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Following one of the more unpredictable stretches of the primary campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama head into their first debate tonight in more than six weeks with different mandates.

Most polls show Clinton with a lead in Pennsylvania's April 22 primary, though not positioned for the kind of blowout win that pundits say she needs to significantly narrow the gap in pledged delegates or to signal a major momentum shift. With limited opportunities to alter the direction of the race, Clinton must aim to take advantage of the spotlight and continue to cast doubt about Obama's electability in November.

Heading into the debate after some of the toughest weeks of his campaign, Obama will have to lure back voters who may grown uneasy with his candidacy. He will likely have to explain, yet again, what he meant when he told donors in San Francisco last week that Pennsylvanians are “bitter” over their economic circumstances and “cling” to religion and guns. And he may also have to revisit his relationship with his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, another controversy that erupted since Obama and Clinton last debated in February.

“He has to decide if he wants to play it safe because it is probable that he will be the nominee or he wants it to end,” said Larry Ceisler, a Philadelphia public affairs consultant. “She has to swing for the fence. She may not have any other opportunities.”

Indeed, after more than 20 debates in 15 months of campaigning, there are no more scheduled for the primary season. Clinton agreed to an April 27 debate in North Carolina, but Obama has not yet committed, telling a local newspaper that their nationally-televised meetings are less informative than his town hall events.

The campaign has taken several twists and turns since March 4, when Clinton won Ohio, Rhode Island and the Texas popular vote, and Obama won Vermont. And Wednesday’s debate may keep the focus on some of themes that have dominated the campaign storyline over that six-week period- Obama’s small-town remarks and his former pastor; Clinton’s debunked Bosnia story -rather than on major policy differences, which have minimized over the course of the primary season.

Obama was holed up Tuesday night in his Philadelphia hotel, prepping for the debate. Aides said the Illinois senator will continue to defend the gist of his remarks by arguing that it is his rivals who are out of touch.

His wife, Michelle, joined his defense at a stop Tuesday in suburban Philadelphia, offering details of their modest upbringings as a way to deflate the charges of elitism.

“There’s a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that,” Michelle Obama told a gathering at Haverford College. “So let me tell you who Barack and I are, so you are not confused. Yeah, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens I grew up with. I am the product of a middle class upbringing, I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, in a working class community.”

Clinton must strike the right balance between challenging Obama on his “bitter” remarks and eliciting groans from the audience with her criticism, as she did Monday during an event in Pittsburgh - an awkward moment that now opens Obama’s latest Pennsylvania TV ad.

She may face questions about her retelling of a story, which she has since retracted, claiming that she landed in Bosnia in 1996 under sniper fire, and criticism from Obama about her accepting campaign contributions from registered lobbyists. Clinton has yet to come up with a strong counterpunch to Obama’s charges, which he is currently highlighting in a direct mail piece in Pennsylvania.

“Pennsylvania is a necessary condition for her to survive for the rest of the way,” said Christopher Borick, a pollster at Muhlenberg College in llentown. “If she ends up on election night with a 2- or 3-point win, she will have a nice celebratory speech and for practical purposes, she will have seen her campaign’s chances evaporate.

“Something has to break the dynamic,” he said. “I don’t know if she can do that in one debate, but if she is going to have the chance to move beyond Pennsylvania in a meaningful way - not just a desperation play - she has to move voters.”

By Carrie Budoff Brown
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by jockh April 16, 2008 9:29 AM PDT
Hillary Clinton is the GOP''s best asset
Karl Rove has been mothballed. The Swift Boaters have been decommissioned. But conservatives need not despair. The Republican presidential nominee won''t be needing their special political services this time around.
Because Hillary Clinton is doing their campaign dirty work for them.
Duck hunting, pistol packing, beer swilling Hillary says its me or no-one!
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by mudrose-2009 April 16, 2008 9:45 AM PDT
Effendi Snob-oma stepped on the third rail - guns and god. He''s dead.
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by kessiah-2009 April 16, 2008 9:51 AM PDT
10 Questions for Hillary during the debate
1. Who in the Clinton administration devised the plan to sell taxpayer-financed trade missions in exchange for campaign contributions to the Clinton-Gore 1996 re-election campaign? (Sworn testimony from Nolanda Hill, partner and confidante of the late Clinton Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, points to you as mastermind of the scheme.)
Read the rest of the questions at Four More Tears
http : // ak-elections2008. blogspot. com/
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by rowdytexan2 April 16, 2008 10:10 AM PDT
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/11/opinion/main4009369.shtml

