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Ok not really... But funny none the less...Though it pushes a stereotype ;-)
Here is the Article
Here is the Quote of note.
The response from the McCain campaign was equally cutting.
"If the shareholders of The New York Times ever wonder why the paper's ad revenue is plummeting and its share price tanking, they need look no further than the hysterical reaction of the paper's editors to any slight, real or imagined, against their preferred candidate," said McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb.
Goldfarb compared the editors to a blogger "sitting at home in his mother's basement and ranting into the ether between games of Dungeons & Dragons."
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Ok not really... But funny none the less...Though it pushes a stereotype ;-)
Here is the Article
Here is the Quote of note.
** spoiler omitted **
Them gaw-dammed bloggers and their in-tur-nets! Heathens the lot o' 'em!
Good catch though. :p
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Ok not really... But funny none the less...Though it pushes a stereotype ;-)
Here is the Article
Here is the Quote of note.
** spoiler omitted **
As a blogger, a D&D player, and a conservative Republican, I think McCain is the worst candidate our party could have chosen. His brain is still stuck back in the 1970's. Matbe his people should market him as the retro candidate.
Not being a conservative (or a liberal), I am pretty excited about McCain. Now if he could just make Lieberman his running mate, I would be super gun-ho.
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And due to reasonable outrage among those of us who do not like being compared to Daily Kos bloggers, Go to he said he was sorry.
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And due to reasonable outrage among those of us who do not like being compared to Daily Kos bloggers, Go to he said he was sorry.
And if he really did said that... it would be funny!
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As a blogger, a D&D player, and a conservative Republican, I think McCain is the worst candidate our party could have chosen. His brain is still stuck back in the 1970's. Matbe his people should market him as the retro candidate.Ok not really... But funny none the less...Though it pushes a stereotype ;-)
Here is the Article
Here is the Quote of note.
** spoiler omitted **
That would be one of the best things I've seen in modern politics.
JOHN MCCAIN: Experienced. Tenacious. Retro.
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And if he really did said that... it would be funny!
Being a thoroughly enraged D&D player, I went to the McCain campaign website and sent them an email complaining.
I also sent an email direct to the author through the website.Five minutes later he sent me the link. (Yeah, on a Sunday. Campaign press agents have as much of a life as D&D players. ;))
I am rather certain he said it.
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His brain is still stuck back in the 1970's.Czechoslovakia. That still makes me laugh.
yeah, referencing a country that actually used to exist is so much worse than referencing 7 "states" that have never existed ;)
maybe they SHOULD market this years slate as dumb and dumber...
Not being a conservative (or a liberal), I am pretty excited about McCain. Now if he could just make Lieberman his running mate, I would be super gun-ho.
I can totally see that, they can take turns keeping darn local kids off their lawn and playing checkers.
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Not being a conservative (or a liberal), I am pretty excited about McCain. Now if he could just make Lieberman his running mate, I would be super gun-ho.I can totally see that, they can take turns keeping darn local kids off their lawn and playing checkers.
I don't trust Lieberman. He looks like Senator Palpatine.
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referencing 7 "states" that have never existedI assume you're referring to something I haven't heard about. Care to explain?
obama said during a campaign stop "we've visited something like 57 states so far, i think there are two we haven't been to yet" (paraphrased).
imo, we have the worst two candidates we've had in a while (and after bush/kerry, that's saying something).
one is your pissed off grandfather who is slowly losing his mind, who used to be a "maverick" but now is so milquetoast and predictable it isn't funny anymore.
the other is a completely inexperienced, naive, out of touch with mainstream america, pompous, arrogant goofball who rehashes all of carter's policy points and repackages them as "new" (now, where have i heard "windfall tax" on oil companies before?), and who's only selling point is the cult of personality he has built.
the next four years are going to blow either way, i'm sure of it...
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referencing 7 "states" that have never existedI assume you're referring to something I haven't heard about. Care to explain?obama said during a campaign stop "we've visited something like 57 states so far, i think there are two we haven't been to yet" (paraphrased).
imo, we have the worst two candidates we've had in a while (and after bush/kerry, that's saying something).
one is your pissed off grandfather who is slowly losing his mind, who used to be a "maverick" but now is so milquetoast and predictable it isn't funny anymore.
the other is a completely inexperienced, naive, out of touch with mainstream america, pompous, arrogant goofball who rehashes all of carter's policy points and repackages them as "new" (now, where have i heard "windfall tax" on oil companies before?), and who's only selling point is the cult of personality he has built.
the next four years are going to blow either way, i'm sure of it...
