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Obama - "Change You Can Count On"-(flip flop) - part 1
''Change You Can Count on'' What??? CHANGE #1: Despite Pledging To Withdraw American Troops From Iraq Immediately, Barack Obama Now Says He Would ''Refine'' His Policy After Listening To The Commanders On The Ground In July 2008, Barack Obama Said He Will Continue To ''Refine'' His Iraq Policy. Obama: ''I've always said that the pace of ...
Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 11, 2008
Too Bad
''And what makes me heartsick is that's the kind of thing you say so you don't have to say the real reason is you won't vote for a black guy.'' Exactly.
Posted to Politics by dailyfare on May 2, 2008
The high tide has passed on the Wright story
By November if anyone tries to resurrect it yet again it will be a collective groan of ''Oh no not again.'' Of course Obama had to finally say Basta! Wright, as Huckabee so clearly pointed out, was out to torpedo the Obama candidacy. His vanity hurt, he didn't care whose hopes he smaashed... never mind Obama ... what about all the voters who ...
Posted to Today's Blogs by Edna Epstein on May 1, 2008
Re: Let's be honest about Wright and Obama
He didn't say Wright's performance was coherent. He said Wright was coherent. I suppose one could certainly argue that Wright himself ''hold[s] together firmly as parts of the same mass'' (from Merriam Webster definition of cohering) i.e. arms, legs, and neck and head attached to the body. But since that is true of most people, it is hardly ...
Posted to Politics by Socrates_Is_Mortal on April 30, 2008
Re: Hillary appears HillBilly and Obama Presidential
Hillary Clinton, the next Tonya Harding On this day in 1994, Nancy Kerrigan of Stoneham was practicing for the U.S Figure Skating championships. She was leaving the ice when a man assaulted her with a club. Forced to drop out of the competition, she recovered in time to compete for the U.S. at the Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. In February, ...
Posted to Politics by Purrley on April 17, 2008
Where are YOU at?Bashing all including Reagan conservatives?
There was an article that I read that had an ineresting take on the whole thing. ''the liar the rasict and the warmonger'' http://www.nolanchart.com/article3282.html The author bashes Reagan conservatives and all three canidates. It pretty much explains where im at on the elections. I dont know who to vote for anymore. Do we want the same old ...
Posted to Kausfiles by edrake on March 25, 2008
Hitchens on Obama
Hitch is perceptive and his writing is profound. It's the only thing on Slate worth a rip. Hitch was off base in one area, moral equivalence with right wing pastors and McCain. McCain has not stayed with a racist pastor for 20 years as Obama did in order to gain ''street cred'' as Obama confessed in his book. Hitch's cheap shot was a sap to libs ...
Posted to Fighting Words by sfwarrior on March 25, 2008
46 Percent (%)
This is the percentage of voters that believes superdelegates should support a nominee based on the elected delegate count. 30 Percent believe that superdelegates should support a nominee based on which one has the best chance of winning. While Obama followers would like ''everybody else'' to believe that HE has the best chance of winning, ...
Posted to Politics by mabelle55 on March 22, 2008