Comments on: Let The Bodies Hit The Floor http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:05:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94249 Duros62 Sat, 10 May 2008 17:32:45 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94249 Oh stop it. Yes he does. From the tenor of the piece, I wouldn't suspect the author is much of a progressive, probably resented even being on this assignment. I'll give McCain the benefit of the doubt too. I don't believe anything he says, so if he misspeaks, it's no biggie. Oh stop it. Yes he does. From the tenor of the piece, I wouldn’t suspect the author is much of a progressive, probably resented even being on this assignment.

I’ll give McCain the benefit of the doubt too. I don’t believe anything he says, so if he misspeaks, it’s no biggie.

]]> By: Dave in SoCal http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94248 Dave in SoCal Sat, 10 May 2008 17:28:35 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94248 <i>It was a joke, Dave.</i> From the same link: (UPDATE: At a later stop Obama was talking with reporters and expressed concern he'd also mis-stated the number of potential cyclone victims in Burma. He said, ""I hope I said 100,000 people the first time instead of 100 million. I understand I said there were 57 states today. It's a sign that my numeracy is getting a little, uh." At that point, an aide cut him off and ushered journalists out. Before he could mis-speak again?) Doesn't sound like he was joking. Oh, and I do think that this was just a verbal slip by Obama. But unlike Oliver (and a few others here), I have the honesty to give McCain the same benefit of the doubt when something like this happens. It was a joke, Dave.

From the same link:

(UPDATE: At a later stop Obama was talking with reporters and expressed concern he’d also mis-stated the number of potential cyclone victims in Burma. He said, “”I hope I said 100,000 people the first time instead of 100 million. I understand I said there were 57 states today. It’s a sign that my numeracy is getting a little, uh.” At that point, an aide cut him off and ushered journalists out. Before he could mis-speak again?)

Doesn’t sound like he was joking.

Oh, and I do think that this was just a verbal slip by Obama. But unlike Oliver (and a few others here), I have the honesty to give McCain the same benefit of the doubt when something like this happens.

]]> By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94222 Duros62 Sat, 10 May 2008 15:14:11 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94222 It was a joke, Dave. It was a joke, Dave.

]]> By: Dave in SoCal http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94198 Dave in SoCal Sat, 10 May 2008 05:00:32 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94198 <i>Sen. Obama already has begun pivoting toward the general election. Soon, he is likely to unleash attack ads aimed at defining Sen. McCain. </i> But as we all know, Obama is not running a 'business as usual' campaign, so we shouldn't expect to see ANY attack ads aimed at McCain. Otherwise, he would be just an ordinary win-at-all-costs kinda politician, wouldn't he? Meanwhile, it appears that <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/barack-obama-wa.html" rel="nofollow">Obama wants to be president of these 57 United States</a>. 57 states? Thank God it's McCain who's the senile one. Sen. Obama already has begun pivoting toward the general election. Soon, he is likely to unleash attack ads aimed at defining Sen. McCain.

But as we all know, Obama is not running a ‘business as usual’ campaign, so we shouldn’t expect to see ANY attack ads aimed at McCain. Otherwise, he would be just an ordinary win-at-all-costs kinda politician, wouldn’t he?

Meanwhile, it appears that Obama wants to be president of these 57 United States.

57 states? Thank God it’s McCain who’s the senile one.

]]> By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94176 Duros62 Fri, 09 May 2008 23:25:25 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94176 frakking? frakking?

]]> By: SpiderJ http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94159 SpiderJ Fri, 09 May 2008 21:32:39 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94159 <i>In other words, he’s a big fucking liar.</i> Well, that's more to the point, sure, but if you put that in the ad you get fined by the FCC. In other words, he’s a big fucking liar.

Well, that’s more to the point, sure, but if you put that in the ad you get fined by the FCC.

]]> By: Sean D. Martin http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94158 Sean D. Martin Fri, 09 May 2008 21:31:38 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94158 I think OW is very correct on this one. Most American's <a href="http://archives.cnn.com/2002/EDUCATION/11/20/geography.quiz/index.html" rel="nofollow">can't find Iraq on a map</a>. A topic which has dominated headlines for over 5 years. Half of them can't even find New York. Once you move outside the reasonably small group of folks who follow all this stuff like those who comment her tend to, and ask the average "man on the street" about McCain I'm sure they probably won't be able to tell you much beyond that he's running for President and was once a POW. I think OW is very correct on this one. Most American’s can’t find Iraq on a map. A topic which has dominated headlines for over 5 years. Half of them can’t even find New York.

Once you move outside the reasonably small group of folks who follow all this stuff like those who comment her tend to, and ask the average “man on the street” about McCain I’m sure they probably won’t be able to tell you much beyond that he’s running for President and was once a POW.

]]> By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94154 Duros62 Fri, 09 May 2008 21:20:05 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94154 <i>but the vast majority of folks have no idea what he stands for.</i> That's okay. Neither does he. but the vast majority of folks have no idea what he stands for.

That’s okay. Neither does he.

]]> By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94153 Duros62 Fri, 09 May 2008 21:19:20 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94153 <i>“Definition” ads won’t work on McCain only because he’s proven himself a master of redefining himself depending on which audience he’s pandering to.</I> In other words, he's a big fucking liar. Every time he says "my friends", I am assured that the next words out of his mouth are lies. “Definition” ads won’t work on McCain only because he’s proven himself a master of redefining himself depending on which audience he’s pandering to.

In other words, he’s a big fucking liar. Every time he says “my friends”, I am assured that the next words out of his mouth are lies.

]]> By: Oliver Willis http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94145 Oliver Willis Fri, 09 May 2008 20:30:10 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94145 Actually definition ads will work on McCain. Many on the left and right work on this assumption that the general electorate pays attention to politics the way we do and this just isn't so. McCain has a slightly higher profile than your average pol, but the vast majority of folks have no idea what he stands for. Actually definition ads will work on McCain. Many on the left and right work on this assumption that the general electorate pays attention to politics the way we do and this just isn’t so. McCain has a slightly higher profile than your average pol, but the vast majority of folks have no idea what he stands for.

]]> By: SpiderJ http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94140 SpiderJ Fri, 09 May 2008 19:41:36 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94140 "Definition" ads won't work on McCain only because he's proven himself a master of redefining himself depending on which audience he's pandering to. Obama has been crystal clear about who he is and what he represents. Maybe you have trouble understanding it with the fingers in your ears. “Definition” ads won’t work on McCain only because he’s proven himself a master of redefining himself depending on which audience he’s pandering to.

Obama has been crystal clear about who he is and what he represents. Maybe you have trouble understanding it with the fingers in your ears.

]]> By: SaveFarris http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94139 SaveFarris Fri, 09 May 2008 19:31:31 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/let-the-bodies-hit-the-floor-2/#comment-94139 Wait a minute: I thought McCain was older than dirt. Wouldn't opinions about him have already been formed throughout his 947 decades of public service? "Definition" ads won't work on McCain. Barack "Cypher" Obama, OTOH... Wait a minute: I thought McCain was older than dirt. Wouldn’t opinions about him have already been formed throughout his 947 decades of public service?

“Definition” ads won’t work on McCain. Barack “Cypher” Obama, OTOH…

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