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August 27, 2008

Can Dems let go of Hillary?

DENVER - They're loyal Democrats, they care deeply about their party's priorities and they want to change the direction of the country. So how in the world can so many of them talk about skipping the presidential election because instead of Hillary Clinton, it's Barack Obama who broke a historical barrier Wednesday and became the Democratic presidential nominee?

"If I can't vote for him it will break my heart, because I have been supporting minorities my whole career and he represents the hope of so many people,'' said Hillsborough County Clerk of the Circuit Court Pat Frank, recounting that she was 2 when her mother died and that she was largely raised by an African-American woman. "But on the other hand, the intellectual part says, 'Can this person handle the responsibility?' I go through this every single day, and I read absolutely everything there is about Obama."

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Obama/Biden 2008

The Republicans have killed the economy.

OBAMA = BABY KILLER!

US Navy runs away from Russians.

Bush has so weakened America's military that we have to run and hide when a BIG powerful country like Russia stands up us.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20080827/wl_mcclatchy/3029488

11:32
And that is why we need to bring back the Draft.

11:32,Kinda tough to shoot and do battle with a Coast Guard ship full of 32 tons of humanitarian supplies.

But, back to the regularly scheduled program:

The Obama and Domestic Terrorist, Ayers, is finally coming to the fore. He can't use the "I was 8" excuse; he served on 2 boards with the terrorist from the mid 90s til the early 00s.

Ironically, the NY Times published a story that Ayers was still unrepentant on 9.11 and thought that he should have done more destruction.

Obama is not ready to lead and has shown VERY poor judgement being associated with:

Ayers
Rezko
Rev. Wright and
America-hater, his wife, Michelle

Obama's not ready and has RADICAL associations.

"Senator McCain will bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign. I will bring a lifetime of experience. And Senator Obama will bring a speech he gave in 2002."...........Hillary Clinton

At the end of the day, even Obama's own V.P. cadidate does not thing Obama is ready to be President of the United States.

His own words:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDVUPqoowf8

Barack Obama "disenfranchised" millions of voters in Florida & Michigan.

Payback will be coming in November!

The Obama Minyans are desperate bringing race back into the campaign:

Rahm blames McCain for bringing up race
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 8/27/08 1:09 PM EST

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12886.html

Didn't Obama say that "I don't look like the presidents on the dollar bills"?

Be careful, Obama's campaign is trying to play the race card.


The only race card that people will want to hear about is Rev Wright's greatest book tour coming soon.

The word out is that Mitt Romney is McCains VP pick.

BARACK OBAMA IS A DIRTY RACIST JUST LIKE JEREMIAH WRIGHT!!

BARACK OBAMA IS A DIRTY RACIST JUST LIKE REV. MIKE PFLEGER!

BARACK OBAMA IS A DIRTY RACIST JUST LIKE LUDICROUS!

BARACK OBAMA LIKES TERRORIST LIKE BILL AYERS!

BARACK OBAMA LIKES TERRORIST LIKE BERNARDINE DOHRN!

The Obama comments here are disgusting..Give it up or go to Alabama

But sadly, Jason, the "Obama comments" are true. He DOES pull the race card to put othes on the defensive.

Right now he is cornered. His convention, which should have given him a 3-9 point "bump" in the polls has falled flat. The polls are rolling the other way.

Democrats can not only let go of hillary (as in Sir Edthat mound) they can toss her in the gutter after using her like they have.

We have just seen the end of the bitter old feminist movement now that we know their bite is not anything like their bark. Talk about a rollover, get in line and shut up caucus. The NOW gang had their ovaries tore out and fed to wolves.

At least reform minded and blue collar voters walked in "92" voted Perot and took their medicine with the loss. Democrats don't have that much character and integrity. They just want power to ram one minority supported agenda after another down the majority's throat regardless of what is good for the country.

mitt really gives dems TONS of fodder. i went to MIT when he tried to ban gay marriage -- he's an idiot and it will all come out during the race.

the dems took control of congress in 06 and NOTHING has changed. they have done NADA. when will people stop the bush bashing and focus on our DO NOTHING Congress???

I'm voting for Obama but dang, those delegates are a real freak show. Add to it the lame-o folks who cannot get over the fact that Hillary is not the nominee..sheesh! That is quite the life skill set there.

