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tom payne

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  • Billcap

    [Read the article: Reid, Pelosi get entangled in the presidential race]
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    whose big buck supporters are trying to blackmail the Democratic Party? The answer is the same as for the question, "who is primarily responsible for the descent of the campaign into slurs, slimes and kitchen sink emptying?". Obama himself made a point of saying how imperfect his campaign is. How humble would like a man of his attainment and intellect to be? House darkie? No one running for this office can, or should, be anything other than ambitious, focused, and driven. The key question is: is there a limit to that ambition. I wanted Edwards to be the nominee. Obama was my fallback candidate. But the more I see of him, the more he grows. It's not an illusion. I"ve been watching campaigns since I was a little boy, starting with the 1952 campaign. Barack is not messianic, and is completely human. I get it. We don't need a triangulator, a deal cutter, a DC imbued insider. Enough. we've been there. It did not work, and i will not work. For the hundredth time, I will vote for Hillary if it comes to that. No vote for any rethug at any level for the foreseeable future. Maybe ever. The actuarial table say I've got about four more presidential elections. I intend to vote Democratic for the duration.

  • syphlitic666

    [Read the article: Polls: Obama weathers Wright controversy ]
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    Obama neutralized the Klinton Kamp's thinly veiled attempt to make him "too black" instead of "not black enough" as he was characterized a couple months back. For any thinking American, which obviously excludes you and your fellow crackers, Obama's speech ten days ago more than compensated for any trailer trash attempt to link Wright, as if the pastor were running for office. You forgot to parrot your line of "god damn america" drivel. Your handlers will deduct a couple rocks from your crack cache. love, heywood

  • Kate the Hater

    [Read the article: How the long primary battle helps Democrats]
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    Our son in law is a union electrician. All his friends, who are our friends too, take their lunch to work, sometimes in buckets. As a group, they are extremely impressed by Obama and equally mistrustful of our Bosnian War Heroine, Hill the Thrill. so, generalize your way into oblivion, hatemonger. Your disdain for blacks, well educated people, voters who have refused to drink the Klinton Koolade, latte sippers, skinny dippers, and anyone else who dare disagree with you, drips from every syllable of your pathetic posts like bile from a diaper. Odd you take losing so poorly; you've obviously had a lifetime of practice. love heywood.

  • another picture

    [Read the article: Leahy: Clinton should quit]
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    picture billary with a 35% approval rating right now, having enabled Bushit to send the troops there to start with. That's not a hypothetical. It's the truth. Deal with it.

  • spring break preznit

    [Read the article: McCain launches first general-election ads]
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    "America has been looking for boobs. Here's a big one."

  • it's time the shrew withdrew

    [Read the article: Leahy: Clinton should quit]
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    sorry, feministas, hill screwed this up on her own. with all the advantages short of incumbency, she blew (sorry, Bill) a 20 point lead, unrivaled name recognition, and still lost to a man almost no one had heard of a year ago. That's leadership? Gender has not one damned thing to do with it; as far as a "pat of the head", for Christ's sake she has a seat in the senate, and that only- only- because of her name. If she'd run as Rodham no one would have given her a second look. She's done nothing but spray and spew one shitstorm after another for the past month, and has achieved exactly nothing. Time to go away. Notorious BS says Hill will bear no responsibility for anything she's done. She agrees with you completely, BS.

  • ku klux kate

    [Read the article: Leahy: Clinton should quit]
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    the hatemonger in drag starts her Friday quoting reich wing sources. Dixiecrat dumptruck with one line of thought only: no darkies in the white house, unless dey be sweepin' up or servin' mint juleps. Miz Hill'ry, I don't know nothin' about birthin' no babies. Cracker.

  • phillips

    [Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Hillary Clinton]
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    Huey Long was nothing but speeches, usually drunken ones (but very effective nonethless). You have my sympathy, and some envy to go along with it, for your 300 year dixie history. Y'all must have been slave owners. Thanks for the condescending tone, though. An erudite cracker is still a cracker. Attach all the adjectives you care to, in the fine tradition of Thomas Wolfe (after whom I was named), Eudora Welty, the entire staff of the Sewanee Review, or whatever. If you preface the whole thing with "white" that's all I need to know. For southern culture, especially black music, but also the deepest literary tradition in this country (but it wouldn't be a country if you folks had your way), I have a great deal of respect. For anyone who has the least misty-eyed, Scarlett O'Hara view of "the cause", I invite a French Quarter kiss of my Yankee ass. I ran a bar in the Ozarks for a year. I know what you "white conservative populists" really think once you've had a couple Black Jacks. It ain't pretty. Applaud yourself all you like, but, when you peel back the layers, you've got a racist. I raise my middle finger in honor of Dixie, the song and the concept.

  • The Good Ship Hillary, Down by the Stern

    [Read the article: A big lead for Obama in new Gallup poll]
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    Blub,blub. Time for the lifeboats, Hillbots. She's done, and lacks the grace or sense of the greater good to bow out. She'll scratch like a feral cat until someone puts her in a bag and chucks her overboard. Pity. She hasn't laid a glove on Obama, but she's beaten the shit out of herself. turns out there was a lot in there to beat.

  • SOB

    [Read the article: Leahy: Clinton should quit]
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    If there's any Cheneying to be done, grab your ankles. Billary's falling off the cliff even as we speak. You can hear the shrill shriek of the shill and she pitches off the hill to land with Big Bill at the bottom of the swill. Grease up.

  • Ortez

    [Read the article: Polls: Obama weathers Wright controversy ]
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    Besa me culo, hermano. It's Hill the Shrew that screwed herself, blew her lead, blew her money, but wouldn't blow Bill. Ah, priorities. If the polls said the opposite, you'd all be screaming for the darkie to get out and go back to picking cotton. Que lastima. Puta.