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And so George Orwell had interests in torturing men with caged rats I would assume as well. A macaca on all your houses.
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| Originally posted by MisterOpus1 http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansa...al/15829375.htm Then again, you guys seem to have more than just one issue with pages lately: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter...ahl_names_.html But hey, corruption is abounds with you guys, such as one of your boys out in Nevada: http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/s.../566610130.html Sliming Hillary: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...9p-390714c.html Intimidating latino voters: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/merc...ia/15791512.htm S. Florida's doing quite swimmingly too: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15856692.htm And the Tennessee ad against Ford was quite cute of you guys: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15418962/ Going after his fucking family, no less: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/a...23tennessee.htm Yes sir, no slimeball tactics from the GOP these days. All positive. All current, present-day issues. Keep at it, Q. You give me the hearty chuckles! |
you can't do better than this?
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| Originally posted by Q5echo please tell me again why a Virginian should vote for Webb after reading that garbage. i don't give a fuck if he wrote that shit playin scrabble. who the fuck would vote for guy like that? |
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| remember tard, this is a race for the US S-E-N-A-T-E! he's toast. next. |
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| sure. you are a box of rocks. |
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| context means nothing here. |
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| ...but i'm not gonna stop you from looking like a giant dumbass apologizing for Webb. |
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| Originally posted by Q5echo are you kidding me? is this your "stand and deliver" against the evil GOP juggernaught and all the wrongs on your party affected by them? c'mon you can't do better than this? |
so while MisterDopus1 distracts us with his Jerry Springer equivalent of politicians poking each other with sticks, AKA his only post on the 4th page of this thread, we leave the Webb's imploding penis Senate race in Virginia and go to St. Louis where the leftist democratic operatives ACORN have been submitting thousands of phony voter registrations this year. ACORN has been also turning in fake change-of-address forms, which would cause the voter card to be sent to the fraudulent location.
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| ST. LOUIS, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Hundreds of bogus address changes have surfaced near St. Louis and the election board is warning voters to make sure they get a polling-place notification card. If the card does not show up, a voter's address may have been fraudulently changed, the county elections director said. The bogus address changes are among fraudulent voter-registration cards turning up in St. Louis County within the past couple of months, The St. Louis Post Dispatch reported. The bogus registrations included at least one dead person, officials said. Most of the suspicious registrations and address changes were submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, election officials said. ACORN is under scrutiny for thousands of suspicious voter registrations submitted in St. Louis, which is separate from St. Louis County, and Kansas City. The group's Missouri registration drive is tied to its support for a ballot proposal to increase Missouri's minimum wage to $6.50 an hour from $5.15 an hour. |
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| Originally posted by MisterOpus1 Foley? |
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| Originally posted by MisterOpus1 Yeah, who would want to bother with such details anyways? Scary ground for GOPers, I know. Quote mining and out of context remarks are your trademark and all, but again I guess I have hope that Virginians will be smarter than that. |
, there is no context because the content is so completely outrageous that even in fact, it was fiction, this is not the kind of fiction Virginian voters want their Senators thinking about much less writing about. | quote: |
| No apology needed. Just ask your future Presidential nominee John McCain about his writings, if you will sir. |
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HEY MSM! LOOK! AN ARTICULATE, GOOD LOOKING, DOWN TO EARTH BLACK MAN IS RUNNING FOR SENATOR! WHO IS THIS GUY?
Christ Opus--I can't believe you're defending that shit. Not to mention the ole bait & switch to distract from the fact that Webb might be the most perverse of all of the pervs we've seen from both parties so far. That is just fucking disgusting. Seriously.
But if you're comfortable with the guy babysitting your kids...
