One takes his time, resting in the peaceful atmosphere nature has provided. Thinking to yourself without interference of city sights and sounds. No buzzing noises from TV or radio.

Just you and your fishing gear. Whether something is caught is a bonus.

The real prize is serenity and gathering your mind.

much

heheheheh!

Ha!

It’s tragic when you have to settle for a smaller fish . . .

Fishing in the Islands does ruin one for fishing anywhere else.

After you get used to catching a dozen fish in 45 minutes, Cheney Lake just doesn’t have the same appeal . . .

I’m just anticipating next week’s big headline.

Well, just rub it in, sum’bitch.

The only fish I catch are at Dillon’s.

And you’ll know when I’m on vacation.

I won’t be blogging–I’ll be hauling in big yellow tail jack and Nassau grouper off some coral reef.

http://www.excusesrus.com/

How about you?

Thank your boy Bush for that . . .

Funny Clark, you keep saying that, over and over.

If Obama accepts public funds as he seemed to be leaning towards early on, then he is rightly criticised as neutralizing his biggest asset–energetic grass roots support.

He has already refused to take PAC and lobbyist money . . . and persuaded the DNC to do the same.

That’s a huge power shift away from big-money politics.

But, nope, not good enough for the ideological purists who end up on the same side as the reich-wing hate-mongers.

Where’s their ruling on Obama?

Oh, that’s right . . . there isn’t one because he didn’t sign any agreement unlike McCain.

Did Barack Obama ever commit himself to accept public financing for the general election if the Republicans made a similar pledge? The Obama and Clinton campaigns have been arguing this point for the last few days, and it is now the Fact Checker’s turn to weigh in.

The issue of public financing has come back to the fore now that John McCain appears to have locked up the Republican nomination. The Arizona senator has championed campaign finance reform. Last March, the McCain campaign publicly committed itself to accept public financing in the general election “if the Democratic nominee agrees to do the same.” In return for giving up the chance to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in private funds, both major candidates would receive around $85 million in public funds.

The Facts
It is not only the Clinton campaign that is accusing Obama of breaking his word. Last week, a coalition of advocacy groups expressed “deep concern” at the possibility that the Illinois senator might wriggle out of what they depicted as a firm “pledge” to accept public financing in the general election.

To understand the background to this dispute, it is necessary to go back to February 2007 when the Obama campaign raised the possibility of accepting public funds with the Federal Election Commission. In a Feb. 1, 2007 letter to the FEC, lawyers for Obama asked whether the campaign could “provisionally raise funds for the general election but retain the option” of returning the contributions if an agreement was reached with other major candidates on accepting public financing. The FEC ruled on March 1 that this was permissable, as long as the general election funds were kept in a clearly separate account from the primary election funds.

The Obama campaign is correct in arguing that there is nothing in the Feb. 1 letter to the FEC that can be fairly interpreted as committing the campaign to accepting public financing. Obama spokesman Bill Burton told Politico on Feb. 28, 2007 that the senator would not necessarily commit himself to participating in the public financing system if the commission approved his proposal. “It would be a situation where if the Republican agreed to opt-in to the public financing system, it would be something we would explore,” Burton told Politico.

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McCain has already broken his promise and probably some laws as well by agreeing to take public funds, using that agreement as collateral for a 4 million dollar of which he spent nearly 3 million and then opting out of the public funds program.

Obama may be flip-flopping, but McCain is directly benefitting from gaming the system.

Unless it’s really, really good smoke? (wink!)

There is no doubt that Barack Obama is a skilled politician and that he is in it to win it, and the first order of business is to take the Oath of Office next January.

Contrary to the thoughts of some, I am not so blinded by my support of Obama not to realize that he is a politician and he shares some characteristics of every politician.

In 2000 and 2004, the Democrats tried the “we’re better than that” approach and we ended up with George occupying the White House.

As with any issue, there are more than one side to the coin. While Obama raises more money individually, the RNC raises far more soft money than the DNC, and there are far more right wing 527 groups willing to spend large dollars to smear Democratic candidates.

Obama has little choice but to fight fire with fire and one area where he does have an advantage is fund raising.

But, he did try…………..

“Obama campaign lawyer Robert Bauer said he had met with McCain lawyers to discuss terms for both campaigns operating in the public financing system, but he said they could not agree on how to limit spending by the campaigns and outside groups heading into the late summer party conventions.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25259863/

Can’t erase your posts though.

Too bad.

He was forced to.

Cause he was damned if he did or didn’t.

He had no choice.

Same Hopeless Politician, with no BALLS.

Moron.

One can only imagine the glee with which Faux News would highlight the headscarf “sisters” with clucks of disapproval about “madrasses in Indonesia.”

These same Muslim babes should try to sit behind McCain. Pigs will fly in a frozen hell when that happens . . .

But, there is still HOPE.