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John James
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They should not! It is in their power to show that the voter is sophisticated and cannot be fooled or hold one accountable for the sins of another.
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Jay
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Truth wrote: <quoted text> Obama is a piece of crap and should be forced to resign the Senate. Rubbish. Clinton should have dropped out of this race after not doing enough to stay in it in either OH or TX. Anyone paying attention should realize that even super delegates and MI and FL cannot save her position now - the only thing that can is to destroy Obama. By the fact she remains in the race it is clear that it is her intention to facilitate just that - while remaining sweetness and light on the surface in order to mop up the fallout of the hatcheting being done against Obama. This Wright situation has been manufactured and spun to try and take Obama out and if it fails they will instigate the next thing. But mark my words it will be a long cold time before you EVER get a candidate as promising as Obama again. And that has NOTHING to do with race and everything to do with who Obama is as a person and the collective nature of the campaign, owned by the American people of every demographic, who support him. Don't be fooled against your better interests again.
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Raymond Micheals
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its so shameful how the Clintons are lying to the uneducated voters to gin up votes. This is why these type of politicians will never provide good education for all kids.
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Jim
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We can argue for decades about what Rev. Wright said or meant, whether it was racist or just normal for black churches. To me, this part of the issue is a distraction. Rev. Wright has to right to say what he wants just like that idiot Robertson. Each person has to decide for himself what they believe. To me, the key issue is that Obama lied to the American people about Rev. Wright. The Friday the videos started playing, Obama went on every TV show he could, saying he knew nothing, heard nothing and was surprised that any thing was said that was contorversial. Then during his speech on Tuesday, he admitted he did know that such controversial statements had been made. Also, if he did not know anything about controversial comments, why did he ask Rev. Wright to not give the invocation in Feb. 2007, when Obama announced he was running for president. I have a great deal of trouble supporting a politician whose first response to a crisis is to lie about it. As for his big speech, it could have been a great speech if he had just left out the cheap politics he kept injecting into it. So instead of a great speech it became just another campaign speech. Too bad.
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libby
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Pushbackthespin wrote: He is neither racist nor Anti-american. He asks America to face up to its shame-that equal rights for all American Citizens is less than fifty years old. The shame is Bill's and JJ's. Obama's speech was brave, and onest. It's possible to move forward from the entreched positions expressed by Bill and JJ. if Americans is prepared to open their hearts. Obama speech was totally to save his political neck. It wasn't brave. He HAD to give something to explain away his racist pastor and the reason he stayed in a hate-filled church. Obama is done. He won't win the election if he is the nominee. America is a lot better for that.
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libby
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international_watcher wrote: I think Obama is the victim of a racial hatred. I believe, if he fails to confirm the nomination after these racial odds and even after leading to date in terms of popular votes, pledged delegates, and the number of states he won, the America will be devided nastily, a devision that can't be healed in near future, a devision which is not that worthy at the time when America is struggling with its Foreign Policy, its Economy and its credentials to the rest of the world... and if it becomes domestic mess, America will colapse, surely Why do all these foreigners want Obama to be president??? Obama WILL NOT be president so you foreigners stay the hell out of our politics.
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libby
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AfroBaby wrote: <quoted text> jj newman, it's ignorant fools like you that make people think Texas is a backward state. Frank Schaeffer, son of the powerful religious leader, Francis Schaeffer, recently penned these thoughts. "When Senator Obama's preacher thundered about racism and injustice, Obama suffered smear-by-association. But when my late father denounced America and even called for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, he was invited to lunch with Presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush, Sr.....Take Dad's words and put them in the mouth of Obama's preacher (or in the mouth of any black preacher) and people would be accusing that preacher of treason. Yet when we of the white Religious Right denounced America, white conservative Americans and top political leaders called our words "godly" and "prophetic" and "a call to repentance." John McCain was endorsed John Hagee: "All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that." "Do you know the difference between a woman with PMS and a snarling Doberman pinscher? The answer is lipstick. Do you know the difference between a terrorist and a woman with PMS? You can negotiate with a terrorist." George W. Bush was endorsed by Rev. Jerry Falwell: blamed civil libertarians, feminists, homosexuals, and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 "It appears that America's anti-Biblical feminist movement is at last dying, thank God, and is possibly being replaced by a Christ-centered men's movement which may become the foundation for a desperately needed national spiritual awakening." "I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc., are God-ordained minorities who do indeed deserve minority status." Rudy Giuliani was endorsed by Pat Robertson: blamed civil libertarians, feminists, homosexuals, and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Sure ... and Obama has been playing the "race card victim" by demanding that Don Imus be fired when he said "nappy headed ho" while sitting in church listening to Pastor Wright damn America and blame whites for blacks' problems. He didn't think that was a problem but OMG if a white person says one stupid remark and Obama then calls for their head. Obama is nothing but a opportunistic hypocrite.
