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McCain out to make bumperstickers with his "Patriotism, not Profit" line

Romney's correct republican response should have been "profit IS patriotism"

Well, if looks mean anything then Huckabee wins. Romney and McCain were so busy smirking that they looked like a couple of school boys playing pranks on the teacher.

Huckabee looked presidential and definitly had the bet closer

Jack

best closer

jack

Brian NYC...just go back over the last thread and look at all the posts by a Brian A MacSomethingOrOther.

And prepare for war, my son.

It will be the Battle of the Brians.

Jack - I agree. Huckabee did a good job - excellent close. The others are lucky he didn't get more time.

"Romney's correct republican response should have been "profit IS patriotism" -- Posted by: labber

not bad at all, labber. like that

I am ignorant...did Ronald Reagan serve in the military?

I get so tired of all of them suggesting that Ronald Raygun would or would not like something or another..who cares, he's gone and besides he started out as a Dem.

Reagan was in the US Army Air Corps, 1942-1945.

US Army Air Corps, Paramount Pictures Division, that is.

Yes, RR served in WWII as a film director and sometimes actor. By the way, LAL, Jefferson was an anti-federalist opposing the Federalist John Adams in the election of 1800. The Anti-Federalists became the Republican-Democratic Party, later just the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson.

So...eprof2...are you a Jefferson hater then? Or Jefferson lover? I was wondering if there were any left out there.

Ronnie AND Nancy "served" in "Hellcats of the Navy"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellcats_of_the_Navy

Why didn't anyone bring up Reagan's service reocrd? The movie industry isn't tough enough on radical Islamists!

It's business time Craig....

Ah - I see Bill Bennett is taking up the "What's wrong with profit?" campaign.

Here is Reagan's military service

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#Military_service

Because of nearsightedness he stayed stateside and made training films.

BlondeWino...Something tells me that Craig is already back from the studio, stripping down to just his cast, clumsily stumbling around, but turning it into a "sexy dance"

Whaddaya think?

It's supposed to be "sex slaves in America" on MSNBC. What's the big idea of showing Tucker, Tweety, etc.? Oh...nevermind.

I don't want any of those guys to be the Commander In Chief. They are all too old or too inexperienced. McCain bless his little pointed head lost a several million dollar aircraft when it was shot down over North Vietnam. That was over 40 years ago. He seems way to eager to use the lives of young men and women in wars over the world. Willard just doesn't have a clue either. Huckleberry Hound never served either. I don't know what shape Willard left Mass, but Arkansas was a mess when he got elected and took over and I think it is still very screwed up.

yo soy Horsedooty!

wow my parents' on-screen Dish satellite label for this msnbc debate coverage says "Sex Slaves in America" -- What's that about?

Basically he was a liberal Democrat while married to Jane Wyman and a conservative Republican after getting Nancy pregnant.

I was amused by Anderson Cooper's comment on Reagan's diary like it was the Koran or Bible or something like that. He was actually afraid to touch it!

Jamie...the bio should read:

Because of nearsightedness (on the part of the American electorate) he was elected president.

Craig,

That's one of those CNN "Special Investigations" about young women brought in illegally to work in brothels here in the U.S. I haven't seen it but it has run before.

: LardassLiberal

We can only hope!

dang, Lardass, this whole "Sex Slaves" thing makes your Huckabee scenario ring true:

Bw and LaL...oh, please don't get started on that video again!!!

There are 6 songs, by The Conchords on iTunes...woohoo!!

Craig, that sex slave thing is on my guide, too...of course, I did not turn it on :)

Blond

He wasn't allowed to touch it. It is only handled with gloves. It is necessary for preservation that the oils from hands not speed the destruction of the paper. All antique books or ones marked for safe keeping are handled that way.

For those unitiated in the Huckabee Sex Slave rap, let me repeat:

30-foot-pit in back yard
Two fat naked sons at bottom of pit
Jamie Lynn Spears posters on wall of pit
Unopened bucket of extra crispy Kentucky Fried Chicken at bottom of pit.
Draft of folksy 2009 State of Union address at bottom of pit.

What a charlatan.

I think Hucksterbee has stopped dying his hair.

Sorry MSNBC Special Investigations, though CNN has done similar.

Usually this time of night MSNBC is all flea market documentaries.

"stripping down to just his cast, clumsily stumbling around, but turning it into a "sexy dance" -- Posted by: LardassLiberal

why u think i chose electric blue!!!

