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Jim Montague (October 4, 2008 08:28 PM):
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I miss WT too, I miss him because he made this blog what others could not. I miss him because he elevated the discourse, and made you question yourself. I miss him because there wasn't a mean bone in his body, and the dignity in which he spoke made the rest of us look as if we were part of something better than ourselves. I'm sad because longiloquent priggism has become the mainstay prevarication for those who replaced him. Now that the cool kids are gone, and the best hors d'ouevres have been eaten, the ones who ran him off, offer mere tidbits to satiate a hungry crowd.
Even if you're being ironic here, JM, I hope WT doesn't see what you wrote and sue you for plagiarism. :^)
"Though CNN and MSNBC wouldn’t run a political ad with doctors questioning McCain’s medical status, Gupta revisited the issue in an interview published last Tuesday by The Huffington Post. While maintaining a pretty upbeat take on the candidate’s health, the doctor-journalist told the reporter Sam Stein that he couldn’t vouch “by any means” for the completeness of the records the campaign showed him four months ago. “The pages weren’t numbered,” Gupta said, “so I had no way of knowing what was missing.” At least in Watergate we knew that the gap on Rose Mary Woods’s tape ran 18 and a half minutes.
It’s against this backdrop that Palin’s public pronouncements, culminating with her debate performance, have been so striking. The standard take has it that she’s either speaking utter ignorant gibberish (as to Couric) or reciting highly polished, campaign-written sound bites that she’s memorized (as at the convention and the debate). But there’s a steady unnerving undertone to Palin’s utterances, a consistent message of hubristic self-confidence and hyper-ambition. She wants to be president, she thinks she can be president, she thinks she will be president. And perhaps soon. She often sounds like someone who sees herself as half-a-heartbeat away from the presidency. Or who is seen that way by her own camp, the hard-right G.O.P. base that never liked McCain anyway and views him as, at best, a White House place holder."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/opinion/05rich.html?ref=opinion
Bill may sue you for libel, for myself, I just remain hungry for better bloggers.
This is how I envision Sarah Palin thinks she did on Thursday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6YVM4HOgiA
I'm a "regular voter" and I don't normally get mixed up in politics, however, the fact that we are getting snowed under by "cuteness" in an incredibly important election year, as our country is quite literally on the brink of financial ruin, makes my stomach turn.
I've done six videos now, not to make Governor Palin look mean or evil, but to point up the *things she says* by making her seem as nice as possible in the satire.
Enjoy.
Best wishes, and thanks for writing what all of us are thinking,
Marni Penning
-I'm not sure that they're technically "lying".-
I think they are and they know it. Watch Bay Buchanan on CNN.
In one segment Ed Shultz angrily told called her a liar and she smirked which she seems to do involuntarily every time.
They know they are full of crap but they have no choice but to respond with whatever they have, which ain't much.
I think this election is still going to be close if Obama wins. It's going to be less than a 1% margin if he wins. Obama economic policies are going to make things worst. It's not that he wants to raise taxes back to the Clinton levels but he said he wants to remove the caps off payroll taxes aka Social Security and Medicaid taxes. He reverse this after it conflicted with his "not going to raise taxes for anybody making less than $250,000 a year" statements. So he said the cap removal will not apply to $102,000 to $250,000 range but only after $250,000. Social Security taxes are 12.4% and Medicare taxes are 2.9% of income if you are self employed. If he raise the top federal income tax rate back to 39.4%. The effective top tax rate will be 54.7% and if you add in most states income taxes which range from 6% to 10%. You are talking about a top rate of 60.7% to 64.7% combine federal and state income tax liability in this country. We haven't had taxes that high in this country since Jimmy Carter. It goes against the last 28 years of tax policy in this country. I know this is a liberal site but ever since the Reagan tax cuts the top combine federal and state income tax rates in this country has been less than 50% and we have had continuous economic growth over the last 25 years. That's because people are not going to go out there and work and risk financial ruin to go start a business only to have the government come and take away the majority of their profits. The debate since Reagan's cuts have been how much of a majority should you be able to keep. Obama got you guys fooled. You think he's going to bring back the Clinton economy but he is going bring back the Jimmy Carter economy. Where do you think the money for that 15 extra percentage points are going to come from? Layoffs!!!! He is going to do this when we have more competition economically than ever before in history. In the 70s, it was only Western Europe and Japan. Now you have Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Japan, Korean, China and India. This is bad policy. I don't mind if Obama wins but I don't want him up there with a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress. When I look at Pelosi, Franks, and Schumer smiling like crazy at that bailout bill. They probably was thinking we just got 700 billion of spending passed with a Republican in the presidency imagine what we can get with Obama. A lot of FDR policies made the Depression worst and turn it from a depression to the Great Depression. The good FDR policies are the ones that lasted until now. People don't remember all the bad policies. Also about Obama, Palin had more hit pieces done on her in 4 weeks than Obama has had in his whole 18 month run for the White House. You guys don't really know this guy. He seems more like a liberal Bush to me. I have yet to see where the guy has ever lead anything.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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