The John McCain and Sarah Palin shared the American Flag.
Governor Sarah Palin’s VP speech brought the house down, even Chris Matthews was impressed. Keith was embarrassingly liberal as usual.
The pinko attack machine is doing exhaustive research on a secondary postion on the ticket.
The Democrat’s frontrunner has almost as much experience as the bottom of our ticket.
Some think two liberal lawyer Senators know how to run America better than a war hero and a Governor.
There is much talk about education and its cost, why don’t we talk about the salaries of these professors?
Barack Obama was a professor. You don’t hear much about it because he didn’t do much worth hearing.
The Boston Herald printed a quote about Sarah Palin’s hair: “It’s about 20 years out of date…”
That’s hard talk coming from the party whose current platform is 160 years out of date. You would think that manifesto wouldn’t hold water anymore…
Ann Coulter said on Hannity and Colmes that if McCain was the nominee, she would campaign for Hillary. After the selection of Sarah Plain, Ann said McCain gave Republicans a reason to vote for him. She is right and Democrats know it.
September 5th, 2008 - 9:22 am
“Governor Sarah Palin’s VP speech brought the house down, even Chris Matthews was impressed. Keith was embarrassingly liberal as usual.”
Yes, she did a good job in front of the base. I’ll give it to her. I don’t think it played as well outside, however. It didn’t really do anything for me, but who really cares what the V.P. says anyway? I didn’t even watch Biden’s speech.
“The pinko attack machine is doing exhaustive research on a secondary postion on the ticket.”
Are there still “pinko’s”.
“Some think two liberal lawyer Senators know how to run America better than a war hero and a Governor.”
Is military service a requisite for President? I mean if it were me against you running, wouldn’t you then be obligated to vote for me? No, of course not. Law school is a good foundation for many professions, as is Governor. War hero, not necessarily.
“There is much talk about education and its cost, why don’t we talk about the salaries of these professors?”
Well, teachers salaries really suck. My son’s teacher actually uses some of her own money to buy supplies for the class. And we live in a really good district. I don’t think it’s the teachers pay. “No Child Left Behind” had some good ideas, but was an underfunded mandate, for example. But there are other problems. Primary education in countries like Finland, are state run (as is their University system) and are some of the best in the World. Why, can’t we pay our teachers a decent wage, and fully fund our Public Schools? Aren’t you sick of seeing dumb kids get on T.V. and not be able to find Canada?
“Barack Obama was a professor. You don’t hear much about it because he didn’t do much worth hearing.”
Actually, you are wrong, he taught Constitutional Law at The University of Chicago Law School for 12 years(currently # 7 Law School in the Country). Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.
“The Boston Herald printed a quote about Sarah Palin’s hair: “It’s about 20 years out of date…” ”
I agree with you Rude, this is stupid, not worthy of news, is offensive to the candidate, and has nothing to do with the race.
“That’s hard talk coming from the party whose current platform is 160 years out of date. You would think that manifesto wouldn’t hold water anymore…”
Surely, you aren’t implying the Democratic Party shares the ideals of Communists. That’s a smear, not an argument. You would get crucified by anyone who has taken an entry level Political Science class. You are making a joke. I get it.
“Ann Coulter said on Hannity and Colmes that if McCain was the nominee, she would campaign for Hillary. After the selection of Sarah Plain, Ann said McCain gave Republicans a reason to vote for him. She is right and Democrats know it.”
Do you really care what Ann Coulter says? That’s like me quoting Michael Moore, or some radical PETA person. If you like her that’s cool, but probably not a good person to quote if you intend to have a serious argument on the street.
Have a good morning.
September 5th, 2008 - 10:20 am
DMG
The situation with the Koran thumping Muslims keeps escalating and lawyers have already proven that that they only have their wallets in mind and not the safety of the American people. I have always thought that Military service should be required for the position of President. Would you honestly want someone who has never served to be Commander and Chief of our armed forces in a time of war?
As far as the education system, it’s flawed but not only because of pay, but because of the liberal agenda of the teachers union, and the lack of parental involvement in general. Parents aren’t involved enough and when they do start to question the education system they a seen as “that parent”. I for one am the parent who will read what my son reads and teach him true history not the revisionist crap that they force down the minds of children. He will know the truth and not the propaganda.
I find it funny that they teach/preach in class “diversity” and yet fail to allow students to organize a morning prayer, or teach anything other than Darwinism. They allow students with “alternative” lifestyles to organize meeting or groups I guess those who practice religion aren’t “alternative” enough even though they are total opposite of how most children or raised in today’s “Me” mentality.
