I am trying to imagine for one second

[dsc]

what the outcry would be if Hillary Clinton supporters trashed DC the way people are trashing WV. Yes, WV is poorer and less educated than many other states. It also is the only state that was formed by suceeding from the Confederacy and has one of the highest concentrations of veterans among the 50 states. Frankly, you couldn't pay me to live in WV, I will fully admit that. Being gay in WV would suck, which is why many gays leave. But there are many decent people there who just happen to feel that she would make a better President than he would. Just like there were many in DC who just happened to think he would make a better President than she would.

Honestly, just try to imagine posts about DC as utterly offensive and unfair as these West Virginia posts have been. People who posted that would be considered racist and probably would be on the fast train to being banned.

On edit I am not a WV, nor have I ever lived there, but I did live in a part of Ohio that is somewhat similar to WV.

[AllentownJake]

1. I have no problem with WV

Now New Jersey.....

[LaurenG]

2. No one should be trashing entire states of people

It's wrong.

[mythyc]

6. ohio sucks

[JuniperLea]

8. Californians are rich snobs!`

Oh, wait...

:blush:

[mythyc]

10. yeah, me and my debt

can't take a joke? maybe that was what was expressed in the smiley ....

...

and my entire family on my dad's side originates from Ohio, roots I've learned through life that are very rich and meaningful

[JuniperLea]

12. Apparently it is YOU who cannot take a fucking joke!

I was playing the game!

Shit... you don't think Californians are in debt too? You think you have the monopoly on it?

For crissakes your own lame ass.

Jesus fucking Christ on a fucking wheat thin.

[mythyc]

24. didn't see the joke, had my blinders on. sorry

:blush:

...

love that image tho of jesus on a wheat thin. searched all over for it on google image, but to no avail (I'll be photoshopping it soon though). here's a family monster clip instead as a peace offering:

[JuniperLea]

30. Awww... no worries:)

Apologies only come from very big hearted people... thanks for showing your true colors:)


Love the 'toon! Post that photoshop and link me!


Here's a current fav 'toon of mine... Larson, so unoriginal, but hey... this one is pretty cool, methinks:

[LaurenG]

25. I thought maybe you had come from here

:hi:

[mythyc]

49. not personally, though I spent many a childhood holiday there

my grandma's entire extended family stretches across northern ohio, and my dad grew up there until his early teens ...

[MadBadger]

3. Would you be fine living in DC?

[dsc]

7. If I could afford it, yes

but I am a school teacher and that would be a non starter.

[MadBadger]

9. Well then I rest my case.

[Lucky 13]

4. There are idiots everywhere. Many of us have not said a bad word about West VA.

You guys have your wackos. We have our wackos.

But just as you were offended by the West VA jokes, WE were really offended by Clinton's "white" interview. Can you accept that at least SOME of us were GENUINE in our offense at her comments?

Respect is a two way street.

Just sayin.

[JuniperLea]

5. Yep... very sad...

And you're not the only gay I've known to leave WV... good for you that you don't hold a grudge... grudges are cumbersome, unattractive, and unhealthy:)

I hardly recognize DU anymore... not so progressive or liberal, are we?

[LaurenG]

19. I think we're still progressive,

lots of us have contracted "grumpy old man/woman disease." We'll get over it, eventually.

[thoughtcrime1984]

11. I think WV is a beautiful state. nt

[JuniperLea]

13. It is... almost heaven, I hear them say... eom

[skipos]

14. Try to imagine a candidate who dismisses certain states by saying they don't matter

and certain groups of progressives, like activists and the youth by saying they don't matter.

That would be pretty obnoxious, huh?

edit:bad english

[dsc]

15. like Obama did to gays when he brought in McClurkin

or like Obama did here by all but skipping this state, like that.

[skipos]

22. Why are you lying?

He campaigned in West Virginia. Has Hillary campaigned in every state?

Please answer these questions, and try not to lie again.

[dsc]

27. He visited one time

and conceeded the state that day. He wrote off this state and you know it.

[skipos]

35. Has Hillary visited every state before they had a primary or caucus?

Don't lie.

[dsc]

37. I am sure she visited everyone that had it's own primary day

she went to both Georgia and Mississippi which she lost bigtime.

[skipos]

38. AWESOME! Hillary would be proud of your goal post moving skills.

A+!

