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As opposed to "John McCain has voted with George Bush 90% of the time - we don't need a President who is only right 10% of the time!" A funny line is a funny line - get over it.

I'm pretty sure they track that too - I'll have to remember the site and see. A friend convinced me to join about a year ago. After a month I was bored out of my mind and let my team finish on auto-pilot. It didn't help that one of my back-benchers, the delegate from the Virgin Islands, dropped dead right after the draft Not much trade value...

Regardless of what one thinks of the bills, there is no denying that McCain-Feingold and the Immigration Reform Act were two exceoptionally significant pieces of legislation, major league by Senate standards. They were McCain's babies, and they were bipartisan. Most people have heard of them. And yet if you look at most other Senators, a person on the street would be hard pressed to associate a piece of legislation with them.

If you play in a fantasy congress league (where you pick your team of legislatores; there is a huge site somewhere that organizes the leagues), you'll realize that sponsoring and co-sponsoring bills is the junk-filler stat. Anyone can sponsor legislation - just look at Kucinich and his daily impeachment bills. Getting them out of committee, reconciled, and passed is the accomplishment that gets you points. Simply sponsoring them is valued about the same as attendence.

Yeah, they were snoozers. It's *possible* that they were told to intentionally toned down their speeches, to serve more as good lead-ins and not to overshadow the pick, whereas the also-rans had enough pull to play it as they chose... I don't know what goes on behind the scenes with convention speakers and assignments.

Yes, that line was a keeper!

So much for your prescience about her speech.

I put it as strong and solid. Not sure about home-run, to an undecided. Huckabee and Guilaini set really high high bars in terms of performance. But I thing she did a good job of accomplishing everything she needed to.

I assume you are refering to Bridget, the girl from the Bangladeshi orphanage. Reminds me of Obama's race against Alan Keyes, which got pretty ugly. Putting aside the fact that Keyes had no real Illiinois connection, certain quarters didn't approve of a black man marrying marrying an Indian woman...

Yeah, but it still took skill and luck to squeeze by while the big three knocked each other out.

And I thought Guilaini did an *exceptional* job. Politics aside, he did everything you could want as a leas-in: pump up the party, hit the opposition hard (yet with humor), and pump up Palin. Fantastic delivery... Watching Huckabee and Guilaini perform, I still have to scratch my head that McCain won the nomination.

Jockeying for the pole position in 2012 has begun. I thought Steele was good but he didn't wow me; Romney tried too hard to mark his turf as the arch-conservative, came off as unlikeable; and Huckabee was witty, entertaining, and moving. He stole the show.

The clip is said to be from during the Democratic convention, before she was named (and known). As to the speech, the only release I can find is http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2...ins_speech.html Only four blurbs, doesn't really strike me as whining, more like standard punches.

Funny. I was under the impression that Palin hasn't even spoken to the media since her introductory speech. But go ahead and whine about her whining. (Perhaps you are confusing her with Obama, who kept telling everybody that people were going to attack him because he looks different?)

Just curious - how far does your sense of humanity extend? just poor pregnant teenagers? American pregnant teenagers? American + illegal immigrant pregnant teenagers? all pregnant teenagers, including those who are too poor to get to America? In a world enjoying explosive population growth, how much money do you think is enough? At what point do we stop without losing our humanity?

I've had alot of discussions with friends about 'green industry.' I believe that global warming is a serious problem that must be fought, etc, but I have a great deal of trouble with the idea that a viable national economic strategy is to create 'green-collar' jobs (which is pretty much the only answer I heard during the primaries). Fighting GW seriously will be economically extremely painfull, none of the candidates have prepared their supporters for that truth, and for that reason it probably will never happen. Nevertheless, in response to the question of how this nifty green economy is going to work, the response that I get is that there will be lots of jobs exporting green products and technology - replacing all those coal plants in China etc. What they fail to realize is that the rest of the world expects us to share the technology, and that if we want them to phase out a perfectly good but dirty factory, we had better be prepared to pay for it. Much like we would here.

This references http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publication...l.cfm?ID=411693 I've read/skimmed the full report, and don't see where the numbers in the chart come from. I can't say it's wrong, but I simply don't see how those making 226k-603k remain steady under the Obama plan as claimed.

The editors are chosen by those volunteering to work on it. It's a popularity contest. Is it any great surprise that an articulate likeable black student would be chosen by a group which had been actively pushing Harvard for greater minority admissions to the law program? This from the Obama-mouthpiece NYT: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=h...mp;aq=f&oq=

Are you describing his campaign in the primaries? Talk loftily about change and an end to partisanship, pander to the left wing activists, copy everybody elses positions, and promise no pain?

The bar for the Democrats is even lower. Obama came out and ridiculed her experience as mayor, saying she had only 50 employees while he had hundreds of campaign workers. And that is the problem: the fact that he equates the experiences of running a campaign with the experience of running a government or a company.

He worked at a Baskin-Robins one summer. I don't think he was a supervisor though.

You mean like when he left Columbia to take a job in finance, helping US companies open operations overseas? They don't mention that part of his resume much...

And if Obama had more than zero experience seeing how tax policy effects revenue and job creation I would feel better about him too.

What you missed is the endorsement of bigotry when it is politically convenient. Me? I think the Jews for Jesus movement is stupid. But the idea of being offended by their wanting to convert people to their beliefs, and celebrating the ugly reactions of those who are, is far far worse.

I can understand his missing it. The seeming even-handedness of the article's title, "Both Obama and Clinton Embellish their Roles," discounted the likliehood of it having been read and cited by anyone in this forum. He was probably looking to respond to something called "Obama eats babies before pausing to steal legislation."