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		<title>By: JpwooHBQEqlmJKVIfz</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: The New and Improved John McCain (Pajamas Media: TO ARMS: Still the&#8230;</title>
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		<title>By: OnerenteskGer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What do you  think will happen to America in the nearest future? It seems to me that General Election in the USA looks starts to look like comedy show. [url=http://www.animalssession.com/forum/member.php?u=1274]:D[/url] Yesterday I found the following post in periodics:

&quot;The Naked Cowboy endorses McCain--ooookay [url=http://rpg-z.com/forums/index.php?showuser=3963]:)[/url]


The Naked Cowboy was just on tv saying he plans to endorse
McCain. [url=http://www.traductores-espanoles.com/Foro/member.php?u=1279]:D[/url] LOL I&#039;m sure McCain&#039;s camp will relay that to him
and I am sure it will mean all the difference to the
outcome of the election. NOT!

McCain&#039;s entire campaign has been a 3 ring circus. What
happened there? Bozo the clown Bush would have been right
at home if they had let him anywhere near them. ROFL

How exactly does Bush show his face now that his entire
party has disowned him? [url=http://www.sladeham.com/the_message_board/member.php?u=985]:([/url]&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What do you  think will happen to America in the nearest future? It seems to me that General Election in the USA looks starts to look like comedy show. [url=http://www.animalssession.com/forum/member.php?u=1274]:D[/url] Yesterday I found the following post in periodics:</p>
<p>&#8220;The Naked Cowboy endorses McCain&#8211;ooookay [url=http://rpg-z.com/forums/index.php?showuser=3963]:)[/url]</p>
<p>The Naked Cowboy was just on tv saying he plans to endorse<br />
McCain. [url=http://www.traductores-espanoles.com/Foro/member.php?u=1279]:D[/url] LOL I&#8217;m sure McCain&#8217;s camp will relay that to him<br />
and I am sure it will mean all the difference to the<br />
outcome of the election. NOT!</p>
<p>McCain&#8217;s entire campaign has been a 3 ring circus. What<br />
happened there? Bozo the clown Bush would have been right<br />
at home if they had let him anywhere near them. ROFL</p>
<p>How exactly does Bush show his face now that his entire<br />
party has disowned him? [url=http://www.sladeham.com/the_message_board/member.php?u=985]:([/url]&#8220;</p>
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		<title>By: Rachel Peepers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yesterday, probably at the bidding of the new McCain strategist, someone had the audacity to ask Obama what his religious persuasion was before he became a Christian. Not surprisingly, Barack was flabbergasted by such a harsh, impertinent and crude question. After just seconds, though, Obama ragained his composure and proceeded to clearly explain; 

When he was growing up in Indonesia, virtually everyone was a Muslim. 

However, Barack was never a radical Muslim. He has always wanted everyone to live in peace and prosperity. 

And, as President, Obama described how he vigorously plans to redistribute the wealth of this country. Through executive order Barack told the McCain&#039;s question-fed reporters, that he&#039;ll set a profit ceiling on the three biggest oil companies, above which all monies shall be earmarked to initiate wholescale reparations for direct decendants of slaves. Additionally, some of the monies will go to the funding of free healthcare and welfare for both legal immigrants and immigrants who are legal-by-desire. 

Special 30% cost of government capital gains taxes on stocks, bonds and private home sales will also be initiated to refill the Bush-drained governmental coffers. 

These are just a few examples of the visionary changes that are part and pacel of America&#039;s new &quot;Comprehensive Program for Shared Prosperity.

