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| 2009/3/8-17 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52686 Activity:kinda low |
3/8 http://spectator.org/archives/2009/03/06/treasury-these-moments Obama has no idea what the fuck he's doing -Dem \_ A Democrat who reads the American Spectator? Really? \_ The GOP has fucked things up in ways you cannot imagine, but this does not equate to the Dems knowing what the fuck they're doing. We're all fucked! I'll let you know when I seee the Dems getting on the right track. -Dem \_ Cult of personality figures tend not to. \_ This is a slightly nicer web site than freerepublic. Kudos! \_ Both parties love Big Government: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/politics/story/63361.html |
| 2009/3/7-17 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52684 Activity:low |
3/7 John Edwards admits its his baby
\_ Didn't he admit that sometime last year?
\_ no he just admitted he had an affair |
| 2009/3/5-13 [Politics/Domestic/HateGroups, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52677 Activity:kinda low |
3/4 Good series of three posts from angry sysadmin:
http://market-ticker.denninger.net
\_ Geez, this guy makes Roubini seem like a flaming optimist. His
predictions are so dire and insane that they aren't even worth
listening to.
\_ It's an angry sysadmin. Isn't that the definition of
not worth listening to? "Big cities are at risk of
becoming a free-fire death zone." I mean really?
\_ let's take it from the opposite direction: Which of his
predictions do you think will come true, if any?
\_ I think this guy makes the homeless man screaming
outside my window look downright hinged.
\_ please answer the question
\_ So when some crazy person is screaming about the cia
bugging his teeth do you give serious consideration to
his ideas as well?
\_ *shrug*, more power to you
\_ Free-fire death zones! The government is going
to nationalize all 401ks! 30% unemployment!
Really? Let me guess, you googled Ron Paul.
\_ why are you deleting responses to your idiocy?
\_ I wonder what time frame he was thinking of. BTW, this is very
useful to me, since I will go down the list of predictions and
say: Yes, this will happen; this is possible, but x and y need
to happen first; govt will take care of these in this order;
signal w will happen before z. I got a helluva lot out of it.
If you want insane predictions, see: -op
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nJ7LM3iyNg
\_ He neglects to consider the impact of the imminent collapse of
Mexico.
\_ Q. If Mexico collapses, should we take over?
\_ Only if a larg majority of Mexicans beg us to. And even
then, perhaps we're better off not touching it with a
10ft pole. |
| 2009/3/2-5 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Gay, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52666 Activity:low |
3/2 http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Business/story?id=6977202&page=1 Conservative states consume the most internet porn. Damn hypocritcal bastards. \_ The bigger question is how many are GAY porns? That's against Jesus Christ and God's belief. \_ Funny, then you would think conservatives would know what "teabagging" means. \_ Ha ha! I didn't know this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teabagging -- !OP \_ You know, I think Jesus would hate most American "Christians". \_ There is one other small problem with Edelman's efforts. His very first reference in the paper is built on a source long known to be completely false. On the second page of the report on his study published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives (Vol 23, #1, Winter 2009), Edelman relies on the claims of porn industry trade publication AVN Media Network that says the online porn industry made $2.8 billion dollars in 2006. AVN also claims that the entire porn industry pulled in nearly $13 billion in 2006. However, it has long been known that the numbers presented by AVN are in no way verifiable. Forbes Magazine took AVN.s claims to task back in 2001 (after one of AVN's earlier reports of porn industry takings) and found the numbers impossible to verify. In 2001 Forbes reckoned that the industry could not have made more than $4 billion, a number far less than the $10 billion AVN was then claiming. A 2007 Boing, Boing article also discussed the unverifiable AVN numbers. \_ What does that have to do with his original research using credit card data? \_ Give Conservatives a break. It's pretty lonely living in the farms and suburbia. |
| 11/22 |
| 2009/2/28-3/5 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52662 Activity:low |
2/28 Where's ZombieTime when we need him?
http://washingtonindependent.com/31868/scenes-from-the-new-american-tea-party
\_ In SF, as usual. It looks like this guy pretty much had it
covered though.
\_ You'd think they could come up with a better gimmick than
"teabagging."
\_ And why do they have the teenage boy holding up the sign
encouraging teabagging? I wonder if he knows what he has
been put up to do... |
| 2009/2/26-3/5 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52650 Activity:nil |
2/26 "Fiscal conservatives" like Saxby Chambliss predictably uninterested
in Obama's proposal to curtail ag subsidies:
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/26/lawmakers-hit-obama-proposal-to-cut-farm-aid |
| 2009/2/20-22 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Finance/Investment] UID:52608 Activity:high |
2/20 Was just watching Thu's CNBS on tivo. Gosh, Obama has no idea what
he's doing, does he? -Dem
\_ No, he doesn't. Everyone knew that. That's why I voted for Hilary.
However, I expected him to have competent advisors. I think
part of the problem is "What happens when you have competent
advisors who *disagree*?" as I feel is the case now. Someone
has to make the call.
\_ And this just occured to you?
\_ No. "I voted for Hilary."
\_ what happens when Krugman (!advisor), Geithner, Summers, Buffet,
and Volcker are all fucking wrong?
\_ Greenspan? Bernanke? Roubini? I actually think Buffet is
\_ Greenspan? Bernanke? Roubini? I actually think Buffett is
right and history will prove it.
\_ Buffet has been selling, after he told you to buy
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10464539/1/buffett-watch-the-oracle-sells-america.html
\_ Bull.
Sure, he sold some positions. He's also been buying
Intersoll-Rand, Nalco (NLC), and Burlington Northern
Ingersoll-Rand, Nalco (NLC), and Burlington Northern
since end of 3Q 2008. Most holdings are unchanged.
That's in BRK. Buffett's article was talking about
his personal holdings, which we don't really know
about what's happening there.
\_ What is "Thu's CNBS"?
\_ Sorry, Thursday CNBC. Specifically about 2-3 segments where
Rick Santelli and Steve L. are yelling at each other; also the
Meredith Whitney interview.
\_ Yeah the CBOE traders are all such great representatives
of the common man. How can you take this guy seriously, he
was a hedge fund advisor and one of the architects of CDOs?
\_ Your use of CNBC as a barometer of anything of substance says
more about you than about Obama.
\_ See above about specific segments on the bullshit channel;
I'm not too impressed with you myself
\_ Gibbs has a great response to Santelli's right wing frothing:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/02/dude_needs_decaf.php
\_ Uh, great response? He's a press secretary, and what I got from
that was:
- You're a derivatives (actually, bond) trader you motherfucker
- By preventing your neighbor's foreclosure, your house will
maintain value (Santelli actually addressed this yesterday,
saying most people buy a house to live in, not as in investment
and the need for house prices to return to normal supply/demand
levels overrides subsidy of foreclosed properties)
- Really smart people created this plan
- Go read the plan, and you'll see it helps a lot of people
Once again, Obama has no idea what he's doing -Dem |
| 2009/2/19-21 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52602 Activity:nil |
2/19 http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-215694 Canadians to Obama. We're the friendiest and most tolerant people. |
| 2009/2/16-19 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52580 Activity:kinda low |
2/16 In spite of GOP claims, there is very little pork in the
stimulus bill:
http://tinyurl.com/bg56eo (TNR)
\_ GOP lie and exaggerate? Never!
\_ oh? http://tinyurl.com/cpzfnf (WaPo)
\_ So you think that spending on High Speed Rail is pork?
\_ It's not "stimulus", that's for sure. The spending won't
apply to the short term.
\_ I don't know about that. A lot of money could be spent on
CAs high speed rail project in the next couple of years
and I don't know what the condition of the other 11 projects
mentioned, but I assume they could be accelerated as well.
They are certainly not pork, in any case. |
| 2009/2/11-16 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52556 Activity:low |
2/10 http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda End the Practice of Writing Legislation Behind Closed Doors: As president, Barack Obama will restore the American people's trust in their government by making government more open and transparent. Obama will work to reform congressional rules to require all legislative sessions, including committee mark-ups and conference committees, to be conducted in public. By making these practices public, the American people will be able to hold their leaders accountable for wasteful spending and lawmakers won't be able to slip favors for lobbyists into bills at the last minute. (Compared to what's actually happening: http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20090211135318.aspx ) \_ Before: Do shady things in secret. Now : Lie & do shady things in secret. \_ Guy gives partisan speech. This is news? \_ Isn't this the same guy who was all in favor of earmarks until the Democrats took control of Congress, then suddenly decided that they were wasteful (and still continues to take them, while loudly complaining about them)? http://tinyurl.com/ctuolw \_ Links to Malkin? Check. Big banner about how we need to fight against the return of the fairness doctrine? (Who the fuck decided this was a danger?) Check. Crazy libritarian slogan? Check. Dude, this site is as crazy as the ChemTrails hippies. \_ I admit that that FSA page makes the fairness doctrine sound really appealing. I mean, who doesn't want to shut up Rush and Hannity and their ilk who run around embarassing the right. but really, you think the Government should mandate equal time on the airwaves? You think that enforcement of that is feasible? You think the net effect is positive? It seems unlikely. \_ Of course enforcement is feasible. They can enforce not saying "fuck," they can enforce not letting right-wing blowhards dominante the public airwaves. That's right, they're the *public* airwaves; corporations get to use them to the extent that they provide a public service. -tom \_ Good to have you back, jblack. \_ Ohh, this is a nice Jan 2007 article about how the economy is strong and there is no real estate bubble and the media is just out to scare you http://www.businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2007 mediamyth/RecessionDepression/RecessionDepression.asp |
| 2009/2/9-15 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52538 Activity:low |
2/9 GOP may be "winning" stimulus debate on TeeVee, but they're losing quite
badly with the public:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/another-poll-shows-public-approving-obama-disapproving-gop-on-stimulus.php
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/poll-obama-way-ahead-of-gop-on-stimulus.php
\_ Uh, the support for the pork package is falling, and now the CBO
says we'll get out of the recession without a stimulus.
\_ Is the fallback position for the GOP? First they claim that
\_ Is this the fallback position for the GOP? First they claim that
the stimulus bill will be a disaster, then after it works, they
are going to claim "we would have gotten out of the recession
anyway"?
\_ No, they'll claim that the stimulus package prolonged the
recession. They'll keep repeating it and repeating it
until the dittoheads think it's a consensus view instead
of the product of ideological wack jobs. (See: Conservative
positions on FDR and the Depression). -tom
\_ Oh, yah, UCLA is conservative.
\_ Last I checked, CBO wasn't Republican.
\_ Your track record of reliably reporting from other sources
is suspect, at least to me. What is the URL to the CBO
report in question? It is not an exaggeration to claim
that almost every economist, no matter their political
stripe, think that a stimulus package is warranted.
stripe, thinks that a stimulus package is warranted.
\_ There's a summary at:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/02/cbo-predicts-recession-will-end-in-2009.html
But you'll dismiss that. So here's a link to the PDF
from the CBO:
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9958/01-08-Outlook_Testimony.pdf
\_ There is nothing in the CBO report that supports
your claim. In fact, it actually says this:
Principles for Fiscal Stimulus
In the absence of any changes in policy, CBO projects
that the economy will produce about $1 trillion less
output per year than its estimated potential in each of
2009 and 2010 and significantly less than its potential
in 2011 and 2012 as well (see Figure 12). The unemploy-
ment rate is forecast to rise above 9 percent by early
next year. Many economists believe that a stimulative
fiscal policy (that is, an increase in spending or
reduction in taxes designed to foster faster economic
growth in the short run) is desirable under the
current economic conditions.
\_ You apparently have a different definition of the word "falling"
than most people.
