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23 Feb 08 - 09:26 AM (#2270263) Subject: BS: John McCain From: kendall Anyone who wants to know more about this "Paragon of virtue" pick up a copy of THE NIGHTINGAlE'S SONG by Robert Timberg. |
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23 Feb 08 - 12:06 PM (#2270374) Subject: RE: BS: John McCain From: gnu Perhaps you could give us the quick take? I am assuming you are not a fan of McCain. Am I correct? |
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23 Feb 08 - 03:16 PM (#2270497) Subject: RE: BS: John McCain From: kendall I supported him in his run back in 2000, but he is a war monger, anti choice and he admits knowing very little about the economy.He's also too old, and not in great shape. Last thing we need is another sleepy old man in that office while people like Ollie North running a shadow government. According to Robert Tinsberg, the author of The Nightingale's Song, he knows McCain, and he left no doubt that McCain screwed around on his first wife, so why should the second be immune? How many other "Paragons of virtue" have been uncovered in the party of family values? |
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23 Feb 08 - 04:23 PM (#2270526) Subject: RE: BS: John McCain From: akenaton Get a grip Kendall! A little marital infidelity....Is that the best you can do? There are some real beasts vying for the job of US president, white , black and red white and blue. They intend to fuck the whole American public if you give them a chance. Don't join in their game, start thinking beyond the one party system. |
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23 Feb 08 - 04:25 PM (#2270527) Subject: RE: BS: John McCain (Nightingale's Song) From: Joe Offer He's older that YOU, Kendall? I have to say, I kinda like the guy. In my lifetime, he's one of only a few Republican candidates who came close to being a decent person. I have to say I have a lot of disdain for people like Tinsberg who seem to live to smear people. I don't really care about McCain's personal life. In his government and military service, he seems to have been an independent thinker who did what he thought was right. Doesn't seem to be the kind of person who would take kindly to having a Reaganesque "shadow government." -Joe, Radical Moderate- |
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23 Feb 08 - 04:42 PM (#2270532) Subject: RE: BS: John McCain (Nightingale's Song) From: McGrath of Harlow "another sleepy old man " - not referring specifically to McCain, but there's another way of looking at the assumption behind that phrase. The assumption is often made that being young means being in a hurry, whereas being old means take your time - but it can work the other way round. "Young" can mean all the time in the world, why rush things, whereas "old" can mean do it now, because time is running out. It's a matter of temperament. Plenty of examples of old men (and women) in a hurry, turning over the tables to get things sorted for good or ill - Gandhi, Mandela, Mao Tse Tung, Ayatollah Khomeini, Pope John XXIII, Gladstone... "Sleepy" isn't really the right word. |
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23 Feb 08 - 04:55 PM (#2270539) Subject: RE: BS: John McCain (Nightingale's Song) From: Amos Yeah -- but those committed to another Hundred Years' War are not what we want in the White House. He's affable enough, but his earnest, sincere, promotion of military conflict is counter-productive in extremis. A |
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23 Feb 08 - 05:30 PM (#2270564) Subject: RE: BS: John McCain (Nightingale's Song) From: dick greenhaus I don't much care what McCain's private life may be. It would be nice if this campaign were to focus in issues and policies--there are substantive differences between the two parties (regardless of who represents the Dems.) |
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23 Feb 08 - 05:34 PM (#2270566) Subject: RE: BS: John McCain (Nightingale's Song) From: McGrath of Harlow So the worry would be not that he was a sleepy old man, but the reverse. There'd be something to say for having a sleepy old man in charge. I remember people used to joke about Eisenhower liking to goof off and play golf. One thing about politicians is they seem to age differently in public perception from the rest of us - people are going on about Obama being so incredibly young. If he gets adopted as Democratic candidate by that time he'll be 47, not exactly a teenager. Middle-aged in fact. |
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23 Feb 08 - 05:35 PM (#2270567) Subject: RE: BS: John McCain (Nightingale's Song) From: artbrooks Amos, you do realize that you are misquoting McCain, right? |
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23 Feb 08 - 06:42 PM (#2270607) Subject: RE: BS: John McCain (Nightingale's Song) From: GUEST,Guest It would be nice if the focus were on policy, issues, and where we need to go as a nation. However you are shit out of luck on that count. It is all about the personalities this time around. McCain-War Monger Clinton-Bitch/Whore (take your misogynist pick) Obama-Messiah |
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23 Feb 08 - 07:17 PM (#2270627) Subject: RE: BS: John McCain (Nightingale's Song) From: gnu He is "anti choice"? You mean, on abortion? If so, fuck him. No matter whatever else he says or does. Anyone that is anti choice is not fit to govern others... game over. |
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23 Feb 08 - 07:34 PM (#2270645) Subject: RE: BS: John McCain (Nightingale's Song) From: kendall Go back and focus on my first paragraph. I don't care who he screwed 8 years ago! I also didn't care who Clinton screwed, but the republicans made a friggin' crusade out of that dido. A 50 million dollar crusade. He's one year younger than I am, but he's in bad shape, thanks to the treatment he got from the ones we bombed back in the 60,s. I doubt he can survive the rigors of that office. Sorry Joe, but Reagan didn't know what was going on while he napped. |