McCain's speech got better ratings than Obama's.

http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/09/mccain_tv_ratings_beat_ob ama_i.php

Well... look, Michael - I don't know what the CIA can do - but growing up - and this is all just the result of the meida, but I understood that the CIA were the guys doing spy work in other nations.

My families military experience is all grunt work - I know nothing substantial about the various intellegence agencies.  But ... let's say this image that me and many other have about the CIA is not true.  Let's say we don't have spies and people who go in and do political hits and kidnapping and so on.  Surely our soldiers are not the ones to be doing it.  I say this with no disrespect to the soldiers, but it's like sending an elephant into a williams-sonoma.  We don't need a full invasion of a nation to get one guy.

Our soldiers have use - but not the way they are being used.  We don't send the troops in to fight gang members or bust up meth labs.  There are correct people for specific jobs.

Though... wonder how our military would do with the gangs.... hm... now that I think about it...

But that's another post.

I'm not against war - I'm not some peacenik - I'm against our soldiers being misused.  Wasting a soldier's life isn't like wasting a piece of paper or throwing out a coke you didn't finish.  It's a human life.  It means something.  (er, unless they abuse their power.  Then see me fly off in the other direction!)

I don't know why we don't have OBL.  But here's what we need to do - get him, and put him in jail - some sort of public jail - in a solid plastic cage over Times Square or something.  Because if we kill him, (which I'm ok with morally) we're making a martyr for his followers.  But if he humiliate him?  It'll hurt his cause.  Like they say in Macbeth - "You'll live to be the show and gaze of the time - paint'd upon a pole, and underwrit, here may you see the tyrant!"  You know?  Keep him alive - keep his dialysis machines working, feed him, that stuff - to show that Americans are good decent people, but show that we can catch him, that we're BETTER. 

That's my plan, anyway.

John, you're so close.  You have the answers right there in your post... so close..

Obama does things because he's an intellegent man who uses logic to calculate the best course.

Pailin hears voices.

"Sure, we have nut jobs, but they're more concerned with blowing up abortion clinics and gay dance clubs."

You forgot animal rights activists.  Not ALL nut jobs are conservative.  You got to hand it to liberals though, they're more imaginitive.

This is the first time that I can remember where people were comparing one party's presidential candidate with the other party's vice-presidential candidate.

Curious all the fuss the republicans made about Obama not wearing a flag pin, McCain wasn't wearing one last night.

Well, how else does she know that something is God's will?

Souce?

wait - the full enormousness of that just hit me - he's asking for a source for a HYPOTHETICAL.

Wow...