Social Sites Offer 'New' Way To Experience Presidential Debates

News.com notes that the social sites have been burning up in the wake of the debates, as users create more content than it's possible to follow. Facebook specifically set up an area for debate viewers to post messages and take surveys during the events. Some participants found it a bit worthless, and the article refers to the experience as 'information overload'. "No doubt, the political twitterers must've felt empowered to know their Soundboard comments were being beamed out to an audience of potentially millions of Facebook users, and, if plucked by ABC's designated Facebook-monitoring reporter on TV, millions of offline viewers as well. Still, it's a little unclear whether the comments will prove all that useful for campaigns looking to boost their candidates' standing."

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Re:Talking to my grandfather about the 1930s.

[Tony Hoyle]

Actually he's advocating the complete abolition of the legal and social framework and the US and the complete abolition of the Army. Apparrently he was born in 1492.

When I first heard about him he sounded OK, but please, for the love of bob, find out everything he stands for. Also investigate his continued writing for white supermacist organisations... if you still agree with him by all means vote for him.

Hitler got in because he was clever at saying just the right things to the right audience. I'd hate to have that happen to the US.

Re:Talking to my grandfather about the 1930s.

[jcr]

If I wanted to go someplace where the facts are ignored

You're already there. Look in the mirror.

Ron Paul won't interfere in Sudan militarily, unless the congress declares war on the Sudan. There's a reason why the war power is reserved to the congress by the constitution; it's not supposed to be easy to go to war. When the USA delclares war, we get the full commitment of the country, and we win. See every war up to WW2 for examples. When we go to war without a declaration, well, do Korea and Vietnam mean anything to you?

As for immigration, unless you can show that he wants to enforce the law separately by race, (eg, only deport illegals from some countries and not others), then you're full of shit trying to use that as a claim of racism. Thirdly, the newsletter that you are flogging is completely inconsistent with everything else Ron Paul has ever said on the subject of race. Show me any racist who says, and I quote, "Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism".

use he's suggesting things that would take America to the Dark Ages.

Nope, the Dark Ages were a period where government power was absolute. He wants to take us back to the Enlightenment.

you're telling me that I'm just imagining things

Not so much "imagining" as "lying through your teeth under cover of anonymity."

-jcr