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QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 3, 2008 -> 08:21 AM) I would absolutely. But I dont think Edwards wants to be VP again. He's said no, then well maybe. but in the end I dont htink he wants it. Richardson is my second choice, but he does scare me a little. What he said last night really impressed me. I think the campaign will have to keep Richardson on message, but he'd be a solid choice, he jut worries me a little. Did I miss the Edwards Vice-Presidency?

A few days ago there were 67 preferred securities trading with 9+% yields. Three days later? The number is 101. KeyCorp is trading north of 13%. Fasten your seatbelts!

I belive Limbaugh gets a $100 million signing bonus.

Pelosi eat your heart out! Can't wait to hear the whining from the loons.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Jul 1, 2008 -> 06:31 PM) So cut spending. Could the government afford it if we pulled out of Iraq? That and the elimination of the Commerce, Labor, Interior, and Education departments. I think it is pretty apparent that public employee unions are destroying: 1.) Chicago, 2.) Cook County, and 3.) Illinois. A single pension system should be enacted for all public employees no matter what form of gov't. you serve.

The disappearance of England, and Europe, continues apace. The Telegraph reports (italics mine): Muslims have complained over a police advert featuring a puppy sitting in an officer's hat. A police force has apologised to Islamic leaders for the "offensive" postcard advertising a new non-emergency telephone number, which shows a six-month-old trainee police dog named Rebel. The German shepherd puppy has proved hugely popular with the public, hundreds of who have logged on to the force's website to read his online training diary. But some Muslims in the Dundee area have reportedly been upset by the image because they consider dogs to be "ritually unclean", while shopkeepers have refused to display the advert. Tayside Police have admitted they should have consulted their 'diversity' officers before issuing the cards, but critics argued their apology was unnecessary. Don't think it could happen here? Remember this story from May? The student in the teacher-training program at a Minnesota high school who was compelled to leave because of threats by immigrant Somali Muslim students who took offense to the dog he needed because it was specially trained to deal with a medical condition he had. The second part about the teacher is what gets me. The dog is trained to help notify people when the guy has a seizure. He left the training program because one of the students threatened to kill the dog.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 1, 2008 -> 09:36 AM) There's nothing wrong with the talking points themselves and what he was saying. That's why this whole thing is a god damn joke. There's all this fake outrage at something that they know never happened, it's all so scripted (Granted the Democrats do the exact same thing). They seized on that one line and acted like that's all he said, and he intended it to insult or belittle McCain. Um, no. I agree. Hopefully McCain won't comment and the whole thing will just fade away.

From Obama's Patriot Speech yesterday: I remember, when living for four years in Indonesia as a child, I listened to my mother reading me the first lines of the Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they're endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Only problem Barry, these are not the first lines of The Declaration of Independence. Surely someone with your background as a Law professor, ooops, lecturer, would know this. How about this.... When in the course of human events........

Teddy Davis and Gregory Wallace report for ABC News: Barack Obama aligned himself with welfare reform on Monday, launching a television ad which touts the way the overhaul "slashed the rolls by 80 percent." Obama leaves out, however, that he was against the 1996 federal legislation which precipitated the caseload reduction. The rest of the story provides lots of quotes that portray Obama's election conversion in a remarkably unflattering light. Davis and Wallace add: While campaigning for president in 2007, Obama refused on two occasions to say if he would have signed the same welfare-reform bill approved by the husband of his top rival. After addressing the International Association of Firefighters on March 14, 2007, Obama told ABC News, "I tend not to look back to what would have been done 10 years ago. We’re talking about what I’m going to be doing for the next 10 years." When ABC News posed the same question four months later, Obama again refused to answer. "I’m not going to re-litigate what happened back in the 90s," said Obama at a July 17, 2007, press conference in Washington, D.C. "I'm talking about what's going to be happening going forward." "Bill Clinton isn't on the ballot," he added. Once he had become the Democratic frontrunner in the spring of 2008, Obama signaled that he had always backed the 1996 welfare reform. Asked if he would have vetoed the reform measure, Obama told The New York Times in a story published on April 11, "I won’t second guess President Clinton for signing." Now, with the Democratic nomination firmly in hand, Obama is going one step further. In an ad airing in 18 states, including 14 carried by President Bush in 2004, Obama is celebrating a reduction in the welfare caseload made possible by legislation he originally opposed. Obama's new ad "Dignity" is accessible here. UPDATE: Having viewed the ad, Dr. Girish Patel comments: Please listen to the ad carefully. [ABC's] sentence “slashed the rolls by 80%” leaves out the first part of the sentence “He passed the law that slashed….” This, my friend, is much larger than simply slashing the roll – Does he claim to have passed the welfare reform law? In fact, the ABC story reports on Obama's stated opposition to welfare reform in the Illinois state legislature: When implementation of welfare reform came before the Illinois state senate in 1997, Obama cited a lack of job training, insufficient oversight, and provisions blocking legal immigrants from receiving benefits as his reasons for opposing a federal welfare overhaul imposing work requirements and time limits.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 1, 2008 -> 08:44 AM) well obviously, his show is editorial But, yet NBC allows him to host debates and campaign coverage as though he were Brokaw.

