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Wow. I thought rubes went out in the '40's.

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Hey peterclarke, are we not in the midst of bailing out financial institutions? Is that not basically nationalizing this industry?

Great plan: nationalize them when they are down, but keep them private when they are making money hand over fist.

If we have to bail them out, we should be able to share in the profits.

Oh, sorry, that would be socialism. No, keep your side deregulating and eventually screwing the American working man.

equared, chill. Eradicate him? I don't think so.

Defeat him? Yes. Make him irrelevant? Yes.

Here. I'll add a little levity:

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....

If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic, different.'

Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.

If your name is Barack, you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard law School, you're unstable.

Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.

If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council, 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people and 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.

If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.

If you teach responsible, age-appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you're very responsible.

If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community and then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.

If you're husband is nicknamed 'First Dude', with at least one DWI conviction, no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now.

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True, true. But the term "soccer/hockey mom" came about during the advent and heyday of the minivan: the mid-80's to early 90's. Then gas stayed cheap, husbands made more, the nation as a whole dropped some IQ points and then we went on the SUV binge.

That is why I picture her in the minivan. Although her ilk suggests a Hummer.

Hang in there Gondo. I want to be able to hear your voice when I can't get to a Rebels game this coming season.

Which means you don't have much time to get better before I get really pissed. ;-)

C'mon Mike. NASCAR "athletes?" I dare say you are stretching the definition of athlete as much as Stewart's belly stretches his firesuit.

And Palin wouldn't drive a Chevy. Most likely a Toyota, which is the minivan of choice for hockey/soccer moms with money. If she were a little more blue collar (or the way she tries to portray herself), she would be driving the most ubiquitous minivan out there - a Dodge (Caravan).

bs and nance, do either of you have a job, or are you retirees? I mean, really, the noise of you two pissing at each other got old a couple months ago.

The idea that you honestly think whoever wins will make a difference is just so sad. Sad because most of the populace believes in one of your sets of talking points.

Tools.