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Posted By expursuit 1 year, 7 months ago in News(CNN) -- Hillary Clinton on Wednesday reiterated her vow to stay in the Democratic presidential race, but she said it would be a "terrible mistake" for her supporters to vote for John McCain over Barack Obama.
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bamababy1 year, 7 months ago
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So Catstevens, are you a Hillary supporter who is going to the other sandbox to play, now that your gal is pretty much wiped out? Or are you content with politics as usual or worse if McCain gets his hands on America? Time to change course my friend and McCain isn't going to do that for us.
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 7 months ago
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Mdiar1 year, 7 months ago
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dandt1612, who shall you vote for? Will it be a third party candidate or no one? Will you be writing in Hillary Clinton? Or will you vote McCain? What if, after all is said and done, no election is stolen and even including Michigan and Florida as the votes went, Obama still wins the popular vote, the pledged delegates and the super delegates? That could happen potentially and Hillary Clinton could lose... she's not entitled in the slightest. Her husband won't be deciding things and I doubt you are voting for her thinking it will be Bill. If we ignore her marriage, her credentials are as thin as Senator Obama's. I can see the idea that the men ganged up on her in this race, however, Edwards took forever to endorse and she was the clear front-runner at first, thus the target for all the attacks in the beginning and since getting that status, Obama has been attacked. The male vote regarding Hillary has been remarkably devoid of sexism, as well.
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mesodude1 year, 7 months ago
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I know, right? Wasn't it nauseating the way she actually got emotional while expressing her love for her country? Ughh... It wasn't like she was Bush last month presenting the Medal of Freedom posthumously to a young Navy Seal's family (while, one hopes reflecting on the fact that it was Bush himself who is directly responsible for the Navy Seal's death).
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cloud151 year, 7 months ago
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give me a break meso, she cried because she was in a meeting with 15 women. Not because was emotionally talking about her "love" for this country. You can bet money that if she was giving that same talk to a group of the "hard working middle class whites" that tears would be nowhere in sight, but I bet a shot of liquor and a nice cold beer would impress the workers wouldn't it?
As I've said before, from state to state and group to group Hillary changes her persona just to get votes.
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mesodude1 year, 7 months ago
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"give me a break meso, she cried because she was in a meeting with 15 women. Not because was emotionally talking about her "love" for this country. "
--You don't have a very high opinion of women, do you? She allowed herself to tear up because she thought a female audience (it wasn't all women, btw) would be less inclined to judge her? That's interesting considering that most of the vitriol I've seen spewed at her comes from women. So you think just she got lucky that day and her Secret Service detail, the restaurant employees, and press were all female, too? lol
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cloud151 year, 7 months ago
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Meso i think very highly of women, so don't try to paint me as a chauvinistic pig, cause thats not the case. But do you honestly think its just a coincidence that the only time she cried was at a meeting with all women? Clinton loves to brag about how shes some tough fighter who will never give up, does breaking down and crying fit that persona? Absolutely not. But given her audience she though it might get her some votes. Don't be naive and think that that stunt wasn't for vote. Just like her act with her fake southern accent, that time she took a "shot" and "drank" a beer with the middle class, that time she was a bible thumper in WV etc. As I've said before, her persona changes depending on the group of people shes talking to. It wasn't only when she was talking to feminists, its whenever shes talking to a specific group.
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mesodude1 year, 7 months ago
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-- I don't think it was a coincidence at all. I think there were numerous factors involved. Unlike the majority of her campaign stops, this was a smaller, more intimate gathering and the vibe was clearly much different from what it it would be if she were instead somewhere answering questions being shouted to her from the back row of a packed school gym. Someone who was standing in the background of the group she was addressing asked the question and the kind and sensitive nature of the question apparently caught her off guard.
"My question is very personal, how do you do it?" asked Marianne Pernold Young, a freelance photographer from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She mentioned Clinton's hair and appearance always looking perfectly coifed. "How do you, how do you keep upbeat and so wonderful?"
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01...
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nikkibabe1 year, 7 months ago
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Hillary is dead right in this commment. John McCain is a more refined hypocrite than Bush. He appears to forget his previous discourses.
1. When Hamas won elections in Palestine, he said US and Israel should engage them in talks for peace in the region. Now a candidate, he says they are terrorists and falsely accuses Obama.
