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Obama's Potential Path To The Nomination | 208 comments (208 topical)
Because that worked so well (5.00 / 6) (#14)
by andgarden on Mon Mar 24, 2008 at 05:12:12 PM EST
for Hillary last time?

Side note: The Obama people really don't do the inevitability thing as well as Hillary did last year; they're just really unpleasant about it. People who are actually frontrunners shouldn't have to behave that way.

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"Actually Frontruners" (5.00 / 6) (#22)
by BDB on Mon Mar 24, 2008 at 05:17:32 PM EST
I think you've hit it on the head, Obama isn't the frontrunner, he just plays him on television.  The actual contest is essentially tied.  Which is why Obama is engaging in negative personal attacks and other things that he would never do if he really did have the nomination all sowed up, e.g. if Hillary really couldn't win.  

When it comes to politicians, I'm a believer in actions and not words.  Obama and his supporters say there's no way for Hillary to win, but their actions - including the need to scream that she must get out NOW - tell a very different story,

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You wanna talk about unpleasant? (5.00 / 1) (#162)
by litigatormom on Mon Mar 24, 2008 at 06:49:58 PM EST
Read this:

(CNN) -- Senior Clinton advisers blasted Sen. Barack Obama's campaign Monday after a major Obama supporter in Iowa compared Bill Clinton unfavorably to Joe McCarthy and referenced the blue dress at the heart of the impeachment scandal.

"When Joe McCarthy questioned others' patriotism, McCarthy (1) actually believed, at least aparently, the questions were genuine, and (2) he did so in order to build up, not tear down, his own party, the GOP," wrote Gordon Fischer, a former chair of the Iowa Democratic Party, wrote on his blog. "Bill Clinton cannot possibly seriously believe Obama is not a patriot, and cannot possibly be said to be helping -- instead he is hurting -- his own party. B. Clinton should never be forgiven. Period. This is a stain on his legacy, much worse, much deeper, than the one on Monica's blue dress."

So it was okay to compare Bill Clinton to Joe McCarthy because Joe McCarthy was sincere about his McCarthyism, and Bill Clinton got a blow job.

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Obama's Potential Path To The Nomination | 208 comments (208 topical)

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