Well, now...(out of curiosity)I turned on the sex slaves show....and SURPRISE...it's Chris!!

Jamie - I thought they wouldn't let him open the RR diary because they didn't want to show that Ronnie's entries were in crayon

McCain, "I will be judged by the company I keep." Hmm let's see Rudy, Ahnuld, etc. Oh yeah, that's good company!

jamie

Oh dear, body oils. I didn't know AC was using body oil.

By the way, I am sure Nancy Reagan owned a pair of Gloria Vanderbuilt jeans. And they would not degrade as fast as the diary.

Labber

This is one of those credit where credit is due. Until Alzheimers started taking hold, he wrote beautifully and that diary may be a last of its kind. Every day he was in the oval office about what happened that day, who he met with, and his thoughts about the events.

You might not agree with what he wrote from a political view, but that diary is a historical treasure.

Mitt looks really tan

Jim Geraghty over at the Nation Review blog, The Campaign Spot.
Best review of the debate so far
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/
Quote
Chinese water torture. Recurring phrases dripped down on our foreheads…

“I did it for patriotism, not for profit” DRIP

“No country that went off the gold standard ever remained great” DRIP

“I’ll proudly reach out to both Democrats and Republican” DRIP

“We can recapture that Reagan spirit, that can-do spirit” DRIP

Jack

Linda - I was thinking the same about the tan. Wonder what that's about.

Blond .. the natural oils from any ones hands. Sorry I'm a history nut and genealogy is a major hobby. Acid proof sheets to preserve documents is part of my life.
:-)

are part of my life.

Sorry Jamie -- you are right about the diary. I just can't resist going for the joke about RR

You know Craig after listening to some snippets of these jokesters debating tonight, save a major terror atttack for the life of I don't see how you can feel they have a shot at keeping the white house in repug hands.

All the humans are dead
All the humans are de-ead.
We poisoned their asses
Using poisonous gasses
And I'm going to bed.

Night all..It's been a blast tonight. Tomorrow even better.

Labber,

Shrub's diary is the one with the crayon stick figures.

I knew that...it was a joke as AC's Mom is/was Gloria Vanderbuilt (genealogy). I respect historical documents, but he really made it sound very holy.

Her jeans (read genes) were very hot during RR's presidency.

labber

I think it must be make-up, because he looked pale, on tv, this morning.
_______

Jamie

I have love letters that my Grandfather wrote to my Grandmother from 1930-32. I had to get acid proof sleeves to protect each page..they were starting to kind of disintegrate.

I leave for a sec and sex slaves appear.

Must be talking politics, eh?

tt

LIL

Have you done a genealogy or do I have give my lecture and send you to read my blog article about your responsibility to preserve 200 years of history. :-)

ummmmmmmmmm.....

To continue the thread of Craigs prior post about JE being too white bread. I compared BO and HRC to pumpernickel and croissant. McCain is stale bread, Romney is Melba Toast, Paul is a crouton...what is Huckabee?

Your blog is Druward, right?

cornpone

"how you can feel they have a shot at keeping the white house in repug hands." Posted by: Brian In NYC

well, watching mccain rip romney over war exit timetables, i'm thinkin he'll own the fear factor

CNN's about to show "dial-testing"! WooHoo!!!!!!!!

a crouton?...LOL!!

LushlsLinda

Cornpone it is!

Durward Discussion

It's up on the blog roll or just click

http://jdurward.blogspot.com

For the article I was talking about

http://jdurward.blogspot.com/2006/02/200-years-and-counting.html

eprof2 -- "Jefferson was an anti-federalist opposing the Federalist John Adams in the election of 1800."

William Adams Clinton just doesn't have the right ring to it....

I don't see "cornpone" on the Blogroll

true believer are you still out there?

Are the Democrats down there going to try and knock off Roy Blunt this year? In 1982, a bad year , like this year we came within a couple thousand votes of knocking off Gene Taylor.

For the rest of the folks, Roy Blunt,s seat is about as safe as it gets. The area is Republican because Lincoln won the war, there are generations that have never vote for a democrat. Also it is very poor and very conservative.
To be a Democrat down there youve got to be able to dream.
So true believer it could happen

Jack

what is Huckabee?

Corn bread?

OK, thanks Jamie :)

That debate sure felt like the South Carolina Democratic debate....The two front-runners beating each other over the head, and the other two winning all the points on the actual issues....

Told you were were going to a fight, and sure enough, a Presidential debate broke out!

