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- Khurram0
Slim pickings? Well that's a matter of opinion... especially if you consider cunt-face Ronald Reagan as the greatest post-war president in American history.
- locustsloth0
Grace Jones says she "can't stand" Palin
http://www.breitbart.com/article…
Hmmm interesting. But what i want to know is what Vanilla Ice thinks of her, or someone equally as relevant. Groundbreaking journalism at it's best!!
- She?********
- Shim, whateverlocustsloth
- :)********
- interesting, i was just thinking i cant stand grace jonesautoflavour
- She?
- locustsloth0
BTW, if you have a bad taste in your mouth from these elections, replace it with something sweet after you vote:
http://benjerry.com/features/i_v…Ben & Jerry's is giving away free ice cream from 5-8 PM on election day to anyone who voted
- that's awesome, I live near one. they're liberals, they better not beat me up either********
- Just pass if they want to "show you the vat" where they make "Conservative Swirl"locustsloth
- THEY MAKE CONSERVATIVE SWILL? *grabs coat********
- that's awesome, I live near one. they're liberals, they better not beat me up either
- TheBlueOne0
- HA, I can't view it but I see Nixon.jpg hahahhaa********
- It's zombie Nixon. you're really missing outlocustsloth
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http://www.payperpos…******** - haha.. mine as wellrafalski
- HA, I can't view it but I see Nixon.jpg hahahhaa
- ********0
Give me all your Yuan'z!- Only Nixon Can Go To China.TheBlueOne
- Spock********
- http://en.wikipedia.…********
- How about, "Only Obama can reform welfare". Let's wait and see if he wins.********
- ********0
Call Him John the Careless
By George F. Will
Thursday, October 30, 2008; A23From the invasion of Iraq to the selection of Sarah Palin, carelessness has characterized recent episodes of faux conservatism. Tuesday's probable repudiation of the Republican Party will punish characteristics displayed in the campaign's closing days.
Some polls show that Palin has become an even heavier weight in John McCain's saddle than his association with George W. Bush. Did McCain, who seems to think that Palin's never having attended a "Georgetown cocktail party" is sufficient qualification for the vice presidency, lift an eyebrow when she said that vice presidents "are in charge of the United States Senate"?
She may have been tailoring her narrative to her audience of third-graders, who do not know that vice presidents have no constitutional function in the Senate other than to cast tie-breaking votes. But does she know that when Lyndon Johnson, transformed by the 1960 election from Senate majority leader into vice president, ventured to the Capitol to attend the Democratic senators' weekly policy luncheon, the new majority leader, Montana's Mike Mansfield, supported by his caucus, barred him because his presence would be a derogation of the Senate's autonomy?
Perhaps Palin's confusion about the office for which she is auditioning comes from listening to its current occupant. Dick Cheney, the foremost practitioner of this administration's constitutional carelessness in aggrandizing executive power, regularly attends the Senate Republicans' Tuesday luncheons. He has said jocularly that he is "a product" of the Senate, which pays his salary, and that he has no "official duties" in the executive branch. His situational constitutionalism has, however, led him to assert, when claiming exemption from a particular executive order, that he is a member of the legislative branch and, when seeking to shield certain of his deliberations from legislative inquiry, to say that he is a member of the executive branch.
Palin may be an inveterate simplifier; McCain has a history of reducing controversies to cartoons. A Republican financial expert recalls attending a dinner with McCain for the purpose of discussing with him domestic and international financial complexities that clearly did not fascinate the senator. As the dinner ended, McCain's question for his briefer was: "So, who is the villain?"
McCain revived a familiar villain -- "huge amounts" of political money -- when Barack Obama announced that he had received contributions of $150 million in September. "The dam is broken," said McCain, whose constitutional carelessness involves wanting to multiply impediments to people who want to participate in politics by contributing to candidates -- people such as the 632,000 first-time givers to Obama in September.
Why is it virtuous to erect a dam of laws to impede the flow of contributions by which citizens exercise their First Amendment right to political expression? "We're now going to see," McCain warned, "huge amounts of money coming into political campaigns, and we know history tells us that always leads to scandal." The supposedly inevitable scandal, which supposedly justifies preemptive government restrictions on Americans' freedom to fund the dissemination of political ideas they favor, presumably is that Obama will be pressured to give favors to his September givers. The contributions by the new givers that month averaged $86.
One excellent result of this election cycle is that public financing of presidential campaigns now seems sillier than ever. The public has always disliked it: Voluntary and cost-free participation, using the check-off on the income tax form, peaked at 28.7 percent in 1980 and has sagged to 9.2 percent. The Post, which is melancholy about the system's parlous condition, says there were three reasons for creating public financing: to free candidates from the demands of fundraising, to level the playing field and "to limit the amount of money pouring into presidential campaigns." The first reason is decreasingly persuasive because fundraising is increasingly easy because of new technologies such as the Internet. The second reason is, the Supreme Court says, constitutionally impermissible. Government may not mandate equality of resources among political competitors who earn different levels of voluntary support. As for the third reason -- "huge amounts" (McCain) of money "pouring into" (The Post) presidential politics -- well:
The Center for Responsive Politics calculates that, by Election Day, $2.4 billion will have been spent on presidential campaigns in the two-year election cycle that began in January 2007, and an additional $2.9 billion will have been spent on 435 House and 35 Senate contests. This $5.3 billion is a billion less than Americans will spend this year on potato chips.
