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  • dear peeps

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    Don't worry - when I read Rodgers: "As a psychologist, I am convinced that it is virtually impossible to convince

    someone to believe something they do not want to believe and Our ability to discount evidence and logic is formidable"-

    I really had to smile and I thought about all the letters T

    read on Salon!

  • peeps -

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    you are doing your best but as a Canadian a while ago stated here on a thread - If you love - ot even like a certain candidate you don;t want to hear all these pesky details or

    nasty facts about him - don;t you?

  • i don't understand anymore -

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    what is happening here. When we first joined Salon -

    (my dad and I) he told me that this is a blog, where pretty intelligent people - who kind of have the same political views - exchange interesting arguments and ideas and where I could learn a lot. I did - and I also joined a debate club in school. The rule there is - to give a good argument - to listen to others and finally come to a conclusion, based on the facts. I get a lot of "facts" here but there never seems to be anybody who is won over. Everybody only seems to give statements and my dad explained to me that happens with "old people" who already have made up there mind before the argument begins.

    Is that true - or is there one person on this thread who has been won over by the argument of somebody else today??

  • thanks a lot -

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    for the expertise and my dad says he understands most of

    all why Aj Calhoun feels with us.

    By the way - is it true that there some of you guys might get

    paid to promote a candidate - I gladly would promote Obama

    and I need a new bike!

  • dear villemar -

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    we like your style and as we are thinking about founding a group of the "sane" people on Salon - would you like to join us.We are only two Salnistas right now but we are sure our movement will swell into a avelanche after the other "sane: Salonistas get wind of it. We will ask Joan to open for each

    of the Salon articles a second letter threat - lets call it the "Change and Hope threat" were writers will enjoy a new

    and very enlightened conversation. Everyone who will dare to

    post there "points" which already have been made - or comes up with ridiculous predictions about the future will right away be relegated to the same old same old threat. We - you and

    us will go down in history as the "fearless three" who have

    saved Salon. Until now we only have "clowned" around a bit

    but we are dying to enter a meaningful discussion -

    and we know tha AJ Calhoun is with us and probable even

    Maureen - mothing con stop us now!!

    Until now we just have

    We are dying to enter into a meaningful

    or witty conversation about the election and

  • oh my god -

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    I was so excited at the end that I nearly lost it!

  • pwoxby -

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    you will join us too?

  • cy and anon -

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    I'm sorry - but you are not allowed to join us - you have to go outside the door and kick each other until the cows come home - uuh - or something like that!

  • I.m a woman - girl -

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    and I'm shrill sometimes!

  • but pwoxby -

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    he maneaged to come up with one decent phrase at the very very end: "Racism, misogyny and character assassination are all ways of distracting voters from the issues, and people who care about the issues have a shared interest in making the politics of hatred unacceptable" - that could be our pledge of sane Salonistas!

  • xrandadu -

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    you could join Cy and Anon outside the door and kick and kick -

    but if you would have hugged your anon instead - I'm very sure

    he would have selfdestructed!

  • pwoxby said it -

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    and that's why we support Obama!

  • I just wanted to point out-

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    that we live in such "ironius times", where everubody likes

    to trash somebody and then critisize trashing.

  • to anahadwolves -

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    I never would be able to hate you or despise you and I gues

    that's why I like Obama - See how easy it is!

  • dear ana -

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    yes - could you please read pwoxby letter - why she choose Obama - on page 14.

    What a nice decent letter from a person with a good heart.

    It will inspire and help you a lot -

    My father says you need a lot of love - and we all love you man - or woman??

  • dear ana -

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    - my daughter convinced me to offer you more help - I often work with manic-depressive patients and in now way I would imply that you are manic-depressive - but you might have "issues" - and if you send me your e-mail via this threat I might be able to work them out together with you.

    And!! You are absolutely right - there are sometimes Obama supporters on Salon who might have the same "issues" as you and I gladly would include them in a secession or two!

  • thank you so much Kaleun -

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    - that would be a big help - because I am not posting alone -

    I'm posting with my daughter and I constantly have to explain to her that the nastyness on this site might be the backside of a good democray - and I if I am good humor I just explain it like bad entertainment (kind like FOX)

    So let's get together sane Salonistas!

  • pwoxby

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    if you read our other posts you will see we have a lot of

    patience and we gladly leave it like that and in dealing with

    very nasty posts we might have to return to irony.