McCain want to keep fighting in Iraq and his opponent has a name like an Iraqi. Add his vice-candidate and it's Obama Bin Biden. No offense to Obama. It's still funny!
McCain will in all probability bring up Ayers. This whole incident has been very distasteful for those of us who lived through Joseph McCarthy and the rampant redbaiting of the 40s and 50s. I don't know whether Obama is right in not responding in kind -- not that he is not morally correct -- but ignorance has to be corrected. I would put the McCain attacks into the context of McCarthyism, and label McCain's campaign as red baiting. I am a historian by training, an activitist by choice, and the greatest disappointments of my life is how little people learn from the past. The Great Depression exposed the evils of deregulation, and now seventy years later we have eliminated many of the regulations that brought on the Great Depression. Roosevelt corrected some of it by nationalizing the banks -- in effect privatizing many of the nation's industries. He discredited trickle down economics -- but today we are trying to preserve the paradigm.
Closed AccountOct 14, 2008
What does "walking around in circles while the other guy is talking" say about someone's body language?
citizenrobotOct 14, 2008
You mean, a dap. And daps rule. <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dap_greeting">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dap_greeting</a>
bullhunterOct 15, 2008
McCain want to keep fighting in Iraq and his opponent has a name like an Iraqi. Add his vice-candidate and it's Obama Bin Biden. No offense to Obama. It's still funny!
plainoldfoolOct 15, 2008
Where are you, Mr. Puddles? Have you seen my lost dog Mr. Puddles?
rudyacunaOct 15, 2008
McCain will in all probability bring up Ayers. This whole incident has been very distasteful for those of us who lived through Joseph McCarthy and the rampant redbaiting of the 40s and 50s. I don't know whether Obama is right in not responding in kind -- not that he is not morally correct -- but ignorance has to be corrected. I would put the McCain attacks into the context of McCarthyism, and label McCain's campaign as red baiting. I am a historian by training, an activitist by choice, and the greatest disappointments of my life is how little people learn from the past. The Great Depression exposed the evils of deregulation, and now seventy years later we have eliminated many of the regulations that brought on the Great Depression. Roosevelt corrected some of it by nationalizing the banks -- in effect privatizing many of the nation's industries. He discredited trickle down economics -- but today we are trying to preserve the paradigm.