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thinkaboutit
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Here is what I don't understand. Hours and hours and hours of Wright's sermons have been recorded. If those comments are typical, why is the awful video only two minutes long? Trust me, if there was anything else that bad or even close, that video would have been a lot longer. Maybe this is not typical either, but here is another Wright sermon. http://www.youtube.com/watch... It might help people understand.
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Jay
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Jim wrote: To me, the key issue is that Obama lied to the American people about Rev. Wright. The Friday the videos started playing, Obama went on every TV show he could, saying he knew nothing, heard nothing and was surprised that any thing was said that was contorversial. Then during his speech on Tuesday, he admitted he did know that such controversial statements had been made. Also, if he did not know anything about controversial comments, why did he ask Rev. Wright to not give the invocation in Feb. 2007, when Obama announced he was running for president. I have a great deal of trouble supporting a politician whose first response to a crisis is to lie about it. As for his big speech, it could have been a great speech if he had just left out the cheap politics he kept injecting into it. So instead of a great speech it became just another campaign speech. Too bad. No - that is a mis-characterization. Obama said he had not heard those particular sermons before. What he said in his speech was that he had heard the Pastor say some out there stuff in church - but he never said it was the same sermons he said he had not heard before - so you have NO BASIS on which to say that he lied. Further, if it is Ferraro that you are talking about in terms of him trying to score political points - had you considered that he was actually telling people they should cut Ferraro some slack? He was not encouraging people to be angry at Ferraro - quite the opposite. Ferraro's reaction just confirmed to me that she was about being damaging to Obama, she still is about being damaging to Obama and she intends to continue to be damaging to Obama - which in my book makes her a VUP: Very Unpleasant Person. Check your own bias and how they color your interpretations.
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anon96
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the wine and brie crowd will stick with him -white guilt plays so well with them. But the unwashed majority will not buy the racist society guilt trip as quasi-justification for Wright's comments. Plus Obama's populist solutions, are pure pulp leftist junk.
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Ron
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I don't like the assumption here that the choice these white, blue collar workers are making has to do with race fundamentally. Even before the Wright controversy, Hillary was winning in Pennsylvania. So why do I get the feeling that when she wins the state, commentators are going to spin it as a racial rejection of Obama instead of what it really is: An endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
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libby wrote: <quoted text> Why do all these foreigners want Obama to be president??? Obama WILL NOT be president so you foreigners stay the hell out of our politics. Us foreigners want him to be President because the whole world has suffered as a result of Bush. We are all paying at the gas pump too, we all feel unsafe too, we are facing a recession and collapsing housing market too, we are becoming working poor too, our countries are being damaged by climate change as well. People around the world were anguished when Bush was re-elected. It has been a long 8 years we have been waiting. Obama gives us hope for the future of America, gives us hope that America will begin to thoughtfully interact with the world and mend it's tattered relationship with the world community and look after its own citizens better and set examples that we can look up to. If we have a voice to warn you not to fall for the same manipulations you fell for in the past, that from the outside we can see the machinations and how they are echoing what has happened in the past, if we can use that voice to ask the American people to come back to the world community and help make the world a safer and healthier place should we not use our voice? We have watched on with pride as Americans of every demographic joined together to take their country back, to get a Government back that puts them first as it should do and we fear the efforts made to confuse and dupe you away from your better interests by playing on your fears and divisions.
