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Title: Well, THERE is a new standard for "foreign influence" on the election...
Post by: Manedwolf on October 30, 2008, 07:04:48 AM
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Palestinian Ibrahim Abu Jayab, 24, is seen next to his computer, in his family house in Nusayrat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008. A young Palestinian in a Gaza refugee camp is doing his part to get out the vote for Barack Obama. With a little help from the Internet, 24-year-old Ibrahim Abu Jayab is cold calling random American families from his parent's home imploring them to vote Obama.
(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)


http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//081028/481/1caabe54532f44d592c6db0934f62302/ (http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//081028/481/1caabe54532f44d592c6db0934f62302/)

What the HELL?!  :mad:

I also want to know exactly who is paying for the presumed VoIP being used. Someone is funding this.

Who?
Title: Re: Well, THERE is a new standard for "foreign influence" on the election...
Post by: longeyes on October 30, 2008, 11:17:43 AM
And I want to know why the Bush DOJ is sitting on its ass watching irregularities unfold in campaign financing and voter registration?
Title: Re: Well, THERE is a new standard for "foreign influence" on the election...
Post by: Manedwolf on October 30, 2008, 11:23:35 AM
And I want to know why the Bush DOJ is sitting on its ass watching irregularities unfold in campaign financing and voter registration?

Summary:

Democrats: cheat cheat cheat LIE CHEAT MANIPULATE LIE LIE LIE LIE

Republicans: durr? hay is Palin going off message? Fix that.
Title: Re: Well, THERE is a new standard for "foreign influence" on the election...
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on October 30, 2008, 11:28:59 AM
Summary:

Democrats: cheat cheat cheat LIE CHEAT MANIPULATE LIE LIE LIE LIE

Republicans: durr? hay is Palin going off message? Fix that.
No kidding.  The Republican Party is becoming increasingly incompetent.  If they continue at this rate, pretty soon they'll be no different than the Libertarian Party.

:P
Title: Re: Well, THERE is a new standard for "foreign influence" on the election...
Post by: longeyes on October 30, 2008, 11:32:53 AM
I realize the Republicans are too busy making their martinis to worry about the theft of the country, but maybe they should be worrying about the questions that are going to be echoing forward, loudly, about this Election.  Grumblings among the masses.  There is the small issue of LEGITIMACY.   That could spell serious social trouble ahead.  Not only will Obama not have a mandate, he is going to look like a usurper.
Title: Re: Well, THERE is a new standard for "foreign influence" on the election...
Post by: MicroBalrog on October 30, 2008, 11:33:25 AM
Is this sort of thing legal?
Title: Re: Well, THERE is a new standard for "foreign influence" on the election...
Post by: Viking on October 30, 2008, 12:43:19 PM
Is this sort of thing legal?
De jure? Don't know, probably not. De facto, since no one does anything about it if it is illegal? Yes.
Title: Re: Well, THERE is a new standard for "foreign influence" on the election...
Post by: longeyes on October 30, 2008, 01:40:00 PM
How long before we permit everyone on the planet to vote in our elections?  Are we not citizens of the world?

There has been a lot of foreign influence on this election--Mexican meddling is a prime example--but unfortunately neither Party seems willing to make an issue out of it, not with possible votes at stake.
Title: Re: Well, THERE is a new standard for "foreign influence" on the election...
Post by: HankB on October 30, 2008, 02:13:10 PM
Summary:
Democrats: cheat cheat cheat LIE CHEAT MANIPULATE LIE LIE LIE LIE
Republicans: durr? hay is Palin going off message? Fix that.
No kidding.  The Republican Party is becoming increasingly incompetent.  If they continue at this rate, pretty soon they'll be no different than the Libertarian Party.
Ann Coulter termed the GOP The Stupid Party for a reason . . . she also stated that while she didn't want them to become screaming lunatics like Howard Dean, she'd at least like to see them behave like men once in a while and fight for their platform.

And Bernie Goldberg wrote a book "Crazies to the left of me, wimps on the right" which alludes to the weakness of the GOP.
Title: Re: Well, THERE is a new standard for "foreign influence" on the election...
Post by: MicroBalrog on October 30, 2008, 02:15:06 PM
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And Bernie Goldberg wrote a book "Crazies to the left of me, wimps on the right" which alludes to the weakness of the GOP.

If there were a generic one-word expression for one "whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory", it would be "Republican".
Title: Re: Well, THERE is a new standard for "foreign influence" on the election...
Post by: seeker_two on October 30, 2008, 02:43:50 PM
And I want to know why the Bush DOJ is sitting on its ass watching irregularities unfold in campaign financing and voter registration?

Because he left so many Clinton appointees in their jobs to run things while he focused solely on the WOT....and forgot about the "domestic" part of the "defending from enemies foreign and domestic" part of his oath....remember Tennent and Mineta?....
Title: Re: Well, THERE is a new standard for "foreign influence" on the election...
Post by: roo_ster on October 30, 2008, 02:45:28 PM
And I want to know why the Bush DOJ is sitting on its ass watching irregularities unfold in campaign financing and voter registration?

seeker beat me to it.

Personnel is policy.

Title: Re: Well, THERE is a new standard for "foreign influence" on the election...
Post by: MechAg94 on October 30, 2008, 03:12:14 PM
Personally, I don't think it is that Republicans don't care, it is that too many of them still care what the media thinks and they always get slapped down in the media when they go after stuff like this.  They aren't willing to stand for their principles (if any) despite bad press.