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| Originally posted by Q5echo so while MisterDopus1 distracts us with his Jerry Springer equivalent of politicians poking each other with sticks, AKA his only post on the 4th page of this thread, we leave the Webb's imploding penis Senate race in Virginia and go to St. Louis where the leftist democratic operatives ACORN have been submitting thousands of phony voter registrations this year. ACORN has been also turning in fake change-of-address forms, which would cause the voter card to be sent to the fraudulent location. >LINK< |
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| Rep. Weldon Probed Over Contracts for His Daughter McClatchy Newspapers Saturday, October 14, 2006; A04 The Justice Department is investigating whether Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) traded his political influence for lucrative lobbying and consulting contracts for his daughter, according to sources with direct knowledge of the inquiry. The FBI has formally referred the matter to the department's Public Integrity Section for additional scrutiny. At issue are Weldon's efforts between 2002 and 2004 to aid two Russian companies and two Serbian brothers with ties to former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic, a federal law enforcement official said. The Russian companies and a Serbian foundation run by the brothers' family each hired a firm co-owned by Weldon's daughter, Karen, for fees totaling nearly $1 million a year, public records show. Karen Weldon was 28 and lacked consulting experience when she and Charles Sexton, a Weldon ally and longtime Republican leader in Delaware County, Pa., created the firm Solutions North America Inc. in 2002. Both are registered with the Justice Department as representatives of foreign clients. Word of the inquiry, which has been closely held within the Justice Department and the FBI, came from two people with specific knowledge of the existence of the investigation. They both spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the confidentiality of criminal investigations. Spokesmen for the FBI and the Justice Department declined to confirm or deny that an inquiry is underway. Two years ago, the Los Angeles Times examined Curt Weldon's parallel efforts in Congress on behalf of the Russian and Serbian clients of his daughter, prompting the House ethics committee to briefly explore the issue. Weldon, his daughter and Sexton all declined to respond to requests for an interview. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...1301471_pf.html |
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| Originally posted by Q5echo Foley huh? i dare ya. what do you know about Foley that hasn't been needlessly shoved down the throats of every single American that watches any channel on TV in this country that we don't already give two shits about? spill it jackass. i'd like to hear the scoop. |
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| you feckless assclowns have over-reached your "absolute moral authority" on that one a month ago and shouldn't parade it around anymore like Chris Matthews on a prom date with Bill Clinton. |
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| Originally posted by Shakka Christ Opus--I can't believe you're defending that shit. |
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| Not to mention the ole bait & switch to distract from the fact that Webb might be the most perverse of all of the pervs we've seen from both parties so far. That is just fucking disgusting. Seriously. |
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| But if you're comfortable with the guy babysitting your kids... |
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| ames Webb for U.S. Senate The Virginian-Pilot � October 27, 2006 Last updated: 5:09 PM Over the past few months, Virginians have started to get to know James Webb. There are still gaps in that knowledge, but on two of the most essential ingredients for a U.S. senator - character and intellect - the record is clear. Webb has an abundance of both. Witness the fact that you have seen no pictures of Webb with his son, Jimmy, as the 24-year-old Marine lance corporal deployed for Iraq last month. That's because Webb would not allow any. Or the fact that nowhere on his campaign Web site will you find the citation (reprinted below) for extraordinary bravery that accompanied the Navy Cross awarded him for "courage, aggressive leadership, and selfless devotion to duty" in Vietnam. Or even the simple fact that during a statewide, televised debate last month, Webb rejected an easy opportunity to bash incumbent Sen. George Allen over perceived racial insensitivities. "I think this issue has been discussed ad nauseam," Webb said, before changing the subject. As for intellect, very little that is canned or formulaic makes its way into Webb's speeches or conversation. For better and occasionally worse, his answers appear to have been concocted in his own head, not during some poll-driven strategy session in Washington, D.C. Personal understanding of cultural forces in the Middle East and an innate skepticism governed Webb's courageous decision to speak out against the war in Iraq before it ever began. He took that once-lonely view long before events proved him right. How much better if the nation had listened when Webb wrote in September 2002: "The issue before us is not simply whether the United States should end the regime of Saddam Hussein, but whether we as a nation are prepared to physically occupy territory in the Middle East for the next 30 to 50 years. "Those who are pushing for a unilateral war in Iraq know full well that there is no exit strategy if we