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Posted: Sat Oct 4th, 2008 10:27 pm |
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| The best thing that can happen to Conservatives is to have Obama win. In 4 years we will be able to elect Mickey Mouse if he calls for change.
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Posted: Sat Oct 4th, 2008 08:33 pm |
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I am convinced that McCain doesn't really have it in his heart to win this election. He is far too laid back and unenthusiastic, much like Bob Dole was and George HW Bush was. No oomph! They all but threw their respective elections away because of lackluster performance. McCain is doing the same thing. He is not playing his advantage and not bringing up the unmistakable facts to carry him further. He is trying to be Mr. Nice Guy and it is not working.
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Posted: Sat Oct 4th, 2008 04:16 pm |
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I suppose Repubs are now getting desperate.......someone stole my Obama lawn sign last night.     
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Posted: Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 04:54 am |
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oh thank you, IBLOG....master of the blogosphere. what would Smyrna do without you? oh yeah - that's right - hang out at that republican bar right?
iBlog wrote: Here's for all you McCain supporters.... blog away!
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Posted: Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 04:50 am |
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whatever "Boo". Wasn't Joe magnificent tonight?
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Posted: Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 04:29 am |
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Bixby wrote: You are quarreling about the wrong arguments. Neither McCain nor Obama are fit to lead this country, especially after reading their ideas about this entirely socialist bailout/buy-in. Until those responsible for this mess are fully investigated, and the Congress knows exactly who these people are, and put in prison (just as was Ken Lay for the Enron deal) not one of those in office who supports this measure as is now written deserves to be re-elected. A total housecleaning is in order regardless of which party they belong to. Read the transcripts of the 2004 House Banking Committee hearings and you will then derive exactly who is to blame, and you too will wonder why they are still in power and protected and worst of all, engineering this so-called plan. Hooray for those Republicans and conservative Democrats who resist. All others can take a hike forever.
Even us backwoods folk aint gonna buy no pig-in-a-poke. Let us po boys have a lookie see at whuts really in this "bill."
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Posted: Thu Oct 2nd, 2008 08:08 pm |
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GreyPoupon wrote: From what I hear I guess that counts you out then.
Two Cents wrote: The order of the "Golden Rule" at work. He who has the gold makes the rules! It has always been true.
Sad, but absolutely so.
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Posted: Thu Oct 2nd, 2008 07:46 pm |
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| The scary part is that there is no consensus on either side as to how this rescue plan is going to play out. The majority of the people don't want it, but it's too risky to do nothing at this point. Since few politicians get elected by less than the majority vote, the majority does rule this country. We can't blame anyone but ourselves. I encourage everyone to be an independent thinker; listen to the talking points of both sides; do your own research and refuse to follow the party line blindly. BTW, calling people names who don't agree with you is futile, since it only solidifies their defense.
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Posted: Thu Oct 2nd, 2008 07:22 pm |
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From what I hear I guess that counts you out then.
Two Cents wrote: The order of the "Golden Rule" at work. He who has the gold makes the rules! It has always been true.
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Posted: Thu Oct 2nd, 2008 06:17 pm |
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| The order of the "Golden Rule" at work. He who has the gold makes the rules! It has always been true.
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Posted: Thu Oct 2nd, 2008 06:12 pm |
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Serven and Bix both make valid points.
Approval of this bailout goes against the will of the people. Further proof that the rich rule this country - not the majority.
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You are quarreling about the wrong arguments. Neither McCain nor Obama are fit to lead this country, especially after reading their ideas about this entirely socialist bailout/buy-in. Until those responsible for this mess are fully investigated, and the Congress knows exactly who these people are, and put in prison (just as was Ken Lay for the Enron deal) not one of those in office who supports this measure as is now written deserves to be re-elected. A total housecleaning is in order regardless of which party they belong to. Read the transcripts of the 2004 House Banking Committee hearings and you will then derive exactly who is to blame, and you too will wonder why they are still in power and protected and worst of all, engineering this so-called plan. Hooray for those Republicans and conservative Democrats who resist. All others can take a hike forever.
