Q: What presidential candidate said the following and in what context?
She helped me put it on vibrate. If anybody is offended by it, I won't do it again.
Reply: Hillary said it to her girlfriend about her Vibrator.
Reply: Rudy said it about his wife. She showed him how to put his phone on vibrate so he doesn't take calls during any more speeches. He has been taking flak for what was an obvious ruse to win the family values crowd.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Friday, October 12, 2007
New Hampshire yard signs
I was up in New Hampshire this past weekend, and to judge by the yards signs on the country highways, Ron Paul is going to be the next President.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
How to lose an election
Did I miss something or did Michigan and Florida just get kicked out of the Democratic Party?
“The DNC voted to punish both Michigan and Florida by refusing to seat their delegates at next summer's Democratic National Convention.” http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/09/michigan.primary/index.html
So now the Democrats are not going to count the votes at all in Florida, or Michigan?
“The DNC voted to punish both Michigan and Florida by refusing to seat their delegates at next summer's Democratic National Convention.” http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/09/michigan.primary/index.html
So now the Democrats are not going to count the votes at all in Florida, or Michigan?
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Call a cow a chicken
Q: Who said the following and in what context?
I guess you can call something, anything you want, but in Iowa you can't call a cow a chicken and have it be true.
Reply: Eisenhower said it to Khrushchev during a visit to an Iowa farm. OR, Chuck Grassley said it about Bush's veto of the SCHIP bill. I like the first one better.
A: You are closer on the second one. Grassley said it about the other Congressional Republicans who were calling SCHIP the first step toward socialized medicine. And apparently they have the Republican votes to override in the Senate but maybe not in the House.
Note: I don’t believe Eisenhower accompanied Khrushchev to Iowa. Khrushchev went by himself to visit the Roswell Garst family in Coon Rapids. It is interesting how Khrushchev’s belligerence helped elect John Kennedy, who campaigned on the premise that Nixon and Eisenhower were not doing enough to stand up to the Soviets. Garst was a business partner of Henry Wallace, the Progressive Party presidential candidate in 1948. Wallace was VP until January 1945 and would have become President at the end of World War II if FDR had not replaced him with Truman on the 1944 ticket. The big question is whether Wallace would have dropped the bomb on Japan. Wallace undoubtedly would not have started the Cold War with the Soviets. And he might well have put in a national health care program, which happened in most other industrial nations right after World War II.
I guess you can call something, anything you want, but in Iowa you can't call a cow a chicken and have it be true.
Reply: Eisenhower said it to Khrushchev during a visit to an Iowa farm. OR, Chuck Grassley said it about Bush's veto of the SCHIP bill. I like the first one better.
A: You are closer on the second one. Grassley said it about the other Congressional Republicans who were calling SCHIP the first step toward socialized medicine. And apparently they have the Republican votes to override in the Senate but maybe not in the House.
Note: I don’t believe Eisenhower accompanied Khrushchev to Iowa. Khrushchev went by himself to visit the Roswell Garst family in Coon Rapids. It is interesting how Khrushchev’s belligerence helped elect John Kennedy, who campaigned on the premise that Nixon and Eisenhower were not doing enough to stand up to the Soviets. Garst was a business partner of Henry Wallace, the Progressive Party presidential candidate in 1948. Wallace was VP until January 1945 and would have become President at the end of World War II if FDR had not replaced him with Truman on the 1944 ticket. The big question is whether Wallace would have dropped the bomb on Japan. Wallace undoubtedly would not have started the Cold War with the Soviets. And he might well have put in a national health care program, which happened in most other industrial nations right after World War II.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Bill Richardson on Iran and Iraq
He had some good things to say in the debate tonight on both Iraq and Iran, but I can’t find them online yet.
From last week on Iraq: http://action.richardsonforpresident.com/page/community/post_group/Headquarters/CLhp Ads Don't Kill People, Wars Do
From February on Iran: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/23/AR2007022301595.html. The Iranians will not end their nuclear program because we threaten them and call them names. They will renounce nukes because we convince them that they will be safer and more prosperous if they do that than if they don't.
From June on Iran: http://www.richardsonforpresident.com/newsroom/speeches?id=0013 Iran must not acquire nuclear weapons: virtually the entire international community agrees about this. The P5+1 countries -- the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (the US, UK, Russia, China and France) plus Germany -- have been negotiating with Iran, and in June 2006 offered the Iranians a package of incentives to give up their nuclear enrichment efforts.
From last week on Iraq: http://action.richardsonforpresident.com/page/community/post_group/Headquarters/CLhp Ads Don't Kill People, Wars Do
From February on Iran: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/23/AR2007022301595.html. The Iranians will not end their nuclear program because we threaten them and call them names. They will renounce nukes because we convince them that they will be safer and more prosperous if they do that than if they don't.
From June on Iran: http://www.richardsonforpresident.com/newsroom/speeches?id=0013 Iran must not acquire nuclear weapons: virtually the entire international community agrees about this. The P5+1 countries -- the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (the US, UK, Russia, China and France) plus Germany -- have been negotiating with Iran, and in June 2006 offered the Iranians a package of incentives to give up their nuclear enrichment efforts.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Ahmadinejad at Columbia
What did you think of the students applauding and cheering Ahmadinejad?
If the Republicans are smart, they will send Condi Rice to speak at Columbia (some other Ivy League would work as well). She’ll get booed. Then they run the students booing her in contrast to cheering Ahmadinejad. That will cost the Democrats the 2008 election.
Of course, that could also undermine the US before the United Nations. So maybe they will someone else out to get booed. Or maybe they have to choose which is more important to the nation, getting Iran to back down or winning the next election.
If the Republicans are smart, they will send Condi Rice to speak at Columbia (some other Ivy League would work as well). She’ll get booed. Then they run the students booing her in contrast to cheering Ahmadinejad. That will cost the Democrats the 2008 election.
Of course, that could also undermine the US before the United Nations. So maybe they will someone else out to get booed. Or maybe they have to choose which is more important to the nation, getting Iran to back down or winning the next election.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Amid struggles, arts center chief got $1.2m bonus
Some interesting reading in today’s Globe.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/07/31/amid_struggles_arts_center_chief_got_12m_bonus/
Let’s see. Cut Shakespeare on Common budget by 500,000, that pays for almost half your bonus. Take 100,000 a year pay cut (from 500,000 to 400,000 per year). Over 7 years that will pay for the rest of your bonus. But hire wife to manage web site, that will help with cash flow. Cut performances from 96% of available nights to 33%. That gives you more time to spend at your 3 vacation properties. On the other hand, Boston Globe gets on your case, makes you look greedy, makes your board look stupid, makes your corporate sponsors nervous. You may lose job, wife may lose job. Oh well.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/07/31/amid_struggles_arts_center_chief_got_12m_bonus/
Let’s see. Cut Shakespeare on Common budget by 500,000, that pays for almost half your bonus. Take 100,000 a year pay cut (from 500,000 to 400,000 per year). Over 7 years that will pay for the rest of your bonus. But hire wife to manage web site, that will help with cash flow. Cut performances from 96% of available nights to 33%. That gives you more time to spend at your 3 vacation properties. On the other hand, Boston Globe gets on your case, makes you look greedy, makes your board look stupid, makes your corporate sponsors nervous. You may lose job, wife may lose job. Oh well.
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