Election 2008

[jlbomega]

FAIL.

It's spelled buffoon.

Haha.

That was the easiest thing I've done all week.

So I spell one word wrong and it causes the whole point I made to be false?  Wow.... the complete lack of logic that some people have on this board amazes me.  They must have been educated in the KCMO district.

[advocrat]

So I spell one word wrong and it causes the whole point I made to be false?  Wow.... the complete lack of logic that some people have on this board amazes me.  They must have been educated in the KCMO district.

Nice put down of those who are graduates of the KCMO public school system.

So where did you acquire your stellar education?

[Beermo]

Nice put down of those who are graduates of the KCMO public school system.

So where did you acquire your stellar education?

i would say park hill south and the mean streets of riverside.

[NDTeve]

Dems move forward with investigation of President Bush..

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/washi ... j/Et8MmudQ

Its not like we don't have any bigger fucking problems.

[Maitre D]

Dems move forward with investigation of President Bush..

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/washi ... j/Et8MmudQ

Its not like we don't have any bigger fucking problems.

So much for Obama's Election Nite speech on "reconciliation"

[DaveKCMO]

But even if his administration rejects the calls for investigations, Mr. Obama cannot control what the courts or Congress do. Several lawsuits are seeking information about Bush policies, including an Islamic charity’s claim that it was illegally spied on by Mr. Bush’s program on wiretapping without warrants.

how quickly we forget that tarnishing one's opponent is not the invention of a single party.

[KCMax]

Dems move forward with investigation of President Bush..

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/washi ... j/Et8MmudQ

Its not like we don't have any bigger fucking problems.

Please show me anywhere in the article that says Dems are moving forward with an investigation of Bush. I'm just not seeing it. All I see is one Dem Congressman saying he plans to investigate Bush.

So much for Obama's Election Nite speech on "reconciliation"

You base this opinion on an article that says an Obama administration might investigate Bush, even though it hasn't said publicly one way or the other, and the article also says that Obama has much less power to investigate as Congress.

Okay. At least you're being fair-minded.

[Maitre D]

The WSJ was dead-on, when they predicted last week that Obama will be run roughshod by Congressional Dems.  This is only the first example of it.


He won't be able to control these guys.  Not after a long absence from power.  They're chomping at the bit and Obama best get out of their way.

[LenexatoKCMO]

He won't be able to control these guys. 

Thank goodness - they did seperate those branches for an improtant constitutional reason. 

[KCMax]

OBAMA TO RESIGN from Senate

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081114/pl_ ... a_senate_5

[NDTeve]

Post Election Truth Squad?

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/durham ... 92635.html

[Maitre D]

Those of us on the Right have roughly 9 weeks of freedom left.

[chrizow]

Those of us on the Right have roughly 9 weeks of freedom left.

[NDTeve]

Ron Paul answers questions...

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2 ... -part-one/

[AJoD]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/colu ... 384.column

Catherine Vogt, 14, is an Illinois 8th grader, the daughter of a liberal mom and a conservative dad. She wanted to conduct an experiment in political tolerance and diversity of opinion at her school in the liberal suburb of Oak Park.

She noticed that fellow students at Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama for president. His campaign kept preaching "inclusion," and she decided to see how included she could be.

So just before the election, Catherine consulted with her history teacher, then bravely wore a unique T-shirt to school and recorded the comments of teachers and students in her journal. The T-shirt bore the simple yet quite subversive words drawn with a red marker:

"McCain Girl."

[mean]

That is freaking hilarious. 

However, while I'm sure some (I won't name names) might try to use this as an illustration of the hypocrisy of "libs," going against the grain in 8th grade in any way gets that same reaction. First-hand experience...

[loftguy]

That is freaking hilarious. 

However, while I'm sure some (I won't name names) might try to use this as an illustration of the hypocrisy of "libs," going against the grain in 8th grade in any way gets that same reaction. First-hand experience...

True, 8th grade is likely the zenith of non-inclusion.  Luckily most of us grow beyond that state.

[Jess]

Hah!  Also, do the same "social experiment" in my rural hometown in the supposed "downstate" of Illinois (never mind that it's due west of Chicago, if it's outside Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, or Will Counties, it's "downstate"), and you'd likely get not ragged, but pushed down in the halls for displaying something that doesn't go along with conservative ideology at that age, because kids parrot their parents and those are the predominant views in much of the non-urban portion of the state (much like here).  To quote the little girl in the story, I agree that at that age, ""Just being on the outside, how it felt, it was not fun at all."  At least not when I was in 8th grade.  I've since embraced it a bit more. 

I do like this bit:

One student suggested that she be put up on a cross for her political beliefs.

"He said, 'You should be crucifixed.' It was kind of funny because, I was like, don't you mean 'crucified?' " Catherine said.

I'm still trying to figure out if the frothing-at-the-mouth woman who freaked me out by loudly verbally attacking me in Union Station's Harvey House one early morning in June for wearing an Obama T-shirt as I saw my parents off on their train was a Republican or a rabid Clinton supporter.  I kind of wish she'd told me I should be crucifixed, so I could have corrected her.

[AllThingsKC]

Oh, is THIS how Obama got elected?

[DaveKCMO]

Oh, is THIS how Obama got elected?

LOL.

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