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- neognostic, on 05/08/2008, -18/+66Bush is evil incarnate.
- kemp34, on 05/08/2008, -7/+41Tired of Huffington Post. However, John McCain IS breaking the election laws that HE got passed (McCain-Feingold). He is seriously an idiot. McCain: "The economy, what's that?"
- CowCow, on 05/08/2008, -5/+35http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Obama_ ...
AND ***** OFF - Sheavenger, on 05/08/2008, -16/+44Sold his soul (what's left of it) for politcal gain. I've heard about this path before.
It never ends up pretty for the soul seller. - zenithmbr, on 05/08/2008, -10/+32GOD, just link to the politico article, enough with these huffington post ***** snippets of articles.
- chrgrose, on 05/08/2008, -11/+27What hasn't Bush manipulated yet? He's already destroyed our future history.
- pintomp3, on 05/08/2008, -1/+15he applied for future public funding and then used that as collateral to secure a loan. then he backed out of public funding once his campaign started pulling in more money. the legality is very much in question.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ... - Vermifax, on 05/08/2008, -2/+14yawn.
- yodaj007, on 05/08/2008, -2/+13"I've heard about this path before."
Darth Vader? - hikaruzero, on 05/08/2008, -1/+12How about just the Imprisonment Party? The whole platform would be, take everyone in office right now, and throw them in the can for the rest of their lives.
- shadearg, on 05/08/2008, -6/+16Yesterday, Republicans could not have acted more narrowly in just this vein: effectively firing a Commissioner to immunize their Presidential nominee from enforcement action in a pending case but making sure that there is enough of an agency left to get him the money needed to finance his campaign.
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Wow.. that's quite an accusation! - stormkrow, on 05/08/2008, -17/+27The GOP Repugnant Party will get their asses handed to them in November!!!!
- Czechxican, on 05/08/2008, -0/+9Can we not link to the entire damn article?
- TheG2, on 05/08/2008, -2/+10Is "future history" managed by the department of Pre-Crime?
- monoa, on 05/08/2008, -1/+9It's reality-detached humans like this that explain how Bushco got voted in. Scary and sad in equal measure.
- raybury, on 05/08/2008, -4/+12Um, Obama is the one with a hold on one of the four FEC nominees, because the nominee shares the position the U.S. Supreme Court just validated -- that states may require voters to provide ID. This is chutzpah.
- Hangly, on 05/08/2008, -1/+9The FEC has been manipulating elections for a long time. If you've ever supported a third-party candidate you should know that all too well.
- monoa, on 05/08/2008, -2/+9"I always remember two types of students. One is the very excellent student, the type as a professor you feel honored to be working with. Someone with strong social values, compassion and intellect -- the very rare person you never forget. And then you remember students like George Bush, those who are totally the opposite." - Yoshi Tsurumi, one of George W. Bush's professors at Harvard Business School
- inactive, on 05/08/2008, -3/+10That's because Digg is designed to reflect the bias of it's readers.
- VitriolAndAngst, on 05/08/2008, -1/+8See, instead of saying; "Wow, so McCain really is breaking his own rules" we get someone pointing out some spurious comment above (that was proven untrue), and redirecting blame.
Perhaps you could mention how bad Saddam Hussein is as well, Cygnus... - spwpi10, on 05/08/2008, -1/+8Just a quick aside here. I need some clarification. What does Obama's father or mother have to do with the election? Maybe his parents aren't so great, that doesn't mean he can't be a good leader. Personally, I haven't looked too deeply into Obama so I'm not well aware of what he wants to do, but generally speaking how does your father or mother's actions have anything to do with you politically. It just baffles me that some people will read something like that and hold it against Obama, he has a rough family, for a lot of people having a rough family is what makes them stronger because they want to strive to be better than that.
