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  balthus

  3 months ago

  What exactly does "alleviate Obama's bounce" mean? People who would otherwise support Obama won't, because McSame names his vice-president on one day versus another? If so, this is the hokiest, most media-driven nonsense since...well, since the last bit of hokum the media decided to spin as breathtaking news.
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  fostert

  3 months ago

  There's the other problem that McCain's VP choice might not be a positive media experience. Maybe he should roll that choice out on a Friday afternoon so nobody notices.
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  Kathy

  3 months ago

  August 29th, 2005 President Bush at Senator McCain's birthday party. New Orleans in crisis and underwater from Katrina and levee breaks.
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  Toby

  3 months ago

  Thank you Kathy. The real problem is his birthday will bring back photos of McCain celebrating his birthday with Bush while New Orleans drowned.
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  Obama suppter in purple state

  3 months ago

  I can just imagine Saturday Night Live.... "And today John McCain turns 72 years old, while his ideas turned 104 last wednesday.. "
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  Timmy

  3 months ago

  haha yeah. they should bring back dana carvey on snl and let him do his angry old man routine as mccain
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  balthus

  3 months ago

  In other news, this year's election is between a brilliant, charismatic, ethical young African-American committed to reaching across party lines to develop political consensus on the greatest challenges facing our nation, while righting many of the injustices and abject policy failures of the Bush administration and an old white man who finished near the bottom of his class, embraces the failed policies of the current administration, and whose campaign has consisted of flip-flops, "senior moments," histrionic sissy fits, and bogus smears against his opponent.
  
  McSame's veep pick. Who the hell cares? He's toast.
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  Dave

  3 months ago

  Can you sound any more racist?
  
  How has Obama ever reached across party lines?
  
  The race is between a racist black man with anger issues and his whitey Michelle vs an American war hero
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  NewCitizen

  3 months ago

  ha ha, way to go Dave, accuse someone else of being racist and then call Obama "racist" yourself (for no apparent reason) and then call Michelle "his whitey" -- if you're trying to undermine your credibility, "Mission Accomplished."
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  JS

  3 months ago

  While grandpa McCain is taking shots at Obama at the thought of talking to Iran, this a.m. on BBC news (the only place to get news) I heard that the European Union I going to have talks with Iran about its nuclear program. I guess McCain will make the US irrelevant.
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  Wayne

  3 months ago

  This says it all:
  
  http://www.slate.com/id/2193439/
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  Dave

  3 months ago

  So McCain is more wiser and experienced then Obama Hussein
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  Jake

  3 months ago

  If your going to be snide and make backhanded comments about Sen. Obama's middle name at least get it right; it would be Hussein Obama, not Obama Hussein. Although, admittedly either was it makes you sound like a douche bag.
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  HillaryDem

  3 months ago

  Um, isn't this post a little ageist?
  
  No, wait, scratch that. A LOT ageist?!!
  
  This is why I can't bring myself to vote for Obama. He takes veiled swipes at McCain (e.g., "I celebrate McCain's 200 years of service to this country!") based on his age, and isn't man enough to go toe-to-toe to him on the issues, without rampant obfuscation.
  
  Since I turned 21 (yes, I came of age before 18 was the legal voting age in the state I was living in), I have never sat out a presidential election. I have always voted reliably Democratic (except for 1984, when I admit I voted for Reagan--ick!).
  
  But I can in no way see myself voting for Obama, especially given that he defeated my favored candidate--Senator Clinton--by taking such staunchly liberal positions (which I happen to agree with!), and is now abandoning them all just to keep up his poll numbers.
  
  I'm so sad for the future of this country. I wanted an election based on the issues, not on who's the younger candidate. Sigh.
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  Tyke

  3 months ago

  Well lets see, since your "quote" from Obama is 100% made up and not even close to anything he actually ever said, and since NO ONE posting here, whether ageist or not, has ANYTHING to do with Obama or his campaign and his positions are what they have always been (just Republican spin says they are not - and it is a pack of lies)...
  
  
  your comment does not make one wit of sense
  
  unless you are just a Republican concern troll trying to stir stuff up. You're not doing well - your silliness is just too transparent.
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  balthus

  3 months ago

  Poor you. And this election is all about you, right? Not our servicepeople dieing in Iraq for nothing, not people who are losing their jobs, home and health care, not people being tortured or held in prison without recourse to legal counsel, or the poor people of New Orleans who suffered while McSame and Bush yucked it up.
  
  You go girl. Because what this country needs is one more self-centered, self-righteous twit who would forgo the opportunity to actually do something to change our country - and our planet - for the better, because your feelings got hurt.
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  Dave

  3 months ago

  People of New Orleans suffered because of their Mayor and Governor who are both Dems
  
  We are winning in Iraq! Defeatists like you need to leave this country if you do not want us to win. Traitor
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  Tyke

  3 months ago

  You might just try reading our constitution and bill of rights sometime. Demanding that citizens leave the country because they express their opinion is grotesquely unAmerican.
  
  Traitor
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  NewCitizen

  3 months ago

  Exactly, Tyke, well said - it's this love it or leave it (and flag pin) crap that has led the country, with GWB firmly in the lead, right down a isolationist, aggressive, bullying path -- throwing free speech and expression right out the window and causing the rest of the world to view us suspiciously. Patriotism can be just another form of aggression/jingoism...and our guy Dave here is exhibit A of all of that.
  
  You can love the country without having to threaten people or tell them to leave if they disagree with you, for god's sake, it's ridiculous.
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  NewCitizen

  3 months ago

  Stop your crying, it's pathetic. This post you find so offensive, by the way, wasn't written by Obama.
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