All you have to do is read this, and Obama''s toast!
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by forthepeopl1 April 16, 2008 10:27 AM PDT
this is more important to debate, than this s/h/i/t/


if it aint MR. POTATOHEAD, LOOKS PRITTY SCARED DOENT HE. ITS FUNNY TO HAVE THIS INSIDER OF WALLSTREET HAVE SO MUCH POWER..


LISTEN IF THEY ( CONGRESS) WOULD DO THERE JOBS WE WOULDN''''''''T BE IN THIS MESS.

ANYONE THAT TOOK OUT LOANS FROM 2000 TO 2007
REGARDLESS OF WHAT THERE CREDIT LOOKS LIKE RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE OF THIS MESS MOST HAVE LOST THEIR GOOD RATING.


THEY NEED TO COME OUT AND TELL ALL MORTGAGE COMPANYS

TO RE-FI EVERYONE NOW. NO EXCEPTION IF THEY HAVE A
MORTGAGE THAN TAKE 60% OFF THE BALLANCE AND RE-FI THEM AT 1 PERCENT OVER PRIME AND STOP ALL THE BLEEDING FOR ONCE..THAT IS ALL THAT HAS TO BE DONE, SIMPLE,FAST,AND IT WOULD STOP ALL FORCLOSEINGS,BURNINGS OF HOMES,AND STOP 10''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''S OF MILLIONS FROM BEING ON THE STREET..

THIS IS MORE INPORTANT, THAN THIS ***.

OR HOW ABOUT REPORTING THAT WE THE PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW THIS FROM CLINTON AND MCCAIN. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SAY TO THE 374,298 AMERICANS DEAD,HURT,MAIMED IN THIS WAR YOU SUPPOTED FROM THE START..HOW ABOUT ASKING THEM THIS


TIME TO MARCH DOWN AND TAKE THEM OUT..
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by PulSamsara April 16, 2008 10:28 AM PDT
Barack Obama for President of the UNITED States of America.
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by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 10:38 AM PDT
www.huffingtonpost.com

Titled: Bill-Clinton-Flashback

Then Bill Clinton must be a Snobbish, White- Elitist- Racist...Huh

Bill Clintons words are far Worse, Wheres Your... Outrage !!

As the rumination continues over Barack Obamas comments about Economically-Depressed small town voters, statements made by Bill Clinton on the same topic --

Uttered while he was running for president in 1991 -- have now surfaced.

"The reason (George H. W. Bushs tactic) works so well now is that you have (All these Economically Insecure White People) who are Scared to Death," ...

Clinton was quoted saying by the Los Angeles Times in September 1991.

A couple months later, Joe Klein, writing for the Sunday Times, reported that Clinton made the following remarks...


Bill Clinton 1991: They find the (Most Economically Insecure White Men) and Scare the Living Daylights out of them !!
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by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 10:40 AM PDT
Call me, when Hillary Clinton EVENS Obama or better still, when Clinton SURPASSESS Obama...

Until that Majical, Mystical, Majestical Moment Happens...You People are Blowing Sand out Your...A!!


Total Delegate Count

Democrats | 2,025 Needed to Clinch

OBAMA 1,634

CLINTON 1,495

EDWARDS 18

Republicans | 1,191 Needed to Clinch

MCCAIN 1,241

HUCKABEE 231

ROMNEY 149

CBS News estimates. Includes super delegates.

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by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 10:43 AM PDT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gBO137t79k


The Clintons are 1000% Elitist and Bill Clinton has said far Worse about Rural People !!

H. Clinton, Titled Liar, Watch her Squirm when Tim Russert Bust Her A!! on Lie after Lie !!

Clintons Fleecing the U.S.A. while they get Rich and become Vacationing Family Friends with the Bush Family...Fact


Noone wants another Lying Clinton in the Oval Office !!

Bill Clintons Saudi Arabian & United Arab Emirates (Dubai Ports Dealing)

Bills Many Communist Chinese Ties (Norman Hsu & other Communist China Deals)

The (Elitist) Offshore Cayman Island Account.

