I missed another debate? Sorry to have missed Mitt’s good one.

I am giving you a high five right now… Hard to believe I know but you are dead on on this one.
Here’s a laugh. What was up with McCain and the winking?? The second time I saw it I thought “is he winking”? So I rewound the tivo and sure enough, He’s flipping winking. Been awhile since I’ve been winked at.. I mean, I am ALOT younger than him.
Do you think the advisors told him to lighten up after almost going trigger happy last night?

FOX disses Ron Paul! If Rudy, Mitt, or any others take us into another useless war, there supporters and they should have to pay the cost.
As for the surge in Iraq, there has been no oil sharing deal and no political solution. We’re right back where we started before the surge.
Republicans and everyone else has been taxed by tripled gas prices and energy prices while Bush oil buddies rake it in.
As the conservative NATIONAL REVIEW pointed out, Bush and his Congressional buddies have outspent Clinton by a long shot.
In terms of real dollars and outlay over time, Democrats have never proposed anything as expensive as Iraq.
And look at the treatment of Vets. Bush and Republicans want to cut their benefits. Besides that look at the medical care.
The anti-Christ is alive and well in the Republican war-monger wing of the party and on FOX news. Let’s just ask: “Who would Jesus bomb?”
Ron Paul is the only one telling the truth about our occupations and support of dictators.
When did Evangelical Christians start lusting after war?

Brian
one word.
relax

Can you please stop putting Ron Paul in your tags when you don’t mention him?

Only saw part of it, but Mitt looked a bit better. Thompson was pretty much like his TV character – and that is not a compliment.. McCain – well, my mom who is over 80 said it best – “he’s too damn old and it’s showing”. We never know which John McCain is going to show up – the one we remember and respect – or the doofus. The one that showed up tonight seemed a bit on the doofus side. Huckabee’s performance didn’t seem up to his recent standards. Mitt will suffer from the John Kerry syndrome – nobody really likes him very much.
It’s hard to believe that this part of the campaign will essentially be over in a few weeks. Then we have that vast empty space between primaries and the conventions – the weird 8 weeks up to November.
It’s thinning out on both sides. I’m predicting Obama’s cabinet at this point – Biden as Sec. State, Edwards as Attorney General. Shall we start predicting VP candidates? I don’t have any idea who Mitt would choose – just know he wouldn’t be Muslim. Obama – no idea on that one – with rock star status this guy needs a good drummer. Why do we get so involved in this drama – it feels like some sort of Greek drama and the blogs are the chorus. Charley Gibson is the best at questioning them. Think I would like him to be the narrator. Now, I’m going to unload the dishwasher and go to bed. I’m tired of it all!! Until Tuesday.

So, why don’t we hear about Ron Paul?

Evangelical Christians lusting after war? Brian? Brian? Would that be like the South Korean Evangelicals that were kidnapped and two of them murdered by Muslim Jihadists? Or would that be the thousands of Evangelical Christians serving in other missions feeding, clothing and caring for the worlds most suffering peoples? Those Evangelical Christians? Last time I looked (which was today), it is the military that is fighting Islamic Jihadist killers, and, in only a few countries. Namely, Iraq and Afghanistan. Care to list any “Evangelicals” that are fighting with violent means against anyone with violence? Please either do not lie or apologize for doing so. Oh, by the way . . . South Korea has more Christian missionaries in foreign countries than any other group of Christians. “Evangel” means The Gospel. Something that liberals and progressives do not believe in entirely. And neither do Muslims. Time for a wake up call!!!! Like Sting sings: Truth hits everybody. BTW, Romney looked like he did the best in the debate. Doesn’t mean I’ll vote for him though.

While I in no way condone what happened to the South Korean Evangelicals, I believe that the Muslim countries aren’t too keen on outsiders who come in and try to convert their people to another religion.
Would people here in the United States be happy if teams of Taliban came to the states intent on converting Christians to Islam? I imagine there would be a great deal of anger.
Speaking as a Jew, I actually had someone within the United States try to “show me the light” of Christianity.
At the risk of sounding rude, I showed them the door…

Ron Paul apparently has a nasty nasty history of white supremacy. Documented pretty fully until 1996. I would bet there’s a bit of shame among many at the thought of connecting him to the party of Lincoln. But then again – it worked in the South. I would like to know if he is merely a David Duke in costume or if his name was misused. So far I’m leaning a bit toward the David Duke theory. Let you know where my research takes me. I fully expected it to be just a nasty tall tale.

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