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Discuss the US Presidential Election
We made it. It's election day. Tomorrow we'll know. So for today's election discussion story, I'm throwing it wide open: let's discuss the election itself. Who are your picks and why. And also what about your actual experience voting today? Did Diebold eat your vote or did everything go off without flaw?
"I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody". Obama
Everyone is free to spread their wealth around all they want. If the government is going to spread YOUR wealth, it can only be done if the government owns your wealth. If the government owns your wealth, that's Marxism in a nutshell.
Maybe you need an O'Reilly book. Liberals mean liberty about as much as Conservatives mean conservation.
THL phish sticks
positive campaign? i really hope you're kidding.
i've never seen so much vitriol from the left in my lifetime... especially against sarah palin. at least by my count, below-the-belt attacks were at an all time high.
you may say that "hey, obama's not responsible"... but guess what? his surrogates went on tv talking about the negatives just as fervently as the right.
before you flame me as a right wing nut, know i'm a registered democrat.
Please don't vote, we don't need nutjobs influencing something as important as who governs a country.
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
Boy, i sure am glad that New York is being carefully watched. Because I'm not sure which way New York will go. that Democratic vote might be iffy there. As I've said elsewhere, the Democrats would win New York if they ran a candidate named Baby-Killer von Hitler-Darth-Vader. Can we please get some people keeping an eye on, say, Ohio and Florida?
I think its best that religious folks stay home.
they've done ENOUGH DAMAGE to our political system already.
'kingdom of god' - what are you smoking?? look around the world, mate; do you see ANY evidence of a christian god here?
some people simply like fairy tales so much they can't tell that its just not real.
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I just refuse to vote for someone who ran a filthy campaign whose only issue was "the other guy sucks." That's my favorite logical fallacy, the "argument from ignorance": the other guy is bad, so we must be better.
Yeah, I agree. Senator Obama's campaign against [George W. Bush|John McCain] was centered on who Obama wasn't.
Life is short; think quickly.
Just get the damn thing over and done with already! I'm sick and tired of hearing about the election on the news here in Canada.
It's the steady handOUT that Obama promises that has been promising that has been able to attract voters this year.
Just "gittin-r-done," day after day.
Remember Geraldine Ferraro being called a racist?
For saying that black men get it easy in this country? Gee, I wonder why.
McCain was cleared of any wrongdoing over the whole "Keating Five" thing, so the fact that you bring it up shows your ignorance or intentional deceit.
Obama was never even *charged* with any wrongdoing. McCain was in a heck of a lot deeper. In Obama's case, it wasn't Rezko who bought the lot. His wife did, and she turned a profit on it.
As for factcheck, I think they are full of crap too.
Well, thanks for positioning yourself so far out in right field that you're in the parking lot.
Let's see. Worked together for years... Check.
On a charity board that met quarterly. Whoop-de-freaking-wow.
Close friends? Debatable, but the coffee thing is pretty damning.
A single campaign meet and greet, and you think this even *possibly* passes the "close friends* test?
I didn't even see the Infant Born Alive Protection Act on factcheck's site. (Although I didn't look too hard)
No kidding you didn't look hard. It's right there -- Born-Alive Baloney.
Do you know that "Joe the Plumber" does not have a plumbing license in Ohio? It was widely reported.
Do you know that "Joe the Plumber" does not need a license as a plumber to work as one as long as the company he works for has that license? That was NOT widely reported.
Did you know that everything he said to Obama, from his income to his plans, is bunk? That he has a problem with actually paying his taxes, but if he did, he'd get three times larger of a tax cut under Obama's plan than McCain's?
Do you know that William Ayers gives money to schools? Widely reported, but not true. William Ayers gives charity money to hand chosen companies to do stuff for schools.
Do you know that one of the main points of William Ayers "education plan" is to teach children to question authority? Fine idea, but it should be taken with a grain of salt when the guy pushing recommended "killing pigs" and "killing your parents". This has not been reported by any news outlet.
You're confusing Ayers and the Annenberg Challenge itself. Ayers was just one member of the board of the Annenberg Challenge. It has a diverse board; it was even founded by a member of the Nixon administration. Education Week says the group reflects mainstream thinking about education reform.
But seriously, do you really want to play the "Did You Know" game with me?
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
Maybe you prefer a great father in Washington to take care of all your ills and order your coming and goings, but a great many of us actually have a spine and prefer freedom. We're called adults. We do things like say, "Hmmm? A hurricane is coming and I live in a coastal city below sea level. Maybe I should get the hell outta' the way?" If we decide not to get out of the way, we don't whine that someone didn't come to take care of our ills.
The adults among us do much better when the government does nothing.
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
Yeah, just like when Clinton raised taxes and the economy went to shit. Dumbass.
Can't you right-wing nuts come up with anything original? You've been spewing that same bullshit at least since Teddy Roosevelt. Of course, the fact that Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln were both Republicans should show how far the GOP has changed. If Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln were alive today and in politics, they would be skewered by the right the same way the right has been skewering Obama.
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