invade and stay." Now, again correctly, he promotes a diplomacy-based solution as the best, fragile hope of extracting the nation from a bloody quagmire and restoring some semblance of order to Iraq. A serious student of history and world affairs, Webb time and again displays a deep understanding of political and military realities in global hot spots. On some other issues - globalization of the economy comes quickly to mind - Webb is less clear-eyed. But even there, it is hard to quarrel with his fundamental premise that great societies are built from the bottom up, not the other way around. An author and former Navy secretary who has never run for political office, Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-Democrat Webb had the audacity to take on a man who, until recently, has been one of the most popular political figures in Virginia. Republican Allen, who is seeking his second term, served as a state legislator, congressman and governor before rising to his current post. Aggressive and visionary as governor, he accomplished far more than most, eliminating parole, demanding work for welfare, improving juvenile justice and enacting standards-based reform in public education. In Washington, however, Allen's original contributions have been slight. Instead of thinking for himself, he has served as an amplifier for Bush administration talking points not only on Iraq, but on policies that cut taxes and ballooned public debt; nibbled at the edges on a health-insurance crisis; and embraced prisoner detention and domestic surveillance policies that imperil fundamental American values. Most disappointing, he has become a big government spender. Astonishingly, the Iraq War does not even show up among the 21 issues discussed by Allen on his Web site. Maybe that's because Allen has little of value to say. Only under extreme political pressure in the last few weeks has he veered at all from the Bush orthodoxy that the U.S. must pursue an undefined "victory" at any cost. Allen deserves to be called to account also for an ugly episode in which he scorned a young Webb campaign worker whose Asian-Indian heritage set him apart from a southwest Virginia crowd. Implausibly, Allen said he made up the word "macaca," which happens to be an ethnic slur in some cultures. But even if he did, the exclusionary message of what came next is unmistakable. "Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia," Allen said. Despite Allen's apology, there's no place for such chauvinistic instincts in the nation's increasingly multicultural society. Webb also showed a chauvinistic streak when it came to women in military command posts three decades ago. He has since made up for that myopia with his actions as Navy secretary and as an undersecretary of defense during the Reagan administration. On the campaign trail, Webb has been a different kind of candidate, stiffer than the affable Allen, still figuring out his positions on certain domestic issues. What shines through his inexperience as a campaigner, however, is a sophisticated grasp of the military and foreign policy issues that now dominate the national agenda. The United States faces threats as daunting as any in its history: international terrorism, militant Islamic fundamentalism in Iran and elsewhere, nuclear adventurism in North Korea and the chaos in Iraq. To Senate debates on those matters, Webb would add a wise and principled voice. That is the type of candidate that legions of voters, fed up with partisan political scripts, say they want. James Webb promises to be the kind of public servant and leader Virginia and the nation now need. http://content.hamptonroads.com/sto...3302&ran=153446 |
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| ames Webb's Navy Cross The Virginian-Pilot � October 27, 2006 Last updated: 5:10 PM Editor's note: The Navy Cross is the nation's second-highest award for bravery in facing an enemy. James Webb has refused to use it in his campaign. We are publishing it with our endorsement of him because we believe it testifies to his character. The Navy Cross is presented to James H. Webb, Jr., First Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving as a Platoon Commander with Company D, First Battalion, Fifth Marines, First Marine Division (Reinforced), Fleet Marine Force, in connection with combat operations against the enemy in the Republic of Vietnam. On 10 July 1969, while participating in a company-sized search and destroy operation deep in hostile territory, First Lieutenant Webb's platoon discovered a well-camouflaged bunker complex which appeared to be unoccupied. Deploying his men into defensive positions, First Lieutenant Webb was advancing to the first bunker when three enemy soldiers armed with hand grenades jumped out. Reacting instantly, he grabbed the closest man and, brandishing his .45 caliber pistol at the others, apprehended all three of the soldiers. Accompanied by one of his men, he then approached the second bunker and called for the enemy to surrender. When the hostile soldiers failed to answer him and threw a grenade which detonated dangerously close to him, First Lieutenant Webb detonated a claymore mine in the bunker aperture, accounting for two enemy casualties and disclosing the entrance to a tunnel. Despite the smoke and debris from the explosion and the possibility of enemy soldiers hiding in the tunnel, he then conducted a thorough search which yielded several items of equipment and numerous documents containing valuable intelligence data. Continuing the assault, he approached a third bunker and was preparing to fire into it when the enemy threw another grenade. Observing the grenade land dangerously close to his companion, First Lieutenant Webb simultaneously fired his weapon at the enemy, pushed the Marine away from the grenade, and shielded him from the explosion with his own body. Although sustaining painful fragmentation wounds from the explosion, he managed to throw a grenade into the aperture and completely destroy the remaining bunker. By his courage, aggressive leadership, and selfless devotion to duty, First Lieutenant Webb upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and of the United States Naval Service. http://content.hamptonroads.com/sto...13303&ran=33810 |
