Jul 03, 2008 03:50PM GMT
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Lifestyle - Food, Drinks & Cooking
Who would you rather invite to your barbecue, Obama or McCain?
I saw this question asked on my local news station this morning, so I decided to borrow the question for sodahead. I'm also making my answer choices based on if you are a man or woman when you invite your candidate for your barbecue...cause I'd like to see how many more of one gender are inviting their favorite candidate. Please also let us know why you are inviting this candidate.
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raves +1 Jul 07, 2008 08:18AM GMTBetter what? company? He is lacking and rather dishonest you know.
He insults us and puts our Nation at risk coming to us wanting us to allow him to lead this country with little or not experience.
If he left law school before graduating and wanted to open a law office, saying, I am smart, intelligent, catch on fast and I have mentors (advisers) We would say...... no Obama, you have to finish law school first and also take the bar.....
Yet, we allow him to move forward with this opportunity, which is so dangerous for us, to expect us to vote for him. You do get it don't you.
HE HAS NO EXPERIENCE..... We have serious, very serious problems. He could take us into a depression and into a 3rd War. -
raves Jul 07, 2008 09:41PM GMTMaybe he could tell you all about finishing in the bottom 1% of his class at Annapolis, yet still being selected for flight school because his daddy and grandfather were admirals.
Then he could regale you with details of his propaganda broadcast for the North Vietnamese and how he was ordered not to take parole by his POW CO.
Then, a loving remembrance of his wife Carol, whom McCain abandoned because he returned from Vietnam to find her fat, shorter (due to a horrific car accident) and not the model he married.
Then you could hear McCain tell you all about how he pursued Cindy while still married to Carol, then married the 17-year younger beer heiress 45 days after divorcing Carol.
Hey, if you're lucky McCain will tell you how he got to command the RAG @ NAS Jax despite never commanding a squadron of his own first, which is the usual protocol. He probably won't admit it's because of his bad luck at spending 5 years as a POW or who his dad was, but the CW is that's the case.
Then, if you're not asleep you can hear about McCain "adopting" Arizona, a state he'd never lived in, to run for office with his new father-in-law's money; the Keating Five, his obstruction of the 1991-92 POW-MIA investigations, his "maverick" status only on votes deemed "safe" to oppose his party...
Yeah, oughta be a great BBQ.... -
raves +1 -1 posted Jul 06, 2008 10:05PM GMT
Answered I'm a woman who would invite Obama!
Awww... where's "none of the above?"
I am a woman and would love to invite BOTH. Cookouts are for chewing the fat and I think I would enjoy a conversation with either one. (and if we did talk specific politics I would still be interested in both positions. Wouldn't it be great if this could actually happen!) -
raves +5 posted Jul 06, 2008 04:48PM GMT
Answered I'm a woman who would invite McCain!
would like to chat with Mcain's mother, she is elder and still living and widsom. while Obama talk trash about his white grandmother. that isn't something I would want to hear on independent's days it is too conflict. -
raves +7 posted Jul 06, 2008 02:38PM GMT
Answered I'm a man who would invite McCain!
McCain would b my choice and my wifes choice and both my daughters and their husbands choice and my two sons one with a wife and one with a girl friend McCain would alsonbe their choice.
Besides the BBQ invite, all of us will vote for him as well.
Nobama at my house EVER!
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raves +1 Jul 07, 2008 03:06AM GMT (edited)P.A.:
I raised them RIGHT that's all!
The only fear that they have is of the people like you who blindly follow a media created vision thinking he is the answer to the country's needs. Only a bit of thought would make you see how wrong you are and that IF your chosen candidate, Obama, should by some stretch of the imagination be elected to the Presidency, he will screw you and the country.
RWD
Incidentally, CHOICE is spelled CHOICE not CHOISE. I thought I would correct you seeing as I recall how much of a stickler you are for spelling. -
raves +3 Jul 07, 2008 01:21AM GMTP.A., you have me blocked, I assume it has something to do w/ the fact that you can't handle the truth or the debate, but that is beside the fact. Why is it that you cannot allow people to voice their opinions w/out talking down to them or saying something lame?
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raves +7 posted Jul 06, 2008 08:02AM GMT
Answered I'm a man who would invite McCain!
John Kerry, you're off the hook. John Edwards, we're giving you a well-deserved break. You guys were great flip-floppers in your day, but now you've been seriously upstaged. All hail the new King of Flip-Flop - Barack Obama.
