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Grex > Agora35 > #102: Michigan Senate Straw vote (very scientific) | |
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ea
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response 25 of 62:
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Oct 22 03:02 UTC 2000 |
I'd vote for Shakey Jake
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other
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response 26 of 62:
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Oct 22 16:43 UTC 2000 |
I am not running for the office, but thanks anyway. (re:#0)
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gull
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response 27 of 62:
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Oct 22 18:38 UTC 2000 |
Re #21:
> ...what's your point? That I'm supposed to throw up my hands and say: "It
> doesn't matter who I vote for, the corporations will write the laws in
> any event?" I'm not prepared to do that.
--> Me either, but I'm increasingly suspecting it's true, and that voting is
about as effective as trying to demolish a brick wall with a rubber mallet.
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brighn
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response 28 of 62:
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Oct 23 03:41 UTC 2000 |
#26> Ve haff vays of making you run
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mrmat
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response 29 of 62:
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Oct 23 10:57 UTC 2000 |
Stabenow
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tpryan
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response 30 of 62:
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Oct 23 16:20 UTC 2000 |
To continue Congress-WhiteHouse gridlock, guess I'll have to
vote for Abraham.
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rcurl
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response 31 of 62:
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Oct 23 18:14 UTC 2000 |
Stabenow (I value a clean environment).
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krj
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response 32 of 62:
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Oct 23 20:00 UTC 2000 |
If I heard the radio correctly: WUOM will rebroadcast today's debate
between Abraham and Stabenow at 9 pm tonight. That's 91.7 FM in
Ann Arbor, with some repeaters at different frequencies in Flint
and Grand Rapids.
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aruba
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response 33 of 62:
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Oct 24 02:36 UTC 2000 |
Re #31: Rane, could you tell us what you know about the candidates'
environmental records?
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rcurl
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response 34 of 62:
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Oct 24 06:03 UTC 2000 |
Abraham is one of the LCV's "Dirty Dozen". See
http://www.lcv.org/campaigns/dirtydozen/abraham.htm
A comparison with Stabenow is in the same article.
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flem
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response 35 of 62:
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Oct 24 16:49 UTC 2000 |
I don't know much about these candidates. I do know that Abraham's TV
commercials have pissed me off less than Stabenow's, but that's not
necessarily cause for voting one way or the other...
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aruba
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response 36 of 62:
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Oct 24 16:54 UTC 2000 |
Re #34: Thanks.
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senna
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response 37 of 62:
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Oct 24 19:32 UTC 2000 |
"Spence's" tv commercials have, for the most part, done a good job on his
image. However, isn't www.liberaldebbie.com just a bit of a childish name
for a website?
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rcurl
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response 38 of 62:
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Oct 24 19:57 UTC 2000 |
liberal (adj). 1. Possessing or manifesting a free and generous heart;
bountiful. 2. Appropriate or fitting for a broad and enlightened mind. 3.
Free from narrowness, bigotry, or bondage to authority or creed, as in
religion; inclined to democratic or republican ideas, as opposed to
monarchical or aristocratic, as in politics; broad, popular, progressive.
illiberal (adj.). 1. Not liberal; not generous in giving; parsimonious. 2.
Narrow-minded. 3. Lacking breadth of culture; hence, vulgar.
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brighn
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response 39 of 62:
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Oct 24 20:35 UTC 2000 |
DEBBIE STABENOW IS LIBERAL!
*gasp!*
since when is that an insult to anyone other than a tried-and-true
Conservative?
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albaugh
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response 40 of 62:
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Oct 24 20:52 UTC 2000 |
rcurl hasn't dragged out that useless liberal definition in awhile...
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krj
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response 41 of 62:
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Oct 24 20:52 UTC 2000 |
Since 1980, at least.
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krj
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response 42 of 62:
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Oct 24 20:52 UTC 2000 |
(#40 slept in.... "liberal" as a pejorative dates back to about the
1980 Reagan campaign.)
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brighn
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response 43 of 62:
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Oct 24 21:22 UTC 2000 |
Reagan was not a tried-and-true Conservative?
Actually, compounded with "redneck commie pinko," "liberal"'s
guilt-by-association perjorativeness goes back to at least Sen. McCarthy and
his ilk. =}
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klg
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response 44 of 62:
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Oct 25 03:09 UTC 2000 |
"If a person is not a liberal when he's 20, he has no heart; if he
is not a conservative when he's 50, he has no brain."
And, " Abraham is one of the LCV's "Dirty Dozen"" might have greater
meaning if they used consistent criteria rather than picking and
choosing whomever they wanted to be on it.
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rcurl
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response 45 of 62:
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Oct 25 04:21 UTC 2000 |
Re #40: I've noticed that you don't like dictionaries. :)
I consider "liberal" to be an honoric. The best of our culture is to
be found in liberal arts and liberal education.
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klg
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response 46 of 62:
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Oct 25 04:29 UTC 2000 |
Which, sadly, can rarely be found at public colleges and universities.
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brighn
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response 47 of 62:
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Oct 25 15:08 UTC 2000 |
#45> Dictionaries are too objective. If you don't like what they say, you
can't yell at them until they change their minds. =}
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jep
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response 48 of 62:
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Oct 25 17:51 UTC 2000 |
re #45: There is a difference between "liberal" for arts and education,
and "liberal" as used in politics.
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brighn
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response 49 of 62:
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Oct 25 17:53 UTC 2000 |
I would say definition #3 as provided by Rane is fairly appropriate for the
politic sphere.
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