It’s difficult to remember another election year with so many revelations about local candidates’ serious personal and professional issues. A stalking protection order, bad personal debts, bad business debts, a personal bankruptcy, a Kansas Supreme Court censure – and it’s just the primary season. Some explanations may inspire empathy in potential voters also going through tough stuff in this economy. But you have to wonder what makes people overlook their failings to file for elective office, then expect voters to overlook them as well.
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OMG this Farley guy is a total freak! First read the link…then go here.
http://vote.kansas.com/race-detail.do;jsessionid=6D301571611CEBEB35C16827BEF0C4E8?id=157371072
WOOOOOOOOOOOOW.
Almost as scary as the guy running for Paola Sherrif.
I wonder if he is a motivational speaker who lives in a van down by the river.
Oh wait..that was CHRIS Farley…maybe they’re related.
“As a loving parent to pre-teens, compelling adult leadership often includes the response to uninformed and immature interrogatives with the most always convincing response, “BECAUSE I SAID SO!”.A democratic republic will succeed only when the creative minority is allowed to perform unconditionally and unencumbered.”
THAT is terrifying.
The person earning probably ten bucks an hour, Inga Taylor, has trouble paying bills. Gee go figure. I don’t think poor people are worse at managing money, they’re far better at it because they have so little of it. And they also know what is truly necessary and what is not.
Stop punishing people for being poor. You might be surprised.
The judge should not be yelling at people. This is real life not “Judge Judy”. Who in my opinion should be disbarred.
Other than that I don’t know anything about the judge in this case. I’ll have to learn more about it.
PoliMa: I agree with a couple of your points. Poor people might be better guardians of our tax money than say the county commissioners who collect some $100,000 per year in salaries plus perks plus ample snacks. For example, if we could replace County Commissioner Tom Winters, or County Commissioner Dave Unruh, or County Commissioner Tim Norton … with bona fide homeless persons who reside under the Douglas or Maple street bridges on cold winter nights in front of a barrel of burning firewood … don’t you think our county government might improve a few notches?
PoliMa: I almost forgot the other point you made. The “Judge Judy show” must be the most obnoxious show on TV. I don’t know for the life of me why ABC/KAKE 10 TV chooses to let Judge Judy usher in their evening news shows. I have called them several times when Judge Judy becomes particularly shrill but my calls seem to fall on deaf ears. Is Larry Hatteburg tuned in?
“Poor people might be better guardians of our tax money…”
Poor people are poor for reasons. Sometimes it’s just bad luck. But, mostly not.
Bet this is just the Republican hopeful roster, you know those that would tell us how we should live.
Speaking of Candidate woes —– it is so sad to see a once noble warrior reduced to a lying mass of desperation — sigh —– must be a Navy thing
http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/07/a-stunningly-dishonest-campaign-ad
The campaign had initially said that Sen. Obama had said he thought it might be inappropriate to visit the troops since the campaign was funding his European swing.
Then after reports that the Pentagon had expressed concerns to the Obama campaign about the political aspect to the visit, the Obama campaign issued a statement from Maj Gen. Scott Gration (Ret.), a foreign policy adviser to Obama, saying that the Pentagon told him the visit to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center would be viewed as “a campaign event.”
“Senator Obama did not want to have a trip to see our wounded warriors perceived as a campaign event when his visit was to show his appreciation for our troops and decided instead not to go,” Gration said.
But the Pentagon said that wasn’t true, that Obama was more than welcome to come, it was just that he couldn’t bring the media or campaign staff.
So here’s what Obama said about it all:
“The staff was working this so I don’t know each and every detail but here is what I understand happened,” Obama said. “We had scheduled to go, we had no problem at all in leaving, we always leave press and staff off — that is why we left it off the schedule. We were treating it in the same way we treat a visit to Walter Reed which I was able to do a few weeks ago without any fanfare whatsoever. I was going to be accompanied by one of my advisors, a former military officer.”
Continued Obama, “And we got notice that he would be treated as a campaign person, and it would therefore be perceived as political because he had endorsed my candidacy but he wasn’t on the Senate staff. That triggered then a concern that maybe our visit was going to be perceived as political. And the last thing that I want to do is have injured soldiers and the staff at these wonderful institutions having to sort through whether this is political or not or get caught in the crossfire between campaigns.”
“So rather than go forward and potentially get caught up in what might have been considered a political controversy of some sort,” Obama said, “what we decided was that we not make a visit and instead I would call some of the troops that were there. So that essentially would be the extent of the story.”
On CBS’s Face the Nation this morning, host Bob Schieffer asked Hagel about McCain’s claim that “Senator Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a campaign.”
“I think John is treading on some very thin ground here when he impugns motives and when we start to get into, ‘You’re less patriotic than me. I’m more patriotic,’” Hagel said. “I admire and respect John McCain very much. I have a good relationship. To this day we do. We talk often. I talked to him right before I went to Iraq, as a matter of fact. John’s better than that.”
Schieffer also asked about McCain’s new TV ad in which he says Obama in Europe “made time to go to the gym but canceled a visit with wounded troops. Seems the Pentagon wouldn’t allow him to bring cameras.”
Hagel, who accompanied Obama on their official trip to Afghanistan and Iraq but broke off in Jordan, said, “the congressional delegation that you referred to ended when we parted in Jordan. At that point, it was a political trip for Senator Obama. I think it would have been inappropriate for him and certainly he would have been criticized by the McCain people and the press and probably should have been if on a political trip in Europe paid for by political funds – not the taxpayers -to go, essentially, then and be accused of using our wounded men and women as props for his campaign…I think it would be totally inappropriate for him on a campaign trip to go to a military hospital and use those soldiers as props. So I think he probably, based on what I know, he did the right thing.”
Hagel said he wasn’t sure about all the details of the controversy, but “we saw troops everywhere we went on the congressional delegation. We went out of our way to see those troops.”
Hagel said of McCain’s ad, “I do not think it was appropriate.”
Jake Tapper notes the ad also claims that Obama cancelled the trip because he was told he couldn’t bring the media. There is absolutely no evidence for that one. The campaign insists that the plan had been to leave us at the airport, and the military has confirmed that arrangements were being made to hold media and staff there at a passenger terminal.
As I have heard the campaign’s explanations for this decision over the past few days, as well as the attacks, I am convinced that it comes down to something that campaign strategist Robert Gibbs told reporters on the plane: When the campaign learned of the Pentagon’s concerns (Wednesday night), they realized that, however they structured the hospital visit, they were going to come in for criticism.
So they had a decision to make, and they had to do it on the fly. Their choice was to take a hit for going (even if it was a private detour from a very public campaign swing, Obama was going to be accused of using wounded troops for political gain), or a hit for not going (the charge would be–and has been–that Obama didn’t care about wounded troops). They decided to take the latter. …
Wayne Cline for Pratt County Sheriff.
fleetenema:
Comments like yours remind me of that great Republican, Abe Lincoln: “It is better to keep one’s mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt”.
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