phillyfan26
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I cannot claim credit, I believe Irvine has used it before when people have used similar leaps of logic.
what drives cable, and what especially drives Fox News, is the sense of hysteria around any little blip on the news scene. ratings are driven not by being right or left but by giving the viewer a reason to watch, and hysteria is the best way to do that.
obama not honoring the wishes of slain soldier's family:
Family Told Obama NOT To Wear Soldier Son's Bracelet... Where is Media? | NewsBusters.org
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In the context of this election's "controversies" this one is pretty big -
How is it BIG?
It's certainly bigger than Palin's pregnant daughter or the "Bush Doctrine" stumble. The guy's parents specifically asked that Obama not wear it and yet he continued to do so.
obama not honoring the wishes of slain soldier's family:
Family Told Obama NOT To Wear Soldier Son's Bracelet... Where is Media? | NewsBusters.org
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This clearly smells like a family dispute between divorced parents and little more.
According to his mother, they did not.
"My request to both of them is that they honor the troops by lifting the conversation to the issues, and that they continue to live up to the standards our military deserves."
"My request to both of them is that they honor the troops by lifting the conversation to the issues,"
Hear that, candidates? It doesn't mean trot out their names to play a round of "I Cry More Over The Dead Soldiers Than You Do".
Thank you.
John McCain's presidential campaign claimed credit as Congress readied Monday to vote on an emergency economic package, but Democrats said the Republican's last-ditch intervention had been no help.
Mitt Romney, McCain's erstwhile rival for the Republican nomination, said the deal on a Wall Street bailout worth up to 700 billion dollars would never have happened without the Arizona senator.
Speaking on NBC television, the former Massachusetts governor said "this bill would not have been agreed to had it not been for John McCain."
Wow, now this is getting frustrating. Somehow, you've managed to almost completely miss everything I was trying to say.
You honestly think I made my decision over The Simpsons? You entirely missed the point of me posting that quote. I cannot fathom how you misunderstood that. The point was that your logic was faulty.
And, again, the point went absolutely sailing over your head: I'm not saying people who make attempts shouldn't be treated as such. I'm saying you have to prove it first, in a court of law with a fair trial. We're talking about suspects here, not people that are guaranteed guilty. This goes back to my point about conservatives believing in some strange infallibility with the CIA and FBI and American justice system.
What I'm saying, and read this carefully, is that not every person that is arrested by the United States on the grounds of terrorism or association with terrorist groups actually committed a terrorist attack, attempted to commit one, or are even associated with a terrorist group at all. A lot of these cases are based on speculation with no solid evidence as to whether there's even a link.
If these points go over your head again, I think I'm done.
McCain
What a douchebag!
McCain , you are the owner of EPIC PHAIL.
We're in Afganistan arn't we? Please don't make a connection between Iraq and 9/11. We've been threatened since we joined the war on terror. I'm not saying we should'nt be in Afganistan, but the potential terror attacks in Canada are not related to Iraq.
Vanessa Redgrave thinks it's kidnapping but what are you supposed to do when you rout an enemy and catch prisoners? Send them back to meet them again?
Don't get caught on a battlefield against the U.S. and you won't get picked up.
Don't get caught on a battlefield against the U.S. and you won't get picked up.
McCain attacks Guantanamo decision - 2008 Presidential Campaign Blog - Political Intelligence - Boston.com
McCain is complaining here about some of the released prisoners. Some have attacked American soldiers. What we are worried about is these people being released and then having to battle them later.
Supreme Disgrace by Peter Wehner on National Review Online
This is the legal point of view.
Vanessa Redgrave thinks it's kidnapping but what are you supposed to do when you rout an enemy and catch prisoners? Send them back to meet them again? If soldiers then get killed won't there be criticism of Bush then? Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Who donates to the CBC?
Its government funded, yes. But its programing and purpose are totally different. CBC has a line up of comedy programming, one hour dramas, includes American TV shows. Has its own sports divison, radio channels and nightly news programs. The CBC is run like a traditional network tv channel. PBS is not. They are so totally different, and I'd love to see the figures of how much PBS gets from the govt and how much they recieve in donations.