embarrassing is putting it mildly – and how pathetic of the media to be overlooking mccain’s statements especially since he is supposedly the candidate with the most ‘experience’ when it comes to foreign policy – i haven’t seen anything on the news – the only people heard sounding out about mccain’s bush-level cluelessness about ‘ferners’ are jack cafferty and keith olbermann(nothing on the fixed noise website but that’s no great shock) – would have hp 520 battery,hp dv8000 battery loved to have seen obama attack mccain while he had the tv time instead of having to give a speech on religion and race that he really shouldn’t have had to do.

embarrassing is putting it mildly – and how pathetic of the media to be overlooking mccain’s statements especially since he is supposedly the candidate with the most ‘experience’ when it comes to foreign policy – i haven’t seen anything on the news – the only people heard sounding out about mccain’s bush-level cluelessness about ‘ferners’ are jack cafferty and keith olbermann(nothing on the fixed noise website but that’s no great shock) – would have loved to have seen obama attack mccain while he had the tv time instead of having to give a speech on religion and race that he really shouldn’t have had to do.

“I’m from a family of lax Jews, and I’m sure our Purim celebrations weren’t quite up to code. Even so, I am shocked at the difference between the Purim story I heard in synagogue and the Purim story in the Bible. We certainly celebrated the death of Haman at synagogue, but I don’t recall hearing about the orgy of violence that followed. The 75,000 killed, Esther’s insistence on a second day of slaughter, the vindictive impaling of Haman’s sons—all that was left out of the kid-friendly Purim story I was raised on. Those horrifying acts make Purim a much more ambiguous, and troubling, holiday.”

Damn! I copied the wrong post, and am in the wrong thread. Is it Friday yet. Happy Hour, here I come.

That’s a relief. I thought I was losing my mind. Enjoy.

Then again, maybe everyone is fixated on “PreacherGate”, so focused on attacking a candidate for something someone else said that they ignore another candidate’s actual embarrassing statement.

I think it is the latter. Like I said, Preachergate is awesome copy – it has something for everyone, whether it is Hannity playing the Wright tape 24/7 or the MSM swooning over how wonderful Obama’s speech was. Also, the fact that Iraq itself has dropped from the news helps McCain – people fighting and dying over there barely gets a mention any more. Someone misidenifying a sect is just not that exciting.

I was trying to understand why his gaffes in the ME weren’t costing him at the polls. Either no one is paying attention or they don’t understand the difference themselves.

I think the most likely explanation is that the polls haven’t caught up with this incident yet. They tend to lag about a week or two, don’t they? And any poll that purported to have measured the effect of something like this in a single day, I wouldn’t trust right away.

Then again, maybe everyone is fixated on “PreacherGate”, so focused on attacking a candidate for something someone else said that they ignore another candidate’s actual embarrassing statement.

PS: It’s their DAMN JOB to know the difference between Sunni and Shia when you commit trillions of dollars and countless lives to an area filled with two sects of people that have HATED EACH OTHER FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.

I didn’t say it was good, Bobcat, I was trying to understand why his gaffes in the ME weren’t costing him at the polls. Either no one is paying attention or they don’t understand the difference themselves.

Personally, I am simply boggled by the idea that he doesn’t know the difference. It is such a simple, basic difference. I don’t expect Progressives to like McCain, but when he says he mis-spoke that seems more likely than that he really doesn’t know the difference. The guy has been in Congress for almost 3 decades…

Didn’t know the Pope invented Halloween, did you?

Unique logic you use. “If I’m dumb and don’t know something, it’s comforting to know that the GOP guy running president doesn’t either. I sure wouldn’t want someone who was smart in office. I’d feel most dumber, then.”

PS: It’s their DAMN JOB to know the difference between Sunni and Shia when you commit trillions of dollars and countless lives to an area filled with two sects of people that have HATED EACH OTHER FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.

You said Halloween doesn’t have much religious meaning. There, you’re wrong.

Halloween is in refernce to All Hallow’s Eve, the night prior to All Saints Day. All Saints Day is a Catholic holiday that celebrates, well, you guessed it: all of the saints. All Hallow’s Eve is the night before when all of the devils and demons get to play prior to all of the saints being honored the next day.

So… there is a religous background to the day.

psssssst: You make one more F’in mistake and your gonna blow my cover that I am really the Repuppetcan nominee.

RIP
SGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq

http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/an-open-letter-to-sen-barack-obama-on-the-subject-of-faith/