\_ 62% Want Stimulus Plan to Have More Tax Cuts, Less Spending
http://tinyurl.com/cajvyb [rasmussen]
\_ Wow, just wow. So a 36 point approval gap means nothing
to you? Keep drinking that Kool aid, man.
\_ I was responding to the "different definition of
falling" claim. Sorry for that linear logic. |
| 2009/2/6-12 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52532 Activity:nil |
2/6 I think it's funny how Obama keeps saying things like: "Debate is
good, that's how democracy works. Now knock it off, I won."
\_ Debate is not obstructionism. Let me guess, you were
shocked, SHOCKED! about the democratic fillibusters in 04-06.
\_ The stimulus bill is a farce, and should've been blocked. It
needs a lot more debate to become reasonable.
\_ I doubt more debate can bridge the divide between the
"tax cuts for the rich" vs. "handouts for the poor and
middle class" ideas on stimulus. Do you?
\_ Election is over. Now you obey! |
| 2009/2/5-10 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:52518 Activity:low |
2/5 Really Obama? Really? "This recession might linger for years. Our
economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach
double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some
point, WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO REVERSE," Obama wrote in the newspaper
piece titled, "The Action Americans Need."
\_ Nice selective quoting there. That's what he is saying we need to
prevent, not what is going to happen. Here's the two sentances
RIGHT BEFORE THAT. "Because each day we wait to begin the work of
turning our economy around, more people lose their jobs, their
savings and their homes. And if nothing is done, this recession
might linger for years."
\_ I wasn't selectively quoting. He's claiming if we don't pass
this bill, the USA will end. What a moron.
\_ If nothing is done, will the things that he suggests come to
pass? Possibly. His stimulus package may not be a silver
bullet, but it will be doing something.
\_ Ready, Fire, Aim!
\_ Sure, fair point: doing something dumb is as bad/worse
than doing nothing. Still doesn't invalidate what he
said.
\_ It's pretty funny to hear Republicans talking about
cautious policy (c.f. Iraq) and fiscal responsibility
(c.f. pretty much everything).
\_ Iraq wasn't exactly "incautious" -- but yes, the R's
have certainly not been the party of small gov't
lately.
\_ You think that Iraq was carefully thought out?
\_ No, if the government sits on its collective hands, we
won't go into an IRREVERSIBLE tailspin. "His" stimulus
package is a crap sandwich of every earmark from the House
and Senate, only 3% goes to "shovel-ready" projects, and
less than 1/4 will be spent in 2009.
\_ It would help your case if you hadn't taken his
words out of context to start with. As it is your
credibility is, shall we say, low? Hell you
couldn't even be bothered to make it clear you had
cut off the first half of the sentance you were
quoting.
\_ "We may not be able to reverse" includes the possibility
of reversing it.
\_ No, that is not the plain meaning of the words he used.
You are too stupid to bother with explaining the
obvious meaning too, though.
obvious meaning though.
\_ There are plenty of non insane respected economists, not waaay to
the left or waaay to the right who really believe that if some
massive stimulus action is not taken soon we are really seriously
in for a long deep depression. You could argue that is just how
free markets work and that a depression will simply finally cut out
all the fat, make us more competitive, and really prove that FDR's
massive expansion of gov spending and LBJ's great society brought
us to this point, but my point is, many believe the danger is real.
The Fed is and was REALLY scared. What is your plan to avoid
economic ruin, or is your position that we shouldn't do shit?
\_ How many of them predicted our current situation? When we're
talking about make-work projects and protectionism, I get all
itchy worrying that we're headed right back to the beginning of
20th century.
\_ Yeah, that would be terrible. Let's tear down the Golden
Gate and Bay Bridges while we're at it. -tom
\_ Their "stimulus" is only possible via huge borrowing, which is on
top of the already huge borrowing that we've been doing for
many years. That itself could lead to economic ruin and in
any case is a long term burden.
The fed should have been scared a long time ago.
Is the answer to just keep doing what we've been doing, only more
so?
\_ "what we've been doing" is throwing billions down a rathole
in Iraq while cutting taxes on the wealthy. I'm all for
stopping both of those things. -tom
\_ When the market is willing to loan the government money at
near-zero interest, NOT running a deficit would be
irresponsible.
\_ ok. what are the alternatives? tax cuts? Bush has done plenty of
that. I don't know how you are going to convince me tax cut is
going to work this time. *IF* you are a true free-market type,
you would totally let GM, Ford, Bear Stern, Bandk of America,
Citibank to die.
or you are the type who supports "socialize the cost," asking
the tax payers to buy those "bad asset" so banks can be free of
their responsbility of making bad investments? |
| 2009/2/4-9 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52510 Activity:nil |
2/4 Ouch, that left a mark on Daschle
http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/taibbiunbound/2008/12/the-whore-factor.php |
| 2009/2/4-9 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:52508 Activity:kinda low |
2/4 Welcome to Fascism (and yes, GWB started it)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090204/D964VSP00.html
\_ Nice try, when you've lived under a dictatorship, come back ok?
\_ Fascism != dictatorship, one word has different letters and
less letters than the other.
\_ fewer
\_ Corporations are begging for handouts from .gov; .gov caps payouts
for corporations taking handouts; where's the fascism?
\_ Government gives money to company, then tells company what to do.
Gov't has nationalized the company.
\_ Congratulations, you've described one aspect of
nationalization. This is not the same as fascism.
\_ And Barney Frank wants more:
http://www.financialweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090203/REG/902039977/1003/TOC
\_ What is your proposal for reducing systemic risk?
This one isn't that great, but so far it is the
This one doesn't seem so great, but so far, it is the
only one I have seen. "Let the invisible hand sort it
out" seems to have failed as a notion. Got any other
ideas?
\_ Uh, invisibile hand means that you need to allow
losses. If you prevent them, you're ignoring the
hand.
\_ I'll take that as a no, then.
\_ Could you dittoheads get together and figure out whether you're
going to call Obama a commie or a fascist? Your flip-flopping is
distracting. -tom
\_ They're not opposites.
\_ Marx (commie) -> Stalin (fascist dictator), so ObaMaRX ->
ObaSTaLIN
\_ Also Geithner is talking the same tune as Frank, as per the
article.
\_ Rush Limbaugh says that Nazis are the same as Socialists, you
are obviously not a listener.
\_ Hint, Nazis were National Socialists.
\_ So you have been listening to Rush...
\_ So you've never read a history book...(Hint: There
are reasonable arguments against Nazi=Socialist.
Denying the name isn't one of them.)
\_ If someone argues the name means they were the
same they are obviously too stupid to be worth
having a real discussion with. End of story. |
| 2009/2/2-8 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52497 Activity:nil |
2/1 Pres. Obama keeps rendition
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-rendition1-2009feb01,0,7548176,full.story
\_ This does not mean what you (or the LA Times) think it means.
\_ More on how this article does not mean what you (or the idiotic
LA times) think it means:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/02/renditions
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_02/016703.php
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/02/hbc-90004326
\_ Wait, so snatching foreign citizens off foreign soil is okay if
they don't go to Gitmo? Remember, Gitmo hasn't closed yet (and
never will, actually).
\_ As long as they get speedy trials and swift application of
American justice within our judicial system, I have no
problem with it. -liberal
\_ So when rendition occured under Clinton's watch (sending
suspects to other countries, not the US) was it
objectionable?
\_ Surely you mean rendition as initiated by GHWB?
Also, the Harpers article does a very good job of
drawing the distinction.
\_ Way to completely misread all of the above articles! Plus
a nice bit of wingnuttery at the end there with your
"never will." |
| 2009/2/2-8 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52495 Activity:nil |
2/2 Majority of GOP voters think the party should be more like...Sarah
Palin.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/republicans_like_gop_s_conservative_direction_democrats_don_t
\_ I'm going to enjoy the permanent Republican minority
\_ DRILL BABY DRILL! |
| 2009/1/29-2/6 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52488 Activity:low |
1/28 I'm the recession swami. It ain't over yet. It just started.
Obamamaniacs have high expectations but will be sorely disappointed.
http://csua.com/?entry=48625
\_ Saying we are in a recession is pretty self-evident, a true
Swami would tell you when it will end. -GS
\_ I only hope we'll do better than Japan's lost 2.5 decades.
\_ I only hope we'll do better than Japan's lost two decades.
let's put it another way: if CA is having trouble issuing tax
rebates this year, what makes you think the problem goes away
next year? the year after? next? etc. -!op
\_ Sure looks Looks like a liquidity trap. think we can escape?
\_ dur?
\_ Welcome to the Great Depression of Barack Obama.
\_ You mean of GWB? GWB=Hoover, Obama=Truman
\_ Don't you mean Obama=FDR?
\_ Yes, I do. Oops. Photo friendly version:
http://www.fredharper.com/BLOG_STUFF/FredHarper_homeBlog/Crystal_ballee.jpg
\_ No I mean Obama, if Obama follows the FDR model, which
seems likely. If Obama follows FDR, the only way we
are getting out of this depression is WW3.
\_ you're an idiot.
\_ if a nuclear apocalypse is the only way out of this
depression, I think I'd rather stay in the depression.
\_ Obama was the President in Q4? |
| 2009/1/28-2/4 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:52482 Activity:nil |
1/28 Republicans in power? More Republicans on TV! Republicans out of
power? More Republicans on TV!
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/28/cable-news-stimulus |
| 2009/1/28-2/1 [Recreation/Dating, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52480 Activity:nil |
1/28 the baby borg episode of star trek:voyager is so sad!
\_ Jeri Ryan's firm rear end gave us Obama. God bless her.
\_ What about the front?
\_ How was this supposed to have come about?
\_ I thought I rehashed this for the motd. Jeri Ryan used to be
married to an Illinois senator. They had a messy divorce.
Some of their divorce documents became public, which mentioned
that Jeri was vastly annoyed with her husband because he would
always try to drag her to public sex clubs and have hot
threesomes with her in front of other people. It became clear
to the senator that he wasn't going to win the next election.
It wasn't just the public sex with 7 of 9, it was a variety
of things, but the hot sex with Jeri Ryan's while holding
Jeri Ryan's firm buttocks in front of a crowd at Chicago's
very best public sex clubs didn't help. He dropped out of
the race, Obama decided to get into the race, the Illinois
Republican party couldn't find anyone in the entire state of
Illinois to run against him, so they shipped in Alan Keyes
to run against him, from another state. You can't make this
stuff up!
\_ This was in the motd previously. I just forgot about it
completely until you reminded me. Sorry, my brain is
defective. But thanks, also, because my defective brain
allowed me to enjoy the story all over again.
\_ The sex club stuff was accusations, not proven facts AFAIK in
the contentious custody fight. The records were sealed and
LATimes got them unsealed.
\_ Jeri Ryan also claims that while her husband *WANTED*
her to participate she did not. She's now married to
a chef who has a very yummy French restaurant in LA.
\_ Jack Ryan was running for Senate, he was not a Senator. |
| 2009/1/26-31 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52468 Activity:nil |
1/26 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28695591 More companies force workers to take [unpaid] time off. \_ Even President Barack Obama alluded to the growing use of furloughs in his inauguration speech when he said, "the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job." More proof that Obama is a SOCIALIST!!! |
| 2009/1/23-27 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic] UID:52452 Activity:nil |
1/22 Who says Republicans don't have a sense of humor?
From the National Republican Congressional Committee website
http://www.nrcc.org/issues/default.asp?ID=47
Economy
Thanks to Republican economic policies, the U.S. economy is robust
and job creation is strong.
