Good Ol' Fashioned West Virginia Douche-Off

Evan! · 05-15-2008, 02:44 PM

It's gonna be a SHOWDOWN!

Dang, I loves me an ole-timey douche-off...

(the whole vid is pretty funny, but the douche-off starts around 6:20)

blacklab · 05-15-2008, 02:51 PM

The long, flat seemingly endless bataan death march to the white house! Sweet. Sure looks that way out here, with our end of May primary.

Good gawd. White, lower income, religious, rural people for Clinton! We got a couple of them as well...but those quotes were rugged.

Evan! · 05-15-2008, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by blacklab

*mouth open in shock*

Welcome to 2008.

**kornkob** · 05-15-2008, 03:02 PM

I have a theory: Having both Hillary and Obama in the presidential race right up until the democratic national convention is part of their strategy.

The strategy is to keep the media focus on issues that the democrats want to talk about and none of the things that McCain wants to talk about. This way everyone keeps talking to Obama and Hillary about democratic party talking points and the republicans can't get their message out as effectively.

/removes tinfoil hat

blacklab · 05-15-2008, 03:03 PM

Kornkob - I guess you're assuming that someone in American politics has a strategy?

MrFebtober · 05-15-2008, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by kornkob

I have a theory: Having both Hillary and Obama in the presidential race right up until the democratic national convention is part of their strategy.

The strategy is to keep the media focus on issues that the democrats want to talk about and none of the things that McCain wants to talk about. This way everyone keeps talking to Obama and Hillary about democratic party talking points and the republicans can't get their message out as effectively.

More time in the spotlight also means more skeletons coming out of the closet, more muck-raking, and more chances for saying something stupid that the media will exploit and twist. I guess it's kinda double-edged in that sense.

Evan! · 05-15-2008, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by engine3lt

Stereotyping a whole state...nice.

Go back. Read it again. I wasn't stereotyping anyone. I was referring directly to those people who base their votes on their racist views.

edit: oh noes! the cookie monster stoled my posts!

TwoHeadsBrewing · 05-15-2008, 04:01 PM

My opinion...McCain is one lucky bastad. Usually you have to employ the "divide and conquer" strategy to get your enemies to fight one another. In this case, Obama and Hitlery are fighting all on their own. Meanwhile, McCain sits back and engineers 15 different strategies to destroy each canidate. THe democratic canidates are so busy fighting amongst themselves, they have no time to focus on the bigger obstacle between them and the white house.

engine3lt · 05-15-2008, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Evan!

Go back. Read it again. I wasn't stereotyping anyone. I was referring directly to those people who base their votes on their racist views.

edit: oh noes! the cookie monster stoled my posts!

It appears the cookie monster did get your post.

Ignorance and racism certainly aren't limited to the State of WV. Depending on which source you look at, for 80-90 percent of the voters here, race played no role whatsoever. It's not perfect, I'll agree. I can't find any statistics for other states primaries (seems we're the only state branded racist by the media), but I can't imagine that it is much different nationwide.

It makes for entertaining television, but the Daily Show didn't show the people that were interviewed before the village idiot sat down.

RICLARK · 05-15-2008, 05:24 PM

Voting on an election strictly to race and religion guidelines is absurd. I would have no problem voting for a black man or a woman, just not these two. I would vote for JC Watts or Clerance Thomas if they ever ran for president and right now there isn't a woman In politics that Im too fond of. Racists are a$$ bags

On a lighter note: The Douche Off was friggin hilarious.