They will teach students in middle school to wear a condom but not teach they value and importance of a family structure and the devastating impact of divorce and lack of family structure on the children.
“I agree with you Rude, this is stupid, not worthy of news, is offensive to the candidate, and has nothing to do with the race.”
I’m glad to see that you and The Dog agree on something. Especially seeing as it comes from the liberal mind set of the playground adage of “sticks and stones” an area that many liberals never left.
September 5th, 2008 - 10:47 am
Military service is not required by law. It is a humongous Plus. Actual combat experience is an even bigger plus. Would like to submit a political resume and omit your service as a Marine? I would advise against it.
The point about Ann is how she was against McCain but has been brought closer because of Palin. A high profile example of one of the reasons to bring Palin in. She is a natural conservative.
Barack Obama, nor his campaign, ever speak about his teaching days. In 12 years he should have something exceptional, he is Presidential material after all. You didn’t list anything worth a damn other than repeating back he was a Professor. You may dig up some distinguished paper later, but you didn’t have it here.
The modern Dem party’s roots go right to Communism.
I don’t make it up.
Yes, there are still pinkos. Code Pink, for example.
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas - one of the founders of the NCLB, now known as the ACLU.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Thomas
DMG: “You would get crucified by anyone who has taken an entry level Political Science class.”
Any political class that omits these historical truths is a class worthy of being taught by Barack Obama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7PYr-M72a0
This is TRN’s bit with Wyatt Mcintyre’s awesome audio archive.
As far education, is it run hands down by liberals. Ted Kennedy had a big hand in what you all complain about today.
I have heard these apocryphal stories of teachers using their own money. I am sure you defended your son’s teacher by going to the school board and complaining. Then, you contacted other parents in the class and found a few were on board with you. Then you demanded the teacher get funded for her supplies. You then accused the liberal officials of gross mismanagement.
Actually, you just blamed President Bush.
Best.
September 5th, 2008 - 11:31 am
I served
“The situation with the Koran thumping Muslims keeps escalating and lawyers have already proven that that they only have their wallets in mind and not the safety of the American people. I have always thought that Military service should be required for the position of President. Would you honestly want someone who has never served to be Commander and Chief of our armed forces in a time of war?”
We HAVE someone who didn’t really serve, and his back up never served.
As far as the sweeping generalizations about lawyers…we both know they aren’t true, and neither of us would want to represent ourselves in court if it came to it. I submit again that law is a great area of study to develop critical thinking skills that would serve anyone well in any number of fields.
As for education, I don’t see how morning prayer has a place in the classroom. Who is going to lead it Cathlolics? Evangelicals? Muslims? Buddhists?
As far as kids organizing prayer during school time…I saw it alot when I was in high school, and nothing that I’ve seen prevents them from going off at lunch, or free period to pray. I don’t see the need for it to be a law or mandate. Most people I know prayed openly before an exam…in High School, College, Marines, Med School…
Evangelizing is another story. Nobody should be unduly subjected to anyone elses religion. I mean you and I both know all hell would break loose if Muslims demanded class stop so they could pray 5 times a day during class. And anyway that doesn’t address why some schools fail. I agree there needs to be more parental involvement and bad teachers shouldn’t be able to hide behind the union. Alot of the other stuff you do is parenting, and good for you that you do it. Too many parents AREN’T involved, and blame the teacher for the kids bad behavior and failing grades.
I’m sure rude and I might agree on alot of stuff. And on alot we won’t.
September 5th, 2008 - 12:17 pm
Rude, one problem, I see is that everything to you is split along Liberal, and Conservative lines.
I think in a time where our Constitution has been under attack by this current administration, you would want someone who has not only read it, but understand it well enough to teach a high level course on the subject. As far as writings on Constitutional Law, I haven’t seen any of note.
However, The University of Chicago, School of Law doesn’t let just anybody off the street with a Juris Doctorate teach their students.
I prefer the candidate who uses the organ between his ears, because this organ has created amazing things. The candidate who uses is gut to make decisions…well, we all know what the gut makes. You may have seen it sloshing around the toilet bowel this morning right before you showered, and shaved.
Alleging that Democrats are communists is probably as offensive (and misinformed) as calling Republicans Nazi’s. And that seems more like your intent, rather than a serious discussion about Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Communism, Socialism, etc. and how it might relate to the modern U.S. Democratic Party. But your indictment of Democrats being communists was likely still a smear.
