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Actually, that does make sense...
CL, you owe Xenox an apology.
Mel
posted by
CunningLinguist
on November 19, 2008 at 7:21 AM
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Re: Re: Re: If your side loses, then America has dumbed down
Actually.....like everything else the O-man's team has taken an advantage ot two with the President Elect thingy..........He is not President Elect until afte Dec. 13 when the Electoral College votes....that is when the title is applicable......
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on November 19, 2008 at 4:23 AM
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Re: Re: If your side loses, then America has dumbed down
Excuse me CL, but it's also proper to refer to our Leader-in-transition as Mr. President-elect ...Did you take two sour cream cubes with your coffee, a-gain? Care for some sour grapes? Melody
I mean no disrespect to you, Corbin. Although, I voted democrat in the presidential election, I do enjoy reading your blog to compare and contrast our views. Just jabbing at CL...he's so cute when he debates politics. Best regards to you from Florida! Mel
posted by
CunningLinguist
on November 18, 2008 at 7:10 PM
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Re: Re: If your side loses, then America has dumbed down
Insulin peasant?! Are you now making diabetes not merely a disease, but an insult as well?
Okay, I know you meant 'insolent'. But then there's that word, 'peasant'. What if xeno-x isn't a peasant? What if he's from the middle class? Are you trying to engage in class warfare, using working-class titles as insults?
But no one should be surprised to find we have an uninformed electorate. We've always had an uninformed electorate. That's part of the burden of having a democracy. But this year's voters are surely not any more uninformed than in the last two presidential elections. How many of those 55 million supporters of George II got buyer's remorse (though somewhat late)? Not a popular guy these days. A predictable (and predicted) outcome, but would they listen before the election?
posted by
mousehop
on November 18, 2008 at 6:13 PM
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"... all the lies that you and a host of others here and around the internet spread about Mr. Obama -- and continue so to do." That's
President-elect Obama, you insulin peasant! Have you no respect for our Dear Leader?! It's fortunate for you that our wise and compassionate Savior is a merciful God, and no longer permits torture on previously sullied US soil; otherwise I imagine you would be getting blasted by the vocal stylings of Christina Aguilera right now for your disrespectful disregard for proper identifying appellation. Shame!
posted by
CunningLinguist
on November 18, 2008 at 9:45 AM
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Re: Corbin_Dallas,
Thank you for your "informed" comment.........
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on November 18, 2008 at 9:16 AM
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Corbin_Dallas,
What makes you people think you understand the issues? I question whether you or the ass who asked the question knew who the "father of capitalism" is! And so what I still don't know. Teach me to think, I can teach myself to learn!
posted by
Glennb
on November 18, 2008 at 9:15 AM
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Re: Corbin
Krisles........Think of the influence on the language from texting....OMG RU red-D 4 it???
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on November 18, 2008 at 8:29 AM
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Corbin
Good post.....and our political process is just a part of where it is so damaging. The work product, ability to meet market needs....the work ethic is a whole different topic....all of these are so affected by the dumbing down. And then there is the ethical bastardization going on.....I'm thinking of a post on that subject myself. Just the average vocabulary has been in such decline for many, many years....and words are how we think to ourselves to be able to reason.....okay, I'll shut up....just add mine to the voices so concerned about this.
posted by
Krisles
on November 18, 2008 at 8:12 AM
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Re: If your side loses, then America has dumbed down
Thank you for your "informed" comment.........
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on November 18, 2008 at 7:48 AM
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If your side loses, then America has dumbed down
And I will agree.
Dumbness showed through with all the comments made on the videos on YouTube by those who supported McCain -- comments about Mr. Obama, quite dumb and uninformed.
But I am sure you wouldn't see it that way.
I see a lot of dumbness out there --dumbness elected George W. Bush President.
I think more informed people, though, voted for Barack Obama. It could be that they were turned off by all the lies that you and a host of others here and around the internet spread about Mr. Obama -- and continue so to do.
posted by
Xeno-x
on November 18, 2008 at 7:18 AM
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Re: Corbin
Naut......
Next, I'll Be posting a poll and accompanying video surveying voters after they voted.......the answers will shock you. Especially how it proves the influence of the reporting of the Main Stream Media......even how Saturday Night live was very effecting in the dumbing down process.....
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on November 18, 2008 at 6:39 AM
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The intelligence level had plummeted over the years until somedays I wonder how my coworkers even dress themselves! I was afraid it was the steroids in the beef, now I'm not so sure.
posted by
robinrn
on November 18, 2008 at 5:59 AM
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Corbin
I don't even know where to start. The 'Dumbing of America', discussed as early as 1963 in Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is of HUGE concern (and applies to Canada as well, of course!)
So I'll just give you one little quote:
"The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation in 1837, but his words echo with painful prescience in today's very different United States. Americans are in serious intellectual trouble -- in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations." (Susan Jacoby, Washington Post February 17, 2008)
Maybe I should write a series on this topic...
posted by
Nautikos
on November 18, 2008 at 5:39 AM
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