Definitely. Welcome to the New America.
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For future reference.
the next four years are going to blow either way, i'm sure of it...
mmm...vancouver...
alberta would be nice too, kinda like canadian texans, without all the goofy religious stuff down here...
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For future reference.
If Obama wins, we will not need it.
His economic policies will give us Canadian tax rates, and his immigration policies will mean we have to fill out the forms in Mexican Spanish.We will have the worst of both worlds without even moving.
alberta would be nice too, kinda like canadian texans, without all the goofy religious stuff down here...
Alberta is rife with cultists, but they're generally not armed and tend to be more into meditation, tai qi, and vegan cooking.
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Alberta is rife with cultists, but they're generally not armed and tend to be more into meditation, tai qi, and vegan cooking.
alberta would be nice too, kinda like canadian texans, without all the goofy religious stuff down here...
my alberta experience is limited to the one time i went to calgary for "stampede", felt like i was home, albeit with as lot of "aboots" and "eh's" insteat of "fixin' to's" and "y'all's"...
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For future reference.If Obama wins, we will not need it.
His economic policies will give us Canadian tax rates, and his immigration policies will mean we have to fill out the forms in Mexican Spanish.
We will have the worst of both worlds without even moving.
eh, i'm already mostly fluent in spanish, kinda have to be in my old line of work. both of our choices are potential major trainwrecks anyway, so im not really looking forward to next january...
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I love Canada! I would move there in an instant, save for the facts that a)I've got no money, and b)the border guards are freakin' scary. I swear, last time I went to Montreal, the guard was wearing sunglasses, and when he went to the car window, he whipped them off-
-revealing YELLOW EYES. I'm not yanking your collective chains here, he seriously had yellow eyes. Terrifying.
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eh, i'm already mostly fluent in spanish, kinda have to be in my old line of work. both of our choices are potential major trainwrecks anyway, so im not really looking forward to next january...Yeah, I don't know what I'm going to do come voting time. :-P
i recommend something involving power slamming three beers and an electric thumb...
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eh, i'm already mostly fluent in spanish, kinda have to be in my old line of work. both of our choices are potential major trainwrecks anyway, so im not really looking forward to next january...
I am sooo looking forward to Jan...
No Bush...
People Like him.. People hate him.. I fall in the dislike category..
I would rather Have either McCain or Obama over another 4 years of Bush. *Though I mostly fall in the Obama side*
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eh, i'm already mostly fluent in spanish, kinda have to be in my old line of work. both of our choices are potential major trainwrecks anyway, so im not really looking forward to next january...
I am sooo looking forward to Jan...
No Bush...
People Like him.. People hate him.. I fall in the dislike category..
I would rather Have either McCain or Obama over another 4 years of Bush. *Though I mostly fall in the Obama side*
i'm of the "well, replacing a sucky president with another sucky president is a wash" camp.
if we can get rid of bush, pelosi, reid, and about, oh, 500 of the remaining congress critters (i figure about 50 might be worth a f*** in the house and senate combined, both sides of the aisle), and find another reagan or clinton type who can a) get stuff done, b) earn us global respect, and c) not be a tool, i'd be happy.
problems this cycle: mccain may not be polarizing, but he would probably be ineffective, and has a personality like wet zwieback.
obama would be very polarizing, is too far to the left (recent "repositioning" to the center for pandering purposes is just that, pandering. he cannot even hope to triangulate like the master, slick willie.) and really is in way over his head. he doesn't understand that kennedy's meeting with krushchev was an unmittigated disaster and almost lead to ww3 (berlin wall, cuba missile crisis - krushchev mispercieved kennedy as "weak" and acted accordingly...) and, frankly, aminjinidad (sp?) would make obama his b****.
either way, it doesn't get better.
if it seems like im picking on obama more than mccain, please dont think i am, i dont like either one of them, but mccain's faults are addressed much more in the msm than obama's, which may change when the general election kicks off in earnest, but for now, obama is kind of getting a pass.
I know who I'm voting for, and you're lookin' at him!
Get Henry to sign on as VP, and you've clinched my vote.
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I know who I'm voting for, and you're lookin' at him!Get Henry to sign on as VP, and you've clinched my vote.I Think Sebastian should run as President with Kobold Cleaver as VP!!!!
I was right about to post "Sebastian for President!" then I hit refresh to check if anyone had posted something while I read the thread, and sure enough, you beat me to it.
