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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I was truly disappointed in 2000 because I felt the right-wing nuts just screwed over the dems. I couldn't vote for Kerry because I just couldn't vote for a guy who was repeating the same mistakes made in 2000. He was being trashed and he just took it! Not very presidential.
This year things appear different. Keith and Rachel were great tonight. I read Joe Klein and became enthused! I always read GG and can't understand why the whole world doesn't because he makes so much sense. Kristol and Hannerty and Buchanan and Broder just seemed stupid today!
The web site set up by the Obama campaign to expose the Keating scandal and the 13 minute ad were great. It seems that the dems are fighting back, and with fervor.
If only the democratic congress could muster up some courage. OK, I know that's an impossibility but one can hope, can't I?
Sadly, I actually thought this would come sooner. I just didn't think that there was any way that Barack could win the nomination without the presidential election taking this turn. Mind you, I think if Hilary had won, it would have been dirty too, just in another way.
That's who the Republicans are right now. That's what you have to expect. And yeah, I think Obama is brave to run, and Michelle is gutsy to let him, especially since they have kids.
I just hope the lead in the polls goes up a lot higher. It's still easily close enough to steal.
Veterans, both Gore and Kerry. Far more experienced, both Gore and Kerry, than GW Bush and Barack Obama.
Yet neither Gore nor Kerry could mount a successful campaign against a vastly inferior foe than the Republican running against Obama.
Since before Al Gore invented the Internet, even before John Kerry got a purple heart for a hangnail, lies have worked in political campaigns, and the bigger the lie the better. A journalist asked me today whether there was any substance to Obama's Ayers relationship. So don't think the voting population has evaluated and discounted this rumor. The very fact that reasonably informed people are talking about these attacks is not a good sign for Obama. These attacks still have the ability to derail him.
This race isn't over, and there are no chickens hatched here.
I just want this to happen. I'm with Michelle, who was, for the first time, really proud of her country despite the fact that it was in an election cycle. 9 months ago, I woke up in a Trauma Center, found out my son and husband were unscathed after our accident that had been caused by my medical crisis, and then my son told me the words I found hard to believe. "He won Iowa." I have been getting better slowly, since then, listening to and reading every word of this campaign, and so far he has not disappointed me. This is the ugliest part of an ugly, ugly process. We get the leaders we deserve, they say. I can't stand to think about which way this will go, if that is true. I don't want another "We apologize to the world" site. I want a new site -- "Universal Sigh of Relief and then Take a Deep Breath and then start walking the walk of honest, ethical people who live for more than toys." Maybe we could live to educate our kids, really. Maybe we could live to pass on great ideas to other nations or even absorb some of their's. Maybe we could learn that these are not our Fathers' times, but that doesn't make them the end days or the decline days. Its a different time. Please let's get through the next 30 days without getting too muddy!
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Everybody misspells. 'genital' or 'gentle'. ?. Use a 'left - wing' dictum.
Always beat conga drums gently. Never hit conga drum with a genital.
What you said. Yes. And the best to you. It's able to sleep peacefully.
Let not the sun go down with a turbulent conscience. It's the truth.
The addle-brained old fighter pilot seems determined to fly his campaign straight into weaponry he himself launched. Isn't there anybody on his staff whose sole job is to prevent suicidal strategic blunders like relying on the venomous racism dripping from these scurrilous innuendoes? I hope not.
I know that the Republicans love to portray Gov. Palin as coming from "outside the Beltway", but hasn't it dawned on them that ordinary folk might feel uncomfortable about voting for someone whose ideas so clearly come from outside the Milky Way?
I'd like to see the criteria you are using for your claim that Kerry and Gore were better candidates than Obama. If you hadn't noticed, Democratic registration is up a gazillion percent since Obama started running and is doubling that of Republicans in some places. There were actually less registered Democrats than Republicans in 2004. I'd say this point alone refutes your theory. Unless, one of your criteria is doing a Frankenstein impression. Then its Kerry by a large margin.
Regarding election fraud, I am only arguing that, if trends continue, Obama will be far enough ahead in the swing states to overcome any GOP malfeasance.
Sure, Ohio can still be stolen. I've heard Spoonamore and the guy knows what he's talking about. I'm not convinced the neocons have enough operatives in critical places to take all the states they need through fraud alone.
IF trends continue, that is. If the Rezko/Obama-pals-around-with-terrorists meme works to chip away at Obama's lead, then you're correct: this election could easily follow the paths of 2000 and 2004.
... you write as if the Reps and the Dems aren't in collusion, when in fact the exact opposite has been proven to be true over and over and over again.
I find it astounding how Glenn can write articles making it prefectly clear that the Dems have constantly aided and abetted the crooks, both intentionally and extremely grieviously, and yet he in other articles seems to believe or imply that the Dems will save the country. And, a heck of a lot of you posting here (hell, most of you!) do the same thing.
Obama is merely the cabal's fall-back position. Wake up!
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
