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Or we could do what the Dems do and feel sorry for everyone and pay all their bills...Always remember that you are stupid and the Democratic leadership knows what is best for you and your money!
Agreed!
WAY TO GO JOE!!!!
Reid not happy with Lieberman’s speech
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was not happy with Sen. Joe Lieberman’s speech before the Republican National Convention Tuesday night.
"Senator Reid was very disappointed in Senator Lieberman’s speech tonight,” Reid spokesman, Jim Manley, told CNN. “As the American people have made very clear, the last thing this country needs is another four years of the same old failed Bush-McCain policies of the past."
In particular, the Nevada Democrat took issue with Lieberman’s assertion that Obama has not crossed party lines.
Lieberman’s statement that “Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young… but, my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record, not in these tough times for America” also drew Reid’s ire, Manley said.
Your a funny guy....
No problem...
Strap in or you just strapped one on?
Coming soon to a bottomless pit near you...
She will do just fine...
Nice....Go fill up the cars!
AMEN!
It's what you do with the unexpected in life that proves what and who you are.
I love it...
I hear ya...
"Hillary is the most intelligent modern political figure"
LMFAO!!!
NEVER FORGET..... GOD BLESS THE USA!
See that we agree on something related to politics....YEAH!
I know you understand my point! Why do we have lifers? There incentive is not to help us regular folk...
"getting elected to anything" I think a lot of it begins and could end there. Please tell me why anyone has any business being in office for life? Honest to God term limits would fix some of that until they figured a way around it. Also how about capping the salary at $125K?
Are you kidding me? They are all corrupt and we continue to allow it to go on. And to answer your next question no I'm not a nut job but one who has observed politics for some time now.
Thats why I'm not worried about it. I'll ASSUME they did the background check into these issue's...
That sounds like a family issue to me. All will be interesting as usual...
Well that should be easy to clear up. My God one would think that the background check and such would have been thorough enough to uncover that story... I'm not buying that one!
Are people saying she wasn't pregnant?
Yikes!
San Diego please....and thanks again for another year!
I'm a paid basher...
YIKES!!!
With respect to Joe Biden: Nothing says "Change" quite like a senior citizen who has been a senator since the Nixon administration.
Unbelievably horrible pick for Obama. It is clear that he started with the idea of unity (DNC '04) and then change and now he has been swallowed up into the political machinery of the democratic party.
If your not smart enough to vote for McCain then perhaps you are dumb enough to vote for Clinton II.... I mean Obama!
Yep I agree he is not to be trusted or voted for...
Let’s go back and consider how the world looked in the winter of 2006-2007. Iraq was in free fall, with horrific massacres and ethnic cleansing that sent a steady stream of bad news across the world media. The American public delivered a stunning electoral judgment against the Iraq war, the Republican Party and President Bush.
Expert and elite opinion swung behind the Baker-Hamilton report, which called for handing more of the problems off to the Iraqi military and wooing Iran and Syria. Republicans on Capitol Hill were quietly contemptuous of the president while Democrats were loudly so.
Democratic leaders like Senator Harry Reid considered the war lost. Barack Obama called for a U.S. withdrawal starting in the spring of 2007, while Senator Reid offered legislation calling for a complete U.S. pullback by March 2008.
The arguments floating around the op-ed pages and seminar rooms were overwhelmingly against the idea of a surge — a mere 20,000 additional troops would not make a difference. The U.S. presence provoked violence, rather than diminishing it. The more the U.S. did, the less the Iraqis would step up to do. Iraq was in the middle of a civil war, and it was insanity to put American troops in the middle of it.
When President Bush consulted his own generals, the story was much the same. Almost every top general, including Abizaid, Schoomaker and Casey, were against the surge. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was against it, according to recent reports. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki called for a smaller U.S. presence, not a bigger one.
In these circumstances, it’s amazing that George Bush decided on the surge. And looking back, one thing is clear: Every personal trait that led Bush to make a hash of the first years of the war led him to make a successful decision when it came to this crucial call.
Bush is a stubborn man. Well, without that stubbornness, that unwillingness to accept defeat on his watch, he never would have bucked the opposition to the surge.
Bush is an outrageously self-confident man. Well, without that self-confidence he never would have overruled his generals.
In fact, when it comes to Iraq, Bush was at his worst when he was humbly deferring to the generals and at his best when he was arrogantly overruling them. During that period in 2006 and 2007, Bush stiffed the brass and sided with a band of dissidents: military officers like David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno, senators like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, and outside strategists like Fred Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute and Jack Keane, a retired general.
Bush is also a secretive man who listens too much to Dick Cheney. Well, the uncomfortable fact is that Cheney played an essential role in promoting the surge. Many of the people who are dubbed bad guys actually got this one right.
The additional fact is that Bush, who made such bad calls early in the war, made a courageous and astute decision in 2006. More than a year on, the surge has produced large, if tenuous, gains. Violence is down sharply. Daily life has improved. Iraqi security forces have been given time to become a more effective fighting force. The Iraqi government is showing signs of strength and even glimmers of impartiality. Iraq has moved from being a failed state to, as Vali Nasr of the Council on Foreign Relations has put it, merely a fragile one.
The whole episode is a reminder that history is a complicated thing. The traits that lead to disaster in certain circumstances are the very ones that come in handy in others. The people who seem so smart at some moments seem incredibly foolish in others.
The cocksure war supporters learned this humbling lesson during the dark days of 2006. And now the cocksure surge opponents, drunk on their own vindication, will get to enjoy their season of humility. They have already gone through the stages of intellectual denial. First, they simply disbelieved that the surge and the Petraeus strategy was doing any good. Then they accused people who noticed progress in Iraq of duplicity and derangement. Then they acknowledged military, but not political, progress. Lately they have skipped over to the argument that Iraq is progressing so well that the U.S. forces can quickly come home.
But before long, the more honest among the surge opponents will concede that Bush, that supposed dolt, actually got one right. Some brave souls might even concede that if the U.S. had withdrawn in the depths of the chaos, the world would be in worse shape today.
Life is complicated. The reason we have democracy is that no one side is right all the time. The only people who are dangerous are those who can’t admit, even to themselves, that obvious fact.
By DAVID BROOKS NY Times
June 24, 2008
McCain will be one of the best Presidents in history just as Bush has been. God Bless Bush!
Nice to finally have a bat....GO BLUE!!!
And the Dem party should be replaced by the don't bother thinking or paying your own way party because we will do both for you PARTY...LOL
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Thank you in advance & God Bless the Republican party! BIDEN LMAO!