I’m with Kevin. Political Wire asked each candidate the old trope about one thing they would want a desert Island, eliciting the usual answers of family and books.
They all lied, although Tancredo and Huckabee came closest to telling the truth. The correct answer is clearly “rescue”.
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Tlaloc
people are acting like that answer is unexpected, don’t any of you have smart asses for friends?
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Face
OT–Can someone explain this paragraph to me? Thanks:
The situation has Democratic lawmakers in a difficult position. Because they control the House and Senate, the pressure is mainly on them to craft a bill that Bush will sign, and thus avoid accusations that they failed to finance troops in a time of war.
Why is it the onus on Congress to give the Executive everything it wants? Why is the “difficult position” Congress’ and not on Bush, who keeps nixing the very money and support Congress is trying repeatedly to supply?
Isn’t this like saying, “It’s up to the wife to please her husband in every way, lest she be accused of failing to support the marriage”? WTF is up with these reporters? How do they reach such conclusions?
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Bubblegum Tate
OT, but funny: Conservatives to set up their own YouTube. Why? Because of YouTube’s “liberal bias,” of course. Conservatives sound more and more like Seinfeld‘s Uncle Leo, who blamed every single little thing he didn’t like on anti-Semitism. Only the Uncle Leo character was intended to be funny; these people…not so much.
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Bubblegum Tate
Isn’t this like saying, “It’s up to the wife to please her husband in every way, lest she be accused of failing to support the marriage”?
Yes, it is–and any good “traditional values” conservative will tell you that it IS up to the wife to please her husband in every way. That’s how marriage works, dammit!
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Third Eye Open
Where can I find me one of them “eager to please” wives?
The mail order brides I keep getting always seem to just want a green-card
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Pb
WTF is up with these reporters?
That quote isn’t from a reporter–it’s pure editorialization, coupled with a veiled threat insofar as it telegraphs what (Republican-supporting) editorializations they’ll be ‘reporting’ next if the Democratic lawmakers don’t do X Y Z…
How do they reach such conclusions?
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair
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Mary
Did Obama just call his wife and kids inanimate objects? Oh noes!
If you had a boat, you wouldn’t be stranded, like the question asked.
Ah, but the question asked if you were stranded, what would you want to have. The logical answer being “to not be stranded.” Unless, I guess, you like being stranded on a dessert island. And you would, you stupid liberal.
Of course, the super correct answer would have been “Jesus”.
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McMartin
Mmm. Dessert.
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Zifnab
Ways that response could have been funnier.
# John Edwards: “A book.” “My wife, Elizabeth.”
# Rep. Dennis Kucinich: His wife, Elizabeth.
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Punchy
Unless, I guess, you like being stranded on a dessert island
Is this a remote mound of chocolate in the South Pacific…surely inhabited by lots of women and plenty of acne?
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raff
demimondian & Zifnab, you’re misreading the question. It’s what item would you want if stranded. I don’t think either “rescue” or “not to be stranded” are technically items.
I thought Tancredo’s answer was clever, but surely someone has used that answer before… it’s not like this is the first time someone has posited the ‘stranded on an island’ scenario.
Huckabee’s answer (a laptop with a satellite hookup) was at least original & semi-practical, but unless you have The Professor along with you to rig up an exercycle-powered generator out of bamboo & coconut shells, you’re stranded with a paper weight after 4 hours.
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The Other Steve
Isn’t this like saying, “It’s up to the wife to please her husband in every way, lest she be accused of failing to support the marriage”?
So what you’re saying… is Democrats aren’t giving Bush enough sex?
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tBone
OT, but funny: Conservatives to set up their own YouTube.
That should work out about as well as Conservapedia.
I’d like to suggest that the 28 Percenters build their own hermetically-sealed habitat where they can await the Rapture in peace, free from the corrosive effects of the real world. Crawford, TX seems like a perfect spot for it.
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AkaDad
I’d want a nymphomaniac…
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Rome Again
Where can I find me one of them “eager to please” wives Significant Others?
The mail order brides I keep getting always seem to just want a green-card
Sorry, I’m taken, and I didn’t need a green card either. ;)
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Krista
Unless, I guess, you like being stranded on a dessert island.
Mmmmm….pudding.
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raff
Unless, I guess, you like being stranded on a dessert island.
Extra ‘s’ typo aside, is it possible to have a desert island in the middle of a body of water?
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Steve
It seems to me that once someone has said “my wife” or “my family,” you come across as an ass if you say anything else. I mean, I can imagine my wife’s reaction if I said I wanted a laptop.
I’m shocked, by the way, that there hasn’t been 10 pages of psychoanalysis on the fact that Hillary said something other than “my husband.” Then again, perhaps I should check Redstate.
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Pb
If I were stranded on a desert island, I hope I wouldn’t be enough of a dick to wish that my S/O be stranded there too… Maybe I could take one for the team and take Dubya along with me. Or, barring that, how about wishing for a nearby continent…
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rachel
Extra ’s’ typo aside, is it possible to have a desert island in the middle of a body of water?
2. A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population,
but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a
wilderness; a solitary place.
[1913 Webster
]
Yes.
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Pb
is it possible to have a desert island in the middle of a body of water?
Is there any other kind?
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Zifnab
Is there any other kind?
There’s the kind made out of pudding.
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curtadams
Isn’t it kind of warped to want your wife along? I’d like to have my husband, but not enough to have him stranded on a desert isle too! As much as I enjoy his companionship, I’d rather he be safe at home.
