THE O'Bumma Thread - Original Vintage Edition

[ZiaAries]

Noting her kids are called Bristol Piper Willow Trig and Track, one metafilter poster wrote "Dear GOD! Vice Presidents don't get to NAME anything, do they?!"


Heh heh heh

....Sorry.

mog,

That's meant to be a funny joke, right? Will you translate for me. Pleeeeeease. You are on the other side of the Atlantic, and... I don't get it.

Indulge me. I'm sure I'll laugh if you tell me what it means.

[mogadishu]

Mea culpa.

[ZiaAries]

Mea culpa.

Huh?

un te? or un caffe?

la torta di frutta nah, not you.

My fault too. Pardon me.

[boingo]

A woman as VP pick. Ahhhh YES!!! I'm liking this.

Our deputy Prime Minister is a woman. She stepped up to become acting Prime Minister for a few weeks at the beginning of the year while our new PM was over-seas.
I believe it's important to have approximately equal numbers of men and women in certain jobs, such as politics, because we each have different issues of importance. Plus women's brains and men's brains do operate slightly differently.

What is an acting Prime Minister? Does that mean the PM was disabled from his/her position of power? Does "overseas" travel warrant the transfer of power?

NOTE: My question is to Boingo.

We've had a shift of power, for 2 - 4 hours only not long ago when a president was in surgery under anesthesia. I don't even remember which president it was. OMG, Was it Thomas Jefferson?

Just wondering why.

I'm not entirely sure how much control an acting Prime Minister has. I do know a Prime Minister doesn't have the same power as a President.
I don't think a Prime Minister has any control over the military either, which I think a President has, don't they?
Basically all I know is the PM was out of the country, so they announced on the news that Deputy PM, Julia Gillard, was acting PM while the actual PM was away.
Sorry I'm not much help with this.

[boingo]

What a load of bullshit...

You people should know better, who to ask..

In Australia, the "Commander in Chief" of the Army is the Governor General.
The Military's parliamentary boss is the Minister for Defence. The PM would go through the Minister.

The Australian Military has a top brass command that has the top officers from Army Navy and Air Force all in there, with their leadership rotating between the three services.


Julia Gillard has been "Acting PM" several times during this government - adds up to a few weeks when we have "effectively" had a female PM..

Obnoxiously yours,

How is anything I said "a load of bullshit"?
I said our PM doesn't have control of the military.

Why are you such an obnoxious prick all the time?

[mogadishu]

Mea culpa.

Huh?

un te? or un caffe?

la torta di frutta nah, not you.

My fault too. Pardon me.

O/T: Zia, that politician whose name it's no longer polite to mention in Democratic circles has apparently been kicked to the kerb by his wife!

[ZiaAries]

Mea culpa.

Huh?

un te? or un caffe?

la torta di frutta nah, not you.

My fault too. Pardon me.

O/T: Zia, that politician whose name it's no longer polite to mention in Democratic circles has apparently been kicked to the kerb by his wife!

OMG!!!

I'm getting more of my news from the forum than anywhere else.

I'm surprised but I shouldn't be. She is now taking flack from the media over here. People are not happy that she kept quiet and back him when he was in the run for Dem nominee. People feel she was disloyal to America. I can relate. I hate deception.

Thank mog for the News Break. What you wanna bet she knows it's his kid?

Dirty Bast@rd!

[myron myron]

Noting her kids are called Bristol Piper Willow Trig and Track, one metafilter poster wrote "Dear GOD! Vice Presidents don't get to NAME anything, do they?!"

Heh heh heh

....Sorry.

How about a President whose first name is "Barack" and whose middle name is "Hussein"?

[ZiaAries]

What a load of bullshit...

You people should know better, who to ask..

In Australia, the "Commander in Chief" of the Army is the Governor General.
The Military's parliamentary boss is the Minister for Defence. The PM would go through the Minister.

The Australian Military has a top brass command that has the top officers from Army Navy and Air Force all in there, with their leadership rotating between the three services.


Julia Gillard has been "Acting PM" several times during this government - adds up to a few weeks when we have "effectively" had a female PM..

Obnoxiously yours,

How is anything I said "a load of bullshit"?
I said our PM doesn't have control of the military.

Why are you such an obnoxious prick all the time?

Thanks boingo. My question was to you, and it never fails that 'someone' has to rudely show disrespect.


boingo, I didn't know all that. I'm learning about Australia! Yep-pee!! And.... Thank you for being a gentleman too. That is a trait I appreciate.

[Cambridge]

John McCain picks Sarah Palin as his VP candidate, to win over the hillary democrats. A maverick picks a maverick. Turns the attention away from obama.

If McCain thinks his vp choice will draw Hilary supporters he's wrong and it's more proof how out of touch he is..................

This woman is likable but seems to be a right wing zealot that few Hilaryites wud ever vote for .....................

I disagree.
A lot of women were for Hillary just because she is a woman.
Just like blacks are for Obama just because he's black!
Which will be proven when all the race riots break out when Obama loses!

Okay, can anyone be so naive as to say that the issue of Hillary is about being a women? What about the issues of women? What about the concerns of women. No wonder you don’t get laid hairy-back, you understand women like you understand frogs.

Sarah is so anti-abortion that I thought she was a mormon (originally from Idaho, one of the three great mormon states). But I was wrong. She is Catholic. So she’s the real woman’s candidate, eh hairy-back? See, you evaluate women like you evaluate gays: dumb, dumber and dumbest. Only, so many of them have it all over you.

[ZiaAries]

John McCain picks Sarah Palin as his VP candidate, to win over the hillary democrats. A maverick picks a maverick. Turns the attention away from obama.