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| PEW RESEARCH (COMPLETED 10/22) Pew released today, but completed their poll over the weekend. Among likely voters, they find little good news for the GOP. President Bush's approval ratings lie at 38% (53% disapproval), while the generic congressional ballot gives the Democrats an 11-point edge (50-39). DIAGEO-HOTLINE (COMPLETED 10/23) The Diageo-Hotline poll has an interesting phenomenon that has grown pretty common in this election year. Among LIKELY voters, the generic edge for Democrats is larger than it is for REGISTERED VOTERS. Here are the numbers for likely voters: Bush job approval at 40% (59% disapproval), and the generic ballot at an all-time high for the Democrats in this poll: 18 points (52-34). FOX NEWS (COMPLETED 10/25) Finished on Wednesday, Fox News (perhaps not surprisingly) is the most favorable for the GOP. But it would be a real stretch to call it favorable. Bush's job approval rests at 40% (53% disapproval), which is unchanged since two weeks ago. The generic ballot creeps out a couple of points, as Democrats move into double digits in this poll as well, with an 11-point lead (49-38). AP/AOL (COMPLETED 10/25) The numbers from Ipsos, which are distributed by the AP and AOL, show the bleakest numbers for the GOP. The Bush job approval is down to 37%, with a rather stout 61% voicing their disapproval. Among likely voters, the generic ballot test is now a Democrat lead of 19 points (56-37). For the four polls released today, we see an average Bush job approval of 38.8% (better...but not good), and an average Democratic lead in the generic ballot test of 14.8% (51.8%-37.0%). Again, this is among LIKELY voters. |
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| Originally posted by Q5echo not that we are unable to find any nuance in incest , there is no context because the content is so completely outrageous that even in fact, it was fiction, this is not the kind of fiction Virginian voters want their Senators thinking about much less writing about. |
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| what about McCain? he'll never be President BTW. |
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| Originally posted by Q5echo HEY MSM! LOOK! AN ARTICULATE, GOOD LOOKING, DOWN TO EARTH BLACK MAN IS RUNNING FOR SENATOR! WHO IS THIS GUY? |
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| Originally posted by MisterOpus1 What's to defend? It's a fucking ficticious writing on the crazy shit during Vietnam war. Get over it already. |
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| Bait and switch? How many times did you guys bait and switch over the shit involving Allen's racist commentary and swipes for Christ's sakes? Talk about fucking character. Let's take the outlandish hypothetical worse case scenario here and compare the lesser of two evils - who would you want in office: a white supremist or a pervert? Who's more detrimental to the people of Virginia? |
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| Granted, that's a bit off the cuff, but seriously. You've got fictious pervous writing versus racist commentary. What the fuck kind of comparison are you attempting to create here? |
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| Let's talk about character for a moment, shall we? To Webb's credit, he hasn't paraded around his medals like Kerry did. Regardless: |
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| Then again, once again you GOPers are proving how little you want to discuss those issues and instead bait everyone on your cute tactics of moral bankruptcy and perversion (to which you guys seemingly know quite a lot about!). I guess I can't blame you. Desparate times call for desparate measures: |
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| Keep at it, guys! You might just save the Senate after all. Of course, it continues to speak volumes about your own character on your tactics of doing so rather than discuss the issues and policies at hand, but that really hasn't stopped you much over the past 6 years anyway..... |
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| Originally posted by MisterOpus1 It's funny how you GOPers who hold the moral authority flag so high and wave it so vigorously seem to think you can tell Virginians along with everyone else how perverse and disgusting your opposition is, esp. I don't blame you at all. |
Whats all this "we" bullshit talk. It drive me up a wall how people talk about Dems and Reps like they are their favorite sports team, following them with blind loyalty. It boggles my fucking mind and makes me sick every time these political debates heat up. Laz, you did make a decent point to start off though, as I agree when people now start blasting Republicans, they don't realize they aren't bashing what was the long standing (and successful) Republican image. They are blasting this bastard child off-shoot that has arisen since Bush took office. So, for the love of christ can we not over generalize either side, or at least expect all participents of each party to be mindless drones of a singular goal of whichever party they belong to.
