The Last Last Election Thread

[Guynemer]

[-Jrabbit]

And the whole family's on stage... Biden's mother?

OK, we're down to photo opps. I'm out. G'night Poly.

[asleepathewheel]

fun night

[Blaupanzer]

No need to hide. Citizens of the US and the world won tonight. Enough of hating.

[Guynemer]

Well gang, I'd like to stay up to get the final results from NC, IN, MT, MO, and AK, but I gotta ****ing sleep. Final results in the AM (hopefully), and we will figure out just who made the best prediction a couple months ago...

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Asher
Al Franken is up by 3,000 votes...

Now he's down by 21,000.

ACK!

[Dinner]

In total Obama's speech did have some of FDR's "rendezvous with destiny" speech. Obviously he also nabbed speech bits from MLK and Kennedy. In short he grabbed some of the best speeches in US history and used them tonight. I like that he has brought back key moments in US history but I was hoping to hear more of him rather then greater men.

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Asher
There's no respect there. It was shameless pandering to both feminists and to the ignorant religious right.

It was a TERRIBLE choice. She could NOT be president. It was a purely political pandering move that shows that he DOES NOT put the "country first", but his own ambitions first.

He's a despicable hypocrite and deserved the loss. If you respect him more for choosing a completely incompetent VP, then I respect you far, far less.

A quick research task would've shown she's just as corrupt as everyone else.

I can't say I respect him more for choosing her. I respect his maverick character. I do think it was a bold decision to make. Had Palin proved to be a little more deserving of this nomination, it could have worked surprisingly better.

Funny enough, it was an odd choise, considering how it completely decimated his main point that Obama is inexperienced.

I suspect he made a rash judgement, possibly on little information. Obviously it was wrong. Sadly McCain has gone the old gramp's way. He was desperately looking for someone who could be thought as a republican "fresh blood", and got this wrong.

He tried to beat Obama at his own game and failed. He should have kept on playing on the "I'm more experienced" card, and get someone well respected but also non-partisan like Lieberman.

So he made both the strategic mistake of trying to beat Obama at his game, and the tactical mistake of choosing Palin.

Btw, I doubt Palin is as incompetent as claimed. I think her accent has gotten her alot of underserved mockery. She's severely inexperienced, but she ain't dumb.

[MrFun]

She wants to ban books she disagrees with and she believes in creationism.

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Asher


Dual citizen!

Me??
You're the one speaking in the name of another country

I could only dream of American citizenship

[KrazyHorse]

Btw, I doubt Palin is as incompetent as claimed. I think her accent has gotten her alot of underserved mockery.

No, her demonstrated ignorance got her a lot of deserved mockery.

[Dinner]

I don't think McCain never stood a chance. He was to closely tied to the worst President in US history.

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by MrFun
She wants to ban books she disagrees with and she believes in creationism.

...and says that media outlets which speak unkindly of her are somehow violating HER first amendment rights.

The woman is an uneducated fool, she has no idea how our government works.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse

Btw, I doubt Palin is as incompetent as claimed. I think her accent has gotten her alot of underserved mockery.

No, her demonstrated ignorance got her a lot of deserved mockery.

Book banning and creationism falls under that.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov


Me??
You're the one speaking in the name of another country

I could only dream of American citizenship

Join on in. We got lots of Jews and would like some more. Just make sure you're good at venture capital or the media or making ethnic food or something similar.