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Posted By Aidenag 1 year, 9 months ago in NewsSens. John McCain and Barack Obama will claim victory in all three contests in the Potomac primaries, CNN projects.
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RedstateLib1 year, 9 months ago
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ProudBlueTexan1 year, 9 months ago
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"We do not know for certain who will have the honor of being the Democratic Party's nominee for president. But we know where either of their candidates will lead this country, and we dare not let them," McCain, an Arizona senator, told supporters in Alexandria, Virginia."
Bring it on, McCain.
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TimALoftis1 year, 9 months ago
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Nixie1 year, 9 months ago
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There is a difference between tearing up during a tragedy, which shows compassion and empathy, and tearing up because you are tired and losing and feeling hopeless, that shows weakness. I do not fault her tearing up at the kind words spoken about her at her alma mater. But her little boo-hoo act when she was behind in the presidential race was ridiculous and unacceptable in the possible leader of our nation.
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Beau78901 year, 9 months ago
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He has momentum, and of course it's been widely reported that her strategy is to win the bigger states in a couple of weeks, Ohio and Texas--Sort of like a "Rope-A-Dope" of campaigning. I wonder if that'll work--after all, we're only in about the 3rd round.
What's interesting is the turnouts from each party during the primaries so far--the Democrats have turned out in droves compared to the Republicans. It makes me wonder how energized Republicans will be in November.
Check out this interactive graphic (click on "View Map" then select a state to get the numbers:
http://news.yahoo.com/election/2008/dashboard/;...
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scott42611 year, 9 months ago
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My prediction: Barack Obama will do very well for the rest of the campaign calender. He is much better on the stump (...at retail politics, if you will...) than is Hillary Clinton. With a much smaller slate of states yet to vote, this works to his advantage.
Say "goodbye" Hillary.
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Neophile1 year, 9 months ago
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 9 months ago
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Obama is now ahead in the delegate count, and in ELECTED delegates he is more than a hundred ahead. That's going to make it harder for Sen. Clinton to round up more Superdelegate votes.
Clinton lost five states last week and her campaign chairman resigned. She lost three more today and her vice-chairman resigned. By the time Texas and Ohio vote, there may not be anyone left to throw under the bus. If Obama pulls anywhere near 60% in Wisconsin, he may become unstoppable. Clinton's "strategy" of competing hard only in the bigger states is a loser. It didn't work for Gore in 2000, nor for Kerry in 2004, and it won't work for Sen. Clinton this year. If she really wants to be president, she's going to have to start acting like she believes that every voter is important.
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TimALoftis1 year, 9 months ago
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Last night, Clinton was in texas. She needs to spend all of her time in Wisconsin to stop this Obama surge and winning streak. As it stands right now...next tues will see another sweep by obama. 10 wins vs. 0 wins since super tuesday. Thats not the headline she needs.
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 9 months ago
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Clinton is in a panic. She doesn't understand that she must stand and fight NOW. Wisconsin, a liberal bastion, should have been a state she could build upon. Now it looks like she is simply writing it off. This will cost her dearly with the Democratic Party professionals, who understand that you can NEVER write off the voters. The next phase will bring the defection of some of those "Superdelegates" she has been counting on to put her over the top.
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NoWayMan1 year, 9 months ago
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obama's speech today was another good one, huge crowd, very inspiring. the guy's on a serious roll.
mccain then made the big mistake of following obama's speech with his own, and he just sounded...old. old and tired, reading from a teleprompter, in a small room, surrounded by a bunch of old guys in suits. not inspiring at all.
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 9 months ago
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who sounds like a black baptist preacher? Obama or MLK? that first sentence is confusing, but I guess you mean obama, because I think MLK WAS a black baptist preacher, so what else is he gonna sound like?
I do find obama's style irritating and unoriginal. but if it works it works...
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DrBenway1 year, 9 months ago
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Remember (Okay, if you're old like me you'll remember) when Kennedy debated Nixon? Remember how old, pale and ... well... dead... Nixon looked compared to Kennedy?
Now, multiply that by 100 and you'll have what McCain is going to look like debating Obama.
