You bought the bull, horns and all, didn't ya?

• You all know the old saying... - Chele
  • how do you know so much about what obama wants, rather odd - MTPockets
    • your words - dnh
  • What an ignorant post - me
    • Come live in my town. I'll take you for a tour of the - moochers..........nm
      • I'd rather eat glass than spend a single minute - in the presence of such bigotry. Eeewww. nm
  • You are expressing a lof of our concerns and fears - hmmm
  • Have you always been this hateful toward the poor? - McCain camp rhetoric that clearly indicates...sm
    • You bought the bull, horns and all, didn't ya? - sm
      • sometimes you have to spell - it out! LOL n/m
    • Chele is not hateful or heartless, but honest. - Something the left is unable to do.nm
    • You need to get some education in taxes - citizenship.......just keeps getting better!!!
      • You're rambling incoherently again. - I certainly do not need tax education...sm
        • Sorry, but I can do better than that - if that's all you got.....
          • The definition of insanity is doing the same thing - over and over and expecting....sm
            • Wow. In the time it took me to post, market lost another - 135 points. Make that 735 give or take....sm
              • Is that supposed to be scarey? We're already there. - Fear is such a bore. I'll take change anyday.
              • Yes I can and it's called POVERTY - MSMT
        • Just goes to show everyone doesn't become wise with age. nm - Common sense at all?
          • OK, all together now. - Which candidate has the....sm
            • Doesn't make him my leader..... - I'm not so weak minded......nm
          • You're right. Sadly enough you've wasted your - days at college.......nm
            • At least I am smart enough to know - a Bush clone when I see one....sm
              • Just NOT smart enough to NOT follow the sheeps - to the slaughter.......nm
                • Do you have anything of substance to say? - Insults and slurs don't qualify.
    • I do not hate poor people! - Chele
      • Have you been a coma since the 70s? - Did you sleep through welform reform in the 90s?
        • Oh, stop that garbage!!! - sm
          • Wow, I wish I had the - lom
            • Funny, you seem to know he will fix your little - red wagon without question
            • Don't need psychic powers. Just talk to a business - owner ..... sm
      • It would be nice - if
        • This pub party rhetoric is at least 50 years old. - Can you come up with something that....sm
          • You don't think that in the 21st century people - should help themselves?
            • If you lose your ability to work, you're gonna need it - too. Our jobs are almost history.
            • Guess not. 50-year-old rhetoric - does not win elections.
    • Very succinctly said . . . - lom
    • where are the cuts coming from? - i'm curious about
      • Once source we can look forward to where - nobody loses anything is...sm
        • Agree with that but where is the other 3 trillion - coming from ?
          • that 5% rich... - dnh
          • How about from the salaries of the stuffed shirts - running management-heavy companies
        • Wow, spot on . . .10 billions dollars a month . . . - lom
  • Seriously, have you ever considered an antipsychotic? - lom
    • We know your beliefs....... O lover - sm
    • nice - typical response
      • Right, nothing psychotic, simply common sense. - The hate continues to flow out of the left.nm
    • When you have nothing to say.... nm - Just spout sarcastic nonsense.

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Maybe pit bulls with lipstick on are a bit more friendly.  Lots of pit bull owners (those whose pits don't wear lipstick) end up in court.  Just last week some idjit took her pit bull mommy with pups to the public park.  Pit bull attacked an 80 some odd year old man who just happened to be walking past minding  his own business.  Haven't heard if the poor old fellow survived, last I heard he was in critical condition.

The county put the pit bull down, don't know what happened to the pups.  If I were Palin I wouldn't want to associate myself with pit bulls with or without lipstick.  That's all I gotta say about that......for now anyway.

From Fortune, CNN Money.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/06/news/newsmakers/emanuel_easton.fortune/?postversion=2008110613

Son of a terrorist link below

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

I'm talking about just having the ability to commit your loved one to whatever facility you choose for treatment.  The reason we have so many crazy homeless people out there isn't because fo Regeanomics or lack of federally funded programs.  It is because the liberals are so intent on protecting the rights of the individual to the extend that it actually becomes harmful to the individual.  Sure, civil rights are important and sacred, but to what degree to we allow a person to harm themselves?  What risks do we endure so that our schizophrenic neighbor's right not to take medication is protected?

How do you feel about it? I feel its bad timing no matter who the buyer was since the economy is in such a state right now even though the money was donated to the Historical Society to buy them. I know they can do whatever they want with it but it just seems so wrong to me when so many Americans are hurting.

