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Servents of the people?
Bullshit.
These neo-Nazis nutjobs rule like gods from on high and truly believe it is our job -- nay! -- sacred obligation to obey them without question.
Thank goodness George Washington didn't have that god-king mentality or else we'd be in bad shape.
Goodbye Dick and King George. Pack up your worn out VHS copies of "Red Dawn" and your well-thumbed copies of "The Turner Diaries" and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
In order to win a general election you basically have to get a significant number of independents and Republicans to vote for you. Hillary has pissed too many people off over the last decade.
Obama is a question mark to some people -- and that's a good thing!
Hillary is not a question mark. People know exactly who she is and they hate her. Sorry, but she is one of the hated Clinton clan. The pro-Hillary people seem to be glossing over this inconvenient truth. There are a surprisingly large number of voters out there (for better or worse) who still turn red in the face and tremble with rage at the name "Clinton."
Obama is a brilliant orator and a shrewd politican who unlike Hillary has mastered the art of not pissing everyone off.
In his most recent speech he even praised (and identified by name) the conversative value of self-reliance and even went so far as to suggest that welfare programs may have inadvertently kept poor people locked in a cycle of poverty and dependence on the government.
This is core, bedrock conversative ideology!
Exactly how much Senator Obama truly believes that remains in question. Did he just say it to win over Conservative voters and small government independents?
Either way it was a brilliant play.
A play the ham-fisted utterly tone deaf Clinton campaign is incapable of.
Which is why Hillary is a sure loser in a general election.
Hillary supporters are living in fanatsy land if they think McCain is going to be "tough" to beat in a general election.
McCain has come out on the exact opposite side of the voting public on almost every major issue.
The American public overwhelmingly is against the Iraq Reconstruction Project (let's not call it a "war" anymore) and considers the whole thing a massive waste of lives and money. McCain is making it a point of pride that he will continue on with Iraq for another 100 years.
The biggest concern Americans have in terms of domestic policy would have to be healthcare. McCain simply shurgged his shoulders -- declared everything is perfectly fine -- and makes it a point of pride to continue on by keeping the system exactly as it is for as long as he's President
Bush is in the news again for breaking another record -- by getting an even lower approval rating than his previous record breaking one. McCain recently had lunch with Bush, made out with him for a few minutes and then got an "I Love Bush!"
tattoo!
As the subprime meltdown goes nuclear McCain told reporters, "I dont know nothing but all that fancy economy stuff. Maybe I'll by a book on it? I don't know."
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Now the Hillary supporters are saying (with a straight face no less!) that McCain is going to be an incredible fighter and that 50 percent of the country is already solidly behind him and are die-hard foaming at the mouth super hardcore McCain supporters --- and for that reason we need Hillary in the general election. Because only she has the toughness to win against such an incredibly powerful and super popular candidate like....McCain?
Huh?
Even if the mythical McCain scenario were true (the magical one wherein he actually has ANY voter supporter) then we'd need to peel away some Republicans in order to win.
And Hillary Clinton of the hated, hated, hated Clinton Clan is going to win over former Bush supporters?
I think the Hillary supporters have finally gone completely insane. Their disconnect from reality is disturbing.
It's disturbing how some people make the claim that an animal like a dog or a cat can't be "happy" or can't "feel pain" and that it's ridiculous for people to feel sorry for them and their horrible treatment and living conditions.
I think we can all see the connection between this kind of indifference to suffering and other indifference to suffering.
People who are incapable of believing that a dog or a cat can be happy or sad are the exact same people looking at GitMo and exclaiming, "What's the problem? It's not like any of the detainees have human emotions like white Americans?"
We can't deny that there are a significant portion of American right now who truly think that way!
They kick the dog and feel nothing.
They watch a person of a different race/religion getting tortured at GitMo or Abu G. and, again, they feel nothing.
China tortures animals -- or at least treats them in a fairly inhumane manner -- and that behaviour is also present in how they treat people.
It's all connected.
What's really the difference between a 16 year old that sets a cat on fire (and has no emotion like pity or sorrow) and a CEO of a factory farm that can look at the horrid conditions his animals "live" in and also feels no emotion?
Both these nutjobs have zero emotions.
The kid feels nothing when it watches the cat slowly die.
The CEO feels nothing as it strolls past cows with open sores lying in their own filth -- or being skinned alive because they wasn't stunned properly -- or watching a cow or a pig try to run away on broken legs to escape from being killed.
Both or examples of psychotic behavior, aren't they?
Yes.