Busby _ Bilbray what a pathetic race for congress! do you feelit is educational to run smear campaigns?
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Actually, I was seeing smear ads against Busby (Democrat), put out by the Republican National Committee, about 2 weeks before the Dems started smearing Bilbray. But it doesn't matter who slings mud first in any given campaign, since most devolve to that anyway.\n\nPolitics is about perception, not reality. The ads are literally true about the facts (required to avoid defamation) but massively inaccurate in terms of the assumptions they induce.\n\nFor example, look at the smear against Busby (I picked that one just because I am more familiar with it, not because I support the Democrats).\n\nThe ad says "she opposes campaign contributions by government contractors" but "has taken thousands of dollars from employees of government contractors". The RNC wants people to see this as a contradiction. But it's not.\n\nThere's a huge difference between taking $200K in contributions from Halliburton, and taking $2K (the federal limit) from some janitor or copy clerk who happens to work for Halliburton. Being opposed to the first does make you a hypocrite for accepting the second. \n\nJust an example, but you get the point. People are being misled, by all of the major political parties, and being fed half-truths designed to provoke an emotional response. It's really sad that our political process has devolved to the point where only 42% of the population actually votes, and most of that number is either made up of people voting based on political party affiliation (rather than actually voting for the individuals) or based on emotional manipulation rather than facts.
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It sucks but it's all we got. Fight for free and fair elections. Help out at http://blackboxvoting.org/
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Yeah... they go on talking about how they have "experience" during an election... I'm not sure I want someone in there with "experience".... "experience" seems to be code for corrupt in Washington
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I am so with you. I'm in Fl, and the big race is for Governor Race. Jim Davis-D v. Charlie Christ-R\n\nCharlie Christ is running an add super negative saying that Davis has a really low attendance record in Congress.\n\nIn the ad, an empty chair runs back and forth on the screen and across the street in front of the capital, and then it shows a family on vacation in D.C. from FL, "looking for their congressman" , "where is he?" and then the empty chair comes flying in front of them. \nIt is absolutely hysterical. Every time my 10 year old daughter sees it, she just cracks up laughing.\n\n******Note: I did my research on Davis, and the funniest thing is, that Davis has a 93% attendance record in Congress, which is really strong. His abscences were just of late, when he started running for Governor. Prior to his campaign, his attendance was up to 96%. I laugh at the commercial, but will still vote for him because I can look past the ads. I wish more people would research instead of believe what they see on these ads.
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These Democrats: ABSOLUTELY nothing!\n\nBlacks in this country are disinfranchised, however that is a societal problem.\n\nAffirmative Action apparently isn't working. And, need I remind my friends that is was a Republican Congress that approved Affirmative Action and minority-based higher learning scholarships.\n\nWe shouldn't rely on one party to help one race within our country. That is ignorant. Parties help people. No party helps the blacks. (It's not the job a any particular party to help them). We are Americans.\n\nI'm half african-american and half arabic. I was a democrat orginally, because I thought they fought for the quality of lives of miniorities, however the older I got - the more I read.\n\nThe current (and for the past 30-35 years) Democractic party wants votes. They offer no real advantage. And, when they have a suggestion - it's bad policy and it's bad for the healing of our nation.\n\nAli A. Akbar\naliunt @ yahoo.com
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Wow Jenny look at the Neocon multiple profile propagandist on your questions, I see the farkas419 is still harassing you and Rocks pages. Democrats took both the House and the Senate, sore losers still spamming questions ey. That farkas419 profile is supposed to be in Germany by what she posts, and I don't think she can vote in your elections anyway, unless the profile is lying about where it resides again. I'm sure all of the other profiles are coming from that one. I will report them for harassment. I also read that 70% of the absentee vote (Which is mostly offshore Military) did vote for the Democrats to take Congress and the Governorships by majority. The polls are closed, and the Democrats won "HUGE", so where is there a problem? There certainly isn't any question or argument about that...Go Democrats...Hillary for 08
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I don't think you will ever see the Republican Party take any ownership of their mistakes, it's always somebody Else's. Talk about a sickness and in denial. It's going to take a new Democratic congress to get to the bottom of it all. From their dirty tricks squads, it also looks as if there is a lot to cover up, maybe too much.
