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Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:26 PM

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Originally posted by Hero:
I cited history, you didn't. I win.


Ok, the Second World War starting in 1939.

The Brownshirts of America. Henry Ford. American Corporate support of the Nazi war machine? I guess American's liked the Nazi's most of all...

I cited more history I Win. Thanks for playing .



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Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:44 PM

I'm glad to see the liberals finally disclosing their source of talking points. I would have though the DNC but Pravda doesn't surprise me. Maybe Obama could use that Pravda article in a television commercial against Palin sense he's given up running against McCain and is now running against Palin.

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Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:46 PM

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Originally posted by Kirkules:
I'm glad to see the liberals finally disclosing their source of talking points. I would have though the DNC but Pravda doesn't surprise me. Maybe Obama could use that Pravda article in a television commercial against Palin sense he's given up running against McCain and is now running against Palin.


True, pravda isn't great. Though to be fair it's less biased and more trustworthy than either FOX News or Rush Limbaugh, where American Conservatives get all their talking points...



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Thursday, September 18, 2008 7:24 PM

I guess Chuck Hagel must be a comunist-liberal

Top Republican says Palin unready

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Senior Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has voiced doubts about Sarah Palin's qualifications for the vice-presidency. John McCain's running mate "doesn't have any foreign policy credentials", Mr Hagel told the Omaha World-Herald.

Mr Hagel was a prominent supporter of Mr McCain during his 2000 bid for the US presidency, but has declined to endorse either candidate this year. He was opposed to the Iraq War, and recently joined Mr McCain's rival Barack Obama on a Middle East trip.

'Stop the nonsense'
"I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be president of the United States," Mr Hagel told the Omaha World-Herald newspaper. And he was dismissive of the fact that Mrs Palin, the governor of Alaska, has made few trips abroad. "You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything." Mr Hagel also criticised the McCain campaign for its suggestion that the proximity of Alaska to Russia gave Mrs Palin foreign policy experience.

"I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, 'I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia'," he said. "That kind of thing is insulting to the American people." A senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr Hagel was a close ally of Mr McCain, but the two men parted company over the decision to go to war in Iraq.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7623771.stm

BTW- It appears that the Pravda writers have a better command of the English language than some of our very own knuckle-draggers. I thought the article was a hoot!



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Thursday, September 18, 2008 7:47 PM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
I guess Chuck Hagel must be a comunist-liberal



Hagel neither a Liberal or Conservative, he's a political opportunist. His positions are only based on which way the wind is blowing.

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Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:14 PM

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Originally posted by citizen:
Ok, the Second World War starting in 1939.


It started in 1936 with the Japanese invasion of China.

H

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Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:18 PM

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he's a political opportunist
I haven't followed his career, but it seems he made at least ONE good, if unpopular decision!

ETA: I looked at his voting record. He seems very solidly conservative, which makes his opposition to the Iraq war even more unusual, as it was NOT a popular decision among conservatives

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Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:48 PM

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Originally posted by Hero:
It started in 1936 with the Japanese invasion of China.

H

I think you'll find the War with the Nazis started in 1939 with the invasion of Poland, which is the commonly held start date for the second world war, because there wasn't a world wide war up until that point.

Besides, the Second Japanese-Sino war started in 1937.



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Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:47 PM

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Originally posted by Kirkules:
I'm glad to see the liberals finally disclosing their source of talking points. I would have though the DNC but Pravda doesn't surprise me. Maybe Obama could use that Pravda article in a television commercial against Palin sense he's given up running against McCain and is now running against Palin.



Yes, much as I haven't been a bit surprised to find that the right-wing loons are getting their talking points from Hitler, Stalin, and other notable fascists. "A lie repeated often enough becomes true" is but one of their lessons learned from their heroes.

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Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:03 PM

Hell, no fewer than FIVE die-hard conservative columnists have come right out and said that McCain screwed the pooch (No, that's not a sexist comment; I'm not referring to Palin here).

I suppose they're all "liberal communists" too...

What the NeoCons love most about Palin is the exact same thing they loved most about Bush - there's no ideology there to speak of. What you have is an empty vessel that you can pour full of your own particular brand of Kool-Aid. That's why they're falling all over themselves tyring to get to Palin, so they can turn her into Bush Mk. IV (McCane is already Bush Mk. III)

Mike




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