EPTOn November 06 2008 03:02 BlackStar wrote:
Don't use homosexuality as an insult, you bigot.
Don't use homosexuality as an insult, you bigot.
are you gonna fucking post that image or not, you mincing, prancing, tranny whore?
2008 US Presidential Election - Page 113
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FakeSteve[TPR]
Valhalla18444 Posts
are you gonna fucking post that image or not, you mincing, prancing, tranny whore? | ||
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Jusciax
Lithuania588 Posts
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SayaSP
Laos5494 Posts
In any case Obama should bring a refreshment of sorts to the USA and the world. Here's to hoping he will! :D | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14899 Posts
On November 06 2008 02:55 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote: what the fuck are you talking about? don't link images from websites you don't own, that shit costs them money save the image and upload it to imageshack (WHICH IS FREE) and then post it the hell's the matter with you in all seriuosness since when was this a rule? direct link to images all the time... | ||
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FakeSteve[TPR]
Valhalla18444 Posts
On November 06 2008 03:15 KOFgokuon wrote: in all seriuosness since when was this a rule? direct link to images all the time... since forever but obviously we dont go around rightclicking everyone's pictures to make sure its basic courtesy, i only noticed blackstar's because at first it was just the code with the url like its such a small issue, we correct it when we come across it because it costs the other site money. i dunno why blackstar freaked the fuck out about it, maybe he has severe mental problems | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32098 Posts
On November 06 2008 03:20 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote: i dunno why blackstar freaked the fuck out about it, maybe he has severe mental problems no way?! hey, why has imageshack not been working for me lately?? | ||
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Flaccid
8859 Posts
On November 06 2008 03:45 Hawk wrote: no way?! hey, why has imageshack not been working for me lately?? It has been known to go down quite often. Like yo mama | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14899 Posts
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Flaccid
8859 Posts
-------------------------------- When John McCain Surrendered, We All Lost by Enlightened Savage Nation, the dust has begun to settle on the spectacle that was the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. And while I'm not insensitive to the historic nature of the decision that was made last night, I'm afraid there's one particular aspect of this race that *could* have changed politics as we know it, if not for the capitulation of one man: John McCain. The John McCain of 2000 was the true maverick of the Republican Party - with young George W. Bush all-but anointed, McCain still chose to run against him for the party nomination, in a fight he had to know he wasn't going to win. But fight he did nevertheless... he criticised Bush's inexperience, his ties to organized religion ("agents of intolerance", he called them), his very credentials... McCain offered instead a moderate, middle-of-the-road approach heavy on experience and light on political dogma. The Bush machine, led by Karl Rove, crushed McCain handily. I liked that John McCain. I'm a moderate by Canadian standards (so, a leftist by American standards), and I would have voted for that John McCain, over the AlGore-tron 3000. Fast forward to 2008. McCain, having been judged to have "behaved himself" over the past 8 years, gets the nod from the back-room GOP strategists. He's already taken his best shot in 2000, and he's down on his luck in this nomination race. He's broken, and hemorrhaging money, but has name recognition, a compelling life's story and has lost most of his maverick tendencies. He's a "manageable candidate", who will do what he's told. So, the deal is struck: John, you'll be our nominee, but you follow OUR lead. Clearly, your way didn't work in 2000, and it's not working now. McCain capitulates. And we all lose. Nation, if Barack Obama had been running against the John McCain of 2000, the results of this election likely wouldn't have been all that different, on paper. Barack Obama would still have won, and possibly by an even larger margin (as McCain would almost certainly have alienated the religious right). He was going to lose, either way. But he sold himself out to win the party nomination. If the John McCain of 2000 had been running, he would have picked a running mate who could actually hold a candle to Joe Biden. If the John McCain of 2000 had been running, he would have looked down from his podium last night and scolded, in the harshest tone possible, the idiots who were booing and screaming party slogans when he invoked the name of their next President. And if the John McCain of 2000 had been running, he would have elevated the debate. We would have spent the past months listening to McCain and Obama debate policy. Talking about things that matter. Discussing how to fix the problems that America faces, and how to avoid more problems like them in the future. Maybe even our own "Santos/Vinick" debate. Instead, we got innuendo about William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, an aunt in the country illegally, and Obama's middle name. We got shouts of "terrorist!" and "kill him!" at Republican rallies when Obama's name was mentioned. John McCain could have raised the bar for political discourse in this campaign, and in so doing, he could have changed politics forever. He could have been remembered as the man who went toe-to-toe with Barack Obama, always respectful and thoughtful, debating ideas and not personalities, and went down swinging. He could have run a clean campaign, free of the innuendo and half-truths that we in the west have come to just accept as an inevitability of the political process. And if anyone on his campaign, from his VP pick to local poll captains, had done or said anything to contradict McCain's message of inclusion and respectful discourse, he could have sent them packing. He could have done all that, and restored America's faith, indeed all of Western Civilization's faith, in the capacity of politics to be about something other than the avaricious pursuit of power for power's sake, by any means necessary. He could have done it. But John McCain surrendered. He gave up the moral high ground, and control of his own brand, in an effort to win power, and failed spectacularly. John McCain let us all down not by losing, but in HOW he lost. We saw flashes of the old John over the course of this campaign... flashes that were, no doubt, stamped down as soon as he got behind closed doors with the party strategists. Had he "gone maverick", gone off-script, and reasserted himself, he could have pulled off a brilliant reversal - still ultimately losing, but doing so with honour and absolute dignity. But, ultimately, McCain won't be remembered as the man who helped save politics by fighting valiantly and losing. He won't have his "Alamo" moment. He laid down with dogs, and got whipped like one. When he looks in the mirror today, I firmly believe that will be his greatest regret: Not that he lost, but that he did so only after first giving up on himself. He sold out his own legacy to appeal to the party's base. THAT is how John McCain will be remembered in the history books. You let us down, John. And it breaks my heart to say it. ------------------------------------- | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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XoXiDe
United States620 Posts
400 McCain/Palin 131 Obama/McCain | ||
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SK.Testie
Canada11084 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
On November 06 2008 05:25 MYM.Testie wrote: Why do you even bother giving that fool Hannity ratings? It should be funny seeing how he will try to put a spin on the election. His ammo is that the stock is down 300 points, he was a no show last night even though Hannity and Colmes was said to air on election night. I want to see some back peddling from him. When I think how the show was in 2006 when Democrats took a majority, this is the same thing but x1000. | ||
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a-game
Canada5085 Posts
just playin' <3 | ||
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Savio
United States1850 Posts
On November 05 2008 14:29 Cobalt wrote: And it's a fitting time to post this. ![[image loading]](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/election.png) This is so me. | ||
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DrainX
Sweden3187 Posts
Same  xkcd almost always hits me right on the spot^^ | ||
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Chuiu
3470 Posts
On November 06 2008 05:24 XoXiDe wrote: my county election count lol 400 McCain/Palin 131 Obama/McCain Wow even your Obama supporters are conservative? | ||
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XoXiDe
United States620 Posts
p.s. anyone else enjoy looking at the newspaper headlines | ||
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
Interesting Bloomberg article. I also find it interesting that Fox news confirmed that there was infighting among the McCain camp about Sarah Palin which resulted in some being fired because they were furious with her. | ||
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