Presidential Preference Poll

[Trollbait]

Fact most people think they are more intelligent than they actually are,

Ironically I think this describes you well.

[Syeni Soulslasher MK6]

Depends on what you consiter intelligent Jecks....
Kesch has her flaw’s like anyone else… But like always don't know what your talking about again.

Funny Comming from you Jecks....
Also belive it describes you very well......

XVIII Airborne Corps encyclopedia thought this might come in useful next time you make claims on units. Last I checked Rangers could actually read. Then again might not have been a requirement when you entered.

[Trollbait]

thought this might come in useful next time you make claims on units.

Are you making some kind of accusation?

[Kesch Soulslasher SK]

Was making no claim on my intelligence level. I was only giving people something to think about. But obviously you have a hard time thinking so I will forgive you.

I will say that yes I have a high self-esteem! Good Luck on yours!

[Trollbait]

It wouldn't be so ironic if you used some proper punctuation in the statement.

It is not like it is a quick post or anything. It is in your sig.

[Harlowe]

You know, that really garish thing at the bottom.

[ZanypherCocoapuffs]

Stole this from Barrin for a reason.

Kesch:

[Syeni Soulslasher MK6]

Zanypher ever try anything other then 640 x 480?

[Kesch Soulslasher SK]

OMFG! I had no idea this was english class! Congrats on that! Pardon me if improper punctuation bothers you! Now would you like posts in APA or MLA style? Possibly, you need more pictures. Okay, Thanks. Have a nice day!

And for those of you who are so concerned on the sig size get over it. I will shrink it when I have time. Some people have a family, work full time, and attend school full time. Unlike others who sit on their butts all day! Go do something worth doing for christ's sake! And for you bible thumpers yes, I did just take the lords name in vain. Believe me she will get over it!

Syeni, Thanks!

[Ddrak]

And for those of you who are so concerned on the sig size get over it. I will shrink it when I have time. Some people have a family, work full time, and attend school full time. Unlike others who sit on their butts all day!

Because clearly unchecking the 'attach signature' box is really that hard to do?

Dd

[Trollbait]

Quote:
And for those of you who are so concerned on the sig size get over it. I will shrink it when I have time. Some people have a family, work full time, and attend school full time. Unlike others who sit on their butts all day!

Because clearly unchecking the 'attach signature' box is really that hard to do?

Dd

Now my comment on your intelligence does not seem such a stretch, Kesch.

I think it is spelled "PWNED".

[Harlowe]

I guess it wouldn't occur to a cashier at Walmart that people with office jobs can post while at work.

[Relbeek Einre]

On that note, hi from an office job! (I work for the corporate HQ of a salon chain. Heh.)

[Kosaghn]

For the first time ever, I will be voting in this election.

Guess you can call me one of the sedate Americans that takes everything he's got for granted. I never cared. I followed town issues and process, but when it came to the big political picture, I never cared nor pretended to care.

I used to love it when people would spout things like "you know, hundreds of thousands of people died for the right to vote" or "(expletive) like you take this system for granted" or whatever politically minded people would use that day to try and point out what an ungrateful piece of whatever I am. I would simply expand the debate beyond the simple scope politically minded people believe is absolute, and take it from there.

Like I said, this year I'm voting. There is something different in the air. I don't think it's me. Maybe it's the people constantly knocking on my door every day wanting to discuss issues at hand. (This was not the case four years ago) Maybe it's the mob of young adults I have to walk through everyday downtown asking me if I'm registered and getting in my face about it (also not something I went through four years ago).

I walked by a group of people during lunch today. They were canvasing "millionaires for Bush!!!!" "Four more wars!!!". It really cracked me up.

This year is really strange. There is alot of energy. I can't quite define it. It's pretty obvious the war has a lot to do with what's going on, but I don't think it will stop after this election.

If anything, I think that the young adults are starting to take more of an interest in the "system" now that we're not just outsiders looking in. Throw in the internet and the instant communication that it allows, as well as the melding of minds that happen through this medium, and this year feels very different.

I think that this effect will go beyond this election into the next decade. I can tell you from experience that downtown Columbus is crazy with election fever. This has not been the case in the past. I wonder what percentage of people will vote this year compared to the last 16 years or so. I know I'm not the only non-voter who is taking an interest in this election.

Anyhoo... sorry, felt like babbling.


