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Joan, what is far more ugly than sexism
Is Barack Obama's volunteers enduring racist taunts.
I've never heard that. Maybe it was drowned out by Obama supporters screaming RACIST to any white person that failed to believe their candidate was their messiah.
Hope you enjoyed it because when your race card candidate loses to McCain that will be one reason.
Imagine if a man ran a campaign based on calling good people "racists" in order to drum up support just before primaries in states with large black populations.
Oh wait, he did.
Barack Dukakis is a lowlife fraud.
When was the last time a "presumptive nominee" lost a swing state by over 30 points?
I've come to the conclusion that Hillary does not know how to be gracious. Everyone was predicting she would give a unifying speech. Instead she begged for money, then continued her argument about big states. She stated the nomination will not be won whne a candidate reaches to 2025. Of course is Hillary got there first it would be a different story.
By all means, let's nominate the candidate who would be much more eager to lose in the same situation, instead of fighting.
Don't worry, you Obamapaths will get your chance to see your man graciously lose come November.
Kerry won PA by two points. Clinton would win both PA and OH because the pain for the working class is more severe now. They want to vote for a Democrat. Just not bad enough to vote for Barack Dukakis.
Defeat from the jaws of victory. Nice going, Obamapaths.
Remember when the Obamapaths screamed RACISM when Bill Clinton called Barry a "kid"?
Obama realized his mistake and appropriately apologized.
No he didn't, a handler told the buffoon what he did was wrong and instructed him to apologize.
Fair is fair.
"[Obama] posed for report pictures with the staff when he apparently felt his phone start to vibrate in his pocket on his right thigh - against which one woman was closely pressed.
"Now that's my phone buzzing there," he said, drawing a laugh. "I don't want you to think I'm getting fresh or anything."
True, and part of a pattern. The guy is a dirtbag.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/and-you-thought-the-phone-only-rang-at-3-am/
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/and-you-thought-the-phone-only-rang-at-3-am/
As Senator Barack Obama wrapped up a drop-by visit to the Sunrise Cafe here today, he was posing for a photograph with two waitresses and the restaurant’s owner. When he leaned in for the picture, touching his leg to one of the older women, he suddenly cracked a smile.
“That’s my phone buzzing there,” he said, gesturing to his right pocket. “I don’t want you to think I’m getting fresh or anything.”
Some of us are just creatures of habit that way
I know, like sometimes I reference my erections to total strangers. I mean if I was a presidential candidate I probably wouldn't do it to an important serious female like Katie Couric but when it's just a waitress, sometimes it just happens.
I'm just agreeing with the letter below that said we shouldn't read anything into Barry Obama's comment because sometimes these things just happen out of habit. Like when he disclosed whether or not he had an erection to a waitress.
“That’s my phone buzzing there,” he said, gesturing to his right pocket. “I don’t want you to think I’m getting fresh or anything.”
We shouldn't forget that whether or not Obama becomes the next president, he is a big name celebrity right now, and celebrities often have to give pushy, obnoxious, reporters the shove off when they ask questions that are loaded or require a speech to adequately answer.
Barack Dukakis is a Senator and a public service. He is being paid a Senate salary by the people of America as he campaigns. Reporters exist to ask public servants questions on behalf of the American people.
Presidents and presidential candidates are not "celebrities." That's the difference between an Obamapath and a normal person.
The gaffe machine and his spousal abused excuse making supporters are alienating small town people, females, working class whites each time he tries to lie his way out of a gaffe. I'm loving it.
The Anybody But Barry landslide defeat margin is going to be even bigger than anyone thought in November.
McCain didn't take Bush's comments personally. Hillary Clinton didn't take them personally.
Curiously, Barack Obama took Bush's comments personally.
Everybody who jumped to Obama's defense assumed Bush was talking about Obama.
Could it be that Barack Obama is a weak appeasing soon to be general election loser?
Barack Dukakis won't get anywhere near 270. The number of people I know who literally laugh at the proposition of voting for him is astounding, and these are long time Democrats in liberal states. Their reasons vary but the most frequent is his lack of experience. They view Obama supporters as childish and gullible.
This one is funny.
But the point shouldn't be lost that for whatever reason, this group of voters won't vote for Barack Dukakis. (Many of these voters have more than legitimate grounds even if it's racism for some.)
Obamapaths stomping their feet and crying "THEN WE DON'T WANT TO WIN THAT WAY" is so typical of loser candidates of past elections and their lose-loving supporters.
I like to think Obama can win without the ignorant racist cracker vote.
Maybe, but he can't win without the "I'm an educated moderate PA voter but I never fell for the BS of BO" vote.
Barack Dukakis is going to lose without us, and good riddance.
Barack Dukakis as JFK?
Just plain delusional.
Go Hillary. Do whatever you can to win the nomination and give Democrats the best chance of victory in November.
Barring that, do whatever you can to help Barack Dukakis lose so we can be done with this ridiculously unqualified empty suit even if it means suffering with McCain for four years.