Eight years ago, American voters chose the presidential candidate they’d most like to have a beer with. Now an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll has put the current contenders to the barbecue test, and Barack Obama bested John McCain 52 to 45 percent as the candidate voters would most like to invite to a cookout. Men split pretty evenly on the question, but women favored Obama by 11 percentage points. Maybe the majority missed hearing about McCain’s love of barbecue (“Nothing makes me happier,” he has said) and Memorial Day grillfest at his Arizona ranch.
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Yeah, more fun..uh huh, yeah, okay…
What’s next?
Who has the most Mousketeer potential?
I’d have Obama over for a BBQ so I could set him straight on who his base is.
Hey, I’m a BLAST a a bbq or party.
Does that make me qualified to be preznit?
Big eye roll…
Hey, KFG, you MIGHT be!! :-)
Hey, PMama — Seriously, why not write his Campaign a letter, and ask him to come for a BBQ —- Stress Kansas/Small Town/College, etc…
Good luck with that.
Just when I thought I’d made up my mind to support Obama come new reports out of DC that Kevin Martin will resign as FCC chair in late 2009 if Obama becomes president.
If Kyle McSlarrow’s mouthy brags are true, there goes the digital transition… unless the other rumor I’ve heard is true–that Obama is considering replacing Martin with former Pennsylvania congressman Ron Klink.
I’d much rather he replace Adelson, who has become wayyy too chummy with the cable industry for my liking.
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ksfarmgrrl
Posted July 3, 2008 at 9:48 am | Permalink
Hey, I’m a BLAST a a bbq or party.
Does that make me qualified to be preznit?
Big eye roll…
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Chicken whispering is a qualification to be the Cosmic Universe Leader though.
Chicken whispering?
heheheheheheheheh!
SO people thought Bush was someone they could have a beer with? But Bush doesnt drink
I think people misunderstood the question.
They thought they were being asked which candidate they preferred to have Barbee Q’d.
Most preferred Obama, medium well with KC Masterpiece w Hickory.
McCain was seen as being too old, and tough.
Obama is much younger and more tender.
They must have interpreted the questiona as “Which Candidate do you think can make the best BBQ!”
What happened, did I kill this thread?
??? My last post didn’t “take”? What’s up?
Obama FISA ?uck.
Just tesing.
P.S. Phuck you Wordpress.
Well, this is fascinating: twice now Wordpress, for reasons I have yet to discern (they haven’t made any attempt to tell me) have thrown away my post. But when I attempt to repost it, I get this:
Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!
Okay, Wordprsss, you are the dictators here. What did I say that offended you? Was it something about the state in which Austin resides (I didn’t mention that state at all, but I expect your repeated censorship of my post is due to something equally mystifyingly crazy and mindless).
At least I hope. . .
I got that page once, Rage.
I decided to think I know more than this computer. Felt satisfying to tell myself that! I really don’t, ya know…
The tabloid media–CNN, Fox, MSNBC etc.–sucks. They have no interest at looking at any of the real issues. FISA is not covered, expect in asinine terms of Obama “moving to the center.” Like retroactively approving illegal activities of the Executive Branch is “moving to the center.”
Okay: NO Pacifica language, even with special characters–happy now???
Thanks, Linda.
If I seem very frustrated it’s because the prevailing assumption among the stupid and politicos (I repeat myself) is that, even if this new type of surveillance violates the prohibition against “general warrants” that gave us the Fourth Amendment in the first place, surely the increased security of such measures makes them inevitable.
Yeah, yeah, I know all the arguments of the difficulty of tracing IP addresses to exact locations. It’s mostly crap (in the Western world, it’s a non-issue), but it’s idiotic to presume that dragnet sweeps of international communications from United States will help, in any way.
In fact, many experts agree with what I concluded at the outset: the more data, the more complexity, the false positives—and false negatives. It’s a lazy-and-stupid person’s method for fighting terrorism. And I don’t care if the method is data mining, pattern mining or whatnot. “Garbage in, garbage out” still applies.
http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureid=2770
http://www.schneier.com/essay-108.htmles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_6_35/ai_109085440/pg_7
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/18/AR2006061800524.html
Rage, the blog had “technical difficulties” last night. Had nothing to do with the content of your posts.
But on the subject, I find the court ordering YouTube to turn over info to Viacom at LEAST as disturbing as warrantless wiretapping.
The retroactive immunity is just inexcusable under any circumstance. But then, I think warrantless wiretapping is too.
Phuck you viacom and the court you rode in on!
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