Republican tax cuts are creating jobs and continuing to
strengthen the economy,
\_ Thanks for the reminder. I need to Google and Yahoo for Republicans
and then click on their advertisements to support Google and
Yahoo while draining Republican resources. Search for
"conservative republican" and click on Recovering Republican
and Newt Gingrich Newsletter and help the world! |
| 2009/1/22-27 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52449 Activity:nil |
1/22 http://tinyurl.com/dehplu His aides are barred from lobbying any executive agency for the life of the Obama administration. That means an appointee who leaves the White House in, say, 2010 would be barred from lobbying the executive branch until 2017 if Obama were to serve two terms. |
| 2009/1/21-26 [Recreation/Media, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52430 Activity:nil |
1/21 Anyone remembers which movies featured black US presidents? They
seemed like fantacies to me back then. I'll start:
Deep Impact
Stealth Fighter
\_ Fifth Element.
\_ But he wasn't really the President of the U.S., right? He was
more like the leader of the entire planet Earth.
\_ Not a movie but the 2nd season of 24.
\_ When will they start making fun of Obama on TV? Who will
do it first? Jay Leno? Conan?
\_ These guys can't make fun of him. It'll be racist.
\_ Chris Rock. A decade ago he made fun of black vs. n***er in a
comedy show on Showtime. That was hilarious.
\_ SNL's been poking fun at him for months.
\_ Daily Show just kinda did:
http://copiousdissent.blogspot.com/2009/01/john-stewart-blasts-obama.html
\_ Idiocracy was the best one.
http://gawker.com/358720/the-top-7-black-presidents-from-the-screen
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6929002
\_ 24 probably did more than any of the above movies in helping Obama.
\_ And after this season, Hillary might have a chance. Although
the president from this season seems like a bit of a tard,
so maybe I should say Palin might have a chance. |
| 2009/1/20-26 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52426 Activity:low |
1/20 Obama overcame the biggest obstacle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2CaBR3z85c
\_ Yay! Obama's mother had a choice and made a choice! How
wonderful that the Catholic Church supports choice now!
\_ Pretty sure they supported it then as well.
\_ Pfft. False. RCC has never supported Choice.
\_ Oh, I see the problem here, you're an idiot. Carry on.
\_ And you're on drugs. When did the RCC ever support
Choice?
\_ The RCC always supported the choice between
keeping the kid and giving it up for adoption.
\_ Yay, humor! |
| 2009/1/20-26 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:52424 Activity:moderate |
1/20 BAC -29%, WFC -24%, JPM -21%, C -20%, GS -19%, MS -16% BCS -42% STT-59%
\_ The Obama Administration begins!
\_ Hope!
\_ Yes, clearly today's decline is the market reacting to Obama
suddenly and unexpectedly becoming President.
\_ The Death Star bursts into a supernova, creating a spectacular
heavenly display. </sorry>
\_ We've had three consecutive months of massive DEFLATION (CPI
decrease). Expect it to continue at least a few more months,
followed by hyperinflation (as the Fed injects as much cash into the
system as it can).
\_ If you think we are really going to have hyperinflation
you are either too stupid to breathe or don't know what
hyperinflation means.
\_ Hyperinflation means Weimar. Granted, it may only be as bad
as the 70s, but the money supply has grown over 70% since the
bailouts started. The current annualized rate of deflation is
between 12% and 23%. See here for what happened in
Yugoslavia.
http://www.rogershermansociety.org/yugoslavia.htm
\_ Umm, are you trying to say that we're going to have that
kind of inflation here, or not? -!pp
\_ Umm, are you trying to say that we're going to have
Weimar inflation here, or not? -!pp
\_ I think it's about 50/50 either 70s or Weimar.
\_ In that case, you should borrow lots of money
and buy solid assets. I personally think 70's
is as bad as it is likely to get.
\_ That's about what I'm doing. But I certainly hope
you're right and I'm wrong.
\_ I cannot name even one country with a
functioning military that has suffered
hyperinflation. It is usually defeated
countries and occasionally a total basket
case with no friends and no army like
Zimbabwe.
\_ Rome circa 300 AD, and the Confederacy
are two examples.
\_ The Confederacy is a great example of
how a country that is losing a war or
has just lost a war often suffers
hyperinflation. Rome is a good
counterexample, I have to admit.
\_ What cause hyperinflation in Rome?
Wasn't it a change in coinage or
something?
\_ Yeah, good point. Rome kept
debasing the currency.
\_ I'm not sure what a military has to do with
it. It seems to happen in places with
unusally destructive economic policies.
ie Zimbabwe destroyed the main engine
of its economy.
I'm not terribly worried about it here
because Bernenke is very anti-inflation.
While I think Obama's economic policies
seem a little hare-brained, they aren't
THAT wacky.
\_ It depends on what you define as "money supply." If you
include credit (and most economists these days do) the
overall money supply has actually gone down.
\_ occam's razor: news has leaked to the big brokerages that govt is
amenable to wiping out equity in a de facto nationalization. arthur
levitt (former sec chair) did two bloomberg podcasts on this
yesterday and today.
\_ Also, observe what happened in England.
\_ hell, even Krugman wrote a piece on this a couple days ago
\_ Which one, the bad bank one? "Wall Street Voodoo?" He
doesn't exactly mention nationalization, just says that
the TARP is a bad idea. |
| 2009/1/19-26 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52417 Activity:nil |
1/19 I hate my newspaper. The Obama inaguration has been on the front page
for four days so far. WTF? How is that even news, let alone front
page news? Let alone 4 days worth of front page news?
\_ Presidential inaugurations are always front page news, aren't they?
\_ didn't you get the memo? racism is over, we can now tell them
what we really think of Rap and R&B!!
\_ All this pageantry seems unnecessary. Just swear the poor bastard
in, thank him for volunteering, and let him get on with his
really, really hard job. |
| 2009/1/15-23 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52396 Activity:nil |
1/15 http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/15/obama.internet.president/index.html Obama 2.0 to reboot the economy. WTFBBQLOL. |
| 2009/1/9-12 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:52348 Activity:nil |
1/8 Whacky Berkeley Liberals on the loose waving American flags:
http://tinyurl.com/9zqnx4 (Boston.com) |
| 2009/1/6-12 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:52326 Activity:low |
1/6 URL speaks for itself, really
http://www.metafilter.com/78015/The-ObamaBigfoot-Connection
\_ Is Art Bell a Republican?
\_ Your reading comprehension has been classified as: lacking.
\_ You must not have read all the comments... |
| 2009/1/6-9 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52322 Activity:nil |
1/5 What happened to Separation of Church and State? Where did all these
churchy Dems come from?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ranzs4FkxHI
\_ conservative democrat is the new republican
\_ Going to church != conservative. Or do you think Obama's a
conservative?
\_ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10133425-38.html
I think he's something we haven't seen in a long time.
\_ Pragmatic?
\_ he's a good republican. |
| 2008/12/30-2009/1/7 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:52304 Activity:kinda low |
12/29 Candidate for chairmainship of GOP *improves* his chances by
distributing "Barack The Magic Negro" songs:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16919.html
\_ He should have put a Confederate flag on the album jacket.
\_ What do Powell and Rice have to say about this?
\_ This article is total FAIL for not even mentioning what a Magic
Negro is.
\_ Everyone knows that a a Magic Negro is like a Magic Dragon, only
different.
\_ Actually, "Magic Negro" was a term popularized by neocon
white bigots such as Spike Lee and Dave Chappelle, but
don't let that get in the way of making yourself feel
better.
\_ And while this is true, it doesn't change the implied
racism of the term when used by white GOP hacks to dismiss
Obama as nothing more than a stereotype and trope. Cf.
why Chappelle eventually stopped doing The Chappelle Show:
people were laughing with the racism, not at it.
\_ I thought the reason was that he was no longer doing
comedy for comedy's sake and that writing jokes for money
was killing him.
comedy for comedy's sake and that writing jokes for
money was killing him.
\_ http://csua.org/u/n7h (Transcript of interview with
Anderson Cooper.)
\_ And here I thought you guys were supposed to understand
nuance. I'll give you a hint. Calling Obama a Magic
Negro isn't as much an insult directed at Obama as it is
an insult directed at his supporters and his rise to
power. It's about as racist as calling Bush a chimp.
\_ In order for you to offer us a hint, you'd have to
have a clue. Calling Obama a Magic Negro implies that
he's a cardboard caricature expected to magically
solve white people's problems; regardless of the
accuracy of the implication that Obama's supporters
delude themselves, the premise continues to rely on a
black caricature, and therein lies the racism. A
more appropriate, better targeted term for Obama's
supporters, as you see them, is "pollyanna," named
after the literary character who only ever saw the
bright side of the world, no matter what shit was
flung at her.
\_ Actually, it is the GOP that was just the total FAIL. And given
what they're up to lately, I expect that FAIL to continue for
the next four years. Welcome to the wilderness, boys.
\_ we're happy to wander it just like Our Lord had to. |
| 2008/12/19-28 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:52282 Activity:nil |
12/19 "Obama has proved himself repeatedly to be a very tolerant, very
rational-sounding sort of bigot."
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1867664,00.html
\_ John Cloud? The guy who wrote the puff piece on Ann Coulter in
2005?
\_ And defended Coulter calling Edwards a faggot if I
remember correctly.
\_ welcome to america, if you don't like it, GET OUT |
| 2008/12/17-21 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52265 Activity:kinda low |
12/17 Obama, chillin'
http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/obama_youth/obama_youth_04.jpg
\_ but that pic rocks.
\- shut up paolo
\_ but that pic rocks.
\_ VIVA EL PRESIDENTE! |
| 2008/12/12-17 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52237 Activity:high |
12/12 Turns out it was the Dems in the senate who stopped the bailout
http://tinyurl.com/6yvf6k
\_ Right. And the Democrats are the ones who got us into the War
in Iraq. Uh huh.
\_ Uh, the vote for cloture was 52, with 4 D's voting nay and 4 not
voting. You think that's up for debate?
\_ The vote was as follows:
Democrats: 42 Y 4 N 4 A
Republicans: 10 Y 40 N(and A)
And your conclusion is that the Democrats "stopped the
bailout" right?
\_ Keep on pretending.
\_ Good for them. I'm disappointed that more aren't against it. -tom
\_ Woah, tom & I agree on something? -emarkp
\_ tom, you, and I agree on this. But we're bound to agree
on tautologies, like oxygen is necessary for living,
drinking water is good for you, literacy is good etc. -pollux
\_ Yes, I figured this was implicit in my comment--an issue on
which there are legitimate opinions on either side. -emarkp
\_ socialising failure and communism for the rich is
not a legitimate reason. Historically this is chrysler
bailout #2 so, so philosophically, morally, and
historically this bailout shouldn't happen. -pollux
\_ who cares if we bailed out Chrysler before. We bailed out
the world of finance in the 80s, why did we bail them out
again?
\_ you had your socialist empire, it failed, leave us
alone. No bailouts.
\_ so we give 800 billion to the banks, and we cant give 15 bill
to the industrial base? great.
\_ If you want the government to invest in the country's industrial
base, then is handing 15-34 billion to these three companies
really the best way to go about it? Consider that this is more
than these three companies put together are worth.
\_ No, I think the idea is more that we can't afford another
1M unemployed right now.
\_ It's time for poetic justice; we should have the auto
makers declare bankruptcy, and give their assets to
Amtrak, who will use them to develop trolley systems in
cities nationwide. -tom
\_ There are about, what, eight cities in the nation that
would benefit by this? Fewer? And how many of those don't
already have a trolley or similar?
\_ I was joking, but every city would benefit by having
a trolley system. Every city *did* benefit by having
a trolley system; they were widespread in the early
20th century. They only were killed because of a
typically unfortunate marriage of politics and greed.
-tom
\_ Only in the sense that every city would also benefit
by having free public helicopter service.