I'm not a young man, and I've seen many presidents come and go... and I've voted for both Democrat and Republican... but Obama is the future. I have never seen the look of joy and hope spring up on the faces of people as when he speaks to a crowd. You cannot deny that.
I am proud to say he has my vote.
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nostalgia1 year, 9 months ago
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You forgot one part of that debate
The people who listened on the radio overwhelmingly said Nixon won
After that debate people started commenting on which candidate "looked presidential"
That brought us to the current state of affairs
Successful candidates must "look the part" and the icing on the cake is rhetorical skills
Very sad state of affairs
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Beau78901 year, 9 months ago
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George W. Bush has no rhetorical skills, and certainly doesn't look presidential:
http://www.moveleft.com/moveleft/images/bush_go...
So how do you explain how he became president?
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DrBenway1 year, 9 months ago
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I would never vote for a candidate just based on appearance. If so, I would have been voting for Mitt Romney... a man with all the warmth and charm of a mafia mortician.
It's not what Obama looks like (He actually looks like a charming nerd.) it's what he inspires in others. It's nice to see people hopeful about the direction this country might go in, unlike the past seven years of despair and cynicism.
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Aidenag1 year, 9 months ago
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Since when is experience always a good thing though? I think Bobby D. said it best with his endorsment of Obama:
http://www.observer.com/2008/robert-de-niro-oba...
"He wasn't experienced enough to authorize the invasion of Iraq." "And that's not all," he went on. "It's clear Barack Obama does not have the experience to let the special interests run the government."
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EDWARDIII1 year, 9 months ago
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Oh, by all means elect an innocent. I'm sure that "the look of joy and hope ... on the faces of people" observed by DrBenway is all he needs to become really great.
Give me your opinion on this. If Obama somehow isn't elected and spends four to eight more years in congress will he become better for it or will he be corrupted? Think hard before you answer.
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cushi1 year, 9 months ago
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There's entirely too much space between the "I" and the "f" in "If." Therefore, the answer is there is no answer. I am not God and I don't have the arrogance to try to predict the future, like some people do. I don't even know if you or I will be alive in the next second, much less 8 years from now. Neither do you. We need to focus on the here and now. Obama is here now and his time is here and now.
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motivator9111 year, 9 months ago
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If by some miracle Barack Hussien Obama wins the nomination we can exspect little to change that is if he performs his Presidential duties as he has perfomed his Senatorial duties, you see I got on the U.S. senate web site and researched the past 6 months to see where Barack Hussien Obama stood on the issues by following his votes and realized that out of over 200 votes he did not even show up to vote for over 150, but thats no the worst part, it amazed me what he felt was important enough to show up for compared to what he felt he had no need to show up for, no law maker should be allowed to schuck his duties, they should be required to vote especially on important issues and gaurenteed no lawmaker who does will get my vote....
god help us all....and good luck john McCain
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cushi1 year, 9 months ago
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John McCain is a war hero. He is also an egomaniacal, arrogant, warloving, hothead. I imagine being a prisoner of war who was tortured may have caused him to be slightly off the spool, but I DO NOT want him leading us into more death and destruction.
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jmopinion1 year, 9 months ago
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Typical Obama campaign office:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=2...
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nostalgia1 year, 9 months ago
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Jovial
I didn't know you had visited Houston lately and you didn't even stop by to say hello on your way!
The truth is:
The office featured in this video is funded by volunteers of the Barack Obama Campaign and is not an "official" headquarters for his campaign.
Some Democratic sites are in a tizzy about this
You'd think his "official" campaign would have done something about it by now since it is dated 2/6 and the "unofficial" office has been provided with material from the "official" campaign
Here is the news report it appeared on in Texas
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/Home/De...
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jovial1 year, 9 months ago
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nostalgia1 year, 9 months ago
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Poor Jovial
Didn't you know that if you are in a debate and have to resort to name calling, you have failed??
Maybe you can enlighten us as to who the nebulous "they" are - the ones who smeared Ron Paul and are now smearing Obama. Perhaps the "vast right wing conspiracy" that Hillary used to refer to?
