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2008-11-02

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Posted by Steve White 2008-11-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The MILF "joke" on Leno tonight was the last straw.

Is anyone out there? Does anyone care?

Posted by Gabby Cussworth 2008-11-01 00:21|| 2008-11-01 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Amen, Steve. Vote I will, even if my vote doesn't count for much in the District of Columbia.

Posted by eltoroverde 2008-11-01 02:11|| 2008-11-01 02:11|| Front Page Top

#3 "There may not be anybody you want to vote for, but there's always somebody you want to vote against."

Posted by Crusose de Medici6493 2008-11-01 02:20|| 2008-11-01 02:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Already done, Steve, and thanks to Rantburg for pushing this issue forward. I always say that if you don't vote, you don't have the right to complain about what happened later. You didn't earn it.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-11-01 02:41|| 2008-11-01 02:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Hear! Hear!

Posted by .5MT 2008-11-01 05:31|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-11-01 05:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Well said, Dr. Steve dear. Trailing daughter #1 is coming home to vote today, Mr, Wife and I will make a date of it on Tuesday. Ohio is still a swing state this year -- perhaps our three votes will put it over the top.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-11-01 07:30|| 2008-11-01 07:30|| Front Page Top

#7 I live in one county and work in another, and my workday logistics are less than ideal, so I voted early. I wasn't the only one, and my county of residence is one of Ohio's redder ones, so that's a good sign.

Posted by Mike 2008-11-01 08:30|| 2008-11-01 08:30|| Front Page Top

#8 "Well, Doctor, what have we gotâa Republic or a Monarchy?"
"A Republic, if you can keep it."
- Benjamin Franklin

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-11-01 09:01|| 2008-11-01 09:01|| Front Page Top

#9 The Obama campaign has been the largest PSYOP in the history of the US

Posted by OldSpook 2008-11-01 09:14|| 2008-11-01 09:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Blondie and I have already voted - and if it is any reassurance, the McCain/Palin yard signs are popping up like mushrooms after a good rain. And yesterday I saw a little Toyota Yaris, driven by a young Hispanic woman simply plastered with Palin and Palin/McCain stickers, and a pick-up truck driven by a scruffy Anglo young man with "plz NOBAMA" written in big letters across the rear window. Even though this is metropolitan Texas, I almost never see conservative political sentiments on cars like that - usually its the other way around.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2008-11-01 09:15|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2008-11-01 09:15|| Front Page Top

#11 ...my workday logistics are less than ideal, so I voted early.

Same here. I was really glad this option was available, else I'd have a conflict of duties (vote? or sleep?).

Posted by Angie Schultz 2008-11-01 10:13|| 2008-11-01 10:13|| Front Page Top

#12 we've got Prop 8 here in CA, which is a constitutional amendment smackdown of teh four robed elitists who overturned our ban on gay marriage. I'll crawl over broken glass to vote against Obama and his cretinous followers

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-11-01 10:32|| 2008-11-01 10:32|| Front Page Top

#13 If my little town here in the People's Republic of Johnson County is any indication....there's going to be record turnout. (And I wouldn't call this state for Obama quite yet. If it was in the bag, he wouldn't have just dropped in for a spell in Des Moines this week.)

We've had early voting for a while, and this area is one of the redder parts of the county. I even saw a line forming last morning when I took the Tsarevich to the community center Halloween party yesterday.

Not a lot of Eeyores here, Dr. Steve. Take heart! ;)

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2008-11-01 10:55|| 2008-11-01 10:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Frank, Frank, I'm disappointed you are not going to vote the way our German overlords tell you.

Posted by ed 2008-11-01 11:31|| 2008-11-01 11:31|| Front Page Top

#15 BTW, voted early. Hour long wait since the early voting places opened. The county even opened up a few extra polling places to relieve the crowd. Lots of Obama signs leading up to the polling place. Not so many O'voters. We have families to support and mortgages to pay.

Posted by ed 2008-11-01 11:35|| 2008-11-01 11:35|| Front Page Top

#16 Austrian, I think, and no, I don't ;-)

We need a real pimpslap of our betters in this state, as a first step back into regaining control before it spirals into the ground

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-11-01 11:35|| 2008-11-01 11:35|| Front Page Top

#17 What am I going to be thinking about when I go into the voting booth? This.

Posted by Matt 2008-11-01 11:36|| 2008-11-01 11:36|| Front Page Top

#18 Here in my area of the Left Coast our politicians are just to the right or far left of Vladimir Lenin.

A local notable in the Senator is Barbara Boxer.

