Peripatetic Pursuits

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I agree. America will win if McCain is the President.
Hillary 2012!!!

Another Hillary supporter for McCain here, and there are millions of us who aren’t fooled by the arrogant, elitist, sexist, empty-suited, flip-flopping, teleprompter needing, racial-church attending, whose bitter wife hates America Obama.
McCain is the right choice for America in 08….Hillary in ’12!

can we just clarify that the small amount of people who are denegrating all the other Hillary supporters who put their country ahead of their own self-centered anger and whacked grudge bologne…
are not fooled by facts…they are only fooled by their own blind spite…like a 5th grader.
Obama will be President despite the human weakness that you show…which is part and parcel of what got Bush elected in the first place.
duh.

OBAMA 08 YEAH BABY!

The national issues amplify the divided electorate. Foreign visits emphasize the topics on which there is more unity so it is worth taking the hiatus time between now and the convention to attempt to seize these issues and bulwark a lead. In a race that is likely to be very tight at the end, some early gains are worth getting.
When Jan Wenner goes on CNN and tells us Barack is Better Because He GETS Bob Dylan, then we know the generational guilt-nostalgia has overcome any semblance of reason in picking a candidate. The office is being sold to the best image campaign.
Now, will the electorate buy this or did the relentless pounding of Hillary Clinton wake them up to the nonsense? We’ll see.

as we go along this election season,
it will slowly sink into the conscience of the american voter, as we watch and listen to obama or mccain,
what a mistake we have made, with either obama or mccain.
many will be in denial,and will not admit it, and will defend their choice in face of the fact neither mccain or obama are really up to the job of POTUS.
just like the many who voted for geo. bush the second time. (I think he actually lost the first election-and the supreme court ruled in favor of him-because it is padded that way)
and now what do you hear from people who actually voted for bush say?
“Sorry”
I think we are in for a lot of “Sorry”
with either mccain or obama.
this is a further dumbing down of the presidency. It started with bush, and will continue with obama or mccain.

it really makes no difference where they are at home or overseas,
we as a people will realize that everytime either gets before a mike, we will have to keep fingers crossed, and be on pins and needles hoping they just don’t mess up. regardless of whatever stupid thing they maybe saying, we are to the point-”please, just don’t mess up
It is a pain to the intellect to have to listen to mccain or obama.
obama says NOTHING better than anyone i know. He is absolutely GREAT at it.
and mccain-oh my god. mccain, forget it.
if none of the above were on the ballot in the fall.
none of the above would win in a landslide.
and they both are boring in their own particular way.

as i read all of the post here, it is clear, all on here realize the only thing to do is this petty bickering about birth certificates, and where someone was born, because there really is NOTHING to either mccain or obama,
they will less than average as president,
saying obama will be better than bush,
is really not saying anything, ANYONE
WOULD BE BETTER THAN BUSH.
so please stop using that line in defense of obama.
and mccain, oh my god, mccain…
With mccain or obama as president the american people will suffer

I used to really respect McCain’s war hero status until he started using it in his campaign ads. I don’t think it makes him better suited to handle our foreign policy. He was/is for the war in Iraq and doesn’t have a plan to bring the troops home. For him, as long as they’re not getting killed, they can just stay there. That’d be fine with him. And he will not use diplomacy to deal with Iran. He will just bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran. If Bush doesn’t beat him to it.
I’m going with Obama who will bring common sense to our foreign policy. McCain, McWar, McDraft. No thanks.

The foreign trip could backfire if it only manages to shed more light on Obama’s “experience” problem through perhaps a verbal gaffe or controversial comments in the war zones.

W, you wrote: “…and now what do you hear from people who actually voted for bush say? ‘Sorry’.”
Not from me! I thank God that George W. Bush was ELECTED TWICE. President Bush has shown incredible courage in taking his stand against the Islamic extremists. He is couragous in sticking to his core principals even when the wind of public opinion shifted. President Bush realizes that the only way to win this jihad against Western Civilization is through the spreading of democracy throughout the Middle East; solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the two-state solution; and eliminating the Islamic academic curricula of hatred of Israel and western culture. President Bush also realizes that winning this jihad will require much patience and incredible sacrifice.

