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  • HOLY OBAMA Part Deus!!!!!

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    It just gets funnier and funnier. How the Obama rabble do go on and on and on. And all the same argument. You'd think they would come up with at least something new and not copy lines from each other - I swear I saw the lines used in numerous emails.

    And they're so sure that if they just keep posting how bad the article is that it will surely make it so! Won't it?

    Surely Clinton can't be that popular?!! That if you really added it all up she might actually have won? Oh my God, the little bubble world of Obama the Almighty just explodes and the Obamamaniacs are frantic from being too long in it's delusions. Gotta post to defend our delusions from reality here.

    The fact that Obama may be hoisted by his own petard of his own making in November because he can't win major states and because he has disenfranchised Florida and Michigan and huge swaths of Clinton followers just can't be true if Obama supporters say over and over and over again it isn't. Right? Saying it over and over again MUST mean something, shouldn't it? Kind of like abracadabra? It must be magic?

    And the Obama personality disorder takes over and reality has no basis in...ah...oh, yeah, reality!

    And reality, more often than not, bites back. Hard!

  • Oh, Tom Payne

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    What a wonderful Obama supporter example you are!! Please insult away!

    People will see you and be so inspired to change their support to Obama all because of your wonderful and inspiring words telling them what assholes they are.

    No, really! Insult away. Lets hear it from such an exemplar as yourself! Inspiring! Hopeful! Uniting! Such a change from the old ways of insulting and calling everyone who doesn't agree with you an asshole. What a difference you make!

  • Tom Payne

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    How superior your insults are! How much sense they make! Although it might be time for your meds. But hey, don't let insanity stop such manic brilliance showing us all what the top o' heap of Obama supporters actually sounds like!

    Come on, you've got more don't ya? Show us what a real he-man Obama supporter you really are! Let the Obama obsessive compulsive mania flow, man! Grunt a little there while you're at it! So fair minded and above it all. So nonjudgmental...uh...judgmental....judge....mental. Mental. Oh, sorry...

    No, PLEASE! Motivate us with your insults. Expel that shit!

  • Right On, Joan!!!!

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    Thank you! Thank you for having the courage to say all this! I'm sure that you will be berated and vilified for it right along with anything that has a whiff of objectivity toward, let alone positivity toward Clinton but know that there are at least some of us who say thank you! And thank you for not tolerating sexism no matter who it's used against. Thank you!!

  • @PoliticalRealist

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    The real "truth", the honor and righteousness of "truth" does not REQUIRE in order for it to be heard as truth, that PEOPLE, whether they are a woman or a man, be denigrated, attacked or belittled because of their gender or race or both. That denigration does not MAKE truth anymore TRUE!

    You, sir, just want an excuse to call Clinton a fucking whore. That is as plain as day. Don't blame the "truth" for that!

  • Sky Bluesky & Joan

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    So what's the difference between hate speech and free speech? Where is the line drawn? If it's "freedom" and first amendment rights we're talking about, what about calling someone a nigger? It's funny that Sky Bluesky is in an uproar about not being able to call someone, a woman, a "fucking whore"? Fine. But that doesn't mean, at least to me, that it's not sexist no more than calling a black person a nigger is not racist. What do we tolerate? When do we say, "NO"! No more!!

    Sexism is has the problem of being far more complex a problem, and therefore insidious, than racism because women don't even know where to draw the line on it. Don't misunderstand that doesn't mean one is worse than the other, at all! But to call somebody a fucking whore is still doing the same thing as calling someone a nigger. It says I hate you, not just because your you, but because you are a woman or a black.

    Again, when do we draw the line? When do we say this is NOT acceptable?!

  • Kudos to Electro Robot

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    I could have written your post on "the problem with Americans" - with the exception to some extent of the first line. I too, think this election is about the desire and need for atonement for slavery. But I think it's "bought" and "sold" to them at a deeper level like so many "indulgences" so Americans can feel good about themselves in this area.

    Obama supporters will scream to high heaven about this one but I often think their worship is more of a psychological "reaction formation" in that they have unrecognized and unconscious racism that they don't want to see and by electing and worshiping a black candidate, they can somehow ignore it inside themselves. America will therefore "atone". And like you said, "be off the hook". Which is bullshit - we don't get off the hook that easy. But the price of that is the equality and dignity of women as human beings, which is being "thrown under the bus" as a bloody sacrifice.

  • Silenced

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    I whole-heartedly AGREE!!!

  • weeping for brunnhilde

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    Don't you think you're splitting contextual deconstructionist hairs?

    Really, is it so hard to be honorable of everyone. Is truth really served by name calling? Not that I haven't done it, but I have never called anyone a fucking whore or a nigger. Asshole, maybe. But I think that's rather nondenominational.

    Isn't this just an excuse to call someone a reprehensible name? After all, a rose is still a rose by any other name.