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PoliGAF Election Day 2008 Thread of A New Dawn in America (OBAMA ELECT)

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NumberTwo

Paper or plastic?
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whytemyke

Honorary Canadian.
Odrion said:
both got passed :lol

fucking Michigan rules, i wish we had that on our ballot :(
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i'm so mad i changed my citizenship from michigan to illinois over the summer. i could have voted on that stuff, now i'm just lost in the crowd.

i'm happy for michigan. after the affirmative action ban last election and the gay marriage ban the one before, looks like they got a couple right finally.

michigan is the john mccain of the north. total mavericks!

no gays, but weed is cool.
no aa but stem cell research is awesome
 
Squirrel Killer

Squirrel Killer

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Rindain said:
So why the heck hasn't CNN called Indiana for Obama?
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Because there's no need to. Obama won. Story closed. Why should they risk their reputation on a potential Florida-esque recount when they can just wait for the final tally?
 
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Deleted member 1235

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just saw the victory speech from a bar in koh tao thailand. Quite a few happy looking people around.

Good job USA!
 
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polyh3dron

Banned
beermonkey@tehbias said:
I tried to collect some of the best bitter tears posts that I could find at Rapture and Hillary sites, but there are just far too many. I wouldn't know where to begin.

Some guy at the Rapture site went out and started flying his American flag upside down. :lol
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Those Rapture guys hate America. They should move somewhere else if they don't like it, like France.

Of course we're supposed to support our President no matter what when he's a Repub, but when he's a Dem oooooo nooooo.
 
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Danthrax

Batteries the CRISIS!
beermonkey@tehbias said:
DOES ANYONE ELSE FEEL LIKE THE COUNTRY JUST TURNED OVER ALL ITS GOLD JEWLERY TO MAKE A GOLDEN CALF? THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY DO NOT WANT TO WORSHIP THE ONE TRUE GOD, THEY WANT A GOD WHO REPRESENTS THEM. THAT IS WHY OBAMA IS SO POPULAR, NOT BECAUSE HE IS BLACK. OBAMA SAID TONIGHT IN HIS SPEECH THAT HE REPRESENTS ALL PEOPLE INCLUDING "GAYS". HE COULD LITERALLY SPROUT HORNS ATOP HIS HEAD TOMORROW AND TELL EVERYONE ON LIVE TV THAT HIS FAVORITE NUMBER IS 666 AND IT WOULD NOT MATTER. I AM IN A STATE OF SHOCK RIGHT NOW. EVERYTHING THAT IS IN REVELATION IS REALLY GOING TO HAPPEN. I MEAN, I KNEW IT WOULD, BUT TO KNOW THAT I AM SOONER RATHER THAN LATER GOING TO SEE MY LOVED ONES WHO HAVE GONE TO HEAVEN ALREADY IS SOBERING TO SAY THE LEAST. HOWEVER WE MUST GET BACK TO OUR FATHER'S BUSINESS, PRAY FOR YOUR LOST LOVED ONES AND LIVE LIKE THERE IS NO TOMORROW BECAUSE FOR US THERE MIGHT NOT BE. SUDDENLY THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING I WAS DOING AT WALMART TODAY DOESN'T SEEM THAT IMPORTANT DOES IT?
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=O


epic meltdown or joke post?
 
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Marvie_3

Banned
Norm Coleman 1,020,317 - 42%
Al Franken 1,010,830 - 42%
87% in

Franken lost about 3,000 votes since the last update. Still plenty of time though...
 
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Gruco

Banned
NC and IN are both ready for calling.

The bitter tears are wonderful. Free Rep talking about how Stevens holding on to his seat will be the silver lining to the night.

Bachmann wins. FU Minnesota.
 
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Kevin

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I realize that there is a lot of people who dislike Cuba and their way of life but I think this article is worth your time:


Reflections of Fidel
The November 4 elections


TOMORROW will be a very important day. World opinion will be following what happens with the elections in the United States. It is the most powerful nation on the planet. With less than five percent of the world’s population, it annually sucks up enormous quantities of oil and gas, minerals, raw materials, consumer goods and sophisticated products from other countries; many of these, especially fuel and products that are mined, are not renewable.

It is the largest producer and exporter of weapons. The military industrial complex also has an insatiable market within the same country. Its air and naval forces are concentrated on dozens of military bases in other countries. The strategic missiles of the United States, which carry nuclear warheads, can reach any point in the world with total precision.

Many of the most intelligent minds in the world are plucked out of their native countries and placed at the service of this system. It is a parasitical and rapacious empire.

As everybody knows, the black population that was brought into the United States through slavery for centuries is victim of intense racial discrimination.

Obama, the Democratic candidate, is part African, and the color black and other physical traits of that race predominate in him. He was able to study at an institution of higher learning from which he graduated with brilliant grades. He is no doubt more intelligent, educated and level-headed than his Republican rival.

