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innerSpaceman 09-04-2008 09:52 AM

Apparently I must spread some mojo around before I can give it to Strangler Lewis again.



And from the jinx article, especially for BDBopper, whose candidate delivered the biggest bald-faced lie in a night of lying and misleading:

Quote:

Originally Posted by The AP
FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.


Ghoulish Delight 09-04-2008 09:55 AM

I'm sitting here getting angrier and angrier at Giuliani for his "Iraq=Al Qaeda" line. It's so fvcking deceitful and despicable.

I don't kid myself into thinking that the Democratic Party isn't run by liars also, but at the very least they don't lie to keep this country in fear and to justify killing.

wendybeth 09-04-2008 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by sleepyjeff (Post 237257)
Dividing the country? Who's counting the number of people by race again? I looked at the convention and saw an audience......you looked at the convention and had to "divide" them by race.



Why do we have to divide people up by demographics? MLK never talked like this.

Uhm, yeah he did. He pointed out the disparities in education, employment opportunities, housing, etc, that black Americans face. He did so quite frequently.

From Wikipedia:Demographics or demographic data refers to selected population characteristics as used in government, marketing or opinion research, or the demographic profiles used in such research. Note the distinction from the term "demography" (see below.) Commonly-used demographics include race, age, income, disabilities, mobility (in terms of travel time to work or number of vehicles available), educational attainment, home ownership, employment status, and even location. Distributions of values within a demographic variable, and across households, are both of interest, as well as trends over time. Demographics are frequently used in economic and marketing research.

sleepyjeff 09-04-2008 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket (Post 237270)
. And the same stupid people that voted for Bush Jr are going to vote for McCain, they'll fall for that overused rhetoric again.

:(

sleepyjeff 09-04-2008 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by wendybeth (Post 237285)
Uhm, yeah he did. He pointed out the disparities in education, employment opportunities, housing, etc, that black Americans face. He did so quite frequently.

I must have missed that part as I was more inspired by his judging everyone on character rather than skin color rhetoric......silly simple minded me:(

Stan4dSteph 09-04-2008 10:34 AM

The negativity spewed with a smile was too much for me. I turned her off.

Gemini Cricket 09-04-2008 10:43 AM

At one point, she ripped on the set Obama gave his speech in front of. Foam columns and what not... Is that the best her writer could come up with?

innerSpaceman 09-04-2008 10:48 AM

It was a funny line.


V.P. candidates are supposed to rip into the red meat at their convention speech. Her jokes were ok until they started to personally insult and purposefully distort the truth.


Biden's deep respect for McCain personally but clear and non-snarky disdain for his policies was a breath of fresh air even for Democrat V.P. acceptance speeches.


McCain himself is the prime example of becoming indistinguishable from your enemies in order to vanquish them. I don't want the Democrats to do the same.

(They're a smarmy, corrupt-enough political party ... barely four steps from being Republians. Let's leave those four steps between them and retain some semblance of good vs. evil.)

Tenigma 09-04-2008 10:55 AM

Jon Stewart was absolutely HILARIOUS on his show last night. Instead of talking about Palin, he basically just ran video clips of GOP talking heads contradicting themselves.

If you haven't seen it, go check it out!

Ghoulish Delight 09-04-2008 11:21 AM

Tenigma's post in another thread reminded me of another part of Palin's speech.

"What's the difference between a hockey mom and a bull dog? Lipstick!"

Did she just call herself a bitch?


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