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- DrBombay0
Most disturbing campaign ad ever
- robotron3k0
- vote for both of us JazX!!!robotron3k
- kill it!!!!!!!! they are producing more!!!sofakingbanned
- Yet, the Repubs are the first to say they hate "celebrity cullture", which is BS they worship it...TheBlueOne
- Reagan, Freed Thomas, Eastwood, Schwarzaneger..man they just cum for these guys...TheBlueOne
- There's a reason that they jab at here. It's likability from middle-America women.********
- ukit0
http://www.politico.com/blogs/be…
More on the Obama camp's no-stone-unturned approach to advertising:
“I can confirm that the Obama campaign has paid for in-game advertising in Burnout,” Holly Rockwood, director of corporate communications at Electronic Arts, the game’s publisher, tells GigaOM.
- +1monkeyshine
- More acOrn flavored Kool-Aid anyone?********
- What would Acorn have to do with advertisement in a video game?IRNlun6
- GeorgesII0
^^^
OH MY GOD, OH MY ALLAH, OH MY YAHWEH, OH MY IPHONE
- TheBlueOne0
McCain seemed to like ACORN well enough a few years back. I guess he likes to pal around with socialists too:
- TheBlueOne0
Wrong link up there, meant this:
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part II Hitchens that salisae posted
The most insulting thing that a politician can do is to compel you to ask yourself: "What does he take me for?" Precisely this question is provoked by the selection of Gov. Sarah Palin. I wrote not long ago that it was not right to condescend to her just because of her provincial roots or her piety, let alone her slight flirtatiousness, but really her conduct since then has been a national disgrace. It turns out that none of her early claims to political courage was founded in fact, and it further turns out that some of the untested rumors about her—her vindictiveness in local quarrels, her bizarre religious and political affiliations—were very well-founded, indeed. Moreover, given the nasty and lowly task of stirring up the whack-job fringe of the party's right wing and of recycling patent falsehoods about Obama's position on Afghanistan, she has drawn upon the only talent that she apparently possesses.
It therefore seems to me that the Republican Party has invited not just defeat but discredit this year, and that both its nominees for the highest offices in the land should be decisively repudiated, along with any senators, congressmen, and governors who endorse them.
I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that "issue" I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity. Obama is greatly overrated in my opinion, but the Obama-Biden ticket is not a capitulationist one, even if it does accept the support of the surrender faction, and it does show some signs of being able and willing to profit from experience. With McCain, the "experience" is subject to sharply diminishing returns, as is the rest of him, and with Palin the very word itself is a sick joke. One only wishes that the election could be over now and a proper and dignified verdict rendered, so as to spare democracy and civility the degradation to which they look like being subjected in the remaining days of a low, dishonest campaign.
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- Execs and Paulson want their bonuses:
http://www.washingto…
TheBlueOne - ugh.colin_s
- Execs and Paulson want their bonuses:
- monkeyshine0
Help Sarah Palin make sense
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Here again, in no particular order and in all humility, I offer a few such probes.
--If the marketplace is global, but the rules that oversee it are national, how can that work?
--If we don't understand the "products" of the market because they are too complex--credit swaps, derivatives etc.--how can we, the citizens, know if they are properly regulated?
--If the bailouts are ultimately paid by the taxpayer, where will the taxpayer get the money from as the economy collapses? From the bailouts? This would involve the government taking our money in order to give it back. What do you call this system?
--Top CEOs get sweetheart contracts because of competition for hiring them. They get rewarded even if the company fails. If the company's big enough, it destabilizes the economy and hits the taxpayer. We didn't elect those CEOs and we didn't have a say in their contracts. Is this not taxation without representation?
--Every five to 10 years, the stock market loses a third of its value, it seems. Does this mean its true total value is nearer the bottom and the rest is hype, or nearer the top and the rest is fear?
--If China becomes the world's manufacturing center, sells us its products, takes our money, and lends us the money back to keep buying from them, is this global wealth or codependency?
