CHARLESTON, S.C., July 24, 2007

Clinton: Obama "Irresponsible" And "Naive"

Democratic Rivals Clash Over Obama Saying He'd Be Willing To Meet With Heads Of Rogue Nations

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(AP)  Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called rival Barack Obama's debate claim that he'd be willing to meet with leaders of rogue nations "irresponsible and frankly naive."

The New York senator, in an interview with Iowa's Quad-City Times, made her first direct criticism of her chief rival after the two campaigns engaged in a back-and-forth about Obama's remarks in Monday night's debate.

In the debate, Obama was asked if he would be willing to meet — without precondition — in the first year of his presidency with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea.

"I would," he responded.

Clinton said she would not.

"I don't want to be used for propaganda purposes," she said. Her campaign quickly posted video of her answer online, trying to show she has a different understanding of foreign policy than her chief rival.

Asked about the exchange, she told the newspaper that Obama is regretting his answer a day later.

"I thought that was irresponsible and frankly naive," Clinton said. The interview was posted on the newspaper's Web site.

In a separate interview with the newspaper, Obama said: "What she's somehow maintaining is my statement could be construed as not having asked what the meeting was about. I didn't say these guys were going to come over for a cup of coffee some afternoon."

The rival campaigns clashed over the meaning of Obama's answer. Clinton supporters characterized it as a gaffe that underscored the freshman senator's lack of foreign-policy savvy, while Obama's team claimed his response displayed judgment and a repudiation of President Bush's diplomacy.

"I would think that without having done the diplomatic spadework, it would not really prove anything," former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said in a conference call with reporters set up by the Clinton campaign.

Obama's team summoned Anthony Lake, who was national security adviser in President Clinton's first term and now serves as a foreign policy adviser to Obama.

"A great nation and its president should never fear negotiating with anyone and Senator Obama rightly said he would be willing to do so — just as Richard Nixon did with China and Ronald Reagan with the Soviet Union," Lake said.

In a memo from Obama spokesman Bill Burton, the campaign contended that Obama's comments played well with focus groups that watched the debate and "showed his willingness to lead and ask tough questions on matters of war."

Obama "offered a dramatic change from the Bush administration's eight-year refusal to protect our security interests by using every tool of American power available — including diplomacy," said the memo.

Obama adviser David Axelrod said on Tuesday that Obama would not just meet blindly with such leaders but only after diplomatic spadework had been accomplished.

Americans "are sick of the Bush diplomacy and aren't interested in continuing it," said Axelrod.

The Obama campaign was quick to point to an April 23 quote from Clinton in which she said, "I think it's a terrible mistake for our president to say he won't talk to bad people." That, Obama representatives said, showed Clinton had changed her position.

Clinton advisers noted that the New York senator's full quote included a line that she would first "begin diplomatic discussions with those countries" before such meetings — same as she said in Monday's debate.

"I never would have gotten out of the debate last night that there was any change in position," Albright said.

She emphasized that Obama had said he would meet with such leaders in his first year without preconditions.

"If you look back at real breakthroughs and diplomatic history, what you basically find is that in order to understand where the situation is, to clear the underbrush away, it is necessary to have lower level people make the initial contact," Albright said.

In a memo, Clinton spokesman Phil Singer said Obama "has committed to presidential-level meetings with some of the world's worst dictators without precondition during his first year in office. Senator Clinton is committed to vigorous diplomacy but understands that it is a mistake to commit the power and prestige of America's presidency years ahead of time by making such a blanket commitment."

Obama representatives also sought to emphasize anew Clinton's initial support for the war, echoing comments by the candidate himself who asserted in the debate: "The time to ask how we're going to get out of Iraq was before we got in."

Rival John Edwards, who campaigned in South Carolina on Tuesday, echoed Clinton's comments in the debate.

"I would not commit myself on the front end openly to meet with (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad, (North Korean leader) Kim Jong Il, (Venezuelan President) Hugo Chavez," Edwards told reporters in McClellanville, S.C. "I think there's a real potential that would be used as a propaganda tool."



