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As I walk around Chicago, which has an acute case of Obamamania, where it's almost become noticeable when someone isn't sporting a button or t-shirt or hat or some other Obama paraphernalia, I'm a bit baffled by our cult-of-personality double standard.  In Russia, it's a sign of fascism.  In America, it is a sign of hope and change for the better.  Huh...

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
by poemless on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 02:31:29 PM EST
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But that's typical people in Chicago very close to an election, not a Paris fashion show.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 02:40:10 PM EST
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Hell, even the Chicago Tribune is behind Obama now.  Isn't that the GOPer paper in Chi-town?

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 04:30:21 PM EST
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Yes, yes it is.  This is not normal electioneering I am talking about.  If Chicago had not torn down all their concrete Soviet-style public housing projects, I'm sure gigantic facades of Obama would be painted on the sides of them right now.  

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
by poemless on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 04:38:25 PM EST
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They've already got those in New York.  Honestly, must y'all really play second fiddle every time? ;)

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 05:06:04 PM EST
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I demand pictures!

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
by poemless on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 05:17:05 PM EST
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Here's one, and another, and this one I like, and so on.

So! :P

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 05:59:46 PM EST
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Do you think there are any giant murals of Bush in the Deep South?
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 06:20:15 PM EST
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well not murals but how about the second picture

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 06:25:29 PM EST
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Palin. A field full of corn.

This would be wrong, how?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 06:27:14 PM EST
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At first sight.. the "Sarah America" looked like moose antlers.
by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 06:33:18 PM EST
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He's actually remarkably unpopular in the South.  The South was originally his one stronghold, obviously, but it caught up with the rest of the country in opinion polls as the shit kept piling up.

Plus, for the whole mural thing, you have to be in a city.  And the Bushie-style whitefolk generally stay away from the cities in the Deep South, because there's "Coloreds" and "hoodlums" and "student radicals" and stuff.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 06:45:23 PM EST
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I think you just proved my point about the cult of personality.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
by poemless on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 06:52:55 PM EST
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Well, these are heavily-black areas, I suspect, and I can appreciate -- or at least try (mindful of the fact that I'm a white dude who grew up in the 'burbs) -- the emotions behind it.  Like some at FiveThirtyEight said, talking about the long lines for early voting in ATL: "This vote is 400 years in the making."  There's a personality cult to it, and that's just sort of an unfortunate effect of politics (all campaigns are based on personality cults to one degree or another), but I recognize that there's a lot of history playing out for a lot of people -- many of whom never believed it would in their lifetimes.

Same with Hillary and the history of a viable female candidate.  I didn't appreciate that as I should have.  It didn't really occur to me what it meant until my grandmother (big for Hil) passed away.

But, like I said, I'm a white guy.  We've got hundreds of years of presidents who look like me, so I'm, I guess, more cognizant of my own inability to fully appreciate the significance after this year.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 07:02:43 PM EST
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