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- Country First?********
- Jazx, usually I appreciate alternative opinions but your narrow mindedness is over the board. Get over it alreadyzaq
- you'll be more comfortable posting in the comments on foxnews.com rather than here.zaq
- grow the fuck up asshole.TheBlueOne
- what is the point of posting this? is it that much fun to be a douchelord?hallelujah
- JazX, this is a pathetic way to vent your frustration. I feel sorry for you...SigDesign
- So, you can post pictures of McCain in all shapes and forms and I make light of Obama's Kenyan past and********
- you get angry. Typical********
- vent my frustration, contrary, I knew Obama would win. It's PURE FUN NOW! ha haha********
- your ignorance is staggering. you have no soul, my friend.monkeyshine
- Well this isn't even funny... i mean, so what? You could have posted his white family as well, cause you know, he's white, too...SigDesign
- I mean, I can understand the political cartoons, but this is just purely racist and stupid...SigDesign
- the picture above makes an editorial point; this just implies that you think there's something wrong a black in the white househallelujah
- having a black man in t he white house--can't you see the difference? are you that stupid?hallelujah
- sigh.. and do we really have to bring up the fact that we all came from Africa originally?SigDesign
- that's arguable********
- Nice looking family, oh wait was that your point?DCDesigns
- Country First?
- bohack0
Wait for it...
- hallelujah0
"Failure to Blow Election Stuns Democrats
Party Faithful Mourn End to Losing Tradition
Just minutes after their party's longstanding losing tradition lay in tatters on the ground, millions of shell-shocked Democrats stared at their television screens in disbelief, asking themselves what went right.
For Democrats, who have become accustomed to their party blowing an election even when it seemed like a sure thing, Tuesday night's results were a bitter pill to swallow."
- Well, they are stupid if they think that, there's a frequency to winning the thing, Just look at the statistics********
- you get that this is a joke, right?hallelujah
- absolutely. but point being********
- Well, they are stupid if they think that, there's a frequency to winning the thing, Just look at the statistics
- hallelujah0
"However, perhaps one of the most astounding and previously unknown tidbits about Sarah Palin has to do with her already dubious grasp of geography. According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, there was great concern within the McCain campaign that Palin lacked "a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency," in part because she didn't know which countries were in NAFTA, and she "didn't understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself."
Palin was apparently a nightmare for her campaign staff to deal with. She refused preparation help for her interview with Katie Couric and then blamed her staff, specifically Nicole Wallace, when the interview was panned as a disaster. After the Couric interview, Fox News reported, Palin turned nasty with her staff and began to accuse them of mishandling her. Palin would view press clippings of herself in the morning and throw "tantrums" over the negative coverage. There were times when she would be so nasty and angry that her staff was reduced to tears."
- autoflavour0
- Dizzee Rascal on Obama winning.autoflavour
- sorry timeline.autoflavour
- Can someone please give him back his "h"'s and "t"'slocustsloth
- what are the yoof?thebottlerocket
- HelloMatt0
Anyone know of any sites that have high res photos of barack?
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Fate (if you are a classicist) or the mystery of God (if you are religious) also has played its part this season. Only once since FDR-Truman has the American electorate elected the same party to the White House three times in a row (Reagan, Reagan, Bush -- 1980-1992). And by the way, only once since 1896, when Grover Cleveland declined to run for re-election and William McKinley won, has the American voter not elected the same party to the White House at least twice in a row (Carter, Reagan -- 1976-1980).
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev could resign from his post in 2009 to pave the way for Vladimir Putin to return to the Kremlin, Vedomosti newspaper reported on Thursday, citing an unidentified source close to the Kremlin.
Medvedev Wednesday proposed increasing the presidential term to six years from four years, a step the newspaper said was part of a plan drawn up by Vladislav Surkov, who serves as Medvedev's first deputy chief of staff.
Under the plan, Medvedev could implement changes to the constitution and unpopular social reforms "so that Putin could return to the Kremlin for a longer period," the newspaper said.
