Comments on: McCains rumored VP pick says “don’t spend time on [skeptics]“

By: statePoet1775

statePoet1775 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:51:07 +0000

“I didn’t say he was a dictator” Bruce Cobb

Well, he can declare anyone of us an “enemy combatant” at his sole discretion and have us imprisoned indefinitely and TORTURED. I call that a dictator.

By: Bruce Cobb

Bruce Cobb — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:41:22 +0000

Tom: Come now, I didn’t say he was a dictator, nor did I use the word “murder”. You are using AGWer tactics of debate. Shame on you.
Furthermore, what “information” are you talking about? WMD’s, nukes, ties to Al Quaida, all of which turned out to be not only false, by the way, but were, in fact lied about.
You are simply being disingenuous about Congress. They believed the lies, and once we were involved, really didn’t have much choice other than to approve funding. Nice try.

By: Gary Gulrud

Gary Gulrud — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:31:24 +0000

Bruce,

BDS may not be a killer but it does the sufferer no good and it would appear a matter of volition.

You report as fact much one might dismiss summarily, and have evidence to offer for doing so–in a different forum.

By: statePoet1775

statePoet1775 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:26:18 +0000

“not to mention some 4,000 American lives lost, and many more wounded physically and psychologically, which will cost untold billions more for many years. For that alone, he should have been impeached.” Bruce Cobb

Bingo!

By: Tom in Florida

Tom in Florida — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:47:45 +0000

Bruce,
You went from accusing Bush of bankrupting the country to being a murdering dictator. Apparently you can accept that the blame for an economic turndown is and should be placed on the Congress over trhe last year and a half. Afterall, it is Congress that handles all the money issues for the Country. One the other point, the greatness of our system is that no one man can do what you accuse the President of doing without the consent of Congress. In addition, had any President not acted upon the information that was available they would have been direlict in their duties to this Country. If Saddam was still in power and unchallenged for all these years, where do you think the world would be now? Your monday morning quarterbacking only sounds like sour grapes.

By: evanjones

evanjones — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:52:38 +0000

Well, Bruce, I must thoroughly disagree. I don’t consider what dubya did to have been lying, and I think that one has to consider that Iraq was a charnel pit, a slow-motion genocide in action (unlike, say, Iran). Yes, the war could have been handled better, but I’m sure you know the long and sad history of American (et al.) military screwups.

I think one must measure the sad consequences of having invaded with the horrible consequences of having done nothing for a decade. As Tony Blair put it, “Doing nothing IS doing something.”

By: Bruce Cobb

Bruce Cobb — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:24:26 +0000

Tom: How soon we forget! We we doing just fine until the Dems took over Congress 19 months ago. Since then it’s been all down hill.

Doing fine? I think not. Let’s see, he invaded Iraq under false pretenses (he lied) to the tune of over a half trillion and counting, not to mention some 4,000 American lives lost, and many more wounded physically and psychologically, which will cost untold billions more for many years. For that alone, he should have been impeached.

By: Pierre Gosselin

Pierre Gosselin — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:19:35 +0000

She’s got experience, looks, legs – and my vote!

By: David Segesta

David Segesta — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:22:02 +0000

Palin is a skeptic. “She doubts global warming stems from human activity” according to http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/sarah_palin_vp/2008/08/29/126139.html

Well that’s good news.

By: Gary Gulrud

Gary Gulrud — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:05:53 +0000

“There’s nothing remotely libertarian about any of those positions.”

The list was intended to loosely itemize that governor’s practice, not his philosophy, which I intended to imply, was at variance with his stated positions. I may have failed in the latter.

I was under the impression, libertarians were socially moderate to liberal and fiscally moderate to conservative. That impression was gained solely by my captive presence during “Prairie Dogging” and not by examination of any platform, and I maintain no illusion to political sophistication.

For that matter, people here in Purple America don’t call me moderate where I can’t imagine being otherwise characterized. Pardon me if I have blundered in some way. It was a throwaway remark.

By: Jeff Id

Jeff Id — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:41:22 +0000

The UN organization IPCC is driving the climate hype through a corrupt government system. They were formed with the purpose of identifying and combating man made climate change before there was any real evidence.

They would have no purpose for existence if they didn’t find climate change so after only 2 years they had identified global warming and CO2 as a serious threat and began recommending formation of more organizations and committees which did the same.

Today billions of dollars are spent around the world by government organizations who’s entire survival depends on man made global warming being true. This had the necessary effect of corrupting the science beyond believability.

For more information you can go here.
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/environment/anthropogenic-global-warming/

By: John B

John B — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:38:39 +0000

Another quote from Palin:

http://www.thenextright.com/goprebel/drill-drill-drill-larry-kudlows-interview-with-alaska-governor-sarah-palin

Kudlow:Governor Palin, thank you ever so much for coming on. We appreciate it. I want to start with this, it’s an oddball question. I mean, Senator McCain says it’s too pristine to drill. Senator Obama says the drilling won’t work. What is your response to this? How do you fight back?

Palin: Well it will work. And Senator McCain is wrong on that issue. He’s right on a whole lot of other issues, so thank goodness that he’s understanding and evolving with his position on OCS [Outer Continental Shelf]. So that’s encouraging. I think he’s going to evolve into, eventually, supporting ANWR opening also.

By: L Nettles

L Nettles — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:29:57 +0000

Palin’s Op Ed from the NYT Jan 2008 on climate modeling and polar bears

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/opinion/05palin.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=%22sarah+palin%22&st=nyt&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

By: statePoet1775

statePoet1775 — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:28:57 +0000

I can’t vote for McCain but the future looks less bleak now.

By: Jeff Alberts

Jeff Alberts — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:20:22 +0000

“A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I’m not one though who would attribute it to being man-made. ”

Talk about a non-statement. A warmer climate would certainly make Alaska a nicer place to live. A colder climate could make it unlivable.