All About McCain

[scaeagles]

I am offended at your blatant linkage of teenage males to dogs! Are you equating teenage males with dogs?

OK, maybe it's not that much of a stretch.

I withdraw my outrage.

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by Betty

You had 9 WEEKS of sex ed? Wow. We had a 1/2 session I think twice - once in elementry and once in jr. high.

5th grade it was a half day;
7th grade it was 2 or 3 weeks
10th grade it was an entire term(although it wasn't, I must admit, just about sex itself, there was the whole miracle of birth stuff in there too)

Oddly enough, drivers ed was only 2 weeks......you would think that, seeing how for every teen who has their life destroyed by sex there are hundreds more who have it snuffed out by driving that the schools would concentrate their efforts a little more on that(if saving lives really is their primary motivation)

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

While the message I got out of sex ed was, "Promiscuous sex is risky. It's really risky. My god it's risky. So risky that we're going to spend hours and hours explaining what you'd need to do to protect yourself. Look, here's some horrific pictures of what happens if you fail to protect yourself. If you have sex, no matter how hard you try to be safe, this will always be a risk."

What better promotion of abstinence can there be?

Well, my sex ed was right during the early stages of AIDS, different times and different schools. I am sure most people have different 1st hand accounts unless they were in the same class together(and even then...)

[scaeagles]

Is that a bad thing? He was asked. Should he have said no? Avoided it?

[JWBear]

I think if McCain wins (curse the evil day!), Obama should ask for AG.

[Alex]

The answer was an obvious joke, because the next thing he said was that he wouldn't make National Service a cabinet position. Therefore the post wouldn't exist to give it to Obama.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Alex

The answer was an obvious joke, because the next thing he said was that he wouldn't make National Service a cabinet position. Therefore the post wouldn't exist to give it to Obama.

So was my post about it, or did that not come through?

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

So was my post about it, or did that not come through?

I didn't get it. But I've been pretty dense lately.

[tracilicious]

Republicans, seriously...why are you voting for this asshole? How can it not bother you that he picked Palin to be VP?

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Republicans, seriously...why are you voting for this asshole? How can it not bother you that he picked Palin to be VP?

This may be shocking to you but I actually find it easier to vote for McCain now because of the Palin pick.

Does it bother you that Obama chose a running mate who pretty much has said that Obama is not ready to be President?

[Tenigma]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

Does it bother you that Obama chose a running mate who pretty much has said that Obama is not ready to be President?

Well at least Obama is sticking with his message.

Does it bother you that McCain had to drop his entire campaign motto ("Experience you can count on") and adopt HIS OPPONENT'S CAMPAIGN MOTTO ("We need a change in Washington") after he selected his VP pick?

Here's the thing. Obama's said publically that the reason he picked Biden was because he wanted someone to discuss things with, to provide him with opinions, to be a voice, even if it doesn't always agree. In that way by picking Biden he chose someone with a lot of experience to help Obama get a second opinion... instead of picking someone just like him, who would agree with him on everything. I mean, that's what Bush did, and now he's got an entire Cabinet full of yes-men.

That is, Obama chose Biden for the purposes of helping him with his presidency.

McCain chosen Palin because she is a fresh face, charismatic, and a fundamentalist Christianist. She brings excitement to the campaign by galvanizing the conservative core of the party, a group he was having real trouble connecting with (he's changed his views over the years but conservatives still remember him as being quite liberal on abortion, etc.).

That is, McCain chose Palin for the purposes of helping him with his election.

By the way if anyone hasn't read it yet, Eve Ensler of the Vagina Monologues has an editorial up on Huffington Post giving her view on the Palin nomination.

Personally, I think we should treat Palin like Democrats treat Karl Rove; with derision, but without elevating Rove to anything more important than an adviser.

The bottom line is it was McCain's decision to choose her. The election boils down to do we want a 72-year-old man, who has had skin cancer numerous times, and whose body was broken many times (NOT NOT NOT "tortured" mind you---just used advanced interrogation techniques on, just like in GITMO)? I am just dumbfounded that people think this is even a serious question.