The (500 Million Dollar Arab Chaired, Financed & Supported) Bill Clinton Library !!

Bill & Hillary (109 Million Dollar Bank Roll) Elitist Money.

Bill Clintons: Dubai (United Arab Emirates) Business Partnership, that Bills says he will End or Dissolve ONLY(IF) Hillary Wins the Presidency...

Only then, will Bill Dissolve this Dubai (United Arab Emirates Partnership)



Note Saudi Arabia & United Arab Emirates Countrymen Piloted the (911 Attacks) on American soil...

Big Note: Double Standards, when it comes to whose in Really in Bed with the Arab World !!

If Barack Obama had such Business Dealings with such people, the Mass Media & The Whites Only in the White House Racist, would be having a Field Day !!

But Bill & Hillary are White & Christian, they can F--K You and this Great Country, their White !!
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by rjudy3 April 16, 2008 10:44 AM PDT
Michelle Obama is so full of s--t, she tries acting white but does''nt know the feeling(how could she). Ask her who all her friends are?
I''m not even worried about it, the Obama''s will never be the occupants of the White House. Not because their black(I''d rather see sharpton in there) because they do not like America.
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by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 10:45 AM PDT
If Youre not Bitter, then Get on your Hands & Knees and give Thanks To the Bush (Sr. & Jr.) & the Clinton Administrations for what theyve done for You and this Great Country..

Then Vote for Hillary Or McCain, for More of the Same !!


1. 4009 Killed in Action US Men & Women

2. Thousands of US Soldiers that have legs and arms Dis-Membered or Amputated in the Iraq War !!

3. The over 100,000 innocent Iraqi Citizens killed under False Pretenses (WOMD)

4. Over 12 Billion Dollars per month to fund this Occupation !!

5. The Very Devalued Dollar Bill !!

6. The High Unemployment Rate.

7. All Time High Il-Legal Immigration !

8. All Time High Forecloures !!

9. High A!! Gas Prices !!

10. Canada, and Still Communist China & Viet Nam , Socialist India and Mexico getting Americans jobs.

Obama is Lying Huh

Then Dont Complain Then...

Dont Worry be Happy !!

PS: Get on your knees and thank George (NAFTA/NAU) Bush & Bill (NAFTA & COMMUNIST CHINESE CONNECTION) Clinton, for all the Good Times, Both Presidents have Brought America.

Reference Bill & Hillarys Norman Hsu China Connection.
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by perceptions5 April 16, 2008 10:46 AM PDT
Well it''s really starting to look like John McCains race to lose in November. Fresh polling data from Rasmussen says this"

"Wednesday, April 16, 2008

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows John McCain leading Barack Obama, 47% to 42%. The presumptive Republican nominee also leads Hillary Clinton 50% to 40%.

Among unaffiliated voters, McCain leads Obama by eight percentage points and Clinton by fifteen. Daily tracking results are updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time .

Overall, among all voters nationwide, McCain is viewed favorably by 55% and unfavorably by 42%. Obama%u2019s ratings are 47% favorable and 51% unfavorable. For Clinton, those numbers are 42% favorable, 56% unfavorable.

Among unaffiliated voters, McCain is viewed favorably by 55%, Obama by 47%, and Clinton by 34%."

And there you have it.
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by mike71067 April 16, 2008 10:53 AM PDT
Hillary just won an endorsement from the AFL-CIO.

Obama is looking weaker and weaker every time he opens his trap.
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by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 10:57 AM PDT
Michelle Obama ''Acting White'' you sound like some Relic from 40''s !!

I''d take Michelle''s well Earned and Deserved, Princeton & Harvard Degrees with Honors over any Academic accomplishments or achievements, you''ve ever made in your lifetime...Anyday of the Year !!




She was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois and then educated at Princeton University and Harvard Law School.


Education A.B. in Sociology with C-m Laude Honors, J.D.

Alma Mater: Princeton University &
Harvard Law School

Occupation: Vice President for Community and External Affairs at University of Chicago Hospitals



She returned to Chicago after completing her formal education to work for the law firm Sidley Austin, on the staff of the Mayor of Chicago Richard M. Daley, and for the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Hospitals.


