Today in Joystiq: May 7, 2008

and GO MAGIC!!

these clowns are hating on you man

I got ya back on this one

OBAMA in 08 forget everything else you heard

I say to the other countries Put up or Shut up. If you don't want the US to be the world police then you put up the money and soldiers for it.

and anyone who supports ron paul didn't get an education at all

it rhymes

Just like those conservative Republicans say...

Communists, Socialists, Liberals, Democrats...keep on changing the name, but you'll always be the same.

ConfusedGam3r, I doubt you even know what a real liberal is(fun fact, none of them are really serving in office except maybe Kucinich!)

I support Obama as I find pointless wars and the will to fight them for 100 years kind of scary and Hilary is just awful. Obama is also the only candidate who doens't support the cutting of the gas tax as cutting that would be an awful idea. Theres really no arguing with Conservatives though, the only thing they care about is holding on to their money, watching the country go down the shitter, and basing the legacy of a president on things that have little to do with his run in office or policies.

Also, if you want public schools to stop leaning left then maybe perhaps you should stop passing awful bills such as the No Child Left Behind act and maybe throw them a few bones to teach these kids while they're at it.

Cox Attack is not only elitist for insulting clingers but is sexually assaulting us.

@ Jake11, I love how you say it would be Ron Paul's fault for no education. Do you commend Obama for leaving the responsibility of games to the parents? Yet, are you against leaving the responsibility of education to the parents?

Not only do my parents pay taxes for other peoples children to go to school, but they also paid for my private school education. Is this fair?

My father would have to work 60 to 80 hours a week to afford my private school education. I rarely saw him in my teen years and he missed nearly all my basketball and baseball games because he wanted to give me better than he had. He sacraficed for it. I feel sorry for people whose parents do not care enough to make those sacrafices. There is no accountability at public schools. I live in California where we have some of the highest taxes and our school system is a joke.

@ Cox Attacks,
You're exactly what I'm talking about. So you're against the war. How do you think the government funds this war? Hmm... through our taxes. So you want to elect someone that WILL tax people even MORE to fund the very government that you disagreed with on how your money is spent in the first place? How hypocritical. This is the problem with a 2 party system. They're too much a like for there to be any REAL CHANGE.

After Obama spoke at the DNC in 2K4, the media has built him up so high. Like I said, "Keep drinking the Kool-Aid". Be a good consumer and believe everything TV tells you.

It's people like Smoke_Dawg that make me weep for the future of humanity.

Well not really, but he still is pretty stupid.

It's people like Joeshie that remind me of that movie Idiocracy.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

If you haven't rented it yet, please do. Joeshie is most likely Frito from the movie.

The dumb keep breeding the dumb or the Joeshies rather.

i had a public school education but i don't support obama. i support him over hillary rodDAMN clinton, but i'm kinda worried obama might be the antichrist ... or at least the manchurian candidate. either way, he's still the lesser of two evils

its too bad that us working class contributors to society have to keep pissing money away into extremely overly abused "government aid programs" to keep the crackhoes and trailer trash well paid to breed more of themselves. for some reason, the ignorant and degenerate scum of the US are entitled to their checks so they can put rims on their dead grandma's cadillac (with the handicap tag) and so they can get more sudafed to fuel their clandestine meth labs.
the setting of idiocracy is, i fear, the future of this country.

Smoke Dawg, I dont think you could make a worthwhile contribution to a pissing contest, not to mention a debate over the future of your country.

If you think that I will respect your opinion because you are not afraid to be insulting, then you might be a good warrior but you are not a good citizen. Go fuck yourself. See that was really easy too. Go stay poor, you miserable schmuck.

Colin:

Well-put. We have lots of rim-riders around here who have no purpose in life...I say it's time we let natural selection kick in so the rest of us can stop working to feed the worthless.

Thankfully, I'm going to defect to OUTER HAVEN.

What? It's not real? Damnit. Canada it is, then. :(

What is all this anti-christ bullshit I keep hearing about obama? So a politician that at least on outer appearances is not a complete corrupt douchebag is satan now?

Everyone seems to forget that more or less we can't get any worse than we are now short of the complete collapse of the country thanks to bush and his republican cronies. Whether you're for hilldog or obama doesn't matter as long as you're not for bush 2.0 (read: McCain)

Antichrist is overused today they said Bush was then people were saying Mccain. Can we just wait until someone gets their chest blown out on the news and heals them self to say they're the antichrist...

Obama: "+1 woot!"

Are you then saying it should be Grand Theft Hope or Grand Joke?

I want change...

...but I won't tell you how I'll do it.

John McCain for President because he won't make me pay for some one else's mortgage.

No one should take his sheep comment as racist. There are black sheep as well as white wooled sheep. That observation brought to you from a PC.

John McCain for president and you won't have to worry about paying for someone else's mortgage cause you won't be able to afford yours, unless you're filthy rich in which case the republicans let you slide.

He's said before he's going to continue Bush's economic policies. Uhh I don't know if he's noticed, but ours is on the verge of collapsing. Seriously whoever votes for McCain is pretty damn stupid. Or rich.

Hmmmm... I read a lot of stupid comments on this web blog, but that comment was one of, if not the stupidest comment I've ever read.

He's popular because of the ignorant youth that have grown up on the left wing public school system. It's also because he's, supposedly "not corrupt" due to his "lack of experience."

Confused,

For your perusal, consider the following allegations by Obama campaign manager David Plouffe:

"I mean the vast, vast majority of voters who would not vote for Barack Obama in November based on race are probably firmly in John McCain's camp already."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/25/obama-campaign-manager-not-worried-about-race/

He is suggesting that people who don't vote for Obama are racists and he's a high-up with Obama!

