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still hoping Caroline will pick herself.
Good. They can start a third party or stay home.
WHY won't Hillary GO AWAY?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Mich._Fla._could_...
our little maverick actually said this and cannot, for the life of him, see any blind arrogance in it. this is why he scares me to death.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/mccain...
Warren chose questions he was pretty sure McSame would be able to answer easily in ways that might persuade any wavering evangelicals.
If you do you are probably like me, usually wrong, gut feelings always off base; nothing much learned from 64 years on the planet. Sigh.
She pulls her right foot out.
She puts her right foot in
And shakes it all about.
She do the Hokie-Cokie
An she turns herself around
And that's what its all about!
1.) First, who watched this forum? It was on a Saturday night during the summer against the Olympics. RW fundies and a small number of political junkies.
2.) Many are freaking because they think that the 2004 election was won by the so-called "value voters". No, we lost the 2004 election because of worries about security and the Bush/Cheney bogus terrorist warnings. The value voters were estimated to be about 22% of the electorate in 2004, and 25% of them vote for Kerry, which means about 20M of them voted for Bush. The only way Obama could ever possibly win these hardcore fundies is if he denounced every Democratic tenet our party has held for the last 75 years, and that ain't gonna happen. Also, remember that in 2004, the war was still fairly popular, the economy was still (erroneously) thought to be in great shape, and Katrina hadn't happened yet to expose the utter incompetency of the Bush/Cheney cabal.
3.) There is no way in hell Obama could have turned down the invite to this forum, since the McCain campaign would have flogged him as a coward and irreligious. But there are two things that happened which are a bright spot for Obama:
A.) It makes it extremely hard to be smeared by the "Obama is a Muslim" fallacy, except by the extreme fundie nutcases who will believe this lie even if Jesus appears in their morning toast and disputes it, and
B.) It totally destroys John McCain's claim that he is a moderate. His hardline RW attitudes about abortion and the Supreme Court may solidify his fundie base - who would have to vote for him anyway - but it is going to lose him a major amount of votes from independents and moderate Republicans (yes, there are still a few of those around), especially Republican women who are pro-choice. Over 70% of the country believes in some type of legalized abortion, and McCain's extremist abortion views are not going to resonate. The RW thinks so, but anyone only has to remember one name to put their judgement into question: Terry Schiavo. You can't rally the base and then piss off 70-75% of the electorate at the same time and also win the election.
Remember, the traditional media said all of the same things during the 2006 midterms, trying to build up the Republican chances against a Democratic win, and they were wrong about nearly everything. They are still in their Karl Rove mode, still think he is the political genius of the last 100 years, not realizing that the only time Rove's tactics really work is during a time of fear and disaster. The only reason Bush stayed in office so long and remained popular was because nearly 3000 people died in NYC on 9/11/2001. Katrina destroyed that illusion. GOBAMA!
I believe Bush or Cheney or both gave Georgia the green light on moving troops into Osettia so that they can gin up fear in this country prior to the election.
My partner of 36 years and I got married here in California, and it was a wonderful ceremony and party. In a few days, I'll post a link to some photos.
Long life and happiness.
As mentioned before, Rev. Warren knows the meaning of green, dollars I mean, it has nothing to do with God.
You guys will have a long and loving marriage.