I was reading some on another site and one person made the comment that it would look bad on the US if they had to eat on mismatched plates at their big dinners...and yes she was serious. That comment just doesn't make sense to me. Doesn't it look worse on the US when their are Americans loosing their homes and living on the streets or in cars and not even knowing where their next meal will come from let alone whether or not they even have a plate to eat it on.

There are just some things that just make me want to go huh?

Look, I don't care if Obama's inaugaration party is costing 21 million, but in the light of where our economy is right now, do you think it's a good idea? I mean, can't you have a good party for around 10 million? This is NOT a political question. I'm not attacking Obama, it's more of an economic question.

his own personal reasons.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050620/why_george_went_to_war.php

The Downing Street memos have brought into focus an essential question: on what basis did President George W. Bush decide to invade Iraq? The memos are a government-level confirmation of what has been long believed by so many: that the administration was hell-bent on invading Iraq and was simply looking for justification, valid or not.

Despite such mounting evidence, Bush resolutely maintains total denial. In fact, when a British reporter asked the president recently about the Downing Street documents, Bush painted himself as a reluctant warrior. "Both of us didn't want to use our military," he said, answering for himself and British Prime Minister Blair. "Nobody wants to commit military into combat. It's the last option."

Yet there's evidence that Bush not only deliberately relied on false intelligence to justify an attack, but that he would have willingly used any excuse at all to invade Iraq. And that he was obsessed with the notion well before 9/11—indeed, even before he became president in early 2001.

In interviews I conducted last fall, a well-known journalist, biographer and Bush family friend who worked for a time with Bush on a ghostwritten memoir said that an Iraq war was always on Bush's brain.

"He was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999," said author and Houston Chronicle journalist Mickey Herskowitz. "It was on his mind. He said, 'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief.' And he said, 'My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it.' He went on, 'If I have a chance to invade…, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency.'"

Bush apparently accepted a view that Herskowitz, with his long experience of writing books with top Republicans, says was a common sentiment: that no president could be considered truly successful without one military "win" under his belt. Leading Republicans had long been enthralled by the effect of the minuscule Falklands War on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's popularity, and ridiculed Democrats such as Jimmy Carter who were reluctant to use American force. Indeed, both Reagan and Bush's father successfully prosecuted limited invasions (Grenada, Panama and the Gulf War) without miring the United States in endless conflicts.

Herskowitz's revelations illuminate Bush's personal motivation for invading Iraq and, more importantly, his general inclination to use war to advance his domestic political ends. Furthermore, they establish that this thinking predated 9/11, predated his election to the presidency and predated his appointment of leading neoconservatives who had their own, separate, more complex geopolitical rationale for supporting an invasion.

Conversations With Bush The Candidate

Herskowitz—a longtime Houston newspaper columnist—has ghostwritten or co-authored autobiographies of a broad spectrum of famous people, including Reagan adviser Michael Deaver, Mickey Mantle, Dan Rather and Nixon cabinet secretary John B. Connally. Bush's 1999 comments to Herskowitz were made over the course of as many as 20 sessions together. Eventually, campaign staffers—expressing concern about things Bush had told the author that were included in the manuscript—pulled the project, and Bush campaign officials came to Herskowitz's house and took his original tapes and notes. Bush communications director Karen Hughes then assumed responsibility for the project, which was published in highly sanitized form as A Charge to Keep.

The revelations about Bush's attitude toward Iraq emerged during two taped sessions I held with Herskowitz. These conversations covered a variety of matters, including the journalist's continued closeness with the Bush family and fondness for Bush Senior—who clearly trusted Herskowitz enough to arrange for him to pen a subsequent authorized biography of Bush's grandfather, written and published in 2003.

I conducted those interviews last fall and published an article based on them during the final heated days of the 2004 campaign. Herskowitz's taped insights were verified to the satisfaction of editors at the Houston Chronicle, yet the story failed to gain broad mainstream coverage, primarily because news organization executives expressed concern about introducing such potent news so close to the election. Editors told me they worried about a huge backlash from the White House and charges of an "October Surprise."

Debating The Timeline For War

But today, as public doubts over the Iraq invasion grow, and with the Downing Street papers adding substance to those doubts, the Herskowitz interviews assume singular importance by providing profound insight into what motivated Bush—personally—in the days and weeks following 9/11. Those interviews introduce us to a George W. Bush, who, until 9/11, had no means for becoming "a great president"—because he had no easy path to war. Once handed the national tragedy of 9/11, Bush realized that the Afghanistan campaign and the covert war against terrorist organizations would not satisfy his ambitions for greatness. Thus, Bush shifted focus from Al Qaeda, perpetrator of the attacks on New York and Washington. Instead, he concentrated on ensuring his place in American history by going after a globally reviled and easily targeted state run by a ruthless dictator.

