Breaking News: Senator Obama Calls Off his Campaign - Page 3

nittanyalum · #31 10-21-2008, 12:06 AM

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Honestly, what would you have said if I posted a link on the topic from Fox news? You know you would have mentioned it, don't you?

Not if it contained the actual radio interview for me to listen to myself, I wouldn't care where it was posted. Just like you somehow managed to post a link from Huffington in order to deliver the audio. See, we all can stretch when it gets us where we need to go.

Please don't make assumptions about what I would or would not mention, you don't know and for you to phrase it with the "you know you would... don't you?" is just irritating AS SHIT. Thanks.

nittanyalum · #32 10-21-2008, 12:08 AM

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No harder than it is to slam an opponent when he's off fixing the economy haha.

In all seriousness, I hope his grandmother gets well and him having to take 2 days off costs him the election.

LOL. I see what you did there.

GeekyPenguin · #33 10-21-2008, 12:25 AM

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I realize that it doesn't seem appropriate, but you know they'd do it if it was John McCain or Sarah Palin. Or even if Cindy McCain went to visit her half-sister; it'd be the half-sister that Cindy McCain has frequently failed to note existed. Some folks can't win with the media and others can't lose.

Really? Because you'd think if they did that, they'd also mention that John McCain is an adulterer who claims to protect the sanctity of family values yet breaks his marriage vows and calls his wife a cunt in every article. But you're right, some folks just can't win and some folks get a free pass on some pretty egregious behavior.

UGAalum94 · #34 10-21-2008, 12:27 AM

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Not if it contained the actual radio interview for me to listen to myself, I wouldn't care where it was posted. Just like you somehow managed to post a link from Huffington in order to deliver the audio. See, we all can stretch when it gets us where we need to go.

Please don't make assumptions about what I would or would not mention, you don't know and for you to phrase it with the "you know you would... don't you?" is just irritating AS SHIT. Thanks.

Read your posts to me and rate them on a scale of one to ten in terms of how presumptuous they are about motivation and behavior.

I know you find me transparent and predictable. Why would you find it insulting that I find you the same way?

UGAalum94 · #35 10-21-2008, 12:30 AM

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Really? Because you'd think if they did that, they'd also mention that John McCain is an adulterer who claims to protect the sanctity of family values yet breaks his marriage vows and calls his wife a cunt in every article. But you're right, some folks just can't win and some folks get a free pass on some pretty egregious behavior.

While they may not do it in every article, they have done it. And they don't even limit the allegations to things they can substantiate. Did you miss the New York Times article about McCain's affair with a lobbyist? Did you see the article on Cindy this week? Did you see the New Yorker article on her in the last few weeks?

CrackerBarrel · #36 10-21-2008, 12:31 AM

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Really? Because you'd think if they did that, they'd also mention that John McCain is an adulterer who claims to protect the sanctity of family values yet breaks his marriage vows and calls his wife a cunt in every article. But you're right, some folks just can't win and some folks get a free pass on some pretty egregious behavior.

I think the issue wasn't with not bringing it up, it was with the disingenuous way it was mentioned.

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She's also the "white grandmother" he referred to in a speech on race.

To go with your comparison, that would be like, in an article about McCain's ex-wife, saying:

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She's also the "wife" he referred to in an off-the-cuff comment about his wife.

UGAalum94 · #37 10-21-2008, 12:35 AM

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I think the issue wasn't with not bringing it up, it was with the disingenuous way it was mentioned.

To go with your comparison, that would be like, in an article about McCain's ex-wife, saying:

Thanks for understanding this.

I really had in mind a brief snark about the media and not a big derailing.

Why mention the speech but not acknowledge what was said?

nittanyalum · #38 10-21-2008, 12:37 AM

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Read your posts to me and rate them on a scale of one to ten in terms of how presumptuous they are about motivation and behavior.

I know you find me transparent and predictable. Why would you find it insulting that I find you the same way?