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droog
It’s not so smart when you realize Tom will use the boat to patrol his territorial waters.
I’m pretty sure that the correct answer is Evangeline Lilly.
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ATS
Were I Tancredo I’d opt for new set of frontal lobes. The White House crowd, in turn, would have to settle for opposed thumbs and bifocal vision.
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rbl
droog Says:
It’s not so smart when you realize Tom will use the boat to patrol his territorial waters.
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Andrew Says:
I’m pretty sure that the correct answer is Evangeline Lilly.
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Man, two really awesome posts in a row. Both would have led to monitor sprayage if I had not finished my coffee about four posts earlier.
Well done.
*goes back to lurking in a corner*
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demimondian
They all lied, although Tancredo and Huckabee came closest to telling the truth. The correct answer is clearly “rescue”.
Tlaloc
people are acting like that answer is unexpected, don’t any of you have smart asses for friends?
Face
OT–Can someone explain this paragraph to me? Thanks:
Why is it the onus on Congress to give the Executive everything it wants? Why is the “difficult position” Congress’ and not on Bush, who keeps nixing the very money and support Congress is trying repeatedly to supply?
Isn’t this like saying, “It’s up to the wife to please her husband in every way, lest she be accused of failing to support the marriage”? WTF is up with these reporters? How do they reach such conclusions?
Bubblegum Tate
OT, but funny: Conservatives to set up their own YouTube. Why? Because of YouTube’s “liberal bias,” of course. Conservatives sound more and more like Seinfeld‘s Uncle Leo, who blamed every single little thing he didn’t like on anti-Semitism. Only the Uncle Leo character was intended to be funny; these people…not so much.
Bubblegum Tate
Yes, it is–and any good “traditional values” conservative will tell you that it IS up to the wife to please her husband in every way. That’s how marriage works, dammit!
Third Eye Open
Where can I find me one of them “eager to please” wives?
The mail order brides I keep getting always seem to just want a green-card
Pb
That quote isn’t from a reporter–it’s pure editorialization, coupled with a veiled threat insofar as it telegraphs what (Republican-supporting) editorializations they’ll be ‘reporting’ next if the Democratic lawmakers don’t do X Y Z…
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair
Mary
Did Obama just call his wife and kids inanimate objects? Oh noes!
Vladi G
If you had a boat, you wouldn’t be stranded, like the question asked.
Jimmmm
Were I stranded on a desert isle, I’d want Kucinich’s wife, too:
http://www.monetary.org/elizabeth.JPG
http://www.ejntoxicated.com/images/peacewalk/chums.jpg
Zifnab
Ah, but the question asked if you were stranded, what would you want to have. The logical answer being “to not be stranded.” Unless, I guess, you like being stranded on a dessert island. And you would, you stupid liberal.
Of course, the super correct answer would have been “Jesus”.
McMartin
Mmm. Dessert.
Zifnab
Ways that response could have been funnier.
Punchy
Is this a remote mound of chocolate in the South Pacific…surely inhabited by lots of women and plenty of acne?
raff
demimondian & Zifnab, you’re misreading the question. It’s what item would you want if stranded. I don’t think either “rescue” or “not to be stranded” are technically items.
I thought Tancredo’s answer was clever, but surely someone has used that answer before… it’s not like this is the first time someone has posited the ‘stranded on an island’ scenario.
Huckabee’s answer (a laptop with a satellite hookup) was at least original & semi-practical, but unless you have The Professor along with you to rig up an exercycle-powered generator out of bamboo & coconut shells, you’re stranded with a paper weight after 4 hours.
The Other Steve
So what you’re saying… is Democrats aren’t giving Bush enough sex?
tBone
That should work out about as well as Conservapedia.
I’d like to suggest that the 28 Percenters build their own hermetically-sealed habitat where they can await the Rapture in peace, free from the corrosive effects of the real world. Crawford, TX seems like a perfect spot for it.
AkaDad
I’d want a nymphomaniac…
Rome Again
Sorry, I’m taken, and I didn’t need a green card either. ;)
Krista
Mmmmm….pudding.
raff
Extra ‘s’ typo aside, is it possible to have a desert island in the middle of a body of water?
Steve
It seems to me that once someone has said “my wife” or “my family,” you come across as an ass if you say anything else. I mean, I can imagine my wife’s reaction if I said I wanted a laptop.
I’m shocked, by the way, that there hasn’t been 10 pages of psychoanalysis on the fact that Hillary said something other than “my husband.” Then again, perhaps I should check Redstate.
Pb
If I were stranded on a desert island, I hope I wouldn’t be enough of a dick to wish that my S/O be stranded there too… Maybe I could take one for the team and take Dubya along with me. Or, barring that, how about wishing for a nearby continent…
rachel
]
Yes.
Pb
Is there any other kind?
Zifnab
There’s the kind made out of pudding.
curtadams
Isn’t it kind of warped to want your wife along? I’d like to have my husband, but not enough to have him stranded on a desert isle too! As much as I enjoy his companionship, I’d rather he be safe at home.
droog
It’s not so smart when you realize Tom will use the boat to patrol his territorial waters.
Andrew
I’m pretty sure that the correct answer is Evangeline Lilly.
ATS
Were I Tancredo I’d opt for new set of frontal lobes. The White House crowd, in turn, would have to settle for opposed thumbs and bifocal vision.
rbl
Man, two really awesome posts in a row. Both would have led to monitor sprayage if I had not finished my coffee about four posts earlier.
Well done.
*goes back to lurking in a corner*