[dsc]

40. There is a massive difference between not campaigning in some SuperTuesday state

and not campaigning in a state that has its own primary. I would imagine she did skip some supertuesday states. But other than that I don't think she skipped a single state.

[skipos]

42. "I don't think" being the key phrase

You need to get yourself some googling skills or something.

[dsc]

43. No, you need to prove your assertions

I didn't assert she didn't skip states you asserted she did. Do your own homework.

[skipos]

44. A++++++!

You could definitely get a job on her campaign!

[Blue_In_AK]

39. Neither one of them came up here. n/t

[dsc]

45. No one will ever go up there after Nixon in 60

He did that 50 state promise and was in Alaska on the day before the election. He ruined it for you all for ever.

[Blue_In_AK]

50. No forgiveness?

Not even in this year when it's very possible we could have Democrats sweep the election here? We have strong Senate and House candidates, and it would really rock if Barack would make an appearance or two. He might even make a believer out of me.

[Occam Bandage]

16. "Frankly, you couldn't pay me to live in WV."

Yeah, how dare people trash those people who you would absolutely refuse to live near.

[dsc]

28. Put a big city there

and I would consider it. I am a city guy. I don't pretend anything else.

[Occam Bandage]

31. If WV had a large urban population, it wouldn't be WV. The people that the "elitists" here

are trashing are the same people that you claim you couldn't be paid to live near.

[dsc]

33. I don't claim to like the country

never have, never will. That doesn't mean I don't like the people there. I wouldn't want to live in lots of places that have great people.

[David Zephyr]

17. You criticize those who have "trashed DC" and then proceed to trash the state yourself.

Your words on West Virginia:

"Frankly, you couldn't pay me to live in WV, I will fully admit that. Being gay in WV would suck, which is why many gays leave." -- dsc

[dsc]

23. I am a city boy

and make no pretense of being anything else. But that doesn't make the people there evil. It does make it harder to date (unlike you I am single) and harder to see live cultural events. That isn't trashing the state.

[DearAbby]

18. Nebraska is boringly FLAT!

Where else would you find "FUNK Nebraska" In Hot Shots, they even had that line coming from the Radio after the spoof BASIC INSTINCT ice-pick love scene. "Nebraska makes formal appology for being boringly flat."

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

20. The Clinton campaign has trashed every state they've lost in.

Hence the running "so and so doesn't count" gag.

[sandnsea]

21. Black people only vote Obama because they're black

Newflash, people DID trash DC over their vote. For some reason, Hillary's supporters just cannot see a racist attack the way they can see every other kind of slander in this election.

[dsc]

26. Oh really

Search works. The DC primary was the week after Super Tuesday. You claim these threads exist, find them. I know damn well no one here posted anything like what has been posted about WV.

[sandnsea]

29. Nobody said blacks only vote

for Obama because they're all black? And somehow or other you can't see that that is just as bad as anything that has been said about West Virginia?

[dsc]

32. I would like to see the threads

sorry but I haven't. Where are the threads about DC crime, or the fact they elected a mayor who had gone to jail for drug use? Incidently, can you point to even one unlocked thread which states blacks voted for Obama only for that reason?

[sandnsea]

34. This is so typical of you

There was an entire uproar over Bill Clinton's comments about SC, and regularly dismissive threads every time Obama wins the black vote in any state - but now you want to pretend they didn't exist. Nothing ever changes with you. You never see what you don't want to see. I hope you aren't this obtuse with your students.

[dsc]

36. I want to see the threads where it was said, as you typed, that people

were saying "people only voted for Obama because he is black". You claimed they exist, search works, put up or well you know the rest.

[WeDidIt]

41. They succeeded in seceding from Virginia

The spelling of those two is a pet peeve of mine.

[iamthebandfanman]

46. right, they didnt join the union until 1863

and just like all the other slave owning border states, half of their people joined the confederate army....

and i guess it doesnt matter that twenty six of the fifty counties had pro-secession majorities(wanted to join the south)...

[dsc]

47. They left the South when the South could have still won

I think they deserve some kudos for that. It should be noted that even some Ohioans, Pennsylvanians, and Indianans also joined the rebel army.

[iamthebandfanman]

48. they didnt abolish slavery until 1865

still giving out kudos ?