Posts by Che Tibby
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kyle, i heard troll-food is on sale at mitre-10 mega. assuming you run out.
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'Bwwwaaaarrrr!!1!! Who are these billy goats gruff!"
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james:
A hard left activist who seemed to only associate with the most radical and dodgy of characters
you see, he's talking, but all i can hear is "clip clop clap! who's that walking on MY bridge!"
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jose said:
Did anyone else think Obama's speech was a bit lame? As in it could have been any speech during his campaign?
yup. i was not engaged at all until he got to the bob the builder bit.
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Do we have television in New Zealand?
Who needs them?
we were "the people perched around a radio", meaning we got the full speeches in both cases, unadulterated, and no flashy pictures to water down what the candidates were actually saying.
did you know that it's a tradition that a president *has* to have a dog? because "fur a man ta be ryte in the head, he's needs him a dawg" </texas accent>
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The fact that he delivered it well and sounded like a half-decent human being shouldn't disguise the people he represented during this campaign, and the compromises he made with his own, much-vaunted, integrity to secure the Republican 'base'.
well, that's kind of my point. i heard a guy who having the shackles of representing those people being lifted of his shoulders.
because... well... he can't do it himself...
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My sentimental part has been tearing up all day with accounts of African Americans at the polls who never thought this day would come.
amen. i'd give anything to see what the turn-out in tyler, texas was like. i loved living in that town, but learned there what deep-seated racism was really like.
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what leg said.
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McCain actually gave me goose-bumps.
And I'd never rated him much before at all.
well, that's exactly it. i wondered, "maybe *this* is why the guy got as close as he did?"
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To guy who's saying goodbye always has an easier job than the guy who's saying hallo.
yeah, but i felt that mccain's speech was much more heart-felt. whereas obama peaked then dipped into something his speechwriters wrote, then peaked again.
</firmly cynical>