In a revealing slip in an interview with ABC recently, Mr. Obama said, “If we’re going to ask questions about who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily.“

Yeah, you convinced me you’re interested in intelligent discussion.

This may come as a shock to you, but I’m not a conservative, I don’t listen to Rush, Hannity, et. al., I think Bill O’Reilly is an obnoxious jerk, and Ann Coulter is deliberately provocative because she knows she gets under liberals’ skins. (I’ve also never heard her speak nor have I read anything that she’s written.)

More to the point, however, you wrote “I finally did see Sarah Palin’s interview on U-tube. That really is a shame, I mean what a bimbo. Doesn’t know anything about Georgia and Russia (as we all know Georgia first attacked) but she appears to be ready to defend a ‘NATO ally’.”

First, the claim that Sarah Palin is a “bimbo” can only have come from a liberal. It’s purely a liberal talking point promulgated by Andrew Sullivan and Daily Kos and Huffington Post and other slime holes like them. For you to repeat the claim belies your fraudulent claim to being a conservative.

Second, you display a profound ignorance by stating “she appears to be ready to defend a ‘NATO ally’.” First of all, the NATO treaty obligates the US to defend the member states of NATO when called upon. (Although the behavior of NATO allies in Afghanistan strains the terms of the treaty excessively.) Secondly, the member states of NATO are often called ‘NATO allies’, but your derisive use of the term (characterized by the scare quotes) is another liberal talking point. Ooow, she called them allies. She doesn’t realize they’re members.

Finally, the use of the phrase “as we all now” belies a certainty about events that typically comes from a liberal mouth these days. “As we all know, the Swiftboat vets were proven wrong.” “As we all know, McCain’s ad about sex education is a lie.” Of course, we don’t all know that, and some of us have actually looked at the facts and concluded the opposite.

The least you can do, if you’re going to lie, is not be so transparent about it. And yes, I AM accusing you of being a liar. And a liberal sock puppet as well.

“The subprime mortgage mess we find ourselves in is because of the regulatory policies of the Clinton administration that Bush was unable to get Congress to change.”

I’m sorry, but I don’t believe one word of that. Congress gave Bush everything he wanted except Harriet Miers. You’re telling me that George Bush predicted this, tried to change it, and his own Republican congress denied him? I have read absolutely nothing to that effect.

“I wonder how independent you really are with your obvious disdain for conservatives and our worldview. Maybe you have just as much disdain for liberals and that makes you independent?”

Sometimes I have a hard time articulating my feelings about conservatism. To me, conservatism means: healthy distrust of government, sound fiscal responsibility, strong belief in liberty, property rights, and staunch privacy advocates. It is limited government that serves the people as best it can.

So called conservatives have had nearly complete and total domination of the United States government for eight years. Your so called worldview isn’t exactly what I’ve seen. Quite the opposite really.

The past eight years have taught me that my view of conservatism is about as opposite as you can get to what the Republicans have given us.

When the Republican party does not act conservative, it’s members tend to say, “I’m a conservative, I don’t know why they’re spending so much money, etc.” I can’t stand that. If you’re a Republican, then you’re supposed to be a conservative. Act like it.

I view government regulation of business like I view building codes. Almost every rule in building code is there, literally, because someone died or lost everything when it wasn’t. The codes are there to prevent loss of life and money. For the most part, the codes are not unreasonable. They make sense, and following the codes will give you a structure that you can make reasonable assumptions about and expect that it will not fail. Note, I said reasonable, not stupid.

I think that business should be regulated in the same reasonable and intelligent way. When it becomes possible to gain a sales commission on a loan you have no stake in, a loan that basically requires only a signature and a smile from the borrower to get approval - then you’re screwed.

To me, it is unreasonable to blame the Democrats for this. Nor do I blame Republicans for that matter. I believe that greed is fairly non partisan. I could be wrong though.

Now to the point of Russia and other things. Russia has had imperialistic ambitions ever since it grew out of tiny Viking settlements on the Volga hundreds of years ago.
In this case they wanted to show who is boss in that region and of course waited or the wrong move by the Georgians (which they did). Can’t really imagine you really believe there were no Georgian soldiers on the move.
Anyway, for some reading that I pretty much agree with here is some for interested parties.

http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/sep/22/00006/

The subprime mortgage mess we find ourselves in is because of the regulatory policies of the Clinton administration that Bush was unable to get Congress to change.

I wonder how independent you really are with your obvious disdain for conservatives and our worldview. Maybe you have just as much disdain for liberals and that makes you independent?

As for the difference between pro-corporation and pro-freemarket: bailing out failed companies is ‘pro-corporation’, letting the incompetent die is pro-freemarket. I am also not a fan of corporate socialism as you aptly call it - but neither do I believe that intelligent regulation is the gold-standard we should be striving for. As long as government has a heavy hand in regulation it will always decay towards less intelligent regulation. There’s too many idiots and socialists in government for it not to.

South Ossetia ‘leaders’ spent most of their time in Moscow. And they have a strange reluctance for real independence…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079843/posts

I thought paleo-cons were at least smart in their cynicism, and not dumb fools for the KGB/Putin/Pravda propoganda machine.

I’ve done a great deal of homework on this one. You might want to do the same.”

I guess your homework hasn’t extended to learning that the Georgia Govt has recorded radio and telephone messages proving that the Russians set this whole thing up and had moved armor prior to the hostilities. Also, the timeline proves the Russians were preparing this for weeks prior. You dont suddenly have two divisions in a foreign country within 2 hours of a miniscule firing of a few artillery shells and call it self-defense.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/9/17/worldupdates/2008-09-16T235753Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-355061-1&sec=Worldupdates

Georgia produced telephone intercepts on Tuesday it said proved Russian armour entered Georgia hours before the start of a Georgian attack that Moscow said forced it to send in its troops.