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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-19-08 06:16 PM
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July 18th, 2008: Obama wins the presidency.
Edited on Sat Jul-19-08 06:18 PM by kpete
July 18th, 2008: Obama wins the presidency.


"U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months.

That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal,

with the possibility of slight changes." - Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki,

Der Spiegel, 7/18/2008

With the words above, Barack Obama becomes the prohibitive favorite to win the White House in less than 4 months, if he wasn't before.

more at:
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/19/165144/641/301/553982
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cprompt Donating Member (165 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-19-08 06:18 PM
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1. love hearing
this, i fear for our nation not only today but if we had 4 more years of mc$ame. i was just reading this story on cnn, so glad to know we will bring our men & women home.
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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-19-08 06:18 PM
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2. It's almost uncanny how everything Obama has been advocating
has been shown to be valid in the past few days, and in foreign policy, his supposed area of inexperience. It's really something.
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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-19-08 07:04 PM
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3. I Agree. Check Out this Screen Cap from CNN's Home Page:
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-19-08 07:08 PM
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4. let's not get ahead of ourselves
humility, intelligence and hard work... and then...
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vaberella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-19-08 07:15 PM
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5. Now they're spinning this as incorrectly translated....~sigh~ GOP madness.
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Tutonic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-19-08 07:17 PM
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6. This is not a good day for GW. Poppy will have to work overtime
to bail junior out of this quagmire.
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