Round Two of the above-mentioned fight is scheduled for tomorrow night, except the "adult" won't be there to chastise the kids when they start acting up...

Craig you should stop buying into the "fear factor" myth. 67% of the American people think the war is a mistake and want us the hell out there. So lets see you have the gasping old man clutching at his last chance for White House glory saying we may have to be there for a hundred years. Then you have the wind up Ken Doll of the GOP, who spent half the evening making sure no one thinks he's for a time table. And you think these clowns are electable at this point in time?

One of the reasons the GOP is pushing so hard for Hillary is McCain will look less decrepit up on the debating stage next to her than he will next to Obama.

Corn Pone was my name for Huckabee

Gidgit and I were having similar thoughts.

Of course his formal name would be

Jubilation T. Cornpone

Yep, spike, true!

*weeping*

tt

Lil

My blog is completely different from in here. My first politically related one in months is up, but for the most part it is history, books, music just stuff that interests me.

It is not McCain's age that will do him in, it is that silly smirk. The dems can only hope he will be the choice as he is easy to squash. Mitt is a bit more complicated. Also, Mitt, like AC, has a fascinating 'ancestry.'

So spike
What are the rules tommorrow do they let them go at each other until one is bloody and senseless on the floor.

It would make a good pay per view fund raiser if they would.

If they do my moneys on Hillary in the 2nd round stone cold knockout.
that woman is mean.

Jack

right or wrong, i think mccain would luv to target obama's anti-war statements, instead of the amorphous blob of hrc's war views

Good point, Craig.

tt

I'm looking forward to tomorrow night's debate. I only hope we actually get a chance to hear them talk about issues rather than "gotcha" pop fest.

My view is that Hillary will make McCain look like a not particularly bright old man .. respected but not up to the job.

Obama might look as if he is picking on the old warrior. Not a great image.

Oh blond I think you're really wrong, I think mcCain's age will and should be a big issue. I really do believe he's too old for the job.

But HRC will come with a whole arsenal of who is where, what equipment they have, what the political factions are doing, status of each of the cities and the population and the dates of the last five suicide bombings and number of dead and injured.

McCain will say, "But we have to win"

oh my, you guys are injecting ageism

Yeah Craig, what do you think by election day the democracy fairy is going to wave her magic wand over the green zone and political progress will have been made. I do believe the surge McCain has so vigorously supported was supposed to allow the Iraqis to make political progress.

Fatal mistake for the repugs, talking about Iraq in terms of it being a national security issue, the public at large discarded that notion two years ago. Hello remember the midterms?

Craig

About a year ago BO (Obama) and JM (McCain) had some sort of a confrontation where BO was quite humbled. I remember very little (the scourge of a wino) other than BO being quite humbled and contrite. Do you remember such an incident?

"that woman is mean."

Male speak for "effective" :0

Brian in NYC

You are forgeting about the AARPsters...they vote early.

It will be weird though, if it is McCain who will get the WWII generation vote vs Obama who is the "future generation."

"BO (Obama) and JM (McCain) had some sort of a confrontation where BO was quite humbled" --
Posted by: Blonde wino

nope, i don't, refresh us

gotta end my blogcasting day, nodding off to larry king remembering ronald reagan . . . "it hurts to get shot"

Is this what you were thinking about

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2915397

Read: business time.

That wasn't it.. Pretty sure this is the one

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/07/mccain.obama/index.html

Old people are no more thrilled with this war than any other age group. I don't understand the point of your argument.

jamie

Thanks...and Craig, it hurt to break a leg.

So...eprof2...are you a Jefferson hater then? Or Jefferson lover? I was wondering if there were any left out there.

LAL, I know you've turned in for the night so I hope you'll read this post tomorrow.

I'd have to say that everything in this world isn't black or white as you posit your question to me about loving or hating Jefferson. Both Adams and Jefferson were extremely intelligent people but who were products of their times; thus, they were also flawed human beings then and now. Adams saw to it that the alien and sedition act passed the Congress putting Americans in jail for criticizing American policy and the president of the United States. Jefferson, as a Southern, bought and sold slaves and used Sally Hemmings as his personal concubine fathering a number of children, which he refused to acknowledge. On the other hand, Adams and Jefferson together almost single handedly wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Adams was a driving force for the Constitution of 1789. Thomas Jefferson authored the separation of church and state doctrine for the Virginia colonial legislature (The House of Burgesses) which found its way into the First Amendment of the Constitution. Jefferson and other anti-federalists held out for the Bill of Rights to be included in the Constitution after the work of the Federalists fell short in protecting individuals from the power of the state. Jefferson was a great lover of books and learning, founding the University of Virginia, commonly known as Mr. Jefferson's college.