She was raised in a conventional 2-Parent Home where the family convened around the dinner table nightly. She and her brother, Craig (who is 16 months older), SKIPPED the 2ND GRADE.

Michelle graduated from Whitney Young High School in 1981 and went on to major in Sociology and Minor in African American studies at Princeton University, where she graduated C-m Laude with an Artium Baccalaureus in 1985.

Note: She obtained her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1988.
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by perceptions5 April 16, 2008 10:57 AM PDT
Hillary just won an endorsement from the AFL-CIO.

Obama is looking weaker and weaker every time he opens his trap.

Posted by mike71067
--------------------------
Wow! that''s big news I wonder why CBS hasn''t posted that.

And again, when a "superdelegate" came out for Hillary yesterday...............it got virtually no press...........yet when one comes out and supports Obama it gets "major" press.

Do you think our mostly liberal MSM wolfpack press is "still" in the tank for Obama?
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by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 10:58 AM PDT
Call me, when Hillary Clinton EVENS Obama or better still, when Clinton SURPASSESS Obama...

Until that Majical, Mystical, Majestical Moment Happens...You People are Blowing Sand out Your...A!!


Total Delegate Count

Democrats | 2,025 Needed to Clinch

OBAMA 1,634

CLINTON 1,495

EDWARDS 18

Republicans | 1,191 Needed to Clinch

MCCAIN 1,241

HUCKABEE 231

ROMNEY 149

CBS News estimates. Includes super delegates.
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by perceptions5 April 16, 2008 10:58 AM PDT
Michelle graduated from Whitney Young High School in 1981 and went on to major in Sociology and Minor in African American studies at Princeton University, where she graduated C-m Laude with an Artium Baccalaureus in 1985.

Note: She obtained her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1988.

Posted by Omaar-101 at

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She sounds like an "elite".

Where am I wrong?
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by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 11:04 AM PDT
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/steelers/s_562310.html?source=rss&feed=9

Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney today Endorsed Sen. Barack Obama in this open letter:

Dear Fellow Pennsylvanian,


Based on the experiences that I have had in my seventy-five years and my assessment of what I think our nation needs to make real the change that is so needed, I am proud and now feel compelled to endorse ...Senator Barack Obama.

This is not something that I do regularly but as I listen to the candidates in this race, I am struck that we continue to hear about the problems and the same challenges that we have been talking about for decades.

Protecting jobs here in Pennsylvania, breaking our dangerous and costly addiction to foreign oil, making health care accessible and affordable " these are neither new issues nor new ideas. And yet we have failed to make real progress.

Senator Obama has rejected the Say-And-Do Anything Tactics that puts Winning Elections Ahead of Governing The Country. And he has Rejected the back-room politics in favor of opening government up to the people.

Barack Obama is the one candidate in this race who can finally put an end to business as usual in Washington and bring about real change for Pittsburgh and the country as a whole.

Note: True sports fans know that you support your team even when they are the Underdogs. Barack Obama is the Underdog here but it is with great pride that I join his team.

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by taddles-2009 April 16, 2008 11:05 AM PDT
"You would think with all those opportunities she would be proud of America.

Posted by trapbreak at 10:59 AM : Apr 16, 2008"


Still beating that dead horse?...one would think you would have more intelligent things to discuss, guess I was wrong.
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by taddles-2009 April 16, 2008 11:08 AM PDT
"She sounds like an "elite".

Where am I wrong?

Posted by perceptions5 at 10:58 AM : Apr 16, 2008"


I suppose in your little world anyone who went to Harvard is an "elite". Guess it doesn''t matter where they came from does it.
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by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 11:10 AM PDT
Again...

Please do Call me, when Hillary Clinton EVENS Obama or better still, when Clinton SURPASSESS Obama...

Until that Majical, Mystical, Majestical Moment Happens...You People are Blowing Sand out Your...A!!


Total Delegate Count

Democrats | 2,025 Needed to Clinch

OBAMA 1,634

CLINTON 1,495

EDWARDS 18

Republicans | 1,191 Needed to Clinch

MCCAIN 1,241

HUCKABEE 231

ROMNEY 149

CBS News estimates. Includes super delegates.
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by taddles-2009 April 16, 2008 11:10 AM PDT
"40% of the delegates, the super-delegates, 800 of them, aren''''t committed yet.