So,remember, when you vote for Obama, you&#039;ll be electing to change the financial fabric of the United States for the progressive better, replacing it with a European model that puts all Americans on an equal financial footing; spreads the richness of America to all, white and black, disadvantaged and well off. Under the new Barack administration, we&#039;ll all be working for the common good. That&#039;s the kind of change, the kind of future, a vote for Obama secures. One nation. Under Obama. Where, in a very real sense, we all work for each other. High taxes, yes. But the poor and left behind will get back their contributions ten fold. While America may no longer be a world power, she&#039;ll be once again a proud, respected nation. Praised, not scorned by leaders throughout the world.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday, probably at the bidding of the new McCain strategist, someone had the audacity to ask Obama what his religious persuasion was before he became a Christian. Not surprisingly, Barack was flabbergasted by such a harsh, impertinent and crude question. After just seconds, though, Obama ragained his composure and proceeded to clearly explain; </p>
<p>When he was growing up in Indonesia, virtually everyone was a Muslim. </p>
<p>However, Barack was never a radical Muslim. He has always wanted everyone to live in peace and prosperity. </p>
<p>And, as President, Obama described how he vigorously plans to redistribute the wealth of this country. Through executive order Barack told the McCain&#8217;s question-fed reporters, that he&#8217;ll set a profit ceiling on the three biggest oil companies, above which all monies shall be earmarked to initiate wholescale reparations for direct decendants of slaves. Additionally, some of the monies will go to the funding of free healthcare and welfare for both legal immigrants and immigrants who are legal-by-desire. </p>
<p>Special 30% cost of government capital gains taxes on stocks, bonds and private home sales will also be initiated to refill the Bush-drained governmental coffers. </p>
<p>These are just a few examples of the visionary changes that are part and pacel of America&#8217;s new &#8220;Comprehensive Program for Shared Prosperity.</p>
<p>So,remember, when you vote for Obama, you&#8217;ll be electing to change the financial fabric of the United States for the progressive better, replacing it with a European model that puts all Americans on an equal financial footing; spreads the richness of America to all, white and black, disadvantaged and well off. Under the new Barack administration, we&#8217;ll all be working for the common good. That&#8217;s the kind of change, the kind of future, a vote for Obama secures. One nation. Under Obama. Where, in a very real sense, we all work for each other. High taxes, yes. But the poor and left behind will get back their contributions ten fold. While America may no longer be a world power, she&#8217;ll be once again a proud, respected nation. Praised, not scorned by leaders throughout the world.</p>
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		<title>By: NotSoSure</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In response to David Levavi:

&quot;Sad attitude. Shared unfortunately by many. McCain is the uncola.&quot; 
The pale alternative to the popular darker choice. Reading you loud and clear so far.

&quot;Least of evils.&quot; 
A poster subsequent to you thanked you for offering a positive rather than a defensive account of McCain. When &quot;least of evils&quot; is hailed as positive, the terrain is pretty well staked out, I think.


&quot;Safe haven from Obama and his highflown notions of change. John McCain deserves better.

I guess I’m an anomaly among voters. I always liked McCain. He was my choice for a republican candidate well before he announced.&quot;

He was once my choice too. Whichever party flag he was planning to run under.&quot;

...

&quot;I readily admit that I’m prejudiced. I’m sixty-one years old and a candidate of seventy-one who can handle the rigors of a presidential campaign speaks to me. And it should to all baby-boomers.&quot; 
Is this presumptuous? I think we have yet to see how he will hold up physically and emotionally.


&quot;Obama looks and sounds more contemporary but in a time when Americans in their sixties and seventies are working and recreating vigorously, McCain is the more modern and representative candidate.&quot; 
*McCain is more modern?* I don&#039;t know what to ask here except what can you mean by this assertion?


&quot;The better repository of our hopes for our children. (And a future without socialized medicine where medical research continues apace.)&quot;
Neither of the candidates is promoting socialized medicine, as I presume you know. Your veneer of level-headed even-handedness wears all the way through when you parrot patently false McCain campaign talking points. As for medical research, with the exception of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology&#039;s analysis of his support, McCain seems to be on the ball in this respect, but who, in this race, appears not to be?

&quot;McCain is made of what Tom Wolfe Jr. in his book of that title calls, “The Right Stuff.”&quot;
I just can&#039;t see this. He was a priviged goofball in the service from academy days through his crashing of three aircraft before he was shot down. He was renowned for violating the military code prohibiting adultery before and after his POW days. While a prisoner he collaborated extensively with the enemy, divulged military information, accepted special treatment and helped produce anti-American propoganda over a period of at least several weeks. This can&#039;t be attributed to an excruciating moment of breakdown under turture. This is collaboration pure and simple.

