DU: Do YOU prefer diamonds or pearls?

[BeHereNow]

Poll question: DU: Do YOU prefer diamonds or pearls?

Clearly a reality based question for the common man, or woman candidate-
I am DYING to know!

[AlCzervik]

1. i think you know what my answer is.

:D

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. Other

I prefer the song, "Some Days Are Diamonds, Some Days Are Pearls" by the late John Denver.

:hide:

[lvx35]

31. "Cream, get on top!"

That's the song from the prince album "Diamonds and Pearls" that leaps to my mind regarding CNNs attempts to put Hillary over Obama.

http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Prince/Cream.html

[smokey nj]

3. Other: I prefer Neil Diamond and Pearl Bailey.

[BeHereNow]

4. Why do you hate America!?!?!?!

Commies, both of them!
Musician Commies!
LOL!
BHN

[Toucano]

5. Well done! n/t

[Kurovski]

15. You can't bite the pearls I like.

But you can eat them.

I apologize. Kind of.

[BeHereNow]

17. Oh MY!!!

Alert!
Alert!
:silly: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
BHN

[scarletwoman]

20. Is it hot in here? Or is it just me...

[BeHereNow]

28. Everybody KNOWS you're hot...

So yes, dear, it's you!
SCARLETwoman!!!
Heh!
BHN:hi:
BHN

[Kurovski]

29. It's BOTH baby!

It's both. :hi:

[smokey nj]

22. Shame on you! Pearl Bailey is rolling over in her grave.

:spray:

[Kurovski]

25. I agree.

She loved them double entendre. :-)

[FreeState]

6. other: Prince N/T

[dweller]

7. rhinstones and crystals

on the opposite gender...


;)
dp

[scarletwoman]

8. I like pearls of wisdom thrown to swine, whose ears then turn into silk and then the horror

of it all is like a diamond shot through your forehead.

[BeHereNow]

10. Okay, pass it over...not fair if you don't share some of that.

:smoke:

BHN:rofl:

[scarletwoman]

13. Come and get it.

:P

:rofl:

:evilgrin:

:smoke:

[BeHereNow]

14. Be right over...

Just let me put on some diamonds and pearls first!
I never leave the house with out my "common man" attire...
:woohoo:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Wouldn't want to be mistaken for a REPUBLICAN!!!!
BHN

[otherlander]

42. A diamond shot through your forehead...

Hmmm....

If you want to throw pearls to the swine, ok, but I think you should stop feeding them yams.

[scarletwoman]

43. Did you miss the reference?

What about the smell of Napalm in the morning?

[havocmom]

9. Peaches & cream

No, wait, Peaches & Herb.

[BeHereNow]

11. Scarletwoman has the Herb...

Clearly, from her post...
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
BHN

[BeHereNow]

12. I can't believe the mods haven't moved this to the lounge yet....

They must be with Herb too...
BWAHAHAH!
BHN

[havocmom]

16. It's THEME NIGHT in GD!

Pull a poll
Push a poll
Poll a troll
Stroll with pole
Push a troll in a hole with a pole
Troll a fish on a line with a pole
Ice fish in a hole with a pole poll
Droll toll poll

More wine for planet havocmom.....

[scarletwoman]

18. It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world, havocmom. Thank you for your excellent contribution!

:toast:

sw

[BeHereNow]

21. You must admit...

We are SORELY lacking levity in GD these days.
Now grab some more wine
and continue your rhyme!
ROCK ON Havocmom!
But....
Be sure to put on your diamonds and pearls FIRST!
Lord knows, that is the question of the hour in
this country!
Diamonds? OR Pearls?
WHICH do I prefer????
Feh!
I'll wear them both,
IN SOVEREIGNTY WITH THE COMMON MAN, NATURALLY.
I'm so glad that is all we have to worry about as Americans!

BHN

[havocmom]

24. Pearls, my dear, go with everything

even sham, and shame
it's all the same

pols and polls
trolls with scrolls

drool pool
not so cool

rise to speak
but barely speak
supporters sneak
reporters no peak

one fucking ridiculous week

[mth44sc]

19. Cash

if you're askin' - that's what I prefer...

[BeHereNow]

23. HOW DARE YOU!!!! Traitor! WHY do YOU hate America????

Dag Nammit!
You're SUPPOSED to use CREDIT!
How ELSE do you think the global elite are going to
make you a serf for their empire???

Now GO OUT there and charge some DIAMONDS and PEARLS
at WALMART, like a GOOD a'murikkkan!

Debt, baby!
It's the PATRIOT ACT way!!!

Didn't you hear the shrub?
GO shopping!

BHN

[mth44sc]

30. I feel so small

Fist thing in the morning I'll charge something I don't need...

