If the best they got is a photo sans lapel pin, and the misconstrued comment of his wife, then I say

[whatchamacallit]

WE'RE GOING TO WIN! :party: :toast: :headbang:

[BeatleBoot]

1. Yeah, that's all they got.

:rofl:

[whatchamacallit]

5. You can bet Hillary and McCain's closets are a whole lot deeper and scarier

You and your republican partners are grasping at straws.

[BeatleBoot]

13. Never said they hadn't - Just who can take the hits and come out on top.

Hillary's a pro at taking shit and flinging it back.

The Clinton's fought the Nazi Scum smears and won - twice.

Obama doesn't realize what he's gotten himself into.

Oh, and I am a Proud, Lifelong, Card Carrying member of the Democratic Pary, son.

Need no lectures on that.

;)

[whatchamacallit]

15. Yeah, okay, but the people want HIM

so the rest is, shall we say, academic?

[BeatleBoot]

Double Post

[BeatleBoot]

16. The people want him at this moment

Before the Nazi Scum have gotten to him.

Politically speaking, he has a glass jaw.

And, right now, he's getting much help from Rove et al.

http://republicansforobama.org/?q=node/359


E-mail to send to Texas Republicans


Attention All Texas Republicans and Independents!!

On March 4th, Texas Republicans and Independents will have an opportunity to end Hillary Clinton's (and Bill's) presidential ambitions once and for all!

Since Texas has on open primary, Republicans and Independents should sign in at their polling place and request a Democratic ballot. They should then vote for Barack Obama. Even James Carville admits that if Hillary loses Texas, "she's done!" Republicans can help make this a reality!!! Just think, no more Clintons in the White House!

Voting Democratic this one time will have NO effect on your ability to vote in the next Republican primary or obviously on your vote in November. Since John McCain has the Republican nomination locked up, voting for McCain or Huckabee at this point will have no effect on the outcome on the Republican side.

After you vote during early voting or on March 4th, you ARE NOT done! Report back to your regular polling place at 7PM on March 4th to sign the Barack Obama list for caucus delegates. In a little known Texas voting quirk, 67 delegates to the Democratic convention will be seated because of these caucuses. This is a full one-third of the total number of Texas delegates. For Hillary to lose, she has to lose the primary votes AND the caucus votes.

I urge you to vote against Hillary Clinton by voting for Barack Obama. Please forward this e-mail to all your Texas Republican and Independent friends so that we can help ensure the Clinton's defeat on March 4th!!!

[whatchamacallit]

17. The reason your warnings (opinions) go unheeded, is we truly believe he CAN win

There's no compelling reason to change horses.

[BeatleBoot]

18. Understood.

And they are my opinions, you are correct.

And you know as well as I do that this forum is not the meeting of the minds either.

But as a Democrat I can't align myself with a candidate who is getting help from the GOP in the primary.

And evidence of that is becoming overwhelming.



http://ironmyvote.com/obamas-popular-vote.htm

From a "Republicans for Obama" website:

http://ironmyvote.com/obamas-popular-vote.htm

Its on a site called Republicans for obama in texas
Home » Groups » Texas R.F.O. Primary Petition for Obama
E-mail to send to all your Republican friends
Sat, 02/16/2008 - 10:41pm
Attention All Texas Republicans and Independents!!
On March 4th, Texas Republicans and Independents will have an opportunity to end Hillary Clinton’s (and Bill’s) presidential ambitions once and for all!
Since Texas has on open primary, Republicans and Independents should sign in at their polling place and request a Democratic ballot. They should then vote for Barack Obama. Even James Carville admits that if Hillary loses Texas, “she’s done!” Republicans can help make this a reality!!! Just think, no more Clintons in the White House!
Voting Democratic this one time will have NO effect on your ability to vote in the next Republican primary or obviously on your vote in November. Since John McCain has the Republican nomination locked up, voting for McCain or Huckabee at this point will have no effect on the outcome on the Republican side.
After you vote during early voting or on March 4th, you ARE NOT done! Report back to your regular polling place at 7PM on March 4th to sign the Barack Obama list for caucus delegates. In a little known Texas voting quirk, 67 delegates to the Democratic convention will be seated because of these caucuses. This is a full one-third of the total number of Texas delegates. For Hillary to lose, she has to lose the primary votes AND the caucus votes. I urge you to vote against Hillary Clinton by voting for Barack Obama.
Please forward this e-mail to all your Republican and Independent friends so that we can help ensure the Clinton’s defeat on March 4th!!!


