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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 08:47 PM
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Forget VP and Cabinet. Who will be Obama's Front Line the next 5 months?
Edited on Fri Jun-06-08 09:02 PM by blm
Who will be his front line countering the lies and spin?

Who will he trust to knock some heads Sunday show after Sunday show? Day after day?


Who will be out there pushing McCain's buttons and tripping his triggerpoints?
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 08:48 PM
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1. Definitely Biden on the foreign policy points. nt
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 08:48 PM
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2. Terry Mac Aullife.
:rofl:

No, seriously. Webb, Biden and Hillary. None come tougher, IMO.
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Tashca Donating Member (935 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 08:51 PM
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3. Senator Biden
He's been doing it for several weeks now. I don't see him stopping now.

If anything....I can see him turning it up!!!
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 09:00 PM
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6. We'll have to airdrop food around Washington to keep Biden from starving to death...
or else he'd just stand in front of the TV cameras and talk and talk and talk until he wasted away.

He makes Pat Buchanan look agoraphobic.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 09:24 PM
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8. He sharpened up a lot the past two years preparing for his own run. His chops are down
and when his chops are down he's pretty damn good.
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Muttocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 10:12 PM
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10. way to trash Biden without answering the OP. Buchanan?!!
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 10:17 PM
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11. I didn't say he was BETTER than Buchanan. Just that he can out-talk Buchanan. n/t
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 10:37 PM
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12. Well, that's true. But, when he stays sharp he can out talk most anyone.
And that's fine with me. Just four years ago most of our guys wouldn't GET the time. Lieberman never seemed to have a problem getting airtime, though.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-07-08 11:11 AM
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13. hey Joe - I don't think he meant it that way.
Edited on Sat Jun-07-08 11:11 AM by blm
Sometimes things come out wrong.
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Frustratedlady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 08:54 PM
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4. Biden and Kerry, for sure.
Biden is determined and Kerry has a few bones to chew. Neither will back down from this cabal.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 10:04 PM
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9. Good call. Obama put up Kerry against Graham for This Week

Coming Up on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Debate the Presidential Contest; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Discusses Efforts for Democratic Unity
June 6, 2008


This Sunday, George talks with Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., an Obama supporter, and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a McCain supporter. The two surrogates will debate the Obama-McCain general election match-up.
>>>>

It begins.
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-07-08 11:34 AM
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18. I might have preferred Webb go against Lindsey
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-07-08 11:42 AM
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19. I don't think Webb knows McCain as well as Kerry does. Ever read McCain's book from before
Edited on Sat Jun-07-08 11:44 AM by blm
he became Bush's love slave?

He does have stability problems and he said that he broke down a number of times during the Vietnam reconciliation duties he and Kerry led, and said that without Kerry it never would have happened and that Kerry kept him from going off the deep end over it.

But this is a serious battle for the WH and if Kerry knows all McCain's weaknesses and triggerpoints then I expect he will do his best to trip them.

Besides, Webb is probably on VP short list, so he won't be doing spokespeople duty at this point.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 08:57 PM
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5. Durbin, Kerry, Casey, McCaskill, all those fine folks who've supported
him vocally. And now, even former Clinton supporters like Rangel will come to his defense.
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 09:20 PM
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7. I'd like to think that DUers will stop sniping and start watching Obama's back as of now.
That would surely help.

Hekate
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politicasista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-07-08 05:02 PM
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20. Exactly n/t
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-07-08 11:14 AM
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14. uh. . that would be US.
poking every one of the spokespeople in the butt on a regular basis.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-07-08 11:27 AM
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15. True - we are a stronger force on the internet than we were before, and that WILL count.
.
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-07-08 11:31 AM
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16. I think they should get Joe Lockhart out of mothballs if he would help. nt
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-07-08 11:33 AM
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17. Mario Cuomo can kick some ass too. nt
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