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• Thursday, September 4, 2008 02:21 AM

  @ Effie

  Well said. It's interesting. You look at the Democratic convention - a crowd (of 80000+) at mile high (not to mention the overflowing convention center), and you saw thousands of faces, different ages and races, smiling, happy, excited. The speeches may have had red meat, but they weren't lying, nor were they hateful. They were pointing out facts. There may have been some snarkiness here and there, but not bile and hate.

  Then you look at the Republican convention, empty seats all over, with white faces abound, and when the speakers say really shitty things about Obama, or community service - the reactions on people's faces are filled with such visceral hate, you can see it. You can see why a lot of those people support hunting and killing.

  Since when is community service a bad thing? Should we teach out kids to speak this way? To lie when it suits us and to hate? Should we teach our kids that community service and higher education is something to be laughed at?

  I saw on the Daily Show, when their team interviewed people at the RNC during Gustav one of the Republicans there said something to the effect of "I don't see why we should stop this because a few people are getting rained on to stop us from saying how bad Obama is." I'm not making this us.

  also, this applauding of teenage pregnancy. "Oh, kids fuck, we know that - but when it's one of us that gets pregnant it's GREAT!" Some example.

  It's sad. And these hypocrits can look in the mirror and call themselves Christian.

  FYI - I think Biden's son said himself he was going to be deployed.

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