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ProudToBeLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 01:59 PM
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one handed him the bill. "This will seal the thing." Obama accepted it
Edited on Tue May-06-08 02:06 PM by ProudToBeLiberal
While talking to a trio of men eating breakfast, one handed him the bill. "This will seal the thing,'' he said.
Obama accepted it, and later took it to the cashier and paid it.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/05/obama_accused_of_being_a_musli.html

edit- Sounds like a typical politician.
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:01 PM
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1. OHMYGODOBAMA'SBUYINGVOTES !!!1111!!!ELEVEN
:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:04 PM
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4. And a hearty laugh from moi!
:rofl:
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:08 PM
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6. *snicker*
But Clinton putting gas in that guy's (bosses) truck didn't bring a whisper from her supporters (bet the check Obama paid was less than $63.00!) x(
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:02 PM
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2. Obama has a better way to buy the gas vote?
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:28 PM
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30. That would depend on what kind of food he was paying for. nt
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Fearless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:03 PM
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3. What's different between this and HRC buying doughnuts and coffee in Iowa?
That's right... NOTHING! Get over it.
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ProudToBeLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:06 PM
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5. I'm saying Obama is your average politician
people keep saying he's a transformative candidate and that he's different from your average politician. Wrong! Even you admit what he's doing is what a typical politician does during campaigning.
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Indenturedebtor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:09 PM
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8. Lol
OMG NOES he bought someone breakfast!

I'm shocked :eyes:
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virtualobserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:10 PM
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9. Hillary would have accepted the bill, and put in in her stack of unpaid debts
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SoonerPride Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 03:08 PM
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50. LOL. Smack!
Truth hurts.
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Oleladylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:11 PM
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10. yea, but he's been haloing himself as anything but average.
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madwivoter Donating Member (454 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:34 PM
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38. No, that would be you.
:eyes:
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swishyfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:36 PM
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41. Yeah but walking on water comes off as elitist
Give it a rest. He's never halo'd himself as anything. He's a candidate who has to sell himself to voters as all of them must.

You're grasping
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:13 PM
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13. I don't believe that transformative means that ALL ever done by politicians
since the beginning of the Republic goes out the window. Meeting voters in the flesh certainly should not. Secretive negotiations without the people involved, accepting money from interest group lobbyists, proposing gimmicks that will never pass and would come way late, and using fear of anykind to get elected are some of what indeed needs to go.

Obama is not your "average" politician, and you saying it doesn't make it so. He is an above average politician who believes in bottom up grassroots and not making personal attacks based on degrees of guilt via association. I wish all politicians operated that way.
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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:16 PM
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15. Obama is very "average," worse actually.He is a Daly machine pol
Edited on Tue May-06-08 02:17 PM by saracat
and all your denying it doesn't make it not so.
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JackORoses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:27 PM
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29. He will be our next President
and all your denying it doesn't make it not so.
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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:30 PM
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33. And it is also possible McSame could be our next Prez! Don't count him out.
The GOP won't roll over easily if Obama is the nom.
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JackORoses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:57 PM
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47. Do you support McCain?
The only question is how bad will Obama beat him.

