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| The US 2008 Presidential Race; Obama v McCain-Let's Get Ready to Rumble | |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Mar 7 2008, 04:34 AM Post #521 |
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I just watched this video that Ron Paul just made today. Basically he is saying that his presidential campaign cannot hold a rally in DC. He was being round about from it but it sounded like to me what he is really saying is that the risk to his life is too high and he will most likely be assasinated if he does but he encourages his grass roots supporters to organize the march on washington themselves if they are so willing. that fucking sucks. I think many of his followers will probably organize the rally. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_vVaZxTno |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Mar 7 2008, 04:36 AM Post #522 |
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oh fucking A!!! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...503139.html?g=1 Jesus please stop this fucking man! He is evil spawn |
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| Denovissimus | Mar 7 2008, 05:14 PM Post #523 |
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Obama adviser resigns, called Clinton ‘monster’ Power told newspaper rival candidate stooping to low tactics LONDON - A Barack Obama adviser resigned Friday after calling rival Hillary Rodham Clinton "a monster." Samantha Power, an unpaid foreign policy adviser and Harvard professor, announced her resignation in a statement provided by the Obama campaign in which she expressed "deep regret." "Last Monday, I made inexcusable remarks that are at marked variance from my oft-stated admiration for Senator Clinton and from the spirit, tenor, and purpose of the Obama campaign," she said. "And I extend my deepest apologies to Senator Clinton, Senator Obama and the remarkable team I have worked with over these long 14 months." Power's interview Monday was published Friday in a Scottish newspaper, even though she tried to keep it from appearing in print. "She is a monster, too — that is off the record — she is stooping to anything," The Scotsman quoted her as saying. As U.S. news media picked up on the remark, Power issued a statement of apology and the campaign said Obama decried the characterization. The Clinton campaign held a conference call with several of the former first lady's congressional supporters calling for Power to be fired. "Senator Obama has called for change, and a new kind of politics," said New York Rep. Gregory Meeks. "This is the worst kind of politics." Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson noted that those involved in the Clinton campaign had been removed when they spoke of Obama's teenage drug use or helped spread the false rumor that the Illinois senator is a Muslim. He defended his own comparison of Obama to independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr, saying he'd been responding to "attacks" from the Obama campaign regarding Clinton's tax returns and real estate transactions. That, he said, was a clear reference to Whitewater and so it was appropriate to bring up Starr in that context. |
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| Denovissimus | Mar 9 2008, 07:19 AM Post #524 |
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Democrat Wins Hastert's Seat in Election Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert speaks to lawmakers on the Illinois... By DEANNA BELLANDI, AP 1 hour ago CHICAGO — A longtime Republican district fell to the Democrats Saturday when a wealthy businessman and scientist snatched former House Speaker Dennis Hastert's congressional seat in a closely watched special election. Democrat Bill Foster won 53 percent of the vote compared to 47 percent for Republican Jim Oberweis. With all 568 precincts reporting, Foster had 52,010 votes to Oberweis' 46,988. "Tonight our voices are echoing across the country and Washington will hear us loud and clear, it's time for a change," Foster told cheering supporters Saturday evening. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen said Foster's win is a rebuke of the Bush administration and of the GOP's apparent presidential nominee, John McCain, who helped raise money for Oberweis. "This is going to send a political shock wave across the country in this election year," Van Hollen said. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who made a TV ad praising Foster, said in a statement that voters "sent an unmistakable message that they're tired of business-as-usual in Washington." The National Republican Congressional Committee downplayed the significance of the loss and said the back and forth between Democrats for the presidential nomination shows that one election doesn't indicate a trend. "The one message coming out of 2008 so far is that what happens today is not a bellwether of what happens this fall," NRCC communications director Karen Hanretty said in a statement. Foster's special election win means he will fill the remainder of Hastert's term, which ends in January. The two will square off again in November, for a new, full term. Foster won a close Democratic primary by less than 400 votes for that race, although one challenger has initiated a re-count. Hastert, 66, lost his powerful post as speaker when Democrats took control of Congress. He resigned late last year. With Foster headed to Washington, the district will have a rookie congressmen after years of enjoying Hastert's clout. Hastert, who was the longest-serving Republican speaker in history, didn't finish his 11th term. During his two decades in Washington, he funneled millions of dollars to the district that stretches from Chicago's far western suburbs to almost the Mississippi River. During the campaign, Foster and Oberweis poked at each other with negative TV ads and clashed on issues from immigration and health care to the Iraq war. Both men turned to high-profile supporters to help sway voters. Obama for Foster; Oberweis had Hastert's backing. "I'm really disappointed that we came up second but that's where we're at," said Oberweis, whose name is synonymous with his family's dairy business and his financial management company. This is the latest election disappointment for Oberweis, who has lost primary races twice before for the U.S. Senate and once for Illinois governor. Foster, 52, worked for 22 years at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He got his start in business when as a young man he and his younger brother started a company that manufactures theater lighting equipment. Hastert's is one of three open seats in Illinois this year because of GOP retirements. Reps. Jerry Weller, who represents a district from the suburban sprawl south of Chicago to the farmland of central Illinois, and Ray LaHood of Peoria are also stepping down. Democrats' chances to pick up one of those seats improved when the Republican nominee to replace Weller dropped out of the race. In southeast Louisiana, voters cast ballots in two congressional districts Saturday to find replacements for longtime Republican congressman Richard Baker and newly elected Republican governor Bobby Jindal. In Jindal's old district, state Sen. Steve Scalise had about 48 percent of the vote in the pivotal GOP race. For the Democrats, Gilda Reed, a University of New Orleans adjunct professor, captured 70 percent of the vote. The GOP race winner will be the strong favorite to win Jindal's district because it leans strongly conservative. In Baker's old district, state Rep. Don Cazayoux had about 40 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary with 359 of 512 precincts counted. He appeared headed for a runoff with state Rep. Michael Jackson, who had 25 percent of the vote. On the GOP side, former state House member Woody Jenkins led with about 51 percent. This was the first time since the 1970s that Louisiana saw closed party primaries in federal elections. |
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| Denovissimus | Mar 9 2008, 07:23 AM Post #525 |
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I know this is Illinois politics but its wonderful! The ads between these two have been very negative and I am glad it is over for now, and that the Democrat Foster has won. It's big news because he is taking over the long time Republican seat from Dennis Hastart, who as the article stated was the long time Speaker of the House. That Oberweiss has run before, even for governor, and failed. I don't like him and I relish this latest failure for him. Hopefully come November he fails again and sticks to his dairy business and keeps out of politics. And yeah for Obama winning the Wyoming caucus! |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Mar 12 2008, 04:22 PM Post #526 |
