This Presidential election is all about: POST TURTLES!
@redyellowblackdog (10629)
United States
June 29, 2008 9:53am CST
So, what the heck is a post turtle?
Imagine you are out for a stroll in the country and you happen upon a fence row and fence posts. Sitting on top of one of the fence posts is a turtle, a post turtle, if you will. Wouldn't you immediately think to yourself along the following lines?
1) How'd that dumb_ass turtle get up there?
2) What dumb_ass put that turtle up there?
3) For the good of the dumb_ass turtle, I'd better get it down from there before something bad happens!
4) For the good of all turtles, I'd better get it down from there so this doesn't become a fad or something!
Now, imagine that the fence post is the pinnacle of the presidential nomination process, the achieving of your party's nomination.
Furthermore, one or both of the candidates are turtles.
So, who put the turtle(s) up there?
Can we get them down before anything bad happens?
Who better fits the description of a 'post turtle', Obama or McCain?
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@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
29 Jun 08
They are both post turtles, and the Media and their respective Parties put them there despite the wishes of a whole bunch of voters on both sides.
There is no real way to remove either of them, and it is a choice between the bad (McCain) and the really bad (Obama).
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@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
29 Jun 08
Both Obama and McCain could be viewed as a post turtle.
With Obama is their anyone at there, which has not sold their soul to this guy, that believe that this guy is ready to be President.
With McCain is their any Republican, which actually knows what a Republican is, think McCain deserves to be the flag bearer of the Republican party.
How put Obama up on the post guilty wealthy white Democrats who used Obama to say see I am not a racist. Black votes do not really matter. Democrats have had black candidates before like Jesse Jackson, but did not even come close to winning. For the first time there was a Democrat black candidate that the white establishment could vote for.
McCain got there because of fear. A minority of the party feared that a true conservative could not win this year. McCain is the standard bearer of the moderate wing of the party. The conservative wing spilt between Thompson, Romney, Rudy, Huckabee(why I am not sure), and Paul.
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
29 Jun 08
Bravo, on declaring both candidates post turtles in their own right. We might as well be bipartisan in our disdain for candidates!
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@clrumfelt (5597)
• Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
30 Jun 08
I must admit I have spent some time wondering how the turtles got on the posts. I thought different candidates that were running in the primaries could have done the country a lot more good than the two that were chosen. What reasoning could possibly have merits for
running Obama and McCain to be our next president? What reason could someone possible have for putting two turtles on fence posts? Is it a joke? Is it ignorance or a lack of concern by those responsible for choosing these two candidates? Prabably a bit of all three. I hate to think
the two political parties would not take the democratic process seriously, but it appears
to be the case.
@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
30 Jun 08
Why put these 2 particular turtles on the posts? I'll tell you what the more paranoid conspiracy theorists think. Here it is.
There is a handful of really rich people who believe that if the USA should falter and fail economically, there would be immense fortunes to made. This could be done through currency speculation, buying and reselling America's industrial base to foreigners, and even selling America's infrastructure.
While this may seem extreme, it is a fact that some of this is going on already and the people doing this regard themselves as citizens of the world rather than any paricular country. From their point of view, the destruction of the USA is a profit opportunity.
Of course, only paranoid conspiracy theorists believe anything like that is going on.
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