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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Toad on October 03, 2008, 10:31:28 PM
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....will probably generate the same feeling in the winner as being named Captain of the Titanic just as the damage control party reports that 5 of the 16 compartments were flooded, making it impossible for the ship to stay afloat.
Congrats, Dude! You get to go down with your new command!
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Too true...Wait about a year, things' will really be in the pooper then.
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Think of the fun we'll have re-arranging the deck chairs!
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We need two firefighting helicopters with buckets filled with tar and feathers headed to capital hill to deliver the message of our concern.
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Hey, since we're on the subject of the election, I'd like to ask if anyone's seen this yet:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081004/ap_on_el_pr/palin (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081004/ap_on_el_pr/palin)
Palin questions McCain's concession of Michigan By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer
17 minutes ago
SAN ANTONIO - Sarah Palin questioned Republican presidential candidate John McCain's decision to abandon efforts to win Michigan, a campaign move she only learned about Friday morning when she read it in the newspapers.
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In an interview with Fox News Channel Friday, the Alaska governor said she was disappointed that the McCain campaign decided to stop competing in Michigan. In an indication that the vice presidential candidate had not been part of the decision, she said she had "read that this morning and I fired off a quick e-mail" questioning the move.
"Todd and I, we'd be happy to get to Michigan and walk through those plants of the car manufacturers," Palin said, referring to her husband. "We'd be so happy to get to speak to the people in Michigan who are hurting because the economy is hurting."
Palin acknowledged the GOP ticket's lackluster poll ratings in the state, but said: "I want to get back to Michigan and I want to try."
Word of the McCain campaign's decision to move staff out of Michigan and stop advertising in the state broke around midday Thursday — the same day as Palin's vice presidential debate against Democrat Joe Biden. The campaign had decided Wednesday night that the $1 million a week it was spending in Michigan wasn't worth it with internal polls showing Democratic nominee Barack Obama approaching a double-digit lead.
On Friday, Palin sought to re-establish herself as an asset for Republican John McCain's struggling presidential candidacy, branding their Democratic rivals as liberals not ready to lead in a time of crisis.
Fresh off an upbeat debate performance, Palin told a ballroom full of $1,000 donors in Dallas that McCain advisers warned her that Biden was "a skilled debater."
"Now I know what they meant," she said. "He did his best to convince us that the two most liberal members of the Senate belong in the White House. But that was a tough sell, and especially in a time of crisis for our country."
The Alaska governor's fiesty tone came as she eased back into the campaign trail. She attended two fundraisers Friday in Texas and also meet privately with Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens to discuss energy policy. Pickens, once a major Republican Party donor, is sitting out this campaign to promote a plan to expand wind power.
As a governor of Alaska, Palin has dealt with a variety of oil and gas issues. She told the Dallas donors that as vice president, "one issue I will be leading is energy independence."
The campaign has planned a series of rallies for Palin in other battlegrounds. Among the stops scheduled for the days ahead are Colorado, Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. She will also be in California this weekend for a fundraiser and rally.
Based on the schedule, the campaign appears to be relying on Palin to invigorate Republican voters in Colorado and North Carolina, states that have reliably voted Republican in past presidential elections. Obama leads in polls in Florida and Pennsylvania.
Palin is hitting the road after being sequestered for three days of debate preparation at McCain's Sedona, Ariz., compound and after interviews with ABC and CBS where she stumbled over foreign and domestic policy issues.
Palin told Fox News that she would spend more time speaking to reporters, a switch from the tightly managed media relations during the past month.
"I look forward to speaking to the media more and more every day and providing whatever access the media would want," Palin said.
Palin said she had been "annoyed" in her interviews with CBS News anchor Katie Couric and had been caught off guard when asked what newspapers and magazines she read and to name Supreme Court decisions she disagreed with — questions Palin appeared not to be able to answer.
Her responses, Palin said, were "an indication of being outside that Washington elite, outside of the media elite also."
But Palin held her own in the debate with Biden, displaying facility with some issues such as energy and comfort as an advocate for McCain and as a hard-hitting critic of Obama.
Later, in San Antonio, she let on that she was breathing a little easier now.
"Last night was fun, the debate," she told donors at the Marriott Rivercenter. "I was glad it was over when it ended."
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I'm wondering what kind of reception she'd get in a UAW-run plant...I don't believe GOP types go in those much... :lol
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We need two firefighting helicopters with buckets filled with tar and feathers headed to capital hill to deliver the message of our concern.
I like your thinking.
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Hey, since we're on the subject of the election, I'd like to ask if anyone's seen this yet:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081004/ap_on_el_pr/palin (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081004/ap_on_el_pr/palin)
I'm wondering what kind of reception she'd get in a UAW-run plant...I don't believe GOP types go in those much... :lol
You'd be surprised. Many of the members secretly admire her.
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Just because you belong to a commie union doesn't mean you vote commie.. It is not like the negro vote where you have it sewed up 95% without even trying.
