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- "Abraham Lincoln did three tours in the military, was a captain during the Black Hawk wars."
- Posted by trapbreak at 04:07 PM : Apr 01, 2008
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He never served in the regular military.
He was with the Illinois militia and never saw combat. His unit was assigned burial duty. He buried some bodies.
He had no experience relevant to being Commander in Chief. - Reply to this comment
- Well, military success didn''''t hurt George Washington, Andy Jackson, Abe Lincoln, Grant, Woodrow Wilson, Eisenhower, or Truman,
It isn''''t everything, but coupled with experience in Washington makes for a successful president.
Posted by trapbreak at 03:51 PM : Apr 01, 2008
Lincoln and Wilson weren''t in the military. Military service is NOT a prerequisite for president, and because someone served in the military, does NOT make them qualified to be a politician. McCain is the perfect example of that - look at how long he was in office and compare it to how little he has accomplished in that time frame. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by trapbreak at 02:51 PM : Apr 01, 2008
So you''''re equating military success with being a great president?
What does that say about AWOL George, and his 5 deferment buddy, Di`ck "I hate the American people" Cheney?
Posted by hungry1968
Oh, it will say just about the same thing you''d say about McCain. No difference. You people don''t know how to think. Facts elude you even if it''s shoved up your azz. You are blind, dumb and just play out of it. - Reply to this comment
- I didn"t understand the joke either, since we don"t have a Draft for this Iraq war. If we did, the anti-war protests we"d be having now would rival those of the 60s.
Posted by Iceman_1960 at 02:47 PM : Apr 01, 2008
Absolutely. Nothing stops a war faster then the prospect that some rich kids might get drafted and have to die in Iraq. Their parents would be blanketing the Congress and the White House demanding a pull out. - Reply to this comment
- So a "policy advisor" (aka a BS artist), trumps the opinion of the majority of the world''''s scientific community?
WOW!!! You''''ll buy anything that disputes what a dem or a lib says - whether it''''s true or not!!
Posted by hungry1968
Yeah and a majority of scientists that disputed Bore''s theory were branded by the lefties as paid off by Bush. You people never tire of reversing your positions. - Reply to this comment
- I think that the "old guard" of both the GOP and the Dems are out of touch with the common man. This is why the pols are so screwed up. No one likes what Washington has done the last 7 years, except the cowboys.
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- However, Lord Christopher Monckton, a policy advisor for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during the 1980s, says the former vice president can enjoy his "flat earth fantasies" for a few months, but in the end, the world will be laughing at him.
"The alarmists are alarmed, the panic mongers are panicking, the scare mongers are scared; the Gores are gored. Why? Because global warming stopped ten years ago; it hasn''''t got warmer since 1998," he points out. "And in fact in the last seven years, there has been a downturn in global temperatures equivalent on average to about [or] very close to one degree Fahrenheit per decade. We''''re actually in a period ... of global cooling."
Hahahaha.
Posted by mudrose at 03:18 PM : Apr 01, 2008
So a "policy advisor" (aka a BS artist), trumps the opinion of the majority of the world''s scientific community?
WOW!!! You''ll buy anything that disputes what a dem or a lib says - whether it''s true or not!! - Reply to this comment
- Stocks up 364.60. The Surge is Working.
Posted by mudrose at 02:53 PM : Apr 01, 2008
What do stocks have to do with the surge?
By the way, the stock market was up much higher than this two weeks ago. It is fluctuating very wildly up and down.
I wouldn''t praise the market until it stabilizes in November when a democrat wins the presidential election. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by trapbreak at 02:51 PM : Apr 01, 2008
So you''re equating military success with being a great president?
What does that say about AWOL George, and his 5 deferment buddy, Di`ck "I hate the American people" Cheney? - Reply to this comment
- More New Important New News:
FOX NEWS is now the RWNN = Rev. Wright News Network. I cannot wait for tonights sermons, maybe we can start sending in our donations. Fox can become a tax free Church, it seems like every night thats all they do is sermons from Rev. Wright and other Black Churches. They have secret Cameras and everthing. They even have other black people pretending like they are there for spirtual reason. To spy on the churches to report on the black secret agenda to take over the country.
Red Alert, Red Alert, Red Alert, Red Alert, Beware of black people they are going try to put White people in Slavery and give the country to Osama. Don''t vote for Obama vote for Hiliary, a least we know she looks like we do. Be scared America be scared be scared of the black boogie man. FOX NEWS, opps I mean RWNN = Rev. Wright News Network - Reply to this comment
- Who knows? If McCain goes in for some nip and tuck and botox he just may have a chance in November!
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- You know this is why we went to Iraq FOX scared us about Saddam Hussein Bush said they have WMD''s. They also helped Al-Qaeda and we listened and we were scared. Now Obama is a bad Black Man his pastor is hates white people he wants an all black agenda.
This is the real Agenda listed below the right wing McCain Agenda.
Mr. McCain is easy to define you know the Straight Talk Express!
1.Your sons will get drafted for war with Iran, this how we get out of Iraq. Our Milatary is fine they do not need a rest, according to McCain.