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Posted: Sun Sep 28th, 2008 04:26 am |
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Servenvolley wrote: I think much has been said about both Obama and Mccain's presence these last few days concerning the Congressional meetings on the bailout plan. Seriously, there presence is entirely superficial. Neither have any idea how to fix the economy, how to amend the plan to make it pass. They have for weeks been getting tutored about what exactly has been happening by financial experts, those who can provide meaningful input to any talks concerning the bailout plan. For Mccain to say he was "suspending" his campaign until the plan was passed was ludicrous. He never suspended the negative commercials airing on television. The biggest thing both candidates can be doing is continuing to educate the voters about their plans, their views, and their proposed solutions (which are created by very bright advisors- meaning Palin is nowhere in the room).
VERY WELL LAID OUT SERVENVOLLY, CATBIRD YIELDS TO YOU!!
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Catbird, Catbird, you make it seem so simple..but you omit that your chap Obama hiked his little tush up to Washington after McCain and made an even bigger mess out of his time in the sun on this subject. No teleprompter, no sense.
I don't know how either of them could add anything to the debate other than to rally their party to the cause or support the changes the committees had on either side. There are economists all over the country who are arguing over how and if this thing should go down so what could these two add to the details? However the issue is addressed or not addressed, the decision will be the subject of Monday morning quarterbacking for years to come. You can blame the mess we'll have for the next couple of years on McCain whether or not he wins in November so take heart that your best posts are yet to come...
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Posted: Sat Sep 27th, 2008 09:59 pm |
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| I think much has been said about both Obama and Mccain's presence these last few days concerning the Congressional meetings on the bailout plan. Seriously, there presence is entirely superficial. Neither have any idea how to fix the economy, how to amend the plan to make it pass. They have for weeks been getting tutored about what exactly has been happening by financial experts, those who can provide meaningful input to any talks concerning the bailout plan. For Mccain to say he was "suspending" his campaign until the plan was passed was ludicrous. He never suspended the negative commercials airing on television. The biggest thing both candidates can be doing is continuing to educate the voters about their plans, their views, and their proposed solutions (which are created by very bright advisors- meaning Palin is nowhere in the room).
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Posted: Sat Sep 27th, 2008 08:23 pm |
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Cobra wrote: Warren Buffett has compared the current financial crisis to an "economic Pearl Harbor." The U.S. is facing a financial crisis that is publicly drawing comparisons to the Great Depression. So why is Senator Barack Obama seemingly missing in action with regard to this crisis in his day job in the Senate? Rather, Mr. Obama ushered a halfhearted response to Congress that was not unlike, "Keep me posted. I've got a debate to attend on Friday."
Is Senator Obama in effect telling the American people that a presidential campaign takes precedence over his elected position in the Senate?
On the other hand, Senator John McCain, wrapped up meetings with financial experts, as well as foreign leaders at the United Nations, and then announced suspending his campaign and television show appearances to resume Senate business by addressing the financial crisis in Washington. The announcement was met in swift response by Barack Obama, who questioned Senator McCain's ability to multitask and criticized his potential absence in the upcoming opening Presidential debate in Mississippi.
Federal Election Commission records reveal that in his three years in the Senate, Mr. Obama was in fact the second-largest recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the tune of $126,349. Obama follows Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, who received a total of $165,400. Senator Dodd also reportedly received preferential treatment from Countrywide Mortgage.
While Sen. Obama was receiving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac campaign funds, Senator John McCain was working to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on the Senate floor.
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WELL YOUR BOY J. SIDNEY McNUTT WENT TO WASHINGTON FOR THE CRISIS YOU REFER TO , AND NEVER SAID ONE WORD FOR THE WHOLE PERIOD THE DEBATE. EVEN YOUR "FOX NOISE STATIONS MADE COMMENT AS TO WHY WAS IT SO IMPORTANT FOR Mc NUTT TO BE IN WASH. IF HE HAD NO INPUT FOR THE DEBATE.YOU BETTER GET THE HELL OUT OF THAT HELICOPTER MAN, YOU AND YOUR INFORMATION ARE IN A CRASH MODE
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Posted: Fri Sep 26th, 2008 07:48 pm |
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Warren Buffett has compared the current financial crisis to an "economic Pearl Harbor." The U.S. is facing a financial crisis that is publicly drawing comparisons to the Great Depression. So why is Senator Barack Obama seemingly missing in action with regard to this crisis in his day job in the Senate? Rather, Mr. Obama ushered a halfhearted response to Congress that was not unlike, "Keep me posted. I've got a debate to attend on Friday."
