<p>ok, STOP JINXING IT GUYS!!! I hate it when overconfident obama supporters talk about him winning. He only has an 8 pt lead! that’s nothing. I’m not even gonna watch election coverage. I’m pretending McCain has won, and if turns out any different, I’ll be really happy…but I don’t want to be disappointed.</p>
<p>I know how you feel stargazer - I feel the same way. I am very hopeful, but very nervous too. Go Obama!!!</p>
<p>Dontno,
You, John McCain, Sarah Palin and every hating a** racist ********** who thinks anything like you can jump in front of the nearest moving bus (pretty please). Your time has run out…</p>
<p>And this is no time to be afraid Obama supporters!!! The country is moving in a new direction, and those old stinking mindsets that have been the driving force behind the decisions America has made for waaay too long now are dying a slow and painful death!!! Just watch how much drama comes about as a result of Obama winning the election. Hate must be confronted and dealt with, no matter how unpopular it makes you when you stand up to it. Obama is confident, and his supporters should also be. </p>
<p>There is nothing more upsetting than to listen to armchair pundits spit their b/s views about why they support McCain or how inadequate Obama is. McCain’s not going to win, he’s grossly overmatched and he’s about the lamest, unintelligent person to ever even make it this close to a nomination. Sarah Palin…nuff said.</p>
<p>Vulgarity is an idiot’s way of expressing himself forcefully.</p>
<p>…a little line I go by to hold myself back when I’m annoyed with people</p>
<p>^great line</p>
<p>The title of this thread is “cornellians for Obama”. So if you are not in favor of Obama, go start a “Cornellians for McCain” thread and rant there. Don’t ruin our day.</p>
<p>Obama '08</p>
<p>Cayuga Red: Amen! Warren Buffet aligned himself with Obama. That has to drive people like dontno up a wall for the most respected CAPITALIST in America to believe Obama is the right choice to lead this country. It’s gotta drive them nuts. </p>
<p>Dontno: You seem to think “liberal” is something negative. I think liberal is a badge of honor. I’d much rather “pal around” with a liberal than some Bush-Cheney-McCain wingnut.</p>
<p>My thoughts on McCain: I too liked him in 2000. But he’s sold his soul to Satan (the Republican base) to win the GOP nomination and their support in the general election. There is only one problem: you can’t win the GOP nutjob base and keep the respect of registered Independents like me. He chose the base. For that, he’s going to lose.</p>
<p>Think of the future GOP. The country is becoming MORE diverse not less. The GOP’s lily-white base is shrinking. Even Hispanics and Asians have deserted them for Obama. How does the Republican Party remain a political force into the future? By 2042, this country will be only 49% white, non-Hispanic, and they aren’t all Republicans. A lot of white people are Democrats and Independents. A lot of white people are liberals. The GOP is headed toward permanent irrelevance unless they can find a way to make their party more appealing to…ahem…a more “diverse” group of folks. BUt their positions on critical issues turn off 45% of the white population and about 90% of everybody else. Unless they start importing more right wing Russians, they are headed for extinction.</p>
<p>I"m going to enjoy watching it.</p>
<p>^^Not that I didn’t expect a response from anyone, but you can’t diminish what’s about to happen. I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!!! </p>
<p>Also, don’t believe the vulgarity, as you call it, isn’t very knowing and intentional and willful. When you play a game, you don’t play that game to your disadvantage. I love how I’m viewed, cause I’m not looking for friends. I’m looking to confront those who try to hide who they are. </p>
<p>This is about people who felt they could engage in intellectual trash talk to express hate, then hide their intentions by labeling it “discourse.” Some of us have the heart to confront those people head on, regardless of who doesn’t like it. Also, this is not about style-points. It’s about truth prevailing over b/s.</p>
<p>
K, here’s the thing s.dot: I support Obama, I’m open about it, I like discussing politics with other rational people…but I’m not overconfident like you that he’s gonna win. If this country could reelect Bush 4 years ago, they can definitely turn away a candidate opponents describe as a “black socialist muslim terrorist” (1/4 is half true…). So no, I’m not over confident. I want him to win really badly, but I realize a slightly lead in the weeks upcoming the election means nothing.</p>
<p>stargazerlilies: a man in my town describes obama as a “black panther commie whitey hating puke” </p>
<p>TEXAS FTW</p>
<p>wow, I guess you can’t reason with people like that.
