RR Electoral College

If you have liked three hours, you should really read this, which about one of his lifetime staffers committing suicide and the weird world of larouchedom:

http://www2.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2007/0711.klein.html

or forty years, the Lyndon LaRouche movement has been a ubiquitous, if diminishing, presence in the political landscape of America, and of Washington. LaRouche has made eight runs for the presidency, including one campaign from prison. At D.C. press conferences and think tank events, a reporter for a LaRouche publication called Executive Intelligence Review can often be heard asking strange questions about the grain cartel. Young, malnourished LaRouche acolytes frequently stop Hill staffers on their way home from work and hand them pamphlets with titillating titles like “Children of Satan” or “The Gore of Babylon.” A peek inside offers details on LaRouche’s many enemies, such as the “Conrad Black–backed McCain–Lieberman–Donna Brazile cabal.”

that’s a good thing

Much more publicity being the nominee of a fringe party than you do being 10th in the polls of a major political party.

Who has done more interviews on TV in the past year – Duncan Hunter or Bob Barr?

I guess “politically expedient” isn’t the right term, how bout “economically expedient” or “starved for attention expedient”

John McCain. I saw the RNC run an ad last week that charged “Obama has no executive experience” and “has never faced a crisis in the Oval Office” which left me wondering – did the RNC realize who their party nominated as President?

You are the good type of religious person (let me qualify that before you jump to assumptions on my meaning)!

“Nor does it really bother me if your religion (or absence thereof) isn’t my religion. What I am saying is that I have allowed Jesus’s teachings on nonviolence, inclusion, and the empowerment of the marginalized to inform who I am as a person and, by extension, how I, as a person, might vote”

If every religious person held these particular set of beliefs the world would be a MUCH, MUCH better place. The sheer fact that we are in 2 wars, both STARTED solely on the basis of religion (and prolongued by us due at least partially by natural resources, I have to throw that in) in the 21st century is absolutely asinine.

I know I can come off as condescending when I speak from my Athiest pulpit, I don’t mean to put down anyone’s faith, but I get a little sick of defending myself from the stereotypes…About 3 months ago, a Jehovas Witness came to my door. He started talking and I politely interrupted him and said, “I think you are barking up the wrong tree here, I’m athiest (He took 2 steps backwards and looked like I just channeled Linda Blair) but have a nice day.” A few months before that, people that are members of the Church near my house were door to dooring it & stumbled across my door. I told them the same thing, and I got 3, “I’ll pray for you tonights,” like I was a leper or something. I am about as moral of a person as you’ll find.

In addition to your comment that pastors shouldn’t endorse religion…I was FUMING mad last month at a sales meeting in my company. We’ve NEVER had any sort of ‘remember 9-11 tribute in our September sales meeting. Sure as shit, 2 months before the election (at a sales meeting held on the LAST Friday in September) we get a 4 minute video remembrance of 9-11. Tell me that didn’t get handed down from corporate hoping to pound that little fear from the backs of everyones mind to the front 6 weeks before the election. At our sales meeting last weekend, the President of a company that we just purchased brought up the election no less that 5 times in a 30 minute address. He didn’t say anything specific, but he kept bringing it up, saying how much our vote was needed, and it ’doesn’t look good.’ THAT is bull shit. If the economy wasn’t in the toilet, I would have walked out right then.

The only thing that scares me about an Obama presidency is the HUGE potential for nut-jobs like the 2 that were just arrested in Tennessee to succeed. That would rip this country in two again, 40 years after it started being put back together. There is a video floating around the web of a reporter asking small town folk about Obama at a McCain rally. It is fucking disgusting. They STILL think he is a Muslim. One lady said, “I’m afraid the blacks will take over.” A kid from this small town was for Obama, and he was holding Obama signs along the road as people were leaving. This is a small town where everybody knows everybody mind you, and they were yelling HORRIBLE things (n****** lover, etc) at this guy. Beliefs like that are being perpetuated if not ENCOURAGED by McCain & especially Palin with her “Real America” crap.

I hate it when people say, "I’m not trying to influence you, but. . ." because it’s not true. So, I’m not going to say that. However, I’m not going to get into a fit if you disagree. Anyway:

I have a problem when people say that religion should stay out of politics. —PEACE!— I agree that one religion cannot be in charge of our government. But, as DarthYoshi intimated, you cannot ask people not follow their religious beliefs.

In Bush’s second campaign, a friend of mine (an atheist) went off on a rant which made a lot of sense, but he included having problems with "moral issues" being important in a presidential election. He basically said that the government has no right to decide whether these "moral issues" should be legal or not. This is what I think many people mean when they say religion should stay out of politics. But it seems to me that the basis of government is to protect people from each other. Likewise, morality is meant to protect people from their own bad decisions and to protect anyone else involved. And, thus, many laws stem from some kind of moral issue: Theft/Robbery, Assault, Vandalism, Murder, Rape, etc. Prohibiting these actions are pretty obvious to most people; it’s when we get into more complex issues that things get a little more vague.

If you’d rather call it "ethical issues," I have no problem with that, but it seems ludicrous to ask that such issues be left out of the hands of the government when it seems to be the fundamental basis for government.

With the poor is the measure of our civility. Do we feed them, defend ourselves from them, or pre-emptively kill them. It’s pretty basic.

Describe Hitler and his comparisons to Bush (among the left)

And I meant to write “I have seen them” as in I have seen e-mails that have been circulated among Republicans and conservatives.

brilliant

This reminds me of Kodos’ pre-election speech:

“I too am looking forward to an orderly election which will eliminate the need for a violent bloodbath.”

But can the parties not find candidates that aren’t so polarizing? I think a moderate candidate would be much more popular, though (s)he would have a harder time getting the funds. It’s the extremists who seem to get the most funding.

In other news, I got a B+ on my Greek midterm!

I’ll be polite to a lot of people (if forced to), but I cannot hide my contempt for and hatred of those F’ing Whigs.