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We all certainly should be ashamed of this U.S. Congress. It is the most corrupt, evil, incompetent body ever to occupy the Capitol Building. But then, George Bush, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld are the most evil, corrupt and incompetent egomaniacs ever to occupy White House.\n\nCheck out the new blog - BUSHWACKER!\nwww.blogger. com\nhttp://al-aback.blogspot.com\n\nAll of these morons should be impeached, or tried for high treason. If convicted, the should all face a public firing squad. The Bush administration, aided by a cowardly Congress, has:\n\n1. Invaded another sovereign nation that in now way attacked\n    or provoked us;\n2. Conned the American public into believing there were \n    "weapons of mass destruction" which did not exist;\n3. Been responsible for tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths and\n    the deaths of over 2,500 American soldiers;\n4. Put our country trillions of dollars into debt, which will take\n    generations to pay off (if we ever can);\n5. Destroyed our image as a global peacemaker and leader;\n6. Presided over a Republican party that has proven itself to\n    be a gluttonous mass of avarice and wrongdoing;\n7. Turned our country into a police state where citizens are\n    considered guilty until proven innocent;\n8. Played 'Robin Hood in Reverse' by stealing from the poor\n    in this country and giving it all to the rich;\n9. Demolished all efforts at protecting our environment and\n    enhancing our ecological balance for future generations;\n10. Seen fit to "cozy up" to special interest groups, lobbyists,\n      and big business in return for massive (if sometimes illegal)\n      campaign contributions to the GOP.\n\nDick Cheny wants all the oil that's swimming underneath Iraq's sand. American troops will NOT be withdrawn until there's an\niron-clad, rock-solid arrangement for Halliburton, Exxon-Mobil\nand all of Cheney's other oil-drenched friends to get all that black gold. \n\nShould we be ashamed of the Republican Party? You bet!\n\nUnfortunately, we should be just as ashamed of the Democrats since their side of the aisle in no less corrupt, evil, incompetent\nand greedy. For fifty years, politicians have scammed the U.S. citizenry while distracting us with "low prices - everyday" at WalMart; gouging us with $3.00-per-gallon gasoline; taxing us to fund fraudulent, wasteful  program; and squandering our money on themselves and their rich and powerful allies. \n\nThomas Jefferson once said: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriot and tyrants."\nThere is no better time for a second American Revolution than right now.                                         -RKO-
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This sitting U.S. Congress is by far the most incompetent, contemptible, cowardly, arrogant, corrupt ever to occupy the Capitol Building. These people are common whores.   \nIt's time to blow up the Capitol Building and start over.\n___________________________________________________\nCheck out the new blog: BUSHWACKER!\nwww.blogger.com\nhttp://al-aback.blogspot.com\n___________________________________________________\n\nCongress is full of pedophiles, wife beaters, homosexuals, liars, cheats, petty thieves, alcoholics, drug abusers, adulterers, shoplifters, white collar criminals, bribe-takers, cross dressers, prescription-drug abusers, maniacal psychopaths, rapists, and probably even a murderer or two. There is no such thing as an "honorable" member of Congress. \nEveryone in Congress, and all members of the moronic Bush administration, should be tried in an international tribunal for high crimes against humanity. If convicted, they should face a public firing squad. For those not convicted, they should then be tried for treason, and - if convicted - should be shot without benefit of appeal. These people are repugnant sub-humans without any regard for their fellow countrymen (except, of course, for those among their peers: the pedophiles, rapists, alcoholics, and drug abusers I've already mentioned).            -RKO-
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You gullible people.  As much as I would like to see one, there won't be one.  \n\nIt's election time!  Can't you see you are being sucked into the Demosocialisticrat's  psychological campaign tactics?  \n\nIf not, please DON'T vote!  \n\nThere seems to be no shortage of enlistees at the recruiters' offices.  \n\nI support a draft and I support our troops but I do not neccessarily support the war.  How you ask?  Simple.\n\nMaybe the fear of a draft will wake the lazy, irresponsible, ignorant young people in our country today, the hell up and they will find out that their percious "freedoms" which they like to abuse and take forgranted is not FREE!  \n\nThe rich will dodge the responsibilities of duty and the leftisit will cry like they did in the 70's.  Run away then, there's always Mexico and Canada, or maybe New York, that's where the Clintons went.  Bill avoided the world issues while in office for 8 years while the Dems were "in power".  So why are we still having problems now?  If they could have done it better, why didn't they back then?  Now a draft?  Something tells me that we are ALL getting screwed here in the next 4 years!  \n\nWasn't the whole IDEA of there being a draft brought up by a Democrat IMPLYING that the Republicans may initiate one?  \n\nAnd people fell for it!  I don't recall anyone saying there was going to be a draft!  \n\nI can support the draft because I already did my 11 years in the Marine Corps.  I volunteered to go.  I took my commitment seriously, and I would do it all over agian, even if it killed me.  How many others can honestly say that?\n\nIf they were to recall me, I would gladly go.  It was my job and my life for a long time, why should I complain?  It was my choice to begin with.
