Oh great, now Scarborough is pushing division by ageism.

Sparkly

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Fri Jan-04-08 09:17 AM
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Oh great, now Scarborough is pushing division by ageism.

Hillary Clinton shouldn't have Pres. Clinton with her, they say, because he looks old.

Her rally looks like people visiting an assisted living facility.

She looks old, and that says she's all about the past.

I understand the excitement of Obama's appeal to young voters, but THIS is ridiculous.

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Evergreen Emerald

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Fri Jan-04-08 09:19 AM
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1. What I noticed is that Hillary had the giants with her: Clark, Albright

Bill Clinton, and many others standing behind her. It was amazing the power she had standing with her.

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Fri Jan-04-08 09:26 AM
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3. That's part of her problem: she's talking about "change" with half the old Clinton admin behind her

Not a particularly convincing message.

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Fri Jan-04-08 09:28 AM
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4. I think her message is that she has the power to change the current

Edited on Fri Jan-04-08 09:34 AM by Evergreen Emerald

administration and the current course. We the people are so so so fed up with Bush and what he has done to this country that

250,000 democrats showed up to the caucus
and are dumping EVERYTHING--clean slate. The problem is that Obama is not change: look at his advisors, the ones that Clinton threw away!

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sshan2525

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Fri Jan-04-08 09:47 AM
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5. Wes Clark is one thing but Albright......

is strictly "Old School". No "change" there.

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Sparkly

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Fri Jan-04-08 09:51 AM
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6. So Albright should hide in a closet?

She's not the one running.

I don't think being older means not being able to address current challenges. Despite the people who claim nobody can ever "flip-flop," changing and adjusting in response to events is part of life.

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Evergreen Emerald

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Fri Jan-04-08 09:55 AM
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8. No! Albright is an awesome powerful person who has done

great things for our country. They just need to hone the message that we need powerful people to clean out Bush and his cocroaches who have settled in the White House.

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SHRED

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Fri Jan-04-08 09:21 AM
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2. Smokey Joe apparently hasn't paid attention to...

...the Republican side.

Talk about an "old" base....wow.

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Sparkly

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Fri Jan-04-08 09:52 AM
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7. Truly!!!

And I don't remember him saying Fred Thompson or John McCain were old fossils!

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Fri Jan-04-08 09:55 AM
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9. LOL ...

It is amazing with these right wing scumbags, that they just have NO concept of the inherent contradictions that lie in the BS they spew ... I mean, TOTALLY oblivious ...

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zbdent

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Fri Jan-04-08 10:59 AM
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15. Remember Katherine Harris' meeting with the Young Republicans?

remember, they looked like the new class of ... social security retirees ...

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stray cat

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Fri Jan-04-08 09:56 AM
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10. One group reminded me of history and the other the future

and I like both the Clintons. However, I had already lived through and read about the people on the stage.

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stillcool

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Fri Jan-04-08 10:23 AM
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11. I think that is a re-cycled Limbaugh...

Edited on Fri Jan-04-08 10:29 AM by stillcool47

line. Not very original...didn't seem to work the first time..but what they hey.
edit to add...

CBS Rips Rush: �Sexism Hits the Campaign Trail�
By Kyle Drennen | December 18, 2007 - 10:45 ET

Tuesday�s CBS "Early Show" led with co-host Julie Chen exclaiming: "Sexism hits the campaign trail as Rush Limbaugh asks if voters want to stare at an aging woman as president." This harsh accusation was in reference to comments made by Limbaugh during his radio show on Monday, in which he said: "Will Americans want to watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis? And that woman, by the way, is not going to want to look like she's getting older because it'll impact poll numbers, it'll impact perceptions."
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2007/12/18/cbs-rips-rush-sexism-hits-campaign-trail

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BeyondGeography

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Fri Jan-04-08 10:28 AM
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12. Scarborough is right on the visual impact of all those familiar (and tired) faces

they were hugely negative if she's thinking she can still align herself with the demand for change. I'm glad Obama went up to a podium and avoided that whole insider posse look that candidates usually go for. It makes you a prisoner of other people's identities.

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Sparkly

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Fri Jan-04-08 10:31 AM
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13. They always have supporters behind them.

I posted elsewhere that I don't think the "change" thing will work for her. Obama owns that one now.

But I dislike the idea that people ossify at some age, becoming rigid and inflexible with wrinkles.

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zbdent

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Fri Jan-04-08 10:58 AM
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14. so he goes and stumps for the geriatric old pervert party?

gee ...

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