2000, Would you approve of McCain releasing his files to the National Review or Weekly Standard so they could reviewe them?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 30, 2008 -> 03:43 PM) It is ok to question Cindy McCain's connections since McCain is using her jet and if Republicans can call for John Kerry to release all his military records, it's more than fair to call out John McCain to do the same since he is indeed running on his military background as proof he is ready to lead this country. Did you know John McCain crashed 5 airplanes in his military career and finished 5th from the bottom of his graduating class? I think the American people would find that interesting. Okay we went over this a week ago. Should I reprint how officers are given flight slots or should we just drop the nonsense already.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 30, 2008 -> 07:23 PM) Wait, wait... time-out. Gotta clear some things up here. 1 - Wesley Clark isn't an Obama surrogate and wasn't doing the interview on behalf of Obama, their campaign had nothing to do with that 2 - Clark was asked a leading question from the interview, the words he used were almost verbatim what the interviewer said except his reply was to say "that's not relevant" (to be honest, as crass as it sounds, I don't see how it is in and of itself especially when you see how the question was framed to him) 3 - Clark was wounded in combat in Vietnam too and is the last kind of person to disprespect McCain's war record, not that this means he wouldn't, but he didn't My point in saying this is that the response to this "controversy" is manufactured and the "attack" by Clark is non-existent. It's just more political bulls***. I saw a Dem spokesman say the Obama camp gave Clark talking points before he went on the air with CBS.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 30, 2008 -> 02:20 PM) In case you haven't noticed, this is the modern media. They don't care about substance, or issues... they want soundbytes, controversy, and fluff. Exactly. My bad.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 30, 2008 -> 12:28 PM) it was a yes or no question. he never answered. He WANTS to leave the door open for people to attack it. If he says "yes, he is patriotic and cares abotu this country", it's done. Now the door is open. By the way, a few questions later he was asked a yes or no question about Afghanistan and Pakistan. His response: "yes and yes. Next question". Why ask the question in the first place?

As I said a couple of days ago, GM is a dead man walking. Its debt is trading at 15%, so its effectively cut off from the credit markets.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 05:00 PM) you beat me too it. Yea, makes Newsweek a little more legit. Those STILL seem a little high to me. Maybe 10 max. but hey, it says what it says. In this national poll's random sample of voters, 39% identified themselves as Democrats, 22% as Republicans and 27% as independents. In a similar poll a year ago, 33% identified themselves as Democrats, 28% as Republicans and 30% as independents. The lead is not as big as it appears.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 25, 2008 -> 02:11 PM) Honestly does his party affiliation even matter? What he said is pretty appalling and the Republican whatshername pretty much said it all IMO, basically nobody agrees with what he said. Unless somebody is interested in using this as part of some ad hominem argument I don't see the relevance. Why would anyone in his district, with kids, vote to re-elect this guy?

If the brain trust cannot fix the AMT, what makes anyone think that a fix is coming for SS and Medicare?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 25, 2008 -> 01:03 PM) http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/...ticleid=1102761 Interesting that they left out the party affiliation... http://www.mass.gov/legis/member/jhf1.htm Wonder why that is. What a precious human being.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 08:37 PM) Ok, i took a look at the poll data from the primaries and I came up with a list of polls I will trust, polls I wont trust, and polls that you should use with caution. The list is of the pollsters that did a significant amount of states. less than 10 polls just isnt a good enough sample size. Trust SurveyUSA (my #1) Quinnipiac (my #2) Suffolk (border line caution) Caution Zogby (almost trust worthy) Public Policy Polling (PPP) Rasmussen (this one is border line not trust worthy) Don't Trust Insider Advantage Masion-Dixon ARG Only problem is that Zogby was the worst pollster in 2004, and Rasmussen was one of the best.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 01:51 PM) http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nathan-burchf...works-ignore-it WHAT BIAS?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 01:22 PM) Its not a big leap to think that these guys are going to have plenty of moeny behind them, when you stop and think that the people bankrolling these people have tons of money. It would make us look impotent if they got off in our courts of law, and then went and struck at us anyway. ACLU anyone...

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 06:21 AM) You're naive. Many people were turned in in Afghanistan for the reward money. There was never any evidence, except person X (Who was paid several thousand dollars) saying Person Y is a terrorist. Hundreds of people have already been released from Gitmo over the last 5 years because we found out that, hey, they really weren't terrorists and there was no evidence that they were. Your line of logic is "If you've been arrested, you must be guilty. Why else would they arrest you?!" That is 100% opposite of our legal system. We don't "know" that these people are terrorists. We suspect it. You go to court, you present evidence, and you give a fair trial to prove your case. Like the guy who blew himself up along with tens of Iraqis in Mosul after being released from Guantanamo? That was probably our fault too. We made him into a terrorist by detaining him. After all we are less safe, just ask Barry. Olbertool should count the days since our last attack along with his mission accomplished schtick.

Will the next shoe to drop in fact be GM, and not a financial company. Hmmm.