Posted by trapbreak at 11:04 AM : Apr 16, 2008"



40% of 795 is 311. That''s all the delegates that are left undecided.
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by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 11:15 AM PDT
Michelle''s Father Earned $45K+ in the 60s

Middle Class: Michelle''s Family was lower Middle Class, she earned a Scholarship (Academic)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gBO137t7

9k

Michelle was Born & Raised on the South Side of Chicago..D!ck Head..

The Badest, Poorest & Meanest part of Chicago !! Ask Jim Croce and go Visit, Michelle''''s Elitist neighborhood ...Please, by all means.



The Clintons are 1000% Elitist and Bill Clinton has said far Worse about Rural People !!


Clintons Fleecing the U.S.A. while they get Rich and become Vacationing Family Friends with the Bush Family...Fact




Bill Clintons Saudi Arabian & United Arab Emirates (Dubai Ports Dealing)

Bills Many Communist Chinese Ties (Norman Hsu & other Communist China Deals)

The (Elitist) Offshore Cayman Island Account.

The (500 Million Dollar Arab Chaired, Financed & Supported) Bill Clinton Library !!

Bill & Hillary (109 Million Dollar Bank Roll) Elitist Money.

Bill Clintons: Dubai (United Arab Emirates) Business Partnership, that Bills says he will End or Dissolve ONLY(IF) Hillary Wins the Presidency...

Only then, will Bill Dissolve this Dubai (United Arab Emirates Partnership)



Note Saudi Arabia & United Arab Emirates Countrymen Piloted the (911 Attacks) on American soil...



If Barack Obama had such Business Dealings with such people, the Mass Media & The Whites Only in the White House Racist, would be having a Field Day !!



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by pepperp1 April 16, 2008 11:16 AM PDT
MY Question for Obamma

Senator Obama like Rev Wright your comments about rural PA voters displays the same paranoid extremist beliefs espoused by Rev Wright that it is our United States Government as Predator who so Victimized rural voters that they now CLING to their victim hood and this renders them incapable of assessing your particular greatness.



Senator why would we the America People want another President with delusional paranoid tendencies?
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by taddles-2009 April 16, 2008 11:16 AM PDT
"just saying she''''s not some typical black girl from the inner city.

Posted by ccfsdca at 11:09 AM : Apr 16, 2008"



By typical you mean poverty stricken? Her claim is that she came from the south side of Chicago from a middle class family. What part of her claim do you dispute? Or is it the fact that she was not destitute so she wasn''t poor enough. But then she earned her way to Harvard so she must actually be an elitist.
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by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 11:17 AM PDT
Dean has said, that he knows Barack Obama where a large number of the Delegates are going to give their approval too and its NOT Hillary Clinton !!

Again...

Please do Call me, when Hillary Clinton EVENS Obama or better still, when Clinton SURPASSESS Obama...

Until that Majical, Mystical, Majestical Moment Happens...You People are Blowing Sand out Your...A!!


Total Delegate Count

Democrats | 2,025 Needed to Clinch

OBAMA 1,634

CLINTON 1,495

EDWARDS 18

Republicans | 1,191 Needed to Clinch

MCCAIN 1,241

HUCKABEE 231

ROMNEY 149

CBS News estimates. Includes super delegates.

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by taddles-2009 April 16, 2008 11:18 AM PDT
"Senator why would we the America People want another President with delusional paranoid tendencies?

Posted by pepperp1 at 11:16 AM : Apr 16, 2008"


Stupid question, but not unexpected from you.
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by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 11:21 AM PDT
MY Question for Obamma

Senator Obama like Rev Wright your comments about rural PA voters displays the same paranoid extremist beliefs espoused by Rev Wright that it is our United States Government as Predator who so Victimized rural voters that they now CLING to their victim hood and this renders them incapable of assessing your particular greatness.

Answer: www.huffingtonpost.com


Bill-Clinton-Flashback

Then Bill Clinton must be a White- Elitist- Racist...Huh

Bill Clintons words are far Worse, Wheres Your... Outrage !!

As the rumination continues over Barack Obamas comments about Economically-Depressed small town voters, statements made by Bill Clinton on the same topic --

Uttered while he was running for president in 1991 -- have now surfaced.

