misanthrope
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:55 AM
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A truly bitter dose of reality... |
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...that I don't expect to see dissipate within my lifetime. America's foundation
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Selatius
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:03 AM
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1. I think I've found the line that will drive home the most pain to readers here: |
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Statistical models derived from the poll suggest that Obama's support would be as much as 6 percentage points higher if there were no white racial prejudice.
Awful news for a country that wants to think it is further ahead on defeating racism than it currently is.
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:26 AM
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4. 6 points isn't that bad really. |
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Hell 15% of the populace can barely speak.
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melody
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:20 AM
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There is no other choice. Negativity is what the right throws at us to discourage us. We have to avoid it like the plague.
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:23 AM
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3. If Race ends up being the deal-breaker... |
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they were not Democrats in the first place.
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Indenturedebtor
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:27 AM
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5. If Obama doesn't win this election period... well this country deserves what it gets |
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I would feel bad for all the other countries out there though.
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:36 AM
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6. Some americans are so effin' clueless |
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They won't vote for a man because of his skin color, but they have no problem putting a lying, fascist traitor into the WH twice.
:wtf:
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:22 PM
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8. "What did you expect? Welcome Sonny? Make yourself at home? |
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Marry My Daughter? You gotta remember that these are simple farmers. These are people of the land, the common clay of the new West. You know…..Morons." --Blazing Saddles
Consider the DU morons who pick on the Palin kids, it's not a pretty picture!
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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misanthrope
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:03 PM
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...though we who live among it aren't so surprised.
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