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Obama Will be President.Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-65376723591570776122008-04-03T20:18:00.000-04:002008-04-03T20:18:00.000-04:00Not if McCain is true to his word, announcing his ...Not if McCain is true to his word, announcing his VP pick prior to the convention.<BR/><BR/>He's "maverick" enough to do it, too!desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-70272999884838868012008-04-03T20:11:00.000-04:002008-04-03T20:11:00.000-04:00dr:It'll be Gore / Obama, they will ride victoriou...dr:<BR/><BR/>It'll be Gore / Obama, they will ride victorious down Pennsylvania Ave, to the new digs.<BR/><BR/>If gore and obama run, then McCain and Lieberman will run too...What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/08237879055691019968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69202636402572738522008-04-03T19:05:00.000-04:002008-04-03T19:05:00.000-04:00Here's a guy that has really done some homework. I...<A HREF="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/no_really_hillary_has_a_decent.html" REL="nofollow">Here's</A> a guy that has really done some homework. If you like maps, you'll love this. Comes to the conclusion that Hillary isn't finieshed by any means. Interesting.<BR/><BR/>Puerto Rico may hold the key, he speculates, with reason.<BR/><BR/>Remember Bill giving those P.Rican fellows a get out of jail card?Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80292113003934110872008-04-03T18:35:00.000-04:002008-04-03T18:35:00.000-04:00It'll be Gore / Obama, they will ride victorious d...It'll be Gore / Obama, they will ride victorious down Pennsylvania Ave, to the new digs.<BR/><BR/>They'll have close to sixty Senate seats, perhaps filibuster proof on most isses. The GOP will fracture, for their "share" of earmarks.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68215917532574223942008-04-03T17:53:00.000-04:002008-04-03T17:53:00.000-04:00Perfect Example of why it's so hard to trust peopl...<A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/02/AR2008040203952_pf.html" REL="nofollow">Perfect Example</A> of why it's so hard to trust people who haven't been here for a long, long time. Guy 'slept' for twenty years.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73295499904021584852008-04-03T17:37:00.000-04:002008-04-03T17:37:00.000-04:00Frankenstein drops behind Coleman, temporarily at ...<A HREF="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/politics_nation/2008/04/mn_neck_and_neck.html" REL="nofollow">Frankenstein</A> drops behind Coleman, temporarily at least, in the land o' lakes.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6712285426100688042008-04-03T16:38:00.000-04:002008-04-03T16:38:00.000-04:00Ol' "Amnesty, whatever you do, don't pour a little...Ol' "Amnesty, whatever you do, don't pour a little water down a Terrorist's nose" McCain might get elected; but it will be without my vote.<BR/><BR/>Now, on to <A HREF="http://www.savinggreenbygoinggreen.com/downloads/Rubin-DelaysWillTightenOilMarkets.pdf" REL="nofollow">Something Important.</A><BR/><BR/>CIBC has a good track record on energy; and I would take their numbers pretty seriously.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86034899643708231272008-04-03T15:26:00.000-04:002008-04-03T15:26:00.000-04:00"It's true, governments always tend to blur the li..."It's true, governments always tend to blur the lines."<BR/><BR/>It isn't so much that Bush et al have blurred the lines - they have blatantly crossed them while dissembling and hiding behind political appointees statements that what they are doing is legal.<BR/><BR/>Look, if you don't mind having the government conduct sweeping fishing expeditions through all electronic communications without a warrant then change the laws so they can. It is a debate worth having. There is definite info that can be gleaned by searching all emails ect. BUT, to do it secretly on the basis of 'legal opinions' of those you appoint to uphold the law is wrong. It is illegal and it should be treated as such. Those who willingly participated in such illegal activity should be prosecuted.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06232405130481114127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83041571377940299402008-04-03T15:24:00.000-04:002008-04-03T15:24:00.000-04:00Might as well taking a parting shot at Obama as I ...Might as well taking a parting shot at Obama as I go out the door--from John Lott's Website--<BR/><BR/>The Trial of Obama's Close Friend Starts Yielding Some Explosive Results <BR/>Under the headline "Gov was told of threat to 'take them down'," Chicago Sun-Times reports:<BR/><BR/><BR/>Despite Gov. Blagojevich's repeated denials that he knew anything about alleged pay-to-play schemes, "the big guy" was told about one plan to squeeze campaign contributions from a firm seeking state business, according to bombshell testimony Wednesday at Tony Rezko's corruption trial.<BR/><BR/>"Mr. Rezko indicated to me that he had made the governor aware of the situation" involving threats from a Chicago businessman-turned-Hollywood producer to expose a shakedown for campaign cash in 2004, star prosecution witness Stuart Levine told jurors. "And the governor agreed with the way Mr. Rezko wanted to handle it." . . . .