Comments on: It is important to vote https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/13/it-is-important-to-vote/ Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:06:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: R.L. Schaefer https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/13/it-is-important-to-vote/#comment-495938 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:06:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14218#comment-495938 “It Is Important to Vote”

Uh…. Only if you have common sense. Otherwise you elect a ninkumpoop, uttering bumper sticker slogans and promising to save the planet and stop the seas from rising (which it’s been doing for 11000 years).

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/13/it-is-important-to-vote/#comment-495937 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:45:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14218#comment-495937 Holy crap.

]]> By: Birger Johansson https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/13/it-is-important-to-vote/#comment-495936 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:02:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14218#comment-495936 Greg, have you seen this?:
Audio: Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy http://www.thenation.com/article/170841/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy#
(many Republicans deny the interview ever happened!)

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/13/it-is-important-to-vote/#comment-495935 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:49:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14218#comment-495935 Eric, reading is your friend, though I admit my sentence is dense. GB and his friend created that recession. As you don’t remember apparently, they then stood t the door kicking the economy onto the street footprint the next year after the election in which Obama won the presidency

]]> By: Mauro https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/13/it-is-important-to-vote/#comment-495934 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:38:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14218#comment-495934 A citizen should see voting as his/her duty, not only as a right.
I’m Italian, not US-American, but if you understand Italian you can read what I wrote about this issue on my blog: http://pensieri-eretici.blogspot.de/2012/11/lunico-voto-sempre-e-comunque-sbagliato.html
Cheers,
Mauro.

]]> By: Eric https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/13/it-is-important-to-vote/#comment-495933 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:41:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14218#comment-495933 Oh. I thought that when you said “the Republicans have been deliberately creating actual crises” you meant that they deliberately created the crisis. Thanks for clearing that up!

]]> By: Birger Johansson https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/13/it-is-important-to-vote/#comment-495932 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:27:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14218#comment-495932 But if you grant Tennessee independence, you are abandoning a lot of non-Republicans to a bitter fate.
VENTING RAGE ! See story: “Why the Grand Bargain Is One-Sided and Totally Unfair” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/fiscal-cliff-grand-bargain_b_2115597.html
Now that the Big Liar is defeated, can we please stop pretending Obama is great? (that the Republican congressmen are corrupt should go without saying, but the Democrats apparently are Republican Lite)

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/13/it-is-important-to-vote/#comment-495931 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:39:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14218#comment-495931 No, they did not manufacture this recession for that purpose. But examine closely what the Bush administration and the Republicans did in their final days.

]]> By: Eric https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/13/it-is-important-to-vote/#comment-495930 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:58:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14218#comment-495930 If you think the republicans deliberately manufactured the recession just to f*ck with a democratic president who hadn’t even been elected yet, then you’re nuts. I’m a liberal Obama voter who generally dislikes most of policies advanced by Bush Jr. But I think your take on recent history is wacko.

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