I’m just wondering how these two popular political figures measure up on the board. Not that I expect Powell to run anytime soon for President.
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Posted 07 April 2004 - 08:16 AM
"History has proven too often and too recently that the nation which relaxes its defenses invites attack."
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"Their sailors say they should have flight pay and sub pay both -- they're in the air half the time, under the water the other half""
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"Their sailors say they should have flight pay and sub pay both -- they're in the air half the time, under the water the other half""
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Posted 07 April 2004 - 08:27 AM
I voted for Powell, even though I KNOW he won't run for any office. He's said in the past that he won't put his family through the proctology exam necessary to run for national office.
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Rhea
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Posted 07 April 2004 - 09:51 AM
Why did you say Powell or McCain and then throw in a third name? 
If your question is truly Powell or McCain then nobody else belongs in the poll.
I chose McCain.
If your question is truly Powell or McCain then nobody else belongs in the poll. I chose McCain.
The future is better than the past. Despite the crepehangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands...with tools...with horse sense and science and engineering.
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When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why. - RAH
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- Robert A. Heinlein
When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why. - RAH
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. - RAH
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CJ AEGIS
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Posted 07 April 2004 - 01:58 PM
Rhea, on Apr 7 2004, 09:49 AM, said:
Why did you say Powell or McCain and then throw in a third name? If your question is truly Powell or McCain then nobody else belongs in the poll.
If your question is truly Powell or McCain then nobody else belongs in the poll.
"History has proven too often and too recently that the nation which relaxes its defenses invites attack."
-Fleet Admiral Nimitz
"Their sailors say they should have flight pay and sub pay both -- they're in the air half the time, under the water the other half""
- Ernie Pyle: Aboard a DE
-Fleet Admiral Nimitz
"Their sailors say they should have flight pay and sub pay both -- they're in the air half the time, under the water the other half""
- Ernie Pyle: Aboard a DE
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Posted 07 April 2004 - 02:02 PM
I'd go for Powell as he is a calmer person that McCain.
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If you voted for Obama then all the mistakes he makes are your fault and I will point this out to you every time he does mess up.
When the fall is all that remains. It matters a great deal.
All hail the clich's all emcompassing shadow.
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And if you want to save these shores. For Pity sake Don't Trust them.
paraphrased from H. "Breaker" Morant
TANSTAAFL
If you voted for Obama then all the mistakes he makes are your fault and I will point this out to you every time he does mess up.
When the fall is all that remains. It matters a great deal.
All hail the clich's all emcompassing shadow.
My playing well with other's skill has been vastly overrated
Member of the Order of the Knigths of the Woeful Countance.
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Rov Judicata
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Posted 07 April 2004 - 03:20 PM
McCain. .
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St. Louis must be destroyed!
Me: "I have a job and five credit cards and am looking into signing a two year lease. THAT MAKES ME OLD."
Josh: "I don't have a job, I have ONE credit card, I'm stuck in a lease and I'm 28! My mom's basement IS ONE BAD DECISION AWAY!"
~~ Josh, winning the argument.
"Congress . . . shall include every idiot, lunatic, insane person, and person non compos mentis[.]" ~1 U.S.C. § 1, selectively quoted for accuracy.
Me: "I have a job and five credit cards and am looking into signing a two year lease. THAT MAKES ME OLD."
Josh: "I don't have a job, I have ONE credit card, I'm stuck in a lease and I'm 28! My mom's basement IS ONE BAD DECISION AWAY!"
~~ Josh, winning the argument.
"Congress . . . shall include every idiot, lunatic, insane person, and person non compos mentis[.]" ~1 U.S.C. § 1, selectively quoted for accuracy.
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Posted 07 April 2004 - 03:21 PM
^ Really!? I'm shocked! 
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~ Eomer, LotR:RotK
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Posted 07 April 2004 - 03:38 PM
the'Hawk, on Apr 7 2004, 01:19 PM, said:
^ Really!? I'm shocked!
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St. Louis must be destroyed!
Me: "I have a job and five credit cards and am looking into signing a two year lease. THAT MAKES ME OLD."
Josh: "I don't have a job, I have ONE credit card, I'm stuck in a lease and I'm 28! My mom's basement IS ONE BAD DECISION AWAY!"
~~ Josh, winning the argument.
"Congress . . . shall include every idiot, lunatic, insane person, and person non compos mentis[.]" ~1 U.S.C. § 1, selectively quoted for accuracy.
Me: "I have a job and five credit cards and am looking into signing a two year lease. THAT MAKES ME OLD."
Josh: "I don't have a job, I have ONE credit card, I'm stuck in a lease and I'm 28! My mom's basement IS ONE BAD DECISION AWAY!"
~~ Josh, winning the argument.
"Congress . . . shall include every idiot, lunatic, insane person, and person non compos mentis[.]" ~1 U.S.C. § 1, selectively quoted for accuracy.
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Rhea
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Posted 07 April 2004 - 05:39 PM
Javert Rovinski, on Apr 7 2004, 12:36 PM, said:
the'Hawk, on Apr 7 2004, 01:19 PM, said:
^ Really!? I'm shocked!
. 
:wideeyed:
The future is better than the past. Despite the crepehangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands...with tools...with horse sense and science and engineering.
- Robert A. Heinlein
When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why. - RAH
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. - RAH
- Robert A. Heinlein
When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why. - RAH
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. - RAH
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Posted 08 April 2004 - 07:25 AM
Now this might surprise CJ a bit But if McCain wanted to run I'd probably take a leave of absence to go work for him. There is your leader, there is your great man. WHY couldn't the Republican party have gotten behind him instead of GWB? WHY? WHY? WHY? *Beats chest, gnashes teeth* 
By the way, the "why" is a rhetorical question. I DO know why.
By the way, the "why" is a rhetorical question. I DO know why.
"To know that you do not know is the best. To act from the pretense that you know when you do not know is a disease" - Lao Tzu
"From All, One; and From One, All" - Heraclitus
"Let me be clear: however the world's goblet turns there will always be those drunk on the wine of the Self" - Ghalib
"A 'politically savvy challenge to evolution' is as self-evidently ridiculous as an agriculturally savvy challenge to euclidean geometry would be." - Charles Pierce
"From All, One; and From One, All" - Heraclitus
"Let me be clear: however the world's goblet turns there will always be those drunk on the wine of the Self" - Ghalib
"A 'politically savvy challenge to evolution' is as self-evidently ridiculous as an agriculturally savvy challenge to euclidean geometry would be." - Charles Pierce
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Posted 08 April 2004 - 12:28 PM
Gefiltefishmon, on Apr 8 2004, 08:23 AM, said:
Now this might surprise CJ a bit But if McCain wanted to run I'd probably take a leave of absence to go work for him. There is your leader, there is your great man. WHY couldn't the Republican party have gotten behind him instead of GWB? WHY? WHY? WHY? *Beats chest, gnashes teeth*
By the way, the "why" is a rhetorical question. I DO know why.
By the way, the "why" is a rhetorical question. I DO know why.
#12
AnneZo
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Posted 08 April 2004 - 04:25 PM
You have three candidates listed there, not two.
Why is Kerry a "hypothetical" Democrat?
Why is Kerry a "hypothetical" Democrat?
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