All About McCain

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

Most of my family are conservative, and they are wonderful, compassionate, caring people to whom I owe my life. But I really don't get why they are so fond of political "don't mess with me, shoot the wounded, you bad guys better run" talk. Mostly just a matter of style, I guess. (i am often kidded by them for being a Mr. Softee.)

I recently had an interesting conversation with my father in law. The subject of Bill O'Reilly's "We'll do it live!" rant came up. He said that what it showed is that he's an honest man, and that eventually everyone has that kind of blow up at work sometime in their career. I said that no, I'm pretty I can say with a high degree of confidence that I will never in my entire professional life act like that. His response? "Well, any great man will."

Some people think that the only way to go through life is to attack your opponents viciously and decisively. Anything else is weakness, timidness, and dishonesty. It saddens me to think that someone would look at that video and think it's something to admire. It saddens me to think that someone would look at a VP candidate compare herself to a viscious animal and admire her.