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post #51 of 64
11/2/08 at 8:26pm
ElCaptain, I am curious. Not to get into this gotcha game of semantics but are you gonna reveal whom you have voted for afterwards? I know votes are secret and stuff but it would definitely shed some light on your posts.
Otherwise most of the stuff you posted would be kind of pointless. Damn those cliffhangers.
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post #52 of 64
11/2/08 at 8:32pm
Robert Byrd. I still can't believe we've got a former member of the KKK in Congress - and as one of the leaders of a major party, FFS.

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As far as I'm concerned, it's not as much about how much we are taxing rich people rather than how we are using/misusing taxpayer dollars. That much I think we agree upon.
Everyone has their own ideas about how taxpayer dollars are being misused, so that's a meaningless and empty point of common ground.
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post #53 of 64
11/2/08 at 8:35pm
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Originally Posted by Nibblonian View Post
Robert Byrd. I still can't believe we've got a former member of the KKK in Congress - and as one of the leaders of a major party, FFS.
More importantly the guy is barely functional at his age. Get someone else in there to do the job.
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post #54 of 64
11/2/08 at 8:49pm
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And you, apparently, don't. Which means you're still saying you're undecided, even though you're clearly a Republican and voting for McCain.

Which was my entire point to begin with.
He's already said three times in the past two weeks he's voting for Obama. He said just today, if I recall what I read an hour or two correctly, that he made up his mind about who he's voting for this past February.

Both comment which don't hold up compared to everything else he's said (or, well, the second one doesn't in any case).
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post #55 of 64
11/2/08 at 8:50pm
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More importantly the guy is barely functional at his age. Get someone else in there to do the job.
I am pretty sure that when he dies, the voters of West Virginia will prop him up on a stick and elect his corpse anyway.
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post #56 of 64
11/2/08 at 9:23pm
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He's already said three times in the past two weeks he's voting for Obama. He said just today, if I recall what I read an hour or two correctly, that he made up his mind about who he's voting for this past February.

Both comment which don't hold up compared to everything else he's said (or, well, the second one doesn't in any case).
He's a closet McCain voter.
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post #57 of 64
11/2/08 at 10:30pm
Byrd's one of the foremost experts and scholars on the Constitution in the Senate, and he's endorsed Obama. He is a great example of how a person can grow and change with time - indeed, the NAACP has praised his efforts to promote civil rights in his later years. And again, we're talking about a West Virginian old enough to be John McCain's father. His occasional racist brain farts are to be expected and are not malicious in intent when viewed in the context of his rather epic life as a whole and the growth as a human being he's shown over time. He's a flawed man, like most men are, but he's an asset to his party and more importantly the legislature. He's done more to overcome some very powerful prejudices than most men his age ever even attempted. I recommend his book "Losing America: Confronting A Reckless and Arrogant Presidency" which is essentially his take on the Bush administration's post-9/11 power grabs seen through the eyes of the premiere historian of the Senate.
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post #58 of 64
11/2/08 at 10:33pm
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Originally Posted by Nibblonian View Post
Robert Byrd. I still can't believe we've got a former member of the KKK in Congress - and as one of the leaders of a major party, FFS.
No.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxMiO...eature=related
Watch this, and if you have time, watch his speech against the Iraq War. Byrd was a racist at one time, but we have every reason to believe he has reformed. Heck, he's publicly endorsed Obama. He's nowhere near perfect, but he's not all that loathsome compared to thugs like Murtha.
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post #59 of 64
11/2/08 at 11:03pm
I know, I know. I want to like Byrd, but it's really, really difficult for me to forgive someone who helped filibuster the (ultimately successful, thank goodness) Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It's like voting for the Posse Comitatus Act: unforgivable.

There are probably Democrats I like worse out there, like the local sheriff of my hometown. Probably the only time I vote Republican is to vote against him - and it's never worked so far!

Irrational? Perhaps.
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post #60 of 64
11/2/08 at 11:43pm
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It's like voting for the Posse Comitatus Act: unforgivable.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I think that act is reasonable, even if it did happen to help racists at the time. Using the nation's army as police is a scary enough idea that I'm surprised the Constitution didn't strictly prohibit it in the first place.

As for Byrd, I love him because I get scholarship money with his name on it.
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post #61 of 64
11/2/08 at 11:57pm
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ElCaptain, I am curious. Not to get into this gotcha game of semantics but are you gonna reveal whom you have voted for afterwards? I know votes are secret and stuff but it would definitely shed some light on your posts.
Otherwise most of the stuff you posted would be kind of pointless. Damn those cliffhangers.
I've only voted in one presidential election before, and I voted for Kerry. I didn't like Kerry that much, my choice would have been Edwards, but that was my vote.

In this site, there was also a guy that started another website about politics, I think it was called "equalbias" ... I think it's pretty clear I wasn't happy with Bush back then if you look at the few cartoons I drew for it.


But hey, I'm a closet Republican.
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post #62 of 64
11/3/08 at 1:39am
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Byrd's one of the foremost experts and scholars on the Constitution in the Senate ....
He should be, he was there when they wrote it.
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post #63 of 64
11/3/08 at 1:41am
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Maybe I'm missing something, but I think that act is reasonable, even if it did happen to help racists at the time. Using the nation's army as police is a scary enough idea that I'm surprised the Constitution didn't strictly prohibit it in the first place.
Yeah, it was great, even though it helped cement the awful, systematic oppression of African-Americans for the next 90 years. Lynchings, segregation, voter intimidation and suppression on an unimaginable scale... totally reasonable, right? A worthwhile sacrifice for the sake of libertarian paranoia regarding police state powers of the federal government (curiously ignoring police state powers of the, um, states that were used to achieve all of the above)? Are you serious?
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post #64 of 64
11/3/08 at 1:43am
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Well, that will likely stir up a hornet's nest, but in the interest of remaining on topic...

Mary Landrieu.

She's ranked as one of the top 20 most corrupt members of Congress (not shocking, really. She's a Louisiana politician and no one in this country does corrupt, dirty politics like we do. It's a cultural tradition!), has earmarked money for companies and programs that supported her campaign, and she broke ranks with her party to help pass the Patriot Act.

Also, one of my cousins was roomates with her at LSU and has not a single good thing to say about her. But that probably doesn't matter.
Yeah, and my CD is probably going to elect Jefferson again in November. LA politics sucks.
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