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Could pleasing his party cost McCain the election? http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/20/bor...lumn/index.html WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The news over the weekend that former Republican secretary of state and ex-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell is endorsing Barack Obama was hardly unexpected. Powell had been courted by Obama for months, as the junior senator from Illinois sought him out for advice on everything from Iraq to North Korea and all things geopolitical. And while Powell counts himself as a friend of Sen. John McCain, there was always foreboding in the McCain cam

That is the one thing that really kills me. I can understand the core right wing issues. I can't understand a majority of the party bleating along about taxes when the party they're dutifully backing continually fleeces them down to the follicles. And all they have to say is "taxes" and "big government" and it's like Pavlov's dog at the feeder bar. The defense is "the upper 5% won't have to pay anyway so why make an attempt to collect from them. or the left is going to spend the money worse than the right, which has turned around a budge surplus to a debt approaching $10 trillion.

No, YOUR candidate mischaracterizes it otherwise. Just bleat along with whatever he says. Baaa ....

I agree with this, and it is one of the things that Obama will have to be watched on closely; especially if the taxes don't generate the revenue he envisions. I don't think Obama is looking to be a free spender; he has made the points that where he'll add, he'll cut elsewhere. Frankly something has to be done to protect the middle class who has been left without work, without retirement, left to pick shyte with the chickens. They have been ponying up the money that has spelled record profits, been the victims when unregulated markets had to be bailed out (honestly, the lower-class schmoes

"Everything going right for him over the past 18 months?" That's ingenuous. I was doubtful about him -- especially given that I thought Clinton was the country's best hope (and look what she was forced to try to overcome, compared to every other candidate INCLUDING McCain). I think in most cases Obama's made his own luck, and succeeded from all the right moves. Claiming he's succeeded by celebrity is pretty empty. Celebrity gave McCain a bump with Palin; lack of substance took all the wind out of it and left him with a hollow shrew who can only quack attacks.

No. The former is empathy. The latter is psychotic.

Morgan Freeman from "Bruce Almighty"

Yes the guy whose disciples show their discernment by reciting "ditto, ditto, ditto" to whatever he says.

As opposed to the witch hunts of anyone with a conscience that spoke up during the runup to Gulf War II? Give me a break.

Shouldn't Bush's approval rating be at like zero? I think it says more about the electorate than the campaign. In this day and age, a 5% lead is pretty hefty.

Actually I think we've veered into post WWI pure capitalism -- the financial rollercoaster is due as much to the breaks and regulatory levers removed from the machinery.

No offense, but your rationalization here is just as twisted as the political strategy. What happened to the guy who would "rather lose an election than win a war?" He'd rather suspend morals than lose an election?!?

Not every word. His name has never collided in the same sentence with "effective," "leadership," "intelligent," "competent," "fair" "conscience" nor "humane".

I remember when that song queued up in American Beauty, thinking what a brilliant choice, given where the story was.

It is a collaboration over thousands of years. You're looking for cohesion. I think that is one of the great values of it; that the corners aren't rounded, that it's not reworked to all fit together; then you'd have something else to complain about it. 1. While I don't consider you an enemy, I would expect better behavior and respect of others before I would consider someone a friend. Let's just be "dithering" acquaintances. 2. You have pulled the word "obfuscates" out of your ass so many times, your hemorrhoids must be flaming. 3. All of your comments here are just attacks and opinions

Any studies of Darwin, regardless of the time over which they took are still a posteriori. Yes it changed size. The why is conjecture that's based upon fact. It's still an assumption that can be as much "common sense" that is reinforced by the happenstance of the one recording the change. Maybe the freakin birds were raised next to a berry tree and they just ate like pigs? Man is an example in some respects of natural selection in reverse. Our ancestors are becoming, fatter, lazier with shorter attention spans, various illnesses from bad diets, inbred illnesses based on how we poison our envir

I think that was part of my point. The point is we would still arrive at the same place. Are they really? Were you there? (that was a joke). You find what's true and what's not by constantly testing them. "The world is flat." "Blacks are inferior." It is the same as any academic study. You balance your theories on the work of others, and hope to expand upon it, but if you build your career's work on studies that are misproven, aren't you up the same shit's creek? Your literate search is still the opinions and views, which you choose to espouse or condemn. Same with a faith-based search.

We've trod over this ground before. The bible is a history of a people. It is an amazing collaboration over thousands of years. Great literary explorations, it is everything from history, to theology, to political science and law, allegory, poetry, even a cookbook. It was an oral history, contributions by thousands of writers, when you think about it. Each "book" has its history, it's social and political reasons for being. One passage does not condemn nor prove the entire book. You can't grind the thing up, pour it into a test tube and heat it over a bunson burner and derive a verdict from li

That's like politics from The Manchurian Candidate.

Michelle is going to be in Jacksonville for a rally Wednesday.

You give me too much credit. I would think eventually even if no one would respond to your diatribes you'd eventually piss yourself off. In fact, I bet you annoy the hell out of you. I'm smart enough to know that your threats are as hollow as some of your arguments -- like whistling through a straw. Have a nice day. See you in a few pages.