The Respectfully Republican Conversation

My McCain shirt was the hit at the July 4th parade.  We republican women marched.  I met some really nice ladies who are as much in shock as we are on this board about how Obama is the media's darling.  As I watched Obama flip-flop over when he'll bring the troops home, I'd thought I'd share this feel good video with you all, it's nice to get a hug now and then:

http://www.cyberthing.net/video-play.php?id=105

Shirley,

I hope it's true.  It sure makes a person feel good all over. I wished it didn't end so soon.

Back to reality, I'm tired of the media making excuses for him all the time.  Then Sen. Kerry was a talking head on some show yesterday, and I was listening to him give yet another point of view about how we'll be leaving Iraq.  I thought, whoa, did someone forget to tell him the new Iraq policy?  Or is he the real puppet master?  They're all vying for who will pull the strings. 

Meanwhile, the person who should be in Iraq hasn't been there for 2 1/2 years and he's the one making policy decisions about the timing of our withdrawal.  R-I-G-H-T.  We use to call that as giving comfort to the enemy.  He hasn't been there, but he knows when we're leaving.  Good for him.

God might be too busy with other problems, so he depends on us to get the job done for Him.  We can't sit back on this election it's way too important.

There has been too much talk lately coming from the dems about McCain being a flip-flopper over the drilling issue.  Way too much talk.  So we have to figure out why?  They know they have the election lost if McCain comes out for drilling in ANWR, and they're trying to head that off.  They can call him flipper for all I care if he'll only come out for drilling there.  I have high hopes that he will when we get closer to election time.  I think the last poll showed 76% of the people want domestic drilling and timing is everything. 

It's a little early yet for the ads to run.  Anyway, as Obama keeps changing positions on everything, he's doing himself in.  I'd let that ride for a little while longer.  I saw a list of his plans for our future.  No one put a price tag next to each one, if they did, McCain would be winning this one by a landslide.  There better be enough super rich here to pay for them all, otherwise, that 9 trillion in debt will look like pocket change.

Good afternoon my Republican friends and conservative democrats.............had to take a political break.........this is the period of time that I dread most in the political process.......once the nominees have been selected and they all start promising a bunch of crap that will never happen..........Obama thinks he is going to change Washington?...........think he is just a little arrogant or just plain naive? or a little of both...........hmmmmmm.................have been down just a bit as I watch some of the greatest conservatives of our time passing on..............I am praying that somewhere on a liberal college campus or some executive conference room or some Republican war room that there are some young Conservatives being groomed to step up to the political plate to take the realms of our values and ideas..............that the phrase WWRD (what would Reagan do) be at the core of their beliefs..............I have been reading and just want to say I am so proud of this thread that Linda started............Linda you should stand up and take a bow...........Susie, Shirley, Rosemary, Paulette, and Kelly and I know there are more just can't remember.........oh by the way how long do you get to use the excuse "chemo brain" for forgetting stuff?.........just wondering................my family is getting sick of it..........ha.............I will be posting more..............John McCain drives my crazy but I will vote for him..........Obama what in the world can you say about Obama........the media let's him get away with everything............listening to him speak is like being at a carnival fun house when you walk on the floors that move and it feels like an earthquake..............there is no sure footing..........he will say something and then have to correct himself later in the day.............what are they calling it.........."clarifying"............that's it..........ok ladies got to get back to work...........but I will return...............Shokk

I think this latest bit of news about the Iraqi government wanting us out in 5 years after they become able to defend their nation should be good news for McCain.  Unless he said something else about it yesterday, he has said in the past if they want us out, we leave. 

I heard them trying to turn this against McCain but I didn't hear any comments from him about it yesterday.  Nor Obama, but I never hear anything from him that we can rely on not to change 2 days later.  "I never said that", should be his real motto.

Welcome back Shokk.  I was wondering where you had gone off to. 

Just in case anyone misses this, Obama wants to give a speech at the Brandenburg gate in Berlin, Germany.  This site is usually reserved for President's and such, not politico's pandering for votes in another nation.  It's up to the Mayor who is salivating for a meeting with the star.  The everyday voter might think this goes too far, but his adoring worshipping fans will be fainting and tingling over the prospect of all of Berlin coming out to see him.

On another note, Obama switched positions on the FISA vote today.  Said he'd vote no, and today he voted yes.  I watched the vote myself.  His followers are getting the real Obama, and they're not too happy.  Meanwhile, both Clinton and Obama were in the room, and I didn't see them so much as nod to each other.  The next time they're together for a unity speech, I'll ask the Emmy nominating committee to look at their performance and see if it's worthy of  Best Actor/actress award in a dramatic/comedy role.

You were right Shirley---but it was from AnneShirleys Hillary thread. Was just about to post it---

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From the  Rocky Mountain News:

    Barack Obama’s campaign changed the rules of a highly publicized fundraiser Tuesday, after gambling regulators said the contest — a chance at one of 10 trips to the Democratic National Convention — was an illegal lottery.

    “We are happy to have resolved this issue working closely with state officials,” said Nick Kimball, spokesman for the Obama campaign in Minnesota, where the controversy first surfaced, according to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune.

    A spokesman for the Colorado Secretary of State said Democrats would have to get a license if they were conducting “a standard raffle where they’re buying tickets” in order to win.

    But under the new rules, supporters don’t have to donate money to win one of the trips, which include a seat for Obama’s acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High and a meeting with the candidate.

