randr
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Fri May-09-08 08:07 AM
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Obama has certainly claimed leadership in the rhetorical contest |
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Claiming that "McCain has lost his bearings" gets my vote as the best use of the language yet. Bearings are little balls, tiny little balls.
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NJmaverick
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Fri May-09-08 08:10 AM
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1. Obama is more skilled than people give him credit for |
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He restrained himself against Hillary, because she was a fellow Dem (not that Hillary returned that favor). With McCain he has no such considerations.
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Fri May-09-08 08:12 AM
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2. i think he would have had to say: |
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Edited on Fri May-09-08 08:13 AM by habitual
'he lost his ball bearings' to correctly imply that the little balls are involved as there are plenty of bearings that are not ball bearings.
But i get your point and appreciate it! just being a nit-picker. :toast:
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Fri May-09-08 08:29 AM
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3. Bearings also refers to navigational skills. If not an allusion to McCain's piloting skills... |
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... it should be. The correct rap on McCain is the one Ariana Huff was pushing last night on Colbert--the McCain has betrayed his values and corrupted his stands from where he stood in 2000, back when he was a maverick.
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Fri May-09-08 08:32 AM
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4. Never underestimate a well mannered man who walked |
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Edited on Fri May-09-08 08:32 AM by IWantAnyDem
the mean streets of the Southside.
The man knows how to fight. He also has a talent for making his opponenets feel good after he's beaten them to a bloody pulp. Just as Dan Hynes.
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