I Voted Today

[Kiwon]

I received my absentee ballot and voted today.

McCain/Palin have at least one vote.

But I don't think that it will do much good as a counterbalance to ACORN's efforts on behalf of Obama that has Tony Romo and Terrell Owens' voting in Nevada, Elvis Presley voting in Ohio, and Seymore Butts voting in all 50 states.

I'm sure that Tim Russert will get to vote several times this election as well.

[mraynrand]

I went to early voting in Ohio. Jive Turkey and Mary Poppins and Toonces the Cat were in line in front of me. An Acorn worker asked me if I was a Democrat or Republican out side the voting place. When I said I was voting Republican, he said that voting was next week. He was gone when the police arrived.

[hoosier]

Somehow I missed where McCain on Wednesday referred to his audience as "my fellow prisoners." Which is in greater freefall, the stock market or the straight talk express? Check out the expressions on the faces of Palin and what's her name when McCain says "my fellow prisoners."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mBi7d6e5KI

[mraynrand]

Somehow I missed where McCain on Wednesday referred to his audience as "my fellow prisoners." Which is in greater freefall, the stock market or the straight talk express? Check out the expressions on the faces of Palin and what's her name when McCain says "my fellow prisoners."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mBi7d6e5KI

The shock wave was felt throughout all 57 states - even in Katies' restaurant and in Home Depot. Word is that even Hezbollah - driven from Lebanon by US and French forces - was stunned.

[LL2]

I went to early voting in Ohio. Jive Turkey and Mary Poppins and Toonces the Cat were in line in front of me. An Acorn worker asked me if I was a Democrat or Republican out side the voting place. When I said I was voting Republican, he said that voting was next week. He was gone when the police arrived.

This doesn't shock. Apparently ACORN is giving cash and cigs to voters of Obama.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10102008/news/politics/1_voter__72_registrations_132965.htm

[SkinBasket]

This doesn't shock. Apparently ACORN is giving cash and cigs to voters of Obama.

LOL. That's not ACORN. That's standard operating procedure for the Dems for every election. I don;t know about you, but I really enjoy having my vote canceled out by some methed-out bum who's voting for the sixth or fortieth time.

[hoosier]

This doesn't shock. Apparently ACORN is giving cash and cigs to voters of Obama.

LOL. That's not ACORN. That's standard operating procedure for the Dems for every election. I don;t know about you, but I really enjoy having my vote canceled out by some methed-out bum who's voting for the sixth or fortieth time.

That's hardly just having your vote cancelled out--I would call it getting outvoted

[HowardRoark]

This doesn't shock. Apparently ACORN is giving cash and cigs to voters of Obama.

LOL. That's not ACORN. That's standard operating procedure for the Dems for every election. I don;t know about you, but I really enjoy having my vote canceled out by some methed-out bum who's voting for the sixth or fortieth time.

That's hardly just having your vote cancelled out--I would call it getting outvoted

Article 8
A foreign citizen who files a petition for acquiring Croatian citizenship shall acquire Croatian citizenship by naturalization if he or she meets the following prerequisites:
1. that he or she has reached the age of eighteen years and that his or her legal capacity has not been taken away.
2. that he or she has had his or her foreign citizenship revoked or that he or she submits proof that he or she will get a revocation if he or she would be admitted to Croatian citizenship.
3. that before the filing of the petition he or she had a registered place of residence for a period of not less than five years constantly on the territory of the Republic of Croatia.
4. that he or she is proficient in the Croatian language and Latin script.
5. that a conclusion can be derived from his or her conduct that he or she is attached to the legal system and customs persisting in the Republic of Croatia and that he or she accepts the Croatian culture.
It shall be deemed that the prerequisites from point 2 paragraph 1 of this Article have been met, if the petition was filed by a stateless person or by a person who, according to the Law of the country whose citizen he or she is, will lose it by naturalization.
If the foreign country does not envisage the revocation or is asking for prerequisites to be met, which can not be met, a statement by the person who has filed the petition stating that if he or she acquires Croatian citizenship, he or she renounces foreign citizenship, he or she renounces foreign citizenship, is sufficient.

[hoosier]

Does anybody else have the sense that the Right in this country is growing increasingly hysterical during recent weeks? Maybe it has just become more visible, particularly at the Sarah Palin rallies. And maybe because McCain/Palin are trailing they are less likely to try to temper the more rabid supporters. But I have a sense that Wall St isn't going to be the only place where fires need to be put out in the three+ weeks that remain until the election.

[SkinBasket]

Does anybody else have the sense that the Right in this country is growing increasingly hysterical during recent weeks?

No. I think you see what you want to see, but calling unease on all sides about the economy, savings, retirement, and the natural ramping up of rhetoric going into the final weeks of the election "hysteria" is a stretch.

[HowardRoark]

For those of you unfamiliar, this is from something known as the Declaration Of Independece......a document at the beginning of our country, the Great Experiment.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

[hoosier]

Does anybody else have the sense that the Right in this country is growing increasingly hysterical during recent weeks?

No. I think you see what you want to see, but calling unease on all sides about the economy, savings, retirement, and the natural ramping up of rhetoric going into the final weeks of the election "hysteria" is a stretch.

No, I'm not talking about the unease over the economic crisis, nor do I think it's just intensification of rhetoric as the presidential race comes to a close. I'm talking about the tone of the far right when it talks about the elections. "Traitor," "Kill him!," "Off with his head!," telling a black cameraman to "Sit down, boy." You might argue that these were voiced by extremists and that they don't represent the majority of Palin's followers, and that there are extremists in every political movement, or at least those where the charisma of the leader plays an important role (both Palin and Obama meet this criteria). Perhaps. But I certainly didn't hear this coming from her supporters a few weeks ago, and I can't remember any prior presidential election where a major party candidate was associated with that kind of "rhetoric." Not only that, but Palin and McCain appear to be unwilling or unable to point out to their supporters why this kind of tone is only self-defeating. That may be the most disconcerting aspect of the whole thing. When someone at a Kerry rally in 2004 voiced inappropriate or offensive language about Bush, Kerry would call them out on it. Is Palin scared to do so or is she encouraging this kind of behavior?

[arcilite]

guess i gotta vote Obama now to cancel out people's votes here.

[mraynrand]

I voted again this afternoon and I didn't notice any irregularities at the voting place.

[MJZiggy]

Does anybody else have the sense that the Right in this country is growing increasingly hysterical during recent weeks?

No. I think you see what you want to see, but calling unease on all sides about the economy, savings, retirement, and the natural ramping up of rhetoric going into the final weeks of the election "hysteria" is a stretch.

Perhaps not quite as elastic....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100903169.html?nav=hcmodule