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by realpatriot1 July 24, 2007 4:43 PM PDT
Just what we need, another President who would rather drop bombs than negotiate.

Hillary is the one being naive and irresponsible.
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by wiccantexan July 24, 2007 4:51 PM PDT
Talk about naive; Hillary thinks that being married to an impeached President is an asset.
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by hypnotoad72 July 24, 2007 5:09 PM PDT
Hillary - petulant bovine who will drive people to vote for ANY Republican if push comes to shove.

Dropping bombs is occasionally, and sadly, necessary but she hasn't an ounce of sincerity whatsoever. I see no reason to believe her without lots of evidence, regardless of topic -- the irony being we all already know Iran is a legitimate danger. But common sense trumps her chicanery any day of the week.
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by vet999999 July 24, 2007 5:22 PM PDT
This is good....the gloves are off. Let the blood flow. At least for the next year or so we should have some good entertainment...
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by forthepeopl1 July 24, 2007 5:34 PM PDT
someone needs to ask them this...............

this is the only way!!!!!!!!! to stop this adminastration. period..the only way bush has no way of vetoing. so why haven't they done this?

both party are dragging this on to far. its time to end this for god sake

so call on congress to do this NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Article 1 of the US Constitution gives the Congress, not the President, the right to declare war. And the War Powers Act specifies that the President may not continue a war without Congressional authorization. Saddam is dead. There never were any WMDs or ties to Al Qaeda. The basis for the 2002 war authorization is gone.
If Congress passes a resolution de-authorizing the war, the President has no legal authority to continue. De-authorization cannot be vetoed, and it would legally require Bush to begin bringing the troops home.
The time for waiting is over. People are dying every day. We cannot wait until this fall to start bringing our troops home. If Congress doesn't act before they leave for the summer, the only thing that will change between now and the end of the year is the body count.
Congress has a public mandate and the Constitutional authority to end this war.

LETS GO AMERICA WE OWE THIS TO OUR TROOPS DIEING FOR NOTHING BUT THE PRESIDENTS AND MR VP'S PLEASURE, AND PROFITS.....
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by adian1-2009 July 24, 2007 5:55 PM PDT
It is your headline for this news what is highly irresponsible. I suppose that it is for the sake of sensationalism. Whoever edited this news is taking some expressions of Ms. Clinton out of context. I was watching the debate. First, the transmits a sense of confrontation that never took place between Ms. Clinton and Senator Obama. Second, she did not address Obama in such terms. While explaining why she could not make a promise to meet with leaders of certain countries --Syria, Iran, Cuba, etc.-- in her first year if she ever became president, she said that it would be naive and irresponsible to promise that because she felt it was necessary fo make a thoughtful consideration of circumstances so that she would not be used for mere propaganda by those countries. Senator Obama, on the other hand and before Ms. Clinton had her turn to answer the question, PROMISED that if he ever becomes president, he would meet and talk to them in his first year as such. There was no confrontation, and I did not notice any intention on Ms. Clinton to demean Senator Obama. This is sensasionalist and it does not talk good about CBS. I think that you should be a little more careful. Both candidates, Ms. Clinton and Senator Obama, are respectable people. News like this one are less than respectful.
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by ban_islam July 24, 2007 6:10 PM PDT
Just what we need, another President who would rather drop bombs than negotiate.Hillary is the one being naive and irresponsible.Posted by realpatriot1
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What's there to negotiate when you have enemies in the world who seek nothing less than your destruction and who are get their inspiration from a 6th century death cult?

