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Posted By:ROCKO at July 15, 2008 6:49 AM (Suggest Removal)
Nice to see Mr McBush has time to play Golf and sit at a 2300 dollar a plate dinner then off to a reception @1000 per person my I wonder what most of the rest of Mainers will be doing ? Working a second job to pay for a seven dollar a plate supper watching all the lovely 6pm news ????? Hmmmm and I want more of this?????

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Posted By:Lil at July 15, 2008 8:16 AM (Suggest Removal)
Geez, at only $5000 for a round of golf I bet there'll be thousands of Mainers lined up. Nice to see he has time to visit the regular folk.

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Posted By:gil at July 15, 2008 8:32 AM (Suggest Removal)
Lil, he has no interest in the regular folk at a fundraiser. The whole idea is to get those with lots of money to fund his campaign. Presidential campaigns cost ridiculous sums of money. Don't be so envious that some have worked and sacrificed for years to get the point they are. Instead, look at your own life and figure out what choices you made to not end up there. Lower education, no job skills, teenage pregnancy, drug and alcohol use and abuse, the list goes on. Don't make this about class envy, which is what the article is designed to do. If they were being honest they would also report on the Thousand dollar dinners that Barrack Hussein Obama is having. If you remember, he eschewed public funding, the money has to come from somewhere. You don't really believe that he is having bake sales do you? And at your less than $10/hr job (guessing, I'm not even sure you work at all), neither candidate is looking at you.

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Posted By:Jen at July 15, 2008 8:51 AM (Suggest Removal)
Gil, I find your comments demeaning and uncalled for. Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth and don't have to work hard for ANYthing.

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Posted By:KayP at July 15, 2008 8:55 AM (Suggest Removal)
how disappointing and floppy one-sided the Sun-Journal has become, not just here & now with this article, but more & more, day by day. What has happened to news and reporting? haven't heard much positives on the war?? sad state of affairs

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Posted By:Lil at July 15, 2008 9:01 AM (Suggest Removal)
Gil, he has no interest in regular folk at all. How many houses does he have, 8 or 9? And his wife spends $750k a month on her credit card. And he's been milking the government his entire life - government run health care, government paid salary, and now a government financed campaign. When will the guy go out and look for real work like the rest of us?

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Posted By:Jay Bee at July 15, 2008 9:10 AM (Suggest Removal)
KayP - you're right - the war is awesome! Wars for all! Let's go find someone else to fight! Even Iraq would like us to leave, and things are falling apart in Afghanistan. I, for one, want a refund. Oh - right - it's all borrowed money. Our children will pay for it - gotta love the American Way!

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Posted By:gil at July 15, 2008 9:14 AM (Suggest Removal)
JL, I could care less what you think of my comments. You fall into the same trap moaning how some are born into money. So what? What does it have to do with you r your lot in life. The article is an outright attempt to stir class envy, and from the reaction it got from you and Lil, it seems to have worked.

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Posted By:gil at July 15, 2008 9:17 AM (Suggest Removal)
"How many houses does he have, 8 or 9? And his wife spends $750k a month on her credit card." There's that green monster raising it's head again, Lil. So now he's a bad person if he has money? If he can afford 8 homes, who are you to say he can't have them? If his wife is an heir to a large dynasty, and can afford $750k a month on credit cards, who are you to begrudge them that? And now you're going to besmirch McCain's public life on top of that? A man who did his duty to his country, was captured and tortured to the extent that he can't raise his arms above his shoulders and you are going to kvetch about his medical bills? What a sad, sad, little envious creature you really show yourself to be, Lil. What great deeds did the former Democratic President Bubba do beyond living off of the public teat? Nothing. What is his net worth today? Millions. Where is your disdain for that? No where. Sad.

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Posted By:Lil at July 15, 2008 9:21 AM (Suggest Removal)
I don't think it's class envy. I think he's out of touch with what's really going on in the world.

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Posted By:JulieL at July 15, 2008 9:48 AM (Suggest Removal)
McSame is hanging at the Bush compound....I thought he was distancing himself from Bush....I guess when its convenient he will use whatever means necessary. I am in Maine until Tuesday and may need to get out my markers, Obama shirt and take a ride to Kennebunk...ha

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Posted By:Jen at July 15, 2008 10:11 AM (Suggest Removal)
Gil...get your facts straight. I was not MOANING about ANYTHING. I was making a point. You were too ignorant to see another side of the article, and I was just pointing it out. WOW...you need a hug!!! I hope you get one sooner, you bitter old prune!

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Posted By:gil at July 15, 2008 10:21 AM (Suggest Removal)
"Gil, I find your comments demeaning and uncalled for." Your opinion on my opinion. I simply stated that i could care less. "Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth and don't have to work hard for ANYthing." Sounds like envy to me. And i actually have a very good sense of humor, I just don't suffer fools lightly.

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Posted By:Jen at July 15, 2008 10:28 AM (Suggest Removal)
You got me Gil! I'm SOOOOOOOOO envious of the spoiled kid from Texas who has run this country into the ground! Pehaps you should run for president. You seem to be just as full of yourself!

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Posted By:David Hughes at July 15, 2008 10:34 AM (Suggest Removal)
JL, proving once again that when all else fails, blame Bush. Seems to be the Maine Democratic Party's fall back plan for anything.

