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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 05:43 PM) OK wait... relevant experience? She's been an executive, Barack has not. I'm not saying I like the move for Palin here, but, to say that Obama's experience is more "relevant" is just wrong on its face. if it was a state like Michigan (Romney) Pennsylvania (Ridge), etc I couldn't agree with you more. But Alaska??? Plus 1.5 yrs as Governor vs 4 yrs as Senator? we'll call the Barney Fife city mayor and state senator as a wash.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 05:39 PM) Some of the same people here who laughed at the concerns over the lack of experience for Obama, are the same one hammering it home here. How can it be worse to be #2 and inexperienced, versus #1 and inexperienced??? Anyways, with the amount of advisors and cabinets and the like, experience is pretty overrated anymore. In this day and age, the President is pretty much a figurehead anyway. dude not even close. Obama has tons more "experience" and most importantly, relevant experience than Palin does. On top of it, how much does Alaska represent the national landscape. I'd say that Illinois has a little bit of everything in it. Big Cities, Rural Farmlands, Manufacturing, Financial, etc.

QUOTE (DABearSoX @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 05:31 PM) Well, she probably hunts/fishes and being from a small town usually sends the message "working class" so joe biden and sarah palin roll into a uaw plant in Flint, MI... who do the workers connect with more?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 05:03 PM) ohhhh I didnt know that! and that my friends is going to be a huge negative against her. fair or unfair, people hate oil companies.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 04:28 PM) This wont get the disgruntled Hillary supporters and it will offend the old boys whom McCain could count on to keep blindly voting republican. This was a monumental miscue. DING DING, we have a winner folks. For every women voter she "brings over", Biden "brings over" a male voter. How does a 1 1/2 year govenor from one of the smallest states in the country play with working folks in WV, OH, PA, MI, IN, etc???

while its burried in another thread, i think this piece deserves its own. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/28....war/index.html Its Wag The Dog, come true.

my guess, after the RNC, we are within 3 pts, either way. Statistically irrelevant. Wait till the debates, then it will move to +/- 5-6%.

is there a way to find out if members # 1-7 are still around? I'd love to know my seniority.

yeah i was one of the first people to signup. i came via ESPN boards.

its the bottom of the ninth, winning runner at 3rd base with 2 outs. Time to bring a pinch hitter off the bench. Do you want the 2008 version of Frank Thomas or Alexei Ramirez? If you want Frank, then you are thinking about his experience. He's dealt with these situations before and you feel comfortable. You are voting for John McCain. If you want Alexei, then you are thinking about his potential. He's untested in these situations but has proven himself as a darn good hitter. You are voting for Barrack Obama.

QUOTE (JoeBatterz @ Aug 25, 2008 -> 08:15 PM) My fondest memory of Karko was attending a game and seeing his batting average on the scoreboard as it read .071. I think this was in late May or early June too. Have to give him credit for perseverance. for anyone who listens to Howard Stern... "zero point zero"

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anyone see this new TV show.. pretty cool. It's about the undercover car theft task group out in NJ. Pretty neat.

this is what i don't understand about professional sports. the guy is locked up in a contract for 3 more years. This year could be a fluke, or it couldn't. Regardless your risk is far greater than your reward here. Should the Sox go back to Contreras and ask him for money back since he underperformed??

imo this election is going to come down to the new voter registration advantages that the dems have gained in the past year in several states. people who previously had not voted, who may (or may not) be coming out to vote in November. College kids and young people show up, Obama wins close states like Nevada, Iowa and Colorado. Those 3 states move blue and Obama keeps all of Kerry's states its a 286-252 advantage for Barrack. Even if McCain takes Romney who somehow turns Michigan Red, its 269-269, plus Nebraska splits its votes up proportionately. Obama will take 1 of the 3 electoral votes out of Nebraska, thus 270-268. Larger than normal African American vote puts North Carolina, Indiana and even Georgia in play. They no show, like they did for Kerry in 2004... McCain's got this one wrapped up.

