This election looks like a.....

.......Replay of 1960. Obama is the new JFK, the agent of change ( the torch being passed to a new generation of Americans ) and McCain representing the status quo and the old politics.( Eisenhower/Nixon). History always repeats itself but with different players and slightly different scenarios. My hunch is that McCain will play the "change" card by representing that he knows what is wrong with the system and he has the knowledge and experience to change the sysem if he is the big enchilada. Right now a senator is only one of 535 members of congress and is powerless to kick the special interests out of the process but as the chief executive he can REALLY DO SOMETHING to change the system. This is going to be a hell of an exciting election.

1960? There are people here who remember 1960?

.......Replay of 1960. Obama is the new JFK, the agent of change ( the torch being passed to a new generation of Americans ) and McCain representing the status quo and the old politics.( Eisenhower/Nixon). History always repeats itself but with different players and slightly different scenarios. My hunch is that McCain will play the "change" card by representing that he knows what is wrong with the system and he has the knowledge and experience to change the sysem if he is the big enchilada. Right now a senator is only one of 535 members of congress and is powerless to kick the special interests out of the process but as the chief executive he can REALLY DO SOMETHING to change the system. This is going to be a hell of an exciting election.

Thanks for the interesting take on this whole thing goofer.

.......Replay of 1960. Obama is the new JFK, the agent of change ( the torch being passed to a new generation of Americans ) and McCain representing the status quo and the old politics.( Eisenhower/Nixon). History always repeats itself but with different players and slightly different scenarios. My hunch is that McCain will play the "change" card by representing that he knows what is wrong with the system and he has the knowledge and experience to change the sysem if he is the big enchilada. Right now a senator is only one of 535 members of congress and is powerless to kick the special interests out of the process but as the chief executive he can REALLY DO SOMETHING to change the system. This is going to be a hell of an exciting election.

I wasn't born yet. but I say go obama. I like his style.

.......Replay of 1960. Obama is the new JFK, the agent of change ( the torch being passed to a new generation of Americans ) and McCain representing the status quo and the old politics.( Eisenhower/Nixon). History always repeats itself but with different players and slightly different scenarios. My hunch is that McCain will play the "change" card by representing that he knows what is wrong with the system and he has the knowledge and experience to change the sysem if he is the big enchilada. Right now a senator is only one of 535 members of congress and is powerless to kick the special interests out of the process but as the chief executive he can REALLY DO SOMETHING to change the system. This is going to be a hell of an exciting election.

1960? There are people here who remember 1960?

Yes and saying Obama is like JFK is a real streeeetch. Obama is status quo.

Speaking of Obama and the White House, do you think he will rename the house, the "Black House," while he is living in it? Why is it called, the "White House?" When it was built, was there another house close by of another color? I never understood that one. Also, I always thought that the Washington Monument looked like a KKK figure at dusk, with two demon-like red eyes, shining from the top. Am I delusional, or do other people see it, too? What were these people thinking when they designed that one?

Speaking of Obama and the White House, do you think he will rename the house, the "Black House," while he is living in it? Why is it called, the "White House?" When it was built, was there another house close by of another color? I never understood that one. Also, I always thought that the Washington Monument looked like a KKK figure at dusk, with two demon-like red eyes, shining from the top. Am I delusional, or do other people see it, too? What were these people thinking when they designed that one?

I'm not sure whether to or :shock:.

Speaking of Obama and the White House, do you think he will rename the house, the "Black House," while he is living in it? Why is it called, the "White House?" When it was built, was there another house close by of another color? I never understood that one. Also, I always thought that the Washington Monument looked like a KKK figure at dusk, with two demon-like red eyes, shining from the top. Am I delusional, or do other people see it, too? What were these people thinking when they designed that one?

Hmmm...I thought it looks like a giant, um...does anyone want to say it so that I don't have to?

Speaking of Obama and the White House, do you think he will rename the house, the "Black House," while he is living in it? Why is it called, the "White House?" When it was built, was there another house close by of another color? I never understood that one. Also, I always thought that the Washington Monument looked like a KKK figure at dusk, with two demon-like red eyes, shining from the top. Am I delusional, or do other people see it, too? What were these people thinking when they designed that one?

yes, I see it. I've run up to the top of that obelisk and back several times as a teenager, and I don't believe the stairs are open to the public anymore.

