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John Moosie
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Beautiful California
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May 31, 2008 - 02:27am PT
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Hey Skip,
Is it really any better to use a snide and dismissive tone versus a profanity? Just wondering.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho
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May 31, 2008 - 02:41am PT
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But John McCain Is at best a 'turd' , & worst a stinking turd.Not a viable choice. sketchy. At Best.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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May 31, 2008 - 12:01pm PT
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I don't hate skipt, I see it as a moral issue. I see it as an economic issue. I see it as an environmental issue and the stewertship of our beautiful planet.
You have addressed none of the issues. You have catagorized Obama supporters as haters, tell us what is McCain going to do to make our lives better?
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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May 31, 2008 - 01:02pm PT
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The Woodstroke said; "There's another factor that I've not seen discussed yet and is very real: experienced voters have learned that giving the government--executive and congress--to the same party usually results in poor government".
That does explain the disaster this administration has been.
But at least we can be greatful there were no oval office blow jobs.
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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May 31, 2008 - 02:17pm PT
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I agree with you too Skip, I don't think it is a done deal. Although I do think that some folks are correct that say the polls don't really mean anything until the Dems pick their candidate.
As for the anger, I think there is something to be learned here. Those folks who usually vote Democrat spent a whole lot of years putting up with attacks on Bill Clinton because he was a womanizer. We listened to a whole lot of hatred that usually ignored whatever good was being done, such as balancing the budget for the first time in years and years. This all from Republicans who claimed to be for fiscal responsibility. Then we listen over and over to Republicans saying that Dems aren't fiscally responsible, even though recent history shows it is the Repubs who spend more.
Personally I get tired of folks not paying attention to facts. I also got fed up with the constant barrage of attacks. It built up an anger in me.
Then we got George Bush. The repubs had complained about Bill Clinton lying about having sex, but couldn't see that their chosen leader was lying about an issue that seemed much more important. Most folks that I know who were Dems knew that Bill Clinton was lying about not having sex "with that woman". I personally was embarrassed for Bill Clinton when he made that foolish error. Yet I could take some comfort in the Good he seemed to be doing, at least as concerns the budget.
With George, we got lies and more lies plus arrogance seemed to be on sell 10 for a dollar at walmart. Everyone wanted to show that they could be more arrogant then the next person. So more people became pissed off and they attacked and attacked George Bush. I include myself in the ranks of those who attacked.
Now we have a new election coming up and instead of focusing on the issues, we have more personal attacks.
So what have I learned. I don't think I am finished learning, but there have been a few things I have learned.
As an American, I can't just vote and then close my eyes for the next four years. I can't be a lazy voter. That applies wether I am a Republican or a Democrat. I learned that I didn't like the reputation of Dems as being fiscally foolish, and so I started speaking up to my chosen leaders to pay more attention to not wasting money and not just throw money at a problem.
Another thing I have learned and am learning is the need to turn the other cheek if I really want to learn anything or if I want to keep things from devolving into just a bunch of name calling. I still fail at this from time to time so I hope for forgiveness and in return I am willing to forgive. First if necessary by turning the other cheek.
To some these might seem like quaint ideas, but I have seen them work. I have better conversations and I learn more about my fellow man, a person I will have to work with if I hope to help solve any of the serious problems America faces.
These are what I consider to be serious problems. And not in any order.
An over blown tax system.....When the head of the IRS admits he doesn't know half the tax codes, then something is wrong.
An out of control budget with a growing national debt. I don't like passing debt on to our children.
A failing education system. Teachers cant afford to buy homes where they teach. Kids aren't safe. We don't seem to be able to weed out the worst teachers. We are falling behind so many other countries when you use to be close to first. And on and on. We seem to be going backwards even though there are many many devoted professionals in the teaching profession.
A health system that ignores 20 percent of our population. This is unconscionable to me.
A broken immigration system.
I am certain I am forgetting some issues, I could go on but these seem to cover much of what concerns me.
So what does America focus its might, its will, its energy? The war on terror. A war that in my mind is really about dealing with a few hundred to a few thousand people who are pissed at life and are willing to hurt others to show how pissed they are. They are a nail sticking up and we keep hitting it with a steam roller instead of a hammer. We seem to have lost our minds. It is estimated that we will spend more then 2 Trillion dollars on this issue. That boggles my mind. We may have slowed the terrorist down from attacking us, but we have created more of them. So this will be an on going thing for the rest of our born days. That doesn't seem like a good solution to me.
In the meantime we cut school budgets and then wonder when the best teachers leave and our schools fail.
So you wonder if I am angry. Yes I feel a sense of anger, but more a sense of frustration that we can't seem to have real open dialog without devolving into madness. And I am willing to point the finger at myself here.