"Under this scenario Medvedev could resign early citing changes to the constitution and then presidential elections could take place in 2009," the newspaper said, citing the unidentified source close to the Kremlinl.
The paper said Putin, who is currently prime minister, could then rule for two six year terms, so from 2009 to 2021. The paper cited Putin's spokesman as saying he saw no reason for Putin to return to power in 2009.
Investors, already jittery over the impact of the financial crisis on Russia's economic boom, are trying to work out who is really in charge of Russia, the biggest question for those seeking to ascertain political risk.
They are seeking any details on how the current set up -- with Medvedev as president and Putin as prime minister -- could change. During Medvedev's speech Wednesday the Russian stock market erased most of the gains it made earlier in the day.- I can only imagine how the Russians are laughing at the Obama win.********
- just a formality, putin is in charge whatever way u turn it
70% of russians are happy with this setup anyway********
- I can only imagine how the Russians are laughing at the Obama win.
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- All this negativity, Jazzy... it's gonna come back to you, you knowlocustsloth
- You can't take it, LOL! excellent********
- So it's the year of JazX???DCDesigns
- i can take it, friend, though i know you'd like to THINK i can't. i'm just saying the race is over. Being negative no longer serves a purposelocustsloth
- a purpose. And it really will come back to you. Take a breath. Do something constructive for your cause.locustsloth
- BonSeff0
you are a sad, little person.
- you can't take it, before you could dish it out like there was no tomorrow. this place is HILARIOUS!********
- we'll just give you more rope and eventually you will hang yourself.
post away, bittermanBonSeff - no need, the fact that you respond to my posts makes me realize it pisses you off. you guys did it for 6 years********
- if it gets you off to piss us off.. maybe we can all pitch in and get you a hooker, knowing you- prolly a tranny hookerBonSeff
- eh, it's more fun to make you guys look like hypocrites than anything else, you can dish it but can't take it.********
- I'm sure hedge and teleos are very impressed.DrBombay
- hedge and teleos? who the f*ck are they. I'm the only here********
- you can't take it, before you could dish it out like there was no tomorrow. this place is HILARIOUS!
- monkeyshine0
speaking of sad, little people with no souls...I just saw this:
Westboro Baptist Church will be picketing the funeral of Obama's grandmother
- why?SigDesign
- wait, nevermind... it's the god hates fags group... just when I think they've disappeared...SigDesign
- Some people have zero respect. This is like those anti war protesters heckling the family at military funerals. bs.tommyo
- tommyo, that was the same people. NOt an antiwar group. Jesus hate freaks:
http://edition.cnn.c…TheBlueOne - They have some weird fatalistic version of xtianity.Mimio
- Yup.TheBlueOne
- I guess they're bored********
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The Straight-Ticket Youth Vote
As a sidenote to Obama's 66-32 blowout among 18-29 voters, check out how these same voters voted for the House. Not much different: 63-34.
So, in casting an identity politics vote for Barack Obama, a hip young (by political standards) African American, young voters were also apt to vote straight ticket for the Democrats down ballot. Nor is this new: the 2004 Democratic margin in the House among these voters mirrored the Kerry vote (+11 for Democrats vs. +9 for Kerry).
People have been focusing on whether the youth vote was up. It was -- slightly: going from 17 to 18 percent. But the real story about the youth vote is not how many "new" voters Obama got to show up. It's how he produced a gargantuan 25% swing among existing young voters, or those who were sure to vote for the first time anyway.
How big?
18 percent times a 25 percent increase in the Democratic margin equals 4.5 points, or a majority of Obama's popular vote margin. Had the Democratic 18-29 vote stayed the same as 2004's already impressive percentage, Obama would have won by about 2 points, and would not have won 73 electoral votes from Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, or Indiana.
So, to clarify here: Obama's youth margin = 73 electoral votes. Without the economic crisis, this would have been the difference.
In the House, the youth margin for Democratic candidates was up 18 points from 2004 and 7 points from 2006 (with a 50% increase in the voter pool from '06). The 18-29 demographic's net contribution to Democratic margins in the House went from 12% x 22% = 2.64% in 2006, to 18% x 29% = 5.22% in 2008. How many of our guys lost by 2.6% or less? And it wasn't about "more" or "new" young voters. For the most part it was the same young voters, who were conditioned to vote for Democratic candidates after switching to Obama.
