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Jodi Moisan
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Yeah Todd that's what we've said. (roll eyes)
You still never answered my question.
Well I have got to go, I said that about 5 pages back. I have enjoyed bantering with you gentlemen. Don't think my non-response is me being mad or ignoring or agreeing. I just need to get back to work full time.
You all have a great day.
Go OBAMA !!!!!!!!!
Edited by Jodi Moisan on 05 June 2008 at 4:47pm
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Al Cook
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Greg Reeves wrote:
Al Cook wrote:
And that's just as prejudiced as
saying "The first one I scrutinize will be the black one. He may not be
the guilty one, but if that's the only criterion I have to work with at first,
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But that's just not the same thing, Al. |
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But it is, Greg. It is exactly the same.
Greg Reeves wrote:
I'm saying that I have a piece of info that one of
them enjoys being around children but doesn't have one of his own
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But it isn't a questionable motivation, Greg. Only in your mind it is. Just
as, in the mind of a racist, the fact that somebody is black and wants to
be involved in something that (to the racist's way of thinking) a black
person shouldn't want to be involved in is a reason to question them.
Same. Damn. Thing.
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Greg Reeves
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Well, just be sure to quote the whole thing. I don't care if it's a questionable motivation (to me) only, I care if it's that plus a "scenario where something could happen". I don't want to mind-read or psychoanalyze, I just want to prevent injury if I have a piece of information that is relevant (maybe not to you, but you have to see it from a parent's eyes). And c'mon, please don't compare it to racism; I'm trying to protect a child, I'm not making statements that one type of person shouldn't do something, just that if it is unusual to me, I'll scrutinize it when a child is at stake.
Gotta go to class now, damn these debates!
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Scott Richards
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Funny thing about the muffin joke Mike. I've heard it at least a half dozen times in the last week from different people. I'd heard it before but it's so odd that it would resurface from so many different places at the same time.
Very strange.
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Tom French
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I'm all for Jim Webb (D-VA) to be Obama's VP. Not just because he's actually qualified and would add a lot to the ticket, but he's HOT!!!
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Michael Myers
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Choosing Senator Webb would make a lot of sense for the Democrat ticket. Don't know how well his fairly moderate stance on any number of issues would jibe with the platform, though.
Edited by Michael Myers on 05 June 2008 at 5:25pm
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Kevin Hagerman
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I think Obama needs to pick someone with executive experience, perhaps even as high up as a former VP.
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Marc Baptiste
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Anyone who is HONEST about worrying about their children's safety in the face of your average sexual predator would NEVER let her husband alone with her children. And anyone who says "my husband would NEVER do that" is just repeating what the wife of every child molester ever said.
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Tom French
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We have an interesting secondary branch going on in this thread, don't we?
Don't know how well [Webb's] fairly moderate stance on any number of issues would jibe with the platform, though
I think his stance is exactly what the platform needs. I mean, people are viewing Obama as the Liberalist of Liberals, so wouldn't Webb be asset? His military service, his tough exterior, I just like him.
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Michael Myers
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Is that change we can believe in, Kevin? Even the notion of selecting Gore as a potential VP would only serve to rally the lagging Republican base. No, Senator Obama will already have the Democrat Party behind him. Besides, in the final analysis, Gore doesn't really offer much by way of executive experience...certainly not enough to offset the Washington establishment vibe and high-negatives (read: HIGH) Gore would bring with him to the table.
No, I like Tom's choice. A relatively young, Southern Senator without too much political baggage. Moderate by modern Democrat standards. Outright conservative on a few issues like the Second Amendment and moderately right-leaning on fiscal matters? A history of proud military service, but opposed to the war in Iraq? His only downside is a compounding of the experience question and anything in his past we Republicans might dredge up in the general election.
Richards? Once moderate, but with a looonnnnngggggg political history. A female senator or governor? Perhaps.
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Michael Myers
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I should have waited a minute before posting, Tom. No, I agree with you...choosing someone like Sen. Webb would give guys like me fits (and might finally push McCain over the edge when his campaign tries to figure out how to counter it).
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Neil Lindholm
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Will people choose their potential President based on the VP? Do people not choose a potential President based on the VP? The VP does not really do much, do they?
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