This is yet another mile stone in how incredibly creepy the whole purity ball thing is, and an insight into the kind of man that would subject his daughter to such a display of emotional and sexual enslavement.

If I need a reason not to cheat on my wife, I just look at my wife, not at my daughter's pressured self-repression. Hopefully my daughter won't have sex before she graduates from High School, but I am certainly not going to guilt her or press her into self-repression.

And as an adult I can not in good conscience discourage an adult from, safely, sexually experimenting. I did, I was safe about it, and I had a lot of fun before I met my wife (and no regrets).

Yeah, for the past few years I have had to really resist the urge to carry around a light bulb.

No

But women sure do think he is damn sexy, or at least I hope they do.

We are talking about the character, Uncle Fester, right?

And I am sure women have no problem with you.

The biggest risk to the Democrats changes to win the General Election, is a nomination battle at the Denver convention, or a battle that extends past June 10th. Everyone in the Democratic Party, including the candidates themselves, have given assurance that that won't happen. Though, it may require an announcement of a "Unity Ticket", after the 5 remaining primaries are over, to avoid an extended nomination battle.

Noting that a non-aggression pact appears to be in place between Obama and Clinton at the moment, a "Unity Ticket" looks all but certain (much Reagan-Bush in 1980), and the only remaining question is who fills the top spot? And both candidates may prefer the VP spot, because they both will be young enough (and younger than McCain is now) to run again in 2016.

"She's still running against him"

You haven't been reading the news much.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/17/clinton-mccain-couldn%e2%80%99t-be-more-out-of-touch/

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/17/clinton-mccains-2013-speech-like-mission-accomplished/

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/16/clinton-campaign-airing-a-series-of-postive-ads/

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/16/clinton-defends-obama-after-apparent-bush-swipe/

And most importantly this:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/14/clinton/index.html?iref=newssearch

True, Hillary Clinton is still running for the Presidency, and she could still win, but her tune and tone have changed dramatically since Tuesday, and one would say that there is a non-aggression pact in place between Obama and Clinton at the moment.

She is not really running against Obama anymore, which would seem to suggest that she is either angling for the running mate role, or getting ready to offer it to Obama (which she already did in early March after her Texas/Ohio wins).

I can't imagine Hillary doing well unless Obama is her running mate, and she was the biggest cheerleader for the "Unity Ticket".

The question is; would Obama pick her if he gets the nomination?

Probably, and he has not dropped anyone else. He said that she was on his short list (or rather that she would be on everyone's short list) at the California Debate where the "dream ticket" was first introduced to a rave ovation.

"I meant frivolous, social friends. I didn't know your work friends were feminists."

More than you would imagine, and they are fans of you (but they don't know who you are).

Also, I liked it better when you called me Sugar.

You have no idea how fast you made my heart beat right then.

So you don't think Obama was sexist for calling a younger, white, female, pushy, obnoxious, reporter "sweetie"?

If so, then what was the point of this thread?

I guess you're right, I didn't get it.

"Sorry to hear that. Don't you having any friends that you could get in touch with who might understand?"

Yes.

I work with a lot of them, and they are just as depressed by what has happened in the past 3 months as I have been.

the crux of Traister's very long argument was defeated by 2 facts. One, people do use diminutive, endearment dismissive with men all the time. In my professional work, which is the strictest environment imaginable, I haven't been called by my real name in over 12 years. Diminutive, endearments dismissives like bud, pal, buddy, bro, sparky, son, and in my case a large range cute nick names, are hurled at men all the time, perhaps even more so than they are hurled at women, they just don't have the same effect on men that they have on women (a diminutive, endearment, dismissive never stops me from getting the answers to my questions).

And secondly, Obama didn't know Ms. Agar's name, so it was actually kind that he used an endearment with her (or at least I think he thought it was).

We (Obama supporter) know Obama has a flaws, but I am not going to let someone get away with calling him sexist, or even implying that he is sexist, because he called a younger, white, female, pushy, obnoxious, TV news reporter "sweetie."

I'm devastated. How come you didn't pick someone that looks more like me, like Michael J Fox, Seth Green, or Edward James Olmos?

Oh, the topic.

I am curious who Elizabeth voted for in the NC primary. However, I doubt the Elizabeth endorsement will make much of a difference with the working class man. The only vote that will make a difference to the working class man is the working class man.

This white, working class, man voted for Obama.

If I was invited to the party I would bring AUNG SAN SUU KYI, she apparently likes White Boys (though I could probably bring my wife and tell everybody that she was AUNG SAN SUU KYI).

How can I have a vagina if I am not a woman?

So you are calling me a hermaphrodite?

Even better.

How much of a bigger hole do you want to dig for yourself?