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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:32 PM
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All these Obama comments are superfluous - he has zero chance of getting
either the nomination and way less than zero of being elected. It amazes me that there are some people who think it's actually a viable candidacy. :eyes:
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:33 PM
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1. Thank you, Nostradamus. ......
:eyes:
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:37 PM
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5. Nostradamus was a fake. I am not.
:D
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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:34 PM
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2. Despair Donkeys. Arrrgh! (nt)
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mth44sc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:35 PM
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3. I'm pretty sure
you would have been a Johnson supporter in 60 too.

Oh well...
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:37 PM
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4. In 60 he was my next door neighbor. I shit you not.
:P
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:43 PM
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11. Wow. I bet that was interesting. Except if "next door" was like 200 acres away
or something...
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:46 PM
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13. Acres is a measure of area, not distance, genius.
:eyes:
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:49 PM
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19. Not even if you lay them end to end??
:dunce: :rofl:
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:50 PM
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20. I already did lay them end to end. A big argument about who got off first ensued...
what's a pimp to do?..........
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 11:14 PM
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32. I say stack em
200 acres thick, just think how high that would be, prolly all the way to the shoulders of a short man
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:53 PM
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23. I was saying it to be kinda funny. Apparently too subtle for some.
Edited on Mon Nov-26-07 10:57 PM by gateley
EDIT -- I WASN'T being funny when I said I thought it would have been interesting - was it?

And by the way...

Afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted.


I'll pass along your thanks to Ian Punnett for letting you use his line.
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Mutineer Donating Member (659 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:38 PM
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6. And HRC does?
Did you see the Zogby poll?
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maddiejoan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:42 PM
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10. Did you see the Gallup Poll?
That says Hillary has the best chance of beating the Republicans?
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:38 PM
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7. I think it's a viable candidacy.
What if Hillary gets caught taking a dump on a bike path in Central Park?
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:47 PM
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15. Well, her supporters would be gathering it up and selling it in amulets.
:evilgrin:

:rofl:
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:53 PM
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22. I prefer cheese and jalapenos.
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Laurab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 11:15 PM
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33. LOL - Thanks for that one!
Best post I've seen in a while! :rofl:
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:40 PM
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8. So then let us kill the Hillary threads too. Right?
Fucking mark.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:40 PM
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9. between you me and this board I think that Obama and Clinton
are setting themselves up as presnit and vice presnit general election candidates with whichever comes out on top getting first choice. Obama Clinton or Clinton Obama. I'm going to vote the democratic ticket no matter how it turns out though mind you
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:44 PM
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12. I don't think Hillary would go for VP - just my gut feeling. nt
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:47 PM
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14. I guess anything is possible
after all politics makes for strange bedfellows you know
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:52 PM
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21. Ha! You're right -- nt
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skipos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:48 PM
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16. I don't think insiders will want a ticket with no white male on it.
Not that I care.
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:49 PM
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18. I absolutely would vote for him instead of any Republican but it won't be an option.
I can't imagine how deluded anyone could be to suppose Obama would ever be elected. It's just too absurd to consider. Every Democrat I know here in eastern Oklahoma will stay home before they'd vote for a black man. I don't like it, you don't like it, DU doesn't like it but it's a fact.
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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 11:12 PM
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30. So we just sit around waiting for a cadre of old-school Dixiecrats to get their act together?
Edited on Mon Nov-26-07 11:13 PM by Bicoastal
Frankly, in the scenario you mentioned, those Democrats deserve whatever horrible GOP President we end up with--and by extension, perhaps we do too.

You might be right about East Oklahoma, but in my mind, Democrats like these demonstrate even further why Obama deserves a shot at the nomination. I may or may not vote for him, but I hope he fights until he can't fight any more.
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 11:40 PM
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34. No Dixiecrats of any school are about to vote for a black man.
I'm just passing along my own observations from here...we have a very strange political environment - heavily Democratic in the State government, includiing the sorta DINO governor but the electorate practically lines up waiting to fellate Repubs for national office. It defies any rational explanation. I'm just predicting (and I've been mostly right for 40 years) that no Oklahoma republicans and not many democrats will vote for a black fellow. I'd love to be proven wrong.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:48 PM
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17. You never know. nt
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:54 PM
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24. Well I guess people will support who they want. Even tho his chances
are nil. But they are starry eyed American Idol types and can't see the trees for the forest.
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:58 PM
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27. It's the way of things. Obama or Kucinich would both be a milliion times better
than the shitbag sitting in our White House now but neither of them truly have a snowball's chance. Does that suck? Absolutely! But it happens to be a fact. DU represents about 0.00025% of the Democratic body politic and less of the American electorate. We're cool but we're tiny.
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:54 PM
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25. He is the only candidate actually moving in the right direction in polling.
He has the money and support to go toe-to-toe with Hillary. He's ahead in Iowa and closing in on Hillary in NH and SC.

And you think he has ZERO chance of winning? That's funny.
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 11:41 PM
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35. I think he has less of a chance than Hillary and I think Hillary has no chance.
That's about as basic as I can make it.
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 01:47 AM
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36. I disagree.
And it's not just a hunch. I'd explain it to you but you seem content with your prediction.

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bbinacan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:56 PM
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26. He may win the nomination
but he won't win the general election.
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 11:00 PM
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28. He won't get the nom. I'm not saying that because I WANT it, just as a fact
he has zero chance. Ultimately.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 11:08 PM
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29. Riding On I-88
I was driving the "Ronald Raygun Highway" (:puke:)...outside of DeKalb, Illinois the other day...heading west and kept passing and getting passed by cars with Obama stickers on them. Most looked like kids going back to Iowa City after the break, but I didn't see any Hillary stickers (I did see one Dodd and one Kucinich), but most were Obama. Granted, nothing like some help from the "hommies", but they also can attend caucuses.

It's game on time on the ground in Iowa and New Hampshire...ye who has the best organization wins.
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The River Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 11:14 PM
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31. He's A Good Man
but I have never considered him a realistic candidate.
Both he an Hillary are artificial front runners per the MSM.
I'm hoping they shred each other right out of contention.
Then maybe the media will pay attention to the rest of the field.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 04:19 AM
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37. ridiculous
you don't have a crystal ball, and it's bizarre to see someone proclaiming that a clearly viable candidate for the nomination... isn't viable.

He stands a decent chance at getting the nomination and if he does get it, he's by no means guaranteed to lose.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 04:27 AM
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38. Half the GOP base has jailing gays & outlawing birth control as their #1 priority, and the GOP may
go ahead and nominate a pro-choice crossdresser.

I think talk of what is, and isn't, a "viable" candidacy is a little premature.
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deacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 06:11 AM
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39. Um, Hillary's support is not deep at all and obama sure has money to spend. n/t
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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 06:17 AM
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40. What are you basing this prognostication on?
:shrug:
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 06:28 AM
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41. silly n/t
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Didereaux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 06:49 AM
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42. Obama is a suthrin Baptist preacher...end of fucking subject and candidacy!
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 06:56 AM
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43. Mark Penn, is that you?
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