\_ The ROI on commuter rail in most American cities
is better than ROI on roads. -tom
\_ Why was the plan blocked? An e-mail message circulated among Senate
Republicans declared ... an opportunity ... to "take their first
shot against organized labor."
\_ i can fake email headers too
\_ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/opinion/15kristol.html |
| 2008/12/11-16 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52224 Activity:moderate |
12/11 Congress makes me sick. They forked over $700B to the banks with
less hand-wringing. $15B is chump change. Just do it. They don't
deserve it, but neither did the banks.
\_ The $700B was a loan.
\_ and we're gonna get every penny back, with interest! or how
about this: it would have been much worse if we hadn't loaned
them $700B. obama and mccain both said it - it must be true. -!op
\_ We will get some of it back, it is hard to say right now
how much. FDR's HOLC was closed at a profit (for the
government).
\_ it depends on what the meaning of "profit" is, and for that
matter, "refinance"
\_ it depends on what the meaning of "profit" is
\_ The $700B was sold as a way to free up the tight credit by buying
assets. Then Paulson immediately used the money differently from
how it was promised, and congress failed to appoint any oversight
(by comparison, the Afghanistan and Iraq campaigns have cost a total
of $864B as of June 30, 2008 http://opencrs.com/document/Rl33110
Maybe they don't want to hand out more money given how successful
(NOT!) the previous bailout was?
\_ For $15B when $700B was already doled out? It's in the noise.
\_ Of course, $700B has not already been doled out. |
| 2008/12/9-12 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52217 Activity:nil |
12/9 The book burners of the left
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/opinion/07egan.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
\_ What the fuck are you talking about? Are you insane or just
retarded?
\_ I think I'm stupider for having read that.
\_ Your reading comprehension is poor. |
| 2008/12/9-12 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52211 Activity:nil |
12/9 Can someone shed some light on the Blagojevich arrest?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7773717.stm
\_ Apparently, he was trying to turn his power to appoint
Obama's replacement on the Senate into financial gain
for himself. Straightforward abuse of public power.
If he were demanding concessions for his state, he
might have got away with "selling" the senate seat.
\_ What makes him such a colossally stupid douche
is that he was already under investigation - for
some 3 years apparently. It was likely common
knowledge that his office and phones were
bugged.
\_ Restoring honor and dignity to the White House.
\_ What the fuck are you spewing about? There's
no evidence that Obama did anything improper
at all - in fact, the exact opposite would
appear to be the case.
\_ Yeah, part of the reason dude started trying to
sell the senate seat is because Obama refused to
offer this dude "favors" in return for his top
pick.
\_ Well, didn't offer them quickly enough.
\_ Uh, what? |
| 2008/12/8-12 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52207 Activity:nil |
12/8 So $600B stimulus didn't work, let's try $1T!!!
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/05/news/economy/trillion_stimulus
\_ Your article doesn't say what you're saying. |
| 2008/12/8-12 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52200 Activity:low 100%like:52197 |
12/8 Andrew Sullivan has become truly unhinged
http://tinyurl.com/5rndkv
\_ funny. what if he's right?
\_ What if the 9/11 truthers are right?
\_ I truly do not think Bush is smart enough to lead a diabolical
conspiracy consisting of 10s of thousands to bomb the WTC
with thermite.
\_ The difference being that the Truthers have had their theories
debunked with facts, whereas Sullivan's questions have only
been answered with assertions. How hard is it to produce the
birth certificate? Frankly, I wouldn't care, except that she
seems determined to make herself a GOP fixture.
\_ Given the scenario, the birth certificate would be faked as
well. That wouldn't prove anything.
\_ Wasn't Obama really born in Kenya?
\_ At least it would provide something other than
"'cos I said so."
\_ What scenario could occur that would give the wackos
enough proof besides video footage of Obama ejecting
from the womb in Hawaii?
\_ Videos can be faked. This is the same crowd that
believes that the moon landings were faked as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_moon_landing_hoax_accusations
\_ I find this far more entertaining than the Obama was born in Kenya
conspiracy. I guess it really is Berkeley's fault.
\_ Do you call Malkin "truly unhinged" as well? |
| 2008/12/8-11 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:52198 Activity:nil |
12/9 Takeover strike:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081208/ap_on_re_us/workers_takeover |
| 2008/12/8-9 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52197 Activity:very high 100%like:52200 |
12/8 Andrew Sullivan has become truly unhinged
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/12/a-fourth-pictur.html
\_ please shorten this for the 80 char dinosaurs in audience
\_ funny. what if he's right?
\_ What if the 9/11 truthers are right?
\_ I truly do not think Bush is smart enough to lead a diabolical
conspiracy consisting of 10s of thousands to bomb the WTC
with thermite.
\_ The difference being that the Truthers have had their theories
debunked with facts, whereas Sullivan's questions have only
been answered with assertions. How hard is it to produce the
birth certificate? Frankly, I wouldn't care, except that she
seems determined to make herself a GOP fixture.
\_ Given the scenario, the birth certificate would be faked as
well. That wouldn't prove anything.
\_ Wasn't Obama really born in Kenya?
\_ At least it would provide something other than
"'cos I said so."
\_ What scenario could occur that would give the wackos
enough proof besides video footage of Obama ejecting
from the womb in Hawaii?
\_ Videos can be faked. This is the same crowd that
believes that the moon landings were faked as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_moon_landing_hoax_accusations
\_ I find this far more entertaining than the Obama was born in Kenya
conspiracy. I guess it really is Berkeley's fault.
\_ Do you call Malkin "truly unhinged" as well? |
| 2008/12/5-10 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Foreign/Asia/Others] UID:52182 Activity:nil |
12/5 asians are bad bad bad
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/04/BA8D14II0B.DTL
\_ Don't give your Myspace info to shady Vietnamese dudes
\_ Gee is a Cantonese last name. Are you racist or something?
\_ all look same
http://tinyurl.com/6bd32k
\_ You know, if only she had a CCW permit and a gun... -chico dude |
| 2008/12/3-7 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52155 Activity:nil |
12/3 Chambliss (R) wins in GA:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/69ppdp [wash. post] |
| 2008/12/3-8 [Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52153 Activity:nil |
12/3 When politicians lose elections, they often claim it's because the
voters were stupid. Here's an interesting new survey:
- 35 % of McCain voters got 10 or more of 13 questions correct.
- 18% of Obama voters got 10 or more of 13 questions correct.
- McCain voters knew which party controls congress by a 63-27 margin.
- Obama voters got the 'congressional control' question wrong by 43-41.
- Those that got 'congressional control' correct voted 56-43 for
McCain.
- Those that got 'congressional control' wrong voted 65-35 for Obama.
Audiences of Fox News got 'congressional control' correct 64-25
Audiences of CNN got 'congressional control' correct 48-38
Audiences of Network news got 'congressional control' correct 48-39
Audiences of print media got 'congressional control' correct 52-37
Audiences of MSNBC got 'congressional control' correct 55-35
Audiences of talk radio got 'congressional control' correct 61-29
\_ How many of those McCain voters still believe that one's
sexual inclination is a matter of CHOICE despite scientific
studies and consensus from the scientific community, and that
gayness can be cured by God?
\_ I'm not surprised. Average and mediam McCain voters are much much
older and thus have more time to absorb information. Having that
said, there is a big distinction between knowledge and
intelligence. McCain voters may know more about congressional
control but their stubborness and intelligence says something
else completely about them.
\_ This says more about the media than about the voters
\_ I remember when a majority of Bush voters in 2004 thought that we
had found WMD in Iraq.
\_ It helps to have a link to the survey.
\_ But if he linked to it, the biases would become way too obvious!
\_ DingDingDingDing!
\_ I agree with you, it is the Media's Fault that McCain lost. All
you Republicans need to do is swing hard right, nominate Palin
and do everthing you can to get your message out. The best way
to do this is send hundreds of emails directly to reporters,
correcting all the errors and biases in their reporting. |
| 2008/11/26-29 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52110 Activity:nil |
11/25 McCain says we will run again in 2010:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/25/AR2008112502801.html
(Ha, made you click the link). Rick roll please...
\_ Never gonna something something
never gonna something something |
| 2008/11/24-28 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52095 Activity:nil |
11/23 i know the election is over and all, but I want to gloat a TINY
bit ok and I'll go away, thanks. here:
"I don't know, because I remember the discussion about Africa, my
concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to
me with that issue, as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries
there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the
corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the
relevance was Alaska's investment in Darfur with some of our
permanent fund dollars, I wanted to make sure that that didn't happen
anymore."
\_ http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla
\_ Palin is awesome. She got the first black man elected President
of the freakin' UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I salute you, Sarah Palin.
No, really, it couldn't have happened without you. Now I wish you
would go back into obscurity. ok I'm done gloating. |
| 2008/11/23-29 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Computer/Networking] UID:52083 Activity:nil |
11/22 What's the best way to dispose old pagers, old cell phones, etc?
\_ http://www.wirelessfoundation.org/CallToProtect
\_ http://greencitizen.com is good if you're in SF/bay area. |
| 2008/11/21 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52064 Activity:nil |
11/21 Franken's continuing efforts to steal an election
http://tinyurl.com/56sept |
| 2008/11/21-28 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Reagan] UID:52063 Activity:nil |
11/21 Remaining GOP activists want to turn the Party further to The Right:
http://tinyurl.com/6m4xsv (TPM)
Note I predicted this a year ago, luckily (?) with the way information
moves, it shouldn't take them 12 years to discover that extremism is
a losing strategy, the way it did with the Dems.
\_ You do know that McCain was about as left as you can go and still be
in the GOP, right?
\_ You don't know what left means do you?
\_ I think that Guliani and Schwartzenner are both more liberal,
actually. Other than immigration policy and campaign finance
reform, McCain was pretty solidly conservative, right?
reform, McCain is pretty solidly conservative, right?
\_ I don't think McCain held many non very conservative views. That
was not his appeal. |
| 2008/11/17 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52015 Activity:high |
11/17 How Obama got elected
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1KOBMg1Y8
\_ I'm not sure what asking people what they think of 150k for
clothes, barney frank (here's a hint, HE IS GAY!!!! LULZ!!!!!)
and harry reid accomplishes.
You know why Obama won? He's a good speaker, he has a good
squeaky clean image, he didnt choose a complete dumbshit like Palin
to be his running mate, the economy cratered, and the Republicans
in the endgame ran a really sleazy campaign that turned off
undecided voters. It's not because of the media or a stupid
youtube video with 'o bama o bama' on infinite loop. Get over it,
you lost.
squeaky clean image, he didnt choose a clueless ignorant unknown
like Palin to be his running mate, the economy cratered, and the
Republicans in the endgame ran a really sleazy campaign that
turned off undecided voters. It's not because of the media or
a stupid youtube video with 'o bama obama' on infinite loop.
Get over it, you lost. The Republicans didnt present a plan for
the economy, all they did was chant SOCIALSIM and repeat 'Obama
pals around with terrorists!' over and over. You know you don't
do? Don't say your opponent is a terrorist. You undermine
AMERICA if he wins. Screw off Republican strategists.
\_ See, the questions were about facts, not opinions. And the
respondents got the facts wrong quite a bit.
\_ Still bitter eh?
\_ You should go off and form a bitter Government-In-Exile. |
| 2008/11/15-26 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51994 Activity:nil |
11/16 America: not racist anymore!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081116/ap_on_re_us/obama_racial
\_ is that why people are celebrating, b/c their white guilt is over? |
| 2008/11/14-26 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51990 Activity:nil |
11/14 Obama faces more threats than any other president-elect
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081114/ap_on_el_pr/obama_threats
\_ The 9-per-centers have really lost it.
