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CBRetriever |
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you know the nutjobs won't pay any attention to his reasons, just that his skin color is the same
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lilnubber |
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Every conservative in this thread needs to watch this:
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ZippyDoDa |
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Colin Powell would have made a great President, too bad he didn't run in 2004.
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finishthemoff |
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ZippyDoDa wrote: or 2000. Frankly, he would have been far better president than Obama.
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10/19/08 11:33 AM.
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Pahrump Mania |
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mcCain is a little right but more wrong about Obama's fundraising. We do need to know where the money is coming from, the lack of accountability for small
sums just leads to the ability to get around campaign laws. I'm not accusing Obama of doing anything illegal, I just want the laws changed. Where McCain is
wrong is he complaining about the amount of money that Obama has raised. If a candidate has moved many more people to contrbute that's too bad, and it
actually dulls the influence that large contributors have. If Republicans want to regain the Whitehouse and Congress they will have to realize that it takes
more than their votes.
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lilnubber |
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McCain is, as usual, a lying sack of shit.
Go here and search. You can see donations of less than $200 to Obama |
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Miles Edgeworth |
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The first step is that the republicans need to change their convention rooms. While there shouldnt be caucuses, there should be a proportional voting system.
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sadllama |
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finishthemoff wrote: Apparently FTO has a time machine and has gone into the future to tell us that Obama sucks as President. |
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shower puss |
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I have seen people talk of storming the White House if Obama wins. And I'm not talking about the inbred throwbacks on some KKK website. I'm talking
about people that present themselves as otherwise normal until they start raving about Obama.
We are living in insane times, people. Calgon, take me away... |
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GoodNeighborgirl |
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JtP will not lose his freakin' license. Someone from Mccain's campaign is already in Arizona paying those fines. Count on it.
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factoryhurl |
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i am so fucking sick of hearing about joetheplumber. it's a turd that they keep trying to polish.
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ohboy |
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lilnubber wrote: i'm not sure, and i'm trying to figure it out, but i think what he's saying is that if an individual gives $25 total, that person's name isn't reported. only when they give a total of $200 through the smaller donations is that person's name reported. eta: yeah, i think that's it. here's what it says at "what's included here" link at the site you provided: Size of Donations - This table breaks down contributions from individuals by size. Contributions must be listed separately on FEC disclosure reports once the total received from any one person exceeds $200 in an election cycle. This table groups these itemized contributions by size, and also includes the total of individual contributions that have not exceeded the $200 threshold. This list only includes contributions from individuals and does not include receipts from other sources. Under Federal law, individuals may contribute a maximum of $2,300 per election to each candidate. Adjustments have been made in this table where large contributions (generally exceeding $2,300) have been redesignated for a different election or reattributed to a different person.
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GlamsSlam |
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Regardless of who becomes President this is going to be the MOST challenging Presidency ever.. I have always felt that both candidates wanted it but at a time
when neither of them expected any of this to occur. At one point it really was Iraq and some "housing issues" that seemed the most pressing. We have
yet to witness the continued falling of our economy.. when the Hedge funds come due and those will have another massive ripple effect that again only truly
affects the VERY rich but remember its the very rich who are dictating this policy at the present time.. the very rich who right now are making sure with
fundraising and networking (skills they excel at) to assure that whoever is President their respective representatives will be elected to assure further
agendas in line with their own. I feel that whoever is President will likely be a single term President and accomplish very little...
For those with few reading comprehension problems read the Washington Post analysis of this... here is the link http://www.washingtonpost.com and the article is Arduous Transition Awaits Next President By Michael D. Shear, Michael Abramowitz, Anne E. Kornblut and Shailagh Murray I do believe that this is over their heads and those presently serving in Congress. As much as I have always respected Goldman Sachs it is way to over involved in the current situation and I shudder to think of Rubin returning with more of his ilk to perpetuate the Wall Street bailouts. There is also the issue of Fraud with regards to mortgages among other "white collar crimes" and the FBI is unable to fully investigate due to a reduction of staff and the alocation of resources to terrorism... and of course the Bush Administration's "discouraging" that type of Justice Dept fury that Ashcroft ironically had with regards to Enron levels of prosecution... gee and he actually was a sort of good guy if you look into him and as in all Mafioso families questioning the daddy not good.. bye bye... he was nuts but he was against some of the shit these bushfucks have been shoveling And finally one more point... NEITHER of these men speak of the economically distressed or the "working poor" who have truly suffered under the last 30 years of growth.. they are your home health care workers, the Best buy Delivery drivers, etc.. they are NOT MIDDLE CLASS.. their jobs are not outsourced and can never be but yet they are paid minimum wage.. a wage insufficient to LIVE off... If Congress allocated 220 billion of the 350 billion remaining to relief to these 55 million or so AMERICANS who are struggling the effects would reverberate through the economy and make quality of life a better one for many. And if they simply took a simple few ideas and laws such as Usuary.. and banks renting the homes back to the foreclosed at current market rental rates with a five year plan to either repurchase the home from the bank or at that time the bank to sell the property on the open market fewer houses would sit vacant and deteriorate, people's homes and credit would remain stable allowing again for larger potential of contributing to our great need to buy shit... and ultimately pay off maybe some debts and thereby also reduce right offs by lending institutions for not just mortgages but other consumer debt. Gee and that costs us NOTHING. Why are economists and advisers who are not Goldman people coming up with this sharing it freely with the media, etc and meanwhile they rant on about JOE THE FUCKING PLUMBER... he can't drive or fix my toilet the dude is useless.. another illustration of how McCain can't even find symbols to run his campaign on. And that doesn't bode well for America. As for Obama.. well dude you are our great black hope whatever... 4 years that is all I will give you.. we shall see. As for Congress.. well I hope the Montana dirt farmer has dirt to farm as he needs to go for he brings not even dirt to the table. |
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glazerboy |
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Joe the Plumber said:
"You know, when you can't ask a question of your leaders anymore, that gets scary," he said. Shades of 2003... Us: "Mr. President, can you maybe tell us a little more about those WMDs and Saddam's connection to 9/11? Some of us aren't quite convinced we have the whole story yet." W: "You're an anti-American terrorist-loving traitor, you rotten bastard!" |
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finishthemoff |
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sadllama wrote: No, you dipshit. It is the matter of opinion. ::time to leap:: |
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ZippyDoDa |
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finishthemoff wrote:You are an idiot. |
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diving4gold |
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Pahrump Mania wrote:I donated for the first time ever to a political candidate, as did many of my friends. I think the thing that really made up my mind to donate to Obama was the negativity of McCain's campaign. I once had respect for McCain; the way he has run his campaign has made me lose any respect I ever had for him. |
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ohboy |
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glazerboy wrote: the difference being that obama isn't telling joe to shut the fuck up. i am. the media is. obama isn't. |
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CBRetriever |
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I just got the quarterly report for my work 401K plan
unfortunately the company matching is in company stocks and oil bidness stocks are tanking |
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lilnubber |
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Yeah, Ohboy, you're right that the FEC site only shows smaller donations when they total over $200.
But what about McCain's claim that, "They know where every penny of my campaign contributions came from." I can't find where McCain tells who his small donations are from. |
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