BabyBear
Keep wise ...with Night-Owl
join:2007-01-11
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Are there any politicians willing to stand up for what's 'right' out there any more!?! Instead of the ones that stuff their pockets for their re-election campaigns.  |
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DjVaGGo
Premium
join:2004-10-23
Astoria, NY
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raptor1418
Premium
join:2002-12-03
Denver, CO | reply to BabyBear
Welcome to business representative government. "We the People" don't seem to matter in government eyes anymore. |
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Joe12345678
join:2003-07-22
Des Plaines, IL
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obama |
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Pv8man999
@wideopenwest.com | yep, and at least obama supports net neutrality |
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Kilroy
Premium,MVM
join:2002-11-21
Sterling Heights, MI
 ·WOW Internet and C..
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If it protects us from terrorists and protects children it must be okay and we should pass it without question, especially if the president says we must.
Everyone is looking short term and not looking long term.
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How hard does DRM have to bite before business abandon it? |
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dynodb
Premium,VIP
join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN | reply to Joe12345678
Yeah- them Chicago politicians are a incorruptable, thoroughly honest bunch 
Just ask Mr. Rezko, Obama's political fixer from back in the day. |
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Blackened
Your Freedom Fries Are Stale
join:2003-09-29
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said by raptor1418  :Welcome to business representative government. "We the People" don't seem to matter in government eyes anymore. The idea of campaign finance reform comes up time after time, and none of them do anything about it.
Goes to show why companies have turned down the QA and turned up the marketing. Because people are stupid and let people sell them crap without giving them the product.
No surprise why the same stupid people keep getting elected, and why so many are in debt, as a few examples.
In regards to "we the people", that means, to Democrats, simply saying crap people who take a poll want to hear. They're basically like those who want local measures passed. They hire a marketing firm to find out what people want and the way to word it to get them to vote. They use statistics (actual formulas, not just looking at numbers or making them up) to find out what most people want to hear -- which words have the highest probability of succeeding per demographic, then proceed to tell it to them to get the vote, then make good on nearly none of their promises. Just helping friends, and themselves, of course.
Republicans (or maybe conservatives) simply care too much about everyone else's bedroom while completely pretending the skeletons in their closet don't exist, while pretending things that don't exist (or never did), like Jesus, do. The congregation votes based on things they hate, which, over the last few decades, include Blacks, Gays, Mexicans, Arabs, white women marrying black men. If it isn't turning back the clock on social progression, it's clearly Republican (conservative).
The FISA thing is certainly bipartisan. Because the rights of the constituents it affects matters for crap, so both sides can bargain away our rights. Hell, that's why Bush wants retroactive immunity for the telcom companies (Verizon/AT&T, for example). Wouldn't need retroactive immunity if they were doing something that was legal in the first place. FISA, a.k.a. the tools to "fight terrorism" were there all along. The administration just decided they didn't need no stinkin' rules or oversight or separation of powers. Which has been the common theme since January 2001.
As every year passes, I'm more and more glad I don't vote for either. I also enjoy hearing retards tell me I'm throwing away my vote by not singing the tune to a party line, as in, not taking it up the backside from the people who's name I'm chanting.
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Moore/Alexander 2008
Conservatives love religious-like aphorisms so here's one: "Freedom isn't free. It's Made in China." |
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n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
·Optimum Online
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No. They will do whatever the leader tells them to do.
Heck, the constitution has not really be in force since a state of emergency was declare in 1933. Yes we pretend it is but when push comes to shove, "your papers comrade". |
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Dogfather
Premium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | reply to Joe12345678
Hardly. |
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DavePR
join:2008-06-04 | reply to Kilroy
I sure hope you're kidding. |
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La Luna
Surviving Ashraful
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join:2001-07-12
Warwick, NY
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said by Joe12345678 :obama HAHAHAHAHA!!! Good joke. Try looking past the MSM "Golden Boy" image.
And "net neutrality"....now there's a good reason to elect someone, to hell with things that matter.
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11,293 DEADLY TERROR ATTACKS SINCE 9/11~~SARAH BRIGHTMAN SYMPHONY WORLD TOUR |
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ackman
join:2000-10-04
Acworth, GA
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said by raptor1418 :Welcome to business representative government. "We the People" don't seem to matter in government eyes anymore. It has a name, it's called Fascism, and Democracy is relegated to being a trite little outdated theory. |
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ackman
join:2000-10-04
Acworth, GA
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said by n2jtx :No. They will do whatever the leader tells them to do. Heck, the constitution has not really be in force since a state of emergency was declare in 1933. Yes we pretend it is but when push comes to shove, "your papers comrade". Remember that Bush characterized FISA as useless because it was so old. That would mean the US Constitution isn't worth the paper it was written on either. The rule of the day isn't the US Constitution, it is Neo-con Daddies leading all the scared-to-incontinence little American bunnies afraid that Osama is going to show up on their front porch and kill them personally. Yep, we're a proud bunch of chicken sh1ts... |
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tao
Chaos Impends
Premium
join:2000-12-03
Lansing, MI | reply to Kilroy
And "How hard does DRM have to bite before businesses abandon it? The plural is never otherwise.
GMP |
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KenNeon
@bea.com | reply to raptor1418
I think you meant WEE on the people. |
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