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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 10:15 AM
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Voting is over rated. Like Stephanie Miller said this morning, Voting is
like being in the back of the plane and your choices are Ham sandwich with cheese or ham sandwich without cheese.

I have lived through lots of elections and it always works out that I don't have anyone from the two major parties to vote for.

With Edwards leaving, voting in the general will be like choosing a corporatist with cheese or a corporatist without.

Forgive me Stephanie for elaborating a little.

Goldwater/Miller '08
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 10:16 AM
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1. Is that supposed to mean that you aren't voting for a Democrat
...because you aren't voting?
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 11:22 AM
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7. Ask me tomorrow. nm
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PerpetuallyDazed Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 10:17 AM
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2. Exactly!
...Both make me want to puke, either way.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 10:18 AM
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3. Well, if you want to be on the plane without choosing something to eat, that's fine.
But it's a long flight.
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 11:25 AM
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9. I want a candidate that will work to eliminate the corporatist ruling-class control
in government. Is that too much to ask for? Will your candidate do that?
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:17 PM
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10. No such thing as too much to ask for. But when reality hits, you are left with the
available choices.

On most online screenings, I am closest to alignment with Kucinich. I rarely disagree with him in principle, but I think he's a very poor candidate with zero chance. I also very much like JOhn Edwards - I've never had a badthing to say about him, and I would be thrilled with him as President. But that's also not happening.

I've got Obama, Clinton or the Republican. Those are the real choices. I don't know if any will meet ehat you're asking for - probably not. But I'd suggest that even if they do not, the Republican would be worse in a number of ways.
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:52 PM
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11. I know, I know, I know. I hate reality. Thanks for the reply. Today I am feeling sorry
for myself, tomorrow I will continue the fight.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:00 PM
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13. Sorry Rhett. I don't mean to be insensitive to how you're feeling.
I think I might have just had a head start on my processing the situation.
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 11:01 PM
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14. It's cool. I just want to wallow in my self pity for a while, and dream of a strong middle class.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 10:19 AM
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4. Then maybe you can understand when some of your representatives in the state legislature
and in Congress feel the same way when they vote on the bills.

There is just so much they can do personally to get the bill the way they want it before it is voted on.
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 10:23 AM
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15. Yes I understand. Bytheway does your name mean you fight with liberals? jk nm
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 10:21 AM
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5. And damn it, it is difficult when you want to keep kosher or halal
The illusion of choice in a US election:

Waitress: Well there's egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam; egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam; spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam; or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle paté, brandy and a fried egg on top and spam.

Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?

Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.

Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.

Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?

Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!

Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.

Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.

Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!

Mrs Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 10:30 AM
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6. "if voting could change anything..."
"...it would be illegal"

Spoken by a Marxist/Leninist/Stalinist I had the displeasure of knowing in college
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avaistheone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 11:25 AM
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8. Lol!
That made my sad heart laugh today. It is probably true.
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blues90 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:58 PM
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12.  Miller has become an Obama shill
She has done nothing but use that insnae Hillary laugh on every show and now just stands by her man Obama at all costs . She said all the candidates were great in the beginning now she has taken sides with a vengence . She was spell bound by Oprah .
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