In a few short weeks America is going to elect a brand new president who is named Barack Hussein Obama. Get used to it.
In just a few short weeks America is going to elect itself a brand new president. And his name is probably going to be Barack Hussein Obama. Get used to it.…
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26 - Heloise
Once again the MSM and the Republigrim radio jocks go on a fresh scavenger hunt for rotting meat off the Democrat carcass. What have they nosed out now? Oh, wow just another Joe.
Yeah, yeah, we know Obama will be Prez...but I was miffed that it wasn't VP Clinton. However, since the GOP Palin pick-- life's great. As for Biden, I did like him in the debates. But now he is touting his own job security: he has a black belt in Ju-gaffe-so.
What's he really saying? That Obama is an American and we are America and people (Islamic I guess) will keep on hating on us even with Obama as prez. There you go. Good a reason as any for that WTF comment.
Joe, Joe recall the words of Moses to pharoah: If one more plague comes on you it will be out of your own mouth! So, STFU!
BTW a "pick" is not the same as a "nod" a nod goes to one who is qualified to have the job, a pick is like the "pick" of the litter, as in picking a pit bull.
Rewinding Joe The Plumber: My two cents on Jow thu plummer: he's really black! Yeah, he's black. How do I know he said he and his family were once on welfare. Say what? Yes, and every black person I've ever met has been on the dole for at least a food stamp or a check or a unemployment check.
Here he went from being black and on welfare to being German, Republigrim and rich, or is he out of job just now?
Talk to me Joe.
Heloise
27 - bliffle
Daves abysmal ignorance of economics and econometrics does not stop him from making preposterous statements.
28 - Glen Boyd
Spite? Bicho? Surely you jest.
-Glen
29 - bliffle
Daves pride and ignorance lead him to make this preposterous statement:
"The rich in the US did not get richer off the backs of the middle and working class."
Of course they did. And so did you and I and Clavos and Moon and all the other people that make nothing and repair nothing. All of us are a Greek chorus of needy chicks who have contrived a way to sit at a desk and shuffle papers and occasionally exhort others to work harder.
We
produce
no
wealth.
All wealth, all food, all the products, all the gadgets, all the TVs, all the computers are made by lower and middle class people. By laborers and skilled craftsmen.
Then, we send them to die in our stupid wars of Presidential Vanity.
The rest of us are merely facilitators. We can design things, we can organize things, we can arrange things, we can strawboss people to do their jobs well. But, basically, we are parasites. We should conduct ourselves with proper humility and discretion, but our egos interfere and prompt us to exaggerate our importance and our personal roles.
Vanity, vanity. All is vanity.
So, finally, in this drunken world of vanity we are building a society entirely built on vanity worship. It's gossamer, it has no body. It must fail and collapse. And so it is.
The parasite is destroying the host. Because it's vanity will not allow itself to be in a 'merely' symbiotic relationship, as evidenced by the insistent claims of Dave and other fools that they and their heroes 'deserve' so much more!
Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.
30 - Joanne Huspek
I found this comment interesting:
We
produce
no
wealth.
Yup. You are right. We don't produce much here anymore. Our toys come from overseas, and our wealth is going there too.
I don't see either candidate helping in that regard.
31 - troll
so...stop the fucking impotent whining and learn to make something of value to others
32 - Dave Nalle
Bliffle, your posts are so bizarre that I can't tell if they are satire or serious any longer.
But unlike you (by your own implication), I do produce something unique and of value as my primary source of income. I consider myself a craftsman, even if the media I now work in are digital rather than the ink and paper I used 30 years ago.
Dave
33 - zingzing
dave, just because you make a little something (fonts, right?) doesn't mean that a VAST majority of us here (and in the middle and upper classes) do anything but shuffle paper. we don't make a product that we can ship overseas, we don't make a product we can stick in our fridge or living room... we just make money off of money.
bliffle's point is valid, while your "serious or satire" comment loses some bite in light of that article a couple of weeks back... and your complete and utter crybaby routine over obama and his "soc-soc-soc-SOCIALISM...."
but whatever.
34 - Lumpy
Bliffle forgets that the whole world economy runs on the shuffling of pqper and the work of the middle men who take the products from one place and put them together with the buyers in another place. that's what america does and does very well.
