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- onewhoslaps0
just checking in to make sure everything is still totally retarded here.
check.
- *throatpunches onewhoslapsTheBlueOne
- i kid...TheBlueOne
- How can he throatpunch?!?locustsloth
- he has a mad adams apple yo!.chossy
- Affirmative!********
- BrokenAC0
yo Dr. Bombay,,
and then there's this ... in California
http://www.latimes.com/news/loca…
Y.P.M. » the same dudes that tricked scores of democratic voters across multiple states into changing their party affiliation to G.O.P. by telling them they were signing something against child molesters ,. extra FRAUDulent ,.
Obama has so much ammo and he could acorn out on this if he wanted, but he sticks to substance, to whatS REAL ! ^_^
- ukit0
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt plans to endorse Barack Obama this week and campaign for the Democratic presidential candidate, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
"I'm doing this personally," Schmidt told the newspaper in an interview, adding that the Mountain View, California-based Internet search giant was "officially neutral" in the November 4 presidential election.
The Wall Street Journal said Schmidt planned to join executives from other technology companies in announcing their support for Obama and would appear at an event in Florida on Tuesday with the Democratic candidate.
The newspaper did not identify the other executives.
Schmidt is one of a number of top Silicon Valley executives who have served as technology advisors to the Obama campaign. Craig Newmark, founder of popular classified ads firm craigslist, is also an advisor to the Democratic nominee.
- ukit0
So if the Republicans lose and lose big, what is the future of the Republican party? I don't see an obvious leader waiting to pick up the pieces afterwards if they lose the Presidency, more seats in the House and go below 40 in the Senate.
- Huckabee!!joeth
- Palin!!TheBlueOne
- Well, it looks like Democrats will be running the House, Senate and the Presidency. So let's just meet up here in 2 years totommyo
- discuss how 100% Democrat rule has treated you. :Ptommyo
- Bingo tommyo!********
- monkeyshine0
Remarkable. boohoo...all those feminists didn't flock to Palin because she has a V and now he's all mad and lashing out at them. Keep it up, you out of touch buffoon.
"My friends, it's remarkable the comments of the feminist left about Sarah Palin," he said to a chorus of boos. "I want to tell you, I am so proud of the way she has energized America. She is a reformer, she is a great leader, she is the most popular governor in America, and I can hardly wait to introduce her to Washington, D.C."
- ********0
- its not even funny, reminds me of Weimar- snake oil and paranoia tsold by one man who can SEE.********
- I think we know how you feel.tommyo
- its not even funny, reminds me of Weimar- snake oil and paranoia tsold by one man who can SEE.
- _salisae_0
my prayers are with Madelyn Dunham
- :( I just read that she's really sick. Very sad.monkeyshine
- jevad0
I pity the intolerance, and decry the obvious racist tone of the general McCain/Palin supporter. It amazes me still, to this day, that people can be so stupid.
- But in their minds they are smart and also victimized...TheBlueOne
- higher cause, deeper well, true course, heaven: anything but the here and now********
- Sketchy0
Even if Obama did win, I'm still skeptical at any change.... Not because of him, but because of the great divide within the general public. Imagine if he won, the whole situation is going to get worse than just a dead bear.... there's going to be havoc, because of the nature of the people on the other side of the fence.
- ukit0
If the Republicans want to whip themselves up into a racist frenzy, let them go right ahead. It will be like tying an anchor to their own foot.
- Jesus christ man...get out of the house once in a while. Republicans aren't racists! haha Rednecks are racists man.tommyo
- And yeah...the ugliest Republicans are generally Rednecks. But still.tommyo
- Oh, I know...I'm taking about the Sean Hannity/ Limbaugh/ Sarah Palin wing of the partyukit
- Totally joking but, kinda sorta not, a little. :Ptommyo
- Hannity is just a know-it-all fuckwad, like O'Reilly and Limbaugh. They'd sell their mothers soul to win an argument.tommyo
- tommyo = redhead republican!!
