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QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 03:28 PM) When you say stupid things every day for the last 35 years, people stop noticing as much. Palin's comments don't get the 100 point headline on Drudge though. Honestly and seriously though, I think there may be a perception difference between the tickets that might account for that. Biden is the experience guy here, and the line from the Obama campaign has always been that Obama wanted a substantive running mate who can have respectful disagreements with. Palin is seen as the Stepford candidate, and when your campaign is using phrases like "learning at the foot of the master," to describe her - it makes her comments seem a bit more outrageous. And the other reason why I think the media has turned on McCain/Palin? And I think they have by the way, has to do with access. Outside of those carefully planned and detailed few interviews Palin has given, she has not had one single media avail, and has not taken one reporter's question on the campaign trail. McCain hasn't taken a single question from any non-local reporter in over five weeks either. If you don't acknowledge or talk to the press, I'd wager they are less likely to give you the benefit of the doubt. And further, F*** balance v. accuracy. Obama has not had the type of ridiculous statements and false ads that the McCain camp has, and since it has a duty to cut through the spin, it isn't f'n bias to cover more time to uncover the party who is doing, frankly, more of the lying. This whining and b****ing about the media from the McCain campaign is a disgrace. Stop blaming the media, the sad part is it worked for clinton, but I don't think it'll work for McCain. B/c the media genuinely was so interested in Obama in the primaries, the best leg of his campaign, that they were self-conscious on how to cover him. But McCain has been actively lying and then chastising the media, when he used to embrace them. There is a great three part series on McCain in Esquire, I suggest you all take th etime to read it. Esquire does awesome profile pieces.

I'm just torn. The electoral college, for all it's faults, is still kind of fascinating. The campaign strategy to going to battleground states. Trying to find a message to maximize the amount that will vote for you. What would a national campaign look like if it was just popular? Would then the cities get all the attention?

i.e. Tiger Woods.

wouldn't that be violating tinker?

plus, either way, isn't it possible that Hagel could vote Obama anyway?

Well, technically, if the kid wanted to wear an anti-obama ribbon and not make any scene about it, he could do that no?

please, you don't see arabs good at basketball do you?

The sad thing: the dad probably helped him make that shirt! Motor skills people, develop em.

budget enforcement act of 1990 I believe that this helped us get our surplus in the nineties.

QUOTE (Whitewashed in '05 @ Sep 22, 2008 -> 03:58 AM) Those Mac commercials make me hate macs... and so do mac enthusiasts who buy into the whole, "im cool cause I have a mac" bull. we are cool though.

I love my mac. I don't code or game or any of that guff though.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 21, 2008 -> 08:31 PM) However, I believe the 95% plus incumbent survival rate is actually quite new. $$$$$$$$$$ more than that though

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Sep 21, 2008 -> 06:48 PM) Gerrymandering. thats nothing new though

It's an excellent program that takes college graduates and trains them, puts them into high need schools for two years. The success that teach for america teachers have in these classrooms is pretty amazing. It's really interesting and also a lot of great grad schools have huge grants for doing teach for america.

Ugh, I hate writing these types of essays. I really hope I can get into this program Does anyone have any experience with Teach For America?

WOOOWOOOOOOOOOOOo haha, read the first 4 pages of the game thread. People were beginning to call Cy Bannister.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 01:42 AM) Tejeda just walked Uribe. My advice to him is to kill himself. LOL

hmm...his mom sending emails from the grave?

Journalism isn't writing an encyclopedia. People are writing about things as they are happening and don't have the luxury of looking back at all the events to seeing the whole picture. So you are mad that MSNBC found out that Raines was an advisor, yea? They had two statements, one from the McCain campaign saying raines had large influence on Obama's economic policy, then one from Obama saying he has never been an advisor. And then they end on that Raines was an advisor. And you are mad about that? Why? Because they didn't take the GOP version, which you assume is the truth?

DAMN THEM FOR TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE TRUTH

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 06:37 PM) The people who said that are idiots. My prediction is that the polls will all be within margin of error on election day. What a surprise, eh? One thing I will bet all my money on, Missouri will be so close that I'll be forced to stay at the newsroom until 2 a.m. like every freaking election. Even our local elections for assessor go down to the wire.

It was just really odd for me, that when Obama got his convention bounce, everyone called it a convention bounce. When McCain got a convention bounce, it was McCain taking over!

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 06:19 PM) For Obama I wish he addressed factory farming somehow like John Edwards did. Abhorrent abuse of animals aside, the amount of greenhouse gasses produced by these places are worse than the output of vehicles. I also would like to hear more discussion on public transportation but who am I kidding. Which Presidential candidate would ever make that part of their core issues? I just feel like both of those issues are usually in state debates.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 05:39 PM) Yowza. That's some holy entertainment there. You know it sucks because saying your car accident was caused by a Kenyan woman's spells doesn't get you far in traffic court. I'm glad someone is fighting for us.

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