BIRD33 Wrote:I'm going to quit because I got made to look foolish!See ya honey.
Precious.
I knew you were going to ask me for Feminist for Life numbers, because it's the only life preserver with which you can grasp while you're drowning in this debate, and that's okay. Their website says nothing unless you join the membership, and I pulled that Big 10 statement out of a (terribly boring) 30 some-odd page website document on the Feminist for Life organization's newspage. That's why I didn't give you a real number--I didn't have one. I only cite fact from credible sources that I can back up. Let me repeat myself--I cite fact. From credible sources. That I can back up.
You asked who was complaining about money. Again, no one is complaining about money. Well okay I take that back. There's an article from the
Wall Street Journal about the DNC's infighting and how it might have contributed to smaller numbers than originally anticipated, but that's from May of this year. So that's old. I mean it's real and it exists (
http://www.wsj.com) but it's not a good reference because it's from four months ago. Your fave
Huffington Post has an article from earlier this year (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/19...87311.html) about how the DNC went (pretty much) broke in 2007, when the RNC raised $85.7 million in 2007 to the Democrats with $54.8 million. The article also outlines that the RNC had a net cash balance at the start of 2008 of $17.3 million compared to the Dems with $730,000. Again, that's not last week's news, so I'm not sure if it's worth quoting. Either way, the DNC
should be fundraising its ass off, now that the convention is over and the candidate has been nominated. Money has never been a problem for the Dems, and it won't be a problem now. But they shouldn't have to work so hard for it. And they are. They should have buckets of money and like Flump nailed it with his last post, this election should be landslide-ish. It's not.
You did flex some pretty solid ignorance about how blacks and latinos vote. I never said that they'd vote for McCain. Disgruntled entities stay home on election day. They just don't vote. Those coal miners in PA won't vote either, if McCain can't get his clean coal story straight. Let me repeat myself, because you seem to need me to do so. Disgruntled entities: Hillary Democrats, Republican soccer moms, NASCAR whitey rednecks, undereducated blacks and latinos who have been slighted by the system--they don't vote when they've been disenfranchised. For anyone. Neither side can afford people not voting. This race is far too close. Precisely why it's not the 'non-issue' that you've incorrectly deemed it.
You asked me if I thought Palin was more qualified than Biden. I answered. You asked me if I thought she was ready to be the leader of the free world. I answered. Comparing Palin to Biden isn't a joke. You did it yourself, and then said it was a joke when I did it. That makes no sense. If you are confused about my answers, I'd suggest you stop typing and start reading more. And maybe not cuss so much. It makes you look far less intelligent. Kudos to Flump again for succinctly explaining why the Biden pick is so hypocritical to the essence of Obama's campaign.
The pinnacle of your wrongness came at the end of your last (I hesitate to call it a) rebuttal, on two fronts. One, this is absolutely about making America better and nothing else. People have different ideas about what will make this country better, and what's so great about America is that everyone gets to voice those opinions--ideally, without persecution or name calling. You and I have different ideas about what would make America better. The DNC and the RNC have different ideas, Obama and McCain have different ideas. Sometimes the Dems are right, sometimes the GOP is. I have always maintained that I will vote for who I think is the right candidate to lead the country, not on a party line. This time around, I'm not particularly thrilled with either party, but since we are at the core a two-party system, I'll vote for McCain because I think that he's the better candidate. You don't have to like my opinion. You don't even have to respect it, even though you should. God knows I'm going my best to respect yours, even though you truly haven't earned my time and my brain cells, let alone much else.
Second front is your idea that you could rid yourself of me so quickly. Nice try, sweet spirit. I only said that I didn't want to waste my time--but it would appear that you seem to be the time waster, with your hurtling insults at the only three people around here today actually reading your drivel. Stick to the facts and keep this a fair fight. If that's humanly possible for you.
And for teh Flump--because Governor Palin strikes me as the naughty librarian type with the hair up and the glasses but the killer bod, like something out of an early 80's music video (J. Geils Band, anyone? Van Halen
1984 better?) I would suggest that her favorite position would be bent over the reference desk or the book return. Defnitely doggie style, though. And hard.