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“The right to bear arms”
Joined: Feb 11, 2008
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somewhere in dixie
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folks i am getting real tired of hearing OTHERWISE INTELLIGENT FOLKS STATE THAT CLINTON WON IN TX. she lost because got more elected delegates than her. why are yall still pushing this OUTRIGHT LIE. did yall graduate from college. can you read. yall are acting so stupid we got to get bill engvall to send one of those signs to all of the networks.
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toobad
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cooday wrote: Bruce Springsteen-Radio Nowhere http://www.youtube.com/watch... "I always look at my work as trying to measure the distance between American promise and American reality," Springsteen says. "And I think (Obama's) inspired a lot of people with that idea: How do you make that distance shorter? How do we create a more humane society? We've lived through such ugly times that people want to have a romance with the idea of America again, and I think they need to. Obama is preaching racial hatred. His agenda is all about race. These people are openly racists. Why would anyone think they are for peace?
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Dan
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l like the spin imposed here. That "Well educated people" support Obama, and less educated people do not. Where are the numbers to prove that assumption? I am a well educated white male with a so-called higher income and I will not support Obama or his campaign speech. I recognize the eloquence of his words, but when put in the context of their delivery, they are simply spin. I know that there are issues of race that need to be handled in this country, but do you believe that the country is closer or more divided after hearing Obama's friend and spiritual advisor? Not to mention (and it seems that no liberal newspaper will mention) the Anti-American language from Obama's mentor. I don't care if you are black, white, purple or blue, if you want to be a leader then you denounce the person who says those things about the country you supposedly love. Obama is no leader, he couldn't even stand up to a white-hating, Anti-American, how do you expect him to lead this country. He supports those who hate it.
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“The right to bear arms”
Joined: Feb 11, 2008
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somewhere in dixie
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Ron by the way hillary and nafta are closely tied together. pa lost jobs because of nafta. vote for her and the whole world will see how stupid and moronic folks in pa are. yall will mimic ohio in your vast denial of truth of hillary clintons involval in nafta deal but so be it. jump off cliff if you will but dont expect the rest of us to be at bottom with nets to catch you. you will deserve to symbolically die an ignominous death.
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what choice do we have
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cooday wrote: Bruce Springsteen-Radio Nowhere http://www.youtube.com/watch... "I always look at my work as trying to measure the distance between American promise and American reality," Springsteen says. "And I think (Obama's) inspired a lot of people with that idea: How do you make that distance shorter? How do we create a more humane society? We've lived through such ugly times that people want to have a romance with the idea of America again, and I think they need to. WHO CARES.....WE DON'T NEED ROMANCE WE NEED A LEADER FOR EVERYONE- NOT A RACIST LIKE OBAMA-BLACK PANTHER'S OR THE REV. WRIGHT------ OBAMA IS DONE....
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New Yorker in Florida
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jj newman wrote: Is this a joke? Obama infuriates a lot of whites at this point. Only a black would get away with a 20 year relationship with a racist anti-American hate monger and still be a candidate. Tell me this: would Clinton or McCain even still be in the race if they were aligned with a white hate monger? Of course not, Obama should not be allowed to give a speech and have the "audacity" to call for racial healing after associating with a racist/seperatist. Disgusting. Perhaps it is not a 20 year relationship but I know that McCain worked diligently to kiss up to Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Of course they would never say anything similar to what Rev Wright said. From the Washington Post - Sept 14, 2001 Television evangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, two of the most prominent voices of the religious right, said liberal civil liberties groups, feminists, homosexuals and abortion rights supporters bear partial responsibility for Tuesday's terrorist attacks because their actions have turned God's anger against America. Republicans have been courting and aligning themselves with some of the most intolerant people of this country. These people make frequent visits to the "White" house. America won't get that story anytime soon because there are two candidates left in this race that get special protection.
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Latest polls
Westminster, MD
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The latest poll for PA says it all: 51% Clinton 35% Obama.
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Btesh
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I would be a shamed to be Black if this is the best they got, or I would be ashamed to Democrat if this is the best they got,or I would be a shamed to liberal if this is the best they got, but then again I am a TYPICAL white person.
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