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GOD WE ARE THE WORST TEAM EVER WE ARE DOWN A RUN IN THE THIRD INNING WE SHOULD PACK IT UP AND GO HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with SS, I just want to see some oversight on how the money is spent. I also don't want to see no bid contracts on advising.

I am just laughing. Ha. HE PUTS COUNTRY FIRST!!!

yep, tried the game thread, not for me.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 11:40 PM) Where do you make the leap to McCain/Biden? McCain likely would have the majority of states, whereas obama would have the two huge population states, Cali and New York.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 03:03 PM) Michelle & Co. - Looks like Joe Biden, in his interview with Katie Couric, was copying off the wrong classmate’s exam again. He said (video here): “When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘look, here’s what happened.’” My recollection is that the stock market crash was in 1929. Two problems here: Television did not even exist in 1929, and FDR was elected in 1932, so he wasn’t even the leader at the time of the crash. When Joe was in history class, was he cheating by looking over the class dunce’s shoulder, or does he just make this stuff up? Of course, TV celebrity Katie Couric also didn’t note that Biden’s statement was doubly incorrect. Her goal was a softball puff piece.” OMG A PUFFPIECE FROM KATIE COURIC

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 05:05 PM) I have a very serious dislike for Sarah Palin and the way they are trying to completely shield her from the media. I'm glad her favorability ratings are plummeting. The very reason the media is so hard on her is because they are keeping her such a secret. This is a presidential race, an important one at that, she is second in line, you can't shield her except for scripted speeches. This is an absolute disgrace. This is a slap in the face to democracy. I pray that McCain does not get away with this and skip into the presidency. The nation will never recover from such a campaign. The media never will either.

tinker v. ohio, wasn't that where the girl wore the black armband protesting the Vietnam war. and so then the school kicked her out, Supreme Court ruled in favor of her. But perhaps, black is less disruptive, than say, an anti obama ribbon if it has writing on it. Not sure what the deal is here.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 03:28 PM) When you say stupid things every day for the last 35 years, people stop noticing as much. Palin's comments don't get the 100 point headline on Drudge though. Honestly and seriously though, I think there may be a perception difference between the tickets that might account for that. Biden is the experience guy here, and the line from the Obama campaign has always been that Obama wanted a substantive running mate who can have respectful disagreements with. Palin is seen as the Stepford candidate, and when your campaign is using phrases like "learning at the foot of the master," to describe her - it makes her comments seem a bit more outrageous. And the other reason why I think the media has turned on McCain/Palin? And I think they have by the way, has to do with access. Outside of those carefully planned and detailed few interviews Palin has given, she has not had one single media avail, and has not taken one reporter's question on the campaign trail. McCain hasn't taken a single question from any non-local reporter in over five weeks either. If you don't acknowledge or talk to the press, I'd wager they are less likely to give you the benefit of the doubt. And further, F*** balance v. accuracy. Obama has not had the type of ridiculous statements and false ads that the McCain camp has, and since it has a duty to cut through the spin, it isn't f'n bias to cover more time to uncover the party who is doing, frankly, more of the lying. This whining and b****ing about the media from the McCain campaign is a disgrace. Stop blaming the media, the sad part is it worked for clinton, but I don't think it'll work for McCain. B/c the media genuinely was so interested in Obama in the primaries, the best leg of his campaign, that they were self-conscious on how to cover him. But McCain has been actively lying and then chastising the media, when he used to embrace them. There is a great three part series on McCain in Esquire, I suggest you all take th etime to read it. Esquire does awesome profile pieces.

I'm just torn. The electoral college, for all it's faults, is still kind of fascinating. The campaign strategy to going to battleground states. Trying to find a message to maximize the amount that will vote for you. What would a national campaign look like if it was just popular? Would then the cities get all the attention?

i.e. Tiger Woods.

wouldn't that be violating tinker?

plus, either way, isn't it possible that Hagel could vote Obama anyway?

Well, technically, if the kid wanted to wear an anti-obama ribbon and not make any scene about it, he could do that no?

please, you don't see arabs good at basketball do you?

The sad thing: the dad probably helped him make that shirt! Motor skills people, develop em.

budget enforcement act of 1990 I believe that this helped us get our surplus in the nineties.

QUOTE (Whitewashed in '05 @ Sep 22, 2008 -> 03:58 AM) Those Mac commercials make me hate macs... and so do mac enthusiasts who buy into the whole, "im cool cause I have a mac" bull. we are cool though.

I love my mac. I don't code or game or any of that guff though.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 21, 2008 -> 08:31 PM) However, I believe the 95% plus incumbent survival rate is actually quite new. $$$$$$$$$$ more than that though

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Sep 21, 2008 -> 06:48 PM) Gerrymandering. thats nothing new though

It's an excellent program that takes college graduates and trains them, puts them into high need schools for two years. The success that teach for america teachers have in these classrooms is pretty amazing. It's really interesting and also a lot of great grad schools have huge grants for doing teach for america.

Ugh, I hate writing these types of essays. I really hope I can get into this program Does anyone have any experience with Teach For America?

WOOOWOOOOOOOOOOOo haha, read the first 4 pages of the game thread. People were beginning to call Cy Bannister.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 01:42 AM) Tejeda just walked Uribe. My advice to him is to kill himself. LOL