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Old 1st July 2008, 17:58   #1601 (permalink)
 
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Obama saying "I'm not questioning anyone's military service"
I'd be surprised if he did. Hard core mud slinging is usually left to surrogates.
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Old 1st July 2008, 18:16   #1602 (permalink)

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And no one will question BHO's military service, or lack thereof...

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Old 10th July 2008, 19:38   #1604 (permalink)
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Looks like the "flip-flop" label Kerry had in the last election is back for Obama. Disillusionment seems to have set in early...







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Old 10th July 2008, 20:46   #1605 (permalink)
 
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"Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president," Clark said.
But giving a speech at the convention, on the other hand...



Clark desperately wants to get back into power and will say anything to get there. Unfortunately for him, this was an own goal.
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Old 11th July 2008, 05:23   #1606 (permalink)
 
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Does Obama really need friends like this?
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Old 11th July 2008, 11:51   #1607 (permalink)
 
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Nuts!

If that's what his supporters are saying, gosh, what are his opponents saying?
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Old 11th July 2008, 12:08   #1608 (permalink)
 
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God bless Obama, amen.
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Jesse is backing the best black man for the job...

Jesse Jackson, of course. Silly!

The guy is famous for being a loose cannon and an opportunistic prick who grand-stands on issues just to get some more attention for himself, just a bit better than the Reverend Al Sharpton. Both Revs, Jesse and Al, run shake-down rackets in the name of obtaining justice for the victims of racism but when you look into it somehow it always seems that they do well out of these things without producing much that is meaningful.
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Old 11th July 2008, 15:07   #1610 (permalink)

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Jesse Jackson wants to cut off BHO's nuts for talking down to the black man. What does that say?

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Old 11th July 2008, 15:24   #1611 (permalink)
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chuks, you are obviously a racist.

There is a clear and distinct difference in the Reverend Jackson calling for the involuntary castration of a United States Senator and a mildly amusing shock-jock DJ insulting an obscure Ivy League basketball team.

Only one of these deserves the full outcry of the 'leadership' and the call for economic boycotts, thus making that pillar of fortitude, corporate America, stand tall so that even 'Duke' Wayne would be proud.

If Jackson's name were only Gambini or the like, I've no doubt that RICO statutes would have long ago been invoked. But since it's not, I can only assume that it is the right of such men to 'get even with the man.'

Even if that 'man' is black. Apparently, just not black enough, therefore, fair game.


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The best analysis of Obama's relationship to Jackson and Sharpton can be found here: http://thecorner.typepad.com/bc/2008...house-the.html
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Once you all stop looking at the colour of his skin .There is not much left to look at .What has he actually ever done for his country ??? Get elected ???
I always laugh when someone dares to compare him to JFK as JFK loved his country .Stood in harms way .Fought bravely for his country.Put the family skills of small rapid boats to use .And JFK banged Marlyn Munroe .
What has this guy ever done ???Other than get into Harvard with 'B 'averages. Something no rednecked sharecropper from the South could have been allowed to do
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Ozzy, it says that Jackson never possessed the character, intellect or charisma to get further than his current status.
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Never minding his hue, Barack Obama sounds like a US military establishment, such as Camp Pendleton or Fort Bragg.
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Old 11th July 2008, 20:10   #1617 (permalink)
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Well now, on that tack, were one to take his full name into account, he might remind one rather more of that well known military establishment which goes by the name of Joint Task Force Guantanamo or Guantanamo Bay to its initiates.
Lest we forget and by solely an accident of ingenuity on the part of his parents, were Obama to be elected he would be known as:
President Barack Hussein Obama II.
This of course should not be allowed to detract from his almost Messianic appeal which sometimes is of a nature as to be rather confusing.
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Old 11th July 2008, 20:15   #1618 (permalink)
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Don'[t forget that the young JFK got his clock cleaned by Kruschev at Vienna which led to the willy-waving of the Bay of Pigs.

I believe that a President Obama would likewise face an early challenge to his resolve - from where I don't know. Iran? North Korea? Russia? Venezuela?

A combination thereof?

It will be interesting to say the least to see how it plays out.
 
Old 11th July 2008, 20:51   #1619 (permalink)
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Well actually and with great respect, I would reply that you are entirely correct as to the inferiority complex which one K, the Russian, managed to conjure up in the other K, the Irish/American. (One of his claims to fame, not, I assure you, a slur on my part) The Bay of Pigs, howver, took place in April of that year, 1961, and the Vienna Conference was in June. It was the Cuban Missile Crisis which was the direct outcome of the war mongering and personality conflict of the two Ks.

Seem to remember there was a U2 shot down over Cuba around that time as well? Gary Powers had lost his in 1960.

If Obama gets in to the White House, a challenge from somewhere will certainly arise. Rumour has it that Obama neither likes the military nor is at all liked or respected by them. That is potentially a dire forecast for the future, which has led in the past to those in military authority but with no experience, commiting acts of folly which have been, at the least, extremely injurious to the health of the country's fighting forces.
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Old 11th July 2008, 21:19   #1620 (permalink)
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oops, very sorry for mixing the dates and the crises.
 
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