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jovial1 year, 9 months ago
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I didn't call you a name. I merely stated what you are not. For your info, They tried to link Ron Paul to the KKK, the neo-nazi party, and other unsavory characters, because he got a 500 dollar donation from one of it's leaders. Now do you think that Ron Paul is a Neo-nazi?
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jovial1 year, 9 months ago
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Read into it what you will. This is "they".
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/11/the_odd_...
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IcCaRus1 year, 9 months ago
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i see the Ministress of Disinformation has a pupil. but try as he might, he'll never win her approval. in her eyes, if you dont think ronald reagan was a weak willed communist appeaser , youre just not far enough to the right.
and remember the source.. Fox "we sue for the right to lie on the"..... News, ....."because its really only entertainment."
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simonsez1 year, 9 months ago
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It appears, by the comments, there is a new sense of anxiety building about Obama.
There was a good editorial by David Brooks (NY Times, Feb.12)
entitled "When Reality Bites", discussing what each of them will face if elected; comparing promises made to actual conditions.
Good read.
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jmopinion1 year, 9 months ago
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Anxiety is right. The truth is, a big factor is a lot of people are scared to death of a black president with little experience. Look at all of the other black led countries. Another point is Obama comes from a basically fatherless childhood which may mean he may have psychological problems such as making every day decisions as compared to someone with a two parent stable family growing up. Its pretty damn scary with such a huge position on the line.
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jovial1 year, 9 months ago
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We live in a Democracy. To hell with your racist connotations. Now it's a color thing right. He's just a candidate for President, period! The only psychological problem that should be dealt with is the the mind set of the people that have similar views to your own.
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jovial1 year, 9 months ago
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http://www.isteve.com/2000_Bush_Won_19_States_w...
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cushi1 year, 9 months ago
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What is really bugging you, imopinion? Is it that a Black man has succeeded against all odds and risen to a level of respect and honor that you can only long for? If Obama were going to cave in to the pressures of his truly challenging life, he would have done so long ago. The fact that he has not only survived it, but built upon it so remarkably is nothing short of amazing! It speaks to his strength of character, his abilities, AND his humanity. Divine destiny has surely played a hand in it. Stop hating and get a new attitude. Does it ever occur to you that most great leaders are born of stuggle and adversity? They are put to the test and through the fire, yet they have a determination to succeed. Obama has all the characteristics of a great leader!
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IcCaRus1 year, 9 months ago
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in case you just fell out of the 19th century and didnt notice, america has had a divorce rate near, at, or over 50% for decades...
this means that a SIZABLE portion of america grew up with an absentee father. as one of those people, i find your blanket generalization to be both offensive, and in error.
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jovial1 year, 9 months ago
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It's not so much anxiety as it it plain old fashioned "sour grapes". There's been a lot of conjecture here on this post about experience. There's no direct correlation between the amount of experience a President has and his job performance. The job he is going to inherit from Bush is going to be hard. He's still got a stacked Judicial court to reckon with. He's got an economy teetering on the brink of disaster. He's got a hugely unpopular war to sort out. A healthcare system that is ranked somewhere close to Slovenia. A divided country that has no ultimate goal or direction, save defeating terrorists that we create more and more of each day. He's got a demoralized military, and a military industrial complex that has grown exponentially to deal with. It's a tough job. As Bush said time and time again, "It's hard work." (as he was clearing brush on his Texas ranch.
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IcCaRus1 year, 9 months ago
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im reminded of 1987... when conservative pundit William F Buckley predicted that whoever followed Reagan, dem or rep, would be a one term Pres. the reason he gave was that all the failings of reagans economic policies would come home to roost, and be blamed on the guy AFTER reagan.
we are in the same situation now. the Duh-cider will have left such a mess to his successor, that the next Pres will be lucky if they arent a one termer, as Bush senior was.
im afraid that all Duh-byas errors will hit critical mass sometime early in the next presidents first term. knowing the electorates short memories, the cons will blame those probs on hill or obama in 2012.
