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OMG! Ponies!
11/05/08

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As funny as this one was, here are some other gems from the campaign:

Obama Undertakes Presidential Internship To Ease Concerns About His Lack Of Experience [www.theonion.com]

Cindy McCain Claims She's 'Just Like Any Other Female Human' [www.theonion.com]

And my personal favorite:

Portrayal Of Obama As Elitist Hailed As Step Forward For African Americans [www.theonion.com]
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DarkHavoc99
11/05/08

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I love the Onion.
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B
11/05/08

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I like how it was sponsored by the Vodka Robot, and the ending was priceless.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/05/08

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Skynet wins!
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rjp: This is my rebuttal
11/05/08

@Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another du...: I heard that the robots now have a majority in the Senate and John Connor is going to be appointed as Senate Minority Leader (associated with the Human party).
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/05/08

@rjp: Well I'm not sure I'm ok with having a robotic Dr. Dre as President.
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johnnyabnormal
11/05/08

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All I can say is : YES WE DID.

I'm going out for a few drinks. Ciao.
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xev
11/05/08

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These things were called Smart Boards in my high school. We had them in about 25% of the classes, and unfortunately the teachers only used them to show powerpoints and play chess.

My point is that there are many variations on this type of device. Some are as fancy as the CNN one, and others can be quite simple.
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badhatharry
11/05/08

@xev: You had these in High School? My High School could barely afford band.
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badhatharry
11/05/08

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"Help me Wolf Blitzer, you're my only hope."
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Aturayd
11/04/08

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horray for people who look at the president of the united states to solve all of their life's problems!
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johnnyabnormal
11/05/08

@Aturayd: Hooray for people who aren't sore losers.
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inspiredEpic
11/04/08

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Obama wins. I didn't vote for him, but I congratulate him as the first African-American president! I will pray for you President Obama! God Bless.
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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
11/04/08

@Jon B.: Agreed.

Wait, f*@k, sh!t, ahhhh azz monkeys.

Ok, now I'm good.

I truly hope he does a better job than I thought he would, I'll be praying for him as well.
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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
11/04/08

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: Sh!t!. Alright, I'll probably need a few more minutes.
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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
11/04/08

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: oops, forgot to close the tag.
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inspiredEpic
11/04/08

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: haha, perhaps he is what America needs right now. I have a feeling both Palin and H-Clinton will run in 2012 :P
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johnnyabnormal
11/04/08

@Jon B.: I'm curious what our resident undecided ended up deciding....???
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badhatharry
11/05/08

@Jon B.: The only way Clinton will be up in 2012 is if Obama pulls an LBJ.
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vista64guy
11/05/08

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: I feel sick.
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johnnyabnormal
11/05/08

@vista64guy: I'm urging my Republican friends to have someone hide their ammo for the next week or so. Safety first!!
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The-Simpsons-Rule!!
11/04/08

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Aww man I feel old and i'm barely 16!!!
History has been made and a long time from now.....
ugh I just don't want to think about it.
:(
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The-Simpsons-Rule!!
11/04/08

@The-Simpsons-Rule!!: But hey at least we gotz ourselves a new president. Now lets wait and see what the next 4 years have in store for us.
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johnnyabnormal
11/04/08

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Awwwww shit, it's been announced---> PRESIDENT OBAMA!

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Technogen
11/04/08

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For those going "This serves no purpose" this is the beginning of real holographic imaging. You've got to have the 3D source before you can start projecting images in the air. Once they get it so that they can move the data from place to place fast they can then figure out how to project in the air.
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BeautifulAgony
11/05/08

@Technogen: Getting 3D sourcing is no problem. There are numerous technologies for doing it. All they did was throw a lot of very expensive cameras and computers at the problem, which is no more than was done for The Matrix. They haven't innovated or developed anything exciting here.

The means to display a live 3D hologram would be nice. Figuring out how to project it in the air is the only hurdle, and CNN didn't come close. This was just a gimmicky stunt that did nothing to help improve coverage of the election or deliver news in a more informative way.
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Snopes
11/04/08

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What's more interesting is the surreality of a "reporter" *pretending* he sees something he does not so he can be a side-show barker for this pointless waste of time.

If technology serves some useful purpose, I'm all for it in news shows. But this was tantamount to having Wolf say, "And now that we've called New Hampshire, we've got Roscoe the dancing walrus live here IN THE STUDIO!!!"

It was like watching reporters talk about election statistics while riding on a Unicycle. The Daily Show is going to eat them *alive*.

But hey, Obama is winning, so life is good!
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vista64guy
11/05/08

Well Libs, you are about to elect our first Muslim, anti-Israel, anti-white, Marxist president with known terrorist as well as extremist ties and with a wife that is amazingly more extreme in the same beliefs. You have 4 years to do your best to push us towards socialism and bomb a few aspirin factories to prove you have stones from time to time. You think your making progress and you are but not in the direction you think.

