Have you noticed there have been much fewer campaign bumper stickers since the last two elections? In 2000 and 2004, it seemed like every other car had one. Now, I very rarely ever see them.
Weird.
I tell you, where I live I have YET to see an Obama sticker or a sign or anything. It’s crazy.
I have one on the back of my truck…..
"NObama ‘08…Keep Your Change"
Every Wed. night here in Middle Tennessee, my motorcycle riding club meets at a bar and grill for our little bike night. Apparently, the McCain people are going to be filming there tonight to gather material for an ad featuring bikers.
I have to leave in an hour. 6:00pm Central. What to do what to do???
I am wearing my “Soylent Green” T-Shirt. Can’t think of anything else. And of course I am bringing my camera.
wear your normal "I’m here, I’m queer" shit
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what are your first impressions of this ad? It sums up the Memphis and western TN politcal landscape completely
ignore the garbage text before and after the ad, its the only one i could find that had the ad itself
Nikki Tinker has been getting slammed for this, she is racism at its pinnacle. she has been railing Cohen because he is white, because he is jewish and because….well, hes not black
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what sort of brain dead 1984 corporate bullshit is this?
is this really what the founding fathers had in mind when they spoke of a free press?
how do you think I got through college?
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Maybe someone can teach McCain to logon to his own website.
Thats it he has this thing in the bag, everyone loves spammers
The sad thing isn’t that John McCain is publishing ads denigrating his opponent for being too well-spoken and popular in addition to undermining his "straight talk" image by relating Obama to Paris Hilton and saying Obama’s energy policy is recommending pressure gauges (even though experts have corroborated Obama’s suggestions).
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i was thinking about this yesterday. we deride polticians for being "out of touch"… fuck, i’m out of touch with the average american. i have absolutely no idea what they think, what their lives are like… nothing. do any of you guys have any insight into "the average american"? can we really say either mccain or obama are MORE out of touch than the other? i don’t think so.
cliffs: its a big, stupid country out there… what the fuck are these people like?
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Too Fit to Be President?
Facing an Overweight Electorate,
Barack Obama Might Find
Low Body Fat a Drawback
By AMY CHOZICK
August 1, 2008; Page W1
Speaking to donors at a San Diego fund-raiser last month, Barack Obama reassured the crowd that he wouldn’t give in to Republican tactics to throw his candidacy off track.
“Listen, I’m skinny but I’m tough,” Sen. Obama said.
But in a nation in which 66% of the voting-age population is overweight and 32% is obese, could Sen. Obama’s skinniness be a liability? Despite his visits to waffle houses, ice-cream parlors and greasy-spoon diners around the country, his slim physique just might have some Americans wondering whether he is truly like them.
The candidate has been criticized by opponents for appearing elitist or out of touch with average Americans. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll conducted in July shows Sen. Obama still lags behind Republican John McCain among white men and suburban women who say they can’t relate to his background or perceived values.
“He’s too new … and he needs to put some meat on his bones,” says Diana Koenig, 42, a housewife in Corpus Christi, Texas, who says she voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.
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For the past month or so I have noticed that this community lacks any concentration of direct explanations by the posters themselves on their own socioeconomic and political views. I am curious what drives people to hold the beliefs that they do, and was inspired by where the posters there revealed what drives their religious (or non-religious) beliefs.
What I’d like to do is have people just explain a bit about what got them to where they are and what they believe in a more direct fashion, rather than in bits and pieces that show during various debate threads. If you’re not shy, please include some demographic information, a little history of where you grew up, what sort of education you have, and what sort of political environment you were raised in. These sorts of things influence our views, obviously.
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