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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 04:19 PM
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Poll question: Should Barack Obama call for Eliot Spitzer's resignation?
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 04:21 PM
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1. Why would he? It's not his call to make. nt
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 04:23 PM
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2. Neither candidate should...it's a matter of NY state politics.
if the state Democratic Party calls for Spitzer to resign, or if the legislature passes a resolution equivalent to a vote of no confidence calling for resignation, then so be it, but neither Obama nor Clinton has any business getting involved, even to the point of making a statement on the issue. Not their place.
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 04:27 PM
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11. Somebody else said that about Hillary Clinton.
I don't understand how you guys come to that conclusion.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 06:23 PM
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21. I'll second that.
I think this decision is going to be resolved over Mr. and Mrs. Spitzer's closing conversation at their residence later this evening.

Barack Obama and everyone else generally has no business dictating the rules of others' marriages and Hillary Clinton in particular has no business weighing in in that regard. I wouldn't list marital fidelity as the Clintons' long suit.


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Cant trust em Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 04:23 PM
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3. asking for Democrat's resignations are the GOP's job
Let's let the people who wanted to cover up David Vitter, Mark Foley and Larry Craig bring this up.
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tokenlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 04:24 PM
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4. Stay out of it, express sympathy for family if nec...but leave it be...n/t
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Hepburn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 06:06 PM
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17. Agree....
...I have a lot of sympathy for his wife and other family. I don't give a shit who Spitzer backed....it has got to be so awful for the family to have to go through this.

How sad.....
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Sir Jeffrey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 04:25 PM
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5. He should stay out of it..
it is a decision that Gov. Spitzer, his family, the NY voters, and the state party apparatus have to make. There is absolutely nothing to gain from piling on Spitzer right now.
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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 04:26 PM
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6. Of course not nt
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 04:26 PM
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7. How stupid
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DemVet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 04:26 PM
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8. Well, the subject WILL come up
I forget, did Spitzer endorse Obama?
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 04:28 PM
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13. Who the fuck cares who
he endorsed?
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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 04:27 PM
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9. Barack should stick to national issues
and let the state take care of its governor.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 04:27 PM
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10. Why would you even ask?
Obama doesn't go around asking for resignations..that's hilary's job.
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WillYourVoteBCounted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 04:28 PM
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12. people should ignore threads like this,
I am sorry I clicked on it.
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 04:30 PM
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14. Why? Did you have to think for a second?
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 06:03 PM
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15. ..
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 06:04 PM
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16. No, but had he backed Obama
Hillary should have emphatically called for his resignation (at a press conference, at minimum).
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 07:41 PM
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26. I agree Sniffa. nt
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 06:10 PM
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18. well, this is a pretty stupid poll- but I voted
NO (of course)

to be sure that people don't think we're that stupid.

:silly:


peace~
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democraticscapegoat Donating Member (19 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 06:18 PM
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19. .
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 06:20 PM
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20. Should Hillary?
That is the more appropriate question.

I leave this up to his colleagues and constituents in New York.
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 06:24 PM
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22. ..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5007979&mesg_id=5007979
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union_maid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 06:25 PM
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23. No
It's state government business. Probably has nothing to do with either candidate, but certainly not one from IL. I don't actually think there's any reason for Hillary to inject herself in this either, and I doubt she will any more than she can help.
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 06:30 PM
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24. absolutely not. it'll only make him look bad if he does...
and he won't.
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AnnieBW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 07:36 PM
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25. Both Hillary and Obama should stay the heck away from it.
Especially Hillary, since she's Senator from NY.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 07:49 PM
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27. Forget it. Ten foot poll territory. Spitzer is a tar baby right now.
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 07:51 PM
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28. No, he should stay out of it. As should Clinton
Let things take their course, but none of this really directly concerns them.
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