All About McCain - Page 57

flippyshark · 09-09-2008, 08:19 AM

Interesting that this McCain thread has become 100 per cent Palin. I don't remember another VP pick ever prompting this kind of total media attention takeover. I hope McCain shows up for office if he wins.

Snowflake · 09-09-2008, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by flippyshark

Interesting that this McCain thread has become 100 per cent Palin. I don't remember another VP pick ever prompting this kind of total media attention takeover. I hope McCain shows up for office if he wins.

Heh! Spot on observation Flippy!

Morrigoon · 09-09-2008, 08:45 AM

*Pours a bucket of water over this thread*

Gettin' hot in here...

Ghoulish Delight · 09-09-2008, 08:45 AM

Eh, she's an easy target and the more likely of the two to falter under the scrutiny as she's never dealt with it before.

Morrigoon · 09-09-2008, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by flippyshark

Interesting that this McCain thread has become 100 per cent Palin. I don't remember another VP pick ever prompting this kind of total media attention takeover. I hope McCain shows up for office if he wins.

Before Darth Cheney and his running mate took office, the VP was considered "mostly harmless" and beneath our scrutiny. Not so anymore.

Ghoulish Delight · 09-09-2008, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Morrigoon

Before Darth Cheney and his running mate took office, the VP was considered "mostly harmless" and beneath our scrutiny. Not so anymore.

To which the obvious response is, then why isn't Biden getting this kind of attention?

Despite her immense experience protecting meth labs, she's brand new to the game of federal government. More people are sampled for poll numbers every day than total votes she's ever received in an election. She's never been put on the spot in front of a national audience before and her opponents are trying to lay as much pressure on her as quickly as possible in hopes she'll stumble.

It's not a complex tactic.

Morrigoon · 09-09-2008, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

To which the obvious response is, then why isn't Biden getting this kind of attention?

...Because he's not Republican?

(I don't actually know, heheh)

3894 · 09-09-2008, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by scaeagles

My statement still stands.

Only a fool argues with a skunk, a cook, or a mule
-Old Cowboy Saying

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You are perhaps the most arrogant and condescending poster here.

Then it's a darn good thing I speak such good French, n'est-ce pas?

innerSpaceman · 09-09-2008, 09:51 AM

scaeagles, with all due respect, i think you should have stopped when you laid out your case for 3894 not being qualified to pass judgment. She was attempting to do the same with you as to qualifications for tenure, and she laid out hers.

You countered that she has no such rigorous qualifications for many of the other areas in which she offers an opinion, and neither do many of us.

It should have stopped there. Calling her "the most arrogant and condescending poster here" crosses the border into name-calling and personal insult.

I'm not a mod here anymore, but this would have tripped my radar. I know things got a little heated, and an errant insult that slips into the political debates is to be expected from time to time. Fortunately for the good graces of the LoT, it RARELY does.

Chernabog · 09-09-2008, 09:52 AM

Ugh the anti-gay rhetoric of Palin and her church... makes me sick. I've met people who have tried to be "reprogrammed" and it's a sad, miserable existence.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/po/20080908/...xgayconference

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flippyshark Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 2,852	Interesting that this McCain thread has become 100 per cent Palin. I don't remember another VP pick ever prompting this kind of total media attention takeover. I hope McCain shows up for office if he wins.
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Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	Pours a bucket of water over this thread Gettin' hot in here... __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Eh, she's an easy target and the more likely of the two to falter under the scrutiny as she's never dealt with it before. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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09-09-2008, 09:51 AM	#569
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	scaeagles, with all due respect, i think you should have stopped when you laid out your case for 3894 not being qualified to pass judgment. She was attempting to do the same with you as to qualifications for tenure, and she laid out hers. You countered that she has no such rigorous qualifications for many of the other areas in which she offers an opinion, and neither do many of us. It should have stopped there. Calling her "the most arrogant and condescending poster here" crosses the border into name-calling and personal insult. I'm not a mod here anymore, but this would have tripped my radar. I know things got a little heated, and an errant insult that slips into the political debates is to be expected from time to time. Fortunately for the good graces of the LoT, it RARELY does.
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Chernabog Biophage Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Moon Posts: 2,679	Ugh the anti-gay rhetoric of Palin and her church... makes me sick. I've met people who have tried to be "reprogrammed" and it's a sad, miserable existence. http://news.yahoo.com/s/po/20080908/...xgayconference __________________ And they say back then our universe Was a coal black egg Until the god inside Burst out and from its shattered shell He made what became the world we know ~ Bjork (Cosmogony)
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