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[apocalypsos]

I'm going to be on the bus during much of the debate, and it's not like I have a TV anyway, so if anybody wants to comment in this post to say, "WTF?! What did Dubya/Kerry just say?!", that'd be nice. And, I imagine, pretty cathartic. :)

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Extracted from my LJ entry for today

[celestialfairi.livejournal.com]

(Watching with a small group in the dorms)

After Kerry's speech involving his personal religious views in contrast to presidential duties, everyone watching simultaneously said, "nice" or "awesome..." Dude next to me emphasized with a further, "That was 2 minutes well spent."

Did anybody notice Bush's evil cackle? It caught us ALL off guard. We were like, what was THAT?

Kerry: "The only reason the number of Pell grants went up is because more people are poor and therefore qualify!"
Us: "Ouch..."

Bush: "There are more minority homeowners now than ever before!"
Me: "That's because there are more minorities here than ever before."
Dude next to me: "They're coming in 8000 at a time!"



If there was any criticism of Kerry, however, it would be that he pushed the rich people tax cut thing a little bit far. He stretched it a bit, although not as much as Bush and his education crap.

Oh yeah, and that comment Bush made?! "Kids whose parents don't speak English are just being shuffled through the education system without learning anything!"
Oh. Dear. What kind of a statement is that?! Just because your MOM doesn't speak English, that means that you can't either? "I'm uneducated because my PARENTS are uneducated." What a stupid generalization. Almost every second generation child speaks English much better than their parents. Just because a parent doesn't speak English doesn't mean a kid doesn't or won't ever be able to learn because having foreign parents is a DISABILITY. Why didn't all the stupid Englishmen just come so many years ago and learn the Native American speech?! Does that mean they're uneducated, because they don't know the native language? What kind of horrible generalization is that?

*fumes*

Re: Extracted from my LJ entry for today

[silent-sybil.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and that comment Bush made?! "Kids whose parents don't speak English are just being shuffled through the education system without learning anything!"

You know, I think it was actually "Kids whose parents won't speak English," which is even more outrageously fucked up. I was listening in the car as I drove home for Fall Break, and I kept screaming curse words at the radio, in a way that made me really happy I didn't have a passenger...