2008/10/29-30 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51722 Activity:moderate | 10/29 What time is Obama's TV infomercial tonight in the Bay Area? Thx.
\_ Out of curiosity, are you undecided? How fun is it to watch
Obama recite the same stuff he's been reciting for what feels
like an eternity at this point?
\_ I'm undecided between voting for Obama and not voting for either.
\_ I'm undecided between voting for Obama and voting for neither.
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2008/10/16-17 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51554 Activity:nil | 10/15 Unscientific poll on cnn's page has 72% saying Obama won.
Has the fat lady all but sung?
\_ It's over, unless there's a major game-changing moment between
now and the election. -tom
\_ hmm.. I smell WMD in Iran. Let's bomb Iran and launch a
preemptive strike against Iran. That would swing sentiment in
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2008/8/23-31 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:50946 Activity:nil | 8/22 I find Biden uninspiring
\_ Biden was my first choice for President. I voted for Hilary in
the primary. The Biden choice makes me likely to vote for
Obama, even though I voted for McCain in the 2000 primary.
So it got him at least one vote.
\- is it because of the difference between hillary and omaba
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2008/5/28-31 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:50070 Activity:high | 5/28 Former White House press sect comes out with book bashing
his old boss. I feel like we're trapped in an alternate
universe where I read the newspaper and think immediately
'well OF COURSE I THOUGHT EVERYONE KNEW THIS STUFF' when
I read the newspaper and that The Onion should give up, since
their writers will never be able to keep up with the tragic
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2008/3/28 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:49597 Activity:nil | 3/28 Political debates on NPR are worthless. They really need a ref with
fact verification powers or something. I was listening to one this
morning talking about the Cow Palace, and the debators couldn't even
agree on basic facts, like if the Cow Palace operates in the black or
not. It's impossible to draw any kind of conclusions from two lists
of completely contradictory "facts."
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2008/1/24-31 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/China] UID:49002 Activity:nil | 1/24 Any mandarin speakers here? When do you call the mother of a friend
(say, Chen) "chen2 bo2 mu3" and when do you call her "chen2 ma1 ma1"?
Is there any difference between Mainland China and Taiwan? Thanks.
--- Cantonese speaker
\_ mama is informal and buomu is more formal. On a related question,
why do Mainlanders call China "Middle Nation" and
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