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Posted By:Regallily at July 15, 2008 12:14 PM (Suggest Removal)
Actually, I was thinking...if everyone who is paying $5000 for one round of golf gave it to a charity instead....for instance, oh heating assistance....think of how much more these charities would be able to help the people who need it instead of relying on the government??? My $20/hour job isn't helping me with my increased expenses due to the rising cost of fuel.

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Posted By:Car 2 at July 15, 2008 12:43 PM (Suggest Removal)
People, this is a campaign for the presidency, as all campaigns have been run since the beginning of time. The ones who can pay- play. What intrigues if not concerns me is the reported major assembly of "peace activists" who will be present right down the road from the Bush compound. Where I concur with their core values, let's leave H.W. and Barbara out of it and save the angst for Crawford, Texas in January. Perhaps even a showing at the first barbecue thrown by Dick Cheney as a civilian is in order also..... Think about it, and, PEACE.

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Posted By:Lil at July 15, 2008 1:16 PM (Suggest Removal)
JL- he's not even from Texas, he's from Connecticut. He's a wanna be cowboy.

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Posted By:Chris at July 15, 2008 1:55 PM (Suggest Removal)
We blame Bush like everyone blames HITLER!!! Because that idiot is in charge along with the fools in Congress that do not listen to the peoples voices. I also thought that Baby Bush would be handcuffed by 3 towns that passed a voted to get him as a war criminal if he came to Maine???

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Posted By:David Hughes at July 15, 2008 2:33 PM (Suggest Removal)
Chris, we weren't talking about Bush until JL dragged him into the conversion to illustrate some point that didn't carry well. There was nothing to blame Bush for up to that point. Would the "fools in Congress" include Obama not listening to the peoples voices when he voted for the expanded, more intrusive and more offensive to the 4th amendment FISA bill? Would those "fools in congress" be Pelosi who took impeachment off the table? Or when she gave Bush everything he wanted for Iraq war funding without any strings attached? Those fools in congress who aren't listening to the people who sent them there? Let me guess, you've also forgotten Jeffords ( I-VT ) leaving the Republican party in 2001, creating Senate Majority leader Daschle ( D )? Whether you like it or not Chris, Democrats need to be included as "those fools in congress". Anything else is revisionist history.

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Posted By:J at July 15, 2008 5:35 PM (Suggest Removal)
In all honesty, we don't need a new President. We just need a giant toilet and someone to flush all the sh*t away and that includes "gil" and his right wing commrades.

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Posted By:kate at July 15, 2008 5:45 PM (Suggest Removal)
I wouldn't worry about Gil if I were you guys. He's a right-wing elitist who thinks he's a big man because he runs a business. So what gil? You probably abuse all of your women employees (if you have any) and pay them minimum wage. What kind of "business" do you own anyway gil, a laundromat? HAHAHAHAHAHA! There, I didn't use your grammar this time! Your boy McSnore doesn't even know how to use a computer....imagine in this day and age someone that educated can't use a computer. How "out-of-touch" can someone be?

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Posted By:Car 2 at July 15, 2008 7:08 PM (Suggest Removal)
I've been waiting for someone like "Kate" to pick up on McCain's publicly reported inability to navigate the net. People may look at it as out of touch, but I see it as something more sinister than that. Perhaps he is a man with "inability to change" syndrome. Not one for the White House now. After all, Mr. Bush still doesn't know the price of gas to this day, in case anyone watched todays highlight reel.....

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Posted By:ROCKO at July 15, 2008 8:47 PM (Suggest Removal)
ok so Gil is the wipping post today Gil your so wrong I do not envey a person with money my father always said some will have more some less be happy with yourself and treat EVERYONE the same,I give to less fortunate than myself, I think what the problem with McBush is he never has cared about the AVERAGE American,Now I ask all of you this that dont have a good thing to say about Bill Clinton where you better off then or now ??? I know i had more in my pocket then :) Oh by the way Im a registered (or was ) Republican,as for McBushes heroism he got shot down was going to be released and chose to say for that I Honor him but that in my book does not make him a hero or the better man for President and yes I served I did not go to Canada !!! He really is distancing himself from Bush I guess if your those two you can call what ever you want whatever you want

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Posted By:LB at July 15, 2008 10:06 PM (Suggest Removal)
WOW - Some would equate apt to computer navigation. I can't play "guitar hero", yet I can play guitar, six and twelve string, mandolin and bass. Maybe McCain can read. Maybe his plate is full and can't waste his time on the computer. The computer is becoming the younger sibling of the boob tube. Some of the most accomplished of wealth do not use computers, they hire people to do that. If you see Donald Trumps desk, there is no computer on it. Keep it real, folks.

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Posted By:Nancy at July 16, 2008 3:41 PM (Suggest Removal)
The newspaper isn't slanting anything. They are reporting an event of interest and its purpose. If Obama came for a fundraiser they would report the same thing. Also can we not show our ignorance by repeating "Barack Hussein Obama?"

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Posted By:Chris at July 17, 2008 11:48 AM (Suggest Removal)
USNseal2 you are right! I can imagine how much McJerk is going to listen to anyone. He never changes him mind. He's a stubborn old man. When it "looks" like he listened to us little people, he's just lying. Prisioner of war does not mean you would be a good president? Both candidates are scary. I'm waiting for a 3rd choice..... or I'm staying home voting day.

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