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Wow....what a night...what a win !
I even agreed with Joe Scarborough this morning.....Obama has found his voice again.....what a moving and awesome speech he gave.
LET'S UNITE THIS PARTY BEHIND OBAMA AND WIN THIS ELECTION...THAT IS WHAT WE ALL WANT.
Because she's the War Party's favorite
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12800
I am over the moon about Obama's win in NC. As an aging, retired person, I'm just amused at the various boomers and conservative elderly who gave their support to Clinton--isn't it about time that we have someone like Obama who has the bona fides to lead this country in the right direction, not in the ways of Old School politics? Young people with smarts, vision and the political will to make the US once again the land of opportunity for all people absolutely have to take over the running of this country. It's time to pass the baton...
I got the same chill. The day can't come soon enough. :-)
Imagine the potential impact of the Obama nomination -King speech serendipity. It could serve to electfify the country (and World) and pave the way for an Obama victory.
The Rethugs have no mojo left--because all the juice is on Obama's side. Let's bury the Rethugs and their impotent, moribund ideology for the next 100 years!
Clinton may have 9 lives, but she's down for the count
The Clintons are like a cat that gets run over but refuses to die. It crawls off the road and makes it to a backyard, hiding under the deck, in the shadows, eyes like slits, panting for days, stubbornly refusing to give it up.
But it's over for Hillary.
What's left is the counting. She's determined, a tough and gritty cat under that deck. But it's over Hillary. It's done. Come on out now.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087...
Just another boondoggle move by the Fed for banks.
Hillary might do the right thing if Bubba wasn't there urging her on.
But, from everything I've read, everytime Hillary gets ready to pack it in, Bubba just convinces her to get dirtier and nastier.
He proposes: An Obama/Clinton Ticket!
"I'm talking about the possibility — and the powerful logic — of a unity Obama-Clinton ticket for the Democrats".
There's also a way for Obama to explain this choice in a way that does not violate — and in fact strengthens — his core message. His model in this should be Abraham Lincoln. What Lincoln did, as Doris Kearns Goodwin explained in her brilliant book, "Team Of Rivals," was to bring his most bitter opponents into his cabinet in order to maintain national and party unity at a time of crisis. Obama — who is a green legislator from Illinois, just as Lincoln was — could signal to his own supporters in picking Clinton that he isn't capitulating to old politics, he is demonstrating his capacity to reach out and engage and co-opt his rivals and opponents.
It is consonant with his core message: that he can unify the country in a way few other politicians can. It would even help heal the gulf that has opened up between the Clintons and black voters in this campaign. It's win-win all round"
Read it here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/column...
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Yeah, I forgot about that.
Indiana isn't Hillary's victory, it's Rush Limbaugh's.
For many of us it is kinda like a Stephen King novel where some beloved or trusted person lets the mask slip and you see them slightly ajar...through a prism, and see the banal evil take the place of the benign.
There has been too much hate and fear in this country lately, and the wise are standing up and being counted. After all, we stopped a hater named Hitler 60 years ago, didn't we? Time to remember what this country is really about and there are those of us out here who will remind everyone else--freedom and opportunity for a fulfilling life is for everyone. This idea, expressed by Obama last night, is first and foremost. We musn't ever let the haters with their "superiority" complexes take over. It's necessary for the survival of everyone.
It's unfair and untrue but it will be the GOP spin.
It's a rock and a hard place for Dems. Obama is a better leader -- but more vulnerable to swift-boating.
Actually, I think the GOP "right-wing conspiracy" has been saying that since 1992. Perhaps they were right?
Now why in the world would the Rovian bastards want Obama out of the way? Hmmm.
Anyone that has watched Survivor has seen this a bunches of times right?
Brer rabbit? WHY the hell don't we replace some "where's Waldo" with those kinds of enlightened childrens stories? "please, whatever you do, don't throw me in the briar patch".
True -- but a lot of the "nasty stuff" about Hillary Clinton has been in the media off and on for the past 16 years.
Obama's vulnerability is based on the the big "unknown", and lots of questionable stuff.
- African father, whose Muslim family is heavily involved in Kenyan politics
- Indonesian Muslim step-father
- 3-week trip to Pakistan as a college student. Obama hid this until very recently. Why?
etc. etc
There's nothing to it -- but it will be spun effectively by GOP.
For one thing, She'd be bitter (hell, she's bitter NOW, and has been for months), she'd undermine. I don't think she'd be an asset, and face it...she WOULD bring a lot of negative baggage to the picture. She HASN'T been under fire yet, Obama decided to take the high road. Something I always wished a pol would do someday. The GOP has held their fire on her, because they want her to be their opponent. Nobody has pummeled her, triangulated on her, and if a repub like McCaine went against her, her unfortunate history of public lies, switching tactics (changing rules midstream. Hell he can knock her legitimacy, if she cheats to get in the race), switching stories, Bill philandering, all of it and more.
Obama is much better off picking a new face, one that will add. His "message of hope" would be really discredited by taking on Mrs. Negativity, the one who causticly and viciously attacked Obama for all his "hooope" with a ton of sarcasm.
Does that make me a Canadian, or can I keep my citizenship? When people put 2 and 2 together, it only makes 4. After all, many Americans have made trips to Vietnam, too. Does that make them a communist? Does that make executives who live in China and SE Asia communists? Or is a cigar just a cigar (even though Bill might not think so). There are probably Americans who actually LIVE in Pakistan, too, but don't subscribe to radical Islamic politics.
The haters just keep making things up--they need to be put down with the truth. It's time to put the innuendoes and half-truths to rest. People are getting sick of it, except those who are the real sickos.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/07/clinto...
As far as having Clinton as VP, those days have long passed, they passed when they inserted race into the game, they passed when she refused to see she couldn't win and that a coalition was possible, they passed when she repeatedly put McCain and his right wing ideals about our liberal morals, it passed when she refused to apologize for voting for the war, it passed when she repeatedly lied about Bosnia, it passed when she tried to become "one of the little people", it passed when she looks down her nose when debating with Obama and it sure as hell passed when Bill waved his finger and scolding us for not wanting on the Clinton boat to Hell. No, she brings nothing to the table, and behind the scenes could actively work against him. Just think of Bill let loose in the VP's quarters. She would be pushing all the old guard of Bill's advisors a frightening return to the 90's.
I sure hope you're right. She does need to go now.
I thought it was telling that she said, for the first time in recent weeks, that she would back the Democractic nominee.
She needs to get ALL her supporters behind Barack.
I sure hope you're right. She does need to go now.
I thought it was telling that she said, for the first time in recent weeks, that she would back the Democractic nominee.
She needs to get ALL her supporters behind Barack.
Where are the smart democrats that can organize, fund and draft messages for 527s that can post advertisement that will put an intense heat on McCain? It is time for the 527s to start making their moves and burn the John McCain house to the ground.