If McCain thinks his vp choice will draw Hilary supporters he's wrong and it's more proof how out of touch he is..................

This woman is likable but seems to be a right wing zealot that few Hilaryites wud ever vote for .....................

I disagree.
A lot of women were for Hillary just because she is a woman.
Just like blacks are for Obama just because he's black!
Which will be proven when all the race riots break out when Obama loses!

Okay, can anyone be so naive as to say that the issue of Hillary is about being a women? What about the issues of women? What about the concerns of women. No wonder you don’t get laid hairy-back, you understand women like you understand frogs.

Sarah is so anti-abortion that I thought she was a mormon (originally from Idaho, one of the three great mormon states). But I was wrong. She is Catholic. So she’s the real woman’s candidate, eh hairy-back? See, you evaluate women like you evaluate gays: dumb, dumber and dumbest. Only, so many of them have it all over you.

Not all women all pro-choice. So far, people I've talked too seem to like the fact that she has 5 children and can still be superwoman. I don't see a female that's for pro-life is a negative.

I'm surprised by her young age to be where she is now. And.... she's pretty. That part is surprising for me too and for reasons I'm not sure of.

If they win, I can see Julia Louis Dreyfus spoofing her on SNL.

[Cambridge]

John McCain picks Sarah Palin as his VP candidate, to win over the hillary democrats. A maverick picks a maverick. Turns the attention away from obama.

If McCain thinks his vp choice will draw Hilary supporters he's wrong and it's more proof how out of touch he is..................

This woman is likable but seems to be a right wing zealot that few Hilaryites wud ever vote for .....................

I disagree.
A lot of women were for Hillary just because she is a woman.
Just like blacks are for Obama just because he's black!
Which will be proven when all the race riots break out when Obama loses!

Okay, can anyone be so naive as to say that the issue of Hillary is about being a women? What about the issues of women? What about the concerns of women. No wonder you don’t get laid hairy-back, you understand women like you understand frogs.

Sarah is so anti-abortion that I thought she was a mormon (originally from Idaho, one of the three great mormon states). But I was wrong. She is Catholic. So she’s the real woman’s candidate, eh hairy-back? See, you evaluate women like you evaluate gays: dumb, dumber and dumbest. Only, so many of them have it all over you.

Not all women all pro-choice. So far, people I've talked too seem to like the fact that she has 5 children and can still be superwoman. I don't see a female that's for pro-life is a negative.

I'm surprised by her young age to be where she is now. And.... she's pretty. That part is surprising for me too and for reasons I'm not sure of.

If they win, I can see Julia Louis Dreyfus spoofing her on SNL.

Ya know, I think she's an excellant choice. My friends from the pub think I thinking with my C*** (can you say that?). I believe she's a beautiful, graceful woman. I'm not thinking with any organ. I'm thinking that she is just what the Republicans need, new blood and a strong woman, at that. She's way weak on experience, going from a mayor to president, but just like Obama, she deserves a chance (Um, you all know that I believe that she will be president by 2012).

Her husband is a fisherman...I gather trout from the lakes of the northwest. But if he wants to sleep by the campsite that's allright with me. That's better than Bubba wandering the halls of the West Wing.

[boingo]

What a load of bullshit...

You people should know better, who to ask..

In Australia, the "Commander in Chief" of the Army is the Governor General.
The Military's parliamentary boss is the Minister for Defence. The PM would go through the Minister.

The Australian Military has a top brass command that has the top officers from Army Navy and Air Force all in there, with their leadership rotating between the three services.


Julia Gillard has been "Acting PM" several times during this government - adds up to a few weeks when we have "effectively" had a female PM..

Obnoxiously yours,

How is anything I said "a load of bullshit"?
I said our PM doesn't have control of the military.

Why are you such an obnoxious prick all the time?

Thanks boingo. My question was to you, and it never fails that 'someone' has to rudely show disrespect.


boingo, I didn't know all that. I'm learning about Australia! Yep-pee!! And.... Thank you for being a gentleman too. That is a trait I appreciate.

Thank you Zia. You make me blush.
As a lady, you deserve to be treated with the utmost respect too.
I've been trying to find where I put my copy of the state constitution, in case there's anything in there that can help me later on. I'll have a good fossick for it today.
(BTW "fossick" is an informal Australian/NZ word meaning to rummage or search)

[ZiaAries]

To Cambridge: She went from Mayor to Governor to VP running mate. She has executive experience which Obama does not.

Hey, I don't have one of those "organs" to think with, I'm straight, and I think she is beautiful and graceful too. I see her as a superwoman too. And you got it.... "fresh, new and strong."

[Cambridge]

Yeah, thanx zia. I think we are in ultimate agreement here. If I didn’t detest the republican platform, I would say …go for it…we need fresh, bright, new stars in politics. She’s one.

She has executive experience, and not geopolitical experience. Here’s the only thing I'm going to say about her that might be negative: we like to talk about a VP who is a heartbeat away from the ultimate job. But, given McCain, it is almost a certainty that she will be president (if he is elected) before 2012. Now, I like her, but she’s a little bit too unseasoned for this role. I’d love to see her run in 2016.

But right now we’ve got a war, a reputation in the international community that ranks below Attila the Hun, and an economy that has been so trashed by the current administration that we stand on the brink of depression…forget recession. I’d like to see someone who has at least been addressing federal-level questions, go into that position. I mean, she was a city councilwoman just a few months ago.

PS: hey, I like thinking with the ole “organ.” Why is your avatar a naked woman, if you don't?