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Primetime McCain

8.19.08 @ 12:01AM

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Religious people believe it is the body's "soul" and came from God.

No matter what you believe about the origin of that "life" force in that body, it is clear that that tiny new body is not dead. It is clear that it is developing and growing. It is clear that the "life" force is at work and will be at work until it leaves its physical body when it "dies."

Developing and growing and not dead. Alive.

Do you think that is clear enough for someone in Obama's "pay grade"?

Shush, if his "pay grade" isn't high enough to understand that, surely it's not high enough to understand the presidency either.
-- A. C. Santore

I was one of perhaps three or four people who watched the town meeting Saturday.

It came to me as if by divine revelation (though I'm sure it wasn't) that there is an apt comparison to Mr. Obama. He is cotton candy.

With a swirled cone of the spun sugar fibers that comprise cotton candy you have to open your jaws until they ache to get a bite. But once you close them, there is nothing there.
-- Jay Molyneaux
North Carolina

Excellent review of the Smackdown at Saddleback. Just one thing omitted. Mr. Klein did not address the "above my pay grade" weasel words of Obama.

Had I been Pastor Rick I would have said, "Look, Oh, Fatuous One, partial birth abortion is when a viable infant is ready to be born and this event is interrupted by an abortionist who turns the baby in the birth canal, so it will present feet first -- because if the head emerges, oops, there's a live baby and terminating that constitutes murder. But if abortionist invades the sanctuary of the mother's body and stabs the infant's skull and melts its brain with saline solution, then Planned Parenthood calls it Late Term Abortion while others still call it murder. Tell me, in what way is it above your pay grade to render an opinion on the facts as I have stated them, and as you know them to be? Because if it is above your pay grade, you have already risen above the level of your competency and you better be glad you shucked and jived yourself as far as the Senate."

But then I am not Pastor Rick. You have instead, the Gospel according to St. Diane.
-- Diane Smith

You might say that Obama is wet behind the ears -- but then they stick out so far, we'll have to use some other metaphor to explain his thin resume.
-- Gerry Kendall

I guess now we know exactly why Obama has been dodging the Townhalls that McCain proposed and that Obama previously had agreed to do. He pales in comparison to McCain. And the more time they spend in the same room, the more people realize it.
-- Elizabeth Knott

BEGONE TOM
Re: Jeffrey Lord's Pennsylvania Conservatives Say No to Ridge:

Should John McCain win, it is a sure thing that he would be a one-term president (age). Rather than an uninspiring and "wooden" Tom Ridge for VP, McCain should be looking for a fresh face and provide four years of exposure to the public in the development of a solid Republican presidential contender in four year's time. A major part of the allure of Obama is that he is a relatively fresh face; the Republicans would be wise to match a fresh face with a trusted face and attract people who do want a real change, not just a slogan!
-- Bill
Oakton, Virginia

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