FeedPolitics: Still not seeing the resemblance between Schock and Obama
July 21, 2008 in Statehouse & Capitol
Heh:
So, let me get this straight.
Aaron Schock is an anti-choice, Bush-loving neocon who thinks selling nuclear weapons to Taiwan is a swell idea, and proudly trumpets the historic achievements of the Gingrich Congress on his website.
Yeah, sounds just like Obama to me.
Well, you’ve gotta admit. Reigniting the nuclear arms race would be a change.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Callahan is having a fish fry on Friday - 4-8pm - Kickapoo Sportsman’s Club - 11125 W Route 150 Brimfield, IL 61517 Dinner Tickets - $15 per person
Notice - the Bush/Schock Fundraiser requires you to take off work (I hear it starts around 1:30) - unless you are a fat cat corporate loving exec, and then you can claim it as a work expense, of course!
I will email you the release, billy, if you don’t already have it.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:24 pm
well nevermind. Just scrolled back to your posting of this from Friday. Sorry! Good reminder tho, for the folks. Scroll back if you want the whole thing from Billy.
PS any way you can lengthen the list of stories on your front page, like it used to be? It takes so long to click back, esp. when you’re posting fast - or on a Monday, for folks like me who don’t blog much on the weekends? Thanks.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Boy, you just want the world, don’t ya?
Coming up …
And here is that link I SHOULD have included in this post.
July 21st, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Let’s see, they both did absolutely nothing to improve government in Illinois, both turned their heads to the corruption in their own parties and the government they are running, both did nothing about $10 million pensions to government employees, both did nothing about passing along today’s government costs to our children, both did nothing to stop taxing poor people, both did nothing to hold government grant recipients accountable, both voted exactly how they were told by their “leaders”, and both got elected based on some Paris Hilton vibe that they were cool even though they have no substance other than going along to get along.
Yep, sounds like they are exactly alike to me. They both are leaving behind Illinois government in worse shape than when they joined it and both are still silent about it.
July 21st, 2008 at 6:13 pm
TaxMeMore: So … who ya gonna be voting for?
July 21st, 2008 at 9:27 pm
I looked for the name Gingrich on the web site and did not find it. Where did you see it?
Oh thats right it is by association of the actual election outcome that you can make the claim.
Ever heard of the Tip Oneil Congress, or the Jim Wright Congress, or maybe the Tom Foley Congress, and that juggernaut of a Legislative body called the Nancy Pelosi Congress.
That does not even mention the Tom Dachle Senate or the Harry Reid Senate.
What is this anti choice label you have saddled Aaron with these days?
If you are anti life does that make you pro choice? Why that particular choice of words?
July 21st, 2008 at 9:31 pm
One other item, Aaron critcized the change in the elected members over time by way of the lack of support for the ideals that were once in play during the Republican control era.
July 21st, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I won’t be voting for Schock OR Obama, that’s for sure. Whether or not I have anyone to vote FOR, remains to be seen. I’ve not seen anyone adult enough in Illinois to even question the corruption in the two parties yet. Callahan? Show me one single word she has said to even criticize the Illinois Democratic Party she wants to represent in America. Just one word from her? Nope, she’s guilty too.
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:22 am
PC,
“One other item, Aaron critcized the change in the elected members over time by way of the lack of support for the ideals that were once in play during the Republican control era.” = BS
Cite an example, you can’t. Not that I am wholly opposed to most of the Republican agenda, because I am not. But Schock is anything but a shining example of individuality.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:38 am
http://www.aaronschock.com/stand.html - is a link to the site where he states where the elected members veered off the path.
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:25 pm
PC,
I just did, obviously you haven’t. No where in there does it cite ONE instance of him standing up to the Republican powers that be. It’s more Steve Shearer meaningless drivel that makes you want to gauge your eyes out by the type you make it through the overly wordy and yet meaningless paragraphs.
I suggest you read it again and go back to your kool-aid drinking bullet points and find a better example.
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:26 pm
thats gouge by the way
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
“Yet, beginning a few years ago, our congressional leaders and our majority who led so valiantly for over a decade, began to get tired, lose their way, get ground down, and run out of energy. ”
“The bad news is that voters who had been voting Republican, along with many life-long Republicans, were revolted by what they saw as Congressional Republicans’ betrayal of core principles with massive overspending, no new ideas, stagnation and corruption.”
These are directly from the site and I consider the text the same as if Aaron spoke these words to a gathering of voters.
When someone puts words to a paper, phyical or electronic, it is their ideas and we as readers of those words can count on these writings as being true to the authors thinking.
I some person writes something down for you to speak to a crowd of record in a text by the fact that you do it gives authority to the words as from your own intellect.
If you don’t agree then you do not speak or let them be printed under your own name.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:43 pm
HOLY COW! Schock said overspending, stagnation, and corruption are bad?!?! Way to stick it to the party leaders Aaron!!
Come on, get real PC. Those words are as empty and hollow as the rest of his campaign. The more you argue the weaker your position seems to get. It scares me that there are voters like you that equate that to substance.
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:30 am
Can it be said that the quotes cited do exist? If you do not regard them as actual then I do not know what will qualify as real.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Yes the words, to the extent they are letters grouped in a meaningful pattern, exist but they are not as you represented them to be. They, by no stretch of the imagination, constitute what you claim they do. They are merely frivolous political pandering.