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Christopher Alan Miller
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Posted: 27 October 2008 at 8:51am | IP Logged | 1  

McCain in a coffin and Palin holding a gun. How fun.

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1506520-san-franci sco/image/20448741

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I need some clarification on the US voting process because this http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/26/voter.suppression/ind ex.html
really freaked me out.

In the recent Canadian election I had yet to obtain an ALberta driver's license, but I was able register at the poll in my new riding with my old license, a current utility bill and a second piece of ID. I voted alongside everyone else without my vote being considered a "provisional or challenge" ballot.

Can Americans not do the same at their polls as I did? If not does that not strike a bit of fear regarding the whole process?

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Michael Roberts
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Posted: 27 October 2008 at 9:16am | IP Logged | 3  

Can Americans not do the same at their polls as I did? If not does that not strike a bit of fear regarding the whole process?

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Some states allow you to register at the polls, but for most states, the deadline is one to four weeks before the election.
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Neil Lindholm
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Was watching CNN and the Syrian Ambassador called the American attack in Syria that killed eight civilians "terrorist aggression". Killing farmers and children on a raid on foreign soil? Has the US government totally lost it? Do they honestly believe that these tactics will help their cause?

terrorism (from dictionary.com)

n.   The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.


Sounds about right.
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Jodi Moisan
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Posted: 27 October 2008 at 10:00am | IP Logged | 5  

The political displays are wrong.

Mike the picture you posted of the lynching, that happened in my home town, my grandparents remembered that sad sad crime. My grandmother knew the girl that accused those young men of rape, said she was nothing but a lying whore. They were outraged they were taken out of their jail cell to be lynched. One young man that was spared, when a woman in the crowd yelled for them to stop, wrote a book about the details.



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Bill Dowling
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Neil: I'm pretty sure that in common international parlance you need to not be wearing a country's military uniform to be a terrorist.

There's also a difference between an attack with the intent of harming civilians and an attack with the unintended result of harming civilians.
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I was just sent this by a friend, and wanted to display this here before you all hear it from other sources:

http://www.cnnbcvideo.com/index.html?nid=5lgvJJA7XIlclq62s_t 68jc1Nzk2MA--&referred_by=4978951-Hnv0o_x

It's true: I'm a no good slacker who single-handedly gave McCain the election. I ask for your forgiveness.

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Bruce Buchanan
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The facts surrounding the U.S. raid into Syria are still in dispute.

Yes, Syria is claiming that the raid killed several civilians. If true, that certainly is awful. But U.S. and Iraqi officials are saying that the area hit is an Al-Qaida base, where insurgents staged attacks against Allied forces in Iraq. For years, these types of camps have operated with the full consent of - if not outright support from- the Syrian government.

Now, I'm not saying one version of events is right or wrong. But we probably should withhold judgment until the facts come out - if they ever do.

I will say that if this was an Al-Qaida camp, then we had every right to take it out, even on Syrian soil. Just as I agree with Barack Obama that the U.S. needs to go after terrorist bases on the Pakistan side of the Afghan-Pakistani border.



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William McCormick
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Very funny Andrew. Love the part where the guy says he's afraid McCain will bomb his goats.

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Jason Czeskleba
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 Thom Price wrote:
That would be incorrect: This was a time when I, along with most of my closest friends, were referred to again and again as "home-grown American terrorists."


Thanks for the correction.  My point still stands, though, that "terrorist" has taken on a connotation in the past ten years that it did not have in Ayers' day.  And that Ayers, despite what he did,  is not the moral equivalent of the 9/11 hijackers.
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There's also a difference between an attack with the intent of harming civilians and an attack with the unintended result of harming civilians.


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Specially when those attacks are not killing US citizens by mistake, that is much more acceptable...
I wonder if some other country would do that with a US ship (for example) and kills US citizens "by mistake".
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When did the US take on the "oops" mentality? I will do as Bruce says and wait until all the facts are in, but if it is found to be innocent civilians killed, then those that gave the orders should be brought up on charges. Since Iraq did not ask us to invade them, and there were no weapons of mass destruction, no 9/11 link. I believe those that made the orders to attack Iraq should be tried as war criminals. In the last 8 years we have made decisions that have killed far more US citizens and innocent foreign civilians than the 9/11 attacks. How are we any better?

I understand the 'love it or leave it" bull, but I want the US to be better than it has been lately. We need to take private business profits out of the military.



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