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February 1st, 2005: Preferred outcome

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by basso, Jun 28, 2004.

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What's your preferred outcome, 2/1/2005?

  1. Democracy taking root in Afghanistan, iRaq stable, new government democraticly elected, US troops on

    42 vote(s)
    72.4%
  2. Taliban resurgent, iRaq in chaos, a beheading a week, no exit in sight, Kerry inaugurated as number

    16 vote(s)
    27.6%
  1. basso

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    Look ahead to next february. the iRaqis have just held an election, and a US president has been inaugurated. If you only had two choices, and you had to accept all the facts of either choice, which scenario would you prefer?
     
  2. Rocketman95

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    Out of those two options, #1 of course.

    But my preferred would be #1 with a slight change at the end. :)
     
  3. Chump

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    I do believe with this post basso, your creditbility has reached zero

    I used to at least respect you, but this thread has destroyed that
     
  4. SamFisher

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    Wow, the underlying message of this poll is as subtle as a two by four upside the head.

    Kerry and Chaos and Discord, or Bush and Peace and Prosperity.

    I choose Kerry and Peace and Prosperity.

    EDIT:, btw, let's look at June/July 2004.

    Taliban resurgent? check.

    Iraq in chaos? check.

    Beheading a week? check

    Troops staying there for a long, long time? check

    Now, are these events partially/wholly attributable to the Bush Presidency or the Kerry Presidency?
     
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  5. basso

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    hey, given the invective thrown at bush by some here, and in the media, including MM, it's a valid question. if he can truely be compared to hitler and mussollini, i would think he'd be worth getting rid of at any cost. call it a test of your devotion to the cause.
     
  6. Rocket104

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    "What is the preferred outcome given the two options I (Basso) have given you?" is the correct way to phrase the question in this poll.

    There are other iterations available - you simply chose not to list them. There is a term for polling in the manner you've done, and it's frowned upon. Please tell me you don't work for a polling organization.
     
  7. Batman Jones

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    Hey basso, would you be more or less likely to vote for McCain if you knew he'd fathered a black baby out of wedlock?
     
  8. Chump

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    how does your "poll" reflect any of that?
     
  9. Batman Jones

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    Cool. Here's another.

    Peace and prosperity under Hitler or chaos and disorder under Bush? What do you say, basso?
     
  10. SamFisher

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    How about Chinggis Khan in leather chaps vs. Dick Cheney in a Fuschia sweater with lavendar pants?
     
  11. mc mark

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  12. basso

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    more, as long as he hadn't lied to a grand jury about it.
     
  13. MacBeth

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    Just sad.
     
  14. Batman Jones

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    I see. More of the Clinton's sex life excuses anything the GOP does for all eternity tact. Super.

    Of course I was really just quoting that old SC push poll the Bushes ran against McCain last time around to remind everyone that bogus, manipulative polls have been coming from your party (and, sadly, mine) for a long time now. Difference between you and me is I'm against them.
     
  15. mc mark

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    Hell we don't have to wait for 2-1-05!

    We've got it going on!
     
  16. basso

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    i'm shocked, SHOCKED, at the OUTRAGE this poll has sparked. where's the courage of your convictions? is bush hitler? ashcroft goebels, as frank rich suggested in his weekly screed against all things republican?

    oh, and batman, i don't think this particular poll will quite carry the weight you attribute to the bush poll in SC, but thanks for the compliment!

    oh, and the iraq survey group has found another 10-12 sarin shells., of GW1 vintage. certainly not a stockpile, but it bears keeping an eye on.
     
  17. RocketMan Tex

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    This poll is as fair and balanced as Rush Limbaugh on an Oxycontin binge.
     
  18. MacBeth

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    Just found this old internet poll:


    Counting machine telegraph poll, 1939.


    What would you fellers rather see happen in the next decade or so:

    A) Mass genocide, world war, millions dead across Europe and in the Pacific, Hitler and Mussolini ousted.

    G) Relative peace and quiet on the home front, no news about holocaust, no World War, Hitler and Mussolini happily in power.




    For Choice A, send up one puff, for G three puffs.

    Thanks, sincerely Basso's Great-Grandfather.
     
  19. Batman Jones

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    I'm not outraged at all by your poll. I just think it's dumb.

    You question the strength of our convictions as Bush haters, conveniently leaving out the fact that we hate him for the exact situations you attribute to a Kerry win in your poll. If he wasn't such a bad president, we wouldn't have so much energy for seeing him lose.

    How bout the strength of your convictions? If you're against the bad news scenario you posit, why are you backing the guy who caused it?
     
  20. Batman Jones

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    p.s. Re: the sarin. Shouldn't you go ahead and post another smoking gun, libs defend yourselves, nanny nanny boo boo thread about it?
     

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