- how about just a paragraph or two and a link. No need to help with the SEO here.********
- considering the shit pictures you've posted, no.********
- Speaking of votes, you must have missed the vote TBO, tommyo and the rest of this lot had yesterday.********
- Was it necessary to put George Will's email address there at the bottom?TheBlueOne
- George will posted it after his column so I assume so.********
- how about just a paragraph or two and a link. No need to help with the SEO here.
- ********0
Don't vote: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/2113…
- "I like to maka the handa lever toucha in the votto bootff" - Borat
LOL********
- "I like to maka the handa lever toucha in the votto bootff" - Borat
- joeth0
^ with the pre-ad ad...
- *without (i suck)joeth
- Wow, the guy from "How i Met Your Mother" looks like shit!!locustsloth
- "Oh yeah..I can do sarcasm..."TheBlueOne
- ukit0
Richard Wolffe at Newsweek reports that the Obama campaign may be eyeing a late move into Arizona:
The campaign is now seriously examining a late surge into the state. That may include ramping up TV advertising, on-the-ground staff or even deploying the candidate to stop there. Obama is scheduled to make a Western swing late this week, making an Arizona visit possible.
According to Pollster.com’s averages, Arizona is a 6 point race in McCain’s favor, compared to Pennsylvania--McCain’s best hope of picking up a blue state--which is an 11-point race in Obama’s favor. That means Obama has more reason to travel to Arizona than McCain does to Pennsylvania, no matter how far-fetched it once seemed to try to win McCain’s home state.
- Georgia will also be VERY close. funlackofcolor
- Western PA will prevail for McCain. I can tell you why if you like?********
- Like I said below, Gore lost TN, his home state and it blew the entire election for him, regardless of FLA********
- JKristofer0
I never understood the "home state" win. Like I would vote for someone because they're from my state?
- maybe it's like rooting for the local ball team?hallelujah
- 100%JKristofer
- Al Gore lost TN to GWB.********
- And Gore would have been President if he had won his home state: http://www.worldnetd…********
- But, I'm not trying to be a prick or anything. I like my username JK. ;)********
- JKristofer0
Obama can take that state easy.
- GeorgesII0
I just wish this whole election madness to be over,
so we can go back to talking about lolcats- Oh stop being a pansy...the madness is upon us! The glorious madness. Just lie back and think of...TheBlueOne
- ..I was going to say England, but that doesn't work..so think of Martha Washington. I guess.TheBlueOne
- who was by all accounts unable to read or write********
- ukit0
5 days kids....5 days...
- Mimio0
Apparently Palin is too "Mavericky."
http://www.politico.com/news/sto…- "And she turned me into a moose!"
*pause
"I got better."TheBlueOne
- "And she turned me into a moose!"
- mcLeod0
I was out at a restaurant last night and saw a 12 year old kid wearing a McCain/Palin hat. Poor kid probably won't have a chance to form his own opinions in life.
that is all.
- ********0
If Gore would have won his home state of Tennessee, you probably wouldn't even know who Obama is, based upon the pattern of prediential wins. AG probably would have won the second term, no Kerry or Bush. This time around a Republican would have won. Most swing voters, etc. get sick of one side after two consecutive terms. Clinton, not Grover Cleveland. Whether that would have been Bush or McCain, etc. who knows...?
- http://www.worldnetd…********
- Please no more WorldNet daily links.Mimio
- Dude. WorldNetDaily? Really?TheBlueOne
- Yes, I understand, it's biased, but the numbers are there for my point. Gore would have won with just TN (home state)********
- and had no need for FLA at the time.********
- http://query.nytimes… better?********
- http://www.worldnetd…
- GeorgesII0
where is joe (sam) the plumber?
- He's a prisoner.TheBlueOne
- ..and I'm telling you Cindy McCain is freaking me out. Always framed in the shot.TheBlueOne
- The dude is eating up the attention. From plumber to rock star.********
- sad man...tank02
- She just doesn't look too friendly... like, if I said hello, she'd be like "just die already"SigDesign
- dude can't even vote, and doesn't pay taxes.. perfect Republican nominee for any seat.robotron3k
- Who wants to be ignorant fuck Joe the Plumber anyway?BusterBoy
- ukit0
2 points in Gore's defense though...he hadn't represented TN in about a decade at the time of the 2000 election. And TN almost always votes Republican for president, whereas AZ never votes for a Democrat.
- Gore don't need to be defended, homeboy has a Nobel. He should grow the beard back though.TheBlueOne
- What does that mean? It's his home state. Point being, if he wins it, you are looking at an entirely different environment********
- GeorgesII0
btw jazx, aren't you suppose yo be saving your workplace, why are you still here
and for the socialist thing, if you care about your facts, or profound knowledge of socialism here's a little jpg for you
- What in the f*ck are talking about? You might be the most ignorant person in this thread GeorgesII.********
- Those are also 2004 numbers, and don't equate to a state being "socialist".********
- Aren't you living in Italy? Go ask Berlusconi for a cookie.********
- ahahah you see how you never have a point,
you fuckn fascist!!GeorgesII - Go down the page.********
- What in the f*ck are talking about? You might be the most ignorant person in this thread GeorgesII.
- KwesiJ0
this isn't even a politics thread anymore its the american elections wankery thread. I stopped caring, usa is far beyond fucked up and Dabomba ain't going to solve it. He'll put a nice bright face on a shame. Call me pessemistic.
- <McCain should say something along these lines when he loses.KwesiJ
- Where are you from KwesiJ?JKristofer
- It's troll day today it seems JK********
- He's from Doun De Roadukit