No political system is perfect, not even democracy. Democracy allows people to vote based on anything they choose. The candidate is good looking, has a Y chromosome, has two X chromosomes, is black, is white, is fat…get it. It is not required that people put thought into their decisions. That’s why a small few of those hysterical nitwits, known as die-hard HRC supporters are now voting for McCain. The stupid thing is that they don’t share the same ideals. Even you can appreciate how absurd that is. Sure it’s a boon for your side, but it is a failing of democracy. It makes it into a cheap beauty pageant. I mean, you wouldn’t want anyone voting based on the good looks of the Presidential Candidates? Or how tall and fit they are.
Issues is what we should be talking about. When it’s all said and done, and there is still $4.00 gas, high unemployment and all of our jobs going to India, war hero, and Law Professor will be moot points. Cheer for your team, I’ll cheer for mine. But when it comes down to it, if you were choosing a surgeon to fix a family members heart…who would you choose? The guy with the C average and good hero story, or the guy who graduated top of his class, and was good enough to teach other doctors?
September 5th, 2008 - 12:53 pm
Look, we are not going to agree and that is fine.
What do you do for a living that you can troll websites like this?
The continued lie that persists in academia that modern liberalism is merely a euphemism for socialist/marxist doctrine is out in the light.
I gave you Norman Thomas and it is that man’s agenda that brought us modern liberalism. It’s his own words, you can’t dispute them. He founded what is the ACLU today, he ended his days as a socialist actvist. It’s all there for you to read. Truth is not a smear.
Neither is it a smear to mock so many in higher education. Leftys telling leftys how to be better leftys does make for education. It makes for indoctrination. That’s why with a PHD, you don’t know Norman Thomas. If you did know Norman Thomas, you omitted this to call his words I used a smear. This is called lying, or being a liberal.
4.00 gas will not be stopped by the President. The President can set an agenda to remove the punitive taxes on gas, that’s about it. Jobs are not the function of government. Since LBJ, the government has become an industry and it undermines private enterprise.
As far as your surgeon theory, I will not play “let’s make stuff up.”
The real question is: Do you want a war hero, backed by a tough Governor to face our enemies and command our military, or would you like the lawyers to do it? That’s real life my man.
September 5th, 2008 - 5:15 pm
Sorry Rude,
This is going to be a hurried post, so apologies for not hitting every point, I want to make.
About my time. Surgeon, taking a research year in the lab to work on heart research, especially regarding transplantation. I have plenty of time when I’m not in the O.R., or have experiments running.
The Democratic Party doesn’t trace it’s roots to Norman Thomas. Try Jefferson, Madison or Jackson.
What is your experience with higher education? Academia exists to find the truth, not spin. That’s why most people hate Fox News (don’t care what it’s rated…it’s still shit. MSNBC isn’t much better with it’s obvious left-leaning bias.). I don’t think you can back up your liberal academia argument with any real evidence.
Having a Ph.D. doesn’t mean I need to know obscure historical figures. I don’t have a Ph.D. I have an M.D., neither degree is easily obtained.
Calling Democrats commies is a smear, please admit this and move on. It’s a stupid argument.
Of course the President sets the agenda. If there are no jobs, the system falls. Some of those taxes go to fix the roads you are driving on.
“let’s make things up”? Just answer the question.
There is no such thing as a war hero. Nobody, calls him/herself a hero in combat. I don’t need a tough talking governor. Look where tough talk has gotten us. We need someone who is good at negotiating to keep us OUT of wars.
Enough with the military wet dreams. Enough with the broad sweeping generalizations about academia, liberals, and lawyers. You don’t have anything other than Limbaugh, Hannity, and Coulters words to back you up. We can’t go around the world bullying. It’s stupid. I’m tired of having a nation being run by loudmouth, chickenhawk idiots.
Because the people whoes asses are on the line are people who were like ME, who enlisted.
September 5th, 2008 - 6:10 pm
You mean chickenhawks like, all of the military who support John McCain?
I have the words of your socialist forefathers, you just deny them and act like Jefferson would write the fairness doctrine, raise taxes to the sky and use the Federal Government as a welfare mechanism to bribe poor people into further poerty, all the while claiming to be compassionate.
You can deny history, but it will still be there for the thinking.
Keep us out of wars. This is a dream.
Woodrow Wilson ran on this and found out it was a bad idea. A silly armistice was signed and thirty years later we were fighting WW2, and many more died. It was so bad that it had to be ended by nuclear weapons.
I would rather fight small unpopular wars than wait for the next popular one. I trust the military. if they say get out, fine. If they say stay, that’s it and it’s America’s duty to support them.