of historical interest; Buckley was right. Bush Sr was elected, the economy went south because of Reagans policies, (NOT Bushs'), Bush got the blame and lost to Clinton after 1 term. "its the economy, stupid". interestingly, bush predicted his own downfall when he called Rons economic plan "voodoo economics"
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mzkin11 year, 9 months ago
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Obama is just better for Democrats. Clinton is old news...besides do we really want Bush Sr. 4 years, B. Clinton 8 years, G Bush 8 years, and H. Clinton 4 or more years. It feels too much like aristocracy politics. Obama at least is young and fresh and doesn't carry the baggage of corruption that the Clintons had (remember the 850 FBI files found in the White House, the death of Vince Foster and the reemergence of his files at the White House, Whitewater, etc.). No, this race is either Obama and McCain or Obama and Huckabee. All of these candidates fair much better in my book.
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nikkibabe1 year, 9 months ago
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Congratulations to President to be Barack Obama. He is ready to beat the crap out of the "my friend" hypocrite Iraq war patron and con artist from AZ and his bunch of crooks; the Iraq war J$#!@# pig from CT and the "9/11" tattooed on his forehead adulterer from NY.
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StillUnashamed1 year, 9 months ago
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Once the nominees are set and Obama (if it is him, but don't be surprised if the Clintons are able to somehow steal it by seating Michigan and Florida delegates) must start defending his stance on issues, his support will fade. He still has a chance if the conservative Republicans stay home and don't vote.
Of the 3 remaining, the question is not who is the most electable. . . . it is which 2 are the least electable.
Also, if Obama is elected he will not be the first black president. His mother is white, so he's only half-black (I hate racial distinctions but make this comment so many are making so much ado about his race).
If Hillary is elected, she won't be the first woman president, but Bill will be the first to serve 3 terms since FDR. How liberating is it to know that she could not have come anywhere close except by riding on the accomplishments of her husband?
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cushi1 year, 9 months ago
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I am African American and I definitely am NOT voting for him because he is "Black." I'm voting for him because I believe him to be the best of the lot for the difficult tasks ahead. To downplay Mr. Obama's credentials and vote for him solely based on his race is ignorant, insulting and unconscionable! He has so much more to offer than that rather insignificant factor! Contrary to popular opinion, there are LOTS of intelligent, capable Americans, Black and white, who are NOT voting for him because of his race. They are voting for him because he impresses them as the right one for this critical time in American history, period.
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StillUnashamed1 year, 9 months ago
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I gave you a positive. To vote for or against anyone because of that person's race or gender is as you say, "ignorant, insulting and unconscionable!" I do not plan to vote for Obama, not because he's black, but because I disagree with his stand on certain issues. I do not plan to vote for Clinton, not because she's a woman, but because I disagree with her stand on certain issues.
For the record, I can name you blacks, women, and even black women I would consider voting for if they were running. The deciding factor is his/her stand on issues.
People should vote for whichever candidate whose views on the issues most closely matches their own views with no consideration of race or gender.
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EDWARDIII1 year, 9 months ago
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And John McCain, unlikely as it may be, could become the first president over seventy-whatever. That's a barrier too. Productive lifespans are expanding despite vast and brutally stated predjudices. Seventy is the new sixty. Kids born today can probably expect lifespans well into the hundreds (Ray Kurtzweil "The Singularity is Near").
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IcCaRus1 year, 9 months ago
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if he wins he'll be the oldest ever.
i think there will be alot of young voters who will see this election as generational rather than on party lines. my own 19 year old daughter said she will vote for obama because "that other guys is older than my grandpa".
hey, shes just 19, what does she know? but the point is that alot of young people dont even care about parties. they just think someone in their 70s cant relate to them, no matter what party they are from..... and they will vote in droves this time, the primaries are proving that.
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EDWARDIII1 year, 9 months ago
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Cushi, I don't play nice and I don't play mean. I play hard-hitting. You think what I said here changes my positions related earlier? You think I care about your smile? I always thought he was a good guy and I always thought he was unready to be president.
Why don't you rais your level a little. See if you can get by without name-calling. See if you can get past the white-hate that comes out in some of your comments. Or keep on being totally knee-jerk. I don't really care.
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