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Sarge
"Obama has a 10-point lead"
Yeah, but how many Super Delegates can he get?
"John Edwards"
Edwards: I hereby announce I will not accept the nomination for vice president.
Wendy's counter clerk: Would you like a Frosty with that?
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Colin Powell, Bill Cosby, Condi Rice take positions on political issues or say something the racism hucksters, the Hate America First crowd and the smarmy, openly partisan liberal media elites disagree with and they get called Uncle Toms - or worse - and with their fellow African Americans often leading the ugly chorus. They get accused of selling out to "white people," ( "rich white people," as Obama's pastor would say) and letting down ordinary folks still "oppressed" by "the system."
But if Barack Obama goes to San Francisco to basically grovel in front of and try to impress a bunch of wealthy old white libs with a load of rehashed 60's Marxist cant and codespeak holding him responsible for a condescending and idiotic outburst is a "Republican tactic"?
VOR
Since its politically incorrect to call him by his real name; Barack Hussein Obama, then I wonder if its okay to call him Barack "Karl Marx" Obama instead.
This guy is really beginning to show his stripes. Those that want the greatest onslaught of socialist expansion in US government will vote for him, those that find that offensive, will not.
RomeoRamenII
barack is a new train wreck with each new news cycle.
The San Francisco Bay Area is probably the most pro-barack section of the entire country, with barack signs and stickers visible everywhere you turn.
But when barack actually visited his electoral home base, he ignored the hoi polloi -- all the little people who swoon over him -- and instead, he spent the entire day with the super rich.
barack's San Fran shakedown cruise proves once again that his insistence that he'll bring "change" appears more and more to be just another hollow campaign slogan.
RR
Madverts
ramen, calm down...the momentum of Obama's campaign is clearly shaking somewhat the foundations of the basement.
What is the funniest is that even the hardcore reublicans know that the repub party has chances now in the minus numbers of winning the election after bush....heh, and this means y'all are having to root for Hilary to avoid a coloured bloke who's middle name is Hussein becoming CoC of the USA.
This is becoming more hysterical than back in Nov '06.
Sarge
Madverts - "the ( Republican ) party has chances now in the minus numbers of winning the election"
Hmm... the polls I've seen have McCain even or ahead of both Hillary and Obama...
skipthesong
Anyway, this campaign is getting way out of hand but to counter what Madverts says "root for Hilary to avoid a coloured bloke who's middle name is Hussein becoming CoC of the USA." I suspect his spelling and his term bloke lead me to believe that a "coloured" person as he likes to call him, would never ever without any slightest doubt have a chance of getting as far as he has if it was his land...
coloured person, man you are so out of date.
RomeoRamenII
"this campaign is getting way out of hand"
Nah, skip, I want this bickering to go all the way to Denver in late August. Then we can all sit back and watch the loony bin -- AKA the DNC -- go nuts.
When the dust settles, Mr. McCain will then become our next president.
RR
skipthesong
Mr. McCain will then become our next president." Other than the war issue, I really can't see much difference between the three.
I wish we could vote "none of the above" causing all parties to recast their candidates..
RomeoRamenII
It's only April and barack has been eating a lot of shoe leather.
The best part of all of this is that barack rattles off a bunch of things he obviously views as negative:
guns anti-trade (obviously we now know the anti-NAFTA rhetoric are as phony as his campaign told canada's ambassador)and...
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Madverts
skip, let me know what the current term is then mate. From someone who recently called for a global "war against Islam" however, I'll take your recommendations with a pinch of salt...
Madverts
Uh, sarge - you're nor Predicting a win for McCain are you? Heh, in light of past Predictions and all, I'd say you just ruined the old boy's, uhm, chances of winning...
Madverts
ramen, can you actually name a "socialst Third World country where minorities are to be seen and not heard"?
RomeoRamenII
Skip - True. I am not a Sen. McCain fan. Too liberal for my tastes.
But given what's being offered up on by the democrats this time around - hillary Balboa and barack the metrosexual - I'll have to go with Mr. McCain.
RR
Sarge
The poster formerly known as adverts - I hereby predict Obama, or possibly Hillary, will win in a landslide in November. xD
By the way, what polls have you read that make you say McCain's chances are in the "minus numbers"?
Madverts
On topic, I see some republican senator has had to apologize for calling Obama "boy". Heh, now that's the Grand Old Party as we know and love.
RomeoRamenII
barack - the self-proclaimed "peoples' candidate - gets caught out pandering to the the super rich and he whines about his opponent having no restraint.
Not only is he an empty suit, he's empty headed, too.
RR
Madverts
ramen, the closer the elections gets, the more intense the shrieking, paranoia and hatred on the radical right will become. Heh, it's going to be fun to watch the Grande Olde implosion....
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John McCain = the radical right.
That's pretty amusing. Kinda like reading that George Bush, running for reelection in 04, visited britain because he desperately needed a photo-op wif duh queen.
Madverts
And besides, at least one of the radicals here is on record calling McCain a "Rino".
Madverts
And besides, at least one of the radicals here is on record calling McCain a "Rino". It knows which one it was...
Sarge
Adverts, I hereby predict you're right about the Grande Olde implosion.
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I am a centrist on all issues, excepting perhaps the global proliferation American fast food joints, the modern guise that the divinely-inspired America notion of Manifest Destiny takes.
Have you ever heard of Thomas Friedman? - No country with McDonald's franchises has ever declared war on America...
SushiSake3
See, even Sarge thinks the GOP is in for a hiding :-)
Sarge
Sake3 - I hereby predict McCain and the GOP are toast!Toast, I say! xD
SushiSake3
Sarge, are you trying reverse logic on us?
