(10-20-2008, 05:21 PM)rumsfald link Wrote: [ -> ][quote author=Surf314 link=topic=1619.msg45122#msg45122 date=1224512288]
Also the site is www.fuppie.com and if you have any suggestions can you leave them here and I will give it to him. The ultimate goal is to have a non-partisan site dedicated to discussing ideas and trying to organize a voting block to punish politicians that push party politics and self-interest over the good of the people. He's actually done some work in politics to overhaul the organ donor program in Florida and knows some politicians. He was telling me that politicians tend to avoid their voters like the plague until election season. It would be nice to make them change that habit.
Smited for picking on Sen. Dodd in the opening seconds while stating the above. Hard to find a better guy, and representative of the people, in the senate than Chris Dodd (especially on finance issues).
2nd smite @ 1:20 for criticizing the explosion of bureaucracy in washington (agreed) but trying to blame that on the democrats. Of the 6 politicians who's pictures are shown 4/6 are dems (the others are Booosh and Paulson). You can't blame the largest increase in the size of the government on Frank, Pelosi, Dodd, and Reid. Try Boosh (one correct), Frist, Delay, Hastert, McConnell, McCain, Dole, Bohner, etc.
To be honest, he seems like a long-time republican that is reading the tea-leaves and seeing that the typical republican platform is DOA for the next 6-8 years,. So he is trying to cloak himself in the language of progressive movement (which is popular now and rising). I don't buy that he is "post-partisan" in the slightest.
*Rummy was always a registered independent until he moved to a state that doesn't allow independents to vote in primaries. Rummy still is a fierce independent.
Also, needs to read from the teleprompter less.
Also, based on the first youtube comment, Surf's new name is
AstroSurf.
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This comment overall makes me sad. Â My dad and me have talked politics a lot. Â He's been unbearable lately because he believes some of the crap they have been spreading but earlier in the campaign he was for obama and even told me he thought he was an amazing person but was concerned about his experience (valid). Â True I am helping him but it's because I respect him and know he is trying to do something positive. Â
I've been with him through his lifegiver campaign where he pushed some legislation through to modernize the organ donor system. Â He was pretty sickened with it after my brother needed a liver and didn't want others to go through the system. Â Basically a lot of organ's were being wasted because of archaic information systems. Â He picked up a lot of cynicism for politics then. Â Ironically it was mostly dealing with the Republican party but I'm sure he's of the opinion the democratic party is the same (it probably is). Â You'd be surprised how much trouble he had to go through to get a seemingly no-brainer piece of legislation through.
He also has been a member of the library board for a while and helped stop the neo-cons in my home town from almost having a book burning. Â One of the people going for re-election decided to rile up the large amount of religious conservatives by bringing up controversial books and saying they need to be banned. Â He gave a great speech against it that I wish I had on tape, that would have made a far better youtube video.
So yes I am trying to help pimp his stuff, and I may not always agree with him politically. Â But overall it's because I know when he gets like this its because he wants to try to change something for the positive. Â And I am pretty nervous because I am afraid he's going to make some mistake and get some first hand experience of internet trolls.
But I respect your opinion Rummy and will make sure he knows that the video seems slanted right in a sneaky way. Â Maybe he can fix it.