[BeHereNow]

32. NOW you're talkin' like a GOOD German, er, I mean...A'murikkkan!

Keep that credit card SMOKIN!
Before you know it, you too, can lose EVERYTHING to the bankers!
It's the Patriotic thing to do in the New American Century!
:sarcasm:
BHN

[havocmom]

26. Soul Poll

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2300845

broken heart be heard
dissent be forbidden word

[Dems Will Win]

27. CNN was caught planting questions with students at a 2003 Dem debate!

CNN says it went 'too far' in framing student's question

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) -- A college student who asked the Democratic presidential candidates at a debate whether they preferred the PC or Mac format for their computers says the question was planted by CNN.

The news network acknowledged Tuesday that a producer went "too far" in telling Brown University student Alexandra Trustman what to ask.

CNN televised the debate, co-sponsored by the nonprofit Rock the Vote organization, last week. It was billed as an event geared to the interests of young people.

CNN spokeswoman Christa Robinson said the cable network regrets the producer's actions. She would not identify the employee.

"In an attempt to encourage a lighthearted moment in this debate, a CNN producer working with Ms. Trustman clearly went too far," she said. All of the other questions from the audience originated from the person asking them, she said.

In an editorial written for the Brown Daily Herald, Trustman said she was called the morning of the debate and given the topic of the question CNN producers wanted her to ask.

Trustman said she was "confused by the question's relevance," and constructed her own question "about how, if elected, the candidates would use technology in their administrations."

But when she arrived in Boston for the debate, Trustman wrote, "I was handed a note card with the Macs and PCs version of Clinton's boxers or briefs question" and told she couldn't ask her question "because it wasn't lighthearted enough and they wanted to modulate the event with various types of questions."

She referred to a 1992 student forum where Bill Clinton was asked what kind of underwear he preferred.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/11/11/cnn.question.ap

[dysfunctional press]

33. my tastes run to both oysters AND snails...

not that there's anything wrong with that, eh antonaeus...?

[earth mom]

34. I don't find the question or Hillary's answer funny. Not with so many people losing their homes or

who can't pay their rent and/or are living paycheck to paycheck. That is if they haven't been downsized, laid off, outsourced or Union busted.

That question & Hillary's flippant answer just shows how totally out of touch the elites are and how little they give a damn about the majority of us-AKA-the peons. :grr:

[havocmom]

36. Most of us agree. That's why the point, in all it's absurdity

is being mocked in all our absurdity.

It was a truly crass moment on TV. But it sorta captures the state of America at present. ...oh, look, a shiny thing... is so much less work than actually examining the state of our union.

[earth mom]

39. Thanks for replying...I'm sorry I can't join in right now.

I'm just ticked that nothing has changed and they don't care.

:hi:

[havocmom]

41. Actually, seems there is a bit of a change. They seem more desperate to maintain the illusion

that OZ has a wizard. Methinks the media is scared shitless that they young & the restless are getting involved and finding voice.

[BeHereNow]

38. And YOU my DEAR ONE, have gotten the point of my poll!

the question, AND answer, was a direct mockery of WE, the people.
People in this country are HURTING financially.
The middle class is being eliminated.

Thank you for "getting it."

BHN

[earth mom]

46. Thank you for caring and for trying to get people around here to get it!

:hi:

[BeHereNow]

40. It was Queen Hillary's "Let them eat cake' moment.

Thus, my first and last choice on the poll.

AS if the average American can sit around and debate such idiotic
questions in their spare time.
WHAT spare time?
Most Americans are living check to check.
They have no diamonds or pearls to ponder
and never will.
Most would be happy with decent working hours,
affordable standard of living and access to health care.

FUCK diamonds and pearls.
What about the right to liberty, justice and the pursuit of happiness?

BHN

[Evoman]

35. I like swines. They are fun to cast.

:x

[havocmom]

37. But they can slip on the pearls

[Nailzberg]

44. Dumb question. CNN just wanted their Boxer's or Briefs moment.

CNN wanted to look hip, the way MTV did in Bill's town hall thingy. And the conspiracy portion of my mind think perhaps that CNN was hoping it would have the same effect on her campaign, making her more relateable and less of a stuffy politician, they way that undergarment question helped Bill.

The difference is Bill already had no problem with appearing stiff and stuffy. And with one of the big knock s against Hillary is te whole calculation/triangulation deal-io, this didn't have the same effect. Though I doubt she knew it was coming, my first thought was that CNN was trying to hoping that question would have the positive outcome that Boxers v. Briefs had for Bill.

[NuttyFluffers]

45. i say yes. but then i ask you, would you be a happy boy or a girl?

take your time answering, i'll be sitting here making you a cup of Pink Cashmere.

*singing* 'D to the I to the A to the M to the O to the N to the D to the pearls of love...'