2008 Primaries Thread 2: THE QUICKENING

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Laura Bush with "Indian Muppets."

*gasp* MUPPETS OUTSOURCING!

we've been over this (scroll back 7000 messages lolz)

ah, ok. brb

Obama doesn't seem to be campaigning at all on Sesame Street.

I won't vote for Hill in a state that will swing Democratic anyway. I'm voting Nader.

oh man, i want to see obama riding snuffleupagus please please

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what is your beef with richardson, morbs?

Morbz hates teh fatteys

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/mccainplane.jpg

BAWWWW

Richardson = econ reactionary (not crazy bt teh gayz either)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/thelede/posts/0202mccain.jpg

btw it seems that mccain was largely successful in turning that ny times piece into an issue w/ the ny times rather than his own campaign and unless some more info turns up i guarantee its going to stay that way

aka deej otm, tracer hand zero :p

I'll buy the econ reactionary charge, but I really feel the gay comment he's accused of making was Gotcha politicking at its worst, and that the guy has a stellar record of liberalism w/r/t social issues not disincluding homosexual rights.

Obv., it's a bit premature, and it's always easy to criticize in retrospect, but it's still interesting that post mortems on HRC's campaign are being written now.

http://blog.reidreport.com/uploaded_images/mccain_bush-hug-713122.jpg

TINY ARMS

Hold me closer, Tiny Dancer.

Obv., it's a bit premature

It seems very premature! Obama is probably going to be the nominee, but it is nowhere near a certainty at this point.

I feel like Obama MIGHT win Texas and then it'd be all over. but jeez the vote's a week and a half away.

It's premature, yes. I know things don't look good from my pov.

I live in DC so it doesn't matter whatsoever but I would have a real tough time voting for Obama.

guys, just fyi, if you don't know, McCain looks funny when he's shaking hands or hugging or waving or pumping his fist, because his arm-raising ability is limited by like torture and stuff

Why would you have a tough time voting Obama? xpost

:-(

back to muppet humor

I mean sure he's not running a daycare center but what do you mean?!?!!

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I guess daria doesn't care about health care.

http://obamaaaaaaaa.ytmnd.com/

yea daria i'm curious why you would have a hard time voting for obama. i'm hardly a fan of clinton and for the most part don't really like her for various reasons people have cited in these threads, but if she's the nominee, i can't really see myself NOT voting for her, unless there's some serious bullshit pulled that allows her to seize the nomination (e.g. michigan/florida). basically, if she wins it fairly and legitimately, i'll vote for her in the g.e.

i remember you saying in the other primaries thread that the only reasons you support hillary are 1.) healthcare and 2.) the fact that you think she has a better shot in the g.e. (please, please correct if i'm wrong, i don't want to misquote you). if that's all, why would you have a hard time voting for obama? would you go third party, or vote mccain instead?

ive said numerous times i would refuse to vote for her bcuz of the war vote. if i lived in some kind of state where it mattered, i probably would vote for her anyway though.

i don't see what comparable issue there is to the war for hillary supporters though

he plagiarized a friend of his!

if obama is the nominee i won't be voting for him because i dont think he can beat mccain in the general election

haha

so more mccain related corruption fun

if obama is the nominee i won't be voting for him because i dont think he can beat mccain in the general election

Uh, self-fulfilling prophecy, anyone?

I think that was the joek

Oh, look, I left my sarcasmometer off. Oops, sorry.

The fact that people think Hillary is an evil Republican/"corporatist"/warmonger/etc. makes them total morons, but it's still a fact that they really believe it, rather than hating her because she's a woman.

i actively dislike clinton - but it wouldnt stop me from voting for her - i mean fuuuuck a republican srsly

The only way I'd vote for HRC is she woke up one morning and found herself transformed into Barack Hussein Obama.

The fact that people think Hillary is an evil Republican/"corporatist"/warmonger/etc.

No dingbat, she's an evil Democratic/"corporatist"/warmonger/etc. You know, the party's core values, the ones they've been acting on for the last 30 years.

yeah 40 years ago the dems never would have gotten involved in something like a war!!!

The only way I'd vote for HRC is she woke up one morning and found herself transformed into Barack Hussein Obama.

I'm thinking Diane Keaton and Chris Rock, kind of All of Me meets Bullworth. I think we can bring it in under 30 mil.

well, deej, they got some religion from about 1971-78.

I guess daria doesn't care about health care.

? I don't think Obama does. part of my problem.

What, because he's realistic in his assumption that FORCING people to buy it and FINING them if they don't is a dead end?

its over, Hillary

I'm generally just dismayed about a lot of things that happened/are happening during the primary, but.. well, I used to think HRC and Obama were pretty close on most policy stuff but actually his advisors are v centrist and look for markets to solve everything.. no wonder George Will and David Brooks seem to love him.

imagine that, being realistic about what can be accomplished

there are some looney people up in the thread

"Holy buckets!" exclaimed Audra Ostergard of Nebraska. "Michelle Obama and I are playing phone tag."

holy buckets?