Get the Danmed Election Over

The BBQ Pit
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I am posting here because of the much greater freedom of expression this forum allows. Somehow I have a feeling that if this thing flies at all the discussion is not going to be of the “I must differ with my learned colleague…” sort. So here it goes:

I have the misfortune to live in a battleground state (only 7 electoral votes, but still somebody thinks they are worth fighting for) and in a part of the state serviced by all five networks – ABC, NBC, CBS (a Sinclair station), Fox and Warner Brothers – and by PBS. While the commercial TV stations are raking in the dough, over the last week or so the shrillness level of the advertising in the Presidential campaign has become pretty much intolerable. Kerry is weak on defense, trial lawyers are responsible for all the stuff that’s wrong with medial care, Kerry will abandon Iraq, Bush is selling the country to big business, Bush is fighting terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq, Support Bush, support the troops, Kerry is oh so liberal, Bush is a believing Christian, Bush will ruin social security, tax breaks for the wealthy, tax cuts saved the economy, Bush’s tax cuts have mortgaged our grandchildren’s future, Kerry’s health plan will be an expensive bureaucratic goat roast and so on, ad nauseam.

On top of this we have our Senator, a gentleman who is sometimes confused with Mortimer Snerd, who’s claim to reelection against a non-entity who is not even campaigning seems to be based on the allegation that he mows his own lawn and drives a car with100,000 miles on it.

This is just insanity. The level of yammering, the pathetic quality of the attacks, their pettiness, the concentration of special pleading, boot-strapping, self congratulation, posturing and down right deception and dishonesty make me nostalgic for the good old days of autumn nights filled with ads for seed corn and agricultural herbicides. I care about this election. I care desperately and fear for our nation if things do not change. I have no confidence in the notion that the nation is so big and so strong and so flexible that one President can no do any lasting harm. All that said – I want this election over. It seems like it has been going on for ten years. I want it over and I want it over now.

I’m going to go hide under the bed. I can’t stand it any more. A good night to you all.

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There’s a candidate named Dan Med?

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It is getting brutal here in Iowa, isn’t it?

Do what I do. Turn off your TV. Seriously. I had no idea about the ads being this bad until about a week ago when I hooked up my TV to the antenna to get weather information (no Internet at home now).

Maybe get a Netflix subscription for the next month? :slight_smile:

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Hmmm… :: smacks lips :: I think we got a goat around here somewhere…

I hear ya. I know exactly one person who’s on the fence in this election, out of probably a hundred or so that openly discuss their political views. My take is that this will not be so much a “contest” as it is a “tally.”

For Kerry supporters: Pro-Bush/Anti-Kerry oriented ads are propagandist drivel
For Busgh Supporters: Pro-Kerry/Anti-Bush ads are weak pleas to cave in to the pressures to change policy before solid results are returned.

NOBODY, I think, is going to have their minds changed at this point.

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I may be a yokel and a bumpkin, Madam, but you comment forces me to say, I beg your pardon?

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A simple misspelling in the thread title. Took me a while to figure out what Ilsa was on about, too.

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Come for a visit to your neighboring state to the east. Even our local senate campaign is a joke. There is no campaigning at all. None. Nothing. Zero. Dead silence.

I like it.

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Florida is a quite similar situation, and I too am tired of hearing everything all about this fucking election.

How could this, our greatest chance to protect and preserve Enlightenment principles, possibly have turned out to be such a nauseating, vomitous orgy of …

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… hmm you know, upon further reflection, I think I’m just sick of those lying, smarmy Republicans.

Woohoo! Two more weeks to go! … Working together, we will slay this fucking dragon! Let’s go people - buck up! It’s working! Look - cracks in the dam! Rah rah, sis boom bah! Out, demon! Out!

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I share your misfortune. My 9 year old son commented that he was glad there wasn’t an election every year, he is tired of all the political commercials.

I was trying to figure out how logical it was to mow with three lawn mowers at a time. The riding lawn mower has to be riden slow enough that the push mowers actually mow, wouldn’t he save time by mowing the whole lawn with one mower at a faster pace?
Maybe he is trying to show Iowa that he thinks outside the box???

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I live in Ohio. President Bush, John Edwards and John Kerry have been in my area in the past couple of weeks. I too would like the election to end…but I’m enjoying the lastest Swift Boat ads.

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Let me toss in for the opposition…

I love this shit, man. I eat it up. Politics is the greatest game in town and far more important that football or baseball. Woo!

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You must really be into pain. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Nope! Just a transplanted guy from DC.

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I almost knocked out my dumbfuck neighbor who decided to wave a Bush sign in my face and then proceeded to tell me how he was voting for Bush so we could go back to our “God-fearing, hard-working roots and take back” his America. When I asked him if he was really voting for Bush just so fags couldn’t marry, he got this queer(ha!) look on his face and decided to obfuscte telling me he was doing it for gun rights and justice appointments.

Oh and he also said Bush was doing “great”, until I asked him if he thought an incumbent was supposed to lead by the margin of error…

I’m so ready to take my loss, lick my wounds and go on about life.

Sam

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There will be no loss–Kerry’s going to win.

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Let’s just say I’m steeling myself for the possibility that he won’t. Last time I was sure Bush wouldn’t win, and I was dead-ass wrong.

Sam

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Does he know Bush is the incumbent? Does he know who controls both houses of congress? How is it that the Republicans can manage to make their core feel threatened and angry when they’re sitting on the rest of us like a smothering pig?

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Because, the Libruhls is taking over Uuuhmerica. If we get a Dumocratic president, next thing, perfectly fine young men won’t want to serve on improperly occupied territories in the Middle East, and then they’ll all be gay or marry dogs or something. Then Justices won’t rule with the best of intentions, but they’ll all be “activist” judges, and they’ll allow the marriage of dogs! Liberal fag dogs to boot!

Where’s the pukey smiley when you need him?

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From WI, another battleground state. In the span of 60 seconds I will hear a radio commercial about how the left wing liberals will screw everything up and then hear an abutting commercial saying how the right wing conservatives will screw everything up. Both followed by the obligatory “I’m (someone who wants to get elected) and I approve this message”.

I’m quite sick of it too. I think that such a bombardment of adds from both sides (continuously) just confuses voters and dulls their senses. A waste of money me-thinks.

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I’m fucking sick of it too. Hell right now my boss is talking politics right behind me. Every day. You think some people on the boards hate Bush, damn if he doesn’t even more. Thank og there’s only two weeks left.