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Old 09-04-2008, 09:34 PM
 
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Being able to deliver a rousing speech is not high on my list of qualifications for POTUS.
Being able to commuicate effectively is a critical requirement of any leader - especially POTUS
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Old 09-04-2008, 09:36 PM
 
Location: Colorado
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In all truth, the quality of qualification is completely based upon perspective.

Who has the proven judgment to decide which candidate ultimately has more qualification? Fighting for our country is immeasurably honorable, but that does not mean McCain can automatically qualify for President.
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Old 09-05-2008, 01:11 AM
 
Location: Nevada
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Default McCain/Palin 2008

I'll take massive amounts of kool-aid over the very unexperienced, clueless clown who chants " Change ". Common sense wil tell ya he's full of crap.

McCain/Palin


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Keep on drinking that kool-aid.
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Old 09-05-2008, 01:21 AM
 
Location: OC, CA
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Someone who gives a good speech as a nominee.....

.....can brainwash the American people when they become president when they make mistakes.

I would rather have a president who cannot tell lies and cant publically speak well. Obama is the kind of man that will try to cover up all the things he does wrong with a nice little speech. Hitler did that. Speeches are not everything.
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Old 09-05-2008, 01:25 AM
 
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Default Fidel Castro Was Not Boring

Sometimes boring is a good trustful serious person. Fidel Castro promised CHANGE too. My landlord is Cuban, escaped to here at age 10. He's scared to death.

Fidel top 5 lie QUOTES circa 1959:

“I will lead the country to economic and cultural progress without sacrificing individual freedoms.

There is little room in Cuba for communist ideas.â€

Cuban rebels didn’t preach class war.

Promise to restore the Constitution of 1940

The promise of free elections


Here are some even earlier lies by Fidel Castro to Coronet Magazine, February 1958.
Why We Fight
1. First of all and most of all, we are fighting to do away with dictatorship in Cuba and to establish the foundations of genuine representative government.
2. Once appointed, the provisional government's chief task will be to prepare and conduct truly honest general elections within twelve months.
3. The question has presented itself whether I aspire to the presidential office of this provisional government or the elected government which will succeed it. The truth is that, quite apart from my personal reluctance to enter the presidential competition so soon, our Constitution, as it now stands, would prohibit it. Under its age requirement clause, I am, at 31, far too young to be eligible for the presidency, and will remain so for another ten years.
4. Immediate freedom for all political prisoners, civil as well as military.
5. Full and untrammeled freedom of public information for all communication media-- broadcasting, TV, the daily and periodical press. Arbitrary censorship and systematic corruption of journalists has long been one of the festering sores of our nation.
6. We want to reestablish for all citizens the personal and political rights set forth in our much-ignored Constitution.
7. We want to wipe out corruption in Cuban public life.
8. we support speedy industrialization of our national economy and the raising of employment levels.
9. U.S. companies with business interests in Cuba have been repeatedly warned that I have secret plans in my pocket for seizing all foreign holdings. Let me say for the record that we have no plans for the expropriation or nationalization of foreign investments here.
10. And with rising living standards and growing confidence in government will come rapid progress toward political stability under a representative, truly democratic government. That, ultimately, is what we are fighting for.
Babalu Blog: The Only Promise Fidel Castro Ever Kept
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Old 09-05-2008, 01:25 AM
 
Location: Nevada
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Default mcCain/Palin 2008

Well thats how i feel & see it! obama bores me ! Besides what has he really done? And when exactly? This guy was a nobody yesterday and today he's on the way to the Whitehouse? He needs to be stopped, he will , for sure bring is down to depression. Wake up, vote wisely, ignore the media lies!

McCain/Palin 2008


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Someone who gives a good speech as a nominee.....

.....can brainwash the American people when they become president when they make mistakes.

I would rather have a president who cannot tell lies and cant publically speak well. Obama is the kind of man that will try to cover up all the things he does wrong with a nice little speech. Hitler did that. Speeches are not everything.
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Old 09-05-2008, 01:30 AM
 
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Being able to commuicate effectively is a critical requirement of any leader - especially POTUS
Nixon was a terrible communicator and opened up China.

LBJ was a terrible communicator and extremely effective.


Being a strong actor on a stage isn't communicating. It's ACTING. UH HELLO? REAGAN?

Sorry but Palin is the new Bill Clinton in the face to face department....now I don't know if she has the brains to back it...pretty much nobody does...but I have a feeling she's got his political prowess.

OBAMA needs to learn that charm is the number one quality to win people over but he thinks he's too good to bother. THATS where he's getting his gap all this time. No Bubba.
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Old 09-05-2008, 01:45 AM
 
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One more thing...you OBAMA speech lovers are comparing theater to truth.

You can't expect the sober mind of his POW experience baring his soul at the end with humility to be like BArry trying to MAKE himself important.

How do you tell that story with glitz?

Stop falling for Hollywood productions.
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Old 09-05-2008, 01:47 AM
 
Location: OC, CA
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I'll take massive amounts of kool-aid over the very unexperienced, clueless clown who chants " Change ". Common sense wil tell ya he's full of crap.

McCain/Palin
Clueless clown!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE IT!
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