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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:23 AM
Original article: When Rudy met Hillary

Guiliani needs a new dentist

Most of the time, I think of myself as a serious voter, but I find it extremely hard to take a candidate of this stature seriously when I look at Rudy with that mouth full of oversized teeth. For goodness sakes, get a new dentist or enter the next Kentucky Derby! I would vote for Hillary any day over any of the Republican candidates especially since all of them have made Hillary the most important plank in their platform!

Monday, January 28, 2008 04:07 AM

If they cant't stand the heat

While the democrats are falling all over themselves to be the politically correct party by analyzing every little phrase that might offend one another, the republicans are designing their political ads which will be to search and destroy whomever might be the nominee. And then when the day after the election comes, we wonder what happened.

Let the Clintons and Obama run their campaigns, let the people vote, and then we see what happens. The media, on a daily basis, need food for fodder (including you, Mr. Greenwald), and you end up spinning everything into a major bitchslap. As numerous other posters have said, politics is a dirty business and if Obama can't handle being compared to JJ, and Hillary can't handle being called any number of unbecoming names, then they both need to get out now. As for Obama garnering the black vote in SC, and Hillary the white vote, call it what it is - people voting for where they think their best interests lie. New concept? I don't think so.

Friday, February 1, 2008 07:05 AM

Republicans spread fear and hate

If the GOP couldn't use their voices to spread fear and hate they would have nothing to spread at all, and it isn't just one or two of them, it's the whole damn bunch. Somehow my idea of christianity differs so very much from theirs. I was taught to love my neighbor, help the poor, not tell lies, and yet, the GOP which is totally supported by christian conservatives are nothing but war and hate mongers. Is this what Roosevelt meant when he said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."?

Thursday, February 7, 2008 06:45 AM
Original article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily

There was a time when I felt pure anger

as I watched yet another of Bobby Knight's tirades against whomever happened to be his latest victim, but gradually I felt only pity for a man who had the sports world at his feet and didn't know what to do with it. We can do all the psychoanalyzing we want about this poor pathetic creature, but until he realizes that he has a major screw loose and seeks professional help, nothing is going to change. Fat chance of that ever happening and therein lies the pity.

He isn't an enigma, he is the the school bully. I wonder what would have happened if just one time, a reporter or an interviewer had had the balls to just turn around and walk away, what would have happened? Or if one (BIG) player had knocked the shit out of him, would he have developed a new attitude. None of this ever happened, so we will never know the answer.

Bobby Knight probably was a good coach at one time, but his legacy will be his horrible treatment of his former players and the media. Let him crawl off into his miserable little world where there will be few if any others for him to abuse.

What a waste.

Friday, May 9, 2008 05:39 AM

Knock it off!

Joe, you write that Hillary is carrying the "hardworking, white American" vote, and my question is, "Is that any worse than saying that Barack Obama is carrying the African-American vote of whatever state happens to be holding its primary?" I don't think so.

Yet seldom is an entire article dedicated to the fact that Obama is winning many of these states simply because he is carrying the votes of people who like it that someone who looks like them could be our next president. I find nothing wrong with that considering that Obama is a worthy candidate.

At the same time, I don't think there is anything wrong with Hillary Clinton carrying white voters, especially women who are drawn to her ideas on health care and the economy. Either way we win with a candidate who is capable of stringing three words together without saying "uh, uh, uh".

I am a white, female Hillary supporter, and I make no apologies for that. I will support her until a final decision is made on who the candidate in the general election will be, and if Obama wins out and is the candidate, then I will wholeheartedly support him. It has nothing to do with race or gender. Other than the war, the two of them aren't that far apart on most of the issues. Clinton and Obama are in hand-to-hand combat to win the highest office in the land, and we should expect some mud slinging. This election is going to give us a black president or a female president, and I want to savor that.

Thursday, May 22, 2008 04:43 AM
Original article: She's in it to spin it

The Emperor's New Clothes

Barack Obama's nomination to the presidency would just be the democratic version of the fairy tale, "The Emperor's New Clothes" that we've been reading for the last seven years, and quite frankly, I am ready for a new storyline. The only difference is that Obama can speak eloquently and Bush couldn't. He is ill-prepared for the presidency.

What do we really know about this smooth talker Obama with his GQ, movie star good looks which have blinded so many voters?Not a whole lot.

No, I'm not a racist nor a feminist, just a realist. He is unelectable, and the longer the campaign goes on, the more obvious this becomes. Hang in there, Hillary!

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