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Posted on August 29 at 5:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Oh_please: Haven't you heard? "Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore."
(John Prine, he was just in town the other day.)
Posted on August 29 at 5:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)
FreeDarfur asks: "how much experience did George Washington have when it came time to be the first President of the United States?"
Well, he did win an itty-bitty little war, commanding an army in the process, but apart from that...
Posted on August 29 at 5:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Ladd McBride writes: "You have not held her hand, looked directly into her eyes, and talked to her on a personal, one on one basis." He seems to be offering this as a reason to support someone.
Hm, I seem to recall George W. looking into the eyes and soul of Vladamir Putin and liking what he saw. Perhaps this is not an accident. They both went on to invade other countries. (Sorry, couldn't resist pointing that out.)
Anyway, four of our last five presidents came came from various governors' mansions. One (Ronald Reagan) was a tremendous success, another (Bill Clinton) was successful in some areas and failed in others, and two (Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush) were catastrophic failures. None were fully prepared when they assumed office.
I'm not as skeptical about this as Dermot Cole, but I'm not swooning either. We'll see how she does on the national stage. I don't envy her for what she's about to be hit with. But she's proven time and again how tough she is.
Two things we can all agree on: this will be the most interesting election in decades, and Sarah Palin is nowhere near as creepy as Dick Cheney.
Posted on August 29 at 4:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)
No way Opamk. This is Alaska, we have a proud tradition to uphold: nepotism. Palin needs to appoint Piper.
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Posted on August 29 at 4:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
S. Louise Palin is in the house!
Posted on August 28 at 9:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I won't speculate on the meaning of the waving kitties, but I do know that every McDonald's has a a picture of the clown, and he's definitely a religious icon in this country.
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Posted on August 28 at 9:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)
h2os writes: "Didn't Albert Einstein say insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results? Sounds like politics to me."
Yeah, it also sounds like a lot of the postings here.
Posted on August 28 at 9:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)
LadyNYC: My little bit about hating Germans was tied to my response to the other oh-so-brilliant anti-Obama letter today that compared him to the Nazis. I was mocking the authors of the letters. And I'm well aware that a Hitler could arise anywhere. I think I noted the Serbs of the 1990s in my second post on this thread. Smaller scale, perhaps, but the same story. I've studied quite a bit of Soviet history. Stalin, as you probably know, killed far more people than Hitler, and never got half as much credit for it. And the majority of Russians surveyed now say he was a great leader. Go figure.
Anyway, I have serious reservations about Obama's potential presidency, but I have to laugh at some of the posts seen here today. People get all worked up over things that aren't even true. He's not some commie or Nazi, but I do fear he's getting in over his head. That's what should be debated. Is the man qualified for the job? Personally I'm not convinced, but my mind isn't closed.
Posted on August 28 at 12:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)
allhaileris: The only thing keeping Christians under control these days are the secular constitutions that govern western nations. There's a reason for these: two thousand years of European history. And it continues to this day. In Bosnia it was Christian Serbs ethnically cleansing Bosnian Muslims, not the other way around. Any religion that considers itself the truth for all humanity is bound to get violent (this includes Marxism by the way; that was an absolutist religion too).
"Let he who is without sin..."
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Posted on August 29 at 6 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Since Dick Cheney has spent the last seven years hiding out in a secret underground bunker, will Sarah Palin follow suit and hide out in a secret igloo?
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