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IndianaJones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:15 PM
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Did Obama take the opportunity last night to address the massive racial inequality in IA?
I missed the speech.
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:16 PM
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1. Huh? Why would he? NT
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:17 PM
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2. Oh, c'mon. Now you're not even trying.
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readmoreoften Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:18 PM
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3. It's the New Way. Hope. Change. Ready for Change. Hope Change Hope. Way. New. YOUNG PEOPLE!!!!
Change Hope Hope Change Audacity to Change Hope New YOUNG PEOPLE!!!!!! Youthful outlook. Change. Real Change. Ready for Real Change?
..........
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................. Yeah, I missed that too.
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:19 PM
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6. So there's Affirmative Action for states now?
:shrug:
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mrreowwr_kittty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:22 PM
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9. Not in mine, they banned it here.
And there's going to be yet another ballot initiative in AZ to forbid affirmative action. Just in case all the other laws about it didn't stick. :eyes:
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:25 PM
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12. I don't mean for colleges or business, etc. I mean for the population of a state!
I was being facetious. The OP is ridiculous.
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mrreowwr_kittty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:40 PM
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24. Me too.
There's a lot of ridiculous posts here today. It's turned into Sorelosers Underground.
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incapsulated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:25 PM
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14. lol n/t
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 01:24 PM
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32. LOL!
You're silly.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:19 PM
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4. Here's the speech
You can watch and hear for yourself. http://youtube.com/watch?v=yqoFwZUp5vc
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:24 PM
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10. maybe he doesn't have internet access
:shrug:
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malta blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:19 PM
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5. ? nt
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mrreowwr_kittty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:21 PM
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7. No, and he didn't promise a snuggly puppy and a sparkly pony to every sick child either
ZOMG!!1! NO PUPPIEZ OR PONIEZ!!!1!

:eyes:
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Azathoth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:21 PM
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8. No. Good thing Hillary spent most her speech addressing it, right?
Edited on Fri Jan-04-08 12:23 PM by Azathoth
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:24 PM
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11. Zing! nt
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KennedyGuy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:27 PM
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15. Hillary isn't running on it..
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Azathoth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:29 PM
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18. When did Obama start running on the "more black people for Iowa" platform?
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:30 PM
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20. LOL! And you forgot Kansas!
:rofl:
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ellacott Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 01:01 PM
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28. Obama's not either
What is wrong with you all?
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incapsulated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:25 PM
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13. After they gave him a win, are you kidding?
And who does?
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:27 PM
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16. Maybe he should've said, "There's not enough black people here. You should bus
some in."

:sarcasm:
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:29 PM
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17. WTF, is he Louis Farrakhan now, because he's a black candidate? Go away.
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Freddie Stubbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:30 PM
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19. Did Hillary?
:shrug:
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harun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:31 PM
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21. There is no racial inequality in IA (n/t)
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:31 PM
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22. I certainly hope not
That would have been innapropriate and a negative for him.
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goodhue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:36 PM
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23. no, he said it was time to turn away from division and toward addition
unity and all
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 01:04 PM
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29. Yeah, I think an angry-black-man speech would have been just the
ticket after an entire lily-white state voted for him.
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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:52 PM
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25. That would be like biting the hand that just fed you.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:54 PM
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26. No. Did Hillary take the opportunity to address the crisis in Darfur?
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 12:57 PM
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27. What an inane post.
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Sulawesi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 01:20 PM
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30. He also forgot that I-80 needs some re-paving about 15 miles east of Iowa City
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 01:21 PM
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31. Nice "post & run" to get people worked up.
hur hur hur.
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 01:29 PM
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33. Of course not. Everybody knows there's no black people in Iowa
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bullwinkle428 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 01:34 PM
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34. Yeah - I'll take pictures of all the "white" & "colored" bathroom facilities
when I have some time this weekend here in Iowa...


:eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:
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