#296530 - 09/03/08 08:26 AM
Re: McCain Veepstakes
[Re: Draven's Dad]
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I'm in a foreign land as we speak and I disagree with the president on a whole host of issues. So after I complete my deployment I should be shot? Yes, if you are actively subverting your missions.
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#296543 - 09/03/08 09:36 AM
Re: McCain Veepstakes
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This free market solves everything mentality is assinine. Just to show you how some of the free market people think. Some of them feel the Civil war was un-necessary because eventually the free market would have lead to the end of slavery. Well, you almost have it right. As an Austrian (in economics and not nationality), I know that the free market solves almost everything. What isn't solved by the free market is solved by other means, but going to war against one's own country is not the answer, unless it is time to overthrow the government. But then it is the people rising up against the established leaders and not a mass of citizens against other mass of citizens. The north vs south war was not about slavery so much as it was about states rights. If the country wanted to abolish slavery, there was a prescribed way to do so and if done within that medium, the war would not have been necessary. But as it is, Lincoln is responsible for the first big federal power shift and as such is responsible in part for many of the problems we have today.
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#296545 - 09/03/08 09:43 AM
Re: McCain Veepstakes
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you might want to read my edit before agreeing.  posted accidentally before finished.
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#296546 - 09/03/08 09:46 AM
Re: McCain Veepstakes
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8zXi90EVeg'Back up to you, Kieth, by the way got an extra set of balls up there'? agreed anyway Ill get to you soon, LA!  Just a side not when Gingrich asked the question at the end, you did NOT see the response from the reporter they cut away too soon for you to hear, "I'm gonna leave it there I'm not gonna argue the case". selective edit? of course.
Edited by Rykat (09/03/08 09:54 AM) Edit Reason: ?
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#296586 - 09/03/08 11:51 AM
Re: McCain Veepstakes
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Draven's dad, Not all women when raped have that attitude. Many have had the child and given them up for adoption. I respect a woman's right to choose not to have a rapist's baby. I also applaude the women who think of the child and what he or she may become some day and have the baby. The mental anguish must be horrible no matter what decision is made. I'm no religious zealot, but it pains me to think of taking a child's life away for something he or she had nothing to do with. Most of those kids would grow up to be wonderful human beings. Without going into detail, I will say that I know two women who went through this experience (which is bizarre given how statistically rare a pregnancy resulting from rape is). Both decided to have the child. One carried the baby to term and is raising her. She married her boyfriend about 2 years after the little girl was born and they later had another child. They are one of the happiest, healthiest families I know. The other woman lost her child during the 4th month of her pregnancy. She maintains that experience was exceedingly more difficult than the circumstances which brought about the pregnancy. DD, I would encourage you not to judge how other people might make decisions based on how you believe you would decide. Not judging anyone leah if you notice in my post I praise any woman willing to raise the child and carry them to term I just feel this attitude some have that the woman MUST carry the child of a rapist to term is ludacrist. But again I praise any woman who does that. They are far better people then I.
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#296587 - 09/03/08 11:52 AM
Re: McCain Veepstakes
[Re: Draven's Dad]
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DD
I couldn't have stated more clearly, and then re stated in Bold large font that
McCain's judgment should be considered based on those he personally associates with,
referring to 1989 when McCain was cleared of charges that he acted improperly, but was criticized for having shown “poor judgment”...I don't need to post a link, it's from the link you posted!
To state that Keating was found guilty and Ayers wasn't may be technically correct but its also intellectually dishonest and you know it! Ayers admitted complicity in the bombings, stated he wished they had done more, and in New York Times interview dated 9/11/2001 didn't rule out further actions?
He and Dorn were fugitives for several years before charges were dropped for Prosecutorial Misconduct under COINTELPRO , which had little to do directly with their case, but rather overall federal information gathering techniques (we weren't being fair to the terrorists!) and he has never show any contrition for the deaths he is responsible for, or for the Terrorist Acts he committed on American soil.
Obama may have been 8 when the bombings occurred but he was in his 30's when he visited Ayers home to raise funds for his own political career, and in his 40's when they last worked together.
By the way Tony Resko was prosecuted, and convicted as a felon just this year, but I'm sure that's not as important in your mind as Todd Palins 1986 DUI is it?
Your first few posts brought a new voice to this forum, and I was interested to see another perspective: now sadly they have deteriorated into gainsaying anything someone you disagree with may state.
I appreciate that this may be a great outlet for you in your current environment, and wonder if you may wish to share some original thoughts or observations with us, be they pro or anti current policy, or do you prefer to just let someone else make a comment so you can repudiate it?
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#296589 - 09/03/08 11:56 AM
Re: McCain Veepstakes
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I'm in a foreign land as we speak and I disagree with the president on a whole host of issues. So after I complete my deployment I should be shot? Yes, if you are actively subverting your missions. Thanks. But calling the president imcompetent is not subverting my mission despite what you think. But I appreciate your candor. Must be a military man.
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#296590 - 09/03/08 12:00 PM
Re: McCain Veepstakes
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This free market solves everything mentality is assinine. Just to show you how some of the free market people think. Some of them feel the Civil war was un-necessary because eventually the free market would have lead to the end of slavery. Well, you almost have it right. As an Austrian (in economics and not nationality), I know that the free market solves almost everything. What isn't solved by the free market is solved by other means, but going to war against one's own country is not the answer, unless it is time to overthrow the government. But then it is the people rising up against the established leaders and not a mass of citizens against other mass of citizens. The north vs south war was not about slavery so much as it was about states rights. If the country wanted to abolish slavery, there was a prescribed way to do so and if done within that medium, the war would not have been necessary. But as it is, Lincoln is responsible for the first big federal power shift and as such is responsible in part for many of the problems we have today. Austrian who feels I should be shot now blaming one of the great president for todays trouble AND defending slavery...Bold I will say that. Some times you have to do ugly things to defeat evil. You should knwo this better then most since my country had to defeat your countryman who once tried to takeover the world. Maybe theoritically what you say is true. But slavery is evil and you cant wait for the free market to resolve that. Plus it was the South who attacked us first.
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#296592 - 09/03/08 12:03 PM
Re: McCain Veepstakes
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This free market solves everything mentality is assinine. Just to show you how some of the free market people think. Some of them feel the Civil war was un-necessary because eventually the free market would have lead to the end of slavery. Well, you almost have it right. As an Austrian (in economics and not nationality), I know that the free market solves almost everything. What isn't solved by the free market is solved by other means, but going to war against one's own country is not the answer, unless it is time to overthrow the government. But then it is the people rising up against the established leaders and not a mass of citizens against other mass of citizens. The north vs south war was not about slavery so much as it was about states rights. If the country wanted to abolish slavery, there was a prescribed way to do so and if done within that medium, the war would not have been necessary. But as it is, Lincoln is responsible for the first big federal power shift and as such is responsible in part for many of the problems we have today. And one more thing you mention the war was a bout state right yes to a point. I find it hard to belive if the state right Lincoln wantyed to abolish was getting rid of Blue Laws so we can drink on Sunday that the south would have attacked us. The main state right they wanted was slavery. Which is evil. Which had to go.
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#296594 - 09/03/08 12:08 PM
Re: McCain Veepstakes
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It seems to me that you're making a direct comparison to an indirect one. McCain was directly involved in the Keating 5. Does this also mean that Palin is calling for the succession of Alaska because her husband was a party member of a group that did? Also, there were no favors granted by or through Resko as Obama paid market value for the house and did not get one of those sweetheart loans that many Replicans seem to fall into.
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