cockamamie: ridiculous, pointless, or nonsensical: full of wild schemes and cockamamie ideas.
…as in John McCain on Joe Biden’s “…cockamamie idea of dividing Iraq into three countries…” for me was the highlight of last night’s debate. Not because the statement was truly relevant in times like these nor because it was debate time well spent. Rather, it was a glimmer that John McCain was finally going to go after Barack Obama on the issues that matter to conservatives.
Last night’s debate was certainly John McCain’s best effort, repleat with gritted teeth and his nervous ticks, criticizing Obama for his affinity for government spending and earmarks, a broken promise on campaign financing, his relationship with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and finally delivering the one-liners that McCain supporters have been waiting for like “I am not George Bush.”
The crowd at the AM1280 The Patriot event at Trocadero’s had many opportunities to stand in applause…and as many to shout at the screen in disagreement or disappointment when opportunities were fully grasped…or totally missed.
Missed were opportunities to talk extensively about effective strategies for growing our economy out of the current malaise, and hitting Obama harder for his far-left liberal record on a litany of issues (that should be) relevant to the American voter.
Alas, all Barrack needed to do was not lay an egg. As such, it was probably not the breakthrough McCain needed to sway the lion’s share of the undecideds he needs let alone dislodging any Obama supporters. Obama was calm, cool and never appeared defensive as he lied through his teeth to the American people.
So as a souvenir, I leave you…”Cockamamie”.
Good to see the conservatives have given up on winning and now embrace the goal of losing with ideological purity.
Bet you’ll spend the next four years arguing that McCain wasn’t conservativey enough. Maybe you’ll get Palin/Tancredo next time or Keyes/Voldemort and really have a shot at losing in a landslide. But at least it’ll be a conservative landslide.
Angryclown loves the smell of napalm in the morning.
“So as a souvenir, I leave you…”Cockamamie”. ”
I prefered “Senator Government”.
Yes! I was hoping McCain would take the opportunity to pay Biden back for his nasty cracks at the VP debate. And cockamamie is right. Apparently Mr. Biden never read any history about what happened when the great powers partitioned states in Africa or in the case of India/Pakistan/Bangladesh. All created tragedies of epic scale and even from a realist point of view were abject failures in containing violence and instability.
And Obama admited again that the Obama-Pelosi regime is going to put in judges who will rule in favor of liberal victim groups, not the law. McCain kind of called him on it, but not really.
Why does Barry hate my people?
Because you’re hateful.
There’s no hate like Clown hate.
Clownboy is a racist. And and and a hatefilled mob.
Joe the Plumber’s Crack… and Farmer Brown.
The difference between two philosophies:
One wants Joe to act like a man, help him and society by encouraging him to pull his own pants up. YEA JOE! Way to go!
The other wants to take Farmer Brown’s over-alls and give them to Plumber Joe, so we don’t have to stare at his crack. Poor Joe. Boo-hoo.
After all, Farmer Brown has two pairs of over-alls. He can wear his Sunday pair all the time.
And Plumber Joe won’t ever have to worry about pulling his own pants up….
If I were the moderator, I would have asked three questions:
1- Do either of you support the UN’s Small Arms Ban Treaty, and if so, why?
2- Do either of you think the Constitution is a “living document”, and will you pick “activist” Judges for the SCOTUS, and what is your definition of “activist Judge”?
3- What are the advantages of allowing Health Care companies to set up shop in states with lower regulation, thus lower care; and how does this relate to the McCain health care plan.
I admit the last question is loaded.
Obama’s Health Care Plan is better.
I would rather have McCain picking the SCOTUS Judges. Obama’s stand on that scares me. He is going to pick people who want to MAKE LAW, not determine the Constitutionality of Law.
Work on the street is Clown yelled “kill him” at the clown rally.
work. sigh. Word of course.
I really don’t understand how Obama’s healthcare plan will work. In fact, I don’t think it’s intended to. I think it’s intended to blow up the health insurance system so that either states or the federal government end up picking up the pieces. There aren’t enough people covered by large employers (This isn’t the 1960s where nearly everybody works for a big corporation.) And it will take a massive piece of legislation and federal overreach to be able to completely overrule all the state regulations currently in place. (i.e. you can charter all the health insurance companies you want in Delaware or Alabama but if 20 states still require a whole bunch of stuff for you to sell health insurance to it’s citizens, you won’t be doing business there. The current system is set up along state lines for that very reason. You’d have to dismantle that system first, which means, in the case of MN, dismantling a lot of the protections that Liberals in this state have fought to have in place over the last 20 odd years for some new federal standards that may in fact be weaker than ours.
Good luck with that. I sure hope it turns out well for us.
Actually, did everyone work in a large corporation back in the 1960s? My memory of the 1970s certainly indicates a lot more independent businesses, and a lot fewer big chains (say the local True Value instead of Home Depot, the local greasy spoon instead of Chez Mac), than today. I would have to assume that a lot of the growth in the S&P 500 has to do with this factor–larger market share than before for big business.
But that said, I do think that you’ve got a point; Obama’s plan makes no economic sense, and it’s hard to discern whether that’s simply typical Democratic ignorance of the dismal science, or whether they actually “get it” but are using a designed collapse to get to their goal. Hard to tell without a confession….
Back in the 60’s & 70’s and into the 80’s healthcare was relatively cheap. When I quit a big MN corporation ’85 I paid about $120/month to pick up my HMO on COBRA. This year my cost for healthcare is about eight times as much. That’s for two people, but still . . . in my state it would take about 40% of the max unemployment benefit just to keep my current plan going.
But, Terry, that was 1985 dollars, worth about twice as much as 2008 dollars, and it was for one person, not two. So adjusting for inflation and number, the real price may have about doubled.
Would you rather pay half as much for 1985-level medicine?
Just sayin’.