You know every single one of your other predictions have bombed, so you try for the opposite to attract what you really want?
Smart.... :-)
Madverts
More likely, it could be the first time he'll get it right.
adaydream
Oh please. There will be words and histerical words. But as soon as the republicans give their okey-dokey for Sen McCain, and they will, it'll really get dirty. This is nothing, yet.
After the funders of the Swiftboat Liars get their money pooled together and their hate mongering gets going, this will be considered equivilent to a lovers spat.
Everton2
I agree with Obama, provisional America cling to gun ownership, religion and an intense hatred of people who don't look like them for various reasons. He is telling the truth and they just can't handle it!!
RomeoRamenII
It'll be interesting to hear how barack decribes the U.S. inner-city folks.
There's religion, guns, job loss and illegal immigrants there, too.
RR
RomeoRamenII
"Bittergate" certainly vindicates hillary's decision to hang around until PA, IN, WV and KY - states full of gun-owning, church going folks - get to vote.
RR
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"I agree with Obama, provisional [provincial?] America cling[s] to gun ownership, religion and an intense hatred of people who don't look like them for various reasons. He is telling the truth and they just can't handle it!!"
Forgotten his primary victories already? Obama won Iowa, which is 94 percent "white."
He is a typical Lefty elitist. He is a product of very exclusive schools. He sends his kids to elite private schools but wants to see to it ordinary folks won't be able to do the same. This guy has never worked in the private sector. He is a fraud.
RomeoRamenII
When barack loses the nomination, white racism will be blamed. It must be that white America is unwilling to elect a black man, because the truth that Americans are turned off by this particular, radical, under-qualified black man is unthinkable.
RR
RomeoRamenII
You know what barack's handlers need to do now? Stick him in a pickup truck and have him out there trotting around with woods with a Winchester during hunting season.
It is so great when democratic presidental candidates are shown doin' "just plain folks" stuff. The picture of Dukakis in a tank still makes me laugh every time I see it.
RR
usaexpat
the longer it goes on the worse it gets. The good thing is that Bush and his incompetents will be swept aside. I would rather have had McCain from the start so I think that's where I am heading with my vote
RomeoRamenII
Funny. The guy who's always talking about The Future now doesn't have one. At least not as U.S. president.
Maybe in stand-up comedy ... I mean, he's got a good speaking voice:
"This articulate black guy goes to a San Francisco fundraiser..."
RR
Madverts
ramen.
Admit it.
You're terrified at the thought of it all.
Badsey
now what's Hillary complaining about? She needs to pack-up her carpet bags and drop out of this race before she destroys the Democrat Party.
-actually I hope she stays in and gets the nomination. I believe Obama could win it with a new party. Exciting stuff.
adaydream
I hear these republicans just screaming equality for Barack's comments, but they are really scared to death, like Madverts mentioned. They squeal and moan, but given the chance to vote for a real change in this country, they'll just try to reelect this bald, old man who flip flops from no tax breaks to keeping the george bush tax breaks for the rich.
With a flack jacket, 100 fighters and helicopters overhead he'll tell you just how well this contrived war is going.
If we'd have stayed in Vietnam till we won the war, we'd still be there and John McCain would still be in a POW camp.
But let's stay in Iraq till we win this one.
Madverts
Badsey,
"I believe Obama could win it with a new party. Exciting stuff."
I concur that that would indeed be exciting.
Heh, and more importantly, it would bug the hell out of the JT radical brigade.
Everton2
redacted, elitist could hardly be used to describe Obama. He was raised by a single mother with very modest means. He and his wife only recently paid off their college tuition and still has a large mortgage on their home. And where should he send his kids to school now that he is a senator? I get it some inner city decaying school like other blacks.
Sarge
adverts
Admit it.
You're terrified of me predicting a McCain and GOP blowout.
Madverts
Uh, sarge....?
GOP blowout? Is this yet another scandal?
Hapa_musume
Dean, Pelosi and Reid already did that. At this point of the election, and what I'm seeing on Dem blogs, they're the most hated Dems in the country now!
Most incompetent leadership since before Carter.
marilu
Obama has a good game going. Like his preacher Mr. Wright said, "He was raised by a single mom..." That is extremely misleading. No doubt that is meant to conjure up an image of a single mom struggling to raise a son in the inner city. In reality, although he was raised by a single mom, Obama was raised with the help of his grandparents and traveled the world. His grandmother was a vice president of a bank at a time when that was even more uncommon than it is now for a woman to be a vice president of a bank. His father went to Harvard. Obama and his wife both went to Harvard Law (Columbia and Princeton for undergrad, respectively). Obama went to elite private schools as a child (like Punahou in Hawaii). His wife enjoyed a $300,000+/year salary before she quit her job (it's also worth reading up on how she got that job). To deny that he is part of the elite is laughable.
While McCain's wife is indeed an heiress, McCain is less out of touch with middle America than Obama. Furthermore, McCain's son is an enlisted Marine. There is no doubt his son could have secured a place at the Naval Academy and become an officer like his dad and grandfather, but instead he chose to enlist as a 17 or 18 year old and is now an Iraq war veteran. Meanwhile, Obama chose as his mentor, who in his "sermons" said, "God bless America? No, no, no! God Damn America!" and teaches his followers to blame society for their ills. It's no wonder his wife Michelle Obama was never proud to be an American until the moment she realized her husband is a contender for President of the U.S., despite the fact that the Obamas have led a very privileged life. His disparaging remarks about small-town people is no surprise. He was addressing rich folks at an invitation-only fund raiser in San Francisco. Google this topic; when you read his remarks in context, there is no doubt he meant it the way it sounded.