[Rhodes22-list] Brad, now my turn:

Tue Sep 16 12:16:32 EDT 2008

Jb,

I'll sure as hell take Todd as "First Dude" over "Michelle, I was
never proud of America until now".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5MWk0V77ko

Maybe Charlie Daniels should have gone into politics.  His "Country
Boy Will Survive" sure sounds like a good rally cry after all the
"smart people" in Wall Street from the Ivy League outsmarted
themselves.

Brad

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:41 AM, JbTek <j.bulfer at jbtek.com> wrote:
> Like myself, many are looking right past McCain for a Palin presidency.
> Most know little about her but that doesn't matter to them. Kinda like the
> Dems didn't care about the details in Obama.
> She is the Republicans Obama.
> My guess is a woman will be president before a black guy will.
> Jb
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Herb Parsons" <hparsons at parsonsys.com>
> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 8:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Brad, now my turn:
>
>
>> You got it!! and the inverse, I'm sure, is why the Dems so despise
>> McCain's pick.
>>
>> Obama, who has been touting "change" picked a career Washington
>> politician, he of "you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts
>> unless you have a slight Indian accent" fame, and he even declared he
>> "wasn't joking". But, Biden really likes Obama, he even publicly stated
>> that he was "the first mainstream African-American
>> </wiki/African-American> who is articulate and bright and clean and a
>> nice-looking guy."
>>
>> Yeah, REAL winner for change there...
>>
>> On the other hand, McCain has always been a maverick Republican. Those
>> Republicans that dislike him, or are ambivalent at best (and I am the
>> latter group), feel that way because he takes many stances that are to
>> the left of strong Republicans. While Palin would definitely be
>> considered a "balance" (she's much more socially conservative than he),
>> she certainly brings a new "format" of politician to the ticket.
>>
>> So, you folks keep crying out the current trend. We'll sympathize with
>> you all the way to November.
>>
>> Jb wrote:
>> > The only reason you're thrilled with the Dems pick is it should be easy
> to
>> > beat.
>> > Obama blew his change platform with a Joe Biden pick. If he was going to
> do
>> > that he should have picked Hillary...that was stupid.
>> > Jb
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Herb Parsons" <hparsons at parsonsys.com>
>> > To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:22 AM
>> > Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Brad, now my turn:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> Not me. I'm THRILLED with who the Dems picked!!! On the other hand, I
>> >> can certainly understand their distaste for McCain's choice. All the
>> >> blustering about "she's not a good choice" aside, it's easy to
>> >> understand why they dislike a 20 point change in women voters.
>> >>
>> >> JbTek wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Anyone the Dems pic, the Republicans hate....anyone the Republicans
> pic,
>> >>> the
>> >>> Dems hate.
>> >>> It doesn't matter who he picked, it would be the same thing. It'll
> never
>> >>> work right that way.
>> >>> It amazes me how both sides say the same thing about the other & just
>> >>> keep
>> >>> on fighting.
>> >>> Kinda like some of you on the list. You never get any where so what's
> the
>> >>> point?
>> >>> I could go thru what I believe but I don't think anyone cares but me.
>> >>> I think some people just like to argue......I don't.
>> >>>
>> >>> Jb
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>> From: "Herb Parsons" <hparsons at parsonsys.com>
>> >>> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> >>> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 10:26 AM
>> >>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Brad, now my turn:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>> I think it's funny to watch someone debate her intent, when that same
>> >>>> someone firmly backs the man infamous for his "it depends on what the
>> >>>> meaning of the word 'is' is" comment.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> stan wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Brad,
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> As you have said over the years, we don't disagree on everything but
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>> come
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>> on, you have to admit that if you took 1,000 folks who heard her
> Bridge
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>> to
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>> Nowhere speech over and over and over again and asked them: did she
> let
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>> them
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>> go away thinking she did Not take these ear mark dollars, 100% of
> those
>> >>>>> questioned would say she stood right up there and let us know she
> saved
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>> that
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>> money from coming out of our pockets.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Please, anyone coming to her defense, spare me that although she
> took
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>> the
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>> money she spent it more wisely or that she had no choice but to take
>> >>>>> the
>> >>>>> money.  Don't befuddle the issue of her honesty.   She wanted you to
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>> believe
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>> what she wanted you to believe and she knew it and she made no
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>> qualifying
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>> remarks and kept repeating her fiction at every chance she could
>> >>>>> without
>> >>>>> even showing the wisdom of second thinking of what she was saying.
> In
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>> my
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>> world, intent is the bottom line.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Ben, Slim, and all you on the fencers, help on this disingenuous
> (that
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>> means
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>> lying in my Bklyn district) speech review.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> ss
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>>>> From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>
>> >>>>> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> >>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:15 AM
>> >>>>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Brad, now my turn:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> Stan,
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Tax revenues have risen, to say they haven't is the "big lie". The
>> >>>>>> lack of revenue isn't the problem, the growth of entitlement
> programs
>> >>>>>> is the elephant in the room (feel free to make jokes about
> elephants
>> >>>>>> here ________ ). Even with the cost of the Iraq war and the endless
>> >>>>>> earmarks, "It's the Entitlements Stupid", to paraphrase Bubba circa
>> >>>>>> 1992.  Anyone who thinks a partial privatization of SS is a bad
> idea
>> >>>>>> need only look around the country at the number of cities and
>> >>>>>> municipalities that have retirement funds going bankrupt. Sometimes
>> >>>>>> reality really sucks but it is what it is. Even the Democratic
> party
>> >>>>>> in Alaska was touting Palin's killing the "Bridge to Nowhere" on
> their
>> >>>>>> website until last week when they got the marching orders to send
> that
>> >>>>>> webpage "down memory hole".  Find a new talking point.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Now as to stem cell research, I'm 'fer' it, and as to litmus tests,
>> >>>>>> I'm 'agin' it! As to the Global Warming religion, I'm an agnostic
> in
>> >>>>>> most things associated with religion.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> We're down to the last 55 days of this beauty pageant we call an
>> >>>>>> election and O'Bambi isn't doing a good job of handling the fact
> that
>> >>>>>> he just lost the swimsuit competition. He's never won an election
>> >>>>>> against competition and so he's reverting back to his 'raisins',
>> >>>>>> Chicago style politics.  Expect more elbows in the days to come.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Brad
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:59 AM, stan <stan at rhodes22.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> if you think they are cute and perky, wait 'til you've seen
> John's.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> but if you want 8 more of the same tax theory, stem cell thinking,
>> >>>>>>> supreme
>> >>>>>>> court litmus, global warming be damned, environmental leanings,
>> >>>>>>> privatizing
>> >>>>>>> of ss, and the dumbing down of America so everyone believes her
> lying
>> >>>>>>> about
>> >>>>>>> not taking all the "Bridge to Nowhere" dollars from their pockets,
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>> she's
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>>>> your man - even if she has breasts.   Gad, at this age, even I
> have
>> >>>>>>> those.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> ss
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>>>>>> From: <R22RumRunner at aol.com>
>> >>>>>>> To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> >>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:17 AM
>> >>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Brad, now my turn:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> Stan,
>> >>>>>>>> In case your eyeglasses are a little foggy this morning, she has
>> >>>>>>>> cute
>> >>>>>>>> perky
>> >>>>>>>> breasts.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> Rummy
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>
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