:)akoni - akoni - Caucasian-Jap sex toy :Otommyo
- and you know you like it .. i got big noodleakoni
- hahahahaha! <-- thats not me laughing at your joke as much as I'm laughing at your wiener. I have pics of it you know. :Ptommyo
- Republicans=Racists********
- Vincentvangogh=One Eartommyo
- i got pics of you rubbing and sucking too!!! just like right wing republican :)akoni
- you creeptommyo
- i've seen tommy's neck. it is pretty red._salisae_
- Republicans=Insular_salisae_
- rad or red?tommyo
- Republicans=Can't read
:p_salisae_ - Democrats=Broke
yeah I said it.tommyo - is that really at the bottom of all of this for you?_salisae_
- Well...no. See we've been stereotyping here - and you know how I feel, which has nothing to do with 'broke'tommyo
- eh? for me, it's that republicans are generally insular. what is it for you about democrats? that they don't care as much about money?_salisae_
- making money?_salisae_
- And then the part where you said Republicans can't read? Don't get all serious now Shari, just because I said one thing.tommyo
- i'm just trying to understand your posts. your deeper feelings. your inner emotional stratagems._salisae_
- and that was a joke .. indicated with the :p_salisae_
- You and I have already chatted at length about my inner emotional strategems! :Ptommyo
- you're answering questions like jazx now. and i'm tired of scrolling._salisae_
- um... can't we all just hug and get a long!!akoni
- Wow, the stereotypes in this place.********
- BusterBoy0
When it was his turn to speak, Hayes accused liberals of hating “real Americans”:
He [McHenry] yielded the microphone to Representative Robin Hayes, who prefaced his comments by saying it was important to “make sure we don’t say something stupid, make sure we don’t say something we don’t mean.” Republicans, he reminded the crowd, were kind people. Plus, he added, the liberal media had shown itself eager to distort such remarks. With the crowd duly chastened and put on best behavior, he accused Obama of “inciting class warfare” and said that “liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve and believe in God.”
What a bunch of fucktards. Accusing someone of inciting class warfare and then going on to add "liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve and believe in God". Are these people so stupid that they can't see how ridicuolous they are?
- TheBlueOne0
This whole "label Obama a socialist" is just yet another misfire in the McCain strategy. First off McCain is running a secondhand pisspoor imitation of a Rovian type 2000/2004 campaign.
Labeling your opponent a "liberal" worked then especially in '04 when you could actively control the definition of the word - could equate it to those "latte sipping, volvo driving, ny times reading limp-wristed cowardly elites". It worked for a while, and successfully at that. But it turns out the liberals were mostly correct on the things the Republicans were basing their cohesion and winning strategy on - the war and the economy. Iraq and Afghanistan are basically failed nation building excercises with no attainable victory conditions, al queda and osama are still out there, and the economy has just entered freefall which the Republican / Bush leadership attempts to address by nationalizing the banks - a move that would make Francois Mitterand blush. So the liberal critique of the main thrust of the Republican experiment was correct and then Bush uses tools of the left to address them. Meanwhile the endgame in Iraq is turning out exactly as Barrack Obama was stating would be his policy.
And Obama is running as a "liberal" and isn't trying to run away from the label like Gore and Kerry did. And it's working - meaning it's resonating with a majority of Americans.
So the McCain dusts off the old "socialist" meme. Problem is that it comes across as more quaint than anything else. No one even knows how to relate to it anymore. Like the episode of Seinfeld when Elaine gets romantically intrigued by the communist guy just because he's well an anachronism . Heck, even at that time in the mid 90's it was funny. Now, labeling a run-of-the-mill Clintonian Keynsian economic approach "socialist" just rings hollow, especially when it comes from the party who has a vice presidential candidate from a state where every resident this year will get a $3,200 payout. Since 1982, the Alaska Permanent Fund, which invests oil revenues from state lands, has paid out a dividend on invested oil loot to everyone who has been in the state for a year. Sounds like socialism to me.
And that's just one thing - the McCain campaign hasn't been able to get any single anti-obama smear to stick, so you end up with some diluted mess that has no central narrative. Meanwhile, all the Democrats have to do is tie McCain to Bush (not a historically difficult thing to do) and point out that McCain is old and out of touch and that Palin is not prepared for the office. That's it. Meanwhile McCain flails about trying to find some traction and in the meantime while trying to keep the base (the same last 20% that think Bush has done a bang up job) is alienating all the independents and middle road voters who are repelled by the gutter attacks and borderline hate rhetoric it inspires in the hardcore McCain supporters. Especially when, to most Average Joe's who aren't unlicensed plumbers and aren't related to Republican Congressmen, the smear attacks are hard to be believed. Seriously, it's hard to call anyone willing to be one of the major party nominee's for President "Un-American". It's just silly on it's face.
