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| Old_School | Nov 5 2008, 08:53 PM Post #16 |
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:banghead: :banghead: You people are completely mangling my words. Nobody over the age of 18 who fulfills whatever local requirements there are should be barred from voting. There's a difference between barring somebody from voting and not encouraging somebody to vote. Come on, you guys know me better than that. You really think I'd advocate the government setting up some arbitrary blockade to a group of people's right to vote? Seriously?! Get the fuck outta here... As I said yesterday...
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| Old_School | Nov 5 2008, 08:55 PM Post #17 |
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| Old_School | Nov 5 2008, 08:59 PM Post #18 |
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Uhh....what? Way to falsely assume America is a democracy. A+ on that one bud. |
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| HoosierLars | Nov 5 2008, 08:59 PM Post #19 |
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OldSchool, I think the reason your post struck a nerve with some of our liberal (in the modern sense) friends, is they depended on ignorant, young and black voters to turn out in record numbers and support Obama. |
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| Mr Gray | Nov 5 2008, 09:01 PM Post #20 |
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Old School has never said (other than in jest) that ignorant people don't have a "right" vote. He has said that ignorant voting should not be encouraged, and I don't know how anyone could disagree with that. |
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| Mr Gray | Nov 5 2008, 09:04 PM Post #21 |
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bzzzzzzzzzzzzz.............WRONG. We aren't a democracy....recite the pledge to yourself before you respond. Or you can go here and read the constitution if you like. |
![]() The body knows what fighters don't: how to protect itself. A neck can only twist so far. Twist it just a hair more and the body says, "Hey, I'll take it from here because you obviously don't know what you're doing... Lie down now, rest, and we'll talk about this when you regain your senses." It's called the knockout mechanism. | |
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| Old_School | Nov 5 2008, 09:08 PM Post #22 |
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The thing is that it's not even about 'black voters' in particular. I don't give a shit what color, gender, political affiliation, whatever somebody is, if they're voting based on nothing, they're doing a great disservice to this country, simple as that. I witness firsthand the unholy infatuation an absurd number of people in college have with Obama. People I've known since high school and earlier, people I know to not know a goddamn thing about politics, economics, foreign affairs, etc. They friggin' love the guy! When I try to question them as to why they support him, they spout the hope and change line, completely meaningless rhetoric. These kids have no fucking clue what they're for. Of course there are a great deal of McCain supporters who do the same thing, but definitely not as many as the Obama supporters. It truly sickens me to see these fools being ENCOURAGED in every sense of the word to get out and vote even though they couldn't tell their left shoe from their right when it comes to any subject of actual meaning. |
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| dreachon | Nov 5 2008, 09:14 PM Post #23 |
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This was your post from another thread
So which is it? Encourage voter turnout or not? |
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| Mr Gray | Nov 5 2008, 09:23 PM Post #24 |
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what the fuck is wrong with you? Didn't you read the rest of the same post that you pasted? I spoke IN FUCKING DETAIL about the strategy of getting your BASE out to vote for you. It is one thing to get them to like what you say, and the next challenge is making sure they vote. My "turn out the vote" comment was a summary of my detailed comments, which is why I labeled it "Summary of my blabbing:". Never did I say anything about encouraging ignorant voting....my whole post was the EXACT OPPOSITE of that, you jackass. If you want to nit-pick at me, you had better get your fucking facts straight and actually take the time to read the posts....hell you might even learn something. Otherwise you can just look like damn moron!!! |
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| dreachon | Nov 5 2008, 09:26 PM Post #25 |
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Wow. Did anyone else know that when you call Aaron out he throws a temper tantrum? |
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| eelbor | Nov 5 2008, 09:28 PM Post #26 |
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Ok folks, I know you are not this thick. If you try to run a political campaign, your main goal is to get your candidate, in this case candidate A, elected. You do this by turning out the vote of those people likely to support candidate A. However, if you have no 'dog' in the fight, why would you want someone whom is utterly clueless about the candidates walking into the polls and casting a vote based on what their fortune cookie at lunch says? Part of the 'turning out the vote' is properly educating sympathetic voters about your candidate du jour. I see no problem with Aaron holding both things as true. |
![]() "Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners." - Berkeley Breathed Meat is Murder. Sweet, delicious murder. | |
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| Mr Gray | Nov 5 2008, 09:30 PM Post #27 |
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bad mood, bad day, and you didn't "call me out", you tried to mince my words into a hypocritical statement, when in fact it was the exact opposite. We aren't running for office in here....there is really no reason to do that, except for immature urges. It does nothing to advance the conversation. If you made a mistake and misquoted me or misunderstood me, than I apologize, but given your continual attacks on me, I certainly didn't think that was the case. |
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| Mr Gray | Nov 5 2008, 09:31 PM Post #28 |
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well, you said it a lot nicer than I did :$ |
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| eelbor | Nov 5 2008, 09:34 PM Post #29 |
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Flies and honey, son. Flies and honey. |
![]() "Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners." - Berkeley Breathed Meat is Murder. Sweet, delicious murder. | |
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| Mr Gray | Nov 5 2008, 09:35 PM Post #30 |
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Flies and honey, son. Flies and honey.[/quote]ah, who wants flies anywah ;) |
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