arrogant? Yes 35% No 65% Despite this, they are both clearly arrogant. As has been stated, it takes a big of arrogance to think you can be the leader of the free world. And I'd like to think an exhibit of arrogance would be how excited are people to work with you. I don't like working with arrogant people, but it sure seems a lot of his staff are very excited to work for him, while McCain's have complained of his ability to stay on their message. Kapkomet reads this as "McCain SUCKS" He does. I see your point, however.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 31, 2008 -> 12:40 PM) except they aren't gaining traction. To you, because you are for Obama. That's been pretty clear throughout. I still need to get off my duff and create that thread, because I was very serious about wanting to understand the insight of an Obama backer. Seriously, and no judgements ...

To me the arrogance of this is astounding. The world has been waiting for BARACK OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No one else, just him and what HE represents. HE is a symbol of America. HE is the one who will bring us together. HE is the one... blah blah blah... And he's not even been elected yet. THAT is why the McCain ads are gaining traction has having some truth to them, and why the Obamatrons are so incensed by it and screaming "HE'S GETTING DESPARATE !!!###!!!" crap, because it cuts and it brings up the point that this man has very little international experience, yet he gets figurative rose pedals thrown at him wherever he goes. Of course, I'm wasting my time, because I'll just get 85 links about how McCain sucks and Obama has a "good" reason for everything.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 31, 2008 -> 11:36 AM) Someone should have started the post off saying that the Twins got Griffey Jr for a few pieces they didn't really need, and see how many people would be proclaiming them the next Central division champs. Nice. And it's true.

Boy, I have very mixed thoughts on this.

Look at this... we leave Minnesota guaranteed to be in first, no matter the outcome tomorrow!

You people are delusional, if you're serious.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 03:33 PM) I'm also a big proponent of the environment. Here's an excerpt from an interview with J. Craig Venter (Independent geneticist J. Craig Venter raced an international consortium of scientists to map the human genome in the 1990s. Now he's putting the same cutting-edge science to work on today's energy crisis, engineering a whole new generation of biofuels.) LINK I guess I'm in the camp that biofuels aren't the answer - at least the way our government is going about it today. I think it's a great idea, yet, subsidizing corn, when it doesn't even work... I have a problem with that, for example.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 03:06 PM) Because he will help repair our image abroad, he is pro-choice, he thinks parents are responsible for the upbringing of children, he shared my judgment with regards to invading Iraq, he is for universal health care, he wants to invest in clean energies, he wants to reinstate PAYGO budgeting, he is more positive then most politicians in my era, etc. I can go on and on. As I said, I'd like to open a separate thread about this... because some of this stuff I'm for (hilighted in bold). But, I think that any president is delusional about PAYGO, because Congress is a bunch of idiots when it comes to that (without regards to party). I have a lot of questions that I want serious answers to.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 03:47 PM) I don't see why it's so hard to understand why so many people in our country and around the world are rooting for a likable black man to become the next president of the U.S., a country where politics has been dominated by white men for 200 years. It has NOTHING to do with that. If that's your reason I find it pathetic (and we know you well enough that we know you're more of an issues guy... but there's many people who think just like you're suggesting.) QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 03:53 PM) You know what I find interesting about this discussion? For years, hell for as long as I can remember, people have been basically mourning how apathetic voters were in this country. We had barely 50% of the country showing up to vote. People felt like their votes don't make a difference. People were turned off by negative campaigning and stayed home. So many other democracies were working so much better than us. Country x has an 85% voter turnout rate, country y has a 90% voter turnout rate, we practically developed democracy and we can't even get people to turn out. On and on, op-ed piece, editorial, whatever. Now, one side puts out a candidate that people are genuinely excited about. There's a flood of new voter registrations. The supposedly apathetic young people are working in record numbers and at least in the primaries were turning out in record numbers. There's an air of excitement around this election that I haven't seen in my lifetime. People genuinely want to talk politics, people who debated in October of 2003 never bothering to vote again are actually excited about maybe having a chance in the next 4 years to fix some of these messes the last disaster has made. And after all those statements about how bad it was for this country to barely get people coming to the polls, when we finally get a measure of excitement, especially amongst the younger folks (Hiya!), we're told how scary it is, how bad it's making our candidate look, how we should just calm down, how we're just embarrassing ourselves, how we're driving away voters because we're working too hard. Take your pick. Either enjoy the crap we've put up with in the White House for what, 20 years now, because good people found enough to hate about the process that they didn't turn out and vote, or enjoy having something a little better because people got back involved and tried to make a difference. And again, it's WHY are you supporting this candidate? Because he's young, charismatic, yells CHANGE everytime he's up at the microphone? YES WE CAN! It *IS* good to see people interested in the process, but don't do it for superficial reasons. There's so much substance that I think a lot of people would take issue with if the facts would just come out. Unfortunately, McCain's candidacy is not going to do what it needs to do to point out how the vacuum hose is going to be attached to the average American's wallet/pocketbook and suck the money right out of it - all for the name of fixing things (aka, redistribution of wealth, and I'm sorry, but that's just outright socialism).

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 02:44 PM) I don't discuss politics at work unless it's somehow job-related. But as far as people defending who they're going to vote for, that's pretty normal isn't it? I could blurt out "Bush sucks" at work loud enough for a couple dozen people to hear and I'd probably get swarmed by a couple of Bush-bots. That certainly was the case in 2004 with me. Generally, me either, but you can tell when little bits come up.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 02:37 PM) It's an election year. But what I'm telling you is that a lot of people DO question Obama, and aren't sure, but you can tell the Obamatrons when they stick their antennea up after hearing ANYTHING construed as negative against the "annointed one". It's seriously just almost bizarre. It doesn't happen just on soxtalk. The negativity... is weird... on both sides.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 03:30 PM) I sincerely hope you aren't about to categorize tens of millions of people based off what you saw from a handful of posters on Soxtalk. It's more then just soxtalk, lf. It's water cooler talk all around the country.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 10:27 AM) I agree that most instances have any short term cash sitting in something that is making additional money, but often times that will be a money-market account and don't those fall under the same risks that a typical savings/checking account would have (and the standard FDIC $100K). Right. I would think that they would take a loss if the bank completely failed (which is almost certain to not happen).

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 08:04 AM) No. If they go under you no longer have to pay your mortgage. (disclaimer) The above should not be construed as real financial advice. We need to protect BigSqwert from getting sued.

Happy birthday! And BS... LMAO. That's too funny.