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Old 10-06-2008, 02:51 PM   #121
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If not in ethics.
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Old 10-06-2008, 03:32 PM   #122
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Doesn't really matter. McCain is leaps and bounds above Obama in knowledge and experience... and he is running for President.
I'd rather bet on character and intent.

Here's an interesting fact:

Abe Lincoln served in the Illinois state legislature and then served a single term in the U.S. House before being elected to the presidency.

I think he turned out ok.
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Old 10-06-2008, 03:54 PM   #123
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Not after the play.....
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Old 10-06-2008, 04:18 PM   #124
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Old 10-06-2008, 06:08 PM   #125
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Not after the play.....
Right.

Then we get President Palin.



Where is your puny god to protect you now?
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Old 10-06-2008, 06:26 PM   #126
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...I knew Abe Lincoln and Obama is no Abe Lincoln...
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Old 10-06-2008, 06:43 PM   #127
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Has McCain used that one yet?
nah, he's waiting for someone to compare obama to noah or something, lincoln's one of them new-fangled politicians...
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Old 10-06-2008, 06:51 PM   #128
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Old 10-06-2008, 07:24 PM   #129
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...I knew Abe Lincoln and Obama is no Abe Lincoln...
Cute.

But I still think it shows that the 'experience' thing isn't a real issue.
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Old 10-06-2008, 07:32 PM   #130
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Because there is one exception to the rule? Who do you want performing surgery on you an intern or an experienced surgeon?
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Old 10-06-2008, 08:15 PM   #131
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Because there is one exception to the rule? Who do you want performing surgery on you an intern or an experienced surgeon?

depends if the surgeou has shaky hands and/or senile dementia...
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Old 10-06-2008, 09:59 PM   #132
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Old 10-06-2008, 10:49 PM   #133
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what? you don't read many medical detective novels? It's always the venerated surgeon who operates after his hands start shaking that did it... and everyone tries to cover up because they feel sorry for or loyal to him....
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Old 10-06-2008, 11:53 PM   #134
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Old 10-07-2008, 05:36 AM   #135
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I think you mean Diagnosis Murder.
Although thinking about it, Dick Van Dyke does a lot more chatting and trotting about and having people try to kill him than any real medical procedures. Probably because he knows he's "venerated" enough to botch it.

Venerated does mean old and creaky, doesn't it?
(I do know what it means really. Incontinent.)
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