Quote of the day:
“How much would you pay to hear President Bush ” answering some point that Kerry has made ” say, “Nice tan, by the way”?
Jay Nordlinger, National Review Online
How Much Would You Pay?
Posted by Reilly
on 9/29/2004
69 Comments.
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- Just A Girl - Trackback on 2004/09/30/ 12:48
Who would make a worse President? Al Gore or Senator Kerry?
Zelda, if you put Bush on that list in post #50 – i’ll take him. the other two are toss-ups. ya never know till the bananas hit the fan
Wow, shiloh, Zelda asks a straightforward question and you STILL manage to throw Bush in there.
I am starting to think you have a thing for Bush. Hidden closet love.:razz:
K- one of the things i have for Bush isThe Bush administration is supporting a provision in the House leadership’s intelligence reform bill that would allow U.S. authorities to deport certain foreigners to countries where they are likely to be tortured or abused, an action prohibited by the international laws against torture the United States signed 20 years ago.
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stuff like that, not to turn your smile upside down.:sad: (that’s the 1st and hopefully the last time i used a face)
sad is how some of the things the president does makes me feel
First of all, I’d personally prefer having the figure of Ann Coulter to having the figure of Michael Moore, lol, but that’s neither here nor there.
Second of all, Shiloh, please try to act like the smart person you seem to see yourself as and try not to stretch my posts into something so incredibly ridiculous if you can. I was talking about the people we support, and the people to whom we object because — let’s face it — we both support the people we agree with and object to the ones we disagree with.
In other words, I’m trying to point out that, as usual, you are guilty of the very behavior we exercise that you condemn.
Then prove it by admitting that your views are not superior to ours, and that you are by no means superior to us and that you are not trying to talk down to anyone. That’s the only way I will believe you on this.
Oh, and don’t be so quick to eschew the likes of Ann Coulter and Newsmax. In other words, try to treat the opposition in the manner you’re trying to encourage me to treat the opposition.
You know, I absolutely crack up at liberal publications that insist that there is a problem with people who insist on reading “biased” information with no opposing viewpoints, such as this blog as no small example. Is the implication supposed to be that these publications and sources are completely unbiased and balanced?
Puh-leeze!
If this were the case, USA Today would have published Ann Coulter’s coverage of the DNC, because they wouldn’t have had a problem with her opposing view. Wouldn’t they?
AG – i was attempting to convey the fact i don’t subscribe to any set agenda. i have voted for Republicans in the past. extremists on both ends of the political spectrum (in which i include both Moore and Coulter) are cartoonish figures that are creatures of pop culture more than anything serious. i am not all one thing that is against all of the other thing. issue by issue. stone by stone, foundations are built slowly and thoughtfully. i love justice and i’m sure you do, too.
53 – “certain foreigners” you say. i think you mean to say “non-U.S. citizens who are suspected of having links to terrorist organizations.” little different, wouldn’t you think? should we send them to montana instead or get them out of our country????
c’mon K – we just need to obey the laws we signed up to obey. torture does go on – we do it, evidently. suspicion is not proof & if there’s no proof, we have a mechanism to deal with that fact – it’s called innocence and freedom. we should live by the principles we say we’re fighting for. i don’t think terrorists would be 2 successful in Montana. pretty sure we have more fire power than they do.
Justice I am fine with. I’m not so sure about your definition of the word, however, whatever that may be, and am not going to allow you to influence my way of thinking or twist it into something I would never say in a million years.
I also sincerely hope this isn’t going to be an excuse for you to ever-so-cleverly change the subject into a zillion more “Bush is a moron because of Iraq”-phrases I will be more than happy to ignore with impunity, as I have blatantly ignored the others.
I still find it odd that you claim to subscribe to neither side (which of course only makes you a great compromiser in my sight), yet find the need to castigate everyone on the right side. If you truly subscribe to neither “extreme” side, as you call it, when do you plan to lecture, say, DG in the same manner that you lecture the rest of us?
shiloh – are you going to watch the debate? do you have a tv in your log cabin?
57. we need to follow the laws, but terrorists don’t?
American Girl – you give me more credit than i deserve. what you see is what you get. i am not diabolical. no master plan. when something strikes me i am either reactive or proactive.
K – yes – i have c-span (no crawl at the bottom of the screen – so i can’t follow the scott petersen trial while i watch – the sacrifices i have to make) and yes we have to follow the law ’cause if we don’t we are no longer the light on a hill – we’ve sunk to a level where there is nothing but loss.
city on the hill, light on the hill, whateva. reagan you ain’t.
he had it right in priciple, tho. i actually met him when he was governor of California. i was woeking at a hotel in Eureka and he was gonna speak to the Rotarians or somebody, and he got out of the limo and just kept on getting out – a tall man. quite a wrinkled face even back then.
his makeup people in the ’80′s were geniuses.
anywayni shook his hand. i was makin’ some money back in those days and he was makin sense to me,economicaly. but socially,…. why don’t i just stop here.
I see. Hence the reason you fail to see how you yourself could be guilty of the very types of behavior you criticize, be they by politicians or posters such as us?
I don’t know exactly what your game is, Shiloh, but the fact is that you’ve given me no reason whatsoever to trust you. I’m suspicious you’re trying to sweet-talk me into admitting something, and all of this “neither reactive nor proactive”-stuff is just your way of trying to sucker me into your way of thinking somehow.
Otherwise, you would just let the topic drop and back off to give me enough time to cool off rather than delving into your excessive protestations.
Forgot to mention the fact that, if you consider yourself to be a so-called moderate, I can’t say that I am very comfortable with that. After all, Bill Clinton was supposedly a moderate Democrat, which I personally think is BS…and extraordinarily dangerous for a nation up against terrorism.
Have I heard that Bush has gotten a more moderate administration rather than a conservative administration? Yes, I have. Do I approve? Not 100%. But the alternative, which we will wind up with if we don’t wind up with Bush, is too flippy for my liking, and not someone I feel I can trust.
on a lighter note, he didn’t look so orange last night.
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