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The implosion should be spectacular when it finally occurs with her.
Gawd we are so close now.
But his comments will hurt him heavily in November.
Obama's comments have not hurt him because the alternative is the discredited, untrustworthy Hillary Clinton.
But his comments will hurt him heavily in November.
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No. They won't. There will be lots of pundits who will claim Obama's comments will come back to haunt him. But they'll be wrong, too.
So, at least you won't be alone.
http://www.mwblog.com/involved/archives/2008/01...
Just like Charlie Chaplin demonstrates:
http://chaplin.bfi.org.uk/images/720/bfi-00n-gq...
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Maybe I just missed them, but I haven't heard word one from the MSM about the fact that the Pope, nee Joseph Ratzinger, was indeed a Nazi.
How did he get a visa? I thought we had laws protecting us from this sort of thing.
Dollar Dives
approachin to 1,6$ per Euro
one scotch
one beer
I'll buy her all three to just slink away quietly into the night.
Like the cat, who crept in, crapped and crept out.
I wonder if she'll ever have the epiphany that lets her know just how stupid it was to go negative on Obama, how much it hurt and how little it helped. That in an election year where people really REALLY wanted change, to rely on the old proven ways to smear a candidate was bound to come off poorly. One thing I know, she probably won't have it in the Oval Office.
Agony is such sweet sorrow....
I am sorry but there is not a single ounce left in my cup of human kindness when it comes to Hillary.
She IS a NEOCON. That's bad enough.
She is CAMPAIGNING FOR MCCAIN.
She is preying on the intellectually weak and trying to drive a stake through the Democratic Party.
It is evident this has been her designated role since election to the US Senate.
Just as Bill's roll was to gut Social Services and pull it off. Because only that SLIMY BASTARD was capable of that.
Slappymagoo,
It never entered my mind.
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IT IS PERSONAL WITH HILLARY.
It's not just negative, IT'S PERSONAL and you can't overcome that kind of motivation.
His comments will not hurt him heavily in November. Those people who the Republicans are wanting to latch onto his comments have the attention span of gnats, and cannot process the nuances the Republicans want them to process. Even when they do listen to the Republican and HIllary narrative they come to more than one conclusion and that just doesn't cut it. There is too much visual cognitive dissonance when they see Obama, a black man, and are told he is an "elitist." Also, on an even deeper level, most remember the Clintons are LOADED with Presidential Speaking Fee cash and McCain has around EIGHT HOMES so the "elitist" meme is seen as "desperation much?" by most. The distracted, undecided voter has to think of two ideas at once - "bitter" and "clings to guns/religion." Two ideas are WAYYYY too much for them. Republicans and the Clinton camp are WAY OFF BASE and totally over estimating the intelligence of "Bubba Joe Six Pack" if they think they will get past Obama simply saying "voters are bitter, and cling to guns and religion." Most hear that and go, "Uh, yea." Republicans, of all people, know most American voters, especially undecideds, think in sound bites. Of course, one reason why this doesn't work is there is a LOT of truth in what Obama said and most people get it in an emotional sense. The undecideds vote with emotion and not logic.
Remember, folks, a LOT of undecided voters went into the voting booth four years ago and pulled the lever for George W. Bush. If anyone is counting on them to use logic to follow their certain narrative then all I have to say is, "Nice hair... hope you win."
if she doesn't win by double-digits it is a huge loss.
she needs to win 65-35 for it to be any win at all.
And we the voters responded by giving the GOP victory after victory after victory.
Yes, 2006 was a bit of a change, but it was more seen as backlash -- which is also something that comes out of anger, negativity. It wasn't the positivity of Democratic messaging that turned the tide in 2006, it was hatred of the GOP.
And the Dems are seen -- often by its own members! -- as weak, spineless, ineffectual. How many times over the past few years have we used those same words about the Democrats in this very blog? Kindness and civility are seen as weak; negative campaigning, attacks, smears, slurs -- are respected as strong.
Or at least they were. There really is a chance that enough Americans are fed up and are smart enough to not fall into the trap. This is where Obama has stepped up and done well.
But honestly, there are plenty of us who, even in the past few months, have been hoping for a fighter to take to the GOP what they'd been dishing out for so long.
Clinton's biggest mistake -- aside from letting Bill loose -- was in directing too much of that fire towards Obama instead of the true enemy of us all, the GOP.
But I don't think we truly can blame her too much for going negative, because a lot of people thought that would be the ONLY way to beat the GOP -- beat them at their own game.
And some of us still aren't completely convinced that the Dems can beat the GOP dirty tricks machine, whether Obama or Clinton is the victor.
Still, there is something encouraging about all of this rejection of negative campaigning FINALLY. Time will tell if it really is a dramatic sea change in American politics or a temporary aberration.
It'd be nice if it were a long-term change, though.
Sorry to be the fly in your Barack spinmeister Kool-Aid.