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(D) Phil Weiser
(D) Jena Griswold
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(D) Alexis King
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(D) Jerry DiTullio
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(D) Diana DeGette*
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
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(R) Jeff Crank*
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(D) Jason Crow*
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
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September 05, 2008 03:14 PM UTC
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Maybe Senator Obama could wave his hand over his hometown before he starts the lowering of the seas and the cooling of the planet.
there were 4151 murders in Chicago during the last 5 1/2 years.
but there were 3,000+ one fine day in September 2001.
LB, What did Daley do, vote down funding for the CPD? Oh yeah, he doesn’t vote, he leads.
Way to wave the bloody 9/11 flag there. I’m pretty sure that Chicago was left unharmed on that day, but you’re probably more knowledgeable about the history of our country than me.
Wait, I mean the history of bashing labor.
Stop thinking everyone! Vote Republican because of what the terrorists did!
In fact the old Iraqi regime was secular and the natural enemy of both el-Qaeda and Iran. Our invasion made it a breeding ground for both Sunni and Shia terrorism and has given Iran enormous influence where it had none before.
And while every one of our troops who has died there has died with personal honor in service of country and with the intention of defending our security and freedom, not one American has been made safer or freer by their sacrifice.
The honor belongs to them. The shame to those who sent them there in the greatest and most damaging strategic blunder in American history, one which has strengthened our opponents, weakened us and is destroying our economy.
If you want to know why Russia now has the wealth and disdain for our impotence to invade Georgia and contemplate putting the screws to other former soviet countries, you need look no further than the morons responsible for the invasion of Iraq. Our blood, their gain, Iran’s gain, el-Qaeda’s gain, the Taliban’s gain, Hezbollah’s gain, the list goes on and on.
Because I bet Libertard would probably hate them too.
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But they have almost no power.
For the last 3 years, the most strident opponents of Production Sharing Agreements within Iraq have been the labor unions of the Northern and Southern Iraqi Oil Companies’ employees.
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I asked it rhetorically, but your answer was awesome. Your knowledge about Iraq is incredible.
Unions are opponents of PSAs.
Incredibly regressive positions that drain economic growth.
or in any other position to do something about it.
Comparing the total number of Chicago citizens killed to the number of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is not useful. The former number represents everyone killed throughout the population and the latter is from a small, well-armed and trained group. It would be more fair to compare the total number of murders in, say, Baghdad (including U.S. soldiers) to the total number of murders in Chicago. I don’t know where you find crime statistics about Baghdad, but does anyone have any doubt about how that would turn out?
If you want to compare the death of U.S. soldiers to something, a better comparison would be the number of police officers killed throughout the U.S. over the same period. Again, I don’t have numbers, but I think we’d fare pretty well in that comparison also.
While I think tossing around the number of dead in Iraq like its an insignificant thing is an insult to the dead soldiers and their families, I do agree with the basic premise.
We should have gotten everything right in our cities here in America before we started making up reasons to invade other countries.
…it’s hard to take seriously your outrage over my mentioning that McCain likes to call Asian people “gooks.”
They’re announcing this morning that the U.S. now has the highest unemployment rate in 5 yrs – 6.1 percent. We lost 84,000 jobs in August – numbers much worse than were expected. They estimate that the country has lost 605,000 jobs since the beginning of this year. Of course, it’s good to be reminded that these aren’t just lost jobs – but people who lost their jobs. This is an example of why the state of the economy is the number one issue in the election this fall. Somehow I don’t recall McCain saying much about this last night.
there was a letter in the local paper the other day about how good the economy is. And that Obama is going to tax the middle class to death.
Probably written by one of those %5mill income middle class folks.
McCain said 5 Million was the line. You left off a comma.
We are $4,999,999 per year regular folks.
Obvious that I’m not accustomed to dealing with that many dollars . . .
seems like a lot to me.
The Denver Post is reporting that Joe Dolan, long time Democrat, died Wednesday at the age of 86. A good and decent man, he worked with Bobby Kennedy in the Justice Department during the dangerous times of the civil rights fights in the South.
Ya gotta admit it, sheer genius to steal it and then pretend that John McBush is an outsider.
Do Polsters know? Was it Rove working stealthily? Not too many people in advisory positions have his audacity (i.e., lack of principles.)
But come on. How are people really going to believe that a Senator who has done little to change the way the country is run, and has only recently started talking about change, will do a better job than someone who has been talking about it for 10 years?
“Hmmm, I can have change from an unknown lefty radical, or change from a patriotic maverick?”
The typical American voter does not look at issues, but 30 second sound bites. If anyone thinks otherwise, just look at 2004. As The Guardian (???) said, “How can 55 million people be so stupid?”
THAT is the fact that Rove and his descendants are counting on.
but when Republicans pretend to be Democrats – or Democrats pretend to be Republicans – they usually lose.
I was watching PBS for a little while last night. Around 6pm or so (well before the big speech) one commentator made a very insightful observation about this “outsider” gambit. McCain is actually stealing Sarkozy’s meme. Like McCain, Sarkozy was the ruling party’s nominee; like Sarkozy, McCain’s predecessor was wildly unpopular at the end of his term; like McCain, Sarkozy played himself up as an outsider; like McCain, that is at odds with the facts (Sarkozy was, IIRC, minister of the interior which in France is kinda like being Attorney General – he was a popular target of the rioters a couple of years ago); and (hopefully unlike McCain) managed to win when the opposition should have.
Someone should point out that nothing is less patriotic than aping the French. Pass the freedom fries bro.
…people read it a few times on the internet and suddenly they drop it into every conversation. Find a new word of the day already!
