Propeller Week In Review: October 10, 2008 »
Posted By JamesMarcus 9 months ago in NewsThe battle royale between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin was one of the most hotly anticipated events of the campaign--and the Propeller community had plenty to say about it. But there were also lively conversations about the fiscal meltdown, Bill Gates, and the covert (not to mention overt) racism.
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James Marcus is a writer, translator, critic, and editor. He is the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut and ...
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JamesMarcus9 months ago
Thanks to you both. I should have included a link to Biden laughing his hair plugs out at that SNL skit about the debate. Really very charming. Anyway, have a great weekend.
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gamahuche9 months ago
I'm barely hanging in there with this darn election! One of the most important that I can remember in my lifetime. But in most of the world that I know they get it over and done with in a month or so - and that since before the advent of TV, let alone the internet..
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If I was a candidate I'd need 6 months to recover and whoever wins is going to have to jump right in and deal with the biggest world financial crisis in living memory without even a break to work on it!
Is this nuts or what?
Oh and today one of the big stories on propeller was about whether a pic on the cover if Newsweek showed some facial hair on the female VP candidate..
Sigh..Call me exhausted in Europe.
Thanks for your ability to stay with it James!-
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Mdiar9 months ago
When you think about it, what better way to choose a future President then to essentially slowly torture him/her mentally while exhausting him/her physically, then see how they react under the stress? It does tell you a certain something about them.
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JamesMarcus9 months ago
Yes, our election cycle is ghastly--a marathon that exhausts both the candidates and the public, even as it flushes several hundred million dollars down the toilet. We should have a four-month election process, with compulsory public financing for all candidates who make it through the primaries. Oh, and can we dump the electoral college while we're at it? :)
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JamesMarcus9 months ago
Thank you, ladies and germs. It's actually a fascinating chore to read through hundreds of comments at the end of each week--I wish I could include more without making the feature too bulky.
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NancyCronk9 months ago
First, the pit bull needs to be chained up in the junk yard and muzzled.
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Second, John McCain voted consistenly not to allow Martin Luther King Jr. day as a holiday.
John McCain defended South Carolina for flying a confederate flag over their capitol.
John McCain appointed a racist pit bull who can't tell the truth as his running mate.
The media shouldn't be focussing on Obama's acquaintance with Ayers, but McCain's ties to Hitler (yes they were both alive at the same time) and with the KKK.-
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JamesMarcus9 months ago
Whatever mistakes John McCain may have made, I don't think he has any ties to Hitler or the KKK.
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MacBookForMe9 months ago
Truly nice and positively sounding compilation of otherwise not so kind comments!:)
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CRYMTYPHON9 months ago
If you are the nosy kind that reads people's bios, you know that JamesMarcus translates from other languages.
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I demand to see our comments translated into Italian !
It will add a sophistication, a 'je ne sais quoi' to the discussions of Palin's facial hair and Obama's trashy plane;
- and Propeller could use a little sophistication.-
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ind069 months ago
Se sei il ficcanso tipo che legge bios della gente, apete che traduce JamesMarcus da altre lingue.
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Mi domanda per vedere i nostri commenti tradotta in italiano!
Si aggiunge una sofisticazione, una 'je ne se quoi' alle discussioni de Palin del viso capelli Obama e sporco aeroplano;
-elica e Potrebbe utilizzare un po 'di sofisticazione.
You owe JamesMarcus twenty dollars.
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pstshirts5 months, 3 weeks ago
Sarah Palin was in no way capable of doing the job. Great guster shown by our nation. God bless America.
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