Election fatigue open thread

Posted By Blake Hounshell Monday, March 3, 2008 - 6:54 PM Share

Tired of hearing so much about the U.S. elections? Vent below. What important international stories are getting lost amid all the hubbub about Hillary and Barack?

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GAWKSQUAWK

9:38 PM ET

March 3, 2008

You know it's time to vote when....

There have been so many campaign commercials, the candidates have to use the same film in their attack and response ads.

Even Jack Nicholson is recycling his old movies.

No one thinks of the Texas Two Step as a dance anymore.

You volunteer to call a hundred people in Ohio for the Obama campaign. Half the numbers have either been disconnected, or have new owners.

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YUGURI

11:32 PM ET

March 3, 2008

Democrats would be Wise...

Democrats would be wise to wrap this primary election up today. If Mrs. Clinton survives Tuesday, she will continue to campaign hard, trashing Mr. Obama at every opportunity, dividing the Democratic party and alienating Mr. Obama's new emerging youth constituency. In the event of a continuing primary, the eventual nominee may emerge bruised enough for Mr. McCain's largely empty rhetoric to actually hurt. Smart establishment Democrats should be doing everything in their power to wrap this up.

-Yuguri, in Mendocino

 

SQWODAY

3:02 AM ET

March 4, 2008

Affirmative action was

Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets. Discuss.

 

JGARZIK

4:26 AM ET

March 4, 2008

Recession chatter

The US is in recession by “any common sense definition” of the word, Warren Buffett said on Monday.

Alan Greenspan told the Financial Times that “the rate of growth in economic activity is effectively zero”.
(link, FT.com).

 

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