2.$12.00 a gallon gasoline for your Trucks and SUV%u2019s, more wars for oil, more warsn thats what we need, according to McCain.
3. Your homes will loose 50% more of there value, that%u2019s your dumb fault you bought it you can loose it. According to McCain.
4. Father of the next great Depression in America the country will go bankrupt with more wars, not the governments job to help people., according to McCain.
5. If you get sick that%u2019s your fault. No Health Care not the governments job, according to McCain.
6. Pardons Bush and Channey for lying about WMD%u2019s and Al-Qaeda in Iraq great Americans,
according to McCain.
Now I am really scared, are you? - Reply to this comment
- Hey, more good news.
On Sunday, CBS News correspondent Leslie Stahl asked Al Gore on the television show 60 Minutes what he thinks of people like Vice President *** Cheney who doubt that global warming is caused by human activity.
"I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view, they''re almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona, and those who believe the earth is flat," replied Gore. "That demeans them a little bit, but it''s not that far off."
However, Lord Christopher Monckton, a policy advisor for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during the 1980s, says the former vice president can enjoy his "flat earth fantasies" for a few months, but in the end, the world will be laughing at him.
"The alarmists are alarmed, the panic mongers are panicking, the scare mongers are scared; the Gores are gored. Why? Because global warming stopped ten years ago; it hasn''t got warmer since 1998," he points out. "And in fact in the last seven years, there has been a downturn in global temperatures equivalent on average to about [or] very close to one degree Fahrenheit per decade. We''re actually in a period ... of global cooling."
Hahahaha. - Reply to this comment
- Wall Street began the second quarter with a big rally Tuesday as investors rushed back into stocks amid optimism that the worst of the credit crisis has passed and that the economy is faring better than expected.
Stocks up 364.60. The Surge is Working. - Reply to this comment
- Maybe Kerry was having a flashback. They say Vietnam vets sometimes have those.
He claims it was a reference to Bush, but that doesn"t make any sense either.
Posted by Iceman_1960
Especially those Vets that got shot in the Azz after being there for six months. They really have flashbacks so severe they shoot themselves in the arm to be sure they never go back. - Reply to this comment
- RE: "Well, Kerry does not remember the proper punch line for a joke either, remember the "no education you wind up in Iraq joke"?
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I didn"t understand the joke either, since we don"t have a Draft for this Iraq war. If we did, the anti-war protests we"d be having now would rival those of the 60s.
Maybe Kerry was having a flashback. They say Vietnam vets sometimes have those.
He claims it was a reference to Bush, but that doesn"t make any sense either. - Reply to this comment
- For those readers confused about the Japanese Paratroopers references...
Long ago, in a galaxy far away, mudrose claimed that U.S. and Japanese forces came to an agreement not to shoot each others" paratroopers as they were descending through the sky and helpless.
Iceman_1960 ridiculed that claim, and said that paratroopers were not used by either side in the Pacific theatre, as they were in Europe, and that in any event the Japanese were so ruthless, to their own troops as well as to the Allies, that they would never have made an ageement like that.
mudrose recovered a little bit by finding a Wikipedia article about some 20 or 30 Japanese paratroor trainees who got into a few drunken brawsl with some Dutch and Australian sailors outside a bordello in 1942.
Posted by Iceman_1960
For those of you who know Icey - and other than being Darwin''s best advocate and a genuine believer that we all descended from apes like he did.
The Japanese paratroopers
in the Dutch East Indies, 1941-1942
by
Graham Donaldson
Enjoy. - Reply to this comment
- For those readers confused about the Japanese Paratroopers references...
Long ago, in a galaxy far away, mudrose claimed that U.S. and Japanese forces came to an agreement not to shoot each others" paratroopers as they were descending through the sky and helpless.
Iceman_1960 ridiculed that claim, and said that paratroopers were not used by either side in the Pacific theatre, as they were in Europe, and that in any event the Japanese were so ruthless, to their own troops as well as to the Allies, that they would never have made an ageement like that.
mudrose recovered a little bit by finding a Wikipedia article about some 20 or 30 Japanese paratroor trainees who got into a few drunken brawsl with some Dutch and Australian sailors outside a bordello in 1942. - Reply to this comment
- Well, Kerry does not remember the proper punch line for a joke either, remember the "no education you wind up in Iraq joke"? Good ol Kerry, it was nice to see Edwards up and around after Kerry put that knife in his back.
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- "Did you see the look that came over McCain"s face when John Kerry, sitting next to him on Meet the Nation..."
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This is a great new program.
They combined "Meet the Press" with "Face the Nation" to create it.
It is brought to you courtesy of a grant from the Japanese Paratroopers" Benevolent Asscociation.
Posted by Iceman_1960
The Japanese Paratroopers Benevolent Association listed a by-line -
Mr. Kerry got shot in the azz while he was in his canoe for six months. McCain was in a prison camp for five years.
Japanese Paratroopers over Scandanavia don''t lie. - Reply to this comment
