2008 Primaries Thread

this race is very personal for dr. morbius

skeptical is the thinking person's default setting for life

you appear to have missed my point

whew!

ive been waiting for someone to bring a 9/11 truther mentality to economic issues

what kind of reformer bona fides does Obama have?

I know it's some bullshit to paste from a wiki but here ya go

As a state legislator, Obama worked with both Democrats and Republicans in drafting successful legislation on ethics and health care reform. He sponsored a law enhancing tax credits for low-income workers, negotiated welfare reform, and promoted increased subsidies for child care. Obama also led the passage of legislation mandating videotaping of homicide interrogations, and a law to monitor racial profiling by requiring police to record the race of drivers they stopped. During his 2004 general election campaign for U.S. Senate, Obama won the endorsement of the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police, whose president credited him with having been "immensely helpful in working with police organizations" on death penalty reform.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/Clinton_fights_tears_Its_not_easy.html

That's all dandy, dave, but can he manage it at the Fed level, or will he continue along the lines of his Senate vote to make class-action lawsuits harder?

dr morbius : politics :: geir : music

i know it's iffy to micro-parse the stuff people say live, but "I have so many opportunities for this country" is not a phrase i'd like to hear

automatic windows, power locks, tru-coat paint

and a racing stripe to make america go faster

Bill Clinton: Hillary is tougher than Mandela, Rabin

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/01/bill-hillarys-t.html

lol waht

clinton cries http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4097366

i like her here a lot more than usual

she won't bake cookies, but here come the waterworks

we know you hate women, morbz

you do know that everyone is as bored with your potshots at me as they are with the Clintons, right?

poll?

pls, hrc seeking sympathy is as calculated as hrc tough as nails

anybody's potshots at dr morbius >>>>>>>>> the clintons >>>>>>>>>>> dr morbius's potshots at the clintons

poll which are you more bored with?

ethan's potshots at morbs
morbs' potshots at the clintons
life

What's this "at me" bit, tho?

actually democrats are less corrupt than republicans - which isnt saying much

sure part of that has to w/being the ruing party - but theres also just more tolerance for that sort of thing in their culture

-- jhøshea, Monday, January 7, 2008 11:35 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ NOT FROM CHICAGO

if a man had squirted a few tears discussing how tough the campaign was, the press would declare it a breakdown, y/n?

ED MUSKIE '72, CANUCK LETTER

yah deej im talking on the national level - state or local politics - anything goes!

elmo, y

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canuck_Letter

Ended his race, essentially.

potshots = dud

ahh, bill bradley.. good dude

-- and what, Monday, January 7, 2008 12:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

the last time i saw my grandfather alive it was 2000 and he was putting bill bradley placards on all the tables at my gore-staffer cousin's wedding

yah potshots should totally die

Potstickers, on the other hand...

a chicken in every potshot
no amnesty for potshots
i've been making potshots for 35 years

anyway.... so is Romney done if he loses NH?

no. he could keep himself in the game by winning MI or SC.

Hugh Hewitt has already volunteered to have his brain implanted on Mitt's body.

but he could easily lose MI to McCain, and SC to Huckabee, where Thompson's busy preparing to hit him/help McCain

def looks that way. depends how he does in michigan, but he won't win sc. assuming mccain wins nh, i think it becomes a two-man race b/w him and huckabee.

he could even lose MI to Huck

btw Obama made very good use of "They" in his Iowa speech

Big crowds, sniping mark final NH stage

Don't scare me with headlines like that, Yahoo News.

maybe "NH" is working title of the next rockstar north release

I wouldn't bet on it, but Romney can win SC. Huckabee is the favorite now, but he might lose some support if/when he looks less like a winner after NH. Romney's in second place there, but he could benefit from Giuliani's increasingly lower profile. Romney might lose some support on the other hand to McCain, but McCain has historical problems there that aren't aided by his immigration stance, which he'll get hit on.

"black lovechild"!

but he could easily lose MI to McCain, and SC to Huckabee

this seems likely to me as well

i think huckabee will do very very well in SC

does anyone think there may be a chance of a brokered republican convention?

meaning what exactly

a brokered convention would be the most entertaining ever

is there any chance of a wrestling republican convention