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Published Letters: 652 Editor's Choice: 11
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Weswesweswes...
[Read the article: The "plagiarism" problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you're being a nerd again!
Say I borrow your lawnmower without asking for it specifically (say you're at work and I just take it from your garage - we're neighbours and good friends...we do this kind of thing all the time) and then say someone notices that I'm mowing my lawn with your lawnmower and calls the cops.
If the cops come arrest me, bring me to you and you say "what's the big deal? we borrow each other's implements of lawncare all the time".
do you think the cops would arrest me still?
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yep
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The War Room sure does have a Pro-Obama bias don't it?
(not that I think it has a Pro-Hillary bias either...in fact koppelman et al have been fairly even-handed throughout this whole scene. I get a little tired of those who see bias everywhere they look is all)
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oh relax anonymous
[Read the article: Clinton attacks Obama for focusing on rhetoric, Obama gets long-winded]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McCain ain't winning nuthin'. Did you HEAR that speech?? Yawwwwnnn, same old boogeyman bullsh*t...after 7 years of that crap, I seriously doubt that has any traction whatsoever.
Besides, ain't nobody gonna elect a guy that's as old as Methusulah and sounds like Casey Kasem!
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so in summation
[Read the article: A bleak outlook for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]all of our resident anonymous' posts can be summarized as:
BOOOGIE BOOOGIE BOOO!!!
please brother, please...
we are not afraid anymore, get used to it.
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an open letter to Koppelman
[Read the article: A bleak outlook for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hi Alex,
Would it be possible to find out exactly what the delegate breakdown of Florida would be as it stands right now? If I recall Clinton got 50% of the vote and Obama got 33%. How would that break down into actual delegates?
I suspect that after March 4th, Florida might be a moot point...but I don't know.
cheers
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enough!
[Read the article: How Obama won Wisconsin ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Alright, can we lay this tinfoil hat "Republicans are engaged in a massive conspiracy to get Obama the nomination because he's weaker" garbage to bed yet?
First, do you have ANY idea how hard it is to engineer something of this scale? I'll give you a simple comparison - ever tried to rig an online popularity vote? It's damn hard to do all by yourself...I mean even without any safeguards in place, you can sit there and click and click and click away and you make barely a dent. But you'll have me believe that there's literally tens of thousands of angry white men (in each separate state mind you...so that would make hundreds of thousands countrywide) that are sitting at home, just waiting for the message from central command to go out and muck up the other side's primaries? Don't you think any sort of concerted effort (and it would have to be concerted to make any sort of difference) would leave, oh I don't know, a paper-trail of some sort? That there wouldn't be at least one anonymous source tipping off the media or the Democratic leadership?
Second, in the unlikely case that there is some vast right wing conspiracy (where've we heard THAT phrase before...hmmm?) to nominate Obama it really REALLY doesn't matter. Remember ALOT more people vote in the general election, and even if the Obama Republicans go back to McCain, their numbers will easily be made up for by others.
let's ditch that asinine fable please...you insult the intelligence of everyone here.
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@LeCastor
[Read the article: How Obama won Wisconsin ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My word are you one cynical bugbear! I get it, I get it...it must be hard to be the only one cooly disengaged from the process, the only one to see the forest for the trees blah blah blah.
It must be so painful for you to watch all these young and idealistic people rallying behind a politician...after all only you can really see that he's an Elmer Gantry, life must be tough.
Yep, all those idealists are most certainly wrong. History has shown the folly of their ways, except..you know...when it hasn't.
see: Trudeau, Pierre Eliot.
Your friendly resident Canadian,
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@LeCastor
[Read the article: How Obama won Wisconsin ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you wrote:
"There's a difference between idealism, and a religious devotion to a man selling not concrete changes, but just the idea of change/hope."
Alright, since you're clearly just articulating a more eloquent version of "empty suit", I'll try and come at you another way...
It's true he offers the idea of hope...but not concrete changes. That's the nature of hope kiddo, you gotta take a chance.
Why not take that chance? After all, there is no way he can do worse that GWB or McCain now is there?
cheers,
p.s. Trudeau actually mirrors Obama quite well you know...he was pretty lean on credentials prior to his election (2 years as justice minister, editor of a journal for about a decade) but hey, all he did was give Canada a constitution and a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Sometimes hope pays off.
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@kufir77
[Read the article: The quest for universal healthcare]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You asked how would America pay for healthcare? You're right, surely repealing the tax cut won't cut it...but I'm thinking that you could prolly find the requisite money if you stopped giving the military oh....about a gazillion dollars a year :)
Speaking as a Canadian, I honestly don't understand this debate at all. I mean on a fundamental level it's foreign to me. The people posting here are for the most part (certain "anons" aside) extremely intelligent and well informed...but when I think deeper about each post's point I get frazzled...I just don't get it.
But then I grew up thinking healthcare was a right, and not a for profit enterprise..what do I know?
That being said. I don't see how the two candidates plans represents an either/or scenario...They really do seem very alike. If Obama's is the weaker platform, then there's absolutely nothing stopping him from trying to implement Hillary's plan (and vice versa). I guess I mean that healthcare doesn't seem like it should be the "deal-breaker" for either candidate.
cheers