For Hilary's 'tough talk' she's as much of a pus.sy as the rest of the Dems and the GOP are a bunch of wussies too but at least they aren't afraid of stepping up to the plate. If America wasn't so weak as it is today, Iran's nuke plants would've been bombed already and groups like Hezbollah, Hamas wouldn't exist for starters.
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by katg21 July 24, 2007 6:15 PM PDT
Talk about naive; Hillary thinks that being married to an impeached President is an asset.
Posted by WiccanTexan at 04:51 PM : Jul 24, 2007

Good one.
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by prinzowhales July 24, 2007 6:18 PM PDT
Venezuela, Iran and Syria are not "rogue" nations by any stretch of the imagination. All are at peace with their neighbors. All aspire to peace. Venezuela has an embassy in Washington, does it not? While Chavez is improving the lifes of his people, Bush is driving down living standards and running up tremendous debts to prosecute wars based on lies, lies and lies.

The Clin'toons support the same policies as Bush--they just try to sell them to a different set of people--those who walk upright. Obama is clever--we probably have Mr. Lake, he's an old hand at being so clever that one can't readily distinguish his cleverness from rank deceit. You can always meet with someone, pretend to be reasonable and then accuse them of being unreasonable...would the American electorate know the difference? Hardly! Obama has already shown himself to be a weasel in sheep's clothing when it comes to the war in Iraq. Looks like Hillary, a mistress of deceit in her own right, could appreciate Obama's position. I think Rupert Murdoch and the New York's 'Our Crowd' must keep her on a pretty short leash and she is merely envious of the Obama's projection of reason and goodwill and doesn't want him to count coup at her political expense in the heartland...where reason is valued more than in New York hive.
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by hawksprings July 24, 2007 6:21 PM PDT

"Irresponsible" And "Naive"???

That describes the Democratic Party perfectly.

Thank you, Hil!

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by katg21 July 24, 2007 6:24 PM PDT
Hillary - petulant bovine who will drive people to vote for ANY Republican if push comes to shove.
Posted by hypnotoad72 at 05:09 PM : Jul 24, 2007

Barack Obama - Osama Bin Laden ... we'd have to be crazy! Someone should have told him to change his name to Smith or Johnson, his chances would be better. Pretty sad too, of all the dems running, he's the ONLY one who has really been consistent and hasn't wavered. Not that I agree with him but I do have respect for his character. Hillary on the other hand only knows how to pander, no substance there.
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by katg21 July 24, 2007 6:34 PM PDT
It's hard to decide which one is the bigest looser.
Posted by b48151 at 06:28 PM : Jul 24, 2007

True.
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by kansas1946 July 24, 2007 6:41 PM PDT
Hillary sounds naive, not Obama. We see what the not talking to anyone policy has gotten us. What a refreshing though, to actually have a diplomat in the Whitehouse. I am liking Obama more and more actually. Don't let her rattle you, Barrack.
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by piaforpeace July 24, 2007 6:45 PM PDT
The Democrats all need to stop fighting, unite, IMPEACH BUSH and bring the troops home
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by crystalblue3 July 24, 2007 6:48 PM PDT
Hillary has always been full of herself. Considering how our "no-negotiation" policy has worked so far...and her immediate jump on Obama for his comments only shows her paranoia. I can see she's going to be the frontrunner of mud slinging.

Frankly, we're completely doomed if that b.i.t.c.h. wins.

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by tejasdemo July 24, 2007 6:53 PM PDT
All the Democratic candidates sound like independent, thinking people. Republicans just spew the same old same old day in and day out. They dont think. They dont debate. They simply pander, get in office,rip off what they can, make a mess and turn around at you like you do it !
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by canyoutellme-2009 July 24, 2007 7:19 PM PDT
Mrs Clinton,

I am a strong democrat - a liberal one at that. However, i feel YOU are a bad representation of the people; however you have name-recognition so you'll probably win.

Your mud slinging/insulting really does not become you. This is the antics of a 5 year old child! When will you political figures finally wise up and stop acting like children? Stop the infighting. Just because someone else's ideas are not the same as your own does NOT make then naive or foolish. In fact, YOU, i believe... SUPPORTED this war from the outset. Who is the foolish one now?