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Obama won Mississippi!!! Rand Paul: Is the Revolution Over or Just Beginning? (3/10/08) by Rand Paul, MD | March 8, 2008 Reports that Ron Paul has quit the Presidential Race remind me of Mark Twain's famous "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." The Ron Paul Presidential campaign continues, albeit at a different pace. What does that mean? Ron Paul will continue to contest the remaining primaries. Ron Paul's name will be on all the remaining state ballots. Ron Paul volunteers are encouraged to become precinct captains, delegates to state and national conventions, and to try pass Constitutional proposals to each state's Republican platform. For example, volunteers in each state should try to attach amendments such as the following: Republicans believe that war should only be fought after a proper Declaration of War by Congress. Another possible platform idea is that: Republican Congressmen are expected to vote against any federal budget, Republican or Democrat, that is not balanced. Want to have some fun? Just imagine the fun when the debate begins on these ideas. Is Ron Paul still campaigning for president? Yes. Ron Paul has tentative plans to campaign in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. Ron Paul will also likely appear in other states that have remaining primaries. The press is reporting that Ron Paul has quit the race. This is not true. Ron Paul's video simply acknowledges that the campaign will continue but will also transform into additional activities such as education and supporting other candidates. In Kentucky we just held precinct conventions and Ron Paul Republicans won hundreds of precinct captains. In Kyle, Texas, Craig Young upset the establishment choice for Republican County Chairman. The Ron Paul Revolution lives on! Victory comes in many forms. Help shape what the Ron Paul revolution becomes. |
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| Denovissimus | Mar 13 2008, 06:57 PM Post #527 |
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I must say that the Democratics really fucked up with Michigan and Flordia. If they wanted to bump up their primaries so what? Let them! Well, they let them, but the denied them their delegates. Even though Clinton won them both, the votes don't count. Obama wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan. So now there is intense talk of finding a way to make the votes of those states count, and making their delegates count, just because Obama and Hillary are so close that by the convention it just may be unclear who the candidate is supposed to be, then the superdelegates make the decision. But overall, when the general election comes in November, the voters of Michigan and Flordia will remember what the Democrats did and they could very well switch to the Republican party, giving those states to McCain. Florida has traditionally voted Republican anyway but every damn state counts in this election and the Democratic National Party should have realized this before penalizing Michigan and Flordia like they did! End of political rant. |
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| Julesy | Mar 17 2008, 02:18 PM Post #528 |
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I thought this was funny if alot ignorant. [size=14] DMX ON BARACK[/size][/B] In a recent interview, XXLmag.com asked rapper (and fountain of knowledge) DMX about the presidential race. Are you following the presidential race? Not at all. You’re not? You know there’s a Black guy running, Barack Obama and then there’s Hillary Clinton. His name is Barack?! Barack Obama, yeah. Barack?! Barack. What the fuck is a Barack?! Barack Obama. Where he from, Africa? Yeah, his dad is from Kenya. Barack Obama? Yeah. What the fuck?! That ain’t no fuckin’ name, yo. That ain’t that nigga’s name. You can’t be serious. Barack Obama. Get the fuck outta here. You’re telling me you haven’t heard about him before. I ain’t really paying much attention. I mean, it’s pretty big if a Black… Wow, Barack! The nigga’s name is Barack. Barack? Nigga named Barack Obama. What the fuck, man?! Is he serious? That ain’t his fuckin’ name. Ima tell this nigga when I see him, “Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit” [laughs] “That ain’t your fuckin’ name.” Your momma ain’t name you no damn Barack. dumb ass |
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| Denovissimus | Mar 17 2008, 02:39 PM Post #529 |
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OMG what a dumb ass!
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| Julesy | Mar 17 2008, 02:43 PM Post #530 |
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are some people really that fucking oblivious? |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Mar 17 2008, 11:32 PM Post #531 |
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I mean, it’s pretty big if a Black… Wow, Barack! The nigga’s name is Barack. Barack? Nigga named Barack Obama. What the fuck, man?! Is he serious? That ain’t his fuckin’ name. Ima tell this nigga when I see him, “Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit” [laughs] “That ain’t your fuckin’ name.” Your momma ain’t name you no damn Barack. omg I am peeing my pants!!! Nah dumbass, his name is really Lamar Jackson!