He has been abusive to his wife in well-documented public instances, calling her a cunt and a synonym for whore. He has made jokes which would get him fired for sexual harassment if he were running the local UPS depot, including jokes about bestiality and women enjoying rape. Is this the right stuff the the leader of the women of the free world?

He is notoriously hot-headed and impatient. Numerous well-respected Republican have been quoted as being aghast at the prospect of him in control of our military.

He circumvented the law to keep his drug-addicted wife from being prosecuted for the drugs she illegally obtained through the charity which she had ostensibly set up to provide medicine to third world children.

He is frequently dishonest with what he himself calls the worst possible motivations (search Youtube for MCCain and Confederate flag to hear it from his own mouth.)

He has shifted position like a weathervane, pandering for votes. A partial list includes:

Gay marriage, Abortion, Ethanol fuel, Tax Cuts, His Cuba Position, Immigration, Ethics reform, War for oil, Big Oil, the religious right, talking to Hamas, promise to withdraw from Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, Russia in the G8,
Afganistan, Inheritance tax, Drilling for oil within 30 days, English as the official language, Bush&#039;s policies,
Social Security, Torture, Civil Rights, the &quot;Psychological&quot; recession, Iraqi political progress, 
Insurance coverage for contraception and viagra, The Dream Act, Payroll tax increase. 

Now you may approve of the new positions he has leapt to to secure the nomination but is this wishy-washy flip-flopping a sign of The Right Stuff?

And please, anyone can can watch and hear McCain&#039;s politically motivated position changes on each of these issues simply by querying YouTube with &quot;McCain&quot; plus any one of those issues. I&#039;m not talking about anything but indisputable historical fact.


&quot;He has high-tech experience and a hands-on sense of the contemporary technological world.&quot; Oh please. He doesn&#039;t know how to read or post to this website. Now you&#039;re being silly.

&quot;For leader of a nation whose tax-dollars go mainly for high-tech defense and aerospace, McCain is an outstanding fit.&quot;
A great number of tax dollars went to replace the jets he crashed, but his troglodite lack of understanding of technology is a fact you seem to be trying to negate by force of will and repetition of a falshood.


&quot;Sounds counterintuitive but I think McCain should drill into the issue of age rather than avoid it.&quot;
This is fine if he can make it work.

&quot;Make a mockery of Obama who never had do defend himself past the age of six and pumps iron for photographers.&quot;
Yes, after pledging *not* to substitute making mockery for substantial campaigning, McCain is now doing little but following your advice here. Time will tell how well mockery substitutes for statesmanship.

&quot;At the age when Obama was learning to be a hipster and a hoopster and studying his navel to find material for two (so far) autobiographies, McCain was learning how to fly jets and fire guns and missiles.&quot;

Kind of like W. Half a trillion dollars of debt later, with the largest expansion of government in the history of the world and the suspension of your and my habeus corpus rights under Bush, I think we can see what kind of qualification &quot;learning to fly jets and shoot guns and missiles&quot; is. 

&quot;Winston Churchill, the single greatest democratic leader of the Twentieth Century, became prime minister in his sage sixties. Julius Caesar, against whom all political leaders are measured, was well into his fifties when he crossed the Rubicon. Both men were seasoned politicians and soldiers with many years of varied government service behind them.&quot;
True enough.

&quot;Successful societies large and small have always been led by their elders.&quot; Of course you know this categorical statement is false. Shame on you.

&quot;Great change is coming with or without Barack Obama. Capital and defense driven technological change. Obama probably can’t tell you how his refrigerator, television, cell phone or computer work.&quot;
And McCain can? This is just more silliness. Obama defeated the Clinton machine largely via savvy utilization of technology. He is defeating McCain the same way now. When will McCain bring all this knowledge to bear in his own bets interest, never mind that of the country? 

&quot;He recommends community work over corporate employment to graduates when math, physics, science and engineering for whomever would better serve the graduates and better serve the nation.&quot; 
Oh for heaven&#039;s sake. You imply that Obama recommends abandoning science, all the while the current adminstration has been abetting the undermining of science education at every level by pandering to religious fundamentalists with &quot;Creation Science&quot; in the schools, and frequently ordering good science to be redacted from reports to the government in favor of politically motivated malarky.


