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QUOTE (Kalapse @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 08:23 PM) Mark Kotsay is old, expensive, injury prone and bad. He'd have been a much better fit for the Yankees.

QUOTE (G&T @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 09:06 PM) I finally have something in common with a baseball player! Haha I second this.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 10:41 PM) With the state of those levees...more than a decade. The only right way to do it is a complete rebuild. Combined with a full scale effort to replenish the natural wetlands off-shore. Oh I agree, I just threw decade out there for point of reference. Might be closer to a quarter century, because you are right, they need to re-do the whole damn levee system from scratch and replenish the wetlands. I have friends in the state of Florida and it's STILL not back to normal in spots from their 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons, and I've seen as much visiting there a couple times. I can't imagine what it's like in New Orleans even now.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 10:35 PM) IF another Katrina-like storm hits, we will see a vastly different response. One thing I know from living in the US for 46 years, we rarely make the same mistake twice. (OK we reelected Clinton and Bush) but on stuff like this, we totally kick ass the second time. I think it would be advantage McCain. Boy I hope you are right. As much as Florida needs to avoid big hurricanes for a while after what happened to them in 2004 and 2005, New Orleans needs to avoid them for about a decade. And if they don't avoid it, I just hope we are better prepared to help out down there.

I wasn't too impressed by any of the speeches tonight. However, the GOP had a great Monday and Tuesday, plus what happens tomorrow night is what really matters. Obama will be right in his element, a teleprompter speech in front of a HUGE audience. We know that is one thing he does absolutely wonderfully, and I'd be surprised if he doensn't wow 'em tomorrow.

I know we shouldn't think about this politically, but if this thing hits New Orleans during the GOP convention and the levees fail again, I think McCain is dead. It would be a living reminder of the gaffe that was Katrina, and I'm not sure they are ready to do any better down there if it happens again. Take a guess who gets the blame if this is a disaster again? For the sake of the people down there, I REALLY hope this misses New Orleans. Although really, if a storm that strong hits anywhere, it's a big problem.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 05:20 PM) Have you seen any of the Youtube clips of him trying to speak without a teleprompter or scripted answers? More um's than me trying to speak at my corporate convention last year. Haha yes and I love to make fun of them. However, even giving a speech as well as he does off a teleprompter takes a lot of skill. BTW, I am convinced the biggest dorks/losers/whatever in the world are the people who go to the democratic and republican national conventions. Watching these people sing and dance to love train is hysterical.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 04:58 PM) Whoa, thats a HUGE blow to Minny. There were rumblings of some academic issues for several players on this years team. This is NO surprise, and he won't be the last Gopher to be an academic casualty. The whole reason Brewster had such a good class last year was he took a ton of academic risks on several of the top prospects he got. They have Weber at QB though and he is pretty good.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 05:09 PM) So Greek columns are ok for an incumbent but not a nominee? Can you explain how that works? I could understand like the Presidential seal and such, but really why is it that certain aesthetics are only allowed once you're in office? To me it's just a general sign of complete arrogance, and such a thing from GWB or Obama is of no surprise to me.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 05:06 PM) THe guy from maine got halfway through his speech during the nomination and forgot what he was about to say. pretty funny. Happens to all of us at some point in life, that's a bad time for it though.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 05:01 PM) Link. I despise President Bush, so you are just making me like Obama less with this example.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 04:29 PM) Fun fact: Griffey was playing in the majors when Coming To America was in theaters . I don't think so technically. Coming to America is celebrating it's 20th anniversary, as it was in theaters in 1988. Griffey didn't come to the bigs until 1989. The fact it's that close is a bit telling as to how old he is though, and how young he was when he came up.

QUOTE (DABearSoX @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 04:42 PM) In my 8 years of voting i havent herd a canidate that doesn't. Well of course, but I've never heard a candidate with so many promises either. If Obama doesn't keep his promises, I'm not sure what he's good for. So to me, it's more important he keeps his promises than almost any other candidate I've ever seen in either party.

Obama seems like a good guy who is intelligent, so that puts him two steps ahead of the current president and thus he doesn't "scare the hell out of me". However, he does scare me. As much as people say it doesn't, his lack of experience DOES matter. The fact he's made it this far at his young age is incredible, but his lack of experience bothers me. He makes a lot of promises than I don't know if he can keep. He's an EXCELLENT speaker, but the fact that he is makes me nervous in a way because I wonder if he is talking his away around what he really thinks and will really do. He doesn't have enough substance for my liking either, and that makes me worried he'll turn well to the left if he wins the presidency. Now to be fair, I am afraid of McCain in some ways too. I'm afraid he'll die in office, I'm afraid the turn to the right he's taken to try and appeal to the wacky Rush Limbaugh types might not be temporary, I worry that although it's fiction that he'll be a "3rd term of Bush", it might not be fiction that he'll be a war monger. I worry he's going to pick Mitt Romney as his VP. I think, to be truthful, that both candidates could be very good presidents and could also be very bad presidents. We have better options than we did in 2004 for the presidential election on both sides, but these options can also be confusing at times.

