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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 06:41 PM

JeffM23 and furtail

May I ask about your particular demographic? What are you bringing to Obama's table? Are you rich white guys or college kids? Just curious since you seem to know so much about how core Dem constituencies are likely to vote.

I am a 47-year-old mixed-race Republican woman, just to put my own cards on the table. I was a registerated Democrat, but I got sick of watching the party send up loser after loser after loser. Obama is going to be as weak as Dukakis in '88, if not worse. McCain will fillet him without much trouble.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 06:45 PM

I wouldn't count on California either

Strewsburntmonkey. Just saying. You sure take a whole lot for granted.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 06:46 PM

And, melthough, I know that you

are living human excrement.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 06:48 PM

Ah yes, the creative class, JeffM23, or whatever they're calling that demographic now

that likes to help the Dem Party self-eviscerate.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 07:49 PM

God everything Obama says is just so phony

Working class Dems and older voters see him for what he truly is--a slick self-serving charlatan.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 07:57 PM

Great WaPo article about Obama's quandary

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042203424.html?hpid=topnews

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 07:58 PM

Hey, Tom Payne, how does it feel to see your candidate

get crushed tonight? Feel good, huh? Enjoy! He's a loser and Hillary has eviscerated him!

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 08:18 PM

Ah, Xrandadu Hutman, not surprising to hear the Obama supporters

calling for censorship and banning. You guys have nothing left. You're sad, pathetic really, and your candidate is garbage who got flushed tonight. Suffer, that's what you deserve.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 09:32 PM

A pathetic speech, old and tired, a retread of themes that are tattered and faded

after a 10 point thumping. I love how he fled the scene of the crime as soon as he could! He's a walking corpse politically. I can only hope the Dems are stupid enough to now actually nominate him.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 09:34 PM

Empty seats at the PA Obama bash

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/04/sixers_and_six_packs.php

Their candidate ran away like a frightened cur.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 09:38 PM
Original article: What Pennsylvania tells us

Great line from Todd Beeton over at MyDD.com

"Seriously, at what point are these guys going to start holding their own candidate accountable for why this thing is still going on instead of complaining that Hillary is competing in contests that she is winning."

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 09:42 PM

tom payne, your candidate is toast

how do you feel, sugar? hm, sweetie? the so-called hack just CRUSHED your golden boy. CRUSHED him. Ate his fucking spleen and asked for seconds. All you have is talk, just like your candidate. Bye bye, sucker.

God, this feels good. Just to KNOW how much you are suffering now. It is sweet, sweet joy.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 09:48 PM

Here's my favorite part, you can just smell the self-delusion

"There were a lot of folks who didn't think we could make this a race when it started. They thought we were going to be blown out. But we worked hard ... and now, six weeks later, we closed the gap. We rallied people of every age and race and background to the cause."

I guess he probably did get at least ONE vote from "people of every race and background." LOL. And trying to pretend he's the underdog is pathetic, but really, what else can he do. His balls were vised off tonight.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 09:49 PM

Jerm, you are well-named

A shot of penicillin should clear it up. Ask Tom Payne the way to the free clinic. He practically lives there.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 09:52 PM

Don't complain to me about BO's cojones

Talk to Clinton--she's got 'em in her pocket.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:05 PM

Like the other Obamanuts, dkmoorhead

can't tell reality from metaphor. So here are some metaphors for you, turn them into realities in your teensy skull: tonight Obama got roasted, toasted, filleted, annihilated, creamed, and masticated.

By the way, speaking of metaphors, why do people always say "sitting Senator"? What does that add to the image? Does it make negative comments about them seem somehow worse than is they were called, say, "perching Senators" or "nesting Senators" or "Senators slightly reclining while sipping tea"?

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:13 PM
Original article: What Pennsylvania tells us

You're right, kellylark, a Hillary/Obama ticket would beat McCain

But it won't happen. They're going to destroy each other instead. And I've stored up a lot of popcorn to watch!

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:23 PM
Original article: What Pennsylvania tells us

Thanks for the lecture, Graz65

But I think you're the one with the blinders on if you don't think Obama is just business as usual. He's the usual liberal loser the Dems ritualistically send out to be slaughtered every November. Keep the blinders on--you'll feel better.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:31 PM
Original article: What Pennsylvania tells us

This is the sad fact about Obama, Graz65, that you have to face

Hillary Clinton--HILLARY CLINTON--seems more experienced than he does in terms that matter to core Dem constituencies. Something seriously wrong with your candidate when THAT is the case!

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:33 PM
Original article: What Pennsylvania tells us

homefly, don't you realize

a Dem nominee can NEVER write those voters off because s/he will never win without them. Only good ol' boy Bill Clinton managed to peel enough them away from their flirtation with Reagan, and then only because he got an assist from Ross Perot. If you really believe Obama can build a winning coalition for a Democrat without the white working class vote, you're nuts. And I hope you're advising the Dem party!

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:41 PM

cabick, that is the smartest post I've read on this site

The only thing wrong with it is that you assume the Democrat superdels won't figure out some way to screw their party. They'll pick Obama because they'll get shamed into it, and he'll lose horribly, and they'll mutter that it was all Clinton's fault because they wanted to pick her but she but couldn't.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:42 PM

Keep smoking it, KcM

Your candidate was exposed tonight and throughout the Penn primary. Either Clinton beats him or McCain will. He doesn't have the ghost of a prayer. Keep dreaming. And try to remember that, many months ago, you promised to stop speaking to me. I'd appreciate it if you kept your promise, dear. Now take your meds and hit the sack.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 05:45 AM
Original article: Obama can't close the deal

Truer words were never spoken

"watching Obama stumble across the finish line as the presumptive nominee is not a formula to inspire the Democrats with confidence heading into the fall elections.... Certainly, despite a six-day bus tour through blue-collar Pennsylvania, there was little in the returns to suggest that the first-term Illinois senator has expanded his coalition...."

He is just a HORRIBLE primary campaigner. He can't do the retail politicking--he looks aloof, annoyed, and silly. He can pack big venues to the rafters with adoring college kids and affluent liberals, but his pitch to core Dem constituencies (with the exception of African-Americans, who are voting for one of their own) just keeps falling flat. Superdels, pick him at your party's own risk.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 06:00 AM
Original article: Obama can't close the deal

See, Rico, just listen to HP, he knows the score

and if you buy that blarney, you're as big as loser as the Dems are sure to be with Obama in November. But speaking as a McCain supporter, I couldn't be happier than to watch your party follow HP's clueless lead.

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