I'm not taking the side of one candidate or another, I'm not necessarily even agreeing with Ninja's comment. My point is that before you call someone else's comment stupid, at least do your homework.

Remember, I never said all of his popularity, but he has gained a noticeable increase in it merely because he may be the first non-white (well half-white), American President. He would still probably be popular, but I bet you he'd have less hype if he was fully white. I am sure he has gained many votes merely because of his race, especially from African-Americans without looking any further into who he really is, which is a real shame, especially from the youth vote.

Your reason is absolutely correct as well, but there's no need for name-calling. : )

Lone Starr - Please tell me you're not dumb enough to believe what you just said. Just in case, let me rephrase Plouffe's comment:
"The vast majority of voters who are anti-Obama because he is black, are probably in the McCain camp."
In other words, anyone who is prejudiced against Obama by his skin color is likely to vote for Obama's opponent, McCain.
I hope you see this is not the same as calling anyone who doesn't vote for Obama a racist!

You all sound kinda scared. Whats up with that?

Plouffe's comment was about people who are voting on the basis of race only. He is not at all suggesting that if you dont vote for Obama are racists. He is saying that racists will not vote for him on principle (DUH!).

If you are not a racists, you will see that Obama is actually a brilliant man, who is interested in finding solutions and directions of development that will strengthen the country and put in back on the course of prosperity.

He can also speak without pwning himself every three words and appears to be able to think with his head and not with his nuts or with Dick Cheney's head. That is a truly refreshing thing.

He is also the only one who has managed not to become bitter about the whole thing, unlike McCain, Hillary or you. Dont worry, you private school education will remain superior even if Obama is president. Although I dont really see any evidence of its superiority in your comments - only ideological indoctrination, maybe couple with promise of future riches for faithful adherence.

Ninjakamster - You believe that there are voters who will vote for Obama primarily because he is black. Let me ask you, do you think the number of such voters will be less than or greater than the number who will vote against him for the same reason?
Before you answer remember that until very recently the very idea of a black man becoming president was virtually unthinkable - why was that, again?

tung, korova,

What he says is totally unsubstantiated. You miss my point totally. People say this race isn't about race when Plouffe makes it about race. Look at Korova's comment:

"If you are not a racists, you will see that Obama is actually a brilliant man."

So people who disagree with Obama are racists? This is exactly my point. Plouffe is saying 1)Republicans are racists and 2)bringing up race which I believe Obama didn't want this to be about. I'm not saying all people who vote for Obama are racists, which you foolishly assumed. All I'm saying is that Obama's camp is dismissing people who don't vote for him as racists (when they have no idea how large that segment is).

You blind idealogues.

Lone starr

You are making a mistake of logic.

What Plouffe said is that Racists wont vote for Obama because they are Racists. It may be that even if they were not racists, they wouldnt vote for him anyway. Or if McCain held Obama's positions they wouldnt vote for him, BUT since they are racists, that will probably stop them for considering anything but Obama's race. Its like a lithmus test.

It does not follow that anyone who does not vote for him is a racist. They may disagree with him. Plenty of people do. Its just that those people will be on the same side of the decision as racists, but hey that happens sometimes.

Some people voted for Bush because they would rather have him to dinner than Kerry, while other voted for him because he is nice to oil companies. It doesnt mean that they all hate the environment.

I am not assuming that people who vote for Obama are racist. Where do you get that?

Lone starr

You are making a mistake of logic.

What Plouffe said is that Racists wont vote for Obama because they are Racists. It may be that even if they were not racists, they wouldnt vote for him anyway. Or if McCain held Obama's positions they wouldnt vote for him, BUT since they are racists, that will probably stop them for considering anything but Obama's race. Its like a lithmus test.

It does not follow that anyone who does not vote for him is a racist. They may disagree with him. Plenty of people do. Its just that those people will be on the same side of the decision as racists, but hey that happens sometimes.

Some people voted for Bush because they would rather have him to dinner than Kerry, while other voted for him because he is nice to oil companies. It doesnt mean that they all hate the environment.

I am not assuming that people who vote for Obama are racist. Where do you get that?

And where were you when bush and cheney convinced the country that iraq had WMD, which were never there, and caused 9/11 which it never did, and that the mission is over, which it still isnt? Where you in france or something?

That was drones.

People just agree with Obama and hope that he gets the job. By the way, most people with any kind of money are behind him all the way. Why do you think he is busting fundraising records? Its only the poor, the fundamentalist and other hapless idiots who cant make their way down a straight hallway without stumbling that are clinging to what their party machines are telling them. They are the drones.

People are voting for obama cause out of the 3 he's the only one that *might* bring things in a new direction.

McCain is just another Bush republican, the real anti-christ if you want to call anyone that.

Hilldog is hit or miss with some issues and has virtually no credibility left.

The only thing republicans can get on Obama so far is that crazy asshole preacher and what HE said, not anything that Obama said.

I'll take my chances with that instead of a liar/flip-flopper and someone who wants to keep the country going the same direction it is now so we can collapse.

Thank you tmacairjordan. I can't believe how cynical people are around here. Here's the first real candidate since RFK who *seems* like he actually means what he says, yet people are STILL cynical as all hell. I don't get it.

Don't forget the communists invaded them! Gotta use that argument.

Don't worry about that confused guy he's just worried that someone other than a corrupt money grabbing republican will be president.

There's a difference between "smart" and "ignorant." Only knowing about one side is being "ignorant," as I stated in my comment.