I have no problem with people who voted for McCain because they agree with his economic/domestic/foreign policies, but that just takes the cake.</p>
<p>Here’s the problem ResurgemBell & stargazerlilies: Are people who have said those things about Obama being rational? Are they not racist scumbags, or are they informed American’s who are expressing their honest, oh so humble opinions about how America can regain the trust of its citizens? I am not giving them a pass, period. </p>
<p>How can people be so irrational, yet, be the first to point fingers at Rev. Wright or Farrakhan? It shows more than anything the levels of intolerance people have with African-Americans who speak out about the way our country has conspired against us for centuries. Anyone who’s had those things to say about Obama, they either wear white sheets or support those who do because they’ve been heavily influenced by them. Obama HAS to win so that the message can be sent that those old stinking mindsets are FINALLY becoming a minority in this country. </p>
<p>Racists, politicians and power brokers, oftentimes one-in-the-same, have ruined this country with their rhetoric, deception and lies for too long. And they have the nerve to try and package all that as “discourse” and healthy discussion. I’m not worried about what anyone on this site could ever think about me, I’m only a screen name. My hope is for the crooks to get the hell out of office, to see character and integrity have meaning in this country again, and for Black people to finally be able to consider that they can aspire for the highest office this land has to offer. </p>
<p>And the thing I admire most about Obama is, with everything that has been thrown at him, he’s handled it with more aplomb, class and courage than anyone on this earth would have in his shoes. ONLY MLK could have performed as well under the circumstances. The average candidate would have crumbled under all those ridiculous lies and accusations. </p>
<p>I’m not Barack Obama, and I don’t profess to be. That means I will fight fire with fire, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. Remember, some of us have to be this way for the better of the whole. People like dontno, that idiot in TX with his black panther commie whitey hating puke comment, and whoever referred to Obama as a “black socialist muslim terrorist” need to be silenced, and this election will send them running to the hills (or to the caves). </p>
<p>And one other thing - The Bush administration needs to be tried and hung for all the atrocities they’ve committed in their pursuit of world domination and oil, just like they did Sadaam Hussein!!</p>
<p>Hmm… I haven’t read any of the posts because I think that’s too time-consuming. This is coming from an prospective international student: the world is seeing Sarah Palin as a joke; all my teachers today just made fun of Sarah Palin.</p>
<p>I just wanna say Shifu Yoda that, despite some of the attitude you may have gotten from some on the Penn site, that you would absolutely love Penn. It has absolutely been at the forefront of campus political activity during this entire election, and famous politicians frequent the campus like they attend classes (funny, but Obama has been the only notable absence during my time here). I can just imagine how it was 60 years ago when college campuses were hotbeds of political activity, cause I see it here on Penn’s campus, everyday since the beginning of last school year.</p>
<p>I don’t see how my attitude toward Penn have anything to do with my post above. I don’t see what you’re getting at here.</p>
<p>I’m getting at nothing at all, I was just trying to be conversational. Please, take the post as nothing more than an attempt to describe the political atmosphere on Penn’s campus. If I offended you, it was unintentional.</p>
<p>I think Shifu found it random that you would suddenly suggest that they would love Penn, when Shifu said nothing about a desire for political awareness on college campuses, nor did it have anything to do with the topic at hand: Cornellians for Obama.
That’s all.</p>
<p>S.dot just thought that you go to Penn, but you are a prospective student, right? So that’s what her post is about.</p>
<p>Shifu - a lot of teachers in the U.S make fun of Palin as well. My sister goes to a public HS and since they can’t endorse a particular candidate, they’re more subtle about it, little jokes, snide remarks, you know. My professors at NYU openly mock her.</p>
<p>Trackbabi, I’m a junior in the College, Annenberg. It was a random suggestion I made to Shifu, nothing meant to incite, so I’m moving past that cause that wasn’t my main reason for bringing this thread back up and I had no ill-intention towards Shifu. Those who’ve drawn my ire on this thread know exactly who they are. Or, maybe they dontno…</p>
<p>You are hilarious, s.dot.</p>
<p>I have been reading some of these posts and I can’t help but adore you. However, reign in the temper; you’re comments can sometime sound insulting, mean, and even childish. You make great points but they are drowned out by your tone. You remind me of my mother. She’s hilarious, too.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>(No sarcasm intended. I only shed love.)</p>