the mayans were right…
the mayans were right the world will end in 2012
(Sarah Palin)
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You, irishfan, win one Internets.
Kudos to you!
Best. Lol. Ever.
I sereously LOLed for like 5 minutes!
Hah! I’d love to see her try to fumble her way through a primary! Mitt & company would shred her alive.
That’s why I hope she tries to run. >D
Just remember, Palin is good for comedy, bad for the country. I’ll be okay with her running for President as long as people don’t take her seriously and she doesn’t win. I’d sooner elect my dog for President that Sarah Palin, and my dog is pretty stupid, even for a dog.
Your dog and you have the same IQ.
Just ask her what continent Africa is on and watch her essplode.
(Click my name for the funny from Fox news of all places)
This is freaking great. thanks for that link lol.
I just hope, aside from her idiocy, people wake up and see what her state is really like. Out of the 50 states, Alaska ranks #1 in taxes per resident and #1 in spending per resident. The tax burden per resident is 2 1/2 times the national average and the spending is more than double. And she has the gall to bill herself as a fiscal conservative.
If I did it right, there should be a link to more info on Alaska.
What I want to know is why you would want a VP that requires tutoring on basic government functions like economy and geography…
Why would you accept that? I mean… if you’re grade school geography didn’t stick hard enough for you to know that Africa is a continent as opposed to a country why are you in politics? Hell, how did you get past working in fast food? To me that’s like the candidate being illiterate, instant disqualification.
True. A Magic 8 Ball would’ve been a better VP pick. And Biden would’ve found it to be a more stimulating opponent in the VP debate. Even the people in my debate class last year were more qualified. Hell, even I would’ve been more qualified. I did terribly in debate class, but at least I never went completely off topic and avoided answering questions.
Alaska is also one of the richest states. Oil, baby.
And, we have no statewide sales tax. (Some places do have them up to 7%, though. Ouchies. Not Anchorage though. You can thank Mark Begich for that.)
And, no personal income tax.
And, WE GET FREE MONEY (which was not Sarah’s doing, btw). So don’t go hatin’ on Alaska, even though out governor IS really, really stupid and an embarrassment to us all.
Not hatin’, just sayin’. In 2005 Alaskans paid on average $5434 in federal taxes per resident and received $13,950 per resident, the highest of any state. You can’t translate running Alaska to running the nation, because the nation doesn’t have any larger group to get the astronomical amounts of pork from, and if we tried to tax big oil like Alaska does, there just wouldn’t be enough to go around for the whole US. Although I don’t see any reason not to try…. especially with Exxon posting record profits in this crappy economy.
Looking from the outside in Palin was the worst thing that could have been brought into the US election,she epitomises the international view of the ugly american a gun toting loudmouth who thinks their ideas are the only ones which matter
I’m pretty sure Alaska doesn’t have the population density as any of the less tax burdened states. And it’s more expensive to maintain the same standard of living as the rest of the US in a state as Alaska.
I’m in no way a Palin supporter… Just saying.
Get your Facts straight.
Tax Burden By State
If all other things are equal, a state with a lower burden is a more attractive place to retire than a state with a higher one. To get a true sense of which state is less expensive, you need to look at state and local tax burdens. Only then do the low tax states stand out.
It is estimated by the Tax Foundation that the nation as a whole will pay on average 9.7% of its income in state and local taxes in 2008, down from 9.9% in 2007 primarily because income grew faster than tax collections between 2007 and 2008.
New Jersey residents paid 11.8%, topping the charts. New Yorkers were close behind, paying 11.7%, and Connecticut was third at 11.1%. The top 10 were rounded out by Maryland (10.8%), Hawaii (10.6%), California (10.5%), Ohio (10.4%). Vermont (10.3%), Wisconsin (10.2%) and Rhode Island (10.2%).
Alaskans pay the least, 6.4 percent in 2008, but Nevada is close at 6.6 percent. In four states the residents pay between 7 and 8 percent of their income in state and local taxes: Wyoming (7.0%), Florida (7.4%), New Hampshire (7.6%) and South Dakota (7.9%). Four other states round out the bottom 10: Tennessee (8.3%), Texas (8.4%), Louisiana (8.4%) and Arizona (8.5%).
So you just sit on you computer and look up stupid facts and
percentages? ABOUT TAX? do something with your life and go outside.
NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU THINK.
MikeinTN was posting “what he thinks”. He was posting facts. He was disproving what LifeInCasualty said about Alaska being #1 in taxes. He took the time to look up his facts and get them right before he posted here – something that you should do before you start flaming.
DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS!!!
I C WUT U DID THAR
From FOX of all places, after all the “Ooooh, poor widdle Sarah, the big boys are being mean to her!”.
*headdesk*
Ha! I guess that’s what comes of making a virtue of ignorance, and dismissing academic achievement as “elitist.”
Assuming that academic achievement means you actually *know* something is the pinnacle of arrogance.
Disrespecting academic achievement out of hand is the nadir of intelligence.
