Comments on: If you’re thinking of voting for Obama… http://www.yourish.com/2008/11/04/5553 Cutting straight to the point Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:14:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Joel http://www.yourish.com/2008/11/04/5553/comment-page-1#comment-34128 Joel Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:49:41 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5553#comment-34128 Here is $20, go get some change for me. Obama is a disastrous choice for President. I am praying like I never prayed before for a McCain victory (and I was a Giuliani supporter first, Romney second, Thompson third). Here is $20, go get some change for me.
Obama is a disastrous choice for President. I am praying like I never prayed before for a McCain victory (and I was a Giuliani supporter first, Romney second, Thompson third).

]]> By: Mike_S http://www.yourish.com/2008/11/04/5553/comment-page-1#comment-34123 Mike_S Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:44:31 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5553#comment-34123 "as well as a law requiring all interrogations by police in Illinois to be videotaped" Jeff, no, that one is one of the series that Jones took from its long-time author and sponsor and gave to Obama to run across the line. No across-the-aisle reach necessary - the Dems controlled both houses and the Governorship in IL. But you just want to hear what makes you feel good about him. "So why bother." “as well as a law requiring all interrogations by police in Illinois to be videotaped”

Jeff, no, that one is one of the series that Jones took from its long-time author and sponsor and gave to Obama to run across the line. No across-the-aisle reach necessary – the Dems controlled both houses and the Governorship in IL.

But you just want to hear what makes you feel good about him. “So why bother.”

]]> By: Alex Bensky http://www.yourish.com/2008/11/04/5553/comment-page-1#comment-34122 Alex Bensky Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:28:38 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5553#comment-34122 Accomplishments? You are worryingabout accomplishments, Meryl? How old-fashioned of you. Obama is for change and hope. How can you be against change and hope? For a number of reasons I won't be able to get to vote before about six p.m. and since I live in a heavily black neighborhood, I expect by then there'll be quite a line. I'm bringing a book. Accomplishments? You are worryingabout accomplishments, Meryl? How old-fashioned of you. Obama is for change and hope. How can you be against change and hope?

For a number of reasons I won’t be able to get to vote before about six p.m. and since I live in a heavily black neighborhood, I expect by then there’ll be quite a line. I’m bringing a book.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.yourish.com/2008/11/04/5553/comment-page-1#comment-34121 Jeff Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:52:10 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5553#comment-34121 USASpending.gov is another one as well as a law requiring all interrogations by police in Illinois to be videotaped. Each of which he worked across party lines to get passed. But people just want to hear how he is a socialist and a terrorist. So why bother. USASpending.gov is another one as well as a law requiring all interrogations by police in Illinois to be videotaped. Each of which he worked across party lines to get passed. But people just want to hear how he is a socialist and a terrorist. So why bother.

]]> By: Ralph Kramden http://www.yourish.com/2008/11/04/5553/comment-page-1#comment-34119 Ralph Kramden Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:13:05 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5553#comment-34119 Jason - funny, ever comment I make here is "awaiting moderation", even though I follow the rules Meryl has set. Jason – funny, ever comment I make here is “awaiting moderation”, even though I follow the rules Meryl has set.

]]> By: Ralph Kramden http://www.yourish.com/2008/11/04/5553/comment-page-1#comment-34118 Ralph Kramden Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:12:12 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5553#comment-34118 Sens. Lugar and Obama secured funding to destroy conventional weapons stockpiles, intercept weapons of mass destruction and respond to proliferation emergencies. http://lugar.senate.gov/press/record.cfm?id=278019 Sens. Lugar and Obama secured funding to destroy conventional weapons stockpiles, intercept weapons of mass destruction and respond to proliferation emergencies.

http://lugar.senate.gov/press/record.cfm?id=278019

]]> By: Jason http://www.yourish.com/2008/11/04/5553/comment-page-1#comment-34117 Jason Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:51:27 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5553#comment-34117 Funny that not one of the obama supporters can answer any of the questions you have posed. All they say is change, and the last 8 years has been a nightmare. When did people lose the ability to think Funny that not one of the obama supporters can answer any of the questions you have posed. All they say is change, and the last 8 years has been a nightmare. When did people lose the ability to think

]]> By: Mike_S http://www.yourish.com/2008/11/04/5553/comment-page-1#comment-34115 Mike_S Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:04:59 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5553#comment-34115 Agreed. His IL state track record was Emil Jones putting Obama's name on other Democrats' hard-fought legislation so Obama could run it across from the 99-yard line. It didn't endear him to his fellows in the state senate. http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-02-28/news/barack-obama-screamed-at-me/print "Jones appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills." Even the CBS version touches on this "bill-jacking": http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/31/politics/main3983147_page2.shtml Agreed. His IL state track record was Emil Jones putting Obama’s name on other Democrats’ hard-fought legislation so Obama could run it across from the 99-yard line. It didn’t endear him to his fellows in the state senate.

http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-02-28/news/barack-obama-screamed-at-me/print
“Jones appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills.”

Even the CBS version touches on this “bill-jacking”:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/31/politics/main3983147_page2.shtml

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