[Zipperfish]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

What's it called when they believe it, contrary to all obvious evidence? Does that have a name? I'll give it one. Leftist nosism.

I thought you wanted to discuss an interesting issue. I see now that you just wanted post partisan hackery. Sorry, cary on.

[Zipperfish]

StuntmanMike StuntmanMike:

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Maragret Wente, in the Globe and Mail (a right-leaning centrist, I'd say; defineitely not a lefty) does this all the time too. Actually, it's quite widely used. It's an artisitic conceit, a writer's trick, a rhetorical tool. It's called "the editorial we" or nosism.

Good to see someone around here has actually read something in their lives and can put Heather Mallick in context.

I don't know why right wingers let Mallick upset them, because that's exactly what she's trying to do.

Mallick is the left's version of Mark Steyn, although not nearly as bright or talented. She goes out of her way to be acerbic and provocative, hoping to initiate a response in those from the other side of the political spectrum.

Mrak Steyn wouldn't be as vulgar. Definitely as condescending--just not as vulgar. Maybe a left Ann Coulter would be a better analogy.

[ridenrain]

Ann Coulter isn't vulgar either.

[fifeboy]

ridenrain ridenrain:

Ann Coulter isn't vulgar either.

Check out http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ann_CoulterUnless, of course, we have a different definition of vulgar!

[tritium]

westmanguy westmanguy:

Tritium...

Saskatchewan has a Majority Saskatchewan Party Gov't. The Saskatchewan Party is a coalition of former Saskatchewan Progressive Conservatives and Saskatchewan Liberals uniting to take down the Saskatchewan NDP. The Saskatchewan Party is generally Centre-Right, but tries to stay in the centre to keep the Liberal members of the party content (and thus keep the NDP out of power).

Federal Saskatchewan has elected 13/14 Conservative MPs. It's a centre-right province at this point in time. But Saskatchewan people have this odd patriotism to their crown corps.

I think it's the younger generation that moved to Sask hoping to make a million like they did in Alberta, in oil and real estate.

Real estate had a very quick bubble, and now is on the way down.

Sask will be back to NDP soon enough.

Now take a look at what happen in Sask, and tell me what would happen if the Liberals and NDP formed an alliance on the federal level to take down the Conservatives?

With a combined 46% of the popular vote.

[Zipperfish]

ridenrain ridenrain:

Ann Coulter isn't vulgar either.

Edit: Fife beat me to it. Thanks buddy.

[BartSimpson]

Streaker Streaker:

America is poised to elect Obama as its President.

If you believe the polls that have historically been wrong and biased in favor of the Democrat. Based on the historical performance of the polls I'm expecting McCain to win by 3-5 points.

[DerbyX]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Streaker Streaker:

America is poised to elect Obama as its President.

If you believe the polls that have historically been wrong and biased in favor of the Democrat. Based on the historical performance of the polls I'm expecting McCain to win by 3-5 points.

Do you mean 3-5 electoral votes?

I think Obama will get a good boost from Colin Powels support and McCain will some with Palin being so openly against SSM.

[Zipperfish]

Still two weeks to go. That's a long time in politics, especially in such a close race. I'm sure McCain would rather be in front, but he's comfortable being the underdog.

I think what would really help McCain now is a big rally by Bush and Cheney.

[Streaker]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Streaker Streaker:

America is poised to elect Obama as its President.

If you believe the polls that have historically been wrong and biased in favor of the Democrat. Based on the historical performance of the polls I'm expecting McCain to win by 3-5 points.

I'd hardly be surprised if McCain ended up winning. Either way it'll be a fascinating election.

[bootlegga]

Streaker Streaker:

I'd hardly be surprised if McCain ended up winning. Either way it'll be a fascinating election.

No doubt. I think Obama will pull it off, but McCain still has the ability to win if he plays his cards right.

[Toro]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Streaker Streaker:

America is poised to elect Obama as its President.

If you believe the polls that have historically been wrong and biased in favor of the Democrat. Based on the historical performance of the polls I'm expecting McCain to win by 3-5 points.

This is not correct.

I was tracking all the polls in the 2004 election. Bush lead throughout most of the campaign, except for a brief period around the third debate, and had a 2%-3% lead in almost all the polls in the final days of the campaign.

He won by 3%.

An in depth overview of America's polls can be seen here.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/ ... rimer.html

[Zipperfish]

Well, you can't fault Bart for sticking with the guy in his corner!

[StuntmanMike]

HyperionTheEvil HyperionTheEvil:

So how does comparing someones daughter to a porn-star raise politcal awareness? I'd like to know because when the CBC ombudsman asked Mallick these same questions she either couldn't or wouldn't answer.

I didn't say she's trying to "raise political awareness." You did.

I said she's trying to provoke a response in right wingers, and she does that well, as evidenced by the over the top reaction to the drivel she writes on her CBC blog and in the Guardian.

I think Mallick is a witless writer, who lacks who lacks originality. Her attack on Palin was a trite attempt to mirror an article written by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times a couple of weeks earlier.

But she is excellent at sending the right into fits with every word she pens. And unfortunately, that gives her a fair bit of credibility because it illustrates brilliantly just how hysterical the Rush Limbaugh/Sean Hannity/Bill O'Reilly crowd are.