Is the glass half empty or half full?

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  • audome25
    audome25 Posts: 163
    my2hands wrote:
    "i am FIGHTING for the world and what is right because i am voting for Ralph Nader"



    bwahahahahahahahaha... who brought the stand up comedian? :D


    i cant wait until November 8th when reality sets in... again


    glad to see you still don't have a clue. will that first original thought come in the the next ten thousand? stay tuned...
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    The reality that nothing has changed... again?


    Yeah but It says change on all his posters...

    It's easier to just read, and follow along and pencil in the magic X where they tell you to...

    thinking against the MSM "status quo" gets complicated....

    ...people get cranky outside the box...must not get people cranky..

    tsk..
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • Abuskedti
    Abuskedti Posts: 1,917
    audome25 wrote:
    i was unaware he would be bringing that administration back.

    well, the party rode Bush as far as he would take them.. with McCain as a major cheerleader
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    The reality that nothing has changed... again?


    I know. They don't see it for what ever reason. No matter how much McCain and Obama's votes look the same, policies look the same, contributors look the same.... one is still a Democrat instead of a Republican! That's really an extremely good pitch, it appears!
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Abuskedti wrote:
    well, the party rode Bush as far as he would take them.. with McCain as a major cheerleader


    They are plenty on here that cheerlead for Obama but say they don't agree with a lot that he has done.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    I know. They don't see it for what ever reason. No matter how much McCain and Obama's votes look the same, policies look the same, contributors look the same.... one is still a Democrat instead of a Republican! That's really an extremely good pitch, it appears!
    The little letter beside their name isn't the same! That's very important! Especially when it's pretty much the only way of telling them apart! :D
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    The little letter beside their name isn't the same! That's very important! Especially when it's pretty much the only way of telling them apart! :D


    I like the way the D looks....it's part of what makes these :D so I think I'll go with that! :p See, I had to use a p to make that one...there's certainly no smilie made with an R!
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    I like the way the D looks....it's part of what makes these :D so I think I'll go with that! :p See, I had to use a p to make that one...there's certainly no smilie made with an R!
    If there was a smilie made with an R, it'd probably be an old white man smoking a cigar. :p
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    If there was a smilie made with an R, it'd probably be an old white man smoking a cigar. :p

    White guys do things with cigars be they a D or and R.
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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    White guys do things with cigars be they a D or and R.
    But Demmiecrats do it in a new and exciting way, baby!
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    But Demmiecrats do it in a new and exciting way, baby!


    No, they get caught is all...a trait known for phonies.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    "Cowardice askes the question:"Is it safe"?
    Expediency asks the question:"Is it politic"?
    Vanity asks the question:"Is it popular?"
    But conscience asks the question:"Is it right?"
    And there comes a time when one must take a position that is
    neither safe, nor politic, nor popular
    but one must take it because one's conscience tells one what is right.

    "

    - Martin Luther King -
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    I never thought about this question this way before, but here is my answer


    if drinking my glass is half empty, if pouring into my glass, half full.

    really it is that simple

    If pouring into my mouth half empty.
  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    We have a broken system. Voting for either of the two major parties only continues fueling the fire. Until people start looking in a different direction, none of our serious problems will go away. Congress (Dems and Reps) look to accomplish two main things: keep things even so they don't piss off the public so much they get out of control and get re-elected. Other than that, basically, the tie between the business sector and government overseight (or lack their of), fill in the rest. People keep expecting a "savior" to be elected and change things - but their unrealistic. We have a broken system which is predicated on the notion that money fixes all and that citizens have to look out for themselves, all the while, the government is the one setting the climate of the nation (poor economy, poor security - ie failed state). Education, the environment, campaign financing, election/voting fraud - all signs of our broken system. Want to know why we don't have good leaders? Garbage in the system - garbage out of the system (george carlin line).
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • kenny olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    it's both half full and half empty so vote for everyone, and everyone wins.

    and now i have some more fields of flowers to go prance through. la de da.
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Kenny Olav wrote:
    it's both half full and half empty so vote for everyone, and everyone wins.

    and now i have some more fields of flowers to go prance through. la de da.


    Okay...

    the 2 major parties have our best interests at heart and represent us in this democracy. It's really working out so well for us this way!


    joins kenny in the flower fields to prance. ;)
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • Thecure
    Thecure Posts: 814
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    Okay...

    the 2 major parties have our best interests at heart and represent us in this democracy. It's really working out so well for us this way!


    joins kenny in the flower fields to prance. ;)

    i would say that the people who vote for Obama or McCain or Nader do believe that those people believe that they represent them in teh democracy.

    i believe that teh post should read "the 2 major parties have my best interests at heart and represent me in this democracy. it's really working for me this way." i think if we start to understand that people vote for who they believe in no mater the reason they feel we should say "eh, those people are different than me" i think it is the job of people like you and all of us to talk to people abotu who they should vote for.
    People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
    - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

    If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."
    - Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Thecure wrote:
    i would say that the people who vote for Obama or McCain or Nader do believe that those people believe that they represent them in teh democracy.

    i believe that teh post should read "the 2 major parties have my best interests at heart and represent me in this democracy. it's really working for me this way." i think if we start to understand that people vote for who they believe in no mater the reason they feel we should say "eh, those people are different than me" i think it is the job of people like you and all of us to talk to people abotu who they should vote for.

    I agree. But that's what frustrates me the most...seeing people say how they don't agree with so much of what their candidate has done but then say he is the only option.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • Thecure
    Thecure Posts: 814
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    I agree. But that's what frustrates me the most...seeing people say how they don't agree with so much of what their candidate has done but then say he is the only option.

    that my friend is what you call the "end of democracy". i remember seeing one person sig here which said that he would not trust anyone who coudl make it as president. is that the not the saddest thing you have ever heard?
    People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
    - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

    If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."
    - Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Thecure wrote:
    that my friend is what you call the "end of democracy". i remember seeing one person sig here which said that he would not trust anyone who coudl make it as president. is that the not the saddest thing you have ever heard?


    Yeah, it's a pretty powerless and pessimistic view to have especially since we are the one's who get to pick the president. Umm, I guess people are still of the mindset that the corporate bought candidates are the only options we have and that we truly don't live in a democracy also they must be play with this because I'm not seeing too much of a struggle. That's the only way I know how to explain it.

    How can we only have 2 options and those 2 are both controlled by corporate money...and yet the masses still think that these candidates will look out for our best interests over the corporations who are paying them not to?

    'It don't take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.'

    Sheesh people, wake up!
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde

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