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		<title>By: Joe</title>
		<link>http://www.palmettoscoop.com/2008/09/18/paying-higher-taxes-is-patriotic/comment-page-1/#comment-210677</link>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Spin of the year from Randolph.   Dizzying stuff.   I wonder how many Reverend Wrights stand in the pulpits of your typical &quot;protestant&quot; churches attended by those like Obama.  

Let me add a couple to your list: 

- If your political career was launched by a still-unrepentant domestic terrorist - with whom you served and who accepted gifts from the North Vietnamese - you&#039;re a &quot;uniter&quot; with a new tone. 
- If you&#039;re a moderate Republican senator who just nomiated a conservative to be your VP,  you&#039;re a divider.

- If your voting record is documented to be to the left of Socialist Bernie Sanders, you&#039;re a centrist.
- If you&#039;ve spent the last 8 years poking your finger in the eye of  your own party to cross the aisle and strike controversial deals with the opponents, you&#039;re waaayy to the right.

- If you say you&#039;ve visited &quot;all 57 states&quot; and say &quot;you&#039;ll ask the Joint Chiefs about getting out of Iraq&quot;  (when they have nothing to do with it), you&#039;re intelligent.
- If you say the economy is still on solid ground - with 3.3% GDP growth in the last quarter, lowering consumer prices and oil prices by the barrel falling - well, you&#039;re dumb.

- When your VP candidate at a speech tells someone paralyzed to &quot;stand up, Chuck&quot; he&#039;s sophisticated. 
- When your VP candidate tells her church to pray for the Soldiers, she&#039;s trying to 
start a holy war.

- When your wife says she&#039;s never been proud of her country until you ran for president, she&#039;s nuanced.
- When your VP says she&#039;s always been proud of her country, she&#039;s a flag-waving jingoist.

- When your VP says Americans should support higher taxes, that&#039;s being patriotic.
- When you say that Washington should spend the plenty of money they already have more wisely, that&#039;s being selfish.

- If you&#039;ve spent all of 143 days in national office before announcing a run at the presidency and never been in charge of anyone, you&#039;re an experienced executive.
- If you&#039;ve spent over 7 years as an executive as a mayor and state governor, responsible for employees and the state&#039;s military, you&#039;re woefully inexperienced.

And so it goes....we can all play this game.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spin of the year from Randolph.   Dizzying stuff.   I wonder how many Reverend Wrights stand in the pulpits of your typical &#8220;protestant&#8221; churches attended by those like Obama.  </p>
<p>Let me add a couple to your list: </p>
<p>- If your political career was launched by a still-unrepentant domestic terrorist &#8211; with whom you served and who accepted gifts from the North Vietnamese &#8211; you&#8217;re a &#8220;uniter&#8221; with a new tone.<br />
- If you&#8217;re a moderate Republican senator who just nomiated a conservative to be your VP,  you&#8217;re a divider.</p>
<p>- If your voting record is documented to be to the left of Socialist Bernie Sanders, you&#8217;re a centrist.<br />
- If you&#8217;ve spent the last 8 years poking your finger in the eye of  your own party to cross the aisle and strike controversial deals with the opponents, you&#8217;re waaayy to the right.</p>
<p>- If you say you&#8217;ve visited &#8220;all 57 states&#8221; and say &#8220;you&#8217;ll ask the Joint Chiefs about getting out of Iraq&#8221;  (when they have nothing to do with it), you&#8217;re intelligent.<br />
- If you say the economy is still on solid ground &#8211; with 3.3% GDP growth in the last quarter, lowering consumer prices and oil prices by the barrel falling &#8211; well, you&#8217;re dumb.</p>
<p>- When your VP candidate at a speech tells someone paralyzed to &#8220;stand up, Chuck&#8221; he&#8217;s sophisticated.<br />
- When your VP candidate tells her church to pray for the Soldiers, she&#8217;s trying to<br />
start a holy war.</p>
<p>- When your wife says she&#8217;s never been proud of her country until you ran for president, she&#8217;s nuanced.<br />
- When your VP says she&#8217;s always been proud of her country, she&#8217;s a flag-waving jingoist.</p>
<p>- When your VP says Americans should support higher taxes, that&#8217;s being patriotic.<br />
- When you say that Washington should spend the plenty of money they already have more wisely, that&#8217;s being selfish.</p>
<p>- If you&#8217;ve spent all of 143 days in national office before announcing a run at the presidency and never been in charge of anyone, you&#8217;re an experienced executive.<br />
- If you&#8217;ve spent over 7 years as an executive as a mayor and state governor, responsible for employees and the state&#8217;s military, you&#8217;re woefully inexperienced.</p>
<p>And so it goes&#8230;.we can all play this game.</p>
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		<title>By: Bill A</title>
		<link>http://www.palmettoscoop.com/2008/09/18/paying-higher-taxes-is-patriotic/comment-page-1/#comment-210641</link>
		<dc:creator>Bill A</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;re wasting your breath here Randy; i&#039;m 90% sure there is no one behind the curtain.

Just a pipe that directly pumps from the RNC to this website, with some additional side valves for RQ&amp;A clients.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re wasting your breath here Randy; i&#8217;m 90% sure there is no one behind the curtain.</p>
<p>Just a pipe that directly pumps from the RNC to this website, with some additional side valves for RQ&amp;A clients.</p>
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		<title>By: justWondern</title>
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		<dc:creator>justWondern</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Randy; is it safe to say you will probably vote for Obama?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Randy; is it safe to say you will probably vote for Obama?</p>
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		<title>By: Randolph McEwin</title>
		<link>http://www.palmettoscoop.com/2008/09/18/paying-higher-taxes-is-patriotic/comment-page-1/#comment-210306</link>
		<dc:creator>Randolph McEwin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What do you mean? Are you saying that you&#039;re commenting on my email address, or that you&#039;re exposing my email address that &quot;will not be published?&quot; 

If you wish to maintain credibility please respond to each of these separate points SPECIFICALLY: 

• If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you&#039;re &quot;exotic, different.&quot;
• Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.