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Mar 20 2008, 01:01 PM Post #532 |
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Paul slighted by the 'neoconservative' GOP By Ralph Z. Hallow March 19, 2008 Rep. Ron Paul said he will keep running in upcoming primaries. Ron Paul says the legions of newcomers his presidential campaign brought to the Republican Party are getting the cold shoulder from John McCain and from the party. The Texas congressman says neither he nor his supporters have heard from Mr. McCain or Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan since March 4, when the Arizona senator accumulated enough delegates to clinch the party's presidential nomination. "I don't think they want them," Mr. Paul told The Washington Times, adding that indifference doesn't surprise him because the party's establishment has deserted traditional conservative principles for big government and foreign intervention. "We don't agree with them," he says. "We agree with the Old Right, and they're the New Right, which is 'The Wrong,' [because] the New Right has morphed into neoconservative." Many of his 800,000 presidential nomination votes were from newcomers to the Republican Party — the kind of dedicated small-donor volunteers the party needs, he says. Mr. Duncan says he informed Mr. Paul that Mr. McCain had gone over the top on delegates but did not discuss how the party might hold onto Mr. Paul's supporters — and their potential future financial contributions. Only Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, has bothered to tell Mr. Paul that his supporters are welcome, and valued, in the party. Mr. Cole, an evangelical Christian who says he too once felt unwelcome in the party, confirmed in a separate interview that he wants to see Mr. Paul's supporters stay and help expand the party's ranks. Mr. McCain hasn't approached Mr. Paul's voters because Mr. Paul has not called to say he is ending his run, says McCain campaign senior adviser Charles Black. I think that most of Ron Paul's supporters who switched party lines (such as myself) only did so based on Ron Paul's principles, not the principles of the current republican party. Therefore, as long as the republican party remains neo conservative and does not return to the republican party's original origins, people like myself are not going to remain with the republican party and change their support to McCain or any other neocon. I only changed to republican so I can vote for Ron Paul, not so I could vote for any neocon. I give no support to any neocon. |
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| Noname | Mar 24 2008, 06:34 PM Post #533 |
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Fuck reuplican! The democrats are going to win! |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Mar 25 2008, 12:34 AM Post #534 |
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I really hope that McCain is not going to win but I dont know, I think he has a chance. Or they will just rig the election his favor, just like they did in Florida in 2000 and in Ohio in 2004 |
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| Denovissimus | Mar 26 2008, 02:42 AM Post #535 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meL9QFwVldw La Pequeña Hillary Clinton
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Mar 26 2008, 01:23 PM Post #536 |
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is that a midget woman or a midget man? I am saying that it is a man! |
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| Julesy | Mar 26 2008, 04:44 PM Post #537 |
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[size=14] OBAMA![/size] is a long legged pimp they play this on Stern and it always makes me LOL! at least the first 3 seconds http://pinkdome.com/archives/2008/03/obama_is_a_pimp.html |
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| Denovissimus | Apr 1 2008, 12:28 PM Post #538 |
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I've decided I'm sick of the fighting, the Democrats have ruined their chance at the presidency and I'm voting for McCain plain and simple. Mitt Romney knew when to step down for the interest of the party, Hillary does not and Obama won't even consider a vice presidency. So I'm on Team McCain! |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Apr 1 2008, 01:06 PM Post #539 |
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Hillary is being a total cunt. Step down already bitch!! And I dont blame Obama for not wanting to be her VP. After all the shit slinging she has done on him, I wouldnt be that bitch's vp either. But it doesnt matter cause he has more delegates and she needs to fucking give it up already! |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Apr 4 2008, 08:44 PM Post #540 |
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NYTimes.com 81% in Poll Say Nation Is Headed on Wrong Track Friday April 4, 6:38 pm ET By DAVID LEONHARDT and MARJORIE CONNELLY Americans are more dissatisfied with the country’s direction than at any time since the New York Times/CBS News poll began asking about the subject in the early 1990s, according to the latest poll. ADVERTISEMENT In the poll, 81 percent of respondents said they believed “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track,” up from 69 percent a year ago and 35 percent in early 2002. Although the public mood has been darkening since the early days of the war in Iraq, it has taken a new turn for the worse in the last few months, as the economy has seemed to slip into recession. There is now nearly a national consensus that the country faces significant problems. A majority of nearly every demographic and political group — Democrats and Republicans, men and women, residents of cities and rural areas, college graduates and those who finished only high school — say the United States is headed in the wrong direction. Seventy-eight percent of respondents said the country was worse off than five years ago; just 4 percent said it was better off. The dissatisfaction is especially striking because public opinion usually hits its low point only in the months and years after an economic downturn, not at the beginning of one. Today, however, Americans report being deeply worried about the country even though many say their