Anyhow, i'm all for a PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES to face these "rogue" nations' leaders in PERSON and actually discuss things! Our policy of our LACK of desire to meet with other nations has quite frankly, DOOMED us during this administration (only a PART of what DOOMED us).

Barak has more class in his pinky finger than you do in your whole body Mrs. Clinton. You may be a strong woman who may be able to lead this nation; but when you resort to insults, then you smack of nothing less than the republicans who can solely point fingers, slander, use childish moronic names, etc...

Stick to your ideas and stop criticizing others' ideas as foolish. The way you make yourself shine is to show how your ideas are better.... belitting your competition only makes YOU look foolish.

Have a nice night.

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by Syndicate July 24, 2007 7:25 PM PDT
Obama is Naive but Clinton has shown her irresponsibility to this country many times on the floor of the senate. She has played politics with Iraq from day one thus her vote for the war and her vote to stop the war. True irresponsibility is going where ever the polls blow you. She was for the war when everyone else was for it. NOw she is against it because that is the best place for her to be. At least Bush is consistent I know he is going to do what he thinks is right regardless of what anybody else thinks. I respect that even if I don't agree with the issue at hand.
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by ramos937 July 24, 2007 7:26 PM PDT
My thoughts are that if the President, whoever he or she might be, after some preliminary work - that is a given, has a chance to talk to potential enemies before shooting starts, he/she should do so and ditch ego. Had Bush done that with Saddam before invading, we might not have lost over 3700 lives and paid all of the terrible cost we have and will do so before we leave Iraq. DITCH THE EGO...Hilliary seems not to be willing to do that.
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by canyoutellme-2009 July 24, 2007 7:27 PM PDT
Barack Obama - Osama Bin Laden ... we'd have to be crazy! Someone should have told him to change his name to Smith or Johnson, his chances would be better.
Posted by katg21 at 06:24 PM : Jul 24, 2007

You and others like you are pathetic to be using his NAME that his PARENTS gave him upon birth as something WRONG? Unbelieveable. HOw in the world can you compare the MAN, Barack Obama with the likes of OBL? The whole republiCON crowd who keep saying "Obama Osama" just play off this to get you to think that Obama is a terrorist sympathizer. UNBELIEVEABLE. What is this, kindergarten? USE YOUR D*MN BRAINS for once instead of ridiculous childhood playground antics! We, the people, are fed up with it! Why should someone change their name for better chances??? A better chance at what??? winning the vote of biggots such as yourself? VOTE for the PERSON, not for their NAME. You numbskulls voted for BUSH because his FATHER was George Bush, former PRESIDENT of the united states. If you had actually delved into the MAN that calls himself George Bush (our current president, and the GOD of many RepubliCONs), you would have realized he was a former (debatable on current) drunk who has a record and who has failed at just about every business venture he has been in. For you, it's all about the NAME and not CREDENTIALS and ABILITY.

FOR ONCE people, WISE UP!

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by grazinggoat July 24, 2007 7:28 PM PDT
There was no confrontation, and I did not notice any intention on Ms. Clinton to demean Senator Obama. This is sensasionalist and it does not talk good about CBS. I think that you should be a little more careful. Both candidates, Ms. Clinton and Senator Obama, are respectable people. News like this one are less than respectful.
Posted by adian1 at 05:55 PM : Jul 24, 2007

-Thanks adian1 for your posting. It's refreshing to know there are people like you who can say things as they happened. It's refreshing to know there are mid-minded people who are willing to listen and clear their their vision about the substance of the candidates running for this important position that may lead to the Presidency of the USA. It's time the USA stand for the good guys/girls we are, the ones who want to share some doleances with others and talk the human-level talks. I find the attitude of Hillary is a bit childish and arrogant. She wants to impress the audience by her tough stand against rogue nations. She forgets that those nations have people inside their borders, with the basic needs similar to every one's on Earth.

On the other hand Obama, being the son af an immigrant knows and is very sensitive to it. He is the son of an immigrant, not the son of establishment who moved over from Europe, to continue it's domination and blood spilling of our and other nations sons'.

