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Which president and party ended the funding for the addtional 100,000 cops on the street policy?

I thought this was a thread about the hamburger chain's pins. I've had a beef with them ever since they ended the all you can eat salad and taco bar.

What's Sarah Palin done to reduce the drug use and unwed pregnancy in Alaska, among the highest per capita in the country?

The already-contentious North Carolina Senate race took a brutal turn Wednesday after incumbent Sen. Elizabeth Dole released a television ad suggesting challenger Kay Hagan is "Godless." “A leader of the Godless Americans PAC recently held a secret fundraiser for Kay Hagan,” the 30-second ad says before showing clips from members of the group declaring God and Jesus do not exist. “Godless Americans and Kay Hagan. She hid from cameras. Took godless money,” the ad's narrator also says. “What did Kay Hagan promise in return?” The ad ends with a female voice declaring, "There is no God." That quote is delivered by someone who sounds like Hagan, but those words have never been said by the candidate. The Dole campaign says it's basing its charge on Hagan's attendance at a fundraiser that was in the home of an advisor to the Godless Americans’ political action committee, a group that promotes rights for atheists. In a conference call with reporters Wednesday, Hagan said she has never heard of the Godless PAC and said the fundraiser in question had more than 40 hosts, including Sen. John Kerry. She also said she has contacted her lawyers to issue a cease-and-desist order on the commercial. "I am absolutely appalled at Elizabeth Dole's vile tactics," Hagan said. “This is politics of the worst kind, and I know it has been rejected by North Carolinians at every level. It is so unbecoming of a woman like Elizabeth Dole. This is a fabricated, pathetic ad." http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Perot doesn't like McCain ever since he dumped his first wife Carol for Cindy. Perot paid Carol's medical bills after her car accident and while John was a POW. [Perot talking] "After he came home, he walked with a limp, she [Carol McCain] walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona [Cindy McCain, his current wife] and the rest is history." Perot's real problem with McCain is that he believes the senator hushed up evidence that live POWs were left behind in Vietnam and even transferred to the Soviet Union for human experimentation, a charge Perot says he heard from a senior Vietnamese official in the 1980s. "There's evidence, evidence, evidence," Perot claims. "McCain was adamant about shutting down anything to do with recovering POWs." This and other views in his January interview: http://www.newsweek.com/id/94827/

Stevens said he isn't going to step down, and when he loses the election it will be a moot point. Besides, I don't think a Governor can appoint themself to be Senator, can they? Or do they have a Dick Cheney rule there? If there was an appointment, she would probably pick Todd, or maybe her son-in-law to be, he could use a job with good benefits.

So you'd rather have a prolonged recession than have Obama take credit for a recovery? Part of the financial crisis is due to perceptions that the situation won't improve, so nobody wants to take a chance. What if they get some confidence from knowing Obama will provide steady leadership, shouldn't he get credit for restoring that confidence?

Because Bush's tax cuts have kept so many companies from moving jobs to China and India, and has attracted jobs back from other countries...

The electoral college could still submit their votes based on their best judgement of the perceived will of the people. Or they could go to Kevin Costner to break the tie. I suppose it it went beyond Jan. 20, Nancy Pelosi would become the president in the absence of a successor.

I hope you and other McCain supporters keep saying it's close, because hopefully it will energize Obama supporters to make sure they go vote and get others to vote and not take the election for granted.

Speaking of which, what's wide stance Larry Craig been up to lately?

We could stay there 2 years or 10 years, but in the end when we leave if the Iraqis don't have a political agreement then it will revert to civil war in either case. Enough American lives have been sacrificed, I don't want any more. You can respect someone's service and still disagree with their policy views.

That's going to be Sarah Palin's limo if she becomes VP.

It's plexiglass. And occasionally it will shatter from impact from the puck or players. Just last night it shattered in Boston, and a couple people got cut by the small shards.

And mine is that all the killed and wounded are already honored because they did their service, regardless of the outcome. Your logic would mean that those that served in Vietnam are not as honorable because the civilian leadership ended the war.

So when's he going to share that info, along with how to capture Bin Laden? Isn't it a bit selfish to only share it if he wins? What's he waiting for? And there are many families who don't want to see other families lose their sons and daughters because the civilian leadership is unwilling to admit they were mistaken. My manager's son-in-law lost his leg in Iraq to an IED, and he thinks we should get out ASAP, and his son-in-law is voting for Obama.

From what I've heard from Republicans, with a super majority the Democrats will ensure there are drive-thru abortion clinics, which will be needed after teaching sex education to kindergartners, they'll be riots at Joe the Plumber's house as everyone making less than $250k will be trying to get their welfare checks from him, the new holiday will be Che Guevara Day, the military in Iraq will wave a white flag and retreat in shame, our children will no longer have the choice to become gay but will be forced into it, divorces will skyrocket as gay marriage destroys the meaning of our marriages, and only criminals will be allowed to own guns. What did I miss?

I'm sorry for the loss of your friends, but no soldier dies in vain. They are obeying orders, and regardless of what orders the civilian leadership give them, they carry out their duty. Consider that your friends may not have had to give their lives if Obama's judgement on invading Iraq had been followed. And ones military service does not automatically make someone the most qualified to be president. Carter went to the Naval Academy and served aboard a submarine, while Reagan spent WWII in the U.S. as a Public Relations officer. Which do conservatives believe was the better president? W. was in the National Guard, Clinton didn't serve, yet most Americans would say Clinton was the better president.

Who was the highest paid individual in Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign during the first half of October as it headed down the homestretch? Not Randy Scheunemann, Mr. McCain’s chief foreign policy adviser; not Nicolle Wallace, his senior communications staff member. It was Amy Strozzi, who was identified by the Washington Post this week as Gov. Sarah Palin’s traveling makeup artist, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday night. Ms. Strozzi, who was nominated for an Emmy award for her makeup work on the television show “So You Think You Can Dance?”, was paid $22,800 for the first two weeks of October alone, according to the records. The campaign categorized Ms. Strozzi’s payment as “PERSONNEL SVC/EQUIPMENT.” The payment on Oct. 10 made Ms. Strozzi the single highest-paid individual in the campaign for that two-week period. (There were more than two dozen companies that got larger payments than Ms. Strozzi). She easily beat out Mr. Scheunemann, who received $12,500 in the first half of October, and Ms. Wallace, who got $12,000. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10...-2-week-period/

And don't forget to include those Iranians. Those Muslims, err, Arabs, err Persians are also an imminent threat.

Christian: of, pertaining to, believing in, or belonging to the religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ. Mormon: the popular name given to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Regardless, should we be watching the Mormons closely like the Muslims?

I just read about this today in the Buffalo News. Oh wait, actually it was about a Christian Fundamentalist sect in Arizona and Nevada. http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/471550.html

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Perhaps tossup states would have been a better term, since Obama has larger leads in NH and PA.

That would be a good nickname for the McCain-Palin team: Dead-Heat. Of course the battleground state polls are the only ones that matter, and RealClearPolitics still has Obama ahead in all of them; Florida, Ohio, Nevada, NC, Missouri, Colorado, and Virginia. Even if McCain won all of those, given the solid and leaning states, the best he could do is a 269-269 tie, which would throw the election to the House. McCain needs a game chang..uh, I mean event modifier to pull an additional Obama state away from him. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/ma...vs_mccain/#data