2. He fought Bush tax custs in 2000 as irresponsible. Now a candidate, he not only supports it but wants to make it permanent. Like marrying a girl he did not want to date.
3. Only after AP ran a story that his wife has financial holdings and interests in Sudan, they decided to dump it.
4. He says he will end war in Iraq in 4 years as if he has the prescription drug that Bush did not know about it.
5. For Bush & McCain Iran is a terrorist nation. For others like India, China, Russia, Venezuela it is a UN country.
The more this SCUM opens his mouth, he looks more of a seasoned hypocrite Washington politician.
Go OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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StarLord1 year, 7 months ago
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1. The accusation is not false. Hamas has stated publicly that their preferred candidate is Obama. Obama has responded that he cares not a fig about Hamas.
2. Did McCain fight them? Let me research....I believe that he voted for it, but that was a party-line vote (48-3 GOP vs 2-46 Dem, with the ind. voting against. Cheney broke the tie in favour of the bill).
4. You can't have it both ways any more than Obama's critics can. Either he wants to be there for 100 years, or he has a "magic wand" that will get you out in 4. Pick a story and stick with it.
5. Iran is more-or-less openly affiliated with Hezbollah, which is regarded as a terrorist organisation by countries as tolerant as the Netherlands (not to mention the US). As such, any US politician (including McCain) is entirely correct, under US law, in referring to Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism. I disagree with that assessment, but then, I'm not American.
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doppich1 year, 7 months ago
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In terms of policy choices, Clinton is presumably closer to Obama than she is to McCain, but that has to be a guess, because Obama's only relevant accomplishments and attributes are a few speeches and his ability to spellbind susceptible individuals.
However, for me, after 8 years of the worst president ever, the most important issue by far is competence. Right now, I think Obama and McCain are both far from acceptable on this criteria. A very disappointing choice.
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doppich1 year, 7 months ago
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No need to guess. I think I mentioned it in a thread some time back. Since my first vote in 1964, the only time I didn't vote for the Democratic presidential candidate was in 1980, when I supported the independent run of John Anderson and his proposed 50 cent gas tax.
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mesodude1 year, 7 months ago
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Apparently I missed the thread where you made that announcement. In any event, it's probably not a good idea for me to be hazarding guesses without knowing what the voting criteria of those who suggest there's no difference between McCain and Obama.
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rimbaud1 year, 7 months ago
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http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_c...
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rimbaud1 year, 7 months ago
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McCain changed his tune precisely because he knows what got Bush elected to a second term. Bush was re-elected despite the war mistakes being well publicized, and the renditions, habeas-corpus abuses and the unwarranted surveillance in the news. People are really afraid the Muslims are coming to their home town.
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rimbaud1 year, 7 months ago
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http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/05/14/...
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jordan111 year, 7 months ago
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Of course it could lead to a terrible mistake. But good grief, if people haven't figured out the disaster of republican politics and policies in the last seven years, they're certainly not going to come to some magical understanding in the next six months! I'm sick of cry babies. If Obama loses the nomination, I'll vote for Clinton despite the fact that I've grown to be disgusted with her. McCain represents total disaster, & my personal feelings won't get in the way of that reality.
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NoWayMan1 year, 7 months ago
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when the dem nomination is all sewn up, you're going to see hillary, bill, and every other democrat out there throwing their complete support to obama.
Obama is history in the making.
McCain is a 20th century answer to 21st century problems.
bill, hillary and all the dems know this.
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scott42611 year, 7 months ago
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I beleive the percentage of Hillary Clinton supporters who - in the end - do not vote for Barack Obama will be in the single digits.
Why do I believe that?
Because John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsberg will almost certainly retire within the next Presidential term. Because the war must come to an end. Because America's jobs are being outsourced. Because gas costs too much. Etc, etc...
Obama will be the next president because he understands this. ...and McCain... ...McCain does not...
Judging from the special elections recently - with some very Republican districts voting in Democrats - I'd say the election is the Democrats' to lose. Let's hope they don't blow it.
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Poulenc1 year, 7 months ago
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I fear, I fear, I fear that some awful concoction of racism; the authoritarian impulse to divide the world into black and white, US and THEM, and which requires an enemy to affirm national strength and a sense of proctectedness; anti-intellectualism; class prejudice/envy; rejection of self-interest in favor of "values"-voting...
...that all of these things will sink the Obama effort.
I hope not. But.....
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