jerseyhoya wrote:Candidate’s Words Differ From His History

Oh my word

At a ceremony honoring veterans and senior citizens who sent presents to soldiers overseas, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut rose and spoke of an earlier time in his life.

“We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam,” Mr. Blumenthal said to the group gathered in Norwalk in March 2008. “And you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it — Afghanistan or Iraq — we owe our military men and women unconditional support.”

There was one problem: Mr. Blumenthal, a Democrat now running for the United States Senate, never served in Vietnam. He obtained at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and took repeated steps that enabled him to avoid going to war, according to records.

The deferments allowed Mr. Blumenthal to complete his studies at Harvard; pursue a graduate fellowship in England; serve as a special assistant to The Washington Post’s publisher, Katharine Graham; and ultimately take a job in the Nixon White House.

Fox reports Rep. Mark Souder will retire amidst revelations of an affair with a staffer.

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traderdave wrote:

pacino wrote:watching Bill Maher right now and this SE Cupp (who has seemingly popped up out of nowhere) is full of it but damn she is really hot. Maybe it's the glasses shtick.

And my mancrush on Cory Booker is approaching hoya/christie levels. lets get him president

Saw this as well and agree on both Sarah and Cory. I have to say that I was really kinda surprised how much Booker and Maher went at it on the show. I think Maher is funny, at times very funny, and he is obviously is well-prepared to debate the topics he brings up. One thing that I really do not like about him though is how venomous his discussions are regarding religion. I just do not get why he gives two $#@! about whether or not I believe in God. I certainly could not care less that he does not believe (although, as a Christian, I should - LOL!). Anyway, it was an entertaining show last night if anybody is thinking about catching a replay.

he's not venomous, he kind of just lays it out there. the dude is blunt and doesn't couch his statements. deep down, most people are using religion for some means to an end (bully for them but don't push it on me as so many have done for so long...i was inadvertently flung into a random prayer just before a freaking banquet this past friday and he explicitly mentioned jesus and only jesus, then i got looks for not praying along with him), and he just says it like he thinks it. obviously that lady is full of it if she's an atheist and yet thinks that we should cowtow to some idea of a christian country.

and you do see that last thing you wrote, about how you *should* try and convert us, as a christian? i mean, isn't that one of the major points of the religion, to spread it? well, i'm annoyed by that and it's probably a big reason why most atheists have more of a problem with christianity (and islam) than judaism or another minority religion in the US. hell, don't most more conservative versions of religions basically think we're a fallen sort if we dont find their god the right one?

oh, and i do agree with him that i kind of hope that more politicians are actually atheist. but, i do kind of think it sucks that they can't say that because they are less likely to be elected than any other 'group'. and really, i tend to think more people are atheist than is usually thought, and think more people would say it if famous people/politicians would just say what they thought.

traderdave wrote:Switching gears, when will politicians learn that they cannot lie and get away with it? And they always seem to lie about the most easily verified things. "You know, I remember when I served as the flight doctor on Apollo 13..."

Ted Mann, in the New London Day wrote:It's a bad story for the Blumenthal campaign, precisely because it adds a thick streak of tarnish to what had seemed pure sterling in his record, even for those who opposed his politics. Blumenthal, by the grunt and grumble of Hartford, is generally seen as almost annoyingly honest, the irksome Gallant to a state of electoral Goofuses. His cause for ridicule is his propensity to hurl himself in front of cameras, not a propensity to lie once he gets himself there.

jerseyhoya wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_DJwjkU8cI[/youtube]

Souder, interviewed about abstinence, by his mistress.

DanaBashCNN
Lincoln coming 2 vote but - oops - polling place says she already voted. Her camp says its a mix up. Requested absentee. Didn't fill it out
19 minutes ago

jerseyhoya wrote:

DanaBashCNN
Lincoln coming 2 vote but - oops - polling place says she already voted. Her camp says its a mix up. Requested absentee. Didn't fill it out
19 minutes ago

TV, your senator is trying to vote twice

Squire wrote:If you were a married guy, how would you rank these humiliations:

1. Wife has a sex tape with previous guy about to be released (Hank Baskett-Kendra Wilkinson)

2. Teacher-wife does it with school middle school age student and goes to jail for a year (Amy Beck)

3. Mid-40s wife has affair with 60 year old ugly out of shape no-name U.S. Congressman.

Krikeys, I feel bad for these guys.

SQUIRE