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Sad to report that neither thinks it is important enough to make an issue. The Republicans are in bed with business for cheap labor, and the Democrats see them as an oppressed people just trying to make a bettor life for them selves. Until our system collapses under the weight of having to build an infrastructure to handle this influx, we will have to sit and watch our Government do nothing. The way to get some action is to vote every incumbent that has not taken action right out of their cushy jobs and get some new blood in there that really represents the people. It won't be easy because most politicians will say what they think you want to hear, but go on line and look at voting records of our Senate and House of Representatives and blow the ones out that have taken no action.
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It is indeed a sad commentary on the 'average' US citizen .. and the Congress ... that no one is raising red flags!!! ... The citizenry is more interested in who is winning on some idiotic reality tv show. and the Congress is more worried about getting re-elected and keeping their cush-jobs than they are in preserving the standards of freedom that this country was built on and that, supposedly, our military men and women have fought for and are fighting and dying for.  But it seems all we get is rhetoric and no action.
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You make a good , and obvious case for us conservatives, however, you lose ground by specifically pointing to a black kid and then later calling him a loser.  Dangerous territory and destroys your credibility of those minds you are trying to perhaps change.  Unless you were purposely trying to narrow your audience to deep south white folks only.
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The truth has been spoken here tonight by you, my friend.  Indeed, had the Republicans won we would hear nothing but outcries about the Diebold machines and the like.  Seems Reps can handle defeat in a respectful way, but when Dems lose its lawsuits and conspiracy theories galore!  What a world
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are you asking a question, or are you just venting? trying to put everyone in their place with your superior wisdom? opinions are like @ssholes, and you sure are full of them....yes both. are you old enough to be on here, or you reading your mommy's REDBOOK? shoe size.....*SNICKER SNICKER*....haven't heard that since junior high! you have enlightened me with your intelligence. please, include something rude about me when you add details to this vent. i am an attention whore too. BTW, i am a republican, yes that's right, a REPUBLICAN, don't do us any favors with this vent.
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Your entire argument is valid and common among most young adults my age all over the country.  I really just do not want to see the Election to be a circus, with the Democratsz thinking they have found the key to their salvation after all this time by putting Hillary Clinton into office.  That would be the largest scale mistake EVER made in Elections History.  It really is choosing the lessor or two equals, and it's so hard to see the difference in the 2 candidates you are choosing from becuase they all sound the same.  Pray, I do, Pray for a smarter Nation to get its head out of the hole in the ground and pay attention to whats going on  out there.  I think the most important thing is to Vote, and clearly educate yourself on the people running before you rush to push a button come November 2008.
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FIRST OF ALL:  a_team_rerun, your answer was beyond condescending.  I haven't noticed that this board is a spelling contest.  Occasionally people inadvertently use a wrong word or an incorrect spelling.  Glad we have you to police things.\n\nIN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION:  It would be wonderful if we could do such a thing.  There have been a lot of suggestions on this board recently about how our election system could be changed; however, a lot of people always seem to point out that there are too many reason why those ideas wouldn't work either.\n\nWe have three main strikes against us, as citizens, right now:\n\nOne, the entire Nation is infected with apathy (they don't seem to care; they think someone else will 'take care of it');\n\nTwo, we, as a Nation, seem to think like 'a_team_rerun' in that we have been doing something too long to change it.  Thank goodness our founding fathers didn't have those same ideas.  Without change, we are rapidly becoming a stagnant pond and the stench of rot is becoming wide spread.  Why does everyone pretend it doesn't stink?\n\nThree, until the American people have had it up to their eyebrows with the corruption that is going on and everyone stands up on their feet at the same time and starts yelling 'WE ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE" ... until we have massive demonstrations on the White House lawn ... until we get pro-active and stop being inactive, nothing at all is going to change.\n\nYour idea is not bad, but my humble opinion is that a very charismatic man would have to be found to run for office; one who can sell ice on the North pole, so to speak; one who can easily make himself understood to all people using common, ordinary, everyday words that everyone can understand.  A man who can get the majority of America to support his campaign financially.  The list is endless.\n\nDo i think someone like this exists?   Yes, i do!  The problem is, where do we find him and how do we promote him?