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#1 2008-08-17 2:07 pm
- radarman
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Are we really that stupid
http://officeofstrategicinfluence.com/blog2/111
Ok, if you are making more than $5 million/yr, this doesn't apply to you. For the rest of us, it would appear that McCain is counting on our stupidity.
Of course, he's probably right...
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#2 2008-08-17 2:39 pm
- Ice Cream Man
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Re: Are we really that stupid
Yes, we are really that stupid.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. -- Isaac Asimov
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#3 2008-08-17 2:50 pm
- sturner
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Re: Are we really that stupid
That's why most of the conservative population who can only dream of making more than 80K a year will vote for their tax cuts with McCain.
"There were places in the world commemorating those times when wizards hadn't been quite as clever [as to refrain from doing magic when you knew how easy it was], and on many of them the grass would never grow again." Terry Prachett
There are 3 types of people, those who can count and those who can't.
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#5 2008-08-17 10:15 pm
Re: Are we really that stupid
Raising taxes on the wealthy would be disastrous--is would mean a severe cutting back of experimental pharmaceutical placebos shoved down our throats to cure us of the stress and depression of poverty!
...having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76, now look to a single and splendid government of an aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures, commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry. -- TJ
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#6 2008-08-17 10:54 pm
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Re: Are we really that stupid
Better?
"One thing we've learned is there's a difference between being disappointed and having madmen in authority."
--Paul Krugman
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#7 2008-08-17 10:58 pm
- radarman
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Re: Are we really that stupid
Well, you know, the more I think about it, the more I believe McCain may be right.
Consider that our wee republic has a representative democracy, meaning that we elect representatives that, ideally, mirror our society. Consider again that Congress is largely comprised of mentally deficient imbeciles with the IQ's of eggplants, and the discipline of a bull on Viagra.
Not a pretty picture, is it? 
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