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This is why people hate politics (5.00 / 3) (#54)
by ItsGreg on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 11:43:36 AM EST
Obama's pastor said some scandalous things about the U.S. Hillary exaggerated the danger of a trip to Bosnia. Obama doesn't wear a flag lapel pin. Hillary was in the White House when Bill was canoodling with Monica.

Who cares about crap like that? It's all a distraction from the issues. It's got nothing to do with who would be a better president; it's only directed at making the other candidate less attractive.

The sad result is that the the most passionate supporters of each candidate become more and more vitriolic and the average voter becomes more and more turned off by the ugliness of it all.

Each of the Democratic candidates is head and shoulders above McCain. Each of them can raise more money than McCain. Each of them has policy positions more in line with the average voter than McCain. Each of them is more articulate than McCain.

There is NO way either of these two remarkable candidates should lose to somebody like McCain...and yet whoever the nominee is, there's a decent chance the Democrats will piss away the general election because we're all so angry and self righteous about Obama's pastor and Hillary's Bosnia escapade.

So yes, by all means, let's keep the Wright fiasco on the front burner, and let's keep the Hillary under sniper fire nonsense at the top of the YouTube hit list. There's still a chance that we've failed to alienate some segment of the Democratic party...and we wouldn't want that to happen.

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Well said (5.00 / 1) (#68)
by nellre on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 11:56:32 AM EST
But we are the sound bite culture.
Bunch of lazy thinkers we.
And when there are two wonderful candidates to chose from we devolve to the GOP mind set of using junk like this to decide who to vote for.

And then there's the red state of mind. I've not got a clue what goes on there.


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Nice try (5.00 / 1) (#88)
by bodhcatha on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 12:20:37 PM EST
Equating the first issue with the last three.  The latter are superficial, to say the least, but the first speaks to Nobama's judgement, character and intentions.  When I heard some of the things Wright said (Bill "ridin' dirty" et al), Barack's and Michelle's arrogance and contempt suddenly made sense.

"Don't bring a calculator to a knife fight"

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Please... (none / 0) (#95)
by corn on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 12:34:01 PM EST
Think about the unfathomable amounts of power at stake here.  US modern elections are among the most civil and fair in democracy's history.  Sure it gets personal and nasty, elections are stolen and rigged, good guys finish last, etc, but keep it in perspective.  Politics is politics and it doesn't get much cleaner than this.

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