Re: Election discussion thread. This is ominous: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/05/221222
Re: Election discussion thread. Oh hey, didn't notice anyone else mention it, but caught some of it today: Jon Stewart's & Stephen Colbert's Comedy Central election night show... Holy crap was that horrible. Really bad. Really, really bad.
Re: Election discussion thread. Yeah, I thought I'd watch it but after about 5 minutes I switched back to flipping between the networks. On the topic of booing: Did anyone get the feeling that people were booing Palin when McCain was talking about her? To me it sounded like a portion of the crowd was booing Palin.
Re: Election discussion thread. Maybe they were. There were definitely McCain supporters who were appalled at his choice of Palin as a running mate. However while watching the concession speech, all I noticed is that they booed every time he mentioned Obama or said something supportive about him. By contrast, when Obama said conciliatory things about McCain during his acceptance speech, the crowd in Chicago applauded. McCain's concession speech was classy and dignified. The booing was out of step with its tone.
Re: Election discussion thread. this was the bit that got me. It leads me to blieve that he means a manafactured or non genuine threat. Like a plot.
Re: Election discussion thread. The best. US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama shares a fist b-ump with Ethan Gibbs, the five year-old son of campaign communication director Robert Gibbs, upon disembarking from his campaign plane at Dulles airport in Chantilly, Virgina, on October 22, 2008. (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)
Re: Election discussion thread. next round I'm voting for Richie Hawtin as president and Magda as vice...
Re: Election discussion thread. When technically would this become a dictatorship? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/no ... imir-putin They have the worst timing ever- the day after the biggest triumph for democracy in the free world they announce this shit- what dicks.
Re: Election discussion thread. CNN's story about the "hologram" (they put it in quotes, too): http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/11/06/holo ... index.html
Re: Election discussion thread. Now onto the important stuff. "We need to make sure that the dog is not afraid of loud noises because he may hear loud arguments in the Oval Office, and he mustn't be afraid of people with beards and turbans and so on because he is going to meet a lot of foreign dignitaries." Personally, if Obama was 100% perfect but he had some dog that did nutty stuff every now and then, that would be awesome.
Re: Election discussion thread. More Change(tm): http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl ... 07/1554236 I wonder how long they were working on that site, and what they would have done with it had they lost.
Re: Election discussion thread. Also tied into this cool animation: http://www.patrickmoberg.com/animation/governing-people
Re: Election discussion thread. In four years, Obama's going to have a lot of white hair, too. The job tends to age people.
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Re: Election discussion thread. Breaking news! http://www.theonion.com/content/video/o ... _obsessive
