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Mon Feb-04-08 11:43 PM
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Obama: "Yes, I'm reaching out to Republicans -because they want to switch teams!" |
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And he is right.
How many republicans are in the wrong party, realize the war is wrong, they are getting poorer, no jobs coming back, katrina voodoo coming down -and they want to leave.
How many?
And they are not, not, not going to go with Hillary and a restless Bill Clinton in the WH again. They won't.
But they may vote for Obama.
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:44 PM
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1. Then why haven't they? |
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Tue Feb-05-08 01:09 AM
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27. In the process? Why haven't they switched already? |
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:46 PM
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4. Because they havent been offered a real alternative until now |
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And Hillary isnt an alternative.
She's just the same thing they want to get away from with a (D) behind her name on the ballot.
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:47 PM
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7. Kerry wasn't an alternative? Gore wasn't an alternative? |
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:50 PM
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10. They were still thinking the GOP would fix the mess (they're slow learners) |
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Instead they've now come to realize its going to take something more than another typical triangulating politician to enact change.
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:51 PM
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11. That means "crisis' not "Obama" is driving any switching. |
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:47 PM
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5. Did you see the 06 elections? |
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This is their first chance to show it in a Presidential Election after the Dubya debacle
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:47 PM
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8. Go to Freepland some time |
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Everyone there is decrying the "fake" Republicans they know who "whisper about supporting Obama."
Even if he drew away 5%, the black energized vote and a small uptick in youth gives us a crushing victory in Nov.
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:56 PM
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19. we would have a crushing victory without "freeperlanders " we do NOT need them |
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Edited on Mon Feb-04-08 11:58 PM by ElsewheresDaughter
to win....jays'us h christ who left the door open?
* and his evil idiotic cabal made sure of that.....Obama has nothing to do with that aspect of it.
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:46 PM
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3. "I know how hard it will be to change America" |
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"Exxon Mobile made $11 billion dollars last quarter and they won't give that up easily"
He knows it will take inspiring people to work with him, people across race, gender and party lines.
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:47 PM
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6. Obama has the right experience and |
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good instincts about what our country needs to begin its healing path and people who think for themselves can sense that.
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:49 PM
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9. healing path? What does that even mean |
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:53 PM
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Tue Feb-05-08 12:30 AM
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25. Thanks for letting me know who the mystery person was. nt |
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:53 PM
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14. all anyone has to do is think about a coach or teacher that was so good |
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everyone wanted to get into that class, Kucinich like,or play on that team. Thats Obama.
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:55 PM
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17. Exactly..it's so simple. This is just |
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on a massive massive scale.
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:51 PM
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12. The republicans will reach out in primary and vote against him in the G.E |
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someone should wise him up where republicans are concerned!!! FAST
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:52 PM
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13. You only have to recall the 90s to know he isn't lying. |
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:53 PM
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I suspect many Republicans will switch teams, now that they've pretty much raped the country. When George Bush became President, he hit the ground running, armed with lawyers. He never made a concession on anything. Now that it appears that the Dems have a chance, MSM and the establishment want to make sure that the nominee will be bipartisan and soothing; a feel good candidate, if you will. They don't want to risk everything George has worked so hard for by letting the Presidency go to someone they know will tirelessly try to get the country back on the right track.
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Tue Feb-05-08 01:08 AM
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Bill covered up and stopped investigations into BCCI, Iraq, Iran/Contra, CIA drugrunning. Just so he would get the support of the 'centrists'.
Hillary will do exactly the same, for the same reason.
The republicans who are going to Obama want to STOP the criminality.
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Mon Feb-04-08 11:56 PM
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18. We can choose to split the Republican vote or unify it. |
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This is an easy choice. Obama represents the ability to split Republicans. Hillary represents the horror of uniting them behind anyone they run.
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Tue Feb-05-08 12:04 AM
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20. Give me a effin break..... |
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....I am one of those Republicans who came over because I liked Edwards....
Do you really think we are going to vote for a man with empty rhetoric? For that matter Hillary is the same, but I must say as eloquent as obama is in his speeches, he says absolutely nothing. You have to be a dead head in a trance to vote for this person.
Folks Edwards is still on the ballot in most of the Tuesday primary states. If he is not on the ballot, then vote undecided or if you can write him in do that. But if he is on the ballot for sure vote for his name John Edwards.
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Tue Feb-05-08 12:04 AM
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21. democrats won the 00 and the 04 elections -- so you don't know what you're talking about. |
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Tue Feb-05-08 12:07 AM
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24. Whach'ya say there, sonny? Speak up, I can' hear so good no more y'know... |
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Tue Feb-05-08 12:06 AM
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22. Please. No sex threads! |
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Tue Feb-05-08 12:07 AM
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23. Well, I know a few republicans in the 'burbs who have switched to Hillary. |
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Their homes are now in foreclosure. They've seen first hand how the Republican economy has treated them (upper middle class voters). They see exactly what it feels like when their government doesn't care and there is no safety net for them to fall back on. That's fine with me, so long as they do see the light and stop voting against their own economic interests.
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