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Kil
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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 Posted - 10/06/2004 : 16:47:07 [Permalink]
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lmfao. Potato chips? Wtf? My vote costs a lot more than a bag of potato chips...
Edit: ah, it's a YEAR supply. -rolls eyes- |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2004 : 17:10:43 [Permalink]
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Michael Moore Responds:
"My friends, they will not catch me. Though I may be on the run, and I may never be able to return home to my beloved Michigan, I make this solemn vow to you and yours: The slackers of America shall not be denied their noodles, they will proudly wear their clean underwear as free Americans, and they will vote Bush out of office come November 2nd (though they will not show up to the polls until well after noon)!"
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2004 : 22:09:00 [Permalink]
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Is it against the law to give people stuff to get them to vote?
I remember some politician in the 80's handing out $1 bills to people and asking them to vote.....
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 10/07/2004 : 01:42:24 [Permalink]
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I'm with Dude here. It might be against the law to buy votes for a candidate, but free underwear to vote? So what if you give someone a ride to the polls? Is that a bribe? And if it's just to vote for your choice of candidate? They must just be harassing Moore.
Or maybe, Moore's behind it because he's getting so much publicity from the attacks.  |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2004 : 07:14:44 [Permalink]
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Well, I could see a problem if somebody like Soros went to FL and drove through one of the republican counties and started offering people with hurricane damage some kind of monetary assistance.... IF they agreed to vote for Kerry.
But somebody giving out $10 or $20 items and just asking people to go vote for whomever they want to vote for?
The republicans just hate Moore. |
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2004 : 07:52:53 [Permalink]
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I think, someone correct if I'm wrong, that you can give a potential voter anything you want as long as you're not representing a candidate. Handing over a box of ginger snaps and a clean pair of skivvies, and telling the guy to get to the polls, nothing more, is perfectly legal. No partisanship, no bribe.
More of the blithering of desperation, methinks.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2004 : 08:57:28 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
I think, someone correct if I'm wrong, that you can give a potential voter anything you want as long as you're not representing a candidate. Handing over a box of ginger snaps and a clean pair of skivvies, and telling the guy to get to the polls, nothing more, is perfectly legal. No partisanship, no bribe.
More of the blithering of desperation, methinks.
While I agree this is complete BS, Moore is clearly representing Kerry and telling the kids to vote Bush out of office. But hey, I'm all for that so go Moore! |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2004 : 10:04:23 [Permalink]
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I have been given note pads, mouse pads, pencils, magnetic refrigerator stickies, calendars and all kinds of odds and ends from people running for office. It is a regular practice...
Plus, I could use some new underwear... |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Maverick
Skeptic Friend
Sweden
385 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2004 : 11:01:22 [Permalink]
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| Well as long as he doesn't tell them what to vote for. Besides, if people are ready to vote for a specific party because they got noodles for it, then perhaps they shouldn't vote at all anyway. |
"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy." -- Carl Sagan |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2004 : 13:27:38 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Maverick
Well as long as he doesn't tell them what to vote for. Besides, if people are ready to vote for a specific party because they got noodles for it, then perhaps they shouldn't vote at all anyway.
 
So true!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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