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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 07:30 PM
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Why Barack Obama can't close the deal? It's his HAT!!
The media has put a hat on him, and decorated it with this:


No matter how many states he wins, he always needs to win the next one "BIG"..or he has to win "BOTH"..or that state he just won?? horsefeathers..it's a black state..doesn't count.. or it's a caucus state..or it's a small state or it's a red state..doesn't matter..or he won that one before the crazy minister came along..

They fitted him with a hat that has the goal in sight, but always just out of reach.. and THEY determine the reach..

Dump the preacher, Barack... Oh No! He's disloyal..he dumped the preacher...But wait..he didn't do it fast enough..

Well that ends that!!..But hey, let's keep talking about the preacher and why he won't keep talking about the preacher anyway, because it's just so darned much fun....

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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 07:36 PM
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1. We're letting the media frame the dialogue; how do we stop that?
How do we get them talking about the important things?
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 07:38 PM
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2. We cannot.. That's the shitty part..
THEY control the microphones & cameras..so they "feed" us whatever slop they're serving..

You write and complain, and you are labeled a kook or conspiracy-nut.. they are convinced that they are correct, and no one is allowed to disagree with them..

It's a sick joke..
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Mooney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 07:40 PM
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3. Math.
Obama has math on his side. We can never get the media to stop talking shit. But having math on your side is money in the bank and will let you do a nice end run around whatever the spin du jour happens to be.
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Mooney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 07:45 PM
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6. "Pathetic pansy"?
Do tell.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 07:52 PM
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7. Regardless of the math, the media is effecting perception, right
or wrong. That's their 'job' and they are going about it gleefully.
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Mooney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 07:54 PM
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9. They're always going to talk shit.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 07:43 PM
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4. The Dialogue? The Primary IS STILL GOING. Obama's campaign SUCKS. He will lose Indiana
and BARELY win SC the way things are going.

It doesn't matter one fucking bit that Obama might have a lock on the nomination if he allows himself to be branded as an elitist wimp who doesn't fight.

HE NEEDS TO FIGHT BACK.

Supposedly he was supposed to have some team ready for Swiftboating. Well he was swiftboated and his campaign has done jackshit.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 07:53 PM
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8. I agree he needs to defend himself more. I recognize he's
trying to stay above the fray, but as the OP noted, damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 08:35 PM
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14. If he raises his voice, he becomes "angry black man"
and it only plays up the fact that she's a small older white woman..
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 08:43 PM
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16. Like I said, and you said, damned if he does... nt
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SoonerPride Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 08:37 PM
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15. Turn. The. Channel.
Edited on Thu May-01-08 08:37 PM by SoonerPride
Better yet, turn it off altogether.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 08:45 PM
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18. Sure. Blinders will allow me to be impervious to what's
happening. At least I know what's happening, and why.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 02:45 PM
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19. I do that from time to time.. The other day I took a mental health day
and watched 8 episodes of "Terminal City"..and some "Daily Shows"..then went out to dinner with my husband..

a very peaceful day
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Life Long Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 08:01 PM
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10. I've been watching MSM frame this whole election from the start.
They put Hillary and Obmama up on a pedestal and made rock stars out of them both while they shoved out the other candidates. Edwards held strong, till they totally ignored him and hounded him with only one question "when are you going to drop out?". Then MSM wanted a roundtable debate with only Clinton and Obama. CNN told Edwards something, and Edwards dropped out right before that debate.


Now, they have people running scared that Hillary could win. WTF has changed in a week with the needed math needed to win? Not a damn thing. The math is still the same. So WTF changed people? Then why are people running scared? Because their watching MSM frame "their minds". Your being brainwashed and you don't even know it. You can't handle cable news but you think you can and you just want to keep an eye on them. Well, it's not working when you run scared screaming Hilary could win this thing. This gives them the chance to steal this race because of the brainwashed idiotts think Hillary can do it.

Well, that's my brainstorming rant - hopefully for the night. No offense people.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 08:05 PM
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11. I agree he should just declare that the primary is over with and he has won
Wonder why he doesn't?

Don
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 08:34 PM
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13. because the Supers who could put him over the top, are waiting
for their "just-perfect moment" in the sun, and since he needs them, he has to wait until they are ready..

this thing would end if 2/3 of the undeclared and the ones who would jump from her to him..would just have a conference call and set a date..and then DO IT..

the few extra delegates he would need then would be decided along the way at the next primary..

BUT.. the Queen of the Zombies, will proibably still not quit..

I have a mental image of a cartoon I would draw..if I could draw

a limo headed up Pennsylvania Avenue, with Obama & family in it..and at the back of the limo is a pathetic figure in a yellow pantsuit , hanging onto the bumper...her shoes cutting grooves in the pavement, as secret service try to pry her hands off the bumper
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Aloha Spirit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 08:26 PM
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12. I hope after November 4th, Obama never spends another second or another dime doing any favors for
these MSM hosers. I hope he makes CSPAN a public broadcast, and only makes appearances on PBS or CSPAN. ha.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 08:45 PM
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17. Totally
"Those states he won are predominantly negro. Negroes and college-educated people aren't 'real people.' Even if I'm a college-educated African-American spewing such nonsense."
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