Bill Clinton: "The reason (George H. W. Bushs tactic) works so well now is that you have (All these Economically Insecure White People) who are Scared to Death," ...

Clinton was quoted saying by the Los Angeles Times in September 1991.

A couple months later, Joe Klein, writing for the Sunday Times, reported that Clinton made the following remarks...


Bill Clinton: They find the (Most Economically Insecure White Men) and Scare the Living Daylights out of them !!



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by hoopakai April 16, 2008 11:21 AM PDT
Obama''s comments about "small town" people really aren''t that offensive. Not only were they taken out of context but as someone who has lived in a small town, I can say with conviction that what he said is true. It''s not a condescending thing to say. Politicians like HRC should stop telling us how we should feel about comments. That, to me, is much more condescending.
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by tawpdawg11 April 16, 2008 11:22 AM PDT
She better have been working to stack the crowd in her favor somehow, ala Bush and McBush staged appearances. It would look bad if she got jeered again in front of a HUGE national TV audience every time she tries to kick Obama in the ballz.
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by ringading3 April 16, 2008 11:26 AM PDT
The Democrats have lost the South by putting up these two candidates. No true Southerner would vote for Osama or HilBilly.
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by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 11:29 AM PDT
MY Question for Obamma

Senator Obama like Rev Wright your comments about rural PA voters displays the same paranoid extremist beliefs espoused by Rev Wright that it is our United States Government as Predator who so Victimized rural
voters that they now CLING to their victim hood and this renders them incapable of assessing your particular greatness.

How about Bill & Hillary Clintons Mentor...

Mr. James William Fulbright: Anti-Afro American & Anti- Semite...Hmmm


Answer: For MOST of HIS LIFE and PUBLIC SERVICE, Fulbright was a supporter of Racial Segregation.

He signed The Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court''s historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.

He subsequently joined with the (Dixiecrats) in filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as voting against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.


Big Note: In 1963 testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Fulbright claimed that five million tax-deductible dollars from philanthropic Americans had been sent to Israel and then recycled back to the US for distribution to organizations seeking to influence public opinion in favor of Israel. This statement led to friction with the organized Jewish community in the U.S.

Previously the same year Anti-Defamation League, the leading Jewish Defense organization, claimed that Fulbright was "CONSISTENTLY UNKIND TO ISRAEL and our SUPPORTERS in this country".

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by taddles-2009 April 16, 2008 11:32 AM PDT
"Obama''s comments about "small town" people really aren''t that offensive.

Posted by hoopakai at 11:21 AM : Apr 16, 2008"


Not considering that his comments were true. What''s really annoying is the claptrap apologists and attack dogs who claim his comment was elitist.

What''s Elitist is the arrogance of the Obama attackers in not acknowledging that the middle class in this country has been getting screwed for the past 30 years. Our Governments pandering to business interests at the expense of working people has f**ked over an entire generation. Middle class incomes have increased 40%-50% over the past 30 years while food, cars and homes have all increased in costs by 600%-700%. In that same time the incomes of the wealthiest 5% has increased by 1600%.

This country has been riding on the backs of working people for 30 years and for once someone in Government is standing up and taking notice that we are getting screwed rather than trying to throw us another measly bone.
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by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 11:33 AM PDT
Missippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana & Most Mid Western States are Southern in Heritage & Lifestyle and Obama has won in these States and he will WIN in North Carolina..Too

Again...

Please do Call me, when Hillary Clinton EVENS Obama or better still, when Clinton SURPASSESS Obama...

Until that Majical, Mystical, Majestical Moment Happens...You People are Blowing Sand out Your...A!!


Total Delegate Count

Democrats | 2,025 Needed to Clinch

OBAMA 1,634

CLINTON 1,495

EDWARDS 18

Republicans | 1,191 Needed to Clinch

MCCAIN 1,241

HUCKABEE 231

ROMNEY 149

CBS News estimates. Includes super delegates.
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by taddles-2009 April 16, 2008 11:33 AM PDT
"i don''''t think any of them are ''''elitists'''' by birth - perhaps by personality, but if so, to some extent, they all are.

