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they are scared that's why (5.00 / 2) (#14)
by nycvoter on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 04:39:52 PM EST
they don't have it locked up, they know she can still win and that's why they are running the scorched earth campaign

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just let the voters vote (5.00 / 4) (#55)
by nycvoter on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 04:57:26 PM EST
the vote could very well leave us about even in popular vote and within 1% in delegate difference, the super delegates have a specific purpose, as do primaries and caucuses in determining our nominee, there is no moral superiority among the three.  There is no less weight given to caucuses that represent the will of tens of thousands of voters versus primaries which often represent hundreds of thousands of voters, so why should those combined methods of electing the nominee be given greater weight than the super delegates.  This is the system we have and super delegates need to vote their conscience.  There's a long way between now and June and if Obama thought he didn't have a problem he would not be calling to wrap it up before everyone had voted.  We never know what the SDs will do


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Wait (none / 0) (#46)
by tek on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 04:52:20 PM EST
I thought I just read that she can only win by "destroying" Obama utterly.  And we all know she's supposed to be helping him win.

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what has she done to knee cap Obama (5.00 / 3) (#65)
by nycvoter on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 05:02:07 PM EST
that deserves this statement?  She does not think he is qualified to be President.  The media chooses to make it a "tonya harding" comparison and more people need to be disgusted with the media not HRC

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weird (5.00 / 1) (#79)
by Harley on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 05:06:08 PM EST
i remember when whining that it was all the media's fault was the GOP argument.  my how times change.

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Yeah (5.00 / 8) (#84)
by Steve M on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 05:07:31 PM EST
And I also remember when pointing out media bias was the blogosphere argument.  Now they revel in every episode.

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Uh (5.00 / 8) (#124)
by Steve M on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 05:20:11 PM EST
The issue here is the "Tonya Harding" smear that the media views as fair game, and that you seem to love as well.  Tell me, do you think the media would revel in reporting some anonymous comment suggesting that Obama is using an "OJ Simpson strategy"?

Claiming that the media has not had a pro-Obama bias throughout this process is quite laughable.  The fact that they reported on Wright doesn't mean you get to ignore all the other evidence.

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Please, go review Bob Somerby's (5.00 / 1) (#193)
by jawbone on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 05:55:57 PM EST
DailyHowler.com

If you believe the MCM (Mainstream Corporate Media) has not favored the GOPers, you could use some remedial reality reading.

If you were being sarcastic, my apologies.

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not qualified? (none / 0) (#164)
by A DC Wonk on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 05:35:37 PM EST
She does not think he is qualified to be President.

Terrific.  So all her supporters should vote for McCain if Obama gets the nomination.

Good bye Roe v Wade!  Hello 100-years of war, and torture, and continued evisceration of the Bill of Rights!  Justice Alito-clone, step right up!!

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Ha (5.00 / 9) (#68)
by Steve M on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 05:03:23 PM EST
Amazing.  Someone smears Hillary by comparing her to Tonya Harding... and it's her fault for allowing the comparison to be made!  This is how the country has worked since 1992, there is literally nothing you're not allowed to say as long as you say it about someone named Clinton.

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Ok... you're joking, (5.00 / 2) (#174)
by suisser on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 05:43:06 PM EST
right?  

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Oh, really? (5.00 / 5) (#200)
by Donald from Hawaii on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 06:01:07 PM EST
Who recently brought up Monica Lewinsky's blue dress? Whose campaign surrogate labeled Sen. Clinton "the senator from Punjab"? Who is impugning whose integrity and character on a regular basis? Who is regularly accusing whom of racism? Which candidate is the one channeling Sgt. Schultz when questioned about past and present associations with controversial individuals previously escribed as personal mentors?

Obama's candidacy is at its core foundation a self-absorbed vanity project remarkably devoid of a moral center, rife with unbridled personal ambition and marked by the prodigious use of unctious, supercilious sanctimony. This has become, for me at least, an issue of the man's character, or lack thereof. I'm going to be extraordinarily careful with my vote in November, because I don't intend to replace George W. Bush with a Democratic version of the same.

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You bought into the Obama (5.00 / 1) (#218)
by nycstray on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 06:16:27 PM EST
campaigns latest "she'll do anything" line? I believe they first floated Tonya in Dec. BEFORE anything had gone down. So, what has she done in the past couple weeks that earns her the Tonya?

Now, which campaign went negative?

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Ummm (none / 0) (#71)
by Trickster on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 05:03:42 PM EST
Everybody starts at that level.  ABC News can call you "Tonya Harding-like" if they feel like it.

In theory, they're bound by this thing called ethics and probably shouldn't call one of the candidates in a political race something like that unless there's some reason to do so, but obviously that ain't stopping 'em.

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