It is big tent indeed.

Obama/Biden at 11:26: you say Republicans killed the economy. Show us the stats. The economy has had a long sustained run. It slowed briefly, but is now back to growth. Recent stats have it growing over 3% in the last quarter.

These people are lame just like this story. Why are we still entertaining this? Barack and Hillary agree on 95 percent of the issues, so to say they won't vote for him is ludacris and it only explains one reason - his race. These people are childish and will reap what they soe. Get over it already. Obama is destined to be the next President and no one can stop God's will but God.

OBAMA = BABY KILLER!!!

It is a shame that the Republicans have been so corrupt, self serving, so willing to spend our tax dollars on helping their camapaign contributors ,not to mention how willing they are to basically give our public lands away. And how about the great way they have been taking care of our environment, our home? They even have changed the clean air standards that took years to get in place, now to allow the spewing of pollutants into our air. The great lies we have been told by the leaders who have constantly redacted or kept information from the people. I am a Repub, and now I am faced with two candidates running for the Presidency. I see posts here that refer to Obamas relationships with racists. I cannot get over the fact that he has had those relationships either, but because the Republicans have just been in my opinion, criminals and hypocites who have destroyed the Republican party, they have no one to blame but themselves. These authoritarians have not practiced Republican principles, they have intruded into peoples personal lives, their over spnding is at an all time high, our economy is dead, they have sold out our country for that almighty dollar, and they have catered to the religious evangilistic right as if no other religion matters. As a Republican who beleives in the real R philosophy, a philosophy that has been so badly mutated, I am so very angry at these disgusting representatives of this party. They deserve to lose and maybe all the Republicans in this country will throw them all out of office and demand better.

10:50 Then on the other hand, we have nuts like you. You are just like the liberals you comdem. You think government should be up peoples b u t t s deciding personal decisions for them.

Senator Barack Obama, with the most liberal voting record in the US Senate, is delivering his political acceptance speech, in an apparent attempt to assume for himself the mantle of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Dr. King did not embrace the type of secularist agenda promoted by Obama and the Democratic Party of today, which includes fostering dependency on welfare that breaks up families, supporting same-sex marriage and partial-birth abortion, and banning God from the public square.

Obama is no MLK!

keep your religious dogma to yourself. i am not a christian, nor will i be, and i do not wish to be governed by your church's questionable dogma. you "christians" can't seem to agree amongst yourselves on much of anything. believe what you want, but don't inflict it on me.

10:16 Cut the race card c r a p already. While their are certainly racists in this country, and they come in all colors, you dont allow for the possibility that people do have concerns that dont involve race. If race was as big an issue as you try to make it, Obama would not have been this successful. While the majority of blacks are voting on the basis of race, many whites are voting for Obama also. He could not even be the nominee without the white vote. So lets get off the race card stuff.

10:57 I don't see you bolgging about what the conservative party has done to this country. You should be mad as h e l l because they empowered the Democrats, they are to blame for losing. And all you do is do is talk about the "Liberals". Well, Jesus was the biggest liberal, and he is loved because of that. Do you even know your own Bible?

11:07 A.M., you say "Well, Jesus was the biggest liberal......"

Prove it.

Considering liberalism was a creation of politics in the 18th and 19th centuries Anno Domini, and that Jesus said his kingdom was not of this earth, to claim Jesus as a liberal, or conservative, is pure drivel both historically and intellectually.

5:42 you are an idiot if you need proof that Jesus was liberal and I guess you never heard or read about Jesus in the temple with the money changers.

5:51 Socially, Jesus was clearly a liberal. When he cured the lepor, did he charge him? Ha

5:51 You obviously do not understand the difference between political and social. Obviously I am speaking to the social.
Conservatism never changes anything. It does not work to change the status quo, definitionally.
Liberalisim works to change things. Jesus was a liberal and is loved by millions who know that

6:46 you can speak to the social. You can speak to the political. You can speak to the wall or to your cat. However or to whom you speak makes no difference because you speak utter nonsense. "Oh I love my liberal Jesus, because he'll never be mean or tease us, and I know He's for abortion rights, because it sends innocent souls to heaven's heights."

7:30 You and your kind are the reason I will have to vote for Obama. To have pure arogant dictators like you wanting to dictate what I do in my life is something I would fight work hard against. You are the reason that Obama has all the support he has.