Related to this are African Americans. Here too, turnout was up a point from 12% to 13%, or Census + 1. But that's only part of the story. The biggest part is Obama's increased margins, moving from 88-11 in '04 to 95-4 in '08. The black vote's net contribution to Democrats moved from 9.7 points to 11.8 points (91% x 13%), or an increase of 2.1 points.
Now, let's be generous and shave 10% off the youth effect assuming some of these youths are African American, but also tempered by the fact that the young black vote is already so highly Democratic that a 25% swing is impossible here. 4.1 percent (18-29) + 2.1 percent (AA's) equals 6.2 percent. Obama's current popular vote margin is 6.1 percent.
Obama's entire popular vote majority is accounted for by his increased appeal to youth and African Americans.
This is not to say that a white male (or female) Democratic candidate would not have won the election. The youth and African American figures would have moved some, though not as strongly for them, and if it was Hillary, you'd have seen a similar phenomenon with women voters. So, simply transposing 2004 figures onto 2008 isn't the right baseline. But this is a dramatic statement nonetheless. Obama has reshaped the electorate. And it's been only partially through new voter registration. He has gobbled up every last, existing young voter and African American (FTW, I get the distinct sense that Condi Rice too voted for Obama).
- The youth and black vote? I guess those are the two groups with the best understanding of the issues.********
- Go ahead, keep the hate coming. It's all you have little man.TheBlueOne
- there's no hate whatsoever, it's well proven.********
- The youth and black vote? I guess those are the two groups with the best understanding of the issues.
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He'll probably die of a congestive heart failure before the next election, so kiss his @ss while you still can.- What color is the sky in your world anyway?TheBlueOne
- it's orange right now, MM just hit me in the eye with his liberal puke********
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And this guy, his show isn't going to be much more than Liberal circle-jerking. That is if HBO keeps it on the air, not the Dems have their turn at the wheel.
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More dirt on Palin leak out:
-Palin went "rogue" by attacking Obama for his loose "association" with Ayers, before the McCain camp had a plan of attack
-McCain advisors showed up at Palin's hotel room to meet with her and Todd during the RNC and she entered the room in nothing but two towels (one wrapped around her wet hair).
- TheBlueOne0
Woah. I missed this little note from our racist in residence, JazX a page back:
"he's a mulatto or half breed. that's what people likes that should be known as, like in South Africa, 'coloured'" - JazX
My friend, my children will be mixed. You call them "half breed" in earshot of me and I guarantee I skull fuck you.
- half-breed or half-cast just isn't accepted anymore, for many years it was. Had loads of "coloured" GFs in Namibia********
- as for the skull-f*cking bit, yeah no thanks, I'd probably be forced to use my pistola on you.********
- half-breed or half-cast just isn't accepted anymore, for many years it was. Had loads of "coloured" GFs in Namibia
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col…
In the South African, Namibian, Zambian, Botswanan and Zimbabwean context, the term Coloured (also known as Bruinmense, Kleurlinge or Bruin Afrikaners in Afrikaans) refers or referred to an ethnic group of people who possess sub-Saharan ancestry, but not enough to be considered Black under the law of South Africa.- http://en.wikipedia.…
The name Baster is derived from the Dutch word for ‘bastard’ (or ‘crossbreed').********
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- BonSeff0
you have a serious inferiority complex jazx. nobody gives a fuck that you banged loads of girls in nambia, or that your business earns you upwards of a quarter mil, or any other self serving examples you post to prop up your self image. seriously dude, you are fucked up.
- HA HA! Thanks... hey you kind of make me sound good there. but "inferior". *cough********
- HA HA! Thanks... hey you kind of make me sound good there. but "inferior". *cough
- tank020
half-breed or half-cast just isn't accepted anymore, for many years it was. Had loads of "coloured" GFs in Namibia
jpg artefact colour difference?
