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bigdarryl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 08:32 AM
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Why does the media keep calling Obama a INSURGENT candidate
I have noticed this reference over the last week with pundits getting on tv calling him this. he isnot a insurgent candidate in my opinion.
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 08:42 AM
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1. Because it fits their prewritten "narrative".
Which is to have a few shortlived challengers to their designated frontrunner, HRC, than to have the Beltway Dems throw its weight behind HRC and impose her as they imposed Kerry in '04, so that she can obediently lose to the GOP like Kerry basically agreed to when he decided not to fight back against the Swift Boaters.

It's about deciding the race in advance, and keeping the ruling class party in power while pretending to have this "liberal" bias we keep hearing about but never actually seeing(as the war coverage of the last four years demonstrates).
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 08:47 AM
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5. Not just the Swiftboaters, but also walking away from Election Fraud in Ohio. nt
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 08:51 AM
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8. Yeah, that too. Thanks for adding it.
n/t.
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 10:12 AM
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13. First...as we all know.
..he didn't just walk away from Ohio......
and Second...tabulating votes accurately is no longer a concern. If you would like to criticize the man who represents me in the US Senate, the one who has one of the most liberal voting records in said Senate, I believe you should come up with a new line.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stillcool47
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 03:30 AM
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15. OK, he listened to Carville's bullshit for twenty minutes, then gave up without a fight.
Same fucking difference and you know it.

And it was a metaphor for the whole campaign. The man NEVER ONCE fought back against a smear. People like me were begging him to the whole campaign and he listened to DUKAKIS campaign veterans instead.
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liberalnurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 08:42 AM
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2. I have never heard that term used regarding Obama.
Never....and I listen a lot.
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bigdarryl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 08:44 AM
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3. It was just on C-SPAN with some guess calling him this
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 08:49 AM
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6. I've heard it a number of times. Here's some written examples:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/25/289133.aspx

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17831592

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-kazin/surging-for-obama_b_57088.html
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 08:45 AM
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4. There's nothing insurgent about his money.
Edited on Sun Jan-13-08 08:45 AM by patrice
Hillary and Obama are The Money Machine covering its bets on opposite ends of the main issue spectrum: Iraq, with Hillary representing the entrenched powers that be and Obama representing a re-alignment of those same powers that be. (And IMO he came out way late and lite, way toooooo careful, against the Invasion of Iraq. But the fact is, NOW, the Occupation is going to be treated as an ENTIRELY separate issue from the Invasion, by HC and BO.)
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yungCaucasoid Donating Member (39 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 08:51 AM
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7. This is a *SPIN* word to dupe you into starting to view Obama, as...
unworthy of being in the loop, or circle, of viable candidates. It was kicked off, by him allowing Jesse Jackson Jr. to go off on a tangent with The Race Card he pulled.

The arms of big media that you hear calling Obama this, are the ones most pissed off re: the race card, being pulled.
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 08:55 AM
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9. Maybe a way to tie him to Al Qiada and the Iraq "insurgents"
which we are fighting!

So barak HUSSEIN OSAMA bin laden insurgent.

Sort of subliminal.
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ileus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:13 AM
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10. Because he’s a Muslim extremist….didn’t you get the E-mail???
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:23 AM
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11. The only one of the two definitions that Could fit makes little sense
"one who acts contrary to the policies and decisions of one's own political party"

So, it must be propaganda.
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NoBorders Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:39 AM
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12. Because Clinton was the presumed front-runner
And Obama has come from far behind and giving her serious competition. Just becuase he's won one primary doesn't erase the 'insurgent' nature of his campaign.
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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 10:39 AM
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14. It's not an insult to Obama
He's fighting a powerful political machine, a well-established force in American politics, the last Democratic presidency, bucking the Dem establishment. He is an insurgent.
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