That is why the GOP is shilling for Hill like a pack of winged monkeys.
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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 03:05 PM
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48.  I do not support McCain but your statement is delusional.
We cannot hope to win unless we respect the fact thast whoever the nominee is will have opposition.Many GOP folks who say that they won't vote for McCain will in fact do so. The GOP in my Congressional District outvoted ALL the Dems in the primary 3 to 1 and they all voted for McCain who they say they hate. Go figure but if we undervalue the competition in the GE we do so at our peril.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:31 PM
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34. My understanding is he came up fighting the Daly machine.
As a community organizer he ran into roadblocks from the machine, and worked to overcome them to empower the people he represented. His ability to take on the machine and remain clean and effective is what got him noticed in the first place.
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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 03:06 PM
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49. Not what I have read and not what his fellow legislators say. Whatever.
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:17 PM
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17. when you schedule your next therapy session ask your therapist
what a sense of humor is.
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anigbrowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:19 PM
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23. What do you want him to do - throw it back in the guy's face?
I thought handing Obama the bill and saying he should pay for the guy's breakfast was rather rude, but perhaps the customer didn't like having his daily routine disturbed by the traveling circus. What are you gonna do.
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mkultra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:25 PM
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27. actually
Pretending that doing this is somehow an issue that using it as evidence that Obama is corrupt is pretty stupid.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:30 PM
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32. Laugh out loud!
I didn't think that I could laugh any harder after I read your OP, but this follow-up sent me into convulsions.
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:41 PM
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44. you hillbots really are ridiculous.
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:09 PM
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7. Obama PAID for this???? n/t
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lojasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:11 PM
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11. Obama PAID the bill. EOM
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Leopolds Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:12 PM
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12. But Obama Reached over and Drank their Milkshake!!!! And waffles.
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Levgreee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:14 PM
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14. I think the man said that, not Obama
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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:16 PM
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16. Misread! Still, he picked up a small diner check.
Edited on Tue May-06-08 02:17 PM by SemiCharmedQuark
Not a great scandal.
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ProudToBeLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:19 PM
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20. no, he gave him the bill/check for Obama to pay
Obama either used his or campaign money to pay for the gentleman's bill/check.
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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:34 PM
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37. Who paid for that half gas tank Clinton bought for that steel worker?
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Texas Hill Country Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:19 PM
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21. yeah, but even as a joke about buying votes, it was boneheaded... one in a big line of boneheadeds
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anigbrowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:21 PM
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25. It was the customer who said 'This will seal the thing'
I think you need to read the article a little more carefully.
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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:32 PM
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35. The customer made the joke, not Obama
And Hillary bought that Indiana guy a half tank of Gas.
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Kaylee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:18 PM
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18. That's kind of a tacky thing for them to do....
oh well....all in a day's work.
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asjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:18 PM
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19. Don't stretch it any more. It is very very thin now.
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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:19 PM
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22. I hope they don't vote for him. It will be a first that a voter got something from a pol for nothing
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ProudToBeLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:23 PM
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26. afterwards, the guy said he's a canadian citizen, so couldn't vote lol. n/t
Edited on Tue May-06-08 02:24 PM by ProudToBeLiberal
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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:28 PM
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31. LOL! That is hilarious!
:headbang: :rofl:
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MagickMuffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 04:05 PM
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52. One out of three, who knows how the OHTER TWO will vote lol. n/t


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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:33 PM
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36. Do you feel the same way about the guy that got a half tank of gas from Clinton?
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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:35 PM
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40. Nope. But I do like the idea of a free half tank of gas. I don't think the person said they
were selling the gas for a vote though. I hope they voted already! Snark!
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BlueIdaho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:20 PM
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24. BREAKING - HRC supporters back new Olympic events
Straw grasping and conclusion jumping to be scheduled at next Olympic Games!
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swishyfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:37 PM
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42. Synchronized desperation nt
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BlueIdaho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 05:06 PM
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53. I love the aquatic events - don't you?
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tokenlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:26 PM
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28. There may be more to this than we know--the guy might have been joking...
..It would be interesting to hear the tables reaction afterward.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:35 PM
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39. But did he stiff the waitress for her tip as he left? nt
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swishyfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:38 PM
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43. Threw her under the bus!
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Terran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:48 PM
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45. Honestly, what was he supposed to do?
It would just look petty and cheap for a man who's wealthy by most standards to NOT pay the guy's tab. Doing so makes him look like a gentleman, IMO.
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:50 PM
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46. If anyone spots Hillary near a car dealership, now's the time
to score a freebie. Don't settle for coffee tabs, go for a Lexus.
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MagickMuffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 03:57 PM
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51. Yea, for Obama.... Of course there is NO way to tell if he WILL GET THEIR VOTE
And at least Barack wasn't having HIS Breakfast paid for by Lobbyists.


Sounds like a typical jealous person.
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