&quot;Bottom line, McCain is a fine choice for a Twenty-first Century American president. He merits enthusiastic support.&quot;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In response to David Levavi:</p>
<p>&#8220;Sad attitude. Shared unfortunately by many. McCain is the uncola.&#8221;<br />
The pale alternative to the popular darker choice. Reading you loud and clear so far.</p>
<p>&#8220;Least of evils.&#8221;<br />
A poster subsequent to you thanked you for offering a positive rather than a defensive account of McCain. When &#8220;least of evils&#8221; is hailed as positive, the terrain is pretty well staked out, I think.</p>
<p>&#8220;Safe haven from Obama and his highflown notions of change. John McCain deserves better.</p>
<p>I guess I’m an anomaly among voters. I always liked McCain. He was my choice for a republican candidate well before he announced.&#8221;</p>
<p>He was once my choice too. Whichever party flag he was planning to run under.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;I readily admit that I’m prejudiced. I’m sixty-one years old and a candidate of seventy-one who can handle the rigors of a presidential campaign speaks to me. And it should to all baby-boomers.&#8221;<br />
Is this presumptuous? I think we have yet to see how he will hold up physically and emotionally.</p>
<p>&#8220;Obama looks and sounds more contemporary but in a time when Americans in their sixties and seventies are working and recreating vigorously, McCain is the more modern and representative candidate.&#8221;<br />
*McCain is more modern?* I don&#8217;t know what to ask here except what can you mean by this assertion?</p>
<p>&#8220;The better repository of our hopes for our children. (And a future without socialized medicine where medical research continues apace.)&#8221;<br />
Neither of the candidates is promoting socialized medicine, as I presume you know. Your veneer of level-headed even-handedness wears all the way through when you parrot patently false McCain campaign talking points. As for medical research, with the exception of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology&#8217;s analysis of his support, McCain seems to be on the ball in this respect, but who, in this race, appears not to be?</p>
<p>&#8220;McCain is made of what Tom Wolfe Jr. in his book of that title calls, “The Right Stuff.”&#8221;<br />
I just can&#8217;t see this. He was a priviged goofball in the service from academy days through his crashing of three aircraft before he was shot down. He was renowned for violating the military code prohibiting adultery before and after his POW days. While a prisoner he collaborated extensively with the enemy, divulged military information, accepted special treatment and helped produce anti-American propoganda over a period of at least several weeks. This can&#8217;t be attributed to an excruciating moment of breakdown under turture. This is collaboration pure and simple.</p>
<p>He has been abusive to his wife in well-documented public instances, calling her a cunt and a synonym for whore. He has made jokes which would get him fired for sexual harassment if he were running the local UPS depot, including jokes about bestiality and women enjoying rape. Is this the right stuff the the leader of the women of the free world?</p>
<p>He is notoriously hot-headed and impatient. Numerous well-respected Republican have been quoted as being aghast at the prospect of him in control of our military.</p>
<p>He circumvented the law to keep his drug-addicted wife from being prosecuted for the drugs she illegally obtained through the charity which she had ostensibly set up to provide medicine to third world children.</p>
<p>He is frequently dishonest with what he himself calls the worst possible motivations (search Youtube for MCCain and Confederate flag to hear it from his own mouth.)</p>
<p>He has shifted position like a weathervane, pandering for votes. A partial list includes:</p>
<p>Gay marriage, Abortion, Ethanol fuel, Tax Cuts, His Cuba Position, Immigration, Ethics reform, War for oil, Big Oil, the religious right, talking to Hamas, promise to withdraw from Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, Russia in the G8,<br />
Afganistan, Inheritance tax, Drilling for oil within 30 days, English as the official language, Bush&#8217;s policies,<br />
Social Security, Torture, Civil Rights, the &#8220;Psychological&#8221; recession, Iraqi political progress,<br />
Insurance coverage for contraception and viagra, The Dream Act, Payroll tax increase. </p>
