Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Spin
I liked how the Cindy McCain tribute video at the GOP Convention mentioned that when they met they both lied about their ages to each other. Is that cute or creepy? What about leaving out that he was married at the time.
Lying about your age is cute when you are telling the story of how you met your wife at a cocktail party, but maybe not when you are making a point about your family values and character when you are running for president. Or when you bash the other side repeatedly, especially to call them liars.
I also did notice that they wasn't much mention of his first wife. Perhaps they were he was already separated at the time.
I am struck by how the McCains seem like nice people who have done some good things for the world, yet I don't want him running the country. I think that is consistent, there are other nice people that I don't think should run the country.
According to wikipedia they were still living together at the time.
I also notice they didn't mention the 3 children he had with the first wife except when saying or showing "my 7 children"
From what I've heard from people who know him, I've heard him described as tough, not nice. Seeing as he survived 3 plane crashes, torture, and 2 bouts of melanoma, he might be immortal. Cindy's charity work seemed impressive. and she was adopting 3rd world children before Madonna and Angelina made it popular. Though they left out her addiction to painkillers.
...there are other nice people that I don't think should run the country.
Rich, I'm hoping I fall into that category as well. :-)
Overall I thought the speech was okay, and relatively sincere-sounding. Yet, I can't help but think if he wins we will be stuck where we are now. With a government that can't work together. Which is why McCain made all those promises with no details of how he's going to fulfill them.
Oh, and I also can't help thinking that every time McCain winces, like he does, when he speaks, it's like the guy next to him farted and he doesn't want to say anything. I shouldn't mock, he's probably in permanent pain.
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Lying about your age is cute when you are telling the story of how you met your wife at a cocktail party, but maybe not when you are making a point about your family values and character when you are running for president. Or when you bash the other side repeatedly, especially to call them liars.
I also did notice that they wasn't much mention of his first wife. Perhaps they were he was already separated at the time.
I am struck by how the McCains seem like nice people who have done some good things for the world, yet I don't want him running the country. I think that is consistent, there are other nice people that I don't think should run the country.
According to wikipedia they were still living together at the time.
I also notice they didn't mention the 3 children he had with the first wife except when saying or showing "my 7 children"
From what I've heard from people who know him, I've heard him described as tough, not nice. Seeing as he survived 3 plane crashes, torture, and 2 bouts of melanoma, he might be immortal. Cindy's charity work seemed impressive. and she was adopting 3rd world children before Madonna and Angelina made it popular. Though they left out her addiction to painkillers.
...there are other nice people that I don't think should run the country.
Rich, I'm hoping I fall into that category as well. :-)
Overall I thought the speech was okay, and relatively sincere-sounding. Yet, I can't help but think if he wins we will be stuck where we are now. With a government that can't work together. Which is why McCain made all those promises with no details of how he's going to fulfill them.
Oh, and I also can't help thinking that every time McCain winces, like he does, when he speaks, it's like the guy next to him farted and he doesn't want to say anything. I shouldn't mock, he's probably in permanent pain.
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