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TTUBatfan2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:00 PM
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Maher just fucking nailed it...
"The American electorate keeps getting dumber and dumber. They get the President they deserve, and they don't deserve a good one."
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terip64 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:02 PM
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1. Well, I for one am not as dumb as I used to be...
let's hope I am not the only one! ;)
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:02 PM
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2. Why are all you guys all of a sudden quoting Maher? Is he on one of the
networks right now? Thanks.
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TTUBatfan2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:03 PM
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5. He was on MSNBC...
but now David Gregory is pushing the "civil war" meme right now.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:07 PM
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11. Ah. That explains it. About three threads on Maher from out of the blue. Thanks. nt
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:02 PM
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3. Glad that made it out there for general Murkan consumption
Fuck 'em.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:02 PM
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4. Yup. Every 4 years they get another chance to redeem themselves.
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TTUBatfan2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:04 PM
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7. If Obama loses this...
I am tempted to just sit back, cross my fingers hoping there's no military draft, and laugh my fucking ass off as the Republicans continue taking this country straight to hell. I wonder how long it's going to go on before people finally realize a pattern.
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dano81818 Donating Member (185 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:03 PM
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6. this kind of rhetoric just plays into the hands of people who call progressives
elitist... you shouldnt go around trashing the people you need to vote for you... that's just a bad move, and in bad taste.
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TTUBatfan2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:06 PM
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9. They call Obama a terrorist, the n-word, and God knows what else...
They deserve every bit of criticism they receive. Ignorance is bliss. Fuck it at this point. They want to continue screwing their own self-interest based on paranoia and prejudice (as aided by the media and the Repubs), fine by me. I'll laugh my ass off. That's what Carlin did. It's probably the best approach to take. Because at some point it has to become laughable, otherwise you just want to cry because it truly is that pathetic.
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:14 PM
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14. They've called him terrorist, Muslim, nigger, angry, elitist, arrogant...
....empty suit (rich considering that vacuum-packed amoeba in the White House now) - and what else?
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:27 PM
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18. Lol - he wasn't calling out a particular party you transparent troll
What a stupid post - you must be a Republican.
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Blarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:30 PM
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20. LOL, He was only SPEAKING THE TRUTH.
We live in a nation of fools. Take a look around. My sister in law just told me she won't vote for Obama because "he will help the blacks get rights"
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:06 PM
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8. I'm wising up with this . . .
Edited on Mon Aug-25-08 07:07 PM by patrice
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine

I've heard it before, "The U.S. fucks around with the internal politics of many, many foreign nations" and I believed it, but NOW I know the detailed facts.
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Lifetimedem Donating Member (652 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:06 PM
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10. That is so true.
I would like to see people have to take a test before they have the right to vote.

It might be the 1st time many have thought through the political process and its importance .
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Mike Daniels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-08 09:17 AM
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22. Certain areas in the south used to require people take a test to vote.
Edited on Tue Aug-26-08 09:19 AM by Mike Daniels
We did away with those requirements as a nation.

Besides, given the poor schooling in inner cities what's to say you wouldn't have a lot of potential Democratic voters fail the test?

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Lifetimedem Donating Member (652 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-08 03:06 PM
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27. I worked in the inner city
reading literacy is an issue, but those folks knew alot about politics. It could be an oral test
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:08 PM
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12. The Stupid Vote is what it's all about..
Atwater was probably the first to figure it out.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:09 PM
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13. Whatever..this time we're getting Barack Obama
Edited on Mon Aug-25-08 07:09 PM by zidzi
and AMerica goes to school!
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:15 PM
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15. Is he channeling H. L. Mencken?
I used to use a Mencken quote in my sig line because it so well reprented the last 7 years.

As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:16 PM
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16. IMO half of the American electorate is getting smarter
And the rest just don't give a shit.
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MikeNearMcChord Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:26 PM
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17. I have questions to those of you who think Maher is spot on
especially if the unthinkable happens. What did you do to stop it? Did you register voters for Obama and the Democratic Party? Did you go door to door for Obama and the Democratic Party? Did you counteract the lies that are being spread about Senator Obama? If the unthinkable happens, I won't blame the low information voters alone, I will also blame the armchair elites, who sit on their asses believing that they are too good to go out there among the hustings and help Senator Obama to win. Bill Maher I used to like, but he is nothing more than a hack who is doing nothing to help.:rant:
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TTUBatfan2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-08 07:29 PM
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19. I'm already having to fight the smears...
while pretending to not be a Democrat because I am in West Texas, right in the Bible Belt with people who literally believe Obama is a terrorist. Well, I don't think they literally believe that. It's their excuse for hating him anyway. I think we all know what really lies behind it. But I have corrected some smears about him not knowing the Pledge, not getting sworn in on the Bible, and being a Muslim. Today one of them was joking that Obama would be just fine as President if he wears a bulletproof vest.
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-08 08:39 AM
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21. I found his comments disgusting. Blaming voters when the blame lies with media
who deceived them about the Dems and whitewashed the Republicans in 2000, 2004, and are trying to do the same in 2008.

He really pissed me off. But he generally pisses me off.
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-08 09:29 AM
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26. Most Americans who can vote don't. And those who do are not very discriminating.
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Liberal_Stalwart71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-08 09:19 AM
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23. I'm pissed off at Bill for his comments on Larry King. He needs to go and sit down somewhere
right now. I'm sick of us liberals trashing one another for not being "pure." Why do we bury our own?!? That is what is pissing me off with these so-called liberal talk show hosts. I'm sick of the whiners like Maddow and Malloy. Either get onboard or STFU!!
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GoesTo11 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-08 09:26 AM
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24. Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho
gets things done.
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OwnedByFerrets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-08 09:28 AM
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25. Just another comedian who is smarter than the so-called experts...
and is willing to tell the truth that they will never broach.
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