<p>Now you may approve of the new positions he has leapt to to secure the nomination but is this wishy-washy flip-flopping a sign of The Right Stuff?</p>
<p>And please, anyone can can watch and hear McCain&#8217;s politically motivated position changes on each of these issues simply by querying YouTube with &#8220;McCain&#8221; plus any one of those issues. I&#8217;m not talking about anything but indisputable historical fact.</p>
<p>&#8220;He has high-tech experience and a hands-on sense of the contemporary technological world.&#8221; Oh please. He doesn&#8217;t know how to read or post to this website. Now you&#8217;re being silly.</p>
<p>&#8220;For leader of a nation whose tax-dollars go mainly for high-tech defense and aerospace, McCain is an outstanding fit.&#8221;<br />
A great number of tax dollars went to replace the jets he crashed, but his troglodite lack of understanding of technology is a fact you seem to be trying to negate by force of will and repetition of a falshood.</p>
<p>&#8220;Sounds counterintuitive but I think McCain should drill into the issue of age rather than avoid it.&#8221;<br />
This is fine if he can make it work.</p>
<p>&#8220;Make a mockery of Obama who never had do defend himself past the age of six and pumps iron for photographers.&#8221;<br />
Yes, after pledging *not* to substitute making mockery for substantial campaigning, McCain is now doing little but following your advice here. Time will tell how well mockery substitutes for statesmanship.</p>
<p>&#8220;At the age when Obama was learning to be a hipster and a hoopster and studying his navel to find material for two (so far) autobiographies, McCain was learning how to fly jets and fire guns and missiles.&#8221;</p>
<p>Kind of like W. Half a trillion dollars of debt later, with the largest expansion of government in the history of the world and the suspension of your and my habeus corpus rights under Bush, I think we can see what kind of qualification &#8220;learning to fly jets and shoot guns and missiles&#8221; is. </p>
<p>&#8220;Winston Churchill, the single greatest democratic leader of the Twentieth Century, became prime minister in his sage sixties. Julius Caesar, against whom all political leaders are measured, was well into his fifties when he crossed the Rubicon. Both men were seasoned politicians and soldiers with many years of varied government service behind them.&#8221;<br />
True enough.</p>
<p>&#8220;Successful societies large and small have always been led by their elders.&#8221; Of course you know this categorical statement is false. Shame on you.</p>
<p>&#8220;Great change is coming with or without Barack Obama. Capital and defense driven technological change. Obama probably can’t tell you how his refrigerator, television, cell phone or computer work.&#8221;<br />
And McCain can? This is just more silliness. Obama defeated the Clinton machine largely via savvy utilization of technology. He is defeating McCain the same way now. When will McCain bring all this knowledge to bear in his own bets interest, never mind that of the country? </p>
<p>&#8220;He recommends community work over corporate employment to graduates when math, physics, science and engineering for whomever would better serve the graduates and better serve the nation.&#8221;<br />
Oh for heaven&#8217;s sake. You imply that Obama recommends abandoning science, all the while the current adminstration has been abetting the undermining of science education at every level by pandering to religious fundamentalists with &#8220;Creation Science&#8221; in the schools, and frequently ordering good science to be redacted from reports to the government in favor of politically motivated malarky.</p>
<p>&#8220;Bottom line, McCain is a fine choice for a Twenty-first Century American president. He merits enthusiastic support.&#8221;<br />
You&#8217;re entitled to your opinion.</p>
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		<title>By: Andrea Fuzzi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andrea Fuzzi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>JMC is back!!!
It&#039;s a great surprise and He can fingerpoint and penetrate sharply into the obamabluff</description>
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It&#8217;s a great surprise and He can fingerpoint and penetrate sharply into the obamabluff</p>
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		<title>By: Believer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Believer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m hearing the experts say that, in order for McCain to win, he has to do a better job of separating himself from Bush.

