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[Bruce Hallman]

Thanks Scotty for the encouragement to discuss the "real debate" like qualifications for office...

Geezer is shorthand for someone old and out of touch with current issues, past their mental prime also with implication of ill health and age related loss of intellectual acuity, all mixed with a short tempered, impulsiveness and the crotchety.

Dingbat is a slang term for an empty-headed or silly person, typically more interested in appearance over substance, usually under educated, often inarticulate, prone to double talking, and lacking in intellectual curiosity, lacking in awareness of the views of opponents, subject to the flaws of Groupthink, mixed with meanness, cliquishness, cruelty, social elitism and cattiness.

[Dan Underhill]

I haven't been able to open this at all but I get the impression that it is along the lines of irrelevant objections to politicians which tend to confuse the issue and draw attention away from real and significant observations about the candidates.

The problem with McCain isn't that he is older or old
fashioned, it is that however often he says "maverick" he would be a continuation of the Project for a New American Century as described on the PNAC website. The problem with Palin is not that she spends lots of money on clothes to be on national television, it is that she never was vice presidential material and she has a history of abuse of power, abuse of the environment, and of the worst kind of cronyism.

The problem with Bush, by the way, wasn't his foolish misuse of the language, it was his treason and the treason of those with whom he surrounded himself.

I might even be able to vote for an old person who spends too much on clothes and misuses the language if
they were worthy of the office. These are not the issues with which we should be concerned.

[Steve Sinai]

It's always interesting (and worrisome) to watch the left descend into the same gutter as the right.

God save us from ideological wing-nuts - on both sides.

[Sue Donan]

I agree.

[Scotty]

I'm for Obama, but I find this kind of messaging not only juvenile, but more importantly harmful to the real debates we should be having.