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I was right about to post "Sebastian for President!" then I hit refresh to check if anyone had posted something while I read the thread, and sure enough, you beat me to it.I know who I'm voting for, and you're lookin' at him!Get Henry to sign on as VP, and you've clinched my vote.I Think Sebastian should run as President with Kobold Cleaver as VP!!!!
I give Permission to you to start a Vote Sebastian For President thread.
;-)
I think an Aberzombie/KC ticket would provide an even richer experience for the voting public.
Run them against Sebastian/Heathy, and throw Sharoth into the mix as someone they need in the cabinet to appease the crucial metallic dragon bloc, and politics will finally be something worth paying attention to.
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I don't trust Lieberman. He looks like Senator Palpatine.Not being a conservative (or a liberal), I am pretty excited about McCain. Now if he could just make Lieberman his running mate, I would be super gun-ho.I can totally see that, they can take turns keeping darn local kids off their lawn and playing checkers.
I don't trust him because he thought that Al Gore would be a good president and because he decided to cacus with the Democrats after they threw him under the bus to appease the radicals on the left. Looking like Palpie is just an added bonus.
Alberta is rife with cultists, but they're generally not armed and tend to be more into meditation, tai qi, and vegan cooking.
alberta would be nice too, kinda like canadian texans, without all the goofy religious stuff down here...
Wrong province, man... I live in Alberta, and what you're describing sounds more like British Columbia. And unfortunately, Calgary has a growing neo-Nazi skinhead problem (amongst others).
Now back to our regular program...
If Obama wins, we will not need it.
His economic policies will give us Canadian tax rates, and his immigration policies will mean we have to fill out the forms in Mexican Spanish.
We will have the worst of both worlds without even moving.
Right, whereas if McCain gets elected, we'll have a continually growing deficit as the morass in Iraq drags on interminably and immigration policies as bad if not worse than the ones Obama would help institute (remember, he's the one who wrote co-wrote the amnesty bill with Kennedy.)
Alberta is rife with cultists, but they're generally not armed and tend to be more into meditation, tai qi, and vegan cooking.
alberta would be nice too, kinda like canadian texans, without all the goofy religious stuff down here...Wrong province, man... I live in Alberta, and what you're describing sounds more like British Columbia. And unfortunately, Calgary has a growing neo-Nazi skinhead problem (amongst others).
Now back to our regular program...
Alberta is rife with cults, rest assured. 34 years of living in Edmonton, brother, and I know all about the skinhead problem: I've got a knife wound to prove it.
I had a sociology prof who called Edmonton the cult capital of Canada, and although I never got a chance to vet his research, I took it for granted he wasn't pulling my chain. Here is a top hit off google that says I'm not shitting you.
A friend and I went to 3 'lectures' during a summer holiday that we found off tips from the prof and it was seriously freaky, man. Until then I had NO idea there was shit going on like that in my hometown, and I hear it's getting worse.
I don't trust Lieberman. He looks like Senator Palpatine.Not being a conservative (or a liberal), I am pretty excited about McCain. Now if he could just make Lieberman his running mate, I would be super gun-ho.I can totally see that, they can take turns keeping darn local kids off their lawn and playing checkers.
Because judging people how they look is totally ok.
I'm a pretty attractive guy if I may say so, so I'm all okay with judging people on their looks.
Posting from a UK perspective, I'm not quite sure what happened to Hilary Clinton; although from some of the satirical pieces in Private Eye (where Bill was depicted as Fred Flintstone with a different spin on 'Yabbba-dabba-dooooo' every fortnight) I gather that her husband may have been something of a liability in her failed attempt to get the nomination.
Hillary had problems from the start. She is a very polarizing figure and I seriously doubt it would have been in the Democrats best interest to make her their nominee.
Anyway, yes Bill did do some pretty bonehead things like saying after Obama won South Carolina, "Well Jesse Jackson won South Carolina." Jesse Jackson was another black man who ran for president in the past, but never really had any chance due to his personal viewpoints (Jesse got back in the spot light after suggesting he wanted to make Obama a eunuch).
The point Bill was effectively making was that South Carolina has a large black population and they are going to vote for the black candidate irregardless if they would make a good president. Now just because that is true, it is not something you want to say because it basically is calling a large portion of the black voters (who tend to be democrats) racists. Which ends up losing more of the ones that might have stuck with you, despite Hillary's failing in skin pigment.
There were a couple of other incidents like that, as well as Hillary making comments about Robert Kennedy, who was assinated, for why she was continuing into the later primaries.
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Is McCain the man who sounds as if he should be playing Father Christmas?
Well he is the older fellow if that is what you mean. I am not sure what you mean by sounding like Father Christmas.
