8th election thread

[Duck-Billed Catechist]

The thing is -- they reportedly were not letting people bring signs into the convention. So one assumes that those signs were handed out/officially sanctioned. Almost as if, you know, they wanted to draw jeers from Dems/liberals, which would be proof that Dems think they're better than everyone else.

[viatroy]

or at least can spell better.

[bobbob1313]

or they made them impromptu styleat the convention?

[fatheadfred]

The thing is -- they reportedly were not letting people bring signs into the convention. So one assumes that those signs were handed out/officially sanctioned. Almost as if, you know, they wanted to draw jeers from Dems/liberals, which would be proof that Dems think they're better than everyone else.

Victimizing the elite? I get it, tell the biggest lie to get them to believe it. Didn't Hitler use that theory?

[Winston Legthigh]

Doesn't capitalism depend on rewarding the elite? Doesn't communinism depend on eliminating the elite and rewarding everyone equally?

 

So, why is elitism a bad thing?

[solace]

or they made them impromptu styleat the convention?

 

that's my guess...

 

if they were made by someone in the McCain/RNC camp, that would seem to indicate that the spelling errors were missed by at least 2 people (not to mention anyone who actually read them closely at the RNC)

[sweetheart-mine]

someone had a sign last night that msnbc focused on for about one second, and i can't remember the exact verb in the middle but otherwise it went something like this:

 

SARAH PALIN

WILL ATTACK

THE TERRORISTS!

(ASK OBAMA!)

[Sir Stewart]

You should sell them on Cafe Press.

 

Thanks for the idea:

Come and Get Your HOCKEY MOMS AGAINST COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION t-shirts

 

(never sold on cafepress before, hope I did it right)

[Good Old Neon]

someone had a sign last night that msnbc focused on for about one second, and i can't remember the exact verb in the middle but otherwise it went something like this:

 

SARAH PALIN

WILL ATTACK

THE TERRORISTS!

(ASK OBAMA!)

 

Who was that David Blaine looking dude making what almost looked like metal signs cut to towards the beginning of McCain

[ikol]

I just wanted to add that Rush (the band, not the radio douchebag) does not suck.

[Analogman]

I just wanted to add that Rush (the band, not the radio douchebag) does not suck.

 

That's one of the best posts I have read all day.

[Duck-Billed Catechist]

or they made them impromptu styleat the convention?

It's possible, but consider this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/moira-whelan...x_b_123892.html

[lost highway]

Doesn't capitalism depend on rewarding the elite? Doesn't communinism depend on eliminating the elite and rewarding everyone equally?

 

So, why is elitism a bad thing?

 

This is the lynch pin of the entire Capitalist philosophy. In order to have a successful capitalism one can not have a true capitalism. It is always tempered with some degree of regulation, or *gasp* socialist programs.

 

The U.S. of A. has historically done a great job of mixing these ideas in the past (although some people wet the bed if you paint us pink socialists), you can see this in laws against monopolies or public organizations like the USPS or the library system.

 

This is the delicate balance that makes our country and economy work. On the one hand our government could be harder on special interests, specifically monopolies, on the other we could dispose of a lot of pork and barrel measures that waste away working dollars. No matter what you can not have a "free market" when a tiny group is holding all the dollars and all the moves.

[EL the Famous]

Thanks for the idea:

Come and Get Your HOCKEY MOMS AGAINST COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION t-shirts

 

(never sold on cafepress before, hope I did it right)

 

pimpin ain't easy...i'm repping you on the blog, buddy. you should sell millions.

[Elixir Sue]

Excuse me if this has been covered, I can't keep up. But, Walter Reed Middle School!?! Is that true!?! :lol

It's possible, but consider this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/moira-whelan...x_b_123892.html

Do all of you have me on ignore?