As a Democrat who leans toward the left as an Independent, I think I have more in common with Jefferson than I do with Adams. Having been a NEH Fellow at Mr. Jefferson's college didn't hurt my prior affection for him as well as seeing the great accomplishments of the second president of the United States, too, all the while recognizing their shortcomings.

No black and white answers from me tonight. (Can I say that during the 2008 elections?)

Brian In NYC

You are right...but I remember the swift boaters (older folks) and their alledged power.

It's business time, Brian. I hope you understand.

Brian my argument?

Brian,

My argument?

no, blonde

I think this election is different. When Kerry ran people had to decide whether they wanted Kerry-No war or Bush- The war to continue.

If Hillary or Obama is elected, I don't think they can do anything about it other than maybe have clearer goals and timetables. But the timteables will probably not work out either,

eprof2 -- " On the other hand, Adams and Jefferson together almost single handedly wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776."

Couldn't one argue that was in fact George Mason who was a major force behind the writing of the Declaration, or did he provide more of the style as opposed to the substance?

Adams and Jefferson died on the same day July 4, 1826

Supposedly, Adams last words were about Jefferson but there are variations "Does Jefferson Still Live?" or "Jefferson survives"

It was the 50th anniversary of the Declaration and he had come to believe that Jefferson despite their differences was still a protector of it he could trust.

The two men died only hours apart believing the other was still alive.

Brain (read Brian)

Business time.

Night all.

Spike

Not the Declaration, that was Adams and Jefferson. Mason was The Bill of Rights for the Constitution based upon the list of rights he wrote for Virginia.

There were more than 70 delegates to the Constitutional Convention in the summer of 1787, George Mason amongst them. Mason was very involved in the writing of the Virginia Bill of Rights and continued that work to make sure there was a Bill of Rights attached to the new national Constitutional as well. So, his contributions, along with James Madison and George Washington, stand out as significant behind Adams. Incidentally, Jefferson didn't attend the Constitutional Convention as he was in France as the American Ambassador under the Articles of Confederation, the first American "constitution" after Independence.

In honor of John Edwards
My latest,
Cost of the Iraq war

For the cost of one year of the Iraq war we could:

Give ever adult in in the US a $400.00 hair cut and have enough left over for a cheapo tip of $44.

Or my barber could give everybody in the world a haircut , with enough left over for a double duce of budwiser beer so we could all set on the curb and talk about the experience.

Or we could put it in micro loans for the third world poor. Think of the return on that. What a way to fight terrorism. We are wasting over there every year enough money to give the world a 15 dollar hair cut. Three of those hair cuts will buy a goat, 20 of them a roto tiller so a family can raise crops plus some to eat and so on. Also since its a loan it's the gift that keeps on giving. Just like we're doing in Iraq only for good not evil.

Jack
nite all

That's like this "stimulous" package. Once that money is spent, it is gone. The same amount of spent on some sort of WPA would create jobs, refurbish infrastructure, clean up the nation forest. Anything take you pick.

It would put the money back in the market for jobs and business creation and you would have something to point to that the country needed.

Good Night all, be nice and have a good time.

one more thing a little music to accompany my last post.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0

Jack

In the end it's all going to come down to the party of peace, the party of war. We've been at war for 6 years, the country is bone weary of it.

It is a phony war. Good night, again.

eprof2 -- "Not the Declaration, that was Adams and Jefferson. Mason was The Bill of Rights for the Constitution based upon the list of rights he wrote for Virginia"

Thanks for the refresher. I remember him being one of the "unsung heros" of the founders, but I enjoyed the 70s just enough to be a bit foggy on the details...

eprof2 -- got a Mason biography you might recommend?

Hey We're made in the shade now;
the Hulkster gave Obaman his endorsement :)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/30/obama-is-latest-to-receiv_n_84036.html

Whether the war is phony or not is not really my point. Can we move beyond trite talking points.

I note that Carl Bernstein admitted tonite that Hillary 's beliefs were closer to Edwards than Obamas were...He said when Bill was in office, she argued vehemently with him about NAFTA, but he didnt listen to her...Go Hillary!!!!!