Finally, NO OBAMA is not naive nor is he Irresponsible.
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by us18988 July 24, 2007 7:30 PM PDT
Ahhhhh, nothing like a good ol' catfight between two idiots, cowards, and hucksters.

Enter one Boy Obama - he sez: I'se go an see dem friends Jef Davis, Nat Forrest, he in dat white sheet,jus like my mass kkk byrd, rob lee and talk about dat emancipation proclamation - ise don need it, i se loves dem Confeder-acy.Ise talk to dem and klan all de time.

And her - oh, dear, bill's humping the fat girl, and he's got the slim model coming in. No time to bake those cookies. And s&x, who wants a witch anyway. Guess I have to run for President -maybe someone will p*ss on me. Ahhhh, I feel better already.


Anyone who votes for either one of these two non-serving, naive, full of cr&p losers needs to get their head examined immediately.
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by canyoutellme-2009 July 24, 2007 7:33 PM PDT
She was for the war when everyone else was for it. NOw she is against it because that is the best place for her to be. At least Bush is consistent I know he is going to do what he thinks is right regardless of what anybody else thinks. I respect that even if I don't agree with the issue at hand.
Posted by cbscrash07 at 07:25 PM : Jul 24, 2007

Foolish foolish foolish... Yes, Mrs. Clinton is an opportunist. The fact that she changes her mind does NOT make her bad... it makes her someone who realizes her mistakes... HOWEVER, in the case of Mrs. Clinton, i agree, she's only doing it to pander to the people.

With that said, your blind trust of the president, just because he sticks with a decision is a foolish placed trust. If he's doing something WRONG or that you DISAGREE with, it is your DUTY to speak up and get that wrong corrected! Just because he does what HE thinks is right does *NOT* make it right! HITLER was 1-track-minded also. Would you have admired him too because he stated his beliefs and stuck to it without caring what others thought? I'm afraid what will happen when Bush is removed from office (or when his term ends... most likely will be when his term ends) on what will come out... secret prisons?? concentration camps? how many atrocities will have been committed in the name of the republiCON God, George Bush?
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by us18988 July 24, 2007 7:35 PM PDT
I can tell you,

You're pretty dumb to vote for this ignoramus and house servant of Mr. Byrd's. If he'd talk to Kim the Babykiller, or any other genocidal maniac he'd talk to Jefferson Davis too. Perhaps tell him that he called Lincoln a "Racist" and agrees wholeheartedly with him.

Heck, Boy Obama would also talk to Adolf Hitler it seems. Class? Yeah, that cuckolded hussy lacked it 20, 30 years ago when she put up with perv and draft dodger's sh*t, but guess what, so does house servant. You vote for either one of them because your an empty-headed, brain dead lib, you deserve them...

And by the way, since Osama, oops, Obama wants to speak to Kim or other murderers, when is he - and shrew - going on active duty in Iraq? Care to answer, Libs with mouths full of s&ck?
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by us18988 July 24, 2007 7:38 PM PDT
Where's Harry Belafonte when you need him - since he likes to talk about Plantation Slaves, here's a new one, Harry, the pro-Confederate, Anti-Lincoln, jive huckster fool known as Boy Osama, oops, Boy Obama.

The next time he has lunch with KKK Byrd, Harry, would care to comment?
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by sharncedar July 24, 2007 7:39 PM PDT
Hillary is running to the center - of the money and elite interests. Her positions aren't liberal or conservative, anymore than George F'ing Bush is liberal or conservative. Her posturing isn't for the voters, whom she rightly understands have no power or say over the elections. Her posturing is for the moneyed elites. She is promoting the code words that show she will continue the endless wars that the defense industry loves, and she questions Obama's dedication to the system of endless wars. This is not a blow to Obama with voters, it is an attack on him for the benefit of the power elite. They have full control of the electoral process and can promote or eliminate any candidate they choose and Hillary knows this well. Just as they destroyed Howard Dean with the infamous "Dean Scream" doctored video that was replayed almost 500 times in two days on CNN and FOX news.

