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bmwracer wrote:Man, I am totally addicted to reading all the junk on the Huffington Post...

Don't know why, but I am more into this election than I've ever been in my life... Not sure if it's because of the promise and hope that Obama offers or my total disgust of Bush and McCain-Palin's politics of fear... :sweat:

I am actually right there with you. I don't normally spend so much time doing anything (maybe it has to do with the fact that I'm home so much, not having a real job) - I spend like 5+ hours a day listening to NPR coverage.

Also, this election has been going on for an unreasonably long time - I bet I'll actually miss hearing the drama when it's over.

As far as your McCain-Palin assertion, being pretty apartisan myself, I still tend to agree - fear-mongering and angry, aggressive rhetoric is not what I'm about.

phlargo wrote:I am actually right there with you. I don't normally spend so much time doing anything (maybe it has to do with the fact that I'm home so much, not having a real job) - I spend like 5+ hours a day listening to NPR coverage.

Also, this election has been going on for an unreasonably long time - I bet I'll actually miss hearing the drama when it's over.

As far as your McCain-Palin assertion, being pretty apartisan myself, I still tend to agree - fear-mongering and angry, aggressive rhetoric is not what I'm about.

That's what the entire McCain-Palin campaign is about... :grumble:

It'll be a sad day in American history, not just American politics, if McCain wins with this ugly, sickening strategy... His winning would be more divisve than healing, IMO.

bmwracer wrote:
That's what the entire McCain-Palin campaign is about... :grumble:

It'll be a sad day in American history, not just American politics, if McCain wins with this ugly, sickening strategy... His winning would be more divisve than healing, IMO.

McCain winning would be quite the upset, given how much of a disaster the campaign has been so far. The ugly, divisive speeches and ads show just how desperate McCain, but disturbingly there are still many McCain supporters who buy into it. I certainly agree that a McCain win would be more divisive than healing.

In hopes to avoid the upset I, along with the many who already have, gave Obama and Biden my early vote. :victory: Now I just have to make sure my family and friends have voted. Not hard of a job, since we are all Obama supporters, but support doesn't mean much if we don't vote.

Aside from Obama-Biden, I'm really hoping that Prop. 8 here in California does not pass. Personally, I see Prop. 8 as an attack on the gay and lesbian friends I have come to known, and I feel it is wrong to deny them the right to marry. An Obama victory and a Prop. 8 beatdown would certainly make me a very happy person come next Wednesday morning, or whenever the votes are done being counted. :victory:

deseipher wrote:In hopes to avoid the upset I, along with the many who already have, gave Obama and Biden my early vote. :victory: Now I just have to make sure my family and friends have voted. Not hard of a job, since we are all Obama supporters, but support doesn't mean much if we don't vote.

Yeah, I mailed in my absentee ballot last week. :thumbsup:

Aside from Obama-Biden, I'm really hoping that Prop. 8 here in California does not pass. Personally, I see Prop. 8 as an attack on the gay and lesbian friends I have come to known, and I feel it is wrong to deny them the right to marry. An Obama victory and a Prop. 8 beatdown would certainly make me a very happy person come next Wednesday morning, or whenever the votes are done being counted. :victory:

Yeah, I hope Prop fails as well... The entire campaign of teaching kids about gay marriage is lame and narrow-minded... Is it asking too much to allow people their own personal and private freedoms?

Once again, politics of fear. :shakehead:

"But McCain has so far been unable to use the humour employed by Ronald Reagan when he expertly defused the age issue in 1984.

Reagan also didn't have to deal with the steady drumbeat of late-night jokes about his age. McCain has been deftly caricatured by the likes of David Letterman as the old codger in his bathrobe screaming at the kids to get off his lawn.

Earlier this month, Letterman remarked on Obama's door-knocking campaign event in an Ohio neighbourhood.

"Coincidentally, John McCain is also going door to door, except when he knocks on a door, he says, 'Do I live here?' " Letterman said."

Tu_triky wrote:"But McCain has so far been unable to use the humour employed by Ronald Reagan when he expertly defused the age issue in 1984.

