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Liberalynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:37 AM
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There is Some Intelligent Life Left
Edited on Thu Sep-04-08 07:40 AM by Liberalynn
I took my Mom down to the local Medical Group to have some blood drawn this morning.

They had the CBS Morning News on, and some guy I didn't recognize was saying to Harry, the "Caribou Barbie" will be the most communicative VP ever.

I couldn't help myself and said rather annoyed and loudly, "that's assuming she and McSame get elected and that's a big if."

Then the rest of the group starting chiming in. One man said, "This is true, and I'm worried that if something happens to him, then she will be President, and she is so totally not qualified to be President."

Then I said they are trying to say Alaska is the biggest state, and one elderly lady said, "it is in land mass, not in people."

Then another guy said, "maybe she goverened the polar bears but not people," and "she's helping to kill the polar bears."

So despite the MSM fawning, our message has to be getting out there, to men and women, young and old. To me it left me with hope that at least some of the people are not as dumb as the Pukes like to think. :toast:
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a kennedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:54 AM
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1. Alaska is the biggest state..........
oh yeah, that was "airhead" lizabeth's statement on the view yesterday, I'm sure she'll be unbearable today after the speech last night. Don't think I'm gonna watch today.... :puke: :puke: :puke:
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Liberalynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 08:40 AM
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3. I pretty much quit watching the View
when they added Lizzie to begin with. I only watched it if they had a guest I liked.

I'm just glad people are seeing through the Pukes "talking points" and figuring out their bull.
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LibertyLover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 09:01 AM
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5. Something I read yesterday put Alaska into perspective -
Tucson, AZ, you know, a city in McSame's home state, has 300,000 more in population than all of Alaska.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 09:45 AM
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10. by the repukes definition of "big", that means, my
mayor can be vp. Since we have over 1.2 million in our city. And in the grand scheme of things, we have a small city.

this is nothing more than a bunch of panicking mouth breathers trying to pump up a colossal fuckup by a hot tempered brainless wanna-be mcletch.
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Dhalgren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:55 AM
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2. I live in a numbingly Republican state and county and city
and I have been hearing a lot of the same thing. I do not believe the polls that show McLame as close to Obama. If the yahoos down here, where I am from, are dissing "Gramps and the Cheerleader" then they have no chance, at all.

Another thing this cycle that I think many people over look: Obama is acceptable to the corporations. I fully believe that. Since he is acceptable to the corporations there is no built-in 20-point deficit for Obama to start with. I think that Obama is going to win in a very big landslide. This has the looks to me of being a total blow-out. Just my take...
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Liberalynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 08:50 AM
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4. Upstate NY has been traditionally been more Puke too
but there has been some movement towards the Democrats. So I totally don't believe that our State is now at play since Hilary is not the Dem nominee, as some of the local Pukes have tried to convince our local news media.

I think those who love Hillary as our Senator, as I do, are smart enough to know she has a hell of a lot more in common with Obama/Biden, then she does with Grampy/ and Caribou. I predict NY will stay Blue.

Failing the Pukes manipulating the machines, I agree with you that I think Obama/Biden will win and proabably with higher numbers than we even expected.
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 09:06 AM
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6. Yes, But No Intelligent Life Right n/t
Edited on Thu Sep-04-08 09:11 AM by Junkdrawer
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Liberalynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 09:09 AM
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7. So True
:rofl:
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 09:12 AM
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8. Good for you. Always remember: One of the biggest goals of Propaganda...
is to convince you that your neighbors believe it.
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 09:49 AM
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11. Had Never Heard That Before
but it makes a lot of sense.
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 10:39 AM
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12. The Power of Conformity....

...

Creating a consensus quickly is the goal of every "shock and awe" propagandist.

That's why it's often true that "a lie makes it half way around the world before the truth gets its pants on."

Professional liars have their stories worked out well in advance and then pump them out hard and fast long before thoughtful, honest analysts have the chance to ask even the first question.

Once the consensus is pointing in one direction, it becomes very difficult to take, hold and promote a contrary point of view, even if that point of view is accurate and the consensus is completely false.

That's why I believe it's prudent to assume that ANYTHING you "know" that is consensus-based and was produced and is continuously supported by the so called "mainstream" news media (news, PR and/or propaganda) is probably the product of a calculated attempt to mislead.

As a simple rule of thumb, the proper response to ANYTHING that makes its way to the network news or the front page of a major newspaper is to ask yourself two questions: "Whose propaganda is this?" and "What facts are they withholding and skewing in a calculated attempt to mislead me?"

...


http://www.sott.net/articles/show/164474-The-Power-of-Conformity
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Egnever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 10:50 AM
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15. good point
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countryjake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 09:22 AM
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9. They've never been as dumb as many think...
my little red neck of the woods were all abuzz yesterday afternoon about the AIPgate business....one extremely conservative younger woman was stating that this woman has ties to "Free Alaska" and people are worried if Mrs. Obama doesn't love America! I practically fell over my cart to get closer to hear that one. So I'm standing there looking at soap I'd never buy in a million years, eavesdropping, and her mom, who I've known for years, walks up, spots me, and says, "Don't even say it!" laughing.

She and her husband belong to some sort of hunting camp up in Alaska and she was already well acquainted with Palin's ways. She says every self-respecting hunter they know have already been up-in-arms about the aerial-hunting thing and people up there have tried to stop it a couple of times...she also told me that the Palins have riled many old Alaskans by pushing their "thing" of hunting from snowmobiles. This was all within a five-minute talk. Now I didn't ask if she'd be voting Obama now, but I can bet who she won't cast any vote for.

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Overseas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 10:43 AM
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13. I am glad Perky McBubbles did not succeed with everyone.
She delivered those sarcastic lines the frat boys wrote for her fairly smoothly.

Glad they were alarmed at the prospect of the seemingly charming but unqualified person becoming VP.
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 10:48 AM
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14. bush talking points 2000 vs palin talking points 2008
bush 2000:

-- executive experience because he is governor of a big state
-- texas is a big state
-- foreign experience because texas is on the border with mexico
-- washington outsider
-- uniter
-- family values

palin 2008:

-- executive experience because she is governor of a big state
-- alaska is a big state
-- foreign experience because alaska is near russia
-- washington outsider
-- uniter
-- family values

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