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QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Jan 25, 2008 -> 02:29 PM) Glad I booked my vegas hotel last night. I am sure prices for them all will be going up for a bit. Vegas as such capacity, one hotel going down probably won't drive up prices. Oops, wait, there is a football game that is probably pushing occupancy, it could.

QUOTE(Reddy @ Jan 25, 2008 -> 10:40 AM) he's not a true frontrunner anymore - the media made that certain. You shouldn't let the media choose your candidate.

Hmm, VP Oprah

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 25, 2008 -> 09:14 AM) I have to say, he'd be pretty hypocritical if he chose Clinton. When I hear him speak, he is always trumpeting very similar values as Obama and they were closely tied at the beginning of the primaries. He is trying in more recent days to be more "forceful" about his contrasts with Obama and Clinton because he needs to stand out. While his supporters might flock to Clinton if he dropped out, I really see him endorsing Obama in the end. You could have similar values and be a worse pick. So I could see him endorse Clinton. For example, as some of the GOPerheads have pointed out, the anti-war Dems have more in common with Bin Laden than with some of the GOP candidates. So, and admittedly using an extreme example, endorsing Bin Laden would be closer to values, but not a good pick overall.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jan 25, 2008 -> 10:11 AM) They should refuse to talk to any reporter associated with the sun times until they fire that assbag Kotex boy. Between he, couch(kotex boys fluffer), carol sleeze, and the rest its not like they are getting a good deal to begin with anyway. Cowley is amusing for them to plant rumors, but they can get another patsy somewhere else. You are kidding right? The club loves Mariotti. He brings Sox fans together to defend the team like no one else. He gets more people talking about the Sox than any other writer. We turn into a bunch of old retired guys who haven't had a bowel movement in days. All cranky and indignant. To think that anyone would not be a loyal Sox fan is heresy.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jan 25, 2008 -> 09:39 AM) Typical Marriotti, no facts, all opinion, lying about converstions with players, ignoring the already established steroid den on the north side. I remember when people had jobs based on merit and ability. yep, every Sox article needs to include stuff on the Cubs or else it just isn't important. Just like all the other writers.

I was thinking about who Canseco could have named as a "bomb shell" and Maggs would be the best target. An All-Star slugger who was not named in any report, actually gives the book something unique. And it would be niave to think there were no juicers on the Sox and that management did not know it. It was too common, too obvious to those that knew what to look for and where to look. And I think Mariotti could have thought up this article idea on his own. Say what you will about Jay, he knows how to get his name on everyone's lips and writing anything negative about the Sox gets all Sox fans in a tizzy. Funny that this will probably have Sox fans defending Maggs, something I thought I would never see.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 25, 2008 -> 08:39 AM) Politicians pose with people all the time. More research will have to be done, but it is a distinct possibility that it is a fluke. That's what I was thinking. I have a picture of me with Kay Bailey Hutchinson around here somewhere. I am certain she has zero recollection of our conversation. Hell, I have zero recollection of our conversation.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 24, 2008 -> 09:23 PM) Thought you Iowans, particularly the Iowa Staters... RAGBRAI 2008 is going through Ames (overnight town), as well as going near or through Iowa City (overnight in North Liberty). Here is the route. I added that to my life list.

I just received an email from Obama's campaign and one line stood out. He talks about a former President campaigning for Hillary. I was thinking, knowing at least the public history between the Clintons and Carters if Jimmy Carter will be campaigning for Obama at some point. I also wonder if it would be of any help.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 24, 2008 -> 01:52 PM) Dude, after all the invective that those people have thrown at the Clintons over the years, from accusing them of murder to extortion to the impeachment hearings, do you think that there's any serious thing they could throw at them that is even believable any more? Especially coming from the Washington Times? It is pretty amazing.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Jan 24, 2008 -> 12:27 PM) Disney World. I'm slightly obsessed with the place. "Micky to a five year old is a six foot f***ing rat" Robin Williams Live at the Met

