DC Area Voters

[you be betty]

Originally posted by callat703:
   

Originally posted by you be betty:
  if you think concrete foreign policy is horrible, then yes.  yes i did.

I think we were old enough to really appreciate what living under a Bill Clinton presidency was like      [/b]

you are absolutely right that i was too young at the time to fully grasp what was going on, even though my parents made me watch the news every single night and tried to explain everything to me anyway and i was dragged to countless days of house coverage at the capitol with my mom and to countless white house functions and countless dinner parties with Michael Isikoff.  still, that does by no way mean that i have not taken time, like many other young voters i know, to understand and interpret what happened then now.  i may be a young voter, but i have also taken plenty of time both in and out of school to research this stuff.
 
 and the last time i checked we were looking at Hillary as a candidate, not Bill...

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Please give me a list of achievements that Bill Clinton had made in his political career prior to election as President.
 
 
 

Originally posted by Julian, good manners AFICIONADO:
   

Originally posted by callat703:
  No track record of accomplishing anything?  Come on now.

Feel free to refute my claims with, you know, a list of achievements Barack Obama has accumulated during his political career. [/b]

[manimtired]

Originally posted by you be betty:
   

Originally posted by callat703:
   

Originally posted by you be betty:
  if you think concrete foreign policy is horrible, then yes.  yes i did.

I think we were old enough to really appreciate what living under a Bill Clinton presidency was like       [/b]

you are absolutely right that i was too young at the time to fully grasp what was going on, even though my parents made me watch the news every single night and tried to explain everything to me anyway and i was dragged to countless days of house coverage at the capitol with my mom and to countless white house functions and countless dinner parties with Michael Isikoff.  still, that does by no way mean that i have not taken time, like many other young voters i know, to understand and interpret what happened then now.  i may be a young voter, but i have also taken plenty of time both in and out of school to research this stuff.
 
 and the last time i checked we were looking at Hillary as a candidate, not Bill... [/b]

that was only until recently until hillarys campaign told bill to shut up..

[Brian_Wallace]

Originally posted by BookerT:
  obama's like arcade fire. sure, itâ??s nice enough, although nowhere near as good as all these over-excited recent college grads think it is, and if i have to choose between either that or, yâ??know, nickelback (sorry for all the canadian band references), itâ??s obvious where iâ??m gonna end up and i will feel totally fine with it. at the same time itâ??s more phenomenon and feeling good about yourself and being around other people that feel good about themselves and being part of something really exciting man, when, in reality, itâ??s not all that exciting. if thatâ??s what works for you, hey, fine, at least you found something that works thatâ??s better than whatâ??s usually out there. but letâ??s not get carried away, yâ??know?
 
 hillary's like, i dunno, yo la tengo. been around forever and hard to really get too excited about and kinda drab but you can always feel pretty confident the results are gonna be there in the end.
 
 although iâ??m pretty sure ylt would back barack in real life. did this sound like something brian walalce would write?

I think Obama's like anything Radiohead has done after "O.K. Computer."  Good in  theory, makes you look cool for liking them and inspires amazing devotion but when you really look closely, there isn't much there.
 
 Brian

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Conor Oberst (and Jeff Tweedy and Win Butler) supports Obama. This is a boy-man who truly has his his finger on the pulse of what's good for America. How could you not believe what Conor Oberst believes? Case closed.

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Please give me a list of achievements that Bill Clinton had made in his political career prior to election as President.
 

Sure, I'd be glad to. He was elected as both Attorney General and Governor of the State of Arkansas. As governor, he gained 12 years of  executive branch experience, I believe making him the longest serving governor in the country at the time of his election to the White House (I believe he also chaired the National Governors Association as well). During his tenure, he was credited with vastly improving the state's educational system and achieving astronomic job and economic growth for the state. He also championed better conditions for seniors with cutting sales tax on medicines and raising the property tax exemption for the elderly. He also headed the Democratic Leadership Council for two years where he gained experience in working within his party on the national level.

