Politics and religion.

**Lady's Human** · 10-23-2012, 01:26 PM

I haven't watched any of the debates, but I have read a transcript or two.

I haven't watched simply because if I want to see that big a pile of manure, all I have to do is look across the road when they're running the manure spreader in the hayfield.

I think I've posted this before, but.......

La cucaracha, la cucaracha
woke up on election day

La cucaracha, la cucaracha
heard the things they had to say

A lot of lying and alibi-ing
empty heads without a plan

La cucaracha, la cucaracha

said I'm glad I'm not a man.

**Karen** · 10-23-2012, 02:40 PM

I also have not watched much of the debates, just snippets here and there, and heard bits on the car radio until I couldn't stand it and changed to a music station!

I will be very glad when this election cycle is over, there's no question who will win the Presidential contest here in Massachusetts, as the only times in my lifetime the state has gone for a Republican candidate was for Reagan back in the 1980s, and before that it was Dwight Eisenhower, just after WW2.

**RICHARD** · 10-24-2012, 09:46 AM

I am really interested in the elections and want to see someone blow a circuit on one of the 'news' cable channels.

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Again, the people that I find to be the most annoying are the people with accents who THINK they know gobs about Americans and our politics.

The one clown on MSNBC makes me laugh, he is such an arse scratch.

**lizbud** · 10-24-2012, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by RICHARD

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Again, the people that I find to be the most annoying are the people with accents who THINK they know gobs about Americans and our politics.

Is it not possible to have an accent and be an American at the same time?

**Edwina's Secretary** · 10-24-2012, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by lizbud

Is it not possible to have an accent and be an American at the same time?

Interesting example of xenophobia, isn't it? There is a Brit on Fox News who is also an "arse scratch" but I never questioned his right to have opinions about the US or its politics! (And I the right to disagree with his opinions!)

I wonder if that means someone with an "American accent" is not allowed to have opinions about the people and politics of other countries? <<head shake>>

**Karen** · 10-24-2012, 05:36 PM

Everyone has an accent of some sort! And seeing as we are a nation of immigrants, whether via the land bridge from Siberia thousands of years ago, or by plane or boat more recently, or any time in-between!

**RICHARD** · 10-24-2012, 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by lizbud

Is it not possible to have an accent and be an American at the same time?

No, not the person I am talking about. It's an intolerable turd that takes every opportunity to insult people.

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If you really want to know just how intolerable and hateful people are, drop a few political views into the mix and you will see their constitution.

Especially the people who constantly use the catchphrases that are 'hot' at the moment.

Like 'battleground states' and 'war against women'.

I figured a war on women was akin to getting shot in the head because you wanted a free society/state for you and your sisters.

...and I always figured a 'battleground states' are places where the "Civil War" was fought, not some struggle for an office where you jerk people around by promising them crap that you cannot do by yourself.

Knock yourselves out fighting pretend scuffles.

**Edwina's Secretary** · 10-24-2012, 08:21 PM

Wow...I know lots of "intolerable turds" who don't have foreign accents. Ann Coulter comes quickly to mind - just before Sean Hannity.

(Ann did a lovely piece recently on "retards"

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But it never occurred to me to denigate all people with "American" accents because of those nasty pieces of work.

(p.s. Since Mexico and Canada are also on the North American continent...aren't their accents "American" too?)

**Karen** · 10-24-2012, 08:29 PM

Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary

Wow...I know lots of "intolerable turds" who don't have foreign accents. Ann Coulter comes quickly to mind - just before Sean Hannity.

(Ann did a lovely piece recently on "retards"

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But it never occurred to me to denigate all people with "American" accents because of those nasty pieces of work.

(p.s. Since Mexico and Canada are also on the North American continent...aren't their accents "American" too?)

Central and South Americans are also "Americans" if one is considering it by continent ... as a gentleman from Costa Rica pointed out to me when I was a kid!