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Obama surge? Or Clinton comeback? Superdelegates anyone? With the delegate count agonizingly close -- and proportional representation likely to keep it that way -- all bets are off.
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  • Good idea anon

    Hillary can run as a moderate republican...and Obama can pick Kucinich for his VP...and I can keep dreaming...:p

  • Good idea anon

    Hillary can run as a moderate republican...and Obama can pick Kucinich for his VP...and I can keep dreaming...:p

  • Can someone please explain this spin on CNN?

    How come in Texas, Hillary Clinton supporters are the "Down scale, lower income, working class, lunch bucket Democrats" and the supporters of Obama in Ohio are in "econimic distress?"

    LMAO! This is how people spin things!

    Just like Obama and the MSM say that 47% of the country is already against Hillary in the national polls!

    REALITY!: There is also 47% of the country against Obama and McCain as none of the candidates have more or less than the other in the national polls!

    That is no different than "Is the glass half empty or half full?"

    LMAO!!!

  • @DeeperTruth

    You realize the irony of a Republican, after all these years, asking people not to believe someone who says "trust me, I know better"? The nerve, Senator, the nerve. But unfortunately for him, Obama does draw bigger crowds even now. McCain is like a "meh" candidate, like Bush in '92...except in the minds of establishment democrats who want to see Obama fall. But if you ask the conservative in the street who he's voting for, he'll say "McCain, I guess".

    Sure, they'll try to swiftboat Obama. But

    a. He's harder to fight than Hillary, because his wife didn't **** any interns. I know that's crude, but it counts a lot when dealing with the masses, as you "realists with experience" should be aware of.

    b. Media Matters has now established itself as a serious and potent agent of truth, and has brought not just Savage but also O'Reilly, Limabaugh and a few others in hot water.

    c. JFK's dad had Mafia connections, and no one cared about that. Obama's baggage is small fry compared to both that and Hillary Clinton's.

    Actually, Obama's policies, if you look at them, are not so different from Hillary's, so I don't know why either side is complaining. I must correct an earlier claim however: Hillary Clinton is (or was) not the only candidate with a plan for universal health care. Both Kucinich and Gravel brought one to the table. Kucinich's would actually have saved money (that's right, cover more, pay less). Anyway, the difference is mostly one of style. And when Obama talks of change, he talks of changing the political climate and people's vision. Back to progressive ideas.

  • More spin on the MSM

    Hillary Clinton is using the "Giuliani strategy" by using Texas and Ohio as her firewall!

    Fact: Giuliani won how many states again? I would hardly call this a "Giuliani strategy!"

    All the MSM talking head trolls have their heads so far up their asses they cannot even see the BS they spin is so ridiculous!

  • 2008 Campaign "Meet the Candidate's Family" Forum: Session No. 8 (cont'd) Mt. Vernon Virginia

    Intermission ends -- Big Bertha waddles back to her seat with the other 12,647 attendees. A hush falls over the Mt. Vernon gathering.

    WUFFY: (pounding gavel) "Thank-you, -- yeesss. People we welcome back the vernerated family of tonight's guest candidate, John A. McKlean III. -- Sen McKlean, the panel expresses its regrets that your Cousin, Sen. John WAR-ner, and your son, John S. McKlean IV were unable to attend this evening's gathering due to preoccupations with the Baddies."

    SEN. JOHN S. McKLEAN III: "Right !! Tonight our Clan celebrates our ever-blooming Military-Industrial Nation -- while the Enemy lurks beyond to assemble the diabolical Woodstock Nation. --- Beware Voters ! War is at hand"

    [George Washington rises to his full 6'3" stature to propose a toast. Dwarfing the runty Senator beside him, he raises his bottle of Avian Water with one hand, as the other unsheathes his sword]

    PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON: "And To Johnny-Boy #4, may he cleave the Arses of Islam in every which-way as we sleep tonight."

    [the Clan pause in puzzlement before yelling --- ]

    CLAN MEMBERS: "HUUUUU-ZAAAAHHHHH !!! "

    WUFFY: -- "Yes, well why don't we begin with the Senator's gggggggg-grandfather, Col. John Washington. --- Colonel, kindly tell our audience the circumstances that led you to first plant the McKlean Family in the Virginia soil 352 years ago."

    COL. JOHN WASHINGTON: (sniffing his snuff) "T'was the doings of those Damn Puritans, curse their eternal souls !! -- they stormed into our parish & torched my dear father's chapel."

    COL. DIXIE-BILLY McKLEAN: (stands, grabs the mike) "Af'ta them Cromwell Thugs hacked King Charlie's head off, they charged Rev. Washington with the capital sin of being --- "a common frequenter of the ale houses" --- Hell, b'hoys, gettin plastered ain't no friggin sin, is it?"

