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| Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Nov. 05 2008,15:09) | The graciousness of McCain's concession actually kind of startled me, too. Almost made me feel sorry for the guy.* I think he wanted to close out his career on a more upbeat note than being the asshole who spent 3 months calling Obama a socialist terrorist. His audience wasn't all on board, tho. They booed very loudly the first couple times he mentioned Obama's name.
I don't think Caribou Barbie has made any kind of statement, tho. Alaska just re-elected senator Stevens even though he's now a convicted felon facing possible jail time. So of course they're talking about Palin running for his seat after the Senate kicks him out next month.
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A while ago I watched a documentary unrelated with the elections, Why We Fight, wich featured McCain. It made me ponder about him, and I looked some stuff up about it. My conclusion was simple: is this the guy who was running for president?? Before the election, he seemed to be (to me at least) as a decent, skeptical and overal good guy, certainly not a Repub-drone. But during the campaign, he looked more like a Karl Rove puppet. Seemed like he was done with that roll as well, when I saw some fragments from his speech. He looked genuinenly pissed off at those booing and shouting supporters. Simply put, the "old" McCain wasn't the McCain I saw during the election. A shame tbh. How he could ever live with becoming like that, and doing all those things Wheels summed up, is a mystery to me.
@Heddle:
It's obvious that electing Obama doesn't say much about the state of racism in America:
1: Only about 50% of the total population voted.
2: From that 50%, about 52% voted for Obama.
That still leaves tens of millions of people not supporting Obama, and I don't even count "positive racism" ("I voted for him because he's black.") wich is, imo, bad as well.
PS: I don't have the exact numers, if anyone can correct me: thanks.
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