Is Senator Obama in effect telling the American people that a presidential campaign takes precedence over his elected position in the Senate?
On the other hand, Senator John McCain, wrapped up meetings with financial experts, as well as foreign leaders at the United Nations, and then announced suspending his campaign and television show appearances to resume Senate business by addressing the financial crisis in Washington. The announcement was met in swift response by Barack Obama, who questioned Senator McCain's ability to multitask and criticized his potential absence in the upcoming opening Presidential debate in Mississippi.
Federal Election Commission records reveal that in his three years in the Senate, Mr. Obama was in fact the second-largest recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the tune of $126,349. Obama follows Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, who received a total of $165,400. Senator Dodd also reportedly received preferential treatment from Countrywide Mortgage.
While Sen. Obama was receiving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac campaign funds, Senator John McCain was working to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on the Senate floor.
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Posted: Wed Sep 17th, 2008 10:22 pm |
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Whoopi Goldberg fears McCain will bring slavery
When answering a question about what type of judges he will elect, McCain is thrown a curveball from Whoopi Goldberg on 'The View'. Whoopi wants to know if McCain is elected, will that mean the eventual return of slavery? That's the kind of high brow questions (Elisabeth aside) that you get from the liberal ladies on 'The View'. Sounds familiar----oh yeah, that's right---remember in 2004 when the military draft was rumored to return? Ah, isn't election time just wonderful? Read the transcript here.
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Public officials are fair game- They are not included in the "personal attacks" category. Check with the former mayor but they call slander "Freedom off Speech" in Smyrna.
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Posted: Wed Sep 17th, 2008 11:36 am |
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GreyPoupon wrote: Let the record show McCain's cheating past Voters entitled to know the good, bad and ugly September 16, 2008 BY Mary Mitchell, Sun-Times Columnist
Sure sounds like a personal attack to me, which is not permitted in this forum. Glad that Obama has taken the high road on this one.
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Smyrnie wrote: ER is the perfect example of someone who can dish it out in droves but can't take an ounce of her own bile. ER has literally been online ALL DAY typing inane, insane & migraine indusing gibberish. The McCain/Palin avatar says it all. Half the people in this town and the entire country are just blind lemmings.
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 10:30 pm |
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Let the record show McCain's cheating past Voters entitled to know the good, bad and ugly
September 16, 2008
BY Mary Mitchell, Sun-Times Columnist Suppose Barack Obama had dumped a crippled wife and married a beer heiress one month after the divorce.
Do you really think he wouldn't have been tripped up by such a scandalous past?
The Republicans would have had a field day mocking his character.
But John McCain's tawdry personal history is rarely mentioned.
Carol, McCain's first wife, wasn't even a comma in the video presentation about McCain's life that was shown to millions of viewers during the Republican convention.
But it was Carol who was left behind to take care of the couple's three children while McCain served his country.
And it was Carol who stuck with McCain during his long incarceration in a Vietnam prison camp.
If McCain is a war hero, then Carol is a war heroine.
Yet she was written off when McCain fell in love with a younger woman.
When McCain returned from Vietnam, he discovered that his wife, a former swimsuit model, had been seriously injured in an automobile accident.
"My accident is well recorded," Carol said in a rare interview with the Daily Mail.
"I had 23 operations. I am 5 inches shorter than I used to be, and I was in the hospital for six months. It was just awful, but it wasn't the reason for my divorce," she said.
"My marriage ended because John McCain didn't want to be 40; he wanted to be 25. You know that happens . . . it just does," she said.
McCain has taken the blame for the divorce, saying the marriage collapsed because of his own "selfishness and immaturity."
"The blame was entirely mine," he wrote in a memoir.
Under normal circumstances, I'd say you shouldn't hold something that happened 35 years ago against someone.
Except, McCain has argued his case for leading the nation based in part on heroic acts that took place four decades ago.
It is worth noting that the same man who endured suffering in a Hanoi prison is the same man who dumped his crippled wife and ran off with a woman 17 years his junior.
Now McCain is being packaged as an authentic American hero.
But what hero could stand to see the wife of his youth and the mother of three of his children written out of his life's narrative as McCain has done?
