once again the jokes write themselves...

ratioci nation

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 05:30 PM UTC #

Originally posted by manimtired:
talk about a resume..

Obama, only 24, struck board members as "awesome" and "extremely impressive," and they quickly hired him, at $13,000 a year, plus $2,000 for a car–a beat-up blue Honda Civic, which Obama drove for the next three years organizing more than twenty congregations to change their neighborhoods.

Despite some meaningful victories, the work of Obama–and hundreds of other organizers–did not transform the South Side or restore lost industries. But it did change the young man who became the junior senator from Illinois in 2004, and it provides clues to his worldview as he bids for the Democratic presidential nomination.

so you are on board with the whole attacking people who help others? bravo

I guess he went straight from that to running for president, nothing in the middle there

godsshoeshine

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 05:51 PM UTC #

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
Jesus was a community organizer, but never a mayor.

awesome

callat703

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 05:55 PM UTC #

More thoughts on the Palin pick, and how it seems to be working into the GOP strategy.

manimtired

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 05:59 PM UTC #

do you think he would have voted for the war if he were in the senate at the time? i bet he would have..like the majority of the dems.

vansmack

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 06:05 PM UTC #

UPDATE: Apparently Sarah Palin is leaving the campaign trail to hole up in Alaska for awhile. This is less than a week after Sarah Palin was announced as the VP choice, and she is already disappearing from public view? Is this indicative of the GOP's control over her image? Are we not going to get a chance to really learn what Sarah Palin is all about?

What? You think one can learn foreign policy overnight? It will take a least week…

Which reminds me, I have never seen a dream candidate fall so out of favor as I have with John McCain and the Economist. The lovefest was difficult for me to read for a long time, but they are feeling so betrayed at this point. As if last week's "Bring back the Real McCain" cover wasn't enough, they are ape shit about the Palin choice.

kosmo

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 06:06 PM UTC #

Originally posted by pdx pollard:

Originally posted by manimtired:
talk about a resume..

Obama, only 24, struck board members as "awesome" and "extremely impressive," and they quickly hired him, at $13,000 a year, plus $2,000 for a car–a beat-up blue Honda Civic, which Obama drove for the next three years organizing more than twenty congregations to change their neighborhoods.

Despite some meaningful victories, the work of Obama–and hundreds of other organizers–did not transform the South Side or restore lost industries. But it did change the young man who became the junior senator from Illinois in 2004, and it provides clues to his worldview as he bids for the Democratic presidential nomination.
so you are on board with the whole attacking people who help others? bravo

I guess he went straight from that to running for president, nothing in the middle there

and it's interesting that this is a faith based intiative… something the bush whitehouse promoted during his tenure… it really is amazing how two-faced the mccain campaign on such issues… clearily it wasn't the correct type of faith based intiative

Rhett Miller

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 06:06 PM UTC #

I don't think Jesus would have voted for the war or served in the senate.

Originally posted by manimtired:
do you think he would have voted for the war if he were in the senate at the time? i bet he would have..like the majority of the dems.

ratioci nation

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 06:09 PM UTC #

Originally posted by manimtired:
do you think he would have voted for the war if he were in the senate at the time? i bet he would have..like the majority of the dems.

we can speculate all we want, but the fact is that at the start of the war it was very unpopular for anybody to be against the war, and he was publicly

you were probably for the war so you dont remember what it was like to be against the war then, any hint of it and you hated america and were a friend of terrorists, oh and hated our troops

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 06:14 PM UTC #

Originally posted by manimtired:
do you think he would have voted for the war if he were in the senate at the time? i bet he would have..like the majority of the dems.

you are wrong here.

barack against war 2002

Obama went on to explain that â??I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undermined cost, with undetermined consequence of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequence. I know that an invasion of Iraq without clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than the best, impulses of the Arab world and strengthen the recruitment arm of al Qaeda.â?

