2008 USP(G)ET pt. II: counting the days to 2012 primary thread 1

you can be familiar with your rights and not know that they are the product of a supreme court decision or the name of that decision

thanking u for kind of completely missing the point as per normal

i really don't like it when cable talking heads speculate about what normal americans are like, ilxors doing it isn't much better

http://www.foxnews.com/images/299305/0_61_palin_sarah.jpg

political "body language analysis" is such bullshit

Unless it calls a debate for Obama. What prompts this outpouring, Crut?

I know this is crazy but in comparison to Palin, Bush looks like a political genius.

Re upthread: Which are the constitutional amendments most likely to be known by the most Americans btw? My totally US-stereotyping guess from Europe:

-- No 2 (?) for GunZ0rs
-- That Fifth thing you can take if you get arrested on TV
-- Prohibition :/
-- No more prohibition! :D
-- Some stuff about vice presidents

(Someone more versed in them than me could make a POLL with say 12 real and a bunch of fake ones to check how ilxors do...)

yr kinda missing one there

Haha I'm sure I am. First five that occurred to me (the last one only because reading 538 too much).

can't be forced into quartering soldiers

always tip 15%

can't be forced into quartering soldiers

How about hanging and drawing them?

uh free speech bitchez

uh

First, second, and fifth are the only ones I would think most people would be able to identify by number.

1, 2 and 5 are easily the most famous. no one gives a shit about prohibition anymore.

lolz
x-post

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_Constitution

-- Some stuff about vice presidents

no idea what you were thinking of with this one

always tip 15%

hilare

Prohibition: yeah probably true, plus abolition of slavery is obv pretty major (ok I looked them up).

Vice presidents: substuff of no 12 I think I was thinking of, ie VP != runner-up or something. Does not belong in above list at all.

I think people care about the fourth amendment too.

At least people who watch Law & Order do anyway.

There has to be a sizeable number who know at least one thing about the 14th, no?

Define sizeable.

More than just lawyers and wonks.

C'mon, 'due process', 'equal protection'? No-one?

L.A.W.Y.E.R.S.

I think plenty of people are aware of those concepts, but associating them to a particular amendment?

wait-they amended it?

How about prohibiting the U.S. or any specific state to pay off any debts or obligations incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States? Surely everybody remembers that!

fuk a creditor

This is perhaps one of the least auspicious days in recent history to entertain such an attitude.

14th possibly too generally worded & lacks a defining catchphrase? Versus e.g.: Freedom of speech! Right to bear arms! Trial by jury! Abolition of slavery! Presidential disabilities

Man, it's like when Punk Rock Broke in 1991. You don't HAVE to know how to sing when you sing, man.

College Radio
Indie rock
DIY
Sarah Palin

We need a Kathleen Hanna to fight back against the history class wang contest.

Man, it's like when Punk Rock Broke in 1991

We won now PEW PEW PEW

squeeze my left one

The idea of Palin gone JD Samson fills me with horror and glee

Also Palin may fall afoul of XIV.3 for giving "succor" to insurgents and seditionaries eg. AIP.

This is perhaps one of the least auspicious days in recent history to entertain such an attitude.

on ilx attitude entertains you!

(its not even my actual attitude)

The idea of Palin gone JD Samson fills me with horror and glee

"Who took Obama from 'Bamabamaland?"

Sorry.

(its not even my actual attitude)

I was just sayin'...

Her most ardent supporters are already grimacing because they've been having nonstop orgasms since she was named to the ticket.

my point exactly - her most ardent supporters are right-wing men who want to see her bodacious ta-tas.

i really meant more GOP movers & shakers than John Q. Dumbass... but hell, maybe y'all did, too.

it doesn't matter if the initial reaction of "real americans" is a shrug, when it gets replayed on lou dobbs and neal boortz and jack cafferty and jon stewart as a lapse of intelligence they'll mock her for it even if they would've done exactly the same

this is so spot-on; i laughed when i read it.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3189/2887202631_828affff4f.jpg?v=0

WTF!?! There's that Terry Richardson trying to look good by association. Again.

thumbs up

that terry richardson is such a name-dropper.

ok obama should not be parting w/terry richardson

how long until we see photos of bama's balls