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Similar instructions from the Obama campaign:

Here’s a video from the Obama campaign

Slickly produced, promoting their “Democrat for a Day” scheme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUE4Kp0YERs

Obama Web page in Florida:

The following has been scrubbed from the web but was up for months at an Obama campaign site:
Quoting from the Google cache “as retrieved on Nov 30, 2007 02:11:00 GMT”
http:/ / www.google.com/search?q=cache:MVQ9FvgfVwoJ:www.obamaflo...

WANNA BECOME AN OBAMACRAT?!!!
By Obama Florida 2008
Published: April 24, 2007
….
That’s why “Democrat for a Day” was launched this spring by ObamaFlorida2008. Using the official forms provided by all Supervisors of Elections offices, you may re-register as a Democrat for that one day — when the primary is likely to be held — on February 5, 2008. You must do so before the end of 2007, to make sure it is done 30 days before the primary.
But this is not about some “hard sell” to recruit voters to become permanent Democrats. Not at all. After the primary, you may re-register back to the Republican or Libertarian parties, or revert to your previous status as an Independent! There will be plenty of time before the general election in November 2008.
….
But we’re finding that up to 20 percent of Obama supporters are registered Republicans.
In fact, during the first couple of weeks in April, some 150 Republicans indeed became “Democrats for a Day.” You might call them “Obamacrats!”

Obama Flyer in Nevada:

A flyer was distributed in Nevada by an Obama precinct captain, similar to the above Florida page - http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=26826


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Similar efforts:

Dick Morris’ explicit instructions to Republicans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt_jnhsyqg0

Obama’s Democrat for a Day training video: http://www . youtube.com/watch?v=JUE4Kp0YERs

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on 2-19-2008 also talked about Republicans having "some fun" voting for Obama:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23255694 /
MATTHEWS: Let me talk to you. Let me go right now, Ron, is that your theory, that—well, it‘s mine, too—that if you can vote if you‘re a moderate or independent voter or you‘re a Republican who doesn‘t think it‘s important to vote on the Republican side, since it‘s locked up for McCain, have some fun and vote for somebody you have sort of an interest in, Barack Obama, perhaps?


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More leads
-- we need to collect evidence of GOP crossover in many different locales, so that the superdelegates in each locale will understand where Obama's 'popular' vote is coming from

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080222/ap_on_el_pr/open_primaries_1

[whatchamacallit]

19. I appreciate the information and your position

but there seems to be plenty of "support" going around these days

http://www.centralohio.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/BA/20080218/NEWS03/80218011/1002

Cheers to a fellow Beatles worshiper!

[BeatleBoot]

20. Thanks for the civil discussion, Reset

Not too much of that around here these days.

I wish you the best from the bottom of my heart and the center of my mind.


Peace.

[whatchamacallit]

21. Back at ya!

I look forward to when we can all raise a glass together.

[nonconformist]

2. I said the same about those ridiculous swiftboat attacks against Kerry. nt

[Maddy McCall]

3. Then quit making such a stir about either...

If they are non-issues, then quit making them issues.

Most of the posts here are from Obama supporters who seemed worried about the "smears." If it's in the bag, then why worry?

:shrug:

[whatchamacallit]

7. I don't suppose you bothered to notice the proliferation of these threads currently on GDP

Provided almost exclusively by you guys. No, probably not.

[Maddy McCall]

9. Shouldn't bother you, right?

It's in the bag, right?

[stellanoir]

4. Yeah all it takes is a lapel pin to defend our country.

That would explain the largest military budget in the world.

Those lapel pins can be totally pricey.

And they can blow up satellites. Wow

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. The pins cost $0.34 to make. Building the cranes to haul them up

to the high horses costs billions.

[stellanoir]

8. Oh you noticed

[99th_Monkey]

10. You forgot the "Obama Cult" insinuations (K&R)

Just one more example of over-reaching desperation to find SOMEthing, ANYthing to try to take away from
the vibrant electricity of the Obama tsunami sweeping the hearts and minds of millions of Americans who
once again -- or maybe for the first time -- feel a (re)new(ed) sense of real hope for our nation's
future.

Bottom line, they got NUTHIN on Obama and they know it, and it shows.

:kick:

[my3boyz]

11. Where is Hillary's flag pin? How does a flag pin

show how patriotic you are? That is just like the Republicans saying the Democrats are not patriotic (and don't support the troops) because we are against the war. Pathetic.

[K Gardner]

12. No, now they have Hillary holding a flyer and having a "meltdown" in front of the cameras.. so

I can't wait until they play that right next to her touching and melodramatic "closing" from the debate. Can we You Tube that?

[zbdent]

14. all the Repukes have to do is look at the last few months here at DU

and take the ammunition from the attack posts here ...

what with both Dem candidates' backers shooting at each other, instead of the true enemies ...