In November 2003, he told the Chicago Sun-Times that had he been in the Senate, he would have voted against the Presidentâ??s $87.5 billion supplemental appropriations package for Iraq and Afghanistan. â??I think it enables the Bush administration to continue on a flawed policy without being accountable to the American people or to the troops who are making sacrifices,â? he said.

manimtired

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 06:28 PM UTC #

its a lot easier to be "against the war" when you dont have to actually vote on it.

ratioci nation

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 06:31 PM UTC #

Originally posted by manimtired:
its a lot easier to be "against the war" when you dont have to actually vote on it.

thats great, doesnt change the fact that he was against the war, and I say again, it wasn't easy for any public figure to be against the war back then, he could have just as easily appealed to the masses and said "yeah, lets go get those fuckers that attacked us" (even though they didnt)

sonickteam2

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 06:32 PM UTC #

Originally posted by manimtired:
its a lot easier to be "against the war" when you dont have to actually vote on it.

give up man, you lose on this one. Obama was always against the stupid war and he never would've voted for it. get over it.

godsshoeshine

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 06:36 PM UTC #

do you think mccain would have spoken for pilate to free jesus or barabbas?

i say barabbas due to his disdain of community organizers. plus he likes secessionists

Venerable Bede

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 06:53 PM UTC #

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
do you think mccain would have spoken for pilate to free jesus or barabbas?

i say barabbas due to his disdain of community organizers. plus he likes secessionists

i'd say he'd support whoever was best for israel.

anyway. . .peter and paul were more of the community activists.

brokensocscene

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 06:55 PM UTC #

"This morning, some snoopy bitch dug up a stat which names Wasillaâ??that podunk town Palin mayored for all those yearsâ??as the meth capital of Alaska, with no less than 40-percent of calls to a childâ??s protection agency nearby stemming from meth related home visits."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/04/wasillas-meth-problem-mad_n_123996.html

kosmo

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 07:02 PM UTC #

Originally posted by manimtired:
i have no idea what youre talking about. terrorist greeting? wat.

awhile back at a event obama and his wife exchanged a fist bump as a friendly greeting between the two of them… some in the media started speculating that it was some sort of terrorist greeting and not just you know a fist bump between husband and wife.

so it's only fair that i think that palin considers herself royalty…

manimtired

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 07:11 PM UTC #

Originally posted by kosmo:

Originally posted by manimtired:
i have no idea what youre talking about. terrorist greeting? wat.
awhile back at a event obama and his wife exchanged a fist bump as a friendly greeting between the two of them… some in the media started speculating that it was some sort of terrorist greeting and not just you know a fist bump between husband and wife.

so it's only fair that i think that palin considers herself royalty…

yes, the moose hunting, gun shootin' lady considers herself royalty.

you arent going to turn the "elite" issue around here…you libs earned it.

kosmo

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 07:27 PM UTC #

Originally posted by manimtired:

Originally posted by kosmo:

Originally posted by manimtired:
i have no idea what youre talking about. terrorist greeting? wat.
awhile back at a event obama and his wife exchanged a fist bump as a friendly greeting between the two of them… some in the media started speculating that it was some sort of terrorist greeting and not just you know a fist bump between husband and wife.

so it's only fair that i think that palin considers herself royalty…
yes, the moose hunting, gun shootin' lady considers herself royalty.

you arent going to turn the "elite" issue around here…you libs earned it.

besure to refer to your daily briefing sheet when answering this question…

how exactly have the libs earned the elite label?

kosmo

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 07:29 PM UTC #

Originally posted by vansmack:

UPDATE: Apparently Sarah Palin is leaving the campaign trail to hole up in Alaska for awhile. This is less than a week after Sarah Palin was announced as the VP choice, and she is already disappearing from public view? Is this indicative of the GOP's control over her image? Are we not going to get a chance to really learn what Sarah Palin is all about?
What? You think one can learn foreign policy overnight? It will take a least week…

Which reminds me, I have never seen a dream candidate fall so out of favor as I have with John McCain and the Economist. The lovefest was difficult for me to read for a long time, but they are feeling so betrayed at this point. As if last week's "Bring back the Real McCain" cover wasn't enough, they are ape shit about the Palin choice.

apparently Palin isn't going on interview shows… can you imagine her on the Daily Show, it would be even more hilarious if she were on Colbert show…

manimtired

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Re: once again the jokes write themselves... September 05, 2008 at 07:45 PM UTC #

Originally posted by kosmo:

Originally posted by manimtired:

Originally posted by kosmo:

Originally posted by manimtired:
i have no idea what youre talking about. terrorist greeting? wat.
awhile back at a event obama and his wife exchanged a fist bump as a friendly greeting between the two of them… some in the media started speculating that it was some sort of terrorist greeting and not just you know a fist bump between husband and wife.

so it's only fair that i think that palin considers herself royalty…
yes, the moose hunting, gun shootin' lady considers herself royalty.

you arent going to turn the "elite" issue around here…you libs earned it.
besure to refer to your daily briefing sheet when answering this question…

i didnt make the rules. i just follow them.

how exactly have the libs earned the elite label?