Tomorrow you will see Osama Bin Laden, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Kim Jang Ill and many other pinko commies celebrate with you. Have a good time and just remember you no longer have Bush to blame for F***-ups, these will be on you.

Bush has admittedly dissapointed us amazingly but we have not seen a terrorist attack in our country for over 7 years. That is about to change as your party feels that it is unfair we dominate the world so greatly and our defenses and offenses will be weakened in order to give them more of a chance. 94 percent of blacks have voted for Obama because of his race which tells me that perhaps white people are no longer the racists in this country.

Well, that's how I really feel about it so go ahead and rip me a new one.
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johnnyabnormal
11/05/08

@vista64guy: You've already "ripped" yourself a new one, so I'm not going to take your bait. All I can say is:

You have MANY years to correct your awful misinformation/hate propaganda.

Don't worry, you have 4-8 years to catch up with the rest of us.
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badhatharry
11/05/08

@vista64guy: Wow. Do you have any idea how many times you were wrong there?

I'm going to comment on one complete fallacy you stated in the above comment: If black people were the racists in this country, then in every previous election, 0 percent of blacks would have voted.
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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
11/05/08

@badhatharry:

I'm going to take another bit hit for this (had some hateful messages left for me), I think he does have a point that a lot of blacks voted for him because he is black and this was something that did light a fire under by butt. But then again, at the same time, I think that number of whites that didn't vote for him for the same reason evened it out.
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badhatharry
11/05/08

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: I fail to see how that is racism. If a Jew ran, I would be all over that. Provided he was not Lieberman, or conservative. Black people largely don't vote Republican. They largely don't vote. They felt this time they were represented more, and rightly so. I fail to see how this qualifies as racism.
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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
11/05/08

@badhatharry: I did not call it racism. Perhaps I missed something.
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badhatharry
11/05/08

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: No, vista64guy called it racism. I thought you were defending his statement. Forgive me.
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BeautifulAgony
11/05/08

@vista64guy: Even if 94% of blacks voted for Obama, that did not swing the election for him. The black voting population of the United States is less than 10% of the total population. The current estimate of voter turnout in this presidential election is slightly less than 150 million.

You are also assuming that black people who voted for Obama voted based on race alone which is a specious, short-sighted, and insulting remark. Even if a portion of them did, that's no less damning that a Republican voting for the party nominee based solely on party affiliation, rather than issues, which happens much more often.

Even if every black person of legal voting age voted for Obama, that still means that more than twice as many of that number, which included caucasians, asians, hispanics, and other races, also voted for Obama.

It's time to stop letting race play an issue, especially when you don't have your facts straight.

All we can do now is hope that positive change comes swiftly in the time ahead of us.
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BeautifulAgony
11/05/08

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: Is that any less stupid than people who vote solely based on party affiliation regardless of a nominees stance on various issues? Because, statistically, that happens far more often as has been reported numerous times. It's no surprise that people vote for familiar, or representative, nominees.

It's also insulting the the black population at large to assume that a majority of them voted for Obama based on race alone. Also, even if 50% of voting age blacks (which is less than 5% of the US population) voted for Obama, that is still only less than 15% of the counted votes. Furthermore, 50% black voter turnout would be an unprecedented number of black voters, and the likelihood is perhaps 30 percent black voter turnout.
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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
11/04/08

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Well the people have chosen their government, I guess they'll have to live with it. I would insult the upcoming tax hike on my wages, but I think that layoff I'll be part of in the next 6 months will pretty much void that concern. Ahh well, with all the money going from the rich to the poor, welfare should be paying pretty good. That is, unless Obamas buddies that taliban get a hold of us.

America, you have voted. This is the government you've chosen.
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johnnyabnormal
11/04/08

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: You make over 250k per year right now?
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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
11/04/08

@johnnyabnormal: No, it was a pessimistic foreshadowing.
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johnnyabnormal
11/04/08

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: How did you vote on the California props?
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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
11/04/08

@johnnyabnormal: For the most part, very liberal... I took a closer gander at the tax breaks and agreed there wasn't much of one, I hate to see animals tied up, and sometimes children need protection from their own parents. Some of the real costly ones I voted against though.
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johnnyabnormal
11/04/08

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: Yeah, I was for prop 2 as well. It's insane what goes on in slaughter houses & the cost of making our food supply more healthy is like 10 cents more per dozen eggs. Plus, the jobs you create by refitting these places so animals can at least stand up or turn around. I'm not rolling in money, but I try to buy organic and free range simply because it's healthier and more ethical.
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raffleking
11/04/08

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sorry but this still looked like hell. was in a bar in chicago when they did it for the first time and when jessica yellin "beamed in" everyone started laughing.
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Jason Chen
11/04/08

@raffleking: The glow around her makes it looks weird. If they can fix that, it'll improve it mucho.
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Tony Bullard
11/06/08

@raffleking: Nevermind that it looked dumb, it IS dumb. You're using all this tech and money to do something that is in no way better than just showing her in a box on the right side of the screen. It's just stupid.
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