This debate was more interesting than the Obama/McCain debate.
My view: Palin's cutesiness is off-putting.
Biden looked and sounded more presidential than Obama does.
I just don't get this bullshit of John McCain being a "Maverick" The man always votes in lockstep with Republicans and supported this hideousness called George W Bush. What's so maverick about that?
i am sick of hearing that whole maverick crap myself. last nights debate had more interaction. SP actually made eye contact with her opponent. mccain conducted himself like obama wasn't even in the same room. SP's cutesiness may have worked when she was in highschool. now it is nauseating.
I always thought maverick meant unbranded, and by extension,, he is not a knee jerk Democrat or Republican who blindly follows party line, but rather votes as he feels best. A dogie is motherless calf.
Sheila, but voting along party lines 9 times out of ten, is hardly being a maverick. If it is then most Senators and House Representatives should claim that title as well
Maverick does mean unbranded, but on the open range, wouldn't that mean it was first lost? A found cow or calf is branded immediately. But now I've gone and lost my point again.
Every time I looked down during the debates I thought "Tina Fey does her better than she does herself" I could not help looking at her and seeing a parody
Maybe I am looking at it from just a little different perspective. I think probably 95+% of the time members of both parties vote along party lines,, AND concurrently, the vote along the party lines of the OTHER party. Why? Because most bills have bipartisan support (and judging by the VERY few bills Bush has vetoed, you might say that they are ALL in lockstep with Bush! dang) The only bills we hear about are those that are more contentious, and I do think that McCain probably, of all congresspeople, is at or near the top of the list for voting with the opposing party. Now, I don't think that number is very large in terms of actual votes. But I think MOST members on either side probably toe the party line more than he does. It's that VERY small percentage of votes on contentious bills that gives him this ,,, epithet?
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i am ready. but i ate too much popcorn last night.
tina fey will be watching i bet.
I think I am going to read. If this book turns out to be as good as I think it is going to be, I'll post about it.
This debate was more interesting than the Obama/McCain debate.
My view:
Palin's cutesiness is off-putting.
Biden looked and sounded more presidential than Obama does.
I just don't get this bullshit of John McCain being a "Maverick" The man always votes in lockstep with Republicans and supported this hideousness called George W Bush. What's so maverick about that?
i am sick of hearing that whole maverick crap myself.
last nights debate had more interaction. SP actually made eye contact with her opponent. mccain conducted himself like obama wasn't even in the same room.
SP's cutesiness may have worked when she was in highschool. now it is nauseating.
I wish Murf would comment
What is a maverick but a lost cow?
I always thought maverick meant unbranded, and by extension,, he is not a knee jerk Democrat or Republican who blindly follows party line, but rather votes as he feels best. A dogie is motherless calf.
Sheila,
but voting along party lines 9 times out of ten, is hardly being a maverick. If it is then most Senators and House Representatives should claim that title as well
Maverick does mean unbranded, but on the open range, wouldn't that mean it was first lost? A found cow or calf is branded immediately. But now I've gone and lost my point again.
Every time I looked down during the debates I thought "Tina Fey does her better than she does herself" I could not help looking at her and seeing a parody
I can not take the woman seriously
Maybe I am looking at it from just a little different perspective. I think probably 95+% of the time members of both parties vote along party lines,, AND concurrently, the vote along the party lines of the OTHER party. Why? Because most bills have bipartisan support (and judging by the VERY few bills Bush has vetoed, you might say that they are ALL in lockstep with Bush! dang) The only bills we hear about are those that are more contentious, and I do think that McCain probably, of all congresspeople, is at or near the top of the list for voting with the opposing party. Now, I don't think that number is very large in terms of actual votes. But I think MOST members on either side probably toe the party line more than he does. It's that VERY small percentage of votes on contentious bills that gives him this ,,, epithet?
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