SuperJerk

I think the fear of rape plays a part, too.

Oh, you had to go and use the "M" word, didn't you? I was trying to avoid coming out and flatly saying that's who I was trying to refute.

No. If Kerry had done a better job selling his national security plan, THEN he could've won, IMO. My theory states that most of the people who voted for him felt safer with him in charge than with Bush in charge.

I wasn't only talking about YOU, though. My noun of choice was "people" (which is plural, FYI). Since I was talking directly to you at the time, I'd have said "you keep dragging" instead of "people who keep dragging".

Dames?

On a subconscious level, I think they did. This is purely conjecture on my part based on my understanding of political science, sociology, and psychology. Maybe 100% is an exaggeration, but I think the majority of voters were worried about terrorism, and it would have been impossible for Kerry to win without making national security his number 1 issue. Basically, I'm saying I think that the poll is wrong.

I think that theory gets shot to hell when Anakin turns to the Dark Side, though. There will be a lot of death and destruction. The only good-guy characters who die in this movie are nameless Jedi and boring-ass Padme. That's not exactly the same as Luke, Han, or Lando getting killed (ideas which were thrown around while the original trilogy was being written...vetoes by Lucas for the reason I already mentioned).

I wasn't talking about the war in Iraq, but the "War on Terrorism". I guaran-fucking-tee that just 3 years after 9/11, 100% of the voters cared about the threat from terrorism. I'd count those 12 or so people in the 49% group I mentioned that voted for Kerry or Nader.

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to surf the 1998 internet? And by "cool", I mean "wierd".

I've got a theory that Lucas made the prequel characters boring on purpose so when future generation watch I-VI in order, the transition from one group of characters to the other will be easier for kids to handle. Remember, this is the guy who refused to kill off any of the main characters in "Return of the Jedi" because he thought it'd upset the kids in the audience.

There's a simple explanation for that. The people who make the cartoons aren't the same people who make the movies. And Clone Wars Vol.2 was WAAAAYY better than Volume 1. Vol. 2 had an actual story, whereas Vol. 1 was just a collection of cool battles...and an "Akira" rip-off featuring Obi-Wan.

I hate it when that happens.

Isn't there a Star Trek movie or something coming out soon? That might be a big hit.

No. The natural human desire for physical safety overrides every other need we have. In a time of war, all other issues become irrelevant. Bush's campaign message was: "I may have made a few mistakes, but I'll keep you safer than Kerry will." 51% believed him, and 49% didn't.

... I assume you're going somewhere with that... Just wanted to back up my point that Bush's actions were 2 or 3 steps beyond what Clinton did. A point totally ignored by the people who keep dragging Clinton into this.

So we were BOTH right.

I can't belvie I forgot that! He even sounded like the Superman from "Superfriends".

from the memo:

In the previous thread, which I ignored, the argument was made that there was nothing wrong with Bush Administration wanting to oust Saddam Hussein before the evidence was there because the Clinton Administration had also stated a preference for regime change in Iraq. Obviously the subtlties between wanting something and actually seeking out rationales to sell to the public and putting a plan in place to do it using a massive invasion were lost on our more conservative CE folder brethren, not to mention oddness of the shift in focus from Al Quaeda to Iraq so soon after 9/11.

Same here in regards on how I found the site. Dr. Tom's Smackdown reports were also posted on LOP, which is how I found my way here. I started reading Dames' WWE PPV Diatribes (Oh, lord, the detail!) I didn't join the forums until Dames asked someone to get him a copy of an Angel/Buffy episode (I can't remember which), and when I emailed him about it, he mentioned in his reply that TSM had a good forum. edit: Happy now, Kotz?

Site Feedback is becoming, by far, the most entertaining folder on this board.

Link? That kind of contradicts what he said on the Ep. 2 commentary. Besides, this is the same man who used to tell people that C3PO was over 100 years old, and that Luke would get a love interest in the third trilogy. In other words, if you don't see it in a movie, don't count on it being true.

I'd love to watch South Park if I could ever figure out when the fuck its on. "Hey, here's two new episodes, followed by nine weeks of reruns!" And who the hell is Dian Bachar?

You'd never guess. I take it you've never seen "Half-Baked".

That "Raiders of the Lost Ark" homage was also great. Two George Lucas parodies in one night? Damn.