Posted by ccfsdca at 11:25 AM : Apr 16, 2008"



Fair enough.
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by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 11:34 AM PDT
Missippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana & Most Mid Western States are Southern in Heritage & Lifestyle and Obama has won in these States and he will WIN in North Carolina..Too

Add in Texas, Obama Won that State also !!

Again...

Please do Call me, when Hillary Clinton EVENS Obama or better still, when Clinton SURPASSESS Obama...

Until that Majical, Mystical, Majestical Moment Happens...You People are Blowing Sand out Your...A!!


Total Delegate Count

Democrats | 2,025 Needed to Clinch

OBAMA 1,634

CLINTON 1,495

EDWARDS 18

Republicans | 1,191 Needed to Clinch

MCCAIN 1,241

HUCKABEE 231

ROMNEY 149

CBS News estimates. Includes super delegates.
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by mrmazerati April 16, 2008 11:34 AM PDT
I''m in a small town. Obama hit it on the head. Not very diplomatic, mind you, but pretty much the truth.
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by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 11:36 AM PDT
The Clintons are 1000% Elitist and Bill Clinton has said far Worse about Rural People !!


Clintons Fleecing the U.S.A. while they get Rich and become Vacationing Family Friends with the Bush Family...Fact




Bill Clintons Saudi Arabian & United Arab Emirates (Dubai Ports Dealing)

Bills Many Communist Chinese Ties (Norman Hsu & other Communist China Deals)

The (Elitist) Offshore Cayman Island Account.

The (500 Million Dollar Arab Chaired, Financed & Supported) Bill Clinton Library !!

Bill & Hillary (109 Million Dollar Bank Roll) Elitist Money.

Bill Clintons: Dubai (United Arab Emirates) Business Partnership, that Bills says he will End or Dissolve ONLY(IF) Hillary Wins the Presidency...

Only then, will Bill Dissolve this Dubai (United Arab Emirates Partnership)



Note Saudi Arabia & United Arab Emirates Countrymen Piloted the (911 Attacks) on American soil...



If Barack Obama had such Business Dealings with such people, the Mass Media & The Whites Only in the White House Racist, would be having a Field Day !!
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by hoopakai April 16, 2008 11:37 AM PDT
"Obama''''s comments about "small town" people really aren''''t that offensive.

Posted by hoopakai at 11:21 AM : Apr 16, 2008"


Not considering that his comments were true. What''''s really annoying is the claptrap apologists and attack dogs who claim his comment was elitist.

What''''s Elitist is the arrogance of the Obama attackers in not acknowledging that the middle class in this country has been getting screwed for the past 30 years. Our Governments pandering to business interests at the expense of working people has f**ked over an entire generation. Middle class incomes have increased 40%-50% over the past 30 years while food, cars and homes have all increased in costs by 600%-700%. In that same time the incomes of the wealthiest 5% has increased by 1600%.

This country has been riding on the backs of working people for 30 years and for once someone in Government is standing up and taking notice that we are getting screwed rather than trying to throw us another measly bone.

Posted by taddle

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Exactly!
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by hoopakai April 16, 2008 11:39 AM PDT
What Obama said about small towns was the truth and the attention the blown-out-of-proportion comments are getting is absurd. Frankly, it''s more degrading to be told how to feel about comments by HRC.
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by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 11:39 AM PDT
If Youre not Bitter & if Obama is lying about what he said.. Then you should Get on your Hands & Knees and give Thanks To the Bush (Sr. & Jr.) & the Clinton Administrations for what theyve done for You and this Great Country.. then Vote for Hillary Or McCain, for More of the Same !!

1. 4009 Killed in Action US Men & Women

2. Thousands of US Soldiers that have legs and arms Dis-Membered or Amputated in the Iraq War !!

3. The over 100,000 innocent Iraqi Citizens killed under False Pretenses (WOMD)

4. Over 12 Billion Dollars per month to fund this Occupation !!

5. The Very Devalued Dollar Bill !!

6. The High Unemployment Rate.

7. All Time High Il-Legal Immigration !

8. All Time High Forecloures !!

9. High A!! Gas Prices !!

10. Canada, and Still Communist China & Viet Nam , Socialist India and Mexico getting Americans jobs.

Obama is Lying Huh

Then Dont Complain Then...

Dont Worry be Happy !!