Nadir… you use WOrdpower, too? ;>
Insert random “Nader/Gonzalez” ticket joke here…
Assuming you know everything because you don’t have any academic achievement is far worse. Vide Palin….
Spoken like a man with no academic achievements.
In bed
Achievement unlcoked
50G – 500 Pleasured Beds
I can’t believe I just seriously did that. *sigh* Unlocked. T_T
It was more… evocative the other way.
You really do need a hot beef injection. Contact that man of yours right away, he needs to give you 1000cc’s of hard thrusting STAT!!!
*pats* Tis okay, I thought it rocked hardcore and made my morning. Thanks. WOO!!!! ACHIEVEMENT!!!
This achievement has unlocked the title “The Horndog”!
I love my 360. The Lego Indiana Jones game had achievements with names that were actually lines from all the movies.
Then there’s this one:
Mistress Master 40
Fulfill your Mistress’s wishes
Overlord was a very funny game.
I got that one actually. I love Overlord but it needed more enemies for me to wreck havoc upon after I got all my spells and weaponry. Can’t use spells in the dungeon which blows.
Fear my Horndog title.
Side not to Minerva: Leggo Indy and Leggo Star Wars ROCK!!!!
*headdesk* NOTE
Also Lego Batman
Yeah! Why should I let that there doctor guy stick any of them there needles in me just ’cause he has a fancy DIPLOMA from some university or other?!
Dat der is book learnin’ and I’m agin it!!!
*remember to chomp yer denture plates*
I love it when you talk dirty.
She apparently was quite comfy with the boys (link through my name)
“At the GOP convention in St. Paul, Palin was completely unfazed by the boys’ club fraternity she had just joined. One night, Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter went to her hotel room to brief her. After a minute, Palin sailed into the room wearing nothing but a towel, with another on her wet hair. She told them to chat with her laconic husband, Todd. “I’ll be just a minute,” she said.” – Newseek
The Fox lols continue… now Bill O’Reilly is weighing in, calling all this about Palin’s spending and such ‘nitpicking’. Oh god, teh laughter, it hurts…
The Fox lols continue… I found Bill O’Reilly making his contribution to the Wasilla Hillbillies Scandal. He thinks they’re being ‘nitpicky’ about her spending.
youtube.com/watch?v=V8VOciA8LxY&feature=related
FAIL… again. Either too much coffee or too little. Maybe I’ll try the nitrous oxide.
i actually don’t see an issue with this. if she sat there talking to them in her towels that would be a different story. in college everyone walked around in either just towels or bathrobes after their shower… i can’t tell you the number of guys who saw me in just 2 towels. everything was still covered and no-one saw anything they shouldn’t.
Ditto, regular life stuff doesn’t bother me. Stuff like that happens all the time in real life. She knows them, her husband is there, she didn’t do anything wrong. Way bigger fish to fry about Palin than that.
based on what i’ve read, your “regular life stuff” would scare the bejesus out of a lot of people!
>.> there are good reasons for neither of us to EVER be a political figure…
haha, i couldn’t be a political figure either. i’ve stolen too damn much stuff and have the incriminating photos to prove it…. those damned wisemen from christmas tableau’s aren’t nearly as heavy as stone geese though (of which we had a flock in my dorm room at one time).
but hey, if you guys are having fun, who’s to judge?! plus it gives some of us ideas too! O:-)
Yaaaa, I am afraid my home fun would be drawn out to all sorts of degrees and ruin anything I tried to make in the public eye.
after you they’d look at bill clinton and call him an amateur. although, thinking about it now he didn’t do anything really new and exciting. he was pretty milquetoast he just had awful taste in women (hillary included).
Ya, that was the worst part for me. They weren’t even worth the screwing…
i posted a reply but i swore… so it’ll show up eventually.
Ya… Naughty words are naughty…. O_O
but naughty words are fun words!
*contemplates causing a lot of trouble*
*decides to do it*
naughty words like nazi, hitler, ss, and gestapo are my favoritest!
Oh yea… definitely not worth screwing… I mean… they tattled on him…. what fun is that?
Ya, tattling takes all the fun out.
And I see my wang is being paged. Paging Dr. Wang, Paging Dr. Wang. Please cum in the front orifice. Please cum in the front orifice… But take your time.
Sounds like Dr. Wang has a huge receiving tonight….
Oh my….
There is a line…
“but hey, if you guys are having fun, who’s to judge?! ”
The guy behind the bench in the black robe
only if they decide to get divorced and one of them claims rape and/or abuse. however, i really think it’s all consensual so it shouldn’t get to that point!
Point ^_^
Now to just keep him from thinking he’s abused and raped >.>
I could have sworn I was the one holding the flogger and you were the one tied up. How did I mix that up? O_o…
Oh come now, all DWN needs is just a running mate with few legions
of deathly loyal minions. Any of those media “annoyances” would be
quickly dispat-…. silence-….. um… conveniently displaced…
Mwuahahahahaha!
