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My prediction? As if it really mattered, but I think we’ll all be here Wednesday morning talking about a Gore victory. Class warfare works, folks, and the Democrats have waged a masterful class warfare campaign.
The wealthiest 1 percent
Republican tax cuts for the rich
Democrat tax cuts for “working families
Risky tax schemes
Tax cuts for those who don’t need it
And so forth. …..
Look, this stuff works. You’re dealing with voters out there who get the bulk of their news from Entertainment Tonight and Extra! They couldn’t name their two U.S. Senators if they had to, let alone their Congressmen or local representatives. One year ago if you had shown them a picture of Al Gore they would have thought it was Christopher Reeves.
Historian Alexander Tyler wrote over a hundred years ago about the fall of the Athenian Republic. What he wrote then applies to our country today. Read the quote. This is us. This is America today. This is what will be happening today when our wonderful voters go to the polls:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.
My prediction? As if it really mattered, but I think we’ll all be here Wednesday morning talking about a Gore victory. Class warfare works, folks, and the Democrats have waged a masterful class warfare campaign.
The wealthiest 1 percent
Republican tax cuts for the rich
Democrat tax cuts for “working families
Risky tax schemes
Tax cuts for those who don’t need it
And so forth. …..
Look, this stuff works. You’re dealing with voters out there who get the bulk of their news from Entertainment Tonight and Extra! They couldn’t name their two U.S. Senators if they had to, let alone their Congressmen or local representatives. One year ago if you had shown them a picture of Al Gore they would have thought it was Christopher Reeves.
Historian Alexander Tyler wrote over a hundred years ago about the fall of the Athenian Republic. What he wrote then applies to our country today. Read the quote. This is us. This is America today. This is what will be happening today when our wonderful voters go to the polls:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.
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More!
I think the ones that amused me the most are the ones who tried to compare the news of Bush’s 24 year-old DUI with Clinton’s various scandals in office. Yeah, a 24 year-old DUI compares to a rape. A 24 year-old DUI compares to obstruction of justice. A 24 year-old DUI compares to perjury by a sitting president. A 24 year-old DUI compares to the lies that Al Gore has told to investigators. A 24 year-old DUI compares to Al Gore’s secret deal with the Russians to get arms to Iran.
I think the ones that amused me the most are the ones who tried to compare the news of Bush’s 24 year-old DUI with Clinton’s various scandals in office. Yeah, a 24 year-old DUI compares to a rape. A 24 year-old DUI compares to obstruction of justice. A 24 year-old DUI compares to perjury by a sitting president. A 24 year-old DUI compares to the lies that Al Gore has told to investigators. A 24 year-old DUI compares to Al Gore’s secret deal with the Russians to get arms to Iran.
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OK I got he kids to school but I still have not voted. I am happy to say the line was way too long. I am going back later today during a slow time or at least a time I can wait in the line without making my honey late for work.
SUPRISED THE HELL OUT
I got to my polling location at 6:35 this morning,,,had to park about a 1/4 mile from the school,,, even with 4 machines going it was still a 25 minute wait in a cold drizzle,,,
and I WAS surprised at the number of young people (25 years old or younger ) there in the lines,,, last election day I don't believe I saw a baker's dozen of young folks and the wait was about 15 minutes instead of 25
Juliangel said:
I got to my polling location at 6:35 this morning,,,had to park about a 1/4 mile from the school,,, even with 4 machines going it was still a 25 minute wait in a cold drizzle,,,
and I WAS surprised at the number of young people (25 years old or younger ) there in the lines,,, last election day I don't believe I saw a baker's dozen of young folks and the wait was about 15 minutes instead of 25
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Isn't it amazing that you need a background check to buy a gun, and pass a test to drive a car, but any idiot that can punch holes in a card can vote.
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If Colin Powell declared for the Presidency on Monday, he would win by a landslide on Tuesday.
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If the truth be told, I'm going to miss Slick Willie. His "Congress should apologize" line was just too funny! He has a great future ahead in stand-up comedy.
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Richard Nixon more corrupt than Bill Clinton? Get real. The people who squealed on Richard Nixon went to jail. The people who squealed on Bill Clinton are in the graveyard. Figure it out.
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Last one I promise!
This past Friday I went to the convenience store at the end of my sub-division to fill up my car with gas. In front of me at the cashier as an elderly couple who had gotten out of a 1998-99 Mercedes and who were buying $80 worth of lottery tickets. Considering the way they were buying them (give me $20 of these, $10 of those, $15 of...) it appeared to be a regular experience for them. While making their purchase they were telling the woman at the register that they sure hoped Al Gore won so they wouldn't have to worry about paying for their prescription drugs. I guess they were afraid they wouldn't be able to buy as many lottery tickets if Bush won
This past Friday I went to the convenience store at the end of my sub-division to fill up my car with gas. In front of me at the cashier as an elderly couple who had gotten out of a 1998-99 Mercedes and who were buying $80 worth of lottery tickets. Considering the way they were buying them (give me $20 of these, $10 of those, $15 of...) it appeared to be a regular experience for them. While making their purchase they were telling the woman at the register that they sure hoped Al Gore won so they wouldn't have to worry about paying for their prescription drugs. I guess they were afraid they wouldn't be able to buy as many lottery tickets if Bush won
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I voted this morning and what a huge turn out it was. It was super seeing so many people voting. I was talking to this lady that was born in 1903 and she said she was voting for the first time. Every person who is able needs to get out there and vote, especially women and minorities, this election is important to every single american but especially two those groups and I fall under both so please people get off your asses and vote!!!
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Class warfare works, folks, and the Democrats have waged a masterful class warfare campaign.
