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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 07:32 AM

let me be the first to say

I do not respect Ronald Reagan or his presidency. His legacy is one of deficit spending and the destruction of many vital institutions that have left our country worse off. His trickle down economics were the same ineffective supply-side economics practiced by the current administration. All they serve(d) to do was continue the upward concentration of wealth with the ultra-wealthy.

I cringe everytime I hear someone wax nostalgic about his administration as if those were the "good old days." Those days were terrible, unless you were a coke-snorting yuppie pig.

We're a poorer, meaner, and stupider country for ole Ronnie's efforts.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 08:15 AM

brightstar65

Ah yes, I'm obviously a left-wing boogeyman who's just jealous of the greatest President...evar!

Except that I'm not. I'm a fiscal conservative that isn't blinded by my man-crush on a Hollywood actor, whose main ability was telling some people what they wanted to hear.

His economic policies were a disaster. He committed treason and broke the law in the Iran-Contra affair. He listened to his wife's ASTROLOGY advisor.

Reagan was a joke and so are you. Go back to whining about leftists and women.

Friday, February 22, 2008 04:04 PM

isn't this true of all single people?

I know as a single male I put in more unpaid overtime than my co-workers who had children or even were just in committed relationships. People just assumed I had nothing going on (or nothing more important). Add that in to being young and wanting to make a good impression and I put in way more time and effort than my colleagues.

I would like to support efforts to make my workplaces more family / women friendly, but it can't be at the expense of single folks.

Monday, March 24, 2008 12:52 PM

nice spin lolcait

Reverend Wright's sermons were not racist. America, for all its good parts, still contains much that needs to be improved. America as a country exists primarily of the benefit of the already privileged. These may truths you want to ignore, but that's more your problem

And FL/MI revotes really aren't up to Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Howard Dean, the DNC chair stated unequivocally that there would be no revote or recognition of those results since they were in violation of the national party rules before all this posturing began.

On the whole, your anti-Obama posts are irrational and immature. I'd say you misspoke, but it's kind of like your candidate: a lie is a lie.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:04 PM

there are leaders, and there are followers

I know who I'm voting for in the general election this fall...

Thursday, April 3, 2008 12:10 PM
Original article: Hillary Clinton's petition

wow

100,000 people is a little bit more than Obama won from his second place finish in New Hampshire.

Keep hoping against hope Clinton supporters.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 04:42 PM

I love reading these anti-Obama letters

Filled with mis-spellings, rantings and deranged ravings, they truly are the product of ignorance, cowardice and general worthlessness.

Instead of spending their time supporting whatever candidate they "support," they mash like monkeys on keyboards with ham-handed fists. Their vitriolic, false, and laughable arguments are the province of adolescent logic and minds, and their only constant is their stubborness at trying to make what isn't a reality.

Like it or not a majority of Democrats and Republicans and independents have preferred Sen. Obama over the other candidates. I have chosen him for rational reasons. I am educated, open-minded, and critical of him as well as the other candidates, and he is the best option.

So keep typing your screeds, it gives me something to chuckle about. I just hope you're still here in 2009 and the beginning of President Obama's administration so I can laugh again at you.

Sunday, May 4, 2008 07:00 PM

Fairy Tale alright

How some corporate lawyer for Walmart has done anything for any working person is beyond me.

Name something please. Not some vague idea that you have of Hillary Clinton, some image she has crafted contrary to reality that you've bought into. Name something please.

Perhaps it was the welfare "reform" that Bill Clinton signed. Maybe it was torpedoing National Healthcare (via her own stubborn inability to create coalitions and compromise). Maybe it was forcing Maggie Williams to pay over $200000 in legal bills because she need someone to cover up for her mistakes.

Sure Hillary just loves to give and give. Too bad we have to take it whether we like it or not.

Her "policy" ideas are horrible and yet that's what she touts as her strength. Please, let this end soon.

Sunday, May 4, 2008 07:20 PM

@jebldmm

so he should wait his turn? Not be so uppity? Civilize and "prove" himself to people like you?

Maybe he feels like things are bad enough and he can fix them. Maybe he feels that Hillary Clinton won't do enough (or anything really, see her jump lock step with McCain and the gop YET AGAIN).

He pushed through a bill in Illinois that forced the police to video tape confessions. Why? Because the police were beating minorities to confess. He did this in the face of widespread opposition. He's done more for folks of color and the socially disadvantaged than Hillary ever has with her summer internship at the children's defense fund before jumping on the corporate gravy train.

You all need to look long and hard at yourselves. Hillary is not the person you hope she is. She's not the person she portrays herself as.

The man is affable and friendly, I don't see any of this arrogance (unless its this "wait your turn you uppity negro" shit again).

Friday, June 13, 2008 07:26 AM
Original article: Men, talk among yourselves

it cuts both ways

Isn't this a silly subject? I've known women who I would describe as boring, mostly becaue their interests consisted soley of TV, gossip, and fashion.

That certainly doesn't mean that every woman is boring to speak to nor do I feel that these women need to conform to my expectations either.

If bon mots are your sole definition of interesting, I think I'll pass on the conversation.

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