NoHall, those don't have TWO red eyes.

Well...what do y'all think about this article on Obama in perspective?

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080106/news_mz1e6caldwel.html

NoHall, those don't have TWO red eyes.

oh...yeah...

Sometimes they do if they have been where they shouldn't have been.

In this photo, the two red blinking evil eyes are blurred, but I'm telling you, it looks rather creepy at dark.

NoHall, google "washington monument" and then click on images. I am not posting the forth photo on SoWal.com. That is disgusting architecture.

Found this photo, which doesn't have the red eyes, but still looks spooky, like a the head of a KKK member.

In this photo, the two red blinking evil eyes are blurred, but I'm telling you, it looks rather creepy at dark.

I've only seen it in the daytime, and don't even remember seeing pictures of it at night, so it has always looked like--->

NoHall, google "washington monument" and then click on images. I am not posting the forth photo on SoWal.com. That is disgusting architecture.

--->I'm not posting that, either!

wow...who knew? Is phallic symbol what you are looking for?

wow...who knew? Is phallic symbol what you are looking for?

ewwww...would I ever even suggest such a thing?

:lie:

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House[/ame]

from your link

Naming conventions

The building was originally referred to variously as the "President's Palace," "Presidential Mansion," or "President's House."[11] The earliest evidence of the public calling it the "White House" was recorded in 1811.[12] A legend emerged that during the rebuilding of the structure white paint was applied to mask the burn damage it had suffered, giving the building its namesake hue; this is unfounded as the building had been painted white since its construction in 1798. The name "Executive Mansion" was used in official contexts until President Theodore Roosevelt established the formal name by having the de facto name "White House–Washington" engraved on the stationery in 1901.[13][14] The current letterhead wording and arrangement "The White House" with the word "Washington" centered beneath goes back to the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.[14]

Although it wasn't built until some years after the presidency of George Washington, it is also speculated that the name of the traditional home of the President of the United States may have derived from Martha Custis Washington's home, White House Plantation in New Kent County, Virginia, where the nation's first President and First Lady had courted in the mid-18th century.[15]
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I knew there had to be a "plantation" involved.

"Right now a senator is only one of 535 members of congress"

a senator is one of 100 senators.;-)

"Right now a senator is only one of 535 members of congress"

a senator is one of 100 senators.;-)

NOOOOOO !!

Congress is composed of 2 bodies : The Senate and The House of Representatives. 100 members of the Senate and 435 members of the House.

yes - 2 bodies; technically ALL "congress", but people usually refer to "congress" and "senate", meaning "house of representatives" and "senate". so - mccain is one of 100 senators. something innovative that MAY happen soon is that bush may decide not to implement the earmarks in the omnibus spending bill, which would certainly be a nifty way to deal with special interests of a congressional kind (http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110011090). maybe an idea right up mccain's alley.

yes - 2 bodies; technically ALL "congress", but people usually refer to "congress" and "senate", meaning "house of representatives" and "senate". so - mccain is one of 100 senators. something innovative that MAY happen soon is that bush may decide not to implement the earmarks in the omnibus spending bill, which would certainly be a nifty way to deal with special interests of a congressional kind (http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110011090). maybe an idea right up mccain's alley.

I am a singular people and I refer to congress as congress the senate as the senate and the house of representatives as the house.

yes - 2 bodies; technically ALL "congress", but people usually refer to "congress" and "senate", meaning "house of representatives" and "senate". so - mccain is one of 100 senators. something innovative that MAY happen soon is that bush may decide not to implement the earmarks in the omnibus spending bill, which would certainly be a nifty way to deal with special interests of a congressional kind (http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110011090). maybe an idea right up mccain's alley.

jpbhen

My point was that among 100 senators and 435 congressman one member of
THE CONGRESS could not effect much if any change. But a President McCain would have the bully pulpit to effect a groundswell of change. I hope I am clearer than I was in my previous posts.

If Obama is reminiscent of JFK, then I would put up Britney as Norma Jean.