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If you deny being a racist and you do not support Obama you are a racist.
If you don't think you are a racist and do not vote for Obama you are a racist.
If you say the word black and you do not vote for Obama you are a racist.
If you say the African American and you do not vote for Obama you are a racist.
If you are white and do not vote for Obama you are a racist.
Basically you are a racist until proved otherwise by an Obama supporter.
Instead of someone we can believe in
it could be
someone we can climax over.
Ok it's a metaphor, but that the metphor is sexual and a "whirl wind romance" in nature is troubling. I don't ever remember wanting to climax over a politician - even my most favorite.
Politicians already have more bloated egos then the most vain of rock stairs. Where does this end?
We have someone selected to make a political speech in one the most political scenarios imaginable, but yo hold off MSM and anyone political you can't criticize Michelle, Obama claims immunity on her. Actually he thought that such a good idea he claimed immunity for himself as well.
God's sake.
This just gets stupider.
...to where credit is due.
Rove helped to get elected (twice no less) as president, a person who is widely considered to have a brain the size of a walnut.
However, besides being an embecile, Bush was great at raising funds. The person who can raise the most money will always end up the winner of their party since fund raising ability is shared through out the party. Like Bush was for the GOP, Obama is the DNC cash cow. Is that politics by pay-off? To me it is, but thats the way it works.
The biggest problem the GOP has is not corruption, stupid ideas, low favorability ratings, etc, it's that a big $ fund-raiser guy has not emerged. They'll have to try to match spending through other means.
Many want Obama to go negative, (must have been out of town everytime Obama called someone or another a racist). So I guess they mean go more negative. Which is fine, going negative works more often than not and to supporters fits in neatly with Obamas message of the new politics of hope.
Suffice it to say no one is "winning", but it all comes down to the slogans, with "Straight talk express" battling "Yes we can" to the bitter end.
Well at least it's not "Straight we express" vs. "Yes we can talk" or even worse "Yes talk express" battling "Straight we can".
...is completely unreliable and 100% geared towards ratings, which is as we know drives the prices for advertiser access to us viewers.
Without the internet we 'd be screwed in terms of having access to information.
It is cute, the gnome and the idea of elitism being proportionate with how much money you make or have. But it is out of touch with reality. Both McCain and Obama are in better shape financially than 90% of Americans.
People are in America to get opportunities, to make money, to get a chance at becoming rich. That is not elitist, it is fundamental to being an American. Being elitist is thinking and talking to others like you are better than they are, more profound, smarter, deeper, and wiser. Good luck with that.
Maybe if Obama tries harder he can create a class war between the rich and middle class as he has done with the young vs. old. There is some worthwhile "change to believe in".
Just looked back at the gnome, he puked on his shoes.
"For the sake of your loved ones get over it and just stay home on Election day. Let the rational people make a choice for once." -- Goodadviceguy
Let the rational people make a choice for a change? And who would that be?
Maybe after the right wing nut jobs deport the Africans back to Africa and put all the gay people on a desert island in the pacific, idiots like you can send the non-rational people there too. So the country will be left with only your dumb-ass self-exalted selves.
Better idea. Stick a rocket in your ass and shoot your self to the moon.
Palin has a few things neither McCain, Biden, or Obama have.
One is executive experience - limited but better than ZERO.
Another is she has incredibly high job approval ratings within the state she presides. The lackluster senators are part of an organization that has job approval ratings just slightly above ZERO.
She currently has the power of her convictions, which as soon as the other bozos started running on the national stage they suddenly became chameleons changing their convictions to fit the occasion. We'll see if this happens with Palin.
Finally in one way she is similar to Hillary, in that she has more balls than Obama.