• If your name is Barack you&#039;re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
• Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you&#039;re a maverick.

• Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
• Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you&#039;re well grounded.

• If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with
over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate&#039;s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the
Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran&#039;s Affairs committees, you don&#039;t have any real leadership experience.
• If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you&#039;re qualified to become the country&#039;s second highest ranking executive.

• If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within protestant churches, you&#039;re not a real Christian.
• If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you&#039;re a Christian.

• If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
• If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state&#039;s school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you&#039;re very responsible.

• If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family&#039;s values don&#039;t represent America &#039;s.
• If you&#039;re husband is nicknamed &quot;First Dude&quot;, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn&#039;t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

These are all active talking points of your blog and the RNC, please confirm/deny.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What do you mean? Are you saying that you&#8217;re commenting on my email address, or that you&#8217;re exposing my email address that &#8220;will not be published?&#8221; </p>
<p>If you wish to maintain credibility please respond to each of these separate points SPECIFICALLY: </p>
<p>• If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you&#8217;re &#8220;exotic, different.&#8221;<br />
• Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.</p>
<p>• If your name is Barack you&#8217;re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.<br />
• Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you&#8217;re a maverick.</p>
<p>• Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.<br />
• Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you&#8217;re well grounded.</p>
<p>• If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with<br />
over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate&#8217;s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the<br />
Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran&#8217;s Affairs committees, you don&#8217;t have any real leadership experience.<br />
• If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you&#8217;re qualified to become the country&#8217;s second highest ranking executive.</p>
<p>• If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within protestant churches, you&#8217;re not a real Christian.<br />
• If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you&#8217;re a Christian.</p>
<p>• If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.<br />
• If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state&#8217;s school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you&#8217;re very responsible.</p>
<p>• If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family&#8217;s values don&#8217;t represent America &#8217;s.<br />
• If you&#8217;re husband is nicknamed &#8220;First Dude&#8221;, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn&#8217;t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.</p>
<p>These are all active talking points of your blog and the RNC, please confirm/deny.</p>
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		<title>By: Adam Fogle</title>
		<link>http://www.palmettoscoop.com/2008/09/18/paying-higher-taxes-is-patriotic/comment-page-1/#comment-209815</link>
		<dc:creator>Adam Fogle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Randolph,

Didn&#039;t they teach you about &quot;hyperbole&quot; up there at Harvard?  Additionally, I thought you Northeastern liberals were against violence, especially punching someone in their &quot;fat moon of a face&quot; to resolve a conflict?

- A.F.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Randolph,</p>
<p>Didn&#8217;t they teach you about &#8220;hyperbole&#8221; up there at Harvard?  Additionally, I thought you Northeastern liberals were against violence, especially punching someone in their &#8220;fat moon of a face&#8221; to resolve a conflict?</p>
<p>- A.F.</p>
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		<title>By: liz</title>
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		<dc:creator>liz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If I were to tell you that large amounts of money were being removed from the General treasury and Social Security Trust funds from right here in South Carolina, how would you feel?
Would you wonder if that money was being used by politicians?
Would you wonder if that money was being used to finance terrorist operations and groups?
Would you wonder anything about it at all?

You need to worry and wonder.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If I were to tell you that large amounts of money were being removed from the General treasury and Social Security Trust funds from right here in South Carolina, how would you feel?<br />
Would you wonder if that money was being used by politicians?<br />
Would you wonder if that money was being used to finance terrorist operations and groups?<br />
Would you wonder anything about it at all?</p>
<p>You need to worry and wonder.</p>
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		<title>By: George Bush</title>
		<link>http://www.palmettoscoop.com/2008/09/18/paying-higher-taxes-is-patriotic/comment-page-1/#comment-209703</link>
		<dc:creator>George Bush</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Man, Biden was WAY off.  The real patriotic thing to do would be to add more to the national debt than all other Presidents in the the history of the United States combined.  Raise taxes on the rich while we&#039;re fighting two wars. . . ha.  What a dumb communist idea.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Man, Biden was WAY off.  The real patriotic thing to do would be to add more to the national debt than all other Presidents in the the history of the United States combined.  Raise taxes on the rich while we&#8217;re fighting two wars. . . ha.  What a dumb communist idea.</p>
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		<title>By: Randolph McEwin</title>
		<link>http://www.palmettoscoop.com/2008/09/18/paying-higher-taxes-is-patriotic/comment-page-1/#comment-209687</link>
		<dc:creator>Randolph McEwin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Speaking of shooting your mouth off at every stupid thought that comes through your head!

The IRS is a terrorist organization? If these are the comparisons we&#039;re going to throw around, then you&#039;re a facist, Hitler sympathizing jackass!

Additionally, you have a throughly punchable, fat moon of a face.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Speaking of shooting your mouth off at every stupid thought that comes through your head!</p>
<p>The IRS is a terrorist organization? If these are the comparisons we&#8217;re going to throw around, then you&#8217;re a facist, Hitler sympathizing jackass!</p>
<p>Additionally, you have a throughly punchable, fat moon of a face.</p>
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