PS: Get on your knees and thank George (NAFTA/NAU) Bush & Bill (NAFTA/COMM.CHINESE CONNECTION) Clinton, for all the Good Times, Both Presidents have Brought America.

Reference Bill & Hillarys Norman Hsu China Connection.
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by taddles-2009 April 16, 2008 11:40 AM PDT
"I''''m in a small town. Obama hit it on the head. Not very diplomatic, mind you, but pretty much the truth.

Posted by mrmazerati at 11:34 AM : Apr 16, 2008"


You own a Maserati and live in a small town? where do you get your weekly engine tune up done? ;o)
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by truth-hurts April 16, 2008 11:42 AM PDT
Oh, I agree Obama''s remarks about small town

people aren''t really that offensive.....

UNLESS YOU LIVE IN A SMALL TOWN!!!!!!
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by mrmazerati April 16, 2008 11:43 AM PDT
I live in a small town. I have an office in a very large city.
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by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 11:44 AM PDT
Hillary (Hussein) Clinton''s A!! is on the Mat and trying her Saddest, to get up from the Canvas and its Obama, thats in Trouble !!!


Missippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana & Most Mid Western States are Southern in Heritage & Lifestyle and Obama has won in these States and he will WIN in North Carolina..Too

Add in Texas, Obama Won that State also !!

Again...

Please do Call me, when Hillary Clinton EVENS Obama or better still, when Clinton SURPASSESS Obama...

Until that Majical, Mystical, Majestical Moment Happens...You People are Blowing Sand out Your...A!!


Total Delegate Count

Democrats | 2,025 Needed to Clinch

OBAMA 1,634

CLINTON 1,495

EDWARDS 18

Republicans | 1,191 Needed to Clinch

MCCAIN 1,241

HUCKABEE 231

ROMNEY 149

CBS News estimates. Includes super delegates.
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by truth-hurts April 16, 2008 11:46 AM PDT
NoMarr, Stop trying to link Hillary with Bush..There''s

no connection there at all. You do know that Bush is

a Republican and Hillary is a Democrate...don''t you??
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by taddles-2009 April 16, 2008 11:47 AM PDT
"oting for hussein is insane hahaha

Posted by terrorislamh at 11:40 AM : Apr 16, 2008"


Ahh, the freak show is back, I was almost missing your daily stinking pile of BS. So, what lies are you posting today, what garbage have you dredged up to spew on the forums so that we all know the "real" Obama. What little niche of your sick twisted little xenophobic racist mind are we touring today? Do you have some tasty little tid-bit pulled out of Mudroses Ph.D a$$ claiming that Obama is actually Hitler''s love child adopted by the KKK and then trained in a Madrass to be the next president so he can kill all white people and hand over the USofA to Osama Bin Laden who is actually his spiritual advisor??

Enquiring minds want to know...oops sorry, that''s the byline of your best source isn''t it.
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by truth-hurts April 16, 2008 11:48 AM PDT
***EDUCATE THE OBAMA FOLLOWERS!!!!!
BREAK THE OBAMA MIND TRICKS SPELL!!
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by nearl4511 April 16, 2008 11:48 AM PDT
What Hillary is looking to do tonight is to split the party and destroy any chance of a Progressive Democaratic wing ever having a voice again.

After tonight, the country will remember what it was that it did not like about the Clintons. Even those of us who appreciated many of the accomplishments that Bill made during his Presidency will be remember the dark side of money influences, win at all cost politics, and pitty-pat in the West Wing.

Expect Hillary to attempt to scold Obama as if he were a child or worse.

Every time Obama tries to have an "adult" conversation (e.g. on race, on why voters don''t respond to economics), he gets slammed.

So keep voting for those who tell you they''ll give you everything you want. Just ignore who greases their palms.
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by taddles-2009 April 16, 2008 11:49 AM PDT
"***EDUCATE THE OBAMA FOLLOWERS!!!!!
BREAK THE OBAMA MIND TRICKS SPELL!!

Posted by truth-hurts at 11:48 AM : Apr 16, 2008"


POST IN ALL CAPS CAUSE IT REALLY DOES MAKE YOUR PRINT LOUDER AND MUCH MUCH MORE IMPORTANT LOOKING SO THAT STUPID $HIT DOESN''T ACTUALLY LOOK SO STUPID.
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