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tom payne

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  • billcap

    [Read the article: Professor Obama, I presume? ]
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    Heavy sigh, indeed. find release in the park with your family under a spring sky. It's so hard to choose "most trivial thread" in this ongoing primary trainwreck, but this one sure gets a nomination. It rivals "what is, is" when it comes to piddly parsing. best, tom

  • yankeeclipper

    [Read the article: Hillary's team crosses the line]
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    Alex, I'll take "who are fascist media moguls" for 500.

  • cold hans

    [Read the article: Hillary's team crosses the line]
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    scaife isn't satan, but he's on the team. big time. limbaugh, savage, hannity, murdoch, moloch, shelob, and scaife. In fact, moloch to murdoch to scaife is a famous double play combo. not the devil, no. just his tools.

  • Hans

    [Read the article: Hillary's team crosses the line]
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    You are, of course, absolutely right. Outside the petri dish of this forum, where the virulent exchanges are quarantined, I do bad mouth anyone by rethugs, who I denigrate at every opportunity. I will vote for Hillary in November, if she gets there, and for every Democrat down ticket. But here, creative venting is the order, or the odor, of the day. I don't despise Ms. Clinton, or even Big Bill, but I have some serious problems with their deportment ever since the guaranteed coronation of Queen Billary started to slip away. It's less kitchen sink than septic tank. To me, and original Edwards supporter, Obama has grown as the campaign has worn on, and Hill has diminished herself. One old man's perspective. But when it's crunch time, I'll be crunching republikans and voting for Democrats.

  • dataguy

    [Read the article: Hillary Clinton's tough week]
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    Hey, that's impossible. Billary wins all the big states, Obama wins the unimportant states dominated by darkies, latte sippers, caucus races, elitists, flamers, and musicians. Therefore, either Texas is not a big state, or Billary won. Don't let the facts, or the fax, deter you. Carry on.

  • electro-dildo

    [Read the article: Why John Edwards hasn't endorsed Obama]
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    Texas results. Delegate counts. Key endorsements. read much? In denial? Watch out for the crocs- or with the Klintoonians, the crock.

  • Koon Bate Kate

    [Read the article: Barack Obama, working-class hero?]
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    Just as predicted, the klan's "lady" auxiliary comes blithering on. Can shawnie boy the pawn be far behind (usually at this time of day he's right behind a sheep). Come on, race baiters. Let's see if you have something new. the Gallup daily tracking poll, speaking of new, shows Billary fading. what a shocker. Go knit a noose or whatever you virulent racists do for fun now that cross burnings and lynchings seem to be passe. love heywood

  • Walker

    [Read the article: Barack Obama, working-class hero?]
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    Thank you for bringing a sane and civil Clinton supporting voice to the dialogue. Race Bait Kate will find currency, yeah, but it's gonna be confederate dollars worth even less than America dollars. I agree that Obama needs to de-emphasize the campus aspect (which won't be hard, since the campuses will be dormant over the summer), and his appeal is far, far beyond that already. Even though pigeon holes like katie and shawnie want to brand every Obama supporter as a dupe, a coon, an elitist, or a misogynist, Obama has support throughout our extended, various, middle class family. One son in law is a Turk from Amsterdam, long since an American, who's an Oakland cop. the other is a union electrician, as blue collar and down to earth a guy as you can find. Obama. All four of our college graduate students, who could not be more dissimilar except in their genetic makeup, all agree Obama has, and is, something new. We do not dislike Hillary. Her campaign turns us off, and her brain dead apologists here make the gorge rise (not walker or phillips), so shove that up your demographic, katie.

  • rosenklanner

    [Read the article: Barack Obama, working-class hero?]
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    First, firm agreement. Mayor Booker is a very impressive man, much as Obama was ten years ago. After that, you pitch into the darkness of your own self evident ignorance. I will, if you don't mind, pass on the ever so tempting off to bite you. I know you're taken up on that quite often in republikan men's rooms. Here, no so much. Where to start? Ivy league rich kid? Oh, my. Yeah, just like Bushit. except he got in on merit alone, was an academic home run hitter, the President of the Harvard Law Review. billary took three tries to pass the bar. Next slur: he grew up in the sunny suburbs of Hawaii. Dumbass. I lived in Hawaii, and have friends there still. He was a middle class kid with God given talent. HIs book deal was based on his ability to write (which I'm certain far exceeds your ability to read) and actually sell books on merit. The Klinton Kamp books, which are actually quite well done, were sold on the basis of name recognition alone. You know: just like Billary's senate and now presidential campaigns. If her name were Rodham, or Rodman, or Muffmuncher, or Goldwater Girl, she wouldn't draw flies. She took a campaign with a rose petal strewn path to the nomination, and got beaten, badly, by a rookie. He out organized her, out thought her, out strategized her, and kicked her ample ass in every way that counts. Votes. Delegates. Have you checked recently, rosenshitze? She lost five more delegates in the Texas contest- which she LOST- and is now down about 150 delegates. After Penn and NC, the gap will be just about the same, except the super delegates, who can smell a loser, will defect to Obama to escape the Billary infection. Get shots. Get help. Get bent.