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Bacon King
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« on: December 15, 2008, 06:29:06 PM »

The amount of utter ignorance in this thread is suprising.

First off, the linked article is kind of silly because it tries to blame something on Obama just for not doing tokenism. It's pretty clear that he's just (at least mostly) picking the people he finds best for the job, so what if it happens to not have anyone from some region of the country?

Second, to everyone here who thinks or wishes that this is some way to punish the south, you're doing nothing but displaying your own intolerance on this subject. You blatantly stereotype an entire region of the country and assume for some reason everyone here is exactly the same politically. I'm not going to name any names, although this is honestly really directed at one person in particular, but please grow up.
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Bacon King
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E: -7.63, S: -9.49

« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2008, 06:47:45 PM »

It's very interesting that the most 'patriotic americans' down there are always the ones with the confederate flag on their trucks. I think they mean to symbolize the racism of the region rather than any actual pride in the Confederacy.


No. Just no. Have you ever even been out of your home state? We make fun of the Confederate flag pickup truck type guys too.

Second, to everyone here who thinks or wishes that this is some way to punish the south, you're doing nothing but displaying your own intolerance on this subject. You blatantly stereotype an entire region of the country and assume for some reason everyone here is exactly the same politically. I'm not going to name any names, although this is honestly really directed at one person in particular, but please grow up.

That's absolutely right, and I shall continue to do so until you can manage to elect someone sane to your state governorship.

Referring to Louisiana/Jindal, I'm assuming? Say what you will about the guy, yeah he's got some superconservative beliefs that I really disagree with, but he's far from insane. Hell, the guy was a Rhodes scholar- he's probably smarter than you, me, or anyone else in this forum. And you do know that there was a Democratic governor of Louisiana all of three years ago, right?

Also, considering your avatar I don't think you have the right to make any sort of judgment call about electing sane people as governor, lol.
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Bacon King
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E: -7.63, S: -9.49

« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2008, 07:08:43 PM »

Everyone bashing southerners for being southern need to stfu and kiss my grits.

Cheesy
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Bacon King
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« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2008, 07:22:37 PM »

Lance and Straha, plz stop the trollin. You're causing people not to realize that there actually are/were real people in this thread espousing views as crazy as yours.
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Bacon King
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« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2008, 07:40:03 PM »

This is disgusting.  My family has been in the South for over 150 years, and I cannot believe the sentiments that are being expressed.  You people in the North need to step back and shut up.

Ben, be a little bit less obvious next time.

You do realize I'm not the only person who loves the South and doesn't like seeing it attacked for no reason, right?

Well, what'd I say?

Well, I fucked up.

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