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santa klaus started this discussion 16 years 7 months ago

http://politsk.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah_13.html

klaus, if you were born to Sarah Palin, your name would be:

Flack Gobbler Palin

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Josh Hostels

16 years

I don't want to hurt anyone but IMHO she perfectly represents the natural majority in the US.

They are out there, but I don't think it's anywhere near a majority :)

If anyone here is pro-Palin, feel free to add your perspective. I'm in a very "blue" area of the country so I don't know the other side as well. I haven't met anyone in person who supports Palin.

There are not a lot of "natural" reasons Bush won, but a favorable voting system, bended rules and outright fraud. Only 25% of Americans voted for him.

I was in south Florida for the last 2 elections and it was a circus :)

Mark Crispin Miller talks a little bit about it here, with a heavy dose of conspiracy theory:
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/22/votes (transcript version)
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/22/stream (video version - interview starts at 11:45)

AMY GOODMAN: You talked to John Kerry.

MARK CRISPIN MILLER: I talked to John Kerry. In fact, the last time I was with you, I was here to talk about that conversation with him. On October 28th, 2005, we met. I gave him a copy of my book Fooled Again, and we discussed the last election, and he told me, with some vehemence, that he believed it was stolen.

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santa klaus

16 years

McCain: "We need to know the full extent of Senator Obama´s relationship with ACORN who is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying fabric of democracy..." :confused:

At the same time, in Texas:

You would think holding elections is a simple enough task for a country like that. This is so weird really. I can´t remember any election in Western Europe where one side (or even both sides) accused the other of fraud or questioned the result or hired thousands of lawyers to make sure nobody cheats. The polls close at six, there is an official final result at nine and that´s that. WTF? What a banana republic!

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Josh Hostels

16 years

Good videos...
I think that's why Obama is getting so many volunteers and contributions -- $150 million in donations just in September. People know there is something wrong with the voting system here.

When I volunteered in South Florida for the 2004 elections, John Kerry had huge support from volunteers. (I didn't like Kerry, but was volunteering against Bush's reelection.) In contrast to the grassroots support for Kerry, Republicans were paying people to stage fake rallies. Here's a photo I took of a fake Bush rally in Florida where Haitians were being paid $100/day to hold Bush/Cheney signs. The Haitians said they were pro-Kerry, but they needed the money:

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The Democracy Now video that I linked to above goes into the motivations and justifications for vote hijacking.

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Josh Hostels

16 years

The media is having a field day:

Palin's connections with the theocratic "spiritual warfare" movement - the idea that certain people and geographic regions are possesed by demons that can be exorcised:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/us/politics/25faith.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

"One of the imperatives of the [spiritual warfare] movement is to achieve worldly power, including political control. Then you can more effectively drive out the demons. The ultimate goal is to purify the earth."

Another interesting video -- the American "gotcha" media interviews Joe Biden:
http://www.wftv.com/video/17790025/index.html

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santa klaus

16 years

Spiritual warfare makes a religion of identifying demons by names and ZIP codes.

One of the imperatives of the movement is to achieve worldly power, including political control. Then you can more effectively drive out the demons. The ultimate goal is to purify the earth.

Ms. Palin referred to “prayer warriors” in a radio interview Wednesday with Dr. James C. Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, a conservative Christian multimedia ministry. Dr. Dobson told Ms. Palin that he and his wife, Shirley, were praying for her, and that they had convened 430 people last weekend to pray for “God’s perfect will to be done on Nov. 4.”

What are they smoking? Surely you can´t make up BS like that when you´re sober?

In contrast to the grassroots support for Kerry, Republicans were paying people to stage fake rallies. Here's a photo I took of a fake Bush rally in Florida where Haitians were being paid $100/day to hold Bush/Cheney signs. The Haitians said they were pro-Kerry, but they needed the money

Have a look at that:

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Josh Hostels

16 years

What are they smoking? Surely you can´t make up BS like that when you´re sober?

That's where the justification for election hijacking comes from. Many think of it as a revolution to purge demons from individuals and geographic regions. The goal is theocracy. More info about it here:
http://www.theocracywatch.org/taking_over.htm

Have a look at that:

Thanks, good video...

Ariana Huffington wrote an interesting article about the Web, YouTube and the death of Rovian politics here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-internet-and-the-deat_b_136400.html

People in 2000 and 2004 couldn't get the news from the street out there. This time YouTube and social media are making it harder to run "Rovian" campaigns.

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santa klaus

16 years

Ariana Huffington wrote an interesting article about the Web, YouTube and the death of Rovian politics here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-internet-and-the-deat_b_136400.html

People in 2000 and 2004 couldn't get the news from the street out there. This time YouTube and social media are making it harder to run "Rovian" campaigns.

Just look at how the internet has turned the hostel market upside down. Thanks to the web, the market is now almost totally transparent. You can´t BS your customers any more, because tomorrow they´ll write reviews and ruin your reputation.

The same just happens with politics in America - I think that´s even better news than a decent bloke winning the election. It has gotten much, much harder to BS the people. Everybody can be a journalist now and reach millions of viewers or readers if what he says is relevant. The irony is - we all owe this to the Pentagon! :D

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Josh Hostels

16 years

The same just happens with politics in America - I think that´s even better news than a decent bloke winning the election. It has gotten much, much harder to BS the people. Everybody can be a journalist now and reach millions of viewers or readers if what he says is relevant.

It's great at the moment, but I'm not sure how long it will last. They're trying to break the open Internet in the USA by destroying Net Neutrality (not surprisingly, Obama is for keeping it open, McCain for closing it). Australia is building a Chinese-style "great firewall"... they'll keep trying to chip away at it until it's mostly a one-way stream of "approved" information...

For now, it's great...

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santa klaus

16 years

I don´t think that can be done. How long have they tried to keep us from downloading mp3´s? There´s always a way around anything. You are too pessimistic. Here´s something to cheer you up:

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aboriginalhostel

16 years

I found this video on Saturday Night Live.

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