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10-11-2008, 01:51 AM
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10-11-2008, 02:10 AM
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Mountains of mole hills. It's pretty oblivous that you are a democrat. I wonder what it is that makes you so blind (another than your obivous hate for anything that is dessent)that words and only words can earn your vote. Here is aman that has devoted his life to this country and you will still vote for a slick talking racist. Obama has only showed and written that he is pro black, a supporter of socialism,and is a member of a party that will turn this country into "the land of the freeloader". What ever happened to hard work,morals, and ethics?
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10-11-2008, 02:23 AM
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"It's pretty oblivous that you are a democrat"
"another than your obivous hate" "for anything that is dessent"
"Here is aman"
"Obama has only showed"
I'm voting for the guy who can read and write in English. I suspect, like many other Obama supporters, I am more educated than the average McCain supporter. And, like many other Obama supporters, I am not a Democrat.
And, despite my differences with many anti-immigration arguments, after spending time in these forums I would gladly support a literacy test as a requirement to vote.
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10-11-2008, 02:39 AM
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Location: San Antonio
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Hey!norcalmom101,Have you read this:Make-Believe Maverick : Rolling Stone (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain - broken link)
Very interesting reading!
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10-11-2008, 02:47 AM
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Location: Rural Northern California
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Originally Posted by norcalmom101
I'm voting for the guy who can read and write in English. I suspect, like many other Obama supporters, I am more educated than the average McCain supporter. And, like many other Obama supporters, I am not a Democrat.
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Yes, us folks who won't vote for Obama are clearly undereducated yokels. Never mind the fact that he has associated with known terrorists. Let's just forget that he has accused the Republicans of causing the financial crisis, while conveniently neglecting to mention that he was the prosecuting lawyer on a lawsuit against City Bank for not engaging in enough sub-prime loans, that the Democrats first founded Fannie May in the 1930's, and that they sowed the seeds of our the current collapse by enacting the CRA and expanding it in the 90's. Let's just forget that he wants to betray the Founding Fathers by enacting socialized health care, the ultimate example of and unconstitutional big-government assuming responsibilities that it was never intended to have. What about his tax plan? Let's just tax the rich! They don't deserve their money, let's steal all of it and use it to buy votes...err, I mean enact 'change'.
Guess what, I'm not a Republican, but will be voting for McCain this November. Is John McCain the perfect solution to this country's problems? No. Is he a lot closer than Barack Obama? Absolutely.
Sometimes the most educated folks can be the least intelligent.
"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."
-Thomas Sowell
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And, despite my differences with many anti-immigration arguments, after spending time in these forums I would gladly support a literacy test as a requirement to vote.
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Wikipedia:
"As used by the states, the literacy test gained infamy as a means for denying suffrage to African Americans. Adopted by a number of southern states, the literacy test was applied in a patently unfair manner, as it was used to disfranchise many literate southern blacks while allowing many illiterate southern whites to vote. The literacy test, combined with other discriminatory requirements, effectively disfranchised the vast majority of African Americans in the South from the 1890s until the 1960s. Southern states abandoned the literacy test only when forced to by federal legislation in the 1960s. In 1964, the Civil Rights Act provided that literacy tests used as a qualification for voting in federal elections be administered wholly in writing and only to persons who had not completed six years of formal education. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 suspended the use of literacy tests in all states or political subdivisions in which less than 50 percent of the voting age residents were registered as of 1 November 1964, or had voted in the 1964 presidential election. In a series of cases, the Supreme Court upheld the legislation and restricted the use of literacy tests for non-English-speaking citizens. Since the passage of the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, black registration in the South has increased dramatically." |
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10-11-2008, 02:53 AM
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Mhm. It's an interesting video. No argument.
It's nearly 5 months old, though, and has been posted in this forum many times.
Not only that, but if you want, you can find equivalent videos with Senator Obama sounding/looking just as absurd as Senator McCain does in this one. Senator McCain hardly holds a monopoly in this election on uttering conflicting things, depending on the time and the audience.
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Mountains of mole hills. It's pretty oblivous that you are a democrat. I wonder what it is that makes you so blind (another than your obivous hate for anything that is dessent)that words and only words can earn your vote. Here is aman that has devoted his life to this country and you will still vote for a slick talking racist. Obama has only showed and written that he is pro black, a supporter of socialism,and is a member of a party that will turn this country into "the land of the freeloader". What ever happened to hard work,morals, and ethics?
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Conversely, the irony of having you, james8, knocking Senator Obama for a lack of hard work, morals, and ethics, is really rich! You are supporting a man who cheated on his first wife and left her while she was unwell for a younger, prettier woman; a man whose opportunities in life have been provided for him by either his father's position in the military or his wife's affluence, and who has, in his campaign, pretty much repudiated every high moral stance on campaigning he has ever taken.
Further, you come across as being at least as judgmental as you accuse the other poster of being. All he did was point out a video - he had no vitriolic hate language in his post.
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Neither man is a saint. Neither man is as "good" as each would like us to believe he is. Neither man is as "bad" as the other's campaign would have us believe, either!
They are both well-meaning, flawed but capable individuals, regardless of where my personal support is going. Listening to them put each other down is tiresome, to say the least.
Reading the blind, self-righteous verbiage of the supporters on either side (or, for that matter, many of those who are running in 3rd, 4th, or 5th parties), makes me wish we had a different way to select candidates and then to choose among (or between) them. |
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10-11-2008, 08:27 AM
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Mountains of mole hills. It's pretty oblivous that you are a democrat. I wonder what it is that makes you so blind (another than your obivous hate for anything that is dessent)that words and only words can earn your vote. Here is aman that has devoted his life to this country and you will still vote for a slick talking racist. Obama has only showed and written that he is pro black, a supporter of socialism,and is a member of a party that will turn this country into "the land of the freeloader". What ever happened to hard work,morals, and ethics?
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Ethics? Palin? |
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10-11-2008, 08:45 AM
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Obama just went back to his telepromptor again because he can't think on his feet. Without a script, he is worthless. Google and read for yourself. His "handlers" think they have it won so they don't want him to say anything stupid before the election.
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10-11-2008, 08:49 AM
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Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
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Funny how this has been argued many times but when a Republican posts a video that has been argued many times...it gets deleted.
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10-11-2008, 08:53 AM
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Location: NC/SC Border Patrol
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I am voting for McCain and I don't have to see anything. Obama is not even in the running for me. If he was the only one running, I would ask for a write--in ballot. If he wins, do you think we will still have that choice in two years. Communist countries usually have only one name on the ballot and you have to vote, it is not a choice. I like choices, so I choose McCain.
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