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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:53 PM
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Obama Just Choked Himself Up While Speaking About The Soldier Killed In Iraq
A mother gave him a bracelet with his son's name and the inscription "All Gave Some, He Gave All."

It was very subtle, but you could see his eyes go red, too. It was genuine because I started to tear up at the exact same time. And he tried to get past it quickly.

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PretzelWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:54 PM
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1. wow. Obama had his crying moment!!!
sorry, I just think we can expect that line of attack in about 5 seconds.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:56 PM
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8. Actually, I'd like to think it was about the soldier.
Stupid me.
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PretzelWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:57 PM
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9. it is about the soldier. and I'm sure I'll be moved by it
when they show it later. not at TV now.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 11:07 PM
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50. Notice: after major vote of the people, about someone's death and not how hard campaigning is
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libertee Donating Member (437 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:54 PM
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2. I hope he's not crying...you know what the say!
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:55 PM
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* cried during his first "ignore your nation" and nobody made a big deal out of it.
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:55 PM
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5. * cried during his first "ignore your nation" and nobody made a big deal out of it.
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gerrilea Donating Member (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:54 PM
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3. Oh...but you all were bashing HRC for showing emotions...
For shame...
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TheDoorbellRang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:58 PM
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13. Not all of us
I watched her so-called "crying" moment and said at the time the M$M was full of BS -- and I'm an Obama supporter.
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:58 PM
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14. Clinton cried for herself. Obama cried for a dead kid
I hope you are reasonable enough to see the difference.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:00 PM
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20. and you are sick for saying that. you should be ASHAMED of yourself.
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gerrilea Donating Member (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:09 PM
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30. Double standards drive me crazy...do as I say not as I do...again Shame on all of you!
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:12 PM
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33. do not include me in your - all. I have NOT and will NOT demean Obama for having his moment.
Edited on Tue Feb-19-08 10:13 PM by rodeodance
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gerrilea Donating Member (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:14 PM
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35. I don't deny either one...but the double standards around here are destroying all of us!
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gerrilea Donating Member (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:07 PM
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29. No...she cried for her faith and belief in the future of our Country
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polpilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:24 PM
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39. I'll bet she's crying tonight & Bill's crying too!
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:00 PM
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19. Just for the goddamned record, all of you, I never bashed Hillary Clinton for crying.
Edited on Tue Feb-19-08 10:01 PM by Hissyspit
I thought this was a moving moment about the tragedy in Iraq. The rules say I had to post it in GD-P, unfortunately.


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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:05 PM
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26. I got it Hissy
:hi:

Thanks for the reminder.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:07 PM
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28. I can't wait until June gets here. n/t
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:17 PM
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37. Yeah I hear ya
The only thing that keeps me from going crazy in GD-P is seeing that so many of the nastiest posters are relatively new to DU. Which means they will likely be gone once we have a nominee.

There's a great Frontline on about Haditha. I'm watching it now. Sure puts all this DU crap in the right perspective.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:29 PM
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40. Yeah, I posted a preview of it last Thursday. It got zero recommendations and zero responses.
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mckeown1128 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:00 PM
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21. He was choked up while thinking about a fallen soldier.
Clinton was choked up while talking about how "hard it is running for president."

There is a BIG difference in the two situations.
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gerrilea Donating Member (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:11 PM
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32. I saw the clip and she cried due to her strong faith in our Country
and it's future...
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:42 PM
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43. hilary was emoting about herself and then
all steely eyed the next second..hilary's just a lousy actor.
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 11:08 PM
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51. I've never bashed Hillary for showing emotion
Thankyouverymuch.
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high density Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:54 PM
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4. Obama is weak and a cry baby!!
TO THE PRESSES!
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:55 PM
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6. Doubt we'd see McCain do that.
Just sayin. He wouldn't be able to make that "100 year" pledge if he felt that way.
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Hoof Hearted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:56 PM
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7. That calculating bastard. Yeah, like those were real tears!
Poor little Obama. He must be tired. Maybe he's on his period.
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mihalevich Donating Member (248 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:01 PM
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23. Let me remind you that he is a
Democrat and we are the democratic underground.
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Hoof Hearted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 11:05 PM
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48. Screw you. It's not your house, your ball, or your yard.
After 200,000 posts and cracks about Hillary showing an emotion I make no apologies WHATSOEVER.
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:57 PM
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10. Maybe he shouldn't have voted to "support the troops". Gag me.
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:57 PM
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11. HRC will say Obama plagiarized her crying moment.
Can't wait til we go after McCain and stop this petty shit.
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jackson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:57 PM
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12. Obama does it: he's so lovably human! Hill does it: evil plot!
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:59 PM
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16. sick people here on DU
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Alexander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:59 PM
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18. Yep. You're one of them.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:02 PM
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24. i was referring to DU folks who have demeand Hillary for a crying or whatever you want to
call it.

those people make me sick
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Alexander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:59 PM
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17. At least Obama tears up about a dead soldier and not his own campaign.
Sounds like you need one of these.

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gerrilea Donating Member (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:18 PM
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38. Maybe you should watch the clip again...you missed something
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gerrilea Donating Member (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:16 PM
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36. MY ABSOLUTE POINT!
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Does anyone around here now understand!
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DUyellow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:49 PM
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45. you see, the next words out of his mouth were not a shot at clinton... she went on.....
"But some of us are right and some of us are wrong. Some of us ready and some of us are not. Some of us know what we will do on day one, and some of us really haven't thought that through enough."

That is the difference.
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kurth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 11:09 PM
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52. The True One and Only COMPASSIONATE Whatever
Edited on Tue Feb-19-08 11:10 PM by kurth
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:58 PM
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15. this is a great speech
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jasmine621 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:00 PM
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22. And he just used another one of HRC's lines.
Healthcare at least as good as the one I have. I think I heard this from HRC last year.
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:02 PM
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25. Except Kerry used that line in 2004.
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jackson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:13 PM
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34. Who?
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Abacus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:44 PM
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44. Heh. Kerry said that in nearly every one of his '04 speeches. /nt
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Maximus Invictus Donating Member (40 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:07 PM
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27. Great Speech?
Edited on Tue Feb-19-08 10:09 PM by Maximus Invictus
Same old shit!

10000000 billion times: change, change, change, change.

I hope he don´t start crying if he is the nominee. McCain will eat him alive.

How i miss Edwards... Damm!!!


From Europe With Love...

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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:09 PM
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31. I guess McCain will have to one-up him and tear up about his years as a POW.
And how proud he is now of our troops fighting for freedom in Iraq and et cetera.

Looks like the troops are going to be a prop again, one way or the other, sincerely or not.
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:38 PM
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41. Good. Maybe he'll stop funding the war.
Edited on Tue Feb-19-08 10:40 PM by Benhurst
When are our "leaders" going to stop enabling Bush and the Neo-cons?
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BlackVelvet04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:40 PM
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42. Oh, he cried......
what a tactic.

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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:51 PM
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46. It was a genuine moment and I felt it very sincere and spontaneous show of empathy.
Obama is empathetic toward those who have lost their children in this senseless war.

Go Obama! :patriot:
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Hoof Hearted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 11:07 PM
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49. Of course you do.
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RestoreGore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 10:54 PM
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47. So why is it said he will up the military budget?
Why has he made no pledge to not get us into another war? Saying you will "end this war" is not the same.
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