As a rookie flip-flopper, Obama first drew the attention of the environmental lobby about this time last year:
Although summer hasn’t officially begun, flip-flop season is well underway and it appears Senator Obama has joined the club. Typically flip-floppers are criticized for their inability to stay firm on an issue, but in Obama’s case, his flop has many environmentalists flipping back his way.
On Tuesday Obama, whose support for coal-to-liquid has been widely criticized by environmentalists, sent out a press release clarifying his position on liquid coal:
Senator Obama supports research into all technologies to help solve our climate change and energy dependence problems, including shifting our energy use to renewable fuels and investing in technology that could make coal a clean-burning source of energy…However, unless and until this technology is perfected, Senator Obama will not support the development of any coal-to-liquid fuels unless they emit at least 20% less life-cycle carbon than conventional fuels.
This “clarifi...John Kerry, you're off the hook. John Edwards, we're giving you a well-deserved break. You guys were great flip-floppers in your day, but now you've been seriously upstaged. All hail the new King of Flip-Flop - Barack Obama.
As a rookie flip-flopper, Obama first drew the attention of the environmental lobby about this time last year:
Although summer hasn’t officially begun, flip-flop season is well underway and it appears Senator Obama has joined the club. Typically flip-floppers are criticized for their inability to stay firm on an issue, but in Obama’s case, his flop has many environmentalists flipping back his way.
On Tuesday Obama, whose support for coal-to-liquid has been widely criticized by environmentalists, sent out a press release clarifying his position on liquid coal:
Senator Obama supports research into all technologies to help solve our climate change and energy dependence problems, including shifting our energy use to renewable fuels and investing in technology that could make coal a clean-burning source of energy…However, unless and until this technology is perfected, Senator Obama will not support the development of any coal-to-liquid fuels unless they emit at least 20% less life-cycle carbon than conventional fuels.
This “clarification” is an important step for the Obama campaign in trying to gain support from environmental organizations and voters.
For the Candidate of Hope and Change, there were bigger and better flip-flops yet to come. As his campain began to toss Obama's positions on issue after issue under the bus, the Senate's most liberal member made quite an impression on the Washington Post. Back in February, WaPo cited these "Top Obama Flip-Flops":
1. Special interests In January, the Obama campaign described union contributions to the campaigns of Clinton and John Edwards as "special interest" money. Obama changed his tune as he began gathering his own union endorsements. He now refers respectfully to unions as the representatives of "working people" and says he is "thrilled" by their support.
2. Public financing Obama replied "yes" in September 2007 when asked if he would agree to public financing of the presidential election if his GOP opponent did the same. Obama has now attached several conditions to such an agreement, including regulating spending by outside groups. His spokesman says the candidate never committed himself on the matter.
3. The Cuba embargo In January 2004, Obama said it was time "to end the embargo with Cuba" because it had "utterly failed in the effort to overthrow Castro." Speaking to a Cuban American audience in Miami in August 2007, he said he would not "take off the embargo" as president because it is "an important inducement for change."
4. Illegal immigration In a March 2004 questionnaire, Obama was asked if the government should "crack down on businesses that hire illegal immigrants." He replied "Oppose." In a Jan. 31, 2008, televised debate, he said that "we do have to crack down on those employers that are taking advantage of the situation."
5. Decriminalization of marijuana While running for the U.S. Senate in January 2004, Obama told Illinois college students that he supported eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana use. In the Oct. 30, 2007, presidential debate, he joined other Democratic candidates in opposing the decriminalization of marijuana.
Top flip-flops? Pshaw, that was nearly four full months ago, and the man was just getting warmed up. And Obama's squirming on campaign finance hadn't even gotten off the ground. The New York Post recently ripped Obama for flipping on this and some other issues as well:
This isn't the first time Obama has, um, "changed" political lanes:
* He ripped Hillary Clinton for months for voting to list Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. Days after Clinton conceded, Obama flipped and said he supported the definition.
* Obama repeatedly vowed to meet with various heads of terror states - most notably Ahmadinejad of Iran - "without preconditions." Then, with the nomination in sight, he zigzagged: "There's no reason why we would necessarily meet with Ahmadinejad. He's not the most powerful person in Iran
Answered I'm a man who would invite Obama!
I WISH you had a "none of the above" choice!! I would not really want either of them at my barbecue. Those damned secret service agents would eat all the hot dogs and drink all the beer!!!