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2007-09-21 Home Front: Politix
CNN/Time: How Dare You! [re. General Petraeus]
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Posted by gorb 2007-09-21 05:01|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

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Posted by Tarzan Sheth3256 2007-09-21 08:30||   2007-09-21 08:30|| Front Page Top

#2 meanwhile the US economy goes into a tailspin and the idiots who elected this moron for president ignore the fact that their puny lives are about to be irreperably changed( they'll become peasants, unless their uber-rich)by tricky Dick and pals.

Just like a liberal troll. When you're caught red-handed and can't win the argument - change the subject.

Say, Sheth - I just bet you're a 'truther' too! How's the view from the grassy knoll?
Posted by WTF 2007-09-21 09:04||   2007-09-21 09:04|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Shavinter Sproing5216 2007-09-21 11:09||   2007-09-21 11:09|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Shavinter Sproing5216 2007-09-21 11:47||   2007-09-21 11:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Why are you looking, Shavinter Sproing5216 dear? Surely you have something better to do than watch others go to the bathroom.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-21 12:19||   2007-09-21 12:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Baghdad Bob I think would not start out a speech with 'oh my paws and whiskers'; way too tough for that kind of talk. Irrelevant article worthy of only the TV Guide channel, the story here is that this fivilty was approved for posting on a major web site/news outlet. Fortunately had my aspirin ready as the content of this story can be noticed easier than a train crossing the prarie at night.
Some people still feel real life and have genuine outrage. Mister, this man has considerable influence on the lives of many of my family at the moment. And there are people overseas which I think would find the reference to pretend dead...disturbing. In respectful, or at least polite, society one does not criticise a commanding general - or anyone else of prominant position - by calling them 2nd grade chides; instead of using that large (cheap) ad space to outline some disagreed points.
When playing mud vollyball the players expect to get at least a little dirty. What is understood as good conduct is if the referee -agreed upon by both side- makes a call s/he should not be taken down and trown into the pit because one side disagreed with the call. Also, I expect a president to be able to multi-task. If a candidate can't handle multiple topics at once, or at least read their writer's script in the right order, that should be a matter of concern. After watching the democrats last night, and I'm not sure yet who I will vote for yet, but Giuliani's soft side appears to be tougher than just about all of the candidates' tough side.
Oh, and to our cheetah spanker, there are plenty of entertainers and politicians who have advanced their career and assets based soley on President Bush being in office. Oh what could be done out here with 10% of the money spent by the d-candidates on ads outclassed by high school AV departments.
Posted by swksvolFF 2007-09-21 12:31||   2007-09-21 12:31|| Front Page Top

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Posted by oxford 101 2007-09-21 12:49||   2007-09-21 12:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Shavinter Sproing5216: kind of like Senator Craigs indescretions representing the real queerness of the GOP

Idiot. You are looking at the difference between one man's actions - and a party that distanced itself from him - and the actions of pretty much the entire Democratic party. See the difference? Why should I have to hold your hand through simple logic like this? It's not that tough. In fact, I'd expect a high school kid to get it without any help from an adult. You fit right in with the model I use for extreme liberals. You just care about how the subject makes you feel, not the substance.

One more thing: Your mom dropped by today. Between gulps she told me that to remind you to breathe every hour or so.
Posted by gorb 2007-09-21 14:31||   2007-09-21 14:31|| Front Page Top

#9 #7: I just like to toy with you rantburg cavemen

A Cromagnon calls us cavemen?
Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-09-21 14:37||   2007-09-21 14:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Kinsley was the whiny-voiced one on Crossfire some years ago. There were days it looked like he'd burst a blood vessel.
Posted by eLarson 2007-09-21 14:57|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2007-09-21 14:57|| Front Page Top

#11 By-the-by, MoveOn.org was organized around the Bill Clinton impeachment. It was intended to scold America into "moving on" past Clinton's, er, behavior in the Oval Office.
Posted by eLarson 2007-09-21 15:01|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2007-09-21 15:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Bring it on then Oxford 101.

Do you have the intellectual hardware to actually spar in a realistic contest of wit and wisdom with the likes of the people found at Rantburg? If so, bring it on. I'll spar with you. I like spanking halfwits who think they're intellectual geniuses.

Or, you could take on Fred, Zenster, Procopius, Steve White, Trailing Wife (TW's just one who'd kick your ass in any intellectual argument hands down), Seafarious, or any of a dozen others.