--Hedge funds, buyouts and the like, are all about cutting fat, revamping productivity and value, which ultimately leads to everyone working around the clock to be competitive--that is, everyone in the world. The world's capitals are already full of boring people (and their spoilt, neglected, designer-obsessed brood), the only ones who can afford it, who work impossible hours in order to make everyone else work like them. Their single virtue was that they "created wealth." It turns out they didn't. What about their philanthropy? It was ultimately borrowed from us. What do you call this system of wealth distribution?
I call it the socialism of bankers.
Melik Kaylan, a writer based in New York, writes a weekly column for Forbes.com.
- Greedo0
Not sure if this has been mentioned before (timeline me if you must):
R. Luke DuBois, Hindsight is always 20/20
exhibition at the DNC, parsed all the state of the union speeches of all presidents to see which significant words were used most frequently:
(can you guess the presidents?)
http://www.bitforms.com/
- lowimpakt0
"If the marketplace is global, but the rules that oversee it are national, how can that work?"
multi-level governance ? the WTO, IMF etc and all that wank.
- it doesnt********
- *looks out window for black helicopters and swiss spec ops guysTheBlueOne
- The US constantly resists any multi-national body of governance that could interfere in its policies, it'll never work.Greedo
- the WTO is an example of a mechanism for multi-level governance not resisted by the US. read a book, fools :)lowimpakt
- the US resists the WTO all the time: cotton, steel, online gambling, etc etcGreedo
- ah, i get you. That's very true, That's protectionism and it's bullshit corruption. But they support it in other areas.lowimpakt
- nationalizing the US banks is in effect international********
- it doesnt
- TheBlueOne0
How to pwn a rightwing media messenger:
- I despise that toolhallelujah
- He does have a point... and some of these MSNBC shows are embarrassingly partisan; like Fox News. Though, certainly not like the angry mob McCain's been stokingSigDesign
- like the angry mob McCain's been stokingSigDesign
- jesus christ your entire "news" networks have been FUCKING SLEEPING for the last 8years AND NOW IS THE TIME FOR complaining how partisan they are towards one party?? NOW?? fuck you! too little too late.. what you are seeing on your news today is some light shining through.. just a little there still are racist idiots talking.Mirpour
- Watch The Power of Nightmares, amazing!!!! It's in another thread and on the net...DCDesigns
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- not only does it not make sense, the dude also can't draw worth shit. get back to doing caricatures on the street.Greedo
- This is just categorically untrue... you can't scare people to vote Republican any longer... come up with some plans to help the people!SigDesign
- American peopleSigDesign
- Chamberlain's reputation for appeasement rests in large measure on his negotiations with Hitler.********
- http://www.axishisto…********
- This is just fucking retarded. Ahmadinejad isn't even in charge, the mullahs are. And iran is nowhere near nazi germany.Greedo
- THIS IS SO FUCKING DUMB ITS INSANE JUST TO EVEN ADDRESS FFSGreedo
- dude...go read some history books, don't use that site for your reference. Don't oversimplify the world.SigDesign
- also, dude on the left looks more like stalin than chamberlain. FAIL x 6 billion.Greedo
- It's political humor. It's amazing how pissed you guys get.********
- I'm not angry. That guy actually reminds me of an older dr zhivagoSigDesign
- the return of johnny fence-sitter.Greedo
- Zhivago was a good flick.********
- typical -throw out inane bullshit and then say "just kiddin"hallelujah
- he is a bit confused ..like mccain.Mirpour
- I never said I was kidding. Obama could very well do this. He doesn't have my vote.********
- It pisses the neocons that they chose the wrong country to invade, but then Iran has a motivated army.********
- Where is Osama?********
- Google Grandpa Bush and how his co. profited off of the Nazis in WW II...DCDesigns
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- So it's always 1941 in your world? Grow up.TheBlueOne
- It was an analogy in reference to a political cartoon. Relax.********
- is that Freddy Mercury on the right?OSFA
- cant relax because your thinking is dangerousMirpour
