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Thursday, April 17, 2008 05:11 PM

@hazmaq

Asking someone questions is not an attack. As I stated earlier, last night was a tea party compared to a 'real' debate between the Dems and the Republicans. If he couldn't stand tall last night, he has already fallen.

Also, "black" hole is a racist term. FYI.

Thursday, April 17, 2008 05:39 PM

you are so easy

Hateful. Repulsive. Ignorant. Applies to you or Obama. Oh, and pitiful. Oh, and a loser. Remember me when McCain wins, 'cause I can't hardly stand it....Obama could NEVER win. Never. Thank god.

Thursday, April 17, 2008 06:42 PM

lesser of two evils

As I have stated before, and will most certainly state again, I will proudly vote for McCain if forced to because he is by far the lesser of two evils if my choice is Obama or McCain.

That being said, the fact that I may be forced to vote for McCain is an affront to my very being, but since NO ONE could be more horrific than Obama I will have no choice.

I am hoping that Hussein Obama will step down, as he should, and Hillary will then get my vote and become Madame President. And who knows boys, the race is really never over until the last vote is counted. Keep Hope Alive, Hillary for President!

Thursday, April 17, 2008 06:47 PM

@peeps

Silly person. Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam murdered Malcolm X for wanting to work with good white people and stop hating, so if you think you would be spared you have failed the test of time (i.e. if you do not learn from history you are condemned by it).

Again, a person is NOT a racist because s/he does not like a black/white/hispanic/pink person, but rather all black/white/hispanic/pink people. Thus, I am NOT a racist, but Rev. Wright and Obama are. I can condemn them both to hell, but it does NOT make me a racist because it has NOTHING to do with their race, but their hate.

Thursday, April 17, 2008 09:29 PM

Could we dumb it down anymore people, and this is NOT a rhetoric question

Barack Obama is a fiction whose genesis is everything bad -- racism, misogny, hatred, ignorance, big business, back room deals, old OLD money -- and you slobber him up. Yum Yum yells the masses, give us more. WAKE UP PEOPLE. Wake up please.

You hate the person that cares and whose programs benefit the majority of Americans, and embrace this fictional persona who just repeats the mantra of hope, change and unity as if anything beyond this is too much for us. And, for many of us, it is.

Why do you think that the powerful stay powerful, and the weak weak? Because we are easily led, easily distracted, and easily overcome. Give us what we want, not what we need, and we love you even as our backs break and our spirits deflate.

Now, at a time when the country--and the world--is at a breaking point, those with the most power create this Frankenstein of a candidate and back him with $138.00 million dollars and train him to repeat a mantra and point to a pretty picture. AND YOU BUY IT! Just like you buy breast implants, Paris Hilton, McDonalds, and a million other items that kill you slowly (or quickly in some cases).

If it doesn't matter who he prays to, who his mentor is, who his friends are, what his constituents say, what he says, what his wife says, that he has no real experience or work history, and that he came to the table with more money than any potential candidate in the history of the USA than what does matter? What should we point to or ask regarding a potential candidate?

Did you ever stop to think that maybe the powers that be want Mr. Obama to win, because he is their 'man.' They have already bought and paid for him, and he is going to do their bidding and he will say/do anything to get elected. That perhaps those with the power and money are laughing at us--you more than me as I will put up a fight to the end--and our support of this 'messiah.' People don't give over a hundred million dollars (i.e. the Kennedy's and the Rockefeller's) to a politician and expect nothing in return, and NOTHING they could want would be good for the majority of this country. Republicans are not the only group of politicans who are self-serving, and there are MANY Democrats that are just as bad.

We need someone that really cares about everyone to be in charge--old, young, black, white, hispanic, male, female, American and non-American--and Barack Obama, by his own words, and his actions (and non-actions) is not this person. Look behind the curtain, look beyond the pages of his self-serving book, look before it is too late. It saddens me to think of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, and I see this slow train wreck being one more crash in the thin ice holding this country and the world together.

Sometimes when I read the hate filled letters on this site I have to laugh and sometimes I have to cry, but sometimes--and tonight is one of those times--I have to beg that someone out there listens. Mr. Obama is a fiction, and we have to choose someone real and while you may not all love her at least she is real--good and bad--and she is our only chance to take back the USA next year. The Republicans will destroy us, and rightly so, if we put up Mr. Obama as our candidate. I don't need a poll to tell me this, because common sense is a gift from God that we all have. The fight hasn't even begun, and he is bleeding heavily. And while I may lose no sleep over his demise, I do not want him to take us all down with him. PLEASE think about some of this, google, read, and actually think about how this man got to where he is right now. The power is ours to give away, please don't waste it.

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