There is another issue I have forgotten. When did we become a country that thinks it is okay to torture people? Somehow I missed that shift. I remember studying about WW2 and talking to my family members who served during this war and America did not stand for torture. We understood that we might miss out on some important information, but that was better then falling to the level of being torturers. Personally I think we have become chicken( add your own profanity here)
I think you have claimed to be Christian, I am not certain and if I am wrong, then I apologize. But Jesus said that if we seek to save our physical life, then we risk our eternal soul. This doesn't mean we can ignore our physical temple, it means we don't place our own safety above doing what is right.
It astonishes me that someone like McCain, who has been tortured, can look the other way and in essence give his blessing to America becoming Torturers of human beings. I can not and will not ever accept torture as being a reasonable solution.
In conclusion, we can leave off our anger and start figuring out how to talk together and work together, or this boat can sink. America is still a great country and I love it, but I see the writing on the wall. We have started torturing people because we are afraid. We have started attacking countries because we are afraid. The bible says we will reap what we sow. Science says that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. If we don't learn to respond to each other from a position of Love, then we will reap the anger and fear we give out. Including the anger of war. This is not a legacy I wish to leave our children.
Thanks for listening. I hope this helps you understand me better. I apologize for the length. I know some don't like to read mini novelas.
John
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Lost Arrow
Trad climber
The North Ridge of the San Fernando
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May 31, 2008 - 03:44pm PT
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7$ for a gallon of Gas. Food prices through the roof.
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toomey
climber
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May 31, 2008 - 06:33pm PT
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Hey skipt: what the f*#k have you f*#king got against f*#king profanity, you f*#king f*#ker?
Hey pc: Hilarity only leads the popular vote if you count MI and FL (where obama didn't campang or was not on the ballot after they BOTH promised not to do so) AND if you discount caucus states where individual votes aren't recorded in primaries and which, coincidentally, turned out for obama.
Hey mikltoast: your right. McPain will get crushed.
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Patrick Sawyer
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Originally California now Ireland
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May 31, 2008 - 09:57pm PT
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Spot on post, John Moosie.
Toomey, another Obama apologist it seems.
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toomey
climber
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Not really. Just recognize the facts. Hilarity Clinton has run amok. her campaign is confused and desperate and the popular vote thing is a example of the faulty, selective logic she uses to try to make it look like shes winner.
Skippity: gee whiz. Just a gag. You got kinda sore over a fella using "A Doubble S" in a post. I thought that was funny. Like when my mom got flustered back in the 50s if I said damn.
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UncleDoug
Social climber
N. lake Tahoe
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Skip,
Welcome to ST.
Now go f*#k yourself.
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Would that be Midget Land ? Hehe.
Just kidding, carry on kids.
edit: Oops, I meant to say Oz.
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dirtbag
climber
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And yet McCain still can't crack 46-47%, his base doe snot trust him, he's old, and he's one of the faces of failing political party, so in all likelihood he will end his years of public service retiring as a US Senator.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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If we could only get 100 of them to retire.
And then 435 in the other house. . .
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tooth
Mountain climber
B.C.
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This whole thread has been about percentages, popular vote, polls.
Since when did that stop shrub from getting in twice and doing the warLord's work?
Quit looking for hope in a future that is still run by the same guys of the past.
Look to the past, see the trends, realize that your vote means nil, and that McCain will be the next president if he is still sleeping with the shrub's friends, the oil barons and warlords.
This idea that both skipt and fattrad have is the same as all the other supertopoers who are Obama's cheerleaders. You are all in the same boat and poking holes in it fighting with each other.
Except for Fattrad, I know you all want the same thing. Good ol' America back, no torture, no recession, no war.
Somehow you think you will get that with one of the two choices handed to you.
America was screaming for change in 06, senate, congress changed from Repub to Democrat. What changed in government?
Another lesson skipped over by most of you.
Arguing Obama vs. McCain is pointless.
If Obama IS different, he will be taken out if he makes office.
What you all need to do is review your past 10 years history, put your heads together and put all this energy into a solution. Quit shooting at each other, you are all in the same boat.
Shooting holes in a Red and Blue boat that is headed over a waterfall is just kinda stupid, don't you think?
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Tooth
Actually, it might speed up the process--and that would
be a very good thing. . .
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Nov 15, 2012 - 11:10pm PT
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blimp
John McCain is the man, I've been told.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Nov 15, 2012 - 11:13pm PT
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Well he is a man; but you "da man".
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John M
climber
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Nov 15, 2012 - 11:22pm PT
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Deja vu man.. this thread is hilarious..
Sorry Dingus,
I have to call a "bullsh!t" alert on this one.
You only wish it was as clear as you say.
The latest poll results from Rasmussen. (The most current on Real Clear Politics.)
Rasmussen Tracking
05/26 - 05/29 1600 Likely Voters
43% Obama 46% McCain
That would put McCain ahead by +3.0
The best numbers for a Republican Presidential Candidate at this time in the race for many an election.
What was the relevance of that Savimbi question again?
Skip
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