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- ukit0
- ukit0
AHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
- Tark0
McCain looks really happy in this picture.
- chopshopstore0
i loved mccain in 2000. i don’t know this guy calling himself mccain.
- ukit0
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/…
Walk into a polling station in Belford Roxo, an impoverished city on the fringes of Rio de Janiero, on October 5 and you will be faced with an historic choice. You could vote for Alcides Rolim, the Workers' Party mayoral candidate promising a "city for all" or Elizeu Pitorra, a local communist who believes it is "time for a change". Most voters, however, will probably opt for Barack Obama, a 39-year-old Brazilian who, until recently, was known as Claudio Henrique dos Anjos.
Welcome to Obama-mania, Brazil-style. Few countries have embraced the idea of the US's first black president as enthusiastically as Brazil, a country with one of the largest Afro-descendant populations on Earth yet where black faces remain a minority in politics. Obama T-shirts are everywhere while chat shows and newspaper columns are filled with talk of the 47-year-old Illinois senator.
Now even Brazil's politicians are lining up for their piece of the pie. Due to a quirk of Brazilian law, candidates are allowed to run under the name of their choice. As a result, at least six Brazilian politicians have officially renamed themselves "Barack Obama" in a bid to get an edge over their rivals in October's municipal elections.
- kelpie0
(is this a timeline? don't really care)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/…
holy fuck guys, is this really happening in your country??
- Yes this is really happening.TheBlueOne
- fucksake.comlowimpakt
- Fuck me...is the world being overrun by fucken greedy power mongers EVERYWHERE?BusterBoy
- its always been overrun by greedy powermungers...alexa... the great, vikings, romansmikotondria3
- My dad lost his home in Michigan... now he's figuring out how to re-register...SigDesign
- insaneBonSeff
- It's called corruption!DCDesigns
- lowimpakt0
AGGGHH don't click that link in my note above.
i was going to say "fucksake.com/republicanscum"
- I shudder to think what's at that URLkelpie
- I still doubt its worse than deliberately disqualifying people from the democratic process due to being poor and fucked by current governmentkelpie
- by the mob who are trying to disqualify you from getting them to fuckkelpie
- actually it's probably not that bad, but still.lowimpakt
- It's just a bunch of Japanese men dipping their plods in shots of alcohol. Strange.Nairn
- kelpie0
good plan that:
lets completely fuck our economy and leave lots of poor people even poorer, then use that as a reason to stop them from being able to vote us out. fucking cunts. they don't even seem to have the decency to be underhand about it.
- TheBlueOne0
These were the same morons that were trying to get us to privatize Social Security during Bush's first term, no?
- markets just want to be free when everything is for sale********
- markets just want to be free when everything is for sale
- Mimio0
Has anyone else noticed that McCain is against drilling in ANWAR and Palin is rabidly for it?
- drill, baby, drill********
- She likes the drill.TheBlueOne
- drill, baby, drill
- robotron3k0
who cares about the issues, looks like the little botox beauty has a secret stylist... i wonder what shade of lipstick she wears? and how many bobbie pins are in her hair...
- monkeyshine0
North Carolina (where I am this week with a client) is now a battleground state. Wow.
- TheBlueOne0
Offhand Personal Observation after Spending the Last 15 Minutes Watching CNBC:
When a Latin American Country takes over, say it's Steel Industry or it's Fruit Industry it's Evil Socialism (and the CIA gets right on the job) . When the US Government takes ownership of the world's largest Insurance Company it's Free Market Capitalism at it's finest.
Curious.
- KwesiJ0
damn socialists
- damn socialists with their yachts and mansions and shit...TheBlueOne
- lowimpakt0
I picked up a copy of the Guardian for the first time in a while today and there was an interesting thing in the magazine section. They basically asked some general opponents of capitalism to talk about the credit crunch.
My favourite quote was from Ken Loach
"it's insane that we are all bound to this terrible wheel of instability"
- BonSeff0
this was pretty dam funny
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2…
- TheBlueOne0
My head doth spin...
McCain, yesterday: ""Under my reforms, the American people will be protected by comprehensive regulations that will apply the rules and enforce them in full.''
McCain, March 2008 :"I’m always for less regulation...I am fundamentally a deregulator."
Palin, Tuesday: "Guys and gals, our regulatory system is outdated and needs a complete overhaul...We are going to reform the way Wall Street does business...”
Palin, Later in the Day on Tuesday: “...government has got to get out of the way to allow the private sector to create jobs. I recognize that it's not government to be looked at to solve all the problems.”
My head, it spins....So -- government can't solve "all the problems" except the massive regulation of the world's largest economy.
You can't make this shit up....whatever it takes to get elected, right Maverick John?