[manimtired]

Originally posted by Julian, good manners AFICIONADO:
   

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Please give me a list of achievements that Bill Clinton had made in his political career prior to election as President.
 

Sure, I'd be glad to. He was elected as both Attorney General and Governor of the State of Arkansas. As governor, he gained 12 years of  executive branch experience, I believe making him the longest serving governor in the country at the time of his election to the White House (I believe he also chaired the National Governors Association as well). During his tenure, he was credited with vastly improving the state's educational system and achieving astronomic job and economic growth for the state. He also championed better conditions for seniors with cutting sales tax on medicines and raising the property tax exemption for the elderly. He also headed the Democratic Leadership Council for two years where he gained experience in working within his party on the national level. [/b]

all that while seducing new ladies on a weekly basis.

[Brian_Wallace]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Conor Oberst (and Jeff Tweedy and Win Butler) supports Obama. This is a boy-man who truly has his his finger on the pulse of what's good for America. How could you not believe what Conor Oberst believes? Case closed.

Stuart Mackenzie: Well, it's a well known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of the three whitest, hippest, least-funky white men in the world, known as The Triumvirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.
 Tony Giardino: So who's in this Triumvirate?
 Stuart Mackenzie: Conor Oberst, Jeff Tweedy and Win Butler.
 
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 Brian

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

You mean they went from being ranked 50th in education to being ranked 48th or 49th?
 
 

Originally posted by Julian, good manners AFICIONADO:
   

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Please give me a list of achievements that Bill Clinton had made in his political career prior to election as President.
 

Sure, I'd be glad to. He was elected as both Attorney General and Governor of the State of Arkansas. As governor, he gained 12 years of  executive branch experience, I believe making him the longest serving governor in the country at the time of his election to the White House (I believe he also chaired the National Governors Association as well). During his tenure, he was credited with vastly improving the state's educational system and achieving astronomic job and economic growth for the state. He also championed better conditions for seniors with cutting sales tax on medicines and raising the property tax exemption for the elderly. He also headed the Democratic Leadership Council for two years where he gained experience in working within his party on the national level. [/b]

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  You mean they went from being ranked 50th in education to being ranked 48th or 49th?
 

I don't have statistics from 1991 sitting around here at work. Sorry.

[Brian_Wallace]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Please give me a list of achievements that Bill Clinton had made in his political career prior to election as President.
 

The other night on the phone some girl said that Bill Clinton "brought about peace in Ireland."  I'm sure Mr. Walrus would have something to say about that.  I'm pretty casual but I couldn't let that pass.  I think David Trimble, Tony Blair and Gerry Adams would have something to say about Bill Clinton "bringing peace to Ireland."  She was blonde, though.
 
 Brian

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761564341_2/bill_clinton.html
 
 Here's a pretty good overview of what Bill Clinton accomplished prior to running for President.

[manimtired]

Originally posted by Julian, good manners AFICIONADO:
  http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761564341_2/bill_clinton.html
 
 Here's a pretty good overview of what Bill Clinton accomplished prior to running for President.

if i posted a fox news "encyclopedia" to flaunt dick cheney's record i can only imagine the responses id get..

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Well I guess if we're making experience be the criteria, John McCain is clearly the best choice.

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by manimtired:
  if i posted a fox news "encyclopedia" to flaunt dick cheney's record i can only imagine the responses id get..

This is probably the first time I've ever seen an encyclopedia labeled as being biased. You're right, they're probably making up that he was governor and had leadership roles in several national groups like the Democratic Leadership Council, the National Governor's Association, and the Southern Growth Policies Board. And they probably made up those statistics about Arkansas' educational ranking compared to the national average.
 
 If you're seriously going to question whether Encarta is so biased it can't be cited on educational statistics, matters of public record, and established facts then you're a fucking idiot. The only one you're succeeding in discrediting is yourself for making a statement so laughably divorced from reality.