7:30 Oh, I guess in your own opinion you dont speak utter nonsense and no ones else, in your opinion, should be allowed to have an opinion. You sound like you have annointed yourself the only one God could love.

You sound like a petulant child whose toy has been taken away. And you do not sound like a Christian. You believe in Jesus? What about the turning the other cheek part and the love your enemies part he preached?

Don't worry, 7:38.

7:30 and all the people like him will be judged, and they'll be very disappointed to learn that bullies, xenophobes and fascists don't in fact go to the front of the line.

7:46 if my "toy" translates into my freedom, and the right to have Government stay out of my life and not have one particular or any religion dictate my life, then yep, that sounds like me. So far Id have to say, my side is winning. You, the one who is filled with hate want to preach to me about turning the other cheek? You think your the only one who knows. Jesus? If you think sounding like you means one is a Christian, then you really are dilusional and need far more help then I thought.

7:38 That person clearly cannot accept that other people have a right to their own opinions. 7:46 actually thinks he/she should impose his /her view and beliefs upon everyone else because after all he/she knows whats best. Arguing with a zealot like that is really like pis-ing in the wind. Why bother? That type of conceit is thankfully in the minority.

I did not claim to be Christian. I did not claim to know Jesus. And I certainly don't use Jesus to justify my political beliefs. And I wasn't preaching to you about turning the other cheek. You cite scripture, I cite scripture. I'm not dictating what you should believe or think. It's your life, such as it is, and I have no idea what winning "side" you are on. I'm not trying to bully you, I am simply old and cantankerous and have no patience with fools. If you and your little pal at 7:52 have to call anybody who disagrees with you bullies, xenophobes (I said nothing about foreigners) and fascists, and call down judgment on opponents, then you are the ones filled with hate and delusion.

Everybody has a right to their opinions, 9:06. And I have the right to say your opinions are rubbish. You little wimps really can't take disagreement without getting your panties all in a wad, can you? If I don't swallow your petty pieties and say I don't swallow them, that makes me evil, because all of you are emissaries of light, is that it? Fu*ck*ing grow up.

Never said you couldn't have your old as- cantankerous opinions, I said I dont want someone like you telling government to mandate your opinions onto me. If you were the one who thinks government should compell pregnancy and thinks and calls anyone who wants to make the choice about abortion their own, a "child killer" then all I want you to know is I do not have to stand quiet while you try to do that. If you think you are old and cantankerous, you have not met me. I didnt claim to be Christian either. I didnt quote scripture, I responded to a question about Jesus being a liberal. I dont know 7:52 and I have no patience for fools or for someone who prejudges me based on religion or abortion. And I certainly have no patience for anyone who tries to take my personal choices away from me. There is no greater fool then an old one who just cant mind his own business.

WOW!!! how can you logically vote for someone to be our PRESIDENT when he has dont NOTHING to prove he can lead the country????? keep sipping the koolaid, america!!!

What did it do for Bush? It can't get any worse. I am ready for change from this administration who has crippled our country and lied to us and basically killed the Republican party.
Bush refused to listen. The people who stole the R party did not hear the calls from other Republicans to stop the un Republican behaviors, to stop the hypocracy, stop the corruption, stop the taxing and stop the intrusion into my life and religion. They used schills like Limbaugh to pounce on the so called RINO's and keep them quiet so they can continue stripping America of all it was. In the name of power and money. Now you little goof ball R field workers who haven't been alive long enough to know what you are supporting or talking about, want to question who is ready to lead this country. Give it a rest. The US Senate went, the US House went, Many state and local seats were lost and Obama has a momemtum like I have not seen in many years. Blame lamo's like Limbaugh and Hannity. Christine Todd Whitman, John Dean and so many others like Ron Paul, Barr and Goldwater Jr. Just to name a few, have told us this was coming and why it was coming, but you lamo morons just thought that calling them RINO's was a way to get them out of the way. Corruption and money making was the priority of the R party leaders. Now we all suffer because of these morons. Limbaugh and Hannity and that embarrassing arogant Coulter all have made lots of money off of stupid Kool Aid drinkers who never knew what Republican principles were anyway. It is time for a change, like I said, it can;t get worse.

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