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Just pick someone already

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Flying Headbutt, Aug 22, 2008.

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  1. deskslave

    deskslave Active Member

    Are you counting to inauguration day? Because that would be five months. Or four months, 29 days.
     
    deskslave, Aug 22, 2008
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  2. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    Nope. A better day.
     
    mike311gd, Aug 22, 2008
    #26
  3. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member

    Biden and Romney BOTH odds-on at Intrade, now . . . each at their highest prices, to date.
     
    Ben_Hecht, Aug 22, 2008
    #27
  4. 21

    21 Well-Known Member

    So would you prefer that the folks at home got their info strictly from the newspaper in the morning, and Uncle Walter in the evening?

    What's 'important' is purely objective to any given network or viewer. The 24 hour news cycle isn't designed for people to sit and glaze over watching nonstop for 24 hours. It's designed for anyone to tune in at any time, and find out if there's news that's interesting/important, and stay with it if they choose. Otherwise, there's the remote control.

    I just can't understand the downside of anything that engages people in news, especially if you are in the business of collecting and distributing news.
     
    21, Aug 22, 2008
    #28
  5. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    I think Buck's point, and it was mine, is that we're all just sitting here making up news and speculating. We're rehashing stories told over and over again with nothing new for days, except an occasional, but really meaningless, quote. There's no news going on. We're just making news to say we have news.
     
    Flying Headbutt, Aug 22, 2008
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  6. huntsie

    huntsie Active Member

    Canadian talking here, so take it for what it's worth: The identity of the vice president is more important this year because, in McCain's case, he's 71 years old and had three bouts of skin cancer. The guy might have to go to work.
    In Obama's case: there may be some loon out there who gets it in his crazy mind that no black man is going to run his country. It's an ugly undercurrent to the race, but, just as there are people who won't vote for him because he's black; there might be somebody out there who would take a shot at him because he is.

    Or is that naive or ignorant on my part? If so, I apologize in advance.
     
    huntsie, Aug 22, 2008
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  7. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    I think as much as anything else it's important because of the influence that office has had these last eight years. I just hate the way the story has played out these past few days. It's been childish and lame.
     
    Flying Headbutt, Aug 22, 2008
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  8. 21

    21 Well-Known Member

    I get that....agreed. And if the folks at home were bored, they'd tune out. In the case of Obama, they're not tuning out.

    My issue is with the comment that the 24-hour news cycle is a 'self-defeating prophecy,' although I'm not really sure what that means. There's nothing self-defeating about immediate access to the news industry, and that's my point. Every person out there who calls him/herself a 'news junkie' is a win for us.
     
    21, Aug 22, 2008
    #32
  9. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    I think all three of us agree on all the same points. Shots for everyone?
     
    Flying Headbutt, Aug 22, 2008
    #33
  10. jagtrader

    jagtrader Active Member

    It doesn't matter who Obama picks. He'll still be in trouble.
     
    jagtrader, Aug 22, 2008
    #34
  11. beefncheddar

    beefncheddar Guest

    FWIW,

    MSNBC says KMBC is full of shit and that Bayh is out. Biden's peeps think he's the guy.

    Carry on.
     
    beefncheddar, Aug 22, 2008
    #35
  12. Dickens Cider

    Dickens Cider New Member

    We've already come to the conclusion that the bumper sticker was so ugly there was no way it was real.
     
    Dickens Cider, Aug 22, 2008
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