I do technically have a guild dedicated to my awesomeness that I call my cult…
Oh totally. It’s a great article with bits of very humanizing points for Obama, McCain and Palin. Don’t know what happened to Biden
ok… i wasn’t sure if you were looking at it like a normal person saying “look, she’s doing normal things”. or if you were looking at it as a nutjob saying “omg she was nekkid in front of menz!! kill her!”
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some of the people on this site would tend to fall into the second category more often than not.
and about biden… there aren’t humanizing things about him because he’s barely human.
That’s not true. He’s appears to be made out of several humans
GRRR! ARRRGHH! BIDEN NOT LIKE FIRE!
i just had to turn a giggle into a cough/snort because one of the higher ups in my company is in my office using the copier. if i laughed she would have asked why! that would have been not so good.
if he’s made out of several humans is that thing on his head made out of several dead squirrels?
Holy crap on a cracker! I totally suck at geography and I know Africa is a continent. What the hell were they thinking when they picked her?
Token vagina with appeal to the crowd who likes their politicians as pseudofolksy “Aw shucks” sort of people?
I’m guessing based on your comment you are from a blue collar family who believes everything the media tells you.
Too bad no one here has actually heard Gov. Palin talk except through the edited filter of the MSM. Go ahead and wallow for now. BTW, I did appreciate the humor of the main post. Maybe Gov. Palin can do a cameo on Wapsi Square.
too bad this has no bearing on the mayans prediction because their calender ends december 23rd 2012. GUESS WHO’LL STILL BE IN OFFICE! OBOMBA!
Damn! And I’d been thinking that Mayan prophecy was only a conspiracy!
It totally IS a conspiracy. Everybody RUN!!!
lol now this one is kinda funny
My God… please tell me she’s not actually considering running for president….
Actually, people are telling her she should. Canadian DJs, for example (see link on my name if you don’t get the reference).
YIKES!
Oh well, all Obama has to do is not feck things up for the next four years and she can run all she likes!
Agreedzor, I doubt she hasith much of a chatcezor
I don’t think that is at all possible. I’m prepared to sit back and just laugh for the next 4 years.
Riiiight. I can’t wait until the media sours on this silly chocolate sunday. We’ll then see what electing the least prepared person in history does for the United States, at home and abroad.
Let see… Obama’s Agenda:
1. Screw up the tax system and send more jobs overseas via a tax system that should’ve died in the 70’s
2. Royally screw up health care, because Europe and Canada love company.
3. Rip the military out of Iraq (despite their and the Iraqi government’s successes) to appease the far left. E.G. create big mess for next president.
4. Bomb Pakistan (our ally).
5. Bow to Russian requests that we abandon our ABM shield.
6. Go dance on the View.
7. Bow to Pelosi and Reid.
You forgot Obama’s number one agenda item: teach America how to spell Bob backwards. That is vitally important, and it is a principled stand that every true American can support.
Yes, all well and good, but what about learning to spell Otto and Hannah backwards? One can’t be partisan about these issues, you know.
Don’t forget the mathmaticalistics! We also MUST prioritize spelling words on calculators. ‘Boobs’ comes to mind.
Yo bob.
1. So go with Reaganomics, which even Reagan had to admit didn’t work when he raised taxes
2. If you consider being able to get health care “screwing it up” well I can’t argue with you
3. The Iraqi government WANTS us out of Iraq. We’ve done the job lets get teh women and men home.
4. Bush has already attacked targets in Pakistan, without their permission.
5. Gee, stop a new cold war. What a radical idea.
6. meh.
7. Actually I assume they’ll bow to him. He is the one who handed them massive majorities
On point 2 – yes please join us in providing universal free (on delivery) emergency healthcare for 100% of the population… hell why not join the nations with greater life expectancy than the one you live in.
On a recent listing of places in the world with the best healthcare by nation, the US ranked only 4th. Ireland, the UK & Canada were the top 3. Sure, I’ll join in screwing up our healthcare!! (looking for the citation, it was in the Phila Inquirer I think)
Goddamn those socialist euopeans for outperforming our beloved system where the best of care is always provided…
That is, on the condition one can afford to pay for it.
BIG CK!!
Better an unprepared president with a post millenia mindset than a president readily prepared to keep us two decades in the past.
y’all forgot reggin, backwards!
Hey, if you can find some canard, straw man or reed herring to blame it on, you can go on pretending you’re not a racist for a long time.
Chocolate Sunday, wtf.
Oh wait, I think he meant chocolate sundae. So it’s a bonus double racism and misspelling fail!!
Sour grapes here, a nice big order of sour grapes! Come on, who ordered the sour grapes, don’t be shy!
I can think of one other president in our history who was about on par with Obama preparedness-wise…but then he got his face shot off…
“Riiiight. I can’t wait until the media sours on this silly chocolate sunday. We’ll then see what electing the least prepared person in history does for the United States, at home and abroad.”
Least prepared, except for George Bush, maybe?
Can we please take some time off from campaigning?
What??! But, but, there’s only four years to go till the next election!!
Did the Mayans say it would be the end of the world or the end of the GOP?
Quite possibly both! Then comes the rise of the Libertarians, I hope!
