As a matter of fact, I live in the inner city and the biggest threat to my well-being when I am working with the mentally ill, is someone off of their meds who are violent. We have had several incidents here recently where individuals (public health nurse, social workers, etc) who do home visits have been attacked. The mental health delivery system is failing. If you didn’t see people of color here, you didn’t look very hard. I am not surprised that you didn’t since I didn’t see much diversity on the televised convention coverage. But that’s the good old GOP. I am more liberal because of where I work and live. I see the injustices on a daily basis. You are right in saying that I am educated but I am not those other things you characterized me as being. I could do a profile on you but I won’t bother. I apologize to the folks in Anoka County. But anyone north of the metro who voted for Michelle Bachman? What were you thinking?

Comment posted September 19, 2008 @ 6:19 pm
I was at the Obama rally downtown Minneapolis and between 3500-4000 people showed up. That is remarkable given the fact that we didn’t even have the candidate there. 13000 to see McCain? Of course, Anoka County blue collar redneck types live out there. Not exactly the wealthy part of the metro area, yet, they continue to stupidly vote against their own economic interests. My advice to all of you conservatives is “get a clue.” 30 years of Reaganomics hasn’t worked yet and I really doubt that the same policies, believe me,
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Notice the usual lib ELITISM (“of course, Anoka County blue collar redneck types live out there”) and CONDESCENSION (“Not exactly the wealthy part of the metro area, yet, they continue to stupidly vote against their own economic interests.”).

Joanne: Tell me, I thought it was democrats and liberals who “live in poverty” and are confined to the “inner city”. You sound like a snobby, well-paid, college-grad, who works at a job where the biggest threat to your being is an out of control electric stapler.

I was in St. Paul, MN for the RNC and I can definitely say that guilty white liberals put up with blizzards, -30 degree temperatures, tornadoes, and the Minnesota “state bird” (the mosquito, I was told), in order to live among one of the LEAST “DIVERSE” areas in the United States!!!

I saw a few Black people (probably the families of the Vikings/Twins/and Timberwolves professional sports teams) and even fewer Hispanics. There were some Asians, but if I wanted to make a quick million dollars, I would take a tractor trailer of Coppertone to Minnesota and sell sunscreen to all of those melanin-deficient, liberal, white folks.

If you lived next to Bedford Stuyvasant in Brooklyn, New York City, Watts in Los Angeles, or East Los Angelenos in L.A., and you were robbed and beaten every day, you would not be so liberal. I GUARANTEE it!!!

In a party (democrat) of dolts, ignorants, and numbskulls, Zlatan can convince him/herself that he/she is of above average intellect. When one is a democrat, one looks more intelligent because the low expectations of the constituents, and being a democrat provides one that has slightly more intelligence, a delusion of granduer.

Republicans are anything but fiscally responsible. Ronald Reagan ran for office blasting Jimmy Carter on the National Debt, but Ronny single handedly increased it 189% and we were not at war, and he didn’t use the money the lesson the suffering of the poor.
Lets put the numbers together in current dollars: (check the government websites for verification)
Carter left us a National Debt of $ 930,210,000,000
Reagan left us a National Debt of $ 2,684,392,000,000 (Increase from previous 189%)
Bush Act 1 left us a National Debt of $ 4,177,009,000,000 (Increase from previous 55.6%)
Clinton left us a National Debt of $ 5,662,216,013,697 (Increase from previous 36%, but was actually decreasing the amount when he left office)
Bush Act 2 (not over) has left us so far a National Debt of $ 9,229,172,659,218 (Increase 63% and counting)
McCain ? Why believe he will do any better than the last fiscal conservative to sit in office?

Latest dollar amount=700 billion of money coming from us, the hardworking wage earners, to save the sorry asses of crybaby financial institutions who can’t accept the consequences of their free market unfettered capitalistic greed.

Even a Repubicrap should be smart enough to see what’s going on with this. Our money, which we work for, being used to salvage the lazy butts of bankers and insurance moguls, who got rich by sucking the money out of our wallets in the first place.

Stand up and refuse to pay ONE MORE DIME in taxes until the government starts using our money to benefit US.

Having read every post here, I have noticed one, very disturbing theme……
Nobody seems to want to discuss FACTUAL issues. There is nothing but name-calling and put-downs if “you don’t think the way I do!” Everyone is generalizing the others….i.e.

“Dems are really worked up about Sarah. She’s actually got them getting out of the beds they have in their mothers basements, ignoring their usual routines of smoking dope and spending hours looking at internet porno while their mom’s are out working, supporting their lazy 31 year old rear ends.”…….

“Sarah Palin is a vicious idiot. Dumbest woman I’ve ever heard in my life. Only an uneducated hick would vote for her. GO OBAMA!!!!”

I have to admit, it was harder finding an example of this from the Obama supporters, then the McCain supporters.

My point is…..if McCain’s platform is better for YOU…..that is great! If you want to tell folks WHY Obama’s platform is better FOR YOU….fantastic!! But do it with FACTS!!! Don’t just say……”Obama will raise your taxes!!!”….. His tax plan has guidline’s, as McCain’s does……and it may or may not raise MY taxes……you don’t know my financial status, nor anyone else’s.

These posts have gotten to be as ridiculous as the TV ads….. All half-truths, and omitted facts!
And now the name calling and put-downs!

Try sitting down with both platforms in front of you, and comparing them. See which is best for you, and then present those FACTS. ( and don’t omit anything negative your candidate might stand for)

Read what both candidates actually stand for……not what their opponents SAY they stand for.

Both candidates say they want CHANGE…….so don’t vote strictly by “Party Lines”……just because you have always, and will always be, a Democrat or Republican……

Stick to the factual issues and respect someone else’s opinion……that would TRULY be CHANGE!!
If you want to vote for Obama…..great!
If you want to vote for McCain….wonderful!
Just make sure you VOTE!

If everyone started acting respectful of others opinions, perhaps the TV ads would get back to ….”what I would do for this country”…..instead of “what they won’t do!”

I’m Bill, and I approved this post! :-)