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Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:00 AM

Obama's historic run heads south

Did his victory in Iowa and strong showing in New Hampshire really "put to rest the notion that a black candidate can't win in America"?

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  • Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:25 AM

    The True Color of the Clintons: Neither Black, White, Brown, Yellow or Human

    Purposefully orchestrating issues of race and gender to get back into the White House, appealing to the Hispanic votes on an ethnic basis in NV while taking advantage of their vulnerabilities, the Clintons are truly playing out what Dick Morris, intimately familiar with the Clintons' scorched earth politics predicted: that they would inject race, with each story individually spun, so that collectively the divisive race issue would create a media story while the Clintons' complicity in the incitement will avoid detection or blame. I'm so sickened by the Clintons at this point -- I’m having the same reaction to them as I've been having to Bush for a while – immediately switching channels once their faces surface or the newscasters parrot the latest from their mouths. I now understand why Republicans hate them so bitterly, why the country became so polarized, and why the US ultimately put Bush with a stupid but honest image into office after Clinton’s administration. None of this had made sense to me before. As a party loyalist, I had just, well, tuned out and dismissed what my Republican friends said about the Clintons as just being partisan, but seeing their behavior now with open eyes and ears as just a candidate to be evaluated within my own party -- I must say I'm repulsed. I had no idea they were such slime. I remember the prayer group that Hillary had belonged to during Bill's cheating years, and the sympathy of course I felt, but I now wonder, was that an act, too? How can anyone with a shred of conscience behave the way that she and her husband are behaving? God save America.

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