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Sound Bites of the 1908 Presidential Candidates
roncosmos writes "Science News has up a feature on the first use of sound recording in a presidential campaign. In 1908, for the first time, presidential candidates recorded their voices on wax cylinders. Their voices could be brought into the home for 35 cents, equivalent to about $8 now. In that pre-radio era, this was the only way, short of hearing a speech at a whistle stop, that you could hear the candidates. The story includes audio recordings from the 1908 candidates, William Jennings Bryan and William Howard Taft. Bryan's speech, on bank failures, seems sadly prescient now. Taft's, on the progress of the Negro, sounds condescending to modern ears but was progressive at the time. There are great images from the campaign; lots of fun."
To a point that they now have collapsed all our banks with stupid demands for easy loans with the black nominee for president implicated in the scandal.
Care to share some examples of condescending progressives? I always thought the neo-cons were the most condescending. They only talk in sound bites, about pre-approved talking points. It is as if they think the American public are too stupid to understand real discussion about real issues.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
>>Have fun dying of cancer when you decide not to get that lump checked out because it's "probably nothing, so why waste the money?".
Scare tactics!?!?
You can get a lot of people do all sorts of things if you scare them and give them enough fear.
Sadly for you, there are some people who are immune to your childish play on emotions.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Ask Biden about his IQ!
Some of our freedom is silly - to *you*
A lot of the braver Swedes have chosen otherwise and immigrated to the USA - what's left is decaying civilization that can can't maintain it's own population and is becoming a breading ground for non-integrating Muslims.
Hopefully your culture will snap out of it's malaise - and change back the proud and bold people you once were.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Your assertion requires the presupposition that a unborn child is not a human.
No, dipshit, your assertion that it is a full blown human being deserving of more rights than an actual human being is what requires a presupposition. Women are not your slaves. You have no right to force them to ruin their lives bearing children they can't afford to make you happy. Go live in a totalitarian society if you want to, don't try to fuck up this one worse than you already have.
No, that's propaganda. If you redefine terms to suit your political agenda, it doesn't make your opposition liars.
Glad you realize that. Now quit redefining terms to suit your entirely fucking evil political agenda of demanding women be your slaves. It's disgusting and does nothing to help anybody and only harms all involved. Grow up and realize you do not get to decide when and if people you don't even know have children.
No, pro-lifers want neither to make pregnancy banned nor compulsory. That choice is left to the individual. One method of implementing that choice, being abortion, is the target of their campaign.
Yes, they do want to make continued pregnancy against the will of the only person with any right to decide compulsory. That's what banning abortion is for and that's all that it can possibly do.
It is just as I suspected, you aren't interested in rational debate. Be my guest, post last. There is no need for me to reply again.
Actually, I am, but you are incapable of dealing rationally with this issue. You feel that you have the right to force a woman to bear a child she doesn't want and can't afford solely because you feel she should have to. The fact that you think you have any place being involved in another person's private life to such an overwhelmingly invasive degree demonstrates absolutely, your inability to deal rationally with this issue. Sane people don't think they magically get to control extremely personal decisions of people they don't even know.
You continually claim that taking away her choice in the matter isn't anti-choice, that's insane and disgustingly dishonest. But again, that's what you get when you try and shove religious beliefs into the laws of an explicitly non-religious system of government. This kind of disgustingly evil crap is why religious delusion was explicitly banned from being codified into law in this country.