Yes. The Libertarians. Riding into Washington on their unicorns.
No, that was Obama…
No, Obama exists in the real world, so there’s no way he could catch an imaginary animal. Libertarians, on the other hand, live in a fantasy world completely detached from reality. In this fantasy world, complete anarchy coupled with absolute individual property rights create a stable, viable society. Unicorns are pretty mundane in comparison.
So, you didn’t see the Jib-Jab video?
I am guessing he didn’t but he has a point.
Not anything recently. I love Jib-Jab, though, I’ll have to go take a look.
My all time favorite is the interactive Flash, “Mutha fo’ fathers,” with the rapping George Washington and friends.
It’s hilarious, you must see it! Attached.
My workplace blocks Jib Jab, so I’ll have to wait until I get home
Led by Bob Barr!
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Your votes don’t count
*cues Ride of the Valkyries*
Abruptly interrupted by “Waterloo” by Abba
ROFL!
Drat. My comment somehow ended up way below here. I was going to gift you with the Ride of the Valkyries for the grand Libertarian entrance…
Oh, so very FAIL this morning… *heads off for a cup of strong coffee…*
Ah yes, be accepting and gracious toward the One but continue to bash Palin and Republicans.
PK has turned into total dog feces.
Actually, I believe the comment was in reference to Palin alone and not the rest of the Republican party. If the comment had been about ALL Republicans,
your post would have merit.
GTFO then, whiner.
Nawwww…..just lighten up a lil. End of the world isn’t for another 3 years plus a few months
i might possibly agree with you if palin wasn’t a bumbling fool
So to summarize: “Waaaaah! My candidate lost!!!”
No, not really. Just stop bashing them now, you guys won. Is that too much to ask? I happen to like Palin, she isn’t the monster everyone tries to make her out to be. Yes, she messed up bad on some interviews, that’s about the worst I’ve seen of her.
No, she is a monster. She epitomizes everything that’s wrong with our country. She’s stupid and uneducated, and proud of it. She’s a pretty person who has been handed everything her entire life because of her looks, and she not only thinks she deserves it, but that she got everything handed to her because she’s simply a better person than anyone else. She is manipulative, dishonest, and mean. She feeds from the public trough every chance she gets, always taking, never giving. She uses religion as a weapon to divide people and amass power. She is petty and vindictive.
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She is disgusting and foul, quite simply one of the lowest, most degraded examples of a human being I have ever seen. She is worse than Bush and Cheney combined. She disgusts me to the core of my being. The fact that she could run for VP makes me ashamed of my country. Sarah Palin and people like her are a cancer on humanity. I am deadly serious and not overstating how I feel about her in the slightest.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I happen to disagree with you.
Must you sugar coat it, tell me how you really feel man… *manly hug*
I feel the same way and appreciate your eloquence.
And you sir, in MY opinion, are a cancer on humanity.
Care to express why?
Probably that unrepentant refusal to put SP up on a pedestal. That really gets on Viking’s nerves, apparently.
I sense a pillage coming on…
“I know you are but what am I?”
Oh look, it must be let your grade schooler use PK day.
Bravo, Seth! Very well said. If I could add one teensy little comment? I found annoying beyond belief the way she repeatedly characterized herself as a “pit bull” and a “barracuda”, then whined whenever anybody… oh, I don’t know, expressed an opinion of her that was less than fawning praise, or expected her to be accountable for her actions, or ASKED HER A DAMN QUESTION…
[breathes deeply]
You can’t have it both ways. A pit bull or a barracuda would have answered, “Yeah, I got the guy fired because I didn’t like him, MF. Got a problem with that?” (not that it would have been the expedient answer). Somebody who can dish it out but not take it isn’t a pit bull or a barracuda, they’re at best a hypocrite and at worst a bully.
Oooh, good point. I was wondering where that tough skin from fighting the Good Old Boys network in Alaska was supposed to come in.
She was found innocent on Troopergate. Of course that doesn’t seem to matter to anyone… I still like her, she wasn’t ready for the VP nomination though.
Cake? Anyone for some Nice Cake?
I wanna piece with a flower!
[nomnomnom]
you are found not guilty, that doesn’t necissarily make you innocent. People found not guilty of crimes can still be sued in civil court and pay hefty amounts.
She was found not guilty of breaking the law. She was guilty of an ethics violation.
At the risk of undermining my lib-cred, I think you’re going a little overboard Seth. I would characterize Palin as ignorant, but not outright stupid. She is most likely very cunning at playing power games, as evidenced by her political rise.
I agree that she uses her attractiveness to get concessions that others have to work for, but then, cultivating attractiveness is probably a lot of work in itself, so I suppose work of some sort is being put in. The problem with that is that her experience accrues to cultivating attractiveness rather than finding solutions to political problems. It’s like hiring a world class butcher to be the head chef at a five-star restaurant. She’s very good at what she does, but what she does doesn’t apply to the job she seeks.
I fully agree about her using religion to divide people, and that it is despicable behavior. I also agree that she is manipulative and dishonest, but is she mean? I guess that would depend on who you ask. We’re all mean to somebody or other.