<BR/><BR/><BR/>Here is my question: how could have Obama been so deeply involved in Chicago politics without any notion of this level of corruption. Possibly it is the same lack of knowledge that Obama had regarding Rev. Wright. Obama once major memory loss was bad enough, but another huge one might prove more troublesome.<BR/><BR/>Ed Morrissey has a similar take here and NRO here.<BR/>Labels: 2008PresidentialRace, Obama<BR/><BR/>posted by John Lott at 10:54 AMBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44752738421462471512008-04-03T15:17:00.000-04:002008-04-03T15:17:00.000-04:00Right, Obama's gets the nomination. Unless Hillary...Right, Obama's gets the nomination. Unless Hillary makes a nearly clean sweep of the remaining contests. Your dream ticket, my nightmare, Hillary/Obama doesn't seem to be in the cards, and Hillary won't take second fiddle, even if offered, which it probably won't be, I wouldn't think.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32672121406432434812008-04-03T15:03:00.002-04:002008-04-03T15:03:00.002-04:00Bobal: Hillary's got it right. Obama can't get ele...Bobal: <B>Hillary's got it right. Obama can't get elected.</B><BR/><BR/>She just burned her last bridge. When Obama gets the nomination, how is she going to throw her support behind Obama at the Convention with a straight face? Now she can't even hope for the VP spot. And this is going to accelerate her decline and fall in the Pennsylvania polls. It's over.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84766540924565914392008-04-03T15:03:00.001-04:002008-04-03T15:03:00.001-04:00Now place your pal, Hillary, or Obama, as POTUS wi...<I>Now place your pal, Hillary, or Obama, as POTUS with the same powers.</I><BR/><BR/>Indeed, I'd be much more worried with them in charge, especially Hillary, than with George. How many of your stateside pals have gone missing, Ash?<BR/><BR/>While I don't like government snooping, by any means, some is necessary, the issue is overblown. As with nuclear power, the French <I>may</I> have a good idea here as well, I think. I've read they let the security services snoop all they want, but whatever is found, can only be used in a true terrorism case. We might give that some thought, at least. <BR/><BR/>It's true, governments always tend to blur the lines.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-5039946995417147862008-04-03T15:03:00.000-04:002008-04-03T15:03:00.000-04:00Now place your pal, Hillary, or Obama, as POTUS wi...<I>Now place your pal, Hillary, or Obama, as POTUS with the same powers.</I><BR/><BR/>Indeed, I'd be much more worried with them in charge, especially Hillary, than with George. How many of your stateside pals have gone missing, Ash?<BR/><BR/>While I don't like government snooping, by any means, some is necessary, the issue is overblown. As with nuclear power, the French <I>may</I> have a good idea here as well, I think. I've read they let the security services snoop all they want, but whatever is found, can only be used in a true terrorism case. We might give that some thought, at least. <BR/><BR/>It's true, governments always tend to blur the lines.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54061156871933881852008-04-03T14:56:00.000-04:002008-04-03T14:56:00.000-04:00Cutler: Romney, just like his father, openly oppos...Cutler: <B>Romney, just like his father, openly opposed the position of his church and worked to change it from within.</B><BR/><BR/>If you can find a Romney quote where he even acknowledges that the Mormon Church policy before 1978 was wrong, please cite it, because I'll be damned if I can find it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-71714452819372985442008-04-03T14:49:00.000-04:002008-04-03T14:49:00.000-04:00The lady from the land of Leaves of Grass goes to ...The lady from the land of <I>Leaves of Grass</I> goes to the city of <I>The Flowers of Evil</I>---<BR/><BR/>Abigail Adams, finally rejoining her husband John after four years, was shocked by what she saw in Paris.<BR/><BR/>'She thought Paris far from appealing, for all the splendor of its public buildings. And if she had not seen all of it, she had "smelt it". Given its state of sanitation, it was more than she could bear....The people themselves were the "dirtiest creatures" she had eve laid eyes on, and the number of prostitutes was appalling. That any nation wuld condone, let alone license, such traffic, she found vile, just as she found abhorrent the French practice of arranged marriages among the rich and titled of society.<BR/><BR/>"What idea, my dear madame,can you form of the manners of a nation, one city of which furnishes(blush oh, my sex, when I name it) 52,000 unmarried females so lost to a sense of honor and shame as publicly to enroll their names in a notrary office for the most abandoned purposes and to commit iniquity with impunity," she wrote in outrage to Mercy Warren. "Thousands of these miserable wretches perish annually with disease and poverty, whilst the most sacred of institutions is prostituted to unite titles and estates."