“Meme” works. I don’t know of any single word that makes such a succinct point.
I’m open…
…I assume you know others.
The message is the meme
It’s a good word. I use it. End of story.
…have you ever heard of a thesaurus? Plus, it’s laughable that you would defend the use of new cliche with the claim that no prior word was ever sufficient!
What does Rush vote with, his limp dick? Couldn’t resist.
DEMOCRAT
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful. You push for higher taxes so the
government can provide cows for everyone.
REPUBLICAN
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?
SOCIALIST
You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.
COMMUNIST
You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.
CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.
BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk the
other, and then pours the milk down the drain.
AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised
when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts stating
you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.
FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.
JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and
produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.
GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent
quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.
ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows but you don’t know where they are.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.
RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.
TALIBAN CORPORATION
You have all the cows in Afghanistan,which are two.
You don’t milk them because you cannot touch any creature’s private parts.
You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find alternativesto
milk production but use the money to buy weapons.
IRAQI CORPORATION
You have two cows.
They go into hiding.
They send radio tapes of their mooing.
POLISH CORPORATION
You have two bulls.
Employees are regularly maimed and killed attempting to milk them.
BELGIAN CORPORATION
You have one cow.
The cow is schizophrenic.
Sometimes the cow thinks she’s French, other times she’s Flemish.
The Flemish cow won’t share with the French cow.
The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow’s milk.
The cow asks permission to be cut in half.
The cow dies happy.
FLORIDA CORPORATION
You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally vote
for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
Some people can’t figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which one you think is
the best-looking cow.
CALIFORNIA CORPORATION
You have millions of cows.
They make real Californiacheese.
Only five speak English.
Most are illegal.
Arnold likesthe ones with the big udders.
You have a hundred million cows, most of which you obtained from your trophy wife. You can’t remember how many barns you own.
Your political opponent has a million cows, all of which he earned on his own. You call him an “elitist.”
Almost all of your other neighbors have fewer than 40,000 cows.
You tell your other neighbors not to vote for your opponent because he’s going to take some of their cows, even though that’s a bald-faced lie: he’s only going to take some cows from people who have more than 200,000 cows – to help rebuild our ecownomy.
And if that doesn’t work, you have your surrogates call him a Mooslim and disparage his work as a cowmunity organizer.
Mooslim. Classic.
Every point it raises is MOOt.
Funny thread.
Something funny to mix things up-I like it!
Under the Taliban one, can we add something in there along the lines of “Taliban farmer milks cows, cow guilty of making Talibani farmer touch cow privates, all cows shot in soccer field”?
“They vote with their vaginas”??? I don’t understand how he continues to have any Dittoheads left, with comments like that.
What would Sarah Palin say about that comment? Or Hillary Clinton? Or even Ann Coulter, for heaven’s sake?
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that it’s too bad we can’t take the vote away from women because if only men voted Republicans would always win. From her point of view, she said, it would be worth the sacrifice.
OK, she’s a pig as well. A sow, that is.
Old, Grizzled Third-Party Candidate May Steal Support From McCain
Thank you Onion. I needed that.
I always wondered where they got that 90% figure. Turns out it was from the Senator’s own mouth.
The best part about it is that he’s bragging about how he voted with Bush more than some other Republicans.
There’s your change America!
He’s apparently planning to take back Washington from himself.
Chris Matthews, for a change, brought up an interesting point. He asked a spokesperson if McCain was going to go with all new people or if he planned to put all the usual Republican suspects in his cabinet. John Bolton’s name came up. Spokesperson danced.
Content was B (he had the cojones to mention corrupt Republicans and he made a vague reference to immigrants), for delivery he gets a C. He also gets some credit for attempting to hijack the “change” theme from B.O.
After Sarah Palin nearly grabbed as many viewers as Obama last Thurs at Invesco, I figured there was no way McCain could eclipse her…or Obama. I was wrong.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomb…
Crazy…
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Obama’s lead-in: Al Gore. Slightly less exciting than the NFL.
so that’s 1.9 million viewers. So he comes in just behind Obama instead of just ahead.
The fact that he came anywhere close…and ahead of Palin…is what surprises me.
Oh, and Obama’s speech was on two more networks than McCain’s…
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more than Obama had on NBC last week.
a crapload more people watched both candidates this year than in 2004.
And that hardly hurt at all. Think many who missed Palin and heard all the hype may have decided to catch the last day after all. I wonder how many stayed awake through the whole speech.
Funny how nobody even gives a crap about the Shrub anymore.
That videotaped speech by W was about the most wooden, horrible delivery I’ve ever seen. He looked like he was parodying himself.
We really elected AND re-elected this dolt? By comparison, McCain was a freakin’ Lawrence Olivier.
I missed Tancredo’s speech. Which night was he on?
I just turned on the TV and heard the tale end of a new Musgrave commercial. It extolls her virtues in helping the homeless (I’m not making this up)!
I had to show it to my wife when someone posted it because it’s just SO over the top. When she saw the ad she couldn’t believe it. My favorite part is when the little girl Musgrave has a single tear drip down her cheek. If you haven’t seen the whole thing, you have to check it out.
still call her “Congressman Marilyn Musgrave” or did they fix that?
..and I thought it merely her bottle of Miss Clairol……until now!
You are risking becoming a light weight. Is that what you want?
…sweet!
but it’s her father’s bottle of Jim Beam, the one that made her cry.
has been changed, it says “Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave.” The version released online (link above) still says “Congressman.”
Is that just Marilyn presenting herself differently to different audiences, the way she’ll rail against gay marriage in friendly settings and leave it alone in mixed crowds?