President Bush also realizes that winning this jihad will require much patience and incredible sacrifice.
Posted by: James Danley | Jun 30, 2008 10:50:41 AM
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Yea, sacrifice of US tax dollars and US soliders lives.
Not so much for Halliburton.

jmc663, NO, Sen. McCain doesn’t see how it matters that he hasn’t personally pumped his own gas! Of course the price of gas matters! Why else do you think he is admant about removing the ban on offshore drilling!

well obama from his own mouth said he was not ready, so what did he do to change?
someone posted that maybe obama saw how the country has gone down in the last two years since he said he was not ready.
so he saw the country worsen and he thought, “well i said i was not prepared, i am not prepared, but i will run for president anyway”
i see that as being all most like
a building is burning and there are qualifed firemen there, but because i see it is getting worse i say
I am going to run in and try to put out the fire. knowing full well i am not a fireman.
it is plain from the post here, you all know you this election is and has been out of the hands of the people,
and we will all suffer for it.
that is why you all keep attacking each other, and saying rude things about each

We the American people HAVE suffered under the Republican Bush Admn. Since McCain agrees with Bush on 90% of his programs and has said that the economy has done better under Bush, he is an extension of the Bush programs. America wants change; which ain’t McCain!

marie,
The goal of the surge was not to end violence, but to allow the Iraq’s to establish a sound government.
Since that has not happened, Obama is right to say the surge is not working.

jmc. I know. I agree with that. I was saying that I do not agree with the people who say that the surge is working. It is not.

McCain in 2008, Obama is only taking these trips for political gain, and meeting with France, pleazzzzzze!
Remember Hilary Supporters if Obama wins then Hilary is out of ever running again!!

spock wrote:
Remember Hilary Supporters if Obama wins then Hilary is out of ever running again!!
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Please…after her crying and whining about everything and her supporters tiny temper tantrums, it will be a long time before anyone gets solidly behind another woman candidate for POTUS.
She should have been Margaret Thatcher, instead she was Shrinking Violet.

spock and chris,
hillary is out.
so leave her out.
don’t try and change this suject of obama and mccain.
thanks to all of you we have who we have and all of us need to start letting that fact sink in.
we have obama and mccain.
so lets all focus on obama and mccain.
hillary is back at work in her day job.
spock,
obama does not need or want sen. clinton,
try to leave the hillary stuff out now.

so now it is all about the crowds one or the other will draw…
sad state of affairs.

so now it is all about the crowds one or the other will draw…
sad state of affairs.
Posted by: w | Jun 30, 2008 12:12:12 PM
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Use your head just a little, it goes to show what the rest of the world thinks of the candidates.
McCain is not a favorite on the world stage. He is seen as Bush III and is all for invading Iran. That will probably start WWIII, since Iraq and Russia and China will most likely side with Iran. Not to mention Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Obama is seen as one who will use diplomacy first, something the rest of the world advocates.
The world has seen enough cowboy diplomacy.

jmc663, you still take the comment out of context. IF Sen. McCain doesn’t remember when he pumped his own gas the last time, he certainly won’t remember how much it cost the last time he did pump his own gas. IF the reporter wanted to know whether Sen. McCain knew what the average person is currently paying for his or her gas he should have asked THAT question. Instead the reporter asked how much did it cost Sen. McCain the last time he pumped his own gas!
Now then, Sen. McCain should have realized this was a trap and expanded on his answer instead of just saying, “I don’t see how it matters (that I don’t recall when I pumped my own gas or how much it cost back then).” He should have just answered with: “The question you really are asking is whether I understand the pain of the American people. YES, I know they are paying over $4.00 per gallon of gas…and that’s why we need to drill here and drill now”

when was the last time obama pumped gas?

we american’ all, really need to rearrange our lives so we as a people have LESS dependency on oil in the first
place.
I hope the oil prices and gas will continue to go up. it will FORCE us to start living differently.
lessen the need for gas in your personal lives will help us get off the oil.

when was the last time obama pumped gas?
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Don’t know, but I bet he’d remember. McCain seems to feel that if it’s not something he knows or remembers, it’s not important. Now that’s an elitist!

I think Obama will have a Kennedyesque sort of welcome in Europe, in contrast to the Bush visits and McCain’s. His visiting of Europe will rekindle the almost forgotten days of international respect.

James wrote:
But there is another problem. We have NOT had a new oil refinery built in over 20 years. Attempts to build new refineries have been consistently blocked by the environmentalists and the Democrats.
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And by the people who are living where the refineries are to be built.
Where do YOU live? Can we put the refinery in your backyard. Have you ever been near a refinery? We have one here in Detroit and a friend lives near it. Let me tell you, it’s horrible. Tehy can’t keep anything outside for long and no plants will grow in their yard. And they are raising children in that atmosphere. And my friend had 3 miscarriages. I don’t know for sure if the two are related, but I know I wouldnt take a chance with my childrens lives, would YOU?

