Obama for President 2008

“You're just taking what he said out of context...honkey.”

“It is the double standard that is really the core of the issue. Rev Wright caught some heat for his comments, but a lot of people gave him a pass.

A person gets the label of racist, not for their actions, but the color of their skin.

I had to archive some of my best jokes, because of the color of my skin. And those were just the Polish jokes.”

“Hillary Clinton had a rally downtown Sunday afternoon and Obama had a "town hall" meeting monday on campus. Hillary gave a radio interview to our local talk radio station sandwiched in between CNN and fox news, but Obama hasn't even returned their calls requesting an interview.”

“Look at the fact it became such a big deal, if that doesn't tell the story better than the Revs clever verbal antics, nothing ever will. If Wright is so wrong, why are you all in such a tizzy?”

“Can't hold a shaky airplane together with wingnuts.”

“Some people are just so ate up.......”

“Poll: More Dems Dislike Rival Contender

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Democratic Party members increasingly dislike the contender they are not supporting in the bruising nomination fight, an Associated Press-Yahoo News survey and exit polls of voters show. That is raising questions about how faithful some will be by the November general election.

In the AP-Yahoo poll - which has tracked the same 2,000 people since November - Barack Obama supporters with negative views of the New York senator have grown from 35 percent in November to 44 percent this month, including one-quarter with very unfavorable feelings.

Those Obama backers who don't like Hillary Rodham Clinton say they would vote for Republican candidate John McCain over her by a two-to-one margin, with many undecided.

As for Clinton supporters, those with unfavorable views of Obama have grown from 26 percent to 42 percent during this same period - including a doubling to 20 percent of those with very negative opinions.

The Clinton backers with unfavorable views of Obama say they would vote for McCain over him by nearly three-to-one, though many haven't made up their minds.

"I'd be hard pressed" to vote for Obama, said April Glenn, 66, a Clinton supporter from Philadelphia, who said his handling of the controversy over the anti-American preachings of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, made her doubt his leadership skills. "I don't think he's capable."

Clinton backers who have taken a dislike to Obama have a sharply lower regard for his honesty and ethics than they did last fall, the poll shows. Obama supporters whose view of Clinton has dimmed see her as far less compassionate and refreshing than they did then.

Loyal Democrat Richard Somer says if Hillary Rodham Clinton gets his party's presidential nomination, he just may sit it out this Election Day.

A Barack Obama supporter, Somer says he has been repulsed by her use of "slimy insinuations" in the campaign. He especially disliked her attacking the Illinois senator for his relationship with William Ayers, a former Weather Underground radical with provocative views.

"She's better than that," said Somer, 72, a retired professor from Clinton, N.Y. He said he expects the Democrats to carry New York anyway, so he might not vote "as a protest to Mrs. Clinton."

Somer is not the only Democrat whose views of his party's rival candidate have soured.

The feelings seem especially widespread among the candidates' strongest supporters.

- About half of Obama's white backers with college degrees have negative views of Clinton. Fewer black Obama supporters dislike Clinton but their numbers have grown faster, more than doubling during the period to 33 percent.

- Among Clinton's supporters, Obama is disliked by nearly half the whites who have not gone beyond high school, a near doubling since November. Four in 10 white women backing her have unfavorable views of Obama.

Intensified passions during contentious intraparty fights are nothing new, and voters often return to the fold by the time the general election rolls around and people focus on partisan and issue differences.

"These are snapshots of today," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., a member of his party's congressional leadership who has not committed to Clinton or Obama. By autumn, he said, "the party will come together."

Yet with the battle between the two contenders threatening to stretch into June or beyond, some Democrats are wondering whether the party will have time to regain the loyalty of those whose candidate failed to win the party's nomination.

"If we can bring this to a conclusion by mid-June or something, I think that healing can take place," Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, who has been pressing party leaders to settle on a nominee quickly, said in an interview. "If it goes till late August, then it's a real problem."

........more........
http://wcbstv.com/national/democrat.candidate.rivalry.2.711036.html”

“Oh come on MarkO! LOL! We've endured nearly seven years of your Boogy Man Bush shtick. Ate up in deed....”

“Hey Stove Stomper, look who is bitter now.”

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“Come on Nigel, over seven years of Dubya and you still wanna have his baby!”

“I am back to respecting Obama again now that he has "divorced" that wacko Wright.”

“I am back to respecting Obama again now that he has "divorced" that wacko Wright. - creek dancer

How can you respect Obama after he supported Wright for 20 years, after having Wright perform his wedding ceremony, after being baptized by Wright, after going to his sermons, and then denouncing him as a "wacko"?