The Herskowitz interviews add an important dimension to our understanding of this presidency, especially in combination with further evidence that Bush's focus on Iraq was motivated by something other than credible intelligence. In their published accounts of the period between 9/11 and the March 2003 invasion, former White House Counterterrorism Coordinator Richard Clarke and journalist Bob Woodward both describe a president single-mindedly obsessed with Iraq. The first anecdote takes place the day after the World Trade Center collapsed, in the Situation Room of the White House. The witness is Richard Clarke, and the situation is captured in his book, Against All Enemies.

On September 12th, I left the Video Conferencing Center and there, wandering alone around the Situation Room, was the President. He looked like he wanted something to do. He grabbed a few of us and closed the door to the conference room. "Look," he told us, "I know you have a lot to do and all…but I want you, as soon as you can, to go back over everything, everything. See if Saddam did this. See if he's linked in any way…"

I was once again taken aback, incredulous, and it showed. "But, Mr. President, Al Qaeda did this."

"I know, I know, but…see if Saddam was involved. Just look. I want to know any shred…" …

"Look into Iraq, Saddam," the President said testily and left us. Lisa Gordon-Hagerty stared after him with her mouth hanging open.

Similarly, Bob Woodward, in a CBS News 60 Minutes interview about his book, Bush At War, captures a moment, on November 21, 2001, where the president expresses an acute sense of urgency that it is time to secretly plan the war with Iraq. Again, we know there was nothing in the way of credible intelligence to precipitate the president's actions.

Woodward: "President Bush, after a National Security Council meeting, takes Don Rumsfeld aside, collars him physically and takes him into a little cubbyhole room and closes the door and says, 'What have you got in terms of plans for Iraq? What is the status of the war plan? I want you to get on it. I want you to keep it secret.'"

Wallace (voiceover): Woodward says immediately after that, Rumsfeld told Gen. Tommy Franks to develop a war plan to invade Iraq and remove Saddam—and that Rumsfeld gave Franks a blank check.

Woodward: "Rumsfeld and Franks work out a deal essentially where Franks can spend any money he needs. And so he starts building runways and pipelines and doing all the necessary preparations in Kuwait specifically to make war possible."

Bush wanted a war so that he could build the political capital necessary to achieve his domestic agenda and become, in his mind, "a great president." Blair and the members of his cabinet, unaware of the Herskowitz conversations, placed Bush's decision to mount an invasion in or about July of 2002. But for Bush, the question that summer was not whether, it was only how and when. The most important question, why, was left for later.

Eventually, there would be a succession of answers to that question: weapons of mass destruction, links to Al Qaeda, the promotion of democracy, the domino theory of the Middle East. But none of them have been as convincing as the reason George W. Bush gave way back in the summer of 1999.

in AR's post that she was against it.  Instead, she acted as if the topic has no place on this board and shouldn't be discussed... like some kind of dirty little secret.

The *attack the messenger* technique has been used constantly in the last 5 years by the current administration (and his followers) when someone gets too close to the truth.  Don't believe me?  Ask Valerie Plame.

Same old.  Same old. 

But, it IS the RNC, so they are damned either way with socialists oops I mean democRATS like yourself. 

I received a call from an friend who was so upset and said Obama called Palin a pig in lipstick.  I responded, surely no, you must be mistaken.  Obama is running for office of the President of the United States.  Why would he ruin his chances of winning by calling this lady a pig.  That doesn't sound like rational behavior for a presidential candidate.  However, to my surprise I opened several different news sources (both liberal and conservative) and sure enough he did.  I'm thinking why, why in the world would you fall down that path of being so low that you would call Palin a pig saying "you can put lipstick on a pig and it will still be a pig".  If he was trying to make a joke in reference to her joke about the difference between a soccer mom and a pit bull is lipstick, this joke could not have come at a worse time for him.  How in the world is he going to explain that one.

Shame shame Barack Obama.  This has to be one of the lowest comments anyone can make about another candidate. - Not funny!  Why would you go and ruin any chance you had that people may have thought you had a little bit of "class" to you.

I haven't watched MSNBC but am curious as to how they are going to respond.  How can they support someone when this is his opinion of other people.

Talk about low class.  One more reason I will not be voting democrat this election.