Oh shush, I'm trying to stir the shitpot :)

Nice to see that some people will vote for or against the Leader of the Free World based on his position on a particular sport. What an intelligent way to decide on who should be President!

Eureka! I'm only voting for candidates who like the same sports teams I do... The Pittsburgh Penguins and The Pittsburgh Steelers. In fact, I'll only associate with people who like my teams - so I can truly become isolated in my thinking to the point of blind radicalism! What an unbridled genius this Dr. Meat is!

Ok - here's my high-level assessment of this.

In areas where the original message was shown to be "false" it was usually one of those "it depends on the meaning of is is" things... i.e. Obama was stating "facts" in politically advantageous, selective way. The same charge could be made towards the writer of the original email though, too.

Obfuscation is the name of the game - and whoever relies upon it might as well be lying. We've been force-fed a steady diet of obfuscation for nearly 8 years now. The point to take away here is that Obama is no different than ANY other politician in this regard.

Hmmm: ob·fus·cate (bf-skt, b-fskt)
tr.v. ob·fus·cat·ed, ob·fus·cat·ing, ob·fus·cates
1. To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand: "A great effort was made . . . to obscure or obfuscate the truth" Robert Conquest.
2. To render indistinct or dim; darken: The fog obfuscated the shore.

ob·fus·cation
the process of darkening or obscuring so as to hinder ready analysis.
See also: Thinking

...as proof of said obfuscation in the current Administration, I point to Scott McClellan's new book. :)

Ron Paul?

What about him? I like a lot of his ideas - especially his support of Fair Tax - but we'll NEVER get rid of the IRS... once the government creates a bloated bureaucracy, it can never be stamped out.

I got this e-mail from a very close friend:
This is the mind-set of a typical Obama supporter. Even just his first sentence sent chills down my spine.

Oh boy! Let's all hang up pictures of Che and Marx and become socialists... so the government can control even MORE of our lives! After all, they're so good at it. :rolleyes:

I get paid on the 5th and the 20th.

My entire (and I mean ENTIRE) paycheck from the 5th goes to the mortgage and a couple other bills that are due during the first half of the month... so I won't have any money in there anyhow. :eek:

It is no secret that Obama has the "Black Vote". A lot of that is simply because of the rally to make history. There is a grand excitement about Obama, but I wonder how many of those votes he would retain if McCains VP was Colin Powell? Altho he would be a VP, when the black community had a valid second option, what would result?

On a far out note, I really would like to see a what if situation if someone like Micheal Jordan ended up on the ticket? I mean hell, if theres gonna be someone in there with no real experience, at least he's a world icon and extremely successful.lol