Posted on 07/18/2008 4:33:59 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes
I was just watching the news for a few minutes. First spoke algore about how we need to have all non-carbon electricity in 10 years. Then spoke Pelosi saying predictable things.
But the next thing I saw is what causes my gorge to rise and I had to grab the remote before I became physically ill. It was McCain saying these words: "I have long admired the Vice President's work in the area of....."
Is he trying to make people who already have misgivings aplenty about him either stay home or vote for somebody else? Does he really believe what he is saying or is he just pandering like he does on other subjects? Does he have any idea just how frustrated people are and how precarious a position he has put people like me into? I'm sorry, but I am just becoming more discouraged by the day about the prospects for this country, even if the election turns out as I would like it to. For the first time since my first presidential election vote in 1968, I may well not vote for the Republican candidate.
What’s your problem with what McCain said about admiring the Veep? You have issues, man.
Same here. Won’t hit the ON button. Many years since I watched those idiots and their propaganda.
My wife watches in the mornings in the bedroom while I’m doing my FR thing in the Den. I can hear her yelling bad things at the newsreaders, but she still watches them.
McCain was talking lovingly about Vice President Al Gore not Dick Cheney.
Not such a big surprise as McCain is giant Rhino.
Ack! That should have been made clear in the opening post. I thought he was talking about Cheney.
“Maybe leaving the TV off would help. “
I haven’t had the TV on in months.
IMO, listening to radio and reading news allows you to get right to the information without the usual distractions.
I’d like to apologize now to all the starving children in Appalachia and my soon-to-be outside looking in Republican friends for staying home on 04-NOV. I’ll be too busy stocking up on MRE’s, and propane for the generator. (:^o)
Maybe if he had followed those words with “but he is dead wrong on this issue”. Is that what he said next? No? I didn’t think so.
You’re darn right I’ve got “issues”.
Personally, I almost barfed yesterday at Gore's ideas. The guy has no clue of the impact of what he's suggesting will have on our economic system. What possible good does it do for us to increase our costs across the board when Eastern Europe and China totally disregard the pollution they throw into the air everyday. Gore's concept will be about as effective as a No Peeing Zone in a public swimming pool.
McCain needs to get off the Tree Hugger express and realize that the GOP is supposed to support business, not work against it. If McCain doesn't shape up on such issues, he's cutting himself off at the knees.
What’s a “teevee”?
Sorry. I was directly quoting McCain. Guess I should have given you a parenthetical (algore) to make sure I was understood.
i hope you don't see me walking around in my "Bush/Cheney '04" t-shirt.
Obama is terrifying, warm and smiling Marxism and rice patties. But I can NOT vote for McCain, he is too much like Hillary, still liberal, unless McCain ran as a democrat and Obama or Hillary as a republican.
but you know politics is a bunch of double-talk and mccain has no love for that thing (i hope).
McCain has an excuse, he’s just plain not too bright. What bothers me is the fact that his advisors and campaign manager don’t tell him to shut up with the gorebull warming nonsense.
I fully understand your anger.
His algore comments are mindboggling.
Here’s what I think is going on.
He drank from the “climate change” koolaid awhile back. So that part isn’t new. It was bad enough, but it hadn’t publicly translated into praise of the dreaded algore beast - until now.
He either truly means it, or he’s praising him in search for those “middle of the road” voters he’s always seeking. I tend to think the latter is more the truth, but I can’t get inside his brain. (What brain?)
McCain reminds me of an older person who finally gets into the new tehnology after all these years, but after throwing away the ancient Sears TV, buys one that’s being closed out because it won’t broadcast in digital.
Thinking hey, I’m up with the times now...
When he’s simply stuck anew, now in the more recent past instead of the long past...
What is at stake in 2008 is bigger by far than this issue, as big as the issue is.
Either McCain or Obama will be President, and Mcs veep will be hugely important in the future years.
Thinking on all those things, only YOU can decide what everything turns on for YOU and your beloved AMERICA, FReeper friend.
I understand how you feel. When’s the last time you heard Pelosi, Reid or Gore say how much they admired the President’s work? If I recall correctly, Pelosi just called Bush a total failure.
It makes me sick to my stomach how we’re so quick to pander to the libs yet they never return the favor. It makes us look weak and foolish.
Why do we do it?
That's it. That must be it. What else could it be?
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