FWIW, McCain fired it (the POW/pass rhetoric) up on Monday at a campaign rally.
that was after he had peddled his economy in crisis message and his "Veep is a woman" message. so there was at least one this week. >> > Chuck wrote: >> > what happened to the daily updates? >> > *tumbleweeds* >> > >> >> Well it switched to "lipstick", then "sexist", now it's "workers". >> >> I heard Bill Maher say tonight that the average American is too dumb >> to be governed; that he/she has no capacity to form or analyze >> reasoned arguments and instead focuses on emotional arguments and >> inflection - like "pow", "lipstick", "victory", "smoke their holes", >> et al. >> >> That seems right. >> >> And of course that analysis will be attacked by emotion rather reason. >> For if this is not true, then how do we explain polls that jump for >> pretty face, moose, or "drill baby drill". E.g., there's 30+M acres >> of offshore oil fields that could be drilled today, but nobody does it >> because it would be stupid. Yet, people still respond to "drill baby >> drill". >> > > all irrelevant and most covered ad nauseum in other threads. i was simply > coming back to your theory that mccain would, on a daily basis, invoke the > "i was a POW, so i get a pass". i mean, you were pretty keen to keep a > tally way back when you said, "So the new Day 1 tally: 2!". > > it's not about lipstick or pigs or drilling or VPILFs. it's about pointing > out that the tally you were so into when it seemed to support your > supposition doesn't seem quite so important to you anymore. > > that amuses me :) > > -- > I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my > wife. And I wish you my kind of success. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:269868 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
