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Tender words
If you want to see a cool graphic of the different totem words used by the two campaigns, look at this one from the Times.
The top three words for the Democrats were:
- “Change”
- “McCain”
- “Energy”
The top three words for the Republicans were:
- “God”
- “Taxes”
- A tie between “Change” and “Business”
The Democrats have learned one lesson here. They said “terror” or “terrorism” just as many times as the Republicans. Fear-mongers!
Topic: Campaign 2008, WorldMagBlog
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Wow!
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Nothing quite like throwing a bunch of references to God out there to rope in the Christian Right.
Note that the GOP mentioned “change” 30 times, and “Bush” 7 times.
LMBO!
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And the Dems mentioned Bush 46 times, while his own party could only manage 7 references to their own sitting president.
LMBO!
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I noticed that the most successful word in eliciting cheers over all three days was “God”. It was downright Pavlovian.
Anyway, here is an AP article that delves a little more deeply into Palin’s religious beliefs.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303102_pf.html
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So, Nighty, are you focused on the past or the future? I’m focused on the future, as I think most Christians are. Bush will be out of office noon, Jan. 20th, and whoever takes the job needs to move on. If the word “God” offends you when it is said, perhaps you need to be spending time on something other than politics.
I think Sarah Palin should be speaking about energy all the time, explaining the new drilling techniques as well as how they plan to make the transition from fossil fuels to alternatives.
Last election, the RNC wrote off NJ, and we rarely saw a Republican commercial. But NJ is in play this time, people here don’t want to be taxed, so I’m glad they’re reminding people who wants to tax us even more. And when you tax business, as Obama wants to do, business will pass that along to the consumer, so we’ll need our paychecks. Make the Bush taxcuts permanent.
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Keep spinning, NJL, rather than admit just how horrible a job Bush has done. And the GOP talking about God doesn’t offend me. I just think it’s hilarious how you guys fall for it every four years. They don’t mean a word of it, but you guys just keep coming back for more. Just as evvies are all speaking in tongues over Sarah Palin, talking about how she’ll be a force for the pro-life agenda. What a riot. VP is a powerless job. She won’t be writing any bills or vetoing any bills. But you all think that because McCain picked her Roe v Wade is going down. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 8 times in a row, every four years, hey, just call me an evangelical Christian!
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So are you saying, Night Train that we should buy into the Democrats’ version of their “come to Jesus”? I trust them even less than I trust the Republicans, which isn’t whole lot. They have their folks to whom they pander as well. And these people buy it every four years too. But sides are guilty of pandering for political expediency.
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The economy will rule the day. Once the US hears how bad the US economy has become since the Democrats took over congress not to mention the housing crisis, credit crunch and huge spike in oil prices, their tax, tax, tax and no drill, drill, drill philosophy Obama is toast.
The Dems new words will be Misery, Despair, Hopelessness and Cry, Cry, Cry. If they could convince God they were Christians – they would Pray.
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Almost forgot. From a report in the Times:
On Wednesday night, the CBS anchor asked Senator John McCain’s wife, Cindy, about her views on abortion, and discovered that Mrs. McCain, usually so impenetrably poised and well prepared, had difficulty describing her husband’s position on Roe v. Wade, or her own. (She said he did not want to overturn it, until Ms. Couric assured her that he did oppose Roe v. Wade. Mrs. McCain, looking a bit confused, then said she, too, wanted the legality of abortion to be determined by individual states.)
At the end of the interview, Ms. Couric told her viewers that the campaign had clarified Mrs. McCain’s position: “They told us that, like Laura Bush, Mrs. McCain does not favor overturning Roe v. Wade, which guarantees the legal right to an abortion.”
Especially on a day when the staunchly anti-abortion Governor Palin was being acclaimed by the Republican convention, it was a good question to ask and as, it turned out, a hard one to answer.