If Obama pulls this off, the Republicans are going to have one hell of a post-mortem.- lol @ the Wal-Mart version of Bush's campaign strategy._salisae_
- Very true TBO.tommyo
- tommy is an ed begley liberal after dark.DrBombay
- hahaha kinda true actually.tommyo
- Aren't we all though? :)TheBlueOne
- You say that, but Obama should be DESTROYING McCain and isn't, quite entertaining to say the least.********
- We'll see on Nov 4.TheBlueOne
- Yes, we shall see. Bush lost the popular vote: 50,456,002 to 50,999,897. More than 500,000 votes.********
- omgitsacamera0
Yes on Prop 8 signs sicken me. The people who are acting 'holier than thou' sicken me too.
- They aren't "acting". They are "being".TheBlueOne
- btw, I think Prop 8 is only a CA thing and yeah man I think we'll look back at bs like this as similar to the civil rights movement.tommyo
- chossy0
I read all this crap, and it just makes me want to cry, to cry for all you decent Americans, I hope America does the right thing and vote Barrack into office. If not you guys can come stay at my house until you get a new job over here :).
- watch out choss, they are know for bringing democracy wherever they go
GeorgesII
- watch out choss, they are know for bringing democracy wherever they go
- TheBlueOne0
Via Booman:
"There are little things that happen that symbolically explain the differences between the two campaigns. Nancy Takehara, a 58 year-old Chicagoan, was physically attacked yesterday in Wisconsin, while she was canvassing for Barack Obama. A man accused her of being with ACORN, grabbed her by the neck, and beat her about the head. When she got home there was a message for her from Obama, with a number for her to call. She dialed the number and Obama came on the line.
"Sen. Obama understood, reassured me, he was wonderful," Takehara said. "It made me feel connected to this government again."
No word on whether John McCain has called her to apologize for inciting a man to violence with false charges against ACORN, an organization that advocates for poor people.In a nutshell, this episode explains the choice you have in this election."
New article; http://www.journaltimes.com/arti…
- That has got to be the fishiest damn account I've ever heard. Kinda smells like b.s. dude.tommyo
- Maybe it's just the reporter but attacked at 1:30, television interview and call from Obama that same evening? Weird.tommyo
- Yeah, and Jack Nicholson is a virgin.********
- Could be. Need to take everything with a grain of salt.TheBlueOne
- I suppose your right, but just the way it's written.********
- ********0
Last night, I was chatting with a gym rat buddy of mine, who happens to be a Democrat and Gay. Mind you, this guy is about 45 and being a business owner, tends to be conservative when it comes to fiscal matters. I'm sure he'll vote Democrat for social reasons, but the fact that the Democrats aren't destroying the Republicans perplexes him. Especially after the last eight years. It was funny to hear him mention the comparison to the 1976 Presidential Campaign with Carter beating Ford. I almost dropped my barbell when he mentioned it. If the Democrats lose to the Republicans after the last eight, it will be the biggest letdown for a party in voting history. Truly, I wonder if the Bradley Effect will rear its head?
- piitb?kezza_2
- people want the best in themselves to be validated not the worst.********
- Yes, Pittsburgh, within recent history, a densely populated Democrat stronghold. Not sure though, I hear diff. opinions.********
- If the Dems lose, i predict a viable 3rd party candidate will run in 2012locustsloth
- You could be very right. It will force them into it. Look at the percentages of wins.********
- TheBlueOne0
How hackable is your voting process?
See article and better javascripty map here:
http://dvice.com/voting/index.ph…BTW: Once again, I am proud of being a new yorker... :)
- Personally, I think they are very hackable. Not fair, yes, but until they get some standard way of voting, then?********
- NY State, still on the Lever system. o_O********
- You'd think with 8 years to fix this shit, it would be addressed.TheBlueOne
- Logistical issues. US is so big. That's one thing about it.********
- Personally, I think they are very hackable. Not fair, yes, but until they get some standard way of voting, then?
- ********0
Has there been any evidence of any vote hacking anywhere during any previous election?
- Tons. http://en.wikipedia.…********
- The Ugandan election of 2006 [3] and the Kenyan [4] election of 2007 were marred by opposition claims that the ruling party had cheated its way back in to power with the heavy use of electoral fraud********
- I mean in the USA say in the past 25 years?********
- Zimbabwe, etc., etc.********
- Tons. http://en.wikipedia.…
