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Barack Obama wants to be president of these 57 United States
L.A. Times ^ | May 09, 2008 | Andrew Malcolm

Posted on 05/09/2008 6:05:00 PM PDT by Verbosus

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To: pepperhead
Let’s see, just a day ago Obama said McCain was “losing his bearings”. I am sorry but Obama deserves to get picked on for saying what he said today because of what he said the day before.

This crap is definitely on all fours with Obama's idiotic remark, that's for sure. So congrats, y'all are being just as stupid. Way to go!

281 posted on 05/10/2008 12:06:24 PM PDT by Huck ("Real" conservatives support OBAMA in 08 (that's how you know Im not a real conservative))
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To: cruise_missile
"Didn't his minister say that there is a difference in the way the races think?"

Okay, now which "race" is Obama a member of?

282 posted on 05/10/2008 12:23:13 PM PDT by magooey (stop the bs, fight the war!)
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To: Verbosus

He wants to be president of 60 states. 57 + “one more” + AK + HI.


283 posted on 05/10/2008 1:15:20 PM PDT by newzjunkey (McCain, Liberal. Hillary, Socialist. Obama, Marxist. 2008, year of no choices.)
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To: cruise_missile

It might sound like a Bushism but numeracy is a generally recognized word: “the ability to understand and work with numbers”


284 posted on 05/10/2008 1:17:18 PM PDT by newzjunkey (McCain, Liberal. Hillary, Socialist. Obama, Marxist. 2008, year of no choices.)
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To: Wolfstar

Maybe it’s the effect of his cocaine and other drug experimentation?


285 posted on 05/10/2008 1:19:10 PM PDT by newzjunkey (McCain, Liberal. Hillary, Socialist. Obama, Marxist. 2008, year of no choices.)
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To: BJClinton

Really. Six of one, half of 57 the other. Good tag line!


286 posted on 05/10/2008 1:20:50 PM PDT by Enterprise ((Those who "betray us" also "Betray U.S." They're called DEMOCRATS!))
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To: Huck

What a dignified response, thanks retard.


287 posted on 05/10/2008 2:13:18 PM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: Wolfstar
"I still want to know who plucked him out of obscurity and has been paying for his ultra rapid rise up the political food chain."

Do you now? Well here you are: The Plucker is President of the Illinois State Senate Emil Jones Jr., who said when Obama came to the Illinois Senate: "I'm gonna make me a US Senator..." referring to his intentions for Obama.

Jones, among other things, put Obama's name on a number of pieces of legislation in order to make him look like a leading legislator. Others had done the foundational work for this legislation, but B. Hussein can list them in his speeches as "accomplishments" and "leadership" and "vision" and "commitment to change" none of which is real.

Of course Obama's "Political Godfather" has continued on to back him even as he runs for the Dim nomination. Note this Chicago Sun Times opinion piece:

Jones' Obama pitch to black Democrats stirs controversy

February 6, 2007

BY LYNN SWEET Sun-Times Columnist

WASHINGTON -- Seeking to solidify African-American backing for Barack Obama's presidential bid, Illinois Senate President Emil Jones Jr. told black Democrats meeting here last week they don't "owe" anyone, alluding to, but not mentioning by name, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Obama, said Jones, "is our son."

In a Monday telephone interview, Jones, Obama's political godfather, told me, "How long do we have to owe before we have an opportunity to support our son?

"And I know that Barack Obama is our son and he deserves our support."

He made a similar race-based appeal to a group of black Democratic activists Friday at a closed Democratic National Committee winter meeting.

"Nobody in that room had any doubt that he was speaking about the Clintons," said Jamal Simmons, a Democratic consultant who was there.

President Clinton enjoyed tremendous support from black voters; it will not be automatically transferred to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Obama, who would be the first African-American nominee, will have to work for some black endorsements. Jones' pitch for Obama, Simmons added, "exposed internal conflicts" within the African-American political community.

