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Truth2Tell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 07:37 PM
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I'm turning this crap off.
I can't watch this debate any longer.. I'm turning it off now.

Wolf Blitzer asking inanely framed war-mongering pseudo-questions...

The "anointed candidates" ducking and dodging and parsing words...

The candidates of conscience lacking the ability to press their message in an articulate way...

It's all too depressing for me. Time to go outside.
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Harper_is_Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 07:38 PM
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1. Maybe you could have done that without posting a thread.
Just an idea.
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Truth2Tell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 07:43 PM
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5. Thanks for the encouragement.
I love you too.
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Harper_is_Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 08:25 PM
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19. why would you expect encouragement for such negative behaviour? n/t
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StudentProgressive Donating Member (160 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 08:34 PM
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20. Amnesty whines too
^_^
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Harper_is_Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 09:16 PM
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23. What?
Are you saying Amnesty International whines?

:wtf:
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Truth2Tell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 11:06 PM
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29. Sorry cap'n
I'll get with the program right away - learn to love the bomb an' all that - clean up my "behavior".

But please, I beg of you, just don't report me to the thought police.
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Harper_is_Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-04-07 07:54 PM
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34. No need to "learn to love the bomb", just don't be so bloody negative/defeatist
you act like there's no hope left.

Go for a walk. Have a drink. Cut your toenails. Whatever it takes, but stop posting until you can emerge from your dark hole and offer something else to the forum.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 08:08 PM
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15. NOTHING wrong in a political discussion board with people telling other people
on the board what they think about what is going on politically.
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Brundle_Fly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 08:55 PM
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22. it was so lame.
wolf questions were worthy of faux.
the leaders were scared to speak any truth.
the lower downs barely got to speak.

and they get no discussion in the after debate, spinzone.
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 07:39 PM
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2. yes
it is wash rinse repeat of elections and primaries past. Only WORSE.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 07:40 PM
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3. Here's a juicy topic about one of the candidates:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1034285&mesg_id=1034285

I'm waiting for the debates to go toward domestic issues; though I applaud their honesty on worldwide issues. (Hillary makes some sense on foreign issues, but for domestic ones, to what I currently know, I wouldn't touch her with a 10' pole and when she said about how she was talking to Bill, if any of it was classified information, he shouldn't have said a thing. She really put her foot into her mouth...)
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 08:22 PM
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18. The Prez's wife gets 'cleared' for secret stuff just as aides - like Rove - do. nt
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Individualist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 07:43 PM
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4. I don't blame you.
Edited on Sun Jun-03-07 07:44 PM by notsodumbhillbilly
It was the Clinton/Obama/Edwards Show.
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Drum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 07:45 PM
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6. Yankees v. Red Sox is on ESPN...bottom of the 2nd.
:shrug:

No moderator! :D
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camero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 07:51 PM
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7. I thought the ump was the moderator
Or A-Rod running the bases.:D
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Truth2Tell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 07:51 PM
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8. Hard to say who I hate more
Bush or the Yankees.
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Drum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 07:52 PM
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9. hey ok...
enjoy your evening.
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 07:53 PM
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10. WORD.
GO SOX!!! :-D
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Missy Vixen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 07:56 PM
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11. I'll bring the beer
Go Red Sox!

Julie
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 08:08 PM
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16. And much more interesting.
That's what this household is watching.

At least I don't have to have someone TELL me when someone's hit a grand slam.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 08:21 PM
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17. I was flipping back and forth between the two! nt
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barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 08:01 PM
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12. what debate?
:)
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La_Fourmi_Rouge Donating Member (878 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 08:03 PM
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13. Dennis Kucinich's wife is HOT!
I'm voting for the K-man!
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SharonAnn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 08:36 PM
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21. So is Fred Thompson's wife. Are you voting for him?
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 09:21 PM
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25. That's a totally unfair comparison
The Thompsons are much closer in age than the Kuciniches. :hide:
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La_Fourmi_Rouge Donating Member (878 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-04-07 08:18 AM
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30. Redheads are more fun...
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Peregrine Took Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 08:04 PM
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14. I agree. I think the time for these style of debates is over -its just too
superficial and plastic - absolutely geared towards the snappy "one liner."
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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 09:25 PM
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27. They Should Have Each Candidate In A Booth, Where The Sound Goes Off
After 30 seconds, and there is a computer program that works like this:

1. 30 seconds each, then sound is cut off.
2. New question; random order, 30 second rule still applies.
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Truth2Tell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 11:00 PM
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28. I'm thinking more of a "Survivor" type format
where the viewers get to vote one candidate off the island after each debate.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-04-07 09:38 AM
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32. I think a "celebrity death match" forum would be better. nt
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-04-07 09:38 AM
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33. I think a "celebrity death match" forum would be better. nt
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StudentsMustUniteNow Donating Member (859 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 09:19 PM
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24. Obama/Clinton, Obama/Clinton, Obama/Clinton?
Why? Because the MSM and the spinners said so. Obama did horribly. Anyone who knows anything about debating and public speaking will agree. You do not debate by stuttering and looking dumbfounded.
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bamacrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 09:22 PM
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26. Kucinich, Gravel, Biden and Dodd didnt get as much time as the three favorites.
Not fair the puke in disguise, Wolf, is trying to shape this election.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-04-07 09:09 AM
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31. And wolfie, the dog sucks ass for it.
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