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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 12:39 PM
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The collective media say JUMP! And DU jumps.
Andra Mitchell! Chuck Todd! Bill Press! They're getting us all excited! Contention at the Convention--it even rhymes! Time Magazine!

Oh my God, the convention will be ruined!

How many commercials have you viewed or heard throughout all of this crap? Because that's the bottom line. Keep reacting, DU. Keep viewing those commercials.

I'm going to go out and cut the grass.
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 12:46 PM
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1. Bullshit...
We jump to Criss Cross!
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Meshuga Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 12:48 PM
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2. I would say...
House of Pain or Van Halen.
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 12:53 PM
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3. lol - music sucks.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 12:55 PM
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4. WRONG, the CLINTONS STARTED THIS SHIT!
Put the blame where it belongs, on BILL and HILLARY CLINTON!
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:05 PM
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5. I'm sure you will.
Now go and do something useful for Obama.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:14 PM
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8. Clinton could do more than a hundred of me
by simply stating (again) her name will not be placed into nomination.
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:36 PM
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9. If it's placed in nomination
it won't change the outcome. Certainly not a new idea in politics.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:41 PM
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10. Are you and I the only people here who have ever watched a convention?
It's like nobody ever heard the roll call of the states before.
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:44 PM
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14. Me Three
And yet, when I made a poll a couple of weeks ago, the overwhelming majority (like 2:1) were voters over 40. I can only guess they never watched conventions.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:48 PM
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15. And the great state of Mississippi, home of Senator Ernest T. Snodgrass,
Edited on Thu Aug-07-08 01:49 PM by QC
grower of America's largest honeydew melon, where the mothers care for their children and the fathers set a fine example for them, proudly casts its 48 votes for ___ and one vote for Mrs. Ernestine Wattle, mother of the delegation's chairman and baker of the finest sweet potato pies known to man!

{drunken cheering}
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 03:47 PM
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27. And the great state of New Jersey....
... the "What The Fuck Are You Looking At?" state, proudly casts its votes for...

;-)

I like the roll call of states. It's like watching the Chamber of Commerce.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 03:49 PM
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28. I think you and I must be the only people here who have ever heard of the roll call.
That's the only possible explanation.
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 07:55 PM
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31. Indiana Gave a Shout Out For John Mellencamp One Year In Theirs
I think it was 2k, not sure. "... the great state of Indiana blah blah blah salt of the earth John Mellencamp ..."
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 07:57 PM
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33. I love it. n/t
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 09:09 PM
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36. Me four. Bradley/Gore. I cried buckets, but ended up working my butt off for Gore. nt
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 07:56 PM
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32. no!
I, too, have watched conventions.

:toast:
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 09:13 PM
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37. I think the problem may be that the m$m has never seen a convention before.
They seriously act as if they haven't. This is SOP--and I'm willing to bet someone besides McCain is going to get some nominations at the RNC, too.
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:41 PM
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11. Agreed.
I'm back from cutting the grass. It was somewhat of a workout in this heat! ;-)
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 09:08 PM
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35. Exactly. I was the biggest Bill Bradley supporter ever, but when he freed his delegates up
to nominate Al Gore, I was right there with him and enthusiastically supported Gore from then on.

It's traditional, it adds some excitement to a foregone conclusion, and makes the loser out to be a hero in the end. All good.
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 10:22 PM
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42. okay, oh omniscient one
now go out and do something constructive for Obama. All politics are local.
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JackORoses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:54 PM
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18. how can you defend the Clintons' selfishness?
They are not the Future of this Party. Why is that so hard to accept?
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 03:23 PM
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22. There's Nothing For Us to Defend. Hacking Away At The Successful Past Is Devastating
Edited on Thu Aug-07-08 03:24 PM by Crisco
You don't want Hillary Clinton as president, or nominee. Okay, we get that.

Regardless of where the Democratic party goes in the future, it's not going to have any legs to get there on as long as you people insist on alienating *both* people who respect Bill Clinton and people who voted for Hillary Clinton.

When will you all get your heads out of your asses long enough to realize, if Obama's campaigners are not willing to give credit where its due, it will be disastrous for him and all of us in November?
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:06 PM
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6. Your concern is noted
and will receive the attention that it merits.

Thank you.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:09 PM
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7. PTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
:P
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PVnRT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:50 PM
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16. Can't let it go, eh?
Sad.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:51 PM
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17. I let it all go months ago
then Hillary and Bill go and drag it through the muck yet again.
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polmaven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:57 PM
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19. Mommy, Mommy....
THEY STARTED IT!!! Wahaahaah! :cry:

How childish! What are you, 5 years old?

This is exactly the OP's point. - Grow up!
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:57 PM
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21. Thank Yew!
:hi:
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Tektonik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 09:50 PM
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40. OMFG ANGRY
:eyes:
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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:42 PM
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12. Didn't you know? Gullibility is now the highest civic virtue
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:44 PM
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13. ...
:thumbsup:

:rofl:
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:57 PM
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20. The convention will go smoothly.
Obama will be the nominee. It's pretty common that another Democrat goes on the ballot as well..it's happened many times before. People just need to chill out and let things happen the way their supposed to.
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 03:36 PM
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23. People won't do that unless they start evaluating what
they're reading and seeing in the media. :(
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 03:39 PM
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24. Media giving DU what it wants
DU is craving, salivating over the possibility of a fight at the convention. A chance to get all riled up about Hillary again!
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 03:43 PM
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25. Um...The Republicans are the ones who are relishing that.
Think about it. ;-)
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 03:58 PM
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29. yep, both the GOP and some DUers want it BAD
Edited on Thu Aug-07-08 03:59 PM by Enrique
changed from "DU" to "some DUers" because I noticed just now reading some other threads that the shit-stirrers are in a well-deserved small minority.

:bounce:
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 04:13 PM
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30. And within that small minority, some are here explicitly to
stir the shit. ;-) The rest of the minority are simply reacting, when they should know better.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 03:45 PM
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26. Ironic, considering how people here imagine themselves to be so tough and cynical and worldly wise,
but you're right--whatever the corporate media dole out, they gobble it up.
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 09:02 PM
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34. My thoughts exactly. The Paris Hilton story was winding down and something had to take its place.
The pundit monster must be fed with a new sensation every few days. Sad.
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 09:16 PM
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38. It's awful.
I teach undergrad college students to check their sources, and this is just terrible.
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LostinRed Donating Member (292 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 09:48 PM
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39. I agree
The MSM is just waiting for any kind of contention between Obama and Clinton. Complete waste of time. The Verdict with Dan Abrams which I usually enjoy, made me sick tonight with the coverage.
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 09:52 PM
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41. I have a master's degree in media communications in addition to a graduate degree
that I really love. I've been taught by some amazing people. I see through this so fast!
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