Comments on: The Experience Paradox

Jeff Greenfield: Common Campaign Debate Over Experience Takes On A Bizarre Twist This Year

[mr2258]

No Bush did not drop the ball.The state of New Orleans did.Bush got the blame.

Sarah Palin has rallied this country more in one week than most have done in a lifetime.I wish she was running for president.

Posted by mr2258
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When Obama makes a highly publicized speech it''s called "celebrity".
When Sarah farts, it''s called rallying the country.
Republican hypocrisy has entertained me for decades.

[mr2258]

OH HELL NO---You can''t blame a hurricane on president Bush or any other president.If a CAT-5 hurricane hits New Orleans again it will be wiped out.Makes no difference who the president is.I live in Florida.We have many hurricanes.To blame them on the president is just plain stupid.

[lalabradle]

I must say that it does no good to argue with some of you about the real issues. You people are not really concerned about the issues because if you were it would not take a rocket scientist to figure out how screwed up this country is under Republican rule, and they are not talking of any changes. Not only are the Republican politicians the fall of this great nation, the people who back them (Repubs), rich and not are just as ignorant and arrogant. They don''t watch Obama speak and then try to argue about what he said. They don''t care, they are willing to bring this country to ruin to keep money in their pockets. They can look over everything and dismiss what they don''t want to know. I can''t wait until November, McCain will be out of here and Palin can go back to Alaska. Hopefully they will still want her for governor after all of the exposure.

To be honest.Things have been good for me the last eight years.

Posted by mr225
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Another typical republican thing to say. This is why "country first" is a lie when it''s comes from a republican mouth.
How do you suppose it''s gone for a little over 4100 souls killed in Iraq -

[mr2258]

Sarah Palin has rallied this country more in one week than most have done in a lifetime.I wish she was running for president.

[popstom1]

USA 80% white

[mr2258]

To be honest.Things have been good for me the last eight years.

[mr2258]

McCain is nothing like Bush.He will bring this country back together.Think about it.All Obama has done is tear this country apart.

Then there is what we do know about Obama.He has very little record to stand on.Obama talks a big game.Obama has never scored.Just what has he done but talk??

Posted by mr2258
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He defeated Hillary, that''s an achievement a whole lotta smart people thought couldn''t be done.
He also started with nothing, then put himself through the best universities in the world strictly on merit alone.
I notice earlier you commented that his father wasn''t an American - That''s so typically republican...pedigree is everything. The original affirmative action was something called "legacy admissions". Something that both the idiot-son and McCain exploited. McCain came out scraping the bottom. That''s the thing with pedigree - you can be the biggest idiot in the world (the idiot-son), but if yer daddy is somebody, then yer somebody.
Sheez. That''s one of the reasons republicans are also known as royalists.

[mr2258]

GET REAL---Obama has never had a chance to win.Hilliary tried to tell the DNC and they would not listen.

[gun_tower]

More will be coming home soon.This is very good news.
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Would be if it was true.

It''s not.

A new brigade is set to deploy and numbers will be going UP.

Not down.

Sorry.

I wish it were true, too.

[gun_tower]

His CONSERVATIVE pick for VP will win this race.
-- Posted by canesnut22

The conservative base is only about 30% of the GOP. Most folks are moderate in their social views, pro-choice and anti-big business.

When McCain-Palin are seen for what they are -- on the extremes of the political spectrum and empty fronts for the same companies which destroyed our economy and looted our treasury, they will turn away from the GOP ticket.

Aside from the slight boost the convention gave McCain, people already have turned away from the GOP farce.

What working person in his or her right mind wouldn''t?

[mr2258]

I''m very happy to see Bush is bringing the troops home.8000 is a start.More will be coming home soon.This is very good news.

[jone775]

mr2258: remember these words, "You have already lost; you just do not know it yet." You''re fooling yourself if you think republicans have a chance this year.

[mr2258]

People have started thinking.That is why McCain is pulling away in the polls.And about time I will add.

[canesnut22]

McCain is now winning because he is going CONSERVATIVE, which reflects the views of the majority of Americans. He struggled in the beginning because he was too wishy washy. His CONSERVATIVE pick for VP will win this race.

[gun_tower]

For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill -- Posted by Trapbreak


I love this quote.

It explains so well why Obama is EXPANDING middle class tax cuts and REJECTS McCain''s tax on our health insurance.

What a lame plan THAT new tax is, huh?

[frb01]

Palin was served up for the base and so far the base seems willing to support her regardless. McCain realized a pro-choice pick such as Tom Ridge would not have played to the base, so in this case experience does not matter.

[gun_tower]

Posted by mr2258

A few people with tinfoil hats question Obama''s parentage and citizenship.

A few racists do, too.

Questions of his associations are legitimate, and they have been answered.

Questions of McCain''s and Palin''s associations are just as legitimate and they have not been answered -- except to confirm that McCain has actively courted the vote of religious bigots, frauds and convicted swindlers.

Of course, the elephant in the room is McCain''s slavish devotion to the Bush/GOP agenda. Every item. Every tax loophole. Every failed economic policy. Every war death. Every oil and war lobbyist. Every one.

Beyond that, Sarah Palin''s pastor and her babbling, anti-semitic, downright peculiar pentocostal church ought to make any thinking person run as far from putting her next to a red button as possible.

The only question is...when will people start thinking?