As long as we remain stupid, we will remain without power.
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by jonesforch July 24, 2007 7:41 PM PDT
CANYOUTELLME
drunk who has a record and who has failed at just about every business venture he has been in. For you, it's all about the NAME and not CREDENTIALS and ABILITY.


so are you saying that the president did not set the gas prices like everyone is saying? If yes then he did not fail.
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by tnt1954 July 24, 2007 7:42 PM PDT
as chief of the soviet secret service we
feel in the war of secret agents and political
espionage you should vote for either shirley
roper-phelps or the clintons. we soviets
are still rather rascist. we have an
allergy to melanin. it makes us want
to drink vodka and eat borscht. when white
girls from russia see a black man, they long
for the length. one of my daughters is
married to one of the los angeles lakers.
i try not to get upset. see, the union
of soviet america was defeated by basketball
players like the harlem globetrottes. but
we communists are coming back real strong.
beware our foils and foibles and strengths
and strategies, we still will bury you for
free. it costs a lotta money to be buried
under capitalism. we hate for the dead
to suffer. that's a lotta money going
for the dead. prey on. keep on praying. we
scientific materialists aren't converted yet.
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by us18988 July 24, 2007 7:46 PM PDT
Just gotta love the libs devouring each other...Only days ago some of these same brain dead bozos were defending the little girl lost from New York who has to run for President because her supposed hubby - who did - scroowed around. Now they're saying she's as bad as Bush -lol.

So who do they love - a "whooooo boy, are you stupid" house servant of the Klan. A hypocrite who called Abraham Lincoln a "racist" but ol' stepin' barry sure knew where to start his Presidential Campaign. Of course if he had moxy, if not class, he'd run it from Jeff Davis' old Brierfield Plantation. That's more like him.

But the question is - when are these two anti-American, anti-U.S. military, pro-Hamas clowns going to finally stop wasting tax money and get their fat bu*tts over to Iraq? And when are the brain deads of the Left going to urge them to do so.

Wait, I think they've already started on the Shrew. LOL
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by us18988 July 24, 2007 7:52 PM PDT
SharnCedar,

Read your last sentence again. If you vote for any democratic party, moveon.org stooge, you will always fit that bill.

Oh, thanks by the way for your George bleep Bush comment. At least he struck back at Osama - Billy Boy, the Shrew's erstwhile hubby was either too busy humping Lewinsky or bombing innocent Serbs to take notice. And Shrew was too busy baking cookies.

As for Osama, oops, Boy Obama, he was too busy running errands for Master Byrd or eating watermelon to take notice. Or apologizing to Jefferson Davis for Martin Luther King.
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by erasmus6 July 24, 2007 7:57 PM PDT
You need to listen to what all the candidates say but in the end you need to go on gut instinct because lets be honest, you really don't know if any one of them is actually going to do what they say they will. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM WILL SAY AND DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET ELECTED.
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by feelfree1 July 24, 2007 7:57 PM PDT

To my Democrat Party friends:

I warned you, that while you were joining the Republicans in cravenly blaming the people of Iraq, and their installed puppet-government for the misery that we have foisted on them, and while you were helping to conflate the fabled and NONEXISTENT "al-Qaeda-in-Iraq" hoax, that the Republicans would use the hoax to tie the illegal war of aggression against Iraq to the idiotic "War on Terror", and that whichever corporate/AIPAC-owned Democrat is coronated in 2008, would receive the FULL BLAME for surrendering in "the war on terror" (TWOT), when they withdraw from Iraq.

It is already happening!

WAKE UP!!!

"al-Qaeda-in-Iraq"=sick, deadly, psyops hoax!!!

We are fighting IRAQIS, and they have every right to defend themselves.

