BotoxAgent
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conversations with my conservative crazy relatives has been devolving into Yahoo style comments, "wake up, SOCIALISM!!"
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conversations with my conservative crazy relatives has been devolving into Yahoo style comments, "wake up, SOCIALISM!!"
Four_Chamber
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That was just the narrative the media and the GOP wanted to push- nevermind that it was horribly inaccurate.
I tried tellin my dad socialism shouldn't be a naughty word. His reply: "people in this country didn't die for socialism, and thus we can't have a conversation anymore." ... I'm not sure people died for capitalism but whatever. I can't wait until we can just have a real conversation in our country about these things without having an irrational fear of a word.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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Well to be honest it's not like it has a great record. Also blame Marxists for using the word interchangeably or jointly with communism all the time.
TacticalFox88
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Not really. Ignorant people who didn't know what they were talking about used it all the time.
Aaron Strife
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I'll provide the three most typical responses:
1) Bush kept us safe!
2) Bush wasn't a true conservative anyway.
3) Typical liberal sheeple, brainwashed by the gotcha media.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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Including Marxists.
Did any of you see Fareed Zakaria tear Grover Norquist a new one this morning?
What the hell? There HAS to be more to this story. No way in hell Obama would be dumb enough to realize how awful the optics would be.
What the hell? There HAS to be more to this story. No way in hell Obama would be dumb enough to realize how awful the optics would be.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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Was it his own argument?
Was it his own argument?
I know you're joking, but it's sad that he's never ever gonna live that down.
I know you're joking, but it's sad that he's never ever gonna live that down.
Nor should he. He's an asshole and a moron for doing it.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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I agree.
I know you're joking, but it's sad that he's never ever gonna live that down.
He's lucky he still has a job, this is usually a death sentence.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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Yeah especially if he was a student or Professor.
TacticalFox88
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I know you're joking, but it's sad that he's never ever gonna live that down.
???
*is confused*
PhoenixDark
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http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/09/02/obama_goes_it_alone.html
This strikes me as a ridiculously horrible idea, especially with the Ryan budget (allegedly) putting house seats in play. I'd imagine some house and senate members can't afford to be seen with Obama, but there are plenty that can. Abandoning the "run against congress" idea completely is a bad idea
Nixon took this basic idea to an extreme in 1972, monopolizing the entire party to get re-elected while the republican party suffered nation wide.
Probably the best summation of the situation in one sentence that I've read on the internet.
MI/PA/WI are only in play if Romney is winning the popular vote decisively, just MO/IN were in play when Obama won the popular vote by 7 points but are clearly not in play now.
There's really no evidence that Romney is even ahead of Obama at ALL in the popular vote, so those 3 states really shouldn't go away from Obama.
Aaron Strife
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Can't be bipartisan with a Democratic congress!
Maybe he saw how awesomely his campaign for the House went in 2010. A lot of his "favorites" like Tom Perriello still lost, albeit by smaller margins than guys like Alan Grayson.
But Obama did it plenty in 2008, if I recall correctly.
Here: a) there isn't as much of an advantage for a candidate to do so, since either someone is trying to get (re/)elected INSPITE of Obama, or if they're in a solidly blue-enough state they won't need Obama; b) Obama needs to make sure he's solidly ahead, first c) Where, really, is Obama going to make much of a difference? The only three states I could see Obama being helpful in are MA, CT, and maybe VA -- maaaybe NV, but that's really about it.
Zakaria was caught plagiarizing one of his articles or some shit, which caused CNN and Newsweek suspended him for a couple weeks.
The liberalirati reacted as you would expect, and basically wants to see him metaphorically hanged because we're supposed to be better than that.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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It's kind of why you have too.
Clint Eastwood Gets Cut From Romney RNC Video
Hahah. It seems having Clint Eastwood at the RNC backfired on them quite heavily to the point where even the Romney camp is trying to forget it happened.
Hahah. It seems having Clint Eastwood at the RNC backfired on them quite heavily to the point where even the Romney camp is trying to forget it happened.
Four_Chamber
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Poor Clint, his inclusion is almost necessary.
