Author Topic: How Obama Got Elected  (Read 5731 times)

buffcoat

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Re: How Obama Got Elected
« Reply #30 on: November 20, 2008, 02:13:07 PM »
All my grandparents are dead, but my grim and disillusioned seventy-six-year-old mother and almost eighty-one-year-old father (birthday Saturday!) were both as happy and relieved to vote for Obama as two of the grim, disillusioned daughters they raised (the third only voted for Obama because I bullied her into it--she wanted to write in Kucinich [yes, she's a tad nuts]).   It is particularly delightful that my father really likes Michelle Obama.

Yes, I'm bragging.

Man, I always thought your parents would be "Up With People!" kinda people.
I really don't appreciate your sarcastic, anti-comedy tone, Bro!

Sarah

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Re: How Obama Got Elected
« Reply #31 on: November 20, 2008, 03:29:31 PM »
Because of my sunny outlook on life?

buffcoat

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Re: How Obama Got Elected
« Reply #32 on: November 20, 2008, 05:30:46 PM »
Yup.
I really don't appreciate your sarcastic, anti-comedy tone, Bro!

wwwes

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Re: How Obama Got Elected
« Reply #33 on: November 21, 2008, 03:16:34 PM »
The great thing about this election is that now, I don't have to give a shit about what the people who are completely ignorant (and I don't mean the ones who weren't aware that Obama was going to destroy the coal industry (wonder how many conservatives knew that cap'n'trade was also McCain's policy)) have to say. And I'm including my own father and other family members in that count. This is a generational gap and a culture gap, and we are winning, all we have to do is just continue to use truth to marginalize the people that would rather fight teh librulz than promote the general welfare.

Just make sure the Secret Service encloses Obama in a giant bubble when he gives his speeches, keep him in that gigantic tank thing they're building for him and let the grownups work. If Democratic policy fails, it fails, but even then, it will create a Republic that isn't run by the people who know how to engage the paranoiacs and the haters.