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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (114544)	7/18/2008 7:02:28 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

The day a democrat can walk the streets of harlem, south east DC, East LA at night is the day the public school system and welfare work

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (114544)	7/18/2008 7:03:40 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Real Men Vote for McCain--Top 10 reasons why. By Lou Aguilar, nro.com, July 18 2008 1. Barack Obama spent 20 years sitting in church while his preacher and others bad-mouthed the United States of America. Navy pilot John McCain spent five years being tortured in the Hanoi Hilton, and refused a chance to walk out ahead of fellow POWs with more seniority. 2. Obama wants to cut and run from Iraq regardless of conditions on the ground or future consequences. McCain took on the president and secretary of defense in demanding more troops for Iraq, a policy that is inarguably winning the war. He also has two sons who fought in Iraq. 3. McCain supports nuclear power. Obama backs wind energy. 4. Obama wants restrictive gun control because only economically depressed middle-Americans “cling to God and guns.” McCain unwaveringly supports the Second Amendment. 5. McCain has deviated from his party’s conservative base on several occasions (McCain-Feingold Bill, Gang of 14, McCain-Kennedy Bill, opposition to torture). Obama has voted the left-wing line every single time, and been designated the most liberal Senator in Congress. 6. Obama is willing to meet with hostile state leaders like Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez without preconditions. McCain will set conditions first, talk later — maybe. 7. Obama is married to a bitter, angry lawyer who became “proud” of her country for the first time this year. McCain’s wife is a beer heiress who founded an organization to provide MASH-style units to disaster-torn world regions. Did I mention that she’s a beer heiress? 8. Obama supports higher taxes for a government-run nanny state that will coddle all Americans like babies. McCain trusts people to spend their less-taxed money however they wish. 9. The name John McCain sounds like “John McClain,” the action hero played by Bruce Willis in the manly Die Hard series. “Barack Obama” sounds like the kind of elitist villain John McClain has to outwit and defeat. 10. McCain is endorsed by Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Obama gets support from Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks, and every weenie in Hollywood. Plus, Susan Sarandon has vowed to leave the country if McCain gets elected. Case closed. — Lou Aguilar is a fiction writer and former Washington Post video critic, Washington Times television critic, and USA Today reporter.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (114544)	7/18/2008 7:35:06 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Obama Ignorance Watch POWERLINE By Dean Barnett Barack Obama delivered a speech in West Lafeyette, IN on Wednesday and once again mangled some well known historical facts: * Throughout our history, America's confronted constantly evolving danger, from the oppression of an empire, to the lawlessness of the frontier, from the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor, to the threat of nuclear annihilation. Americans have adapted to the threats posed by an ever-changing world. * Aaah yes – "the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor." Who can forget that? It was the big one, the one that took out all those boats. I guess Obama's political correctness prevents him from noting someone actually dropped "the bomb" and it didn't just fall. This is a surprising error for a Hawaii native (via the great Kansas heartland) to make. Perhaps Obama was merely confused, as he and his surrogates so often accuse John McCain of being.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (114544)	7/19/2008 9:22:50 PM
From: GuinnessGuy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Hi Mike, I may have mentioned this here before, but I have a friend who went to Vietnam -- at the age of ten in the summer of 1968. No, he didn't fake his age and enlist. <G> He went with his then widowed mother who had taken on a data entry contract job in Saigon. Bear in mind that this was only months AFTER the infamous Tet Offensive, yet Saigon was considered safe enough for civilians to bring their families with them. Would anyone in their right mind consider taking their kids with them to Baghdad while they carry out a civilian contract job - despite all the nut wing rhetoric about how well the surge is working? I'd agree that things have gotten better there, but only marginally better and with a long long way to go. Craig