Dems in Denver (Trees And Things)

JimmyHavok: Re: dish o' crow

Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:57:48 EST

True, McCain does have previous experience with being a Presidential candidate.

profwhat: Re: dish o' crow

Tue, 2 Sep 2008 06:22:23 EST

A fair point. But I'll still take an experienced presidential candidate over an inexperienced presidential candidate.

JimmyHavok: dish o' crow

Tue, 2 Sep 2008 03:34:56 EST

If you care more about having a president who knows what he's doing than you care about a laundry list of proposed legislation, McCain is your candidate.

It's still warm!

Degee: Re: Hats off to McCain

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:50:44 EST

Sounds like he's been taking acting lessons from Wilford Brimley

skeptic: Re: the Democratic Party

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:16:53 EST

It may be that George W. Bush's knowledge that he was elected to office in 2000 with fewer votes than his opponent did not in any way influence his actions as President. What would Bush have done had he won with a landslide? Possibly, he would

Shy Elf: Re: the Democratic Party

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:24:37 EST

The winner will still know that some portion of the electorate voted against him or her.

Given the example of our current president who won his first term with less votes than his opponent, exactly what is this supposed to achieve?

pO157: Hats off to McCain

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:39:02 EST

Probably one of the classiest campaign ads in a long long time.

zyxwvutsr: Re: understanding pumas

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:18:23 EST

I think McCain is the grandfather clock.

Degee: Re: understanding pumas

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:07:43 EST

Huh?

Do you mean the perceived value is far from reality, for ...who..?!?

profwhat: Re: understanding pumas

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:49:38 EST

It's close in the sense of the Price is RIght, where they have to guess the price of the grandfather clock, and one guy says $200, and the other guy says $201, and the other guy wins because the actual retail price is $4500.

zyxwvutsr: Re: understanding pumas

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:25:16 EST

How different were Clinton's qualifications compared to Obama's? Clinton served two terms in the Senate compared to one for Obama. Is that really a drastic difference?

profwhat: Re: understanding pumas

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:57:23 EST

Best as I can tell, the candidates positions are virtually identical and quite different (especially in the realm of taxes, healthcare and national security) from McCains.

There is more to candidate choice than positions on the issues. McCa

profwhat: Re: Watching Kerry now...

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:50:08 EST

How could he have responded to this ad? It's tough to respond to your own words.

Kind of like how Obama will have a tough time responding to the last 35 seconds of Battle for Seattle. We really haven't seen that.

The

pO157: Watching Kerry now...

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:46:01 EST

I wish he had taken the gloves off four years ago like he is now. He is really ripping into those swift boating types who engaged in substanceless personal attacks.

Perhaps if he had done that a few years ago Bush would have been a one termer.

Lou: Re: the Democratic Party

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:11:14 EST

Didn't say ya did

T Slothrop: Re: the Democratic Party

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:24:13 EST

Yeah but even that was about him (McCain) urging Bush not to attend the St. Petersburg G-8 meeting. Still doesn't exactly come up to the standards of that Russian general who threatened to nuke Poland last week. I think McCain would definitely play dipl

T Slothrop: Re: the Democratic Party

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:15:01 EST
I didn't vote for him either, as I think I pretty explicitly stated.

Lou: Re: the Democratic Party

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:05:56 EST
I do not believe we can afford to let a rookie get his on-the-job training staring down Vlad the Impaler.
I agree...we need someone who can stare into Vlad's soul

Steve Urkel: Re: the Democratic Party

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:53:58 EST
I'm being serious. McCain has long been making belligerant statements about Russia. I have no idea why.
After the Georgia/Russia dustup he writes an op-ed claiming "We are all Ge

T Slothrop: Re: the Democratic Party

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:34:05 EST
Huh?
Are you referring to his call to boot Russia from the G-8?
Steve for some reason you seem to project this field around you that renders both my sarcasm and irony meters inoperative. :)

Steve Urkel: Re: the Democratic Party

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:23:41 EST
"with all the retro Cold War saber rattling coming from Moscow"
I find McCain's saber rattling more disturbing thann Moscow's. His unfounded bellicosity toward Russia is deeply disturbing.

T Slothrop: Re: the Democratic Party

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:04:05 EST
I achieved the same result by simply declining to vote for President in the last two national cycles. Oh, I went to the polls and voted in all contested local and state races plus the ballot initiatives, but I simply did not mark a choice for President. Fo

delete me: Re: the Democratic Party

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:30:33 EST
Although you can also write in someone else, if you want to, somewhat pointlessly since no write-in candidate is going to win the election.
I kind of enjoyed the feeling of going to bed and not feeling like a slimeball for voting for some schmuck

skeptic: Re: the Democratic Party

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:44:49 EST
Of course, you could vote for the Libertarians. Their candidate this year doesn't impress me, however, it would still make sense to vote for him if your objective is to register your disapproval of both the Democratic and Republican candidates.

pO157: Re: the Democratic Party

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:43:17 EST
My last one is my voter registration. I can't change it because we are within X number of days until a primary. Afterwards, then yes I will.
And I can still vote for a third party candidate, which I probably will. Given how blue my state is, it won't m

skeptic: the Democratic Party

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:38:17 EST
It is somewhat intriguing to hear that you have now severed your next-to-last connection with the Democratic Party; what is your last remaining connection? And in the end, regardless of whether you are connected to any particular party, you will stil

profwhat: Alzheimers e-mail

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:13:50 EST
That was from Democrats.com, not the Democratic Party, right? Please tell me I'm right.

pO157: Re: Spectacle

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:53:29 EST
Someone answer this for me: why was Nancy Pelosi relegated to a non-prime-time slot on Monday, while Obama's brother in law and wife got choice spots that evening? Pelosi is the first female speaker of the house, and (to understate) someone with

profwhat: Spectacle

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:15:47 EST
Someone answer this for me: why was Nancy Pelosi relegated to a non-prime-time slot on Monday, while Obama's brother in law and wife got choice spots that evening? Pelosi is the first female speaker of the house, and (to understate) someone with some