Disgusting and foul… aye, on the basis of using religion to divide. Manipulative and ignorant, check. But worse than Bush and Cheney?? To my knowledge, Palin never took Alaska to war on a lie. Millions have not lost their lives at her direction. Whether this would happen if she gained the Oval Office is a subject of conjecture, but I think you cheapen Bush & Cheney’s sins with this type of rhetoric.
So in sum, I agree with you to a point regarding Palin, but I think some perspective is in order.
Mmmm, almost. She is a fine example of the mediocrity we produce so well; the interviews bear that out. Manipulative – that’s what the rumor mill says. And spendthrift, self-aggrandizing… I have no love for her at all. But that just makes her ordinary. I am more troubled by the fact that she’s so lauded and I find THAT particular sort of person more to be feared and loathed as unwilling to believe what they see and hear. The folks able to see only some sort of glamourous image leave me unable to breathe, the bozone in the room gets so heavy. THEY are the cancer.
Yeah, I probably wouldn’t have worded it quite this strongly, but I tend to agree with Seth and Tessie. One article I looked up had this fine anecdote:
**We know that Palin, appeared on a radio talk show in Alaska back in January of this year that a writer to the Alaska Daily News described The governor’s appearance on KWHL’s “The Bob and Mark Show” last week is plain and simple one of the most unprofessional, childish and inexcusable performances I’ve ever seen from a politician. The DJ unleashed a vicious, mean-spirited, poisonous attack on Senate President Lyda Green all the while Palin laughed and joined in the fun as the *b* word was thrown around. As a state executive, we expect better. Do we need a Mean Girl to be our Vice President?**
Even Fox news is getting in on the act now that some of the secrecy has been lifted after the campaign is over. People have linked above. She stands for what is wrong in America. People said Obama is a narcissist? Please. he’s got nothing on this woman. I think a lot of people saw her for what she really is and I really think she’s a big reason Obama did so well with women voters.
She couldn’t even understand basic civics and geography. Like what countries are in North America and that Africa is a country, not a continent. Sheesh. That’s grade school stuff. Sorry N8, I think that’s really dumb.
I praised McCain after his acceptance speech and I am glad he and his campaign didn’t let her speak. I saw one clip where she said she’s sorry if she cost McCain votes, but from her attitude, I didn’t believe SHE thought she did. Like what Seth said, she thinks she’s a better person than everybody else. I rarely feel actual loathing for anyone because I’m normally pretty laid back about people as individuals. I can’t stand this woman.
To clarify, I don’t think n8 is dumb, just that I disagree with his assessment that SHE is not dumb.
I’m just saying be aware of the difference between ignorance and stupidity. Being unaware of facts, even widely known ones, is ignorance. But hey, maybe she’s flat-out stupid too, but it’s hard to get ahead in anything if you’re stupid.
There is also a difference between cunning and intelligent. One can be quite good at social manipulation while being dumb as a post.
It will take a portion of her cunning… NAY! All her cunning…
Fair point to you, sir.
Yes. I’m inclined to go with the cunning as her method of getting ahead. Otherwise she’d have been at least able to mention the NAME of a magazine she’s seen at least once.
I would call it, for lack of a more precise label, willful ignorance. I’ll freely admit that there are probably quite a few things I don’t know, but Sarah Palin, like a few people I’ve met in person, seemed to have an attitude of, “I don’t know, and I don’t WANT to know”, and that’s something I don’t understand at all. I suppose that must be what they mean by “elitism”.
I several times saw her described by people who had met her as “incurious”. A mild little word, usable in the politest of company, but on reflection, I can’t think of a more damning one.
it’s almost as though she were actively resisting learning new things, and that’s something I don’t begin to understand.
I’m the same way. I was fairly apathetic this race, Obama was saying things i found interesting, but i took it with a grain of salt. McCain was someone i once admired, but he had changed to be the GOP canidate. it was not until the introduction of Palin that i had feelings about how i wanted this to go, and none were good. God sometimes in this race I was actually embarrased to be in the same gender, much less species as her.
As a woman, I simply can’t understand how ANY woman could support her if they know about her time in Wasilla. Click on my name for the link – when she was mayor, victims of sexual assault were required to pay for sexual assault kits to be performed. Absolutely unconscienable. Any chance I might ever have had of chanign my thoughts on her were destroyed on finding this out.
If she had her way, women’s rights would be set back at least 50 years.
wow, sounds like the democrats 4 and 8 years ago, except when they lost they didn’t step aside graciously, they just tried to sue everyone, overturn the democratic process, then whine continually for 8 years. so….really?
Because those elections were VERY close, and there was a ton of fraud by Republicans. This election wasn’t close at all, either in the popular vote where there was a clear majority for the first time in a long time, or in the electoral college, where there was a landslide. Big difference, you guys just got shown the door in no uncertain terms. The country has wholly and completely rejected Republican ideology. There has been an enormous demographic shift to the left. This election was nothing like the elections of four or eight years ago, sorry.
