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tom payne

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  • Why Isn't Cheney In that Chair

    [Read the article: Clemens: Did he or didn't he?]
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    Okay, let's stipulate that at least half of MLB, NFL, NBA, and the PBA were juiced for the last fifteen years. So what? Investigate the war; the Halliburton contracts; the Blackhawk murders; our indifference to Darfur..... dozens upons dozens of life and death issues. Clemens is an egomaniac and a Texas dimbulb, but he hasn't killed anybody. What a dog and pony show, and all we get is what the dogs and ponies dropped on the way through. disgusting.

  • Tea Leaves

    [Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
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    As usual, anonymous, heroic soul that he is, does his imitation of a blind man feeling an elephant. It's a snake! No, it's a tree! Primary results do not presage November results in any instructive way. The demographics shifted in the Potomac primaries, but it's too early to tell if Obama has actually made inroads. We do know that Hillary is ceding wisconsin and Hawaii. That will make 12 consecutive losses. All the rhetorical tapdancing in the world won't change that. The tide seems to have turned. Hillary will have to win the March 4 primaries with 60%; I doubt that will happen. It takes a great stretch to think McCain, more hawkish than Bushit, and a congressional leader during a recession, is going to carry California or New York. He might carry Ohio, thanks to Diebold. And Obama is not some crackpot left winger, unless you're from Free republic. They think Chuck Hegel was a heretic. Apparently, so does the coward hiding behind anonymity. love, heywood

  • hats and asstrology

    [Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
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    leave it to anonymous, coward and dimbulb extraordinaire, to bring up critical national issue like astrological signs and sombreros. yes, oh anal one, the race will hinge on those critical factors you so keenly have discerned. We'll be looking to you for direction. Whichever way you point, the future is the other way. love heywood.

  • anonymous pusillanimous

    [Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
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    Obama has raised more money from small donors than any candidate in history. Hillary is the insider. Money corrupts campaigns but until we have true finance reform and public financing, that's the game. What's lame is your vocabulary, your repetition of demonstrable falsehoods, and your nakedly repulikan leanings. No one here believes you're a Democrat. You have the sour reek of Free Republic. Take a bath. Use soap this time.

  • MC

    [Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
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    Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review. That means he was, essentially, the best law student in the country at the time. His rhetorical skills are obvious. McLame says they're "platitudes". I guess that covers the Gettysburg Address, or FDR's fireside chats, or Churchill bucking up the English during the blitz. Rhetoric matters. If you think Obama would have trouble putting together an economic team as good or better than Hillary's, on what basis do you make that assertion? bill cliinton's campaign manager endorded Obama today.

    On the purely anal level, it's a pleasure to be a nuclear suppository in your flabby cheeks, anonymous pusillanimous. Or are you vagina regina? The stupid part is more easily assessed than the gender. Hillary's whole "experience" mantra is bloated resume building. Is Laura Bush prepared to run the country? She was first lady of Texas, a larger state than Arkansas, and first lady for eight years. How 'bout Laura, there oh anal one?

  • the flaming of the shrew

    [Read the article: Clinton: "My opponent gives speeches, I offer solutions"]
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    Ah, the smell of Clinton desperation, dung-slinging tap dancing in a room of smoke and mirrors. By the odor, I'd say she's about done. Get the fork out; tell the endomorphic female to warm her pipes. Two more ample ass kickings coming up Tuesday. love, heywood

  • buy massengil futures

    [Read the article: Clinton: "My opponent gives speeches, I offer solutions"]
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    that is all. love heywood p.s. there's not a chance in hell Obama will make Hillary and her baggage VP. I'd go with Bill Richardson.

  • bullcheck

    [Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
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    There's no one in the Democratic party that energizes the fascist base like Hillary. The whole Clinton years agenda, with moral turpitude, and too many "gates' to count, float to the top immediately like so many turds in a punchbowl. To argue that they'd rather run against an articulate outsider as brilliant as Obama is horsehockey. They've been licking their porcine chops, with a big target painted on Hillary's ample ass, and now they may not have a chance to use all that crappola. Every national poll that measures "negatives" shows that she's by far the most vulnerable. The same polls show Obama beating Warmonger John, and Hillary losing. Rove is engineering this? My veteran ass he is. Obama's phenomenon, whatever else it is, is genuine. Nothing about either Hillary or McLame is genuine. Not a thing. Warmonger John's been riding POW horse for over thirty years. It doesn't have any more run in it. And Texass "democrat", you want to go back to Jim Crow and engineered tests meant to keep our the black and the poor,and now the Hispanic. Nice touch. Back to the forties. You already sent us George. You've done enough. Keep Austin and flush the rest to the Gulf. confederates.

  • more bad news for hillary

    [Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
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    John Lewis, legendary congressman from Georgia, switched his super delegate support from hillary to Obama. The Service Employees International Union endorsed Obama, the third straight union to do so. Bye hillary. love heywood

  • more Clinton "paradise"

    [Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
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    Hillary talks about her alleged 35 years of "experience". If so, she gets all of it, not cherry picked parts. The Clintons also presided over the republikan takeover of Congress in '94, losing both houses for the first time in decades. That's experience I can live without.

  • Hillary's Desperation

    [Read the article: Obama's surge extends down the Potomac]
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    She can run her plump rump all the way to the convention. If she wins, more power to her. I'll vote for her. To imply, indeed assert, that anything has been handed to Obama is horseshit. He's earned everything he's gotten. The Hillbots resent it because, as great ones do, he makes it look easy. Ain't. And her piss and moan ads are gonna backfire. love, heywood