Comments on: Reckless McCain http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/reckless-mccain/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: michael http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/reckless-mccain/#comment-28047 michael Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:25:17 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=3026#comment-28047 We can only hope it all comes clear in the debates. Problem is the funny hat wearing repubs at the convention are the types who don't watch the debates. Their decision has been made based on McCain's asinine rhetoric and bullcrap. It seems to me that it is always the "bully in the schoolyard" mentality of the repubs that wins out. The bullies were afraid of everything around them. Crushing spiders because they "might bite me" or bombing whole regions because they "might be a threat". They always beat up on the weaker little poindexters in the schoolyard because they felt inferior to them and were afraid they'd be "shown up" by them somehow. So they bully and spend and weasel their way to power and we all put up with the consequences. The dems on the other hand dare not fight back because their own base doesn't want them to act like the very bullies they want to unseat. A huge catch 22 if ever there was one. I can't wait to see the Biden/Palin debate. It should be most entertaining. If Biden does his homework things will be fine. But if he slips up and looks bad or derisive of Palin the dems are toast. Another Catch 22. We are all pretty much doomed if McCain and Palin are close to the button. How about an Obama Palin ticket? LOL. M We can only hope it all comes clear in the debates. Problem is the funny hat wearing repubs at the convention are the types who don’t watch the debates. Their decision has been made based on McCain’s asinine rhetoric and bullcrap. It seems to me that it is always the “bully in the schoolyard” mentality of the repubs that wins out. The bullies were afraid of everything around them. Crushing spiders because they “might bite me” or bombing whole regions because they “might be a threat”. They always beat up on the weaker little poindexters in the schoolyard because they felt inferior to them and were afraid they’d be “shown up” by them somehow. So they bully and spend and weasel their way to power and we all put up with the consequences. The dems on the other hand dare not fight back because their own base doesn’t want them to act like the very bullies they want to unseat. A huge catch 22 if ever there was one. I can’t wait to see the Biden/Palin debate. It should be most entertaining. If Biden does his homework things will be fine. But if he slips up and looks bad or derisive of Palin the dems are toast. Another Catch 22. We are all pretty much doomed if McCain and Palin are close to the button. How about an Obama Palin ticket? LOL. M

]]> By: Gliscameria http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/reckless-mccain/#comment-28027 Gliscameria Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:24:36 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=3026#comment-28027 “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.” The reason McCain isn't complaining is because we are the ones living with consequences of his actions. All this will be over once the debates start. An ivy league educated middle aged man vs a military educated senior citizen in a debate that had better be about the godamn economy. If they make the debate about national security and 'values' I may puke. Is anyone here worried about little brown men more than paying their mortgage? “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.”
The reason McCain isn’t complaining is because we are the ones living with consequences of his actions.

All this will be over once the debates start. An ivy league educated middle aged man vs a military educated senior citizen in a debate that had better be about the godamn economy. If they make the debate about national security and ‘values’ I may puke.

Is anyone here worried about little brown men more than paying their mortgage?

]]> By: Kirk Muse http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/reckless-mccain/#comment-28026 Kirk Muse Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:21:33 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=3026#comment-28026 Detailed plans don't win elections. Sound bites, methphors and stories do. American “Truth Bites” by Susan C. Strong, Ph.D. Two words. Three. Sometimes four or five at the most. Smart, punchy ones that “got rhythm.” Phrases that grab attention, tell a quick story, sound kind of familiar. Today, friends, that’s what it’s really going to take to save the world, our ecosphere here on planet earth, and our country. If it’s ever going to be “morning in America,” if we are ever truly going to become that “shining city on a hill,” we progressives and our friends in politics had better learn how to create American sound bites as powerful as these. Detailed plans don’t win elections. Sound bites, methphors and stories do.

American “Truth Bites”

by Susan C. Strong, Ph.D.

Two words. Three. Sometimes four or five at the most. Smart, punchy ones
that “got rhythm.” Phrases that grab attention, tell a quick story, sound
kind of familiar. Today, friends, that’s what it’s really going to take to
save the world, our ecosphere here on planet earth, and our country. If it’s
ever going to be “morning in America,” if we are ever truly going to become
that “shining city on a hill,” we progressives and our friends in politics
had better learn how to create American sound bites as powerful as these.

]]> By: Deadbeat http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/reckless-mccain/#comment-28020 Deadbeat Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:08:37 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=3026#comment-28020 <i>People, stop the emotional nonsense and focus on the issues. Go read Obama’s detailed plan for our country for crying out loud.</i> I have to agree. Obama has a plan that will eliminate income taxes for seniors making less than $50,000.00 and he promises to cut taxes for everyone making less than $250,000.00 and raise rates for those above that level. I don't know it seems like some folks here will be very content with McCain/Palin in a kind of a Machiavellian way. People, stop the emotional nonsense and focus on the issues. Go read Obama’s detailed plan for our country for crying out loud.

I have to agree. Obama has a plan that will eliminate income taxes for seniors making less than $50,000.00 and he promises to cut taxes for everyone making less than $250,000.00 and raise rates for those above that level.

I don’t know it seems like some folks here will be very content with McCain/Palin in a kind of a Machiavellian way.

]]> By: Patriot http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/reckless-mccain/#comment-28017 Patriot Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:57:50 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=3026#comment-28017 Since it seems like we don't have enough foreclosed homes and laid off workers, let's vote for another 4 years of Bush. Who cares about the economy, Sarah Palin is a woman, a mother (so are millions of other women, but you don't see them on other presidential tickets)! People, stop the emotional nonsense and focus on the issues. Go read Obama's detailed plan for our country for crying out loud. What would you rather have? Cut taxes for those making over 5 million (=McCain/Bush/Palin) or cut taxes for those making under $250,000 (Obama/Clinton/Biden)? And if that didn't scare you, think of this - remember John Ashcroft, Bush's attorney general? He's been building hundreds of CONCENTRATION CAMPS right here in the US for US citizens who oppose the government to be thrown in indefinitely, with a capacity to hold hundreds of thousands of citizens. Legislature has already been passed legalizing this, but no, Sarah Palin is more important news. Just google it, blind America. Since it seems like we don’t have enough foreclosed homes and laid off workers, let’s vote for another 4 years of Bush. Who cares about the economy, Sarah Palin is a woman, a mother (so are millions of other women, but you don’t see them on other presidential tickets)!

People, stop the emotional nonsense and focus on the issues. Go read Obama’s detailed plan for our country for crying out loud.

What would you rather have? Cut taxes for those making over 5 million (=McCain/Bush/Palin) or cut taxes for those making under $250,000 (Obama/Clinton/Biden)?

And if that didn’t scare you, think of this – remember John Ashcroft, Bush’s attorney general? He’s been building hundreds of CONCENTRATION CAMPS right here in the US for US citizens who oppose the government to be thrown in indefinitely, with a capacity to hold hundreds of thousands of citizens. Legislature has already been passed legalizing this, but no, Sarah Palin is more important news. Just google it, blind America.

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