Um…….weren’t the Dems wanting to abolish the electoral college the last two times around because it’s ‘not democratic’ and doesn’t show the actual will of the people? So that would mean that the race was actually a LOT closer than it looks…….51% does not a landslide make.
When was the last time a president got elected with a clear majority, hmmmmm? 51% is better than your boys have done in a loooooong time. Look it up.
Latest results show 52.4% for Obama vs 46.3% for McCain. That seems pretty close to a lanslide to me. And win or lose, the electoral college does need to go.
so, your post could have been completely true IF you hadn’t interjected that part about fraud. once you put that in, you tainted your entire post, making you seem like a hateful and irrational person. stick to the facts that are accepted. It will keep you from looking like a fool, and give your opponents no room to criticize you. and then the part about rejecting Republican Ideology. McCain is not typical of Republicans. He is very centric (i.e. McCain-Feingold). And as for the demographic shift, it could be that people voted for Obama because they felt he had better characteristics/qualities, not because they became more liberal. Thank you for your post.
Sorry, buddy, but there WAS fraud, and plenty of it, despite all attempts at revisionist history. Remember the CEO of Diebold promising to hand Ohio to Bush? Remember all the electronic voting machine problems? Remember hundreds of thousands of black voters, purged from the rolls because they had a name similar to a convicted felon’s? Remember the Supreme Court deciding the election, despite not having the constitutional authority to do so? Those are accepted facts, they are part of history and no amount of wishful thinking will change them.
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As for the demographic shift, how else would you explain the huge gains we Democrats picked up in the house and senate this election, and in the last one? You can talk about Obama all you like, but he is only part of the picture.
No doubt there was fraud. There is always fraud. What I’m saying is that calling it “Republican Fraud” immediately puts Republicans on the defensive, making them more likely to argue with everything you say. Yeah, Some CEO promised OHIO. It was an empty promise, not fraud. he was pledging support, and his remarks were purely for show. The Supreme court has a tradition of taking more powers than the constitution gives it. That is nothing new.
As for the demographic shift, I am not convinced that people’s opinions have shifted as much as other factors. I will not argue that point, however, because I am not a sociologist, I am not a political analyst, and I am not nearly qualified to speak for America. I am merely a college student who is asking for some bipartisanship. True bipartisanship, not some farewell remarks about unification and cooperation.
Well put, but originally I was responding to this comment, “wow, sounds like the democrats 4 and 8 years ago, except when they lost they didn’t step aside graciously, they just tried to sue everyone, overturn the democratic process, then whine continually for 8 years. so….really?”
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Do you see how mentioning the fraud might be important in understanding why we didn’t just step down graciously? Do you see that the person I was responding to had already started the argument with blame and condemnation, and I was merely responding in kind?
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Hopefully, we will have that bipartisanship. I’m hoping that Obama does as Kennedy did, and appoints some Republicans to his cabinet.
Let’s go the way of washington, screw two party politics and find intelligent people with opposing views to act as your VPs and advisors.
My comment nested below but was in response to the actual republican fraud. It’s below.
I truly do hope we can move forward now though and try for unity. We had it many times over our history, most recently after 9/11. Although that unity and hope was squandered, we can try again and hopefully get it right again this time.
And robocalls telling dems to vote on Wednesday instead.
NY Times areticle :
“In another case, a Republican election worker in Ohio was charged with switching the votes of nursing-home residents in the 2000 presidential race. And last year in Michigan, three city council members pleaded guilty in a vote-tampering case that included forged signatures and ballots altered by white-out.”
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“Most of the swing states even let party operatives help voters fill out their absentee ballots when the voters ask for help. And political parties are taking advantage of vague or nonexistent state rules to influence people who vote at home. In Arizona this month, a county judge ruled that a campaign consultant had improperly held on to more than 14,000 absentee ballot applications he collected this summer to help nearly a dozen Republican candidates in the primary. But holding on to such applications for at least a few days is now common practice by both major parties in states like Arizona, which require only that they be turned in within a “reasonable” period of time. This allows campaigns to bombard voters with mailings and house calls just as their ballots arrive.”
Linked. Also see: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen
I can’t help but think that the campaign was over when the financial
tsunami hit.
I think without that little nudge Obama may have had a much more
difficult time winning.
It seems nothing gets voters attention like threats to their money.
If that’s how you see it, then I’ll render you the same advice that was given to Democrats four years ago: Get Over It!
We should just start handing those out at the door. One per customer, please, and then say something meaningful. Or funny.
i think i would vote for anyone else if she ran……. like ……… like anyone!!
ditto.
I’d even vote for Giuliani over this woman, and he’s a tool.
This one made me really laugh. Thanks!
We’re not bashing ALL republicans, just that one particular dingleberry. McCain sabotaged his entire campaign by naming her as his running mate. She’s dumber than a box of rocks and twice as inexperienced as Obama. She will never see the inside of the White House, not as VP and not as President. ANY other woman in the U.S., just not her!
she might see the inside if we somehow re-elect clinton
I lold
Hello Mr. President I’ve brought you a box cigars!