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Jan 24, 2008 -> 12:40 PM) Romney is a much worse option than McCain IMO. That makes them both sound like bad options. I think they are both pretty good options, with McCain being the better one of the two. I think we agree.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 24, 2008 -> 12:24 PM) Um, am I the only one who remembers all the talk of him considering flipping parties in the early part of this decade, or the talk of him being Kerry's VP candidate, or all the campaign events he's doing with Lieberman? IIRC he always said he would not be interested in asked. And he showed some loyalty to Lieberman, I don't see a problem with that, in fact I always admired him for that.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 24, 2008 -> 12:12 PM) McCain I at least have some respect for... He's an easy guy to respect. Much more loyal to his party than most people would be. I just hope he's more than a Bob Dole kind of candidate.

Just wondering what y'all think is experience that prepares someone to be President. Obviously a Senator has different experience than a small state Governor, which is different than a large state Governor, and then we have private industry CEOs. And I'm wondering if someone like Williams Gates, cabinet experience, ran a major University, etc. if that could be considered "Presidential". What about military experience? We hear about experience all the time, perhaps an independent from any specific candidate's resume would be interesting.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Jan 24, 2008 -> 11:18 AM) Not every campaign is taking this s***-slinging to the same level that Bush did in the past and now the Clintons are starting to do. True. And somewhere each campaign makes a careful analysis of how negative they can go. Some candidates can dish more s*** than others. Everything is carefully controlled, nothing is left to chance. Nothing is random, if they can help it.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 24, 2008 -> 11:16 AM) Ask her, I am not the one playing the fence. Personally I don't think he was in on any of it, but that is just me. It seems her fans play the all the good and none of the bad. her detractors play all the bad and none of the good. Both are equally wrong in my book. I prefer to ignore her husband's record and career, both the good and bad. And we should be looking at the record much like we look at the Red Sheet at Arlington. How will this help us to predict how this person will act as President?

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Jan 24, 2008 -> 11:07 AM) Orchestrated by Rove. See the post on the last page about Bill's admiration of Rove's strategies. Anything that works gets copied and duplicated. It goes both ways. Coke watches Pepsi and Pepsi watches Coke for great ideas. They try and dress them up in new clothes, but it's all the same.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jan 24, 2008 -> 11:00 AM) Sure, but the Clinton Spin Machine is dirt digging and s*** slinging, while the others talk about the issues more. I wish it were true more often. They can talk about the issues all they want but it wasn't the issues that drove McCain out of the 2000 race, it was his illegitimate black child. Sadly that sort of s*** works faster than a hundred position statements. And I'm not signaling Bush out, just pick the best recent example. Like I said, pop the hood and the business if politics is the same for both parties.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jan 24, 2008 -> 10:55 AM) Exactly right. And is shared by every candidate. They all want to talk about their positives and divert attention away from their negatives.

Easy for me. The farther away from motors and engines, the better.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 24, 2008 -> 10:37 AM) oh that is very true. I have said for a while some of the best research is done by motivated bloggers, but they are over shadowed by those that are two bit hacks or spammers that dont do any research. Which is a shame. I pretty much discount 99% of the blogs out there.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 24, 2008 -> 10:33 AM) oh it's total BS, that's why I dont like her. But she'll get away with it. All she needs to do is keep secrets hidden until Feb 6th. Yes Feb 5th isnt everything, but it'll give her momentum. The media seems so afraid to actually do work. It's sad the some of the best research is done by bloggers and major media largely ignores it. It's also sad that bloggers are held to a lower standard than big media.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 24, 2008 -> 10:31 AM) It doesn't work both way. She can claim experience for working on the good things in the White House, but not on the dirty underhanded stuff that was going on at the sametime. Its one way or the other. Either she was a part of what went on, or she wasn't. She doesn't get to pick and choose what benefits her. That's BS. Does it work the other way? Those that discount the good stuff and claim she had nothing to do with it, should those people then ignore the bad stuff and say it wasn't her?