If it's a phony war should we call all the gold star parents and tell them "just kidding"

Ah,Brain, (read Brian). I have insomnia...perhaps, too much wine. No, the parents do not need to be told this is/was a phony war in Iraq They know. Why hurt them more than the passage of time?? I can tell you are a thinking man. I hope you are a fun man, too.

don't kid yourself....HRC knew what she was doing...there are no "peace candidates" who are successful, America is bloodthirsty and wants warmongers at 1600 .
2/3 of Americans want the war over? Maybe, but how many will vote on that issue?
I posted this earlier, maybe a week ago, but I'll say it again:
If HRC runs against McCain , McCain can bluster all he wants about "100 years more in Iraq", but HRC can throw it right back at him...she voted for the war and every funding call...they're both war-lovers, and everything Hillary has said about ending the war has trap doors...she can easily spin out of it and her record puts her on even-tilt with McCain on the war.
Just look how far out true peace candidates got! Gravel and Kucinich were ridiculed and dismissed early!
Bill Richardson should have the nomination all locked up if people wanted peace...and he's long gone.
Woman, African American, Hispanic...but the true peace candidate of those three never had a chance, and I believe he was drummed out was because they knew he meant business about getting out of Iraq...and this is unacceptable to the powers who install these people we have to choose from.
McCain and Romney trading barbs tonight really bored me...
McCain's putdowns of Romney were mildly entertaining, but were just repeats of earlier statements.
McCain was just rude when Paul spoke, batting his eyes and grinning like a madman.
McCain does seem confident...Romney seemed too eager.

Good Morning C-listers, and friends of all persuasions and loyalties....

Well, just when things at work are wrapping up and basketball season is winding down, and i am ready to wade into C-List with my loudmouth opinions, there is now a possibility that i will have to spend time away from the computer again due to an illness in my family. I may have to be in Mississippi for a few days and might be off the grid. Prayers and good thoughts would be appreciated. For now at least, here's another of my dispatches from Georgia. Hillary won the day , appearing in three locations here and getting favorable ink. Her timing was good considering the fairly large amount of Edwards people here.

http://theaginghipster.blogspot.com/2008/01/georgia-presidential-primary-5-days-out.html

Have a great day!

Once again, the illustrious Dexter nails it.

McCain lost in 2000 because he's nothing more than a big goof.......enough of John McCain.....Hagel would eat his lunch were they to debate war and what this Iraq business means to america and the gop no-bid war profiteers who love it.

Jon Stewart on the Democratic response to the SOTU speech:

But Stewart didn't let Democrats off easy either. Kathleen Sebelius, the Governor of Kansas, Stewart called Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius's response "flat and boring" and said that her "lack of human-ness" meshed perfectly with her Borg-ish message to the President to unite with Democrats (she says "join us" at least 4 times). Most insultingly, however, Sebelius implied that no one outside the "heartland" honors and respects troops. "Really?" joked Stewart, "because here in the northeast we just take dumps in boxes and send them to the troops. We call them an East Hampton Sorbet."

David Letterman's take on the SOTU speech at crooksandliars.com
first or second story.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/

for dave's take

He keeps calling tax breaks for millionaires "relief." Why do people making over $250,000 need "relief"?

---david corn

Morning Everybody,

Morning Joe with "Roadhouse Joe" coffee. Nothing better.

I just could not watch another debate. The Edwards end was depressing. Even if I was for Obama, I thought Edwards was doing an awesome job at redirecting both Clinton and Obama from so much sniping. AND then at that point rediscoverd exactly why I liked Edwards so much.

He is a little to left for me fiscally, but his compassion AND passion for the impoverished is inspiring.

He is more and more looking like the Sargent Shriver of our generation. I hope the future shows another Cabinet position, in the same venue as Shriver, is created to Iradicate Poverty in America.

However, as in Shriver's fight for the poor, the same road block is looming before us. A WAR. A war that is sucking every cent out of the pockets of every american. Especially that poor.

Sargent Shriver was forced to give up after a long winded fight with congress and eventually his programs like Job Corps and Vista were drained and sidelined.

I wonder how much longer we will have to wait before this very programs are streamlined for the present and reintroduced....

Just my meandering this morning.

Ghost Hunters and UFO Hunters was a perfect subistute to last night's Debate. ;0) I'm not sure how I feel about tonights. We'll see.

Craig,
You were actually your old self and quite sharp and funny here on the blog last night.

A pleasure to see our Cahoona enjoying himself!

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