I am analyzing tomorrow’s elections as the world is experiencing a serious financial crisis, the worst since the 1930s, among many others that have seriously affected the economies of many countries for more than three-quarters of a century.

The international media, analysts and political commentators are spending some of their time on the issue. Obama is considered as the best political orator in the United States in recent decades. His compatriot Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Literature Prize in 1993 —the first of her ethnicity born in the United States to win that award and an excellent writer — describes him as the future president and poet of that nation.

I have observed the struggle between the two rivals. The black candidate, who surprised everyone so much when he won the nomination against strong adversaries, has articulated his ideas well, and strikes with them over and over in the minds of voters. He does not hesitate to affirm that above all, more than Republicans and Democrats, they are the people of the United States, citizens that he describes as the most productive in the world; that he will cut taxes for the middle class, in which he includes almost everybody; he will eliminate them for the poorest and raise them for the richest. Income will not be allocated to saving banks.

He reiterates over and over that the ruinous spending on Bush’s war in Iraq should not be paid for by U.S. taxpayers. He would put an end to that and bring back the U.S. soldiers. Perhaps he took into account the fact that that country had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It has cost the blood of thousands of U.S. soldiers, dead or injured in combat, and more than one million lives in that Muslim nation. It was a war of conquest imposed by the empire in its search for oil.

Given the financial crisis that has broken out and its consequences, U.S. citizens are more concerned at this time about the economy than the war in Iraq. They are tormented by their worries over jobs; the security of their savings deposited in banks; their retirements funds; the fear of losing the purchasing power of their money and the homes in which they live with their families. They wish for the security of receiving, in any circumstances, adequate medical services, and the guarantee of their children’s right to higher education.

Obama is defiant; I think that he has run and will run increasing risks in the country in which an extremist can legally acquire a sophisticated modern weapon on any street corner, just like in the early 18th century in the West of the United States. He supports his system and will base himself on it. Concerns over the world’s pressing problems really do not occupy an important place in Obama’s mind, and even less so in the mind of the candidate who, as a war pilot, dropped dozens of tons of bombs on the city of Hanoi, more than 15,000 kilometers from Washington, without any remorse in his conscience.

Last Thursday the 30th, when I wrote to Lula, along with what I described in my reflections of October 31, I literally said to him in my letter, “Racism and discrimination have existed in U.S. society since it was born more than two centuries ago. Blacks and Latin Americans have always been discriminated against there. Its citizens were educated in consumerism. Humanity is objectively threatened by its weapons of mass destruction.

“The people of the United States are more concerned about the economy than the war in Iraq. McCain is old, bellicose, uncultured, not very intelligent and not in good health.”

Finally, I added, “If my estimates should be erroneous, all kinds of racism prevail and the Republican candidate obtains the presidency, the danger of war would grow and the opportunities of the peoples to advance would be reduced. Despite everything, we must fight and raise awareness about this, no matter who wins these elections.”

When this opinion of mine is published tomorrow, nobody will have any time to say that I wrote something that could be utilized by one of the candidates for their campaign. I had to be, and have been, neutral in the electoral battle. It is not “interference in the internal affairs of the United States,” as the State Department would say, with all that respect it has for the sovereignty of other countries.
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The full article: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/noviembre...5reflex3-i.html


An article from a Cuban newspaper. The article was written by Fidel Castro. The article makes Fidel seem like a fairly normal guy. I mean, you don't see Bush writing to many articles for newspapers.
 
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Marvie_3

Banned
Norm Coleman 1,020,317 - 42%
Al Franken 1,010,830 - 42%
87% in

Franken lost about 3,000 votes since the last update. Still plenty of time though...
 
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whytemyke

Honorary Canadian.
quadriplegicjon said:
so. wait. did two states just legalize weed?

:lol
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really snuck it in under the radar, didn't they? :lol



pretty sure prop 9 in alaska passed, replacing public trolleys with coca cola polar bears between thanksgiving and new years. ALSO heard that proposal 13 in south carolina-- retaking ft sumter-- passed as well.
 
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Hellsing321

Member
Gruco said:
NC and IN are both ready for calling.

The bitter tears are wonderful. Free Rep talking about how Stevens holding on to his seat will be the silver lining to the night.

Bachmann wins. FU Minnesota.
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Hey I would have voted her out if she was on my ballot. Blame central MN. They've always been a bit slow.
 
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polyh3dron

Banned
So now if she talks shit about the President, isn't Michele Bachmann the one who is anti-America?? She should have the press do an expose on HER anti-American views.
 
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Brobzoid

how do I slip unnoticed out of a gloryhole booth?
speculawyer said:
I <3 Norway.

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UN HDI champion, motherfuckers!
 
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