Superdelegate Ditches Clinton, Endorses Obama »
Posted By ZiegfeldGirl 1 year, 8 months ago in News"In recent days, there is a sense of movement and a sense of spirit," said Mr. Lewis, a Georgia Democrat who endorsed Mrs. Clinton last fall. "Something is happening in America, and people are prepared and ready to make that great leap."
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ZiegfeldGirl1 year, 8 months ago
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Bkumm1 year, 8 months ago
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As for where catstevens is getting her information, the author was an economic adviser to Reagan. Now, I know some conservatives think that Reagan could walk on water, but the fact is that his economics sucked IN THE LONG RUN (capitals for emphasis only, not shouting. When are we getting the ability to bold or italicize?). This 9 trillion dollar deficit staring us in the face is at least partially due to the monetary and economic policies of the 80's and 90's. We didn't spend money on infrastructure and clean energy technology we spent it on tax breaks (especially for the wealthy) and in building up the military.
We can't keep borrowing from the next generation forever.
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ZiegfeldGirl1 year, 8 months ago
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The erosion of support for Clinton is snowballing:
"Former Clinton campaign chief backs Obama"
"He made his name in politics, but when David Wilhelm talks about his newest campaign, the venture capitalist in him comes out.
What made him pass over Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y) the wife of his most famous client to endorse Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Wednesday for the Democratic presidential nomination?"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/...
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Beau78901 year, 8 months ago
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David Wilhelm is no surprise. He, David Axelrod (a top Obama advisor) and Rep. Rahm Emanuel (another superdelegate) all came up together here in Chicago politics. Obama's a very popular senator from Illinois.
Chicago is nothing if not pragmatic, and its politics are even more so. All these guys know they'll be in better positions if Obama wins. Rahm hasn't announced his support for either Obama or Clinton yet, but I'll bet a year's pay that, barring a huge screwup on Obama's part, Emanuel will be with him at the convention.
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Cougarbyu1 year, 8 months ago
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Hillary is her own worst enemy. With her own words "America can't afford my solutions", she buried her campaign with moderates and most liberals, and most certainly, the conservatives. They know what a huge deficit we have due to the war, the downturn in our economy and the huge trade defecit we have with the ever growing power of China's trade advantage. If she has the solutions, just how much more will our children and grandchildren have to shell out to pay off her spending habits? Even though congress controlls the purse strings, can we really afford to have her wielding the power to spend the U.S. into oblivion as Bush, the "I never met a spending bill that I didn't like", is doing?
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RedRiverJ1 year, 8 months ago
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http://obama.senate.gov/press/071211-obama_hage...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE....
This is a problem.
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Ratskii1 year, 8 months ago
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Some thoughts: If world poverty decreases, what would be the consequence for U.S. businesses? Would this throw more business our way and employ more of our people at a higher wage? If that is true what will be the blowback on our investment? Will we gain more than we lose.
Respectfully
Ricky
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NVRob1 year, 8 months ago
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I am amazed! This started with a post from Bkumm that stated Hillary had no plan for the economy, Barak does by investing $250B in green energy jobs, using tax breaks from the Bush admin. to oil companies etc. How original! This has been Hillarys plan for the past year, outined in all of her speeches, debates. Are you guys paying attention? How about Obama sponsoring the 845B Global poverty bill in the US Senate? We are going to ensure that every child, in every third world country has a place to live, food, clean water. How can WE do this?, we don't even take care of our own. We need to fix this country before we can help others. Obama may be an inspiring speaker but if he cannot come up with his own plan for our economy, or wants to help the rest of the world before we take care of our citizins he is not the right choice for the president. Listen to what he is saying, not how it makes you feel!
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Bkumm1 year, 8 months ago
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Actually, although their plans are similar, especially in the funding, I can't find anywhere where Senator Clinton has suggested that she will tie the tax breaks for businesses to job creation at a certain level of income. And although their economic plans are similar, Senator Clinton will add even more money on top of it as her health care plan will cost approx $45 billion a year more and is a single payer plan which she couldn't get through Congress if there wasn't a single Republican in either House. Senator Obama's plan isn't a single payer plan and is much more flexible.
If you look at the two candidates side by side, her plans are much more "big government" than his are. True, they both desire more government intervention than we have now, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Listen to how she says things and think about whether or not she can unite the country. I respect her, but I don't think she can do it. He can.
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Bkumm1 year, 8 months ago
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Further, I have read S2433 and see nothing in there about ANY dollar amount. It is a bill that delegates the President to come up with a strategy to meet the obligations of the US to the UN 2015 goal of reducing world-wide poverty which the US agreed to in 2000.
Read the bill and tell me if you see something different. Here, I've already done the research for you.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.2433:
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NVRob1 year, 8 months ago
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Bk, I will tell you in detail what plan Hillary has for economic growth. It is the same plan you outlined as Baraks', verbatim. She has outlined this plan for the past year in all of her speeches and in the debates. Doesn't anyone pay attention? Funny how Obama is using it now and getting credit for it and media coverage to boot.