Len- ” I hope Putin doesn’t size him up as a lightweight and decide it’s time for Russia to invade Iran . . .
Since Russia and Iran presently have an oil partnership, I doubt if Putin has any interest in invading Iran for oil. There’s some speculation that it’s a US interest for that. It’s debatable that the traditional Muslim countries, which were once Soviet satellites, need or receive provocation from Iran.
Paraphrase: “Kennedy brought us close to WW3. ..”
Kennedy inherited the cold war. He’s more known historically for averting the Soviet missile crisis in Cuba than bringing the world to the precipice of WWW3.
No, Michelle Obama doesn’t speak fluent French, but neither did Jackie, who spoke some French.

James danley
Get over oil, im not going to make the oil companies any more money, they cant have my coasts
lets look into natural renewable resources

michelle does not speak french.

jmc663, then don’t complain about the high price of gas!
Posted by: James Danley | Jun 30, 2008 1:24:36 PM
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First of all you didn;t answer my question….can we have YOUR backyard?
Second, drilling isn’t the answer. Breaking our dependance on foreign oil is.
Had the US taken this seriously in the 70′s we would be closer to a solution now. But we got lazy and complacent.

@kat and jmc:
There is a famous quote from Kennedy about being the man who accompanied Jackie to France. DeGaulle was besotted with her. She was the jewel in the crown of an otherwise deeply flawed man who’s leadership grew but never came to fruition. He had a lot of deficits in a time when the press was good at hiding them. He had a lot of good qualities but remember when he went to Dallas it was because it was apparent he was heading for a defeat in 1964. In the myth of camelot, we tend to forget just how negative his numbers had become.
Putin might defend Iran but he might not. The CIA has said for some time that Russia has more to fear from Muslim extremism than the west. Putin can and has been a lot more draconian about holding this in check. Today Russia has lots of oil but getting to warm water ports is still desirable. The middle east remains a double edged sword for all of its sponsors.
But the point was to say that comparisons to JFK feel better now in the rosy glow of hindsight than the reality at the time. Obama needs an image and one is being created for him. The rough feeling of safety vs threat as the election draws nearer will be the determinant of which candidate is a better bet given a lack of firm convictions or qualifications.
Obama needs Clinton. It’s a hard sell but only because of arrogance in the Obama camp. Even then, I’m not sure it’s enough. I just know I would feel a lot better about an Obama administration with her in it. I don’t know if that is good for her. I know it is good for the country. We’ve rough sledding ahead and we need our best dogs at the front of pack.

Energy? This is one where all the blind men have a piece of the elephant aptly described but badly named.
1. We need petroleum for things other than gas, eg, fertilizer. We don’t have to drive. We do have to eat.
2. It will be a combination of efforts that will reduce dependency on foreign suppliers but today that means dependency on Canada where we get most of our imports. Reducing demand can help at least shorten the pipeline but we will still be dependent.
3. We still need to drill and build refineries. See 1 and 4. If we start now, we’ll be just about ready when the real crunch hits. Today’s crunch is manipulated. The next wave will be a real supply problem not a demand problem. If it takes ten years, c’est la vie. It’s time to get truckin’.
4. High gas prices are here to stay. We hate it but we can adapt. The upside is they are forcing the needed change in our consumption habits and they are reversing globalization.
Ask yourselves who globalization actually helps in terms of profits? While this can’t be entirely reversed, transportation costs go up proportional to distance roughly and China is a very long haul. Jobs are returning to America first in a trickle but soon in a steady pour.
Debate various issues, but until the two parties issue their platforms, we’ve not much meat in this salad that can’t be taken away at the chef’s whim. Once the party platforms and VP choices are on the table, we’ll have something real to chew.

See Libs like playing both sides, they cry we need to get off dependency of Foreign oil but then they yell we can not drill here, we can not build nuclear, we can not build refineries, we can not build windmills, Like Dr. No aka Obama they say no to everything.
The minute we start drilling the cost of a barrel of oil will drop 40$ instantly, ytou ask why, it is a futures market, if more oil is coming on line then the future price will go down!! Did you notice the minute Pres. Bush gave his speech on opening ANWAR just by the speech oil dropped 5$, then the libs in Congress put a hold on it and it went back up!
We have enough oil here to last us 80 tears at full consumption for us.
The liberals are going to bankrupt this country and kill millions here, the same as they done in Africa and Soviet Union and other places!!

McCain has the perfect balance on the war “Invade more, maim more, kill more” Right on!

It’s Colombia – with two o’s – not a u. That’s Barry O’s school in NYC.

kdbono
well you have said it all, and said it very well.
what you have written today, is some of what many of us had been saying for Months.
obama is not all he claims, even with all of the grooming he has received.
it is horrible for my black community to have THIS black guy as the first black president.
because he is not ready. and it will eventually plain to black people because of his ineptness, it will be a long time before we have a black candidate again.
obama is not the one.
the dems will lose.

Why are you not reporting the ACORN mess?