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You Dems better look out for today’s unemployment nuimbers. Unemployment is skyrocketing since you took over congress and this nation’s economy.
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I fight to restore the pride and principles of our party. We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us. We lost — we lost the trust of the American people when some Republicans gave in to the temptations of corruption. We lost their trust when rather than reform government, both parties made it bigger. We lost their trust when instead of freeing ourselves from a dangerous dependence on foreign oil, both parties — and Senator Obama — passed another corporate welfare bill for oil companies. We lost their trust when we valued our power over our principles. We’re going to change that. –John McCain
And explain just why I should trust you again.
It’s beaten wife syndrome. Hit her, beat hear, tell her you’re sorry and that you love her and over and over and over. Time to break that cycle Mr. McCain. You’ll never ever get my vote. Never, even with the lovely Mrs. Palin on the ticket..
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So are you saying, Night Train that we should buy into the Democrats’ version of their “come to Jesus”?
Yeah, that’s exactly what I’m saying. You know me, I’m a big time liberal Democrat. Just ask any of the other liberals on here. They’ll tell you. And even if I weren’t, everyone knows there’s only two choices when it comes to politics, Democrat or Republican.
You caught me, Klasko! Glad to see some folks pay attention.
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It is funny you know how some people come to a Christian sponsored website to belittle and malign people of faith. Bet you dollar to a donuts, they haven’t got the intestinal fortitude and post such dribble on a website used by Al Qeada. You know why. They know that if they did, we would find them in some back alley with their heads severed from their torso’s placed squarely between the shoulder blades.
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(. Arcadia, then don’t vote for her. Wait, she’s not running for anything. Lay off his wife.
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It is funny you know how some people come to a Christian sponsored website to belittle and malign people of faith. Bet you dollar to a donuts, they haven’t got the intestinal fortitude and post such dribble on a website used by Al Qeada. You know why. They know that if they did, we would find them in some back alley with their heads severed from their torso’s placed squarely between the shoulder blades.
Oh, brother…Joe, you should prolly switch to decaf.
Say, you know what we need?
Church vouchers! That way all those Muslims can attend Christian churches. They’ll see the light, and start acting just like decent Christian white folks.
Write your Congressman!
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NT, I have a right to belong to a political party in this country, and I am under no illusions regarding religion in the Republican Party, but they are closer to how I feel about government — don’t want a lot of it — and judges. You write about Palin: ” VP is a powerless job. She won’t be writing any bills or vetoing any bills.” But it’s a great place to learn from the inside, and this one is already learning now.
The Republican Party — despite what you may think or even what you call “evies” may think — has never been the party of God. It acknowledges Him which has been more than the Dems ever did, but any Christian who puts literal faith in the Republican Party has to revisit his or her beliefs. Of course, I don’t think anyone here has that problem. We want a say in our government like everyone else, we know we are but one group, and we take our chances right along with everyone else.
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NT, if anyone needs to switch to decaf today, it’s you. I suggest that you see a doctor, too.
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Actually, I did see a doctor recently. He gave me some pills, but they didn’t really work. I’m the same ol’ Night Train, except that people just get uglier, and I have no sense of time.
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#18 is pretty funny. My doctor is retiring and I’m going to see a new doctor today. “Hey, doc, I done got old,” I will say. “How much longer to you think I have?”
Evidently people here think they will see God and Jesus when they die because Jesus died for their sins and forgives them. I expect to see nothing and I expect that’s what all of you will see also.
We’ll see who is right, or not see, as the case may be.
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#13 Joe B.
