The Final US Election Thread

[Lemur]

Yes, it's clearly my partisan bias, my mouth-frothing liberalism on the line when I ask that someone post in the thread Devastatin' Dave created about Blago. In fact, I got the idea of asking CR to post in there from MoveOn.org and the National Earth Shoe Appreciators' Lesbian Society, where I get my marching orders.

TuffStuff, what's gotten into you? You used to wait until you had some sort of basis before making the ad hominem assaults?

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Oh, I see, you can't possibly discuss the Illinois corruption explosion in the thread DevDave created for it, 'cause that wouldn't allow you to tie it in with all Democrats everywhere, which would violate your First Amendment rights or something. Claro que si.

Burris is being appointed because of the election of Barack Obama and will be a new Senator to be seated in the new Congress along with all of the other, slightly more elected newcomers.

And all of it is happening on Earth, which means that we should move these comments to the Science Forum.

I'm terribly sorry I asked anyone to move any posts to a more closely-related thread. I blame DevDave for starting a Blago thread in the first place. How dare he?

[ICantSpellDawg]

TuffStuff, what's gotten into you? You used to wait until you had some sort of basis before making the ad hominem assaults?

What discussion of the '08 replacement of Senator Obama is appropriate here, only that which shines neutrally of favorably on the Democratic party?

I don't care about the Blago nonsense - I just don't see why you deem it necessary to effect some restriction on an applicable topic. This is the Election thread - yet you've made it seem like associating Burris as a replacement to the Senate seat held, until now, by Obama is as unrelated as politics is to science?

[Lemur]

What discussion of the '08 replacement of Senator Obama is appropriate here, only that which shines neutrally of favorably on the Democratic party?

All I have done to excite the ire and vitriol of you and CR was to ask that the discussion of Blago be moved to the thread DevDave created for that purpose.

Show me where I have said that you must discuss Dems in a positive light. Show me where I have been a frothy partisan on this topic. Show us all, please.

[ICantSpellDawg]

Lots of adjectives

I never called you a frothing partisan. I was trying to say something simple.

The appointment of Burris applies to the election thread.

I'm off to "spew my vitriol" all over myself.

[Lemur]

I never called you a frothing partisan.

Lemur just hates when you attack his side, because he is a notorious partisan.

I see, so the key difference is between "frothing" and "notorious."

[Crazed Rabbit]

For cryin' out loud, how in the world did this become such a conflagration?

I guess my tone and inflection didn't translate well over the internet.

CR

[ICantSpellDawg]

For cryin' out loud, how in the world did this become such a conflagration?

I guess my tone and inflection didn't translate well over the internet.

CR

Tone and inflection rarely translate well over the internet.

I'm sorry for calling Lemur a notorious partisan. It is clear from his numerous posts in the Blago thread that he is capable of making fun of Democrats as well as Republicans. Although I believe that he clearly has biases as we all do; I understand that, like the rest of us, he is more interested in stifling corruption than simple partisanship.

While I don't care all that much about the Blago fiasco because I recognize that corruption follows both parties to an almost identical degree, I don't see why we can't talk about Burris in the election thread as well as the "Blago is a jerk" thread.

Although I shouldn't make unfounded ad-hominem attacks, I reserve my right to disagree with Lemur about where the topic is appropriate. I think my pettiness regarding the defense of the topic in the Election thread is comparable to his pettiness about it not being here. If someone doesn't think that is fair, please say so.