over the weekend he'll be threatening to hold his breath until he turns blue if he doesn't win iowa...if his wife will let him.
elect me now or i will never ever run again!
it's horse hooey from him, son. it's manipulative and childish and blatantly false. he's a joke who has as much chance at winning a general election as i do. and i am being generous.
well at least his wife still shops at Target! That must mean he can relate to all us little people.
I love the update tacked on the end of the article. It's like a twist ending where everything you read previously never really happened, it was all just a dream.
speak for yourself, taz, i'm big pants people.
ok. whew, i was worried there for a sec.
Do you not like his politics Pappa. OR is it your scared of a black man in office.
He has a GREAT shot. At least the Dems have two strong potential people whereas the republicans don't. I can easilly see Clinton or Obama being presiden. I can't see any republican being president.
oh yeah, i'm scared. oh lawdy proteck me from the big scary colored man! and for that matter people who cannot manage to string together a coherent post.
he's an empty suit upon which people are imprinting a lot of hopes and dreams without any real promise of follow through. either way, his record in chi-town makes me despise pretty much everything he stands for, the commie.
you see america electing a black guy named hussein president? please, he doesn't stand a chance. does no one here remember 2004?
oh wait, nevermind. sorry, you see them being elected to a mythical winstonian office of "presiden."
i forgot most people here live in a dreamland where america is really a progressive paradise that didn't really elect dubya. nope it was some massive national hypnosis done by karl rove that caused that. surely it couldn't have been that the nation is far more conservative than this place is willing to accept. nope, must be a conspiracy!
...Oh screw it, I hate all of them. Each and every single one of them.
Winston,
that was an ignorant and baseless thing to say.
I find that the people who pull the race card first are the ones who it matters most to. Don't project your own prejudices on others.
taz, I realize you have a penchant for assholes, but this is ridiculous.
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I am not prjudice against blacks at all. I am not black I am a white upper classmen from Long Island but I have no prejudices at all towards anyone.
However, there are MANY people in this country who don't like the idea of a black man running for president.
I was simply trying to push Pappa's buttons by asking if that the reason why he doesn't like Obama is because of the color of his skin.
And, as for the other part of my comment. It is true. I don't see anyone on the republican's side who has an actual shot of being President. The dems have two strong people who are both in the top two slots. Whereas for the republicans they are all trying to not look totally stupid. I just can't see anyone of them logically being in office. Mccane is just too old, Huckbee is a friggen psyco, Thompson has no chance whatsoever, Ron Paul is just as crazy as Huckabe. And so long as Rudy says 9/11 he is in the clear.
I LOVE what Biden says about Rudy. He says “There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence — a noun, a verb, and 9/11."
I agree with that fully.
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"I am a white upper classmen"
I simply cannot believe what I read here most of the time.
And to think I was questioned recently about being taken seriously here . . .
I agree that it's going to be a Dem in the White House next term. I don't think it will be Obama though.
I was pretty sure it was going to be Hillary, but lately Edwards has been picking up steam. Still, it's way too early to prognosticate.
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"it's going to be a Dem in the White House next term"
At the moment, I can't imagine what makes that a secure feeling or statement. The unrest of the world only gets worse, and the people of this country continually and habitually hide behind the concept of 'no change' when frightened - especially the ones who actually go out and vote.
Right now, I think a Republican admin again is a certainty.
Ah, but my spirit guide tells me otherwise, DG.
edwards would probably have won if he hadn't been banging that coulter-esque documentarian while his wife was getting chemo. as it stands now he won't even get the dem nomination.
Intuitively I agree papa. My gut tells me Hillary.
DG, I think this country is going to vote Dem this time. The GOP may try to use scare tactics again (they certainly have ammo with all the international uncertainty) but I think pepole are buying this time.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
DG - if Hillary gets the nod, she has pretty hawkish credentials - so I can see her being an alternative if there is great uncertainty.
I think Obama's inexperience and lack of foreign policy credentials will come back to hurt him if things continue to spiral out of control.
The MSM has not picked up on the Enquirer story about Edwards getting a woman pregnant while his wife slowly dies of cancer. One that hits the stands, his campaign is going down fast.
The only Republican that scares me is McCain - if people are frightened, they may defer to the war hero. I used to like McCain, until he went and started to suckle on the Rove/Bush juice.
I'm more freaked out by Huck than McCain. Do you really think McCain has a shot? He's kind of a loose cannon.
You know, this is just a hunch not based in statistics, just a hunch based on years of hacking.....the Dems feel a commitment to electing an 'other than white male' candidate, but every synapse says their courage will flag on black male or woman....the least threating non white candidate is Richardson I suspect he will do better than projections have him in Iowa and gain stream in Nevada where is is wisely spending a lot of time.
rudy loses to hillary and edwards but beats osama. mccain beats any of them but has no shot at the nomination. romney's a joke.
huck beats any of them despite his inexperience. he's not running on issues, he's running on him and he's darn folksy and has drawn enough distinctions to look like his own man, not more politics as usual. don't underestimate the the compassionate, populist, bigot appeal.
osama's the only other one who can pull the relative newbie card and in his case, those jug ears make him look like a taller, tanned angry elf. he'd have been a good choice in a few years after being governor of illinois. too bad his wife won't let him ever run again if you fools refuse to elect him this time around!
Huck cannot win - they can nominate him, but his past words and actions will either come back to bite him, or leave many Republicans cold.
I think McCain would have a much better chance in a general election, with Rudy fading, his numbers are now moving up in NH.
And, I don't think Richardson will do much of anything in Iowa - but I could be wrong.
Richardson sometimes cannot get out of his own way.
And papa, I think Huck is too fundamentalist for the majority of the country,and the money in the Republican party will not get behind him. Again, just my opinion, but while a large minority think religion is important, I think a larger portion want science to be embraced again - and with Huck, that will not happen.
Updated On: 12/29/07 at 01:46 AM
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