Another picture of Obama in Colorado- I gotta say, this is an absolutely gorgeous backdrop. That lack of voter enthusiasm!
Another picture of Obama in Colorado- I gotta say, this is an absolutely gorgeous backdrop. That lack of voter enthusiasm!
Hell, why not? Clint already has.
There are two rules in journalism. Don't fake a story and don't copy some else's stuff. Its really not that hard to cite a source, sometimes we forget on the first draft but that's why you need to read it over. If you screw up and break one of those rules your credibility is dead and almost impossible to rebuild. The only reason they get away with this at Fox News is because they don't care.
Poor Clint, his inclusion is almost necessary.
Another picture of Obama in Colorado- I gotta say, this is an absolutely gorgeous backdrop. That lack of voter enthusiasm!
Artificially inflated. Shipped in from California, Massachusetts and Cuba.
He still gets large crowds amazing.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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Or colleges near Boulder...just playing Devils Advocate.
Hobbestetrician
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Poor Clint, his inclusion is almost necessary.
Another picture of Obama in Colorado- I gotta say, this is an absolutely gorgeous backdrop. That lack of voter enthusiasm!
I don't know, I see some white and possibly old people in that crowd. Probably just there to interrupt his speech.
For one fucked up citation? It'd be something else if he were lifting whole articles or fabricating quotes, but when it's just a few paraphrased lines involving quoting a third party I'm inclined to believe him when he says he got his notes mixed up. He was suspended before they reviewed the accusation and was reinstated when they found it was an isolated incident.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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Yeah, considering students not being paid are held to a high standard so should he.
PhoenixDark
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Poor Clint, his inclusion is almost necessary.
Another picture of Obama in Colorado- I gotta say, this is an absolutely gorgeous backdrop. That lack of voter enthusiasm!
disturbing lack of diversity
And he caught flack for it, and he apologized. The outcome is appropriate to the situation.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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Considering he gets paid for it, it isn't.
Should he be able to work as a journalist again? Should he be made to go away forever?
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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He should have lost his job.
For somebody so willing to trust humanity with lethal weapons you're awfully unforgiving.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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Considering what students are subjected to in regards to academic honesty, it's only fair that someone who is paid is subjected to a higher standard.
cartoon_soldier
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If he went to Ohio and told people to vote for Brown...well not sure it would work out well for Brown.
The people in close races, don't want to be associated too closely with Obama, the rest are safe already.
The only two candidates Obama should publicly support and urge people to vote for are Warren (MA) and Hayes (CT). But he doesn't campaign in those states. Only close race where you could look for public Obama support is VA Senate.
Are you aware of what students are subjected to?
Black Republican
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ill never forget that oregon crowd from 08Poor Clint, his inclusion is almost necessary.
Another picture of Obama in Colorado- I gotta say, this is an absolutely gorgeous backdrop. That lack of voter enthusiasm!
Joe Shlabotnik
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Manos ain't even trollin' here, guys. Plagiarism is literally the worst thing you can do in academia and journalism.
If you want to argue plagiarism is just a menial sin, that's a whole other ball of wax, but by historical standards a three-week suspension for plagiarism makes it look like Zakaria would need to commit an actual felony to get fired.
If you want to argue plagiarism is just a menial sin, that's a whole other ball of wax, but by historical standards a three-week suspension for plagiarism makes it look like Zakaria would need to commit an actual felony to get fired.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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And having seen exactly what he did, I also doubt as much.
A professor for a computer science class I took in junior college said that if a student gets caught for plagiarism, they not only fail the class, but they also get kicked out of college and their plagiarism infraction would remain on their transcript forever and wouldn't be able to transfer to university.
Seemed a bit extreme. Probably was just repeating some old wives tale or something.
cartoon_soldier
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It was a suspension during which they reviewed his other work. Did not find a pattern and so did not fire him.
cartoon_soldier
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Computer Science is taught is so many wrong ways in many colleges.
If I was teaching a computer science course for programming, students would be free to use whatever online resources to write their code. Because that's what you do in the real world.
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