US Presidential Elections 2008 (2 Viewers)

[broken arm]

so obama's grandma died just a bit too early :/

sucks

 

[Jill Hives]

The day before, that really does suck.

 

[the strange guy]

On the bright side, she'll be able to do a lot more for Obama as a floating, omnipotent spirit rather than a bed-ridden cancer patient.

 

[shower another shower]

one word on the night before 'elections'.
reptilians.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

What's the best strategy for following the election? I'm thinking: stay up until 1am and then get up at 6am.

i stayed up til about 2am last time and everyone on the telly seemed certain that john kerry had it won so i went to bed and when woke up bush had won.

 

[ronan]

On the bright side, she'll be able to do a lot more for Obama as a floating, omnipotent spirit rather than a bed-ridden cancer patient.

He may join her if he loses though
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/obama_warns_he_may_cease_to

 

[Janer]

Watching the CBS news now and watching the newscasters talking to each other about Obama's Grannie's death it reminds me of the newsreaders on South Park garbling on.

 

[BonsaiSuperstar]

i stayed up til about 2am last time and everyone on the telly seemed certain that john kerry had it won so i went to bed and when woke up bush had won.

ditto!

havent checked this thread but does anyone know of a radio station that streams and will have constant updates? will 5 live have round the clock coverage?

 

[Froog]

first results in, Obama wins two villages in landslide victory!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/04/uselections2008-barackobama3

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

The day before, that really does suck.

He finally gets her gaff, the day before work give him one.

Oh, the irony.

 

[maims bond]

ditto!

havent checked this thread but does anyone know of a radio station that streams and will have constant updates? will 5 live have round the clock coverage?

RTE Radio one has coverage all night, either its own coverage or a feed from NPR (Public Radio) in the US.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

RTE Radio one has coverage all night, either its own coverage or a feed from NPR (Public Radio) in the US.

Didn't 106 have that deal with NPR?

 

[Mormon Nailer]

He finally gets her gaff, the day before work give him one.

Oh, the irony.

Black man asks for change and moves to public housing

 

[Wobbler]

I'll need something else to give a shit about tomorrow. Any suggestions?

 

[the strange guy]

They never fired up the LHC, so maybe we can be rabidly positive about that?

 

[maims bond]

what i'm most worried about is: Where is Osama Bin Laden. He has made statements before the last 2 election days, now nothing. I hope he's ok.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Not for everyone

Walt Whitman
ELECTION DAY, NOVEMBER, 1884

If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
'Twould not be you, Niagara - nor you, ye limitless prairies - nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,

Nor you, Yosemite - nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyserloops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,

Nor Oregon's white cones - nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes - nor Mississippi's stream:

This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name - the still small voice vibrating -America's choosing day,

(The heart of it not in the chosen - the act itself the main, the quadrennial choosing,)

The stretch of North and South arous'd - sea-board and inland - Texas to Maine - the Prairie States - Vermont, Virginia, California,

The final ballot-shower from East to West - the paradox and conflict,

The countless snow-flakes falling - (a swordless conflict,

Yet more than all Rome's wars of old, or modern Napoleon's): the peaceful choice of all,

Or good or ill humanity - welcoming the darker odds, the dross:

- Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify - while the heart pants, life glows:

These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships,

Swell'd Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's sails.

WALT WHITMAN'S poem celebrating Election Day calls our "quadrennial choosing" a more spectacular and powerful show than national scenic marvels such as Yosemite, Niagara Falls or the "spasmic geyserloops" of Yellowstone.

The poem is not wet or glibly sunny. Whitman chooses to speak of voting day not as beautiful or sacred but as "powerful." He compares it not to forest glades or meadows but to the fluid, dynamic energy of rivers, geysers and waterfalls and to the immense scale of mountains and prairies.

The close Cleveland-Blaine election of 1884 included personal attacks, nasty rhetoric, and religious prejudices ("Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" was a slogan). Whitman includes the imperfection with phrases like "good or ill" and "the darker odds, the dross."

The underground pressures that propel "seismic geyserloops," the "paradox and conflict" like a snowstorm of passionate opinions or "stormy gusts" - Whitman marvels at those tremendous forces. He doesn't praise the electoral process with adjectives or justify it with arguments; instead, he commends the day by invoking the past. The journeys of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln were powered by this turbulent, often defective energy, says Whitman. We can look back on his observation, over a century ago, and feel encouraged.
ROBERT PINSKY - former American Poet Laureate

 

[Mormon Nailer]

I'll need something else to give a shit about tomorrow. Any suggestions?

How Obama sold out.

 

[egg_]

Do Yanks really queue up for hours on end to vote? What a pain in the hole

Imagine what the turnout would be like here if you couldn't cast your vote in an instant on the way to/from work

 

[muffin]

Yeah I was just reading some comments on an Obama community and some people started queueing at 5 in the morning!!