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You're overlooking the fact that he's bi-racial (half-white, half-black) though according to the one-drop rule, he'll always be viewed as black by those blinded by color.Tiger Woods has the same problem (though he's half-black, half-Thai) that he's viewed as the first black professional master golfer. Nevertheless, he's shown that he's no fluke and has shown his true excellence in his game. I'm sure that Barack Obama will be in the same situation until he's shown that he can transcend the color-blind and get everyone to focus on issues important to all of us. As the father of a bi-racial girl (she's half-white, half- Japanese) I hope that he will show that race is merely another quality in a many layered person.
He hasn't lost any state if you look at how many delegates he's won in each election. Clinton is the one who has lost every election since Iowa according to delegate wins. Let's remember who votes for the candidate at the convention...
With the cape and the deep dark wood, I guess Kansas is going to meet up with the Big Bad Wolf next...
Once again he talks about the "stakes", a word that must be in his every speech if not his every breath. I think he's not so interested in running the country than in running a poker game!
Over a million Iraqi dead, 4000 dead American soldiers, $3 trillion wasted dollars -- all based on thousands of pages of lies. Cheney can't admit that he's one of history's worst monsters. Instead, he tries to sugarcoat toxic waste. How can any reporter even listen to him anymore without bursting into raucous sneering or hiding their face in shame? It all comes down to one factor only: to the corrupt businessmen getting billions of dollars of no-bid contracts, it's a rousing success. To the rest of us, it's an unqualified failure threatening the stability of the entire globe for years.
Bush gives his slimeballs a kick upstairs. Clinton just keeps them around. Nice to know there's such a big difference there.
Note that you can spell "torture" with the seven "principals" names:
Tenet
POwell
Rice
AshcrofT
BUsh
Rumsfeld
ChEney
I throw this out there to anyone anywhere willing to distribute this message whichever way you want. I'm printing it out and showing it around everywhere I go because this simple fact is certainly never going to come out in the news. This is a good way, as well, to remember the bastards. Just remember the thing that brings them all together: TORTURE!
Of course, line up the names so they spell out the word. I had it in my earlier comment but it didn't stick...
You wave the flag, but waive taxes.
Yeah, those good PowerPoint presentations have destroyed many a good man...
So, how would this rape anklet protect exactly? After all, a rapist isn't going to go after a woman's foot, is he?
I find this pretty pathetic. Is this the only way that we can fight against Bush is by naming sewage plants after him? And here the Senate is ready to give me the power and authority to spy on all of us anytime they want. No wonder Bush wins so many battles. He goes after the real power while his opponents are busy thinking of lame jokes about him.
Add to the fact that his peons screen any crowd for any disturbance (protestors, signs, t-shirts, etc.) that might ruffle his tender little ego.
Just think what gas mileage a Smart Car with hybrid technology would get?
Never underestimated the Republicans' ability to cheat people out of their votes. That's helped their last candidate considerably the last two times...
Look at how well Herbert Hoover did after all. He had one of the most impressive resumes at that time. It didn't help him at all during his presidency, though, as he was thrown out of office fours years later.
It's hard to believe that McCain is spending millions of dollars everyday on such a pathetic campaign. Honestly, comparing Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears? His wife looks and acts more like them than Obama does. Meanwhile, we have $4 a gallon gas, out-of-control healthcare costs, an insane executive branch, and billions wasted on war upon war. Welcome to the real world already, McCain!
McCain has confused himself again. The person who thinks he's anointed by God nowadays is George W. Bush, not Barack Obama. Of course, pathetic attacks are McCain's forte. He just can't see that the worst economic disaster since the Depression is happening, that we are embroiled in two wars we have already lost but will still spend trillions of dollars on nevertheless, and that the corruption in Washington infects everything in this country. Instead, he dwells on fantasy comparing his opponent to Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and now to Jesus Christ. I do believe that for the first time in history we have the first senile candidate for president (Reagan was the first senile president, of course).
Consider that 24 percent of Americans still think Bush is doing a great or good job. There's always going to be that group out there that will never be convinced no matter what how much evidence is in front of their eyes. It has nothing to do with reason. All I can say is we should try to appeal to these people but don't give in to them. A lot of them just have to come to terms on their own. The same thing is true with having a black president. In the meantime, let's get this country back and find out exactly what's been happening these last eight years. Then, I doubt anyone will care about what color Obama is.