Are you saying head severing won’t happen to them here? I wouldn’t want to test that assumption if I were them
Well unemployment is now 6.1%. When the socialist took over in Feb 2007 unemployment was 4.5% Now it is 1.6% higher which equates to 1.76 million Americans who have lost their jobs due to the left’s total lack of economic ability 9Since they are socialists and Marxists rather than capitalists like normal people) of any kind. Now if Obama gets elected we are looking at Jimmy Carter numbers again. 11% unemployment, 20% interest rates, 20% inflation, oil embargoes from Arab nations (not just high prices), Iran probably blowing up Washington DC with a Nuke, North Korea blowing up San Francisco with one and who knows what else. Yeah I know some of you wouldn’t mind Washington DC and San Francisco turned into cinders and I have to admit it sounds tempting but, the rest of their baggage is just too much for you to tote for them as their slaves and toadies.
They of course won’t mind how much you have to suffer because they are only trying to make finally make you equal to them. They want everyone equally miserable, broke and unhappy. It is the one thing they are very good at. They figure they are doing you a favor but i assure you it will be something less than that once they sick their buddy Ossama on you.
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#17 NJL,
You forgot you recommend electroshock treatments.
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Wow, Random Name at #19, tough to argue with that one. How about this:
By pressing various keys on the keyboard, I am composing a sentence that will be posted on this forum.
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The Republican Party is attempting to give the American people amnesia about the last 8 years. The want you to forget that they were in charge and screwed this country up royally (to put it as mildly as I’m allowed). The military has an appropriate acronym for it, but even that can’t be mentioned.
The “change” the Republican want is to take this country backwards, not forward.
The Republicans are running scared. They know the American people are fixing to issue a thumbs-down verdict on the last 8 years of Republican rule.
They will attempt to make the election about personalities rather than the issues, because they know they will lose on the issues.
Republicans are the party of fear.
Democrats are the party of hope.
Hopefully the majority of people will chose hope over fear. It remains to be seen.
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Republican rule?!? Last time I checked, the Democrats were and had been in charge for some time now….
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I’m beginning to wonder if leftists here are playing a prank, or maybe its a game of some kind. A self-parody contest to see who can who can most accurately and repetitively channel the wit and wisdom of donato/RDean. Otherwise I can’t figure the steep decline in grown-up ideas and the sudden rise of bumper sticker simplisms.
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Hey, whatever haappened to RDean?
And Fran Froelich – did she get banned?
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kbells: I don’t recall seeing you protest when some of the others here were bashing Michelle. Is it only R families that are somehow sacrosanct?
Anlir: Jon Stewart had the best line about the R convention I’ve seen. He said the entire party cheering its sudden discovery of the need for change acted like it had been hit with one of those “flashy thingy” neuralyzers from “Men in Black”. They’ve forgotten that it is they who got us into this mess.
I think the people know better.
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“The Republican Party is attempting to give the American people amnesia about the last 8 years.”
Let’s not forget Greenspan’s mistakes or the fact that the economy has actually grown over the last 8 years, despite recent slowing and recession. We didnt start slowing down till the Dems took over Congress.
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CAMERON and others, give it up. Charles Krauthammer himself today argues the Republican party must accept responsibility for The Way Things Are.
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The Chief Chimp of the Republican Party has been in charge of the country for the last 8 years, and their little monkeys have been in charge of Washington 6 of the last 8 years. And John McCain has been a part of the Washington establishment for nearly a quarter of a century.
So when John McCain and the Republicans tell us they’re running against “Washington” the American people just laugh. We know they’ve been running the show and what a screw-up they’ve made of this country.
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THORN; the economy has actually grown over the last 8 years
All the income growth goes to people at the top of the scale. Median family income has declined substantially and poverty has grown.
It sounds like you like living in denial. Enjoy!
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Good questions. Also, what happened to BB, aka Beatrix Belkin, if I recall correctly?
She was quite careful in her maligning of homosexuals.
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Arcadia: Michelle Obama is an adult woman who has been making political speeches in support of her husband’s campaign. The Palin children are children. Is it really that hard to see the difference?
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All the income growth goes to people at the top of the scale.
And who do you think writes the checks for the employees, Scroop?
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But if the employee’s checks don’t change then all the extra cash on the top doesn’t make a world of difference.
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