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  • @David Sugarman

    [Read the article: Will Obama's debate stumble hurt him?]
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    Hello.

    IMO, nobody should bunk out on their first and only Senate term and the Senate provides important experience and also experience for getting things done across the aisle a President needs.

    I know a lot of the vulgar bots like to spew about how inexperienced others were here and there (when they're not spouting off anti-semitic slurs, enaging in beastality and calling folks "Bitchery") but the fact is this is no time to put inexperienced folks in office and experiement and the electorate knows it - particularly those pesky swing voters Democrats must get the votes of to win an election.

    This is one of the more vulnerable areas the GOP will have heydey on Obama with of course. He was running for president before he even unpacked his Senate briefcase and has done virtually nothing and spent no time in the role. They'll have a heydey with his absentee record along with much else (Muslim upbringing, name change to a Muslim name, Resko, domestic terrorist associations, elitism, unpatriotic wife, Excelon, anti-semitic associations, anti-Catholic associations, most Liberal Senator, etc etc.)

  • @maureen odonnell

    [Read the article: Will Obama's debate stumble hurt him?]
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    Are you married???

  • @DeeperTruth

    [Read the article: Will Obama's debate stumble hurt him?]
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    Are YOU married? Between you and Maureen a guy could spend a lot of time here.

  • Oh good Obuerah

    [Read the article: The "bitter" vote]
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    So now that the koolaide YOU'VE been drinking, that is somehow it was only the Clinton's who would be hated by the right and slayed by the GOP , is running out, will you hold the same principles to Obama as he gets slaughted and he is just beginning to and WILL be slaughtered (Muslim, Resko, unpatriotic wife, Wright, absentee record, weak resume, terrorist ties, most liberal senator, elitist, thinly veiled racism, etc etc)?

    Oh, well, shrug, that's just what the GOP does. Or will you whine like the hard left always does after it shoves a candidate that only appeals to the left wingers onto the party and then they get mopped up in an electoral landslide?

    Because the adults here have been trying to tell ya bots that Rove WANTED Obama specifically because he knew he could wreack havoc for above reasons on his favorability rates - where as he'd already done all the damage he could to Hillary Rodham Clinton and she still could have mopped the floor with McCain if there hadn't been a instilled intraparty war.

  • And he wouldn't have cared they were trivial if they weren't hard for him

    [Read the article: Debating the debate, complaining about complaining]
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    All the stuff the dirtbag wanted to keep closeted; his vulgar wife's long history of dispatriotism, his rabid minister, his weak resume, domestic terrorist ties, etc etc. were asked about.

    They certainly weren't trivial to most people, but obviously they were hard questions the obamateur would have rather avoided.

    As if the GOP would let any of that go by.

  • @DeeperTruth

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    Ha! You remind me of another georgeous and entirely modern young woman. Not so long ago attending a wedding we noticed she wasn't participating in the crowd gathering to catch the bouquet. She said she didn't want to get married. Someone else pointed out that just because she went up there didn't mean she'd be the one to catch the bouquet. Her response: "I'm not taking any chances". Touche!

  • @David Sugarman

    [Read the article: Will Obama's debate stumble hurt him?]
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    One of the greater things that still remains about America is that for the most part you can have an opinion and speak it.

    I don't begrudge anyone their opinion. Nonetheless it is historical record that the leftwing of the Democratic party, dominated by the young men, has been repeating this act for 30 years: nominating someone too far to the left for the electorate and insisting they be the nominee and refusing to recognize the electoral insufficiecies of the candidate.

    The Republicans learned a long time ago to nominate someone that at least appeared to be centrist and to run a centrist campaign. Bush as a compassionate conservative; and now John McCain as the party breaking maverick so independent that even Joe Lieberman is routing for him. Then the person gets elected and they get to appoint their court justices, cabinents and set the national direction , the budgets, etc etc.

    A MUCH more productive strategy.

    They learn from their mistakes and don';t repeat them. The left doesn't.

    As for the Clinton's, I remember the Clinton years, and much preferred them to the Reagan/Bush years. Not to mention the Bush 2 years. I don't want to see the McCain years so of course I back Clinton, the only candidate to win two terms as a Dem since FDR against everything the GOP could throw at them.

    Seems natural to back someone with some history of winning and of getting something done for regular people.

  • bias

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    well, it's a funny thing that bias.

    If you are a bot you are happy to overlook associations with rabid race-baiting ministers and Islamic business schisters, and non-history of ever bringing "CHANGE" to anyone, but hen tyou focus obsessively for 18 posts on somebody's memory slip up with a passion.

  • re: Hillary's campaign.

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    I don't know there. Hillary had to fight both the Republicans and their MSM accomplices AND the impassioned nuts of the left who apparently having cut off their noses with Joe Lieberman, now needed to direct their typical center-left frothings at someone else who could make them cut off their ears.

    Meanwhile the Republicans were deliberately throwing lollipops to Obama until recently, ensuring he'd be the nominee they could landslide out of the way in a couple of weeks and then focus on Congress and the governor races.

  • Obama and religion

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    By his own admission he became a Christian in the 80's under the influence of Reverend Wright's shining example. (shudder).

    That makes a nice story in his book. The behind the scenes story is that his wife realized he needed to be a member of a Christian church if he was ever going to move beyond a local politician in the black ghetto.

    I'm doubting that either one of them is going to admit that though.