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IT Workers Split For McCain, Obama
antipeon alerts us to a presidential preference survey, done in late February and early March, indicating that Obama and McCain lead among IT workers with 29% each. Clinton follows with 13%, just ahead of Huckabee (11%) and Ron Paul (9%). The Computing Technology Industry Association commissioned the poll, and the article notes that this trade group claims the population of IT workers is four times as large as the Bureau of Labor Statistics thinks it is — the better to make a voting block whose views must be attended to.
hillary clinton had anal once.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Right, warning, I know I'm going to karma hell, I don't care at this point. I can't vote in these elections, namely because I turn 18 just after the US elections, and because I'm in Canada... But from what I've gathered over this year, I've drawn up my own opinion on this mess. Feel free to correct me if I've got some wrong information.
McCain's only real problem is his age, and the whole "we're staying even if it takes 10 years" stance on the Iraq war... Had this been 10 years ago he would have been a fine candidate, but now I don't know, I'm very afraid he's going to go senile in his second or third year.
Clinton... I think she has a chance of being a good president. Her only weakeness is the healthcare bill. Otherwise I think she'd be perfect for this sort of situation, bonus points if she can pull it off like her hubby did (say what you will, but the US was at its greatest in the 90s). And I mean plenty of women have done an excellent job at leading their countries; Angela Merkel is doing wonderfully in Germany, Thatcher they say was good (I'm too young to remember her well)... Pretty much only Kim in Canada was a bad choice, but she wasn't elected.
Obama... He scares me. I don't know. He's a bit unprepared; I think he'd be perfect in 4-8 years time, he'd be ready to storm the scene. I'm going to get modded down to the bottoms of hell for this... But I'm afraid in two/three years he'll declare himself a muslim. His step-dad is one, and he was raised for the most part in Indonesia and went to some of the schools where they train Al Qaeda members... That's a serious chill for me, not only because uh let's just say we don't get along back home, but because of the fact that muslims seem to be getting quite... Aggressive around the world. Namely in places like France. I mean, it's not all muslims, but could you imagine how mad the press would go?? It'd be like Putin declaring he's a Lutheran and a German...
I don't know. Maybe I've just lost my mind. Or I'm too used to canadian politics where at this moment nobody really cares who's running the government and we're mostly satisfied with the conservatives... I guess the cold keeps us apathetic.
Well, in his defense....unless you live over there, it is kinda hard to keep track with which one is which. They all seem to be about the same in the middle east it seems. Hell, if you put up Jew and 5 or six of the various Arabs over there on tv...about the only way to tell which were which is literally by what HAT they are wearing....
It honestly seems that over there, they kill each other based on what headdress the other one is wearing sometimes.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
So how about some solid plans of what he intends to do instead of being the first black man to have a chance of being elected?
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To say people have a reason for flawed beliefs is to excuse them.
Think about it. Otherwise, it is just excuse after excuse. Well, my grandparents lived during segregation. That means they should be racist. And because of that, they should be excused, right? If it is wrong for white people to spew hatred for nothing more than the color of one's skin, isn't it a double standard for black people to do the same but be held unaccountable?
Condensed version of the speech: "I have condemned Reverend Wright's statements in unequivical terms. They were wrong, divisive, profoundly distorted and racially charged. But hey, he's black and those black people have had it hard, so it's understandable. And you typical white people are racist too, even my grandma, so you shouldn't be bothered if I've chosen this man who's views I just condemned unequivically as my personal mentor, dragged him along on the campaign trail, named books after him and taken my two daughters to his church so they could hear his profoundly distorted, racially charged views too."
Yes, I've seen the full clips of Wright's sermons. They don't exonerate him.