 

I'm put off by it, too. In fact, I was reading about that earlier: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/moira-whelan...x_b_123892.html

From Talking Points Memo: (re: Walter Reed Middle School)

[austrya]

Thanks for the idea:

Come and Get Your HOCKEY MOMS AGAINST COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION t-shirts

 

(never sold on cafepress before, hope I did it right)

 

I'd make some coffee mugs, bumper stickers, and magnets too.

 

I'm not one for t-shirts, but I love stickers and magnets...

[Duck-Billed Catechist]

Do all of you have me on ignore?

Oh, that's where I read it in the first place -- your link. I was just reappropriating it for the present conversation.

[Gobias Industries]

Thanks for the idea:

Come and Get Your HOCKEY MOMS AGAINST COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION t-shirts

 

(never sold on cafepress before, hope I did it right)

 

You should get it on short shorts. They will fly off the shelves like crazy.

[Elixir Sue]

Oh, that's where I read it in the first place -- your link. I was just reappropriating it for the present conversation.

I knew I could count on you, Norbs.

[bobbob1313]

I still like Joe Leiberman. I know all of you guys feel betrayed, or whatever, but I respect that man a lot.

[mountain bed]

I just wanted to add that Rush (the band, not the radio douchebag) does not suck.

 

If you were here I would totally buy you a beer of your choosing.

[Central Scrutinizer]

This is the lynch pin of the entire Capitalist philosophy. In order to have a successful capitalism one can not have a true capitalism. It is always tempered with some degree of regulation, or *gasp* socialist programs.

 

The U.S. of A. has historically done a great job of mixing these ideas in the past (although some people wet the bed if you paint us pink socialists), you can see this in laws against monopolies or public organizations like the USPS or the library system.

 

This is the delicate balance that makes our country and economy work. On the one hand our government could be harder on special interests, specifically monopolies, on the other we could dispose of a lot of pork and barrel measures that waste away working dollars. No matter what you can not have a "free market" when a tiny group is holding all the dollars and all the moves.

Well the entire government is based on balance -- the three branches, checks and balances. By that very nature, special interests don't fit, or they at least need to be tempered (of course the argument would be is that it's tempered with the right to vote -- pretty frickin' hollow).

 

In our art and literature, our history the stories we embrace, our heroes both past and presence. The American dream is the start -- Horatio Alger, afterall is myth and fiction. But the classic themes have us delight in the comeuppance of those who succeed (or exceed), brought down. The loop of the story closes with redemption -- that they become one of us, all the wiser.

 

There's a point I'm making somewhere in there. Maybe this is the left, "socialist" dream of America, and the beat poets, and Woody Guthrie. The Republican stereotype -- or at least our big money at the sake of the poor image -- just seems to wade too close to reality. It's refreshing to have the interplay on this board -- as mean-spirited and callous as it sometimes gets. But There seems to be a completeness to the former -- that there are checks and balances that, while never letting one get too high, is dependant on never letting one go without.

 

That may be the ultimate fallacy -- never true, but hoped for. But aid and benevolence exist everywhere, in fitful, disorganized and faith-based or purposed-based pockets.

 

This very much is an election of values. But what, truly, are they?

[Sir Stewart]

I still like Joe Leiberman. I know all of you guys feel betrayed, or whatever, but I respect that man a lot.

That's just great bobbob - keep that contrarian thing going and maybe eventually ikol will love you.

[rareair]

pimpin ain't easy...i'm repping you on the blog, buddy. you should sell millions.

 

creative pimping is back!

[viatroy]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/05/n...t_n_124256.html

 

 

McCain aide sees no reason why Sarah Palin should have to answer reporters' queries:

 

According to Nicole Wallace of the McCain campaign, the American people don't care whether Sarah Palin can answer specific questions about foreign and domestic policy. According to Wallace -- in an appearance I did with her this morning on Joe Scarborough's show -- the American people will learn all they need to know (and all they deserve to know) from Palin's scripted speeches and choreographed appearances on the campaign trail and in campaign ads.

 

 

and this little gem ... "So Sambo beat the bitch"