\_ Obviously. There are a lot of KKK and closet racists out there. |
| 2008/11/14-26 [Finance/Banking, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51985 Activity:nil |
11/14 An overly long article directed to Obama on how he should fix the
farm/food system. I actually agree with some of his points, but
he does go little overboard toward the end.
http://csua.org/u/mxv (NYTimes)
\_ Forget the government, count on saving yourselves! This is a
GREAT time for you savers to wait it out, and in a few years,
everything will be super cheap and you'll buy properties
and stocks that'll go up tremendously when Obama-socialism
is over. This is the secret recipe that wealthy folks have
used for ages. Of course, if you never had a lot of savings,
then it's a different story.
\_ savings? what is left will be taken by the government
\_ Yes dear. That's nice. Now have some tea.
\_ What does this have to do with the farm bill?
\_ lulz |
| 2008/11/14-26 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51972 Activity:nil 84%like:51944 |
11/12 lulz Shephard Smith learned something in school
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHKzS5Zl6mY
I wonder when he'll jump networks.
\_ His comment about the media contradicts the media's statements
about the media.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/11/09/ST2008110901017.html
\_ Actually his comment is an answer to that. Obama got better
media coverage because he was the better candidate for the time. |
| 2008/11/13-26 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51969 Activity:nil |
11/13 75 percent approval rating. This is what leadership looks like:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/13/poll.obama/index.html
\_ No, it's what the inverse of Bush's approval rating looks like.
Let's see Obama execute on something before we annoint him. -tom |
| 2008/11/12-26 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush, Politics/Domestic/Election, Reference/Law/Court] UID:51947 Activity:nil |
11/12 http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE4AB8KG20081112 Appeals court upholds Jefferson charges Dear "Why aren't they going after Jefferson?!?!?"-guy: they are. And now the man gets due process. If, like Stevens, he's convicted by a jury of his peers, calls for his resignation will be heartily supported. \_ LOL. \_ it's teh 'lolz', not lol. |
| 2008/11/12-14 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51944 Activity:low 84%like:51972 |
11/12 big lulz Shephard Smith possibly learned something in school
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHKzS5Zl6mY
I wonder when he'll jump networks.
\_ wtf is a conservative comedian?
\_ it is CONSERVATIVE LULZ
\_ it is pretty weird to claim Obama lost the election.
\_ Shephard Smith is a Manchurian journalist
\_ LOL. LOL DUDE.
\_ what is a manchurian woman?
\_ His comment about the media contradicts the media's statements
about the media.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/11/09/ST2008110901017.html
\_ Actually his comment is an answer to that. Obama got better
media coverage because he was the better candidate for the time. |
| 2008/11/12 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:51938 Activity:moderate |
11/12 ZOMG http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE4A117D200 81102?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=10112 http://preview.tinyurl.com/5ljfbc \_ lulz \_ Are you talking to yourself, or are you having a cabinet meeting in your head again? \_ ZIGOM. \_ ??????????? \_ Please remove the LOLBERTROSS from around your neck. \_ ZMOG norcal!!!!!! |
| 2008/11/12-13 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51936 Activity:nil |
11/12 Speaking of LOL, is Palin going to be running for president for the next
four years?
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1108/Palin_not_letting_Ayers_go.html?showall |
| 2008/11/11-26 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51915 Activity:nil |
11/11 Classy Republicans:
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10955325?source=rss
\_ election is over dude, you won.
\_ angry sysadmin says
chance of Obama doing the right thing: 10%
chance of McCain doing the right thing: 0%
-> we lose
\_ chance of BushCo trying to pass thru legislations that will
fuck over the country while still being in power cos we're
all too busy congratulating each other and not looking: 100%
\_ Mathematically, 10 over 0 is an infinite ratio. So
Obama is still infinitely better than McCain.
\_ Angry sysadmin is muttering under his breath about revolution,
quoting the Declaration of Independence on his blog and
stocking up on ammo.
\_ Angry sysadmins are great. They pretty much exist to
be prodded and mocked.
\_ lol
\_ "lulz" |
| 2008/11/10-13 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51900 Activity:nil |
11/10 Poor Obama zombies (onion video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3_95F5e-Ac |
| 2008/11/10 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51894 Activity:nil |
11/10 WaPo admits their coverage of the election was biased.
http://csua.org/u/mwm
\_ Did you ever think it was possible that Obama was the better
candidate who ran a better campaign and therefore got better
press coverage? |
| 2008/11/10-12 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51891 Activity:nil |
11/10 Which one is a hotter MILF? (Or are they?)
Cindy McCain:
Sarah Palin:
\_ The hormones screaming in my brain say Palin since she is still
of breeding age. I reallydoubt McCain needs birth control anymore.
\_ Isn't she 44?
of breeding age. I really doubt McCain needs birth control anymore.
\_ Isn't Palin 44?
\_ she's still fertile, somehow!
\_ Downs Syndrome kids!
\_ Michelle Obama: .
\_ Trickled down Nancy Reagan: . |
| 2008/11/10-12 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51890 Activity:low |
11/9 86% of Bailout Money Used for Executive Bonuses
http://endthebailouts.com/2008/11/07/86-of-bailout-money-used-for-executive-bonuses
Thanks Obama!
\_ Obama? huh? he is not even the President yet.
\_ I don't think this is an Obama thing. I don't have enough time right
now to check out the figures cited by the Alternet article linked
to by the link you posted. layers on layers on layers.
\_ Two words: firing squad.
\_ Isn't this the Bush/Paulson plan?
\_ Yes, but they'll never let facts get in the way of stupidity.
\_ no. this is the plan Obama created according to Pelosi
approved by Congress then signed by Bush
\_ Attribution? |
| 2008/11/8-13 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51884 Activity:nil |
11/8 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/3405336/Sarah-Palin-blamed-by-the-US-Secret-Service-for-death-threats-against-Barack-Obama.html \_ 120 cols please |
| 2008/11/7-13 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51881 Activity:very high |
11/7 Obama's draft goes down the memory hole
http://tinyurl.com/63mbfa (LGF)
\_ Oh please, let me quote the GOP from when that pompous cybersec guy
came to ask cs studentds help in 02. "GET OVER IT."
\_ You guys are irrelevant. No one cares what you think anymore.
Shut up and eat your Freedom Fries.
\_ Don't you care at all about the president elect? If he lies,
does it matter? If he breaks promises, does it matter?
\_ Little Green Footballs - yep, nobody cares what they think.
\_ Sigh. The post shows screenshots of how the page has
changed. It's fairly spread over the blogosphere now.
Pick a source you're not scared of for your facts and
you should be able to find it.
\_ What's really sad is that you apparently think web
site revisions are something sinister.
\_ Policy changes via website revision. Oh, and $40/hr
for "volunteerism" now.
\_ Actually I remember him talking about tax credits
for college volenteer service back when he was on
the stump.
\_ Dittohead Grieving Status: Denial
\_ How will you be able to tell when it hits Anger?
\_ That would imply progress. Dittoheads are
agin' progress.
\_ Now that Obama has won, there will never be another
Republican in the government! Dems will rule for 1000 years!
\_ Someday the Republicans will be in power again, but it won't
be soon and it certainly won't be with Palin.
http://tinyurl.com/6blkpg
64% of Republicans want Palin as the 2012 nominee. I
sincerely hope that she is, so the Democratic Party can get
one of those 49 state landslides Reagan got.
\_ Really, it's quite amazing you let the press manipulate
your impression of her.
\_ Really, it's quite amazing how deluded you are.
\_ I wasn't being sarcastic. I really would like nothing
better than for the Republicans to nominate her for
President in 2012.
\_ Did she or didn't she sneeringly and contemptuously
refer to Obama's "San Francisco friends" in front of
100M people in her first serious public appearance?
That's me! She treats me with comtempt and I am supposed
That's me! She treats me with contempt and I am supposed
to turn the other cheek? I am not that kind of guy.
\_ Dude, your eight years are up. SHUT THE FUCK UP. GO AWAY.
YOU LOST.
\_ Obama bought the election:
http://www.sodahead.com/question/183578/did-barack-obama-buy-the-election/?link=GCPA_BuyVote_q183578_lb1
\_ Dittohead desperation level: Warp 7 |
| 2008/11/7-13 [Politics/Domestic/SIG, Politics/Domestic/California/Arnold, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51880 Activity:nil |
11/7 Why I'm not buying GOOG (special interest & conflict of interest):
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Google-Makes-First-Political-Contributions/story.aspx?guid={D98D82C9-98B9-4A0C-96F6-414DA5AEC365}
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44125
http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/14/technology/google_democrats/index.htm
\_ You know at this point I think GOOG in all honesty does not care
even a tiny tiny tiny bit whether an individual investor wants
to buy their stock. |
| 2008/11/7-13 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51877 Activity:low |
11/7 Obama's plans to require students to serve.
http://change.gov/americaserves
\_ Yes, so? Isn't that better than kids staying home and playing
Nintendo all day? Or doing drugs and hanging out with gangsters?
How is this different than mandatory physical education in
in school, is that also bad for kids?
\_ IT'S COMMUNISM! STALIN LOVED COMMUNITY SERVICE! THEY ARE
GOING TO TAKE AWAY ALL MY GUNS AND MONEY!
\_ http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081108/pl_nm/us_usa_guns_1
And you thought you were just being funny...
\_ Did you see the post below about slavery? Same thing.
\_ Sorry the assmastery threw me off.
\_ Added by an asshat after the post
\_ Old truths have been relearned; untruths have been unlearned.
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals;
we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a
prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the
conviction that in the long run economic morality pays. We are
beginning to wipe out the line that divides the practical from the
ideal; and in so doing we are fashioning an instrument of unimagined
power for the establishment of a morally better world. -FDR, 1936
\_ That was while FDR was prolonging the depression
http://tinyurl.com/56dqd4 [ucla.edu]
\_ FDR's policies probably would prolonged the depression
even longer if not for the FOUR HORSEMEN
\_ Krugman thinks you are wrong:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/new-deal-economics
\_ Krugman isn't an Economist anymore, he's just another lefty
commentator. Furthermore, the one link doesn't address the
UCLA study, and the other is 13 years old.
\_ Yeah, anyone who disagrees with you is a "lefty
commentator" we got that the first 1000 times you said
it.
it. Even the one's with Nobel Prizes aren't as worthy
as the anonymous contributors to LGF.
\_ http://tinyurl.com/6naawz
Stop Lying About Roosevelt's Record |
| 2008/11/7-13 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:51874 Activity:nil 80%like:51860 80%like:51873 |
11/6 Obama to bring back slavery:
http://assmastery.change.gov/americaserves
\_ u mean communism
\_ Yeah, I like Communism. Capitalism didn't work too well
under GWB.
\_ I thought GWB was a neocon and that neocon = socialism + war
\_ how are you going to spend your 100 hours ? scraping gum?
\_ say bye to the 13th amendment - Executive Order on the way
\_ That's an unfortunate sysadmin error there.
\_ They really need to change that Redirect to a Rewrite
\_ Good point, I will contact the campaign and get them to fix it.
\_ Fixed, thanks for the heads up. |
| 2008/11/7 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:51873 Activity:nil 80%like:51874 |
11/6 Obama to bring back slavery:
http://socialism.change.gov/americaserves
\_ u mean communism
\_ Yeah, I like Communism. Capitalism didn't work too well
under GWB.
\_ I thought GWB was a neocon and that neocon = socialism + war
\_ how are you going to spend your 100 hours ? scraping gum?
\_ say bye to the 13th amendment - Executive Order on the way
\_ That's an unfortunate sysadmin error there.
