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Bakum claimed:
If Clinton and Ferraro could possibly stop acting like such victims
Uh huh...as the Obama camp used the race card whenever it suited them, slandering Bill Clinton for saying the truth about SC and Gerri for stating the obvious to anyone who wasn't brain dead...
We all knew Iraq was a cash cow for these people...truly the motivation for the invasion, not Saddam, not WMD, not routing Al Queda...this comes a no surprise to anyone who knew this was the motivating force for occupying Iraq...only problem is that our troops, foreign troops, and Iraqis are suffering as a result of Tenet et al.'s greed...
Although not sympathetic to McCllelan's seven years of silence about what Bush did wrong during his years there, I find it disingenuous at best for media types such as Martha Radditz on Washington Week Friday trying to make themselves look good when people like her are as guilty as McCllelan for buying into the lies and misinformation they were fed...the media have been circling the wagons, trying to make McClellan look like the coward when they were as cowardly as he was. THEY had a duty, even more than McCllelan did, to tell the truth...Scottie was spinning for the White House, he could either resign as soon as he knew he was being fed BS or continue doing the job he was asked to do...the press had no obligation to lie, obfuscate, cover up and buy into the bologna and bull they were being fed...the shame of their behavior is that they made no effort to scrutinize the propaganda they were fed, they just regurgitated it, sometimes enthusiastically, without thorough investigation...no free pass for Radditz, Gibson, Williams, Kouric, or Matthews.
Let's see now, which is more lucrative for GE? Fighter jet engines or ads for Levitra on Donahue?
Jim, you are right...GE cares more about $$$ than having Donahue telling the truth...they could care less about the politics...they just want to make money...and if it means ignoring facts, so be it.
Once again, Obama proves himself to be the political opportunist, resigning a church after nearly twenty years that has been a continuous source of hate speech...knowing that there would most definitely another bombshell revelation from another crazy, irrational pastor or guest minister meant he had to do what he needed to do FOR HIMSELF...
Once again, strikes to the core of why he should never, ever be President...has any Presidential candidate ever attended a church with as many loonies minding the store???
EX-COMMUNICATE HIM NOW
As a Catholic that has never recovered from the support my church gave Bush in 2000 and 2004, I just have to say this is the last straw. Even my husband who has continued to go to mass weekly stated after this that religion is no different than politics. This priest should be ex-communicated for his actions. And the Trinity church should lose its tax exempt status.
-- mrsfxc
I hope the Pope speaks out forcefully that this will not be tolerated by any priest anywhere in the world...excommunication is a just and viable punishment for this latest Trinity Church hate monger....OUT!
I know that Obama's supporters here will immediately jump all over you...I won't...this point jumped out at me...:
...given that other Democrats besides Obama took their names off the Michigan ballot and presumably accounted for some of that "uncommitted" support.
I think the media wanted to portray Clinton's supporters as irrational at the DNC rules meeting, when in actuality their fury was completely justified in light of this absurd decision about Michigan delegates. In a party that had people bitching about Bush stealing the election in 2000 and 2004, how can only counting part of the votes from FL and MI be acceptable?
Obama minions say it's all about number of delegates, but it is entirely possible that Hillary could win the popular vote and Obama win the delegate count...if she does, there goes an argument that Obama's camp tried to hawk forever...it can hardly be said that Obama would have a mandate in the party if he does end up with fewer popular votes than she does...the last person to win delegate count and lose popular vote? McGovern...isn't it interesting then that the father of the flawed SD system is George McGovern.
I watched the arguments and drama on Saturday and was appalled at the utter fruitlessness and assininity of some of the party apparatchiks...underscores why Dems can stare victory in the face and end up getting their asses kicked in November.
This allocation of Michigan delegates is so absurd it isn't even worth debating...to give Obama all the uncommitted delegates is ridiculous...without knowing who among those delegates was voting for him, it is absurd to assume all of them would have gone for him.
When you have hateful misogynistic comments like this here directed at Hillary, you know that Obama is headed for the dustbin of history:
Stone cold hypocritical bitch to the bone...
Although the media want to make this an Obama coronation, many of us who have never been impressed in the least by him as Dems see it as a dark day, for it will be a rehash of so many times before when we chose a nominee who was clearly too far to the left of the mainstream and someone who is clearly unelectable. America never elects liberals...it's a fact that has been true for decades...the situation will not change for Obama...