interesting read about the whole 7 houses thing... Analysis: Why the Home Debate Matters In politics, there is nothing worse than appearing out of touch. From time immemorial, a candidate who is effectively portrayed as forgetting about the "little" people, of having "gone Washington," of living higher on the hog than voters, loses. Class remains a powerful motivator for many voters in the country. Politicians are forever trying to cast their candidacies as closely rooted in the communities from which they sprung -- a purposeful attempt to ensure that voters know that the candidate "understands the problems of people like you." Put simply: The worst thing you can call a politician is an elitist. And so, seen through that lens, it makes perfect sense why Democrats have picked up on John McCain's comment that he wasn't sure about how many houses he and his wife own -- comments made to Politico's Mike Allen and J-Mart -- and why Republicans have fought back so quickly and so hard. Let's revisit the events of the last 24 hours. The initial question, put to McCain during an interview in Las Cruces, N.M., seemed to catch the Arizona senator off guard. "I think -- I'll have my staff get to you," McCain said. "It's condominiums where -- I'll have them get to you." That's not exactly the sort of definitive language that politicians and their handlers like to use when dealing with the media. Democrats, sensing an opportunity to show McCain as out of step with voters, quickly began blasting away. "I guess if you think that being rich means you've got to make $5 million and if you don't know how many houses you have, then it's not surprising that you might think the economy was fundamentally strong," said Barack Obama during a rally this morning in Chester, Virginia. "But if you're like me, and you've got one house, or you are like the millions of people who are struggling right now to keep up with their mortgage so they don't lose their home, you might have a different perspective." The Obama campaign quickly produced an ad noting that McCain actually owns seven homes worth $13 million; as an image of the White House is shown, a narrator intones: "Here's one house America can't afford to let John McCain move into." The onslaught by the Obama campaign was greeted in kind by McCain. "Does a guy who made more than $4 million last year, just got back from vacation on a private beach in Hawaii and bought his own million-dollar mansion with the help of a convicted felon really want to get into a debate about houses?" asked McCain spokesman Brian Rogers. "Does a guy who worries about the price of arugula and thinks regular people 'cling' to guns and religion in the face of economic hardship really want to have a debate about who's in touch with regular Americans?" The McCain campaign also promised to put Obama's ties to Tony Rezko front and center in the race now, insisting that the Illinois senator's decision to attack on the home front (heyooo!) made a discussion of his ties to the convicted real estate developer fair game. WOW. Anytime you hear such heated rhetoric from the campaigns, you can assume that the issue being debated is one where both sides want/need badly to win. And, a quick glance at recent political history shows why. In 2004, Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) lost to George W. Bush for a number of reasons but one of the biggest was the fact that voters believed the Massachusetts senator was not like them. Thanks to a very effective Republican branding campaign (and with a major assist from Matt Drudge) the image many voters had of Kerry was of a windsurfing, Swiss boarding school-educated, swiss-cheese-on-cheesesteak-ordering elitist who could never understand the struggles that they and their families experienced on a daily basis. But it's not just Democrats who have had the elitist card played on them. Think back to 1992 when then Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton cast himself as the everyman -- son of a single mother, grew up poor in the South, loved late-night McDonald's run -- while painting President George H.W. Bush as an ineffectual elitist who didn't know how to use a grocery scanner. (An Obama aide even made that comparison to The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder.) In this campaign, it is Obama who has struggled to convince voters that he shares their hopes and worries. During the protracted primary fight, Obama regularly lost working class voters to Hillary Rodham Clinton -- even long after it became clear he was the odds-on nominee of the party. Depending on which data points you look at, Obama continues to be plagued by a lack of connection with voters -- or not. In the most recent NBC/Wall Street Journal, a national sample was asked whether McCain or Obama "has a background and set of values that you can identify with." Sixty percent said McCain had a background they identified with while 33 percent said he did not. The numbers were far more divided for Obama with 50 percent saying he had a background they could identify with and 42 percent saying he did not. But, in a CBS/New York Times also released last night, 55 percent of voters said they could "relate" to Obama while just 41 percent said the same of McCain. (Check out the latest "Behind the Numbers" post for more on the polling data behind the connection question.) While the numbers show a public divided on which candidate they relate to better, even Obama partisans acknowledge that one of their main tasks between now and November is ensuring that voters learn more about their candidate's background so that they feel comfortable voting for him. Unlike McCain who has been in the national spotlight for more than two decades, Obama is something of a tabula rasa for voters. For Obama then, McCain's house confusion is a double whammy. Not only does it allow them to paint the Arizona senator as out of touch with the concerns of voters but it also gives Obama a platform on which to tout himself as a champion of the working class. One other interesting side note about the housing story: If Obama's campaign had planned to roll out their vice presidential pick at any point today, that announcement is likely to be put on hold. Why? The campaign believes the story about McCain's many houses is political gold and they won't want to step on it with a veep announcement that would immediately change the day's storyline.

see i knew that commercial would pay dividends sometime in my lifetime.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 07:22 PM) Yeah change! I am glad a candidate for President can use the "He did it first" defense with a straight face. Same old stuff, different day. Obama is no different than Hillary Clinton now. "He's a lover, not a fighter. But he's also a fighter so don't get any ideas."

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 07:08 PM) You are right about this one. thanks.. we actually agree for once. now I'll make a stretch... i'd also, very cautiously make a reference to McCain's age. The guy was born in 1936 and will turn 72 on Friday. And by all accounts, it's been a hard 72 years. Most people look to retire and collect Social Security at 67, not take on the most pressure filled job 5 years later in life. Can he physically and mentally handle this job until he's 76 or 80?

yeah McCain really shot himself in the foot with the 7 houses thing. If I were in Obama's campaign I would hit home 3 things... 1) McCain's comment that he doesn't know much about the economy and needs to read Greenspan's book. 2) McCain defining rich as someone who makes more than $5 million. 3) McCain not knowing how many houses he has. It's an out of touch issue. No different than some candidate not knowing what the cost of a gallon of milk or gas costs.

i would pick someone who i fully respect but disagrees with me 50% of the time. I would want someone to challenge me and debate me on ideas/concepts, not just be a "yes man". I would think having this level of disagreement would make me a stronger leader.

sweet, if thats a blue hat with the Sox in white, i've got that one!!!

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 08:15 PM) lol kuntz

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 12, 2008 -> 07:12 PM) That's exactly what we do today anyway. and that's the unfortunate truth... however should it always be that way???

does anyone know if Clayton Richard had to forfeit his opportunity to be on Team USA for Baseball with his big league call up? I could have sworn he was on the team prior, and now I dont see his name on the Team roster on nbcolympics.com