\_ They really need to change that Redirect to a Rewrite |
| 2008/11/7-13 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51869 Activity:nil |
11/7 Journalism is dead, all hail the new Obama department of Truth!
http://csua.org/u/mvr
\_ Unlabeled links are dead. All hail labeling your links.
\_ Mormon power! Prop 8 is alive! Religion CAN control .gov!
\_ Muslims, Catholics, etc. voted similarly. And?
\_ Your link has been classified as: dumb. |
| 2008/11/6-13 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Reagan] UID:51864 Activity:nil |
11/6 How a photographer can change opinion, subtlely via lighting,
composition, contrast, color:
http://strobist.blogspot.com/2008/11/vote-and-consider-uplighting.html
\_ A couple years ago someone posted a link on motd which was a
headshot of Dubya taken with a wide-angle lens at close-up distance.
He looked stupid in that picture. The photog did it on purpose
according to the poster. |
| 2008/11/6-7 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:51860 Activity:high 80%like:51874 |
11/6 Obama to bring back slavery:
http://change.gov/americaserves
\_ u mean communism
\_ Yeah, I like Communism. Capitalism didn't work too well
under GWB.
\_ I thought GWB was a neocon and that neocon = socialism + war
\_ how are you going to spend your 100 hours ? scraping gum?
\_ say bye to the 13th amendment - Executive Order on the way |
| 2008/11/6-13 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51857 Activity:nil |
11/6 Bawahaha. Black woman in Chicago randomly slaps copy saying. "White
[expletive], [expletive] McCain--you white police can't do nothing
anymore." She was arrested of course.
http://csua.org/u/mvg
\_ whoever posted this... RACIST!
\_ Stop labeling the wrong people.
\_ Thanks for filling my day with a little more stupid.
\_ we are all post racial now.
\_ Further proof that even a good candidate can't cure the stupid. |
| 2008/11/6-13 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51854 Activity:nil |
11/6 "Palin was unaware that Africa was a continent, arguing that South
Africa was simply a region of the larger country of Africa."
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081106/world/blame_palin_1
Glad that she didnt' become VP.
\_ Glad that rumor is a pile of shit.
\_ Glad people voting for her piece of shit lost.
\_ s/rumor/on the record fact/g
\_ http://gawker.com/5067135/little-piper-palins-790-designer-handbag
\_ http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081108/pl_nm/us_usa_election_palin_1
Palin fires back, calling her critics "jerks." |
| 2008/11/4-5 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51834 Activity:nil 52%like:51815 |
11/4 Starbucks offering a free 'tall' to anyone who voted today.
\_ oh i thought you wrote "tail"
I bet more Obama people are addicted to coffee than McCain people.
\_ Starbucks appeals to yuppies. Young urban professionals who
think they're smart and hang out at bookstores. They also
tend to be more liberal. Starbucks knows this all too well,
and they're influencing poll results. Good job. Let's tell
conservatives to fuck off.
\_ Have you actually been to a starbucks in the last decade?
\_ Who doesn't try to influence poll results in the way he/she/it
prefers?
\_ Do you have to show proof?
\_ Isn't this against the law?
\_ No
\_ Offering free coffee to people who say they voted is not
illegal.
\_ URL please? I don't see this on its web site. |
| 2008/11/4-5 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51831 Activity:kinda low |
11/4 Why are there so many white people at the McCain rally? Tune
to NBC right now. McCain loser speech is filled with all
white people. Why?
\_ Good concession speech though.
\_ Definitely a good speech, but his crowd sucked.
\_ Minority power!
\_ Likewise for the celebration parties. I'm watching Ch7 right now,
\_ Likewise for the celebration parties. I was watching Ch7,
and it's vast mostly black people in the street parties.
\_ OMG BLACK PEOPLE!
\_ KFC is running out of chicken. News at 11. |
| 2008/11/4-5 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:51826 Activity:nil |
11/4 CNN say Obama 52% McCain 44% while FoxNews says 49/49 each.
What's up with the discrepancy? |
| 2008/11/4 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51825 Activity:nil |
11/4 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27531033 Obama wins Ohio and projected to win! I hope this sends a chilling message to y'all rich, white, and/or religious male: FUCK YOU ALL! We don't want you in power anymore. FUCK YOU! YA BABY!!!!! Minority power!!! America is changing whether you like it or not! |
| 2008/11/4-5 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51824 Activity:nil |
11/4 Rock Obama: The Barack Obama Musical
http://www.sadninja.com |
| 2008/11/4-5 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51823 Activity:nil |
11/4 What graphical/topo map web site do you guys use to track latest poll
results live? Does it show trend, volumn, etc easily?
\_ Where can I find live results for Prop 8? I really want to
know where people stand on Prop 8, geographically.
\_ http://maps.google.com/help/maps/elections/#2008_election
\_ http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008
\_ NYT iPhone dashboard (webpage, not a stupid, buggy app):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/results/dashboard.html
Non-iPhone:
http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html |
| 2008/11/4 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51815 Activity:low 52%like:51834 |
11/4 Starbucks offering a free 'tall' to anyone who voted today.
I bet more Obama people are addicted to coffee than McCain people.
\_ Starbucks appeals to yuppies. Young urban professionals who
think they're smart and hang out at bookstores. They also
tend to be more liberal. Starbucks knows this all too well,
and they're influencing poll results. Good job. Let's tell
conservatives to fuck off.
\_ Have you actually been to a starbucks in the last decade?
\_ Who doesn't try to influence poll results in the way he/she/it
prefers?
\_ Do you have to show proof?
\_ Isn't this against the law?
\_ No
\_ Offering free coffee to people who say they voted is not
illegal.
\_ URL please? I don't see this on its web site. |
| 2008/11/4-5 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51812 Activity:nil |
11/4 It's my first time to vote. What prevents me from voting twice by
both mailing in my ballot and voting at a poll place? Thx.
\_ nothing. well besides the fact that the local fed prosecutor
could focus their resources on you and send you to jail for voter
fraud. I think it happened to someone a couple years ago.
\_ I know in Santa Clara you can track online whether your vote has
been received by ballot ID
\_ If you chose to receive an absentee ballot, this is noted on
the rolls at your assigned voting location. If you show up without
your absentee ballot, you can ask to be given a provisional ballot;
provisional ballots are checked out after the election to determine
legitimacy, so when they see your absentee ballot has already been
submitted, they will simply reject your provisional ballot. |
| 2008/11/3-5 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51805 Activity:moderate |
11/3 http://www.johnmccain.com/undecided/compare.htm Well, there you have it. \- ^undecided^fool-deserving-of-being-treated-with-codescention \_ When flaming someone, be sure to spell-check \- who is flaming anyone? i am suggesting that website doesnt speak to reasonable undecided people but is insulting and says something about the creators. speak to reasonable undecided people but is insulting and says something about the creators. \_ I didn't post this as a pro-McCain post. It's a funny graphic. -- moderate conservative/libertarian who can't support McCain/Palin (op) |
| 2008/11/3-5 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51801 Activity:nil |
11/3 "Obama's grandmother dies a day before election"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obama_grandmother
Poor lady. Couldn't hang in there for even one more day.
\- i'm pretty unsentimental at the passing of strangers
but this is poignant and moving. it's like a literary
epic part of "obama story".
\_ So... does her absentee ballot count or not?
\_ Unless of course he loses, then many it's a good thing.
\_ Unless of course he loses, then maybe it's a good thing.
\_ He's not gonna lose.
\- i think it's kinda funny how many rational scientific
non-supersticious believers in science/math/stat are
worried about generating bad mojo and assuming it is
a "slam dunk".
\_ Even his grandmother would rather die than live under his
administration.
\_ that pic he has of him and her that they gave to CNN for
the story is one of the best pieces of propaganda i've seen. |
| 2008/11/3 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Gay, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51788 Activity:moderate |
11/3 Obama, a former constitutional law professor, said last year that he
would look for candidates with "the heart, the empathy, to recognize
what it's like to be a teenage mom. The empathy to understand what
it's like to be poor, or African American, or gay, or disabled, or
old." Oh good, wouldn't want judges to just, you know, apply the law.
\_ This was on the motd 6 days ago.
\_ GOOD. I hate rich white people. They need to get the fuck
out of MY California.
\_ The implication is that under judges appointed by the GOP, the law
has not been applied fairly to the people he lists. His appointments
would bring balance to the Force. He is the vergence. |
| 2008/11/2-4 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51778 Activity:low |
11/1 Report from Miami: it rains 20 times a day in this god forsaken
place. No one is white. The food is good and everyone is very nice,
especially when they find out I am here to campaign for Obama. The
nice young woman that checked me in waited five hours to vote early
for Obama.
\_ You're in the wrong place. Get upstate where they're more
bayou inbred to do some good and change some minds. But good
luck, man.
\_ wasn't that hard. Just isolate the republican southern genteel
And point out to them that Obama is the real old-style republican.
Already switched 3 registerd GOP to vode for Obama.
\_ Most Southerns do not believe in blacks, period. |
| 2008/11/1-3 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51775 Activity:nil |
11/1 Man I love French Canadians:
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/USElection/2008/11/01/7275526-cp.html |
| 2008/10/31-11/2 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/Immigration] UID:51772 Activity:nil |
10/31 This is it baby, the October Surprise we have been waiting for:
http://tinyurl.com/6fcdrk
\_ Dittohead Desperation Level: Cosmic
\_ Awesome, because if that's all there is this thing is over.
Gobama!
\_ What appened to the swift boat group?
\_ Leaked by federal law enforcement to a Murdoch newspaper. Nice. |
| 2008/10/30-31 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51751 Activity:high |
10/30 Who will have the hottest post election President sex, Obama McCain
Biden Paolo or Palin?
\_ Obama on Hillary.
http://www.hogrockcafe.com/Obama%20Hillary%20Clinton.jpg
\_ NSFW |
| 2008/10/30 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51746 Activity:high 50%like:51736 |
10/30 YOU ARE ALL JOE THE PLUMBER
\_ The Obama Administration's slogan will be
THEN SURELY THE PARTY OF GOD ARE THEY WHO WILL BE TRIUMPHANT
\_ I like OSAMA, HERO OF ISLAM
\_ Obama transliterates to "He is with us" in Persian. Oo bah mah.
\_ Obama transliterates to "He will impale us" in Persian.
Oo bah mah.
\_ Are you sure it isn't "He who feeds on the blood of
the innocent"? Oob ahm ah. |
| 2008/10/30-31 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51744 Activity:nil |
10/30 WELL KNOWN SOCIALIST RAG THE ECONOMIST ENDORSES OBAMA
http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12516666&source=features_box_main
\_ Sounds great. Are they atoning yet for endorsing Bush?
\_ I thought they endorsed Kerry last time around.
\_ Well they definitely endorsed W in 2000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_editorial_stance |
| 2008/10/30-31 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51740 Activity:kinda low |
10/30 It'll be funny if McCain fails to win in Arizona.
\_ Not gonna happen. Unfortunately.
\_ It is definitely in play.
\_ not really. 538 gives Obama a 3% shot at AZ.
\_ Intrade has the line at 19%. Granted there are 11
states are are more "in play" but it is possibly one
of them, especially if undecided voters break heavily
to Obama, which they are likey to do.
to Obama, which they might do. |
| 2008/10/30 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51736 Activity:high 50%like:51746 |
10/30 I bet Obama wishes he never met Joe The Plumber
\_ Why is that? Because JTP turned out to be a Republican
hack?
\_ Obama's responses is being twisted in all kinds of ways into
SOCIALISM.
\_ so?
\_ oh i dont think he's a socialist. I dont think McCain is
evil. I just think Obama is going to win. When your
opponent starts whining about the evil media, you know he
know's he's toast.
