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Location: Everybody is going to hurt you, you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for-B Marley
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I would *hope* that most Americans with the intelligence greater than a walnut would be able to see right through the Ned Flanders persona she had on the debates.
I would *hope* that most Americans with the intelligence greater than a walnut would be able to see right through the acting of all candidates who are all trying to appeal to all people. The best a person can do is vote their conscience and go with whom they're most comfortable.
I bet ned flanders would lower taxes. he would consider it stealing. that gives me an idea. jmarquise/flanders 2012. you heard it here first. diddilly.
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I would *hope* that most Americans with the intelligence greater than a walnut would be able to see right through the Ned Flanders persona she had on the debates.
Of course it's an act. Many of us have been saying that ad nauseum. Her bygolly-geewhiz rhetoric is fake, too. This woman is manipulative and vicious. But she needed a persona to make her "adorable" to the base--and voila!
"manipulative and vicious" looks like someones commin' down with a little PDS. She nailed Biden after he stuck his foot in it on his opening remark. Sarah's inside the dems wire and they know it.
Of course it's an act. Many of us have been saying that ad nauseum. Her bygolly-geewhiz rhetoric is fake, too. This woman is manipulative and vicious. But she needed a persona to make her "adorable" to the base--and voila!
"intelligence greater than a walnut"...well it isn't Biden.
At the beginning of the debate Sen. Biden was asked..
Ifill: The House of Representatives this week passed a bill, a big bailout bill -- or didn't pass it, I should say. The Senate decided to pass it, and the House is wrestling with it still tonight.
As America watches these things happen on Capitol Hill, Senator Biden, was this the worst of Washington or the best of Washington that we saw play out?
Biden: I think it's neither the best or worst of Washington, but it's evidence of the fact that the economic policies of the last eight years have been the worst economic policies we've ever had. As a consequence, you've seen what's happened on Wall Street.
If you need any more proof positive of how bad the economic theories have been, this excessive deregulation, the failure to oversee what was going on, letting Wall Street run wild, I don't think you needed any more evidence than what you see now...blaa, blaa, blaa...
Palin: Now, John McCain thankfully has been one representing reform. Two years ago, remember, it was John McCain who pushed so hard with the Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) reform measures. He sounded that warning bell. People in the Senate with him, his colleagues, didn't want to listen to him and wouldn't go towards that reform that was needed then. I think that the alarm has been heard, though, and there will be that greater oversight, again thanks to John McCain's bipartisan efforts that he was so instrumental in bringing folks together over this past week, even suspending his own campaign to make sure he was putting excessive politics aside and putting the country first.
What Sen. Biden fails to mention is that the White House was pushing for GSE reform in 2003 and every year thereafter, but ran into stiff resistance by democrats that followed party lines closely who were apparently not particularly concerned about “this excessive deregulation”. In 2006 McCain made an impassioned plea for support of S. 190 which he cosponsored with Hagel, Dole and Sanunu. It was opposed by the dems, including Sen. Obama. The same one who mocked Sen. McCain three days ago at one of his rallies-for-the-uninformed by saying “took him three tries to get it done” leaving out the part about how he and the other dems fought it tooth, nail and filibuster. Biden must have been watching those Palin interviews and thought he could get this one past her. But, she nailed him on his and Obama's bold faced lies and complete hippocracy!
Nice job Sarah!!!
As for the “ worst we've ever had” line, here's a little perspective.
• Carter: Interest rate, 21%. Inflation, 13.5%. Unemployment, 7%. The so-called “Misery Index,” which Carter used to great effect in his 1976 campaign to win election, 20.5%.
Location: Everybody is going to hurt you, you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for-B Marley
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Are you kidding me? A lot of people have a cadence. It's just the way they speak. I've known several people who speak with a cadence and others have asked them where they're from. Usually, no place known for accents. This is the nit-pickiest topic I've seen so far, I do believe.
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