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| Originally posted by Shakka It may not be illegal, but it's sick as fuck. And if it doesn't make your stomach turn in the slightest, I say you're a wee bit off kilter. |
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| negative personal attacks and baseless allegations have also pulled us away from what you expect and deserve.... ...I'm confident that if this Senate race is decided on issues, ideas and my proven record of performance, you'll allow me to continue serving you. http://election.nationaljournal.com.../1006vasen2.htm |
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| Republican Sen. Conrad Burns of Montana, for example, nearly blew his re-election chances in 2000 when he called Arabs "ragheads."* Instead of featuring candidate speeches or press conferences, Wadhams understands that controlling the message starts with making sure you don't hand ammunition to the opposition, so he deluges reporters with written press releases and phones them himself, sometimes as many as five times a day. Another way to control a campaign is to shape its news coverage, and Wadhams found a new way to do that for the Thune campaign. South Dakota Republicans had long accused the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, the state's most influential paper, of being pro-Daschle. When two bloggers, Jason Van Beek and Jon Lauck, began cataloguing alleged acts of bias like lack of criticism of Linda Daschle's lobbying practice, Wadhams hired them as campaign researchers. Wadhams insists he wasn't underwriting the bloggers' online enterprises. But Van Beek and Lauck didn't disclose that the Thune campaign was cutting them checks. And they succeeded in aiding Thune: The assistant managing editor of the Argus Leader admitted that the paper's coverage had been affected by the online criticism, implicitly acknowledging that it was tougher on Daschle in the Thune race than it had been in the past. http://www.slate.com/id/2120558/ |
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| There are obviously sickos and pervs on both sides of the aisle as we've all found out about so conveniently ahead of the elections. But the least you can do is call a spade a spade and recognize that this isn't your run-of-the-mill "fictitious writing". It's fucking sick and perverted. |
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| It's OK to hang Foley out to dry (it's fine with me honestly--he's sick too), but this isn't the slightest bit unsettling to you? |
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| Can your wife slice a banana into four equal parts with her vagina muscles? |
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| They make movies about sick shit like that and you don't normally see the antagonist running for public office. |
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| George Allen may have allegedly said '******,' but Webb's sick and twisted mind is more unsettling in my opinion and if it ends up with the typical "lesser of two evils" outcome, this Virginia race is a lost cause for the Dems. People aren't ever that surprised to hear "******" and "GOP" in the same sentence, but this shit is pure fucking vomit on the hood of my car on a sweltering summer day after I've drank about 15 Beast Lights and a few dozen hot wings. That is some sick shit my friend. |
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| I think I Just addressed this above. Are people really that surprised to hear of a white supremacist GOP member? Hell, we've been told that's what we are for years. |
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| Hillary gets to point it out with no reprocussions, using it as a tool when she compares congress to a plantation. |
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| Never mind you've got your own Robert "KKK" Byrd in West Virginia. |
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| I think the pervert is more detrimental to Virginia. If it were Massachussetts or Vermont, maybe I'd re-evaluate, but Virginia? Fuck no. |
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| Irrelevant to this discussion. We're talking about Webb/Allen and the Virginia senate race--not the biggest disappointment to the Democratic party. |
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| He who cast the first stone...Both sides are engaged in this morally repugnant campaign behavior. They've been doing this on Air America for months now. The GOP seems to be late to the party. |
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Though I still think the Dems take the senate, but you guys better be careful not to blow it with land mines like this! |
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| Originally posted by LazFX hey hey hey now mister, don't confuse all GOPers with the fucking asshole fundies that seem to hold the GOP in its grasp at the moment. Today's GOP is not my GOP of yesterday. Its not the GOP of my grandparents or my parents, BUSH and his stupid arrogant ass holes he has as yes men are not my GOP. Yes we will take a loss this year, but soon we will rise as the GOP of old. |
. Whatever my attacks are on pertain to this bastardized version of the modern-day neocon/uberwingnut GOP, which I fully acknowledge doesn't even resemble true Republican values in the slightest.
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| Originally posted by MisterOpus1 Hey guys, LOOK! Take a look at that guy representing some 2% of the African American Republican voting block! LOOK! LOOK! Give 'em hell, 2%ers! Woohoo!!! |
menendez is mexican I vote for him!
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| Originally posted by MisterOpus1 Of course it makes my stomach turn. And guess what? I'm willing to bet THAT WAS THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF THOSE PASSAGES!. Demonstrating the sickness and depravity of war - it's quite a fucked up concept. You find that problematic? Then perhaps you yourself should think about that the next time this fucking president gets us all involved in an unprovoked war similar to Vietnam. War is hell, and again my point is this is something that the little shit bully Allen knows nothing about whatsoever. |
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| So the writer of "Silence of the Lambs" should have much to answer to, especially if he runs for Congress then, right? How about Joseph Conrad? Elie Wiesel? Granted these stories are nonfiction, but Webb's stories were based on accounts of nonfiction too. Shall we Mr. Wiesel how fucked up his mind truly is? |
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| I'd be interested to see this however, because from what I've mostly seen on Webb is he has been attacking Allen on issues and staying away from the controversial discriminatory material. |
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| Jesus, Shakka. Enough already. We've seen one too many Swift Boating attacks by your GOP boys as it is, and when it resorts to that again you really have to question why the fuck you're scraping the bottom of the barrel AGAIN. |
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| Originally posted by MisterOpus1 Hey guys, LOOK! Take a look at that guy representing some 2% of the African American Republican voting block! LOOK! LOOK! Give 'em hell, 2%ers! Woohoo!!! |
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| Originally posted by Shakka I said it in the other thread and I'll say it again here. If I were voting in Virginia, I'd write in an independent. |
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| Originally posted by kush paintings Whoa now Shakka, that's some dangerous thinking ya got there. You realize its a two party system right? |
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