35 - moon
Lumpy,
I guess you have been in a coma for the past year and a half?
The US is in the toilet--especially its paper-pushing financial sector.
36 - moon
I would like someone on this thread to analyze this business of voting machines in West Virgina changing Obama votes to McCain that has been denounced INTERNATIONALLY today.
37 - Dr Dreadful
The US is in the toilet--especially its paper-pushing financial sector.
Well, at least they have something to wipe with.
38 - moon
Yep, they are wiping their asses with the life savings of millions.
Most expensive toilet paper in the history of the planet.
39 - Dave Nalle
Moon, I believe the two counties in WV recently installed new touch-screen voting machines. According to the stories I've been able to find, the machines were not properly calibrated because the poll workers weren't properly trained. They work rather like a Palm Pilot, where you have to train the machine to recognize different touch positions and this was not done. As a result you would touch one part of the screen and it would register it as a touch on a different part of the screen. Apparently this was caught almost immediately and the machines were properly calibrated and the mess was averted.
Dave
40 - moon
Oh?
And where else are those machines that are too sophisticated for gringos to operate located, Nalle?
41 - Mark Saleski
is there data out there breaking down by percentage which voting methods are used throughout the country (paper ballot, lever machine, touchscreen, punched ballot, etc.)?
i've always been curious. since i've mostly lived in rural areas, the places i've voted at have tended to use relatively non-high tech methods, the most common being a fairly thick paper ballot where you record the vote by drawing a line between two arrows. the ballots are scanned later.
42 - bliffle
I worry about electronic voting machines. We all know how computers can fail easily and that they can even be infested with malware that steals your vital information. Investigators have proven that it is just as easy to infest voting machines.
43 - Cindy D
RE # 39
Yes, the WV touch screen problem was caught.
After some Obama voters kept saying their vote kept switching over to McCain, the initial response was to blame them.
"I pushed buttons and they all came up Republican," she said. "I hit Obama and it switched to McCain. I am really concerned about that. If McCain wins, there was something wrong with the machines.
"I asked them for a printout of my votes," Ketchum said. "But they said it was in the machine and I could not get it. I did not feel right when I left the courthouse. My son felt the same way."
"My son Chris said, 'Mom, I didn't vote for the people who came up on that machine. I wanted to go back and vote again. I called the lady at the polls and she said it was my fault because of the way I was punching the buttons.'
Last week, three Jackson County residents said they experienced similar problems when they cast early ballots at the county courthouse in Ripley.
The article details the comments of more voters who had the same problem.
Putnam County Clerk Brian Wood said on Saturday that he is upset there are "so many negative stories out there and not enough positive ones. We want people to vote. People need to know the facts.
The facts, presumably, are that not every single Democrat voter has been subject to the doubt about who they voted for and the fear that their vote has been inadvertently switched from Democrat to Republican candidates.
Some Democrat voters probably didn't notice, relieving them of any anxiety.
Wood said, "Voting machines are very reliable. I hate the fact that stories like this are printed. It makes everybody get scared.
"That is not good for anybody. Where the fault is, I don't know and the voter doesn't know. There needs to be good communication between the voters and the poll workers."
Well, the voters know now don't they. It was miscalibration.
Gee, I wish no one would complain about these things. It makes it look like there is some kind of problem.
44 - Cindy D
It's utterly horrifying and inexcusable to have voters going in and worrying that a machine error changed their vote.
45 - pablo
Cindy,
If you think thats horrifying and inexcusable what if many of these machines are not in error and have been programmed to steal elections eh? Now that fucking horrifying, and in fact what is going on. Proof available on request.
46 - moon
You don't have to submit that proof to this poster, Pablo.
I KNOW it's going on--and went on in 2000 and 2004, too.
Some folks are not blinded by faith in the Great God Gringolandia.
47 - Dave Nalle
There's zero evidence that the situation with the machines in WV was intentional or intended to steal votes. It was a configuration problem resulting from the inexperience of poll workers. There's also no evidence of any other fraud with voting machines, though errors abound in favor of and against both parties.
There's no question that voting machines should not be in use which don't provide a clear paper record of the votes submitted.
Dave
48 - moon
Dave,
How, exactly, does one present evidence of INTENTIONS?