'Heart Of Gold'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Seriously.
Ya know?
Now, granted - I didn't know that until t looks at calendar last Monday, but I'm not running for PRESIDENT! And I'm pissed as hell I didn't know it all this time. So, I'm not some huge know-it-all, but Goddamn I expect a dude who wants to run the country to freaking know what the fuck he is talking about.
Then again, my standards have always been pretty high.
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I did my 8th grade history research paper on the Teapot Dome scandal! Oh, Albert Fall, you rascal!
Of course, we've all been reminded that "if a discussion comes up in your class about the Presidential candidates or other elections, that you provide equal opportunity for discussion on both or all candidates." Be happy to! Anybody have some juicy untrue rumors about McCain?
BAD Emily, BAD elitist Democrat. I know thoughtful, intelligent Republicans who have no interest in seedy rumors. And I'm sure I know Democrats who believe scurrilous lies about Republicans because they "sound" true.
Ooh! Emily! My Uncle Carl could come to some sort of Q&A with your class. It would rock. He's a neat combination of "policy wonk" and "Tony Soprano accent".
Anybody have some juicy untrue rumors about McCain?
McCain is the bastard love child of a Terminator and a Cylon, one of whom is black! His best friend is a vampire terrorist ACORN volunteer.
OK, that's not entirely false - McCain has hung out with ACORN people....
Anybody have some juicy untrue rumors about McCain?
During the 2000 Primaries, the Bush campaign spread rumors that McCain's adopted (black) daughter was actually his illegitimate child, and that he was brainwashed by his Vietnamese captors to be some sort of Manchurian Candidate.
McCain went on to hire some of those very people responsible for the rumors for his own campaign this year.
McCain went on to hire some of those very people responsible for the rumors for his own campaign this year.
And, remarkably, they seem to have done more damage to him this time around than they did when they were working against him.
There's also that dumb rumor that McCain was responsible for the fire on the Forrestal. I googled on that a while ago, and all matches cited a single account without saying where that account came from. Then one google match I was reading kept on using the phrase "Jew media" so at that point I stopped my search....
I don't get why these people see such a distinction between McCain and the campaign - or, rather, why they think that doesn't look just as bad:
"He's running a crappy campaign and screwing it all up!"
"They're running a crappy campaign and screwing it all up and he's powerless to stop them!"
Oh yes, much more presidential.