Reagan also didn't have to deal with the steady drumbeat of late-night jokes about his age. McCain has been deftly caricatured by the likes of David Letterman as the old codger in his bathrobe screaming at the kids to get off his lawn.

Earlier this month, Letterman remarked on Obama's door-knocking campaign event in an Ohio neighbourhood.

"Coincidentally, John McCain is also going door to door, except when he knocks on a door, he says, 'Do I live here?' " Letterman said."

LOL. :hehe:

Now McCodger is backpedaling and saying that Obama is not a Socialist... :shakehead:

Dude is flip-flopping like a fish on the deck of a boat.

bmwracer wrote:

Dude is flip-flopping like a fish on the deck of a boat.

:hehe: :hehe:

They all do that but McCain doesn't remember his flip-flops...whether they were blue or green, whether he left 'em in the bathroom or in the backyard. :beaten:

Tu_triky wrote: :hehe: :hehe:

They all do that but McCain doesn't remember his flip-flops...whether they were blue or green, whether he left 'em in the bathroom or in the backyard. :beaten:

Heh. :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:
Heh. :hehe:

:hehe:

Okay. Sorry. Enough.

I love how McCain was campaigning in Defiance, Ohio, today and he called on Joe the fake ass plumber to come on stage and he wasn't even at the event. That was sweet. Shows how on top of things his campaign is all the way to the wire.

Tu_triky wrote:

:hehe:

Okay. Sorry. Enough.

I love how McCain was campaigning in Defiance, Ohio, today and he called on Joe the fake ass plumber to come on stage and he wasn't even at the event. That was sweet. Shows how on top of things his campaign is all the way to the wire.

And they had to cart in 4000 kids to fill up the stands.

Yeah, they're gonna be voting on Tuesday. :beaten:

Tu_triky wrote:"But McCain has so far been unable to use the humour employed by Ronald Reagan when he expertly defused the age issue in 1984.

I remember when they asked Reagan about his age he said, "I know what the founding fathers had in mind because I grew up with most of them." [/list:u]

gaijinmark wrote: I remember when they asked Reagan about his age he said, "I know what the founding fathers had in mind because I grew up with most of them." [/list:u]

I believe it. :beaten:

I think the Alzheimer's was starting to show in his last year or two in office...

gaijinmark wrote: I remember when they asked Reagan about his age he said, "I know what the founding fathers had in mind because I grew up with most of them." [/list:u]

Reagan was suave in a way that McCain tries to be, but can't quite emulate.

Tu_triky wrote:Reagan was suave in a way that McCain tries to be, but can't quite emulate.

Except for the Alzheimer's part. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
Except for the Alzheimer's part. :beaten:

That was just a cover so he could duck questions on the Iran-Contra scandal and pin it on Ollie North. :hehe:

From a member at the Huff Post:

"What you need to know about this election is simple. You learned it back in Driver's Education. When you get to the polls: If you want to go backwards you put it in 'R', and if you want to move forward you put it in 'D'..."

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That's great. :victory: :hehe: :rofl:

bmwracer wrote:From a member at the Huff Post:

"What you need to know about this election is simple. You learned it back in Driver's Education. When you get to the polls: If you want to go backwards you put it in 'R', and if you want to move forward you put it in 'D'..."

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That's great. :victory: :hehe: :rofl:

That's funny. :hehe: This time around that is very true.

Three more days to go and the GOP has gone full tilt to discredit/misinform/slander Barack Obama:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/01/the-stench-run-republican_n_140056.html

I was watching Real Time with Bill Maher and the panel was talking about Sarah Palin and her lack of intellectual capacity.

In chartiable terms Dr. Cornelius West said,

"Let's put it this way, she's not on the Dean's List."

Bill Maher replied,

"She's not even on Craig's List."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Tu_triky wrote:I was watching Real Time with Bill Maher and the panel was talking about Sarah Palin and her lack of intellectual capacity.

In chartiable terms Dr. Cornelius West said,

"Let's put it this way, she's not on the Dean's List."

Bill Maher replied,

"She's not even on Craig's List."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

LOL. :hehe: :rofl:


Hey, here at work I just got a flyer in the mail for a two-day seminar: "Communication with Tact and Professionalism." ...Too late to send it to the McPalin campaign?? :beaten: