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  • Obama's people will jump on this,

    [Read the article: Clinton: Wright "would not have been my pastor"]
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    while they ignore his claim about never hearing his pastor say anything bad. They're wonderful at cherry picking the record to make their guy look better than he is. They ignore the Clinton's spectacular governing record. They don't notice that Obama adopted Clinton policies on healtcare reform, fiscal restraint, and bipartisanship, or that he recites far left cliches and vague rhetorical fantasies. I especially like his darling baby lambkins foreign policy. But don't let's talk about knowledge and achievement. That deep voice and sing song rhetoric so helps to relieve us from having to think about the issues.

  • Of course he will succeed.

    [Read the article: Barack Obama, working-class hero?]
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    With massive help from the national media, also known as the Gobama Choir, he can't miss. It was amazing how quickly the college crowd fell for the MSM's shallow smears against Hillary. The party itself has been remade before our eyes into a low culture mob; integrity, respect for others, and adult conversation have been replaced by empty rhetoric and name calling. Thanks Senator. Now you can get back to work on your bowling.

  • It's not about nostagia. It's that

    [Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
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    the Clintons for many years have formulated policy by evaluating facts and political conditions, not by pandering to less educated sectors or taking orders from ideologues. They're the greatest policy experts of our time. Most of their work is taken for granted even today, and there's no comparison between Obama and Hillary. Obama's only credible policies were adopted from the Clintons: healthcare reform, fiscal responsibility, and bipartisanship. Ther rest are either far left cliches, like dictator parties, also known as the darling baby lambkins theory of foriegn policy; or absurd fanatsies like uniting the country, while he brings republican smear tactics into the party and his supporters throw mud like the Mississippi Delta on meth.

  • Colbert and Stewart and the rest are tame. They take orders

    [Read the article: Can Stephen Colbert save America?]
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    from defense contractors just as Carson and SNL did. The first order of business is to flood the airwaves with low culture ignorance. So 99% of their humor is shallow and inoffensive. The other 10% is stupid and boring.

    Order #2, right now, is to get Obama elected. They can't be as blatant about it as Olberman because Colbert and freinds enjoy playing indedendent liberals. Without that, their credibility would be out the window. But the sneers at Hillary on 'Comedy' Central are constant, if a tad muted, and the praise for Obama is just as regular as at MSNBC. But so far no one has noticed, and the thoughtful liberal pose is holding.

    As for the shallow commentary, the only thing that's consistently funny is The Word, in which the subtitles show how silly right wing ideology is. The rest of the time, we might as well be listening to Bill O himself.

  • It's not about sexism.

    [Read the article: Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!]
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    It about Obama playing the youth and race cards over and over, knowing the Clintons love black folk and are sensitive about all the crap they've had to endure. The youth card, talk about 'old politics' and 'a new generation of leaders', is blatant bigotry and would never fly without smoke screens from the msm. Neither will fly in the ge because many Americans see them as victim cards. Incidently, my people have their own problems. Try having your love life stolen from you before you're an adolescent and see how you like it.

    But now it's serious. Despite our ace in the hole, that most people know the war was a mistake, it's not clear that Obama can even win the ge. First, his ideas are either serious policies taken from the Clintons or dated far left cliches. Dictator parties and camapign reform indeed. Why doesn't he just add Nader's proportional representation and have done with it? Then his pastor makes a charming comment about America. Now he openly insults the red States.

    This will be the second time the far left has done it to us, put up an unqualified ideologue to parrot their fanatsies on a national stage. And we loose a critical election. At the very least, his mandate will be restricted to ending the war. And the precious moment of opportunity for the democrats will be lost.

  • Reading Obama supporters complain about

    [Read the article: Debating the debate, complaining about complaining]
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    an unfair media is like hearing Newt Gingrich lecture about the sanctity of marraige.

    The media have savaged the Clintons from day one of this campaign, as they did in the nineties, and as they called Al Gore a liar non stop for using a figure of speech in describing his work on internet law.

    The media will always attack our strongest leaders. If they can't have another puppet, they'll settle for someone weak and inexperienced, which is why they support Obama.

    The smears this time have been dumber than ever, and it was startling to see how quickly they convinced the Obama Nation. But this crowd never learned the art of adult conversation. They don't know the difference between policy debate and Obama's shallow rhetoric. And they've replaced rational discourse with childish insults and name calling.

    It's no surprise they don't recognize the most skilled, accomplished, and knowledgeable democrats of our time.

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