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Soooooo, double post.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 15, 2008 -> 06:12 PM) No such thing as victory or defeat/surrender... I'm sick to death of hearing politicians do this too. Naw, Ford won Vietnam right?

I'm tired of people acting like unless McCain says "You can't vote for him, he's black", that he's not injecting race into this election. These attempts to paint him as an outsider, that he's not one of us, he doesn't see america the way we see it, these are racially charged, whether you want to question their intent or not, they are responsible for the way they are received. So to be shocked at the vitriolic response from the crowds is naive, and that is the parallel John Lewis was trying to make.

How about sexist, keep that crap out of here.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Oct 15, 2008 -> 06:26 PM) Sad when being a role model isn't even factored in as President of the United States. The thing is, it's such a new phenomenon, that these scandals are reported on. It's now well-known that JFK cheated on his wife, that FDR cheated on his wife, most of our founding fathers had mistresses, and yet we look at them as great leaders and great morally. Now if you are caught with a mistress your career is over and you are a pariah. For personal reasons I hate people who cheat on their spouses, but it's clear the type of personality fearless to lead a country are likely the kinds that are fearless to risk their careers.

This'll be an exciting off-season.

I doubt that he could, anyways.

It'll be the last time he'll be able to appear on the national stage with this amt. of people watching. So I guess so. He is in deep s***.

Ah, well lucky Obama is up 14 points in PA, then.

haha, the guy called Annenberg a liberal

I'm anxious to see what becomes of Chavez after this term, if it's a putin like leave. The people have spoken.

coincidence?

QUOTE (Texsox @ Oct 11, 2008 -> 01:15 PM) Forbes Article Along with the "Stock Market Game" that some schools use in the classroom, it seems that we should be doing even more to prepare our kids to be adults. Me and a few other kids were picked to do that in fourth grade. Me and my group all picked the hot stocks like lucent technologies. The other group picked their favorite stores. We got killed. Ain't that a b?

If ONLY! ISU is the Walter Cronkite school, no? Did I spell his last name right?

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Oct 15, 2008 -> 01:27 AM) Id compare it to Obamas ad that has been on TV a lot lately, where they talk about all the tax cuts for oil companies. They know damn well that the actual tax proposals are for all businesses but they spotlight oil companies to mislead the public. Now, is it true that oil companies would benefit from the plan? yes, but so would a small business owner struggling to stay above water, but you dont hear about that. Both sides throw stuff like that out to let the publics imagination run wild with it. It may be close, but the hate for oil companies is no where near as venemous as the hate for calling someone a terrorist-sympathizer

nonetheless its clear that the 00-04 electoral map will not be recreated.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 15, 2008 -> 12:14 AM) I think it's a real long shot, but worth the effort. I thought I heard a while back that Obama moved some people out of GA and into NC and VA. So, I think they think they cant win it either. But they wont give up the ground game, especially with McCain in a free-fall. Well, back when Gpratt used to post about how Obama couldn't win because the south was solid red and Obama couldn't win Ohio and Fla. My theory, was that due to Obama opening offices in every state, McCain likely would not win in the solid red states by as much as Bush won them. It is the reason why I thought Obama would win the popular even if he lost the electoral. But, also the likelihood of higher black turnout in states in the south closer to Obama. And it looks like this is happening, on top of the economy helping out Obama and the awful campaign being run by McCain.

I knew I wasn't crazy for watching Georgia.

So I'm in this international reporting class. It's hard. I keep getting these papers get back saying, great paper, but I got a D and a C because because there are standards for AP errors. AP is REALLY hard to edit for. It's like studying a dictionary. Anyways if we get it published we get an A. So BOOYA. http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/...4/poor-posture/ And don't worry, I'm under no impression that my writing is good enough or ideas brilliant enough to be be beyond criticism. It's the reason I'm posting it. This is my first editorial i've written, and I probably won't take an editorial writing class. I already caught a spelling mistake that happened post-editing, and I'm angered! In reality I think I made Russia look too weak. BUt them getting loans by using shares as collateral is funny, to me.

Is that implying a third party candidates runningmate?

Michelle Malkin isn't a conservative she's a hate monger destroying this country.

You think the sudden nasty turn has happened on its own AD? You think there is no connection between the suddenly nasty crowds and the campaign the last 3 weeks.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Oct 14, 2008 -> 06:02 PM) hmm, don't know. maybe we can put together a government program to come up with one. That's a cute answer, a nice dodge from the realization that the republicans are pumping race into this election.

The fact that Obama is making such a play for Omaha, NE shows you they aren't overlooking anything.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Oct 14, 2008 -> 07:41 PM) No, but he's not going to "get us out of Iraq" quite as easy as he says he is. Better yet, when he "brings them home" ON HIS WATCH he can claim "victory". You watch. It's exactly what this guy's going to do. Obama saying victory?