Worse yet, now that the white female vote is proving to be pivotal, McCain has suddenly had a change of heart.
After 20 months of ignoring his ex-wife's role in shaping his narrative, while campaigning in Jacksonville, Fla., on Monday, McCain thanked Floridians for looking after her while he was a POW.
"I hope you know that in the years I was away in prison, the people of Orange Park, Florida, took care of my wife and family," he said.
"My children had about 50,000 parents while I was gone, and I'm very grateful," he said.
Though sentimental, his words were calculated to woo female voters.
But it may be too late for that.
Many of these women have walked in Carol's shoes.
They have loved men when their lives were low only to be cast aside when their spouses' stars began to rise.
A lot of voters may not be aware that McCain was married before. Like Cindy McCain's pill-popping and her troubles with the DEA, McCain's abandonment of his first marriage has been shrouded in secrecy.
Part of the reason for that is Carol McCain keeps a low profile and is not bitter.
"He is a good guy," she told the Mail. "We are still good friends. He is the best man for president."
But Ross Perot, a family friend and the man who paid Carol's medical bills, had a different take.
"McCain is the classic opportunist," he told the interviewer. ''After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona."
Ironically, McCain is depending on working-class women who are much like his first wife to put him over the top in this election.
I hope those women will remember Carol.
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Catbird wrote: Equal Rights wrote: [img]http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:LxgEuM8s9zoStM:http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/files/images/5_CatBird.jpg[/img]
TO THE HONORABLE MS. A. LANE, I CATBIRD WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANKYOU FOR THE GREAT AVITAR OF ME IN MY FULL DRESS UNIFORM, I PROMISE TO KEEP WATCH ON THE PROPERTIES ON THE BLACKBIRD-GREENSPRING RD. WHEN I FLY OVER IN THE MORNINGS, AGAIN YOUR HONOR THANKS. YOURS, "CATBIRD"
You're welcome, Beverly
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| Please, someone help us. Just think all us folks are allow to walk free, and yes vote, again please help us.
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Bixby wrote: Hot Flash wrote: Democrats tax many businesses out of business, where have you been hiding, there seems to be businesses going out every day. Through out the country, Boscov's has closed or is closing all their stores except the ones in Delaware. A lot of businesses are downsizing. With the republican administration in Washington, things are not good. GWB had 6 years with a republican congress and nothing done, except put us in debt more. When he started there was no debt. A vote for McCain/Palin is a vote for 4 more years of the same mess. OK. Please explain how the closing of Boscov's is caused by the current administration? Be specific.
Also explain which policies of the Bush administration is to be carried out by McCain?
Be specific.
Then cite your sources of information.
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Equal Rights wrote: [img]http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:LxgEuM8s9zoStM:http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/files/images/5_CatBird.jpg[/img]
TO THE HONORABLE MS. A. LANE, I CATBIRD WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANKYOU FOR THE GREAT AVITAR OF ME IN MY FULL DRESS UNIFORM, I PROMISE TO KEEP WATCH ON THE PROPERTIES ON THE BLACKBIRD-GREENSPRING RD. WHEN I FLY OVER IN THE MORNINGS, AGAIN YOUR HONOR THANKS. YOURS, "CATBIRD"
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| A problem we will have, is that we seem to have all these folks just vote a party, no matter who it is. They are folks who can't think on their own, all their lives somebody has told them what to do and how to do it. Wasn't something like that in Iraq a while ago.
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smyrnagrl4ever wrote: I agree however they are both far more qualified then Obama..... and at least they support Americans, can you really say that for Obama? How come the liberal media never publicizes the fact that Obama worked for and associated with Saul Aulinsky, an admitted known communist and trainer of community organizers, for ten years? He trained Obama. Don't you think that any of the Marxist philosophy of Aulinsky's would have an affact on Obama's thouight processes? mOf course. Especially the redistribution of wealth, a plank of the Communist manifesto. "From each according to his means to each according to his needs." (Karl Marx)
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| I agree however they are both far more qualified then Obama..... and at least they support Americans, can you really say that for Obama?
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| smyrnagrl --- Cindy McCain would ba a far better candidate for the presidency than is her husband. Unfortunately, she isn't a candidate. That's a shame!
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[size=Bet you would have never guessed this one! No matter your politics. The media will never tell of this, so pass it on.]