As for the other issues you talked about, it's all past stuff. To me that doesn't really affect my decision as much as modern day ideas and actions. It may have only been 4 years ago when all that happened but I believe people can recognize what they believe to be mistakes in their decisions or actions and change their stance on a point of view on something. Just a thought. - VitriolAndAngst, on 05/08/2008, -1/+8Wow, you really have an amazing intellect.
So the Republicans have failed at government to show us how government doesn't work -- yet some of us remember 8 years ago. Now, with their diabolical plan of talking out of both sides of McCains mouth -- they have lulled us into a a false sense of security.
I think your only hope of a Republican win is to CHEAT again -- I expect that their will be election fraud and we've been getting more and more voters on our side to overcome it. In order to win, the corruption is getting more and more obvious. - insertcleverid, on 05/08/2008, -1/+7When, exactly, did a sitting Democratic President fire a FEC commissioner for pointing out that the Democratic Presidential Nominee had illegally manipulated his finances? Or, more in line with your suggestion, has anyone of any party before Bush?
- dema, on 05/08/2008, -1/+7If you are seriously going to bring up "flip flopping" I really hope you are not supporting McCain, because that would way too funny (:
- chaosium, on 05/08/2008, -4/+10Doesn't make him an unwilling accomplice, or completely unaware.
- WanderingGuru, on 05/08/2008, -2/+7Seriously, why didn't http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Bush_fixes_FEC_f ... make it to the front page instead of this BS? This is nothing but more blog spam with NO additional content; heck, it has less content that the original article. This whole thing makes me sick to continue to see this crap on Digg.
Do us all a favor and digg my comment (or any other comment that suggests methods to curb this problem) on the Town Hall page. Since Kevin seems to want to choose topics with the most diggs to talk about (despite that being a horrible idea since comments at the top of the page will always have more diggs) we can try and find a solution to this blog spam epidemic that has crippled the digg community.
http://digg.com/tech_news/Call_for_Topics_Digg_Tow ... - insertcleverid, on 05/08/2008, -1/+6And remember that 4 years ago we actually thought Iran was going to go nuclear, it just turned out that the Bush administration was manipulating the intelligence. Again.
- bigsteve, on 05/08/2008, -1/+6Fox has a ***** 24/7 television channel that sells hundreds of millions in advertising, is easily accessible to millions of impressionable American channel-surfers who can't tell the difference between their drivel and news. Huffington Post is just a website with editorials and opinions.
- inactive, on 05/08/2008, -6/+11I don't understand the opposition to Huffington Post. Seems like you're all angry because they dare to criticize republicans.
- VitriolAndAngst, on 05/08/2008, -0/+5Well, it has been many months now that they DON'T have enough people to convict anyone of Election shenanigans -- so we already have that situation now. It takes something like 4 or 6 votes -- and they have something like 2 people left on the committee. Yeah -- just enough to right checks.
- Hangly, on 05/08/2008, -0/+4Dr. Faustus.
- sxlc2002, on 05/08/2008, -0/+4And McCain is bush incarnate!
- VitriolAndAngst, on 05/08/2008, -0/+4WTF dimension is that coming from? The Repugs stalled this and they've done nothing but Filibuster since they've been in office -- apparently, it's only wrong if you do it when a bill is paying billions to a no-bid contractor.
Once again, the Republicans break something so that they can complain about it not working. Compromise with these people, is pretty much the practice of bending over and taking it.
Dem FEC withdraws because the agency is paralyzed;
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/democratic-fec ...
WASHINGTON, DC - May 7 - The slate of nominees for the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that the Bush administration sent to the Senate on Tuesday night is anything but a compromise. In fact, the highly partisan and politically charged choices are likely to perpetuate the stalemate that has effectively shut down the FEC since January.
