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Obama, born in the sixties, is a boomer? that demographic canard is bullshit. The baby boom, post WWII, is from '46 to, say, 58 or 59. The "boom" was the drastic increase in birthrate because men were home from the war to impregnate other folk. Usually women, I think, and, fairly often, their wives. There was a generational identity. Having been born in 1947, I was smack in the middle of it. Obama was born the year I graduated from high school. We're a generation apart. To conflate those born in the sixties and later with the occasionally charming, and often self-indulgent, generation born directly after world war two is nonsense. And why the hell does it matter? Geo. W. McLame isn't a boomer either. he's a warmonger, and is cut from the same cloth as the generation before me. His mind, or what remains of if, is wired old school.Obama is only seven years older than our oldest daughter. They're in the same generation. Get a grip.
because baba wawa is an ass, and, as such, an authority on such.
So, Obama doesn't have guts, eh? I would LOVE to see film of that encounter. I hope he told the little pissant that after the landslide in November, we'll have a cushion in the Senate and Joementum can take his "senator from tel aviv" act to the other side of the aisle where it belongs. Lieberthing has been asking for an ass kicking for a looooooong time, and it sounds as if our presumptive nominee just gave him a metaphorical one. Love it. The man keeps growing. This could be very good. jeff
me, me, me, me, me. it's all about me, me, me, me, me. PIty party on Saturday. Bring a douchebag, a handbag, or come in drag. It'll be a drag. what a hag.
leverage that money, honey. do the shuck for them bucks, so's you n' Big Bill can get by on that paltry 15 million a year. how transparent, and deeply sad.
Joanie Phony again weakens any valid feminist argument with non stop whining. Hillary was all but handed the nomination by the media, the party insiders, the big money people. she was a hide bound cinch. And then she lost. oops. Damned voters. Damned darkies. Listen to the three speeches from last night. The contrasts could not be clearer. McCain was embalmed. Hillary was all about herself. Obama was visionary, gracious, transcendent. Poor, poor widdle Joanie. No one to piss and moan about any more. Sweep up after the pity party. Weak. Just pathetic and weak.
broken clock, twice a day. that's all you need to know. Ain't you. I never quite got over the Jews for Buchanan episode, but that's another problem. Time for Hillary to show us what she's really made of. We have to pull together to beat George Dubya McCain, and it starts now.
the vehicle so many of us have waited for. How often have you heard "when are you gonna Finnish?". Geez. Satire is dead.
Ah, the simians have their talking points handed to them, and off they go to type and fling fecal matter. The new meme: Obama is a hawk, just like McLame. No difference. Flip a coin. We've been duped. Sound familiar? Raff Nadir, 2000. Still think Gore and Bush are the same? They're about the same as Obama and George Dubya McCain. there could not be a starker contrast. Let's hope Hillary has the spine to say so, and to pitch in and help make it happen. Screw you fascist trolls.
If, indeed, Hillary Clinton withdraws on Friday and endorses Obama in a sincere and convincing way, Warmonger McLame is in immediate and deep doo-doo- which is his natural habitat, and exactly where we want him. I will not begrudge her the three days (is there a resurrection theme here?), although it did bewilder me last evening when she did not concede the obvious. That's okay. She can make it right. Let's see what she does. It must be without even a hint of equivocation, must be magnanimous, and must be believable. She might study Obama's speech from last evening if she'd like to see an example of what that looks like. Now, let's go kick some fascist butt. Hard. With both feet. jeff
arrogant asshole, alliterative ape, somnambulant sheep. Obama is the nominee. It's McLame and four more years of what we've got, or Barack. Hypothesize with a jar of vaseline in your loo all you want, but billary is done, and has been done for a couple months. Now, either grow up or piss off. I'd rather, like LBJ, have you folk on the inside of the tent pissing out, but it's your bladder, absent-brained adder.
the only black and white issue here is that the white lady is blackmailing the Democratic party. I suspect her chief concern is getting someone else to bail her out of her mismanaged campaign's huge debt. There may be the leveraging of a VP slot, but Obama is many things and stupid is not among them. why on earth, after the performance of the last couple months, underlined emphatically last night by billary's egocentric speech, would he want to run with a millstone around his neck? That, and her almost Cheneyesque negatives, which would draw the fascist base out in numbers that would partially negate the wave of new and enthusiastic voters. Rodham does get some credit for those new voters, but the lions share goes to the nominee, Barack Obama. The nominee. As of last night. The nominee. did you read about his speech before AIPAC today? Just as good as his brilliance speech last night. He's The Natural, only not Robert Redford- more Denzel Washington.
looses? the only things loose are your logic, your screws, and your stool. jeff