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Hillary said something to the effect of "you can't choose your family but you can choose your church, and I would've left, but Obama chose to stand by him". Best rebuttal to that I've seen: "Last time I checked, you can choose your spouse, and Hillary chose to stand by her husband while he was cheating on her for the whole world to see, and she chose to stand by him" In other words, not a comparison Hillary needs to be making.

I don't like seeing Fields going to AAA and not developing at the MLB level any more than the next guy but if this team is losing games it won't be because they don't have enough power hitters.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 05:22 PM) I think Ramirez vs. C.C. is a better matchup then Anderson vs. C.C., so that is why I would have Ramirez start ahead of Anderson on opening day, but after that, I'd give Anderson the majority of the playing time out there. I recall last year in one of those ridiculously cold games Anderson was actually the only one that hit CC hard all that afternoon, he hit a flyout to deep center but on that day the wind was heavy and it probably would've been a HR any other day. Just saying.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 05:16 PM) Just watch. Alexei will be in CF on opening day if Owens is on the DL. If Soxtalk is any indication, angry mobs will burn down U.S. Cellular Field if that were to happen.

QUOTE(chiguy79 @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 05:06 PM) There is a serious issue when working class families need to move out of the city or send their kids to $25,000/yr private school because the public school across the stree bus in 50% of their students. See, it's not that simple. Schools in minority neighborhoods tend to suck. Bad.

Man, you know, I don't like seeing Fields in AAA but some of you guys are completely insane. It's funny to read too.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 03:50 PM) I'm not in the camp that Obama is being protected at all costs by the media, but I have strong questions as to if people would know the Jeremiah Wright story without the existence of youtube. Well, yeah. The media has to find out somehow first. Look how long it took for them to catch on to the Jena 6 thing (before they distorted all the facts) But once the media gets hold of something that will give them ratings they're all over it. Bottom line is $$$.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 03:49 PM) polygraph's are very unreliable. They judge by your heart rate, blood pressure, etc. However, the factors they use to tell if you are lying or not can be increased by other things as well, leading to false results. Yet you say reverse speech is more accurate. Maybe we should read the guy's palms just to be sure.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 03:46 PM) how they are willing to cover up anything Obama. Must be why nobody's heard of Jeremiah Wright.

BTW, "deception indicated" means you failed the polygraph, obviously. As far as deception on what, it depends on specific questions in the polygraph, whatever's relevant. It's not going to be on some simple control question like "what's your name" or "where were you born".

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 03:44 PM) aka, I'm bat s*** crazy. That's about what I interpreted too. I can't even come up with an analogy for this. I've heard of reverse speech before but I don't know much about it and don't know many who do. I think there's a reason for that.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 03:39 PM) and Reverse Speech is much more reliable then lie detectors. ?

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 02:15 PM) Nothing wrong at all -- that's politics. Make yourself look as strong as possible. He's doing a better job than the Clintons, who'd just tell us that that state doesn't matter anyway, what really matters is her winning Dem strongholds. Don't forget about Texas! She is going to carry the reddest state in the union!

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 02:00 PM) yep ... I totally effed up on that one. Guilty as charged. But I can admit when when I'm wrong. You just made me laugh out loud at work.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 01:56 PM) From what I understand, and I can't prove it because I'm too damn lazy to search for it, Obama at first said he hadn't heard the questionable comments, and then said he he did but objected to them. I don't know what the truth is. He said he hadn't heard the Youtube sermons in question, and that he actually didn't find out about them until he started running for president. He tried to avoid talking about the rest as much as he could and limit the damage but that didn't work so he had to acknowledge he's heard Wright say controversial things. What he did not say is "yeah, ok actually I was at that 9-11 sermon."

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 01:50 PM) OK, I admit it. I actually didn't know that's what your name stood for until now. In fact, I always wondered if it was a New York reference of some kind. Haha, I was just about to say the same thing. Maybe I should change my name to DILLIGAF.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 01:37 PM) Unless you expect Clinton to step aside for the benefit of the party (highly unlikely and out of character, imho) you are drastically underestimating the levels to which she'll go to pry the nomination away from Obama. levels she'll go, or levels she's started heading to already?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 12:41 PM) It's not a distortion. The man was a member of that church for over 20 years. Personally, when he says never heard that anti-American rhetoric, I think he's lying through his pearly whites. If he did hear it, he should have instantly walked out and disassociated himself. This is an issue that needs much more scrutiny, not just an "oh well". Sorry, but this man is trying to become POTUS. If he can't stand the heat, he needs to get out of the kitchen. He definitely tried to tap-dance his way out of it but he didn't tell any blatant bald-faced lies or say anything in direct contradiction with something else he'd already said. The first time he was asked about it he said "I knew he was prone to saying controversial things but nothing ever as bad as that 9-11 sermon, and I wasn't there for that particular sermon b/c I was out of town" and pretty much tried to avoid the question and hope it'd go away. Then when it didn't go away he had to come clean about the extent of the rhetoric he was exposed to, which is more than he let on in the beginning.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 12:26 PM) I agree. Just like Obama was bulls***ting when he said he never heard Wright spew his anti-America hatred in 20 years of being a member of his church. Neither one is credilble. That's a distortion of the truth. If you don't like him you don't like him but you don't have to do that.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 12:24 PM) The Fallacy of "The Surge" It's not just that, but the Awakening groups in Anbar province too thanks to the AQ idiots overplaying their hand. Honestly that was just pure luck, it wasn't really the result of any strategic success and it had nothing to do with troop levels.

And yes, there is absolutely no way to reasonably prosecute this.

For the guy/girl that was dumb enough to actually write "for one day only" on his ballot... lol Vote for whoever you want to vote for, but if you're going to advertise that you may as well write "I'm deliberately trying to subvert the democratic process"

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 10:22 AM) Oh come on. Ramirez should have made that play. He overran the ball. It should have been caught and he never even got leather on it. Remember early last year in Detroit when Uribe called off everyone to catch a pop up and then let it fall in front of him and allow 2 earned runs to score off Danks? Thinking about that makes me laugh out loud now but at the time I was in danger of breaking my brand-new flat screen.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 10:08 AM) I'd sit this one out. Me too... honestly, it's not sour grapes. It's not even that I dislike McCain as much as I'd want no part of the election. Actually I think I'd write in a vote for Optimus Prime.

It's whatever. I really don't care to be honest. Much ado is made about this type of BS at every level of politics and it's pretty disgusting IMO. And then just the same, people will go to great lengths to defend it too out of blind and blissfully ignorant partisanship. It's f***ing silly. By the way, neither party is ethically morally superior to the other.