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tom payne

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  • Dumby

    [Read the article: Quarter of Clinton supporters would vote McCain over Obama]
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    So, let me get this straight: women are more oppressed in American than are blacks? Odd. Every economic indicator shows women, especially well educated white women, doing far better than their black counterparts. How about prison time? A black man is three times more likely to be incarcerated than graduated. Oooh, poor, poor, benighted Hillary. Nobody woves her. Hand me a hanky. She's a tough lady, and that's a good thing. Nobody could have anticipated the Obama phenomenon. He's a quantum leap; she's a creeper, cautious by nature, a triangulator, a shape shifter. Which personality will be next? The weepy Hillary? The "shame on you" Hillary mommy? The policy wonk Hillary. She knows where all the light switches are in the White House. BFD. Does Laura Bush have eight years of experience? When shall we expect her run at the big prize. What a crock. It's a tough campaign, and Obama has out organized, out worked, out anticipated, and out fought Ms. Rodham Clinton. wonder where that name went? Out with one of the personalities, I suppose. The November choice will be clear: you want war as far as the eye can see and beyond, Johnnie Straight Talk is your guy; you want a shot a peace, and maybe, just maybe, a realization of some of those things some of us have been fighting for since the mid sixties. If you vote republikan, you're a fascist tool. It's that simple. love heywood

  • fawning shaun, witless moron

    [Read the article: Quarter of Clinton supporters would vote McCain over Obama]
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    Obama is 47. So, he needs to be immersed in the waters of the Potomac for another eight years and wait his turn like a good house coon? JFK was 42 when he was sworn in. Teddy Roosevelt was a shade older. Inspiration doesn't come in increments, or, in Hillary's world, excrement. It's inductive, not deductive. Look it up, simpleton. Great ideas, great leaders, aren't a resume you build. It's something you are, or are not. Let me be plain here:I will vote for Hillary without hesitation if she somehow twists her way into a super delegate land rush. All other issues derive from the economic, social, and geopolitical morass that is Iraq. Hillary won't get out nearly as soon as Obama would. the Generals already know that. She, and Big Bill and His Big One before her, are go along to get along folks. They capitulate to start with to save the trouble of doing so later. We used to call that selling out. Where are the Hillster's tax records? Where'd that five mill come from, the money that kept her good ship lolligag afloat for another month? Same place as her first lady phone records? She's a fraud, but, even at that, a quantum jump above Warmonger John, serial philanderer and lobbyist whore. love, as always, heywood

  • shawn the pawn

    [Read the article: Quarter of Clinton supporters would vote McCain over Obama]
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    How much are the freepers paying you to post drivel? Shouldn't you be doing your homework (God knows you need it). It's a school night. My "heyday" or however the hell you misspelled and misused the term, included four years of service during the Vietnam War. I lost many friends whose names I've run my fingers across along that long black wall in Washington. The war in Iraq, which Hillary enabled (along with a raft of other wimpy "democrats"), is the defining issue of this campaign, and of the next decade, minimum. Obama was the only candidate to oppose the war before it began. Don't hand me that "he couldn't vote in the Senate crap either. Lincoln couldn't vote in the Senate against the Missouri Compromise or the other slavery related issue in the late 1850's because he LOST the Illinois senate race. He wasn't even in congress. Shall we blow up the Lincoln Memorial and edit Mt. Rushmore because Abe was "inexperienced". What a moron. Don't let Mommy find you playing with her computer again. Try some social studies, or read the Constitution. Highlight in red the portions the Bushit folks have invalidated and violated, and which McLame will continue to use as a roll of Charmin. have a lovely evening. Do your handlers pay you minimum wage, or just cheap beer? your admirer, Heywood

  • monica69

    [Read the article: Brand-aid]
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    Yep. Freeper. Love the military, ignore the quadradecimation of the Bill of Rights. Korea. Vietnam. Grenada. Panama. El Salvador. Gulf War One. Bosnia (almost certainly the right thing to do, and accomplished without the loss of ONE American life). Eye-rack. Afghanistan (bungled beyond belief). None of this- none- was done out of altruism. It was out of naked economic self interest on the part of the ruling class- you know, dimbulb, the ones who don't die in the wars they start. Yes, WWII was unquestionably honorable, and our deportment toward our former enemies was a model of compassion and enlightened policy. Yes, drooler, Eisenhower's speech was in the early sixties, as if that invalidates it. We make war because it makes money. K street runs Washington, the Clintons included. Lecture me all you like, Mom, with or without your midol, but false pride goeth before a fall. My guess is you're well padded and the fall won't hurt anything other than your bloated ego. Have a lovely evening with your electronic lover (batteries not included). raptly yours, heywood.