[clue-talk] Wow, Card's a little political...

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 11-01 17:13, Nate Duehr wrote:

Deleted a bunch of stuff...getting too nested.

First of all, let me preface this by me reiterating that I am NOT a liberal,
although I wouldn't apologize if I was. I'm cynical enough to not be
enthused very much by either candidate. But watching McCain's campaign,
culminating in selecting what, by all appearances so far, seems to be one of
the dumbest people in politics. Then watching the appeal to the RWAs utterly
sickened me.

That tore it for me. I tacitly supported Obama before that, but as I learned
more about Palin and learned more about McCain's health issues, the more I
wanted McCain to lose.

When it comes to examples, no, we don't have video, but we do have reports.
I also seem to remember that the Secret Service did look into them.

Are there even reports of people yelling this sort of stuff at Obama
rallies?


When it comes to stealing elections, I suggest reading _Loser Take All_.
Interestingly enough, he mentions how Republicans are trying to kill two
birds with one stone by attacking groups like ACORN, while also rolling up
their sleeves to do the real dirty deeds. It also contains essays dealing
with past elections stolen by Republicans, and how even though people seemed
to breathe a sigh of relief in 2006, they shouldn't have, as data shows
there were probably elections stolen then, too.

I've also heard a recent podcast in which a conservative computer guy was
discussing the problems with e-voting. Not that it's any secret anymore.


And lastly, I don't want ANYONE's vote to be disenfranchised. I cannot be
clear enough about that. 

I'll agree that all politicians do some pandering, but this pandering to the
worst elements of anti-intellectualism by McCain makes me vomit a little in
my mouth. Calling straight-ahead questions aimed at Palin who was kept in
hiding for so long "gotcha journalism"? You have GOT to be kidding me.

I guess that's what Palin was selected FOR, but good grief...if they didn't
select her for this reason, I'd like to know what she was selected for,
because I can think of quite a few VP candidates that would have been
smarter, less ignorant, and more experienced than Palin.


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