\_ What does that have to do with why Obama might wish he
never met Joe the Plumber? |
| 2008/10/29 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51727 Activity:high |
10/29 Obama sure had trouble getting to work on time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah9W24oMIRc
\_ Never had a job where you have to have impromptu meetings
or random crisises have you? Never being late for a meeting
is a sign of a worker drone who doesn't have other
responsibilities.
\_ spoken like a true zombie
\_ yeah.. hard to keep balance going to terrorist supporting
meetings and faking caring for the USA
\_ Spoken like someone who has responsibility. Being late
for a meeting doesn't mean you are hiding in the bathroom
beating off.
\_ if i were your manager i'd fire you so you can have
the time needed to take care of your other more
important responsiblities
\_ If I worked for you, and you assigned me oodles of
crap and then wouldn't be understanding when I
prioritized, I'd _want_ you to fire me. Yay,
unemployment!
\_ no i would not fire you because you would
make more than i would under Obama's
redistribution of wealth. I'd pay you $250k
so you would end up with nothing
\_ Given your level of ignorance and knee-jerk
anti-Obama-ism, you'll probably get promoted
to CFO. Good luck with that. |
| 2008/10/29-30 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51725 Activity:nil |
10/29 Ooh, now Biden is less accessable than Palin?
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1854640,00.html
\_ Everyone will agree the Biden/Obama campaign is not dumb.
They just need to run out the clock until Nov 6th, and they win. |
| 2008/10/29 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51724 Activity:high |
10/29 Is Biden a drunk? He sounds hammered here (campaign stop)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TBNeNHHXEY
\_ Yeah, he's a big lush, didn't you hear.
\_ Yeah, he's a big lush, didn't you hear? Every morning it's
a fifth of Jack and a six pack.
\_ joe six pack?
\_ And then a drive home to Delaware.
\_ Why do you think he takes the train?
\_ Actually he drives from DC to Delaware almost every day.
\_ I thought he took the train, where did you hear
otherwise? |
| 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.
I didn't pay enough attention to the past debates and things in
the media like a responsible voter should have. So I'm trying
to catch up at the last minute. For the state and county,
ballots, I can read the info off the official ballot package.
But there's no such thing for the presidental candidates. |
| 2008/10/28-31 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51711 Activity:nil |
10/28 http://defamer.com/5068356/ricky-gervais-and-thandie-newton-add-british-class-to-sarah-palin-porn-film |
| 2008/10/28-30 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/California] UID:51710 Activity:nil |
10/27 More massive republican voter fraud
http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/phony-flier-says-virginians-vote-different-days |
| 2008/10/28-29 [Politics/Domestic/Gay, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51701 Activity:low |
10/28 Federal Judge oath of office:
Each justice or judge of the United States shall take the following
oath or affirmation before performing the duties of his office: "I,
XXX XXX, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice
without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the
rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform
all the duties incumbent upon me as XXX under the Constitution and laws
of the United States. So help me God."
Obama, 2007:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/17/274143.aspx
"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what
it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what
it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old.
And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges."
\_ And Bush selected judges by ...
\_ Dittohead Desperation Level: Ultraviolet
\_ Don't you mean infrared? -op
\_ This guy is going to be an awesome President.
\_ FDR would have lost WEST COAST HOTEL if ROBERTS followed the oath. |
| 2008/10/27-29 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51699 Activity:kinda low |
10/27 Is anyone here undecided on Obama vs. McCain? If not, can we
dispense with all the motd entries on the topic?
Dot here if you're undecided:
\_ Ron Paul: ....
\_ BIGGS: Wait!
\_ No, you're not funny. No, you're not clever. Yes,
you are extremely annoying.
\_ (all true, I admit, but nevertheless:)
Biggs' cockpit explodes around him, lighting him in red.
\_ Hans: Sure hope the old man got that tractor beam out of
commission, or this is gonna be a real short trip. Okay,
hit it!
\_ what does that have to do with today's rally?
\_ Cause we are going to find out really soon if that
old man took out the tractor beam or not... |
| 2008/10/27-30 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51693 Activity:nil |
10/27 Esquire has a decent summary of why I am voting for Obama:
http://esquire.com/features/esquire-endorsements-2008/esquire-endorses-barack-obama
"Bushism must be ripped out, root and branch, everywhere it has been
established, or else the presidential election of 2008 is a worthless
exercise in futility. Barack Obama may not be the man to do it, but
John McCain, for all his laudable qualities, clearly is neither
willing nor able to do so."
\_ Young people of American DEMAND Socialism.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=socialism
\_ Obviously referring to Ayers.
\_ That actually looks like it is popular in Stockholm.
Try this one on for size, you commie:
http://tinyurl.com/622vum
\_ I'm voting for Obama not because he's my most favorite, but because
my most favorite is not running and my second most favorite lost in
the primary. I don't really want to vote for Obama, but I still
will because he's better than the alternative. |
| 2008/10/27-29 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51690 Activity:high |
10/26 Hi-res scans show Obama was indeed a *member* of the New Party
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-file-41-obama-was-new-party.html
\_ Having serious difficulty mustering enough energy to care.
\_ Excellent. The most liberal member of the Senate is looking to win
in a landslide.
\_ I'm far more interested in who the candidates really are than in
who's going to win.
who's going to win. -op
\_ Do you honestly believe that Obama was a member of the New
Party, or are you just spreading FUD?
\_ Yes, I honestly believe that, and it appears pretty well
documented. -op
\_ Those links you posted are not good documentation, in
fact they are contradictory themselves. Do you honestly
believe that the Democratic Party would run as a
candidate in the general election a member of another
party? If you really believe this, you are pretty
clueless. Keep grasping at straws though.
\_ The New Party docs aren't good? huh?
\_ If you would read your own excrement before posting
to the motd, you would see that one of the
paragraphs says he is a New Party member, while
the other one says he is a NP endorsed candidate,
not a NP member. Did you read it?
"Winners! NP-endorsed candidates Martin, Davis
and Obama celebrate with Chicago New Party
Members Ted Thomas and Ruth Schools..., "
\_ Uh, being called 'endorsed' doesn't mean he
*wasn't* a member.
\_ In the English language there is only one
way to interpret that statement.
way to interpret that statement. You never
explained how the Democratic Party could
have as their candidate a member of another
party.
\_ The "New Party" was a fusion party. Look
it up, and what it means.
\_ Frankly, I have better things to do,
like pack for the week I am going to
spend in Miami helping GOTV for Obama.
I don't think the assassination plot
is going to bring over too many
undecided voters, but good luck with
your wing nuttery.
\_ Cryptocommunist eh?
\_ It's depressing really. The tinfoil hattery common amongst the
right during the Clinton years is going to be nothing compared to
what's coming during the Obama years. Can we call it NeoBirchism?
\_ ODS |
| 2008/10/25-28 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51679 Activity:nil |
10/25 More deranged Republicans at a Palin rally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuD7Sdax00s
\_ I imagine that you could find similar footage at Democratic rallies
in 2000 and 2004. -tom |
| 2008/10/24-28 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51676 Activity:nil |
10/24 McCain aide was spreading incendiary version of hoax mugging story
before any facts were known
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/mccain_aide_gave_reporters_inc.php
\_ http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2008/10/skyx.jpg
\_ Isn't it refeshing how there is no more racism in America?
\_ Dude, this was obviously referring to Ayers.
\_ http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/24/mccain.sticker/index.htm
Conservatism is a mental illness. |
| 2008/10/24-28 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51671 Activity:nil |
10/24 McCain volunteer who claimed attack confesses making up story
Charges will be filed. Funny, NO MENTION of this on Drudge!
<DEAD>tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/report_mccain_volunteer_who_cl.php<DEAD>
http://kdka.com/local/attack.McCain.Bloomfield.2.847628.html
"If this incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain’s quest for the
presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting."
http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/23/jmoody_1023
\_ Uh, it's on the top of drudge right now.
\_http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081024/ap_on_re_us/attack_mccain_sticker
\_ What do you expect? Joe the Plumber's real name is not Joe either.
\_ stupeed demz!! |
| 2008/10/24-28 [Politics/Domestic/Abortion, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51669 Activity:nil |
10/24 Palin: "I don't know" if abortion clinic bombers are terrorists
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27343688
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hu1NeI4M1k
\_ I am so pro Abortion. Abortions for all!
\_ Miniature american flags for others...
\_ Bombing for Jesus! Talk about moral relativism! |
| 2008/10/24-28 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51666 Activity:kinda low |
10/24 Latest Republican endorsement of Obama: William Weld
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/10/weld_backs_obam.html
\_ BTW, are there any publicly known Democrats endorsing McCain? (The
Governator doesn't count.)
\_ Lieberman of course. And I can't imagine Zell Miller is voting
Obama.
\_ Lieberman the Independent?
\_ I didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party
left me...
\_ I didn't leave the Dems; they just didn't select me
in the Primary, so I ran as an Independent.
\_ In Soviet Russia ...... |
| 2008/10/23 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51663 Activity:nil |
10/23 McCain supported attacked, beaten, B carved on face.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/17789356/detail.html |
| 2008/10/23-28 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51658 Activity:nil |
10/23 http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/17789356/detail.html http://www.drudgereport.com/cut.jpg Dang, Obama supporters sur are dumm! he wrote the B backwards! and he had plenty of time to scratch it neatly with a dull knife! and when he punched her in the back of the head to knock her down he hit her in the left eye! stupids! \_ Did Drudge drag out the siren for this one? \_ This story has several large holes in it. \_ Even Michelle Malkin doubts this: http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/23/why-that-mccain-volunteers-mutilation-story-smells-awfully-weird \_ But the scary big black man attacked her because she supported the Real American! Quick! To the right wing noise machine! \_ "Police: McCain volunteer made up robbery story" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081024/ap_on_re_us/attack_mccain_sticker |
| 2008/10/23-28 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51656 Activity:nil |
10/23 "Sarah Palin in 2012?"
http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/91949
McCain can't even contain his own running mate.
\_ Palin is far too loathsome to be shooed off the national stage
so quickly.
\_ She'll be great on The Amazing Race
\_ She's deluded enough to actually believe she'll get votes outside
the hockey mom/joe sixpack with IQ < 100 demographic
\_ Half of America is below average intelligence, don't forget
that. |
| 2008/10/23-27 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51645 Activity:nil |
10/22 McCain agrees with Obama surrogate cricism:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9_QvJicy4 |
| 2008/10/22 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51639 Activity:nil |
10/22 you know what's really funny. Palin is the most socialist American
governor there is. Not that that is a bad thing.
\_ COUNTRY FIRST
\_ Oil royalties are inherently capitalist.
\_ If you view Alaska as a corporation and all Alaskans as share-
holders, Palin's actions are pretty much in line with any CEO.
They're just terrible in terms of a workable civilization. |
| 2008/10/22-27 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51637 Activity:nil |
10/22 Obama dance vs. McCain dance. Humor.
http://www.minimovie.com/film-128460-McCain-Obama_Dance-Off |
| 2008/10/22 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51635 Activity:nil |
10/22 I'm watching Fox. Did you know McCain and Obama are in a statistical
tie, with McCain gaining in key groups? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
\_ Huh? Which poll is that?
\_ The fox politically self-serving poll.
\_ But that one shows Obama up by 9?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,443343,00.html
\_ Or were they referring to that weird AP poll which predicts 44%
of the
electorate will be evangelical Christians?
\_ McCain is DOMINATING Alaska, Texas, Arizona and Utah |
| 2008/10/22 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:51634 Activity:nil |
10/22 Right wing get increasingly more deranged as election approaches:
http://crookedtimber.org/2008/10/21/let-me-be-the-first-to-welcome-our-new-international-socialist-conspiracy-overlords
\_ I agree, they are really beginning to resemble the left.