Man, after that Fox bit about her not knowing that Africa is a continent, on top of the Couric interviews, how could anyone seriously consider voting for her?? It’s not like voting for feckin’ American Idol – it MATTERS what she knows and not how she looks with a script.
She’d make a great anchor for some news show.
Actually, she’ll see the inside the way the rest of us do… behind the tour guide.
LOL
Dingleberry! That made me laugh so hard!
John Kerry vs Sarah Palin who would win lol
Good god, are you trying ot kill us all before lunch?? MY HEAD!!! ARRGGHH!!
No one, least of all the American people, lol.
yeah, because by 2012, Obama and the Demonrats in Congress will have messed things up so much that the world will implode.
Awww. Poor kid. Here, have a chocky. A little leftover Halloween candy will cheer you right up. Just don’t hog the bag.
Ug. The only thing that I can think of that’s less appealing than Halloween candy 6 days after Halloween would be Easter eggs 6 days after Easter.
Well that’s you’re problem right there. You’ve confused the Dems with the Large Hadron Collider.
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It’s pretty common among people, like Palin, who are more into book banning than book reading.
I thought DeathWyrmNexus was the Large Collider…
The Large Hardon Collider? I didn’t know his wang swung that way!
That’s the large HARDON collider.
It relies less on particle physics and more on vaseline.
I will be colliding with Lynn tonight and I will let you know if the world ends. Unless I forget.
>.> Oh yea.. there’s going to be some colliding going on tonight you can take that to the bank! RAWR!
Ok I have no idea about that last bit but yea >.>
Me either but it still sounds fun. XD
I lol’d. I’ll have to use that retort next time I get into a political discussion with my dad.
It’d be interesting to see her run against people like Romney. I wonder if she actually knows what the president does, i never heard her get the Vice Pres one right and that’s like one actual job.
Joe Biden doesn’t even know what branch of the government the Vice President belongs to (Hint: not the executive).
Palin/Huckabee 2012! Vote for us or be smoten by a vengeful Lord!
“And there came to pass upon that country a Plague; And the people were Smoten sorely with ailments of divers sorts – they did shew forth in boils, and a viscid excema, and their genitals did migrate to unusual sites over their bodies…”
Dang! I need to go pee, now….
“And a vast multitude of mullet demons were cast out, yea, even as the dung is cast out from the nether parts of the camel, and great was the cheer that went forth from the assembled peoples, and their mirth was heard throughout the land.”
The correct spelling is “smitten”.
Gives me 4 years to put my affairs in order and move to Canada. Or Albania. Anywhere but a country run by a cretin like Failin’ Palin.
Have fun…you’ll realize how good things are here when you do that.
Most of the stats say that Canada or Europe are better places to live.
I don’t think I’d chose Albania though.
Since Palin wouldn’t take office until 2013 the end of the world would have actually have been caused by Obama.
That was too big to fit on the picture
Either that, or his re-election will occur then.
LOL, now I know what they meant by the end of the world *gulp*
Too bad the Mayans weren’t predicting the end of the world, just the start of a new calender. Otherwise I might laugh.
I might be mistaken but were the mayans not the people that had a the calender start when the “world” was destroyed and recreated by the gods.
This would be the 4th going on to the 5th recreation.
Correct.
The ending of the Mayan calendar merely marks a sort of…transition. The world is not destroyed at the end of every long-count and recreated for the next long-count, but there will be great catastrophies and the world will change greatly. At any rate, just because the Mayans only got to December something 2012 doesn’t mean anything major…maybe they just didn’t have enough time to get any farther before they all died.
LOL, Palin has about as much chance of becoming President is 2012 and I do to become Russias leader! LMAO, itll NEVER happen. She betterstick with her redneck ways up there in Alaska! yeeee haaaaa
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Hey guys betcha didn’t know Africa is a continent cause golly gosh darn I just found out! Lol can’t believe Fox News of all places broke that story.
You people do, of course, realize that a) Obama will still be president in 2012 no matter who wins that election, b) McCain staffers are making stuff up about Palin because they’re pissed they’re moderate candidate lost, and c) Palin could have mopped the floor with Obama because she would actually debate, unlike McCain who was too busy being nice to confront Obama on anything.
If Palin runs in 2012, she’ll win in a landslide, mark my words.
Consider them marked.
Palin would debate, but she is horrible at it. And McCain’s campaign at the least wasn’t that nice.
A) Palin is too far to the right to win a general election B) Did you even watch the Katie Couric interview? Honestly, when she isn’t scripted or prepared, the woman really drops to Bush level speaking.
If I recall wasn’t it Obama that said he visited 57 states? Feel free to look up all the chokes that came out of that guy’s mouth. Inexperience/Gaffe Machine ‘08. You aked for it, you got it.
Yeah, right, we just heard for several months about how the Republicans were going to win THIS one in a landslide, so I will mark your words as similarly deluded. Don’t you guys ever get tired of being wrong?
c) “Palin could have mopped the floor with Obama because she would actually debate…”
If by debate you mean she would avoid answering a direct question…
Funny thing is..
OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT ON 12/21/2012!!
Get your facts straight, kthanks.
A muslim. Born in Kenya. Giving a “tax cut” to 95%, when only 55% pay taxes.
My God, is everyone in the United States that farkin stupid?
Only 52%, which is all it takes.
At least some people in the United States are absolutely hilariously stupid, those who still believe that Obama is a muslim in spite of it being debunked again and again for a start. It was you guys that made McCain unelectable.
Must be. Elected W. Twice.
“I’d rather be governed by a wise Turk than a stupid Christian.”
-Martin Luther (the guy who nailed his objections to the church door, not the one who was a civil rights activist)
HONESTLY, if he were a Muslim (which he’s not), would it REALLY matter?
OH! And also, his FATHER was born in Kenya, not him.
Idiots all … rave on, rave on.
where are the mayans now?
Thank God that a black prez is here at last. He will do very well once he is heavily protected.
Thank God he’s in? Personally I’m just seeing the irony of this president (over all the others) trying to enforce a welfare state.
I can’t wait for the world to end; all you idiots will be gone, too. Then it will start with a clean slate.
And you will be exactly where?
We would be lucky, no blessed to have a real American like Sarah Palin in office. Obama is going to ruin everything. He isn’t an American, has never served this country, only an entitled young man, called Barry until he wanted to use the race card. I am embarrassed to be an African American!
“Scientists tell us that the most common element in the universe is hydrogen. I say they’re wrong. It’s stupidity.”
Frank Zappa
Palin rocks. Her genuineness makes a lot of people uncomfortable – I wonder why? Experience aside (and I know that’s a big aside, but a lot can happen in 4 years), she’s got the entire integrity thing going for her that resonates with a lot of people – at least those not uncomfortable with her genuineness.
Her genuineness makes me uncomfortable because the only thing genuine about her is her stupidity and ignorance.
We’ve seen what happens when you vote for the person you’d most like to have a beer with.
‘Nuff said.
Hear here! I’ll drink to that!
When are people going to realize that being “average” is not the quality you should want in a leader? Being average shouldn’t be a GOAL for anyone. I blame this on “no child left behind” and doing away with the honor roll because “little johnny average” might feel bad if he can’t make the list.
Either her or Obama getting a second term.
2008. But close enough. The fact that they managed to get within four years is pretty good.
Yeah…Ha Ha ! …except…what YOU and the rest of the leftist numb skulls who commented on this photo, don’t seem to realize is that the “Mayan” Prophecy speaks of “December 12th 2012″. Uhhhh…yeah…Duhhh…OBOMB YA will still be president. !! OPPS, seems the leftist who tried to make a joke at Sarah’s expense, forgot to do their homework !! Then again, that’s how this country got stuck with Obombanation !! Leftists using emotions instead of their brains !! lol
Something that republicans have, of course, NEVER done.
btw, its not a prophecy its when the mayan calendar ends, its just a speculation by people from a relatively new religion, secondly, its December 21st, not the 12th, maybe you should get that dislexia checked…no offence to those with it.
Ruining the humor win. Which is actually a fail.
You don’t find it worrisome that someone has a calendar that counts DOWN to something, and it’s not just New Year?
They were refering to the year not a month and date so they did get it right. I’m marking a big red ‘0′ on your homework.
I don’t know whos comment ure refering too, but his clearly says, *December 12st 2012*, I don’t know what ure talking about
you mean 2008?
shit..
where here…
YES
And besides, the odds of an apocalyptic event happening on DECEMBER 21st 2012, have the same odds as something happening tomorrow, or tonight, or 6 hours from now. If anything does happen, its probably gonna be humans just freaking out and killing ourselves. for example, twilight Zone episode XX number years ago, had a woman whos husband said he was gonna kill her on this such and such date. The woman got so scared that she ended up not watching where she was going, and got hit by a bus. thats whats gonna happen to mankind, were gonna be so scared about DEC 21 2012, that were gonna walk infront of one massive bus.
While people are panicking…. I’ll be looting a 58″ HDTV….
actually the end date is dec 21 2012 which would be BEFORE she takes office. Nice try tho.
you betcha’. i’m going to vote fer’ her ya’ know. besides. how many women do you know who can act dumb and talk dumb too. you betcha’!
i’ll only vote for Sarah Palin if she comes to my house and does a pole dance, lap dance while quoting verses in the bible about celibacy.
1) You seem very excited about a lol from over a year ago. You do realize there’s more recent ones, don’t you?
2) You do realize that just changing what you put as your name doesn’t change your avatar, right, “art”?
It’s fun to time travel, though. I like to look back on these old LOLs as a time when I had more hair. Not much more hair, but a little more hair.
dear dissimilitude. you got too much time on your hands. so why don’t you pull your head out of your ass, have a beer and get a life. besides what kind of a name is dissimilitude anyway. who are you trying to impress? p.s. good call. you must be a pro or paranoid. lol