[Jerry Glenn Hartwig]

So it's really a "yes-yes" board, it tells you what you want to hear.

LOL I stand correct *grin*.

[Jerry Glenn Hartwig]

Continuing on a similar note to the topic thread, I was reading an article online about Obama's choice of veep, and the analysts think Hillary would have been a stronger choice, overall, but especially in Ohio.

Points were made that Hillary would have done much better in the veep debates against Palin, not only because she wooulod have been stronger at it than Biden, but she wouldn't have had to have polite to the 'lady candidate'.

I think Republicans unanimously rejoiced when Obama chose Biden rather than Clinton - nothing against Biden, per se, just that they figure he was a weaker choice.

[Laura Heidy-Halberstein]

Originally posted by Jerry Glenn Hartwig:

When it comes to handling the economy, McCain seems (last poll I saw sponsored - I think - by MSNBC) to be favored in that catagory.

Regardless of what a rather emotional and uneducated public may or may not think about the economy and who's most equipped to handle it I tend to trust the experts a little more...

WASHINGTON (Sept. 13) - Alan Greenspan says the country can't afford tax cuts of the magnitude proposed by Republican presidential contender John McCain — at least not without a corresponding reduction in government spending.
"Unless we cut spending, no," the former Federal Reserve chairman said Friday when asked about McCain's proposed tax cuts, pegged in some estimates at $3.3 trillion.
http://news.aol.com/elections/articl...344x1200526409

The article goes on to point out the disparging amounts of proposed "savings" against the proposed tax reduction.

McCain has repeatedly said that he will pay for the tax reduction by eliminating the oft-touted earmarks.

Sounds good - until you realize that congressional earmark spending is estimated at $17 billion annually. Hardly sufficient to offset $3.3 trillion dollars, is it?

[Anne Bryant-Hamon]

Originally posted by Robert Meyer:
TYPO ALERT!

Jerry, it's a "Ouija" board. I can remember the spelling because it's "oui" (French for "yes") plus "ja" (German for "yes"). So it's really a "yes-yes" board, it tells you what you want to hear. Kind of like TV.

Robert Meyer

Interesting factoid, Robert. I never knew that. I never had a 'ouija' board either. My next door neighbor in the 60's had one though. A yes-yes board, eh? Wow, I never knew that!

Anne

[Anne Bryant-Hamon]

Lo says:
Just think if Palin had been governor at the time, huh? http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/522583.html

Lo, I think you're being biased in your opinion and what are you doing posting these biased articles against Palin? You really ought to give her the benefit of the doubt. After all, you've never actually talked to any of these people, never been to Alaska, never attended her church. So it looks like you are just trying to smear this poor woman! Gosh!

Just in case you wondered what it is like communicating with you, I thought I'd give you a taste of yourself...

[This message has been edited by Anne Bryant-Hamon (edited September 14, 2008).]

[Laura Heidy-Halberstein]

Originally posted by Anne Bryant-Hamon:
Lo, I think you're being biased in your opinion and what are you doing posting these biased articles against Palin? You really ought to give her the benefit of the doubt. After all, you've never actually talked to any of these people, never been to Alaska, never attended her church. So it looks like you are just trying to smear this poor woman! Gosh!

Just in case you wondered what it is like communicating with you, I thought I'd give you a taste of yourself...

The information I posted was factual, Anne. I don't have to go to Alaska or attend a church or talk to the people there to post a link to a state mandated legality. I didn't smear Sarah Palin, I reported a law, a real law, not something which was venomous or misrepresented or mis-reported, which was enacted in the State of Alaska which was instrumental in changing a law specific to the town she was mayor of. It was not slander, it was not gossip, it was a fact.

That seems to be the part you are not grasping. There is a difference between a personal opinion such as "that man is an animal" and a factual statement such as "The State of Alaska recently passed a law which prohibits a city or township to charge a victim of a crime with the cost of processing the evidence of the crime" and citing an article in an Alaskan paper which states Wasilla was the one hold-out town.

I'll admit that inferring that if Sarah Palin had been the governor of Alaska instead of the mayor of Wasilla at the time that the legislative bill was brought to her desk it might not have been signed into law may have been a deliberate attempt to pass off an opinion as fact. But really, in my own defense, what I did was ask people to think about it and draw their own conclusions - not an outright "she would have refused to sign the bill" as if it was fact rather than conjuncture.

Thanks for the point-out, though. The thing is, I talk to people who expect the truth all the time and I really try not to say anything which can't be backed up. And if it happens that my information is faulty, as it sometimes does, I rectify it and apologize. (Witness the exchanges between Jerry and myself right here in this thread.)

Lo

[Robert Meyer]

Yeah, when I was a kid I was in France and Germany (dad a lifer), so I picked up the important stuff in the languages:


"Yes."
"No."
"Thank you."
"I am an American."
"You are very beautiful!"
"Take me to the embassy."
"Where is the bathroom?"


That's about all you need to know in any language.
Robert

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[Robert Meyer]

stuff like:

ooo eh lah doo blah vay say?

(very important!)
Robert

[Anne Bryant-Hamon]

Originally posted by Robert Meyer:
Yeah, when I was a kid I was in France and Germany (dad a lifer), so I picked up the important stuff in the languages:


"Yes."
"No."
"Thank you."
"I am an American."
"You are very beautiful!"
"Take me to the embassy."
"Where is the bathroom?"


That's about all you need to know in any language.
Robert

Robert,

You're obviously a wise man.

Ab ovo usque ad mala!

Anne