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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?
Psh. You know as well as I do that Palin's gonna start her 2012 bid tomorrow.
MABASPLOOM!
Why pick the lesser evil?
While I don't want Obama to be president.
The internet would be so annoying if he lost. All the people whining about it.
McCain FTW
"Fails To Win"?
Election? What election?
I pride myself on keeping apprised of current events, but I wasn't aware of an election today.
Who is running and for what position?
Srsly, whoever this CmdrTaco is who posted the story should at least give us this basic information in the summary.
She kicked it off last Saturday.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
I voted for Kodos.
[Insert pithy quote here]
Is that what the Mayans forsaw, the event which caused the end of this round of civilization?
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[quote]I think that's half the problem that's going to see. No matter who wins, there are going to be cries of fowl.[/quote]
Chicken! What sort of hawk would devolve to such a turkey stance? You're just pigeonholing the dodos out there.
... that I'm happy that it will be over at goddamn last.
I'll miss it. I've grown up in this election, and when it's over I'll have no idea what to do. I remember when I was four or five years old, back around the time Reagan was elected and The Empire Stikes Back was drawing crowds, and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had just started their campaigns. I remember coming out of the movie theater after seeing Back to the Future and seeing buses go by with competing Huckabee and Clinton banners on the side. I fondly recall during the first Gulf War and after September 11th the moving speeches by McCain and Obama.
Remember the Wendy's "Where's the Beef?" ads where McCain was enjoying a big square burger next to Clara Peller with her miniscule competing burger? Remember Hillary Clinton's break dancing extravaganza? Or when Seattle Grunge Artists for Obama did their tour in the early 90s and Kurt Cobain called Obama "the real spokesman for our generation?" My whole life was shaped by these campaigns. Tomorrow I may have to get a hobby.
An idiot or a lawyer? Not a very easy choice...
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We'll see what the lines are like tomorrow, when it's the Republican's turn to vote! Don't get too cocky yet you crazy liberals!
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Hmm... knock me over with a feather -- not everyone laughs at the same things.
Ah well... I'll let this be my swan song and duck out.
(That's what you get for egging me on...)
Seems like the Mayans were a bit off...
You mean like a parity error?
If she's smart she'll stay out of it in 2012 and focus on 2016 (unless Obama's presidency is truely disasterous).
Soo.....2012 it is.
And in a few years you will have the exact same situation. The problem isn't the actors, it is the stage.
Over here in Britain we have a saying:
"It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always get in."
I dont read
I agree!
Let's get some News back in the news!
Who cares about the economy, or the wars, or human rights abuses?
Let's get back to discussing who Brittney Spears is going to be marrying next!
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.
I voted, but as in the last few it wasn't for my candidate of choice, it was against the candidate I couldn't abide by winning.
My candidate would not become a whore to Corporations, would effectively ban lobbying by groups (of ANY kind).
Would respect the Constitution, even the parts they didn't like.
Would only sign single issue Bills.
Would endeavor to clean the garbage and deadwood out of the US Code of Federal Regulations and our nations Laws.
Would abandon our current taxation system and go to an end user consumption tax for ALL revenue other than import duties.
Would respect my privacy and not spy on me or my countrymen.
Would balance our budget and generate enough surplus to begin paying down our debt. (see above)
Would work with Congress to issue appropriate letters of Marque and Reprisal to eliminate those who threaten us, and bring our troops home as quickly as prudent.
Would begin an immediate effort to eliminate all Federally funded Energy programs which have not produced based upon their historical record, and transfer that funding to new programs with promise to reduce or end our energy dependence.
Unfortunately, my candidate does not exist
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