Posts by sagenz
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john - understand that nuclear war was averted over cuban misslies because the number 2 on a soviet submarine refused to endorse the launch order of the captain. That is how close it got. simon the historian will be able to confirm
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ah god I have better things to do on a friday evening but those criticisms really hurt.
The Reagan as saviour is real but in no sense am I claiming 100% responsibility.
Afghanistan was however a huge draw on a weakened economy and played a massive part in the end
Read(not just watch) Charlie Wilsons war and understand how much of a part the US funds played in making Afghanistan unmanageable. There was not one single action that Reagan took, but he supplied the principles by which everyone could judge how actions would be acceptable. He certainly hastened the end.
try to imagine the outcome of Obama vs the Politburo and a replay of the missiles to Cuba is far more likely. Putin vs Obama is a seriously scary thought for European energy security.
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And Simon/Craig, just to prove magnanimity, Palin has held onto the remaining $60m of the original $200m plus that Congress has given Alaska for the infamous Bridge. She obviously made a virtue of necessity but her views changed between being mayor and being governor. the fact that in the intervening 2 years she had a close view of the way oil revenues were being treated in her dealings with the oil companies. I am comfortable seeing it as a time of epiphany between being a small town mayor and moving onto a larger stage. What she said is an exageration, but not an outright lie.
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Simon - the earth is obviously flat. Whatever. I shall endeavour not to waste either of our time any more by engaging.
Paul - I jumped on this thread when Russell seemed obsessed by some details of Palins pregancy and seemed to be second guessing her choices as a four times mother. That seemed to put me at odds with most of the commenters from the start.
Predictibility is a harder one to rebut. It has struck me repeatedly throughout the thread that there is a confusion expressed about WHY McCain chose Palin. And there have been any number of wild conspiracy theories and memes running as to why. They have fundamentally missed the point. So I felt the need to keep repeating myself. I think for those who have trawled through 500 odd comments I have probably made those points more than enough times. So I will accept that as a fair slapdown on that basis.
on substance I have yet to read anyone engaging with the philosophical substance of what both brooks and baker refer to. Which is that McCain & Palin are a different kind of republican. I would be interested to engage with you or anyone on whether you think they are genuinely different or simply same as same as. I view the "rebuttals" as being limited to even simpler Dem Propaganda points.
For Don who I have ignored twice the hubby is obviously anti big govt rather than anti american. There are plenty of conservatives/rednecks who want the government out of their lives. The Dems tried speading the lie Palin herself was a member. On being an employee of BP, do you think that resigning when there is a conflict of interest is an act of integrity. The fact he went back once there was no longer a conflict boosts the act rather than taking away from it imho. He incurred an economic cost so his wife was not conflicted.
Any other points you want me to address?
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dont listen to me read what gerard baker of the times says
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“What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?”
“One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let's be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy.
“The other kills her own food.”
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I don't apologise for being interested in this.....Under the masthead of The Atlantic , Andrew Sullivan is alleging "a serious possibility that this narrative is completely false, that, in fact, Palin's daughter became pregnant".
I think not....
Oh you mean you think I should be following the lead of the owner of this blog and Andrew Sullivan and repeating irrelevant shit that has just been made up elsewhere by fanatical anti republicans.
Paul, Simon. Instead of just patronising me, why dont you rebut some of the substance. Leaders of the Alaskan republican party have been found guilty of corruption. Fact. Thank Palin for that. It is a fact that she took on the oil companies in Alaska over their paying insufficent tax/royalty. Obama sitting on his hands 130 times is a fact.
Palin was on the vetting list from the start. Fact. FBI refuse to vet political candidates. Fact
Your being unable to make sense of facts or Huffington Post/Kos inspired fiction is not my problem. tis a shame that you seem to think I need to adopt the party line here, I assumed you could hold any opinion you liked providing there is not a redbaiter style of writing.
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whats your point Paul. Prefer to attack the way I write something than answer the basic question regarding evidence of an inability to make decisions in a Presidential candidate
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ah of course Palin has to be perfect. Her statements were actually true. She did turn down the funding from Congress. She has not ever said, to my knowledge, that she had never supported it. But she is apparently a liar in your eyes for making a virtue of doing the right thing in the end.
As far as Silver is concerned I dont know anything about it but you seem happy to assume guilt by association. Wouldn't that put everyone in any government in jail?
Strange you do not mention Obama sitting on his hands 130 times -
Am I the only who's starting to think this is one gamble McCain will come to regret, either way?
I started at the beginning of this thread. You lot still do not seem to understand despite actually getting some real exposure through Palin & McCain's speech. Its not about being a woman. Its not about being an anti abortion conservative. Its not about being pro drilling.
The reason McCain chose Palin is that he recognised someone with his own integrity. Willing to take on their own party over ethics issues. Willing to take on big oil over inadequate tax.
He has finally found someone who can carry on the fight against corruption and big government.
The presidency is about making decisions. Despite a short time in office Palin made the right decisions. Obama sat in the Illilnois state legislature and said "Present" 130 times. Obama is incapable of making a decision because it might look bad politically.
And McCain is 72 but his mother is at the convention and she is 96. He is the presidential nominee not Palin. Yet the Repub no 2 is still a better choice than the Dem no 1.
McCain would be perfectly happy to be upstaged by Palin, he has nothing left to prove to anyone.
McCain had it right when he said Education is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.