>Had a quick look. Doesn't look like a very good read.
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>I suppose there's a lot to be said for picking a well known safe pair of hands as you VP candidate. Picking unknowns always turns up something for the press to get excited about where someone who has been round the block a few times has no secrets/surprises left.
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>You have to laugh though. College boy gets his girlfriend knocked up and suddenly has the worlds media and the republican party bearing down on him. I bet he wasn't expecting that.
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Rather changes the traditional "shotgun wedding" to a "nuclear missile wedding" or something of the sort. Being 17 is difficult under any circumstances. These kids are going through something one can only imagine.

I'd like to believe I'd feel exactly the same way no matter who the candidate represented. I really hate to see all the humanity go out of people who are just vicious to win. It isn't a new phenomenon, but it truly represents the worst in our nature.

I guess I'm just getting old and don't enjoy the world as a zero-sum game of demons and messiahs. Humans are complex and that's what I like about them most. I would probably enjoy the Obamas a great deal as friends. I am sure I would enjoy Bill Clinton. I don't have much in common with George Bush and most evangelicals would probably find me very disturbing if they knew what I was really thinking. My academic and cultural background is certainly more attuned to the "progressive left" than the "social conservatives"

But I'm very disturbed by a trend I see to adopt a new 'religion' on the left with a new set of sinners and villains and a whole new catechism. Maybe I am most disturbed because it is couched in a way that those who are too well educated or intelligent to be seduced by the more traditional forms of blindness can march into it without recognizing it.

Political Scientology.



>>>Charles
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>>>what is the Daily KOS
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>>>Thanks
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>>A website funded by George Soros representing one aspect of the Left. It gives voice to many people who would otherwise be confined to shouting at the walls of their rooms in their parent's basements, their students in Ivy League sociology classrooms where they do not fear - or condone - contradiction, or passing traffic. (sorry, couldn't resist that)
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>>It is, shall we say, rabidly partisan. ( but righteously thinks of itself as "progressive". Teddy Roosevelt would vomit )
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>>>>>>>Mike, agreed.
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>>>>>>>My opinion is that the US is about to get a good president whatever happens, so people should relax! ;-)
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>>>>>>CNN has just forecasted that Palin will 'bow out of the race for personal, family reasons' next week.
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>>>>>If that happened and I were a cynic, I'd almost be ready to believe the whole thing was orchestrated. Her nomination gave the reps a real lift in the public eye when they needed one badly. Her daughter's pregnancy gave them a lift in the sympathy department, and her bowing out will give the reps a huge bonus lift again in the sympathy department. Of course, it also would help if she got out before the court case really got steaming along.
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>>>>>At this point though, it's not a fact, just a prediction, so I will, for the time being, put my cynicism on the back-burner.
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>>>>I have to assume you are kidding. Orchestrating something like that would not be Machiavellian but rather Pythonesque. Remember Tom Eagleton?
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>>>>I think what we are seeing is the feminist equivalent of the Thomas hearings. She's a woman - but not a *real* woman because she does not have the opinions that are part of the Vision of the Anointed.
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>>>>I disagree with her on a good number of things (Creationism, Gay marriage, the role of government in reproductive decisions) but the kind of vitriol coming from Daily KOS and the hate machine is so vicious I think this may be the jump the shark moment for the loony left.