QUOTE (DABearSoX @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 02:18 PM) So walking around at lunch I saw someone wearing a shirt that read "Not Ready" and had a picture of Barack. I really don't understand how that can even be a an issue when he have had someone who can't even speak correctly in the white house for the last 8 years. You don't? And Bush's problem wasn't he was not ready, his problem was (and is) he's an idiot. Big difference.

QUOTE (DABearSoX @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 02:08 PM) Hey, sorry, i wasn't trying attack you. I was just confused as to why someone could be a lock to win over the nation when she couldn't even win her party over. It's all about the matchups my friend. Just because Clinton lost to Obama doesn't change the fact that she was a better fit to take on McCain at this point in time in the minds of a lot of people. And those people may very well be right.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 01:47 PM) Someone pointed out that it could be a representation of say... the Lincoln Memorial. 2 Reasons For that: Anniversary of "I have a Dream" Lincoln.... Illinois.... Obama... Illinois. That would be a little better, but he ain't Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. either. I'll have to wait and see it for myself, however the fact that ABC even described it that way makes me think it has the more Greek feel to it. Regardless, you know the Dems will say it's the Lincoln Memorial and the GOP will say he's making himself out to be a Greek god. I love the political spin this time of year from both sides. One thing I find interesting is Obama's admiration for Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. He couldn't be more different than they are politcally.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/20...n-jabs-oba.html I already thought that him doing his speech in a different venue than every other democrat at the convention had a nice little touch of arrogance to it, but this is too much. Who does he think he is, Zeus? I swear, sometimes I wonder if Obama is just completely unaware of his weaknesses, or just ignores them. And neither is a good thing.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 01:19 PM) I believe, that in this point in time, Hillary would be a lock to beat McCain. I'm not so sure Obama can. I'm not sure she'd be a lock, but she'd be doing a lot better in the polls than Obama is.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 01:26 PM) $$$$ Maybe it's just cuz of what my occupation is, but I HATE when people misuse and abuse the concept of "terrorism" and try to lump it all together for shallow political purposes. I would agree that the stuff Ayers group did isn't nearly the same as modern terrorism, but it's still inexcuseable and awful and he still hasn't apologized for it.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 01:10 PM) I think there are a lot of people contributing a lot to America that don't regret their rebellious in the face of some of the ridiculous activities of our government in the late 60s and early to mid seventies. They were bad american terrorists, they killed themselves, they didn't kill anyone else, they were self-righteous punks by all accounts. But years later he's a respected professor whose done wonderful things to help impoverished kids in an awful school system. The Weathermen killed one policeman and blinded another with a bombing in San Francisco, the only reason they didn't kill innocent people in Greenwich Village is that they were so stupid, the bombs blew up early and they just killed themselves. After that when they went underground, I understand they indeed wanted to make sure they didn't want to hurt anybody (Ayers himself said as much), but they still bombed a NYC police station and the f***ing Pentagon and Ayers still founded the group itself. The fact he hasn't spent any time apologizing for such transgressions is a bit disturbing, even with the good he has done in his later days. You can't just use the goverment's idiocy as an excuse to do bad things. We'd have PLENTY of reason to do bad things now with Dubya as President by that logic.

Even one of the Cubs best players agrees with Obama. It's not a stereotype, it's a fact. Even the democratic presidential nominee and one of the Cubs own star players realize it. Thank God I'm a Sox fan.

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...1,3928547.story OUTSTANDING. Even one of their best players realize the fan base that shows up to Wrigley Field is, for the most part, a joke.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 12:56 PM) No I was going to post what AHB posted, besides fox who "accidentally" broadcasted it, there is legal questions on that commercial, one is the use of footage and another I believe is something about its donors. I think it's going to the FEC. Stupid ad though. I don't think we can compare 60s terrorism of radical youth groups during the Vietnam war to todays radical Islamic terror. I mean, Obama ran against Bobby Rush in 2000, does that mean he's against the radical groups like the black panthers? Not really, it just doesn't matter. Ayers is now a key person in effective ways of reaching inner city schools. He's helping America. He's said those comments were distorted. That committee was to again, help kids in inner city schools. How terrorist, how rogue, how stupid. Just as the ad went over the top making Ayers look bad, this post goes over the top making him look good. If you want MY personal opinion on the ad, I think it's something you have to think about. I understand Ayers trangressions were a long time ago, but they were still transgressions of great significance and he hasn't come all out saying "I f***ed up, I shouldn't have done this, I regret it", which bothers me. It wouldn't stop me at all from voting for Obama if I were one of his supporters, but I think this ad and relationship will hurt him. No question about it.