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Sunday, February 10, 2008 11:16 AM
Original article: Hillary's time of troubles

I think we can see what sort of country we'll have

if Obama wins. Preening narcissists shrieking slogans at us, then berating us when we don't fall in line. Worship for style and spectacle over substance. A cult of personality that replaces reasoned debate.

Oops, aren't we already there? Hasn't Bush given us as much of this as we can stomach? Maybe the Obamadroids should stop chanting "Yes! We! Can!" and start shouting "Four! More! Years!"

Sunday, February 10, 2008 11:13 AM
Original article: Hillary's time of troubles

More violent rage and name-calling from dataguyx

"Assholes, morons, dweebs and idiots..." Projecting, much? Love the unity from the uniters. Really uplifting, like their candidate.

Sunday, February 10, 2008 11:11 AM
Original article: Hillary's time of troubles

@dataguyx -- gee, the hostility from these uniters!

You wrote: Other than the FACT that this is totally being pulled out of your butt, it is about as accurate as anything in Nostrademus or in a tarot card. Stop posting bullshit. You have NO IDEA what superdelegates would do. I can say one thing: Many of them, like Gore's campaign manager, have said that the superdelegates should not decide the issue. They will follow the other delegates, that's MY GUESS - I AM BEING HONEST UNLIKE OTHERS WHO

Hmm, I state a simple fact and you go off like a crazy person. I guess the truth hurts, huh? Superdelegates are mostly party functionaries, many of whom came up through the system during the Clinton years and remember them fondly. Your guy won't be the nominee no matter how many Montanas and Idahos he comes with, sorry, guy.

Sunday, February 10, 2008 11:08 AM
Original article: Hillary's time of troubles

@Joe P.

You wrote: "Also, if the popular and state vote both end up supporting Obama, will the Democratic Party, supposedly the 'party of the people' really accept these super delegates going against the votes of the people?

Hm, which "people" do you mean? The Latinos who are voting against Obama 2:1? The blue-collar voters and older voters Hillary is winning by double digits? Those people? I guess they don't matter to you. They certainly don't matter to your candidate since he doesn't seem to making much of an effort to appeal to them. I guess he figures his grand coalition of rich liberals, starry-eyed college kids, and closet Republicans are the only real people who matter.

Sunday, February 10, 2008 11:06 AM
Original article: Hillary's time of troubles

@Xrandadu Hutman

Ha ha! You're wrong, but persistent. Persistently wrong! There's your new handle. I mean, you're opposed to corporate lawyers? Do you hate Michelle Obama? And do you know nothing about Hillary's public service? Then you are a stone cold moron.

Sunday, February 10, 2008 10:59 AM
Original article: Hillary's time of troubles

@Xrandadu Hutman

You wrote: "It's funny because most of Hillary's non-First-Lady career was spent on the boards of directors for large corporations."

Actually, this is false, but even if it were true, are we to assume it would have been better for her just to be in the pocket of a single slumlord?

Sunday, February 10, 2008 10:57 AM
Original article: Hillary's time of troubles

Superdelegates will never support a candidate

who loses big blue states like California, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and crucial swing states like Arizona, Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. If Obama's vaunted momentum (catch the wave, dudes) doesn't net him Ohio on March 4 and/or Pennsylvania in April, he won't be the nominee, no matter how many delegates he picks up in the Virgin Islands.

Sunday, February 10, 2008 10:50 AM
Original article: Hillary's time of troubles

How many premature coronations

can your guy survive, Shapiro? The wave out of Iowa was unstoppable--until it stopped in New Hampshire. The wave out of South Carolina was overwhelming--until it got whelmed in New Jersey, Massachusetts and California. Now, watch out--here comes that tsunami again! If your fella doesn't win Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania now, what will your story be? Oops, we scheduled a coronation but we dropped the crown--three times?

Saturday, February 9, 2008 09:29 PM

Gee, chrislrob, I've heard more Obama supporters say they'd

vote for McCain if Hillary gets the nominations than vice versa. I agree they'd be "idiots" (your word) to do so. But then, they're idiots already.

Saturday, February 9, 2008 09:26 PM

You might as well gloat

while you still have the chance. Three weeks until Ohio and Texas vote. The real gloating will be then. If Obama manages to cut into Clinton's lead with Latinos, older voters, white women, or blue-collar voters in those states, and picks one or both off, then you can celebrate. If not, oh well, it was a pretty story while it lasted. Maybe he can retire and become governor of the Virgin Islands?

Saturday, February 9, 2008 08:09 PM

OK, Obama held serve

Now he needs to break through on March 4 in Texas or Ohio or we're back where we started. Thank God Huckabee is trouncing McCain so we don't have to deal with him as the presumptive Republican nominee just yet.

Saturday, February 9, 2008 06:38 PM

Wow, Obama won a caucus!

Stop the presses. How's he doing in Louisiana?

Saturday, February 9, 2008 04:49 PM

hey melthough and slackie

I haven't questioned the authenticity of your views. I believe they are authentically stupid, but they're your views, unbought and unpaid for. (Really, who would pay for them? They're not worth much.)

I love the paranoia of you Obamabots trying to ferret out hidden motives and secret payoffs in posters who criticize your demigod. It's evidence of how insecure you are ultimately about your candidate--you can't deal with criticism but need to find a way to dismiss it, to pawn it off to some ulterior agenda. Oh well, if it makes you feel better, do it!

To the Obamabots, everyone who disagrees with them is a troll. I wonder why they don't just join the Scientologists or the Ayn-Rand cultists. Their mindset would be the same.

Here, try this on for size: I'm not a Hillary supporter or a young Republican, I'm a 68-year-old anarcho-syndicalist pseudo-hermaphrodite antidisestablishmentarian with pro-royalist leanings. Does that help any? Oh, and I hate Barack Obama.

Saturday, February 9, 2008 02:08 PM

Alan Keyes is a good debater?!

Pull the other one, Vox!

Saturday, February 9, 2008 01:05 PM

Edwards would never play second fiddle to Obama

nor should he. Too much class.

Saturday, February 9, 2008 01:00 PM

Obama has won so many states, all over the country

But do you think he'd be willing to make a deal that let him keep all the delegates in the states he won if Clinton could do the same in her winning states? Thought not. He's supposedly the most electable, but alas, most Dems in most big blue states don't seem to think so.

Saturday, February 9, 2008 12:48 PM

hey Person

Actually, I am a registered Independent. You've heard of those, have you? I supported Edwards and now I'm undecided--except I will never vote for Obama. I wonder what about that you can't understand...?

Saturday, February 9, 2008 12:47 PM

Hey, Majorajam

I'm happy to help Obama. Anything that gets his story of corruption and incompetence and messianism out there. People need to know.

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