Re: Sarah Palin - hot or not?

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:06:27 -0700 (PDT), mpm <mpmillard@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sep 4, 11:50?am, John Larkin
<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:41:42 -0700 (PDT), mpm <mpmill...@xxxxxxx>
wrote:



As for McCain's POW stay at the Hanoi Hilton - I really wish the
Republicans would drop that.
IT HAS NO BEARING WHATSOEVER on whether he'd be a good President.

The way he behaved has bearing. Gore and Kerry both played up their
"military experience", which was a sick joke.

McCain was sorely tested, and he showed he's not a coward. The
Presidency is important, and one lesson I've learned is that you can
never trust a coward.

I also have a really good friend with a MIT double-doctorate who can't
even run Excel (or most other Windows apps for that matter). ?Now, is
his "experience" at MIT relevant or not?

Wow, people go to MIT to learn how to drive Excel? I never touch the
POS, but then I didn't go to MIT.

John

I must be missing the logic here.
What does imprisonment have to do with cowardness?

As I said, what matters is how one behaves.


Is a POW a steeling ground for tremendous personal resolve?
Is that what you're trying to ascribe to McCain?

That he's not a coward.


And do you also assert that because neither Obama or Biden were POW's
that they are somehow not equally resolved?

We can't tell. You only learn about a person's courage when they are
seriously tested. Passing the bar exam isn't a suitable test.



As for Excel, most engineers use it. How can you possibly function
without it in this day and age without it??

I use Spice occasionally. If I have a serious computational problem to
solve, I write a program. And I leave the bean counting to the bean
counters, who use serious accounting software. Spreadsheets and
PowerPoint are more likely to switch off thinking than inspire it.

Most of the engineering spreadsheets that I have seen had at least one
error, which didn't stop the authors from believing the results.


Unless you're one of the
stoneage engineers I mentioned previously. (Which would seem to
explain your comment.)?

The point of that (which you obviously missed when you elected instead
to simply attack what you could not understand) is this: Experience
from the 60's is not all that relevant today.

Character, from whatever time, is.

Sorry, but that's just the way it is. The world has changed. Keep
up or get left behind.


Here's "stoneage" for you:

http://www.highlandtechnology.com/index.html


John


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