Do you "support the troops"? Then get them the hell out of there, NOW!!!

www.ipetitions.com/petition/OutNow
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by erasmus6 July 24, 2007 8:00 PM PDT
And of course the real problem is that there doesn't seem to be a lot of people that have good instincts.
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by jn122736 July 24, 2007 8:01 PM PDT
Talk about naive; Hillary thinks that being married to an impeached President is an asset.
Posted by WiccanTexan at 04:51 PM : Jul 24, 2007
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Having a 65% end of presidency approval rating even after the failed impeachment) can't be too bad. It is TWICE as high as the miserable ratings the current president is recieving.
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by robertkjjj July 24, 2007 8:14 PM PDT
What's really funny is, even though Bush is kinda mentally challenged, his IQ is still higher than the IQs of all these Democrat bozos combined. Even with Iraq and his low ratings, the Democrats will still figure out a way to lose next year. You just watch and see.
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by name_verify July 24, 2007 8:14 PM PDT
DNC NEWS UPDATE

Barak claims he's just as much a feminist as Hillary is a negro.

Hillary says Bill can't invalidate her feelings.
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by grazinggoat July 24, 2007 8:20 PM PDT
Talking about meeting rogue heads of states click on this link of ynetnews.com about the two ambassadors representing Israel and Syria to the United Nations (UN) pretendedly have spoken together. So why wouldn't OBAMA meet with his counterparts? Isolationism has never shown good results on the political fields. Not one time.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3429493,00.html

You may laugh at the attitude the Syrian ambassador had when asked if he met with his Israeli counterpart. So childish! Come on grow up...
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by closethippy1 July 24, 2007 8:20 PM PDT
Little by little the USA Sen. Joe McCarthy helped build in the 50's by making Americans fear the enemy within is dissapearing.
You can only cry wolf so many times before people realize you're fooling with them. And thanks to Bush and his ilk Americans now have a better sense of who our real enemies are and who aren't. And why, and how.
There's less fear and more wisdom and that's why Obama resonates with so many people. He knows the old order is coming to an end so he's preparing the ground for the new order by running for president. It really doesn't matter if he doesn't win this time but in the future, after another Democratic or Republican candidate keep on going with the old regime with the same old tired arguments and the same hypocrisy that has fueled our foreign policies, voters will have a better understanding of why Obama speaks the way he does.
He along with a new generation of Americans are creating a new language, a new way of thinking that will set the USA straight by using our power wisely.
Thank you Obama for having the balls to speak against the old regimes, Democrat and Republican, and forging forward with a new vision we sorely need after more than half a century of irrational confrontations and bogus wars.
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by jessica092 July 24, 2007 8:21 PM PDT
In my opinion, Hilary Clinton won the debate hands down. She demanded the attention of the audience, having the strongest stage presence and the most thought-out and well articulated responses. Yet, I would have liked to see all the candidates address the United States%u2019 commitment to the United Nation%u2019s Millennium Development Goals, which call for cutting world hunger in half by 2015 and eliminating it altogether by 2025. Indeed, it is estimated that the expenditure of a mere $19 billion annually would eliminate starvation and malnutrition worldwide. In a time when the current defense budget is $522 billion, the goal of eradicating world hunger is clearly well within reach and it is my hope that whoever becomes president in 2008 addresses this pressing issue.
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by robertkjjj July 24, 2007 8:22 PM PDT
I still think it's funny that Barack's last name is almost the same as our country's current #1 enemy(Osama) and his middle name is the same as our former #1 enemy(Hussein).
If this country could truly elect someone named Barack Hussein Obama, that'd be more miraculous than creating nuclear fusion from a can of Reddi-wip.
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by name_verify July 24, 2007 8:23 PM PDT
Obama will eventually eliminate himself from consideration for any potential VP position or cabinet position. He doesn't get it yet.
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by nunesbras July 24, 2007 8:23 PM PDT
CLINTON IS RIGHT. NOT ONLY OBAMA (BIN LADEN) BUT ALL DEMOCRATS HOPEFUL ARE IRRESPONSIBLE..........
I have just one question for them:
WHY ARE YOU DEMS SO DESPERATE TO GET OUR TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ???????????
Maybe its because democrats dont have stomach for the war?
Maybe its because democrats want to protect the terrorists?
Maybe its because democrats are so scared that they just want to run away?
If our troops pull out of Iraq and Iran take control of middle east i have one more question for the democrats hopeful: WHERE ARE YOU GONNA GET THE OIL TO FUEL YOU LIMOUSINES AND TO MAINTAN OUR ROADS? FROM HUGO CHAVEZ?
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by tnt1954 July 24, 2007 8:23 PM PDT
as chief of the soviet secret service i
demand to be made president of the union
of soviet america, as communism is better.
we take care of rogues by eliminating them
permanently. like give them permanent vacations.
as in the song, my boyfriends back. and
there's gonna be trouble, big trouble.
red-fascism is much preferable than laissez-faire capitalism where the few kick back on 'interest'
while others work their tails to the bone.
thank god for soviet programs like ssi and medicaid. and the dea, fbi,cia, usss, navy, army,
marine corps, air force, or we'd all starve.
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by name_verify July 24, 2007 8:26 PM PDT
Imagine there's no liberals...
It isn't hard to do...
No poverty pimps or tax increases...
No terrorist apologists too...
You may say that I'm a dreamer...
But I'm not the only one...
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by tnt1954 July 24, 2007 8:28 PM PDT
joan mazon cordoba to soon star in 'pink
candy woman' coming to a theater near
you soon. you american maniacs can drool
as she dispenses poisoned candy to
millions of american teenagers with
her allies and wild *** parties too.
she can't wait to let loose. come
totally undone like a nun.
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by name_verify July 24, 2007 8:33 PM PDT
Can't wait for Hillary to get caught blurting out that Barak is a Magic Negro. She's almost already done it. Too funny.
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by grazinggoat July 24, 2007 8:40 PM PDT
That's a bold faced lie FeelFree1. We are fighting radical ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS participating in this EVIL JIHAD who are killing the INNOCENT IRAQIS who WANT THE FREEDOMS THAT WE ENJOY HERE IN THE USA. We are fighting EVIL JIHADISTS who are following the teachings of their prophet Muhammed in the Quran to kill and destroy all non-believers of Islam.
Posted by singinrick