Your made up imaginary question: I want the guy who actually practiced real medicine and got blood on his hands. Not a false choice between students.
You can go burn your straw man now.
September 5th, 2008 - 6:57 pm
General Zinni, another coward Marine, and quite a few others have said this was an assinine war that was poorly planned, and executed by another figher pilot, the current “Commander in Chief” (who I hear uses his gut, and was a tough Governor).
“I would rather fight small unpopular wars than wait for the next popular one.”
But the fact is YOU aren’t fighting. You want to go fight a war, I suggest enlisting. Put your ass on the line. I heeded the call. Your turn to go get shot at. But I don’t think you have it in you. Hell, I’ll even give you a recommendation. Parris Island isn’t far from where you live. I dare you. And how can you trust a military with which you have, by your own admission NO experience?
“The guy who blood on his hands”…artful dodge of the question. You know damn well you’d choose the best surgeon with the best background.
Why would I burn a straw man when I have you to enjoy. What was Scarecrows refrain from the Wizard of Oz? If I only had a….
September 5th, 2008 - 7:43 pm
Man, you are right.
Once again your divine intellect has parted the partisan chickenhawk cloud that obscured the world.
You heeded the call? You are knocking it down at every turn and you even held up the disgraced Adam Kokesh as a good example of a Marine. You are just another liberal putz who came out of the service and says “I served, so all of my liberal bullshit is right.”
Liberal first, Marine second. You even got Devil Dog wrong.
“And how can you trust a military with which you have, by your own admission NO experience?”
Holy cow you are right!
I can’t trust the police because I wasn’t a cop.
I can’t trust the chef at Chillis because I wasn’t a cook.
I can’t trust a doctor because I have never been a doctor.
I can’t trust a liberal public teacher because I have never been a teacher.
I can’t trust the law because I was never a lawyer.
You do not work in politics, does that disqualify you from speaking about politcs?
September 5th, 2008 - 8:38 pm
Yellow. Footprints.
When you’ve stood on them, you may talk more intelligently about the military, until then you should probably stop flapping your civilian gums. Got it?
Actually YOU USED DEVIL DOG incorrectly. I’ll allow you to Google it (again), feel free to retract anytime. I won’t embarrass you, but it’s probably a stupid idea to tell a Marine how to use Devil Dog. It’s a term of endearment we use amongst ourselves. You aren’t in the club, so again you might not want to open your mouth about these things.
I have experience with Police officers, since I’ve served with a bunch of them, I’ve vetted the cook at Chili’s after a few meals (…although one idiot can’t seem to figure out no pickles means no damn pickles). I’m a doctor, I only trust my hands in the O.R…but that’s every surgeon. I trust the teachers with whom I’ve had conversations…but not right away. I’ve never needed a lawyer, but I damn sure don’t trust Bush/Bush’s picks for Supreme Court Justice.
I will always be a Marine, I trust my brothers, even the ones I don’t agree with politically.
If YOU are allowed to spew blatant lies and inaccuracies, I damn sure am qualified to speak about politics. Hell Sarah Palin is qualified to be V.P. that means the rest of us should get in line in 2012. Do you have any idea how much it cost to file paperwork? Send me an email if you find out. Thanks Buddy.
September 5th, 2008 - 8:41 pm
Anytime you want to stand on those yellow footprints:
Marine Corps Recruiting Station Charlotte
4715 Park Rd
Charlotte, NC 28209
(704) 529-7490
Tell them Sgt. G sent you.
September 5th, 2008 - 8:43 pm
Adam Kokesh willfully signed on the dotted line and stood on the yellow footprints to defend this country, what have you done other than sit behind a computer screen. Anytime you want to join us.
September 5th, 2008 - 8:52 pm
This is great stuff. Bloggers for War are irritating, good to see someone take the time to call them to the carpet. Thanks for your service both in uniform and now.
September 5th, 2008 - 11:01 pm
Be careful catscratch, he does not like being thanked for that. Unless a liberal gives it.
DMG, you are full of crap. You keep trying this tired ‘I served so all of my liberal ideas are the truth crap’
And you can try calling me out for what? Joining the Marines? I am too old. Bedsides, you go on and on about something you volunteered for. No one made you do it.
We have seen how far you will go.
Not very.
September 6th, 2008 - 8:27 am
I called the Marine Corps Recruiting Station in Charlotte.
I have a message for you from them.
They have never heard of Sgt. G.
In fact, the guy laughed when I told him.
He also said, he wishes you would stop making them look bad.