    FAMILY CHORUS: "HEEEELLLLLLLLLLL, NO !!!!"

    COL. JOHN WASHINGTON: "In any case, overnight we found ourselves homeless -- landless. I was nineteen. Next thing I know'd, I was working a ship on the Atlantic in the most compromising of circumstances."

    ADMIRAL JOHN S. McKLEAN II" "The sea always seems to set the temper tinder goin for the men of our line."

    BANANA DASH: (cuts in) "We understand that you seeded your family in America by swimming to shore --- dragging that famous family temper ashore with you."

    GEN. GEORGE S. PATTON: (snorting fire & firing 44 caliber shells aloft) --"Blast-you, woman !! Allow ggggggggggg-grandpappy to finish his tale."

    COL. JOHN WASHINGTON: "Well those Pious Goons never did see fit to leave us be. They & our present Idiot-in-Chief dashed Johnny's White House run in 2000. Johnny called em what they wuz -- 'Agents of Intolerance' -- Them Bibble-Thumpers' been a'houndin our Clan fer eternity."

    GEN. GEORGIE S. PATTON: "HANG ALL PURITANS !"

    ADM. JOHN S. McKLEAN THE FIRST: "That Rascal Bush is decended from the Crown. But Uncle Georgie whooped the King's lobsterbutts good -- did you not, Sir?"

    GEN. GEORGIE WASHINGTON: (a camels' smirk of nonchalance) -- "Indeed, we gave them a good rounding, Son"

    BANANA DASH: -- (to the General) "President Washington -- your proclivities toward the martial arts relating to war & unadulterated mayhem seems to run in your family. -- Among the Founding Fathers, yours was the most notorious of volcanic tempers."

    [Admiral McKlean puts a straw to his mouth and shoots a spit-ball into his father's ear. Dixie-Billy slaps at his ear and turns in high-torqued anger]

    COL. 'DIXIE-BILLY' McKLEAN: "What in Blazes was that fer, Son?"

    ADMIRAL JOHN S. McKLEAN THE FIRST: "That was loosing the Family Honor to that Yankee Some-ufa-Bitch Sherman !!"

    GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON: "Calm down, B'hoys -- none of that temper tantruming tonight"

    ADMIRAL JOHN S. McKLEAN JUNIOR: "We're on the telly for god-sakes"

    ADMIRAL JOHN S. McKLEAN THE FIRST: "And YOU !!! --- Losin your Sub to the Nips & all Indo-china to the Commies --- to say nothing of Korea. No wonder John lost his plane over Nam --- served him right to be locked up all those years. Defeat is not a Clan Option !!"

    COLONEL 'DIXIE-BILLY' McKLEAN: (bullets eyes at the Senator) "That'sa right, Ya Damn Fool --- Graduated at the bottom of the class at the Academy !! -- Ya g'won and disgraced our Family'y Honor."

    SEN. JOHN S. McKLEAN III: "But Great-Uncle Georgie never even went to school --- and HE became President !! "

    ADMIRAL JOHN S. McKLEAN THE FIRST: "Grandson or not, had you been under my command when I was fighting the Kaiser's navy, I woulda had yer butt keel-hauled."

    [The admiral takes off one of his white gloves & slaps it across the Senator's face]

    SEN. JOHN S. McKLEAN III: (holds cheek with surprise "Grand-daddie, what did you go and do that for? --- and in front of all these voters?" -- (turns to audience in blanched embarrasment) --- "PLEASE, PLEASE, MY FRIENDS --- Will you not lend us a little Help?"

    --- Col John Washington unsheathes his rapier & races at the admiral placing its point upon his nose, but before he can draw blood,

    --Dixie-Billy picks up his chair and SMASHES over the head of The Immigrant.

    -- "BANG-BANG-BANG" Patton begins free-firing his pearl-handled revolver before slamming its butt across the jaw of The Father of Our Country, sending his bloody hippopotomi teeth flying.

    --- Col John Washington then slashes 'Old Blood & Guts's suspenders causing him to shuffle about the stage in his wooleys until the Admiral bops him on the bean with a billy club.

    -- the audience now begins to SCREAM in PANIC, many racing en masse for the Lobby Doors.

    Rising from the Orchestra Pit we see the shaggy grey disoriented head of JOE COCKER whose GREASE BAND continues its schreechings & wailings in the pounding dirge of "WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS" as the Climactic Finale AMPLIFIES with the collateral Chaos and Mahem that has seized the Hall.

    WUFFY: (yelling over the soured notes) -- "Well, we'd like to thank the Republic's Warrior Clan for introducing themselves in tonights Forum. --- And we look forward to seeing you when we meet another Candidate's Family in Texas." -- "G'night, y'all --- Happy Voting"