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This type of stuff probably happens more often than you guys hear about, it just doesn't get reported. Kind of like threats to the President (doubly true for Obama)

QUOTE (YASNY @ Nov 14, 2008 -> 04:25 PM) Since Obama has offered the SoS position, doesn't that justify her foreign policy qualifications? That is, if you respect Obama's decisions. They weren't ever really in question, it was just funny to watch her exaggerate it when she didn't even need to and call unwanted attention to herself.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Nov 14, 2008 -> 02:17 PM) http://images.redstate.com/obamaflowchartrev.pdf That's a pretty good chart, I wonder how accurate it is?

What would happen if we let the auto companies be bought out by Japanese companies and they ran their operations here?

QUOTE (Texsox @ Nov 14, 2008 -> 01:41 PM) Obama would lose. Well... yeah.

I'm sure she works out regularly too, it's just not publicized.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Nov 14, 2008 -> 01:27 PM) I can't believe I contributed to this thread, btw. something to break up the monotony and also a way of calling attention to Michelle Obama's huge arms:

This was a conversation at work yesterday btw, lol. I'm going with Michelle... she is pretty buff.

Discuss.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 14, 2008 -> 11:44 AM) I threw her under the bus - which is where she belongs, politically speaking. And that has nothing to do with rumors - it was her behavior and words, right in front of my eyes. I mostly just found the whole thing funny, because it sounded like something I would say except I was seeing it on the news instead. Although I kind of feel sorry for her for the smear campaign against her right now which, ironically, isn't really necessary, she really brought it on herself which is why she's in damage control mode right now.

I don't really remember. I think I finished off a debt or something? Or maybe I just kept it in my account and spent it gradually. Either way I can't think of any one thing that I can point to and say "I bought that with my stimulus check"

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 14, 2008 -> 10:01 AM) I had the opposite reaction, for the most part. She showed a duplicitous quality that made me ill. It was really borderline personality disorder - she was a different person every few weeks, depending on what seemed to be working for her. Every few weeks? Every few days, she changed shells with the poll numbers. Sometimes she was more than one person at a time.

QUOTE (fathom @ Nov 13, 2008 -> 05:06 PM) Like someone seeing a particular playing doing blow off of a stripper's chest in the locker room after a minor league game? That's a problem?

lol Cknolls have any of your predictions been wrong yet?

QUOTE (YASNY @ Nov 13, 2008 -> 10:20 AM) It looks like this ad was on a bus. Was this public, taxpayer funded transportation? If so, would it have been just as acceptable for, let's say, the LDS church to purchase anti Prop 8 ads on California buses last month? If not, why not? Isn't atheism a regilous point of view? In fact, God was specifically mentioned on that poster. That would tell me, that if I was head of a huge religious org like LDS that I could spend all I want to promote God and my particular religious point of view. This isn't really a political ad, though. If it was LDS promoting LDS or something similar then I'd say it's consistent. As it is, I have no problem with the ad.

When he says civilian national security force, the first thing I thought, in the context of what I do for a living, is that he was referring to having well-funded police departments and the like. However, you capitalize the letters there to make it sound more official and put it through a few right-wing blogs and it turns into the Hitler Youth. I love the internet.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 12, 2008 -> 04:09 PM) Yeah, we discussed this a few weeks ago as I recall. It got killed in committee, thank God. Hopefully what happened is someone brought the idea up and then a bunch of people had to ask for tissue to clean up the coffee that sprayed out of their nose from holding back laughter.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Nov 12, 2008 -> 01:41 PM) Barney Frank says the White House will sign a $25 billion dollar auto aid package. (Bloomberg) That was fast. I knew it would happen before the Obama administration took over, but not so soon.

omg she is hideous.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 12, 2008 -> 08:33 AM) Alan Greenspan tried his damnedest to try to stop the stock market bubble, both publicly and privately. Clinton didn't do anything. This recession is absolutely blamed on Bush as much as it can be, just like the 2001 recession is blamed on Clinton. The samething basically happened in the housing market as did the stock market. Bush could have moved to do somethings, but didn't want to be viewed as the one who killed the golden goose, just like Clinton with the stock market. There is also Congressional blame of varying degrees in both situations, but we can go into that in another thread. I know it doesn't jive with everyone's hyperpartisian rationale for blaming the others, but I don't see things in that same light. I see them economically. With my admittedly limited economic knowledge here I would guess that Greenspan had a s***-ton more leverage in situations like that than Clinton ever did, no? I mean, unless Clinton pushes some major initiative I don't see what he could do, the market is still going to do what it wants. Same as Bush.

Was that from his "ask not what your country can do for you" speech?

lol I missed the "for free" part. How in the hell is $40/hour free? If you worked at that rate for a full year then isn't that damn near $100K?

QUOTE (MAX @ Nov 12, 2008 -> 02:47 AM) How is someone who is in college and working their ass off to pay for it going to find an extra 100 hours to work for free? If you want it, you'll find a way. If you don't, then you won't, and it's not even an issue so I don't see what there is to complain about.

Danks never really had "issues," we just knew he wasn't a finished product when we traded for him.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Nov 11, 2008 -> 07:26 PM) I get sick of hearing someone blame another person for party for whatever reason. It's your choice to run for president, senate, congress, no matter how "bad" the previous person was, deal with it and make changes as best as possible. I've noticed that presidents don't usually go out of their way to criticize each other once they're done campaigning. I don't remember Clinton ever criticizing Reagan or either of the Bushes, Bush didn't openly criticize Clinton, and he stayed quiet while Obama pummeled him before the election. Obama's probably going to stay quiet a while now. All of this talk of blame is generated by blogs, editorials, and talk radio.