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that the \"reps\" on this board only write anti-posts on an almost hourly basis (actually it's mostly annoying.) Have yet to see a pro-McCain topic. If you go by who's name is mentioned most the winner clearly is Obama..

Agreed, the tone of the Republican campaign is about as focused on the opponent as any I've seen in a long time.

From what I gather, it's basically a political strategy born out of a position where the possible benefits of an offensive campaign outweigh the risk of losing voters. Understandable, but annoying nonetheless.

I think a lot of people have promoted the positive aspects of McCain by showing the contrast between the two candidates. Because it puts Obama in a negative light isn't the fault of the poster it's Obama's fault for being so wrong on the issues!

I think part of the reason the attacks are prevalent is because everyone has built Obama up so much, far beyond any mortal man, that people feel the need to cut him down to earth. And since Obama has refused to run his campaign against McCain, and Bush instead, it has kinda made McCain’s qualities irrelevant.

Foil wrote:From what I gather, it's basically a political strategy born out of a position where the possible benefits of an offensive campaign outweigh the risk of losing voters. Understandable, but annoying nonetheless.

I don't think that a political strategy working well outside the DBB justifies its use inside the DBB. Most of the conservatives and liberals on this board are not stereotypical conservatives and liberals, so it is mistaken to post as though they are. Most posters here don't care how expensive a candidate's clothes are or who carved what letter into whose face or most of the crap that has been posted here lately, nor should they. I think more annoying than the "anti" topics are the completely vacuous topics.

Good thought Jeff. While I don't post a lot here (and just as well) i DO lurk quite a bit for the that very reason. there's a wide cross section of thinking and information here. A lot of good critical thinking. (some not so much) but it's a nice break from the standard media junk that's been so slanted that a \"9% grade\" sign should be posted at the opening of each show. (from both sides)

Jeff250 wrote:I think more annoying than the "anti" topics are the completely vacuous topics.

Presented by vacuous people waving vacuous flags avoiding vacuous questions.

Duper wrote:A lot of good critical thinking. (some not so much) but it's a nice break from the standard media junk that's been so slanted that a "9% grade" sign should be posted at the opening of each show. (from both sides)

Hey, you shut up! ...

It's 12% grade, get your facts right!

AlphaDoG wrote:Presented by vacuous people waving vacuous flags avoiding vacuous questions.

It's too bad that nature does not abhor a "vacuous"

Hey, I've got a compliment. I thought that John McCain was actually very funny on SNL the other night. He has a good sense of humor. I'm just surprised that he resisted the temptation to kick Tina Fey!

tunnelcat wrote:Hey, I've got a compliment. I thought that John McCain was actually very funny on SNL the other night. He has a good sense of humor. I'm just surprised that he resisted the temptation to kick Tina Fey!

That was frickin'funny, and I loved the Olbermann imitation, too hilarious!

Dakatsu wrote:

Duper wrote:A lot of good critical thinking. (some not so much) but it's a nice break from the standard media junk that's been so slanted that a "9% grade" sign should be posted at the opening of each show. (from both sides)

Hey, you shut up! ...

It's 12% grade, get your facts right!

lol. there are 12% grades? o_0 isn't that a free-fall?

Duper wrote:lol. there are 12% grades? o_0 isn't that a free-fall?

Only in a "vacuous". =P

You know, it's a shame none of the third-party candidates won. Say, for instance... Ralph Nader. =D

Nooo. Ralph Nader is pathetic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_(slope)

My BBTag skills have failed me... Apparently they went on vacation for my post...

EDIT: Okay... NOW They work! arg...

Looks like () in url's screw the system up. I use tinyurl.com to work around that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_(slope)

Bug in phpBB when linking to a URL with special characters in it, use %28 = ( and %29 = ) to work around it.

Probably not a bug so much as trying to prevent XSS.

Krom wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_(slope)

Bug in phpBB when linking to a URL with special characters in it, use %28 = ( and %29 = ) to work around it.

Ahh,k.

Krom wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_(slope)

Bug in phpBB when linking to a URL with special characters in it, use %28 = ( and %29 = ) to work around it.

Good to know. Do you happen to know what character to use in place of a ~ character?

TechPro wrote:Good to know. Do you happen to know what character to use in place of a ~ character?

%7E is the code for ~, however the tilde is unreserved and shouldn't need to be used unless whatever you are using fails to handle it properly (like phpbb with brackets and parentheses).

Or you could google it and find one of the 'about 745,000' handy code tables on the net like this one: http://i-technica.com/whitestuff/urlencodechart.html

The ~ is one of the characters that PD currently has trouble with. Someday (we hope) it will get fixed.

Thanks