<BR/><BR/>On a visit later to a Paris orphanage run by Catholic Sisters of Charity, she was shown a large room with a hundred cribs and perhaps as many infants...In an average year 6,000 children were delivered to the orphanage...Even as they talked, one was brought in that appeared to be three months old. In various parts of the city, it was explained, there were designated places with small boxes in which a baby could be "deposited>" '<BR/><BR/>from "John Adams"<BR/><BR/>She got to like the opera and the plays though, and there is a hilarious description of Madame Helvetius, to whom Ben Franklin had proposed marriage(she turned him down because they were both too old, she said), entering a room, a slovenly old bitch:)Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55988027976688106642008-04-03T14:44:00.000-04:002008-04-03T14:44:00.000-04:00Cutler: An entire book on the subject? Wow.Cite?ht...Cutler: <B>An entire book on the subject? Wow.<BR/><BR/>Cite?</B><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Mormon-White-House-Things-American/dp/159698502X" REL="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Mormon-White-House-Things-American/dp/159698502X</A><BR/><BR/>The hypocrisy is that Hewitt was willing to overlook Romney's non-disavowal of the Mormon Church for their racism, but ignores Obama's disavowal of Jeremiah Wright's racisim. Both men remained members of their respective churches, but to Hugh Hewitt, only Romney gets off the hook for not walking. Obama needs to account for his failure to walk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76710675647879158452008-04-03T14:27:00.000-04:002008-04-03T14:27:00.000-04:00"I believe he has a glass jaw -- and he is going t...<I>"I believe he has a glass jaw -- and he is going to get hit hard," said Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio.</I><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0345049120080403?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&rpc=22&sp=true" REL="nofollow">Obama Glass Jaw</A>Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-26792698798787464322008-04-03T14:22:00.000-04:002008-04-03T14:22:00.000-04:00If true, one generation of frauds succeeds the oth...If true, one generation of frauds succeeds the other (and that includes the "Straight-talk express"). <BR/><BR/>I just finished Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen.<BR/><BR/>Those people are still out there. They're not in Washington though - probably best for their sanity.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10089498195545182330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77865888779656696542008-04-03T14:06:00.000-04:002008-04-03T14:06:00.000-04:00"Hugh Hewitt will flog the dead Reverend "God Damn...<I>"Hugh Hewitt will flog the dead Reverend "God Damn The U S of KKK" Wright horse from now to the general election, even though he wrote a book arguing that Mitt Romney's adherence to Mormonism prior to their inclusion of blacks to the priesthood in 1978 was irrelevant."</I><BR/><BR/>An entire book on the subject? Wow.<BR/><BR/>Cite?<BR/><BR/>Romney, just like his father, openly opposed the position of his church and worked to change it from within.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10089498195545182330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-41197665466361606582008-04-03T13:59:00.000-04:002008-04-03T13:59:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10089498195545182330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7525557473488039582008-04-03T13:56:00.000-04:002008-04-03T13:56:00.000-04:002164th said... "I see CNN caught up with the pa...2164th said...<BR/><BR/> "I see CNN caught up with the painting elephant."<BR/><BR/>I usually find the issues addressed here at the bar precede the MSM by a couple of days at least.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06232405130481114127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37392512413346167182008-04-03T13:48:00.000-04:002008-04-03T13:48:00.000-04:00You were just ahead of the wave, Ash.:)You were just ahead of the wave, Ash.:)Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39145263155692897652008-04-03T13:46:00.000-04:002008-04-03T13:46:00.000-04:00Hillary's got it right. Obama can't get elected. H...Hillary's got it right. Obama can't get elected. He loses in most of the big, racially mixed states. And he's not winning in these small population white boy states out this way either, where he did so well in the primaries/caucuses. He will sufficiently motivate the working class/middle class whites to get out and vote. People aren't going to vote for that God damn America stuff.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-64787849281749129802008-04-03T13:27:00.000-04:002008-04-03T13:27:00.000-04:00I see CNN caught up with the painting elephant.I see CNN caught up with the painting elephant.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43091984299888956562008-04-03T11:26:00.000-04:002008-04-03T11:26:00.000-04:00if obama becomes the dem's guywatch the words "bla...if obama becomes the dem's guy<BR/><BR/>watch the words "black liberation theology"<BR/><BR/>obama's church supports hamas<BR/><BR/>obama's church thinks jesus was a black palestinian<BR/><BR/>cant wait for typical america to learn how retarded obama's church (and actually all nation of islam/black nationalism/liberation theology) are...<BR/><BR/>there is a 20% of america that hates it'self, america and all america stands for...<BR/><BR/>these are the people that were fellow members of rev wright's church...What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/08237879055691019968noreply@blogger.com