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[size=Cindy McCain]
[size= There was an article in the Wall Street Journal on Cindy McCain, John's ]wife. All I ever saw was this attractive woman standing beside John. I was surprised how talented and involved with world problems
she is. This is a summary of the article.
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She graduated from Southern Cal and was a special-needs teacher.
After her Dad died she became involved with his beer distributing firm and I]s now the chairwoman. Sales have doubled since she has taken over
from her father.
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They have a marriage prenuptial agreement, her assets remain separate.
She is involved around the world clearing land mines - travels to these
countries on a detonation team and service on their board.]
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They have a 19 year old serving in Iraq , another son in the Naval Academy ,
a daughter recently graduated from Columbia Univ.. , an adopted daughter in
high school, and a son who is the finance guy at the beer firm.]
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Raised kids in Phoenix , Az rather than Washington DC. (better
atmosphere) He commuted.]
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In 1991, Mrs. McCain came across a girl in an orphanage in Bangladesh .
Mother Teresa implored Mrs. McCain to take the baby with severe cleft palate. She did so without first telling her husband. The couple adopted the girl who has had a dozen operations to repair her cleft palate
and other medical problems.
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They have a Family Foundation for children's causes.
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She's active with 'Halo Trust' - to clear land mines, provide water and food in war ravaged and developing countries.
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She will join an overseas mission of 'Operation Smile', a charity for corrective surgery on children's faces.
She has had two back surgeries and became addicted to pain killers. She talks openly about it which she says is part of the recovery process.

I'm surprised the media is so quiet about her attributes. She sounds more capable than Hillary or Obama. We would really get two for the price of one. A person with business and international experience.
John did work for the firm for awhile when he left the Navy. She, however, has the real business experience. Very interesting.
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[size=John McCain's Sons]
[size=Talk about putting your most valuable where your mouth is! Apparently this was not "newsworthy"enough for the media to comment about.. Can either of the other presidential candidates truthfully come close to this? Just a question for each of us to seek an answer, and not a statement.]
[size=You see character is what's shown when the public is not looking. There were no cameras or press invited to what you are about to read about, and the story comes from one person in New Hampshire .]
[size=One evening last July, Senator John McCain of Arizona arrived at the New Hampshire home of Erin Flanagan for sandwiches, chocolate-chip cookies and a heartfelt talk about Iraq. They had met at a presidential debate, when she asked the candidates what they would do to bring home American soldiers, soldiers like her brother, who had been killed in action a few months earlier.]
[size=Mr.. McCain did not bring cameras or press. Instead, he brought his youngest son, James McCain, 19, then a private first class in the Marine Corps about to leave for Iraq. Father and son sat down to hear more about Ms. Flanagan's brother Michael Cleary, a 24-year-old Army First Lieutenant killed by an ambush a roadside bomb.]
[size=No one mentioned the obvious: In just days, Jimmy McCain could face similar perils. 'I can't imagine what it must have been like for them as they were coming to meet with a family that Ms. Flanagan recalled, choking up. 'We lost a dear one,' she finished.]
[size=Mr.. McCain, now the Republican nominee, has staked his candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq. What he a lmost never says is that one of them is his own son, who spent seven months patrolling Anbar Province and learned of his father's New Hampshire victory in January while he was digging a stuck military vehicle out of the mud.]
[size=Two of Jimmy's three older brothers went into the military. Doug McCain, 48, was a Navy pilot. Jack McCain, 21, is to graduate from the Naval Academy next year, raising the chances that his father, if elected, could become the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower with a son at war.]
[size=I chose to share this with those who I believe will pass it on, to others who will pass it on. We hear so much inflated trash out there. How about a simple act of kindness and dedication to others placed above oneself?]
Has anybody heard if Barack Hussein Obama has served in The American Armed Services? This is for all you Barack voters.
From Barack's book, Audacity of Hope: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
HE DID NOT SAY STAND WITH AMERICANS!!!!!
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Equal Rights wrote: cottoncandy wrote: Fuzzy and Hot Flash: you've been baited off the subject, which is "McCain". For those who live in Smyrna, Senator Ennis needs no one to defend him in this forum.
