Sorry, @Goodaviceguy, but McCain has not abhorred that "stinky lowdown message"...no wink, winks. He's gone on record, on the news shows, saying it's A-OK by him...and hey, the Heston clip was only from a movie! What's the big deal?

Your Post:

"Paid for by the NRA

The Charleston Heston clip was donated. This way McCain can say: I abhor that stinky lowdown message and I eschew that type of dirty campaigning wink wink, heh heh heh.

It's too long to be one of his official commercials because prior elections have shown that 50.1% of Americans only have a fifteen second attention span.

-- Goodadviceguy"

I appreciated your entire post. Then I really resonated to your analogy in your final paragraph: "McCain's like an old, deaf dog who's sweet most of the time, but easily becomes disoriented and angry. We don't want to get rid of the old dog, but we can't have him biting the kids either."

I know (of course) that you were using a metaphor. Still, despite never being a dog-owner myself, I could tell many tales with family & friends of exactly that happening--and some of the tales are reasonably mild (e.g., an old small family dog causing a few scratches on a little one's face) and others are terrible and scarring (e.g., an old big family dog taking out half of a young girl's face, a face which now has womanly four-decades scars as evidence). And gee, even my cute-as-can-be great-niece (2 1/2 years old) was in a "kiddy pool" in a backyard and yelling "Doggie, Doggie..." for the small much beloved old family dog to come over, when my niece (the owner of doggie and aunt to great-niece) said (paraphrasing, and at the time with humor): "She doesn't realize he's deaf."

Maybe I'm offering up propaganda, too. Ah, well, I've been accused of worse.

It just doesn't offer up much humor when it comes to electing the POTUS. We could laugh when old deaf beloved doggie didn't come over to the kiddy pool. Not so much when candidates for presidency can't hear.

Family pet. (MSM pet?). Mad dog? Deaf dog? Rabies shots? Bi-polar meds? Oops, that's not for doggies...

Thank you for your post: "Mickey Kovars it is NOT all about Obama." Much of what you said I am pondering and mostly agree with and I end up just plain tired. You are showing more time and energy and passion in dissecting this current elecion than I can summon up. Kudos to you!

Enjoy your vote and the next presidency, however and to whomever it goes. Jeb can sleep easy tonight. He's done his deeds. I could say more, but to what end? Congrats, Jeb, you got a convert. Keep fishing, get out your bait.

What is wrong with Obama being well received on his "foreign nations relations" tour and listening to the leaders of other countries that we in the USA most certainly need to have working with us to resolve many global problems, not the least of which is terrorism?

What is wrong with Obama saying he doesn't look like the other guys on the US currency? He doesn't. I've thought about this, and I guess I simply don't see why acknowledging a fact is a race-card issue.

<->"Just for the record

gehgoeson, I arrived at my vote decision all by myself. Jeb just happens to post in a concise way that reflects my feelings.

Obama supporters who do not see things the way I (and many others) do will understandably be frustrated. Thank you for not trying to persuade me otherwise. Likewise, while I try to explain my feelings, I do not try to persuade people not to vote for Obama."<->

Me Responding: I respect 100% your vote. That is said in complete sincerity. I don't agree with you, and you don't agree with me. And that's OK! Jeb doesn't resonate with me, and I admt that. I try to explain my feelings, which are deeply seeded, and I don't like being called an Obamaton for wanting Obama for president, so an impasse? OK. Impasse. Guess we'll see what happens.

If your words are sincere (which I believe they are), then I will keep the faith. So much sarcasm and irony goes around here that it's hard to tell.

hee hee hee LOL

@doloresflower---you help keep me from being too tired to care, and there's just something in my nature that does care, maybe too much for my own good.

@klytus---sense of humor does help (and you keep me checking my Teflon Don armor on this site).

@jeb---I don't click with you, and I don't think you click with me (though I wouldn't mind inviting you over or meeting for coffee or whatnot). Latest example: your post back to me when (or because) you start out saying something positive about Obama, then immediately counter with everything that is wrong about him, and strike up the fear-mongering and race-baiting stuff. I do read what you post. I truly consider what you post. That is a good thing.

The video you recommended is great! Thanks for sharing.

Miss Cindy Buffalo Chip!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/05/mccain-suggests-wife-part_n_117053.html

Or did anyone else think the article's subtitle questioning if "Obama doesn't know his place?" had racial overtones/undertones? Or maybe it's not about race, more a class issue like Masterpiece Theatre's "Upstairs/Downstairs" series, or nearly every Merchant/Ivory film ever made? I am seriously not trying to revive the long thread that ensued when Ms. Walsh's recent posting re: the race card. I'm "just sayin'" that my antennas went up, and not in that cute my-favorite-martian way.