How can you respect someone who couldn't figure out the nature of a man who he'd been close to for 20 years? How do you expect him to size up leaders of foreign nations?

How can you respect Obama who has just stepped all over the very people who catapulted his political career? (Rev Wright and followers gave Obama his street cred, and quite literally made his political aspirations in Illinois a reality)

How can you respect Obama after he denounced his own grandmother as a "typical white person"? How can you respect that racist, bigoted language from a presidential candidate?”

“I respect that he finally stood up to this bully wacko. That doesn't mean I think he should be President.”

“I can no more disown [Wright] than I can disown the black community. - Obama

...unless it's politically expedient to do so.

Look for certain infamous personalities to say that it was white RACISM that was behind such a big outcry against wright that FORCED Obama to stab him and the black community in the back.
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“Eat some more yellow cake and shut up, all of you.”

“The only reason Obama disowned Write is because he was forced to by the media pressure. Had the Rev's comments never even come out he would have been eating Sunday dinner in the White House if Obama gets elected.”

“None of Obama's ancestors were slaves. Some of his ancestors owned slaves. Wright discovered that Obama was whiter than Hillary.”

“"Rev Wright and followers gave Obama his street cred, and quite literally made his political aspirations in Illinois a reality"
-Mutt

Any source for this?”

“I believe that wright doesn't want Obama to get elected because the only way that he CAN get elected is with major support from the White community. If that happens, everything Wright has been preaching (and made him a very rich man) would be proven wrong by an Obama presidency. If Obama loses, then Wright can keep preaching his hate speech using yet another example of how a black man was destroyed by the white system.

Irony is that if he loses the nomination, it will be because of the Black system.”

“I don't know about that Hiway. If Obama makes it to the Convention with the popular vote and loses, it will be the good ol' boy network that costs him the election.”

“Hillary was a Young Republican when she entered college.”

“Any source for this? - violin

Is there really any doubt? Obama ran for the state senate from Chicago's south side, utilizing in no small part the support from Wright and the congregation. Are you saying that's not a fact?”

“Hillary was a Goldwater Republican, which has nothing to do with whatever the present issue is supposed to be.”

“Little difference.....tax whackos, upper class favoritism, war-mongering, etc.”

“Your State of choice and locals of choice should satisfy, not the USA. Get the USA out of of not only it's own citizens business, but the whole worlds business. That is all.”

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“And the Democrats are stuck with him as their nominee.”

“Not yet Stovie, Hillary's makin' a deal with Jeremiah.”

“UPI Top News
Report: Obama avoids black neighborhoods

......more.......
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/05/02/report_obama_avoids_black_neighborhoods/5582/”

“And UPI is owned by Sun Myung Moon, the America-hating preacher that the right just loves.


hmmm...
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“so he's not avoiding them?”

“Maybe Obama is following his preacher's footsteps; you know, the guy that talks about the evil white people but lives in a gated white community.”

“Ha Ha! violin didn't read.”

“Establishing and maintaining social relationships in the second half of life can help add to a feeling of well-being or life satisfaction.

I find that I have more good friends to whom I feel close with now than I ever had when my family was young.

Life is good.”

“Stovie, your last political cartoon is worth more than a thousand words.”

“He's just yet another lying democrat.
He's no different than the rest of them.”

“he would win if the election were held tomorrow”

“Wait until the Obama vetting starts.”

“they said that about bill clinton and he was in office for 8 years...”

“I simply don't understand the left. Bush was so UNconservative and spent so much money on some of the left's favorite causes (READ: money eating ratholes) like education yet they complain about his spending too much. All the while propping up someone who's going to spend even more than Bush did.

What up wit dat?”

“the left = hate

simple as that - nothing else to understand”

“No more than the right hates but it's the inconsistencies that baffle me. Every political stripe has them but the left seem to be markedly oblivious to it.”

““they said that about bill clinton and he was in office for 8 years...”

Bill Clinton was much closer to the political center than far, far, left Barack Obama.

Obama was ranked the most liberal senator for 2007 by his votes.

Obama is on record as being in favor of banning all firearms.

Obama once voted against a bill making it illegal for a doctor to kill a baby born alive.


The Democrats are stuck with Obama. Wait until the vetting really begins. Hillary Clinton will look like a George Washington by comparison.”

“the right may hate, there is such a thing as righteous anger, but the left = hate, they are defined by it.”

“For me the difference between the left and the right, especially towards the extremes of each (and their are exceptions to this) is that the Right tends to look down on those with differing opinions as sadly misinformed and/or lazy bums with their hand out, while the left passionately hates people who disagree with them and think of them as evil.”