Defend him on these: He used over OVER ONE HALF OF A MILLION DOLLARS of taxpayer money for these dumb projects: THE MEMORIAL GARDEN AT THE SMYRNA REST AREA, LANDSCAPING ON ROUTE 13 AND CHANGING THE NAME OF THE SMYRNA CORRECTIONAL CENTER. THAT'S $500,000.00 PEOPLE. MANY OF YOU COULD PROBABLY BRING TO MIND OTHER WAYS THAT THIS MONEY COULD HAVE BEEN SPENT...LET'S HEAR IT!!!
CAN'T YOU FOLKS IN THE SMYRNA AREA TAKE UP A COLLECTION, HAVE A BEEF & BEER PARTY, DO SOMETHING TO GET "HORMONAL HANNA" HER DAMN CURBING SHE KEEPS BITCHING ABOUT THAT SEN. ENNIS SHOULD HAVE HAD DONE FOR HER, ACCORDING TO HER DIATRIBE. WHAT DID SEN. VAUGHN TELL YOU E R, THAT YOU WERE IN BETHANY HALL LONG DIST. AND FOR YOU TO CALL HER, DID YOU EVER CALL HER ? I DOUBT IT AS YOU KEEP BRINGING THIS UP EVERY FULL MOON , AS BEFORE HANNA, TAKE A "FULL MOON PILL" AND GO TO BED, TOMORROW WILL BE ANOTHER DAY FOR CURBING PROJECTS!!!
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Posted: Sat Sep 13th, 2008 10:45 pm |
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| CC, ER has trouble understanding things. You can tell by the post she posts. Er, your Bs is getting thin. I am not sure not many folks really give a darn how you feel.
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Posted: Sat Sep 13th, 2008 07:39 pm |
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Equal Rights wrote: Defend him .........LET'S HEAR IT!!!
You don't get it!! If you want to discuss Senator Ennis, start a new thread. This one is entitled "McCain".
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Posted: Sat Sep 13th, 2008 06:49 pm |
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cottoncandy wrote: Fuzzy and Hot Flash: you've been baited off the subject, which is "McCain". For those who live in Smyrna, Senator Ennis needs no one to defend him in this forum.
Defend him on these: He used over OVER ONE HALF OF A MILLION DOLLARS of taxpayer money for these dumb projects: THE MEMORIAL GARDEN AT THE SMYRNA REST AREA, LANDSCAPING ON ROUTE 13 AND CHANGING THE NAME OF THE SMYRNA CORRECTIONAL CENTER. THAT'S $500,000.00 PEOPLE. MANY OF YOU COULD PROBABLY BRING TO MIND OTHER WAYS THAT THIS MONEY COULD HAVE BEEN SPENT...LET'S HEAR IT!!!
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Posted: Sat Sep 13th, 2008 01:08 pm |
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| Fuzzy and Hot Flash: you've been baited off the subject, which is "McCain". For those who live in Smyrna, Senator Ennis needs no one to defend him in this forum.
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Posted: Sat Sep 13th, 2008 11:05 am |
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| TAATS, you are kidding I hope.
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Posted: Sat Sep 13th, 2008 10:30 am |
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Bruce Ennis doesn't have to call "cronies" as you you put it. There are tons of other ways he helps his constituency. I can vouch for personal examples, as I am sure that 67% of the people who voted in the last election can do as well. You really have to put politics aside....what I am seeing is Rep vs Dem on this thread. Why can't you just look at the man, and how he has helped this town for so many years?
Oh, one other thing TAATS, it is also obvious from your many postings that if you are not the missus, then you are one of the family. Come on now, let's not be so transparent    
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Posted: Sat Sep 13th, 2008 03:05 am |
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They are all the same wrote: Hotflash E., I'm not Ruby. However, Mark S. is a lucky man. She is the whole package much like Sarah Palin. I like women who are beautiful. My wife is also a looker. Mark would never have gotten to Dover. He is a republican and does not belong to the crooked dem party. Of course, the crooked dem party only applies to delaware politics, doesn't it.
The dems did not reject him, his own party rejected him! When he ran against Sen. Vaughn, he only got 30+% of the vote, very poor showing. We also have had you figured out for a long, long time taats! Time to change your name again? 
