strangegrey wrote:Eh, Not in the way that they would have fixated on Hilary, if the roles were reverse.
And the establishment press has run how many stories on Hillary's secretive Capitol Hill prayer circle called The Fellowship?
Last by my count, the answer was somewhere in the ballpark of zip to nil.
strangegrey wrote:It appears to me that Hilary has had the fucking kitchen sink thrown at her and Obama has had softballs on top of softballs thrown in his general direction
She's been in Washington alot longer than he has.
On top of that, she has not been above using Rove-style campaign tactics - which always makes for surefire headline grabbers.
strangegrey wrote:...His connection with Wright and his refusal to cut ties with the racist, should have and WOULD have been more than enough to force ANY other candidate out of this race in complete and utter shame.
Obama has no more obligation to "cut ties", than do any of the other 8000 congregants of that megachurch - some of whom are white.
Amazing how both Huckabee and McCain are in agreement that attacking someone's faith is out of bounds...if only we could inject some of their DNA into the Republican genetic code.
strangegrey wrote:...For some strange reason, the press is hell bent on preventing Hilary from getting the nod. So Obama is getting carried to the finish line....
The Democratic field has been winnowed down from eight candidates to two.
This was not done on the grounds of experience.
In case you haven't noticed, both Hillary and Obama have been the media's chosen darlings since the race began.
strangegrey wrote:Woah!!
Not my party pal. At all, I'm likely voting democrat in the next election...and not just for president. However, if you want to try to discuss whether or not McCain is a true republican, you're going to lose that fight. He's not. Just because he's labeled a "conservative" by one or two groups, it doesn't make it so. McCain-Feingold ring a bell?
Trying to do something, ANYTHING, to abate the influence of money in our political system is not a liberal or conservative concept.
To crib a line from Dubya, to me, that's "uniquely American."
Sorry.
strangegrey wrote:...The fact of the matter is that what you are quoting as proof of McCain's legitimacy (the American Conservative Unions "high" rating of McCain) is usually the first thing people on McCain's bandwagon try to tout when the McPain's legitimacy gets called into question. Do you know that prominant democrats get as high as 71% ratings by the same so called 'conservative' union?
I wouldn't doubt it.
Many of todays so-called Democrats are thinly veiled Reaganites.
The entire Clinton term was nothing but a carryover of Republican deregulatory policies - many for which we are still reaping the consequences (Glass-Steagall, ring a bell?)
strangegrey wrote:McCain has routinely voted with Democrats in tax issues, imigration issues, economic issues, social issues, etc.
From taxes to abortion to gun control to foreign policy, McCain's conservative credentials are unimpeachable.
Go compare McCain's current voting record to that of one-time liberal-apostate and abortion legalizer (not to mention, future conservative icon) Governor Reagan, and get back to me.
strangegrey wrote:Also, I think you're looking at it from a very skewed pov. It's widely held that, over time, poitics have shifted leftward, *not* rightward. It is widely accepted by political theorists that JFK would have been considered a republican by today's standards....so I'm not sure where you're getting the Barry Goldwater = commie thing....unless of course, you're just making it up to try to make a point.

LOL
Yea, maybe if u studied Poli Sci 101 under the tutelage of Professor Limbaugh and TA Beck.
What was JFK's central policy lynchpin, The New Frontier, if not the then modern big-government descendant of FDR's New Deal?
You'll never see those types of domestic initiatives originating from Republicans.
Never.