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Ardent15 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 02:50 AM Original message |
The age of American unreason |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 02:52 AM Response to Original message |
1. Politicians don't need to think. They need to act. Their job is to allocate power and resources |
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Ardent15 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 02:53 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I agree with all of that, except the "don't need to think" part |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 02:55 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Yeah,I think that was a slight exaggeration on my part . |
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fire_in_the_middle (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 03:22 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. I disagree; |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 07:28 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. but *disrespect for intellectuals and deep thought* makes even worse presidents |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 12:43 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. I would agree with that |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 02:53 AM Response to Original message |
2. Listening to Dumbya makes my gut expel its contents. |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 03:16 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Would buy candy from him??? That asshole has cost us blood tears $$$$ |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 07:34 AM Response to Original message |
8. we haven't figured out how to make intellectualism emotionally appealing |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 07:48 AM Response to Original message |
9. And sadly, this anti-intellectual, anti-science, anti-reason movement... |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 08:54 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Absolutely true |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 07:53 AM Response to Original message |
10. Because most people are basically ignorant and are easily duped by shisters like Bush et al. |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 08:59 AM Response to Original message |
12. Bush always projected didn't he? |
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kctim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
13. Why does America reward politicians who go on "gut feeling", but ridicule those who actually THINK? |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
15. Official Culture - A Natural State of Psychopathy? |
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fire_in_the_middle (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
16. people get pissed when they realize they cant get the carrot. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
17. Al Gore ran as a Centrist "New Democrat". HE worked to make our choice less stark |
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