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#1 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:44 am

Is that McCain's new motto?

Sounds fascist.

Deutschland über alles!
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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#2 Post by gsabc » Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:44 am

Disco second?
I just ordered chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know.
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#3 Post by TheCalvinator24 » Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:52 am

Bob Juch wrote:Is that McCain's new motto?

Sounds fascist.

Deutschland über alles!
You're mixing your metaphors. Italy was fascist. Germany was nationalist.

What else should the President consider his first priority?
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#4 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:58 am

TheCalvinator24 wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:Is that McCain's new motto?

Sounds fascist.

Deutschland über alles!
You're mixing your metaphors. Italy was fascist. Germany was nationalist.

What else should the President consider his first priority?
The people of this country.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.

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#5 Post by Appa23 » Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:05 am

Bob Juch wrote:
TheCalvinator24 wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:Is that McCain's new motto?

Sounds fascist.

Deutschland über alles!
You're mixing your metaphors. Italy was fascist. Germany was nationalist.

What else should the President consider his first priority?
The people of this country.
I had to laugh at the point in Obama's speech last night when Obama gave the line "It is not about me, but about you." Right at that point of the speech, the DNC feed gave a shot of "www.barackobama.com" on one of the stadium's electronic scoreboards. Talk about the visual negating the point. :)
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#6 Post by TheCalvinator24 » Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:07 am

Bob Juch wrote:
TheCalvinator24 wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:Is that McCain's new motto?

Sounds fascist.

Deutschland über alles!
You're mixing your metaphors. Italy was fascist. Germany was nationalist.

What else should the President consider his first priority?
The people of this country.
You need a refresher on your grammar school Civics. The people are this country.

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#7 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:11 am

TheCalvinator24 wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:
TheCalvinator24 wrote: You're mixing your metaphors. Italy was fascist. Germany was nationalist.

What else should the President consider his first priority?
The people of this country.
You need a refresher on your grammar school Civics. The people are this country.

"We the People . . ."
That's the way it's supposed to be, but every time a Republican talks about "country" they talk about dying or making other sacrifices for it. What they really mean is doing that for the fat cats.
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#8 Post by Jeemie » Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:14 am

Bob Juch wrote:Is that McCain's new motto?

Sounds fascist.

Deutschland über alles!
Yeah- well, whose visual imagery more matches this?

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#9 Post by mellytu74 » Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:22 am

Jeemie wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:Is that McCain's new motto?

Sounds fascist.

Deutschland über alles!
Yeah- well, whose visual imagery more matches this?

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How about this?

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#10 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:25 am

Bob Juch wrote:Is that McCain's new motto?

Sounds fascist.

Deutschland über alles!
Personally, I thought it sounded Soviet.
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#11 Post by admanvii » Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:58 pm

I thought it was his choice of music genre
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#12 Post by dodgersteve182 » Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:49 am

Maybe United States first or America first or US Leadership or American Leadership.
A lot of the world's problems are caused by the Rogue nations only thinking of themselves first and foremost! :evil:
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#13 Post by etaoin22 » Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:09 am

In "Country First" I detect a bit of a joke by a navy man, on the West Point (army) motto "Duty, Honor, Country".


And all the other things probably there and intended.

Except for Bob's original comment, and there is a bit of an unintended similarity, though probably only a bit, as while "Reich" is usually translated as realm, or empire, rather than country, the sense in the infamous Hitler motto is probably closer to "country", or "one country": ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer"
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#14 Post by peacock2121 » Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:14 am

Linear priorities can bite you in the butt.
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#15 Post by wintergreen48 » Mon Sep 01, 2008 12:05 pm

Bob Juch wrote:Is that McCain's new motto?

Sounds fascist.

Deutschland über alles!
Yes, it's typical right wing claptrap. Conservatives keep coming up with stuff like that, like 'Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.' Have to watch out for that. Anything thinking person knows that the best motto is 'Me First' or 'What's in it for Me?'
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#16 Post by ne1410s » Mon Sep 01, 2008 12:08 pm

Anything thinking person knows that the best motto is 'Me First' or 'What's in it for Me?'
Ah, the motto of Dubya's administration. It has a certain lilt to it.
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