Comments on: Whose Ego?

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:22:05 +0000

PALIN: I’ll try to find you some, and I’ll bring them to you.

That “transcript” (wherever it came from) is WRONG. She said “I’ll try to find ya some and I’ll bring em to ya.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM72M62jAUc

By: moonbat

moonbat — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:06:30 +0000

joanr16 #11 – For me the issue is not changing these people – I may try that if someone seems open – the issue is boundaries. I’ve learned to have firm boundaries with wingnuts, many of whom are spoiling for a fight – not surprising, given all the buttons a typical dose of Rush does for them. Often they’re seething with rage, especially around someone like me who isn’t buying it. They’re perfectly free to believe what they want, but I’ve learned to not allow them to push their garbage in my direction. Zero tolerance here.

By: Doug Hughes

Doug Hughes — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:30:06 +0000

Chris Dodd said after the WH meeting that it looked like and I don’t have the exact quote, House Republicans had come up with a plan to save McCains campaign. Reports are that McCain made a brief statement which was neither for nor against the Congressional plan.

I am going to make a prediction. McCain is going to oppose the plan that the House, the Senate & the WH have agreed to in principle. He’s going to propose an alternate which will NOT be acceptable to Democrats in Congress, and he’s going to claim he can save the economy without risking 700 Billion.

WHY???? To save his campaign. If he goes along with Bush & Congress, he’s going along with Obama. And Obama is winning. McCain has to do something different and more popular. So expect the McCain ‘I can walk on water’ economic plan. Expect it to shore up support with the Republican base and include elements designed to appeal to Independents generally opposed to ‘big gubment’.

The idea will be as solid at the Titanic (post ‘berg), but McCain has no expectation of seeing his plan pass. He just has to stop Obama.

By: QrazyQat

QrazyQat — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:15:29 +0000

McCain thinks the financial crisis is so serious he hasn’t bothered to read the 3 page proposal for the bailout. He’s had days to do it; it’s THREE PAGES.

By: joanr16

joanr16 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:50:45 +0000

moonbat, I do remember the feds were dismissive of the three guys who turned up in Denver pretty well-prepared to kill Obama “from a high vantage point.” And that the “security” thugs inside the RNC’s hall were all over that one protesting war vet in no time. Just recently, a guy was arrested for trying twice to approach the Obama home in suburban Chicago. He was found to have a gun and bullet-proof vest in his car. It was a minor blip in the news, and then it was gone.

I guess I take my coworkers for what they are (mostly hopeless) and so refuse, generally speaking, to engage them in political debate. Granted, I am a bit of a loudmouth in my own dept. at coffee-break time. Not that it does much good– some of them are such deeply-ingrained racists and homophobes that nothing will ever change them. They thrive on fear, and accepting anything new is what they fear the most.

By: s

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:21:43 +0000

#1 joanr – wasn’t it here that I read about the way to win arguments was to say your side repeatedly and say it louder?
That way even if you are wrong, people give in.

#4 moonbat – I think they want to avoid both McCain and Palin debating. I hope Obama has his own security detail too. I went to the link about security at the convention and it is shocking that they would be so relaxed about his security, knowing politicians have been assassinated in our country.

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:57:58 +0000

There are plenty of Alaskans not happy with Gov. Palin. Here’s a link to an Alaskan blogger regarding her involvement with a pseudo religious precher:

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/palin-and-the-witch-hunter-chapter-ii/#comments

By: moonbat

moonbat — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:34:30 +0000

joanr16 #6 - Obama better have his own security detail, cuz he's not getting much help from the US govt. Dave Neiwert at Orincus blogs here and here about how three tweakers (crystal meth addicts) plotted to kill Obama at the DNC in Denver - they even had a gun, and one openly said they were going to kill Obama - and yet the Bush/Rove appointed US Attorney basically shrugged. Contrast that with the Imperial Storm Trooper performance at the RNC, where people had not even done anything, and they were harassed at their homes, as well as scores or hundreds of people arrested. Good for you that you're speaking up. I'm surprised it took so long, since you're pretty outspoken on this site. I don't take any crap from these people any more, and I used to be very silent.

By: felicity

felicity — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:07:54 +0000

Just think, we actually held elections, and I assume debates between opposing candidates, during the Civil War and WWII. Apparently politicians used to be better multi-taskers?

McCain’s latest move may be no more than political gymnastics to avoid exposure of incompetence in his ranks, more than likely is, but what it also may reveal is that he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time – a disastrous quality in the ‘leader of the free world.’

By: joanr16

joanr16 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:03:27 +0000

I just got into a near-shouting match in the lunchroom with a couple of my Limbaugh-fed coworkers, who think McCain is a “hero” for suspending the campaign. Actually, the dispute was 2 against 2, although the woman who agrees with me was afraid to speak up, because she considers herself ill-informed.

In fact, it was the McCain supporters who hadn’t heard that McCain has also asked to have the Oct. 2 VP debate canceled. They didn’t know that Phil Gramm, co-sponsor of the 1999 bill that contributed hugely to this mess, was McCain’s economic advisor and the guy who called us “a nation of whiners.” I set them straight on both points, although I got the sense they thought I was making it up. (One of the two Righties is an open racist anyway; I don’t credit him with the brains to remember to vote on election day.)

After the two Righties had gone, the other pro-Obama woman said she’s afraid someone will assassinate him. I said I have that fear, too. At least we have the sense to be afraid.

If McCain is elected, or heaven forbid the election is so interfered with that it doesn’t take place, this country is seriously screwed. The tiny majority that refuses to think for itself, that insists on judging people by their race or surname, will have won the day.

In the past, I would have sat in the lunchroom silently grinding my teeth over the Righties at the next table. Those days are OVER.