reading articles on the nation after a few cnn critiques of palins speech
no one seems to be saying anything about just how scary her speech was
about not reading people their rights
about the belittling, sneering commentary that disconnected itself from truth so brazenly
about the lack of any substantive offerings of her own policies or experience except that as mayor of a 6000 person town she did "things"
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really? no one?
what is the nation saying?
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that she is essentially sprio agnew
that she gave an impressively attacking speech that was wrong on facts, and wrong in ideology
but they're not strong enough
and i havent seen much of anything that we reacted to last night
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hmmmmmm
i feel like i have seen a couple of articles critical of her attacks on obama
i mean, not strongly so or anything
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and when people get angry about her ideologies and illegalities, like in the comments, there are republican comments that counter it saying how happy they are that palin has them scared and that it shows some truth to what shes saying
?!
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sick
people are sick
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the comments on cnn for this article are somewhat heartening: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/03/rnc.day/index.html
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after a rant session with h and r, and those comments i feel a little better
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drill baby drill makes me barf
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thats exactly what h said a few minutes ago
i said i was almost moved to eating my shoe and throwing it against the wall i was so upset
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ha
she is not america. please please please, let that be true
please let us move beyond it
the fear and the hate
it just makes me want to cry and barf
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i hope this speech will be a turning point for a lot of people
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and in the right direction, ie away from her
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its so disheartening and embarrassing to think of the millions of people who ate that shit up
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i just don't understand. how can disrespect for human rights, fear and hatred of difference, selfishness, unwillingness to help your fellow human beings, imperial imposition of religion on people's lives and women's bodies, war, death, destruction, abuse, lies, manipulation--how can ANY of that be okay with people?
how how how how how how how
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when its in the name of some justifying belief
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who says no when you ask them, should people be respected? who says no when you ask them, is it important to treat people well, to help them lead good lives, to not murder them, to not neglect them?
who the fuck says no to that?
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i am so tired of people abdicating their responsibilities as human beings to a god who doesn't exist
even if he did, would that mean we are supposed to just sit around and let people starve and die and be treated unfairly?
is that what jesus did?
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no, but he did create the usa to be the hope of the world, with the iraq war being "god's task" and all
there is so much hypocrisy within their own ideologies as well as matched up to their religious beliefs, so much that is against basic human decency
its sickening.
and i really think, even though there's a sizable majority still, the end of the republican party and the base constituency that
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?
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sorry
my thought trailed off as i was answering a call
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oh
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i think we're seeing the last, heaving, pathetic gasps from these kind of people with the rnc. they're desperate and they know the tide is turning away from their tired rhetoric
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i hope so
i really hope so
i told my dad if obama doesn't win, he'll probably have three illegal immigrants on his hands...
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ha
its true though
i can't say what i would do if he really became pres
its killing me how obvious the inane, bigoted, hypocritical bs is