own personal finances are still in fairly good shape. Only 21 percent of respondents said the overall economy was in good condition, the lowest such number since late 1992, when the recession that began in the summer of 1990 had already been over for more than a year. In the latest poll, two in three people said they believed the economy was in recession today. The unhappiness presents clear risks for Republicans in this year’s elections, given the continued unpopularity of President Bush. Twenty-eight percent of respondents said they approved of the job he was doing, a number that has barely changed since last summer. But Democrats, who have controlled the House and Senate since last year, also face the risk that unhappy voters will punish Congressional incumbents. Mr. Bush and leaders of both parties on Capitol Hill have moved in recent weeks to react to the economic slowdown, first by passing a stimulus bill that will send checks of up to $1,200 to many couples this spring. They are now negotiating over proposals to overhaul financial regulations, blunt the effects of a likely wave of home foreclosures and otherwise respond to the real estate slump and related crisis on Wall Street. The poll found that Americans blame government officials for the crisis more than banks or home buyers and other borrowers. Forty percent of respondents said regulators were mostly to blame, while 28 percent named lenders and 14 percent named borrowers. In assessing possible responses to the mortgage crisis, Americans displayed a populist streak, favoring help for individuals but not for financial institutions. A clear majority said they did not want the government to lend a hand to banks, even if the measures would help limit the depth of a recession. “What I learned from economics is that the market is not always going to be a happy place,” Sandi Heller, who works at the University of Colorado and is also studying for a master’s degree in business there, said in a follow-up interview. If the government steps in to help out, said Ms. Heller, 43, it could encourage banks to take more foolish risks. “There are a million and one better ways for the government to spend that money,” she said. Respondents were considerably more open to government help for home owners at risk of foreclosure. Fifty-three percent said they believed the government should help those whose interest rates were rising, while 41 percent said they opposed such a move. The nationwide telephone survey of 1,368 adults was conducted from March 28 to April 2. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points. When the presidential campaign began last year, the war in Iraq and terrorism easily topped Americans’ list of concerns. Almost 30 percent of people in a December poll said that one of those issues was the country’s most pressing problem. About half as many named the economy or jobs. But the issues have switched places in just a few months’ time. In the latest poll, 17 percent named terrorism or the war, while 37 percent named the economy or the job market. When looking at the current state of their own finances, Americans remain relatively sanguine. More than 70 percent said their financial situation was fairly good or very good, a number that has dropped only modestly since 2006. Yet many say they are merely managing to stay in place, rather than get ahead. This view is consistent with the income statistics of the past five years, which suggest that median household income has still not returned to the inflation-adjusted peak it hit in 1999. Since the Census Bureau began keeping records in the 1960s, there has never been an extended economic expansion that ended without setting a new record for household income. Economists cite a variety of factors for the sluggish income growth, including technology and globalization, and it clearly seems to have made Americans anxious about the future. Fewer than half of parents — 46 percent — said they expected their children to enjoy a better standard of living than they themselves do, down from 56 percent in 2005. Respondents were more pessimistic when asked in general terms about the next generation, with only a third saying it would live better than people do today. (Polls usually find people more upbeat about their personal situation than about the state of society, but the gap is now larger than usual.) Charles Parrish, a 56-year-old retired fireman in Evans, Ga., who now works a maintenance job for the local school system, said he was worried the country was not preparing children for the high-technology economy of the future. Instead, the government passed a stimulus package that simply sends checks to taxpayers and worsens the deficit in the process. “Who’s going to pay back the money?” Mr. Parrish, an independent, said. “We are. They are giving me money, except I’m going to have to pay interest on it.” Democrats have asserted recently that the lack of wage growth has made people more open to government intervention in the economy than in the past, and the poll found mixed results on this score. Fifty-eight percent of respondents said they would support raising taxes on households making more than $250,000 to pay for tax cuts or government programs for people making less than that amount. Only 38 percent called it a bad idea. Both Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidates, have made proposals along these lines. More broadly, 43 percent of those surveyed said they would prefer a larger government that provided more services, which is tied for the highest such number since The Times and CBS News began asking the question in 1991. But an identical 43 percent said they wanted a smaller government that provided fewer services. And although both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama have blamed trade with other countries for some of the economy’s problems, Americans say they continue to favor trade — if not quite as strongly as in the past. Fifty-eight percent called it good for the economy; 32 percent called it bad, up from 17 percent in 1996. At the same time, 68 percent said they favored trade restrictions to protect domestic industries, instead of allowing unrestrained trade. In early 1996, 55 percent favored such restrictions. |
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