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Um....does that sound even remotely believable to anyone?
Not quite clear on how the Billion Dollar Princess is going to "fight" for me when she's never had to fight for anything.
"I remember one time growing up my family couldn't afford to employ all 20 housekeepers," she says fighting back the tears. "It was tough. We had to let 5 of them go and I had to make my own lunch for school!. I don't want any family in the heartland to endure that kind of hardship! I will fight for the middle class!"
Riiiight.
Obama's strength is that he enfolds traditional convervative values and philosophy into his own -- utterly erasing the us/them mindset. Something Hillary can't even understand let alone accomplish.
Obama takes all the highlights of current conservative "values" regarding capitalism and expertly incorporates them into his own blended philosophy.
He praises free markets and acknowledges their awesome power to create products and jobs -- a nod to conservatives -- but then carefully helps those "I Hate All Government!" conservatives find their way back to the mainstream by explaining how total freedom, total secrecy and total capitalistic chaos is actually counter productive.
He does this so expertly that the conservatives are left supporting Obama and thinking he makes excellent sense.
And I love how he explained that the bubble/burst cycles aren't inevitable but rather a byproduct of a faulty economy. Obama is all about steady, responsible growth as opposed to Wild West capitalism with a boom/bust all or nothing mentality.
Hillary just screams that those bastards need to die (paraphrasing) and all that accomplishes is getting their hackles up and putting them into a fighting stance.
"She hates us, eh" they sneer. "Well we'll make sure that little girl NEVER gets any legislation passed! Ever! Get ready for 4 years of gridlock!"
This is was Obama is so superior to Hillary.
He has resonable, intelligent common sense solutions and also the oratorical and interpersonal skills necessary to get both sides to agree to those solutions.
A Congress not utterly paralyzed in hopeless gridlock between to warring factions that hate each other?
Never thought I'd live to see the day -- but if Obama gets the nomination I think we'll all see it happen.
They still claim it was all "liberal propoganda"
What Republicans don't get is that you cannot run a NATIONAL ECONOMY on low wage Wal-mart jobs and credit cards.
They keep whining, "But unemployment is less than 5 percent!"
Super!
So we have an entire nation mowing lawns, sacking groceries and working at Wal-mart while living off their credit cards! And how long can we actually last doing that? Not very long and we're watching the crash happen in real time.
The only reason the economy has remained strong for the last decade is because the MASSIVE flood of credit to poor Americans.
Ordinarily when the populace goes broke consumer spending goes down.
But what happened was that while wages fell everyone also got about $25,000 in credit cards. Everyone! 14 years old. Unemployed. Illegal alien. Didn't matter. Everyone got credit instead of actual wages. Credit (silently) supplemented low wages!
Well, we're totally out of credit. It's gone. We've ALL maxed out our cards.
Now we have massive debt and low wage jobs.
We can't buy ANYTHING.
And here are the Republicans not understanding what the concern is. NO MONEY equals NO PURCHASES equal NO DEMAND equals NO PRODUCTION equals MORE LAYOFFS.
You can't run our national economy on minimum wage jobs supplemented with credit cards!
"He was speaking to a bunch of millionaires in San Francisco behind closed doors!!! He was speaking in a code he knew they would understand, assuming no one else would hear.
-- Sol Invictus
Riiiiiigth.
I totally agree! Check the Beatles albums for the clues, man! Paul McCartney was killed in a car crash and they replaced him with a lookalike. And...and...and then they put clues in the lyrics so as to break the news gently to the fans!
Or maybe when Obama said blue collar people are pissed off about losing their jobs, he was right.
And, yeah, historically when people are broke and a slick Republican walks in and says, "The real trouble isn't NAFTA, it's really them damn Mexicans! And those damn queers in California! Get rid o' them and all yer problems will be solved" -- those blue collar workers have, historically, tended to buy it hook, line and sinker to their later regret.
A lot of Obama-lovers tend to forget the Rev. Wright once took a shotgun and killed 45 white women and children! He...he...also prays to a picture of Hitler everyday because he hates America that much!
And after he killed'em dead he then wiped his butt with the America flag, praised Satan, and then he killed a white politican with a knife and then...and then...and then he raped a bunch of white women!
That's how crazy Rev. Wright is! And Obama worships him!
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The above was my impersonation of a fanatical Obama-hater.
Quick question: Can't you guys see how ridiculous you sound?
Obama had to scrap the ice of his car in winter.
Hillary used her $100 MILLION to just buy a new car every time in snowed.
Um, yeah. I think Obama is a little more down to earth than the Multi-Million Dollar Princess.