A perfect example of “placing trivialities before essentials”.

When John Kerry made himself a mouthpiece of Soviet front-groups in the 70s, he automatically disqualified himself. When Obama politically weaned himself at the foot of, and later praised, an unabashedly unrepentant Weather Underground bomber, he automatically disqualified himself.

– The reason you people get to endure a succession of low-quality Republican presidents is directly attributable to the Democrats contemporary unwillingness to nominate any opposition which hasn’t had the ultra-hard-left’s seal-of-approval. Essentially, the Republicans can afford to be unprincipled, lazy and stupid when the opposition is so unelectable.

All McCain did during that debate was smirk, distort Obama’s statements–even when called on it– and call Obama naive. And he never has explained or apologized for that “Bomb Iran” bullshit. I remember that shit from 1980 and how my “peers” used to harass the two Iranian students in our class by singing it.

I wasn’t an Obama supporter before this debate, but I’m rapidly becoming one. I lliked the way he handled himself, I think his take on Musarraf was correct, and he seems to have a good grasp of tactics and strategy. McCain’s behaviors on the campaign trail are those of a man without honor. (That is NOT the same as saying someone is without honor. Semanticists take note.) And I still can’t stomach Bob Barr. His recent conversion to libertarianism reminds me of the line from a Louis Jordan song: “Your story is so touching but it sounds just like a lie.”

And I don’t give a rat’s ass about Bill Ayers. So go ahead and downgrade me, too.

Downgrade it! It’ll make it go away when you put your hands over your eyes!

Did William Ayers come up?

Precogs have been around since 1948, probably earlier.

I doubt either McCain or Obama even sees half the junk their campaigns make.

>I always thought they waited till after the event, like they do with
> the Super Bowl t-shirts. …Maybe I am just naive.

You are. Clothing is made declaring both sides the victor; the ones that are “correct” are then sold, while the others are either destroyed or shipped to third-world where the dominant language isn’t English (such as Guatemala, where this site once linked a story of a couple intrepid fellows once tracked down a “wrong” hat in order to taunt their friends back home).

I was about to post the same thing. That, or Walter Mercado has joined his campaign.

Maybe I am just naive.