\_ The difference is you are comparing the Insane Rambling Crazy
Person Left with the Very Serious Get Massive Press Time and
Treated Seriously Right. The Insane Rambling Crazy Person Right
is makes these ravings look downright reasonable. There are
crazies on every end of every spectrum, but it's telling when
just being mostly crazy counts as reasonable. |
| 2008/10/22 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51628 Activity:nil |
10/22 I am pro Obama. The market just dropped 400 points. Does that
mean the market is going to go way down if Obama wins?
\_ y es.
\_ dont make me come down there and beat you. |
| 2008/10/22 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51622 Activity:very high |
10/22 Al Qaida rooting for McCain
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/238985.php
http://washingtonindependent.com/14218/mccain-advisers-freaked-out-by-al-qaeda-preference-for-mccain
\_ How better to destroy America than to bankrupt us with N billion
foreign intervention wars?
\_ Expect tape from Osama endorsing Obama by next Friday at the latest. |
| 2008/10/22 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51621 Activity:nil |
10/22 Palin's anti-intellectualism
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8c130fe3-adab-4cb3-8443-c363f085cf13 |
| 2008/10/21-22 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51619 Activity:nil |
10/21 Palin just said she will be in charge of the Senate!
\_ Didn't you hear? Vice-presidents no longer have to follow the
constitution.
\_ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03/nailin-paylin-hustlers-pa_n_131581.html |
| 2008/10/21-22 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51616 Activity:nil |
10/21 kill me now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l40nrw3V3GA
\_ Her response to being universally ridiculed? Get cocky! |
| 2008/10/21-22 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51614 Activity:kinda low |
10/21 Obama supporter (and Baptist Minister, and veteran) has his Obama
lawn sign replaced with with a confederate flag:
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-10-21-0105.html
\_ Meh. Inside job. |
| 2008/10/21-22 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51612 Activity:nil |
10/20 'You wonder why McCain/Palin supporters feel like they can go to
rallies and talk about Obama being a Jew-bought Islamic radical
cokehead forced abortionist communist? Because it’s the standard that
the campaign’s set by having ridiculously drawn out public
conversations designed to draw full attention to the charges while
laboring under the pretense that they’re “debating” over using the
smear.'
http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/stupidity_will_suffice |
| 2008/10/21-22 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51606 Activity:nil |
10/21 I think McCain's only going to win Alaska and Arizona
\_ REAL AMERICANS
\_ No, he'll get Texas too. I think it'll be 300 votes for
Obama, no more. Wouldn't put money on it though. --PM
\_ 380 -Liberal Elitist
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/?map=10
Plus add IN and WV.
\_ he's got Alaska, Arizona, Texas, Utah and New Hampshire LOCKED UP
\_ Palin is KICKING SERIOUS ASS in Nevada. That's gotta be
3 or 4 electoral votes right there. |
| 2008/10/21-22 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51604 Activity:nil |
10/21 Palin is mocking Obama for supposedly supporting in a future
scenario sending our troops into a nation who's government does
not welcome us. |
| 2008/10/21-22 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51602 Activity:nil |
10/21 Palin isn't dumb. She's just ignorant. Do you remember in the 70s
when a bunch of Harvard trained MBAs tried an elaborate scheme
of price fixing and screwed up the economy for YEARS? do you think
Palin in her wildest dreams would think of something like that? I
thought so. Vote for Palin!
\_ Homina homina homina! |
| 2008/10/21-22 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51601 Activity:kinda low |
10/21 why does Palin say things like 'my fellow alaskans were given
the opportunity to finally vote on the possibility of an amendment
to their constitution in this great state of Alaska!'? it drives
me crazy.
\_ You don't know that this is the first time that citizens of a state
in Russia can vote on the possibility of an amendment to their
constitution? Palin the Russian state governor knows that.
constitution? |
| 2008/10/21-22 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51600 Activity:high |
10/21 LEFTISTS.
\_ OBAMA IS SPENDING MONEY TO WIN THIS ELECTION.
\_ You bring up an interesting point. Does $$ win elections, or
do winning candidates have lots of support, and therefore $$?
Arguably, Obama has many, many more small donations from
individuals, therefore, he has more support, and the $$ is
just a sign of it.
\_ obFreakonomicsAlreadyAnalyzedThis |
| 2008/10/21-22 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51598 Activity:nil |
10/21 OBAMA is VACATIONING IN HAWAII
\_ How dare his grandmother get gravely ill and throw this election.
\_ she is not ill, she threatened to show Obama's birth
certificate which is not from the US
\_ you know mccain was born in central america right |
| 2008/10/21-22 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51597 Activity:kinda low |
10/21 did you know McCain fixed the Cuban missile crisis too?
my brain is going to explode.
\_ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4wQfQtpDAc
\_ McCain/Alzheimer's 2008 |
| 2008/10/20-21 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51594 Activity:nil |
10/20 http://www.wisn.com/politics/17754232/detail.html What's the phrase that the freeper contigent seems to be so fond of? Oh yeah, "stay classy Replublicans." \_ Obviously this was referring to Ayers. |
| 2008/10/20-22 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51586 Activity:kinda low |
10/19 30 Obama supporters vehicles get their tires slashed in North Carolina
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/obama_supporters_tires_slashed.php
\_ KKK?
\_ Inevitable result of the slimiest Republican campaign in memory.
\_ It's the truth. If a campaign spends most of it's energy
implying that the other candidate is unamerican and a danger
to the very roots of democracy, this is the result. But I
forgot, McCain for some reason isn't responsible for how he
runs his campaign.
\_ Uh, it's because Obama *does* hate america and is
socialist. However, don't think these kind of things only
happen by nuts on one side.
\_ Wow you are both batshit insane and a moron.
Congratulations!
\_ Even if Obama *does* hate America, and *is* a socialist,
who better to improve America than someone who hates
its faults? And how about social benefits for the
middle class and the poor for a change, instead of
bailouts for rich companies and tax cuts for the
rich who don't need anyone's help?
\_ Hating America's faults != hating America. Hating
faults and caring enough to want to fix them is
a good thing. Think about that engineer you know
who doesn't give a shit about how crappy their code
is, now compare that to the one who fixes those
code path nightmares and makes things better. Which
one would you rather have working on your project?
\_ To the conservative wingnut cadre, hating America's
faults or talking down on any aspect of how
Americans customarily do business is hating
America. In their eyes, "hating America" and
"hating America's faults" is a distinction
without a difference. Don't like American
interventionism or imperialism? You HATE
AMERICA. Don't like America's welfare for
the rich? WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA?
\_ The tire-slashing was an inside job by Obama supporters to fire up
their supporters and create blog fodder.
\_ Another member of the "batshit insane/moron" club!
\_ link:tinyurl.com/6kv6e8
Bulletin board by highway in MO.
\_ But remember, this isn't racist. Only people that think this is
in any way racist - are racist.
\_ Why don't you post to the motd when the Democrats do it?
\_ Note that the motd has a pretty good track record of calling both
Dems _and_ the GOP on BS. It's not the motd's fault if the GOP
crew are just more likely to spew/pull BS. |
| 2008/10/19-21 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51582 Activity:low |
10/19 Oopsie, Obama broke ethics law when he was a state senator
http://tinyurl.com/6do4x6
\_ This from John Stephenson, editor of Stop The ACLU.
\_ Every single bit of spittle that flys from the frothing mouth
of the Right warrants a banner headline in the NYT. Or it is
just further proof that the MSM is in the tank for Obama.
\_ This odd concept of equal time for opposing views is silly.
If I say "Gravity causes apples to fall down," must we then
publish cranks who insist on the Earth is a Magnet theory? |
| 2008/10/19-22 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/California/Arnold] UID:51580 Activity:low |
10/19 Colin Powell endorses Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_NMZv6Vfh8
\_ Apparently the freeptards are already calling him a 'racist'
\_ One fewer reason why I should vote for McCain.
\_ One fewer reason why I should vote for McCain. Now if only the
Governator can also endorse Obama (he endorsed McCain), my choice
Governator could also endorse Obama (he endorsed McCain), my choice
would be finalized. |
| 2008/10/19-22 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:51579 Activity:nil |
10/19 How the Republican lobbying game killed Freddie Mac reform:
http://tinyurl.com/5j9znb |
| 2008/10/19-21 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic] UID:51578 Activity:nil |
10/19 Another classy Republican in Ohio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbbcVNOMqSk |
| 2008/10/19-21 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51577 Activity:nil |
10/19 Wondering why McCain brought up autism in the debate? Hmmm...
http://timesonline.typepad.com/oliver_kamm/2008/10/more-on-obama-m.html
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/10/autism_in_the_presidential_debate.php
http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/?p=1551 |
| 2008/10/17-21 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51568 Activity:nil |
10/17 McCain hired same robo-call slime firm to attack Obama as attacked
him in 2000:
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/did_mccain_hire_same_firm_to_d.php |
| 2008/10/17 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51564 Activity:nil |
10/17 http://www.mcclatchydc.com/310/story/54360.html McCain decides to vilify ACORN as the worst thing since Hitler and funny enough his supporters take him to heart and act on the belief. Where's the McCain isn't responsible for his actions guy when you need him? |
| 2008/10/17-20 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51560 Activity:nil |
10/17 Trader on Intrade was artificially boosting John McCain's contract
value
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002976265&referrer=js
\_ You mean a Republican was trying to manipulate the election?
Say it isn't so Joe! |
| 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
Republican favors.
\_ No, it wouldn't, but it would give strokes and heart attacks
to the folks who are already afraid GWB's going to declare
martial law before the elections, and then they wouldn't be
able to get out of the hospital to vote.
\_ Doesn't http://CNN.com have a relatively liberal readership? Not that
I'm rooting for McCain or anything.
\_ Only if you compare it to Fox.
\_ I think the online poll is bunk, but every poll I've seen had
Obama winning all three debates. -tom |
| 2008/10/16-20 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51552 Activity:nil |
10/15 Sacramento County Republican website:
"The Only Difference between Obama and Osama is BS: Waterboard
Barack Obama"
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/waterboard-him.html |
| 2008/10/16-17 [Computer/SW/Security, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51551 Activity:nil 50%like:51512 |
10/15 Secret Service says no one said "Kill him" at Palin rally
http://www.timesleader.com/news/breakingnews/Secret_Service_says_Kill_him_allegation_unfounded_.html |
| 2008/10/16-20 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51549 Activity:nil |
10/15 Nope, no Republican Racism here!
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_buck16.3d67d4a.html |
| 2008/10/16-20 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51545 Activity:nil |
10/16 McCain blanketing states with robocalls
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/worst_yet_mccain_campaign_robo.php |
| 2008/10/16-17 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51542 Activity:moderate |
10/16 Joe the "Plumber" not actually a plumber
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081016/NEWS09/810160418
\_ I don't have a bachelor's degree but I work at a tech firm.
And we care because... ?
\_ Because plumbers actually have to get certified, unlike
software engineers?
\_ only if his customers care. My mom always hire unlicensed
contractors for her rental properties because they're a
lot cheaper.
\_ He *works* for a plumber. He *wants* to buy the business, which
would mean he'd need to be certified at that point.
\_ he also clearly doesn't understand how business taxes work. |
| 2008/10/16-20 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51541 Activity:nil |
10/15 Awesome McCain supporters in Bethlehem, PA (why was this nuked?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVuBcJ7ijP8 |
| 2008/10/16-17 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51540 Activity:nil |
10/15 Holy smokes! McCain was on Batman!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63SRpGXBHE |
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