Next time I see Sen. Ennis, I will ask him for a list of the bills that he has gotten signed into law. If I recall most of them are pubic safety, which I know sticks in your crawl, but someone has to do it. The only one I can remember right now for this year was moving to the right when emergency vehicles are approaching. Since some people do not have the sense to do that. He did vote for the Eminent Domaine bill and also to overide the veto of it, but that wasn't his bill, I think that was a House Bill.
He did tell us about making history! A bill he sponsored in the House that passed was brought up in the Senate and he got to vote in the House and also in the Senate on the same bill. First time that has ever been done in History!
This will have to do for now until I ask him for a list and that will be probably at our next dem. meeting in Oct.
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Posted: Sat Sep 13th, 2008 02:28 am |
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Hotflash E., I'm not Ruby. However, Mark S. is a lucky man. She is the whole package much like Sarah Palin. I like women who are beautiful. My wife is also a looker. Mark would never have gotten to Dover. He is a republican and does not belong to the crooked dem party. Of course, the crooked dem party only applies to delaware politics, doesn't it.
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Posted: Sat Sep 13th, 2008 12:59 am |
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Don't you see something wrong, if you have to call a legislator to call someone he knows in the good ole boy network of Delaware politics to get legitimate assistance for a neighbor?
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ER...it doesn't necessarily have to do with getting bills enacted to serve your constituency well. I can cite numerous examples where people needed assistance - asked Bruce for help, and he was right there working to help them.....that is the value of someone who is a legislator. They represent every person who they work for - if you need assistance Bruce is there.
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Posted: Sat Sep 13th, 2008 12:45 am |
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fuzzy wrote: Why does it matter whether or not someone "sponsors" legislation? It is votes on important issues, and constituent service that count. Obviously, ER and 2cents you do not like Bruce because he is of another party from yours.
Fuzzy ---- concerning my dislike of senator Ennis, you are exactly wrong. I do not dislike him and I am a registered democrat as well. However, mowing a sick neighbor's yard is what any of us might do and it does not involve being a legislator. Sponsoring legislation is a privilege extended only to legislators, and I believe that it is a fair question to be asked and answered. As Playing the Game accurately observed, all of us can vote, but only a few are permitted to sponsor legislation.
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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 10:58 pm |
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| If voting on an issue is all that matters, why have Legislators? We can all vote.
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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 09:32 pm |
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Why does it matter whether or not someone "sponsors" legislation? It is votes on important issues, and constituent service that count. Obviously, ER and 2cents you do not like Bruce because he is of another party from yours.
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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 07:35 pm |
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| I think some of you need some REAL help, out there. As I said on another, better then TV. I do wonder ER, just how you got so far in life. Good thing there have been good folks like our Senator out there, to make sure folks like you are still around.
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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 06:50 pm |
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| Well, I don't think that calling the town hall to get a street light repaired is a valuable constituent service, nor do I see value in a legislator calling to have a pot hole patched. Legislators are elected to .... ummm .... legislate, are they not? Thus my question as to how many and what pieces of legislation Mr. Ennis has sponsored in say the last 10 years. If you prefer to provide 25 years worth, that's ok, as well.
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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 06:49 pm |
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fuzzy wrote: ER...it doesn't necessarily have to do with getting bills enacted to serve your constituency well. I can cite numerous examples where people needed assistance - asked Bruce for help, and he was right there working to help them.....that is the value of someone who is a legislator. They represent every person who they work for - if you need assistance Bruce is there.
Well fuzzy, the next time that you are talking to Senator Bruce Ennis, you tell him that all of the residents on Blackbird Greenspring Rd, other than the Wilson's of course, want to know when they are going to get their curb in front of their house, because they feel like they are the victims of his discrimination. And the tax money that was spent on the Smyrna Rest Area Memorial Garden and changing the name of the Smyrna Correctional Center to James T. Vaughn Correctional Center could have been put to better use and the landscaping that is going to be done on Rt 13 between Smyrna Leipsic Rd and Mill Lane. People cannot eat landscaping or signs or curbs or bricks and they can't use any of that to buy gas or pay house payments or buy prescriptions or pay doctor bills or health insurance, and on and on and on. I am not interested in how many dogs he has walked or drunks he has sent home or how many calls he made to the police because a neighbor complained about barking dogs or how many people he delivered absentee ballots to, and etc etc etc etc etc          Stupid is as stupid does. And I bet he doesn't know how to use a computer or send email.
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