.KOS

[yutsano]

/agree Kos, and that to me is the single greatest result of this election; the repoiticization of the citizenry. Hell, maybe Embar will get his third party out of this after all!

[McBash]

I love liberals, honestly, I do.

They have the intelectual superiority that allows them to think for the rest of us, and the arrogance to tell us to like it.

At least they are open minded and reasonable, so long as you think just like they do.

Want to blame someone else for whats wrong in your life, or someone elses life? Vote democrat, cause afterall, its not your fault!

Big Brother can save you from yourself.....

McBash

[Relbeek Einre]

Poor McBash... expressing his political philosophy in Limbaugh-sized soundbites.

Assuming he's right about liberal feelings of intellectual superiority, he sure provides a potent example of WHY...

[McBash]

/snicker

McB

[Eidolon Faer]

For the first time ever, I will be voting in this election.

...

Like I said, this year I'm voting. There is something different in the air. I don't think it's me. Maybe it's the people constantly knocking on my door every day wanting to discuss issues at hand. (This was not the case four years ago) Maybe it's the mob of young adults I have to walk through everyday downtown asking me if I'm registered and getting in my face about it (also not something I went through four years ago).

I walked by a group of people during lunch today. They were canvasing "millionaires for Bush!!!!" "Four more wars!!!". It really cracked me up.

This year is really strange. There is alot of energy. I can't quite define it. It's pretty obvious the war has a lot to do with what's going on, but I don't think it will stop after this election.

...

.KOS

Actually, Kosaghn, I just read a piece that seemed to resonate with what you were saying, and I'd be curious to see if you agree or not. This is an excerpt from a FAQ on a website.

Why are you for going to war in Iraq?

The primary reason of course is national security. September 11 was a clarion call that America faces a new threat, a threat perhaps even more dangerous than the Soviet Union. That threat is Islamo-fascism.

Now due to a successful campaign in Afghanistan, the Taliban is no more, and Al-Qaeda was largely disrupted. We can also feel proud about removing Saddam and his murderous regime from the face of the earth, a humanitarian and benevolent act by any standard of morality. However, it is not enough to simply go after the terrorists and the tyrants, we must also change the conditions in which they thrive.

The reality is that Muslims are no different than any other group of people, in that when a society is run by tyranny, when there is no economic, social or civil liberty, this breeds frustration, poverty, alienation, and fear. The people in these countries, rather than look to themselves as the cause of their problems, instead need a scapegoat, an enemy, which the dictator is always happy to provide.

Take the issue of the Palestinians. The Arabs have six million square miles of land. They could give their Palestinian brothers a state tomorrow, and with one day's oil profits give every one of them a bar of gold. Instead, the Arab dictators prop up Arafat and his loathsome gang of oppressors, and brainwash their people to be pure monsters. When mothers happily send their children off to bomb buses and schools, this is not based on any rational grievance. No, this is endemic of a sick, utterly immoral, anti-life culture that serves only one purpose: to keep tyrants in power.

For the last 50 years, Israel has been the shock absorbers for Western Civilization, taking the blows, fighting the fight. But Islamic fundamentalism has escalated this war into a global clash of civilizations. It's similar to the Cold War in that it is Freedom vs. Statism, but what makes it even more dangerous is that Islamic terrorists are so utterly irrational, so willing to kill just for the sake of killing. This menace must be stopped.

So the best reason for going to war with Iraq is that it is time to start draining the swamp of Islamo-fascism. If we see this through, the rebuilding of Iraq as a free republic, then it is our hope that it will become a paragon of hope for that benighted region.

This is the only way we will ever achieve real national security. But it is more than just about our safety. It is about the moral duty of the greatest country in the history of this planet, the United States of America, to bring freedom to all corners of the globe. And we are the only ones capable of doing it.

Ultimately this is not a military battle, but a war of ideas, a clash of two diametrically opposed value systems: free markets and rule of law versus statist dictatorships and rule of men. That's why Iraq has become a line in the desert sand between those who want liberty and those who want power, and that is why we must prevail...

[McBash]

What a load of crap! There is only one good reason to have gone to war in Iraq, and that was to keep terrorist gun/bomb sights off of american soil.

If I actually thought that was the reason we went to war there, I might not actually hate it as much, but I think thats giving the 4 assed monkeys in the white house currently, far to much credit.

McBash