Sickening

Take a look at the pics from those protesting the vote.

http://www.zombietime.com/sf_rally_november_3_2004/

I am all for differnet opinions and protesting, but the idea of protesting a valid vote because it didn't came out like you wanted is insane.

The pics define the Dem party that the electorate delivered a crushing defeat to last week.

Larry434 wrote:

The pics define the Dem party that the electorate delivered a crushing defeat to last week.

This is as absurd as the idiots in the pictures.

Takes a special kind of blind partisanship to write off whole sides on account of their extremists.

This is the equivalent of the left's denigration of the right on the basis of the distasteful folk who celebrate when gays die of AIDS and hold up signs saying "God hates fags".

If you want a cheap pot shot you might want to ensure that it is not one that reflects on your own ability to reason more than the broad group you attempt to denigrate.

A politician and a political party are defined by their constituents, simple as that.

A politician and a political party are defined by their constituents, simple as that.

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A politician and a political party are defined by their constituents, simple as that.

Larry434- A few people in San Francisco define a constituency? Every group has their fringe "true believers" who tend to be vocal and grating. It is not realistic to generalize this behavior to an entire political party!

Larry434 wrote:

A politician and a political party are defined by their constituents, simple as that.

"Constituents" are not monolithic Larry (and do note that we've run into several situations now in which you have difficulty acknowledging things that are not monolithic that you wish to paint that way) and to declare that this idiotic fringe "defines" the Democrat party is as reasonable as to say that the KKK defines the Republican party; i.e. it's not.

Larry434- I would expect that the vast majority of the posters on A2K would not go near a political thread, even though they have their own political views. So, what you have is a self selected group, people who are passionate about their ideas, and are the most vociferous.

The Amendment song

(Music starts playing)
Kid: Hey, who left all this garbage on the steps of Congress?

Amendment:
I'm not garbage.
(Amendment starts singing)
I'm an amendment-to-be, Yes an amendment-to-be,
And I'm hoping that they'll ratify me.
There's a lot of flag-burners, Who have got too much freedom.
I want to make it legal for policemen to beat'em.
Cause there's limits to our liberties,
At least I hope and pray that there are,
Cause those liberal freaks go too far.

(Spoken)
Kid: But why can't we just make a law against flag-burning?

Amendment: Because that law would be unconstitutional. But if we changed the Constitution...

Kid: Then we could make all sorts of crazy laws!

Amendment: Now you're catching on!

(Scene flips back to Bart and Lisa)
Bart: What the hell is this?
Lisa: It's one of those campy "70's" throwbacks that appeals to Generation "X"ers.
Bart: We need another Vietnam to thin out their ranks a little.

(Spoken)
Boy: But what if they say you're not good enough to be in the Constitution?

Amendment singing:
Then I'll destroy all opposition to me.
And I'll make Ted Kennedy pay.
If he fights back, I'll say that he's gay.

No it isn't, but judging from posts from the Left and Right here, it is a customary and regular practice.

Larry434 wrote:

No it isn't, but judging from posts from the Left and Right here, it is a customary and regular practice.

So basically, you decided to stoop to that level. <shrug>