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Bob Neill
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| Posted: 11 July 2008 at 5:37pm | IP Logged | 1
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I wish Sharpton, Jackson, and county commissioner John Wiley Price (see the 'Black Hole' thread) would all get together for 'devil's food cake' with 'chopped nuts' on top...and allow more sensible topics to be discussed in their absence. Seriously, this idiotic attitude of 'inventing' racism where none exists does nothing for any so-called 'race.'
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Tom French
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| Posted: 11 July 2008 at 5:44pm | IP Logged | 2
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Which just proves how badly people seem to want to make this a run about race and not issues. It's easy to get everybody all fired up about race...
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Bob Neill
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| Posted: 12 July 2008 at 12:22am | IP Logged | 3
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Yeah...can't we just agree that Jackson looks and sounds like a chipmunk with anger-management issues? No need to add race to that topic! :-X
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Kevin Hagerman
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| Posted: 12 July 2008 at 12:24am | IP Logged | 4
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Where is the next Martin Luther King, jr? We're got the oration part down, but not the leadership.
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Tom French
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Well, much to Jesse's chagrin, it ain't gonna be him!
Everytime the word "race" is mentioned in the media, either Jackson or Sharpton suddenly materialize to grab the spotlight and exploit themselves. That drives me crazy. I can only imagine how brown-people feel about it.
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Jeff Gillmer
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| Posted: 13 July 2008 at 8:47pm | IP Logged | 6
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The New Yorker has released the cover to their newest issue. Now, I haven't read the article, but I wouldn't think that they would write something bad about Obama. Yet, this is the cover...
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Thom Price
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At this point, I've entirely tuned out the election and the candidates, since my interest in Obama is around 0 and my interest in McCain is about -10. I figure I'll tune back in about 2 weeks before the election, to make my final decision (which, at this time, isn't so much about who I'll vote for but whether I'll vote. Living in a state that will almost certainly go for Obama, I feel no great urge to participate one way or another.)
Browsing through this thread for the first time in quite a while, it seems as though some formerly ardent Obama supporters are cooling in their fervor. (And Mike O seems to be strangely silent.) Is this indicative of a wider trend of Obama supporters losing faith?
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Jason Czeskleba
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I'm an Obama supporter, and I haven't posted in this thread for awhile largely because there is nothing really going on in the campaign at the moment, and there hasn't been since Obama secured the nomination. It's not that my support for Obama has waned, it's that I'm bored with the really unnecessarily long campaign that this has become. We know where the candidates stand, and the media is just focusing on silly bullshit like Wesley Clark or Jesse Jackson's comments or the silly campaign to portray Obama as a "flip flopper." Bleh. I hope they get moving with the town hall meetings soon... that will maybe generate some actual discussion about issues.
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Scott Richards
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Wow. That New Yorker cover. If that's the actual cover, it doesn't matter what the article actually says. Since "a picture is worth a thousand words" you are going to have many, many people who just see the cover who will never read the article and it doesn't paint a flattering picture.
It paints a picture that makes the Obama's look like the want to get in the White House to destroy the country, which, even though I won't vote for him, isn't at all the case.
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Scott Richards
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Browsing through this thread for the first time in quite a while, it seems as though some formerly ardent Obama supporters are cooling in their fervor. (And Mike O seems to be strangely silent.) Is this indicative of a wider trend of Obama supporters losing faith?
On local radio this morning there were talking about how current polls are showing Obama and McCain pretty much dead even. They were mentioning that at this point in the game it looked bad for Obama because with the current political climate the Democrats (based on how the public feels about the current administration) should be about 10 points ahead of McCain. The fact that they aren't should be cause to worry for Obama supporters.
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Al Cook
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QUOTE:
Is this indicative of a wider trend of Obama supporters losing faith?
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More likely indicative of their weariness with the whole process, as Jason
mentioned. Like Jason, I think you'll likely see the Obama supporters get
more involved when things pick up again with the 'town hall' meetings.
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Jeff Gillmer
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| Posted: 14 July 2008 at 8:22am | IP Logged | 12
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Despite saying "anytime, anyplace", Obama sure doesn't seem to be in any hurry to agree to a debate of any kind with McCain.
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