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hnooe

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hick up

Amazing what eight years will do to a party and a country. IMO, it's time for an overhaul and a housecleaning...and perhaps a third party. Yes, they can. The times they are achangin'. :wave:

yes..and here are the rest of the lyrics........:clap:
 

hnooe

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One thing mccain/palin could do is stop using songs of artists without permission at their rally's. I believe it is considered theft of intellectual property.


John R, I would not go with a comment using Palin and intellectual property in the same post.
 

LuciferSam

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You know, I've had just about enough of you and your sick, over the top humor and other rancor. For your information, I was damn near one of those "prisoners" and do not take kindly to ANY humorous reference to "prisoners" held by the Vietnamese, Germans or Japanese. Where do you come from, anyway? Hardcore vandalism? Is that what you call trying to bomb the Pentagon and Capitol? Is this considered a personal attack? You bet! If you can't be civil about ANYONE's service to their country then I can certainly tell you how I feel about your useless posts. What's this about how many planes McCain destroyed? What did you mean, anyway. A lot of us lost planes in Vietnam and still regret it to this day and, yes, I was one of those. I'll close by saying this. Please make your posts civil and I will not find it necessary to respond in this manner. I don't believe in the "ignore" button as I've said previously, but if anyone ever did deserve it, it is you, Lucifer Sam. Your screen name is very apropo.

I was referring to McCains gaffe where he referred to his audience as "fellow prisoners", not dissing his service in captivity. As for the planes, he did destroy 3 or 4 planes during non-combat operations. I can't help but wonder if this wasn't due to the impulsive, reckless, out-of-touch nature that he exhibits to this very day. Every political strategy he has employed has been one big miscalculation. Couple his temperament with his traumatic experiences and I would say he is unfit for the presidency.

As for Ayers, forty years later I can dismiss his actions same as I can dismiss the actions of the politicians who got us into the whole Vietnam debacle. This doesn't mean I agree with their politics, although it does appear Ayers has done some good within his community. I have no problem with Obama's extremely loose association with this man.

Whether you like it or not, I can respect and empathize with those who participated in the Vietnam war while at the same time have contempt for the legislators who got us into it. This is how I feel about the Iraq war today, although at this point the consequences of immediate withdrawal could be dire. I think we need a level-headed rational leader like Obama as opposed to a traumatized, impulsive, angry, gambler like McCain to help make such decisions.
 

Rita

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I hope this is what the Republican party returns too. Too bad the term applied to people like this is something akin to 'hick' in lefty circles.

Must be pretty far left circles that think of this as "hick", because I'd put my money on the greater majority believing in "the can-do, down-to-earth, honest, industrious, spend-what-you-earn civility of the heartland". I really don't know how many lefties there are that would be that far left. :dunno:

hick up

Amazing what eight years will do to a party and a country. IMO, it's time for an overhaul and a housecleaning...and perhaps a third party. Yes, they can. The times they are achangin'. :wave:

Yep!


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Teresa

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/opinion/16Cohen.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1
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Presley, Palin and the Heartland
By ROGER COHEN
Published: October 16, 2008
BRANSON, Mo.
I never imagined that a Republican mayor from Bible-belt Missouri would revive my faith in American democracy, but Raeanne Presley did just that. ..........................

............... I came to Branson and its mayor with my liberal prejudices and was disarmed. Presley reminded me of my ex-mother-in-law, another brisk, pragmatic, funny, no-nonsense Republican Midwesterner with little tolerance for debt, delinquency, dumbness or dereliction of duty. She also reminded me of a great American virtue: getting on with it.

And it dawned on me that Palin, with her vile near-accusations of treason against Barack Obama, her cloying doggone hymns to small-town U.S.A., her with-us-or-against-us refrain, is really an impostor.

She’s the representative of a kind of last-gasp Republicanism, of an exhausted party, whose proud fiscal conservatism and patriotism have given away to scurrilous fear-mongering and ideological confusion.

It’s a party in need of a break from power after the Bush years in order to re-learn what Presley represents: the can-do, down-to-earth, honest, industrious, spend-what-you-earn civility of the heartland. That civility has been usurped into Palin’s trash talk.

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excellent! you know, the "original" conservative republican folks referred to above are the people I know. they are my family and friends since I can remember. they are democrats, republicans, independents, many italian-americans, and some canadian citizens.:D palin does not resemble any of them to me - although some of them may relate to her in some ways. people get caught up in the final frenzy - I hope Palin's trash talk doesn't cause more divide than we already have.
 
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