    Instead, the campaign will choose 10 people based on “individuals’ stories and other factors,” said Matt Chandler, Colorado press secretary for the Obama campaign.

    The campaign announced the contest Monday, minutes after officials confirmed Obama would give his speech at Invesco rather than the Pepsi Center, a switch that sources said could add $3 million to the cost of staging the Democratic National Convention.

    In an e-mail to supporters, campaign manager David Plouffe said the campaign had “reserved a special place for a few of the people who brought us this far.”

    “If you make a donation of $5 or more between now and midnight on July 31st, you could be one of 10 supporters chosen to fly to Denver and spend two days and nights at the convention, meet Barack backstage, and watch his acceptance speech in person,” the e-mail stated.

    It then included a link to the Obama Web site and the words: “Make a donation now and you could have a front row seat to history.”

    The solicitation prompted an inquiry by the head of the Minnesota Gambling Control Board and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, the Star-Tribune reported Tuesday.

    The Twin Cities is the site of the Republican National Convention.

    Doug Forsman, a special agent who works in the public safety department’s gambling enforcement division, said the fundraiser constituted a lottery, which can be conducted only by the Minnesota State Lottery.

    Forsman told the newspaper he gave the Obama campaign two options: either state online that the contest was void in Minnesota or give people the option to participate without donating.

    The campaign chose to change its Web site, according to the Star-Tribune.

    On Tuesday night, the Web site included a separate link where people could participate in the contest without donating.

    The fundraising strategy is not a new one, and not limited to the Obama campaign, which also offered dinners with the candidate during the primary season.

    In January, Hillary Clinton’s campaign sent out an e-mail from Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea. In it, Chelsea Clinton said the campaign would select an “online supporter” to sit with her during a debate in Los Angeles and to meet Hillary Clinton.

Susie, THANK YOU!  Yep, I had it all mixed up.  I don't know where I came up with my dollar amount.  But, I swear they said MORE than $5.00.  I'm not a fisherman...LOL...$50,000 and $5.00 is, well, sort of a BIG DIFFERENCE!  But, think now many $5.00 they could drum in. 

Shirley

Susie, I missed the post right above my last one.  I also read your links.  The "man" is scary, to say the least.  WTH is he thinking!  He is sooooo full of HIMSELF!

Rosemary, now we need to get McCain on the ball.  He needs to talk, talk, talk drilling, drilling, drilling for oil, oil, oil!  No, I'm not stuttering.

Linda,

The dems have everyone convinced we won't see oil for 10 years if we started drilling today.  Even one of the ladies in the Republican women's club said the same thing.  And my reply was not to fall for the dems propaganda.  That's all it is.  Just reading the history of the oil tycoons tells us how easy it was to get it above ground if the reserve was a rich one, and they dug in the right place.  We know where the oil is in ANWR.  I totally agree with you about the sensitivity of oil pricing today; it went down some because we're talking about conserving.  Now back that up with our own drilling, and maybe those whose business depends on lower priced oil can take a breather till we can find a doable alternative.

Even if McCain came out for drilling in ANWR, we will still be stuck with a democratic congress who will vote against it.  They don't seem to care about the people who can't afford these prices with no real alternative in sight. 

He wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate because that is where Kennedy said...Ich bin ein Berliner...my German spelling is probably all wrong but google Kennedy at the Brandenburg Gate!

Shirley...my pet name for him is: NoMoBo! 

Linda the reason I was ROFLMFAO was because we have all now retreated to our separate threads! I do read the other two but no more commenting!  

This is what happens when we transfer all our wealth to other nations, they buy and sell us.

- An Abu Dhabi investment fund has bought a 75 percent stake in the Chrysler Building, one of the best-known landmarks on the city skyline.

The Abu Dhabi Investment Council, one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, closed the sale with Prudential Financial Inc. on Tuesday, Prudential spokeswoman Theresa Miller said Wednesday.

Miller wouldn't disclose the sale price, which many published reports placed at $800 million. Prudential held its stake in the building on behalf of a fund of primarily German investors that had closed in the past couple of years, she said.

A telephone message left Wednesday at the Abu Dhabi council wasn't immediately returned.

New York's Tishman Speyer Properties, which owns the remaining stake in the 77-story, Art Deco skyscraper and will continue to manage it, declined comment Wednesday.

Middle Eastern investors have jumped into the city's slow commercial real estate market twice in the past two months to buy big stakes in landmark skyscrapers. A Dubai-based private equity firm helped finance developer Boston Properties' $2.8 billion purchase in May of the General Motors Building and three other office towers.

The 1,046-foot Chrysler Building briefly became the world's tallest tower when it opened in 1930, until the Empire State Building topped it by over 300 feet when it was completed a year later.

New York City architect William Van Alen designed the brick office tower with its iconic, crescent-shaped spire for the automaker Chrysler Corp., decorating lower setbacks with sculptures modeled after Chrysler radiator caps and wheels. It is the city's third-tallest skyscraper.

Prudential, based in Newark, N.J., took on ownership of the tower when it acquired Atlanta-based TMW Real Estate Group in 2002. The company had bought its stake in the tower for about $300 million a year earlier.

I hear they won't play the entire comments from Jesse because they're too inflammatory.  To me those comments are news. If a cable show won't tell, they must have been humdingers.  We can only guess till someone gets them out to the public.  Did you see the guy he was talking to?  He looked like a deer caught in the headlights.  I'm having way too much fun over this.