yaledelay wrote:...lets just say I have a learning disabilty and leave it at that. Because I can not spell many people assume I am un-intelligent, however anyone who has met me will find me to be a highly intellegent life form, and I am very good at speaking, just not good a the written word...

It's ok, baby. I have a mathematics learning disability. I have "trouble retaining math facts." Good thing I wanted a BFA anyway.

Lazybones wrote:

yaledelay wrote:...lets just say I have a learning disabilty and leave it at that. Because I can not spell many people assume I am un-intelligent, however anyone who has met me will find me to be a highly intellegent life form, and I am very good at speaking, just not good a the written word...

It's ok, baby. I have a mathematics learning disability. I have "trouble retaining math facts." Good thing I wanted a BFA anyway.

AHHHHH, I have a degree in advertising and work in that field and am happy with it... my "disability" really only effects me when I am writing things quickly and not thinking about... basically I have a form a dyslexia that make me jumble certain shapes in my brain, ones and zeros, Is Os Us are really bad. The only course in school it effected me in really was Acounting and basically I could tell you how to do everything, I just couldn't do it myself...

and yes I know there is a spell check button, I however forget to use it most of the time, I do however get mad when people assume people are unitellegent because they can not spell, when the two are relatively exclusive things...

i'm proud to say i stood next to this man at a UAW Family Picnic and handed out bumper stickers for a couple of hours last fall. i voted for him, too, but getting to talk to him and handing out bumper stickers with him was way cooler.

he makes me proud to live in Wisconsin.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

yaledelay wrote:SAULT!

I would not see a band called "SAULT!".

However, I would like to live in Sault.

Sault en Provence!

It looks inviting!

Trust me, they wouldn't want you.

Senator Feingold seems much more relevent than when this thread was posted.

This, I think, was an important post/point in the first place. The poster has yet to receive receive a glint to suggest that his point was taken.

cowtown14 wrote:Senator Feingold seems much more relevent than when this thread was posted.

You mean three days ago?

He's slowly become more relevent since his was the lone dissenting vote on the PATRIOT Act in 2001, and much more relevent since Election '04, that is for sure.

how about his possible presidential bid? a lot of people have said his jewish-ness and divorced-ness will affect his ability to run. personally, i'm not so sure about this.

the last election was so divided (the coasts vs. the mainland, north vs. south) that i think as long as the democrats can hold on to the west coast, the northern midwest, new england and the mid-atlantic, and just add one or two other states (ohio being the obvious one; colorado and/or arizona also look promising), and they'd be good to go. i, for one, think feingold could swing that (pun intended).

any thoughts? agreement? dissent?

instant_zen wrote:how about his possible presidential bid? a lot of people have said his jewish-ness and divorced-ness will affect his ability to run. personally, i'm not so sure about this.

the last election was so divided (the coasts vs. the mainland, north vs. south) that i think as long as the democrats can hold on to the west coast, the northern midwest, new england and the mid-atlantic, and just add one or two other states (ohio being the obvious one; colorado and/or arizona also look promising), and they'd be good to go. i, for one, think feingold could swing that (pun intended).

any thoughts? agreement? dissent?

as much as I would love to see it happen, I don't think he could win, I think the Dems would be smart to run someone from the West Coast or a Southern Democrat... I would love it if they put Feingold on as a VP though...

instant_zen wrote:how about his possible presidential bid? a lot of people have said his jewish-ness and divorced-ness will affect his ability to run. personally, i'm not so sure about this.

the last election was so divided (the coasts vs. the mainland, north vs. south) that i think as long as the democrats can hold on to the west coast, the northern midwest, new england and the mid-atlantic, and just add one or two other states (ohio being the obvious one; colorado and/or arizona also look promising), and they'd be good to go. i, for one, think feingold could swing that (pun intended).

any thoughts? agreement? dissent?

Right after Election '04 i was so depressed i didn't think anyone in the country would ever take to someone like Feingold. Now, though, if the political climate change happening continues, i may be able to (gladly) change my mind.

Really, it's all about how his strengths can be spun to appeal to the middle:

-He's socially liberal, but fiscally conservative (Republicans will likely try to spin him into a "tax and spend liberal" as he has often voted for tax increases, but his office is notoriously frugal and has returned over $50,000 in raises to the US Treasury).

-He is a moderate on gun issues, respecting the 2nd Amendment but voting for "common sense" protections like trigger locks and waiting periods.

-He practiced what he preached in 1998, pledging to not spend any soft money in his campaign, asked liberal groups to not run ads for him, and only spend $3.8 million on re-election (one dollar for every Wisconsinite).

-In 2004, he not only carried every Wisconsin county that went for Kerry, he carried most of the ones that went for Bush too. Conservatives in Wisconsin respect the man.

These are the kinds of things that will need to be stressed. I'm hoping that whatever Republican candidate runs in '08 doesn't hire Karl Rove as a campaign advisor, because i don't doubt that snake would be able to figure out a way to turn that stuff into liabilities.

Standing up to the president when he is at the lowest point of his presidency seems more like the opposite of courage. Feingold was courageous as the only dissenting voice when the legislation was originally passed.

The NSA listening to int'l phone calls is very strange. Normally, all the president or anyone at the Justice Department or intelligence and law enforcement agencies has to do is go to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA after the act authorizing its creation), and provide some justification far less than probable cause. Since its creation in 1978, the FISA court has never, not once, turned down a request. The executive orders allowing NSA to listen in on communications fall under FISA jurisdiction. It seems like a duplication of powers since the FISA court has never really served as an impediment to intelligence and law enforcement investigations.