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Um, you might want to really review the numbers - it was hardly "a
landslide."

I think I said 6% or so popular vote edge, EV would be a landslide, which is
defined as a plus-125 or better margin.
Damned close, actually......
Tom

On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:27:15 GMT, "Tom Littleton"
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Um, you might want to really review the numbers - it was hardly "a
landslide."

I think I said 6% or so popular vote edge, EV would be a landslide, which is
defined as a plus-125 or better margin.
Damned close, actually......
Tom


Hey, anyone can define "landslide" as they choose because there is no
real definition, but the numbers simply aren't in the range and
distribution to indicate what most objective observers would call "a
landslide" or even "a mandate." By all means, it was a clear victory,
which is a very good thing, but I'd not get carried away.

TC,
R

On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:26:07 GMT, "Tom Littleton"
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His supposed
choice of Rahm Emanuel for CoS doesn't bode well.

And there you are,
R

I might disagree, as Emmanuel will keep the more-liberal House of Reps in
line, as Obama develops his program.
It might work like this: Obama's team develops an initiative, ole Rahm
steers it though house intact(ie: without Pelosi et al ****ing it up), while
Biden shmoozes the Senate. This may prove a very successful approach, time
will tell.
Tom

It will. My fear of Emanuel is that he seems like a Tom Delay, just
working it from a different angle, but concerned solely about the same
thing...himself.

TC,
R

On Nov 7, 9:41*am, wrote:
On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:27:15 GMT, "Tom Littleton"
wrote:



wrote in message
.. .
Um, you might want to really review the numbers - it was hardly "a
landslide."

I think I said 6% or so popular vote edge, EV would be a landslide, which is
defined as a plus-125 or better margin.
Damned close, actually......
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Tom

Hey, anyone can define "landslide" as they choose because there is no
real definition, but the numbers simply aren't in the range and
distribution to indicate what most objective observers would call "a
landslide" or even "a mandate." *By all means, it was a clear victory,
which is a very good thing, but I'd not get carried away.

TC,
R

Oh I don't know that any of us are in a position to determine what
"most observers" would call it. But I do know that, in the lack of a
legal or even popular definition of what a 'landslide' is, your claim
that it is not one is as valid as anyone elses. Which is just how you
like it. :-)

--riverman
(By the way, I call it a 'landslide' AND a 'mandate'. Prove me wrong.
bseg)

On Nov 6, 5:43*pm, wrote:

It will. *My fear of Emanuel is that he seems like a Tom Delay, just
working it from a different angle, but concerned solely about the same
thing...himself.

TC,
R- Hide quoted text -

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Really? Tom Delay was indited for criminal acts. Delay and Abramoff
(currently in prison) were big buddies. Delay called the caged garment
workers on Saipan, a great capitalist experiment or something like
that. DeLay stole money from a fake youth charity to fund Republican
drunk-fests at the convention. DeLay set up the K Street project which
extorted millions from American and foreign businesses.

I don't recall you having any problems with DeLay's antics? Why would
you fear Emanuel, again?

Dave

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 01:02:07 -0800 (PST), DaveS
wrote:

On Nov 6, 5:43*pm, wrote:

It will. *My fear of Emanuel is that he seems like a Tom Delay, just
working it from a different angle, but concerned solely about the same
thing...himself.

TC,
R- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Really? Tom Delay was indited for criminal acts. Delay and Abramoff
(currently in prison) were big buddies. Delay called the caged garment
workers on Saipan, a great capitalist experiment or something like
that. DeLay stole money from a fake youth charity to fund Republican
drunk-fests at the convention. DeLay set up the K Street project which
extorted millions from American and foreign businesses.

I don't recall you having any problems with DeLay's antics? Why would
you fear Emanuel, again?

Then you don't recall very well. I've repeatedly called Delay a sorry
piece of **** and worse. The fact that I was and am against Ronnie
Earle and his equally-smarmy trumped-up politically-motivated criminal
prosecution is another matter.

HTH,
R

Dave

On Nov 7, 3:23*am, wrote:
On Nov 6, 5:43*pm, wrote:

It will. *My fear of Emanuel is that he seems like a Tom Delay, just
working it from a different angle, but concerned solely about the same
thing...himself.

Really? Tom Delay was indited for criminal acts. Delay and Abramoff
(currently in prison) were big buddies. Delay called the caged garment
workers on Saipan, a great capitalist experiment or something like
that. DeLay stole money from a fake youth charity to fund Republican
drunk-fests at the convention. DeLay set up the K Street project which
extorted millions from American and foreign businesses.

I don't recall you having any problems with DeLay's antics? Why would
you fear Emanuel, *again?

Then you don't recall very well. *I've repeatedly called Delay a sorry
piece of **** and worse. *The fact that I was and am against Ronnie
Earle and his equally-smarmy trumped-up politically-motivated criminal
prosecution is another matter.

HTH,
R

Sure, I can accept that, but given our shared disgust with DeLay, why
does Emanuel . . . "seem(s) like a Tom Delay, just working it from a
different angle, but concerned solely about the same
thing...himself."

I just do not see the analogy. I bet Ron Emanuel has had to sneak by
"K" street for the last few years, probably could not get by the armed
guards they had around the barb wired sweatshops on Saipan that pumped
Red Chinese money into the RNCs coffers, and hasn't been indited that
I know of.

Jeeese, if half the "conservatives" who gave their support to the
Bushies these last few years had any idea of how close to treason some
of their heroes danced these last few years, it would be the end of
the Trotsky wing of the Republican party.

Dave