President Bush is calling for the replacement of sitting Republican Commissioner David Mason with Don McGahn, a steadfast Republican Party loyalist who served as general counsel to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) in October 2002 when that committee attempted to sidestep federal law banning “soft money” in federal elections. McGahn also was ethics lawyer for former Rep. Tom DeLay, who resigned from Congress under criminal indictment.
more; http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0507-07.htm
>> AS to your comment about ID; we had a grand total of 6 court cases of Voter Fraud in the entire US last election and it wasn't for lack of looking for something to promote this straw man issue. One of the cases was against Anne Coulter, if you are scoring at home. To vote in the wrong place is a Felony if intentional -- but the whole issue is to cover up for the millions of people who are valid voters having their votes thrown out. The Republicans have been guilty of caging time and time again.
>> But, in the Republicans defense, at least their choices sent forth are some of the only people not indicted for criminal fraud and embezzling when put in charge of money. That's a step up. - ErikHarrison, on 05/08/2008, -1/+4yeah right.
- Vermifax, on 05/08/2008, -2/+5Yeah. Poor guy.
- insertcleverid, on 05/08/2008, -0/+3Its not a conspiracy, its a news story! Take a look at your dictionary.
- republicker, on 05/08/2008, -0/+3you never read Dr Seuss?
- VitriolAndAngst, on 05/08/2008, -2/+5Almost every blog site has a DIGG button now. Why don't you complain that Daily Kos and HuffingtonPost have more eyeballs than all the conservative blogs combined?
This is like the complaint about the SOURCE of the news rather than whether it is true or not. Seems that some people, have a problem with truth being a thing only Liberals care about. - kemp34, on 05/08/2008, -5/+8Yeah, pretty nasty character.
- ErikHarrison, on 05/08/2008, -3/+6Bush wants to ***** up our country so bad right now that no democrat could recover from it. That is the problem that we need to stop right now. Impeach the war monger.
- ErikHarrison, on 05/08/2008, -3/+6Evil does not always pertain to religion. Do you always run around starting your sentences with "As an atheist"? It's not that atheists are bad, but when they say stuff like "I don't subScribe to the concept of evil" just kinda makes them sound like Scientologists, as if they were above it. Riddle me this, what was the main motivator? What started everything? Every action creates an equal or greater reaction, so where is the logic in not believing in something greater than yourself? Ego maniacal bitch.
- DaDrake, on 05/08/2008, -1/+4Isn't this exactly what Howard Dean did? As far as I am concern, they don't care as long as you didn't use the money and return it. Anyway, the public financing laws are ***** up. There is simply no way a politician can use public financing and compete.... it needs an update.
- xuanyan, on 05/08/2008, -0/+3It's true though. Bush is dumb as a post. He is an easily manipulated puppet on the strings of his handlers. The country has been run by Cheney and Rove from the shadows.
- GhostyBoy, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2For the last time, no one is saying Bush is smart. On the contrary, the man is nearly completely retarded. This makes him a perfect candidate for being a front-man, while someone whispers to him from behind the throne. He is a puppet, nothing more.
All the evil that has been done on Bush's watch has been perpetrated by ***** like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Henry Kissinger etc. I would be surprised if Bush even made one policy decision his entire time in office. - inactive, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2Nah, it ends really well actually, the system is screwed up!
- mojo31979, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2No he's not, but FEC officials that receive kickbacks from large corporations to keep Republicans in office are smart enough to do this. Bush is merely a puppet, always has been and always will be.
- inactive, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2Impeachment seems to be going so well over these last few years, doesn't it.
- nblsavage, on 05/08/2008, -9/+11dugg to piss the whiners off.
- monoa, on 05/08/2008, -5/+7P.S. As an atheist, I don't subcribe to the concept of 'evil'. It's an easy label that doesn't address the root cause of someone's behavior. However, there's enough evidence to state confidently that Bush contains ingredients of stupid, lazy, arrogant, self-serving, deluded and gullible. I wouldn't leave the little ***** in charge of a hotdog van, let alone a nuclear-equipped nation.
Also, the one thing that really surprises me is why anyone who voted for him is surprised that his presidency turned out the way it did - his personal qualities and abilities were on display from Day One. - thejeremy, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2"future history"...omg that's right now!!1
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