Many UAW workers are real humans. many are individualists that see what their union has done to their industry. Many see the fat cat union bosses as just as evil as any corporate ceo...
lazs
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....will probably generate the same feeling in the winner as being named Captain of the Titanic just as the damage control party reports that 5 of the 16 compartments were flooded, making it impossible for the ship to stay afloat.
Congrats, Dude! You get to go down with your new command!
Ya I actually came to that conculsion about 4 years ago. No matter who wins. We have been spending too much for years and too little of it was not in the US. I think the new President will arrive on the ocean just in time to see the back end of the Titanic as it dives for the deep.
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Lasz. There are a few blacks who vote Republican, but they are as rare as dragon teeth.
The director of the school for adults with developmental disabilities where I work is a black lady. She has no college education, but is a fairly sharp cookie. In the three months that I have worked there I've had numerous conversations with her about our respective families, politics, etc.
Her family lives in a small town, and none are college educated, except for her two daughters. Decades ago, her father moved to California and made a killing selling real estate. He retired after his health declined, and he has now moved back to Arkansas. While his children are hard workers, they are typical of the black community here, in that they are FDR democrats, and want government programs to handle all of their problems.
Now, their old man is a Reagan REPUBLICAN....and wouldn't vote for a democrat for president if it caused the earth to break out of orbit. He has attended the Republican National Convention on more than one occasion. His money has allowed his children to buy up large amounts of property in our area, and each of them are living in a house that he has helped pay for, or else bought outright. While his kids see the virtue in work and personal responsibility, and live much more comfortable lives because of his Republican prosperity, they wouldn't vote for a Republican for president if it hair-lipped Obama.
It's sad really....that black people continue to put all their eggs in one basket.
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I believe I said 95%.
lazs
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Toad, I think you're correct. The only hope I have is that whoever turns out to be President surprises everyone and leads us towards something better.
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bread lines?
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Her family lives in a small town, and none are college educated
For an educated person, that sentence should read "...none is educated", as "none" is an abbreviation for "not one". You wouldn't say "not one are educated", would you? Just a small point. As you were... :)
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For an educated person, that sentence should read "...none is educated", as "none" is an abbreviation for "not one". You wouldn't say "not one are educated", would you? Just a small point. As you were... :)
Certain about that? (http://www.drgrammar.org/faqs/#116)
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Yes (http://tinyurl.com/4736v6). If you refer to "Doctor Grammar's" answer to an earlier query, you'll see that he states
Dear Monia,
I agree with you; it should have been "None of us wishes to be killed" because 'none' = 'not one'
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Here is how its going to play out. Obama is going to win because 80%
of uninformed Americans think Republicans are at fault for the
mess we have today. When in fact it was the give away programs
the Democrates started in the 90s.
And when Obama gets in and the sheet hits the fan, it will all be blamed on the
Republicians. Write it down. remember it, cause that is what WILL happen.
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Actually Sandman is right. Both uses are acceptable. If they weren't, you would find phrases such as the following being acceptable, but amusing:
"None of us is going to town." Contrast that with : "None of us are going to town." The pronoun "us" indicates plurality, and makes "are" a more appropriate choice.
"None are college educated." Okay, "None is college educated." can be used, but it isn't very prosaic. I could have said "None of them are college educated." which would have given me two nouns indicating plurality, but I didn't, choosing to shorten the sentence. Besides, at the start of that phrase, I used the noun family, which can be construed as either singular or plural. I chose to use the plural meaning, for that allowed me to pair it with "are" which made the sentence more pleasing to the ear.
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Here is how its going to play out. Obama is going to win because 80%
of uninformed Americans think Republicans are at fault for the
mess we have today. When in fact it was the give away programs
the Democrates started in the 90s.
And when Obama gets in and the sheet hits the fan, it will all be blamed on the
Republicians. Write it down. remember it, cause that is what WILL happen.
You're forgetting which party ruled House/Senate from 1994-2006...
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You're forgetting which party ruled House/Senate from 1994-2006...
Methinks the fat cat with the vermin sig flogs the dead horse too much.
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OCTOBER 2-4
Obama 338
McCain 185
Ties 15
(http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Pres/Pngs/Oct02.png)
The Americans have spoken.....
I don't see McCain recovering from this. He already lost some of the most important battleground states.
Electoral-Vote.org is a very accurate site, besides they take all the polls and combine them together.
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The Americans have spoken.....
They most certainly have not. The election is November 4.
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You're forgetting which party ruled House/Senate from 1994-2006...
yup just like now..Democractic Majority with the lowest rating ever.
All are to blame but Democrates were the ring leaders.
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yup just like now..Democractic Majority with the lowest rating ever.
The numbers are low because they haven't done what the promised during the 2006 elections. They campaigned hard on going after Bush and they have since capitulated at every turn. Reid and Pelosi have proven themselves to be weak and ineffectual.
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The numbers are low because they haven't done what the promised during the 2006 elections.
lol... whatever happened to the "First 100 days" that they promised :noid
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lol... whatever happened to the "First 100 days" that they promised :noid
Like I said. They haven't held up to their promises.
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in the first 100 days they voted on a lot of non binding resolutions.
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whoever wins we lose, just with one winner we will lose at a much faster pace than if the other wins