Posts Tagged ‘McCain’

• If only this was a drinking game

  Date: 2008.10.15 | Category: links! | Response: 0

  McCain probably won’t win the election unless something drastic happens in the next 20 days or if we experience the pain of the Bradley effect. If he should win and later die because he is…. old…. we could see Palin as President. Yes, it is frightening.

  Check out this website. Every time she says maverick you’ve got to take a drink.

• The Debate

  Date: 2008.10.08 | Category: Life as we know it, ahh the news | Response: 0

  When I was in high school I loved debate class. I spent more of my time and energy on that class than any other subject. There was something about humiliating another person with logic, reason, and facts that drew me in from the start. For the large part, I spent my time debating varsity and I decimated some of my opponents. There were a few times when I would have members in the audience stifle laughter when the other team tried to fight back – it was a futile effort. You would think that I would have eventually enrolled in law school…. Despite my love for debates, I didn’t watch the debate that happended earlier tonight between the two Presidential candidates.

  We debated with facts and logic. They debate with ideals and ideas. None have been tested and all we can do is look at the past to see if something similar has worked. One candidate will blame his opponents party for a failed plan while leaving out the fact that his party might have something to do with it. The situation at the time may have had more factors than just the legislation and fault cannot be determined. Presidential debate content lives in shades of grey. I’d rather save myself 90 minutes and spend a scant 15 reading opinions on the debate. That is the only way to determine who won – opinion. So, after a little searching I found a good synopsis of the debate. Its not fantastic because it is, after all, opinion.

• The image says it all

  Date: 2008.09.26 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Response: 0

  

  McCain promo

• White woman or black man?

  Date: 2008.08.29 | Category: ahh the news | Response: 0

  Palin for VP as a white woman. Obama for President as a black man. One of these two will find themselves in one of the highest (or highest) positions in the planet. I’m proud to see that my country has finally found a little diversity in our politics because we’ve had it in our country for quite some time. Some of this, particularly the pick of a woman as a VP candidate, could be construed as an entirely political choice in order to pick up the remaining Clinton vote. The talking heads are going to have fun with this one – this race got incredibly interesting. Time to do some Googling and find more about the Governor from Alaska.

• Hillary just won’t quit!

  Date: 2008.03.27 | Category: ahh the news | Response: 0

  Hillary won’t quit even though she can’t win – ever. She should throw in the towel because its only hurting her party as a whole. I like John McCain and I also like Obama but I’d rather have a fair fight. Why won’t she quit?

  The better answer is that Clinton’s long rear-guard action is the logical extension of her relentlessly political life.

  For nearly 20 years, she has been encased in the apparatus of political celebrity. Look at her schedule as first lady and ever since. Think of the thousands of staged events, the tens of thousands of times she has pretended to be delighted to see someone she doesn’t know, the hundreds of thousands times she has recited empty clichés and exhortatory banalities, the millions of photos she has posed for in which she is supposed to appear empathetic or tough, the billions of politically opportune half-truths that have bounced around her head.

  No wonder the Clinton campaign feels impersonal. It’s like a machine for the production of politics. It plows ahead from event to event following its own iron logic. The only question is whether Clinton herself can step outside the apparatus long enough to turn it off and withdraw voluntarily or whether she will force the rest of her party to intervene and jam the gears.

  If she does the former, she would surprise everybody with a display of self-sacrifice. Her campaign would cruise along at a lower register until North Carolina, then use that as an occasion to withdraw. If she does not, she would soldier on doggedly, taking down as many allies as necessary.

  You can read the rest at the NY Times.

• Politics and photos

  Date: 2008.02.10 | Category: ahh the news, desert, videos | Response: 1

  John McCain is the guy leading the republican side of the race and Obama is in the lead on the other front.

  I’ve been watching McCain for years and I’ve gotta say that I like him more than any of the other candidates. He has been under fire from conservatives because he isn’t conservative enough. I like him for that reason alone. He has been branded a hot headed maverick. He plays both sides of the field. He stands up for what is right. He listens when he needs to and acts when he needs to.

  Obama feels like media hype to me. I don’t know enough about the guy to understand how he might react to something. When I choose a candidate I stray away from the “issues” and try to determine how that individual will react in a crisis. Will they make a sound judgment call?

  I’m still quite undecided – aside from the fact that I will never vote for Hillary – unless Cheney was running – in which case I might move to Canada.

  I took a few new photos – including one of myself
  

  
  

  I tried out the panorama maker software of my camera with surprising results (click the image for the BIG version)

  

  I’m looking to the time I get out of here – I’m planning on doing something – as identified by the photo below. Its never Miller time – its Guinness time -

  

  I took a few random videos – I don’t even remember what they were – you’ll have to watch and see

  I wish I had time to really write something of note but this is all that I’ve got time for at the moment.