You can "find" me any way you like. It's your presentation of things like that last line where you did the "you know you would...don't you?" that's like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. I'm not insulted, I don't have nearly enough invested in you to let you have that kind of effect on me. It's that it is a completely ineffective way to communicate and more, for someone like me, a complete turn-off in terms of feeling you're someone I can have any kind of mature, thoughtful discourse with. We've been over this before, though. No surprise to either of us here, I usually just don't click into your posts, but your comments in this thread deserved response, I felt.

UGAalum94 · #39 10-21-2008, 12:41 AM

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You can "find" me any way you like. It's your presentation of things like that last line where you did the "you know you would...don't you?" that's like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. I'm not insulted, I don't have nearly enough invested in you to let you have that kind of effect on me. It's that it is a completely ineffective way to communicate and more, for someone like me, a complete turn-off in terms of feeling you're someone I can have any kind of mature, thoughtful discourse with. We've been over this before, though. No surprise to either of us here, I usually just don't click into your posts, but your comments in this thread deserved response, I felt.

It's odd to me that other than the first time I pmed you about it, I don't think I ever have to tell you how I feel about your posts, unless it's in response to your sharing your feelings with me. Why do you suppose that is?

Furthermore, why do you continue to suppose it would change my behavior to point out what you find annoying or ineffective? Do you imagine that I hold out hope of winning you over?

nittanyalum · #40 10-21-2008, 12:43 AM

"Why do you suppose that is?"

fingernails, meet chalkboard

ETA: and again with the going back and adding your after-thought "questions" -- I just clarified that you annoy me and I find you ineffective because you chose to think you were insulting me, which is thinking way too highly of yourself. And as to your last inane question, there is no hope, so ... no.

PeppyGPhiB · #41 10-21-2008, 01:34 AM

I think this will only help Obama. Most, if not all, people will consider this the right thing to do and will feel sympathy for him. It reminds us that he's human, and like all of us in a basic way. Also, I think it will force the McCain/Palin camp to cut back on the attacks while he's dealing with this difficult, painful time so as not to look like heartless jerks.

UGAalum94 · #42 10-21-2008, 07:24 AM

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I think this will only help Obama. Most, if not all, people will consider this the right thing to do and will feel sympathy for him. It reminds us that he's human, and like all of us in a basic way. Also, I think it will force the McCain/Palin camp to cut back on the attacks while he's dealing with this difficult, painful time so as not to look like heartless jerks.

I agree. And there's no better example of this than my own in this thread. I apologize.

UGAalum94 · #43 10-21-2008, 07:36 AM

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"Why do you suppose that is?"

fingernails, meet chalkboard

ETA: and again with the going back and adding your after-thought "questions" -- I just clarified that you annoy me and I find you ineffective because you chose to think you were insulting me, which is thinking way too highly of yourself. And as to your last inane question, there is no hope, so ... no.

I don't think I'm insulting you. I think I'm defending my own comments and in one instance about the source of the link, joking with you.

Will you show me where I tried to insult you?

It'd be great if you'd just put me on ignore. We'd both be happier, I think.

DaemonSeid · #44 10-21-2008, 07:58 AM

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EATA: I'm just cranky because I want to go to Hawaii. I have living grandmother and Hawaii trip envy. (My grandparents all died before I was twenty. He is very fortunate to have his grandmother in his life this long.) PS. I was trying to be bring a little levity to my own comments here; in hindsight, it seems sick. Sorry.

You know...you really could have kept that part to yourself...

I mean think....going to HAWAII when a loved one is dying?

How much 'fun' is that??

oh...and let's not forget he lived part of his life there BTW....

Hell I wanna go to Hawaii too but not at the expense of possibly having to bury a loved one.

Munchkin03 · #45 10-21-2008, 10:34 AM

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ETA: anyone else love the way they left off "the one he accused of being racist and a typical white person" when the article noted Obama mentioning her in a speech about race?

I realize that it doesn't seem appropriate, but you know they'd do it if it was John McCain or Sarah Palin. Or even if Cindy McCain went to visit her half-sister; it'd be the half-sister that Cindy McCain has frequently failed to note existed. Some folks can't win with the media and others can't lose.

Seriously?