Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[Magical_Retard]

You know, am leaning towards voting for Obama/Biden (although I am not the biggest Biden fan, but the VP is like the cowboys head coach, they get paid to stand there and look official, while then never really make any important decisions).

The one thing that keeps me thinking I should vote McCain/Palin is that I hate liberal political blogs and liberal political activists with a passion, and nothing would make me happier than to see them try and make excuses as to why the lost.

so you would vote for the guy who you dont think can do the best job just out of spite?

[Wingspan]

I live in a world where people like consistency, which is why they do all of the things you listed above. If the country doesn't have a president for 2 years due to legal wranglings (as suggested in the article) I guarantee you the total sense of apathy in this country will dissipate.

Gore conceded before the actual recount of florida in 2000 to avoid this situation, as it would do more harm than good.

[Wingspan]

You know, am leaning towards voting for Obama/Biden (although I am not the biggest Biden fan, but the VP is like the cowboys head coach, they get paid to stand there and look official, while then never really make any important decisions).

The one thing that keeps me thinking I should vote McCain/Palin is that I hate liberal political blogs and liberal political activists with a passion, and nothing would make me happier than to see them try and make excuses as to why the lost.

so you would vote for the guy who you dont think can do the best job just out of spite?

I've considered it, yes.

I don't have any idealistic expectations that my vote would actually count for anything.

And hundreds of thousands of people do that every year. Ask any white collared neocon the last time they voted democrat? The last time the country voted with who they thought would be better was Reagan vs Dukakis.

Anyone voting for either candidate simply because of their party affiliation is voting out of spite.

[Cerevant]

So what you two are saying is that nothing that could happen would ever shake people's apathy and inspire them to care enough to make a change?

Famine, Plague, Draft, TV Outage

Everything else is irrelevant.

[General_Failure]

So what you two are saying is that nothing that could happen would ever shake people's apathy and inspire them to care enough to make a change?

There's no way to argue with that viewpoint, because it's based on nothing resembling evidence. I'd like to believe that a total failure of the current system would lead to changes.

There's been plenty so far to inspire change, and it hasn't happened yet. $4 a gallon for gas couldn't even inspire change.

[ice grillin you]

lol @ biden...what a train wreck...thank god mccain picked the worst veep candidate of all time or this clown would be a much bigger anchor



http://www.politico.com/blogs/...ry.html?showall


Biden garbles Depression history

Joe Biden's denunciation of his own campaign's ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.

He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed," Biden told Couric. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"

As Reason's Jesse Walker footnotes it: "And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, 'Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?'"

[MDS]

OH MY GOD HE SAID SOMETHING STUPID

[ice grillin you]

about the 5th time this week

the news really should be when he says something not stupid

[PhillyGirl]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSNkloIFTQ0

[MDS]

that transvestite is right

[Zanshin]

She should show her stuff.

[rjs246]

McCain is suspending his campaign to 'work on the economy', which I assume means 'to take some time to learn anything about the economy'. He's asking to postpone Friday's debate.

Politicking at its finest, folks. He gets to sound like he's doing something while avoiding a debate in the middle of a massive economic shteinshow that is hurting his campaign.

[ATV]

Politics.

"At 8:30 this morning, Senator Obama called Senator McCain to ask him if he would join in issuing a joint statement outlining their shared principles and conditions for the Treasury proposal and urging Congress and the White House to act in a bipartisan manner to pass such a proposal.  At 2:30 this afternoon, Senator McCain returned Senator Obama's call and agreed to join him in issuing such a statement.  The two campaigns are currently working together on the details."

[Munson]

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Absolutely.  Reagan and both Bushes suck at Fiscal Conservatism, and Clinton, a moderate regardless, didn't get Congress to pass anything he wanted to do and presided over the tech boom.

However, the result is that Clinton was easily the best President of the last 30 years on fiscal policy.  Easily.