-Hey sickrick, you look really upset at FF1. Tel me who has lied first about the WMDs in Iraq. It's your leader Walking-Liar Bush. Who made Al-Qaeda presence (if at all) in Iraq? -It's your iconic leader Walking-Liar Bush. Still waiting for you to denounce the lies of GWalking-Liar Bush. Can't do it can you?
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by feelfree1 July 24, 2007 8:44 PM PDT
stinkingprick,

I have already answered your idioitic question, but since you are apparently too lazy and helpless to check the thread for an answer, here it is again-

Re: "I sure would love to see you denounce radical islamic jihad on these boards for once."

I really couldn't care less about it. The unelected global terror network that has infected and infested our government, and the bootlicking, dead-brained Christian-Zionists and Corporatists that support them are, by far, the greatest threat to the U.S., to our Constitution, and to the rest of the world at the moment- no contest.

I have not seen you criticize the lie-based mass-murder of brown people yet, but I would not expect you to. You, and your hate-filled, blood-thirsty god seem to embrace it.

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As far as the rest of your comment goes, your stupidity is really self-debinking, in my opinion.
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by name_verify July 24, 2007 8:44 PM PDT
DNC Campaign News Update

Hillary: Barak is such a negro.

Barak: Hillary is such a ***.

End of debate. Commercial message to follow. Thank you for watching CBS.
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by feelfree1 July 24, 2007 8:48 PM PDT
screen_name,

We get it. You feel threatened by Negros and women. This is hardly a surprise. Try to sqeeze out some new material, or give it a rest.
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