The following Representatives will be re-elected by a landslide:
Nancy Pelosi
Lynn C. Woolsey
George Miller
Barbara Lee
Ellen O. Tauscher
Jackie Speier
Fortney (Pete) Stark
Anna G. Eshoo
Mike Honda
Zoe Lofgren

I have had NO representation in DC for years. However, I have never missed a vote in a National Election since I was first eligible to vote and foolishly cast it for John Kennedy.

Even though I feel like Sisyphus, I will vote.

In the immortal words of Brother Dave Gardner:
"Gratitude is riches, and complaint is poverty, and the worst I ever had was wonderful! Yea, though every night is Saturday and every day is Sunday, and I've been wrong, I'm going to try it one more time!" Hard Sayins

Thanks for the reminder Steve.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-11-01 12:31|| 2008-11-01 12:31|| Front Page Top

#19

Posted by Gi Joe 2008-11-01 12:45|| 2008-11-01 12:45|| Front Page Top

#20 we've got Prop 8 here in CA, which is a constitutional amendment smackdown of teh four robed elitists who overturned our ban on gay marriage. I'll crawl over broken glass to vote against Obama and his cretinous followers

I'll be there too Frank. The polls are BS. Prop 8 will pass. And it will be a close one for McCain. One thing I know about McCain, he has the propensity to get most of those undecided, independent voters at the last minute. I don't really understand it myself, but those folks are the one's that may just hand this thing to McCain. Lets all pray this happens and people come to their senses by Tuesday.

Posted by Intrinsicpilot 2008-11-01 12:51|| 2008-11-01 12:51|| Front Page Top

#21 Even if Obama is defeated, which is a very big 'if,' I am very concerned about the future and the "America" our children will inherit. Washington is now run by a cadre of left leaning bureaucrats which some believe may be 85-95% democrat. The impact a McCain presidency would have on such a Washington "Failure Factory" as Geretz calls it, is questionable at best. A democratic congress will attack him with the same vengence metted out to President Bush, possibly worse. The PSYOP operation, as OldSpook astutely mentioned, that Axelrod & Co., and moneyed keepers of the sacred Obamatalmud, have done on certain segments of our society is indeed frightening. Many of us here on the Burg have visited or lived in lands which have already realized the Obama dream of "Change." We know what that change means and what may lie ahead. What an awakening must surely be in store for believers of the mutlticultural, government is the answer, entitlement based faith. We may indeed be approaching a historic period in our nation's brief history. Books will most certainly be written about it. Whether or not they will be published or hidden in Mason jars is yet another question. I recall from childhood a small town deep in Southern Illinois. It's name is "Future City." At one point years ago, pranksters scrawled across the Future City sign at the entrance to the town the phrase "time will tell." It would appear we are rapidly approaching "Future City." I'm hanging on, hoping and praying for the best.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-01 13:56|| 2008-11-01 13:56|| Front Page Top

#22 I'm getting on a plane to travel and will be out during the vote, so I voted early, thank god AZ allows that. My wife canned her plans and will go to vote in person. She believes her vote not only needs to be cast but seen! HT to her.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2008-11-01 14:06|| 2008-11-01 14:06|| Front Page Top

#23 I live in Cook County, IL. My vote for Prez will be meaningless to the end result here, but, dammit, I shall not go down without being, polls and pundits aside, heard.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2008-11-01 16:39|| 2008-11-01 16:39|| Front Page Top

#24 That's why EeYore wears a ribbon Fester.

Good on'ye.

Posted by .5MT 2008-11-01 17:14|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-11-01 17:14|| Front Page Top

#25 I'm skipping my workout to make sure I'm able to vote nice and early. Seeing more McCain/Palin yard signs/bumper stickers/tee-shirts out here in eastern Loudoun County.

Posted by IG-88 2008-11-01 17:15|| 2008-11-01 17:15|| Front Page Top

#26 I'm skipping my workout to make sure I'm able to vote nice and early. Seeing more McCain/Palin yard signs/bumper stickers/tee-shirts out here in eastern Loudoun County.

Posted by IG-88 2008-11-01 17:17|| 2008-11-01 17:17|| Front Page Top

#27 yes! Well said Steve.

Seeing how Obama and the democrats are working to undermine the voting process, it may well be the last chance you have to make your vote mean something. Show up and vote.

Posted by Betty 2008-11-01 17:24|| 2008-11-01 17:24|| Front Page Top

#28 Oom Phester: Beg to differ sir. Your vote is not "meaningless." Your cause is righteous and conscience is clear. This too shall pass.

- But not for ever, God does not forget.
F.W. Reitz Jr.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-01 17:37|| 2008-11-01 17:37|| Front Page Top

#29 Already done, Sir Steve.

And Matt, thanks for that trip back to when the world quit turning. If Obama wins, we will have a sequel to that horrific day, I fear.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-11-01 21:18|| 2008-11-01 21:18|| Front Page Top

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