So, if you've got the guts, bring it on. Lay your arguments out and respond to our (or my) counterpoints in an intellectual and non-trollish fashion and maybe we can determine who the brightest bulb in the drawer is here.

My bet's on Rantburg.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg  2007-09-21 15:13||   2007-09-21 15:13|| Front Page Top

#13 FOTSGreg dear, you mustn't put me up there with the rest of you, with all those letters before and after your names. I'm just a little suburban housewife who's only ever earnt her Mrs.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-21 15:23||   2007-09-21 15:23|| Front Page Top

#14 On the other hand, my mother has a diploma from Oxford. She worked really hard, so it took her three months to earn it. But Mama's pretty bright -- she went to medical school in Switzerland for the fun of it, because she wanted to learn French while studying anatomy. And the publisher is waiting for her to finish translating her textbook into English, because the German edition sold out in the first few weeks.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-21 15:30||   2007-09-21 15:30|| Front Page Top

#15 I won't be one of the Rantburgers "debating" Oxford 101 - assuming it decides to try actaully debating us.

I do have standards, minimum though they may be.

One of those standards is that I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2007-09-21 15:35|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2007-09-21 15:35|| Front Page Top

#16 TW & Barbara, I'd match your wits, grace, and intelligence against the likes of Oxford 101 or any other cowardly troll any day of the week 24/7/365.

I'd match them (your wits, grace and intelligence) up against my own most days of the week in fact. Degrees, diploma's, and a bunch of letters you can stack beside your name don't mean much in the overall scheme of things. What matters is how you live your lives and how you treat your friends and family. Most everybody has me beat by leagues in that area.

With that said, please, ladies, do not look any further - I am about to be ungentlemanly...

So, Oxford 101, go ahead - take on our gracious ladies if you've got the guts and do not simply want to be a troll. They'll intellectually kick your ass so far up between your shoulders you'll be sh^tting out your mouth for a week.
Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg  2007-09-21 16:18||   2007-09-21 16:18|| Front Page Top

#17 Please, oxford 101, that is Rantburg cavepersons. Please get your terms of abuse straight. It is the mark of a truly educated person to use the correct terms, always.
Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-09-21 16:22|| www.celiahayes.com]">[www.celiahayes.com]  2007-09-21 16:22|| Front Page Top

#18 You missed RM 131 in the Annex, and get off the computers, they're for the English.
Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-09-21 18:59||   2007-09-21 18:59|| Front Page Top

#19 “The war's backers are obviously delighted to have this ad from which they can make an issue.”

My apologies in advance for an extended rant.
I must admit, in a sense, I am delighted this event took place. (As disgusting a spectacle I have ever witnessed.) It has exposed the truth that the whole “we support the troops” shtick from the Democrat leadership is nothing more then a steaming pile. Kinsley’s’ “oh so clever” brethren obviously believed they could bait the “war backers” into, as he puts it, “an issue”. Then after the fact they could smugly say that the President is more concerned about a silly “ad” rather then “changing course” in the war. (Heard that one before?) You see, when Senator Clinton sternly said she had to “suspend disbelief” she will tell you that she was merely referring to the “report” – not the military. Never mind that the author of that report was sitting right in front of her. The problem is that it’s only the same ole useless fools that believe this is simply about an advertisement or a report. And not what it really is - a slander on the military.
Case in point. I know an elderly lady that has voted Democrat her entire life. She is even prone to an occasional BDS fit. However, she is also a widow of a WWII Veteran. Her disdain for the advertisement was predictable. But she became quite animated in her response to Senator Kerry’s tepid “I think the ad was over the top” comment. “Over the top?” she rhetorically shouted. “And to think…I voted for that asshole!” And seriously, she is a lady.
Posted by DepotGuy 2007-09-21 19:42||   2007-09-21 19:42|| Front Page Top

#20 uhhhhh (drool), whut do stoopid means?
Posted by Hyper 2007-09-21 22:27||   2007-09-21 22:27|| Front Page Top

#21 I must apologize. I misspoke: Mama took six months to earn that diploma from Oxford. But she didn't know any English when she started, so it kind of evens out. And now that poor Oxford is gone, I can admit that it was one of the two high schools certified by the university of the same name. Her branch was in Holland. She's very proud of her marks in BritLit, but didn't do very well in chemistry, having had a very erratic education up to that point. Quite ruined her hopes of following in Madam Curie's footsteps... but she ended up marrying a research biochemist, which was quite a comfort. ;-)
Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-21 23:09||   2007-09-21 23:09|| Front Page Top

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