US Elections All-Encompassing
#346
Posted 15 November 2008 - 11:00 PM
since the topic shifted, that's a great article on why gay marriage will eventually kick some hillbilly butt.
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#347
Posted 16 November 2008 - 10:21 AM
#348
Posted 16 November 2008 - 06:30 PM
Especially you.
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#349
Posted 21 November 2008 - 03:07 AM
Hilary Clinton as Secretary of State.
I have to say it - I totally called this one. (Though I might not have made my prediction on these forums.)
Anyone have any pros or cons about this new development to discuss?
#350
Posted 21 November 2008 - 05:10 PM
Also, I'd like to suggest myself to head up the new special branch investigating executive war crimes and implementing firing squads (sbiewcaifs) or at least hope that there will be one.
This post has been edited by J m HofMarN: 21 November 2008 - 05:11 PM
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#351
Posted 21 November 2008 - 05:17 PM
Pro: She's not President pro tempore of the Senate.
-John Carpenter's They Live
"God help us...in the future."
-Plan 9 from Outer Space
nooooo
#352
Posted 21 November 2008 - 05:21 PM
I think this was a VERY smart move for Hilary. Many Sec. of States have gone on to be presidents. This is a good position of power to be in. She will have Obama's ear, and my guess is she'll be able to make Obama do whatever she wants.
Scary.
#353
Posted 21 November 2008 - 05:39 PM
You're right of course about the rest of them. But you need some kind of system; a mid-term election with no campaign would be disruptive to the economy. And do you really wnat to vote in all those positions? How much time you got? And do you think Joe the Plumber would really care who was Secretary of Agriculture? And is all that vopting worth it for a contingency that comes up only once every forty years or so?
#354
Posted 21 November 2008 - 06:01 PM
And kinda get to vote on VP but not exactly, seeing as that they just get tacked onto the presidential candidates. So you might hate Biden, but also hate McCain, and so vote for Obama. You're not oging to vote for the presidential candidate you hate just because you hate the one you like's VP, considering unless the president dies the VP doesn't do much anyway (well, rule the House, but no one seems to care about that).
#355
Posted 21 November 2008 - 06:47 PM
#356
Posted 22 November 2008 - 04:07 AM
McCain was not a very conservative guy, he was, previously, sort of a maverick, and that's the image he promoted. He wasnt beholden to the conservative base. So no one in that base gave a damn about him.
So Palin comes out of nowhere and gets these idiots all excited and they start screaming death to Obama at her rallies, and she starts delivering all the hard attacks on our man. So, after the GOP convention for a month McCain kinda ceded the spot light to her because she was more of a draw than he was.
But once the "wow its a lady lookit shiney!" had worn off, people started realizing she was underqualified and she became a big focus of attacks, only because McCain had tried to turn her into such a big focus in the first place.
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#357
Posted 25 November 2008 - 11:38 PM
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#359
Posted 26 November 2008 - 01:56 PM
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#360
Posted 30 November 2008 - 07:57 PM
This post has been edited by Spoon Poetic: 01 December 2008 - 01:20 AM
Reason for edit:: clarification and fixing a smiley