64 Replies to “The Audacity”

  1. Well hello, Ben McK. Certainly would have been nice to have met you to carry on a civil discussion had you not indicated that you were so much superior to our lowly station in life. Now, I’m beyond intimidated by your presence and I cannot barely speak.
    All the same, I suggest you troll elsewhere as surely your wit and intelligence will be lost upon us.
    Say hello to Liz for me, will you?
    XOXO

  2. Ben McK will have to speak up: I was reading Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics whilst listening to Dvorak on my extremely expensive high end snob stereo system.
    It takes forever for us robber baron capitalists to do our tax returns.

  3. Oh I see – the issue isn’t whether he smokes or not (like Winston Churchill did). The issue is whether he lied about it.
    Well, he said he quit Feb. 2007. In April 2008 he said he’s fallen off the wagon a couple of times.
    So he might have fallen off the wagon and had a smoke before the reporter saw him. Or maybe he didn’t. Where’s the lying?
    What a non-issue. What a bunch of drivelling idiocy.
    Still I’m glad Kate put it out there to feed y’all. Keeps you occupied, off the streets…
    …so you’re not harassing the rest of us who have sex lives and jobs and stuff!

  5. Even if I were an American with a vote to cast I couldn’t give a flying f*ck if he smoked or not.
    I am simply aghast at the shallowness of these candidates and their platforms.Even more at a population and media who are seeking no more than entertaining fluff.
    It seriously makes me afraid for the future of democracy on this globe.

  6. Anti-smoking zealotry has developed into a very, very lucrative enterprise. Between government grants and generous contributions from Big Pharma, there’s no end to the funding.
    It’s also a good tolerance test/check for “but think of the children” mindset/ease of conversion evaluation.
    Don’t smoke.

  8. Good for him. I’d smoke too if I had to listen to Hypocrite Hillary try to scare the rust belt into not voting for that foreign-looking fella with the terrorist’s name.
    Hillary would do to the Democratic Party what Kim Campbell did to the PC’s in 1993. And it was the Canadian version of superdelegates who thought we needed a Maggie Thatcher and rejected the conventions’ consensus choice Jean Charest.

  9. I would never vote for Obama because he spouts verbiage that I do not agree with – However I do not base my opinions of anyone based on external criteria.
    Recently an old friend of mine died. She was a smoking, coffee drinking, scotch drinking, old world mannered lady – (she was 93),had a wicked sense of humour and played a bridge right up to the last three days of her life. My dear friend had a stoke on a Fri and died on a Mon. I remember her explanation for her youthful mind and body, she said “I am smoked, pickled and well preserved”. I pray that I will die with the same style and ease – I share her habits and sentiments so I have reason to hope for the best.
    Something IS going to kill everyone – sometimes people forget that FACT. I’d rather live my life without the handicap of frantically endeavouring to control the everyday lives of other people. I really resent other people telling me to quit smoking cigarettes; a habit that I enjoy so much. I do not believe that quitting smoking would have enhanced my friend’s life or prolonged it, she hurt no one and helped many, her house was warm and welcoming and she was unjudgemental and extremely intelligent. She liked many smokers and many non smokers – she did not label people with ‘environmental tags’; pity the sillies who never got to know her because she smoked IN her house and did not abstain when a visitor came to her door.

  10. All these health nuts are going to feel really stupid some day when they are laying in a hospital bed……..dying of….nothing. Remember Jim Fix, and smoke ’em if you got ’em.

  11. If you think debating with a global warming alarmist or a diehard socialist is frustrating, try to carry on rational debate with an anti-smoking fanatic.
    Check your common sense at the door because any attempt at logic will be met with repetitious dogma, hysterics and name-calling.
    It’s enough to make a person start … well … smoking.

  12. Yes, Jema54, we all die of something but some forms of dying are a LOT worse than others. You might like to do a web search on “probability”. Your friend who smoked and who died at age 93 undoubtedly had very good genes. She was lucky. A smoker won’t DEFINITELY die from a smoking related disease but the probability is very much greater. Spend some time with someone living with/dying from emphysema, for example. It’s horrible. Or, if you’re not afraid of lung cancer, think about tongue cancer and having your tongue cut out.

  14. zolik’s dreaming if he thinks the only reason not to vote for obama is that the guy smokes.
    LOL
    He’s the hardest left demo candidate in our lifetimes; perhaps ever. Even McGovern – leftie that he was – loved his country; obama has nothing but scorn for those that make the country work.
    Let’s see:
    1. Knows nothing of economics; would increase cap gains tax “on the rich” even though it would reduce government revenues (even clinton knew that); he lamely said he’d do it “to be fair”. Punish the rich! Class warfare, a big strategy
    2. You’re known by the company you keep. Thus far, barry is known to keep the company of:
    (i) a criminal (who also helped barry bankroll his house)
    (ii) a known terrorist who helped barry’s fundraising
    (iii) an avowed racist and America hater
    (iv) a wife who’s only felt anything for her country because her husband is running for president
    Obama is so “patriotic” you won’t catch him dead wearing a lapel flag, unless it was foisted upon him by a disabled vet. And even then, obama had to make excuses why he wore it; next day it was nowhere to be seen. That the MSM have to even ASK why he won’t wear a US lapel flag begs the question of why is he suitable to run the most powerful country in the world? And take away the teleprompter, and barry is full of “umms”, “ahhhs”, “errs” and is about as nimble as a one-legged amputee at hopscotch. Now he’s whining that the media are taking him out of context; is it a bit too much to ask that POTUS isn’t quite so thin-skinned?
    It’s almost as much fun watching barry self-detonate as it was paul martin, only it’s much more important for the general security of the world.
    … and zolik thinks that SMOKING is a reason not to vote for obama? In some alternate universe, maybe.
    GO OPERATION CHAOS™!
    mhb23re
    at gmail d0t calm

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