One comes to mind immediately. It responds to our deep debt and speaks to fiscal conservatives. McCain made his name for 25 yrs. on fighting pork. Bush didn&#039;t veto enough bills and get tough with Congress. I&#039;m hoping McCain will. Promises to keep government small (Bush grew govt.) and congress&#039; spending in check so we can cut taxes should speak to every voter. 

I&#039;d love to see Romney put to work slashing government waste as he did to turn around private sector corporations in trouble. 

Obama today is spending his time trying to answer the Britney/Paris ad. Spinning that that was all it was about. I don&#039;t know if it&#039;s working. But this kind of thing might have put BO off his game. And I&#039;m glad McCain&#039;s campaign is calling him on using the race card in his response to the ad. It&#039;s not that he&#039;s &quot;scary&quot; or &quot;different&quot; -- it&#039;s that he&#039;s all hype and no substance. But that&#039;s what BO did in the primary - he played the race card every chance he could.

BO doesn&#039;t want to be ridiculed. After all, isn&#039;t that one of the Alinsky rules? That&#039;s his area of expertise. How unfair if that comes back to bite him.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m hearing the experts say that, in order for McCain to win, he has to do a better job of separating himself from Bush.</p>
<p>One comes to mind immediately. It responds to our deep debt and speaks to fiscal conservatives. McCain made his name for 25 yrs. on fighting pork. Bush didn&#8217;t veto enough bills and get tough with Congress. I&#8217;m hoping McCain will. Promises to keep government small (Bush grew govt.) and congress&#8217; spending in check so we can cut taxes should speak to every voter. </p>
<p>I&#8217;d love to see Romney put to work slashing government waste as he did to turn around private sector corporations in trouble. </p>
<p>Obama today is spending his time trying to answer the Britney/Paris ad. Spinning that that was all it was about. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s working. But this kind of thing might have put BO off his game. And I&#8217;m glad McCain&#8217;s campaign is calling him on using the race card in his response to the ad. It&#8217;s not that he&#8217;s &#8220;scary&#8221; or &#8220;different&#8221; &#8212; it&#8217;s that he&#8217;s all hype and no substance. But that&#8217;s what BO did in the primary &#8211; he played the race card every chance he could.</p>
<p>BO doesn&#8217;t want to be ridiculed. After all, isn&#8217;t that one of the Alinsky rules? That&#8217;s his area of expertise. How unfair if that comes back to bite him.</p>
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		<title>By: Tennwriter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tennwriter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The R&#039;s need to get back to the Three-legged Conservative (Social, Hawkish, Economic) who defines the typical Republican voter. Going for one issue folk, like fiscal conservatives, is not enough. Whats required is going for folks who embrace the whole of conservatism.

Problem Sen. McCain has, he&#039;s not going for any of conservatism.  He&#039;s part of the Republican liberals who keep trying to knock over the Three-legged Man. And he&#039;s been trying to do this for a long time as well. Which does an awful lot to explain why things are so rough.

Add in that its the Democrats year to lose (War in Iraq is largely won, and GWB had eight years...time for a change, and the economy is struggling), and you&#039;d think the Dems would be blowing the doors off. I suppose thats a testimony to how terrible the Dems are.

I can sympathize. Can&#039;t this time, both parties lose, and America win?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The R&#8217;s need to get back to the Three-legged Conservative (Social, Hawkish, Economic) who defines the typical Republican voter. Going for one issue folk, like fiscal conservatives, is not enough. Whats required is going for folks who embrace the whole of conservatism.</p>
<p>Problem Sen. McCain has, he&#8217;s not going for any of conservatism.  He&#8217;s part of the Republican liberals who keep trying to knock over the Three-legged Man. And he&#8217;s been trying to do this for a long time as well. Which does an awful lot to explain why things are so rough.</p>
<p>Add in that its the Democrats year to lose (War in Iraq is largely won, and GWB had eight years&#8230;time for a change, and the economy is struggling), and you&#8217;d think the Dems would be blowing the doors off. I suppose thats a testimony to how terrible the Dems are.</p>
<p>I can sympathize. Can&#8217;t this time, both parties lose, and America win?</p>
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		<title>By: ed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The old guy should rest and relax until Labor Day. Nobody cares in August except those who already know how they&#039;re going to vote.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The old guy should rest and relax until Labor Day. Nobody cares in August except those who already know how they&#8217;re going to vote.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom the Redhunter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom the Redhunter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;&quot;From a man who says Obama is willing to lose the war?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;

Why is this a question?  The entire Democrat party is trying to lose this war.  That they are failing is one reason why Obama is not doing as well as he should be.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>&#8220;From a man who says Obama is willing to lose the war?&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Why is this a question?  The entire Democrat party is trying to lose this war.  That they are failing is one reason why Obama is not doing as well as he should be.</p>
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