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David Ferguson
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Most of them have been old rich white guys though.
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Horace Austin
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Lincoln - not rich
JFK - not old
Other than that?
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Mike O'Brien
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wait, wait, confused... why do straight white rich men need defending? They're oppressed... how?
Does an observation about the fact that they're in power suddenly negate their power?
Wha-HUNH?
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Aaron Smith
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Lincoln - not rich
JFK - not old
Other than that?
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For the record, Teddy Roosevelt was younger than Kennedy, although he was not elected, but became president due to McKinley's death.
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Steven Myers
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The comment is meant to reflect that a rich white guys looks like a "president" becasue so many in the past have been rich, and all have been white guys. It's like saying Obama can't look like a world leader because his nose is too big...or a guy in a wheelchair can't be an effective leader...in other words, it's a prejudice whether or not you realised it when you posted it (and none of us is innocent of such unintentional prejudice, but it does good to realise it is such).
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Jozef Brandt
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Obviously you've never worked at a publicly funded university Mike...hehe.
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Mike O'Brien
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heh... Well, no but I was born and raised in San Francisco - same difference.
Hey! in other news - Barack Obama took Wyoming! Huzzah! One step closer to America having a GREAT President again! Yay!! YAY!!!
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Christopher Alan Miller
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For the record, Teddy Roosevelt was younger than Kennedy, although he was not elected, but became president due to McKinley's death
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TR was what I call a president. Can you imagine anyone else being shot in the chest in an asasination attempt and carrying on with his planned campaign speech?
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Kevin Brown
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Something that definitely needs to be read by those who feel Clinton is the "strong foreign policy" candidate.... Or is she over-stating her efforts?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03 /08/wuspols108.xml
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Casey Sager
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Mike O'Brien -
"Hey! in other news - Barack Obama took Wyoming! Huzzah! One step closer to America having a GREAT President again! Yay!! YAY!!!"
Serious question, why would he be a great President? He hasn't even served one full term in the Senate and his other experience was on the state level.
Casey
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Ray Brady
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I've now seen Obama's victory in Wyoming referred to as "an important win"
three separate times tonight, and quite frankly, I'm not seeing it. He won 7
delegates to Clinton's 5, right? That gives him a 2 delegate advantage, and
he needs a little over 2,000 to win the nomination. So this brings him 0.1%
closer to the nomination. How in the world can anyone translate that as "an
important win"?
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Christopher Alan Miller
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It increases his delegate lead. The burden is on Clinton to catch up. A big win in Mississippi added to Wyoming would erase the gain in delegates made by Clinton last week.
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