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Remember that one? Remember what she was talking about when she said "this is the fun part"? Baracl Obama took the high road even when he was asked directly to comment on her Bosnian LIE. Hillary Clinton is incapable of taking the high road. In fact, she's not even aware it exsists.
You beat me to it. My jaw dropped open. I have a feeling Nash "I want to know if you believe in the American flag" McCabe wouldn't have a problem with John McCain accepting SS payments when he's making a nice salary on his own, has a money-bags wife and 9 or 10 houses. But that flag pin...
...oh never mind that the elite Sen. McCain is accepting SS AND he doesn't wear a flag pin.
Obama's "bitterness" remark comes into clearer focus by the day.
Ok, who's condescending?
The Democrats need to end this useless primary freak show and start nailing McCain to the wall before its too late.
Sadly, this is the type of person who decides the fate of our nation. This is the type of person who preferred George Bush over Al Gore and John Kerry because they seemd snobby and smart instead of...well whatever it was they saw in Bush (his bbq-abilty? that "he sounds stupid like me"?).
People can debate and dissect and discuss the policies and positions of the candidates, but in the end its in the hands of the Nash McCabes of the nation to chose the President. That's both sad and frightening.
That ABC would court and encourage someone like this woman does nothing but make the problem worse. Ten million people watched that debate. It was an opportunity to illuminate the real differences between these two candidates (and the Republican as well). But instead, ABC chose to encourage and elevate the lowest common denominator.
Considering his thinking on Iran, it seems pretty obvious what McCain will do in the future is make the same mistakes of the past.
John McCain is alot like Diana Ross. The idea of Diana Ross is great. In reality she's pretty bad. As long as the media and the public are in thrall of the idea of John McCain the real McCain will get very little examination.
from Daily Kos:
Who loves America? Jeremiah Wright loved it enough that while Dick Cheney was getting his string of five deferments, Wright voluntarily gave up his student deferment, left college and joined the United States Marine Corps. Wright was valedictorian of his class in Corpsman School. When asked about the sacrifices he'd made, Wright said he was inspired by the words of John Kennedy that he should "ask what he could do for his country."
And he did that at a time where there were many restaurants in this country that wouldn't serve him food, hotels where he could not get a room, neighborhoods where he could not hope to live, and whole states where he could not obtain justice. That, damn it, is how much Jeremiah Wright loves this country. What Stephanopoulos asked isn't fair, because there are very few people who have expressed their love for America as clearly as Reverend Wright, especially when America -- then and now -- rarely seems to appreciate their dedication.
That's because IRAQ is the CENTRAL FRONT IN THE WAR ON TERROR. Sheesh, doesn't everyone know that by now?
Insert the happy sound of a cuckoo clock here.
I'm still trying to understand how anyone ever saw any charm in George W. Bush.
Age? Tackle his health. He looks like he should be in hospice.
It was the type of debate I would imagine from Fox News. I imagine in the presidential debates Obama will be grilled for an hour over Rev. Wright and "bitter" then John McCain will be asked how difficult was it in that prison camp?
He came across with some dignity. Clinton just seemed like a weasley bitch.
Both Obama and Clinton seemed bored and univolved. Can anyone blame them? It did appear to be an Obama hatchet-job. And what was up with the darkened audience and lone spotlight on Chelsea? Was the debate sponsored by the Clinton Foundation?
It was worthless, and a disservice.
Hopefully alot of people did, and the end message will be that people are becoming increasingly BITTER with being force-fed tabloid sleaze instead of substantial discussions of issues. From what I saw neither came across very well, but under the circumstances that seemed to be ABC's agenda.
She does have a certain creepiness about her. Its eith Angela Lansbury/Manchurian Candidate-like or she looks like she'd be in Bravo's Real Housewives of Pheonix.
A week or two before the election John McCain will be called back into service and single-handedly thwart a terrorist plot himself. His scarey wife will rush to him at the podium and fall into his arms (literally). And somewhere in an undisclosed location Dick Cheney, dollar signs dancing before his eyes, will smile.
The american people will be spellbound.
from the Huffington Post:
In January 1995, as the Clintons were licking their wounds from the 1994 congressional elections, a debate emerged at a retreat at Camp David. Should the administration make overtures to working class white southerners who had all but forsaken the Democratic Party? The then-first lady took a less than inclusive approach.
"Screw 'em," she told her husband. "You don't owe them a thing, Bill. They're doing nothing for you; you don't have to do anything for them."
Remember that from her own lips?