just so that's out of the way
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
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Peanut butter ass Shaq Zair booooze lime pole over bench lick:
The Republicans are doing an amazing job so far. They have half of America thinking Obama is a Muslim, and the other half thinking he is some crazy anti-American black panther.
Sorry, you can thank the Hillary campaign for that first part, and Obama's own pastor for the second part.
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Kegwening:
Just imagine some ridiculous comment and pretend Maradon said itjust so that's out of the way
I already told you guys all about Jeremiah Wright and you didn't believe me.
"It's just like a hungarian church being hungarian-centric" you said 
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Maradon! said this about your mom:
Sorry, you can thank the Hillary campaign for that first part, and Obama's own pastor for the second part.
Yeah pretty much all three of them suck.
Oh Hillary, haha, don't you have some sniper fire to dodge or something?
For what it's worth, I really don't think Obama believes all the shit his pastor says. I doubt like hell that he didn't know what his pastor was saying, like he claims, but I honestly don't think the believes it.
Everybody asks, "Well why didn't he just leave that church?." I think the people who are asking this just don't realize two things: First, for reasons of cultural bona fide, Obama knew that he needed to attend a black church. Second, I don't think he would have been able to find a black church that wasn't spewing the same or similar bullshit.
I'm sure they exist, but I'm not so sure that they're common.
There are much, much better things to attack Obama on, like his close associations with Frank Marshall Davis and William Ayers.
However, the electorate doesn't care about that. Obama has dropped severely in the polls since this pastor shit came out. He's now a hair behind Hillary and both are behind McCain. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 03-29-2008 at 03:07 PM.
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Maradon! obviously shouldn't have said:
Lots of stuff
You are still voting for whoever the Democrat is though, right?
I'd rather have Hillary in office than McCain, but I'm almost certain that Hillary will not be the nominee.
Currently I'm planning on voting libertarian, yet again. This year's candidate, Wayne Allan Root, has hockey hair. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 03-29-2008 at 04:21 PM.
Maradon! fucked around with this message on 03-29-2008 at 05:07 PM.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Peanut butter ass Shaq Bloodsage booooze lime pole over bench lick:
The "will of the people" is a stupid way to run a nation, and our government was specifically organized to prevent that kind of idiocy. Elected officials are supposed to do what's best, not slavishly follow polls.
1) Right, 2) Right, 3) Wrong
Elected officials are supposed to be empty suits. That's why they're elected and not coronated or appointed.
Our government IS specifically organized to temper the will of the people with a limited aristocracy. One current, constitutional example is in the judiciary. The senate was supposed to be the legislative aristocracy, but in 1913 the seventeenth amendment changed all that and politicized the senate.
Reprenting the people is not the same thing as doing whatever the latest poll shows people want.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
While it isn't do what the people want every time, Representatives have very real short term repercussions for not following the desires as they are given to them, particullarly in the form of polls. Saying it isn't in the constitution therefore it isn't done is a fallacy.
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From Federalist 57:
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In the second place, they will enter into the public service under circumstances which cannot fail to produce a temporary affection at least to their constituents. There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest, is some pledge for grateful and benevolent returns. Ingratitude is a common topic of declamation against human nature; and it must be confessed that instances of it are but too frequent and flagrant, both in public and in private life. But the universal and extreme indignation which it inspires is itself a proof of the energy and prevalence of the contrary sentiment.In the third place, those ties which bind the representative to his constituents are strengthened by motives of a more selfish nature. His pride and vanity attach him to a form of government which favors his pretensions and gives him a share in its honors and distinctions. Whatever hopes or projects might be entertained by a few aspiring characters, it must generally happen that a great proportion of the men deriving their advancement from their influence with the people, would have more to hope from a preservation of the favor, than from innovations in the government subversive of the authority of the people.
All these securities, however, would be found very insufficient without the restraint of frequent elections. Hence, in the fourth place, the House of Representatives is so constituted as to support in the members an habitual recollection of their dependence on the people. Before the sentiments impressed on their minds by the mode of their elevation can be effaced by the exercise of power, they will be compelled to anticipate the moment when their power is to cease, when their exercise of it is to be reviewed, and when they must descend to the level from which they were raised; there forever to remain unless a faithful discharge of their trust shall have established their title to a renewal of it.
Naimah fucked around with this message on 03-30-2008 at 01:42 PM.
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Maradon! postedCurrently I'm planning on voting libertarian, yet again. This year's candidate, Wayne Allan Root, has hockey hair.
Pfft. The picture I found on wikipedia pales in comparison to the champion of hockey hair, the master of the mullet, Barry Melrose.
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Verily, the chocolate bunny rabbits doth run and play while Naimah gently hums:
[QB]The Federalist papers, you'll have to excuse me for not remembering the exact number(edit: quotation below), state that the House is given short terms specifically so that they are forced to almost continuously campaign and remain in touch with the people they were to represent.While it isn't do what the people want every time, Representatives have very real short term repercussions for not following the desires as they are given to them, particullarly in the form of polls. Saying it isn't in the constitution therefore it isn't done is a fallacy.
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From Federalist 57:
Being accountable and in touch with the people do not equate to being required to act only as the polls indicate the people want.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Bloodsage had this to say about pies:
Being accountable and in touch with the people do not equate to being required to act only as the polls indicate the people want.
Nor does it say that they should ignore the will of the people and act only in the best interest of the state. Congressmen should lean towards the former, while senators towards the latter.
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Naimah said this about your mom:
Nor does it say that they should ignore the will of the people and act only in the best interest of the state. Congressmen should lean towards the former, while senators towards the latter.
I wouldn't bother, if I were you.