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RedstateLib1 year, 8 months ago
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Obama backtracks on campaign finance promise:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/15/obama-...
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Ratskii1 year, 8 months ago
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Too get back to the story, I think as BHO increases his lead in elected delegates, more super delegates will go to his side. Nothing succeeds like success. In Minnesota, a majority of the super delegates that have committed, have already sided with him.
I'd have preferred Edwards, but for now I'm hoping the BHO is for real.
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KYRed1 year, 8 months ago
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I HOPE the candidate of the audacity of hope soon tells us exactly what he intends to do about things. To me he seems to be just an empty suit, spouting inspirational words. doesn't he have big ears? Are you sure he isn't a distant cousin to the Chimp in Charge?
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Searchbeam1 year, 8 months ago
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KY,
Now that you brought up the subject of relationship, Obama is a distant cousin of ...
Drum roll, please!
Distant Cousin of Shotgun Dickie, aka Dick Cheney!
We all descended from monkeys, but I didn't know Chimps were involved, too!
LOL!
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Kitty171 year, 8 months ago
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OK zgirl.I promised NOT to waste my time on these boards but your last comment... HOW exactly does Obama excite people? I get sick just watching that smirk on his face or that sarcastic laugh: HA! I fooled you! I had enough of that smirk for 8 years.
I simply don't understand WHAT exactly is so fascinating about Barack Hussein Obama? I can make similar speeches: hopes, promises, big ideas-not so sure which ones are those. Empty rhetoric and all you want to hear.
Who IS this guy? He came from nowhere. Oh, he did community organizing, I guess that pretty much qualifies an army of us to run. We grill all the candidates down to their haircut, yet this guy is getting a BIG pass on everything. I mean, we crucified Kerry for sailing and forgot his honorable service yet we accept everything about Obama including his marihuana experience, admiring Malcom X, defending 'certain' business men, considering his childhood in Indonesia as international experience. You have got to be kidding!
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Kitty171 year, 8 months ago
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OK zgirl. I promised NOT to waste my time on these boards but your last comment... HOW exactly does Obama excite people? I get sick just watching that smirk on his face or that sarcastic laugh: HA! I fooled you! I had enough of that smirk for 8 years.
I simply don't understand WHAT exactly is so fascinating about Barack Hussein Obama? I can make similar speeches: hopes, promises, big ideas-not so sure which ones are those. Empty rhetoric and all you want to hear.
Who IS this guy? He came from nowhere.. oh, he did community organizing, I guess that pretty much qualifies an army of us to run. We grill all the candidates down to their haircut, yet this guy is getting a BIG pass on everything. I mean, we crucified Kerry for sailing and forgot his honorable service yet we accept everything about Obama including his marihuana experience, admiring Malcom X, defending 'certain' business men and considering his childhood in Indonesia as international experience. You have got to be kidding!
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nostalgia1 year, 8 months ago
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I do have a question. How do Democrats tolerate the Super Delegate system? Isn't this the type of elitism that Republicans are always accused of?
Super Delegates are members of the party elite and can negate the vote of the populace
Isn't this exactly what so many were complaining about in the Bush/Gore election?
This may account for one reason many Super Delegates will back Obama:
Superdelegates get campaign cash
Obama's political action committee has doled out more than $694,000 to superdelegates since 2005, the study found, and of the 81 who had announced their support for Obama, 34 had received donations totaling $228,000.
Clinton's political action committee has distributed about $195,000 to superdelegates, and only 13 of the 109 who had announced for her have received money, totaling about $95,000.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalin...
Nothing like buying votes!
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ZiegfeldGirl1 year, 8 months ago
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He won't be able to go in and categorically end the war. He will meet with advisers, CIA people, he will be fully briefed from top to toe. He may change his plan for Iraq once he sees the full picture. I am confident enough in his intelligence to expect him to make good decisions when he gets into office.
On the other hand, I have zero confidence in McCain. I don't even believe he will handle the war like he claims he will. He has betrayed the Republican party on numerous occasions, what would prevent this from being anther one? I don't like him, I don't trust him, and I won't vote for him.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 8 months ago
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The only stocks performing, and they are performing well, are war related or oil related. No wonder those who are opposed to any change are happy with a "hundred year war". Obama is correct in his claim. A small band of Saudi nationals led by a Saudi national flew planes into buildings, obviously we must invade Iraq. (Apply critical thinking skills to that one!)
LOL.
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Endoscopy1 year, 8 months ago
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How do you propose to stop the real war. The one with the terrorists. That is who we are fighting in Iraq. If we leave there they will come here like they keep trying to. Now that FISA is shot down we will have a much harder time tracking them.
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cushi1 year, 8 months ago
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The war on terror doesn't exist! It is simply a catchy phrase to attract people who are still fearful and shell shocked from 911. The phrase is innocuous and far too vague to have any substance. It's like a pacifier to a baby, sooothing, reassuring, comforting, but there's really nothing to it.
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