Are you thinking that the Republican party should have nominated a ‘real conservative’? Lots of people over the years have lamented that John McCain has ‘played nice’ with legislators on the other side of the aisle too often. …

Please continue these political postings, Daniel. You are obviously being very effective since all trolls can’t stop fussing and complaining.

For me, it wasn’t a “threat” to unsubscribe — I did unsubscribe. So, to the extent that I visit roughlydrafted.com from here on out, it will be at wider intervals, and I’ll be late posting comments, if I post at all. Let’s face it — Daniel has a pretty sketchy reputation in the tech blogosphere outside his core Mac partisan base. And I freely admit to being part of a Mac partisan base. So I cut him some slack before, because we were on the same side about the Mac. But seeing him botch the facts in his political posts — for example, identifying Ed Koch as a Republican — it made me reconsider. The phrase I used before was “toxic tunnel vision.” I think it’s apt.

Come on. That’s the stupidest stuff anyone’s ever written. The fact that people post this misinformation, including larger venues like HuffingtonPost, only shows how detrimental the internet has become for sussing out fact from fiction.

You’re proof that we’re living in the misinformation age.

[Your arguments would have more merit if you could articulate them using facts and reasoning rather than name calling.]

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/politicalinsider/2008/09/obama-vs-palin.html

If you want to know why Gov. Sarah Palin drives liberal Democrats crazy — and is helping Sen. Barack Obama raise money at a record pace — here’s an excerpt from an viral email making its way around the country:

* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re “exotic, different.”
* Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.

* If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.

* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.

* If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive.

* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising two daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian.

* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
* If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you’re very responsible.

* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America’s.
* If you’re husband is nicknamed “First Dude”, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

Thanks for your replies! “Plenty of Americans are still racist.” This may well be true. I have never found a good poll that accurately measures this. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/12/racism.poll/index.html

However plenty of Americans are also black. I’d be willing to bet Obama gets a disproportionate number of black votes in November just as Hillary would have gotten a disporportionate number of female votes. I’m further willing to go out on a limb and say this ultimately helps him more than it hurts him. Barak’s message from the start has been change and even his mixed heritage reflects this. What he has to convince the rest of America though is that his convictions are more than skin deep, AND that we need change. The Democratic party so far has not done this well in my opinion.

On your second point, Biden’s politial experience vs Obama’s is actually the issue I’m driving at. Biden has been in the game for a very long time. He knows the ins and outs of Capitol Hill he knows what can and can’t be done. Obama on the other hand has had very little time in the Senate. So why is old Joe playing second fiddle to Obama? The ticket seems backwards except for Obama’s charisma. Would anyone have seriously supported an Edwards/Kerry ticket in 2004? Standing side by side with their resumes, Biden looks like the presidential candidate with Obama the VP. In contrast when Palin stands next to McCain he looks more presidential rather than less.

Bottom line it looks like Obama brought Biden to the party so he could get in the door at the Good Old Boy’s Club. McCain is the PRESIDENT of the Good Old Boy’s Club and he brought the hot chick everyone can hit on.

Of course I must now nullify my argument now that I discovered Carly Fiorina is [was?] one of McCain’s top economic advisors. John what were you thinking!?!?

I USED to frequent joyoftech.com daily. I would buy their items and forward their comics to friends. But they started to get wayyy to political and failed to ever do anything to stop the political enthusiasts on their sight from hammering anyone who ever expressed a different opinion. It got oppressive and stifled good communication.

A while back, I just gave up on their site. Period. I no longer visit it and if and when it pops up on Stumble it gets a thumbs down rating from me.

I have enjoyed RD Mag for a long, long time so please, PLEASE stay away from the political crap. I don’t care whether you are blue or red or pink, just don’t mix it up with the rest. Daniel, I like what you have to say about all things Apple and I’d like to keep coming back her for that but if you are going to begin using your site as a platform for your political points of view I’ll find other places to get my Apple related content.

Please, keep it to your focus. Do what you are doing and keep doing it well. Don’t mix politics in. I just don’t want to hear it at all.

Thank you,

Dan

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Indeed. At times like this even a fiscal conservative like me agrees it’s better to get down and dirty than to pull a Herbert Hoover.

The Market has a haircutigger fir feedback right now. Domino effects are the last thing anyone needs.