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It's hard to guess how Palin's attacks sound outside the Xcel Center, off in those fiercely contested Ohio suburbs: Are voters who aren't Republican true believers loving the vitriol, or does it begin to sound obnoxious? Will Obama get flustered now that he's no longer the hottest, youngest story in town? And how much deeper in the insult barrel will Palin reach? There was no mention, for instance, of Obama's snoring. But as long as the post-facto vetters don't turn up something especially juicy, she's got time. And so does he. And while you'd have to be crazy to predict how this nutty election will turn out, I wouldn't be surprised if we find ourselves watching these two going at it for a long, long while.

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  • Posted By: Navarro-2008 @ 10/23/2008 7:58:53 AM

    And to think Bobbie told me you were smart!
    Another deluded individual.

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/16/2008 8:04:18 PM

    Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!!


    Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.

    The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
    Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."

    Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.

    Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.

    Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.

    Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.

    It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.

    Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luck­being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}

    Capitalism is the only social system that rewards virtue and punishes vice. This applies to both the business executive and the carpenter, the lawyer and the factory worker.

  • Posted By: good conscience @ 09/19/2008 12:21:31 PM

    To Jeremy McCarter: Although you make a couple of good points in your story, I think that all the praise you're giving Palin is a little thick and sugary. She truly did have a few moments of glory in her initial speech at the convention, but let's remember a few other points. A) The speech was written by some of the smartest political speech writers out there, ones who have been around for yrs and yrs, and who have a great deal of experience in their chosen fields. B) She was ordered to be as nasty and vitriolic as she was, something that you don't find in Obama speeches. Just because she found a way to adequately deliver her very scripted and rehearsed performance doesn't make her the mover of mountains that you're touting. C) I am highly insulted that you imply that no matter how sickening Rudy is, he's still great to watch. Just having his hideous visage on my TV screen is like chugging an entire bottle of ipecac on an empty stomach! So please spare me any ploy you may launch at colluding with everyone on the Rudy issue. He stinks.
    For those who've shrieked that Sarah had almost as many viewers as Barack did they forget that the only good reason for it was because she is very new, and everyone wanted to see what the brouhaha was about. It's very unlikely that even now, the McShame/Failin' ticket could muster a group of 84,000 and fill a huge sports arena.

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