Al Gore is supported by Hispanics, blacks, women, homosexuals, and a wide variety of other minority groups, as well as many straight white men. Bush, on the other hand, is a candidate who draws the majority of his support from straight white males.
For you to claim that appealing to ALL groups in America instead of just white men is "class warfare" is pretty insulting for those groups that feel they have just as much of a right as you to have their voices heard by OUR government. The days of old white men running this country are slowly coming to an end. We'd all better get used to it. FYI: I've got nothing against old white men, but nor do I have anything against young Black men, middle-aged Hispanic men, or women of any age.
I think the ones that amused me the most are the ones who tried to compare the news of Bush’s 24 year-old DUI with Clinton’s various scandals in office. Yeah, a 24 year-old DUI compares to a rape. A 24 year-old DUI compares to obstruction of justice. A 24 year-old DUI compares to perjury by a sitting president. A 24 year-old DUI compares to the lies that Al Gore has told to investigators. A 24 year-old DUI compares to Al Gore’s secret deal with the Russians to get arms to Iran.
First and foremost, you're simply repeating Rush Limbaugh propaganda. Clinton has not been proven to have done even one of the things you mentioned. In America, we have a system called "innocent until proven guilty". Clinton was impeached for purely political reasons. Let me repeat myself: NOT ONE of the things that the Republican party told you has EVER been proven by a court to be true. Ken Starr spent tens of millions of taxpayer dollars without making a single case against Bill Clinton.
Now that we've established that you are simply throwing accusations, I can throw just as many accusations about Bush - including his illegal abortion, his insider trading, his perjury under oath, his lie to a reporter in 1998 in an attempt to cover up his DUI, his several arrests, his unethical attacks on McCain during the primaries, his bugging of his own office while running for governor of Texas and subsequent blaming of such on the other candidate, his sending the debate tape and then trying to blame it on Gore's camp, and the list goes on and on.
The only thing Clinton has admitted to is lying to the American people to cover up something he was ashamed of in his personal life. That is EXACTLY what Bush did in the DUI case. If you forgive Bush for lying in 1998 about whether he'd been arrrested since 1968, then you certainly must forgive Clinton for lying in 1998 when asked if he'd ever had sex with Monica Lewinsky. If you do not see the parallel between these two issues, it is because you choose not to.
Salon published a great article last week called "The Death of Outrage". It basically says that the whole Republican "moral outrage" over Clinton was a big fat lie. After seeing the way Republicans have been apologizing nonstop for Bush, I couldn't agree more. Here's a link to the article:
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/04/morality/index.html
Mega Dittos, and have a great election day!
Al Gore is supported by Hispanics, blacks, women, homosexuals, and a wide variety of other minority groups, as well as many straight white men. Bush, on the other hand, is a candidate who draws the majority of his support from straight white males.
For you to claim that appealing to ALL groups in America instead of just white men is "class warfare" is pretty insulting for those groups that feel they have just as much of a right as you to have their voices heard by OUR government. The days of old white men running this country are slowly coming to an end. We'd all better get used to it. FYI: I've got nothing against old white men, but nor do I have anything against young Black men, middle-aged Hispanic men, or women of any age.
I think the ones that amused me the most are the ones who tried to compare the news of Bush’s 24 year-old DUI with Clinton’s various scandals in office. Yeah, a 24 year-old DUI compares to a rape. A 24 year-old DUI compares to obstruction of justice. A 24 year-old DUI compares to perjury by a sitting president. A 24 year-old DUI compares to the lies that Al Gore has told to investigators. A 24 year-old DUI compares to Al Gore’s secret deal with the Russians to get arms to Iran.
First and foremost, you're simply repeating Rush Limbaugh propaganda. Clinton has not been proven to have done even one of the things you mentioned. In America, we have a system called "innocent until proven guilty". Clinton was impeached for purely political reasons. Let me repeat myself: NOT ONE of the things that the Republican party told you has EVER been proven by a court to be true. Ken Starr spent tens of millions of taxpayer dollars without making a single case against Bill Clinton.
Now that we've established that you are simply throwing accusations, I can throw just as many accusations about Bush - including his illegal abortion, his insider trading, his perjury under oath, his lie to a reporter in 1998 in an attempt to cover up his DUI, his several arrests, his unethical attacks on McCain during the primaries, his bugging of his own office while running for governor of Texas and subsequent blaming of such on the other candidate, his sending the debate tape and then trying to blame it on Gore's camp, and the list goes on and on.
The only thing Clinton has admitted to is lying to the American people to cover up something he was ashamed of in his personal life. That is EXACTLY what Bush did in the DUI case. If you forgive Bush for lying in 1998 about whether he'd been arrrested since 1968, then you certainly must forgive Clinton for lying in 1998 when asked if he'd ever had sex with Monica Lewinsky. If you do not see the parallel between these two issues, it is because you choose not to.
Salon published a great article last week called "The Death of Outrage". It basically says that the whole Republican "moral outrage" over Clinton was a big fat lie. After seeing the way Republicans have been apologizing nonstop for Bush, I couldn't agree more. Here's a link to the article:
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/04/morality/index.html
Mega Dittos, and have a great election day!
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Laurel said:
I'll give you that one. <smarting> The one big difference that I see is that Clinton lied UNDER OATH to deny Paula Jones her day in court. The CHIEF law enforcement officer of this country stuck out his tongue at the judicial system. Clinton has admitted to lying and as a result, he may lose his liscense to practice law at the very least.
Bush may be just as bad at lying, however he hasn't lied under oath. And that is why I'm throwing my vote behind Harry Brown.