'Could offend people'

Jones said his comments, first reported in Monday's the Politico, were not that different than when he stumped for black votes during Obama's contested 2004 Illinois Senate Democratic primary.

Jones said he was moved to try to recruit Obama backers when he realized senior Clinton adviser Minyon Moore -- who is a Chicago native -- was at the meeting.

The controversy triggered by Jones was picked up by CNN Monday, and the Rev. Al Sharpton told CNN that Jones "could offend people by saying you got to unite just because someone is your race."

Sharpton noted that Obama endorsed Mayor Daley for re-election over two black candidates, so it would not follow to ask blacks "to do something for Obama that he himself is not doing at home."

288 posted on 05/10/2008 2:30:35 PM PDT by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: newzjunkey
"It might sound like a Bushism but numeracy is a generally recognized word: “the ability to understand and work with numbers”

I knew Obama had this problem when I heard him speak about Social Security, Healthcare, Defence, Jobs, Oil, Taxes, Education, Terrorism, Foreign Affairs and a few other things..18 or 5 others...plus the few I didn't hear...so like...60?

289 posted on 05/10/2008 2:43:03 PM PDT by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Just a democaRAT moment. They have lots and lots of them.
And they make fun of GWB? LOL

Gawd, add stupid to the messiah equation.


290 posted on 05/10/2008 2:48:06 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (I heard it on the grapevine and saw it in the paper, so it must be true.)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush
"My 6th grade daughter caught the mistake, there are 1.3 billion in china and NOW 1 billion in India..

And to appreciate the size and arrogance of such an error, observe that the .3 Obama overlooked is equivalent to the entire population of the USA!

291 posted on 05/10/2008 2:48:14 PM PDT by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: Huck
"Hell, when I was 10 years old, I could name all 50 states, PLUS the capital of each of the 50 states.

I couldn't...of course there were only 48.

292 posted on 05/10/2008 2:50:29 PM PDT by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: Verbosus

Can you imagine what would have happened if McCain had made this gaffe? The MSM and the Democrats would declare him senile and unfit to be president and demand that he immediately withdraw as a presidential candidate.

But since it was “brilliant” Obama who made uttered this silliness, it was “just a slip” and will be buried, never mentioned again by the MSM.


293 posted on 05/10/2008 3:12:46 PM PDT by FocusNexus ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Verbosus
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294 posted on 05/10/2008 3:15:55 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (Loose lips sink ships.)
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To: Raycpa
I think he was going to say 50 states and then was corrected by his staff and meant to say 47 after being corrected.

Finally someone draws the obvious conclusion about this silly episode. We really should be going after Obama for his Marxist belief system and let this little stuff burn up less Freeper-Energy.

295 posted on 05/10/2008 3:22:39 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: pepperhead
thanks retard.

Now that's classy. Maybe you'll make some 23rd chromosome jokes next like Al Gore.

296 posted on 05/10/2008 3:28:52 PM PDT by Huck ("Real" conservatives support OBAMA in 08 (that's how you know Im not a real conservative))
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To: Allegra

Wow...I must be a dumbass.
I can only name 50 of ‘em.”

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A little “affirmative action” would do wonders for you!


297 posted on 05/10/2008 3:54:58 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Does anyone still believe this is a free country?)
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To: Verbosus
Hmm.. 57 states??

I guess Mexico would be the next state to join. Hey Barry Hussien Osama, what is the other new states do you want - Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Zaire and Kenya?

298 posted on 05/10/2008 3:56:04 PM PDT by EagleandLiberty (El Rushbo Tribal name -- RinoHunter Vote Conservatives '08)
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To: Huck

You give Algore too much credit. He said “extra chromosome” and did not mention a number. Maybe because he couldn’t.

HMMMMM... I see a pattern here!


299 posted on 05/10/2008 3:58:15 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (Loose lips sink ships.)
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To: Finalapproach29er

“If Quayle had said this.............

it would be the top story in the news and America.”
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So true, how can anyone miss the bias in the news reports when Democrats can talk like utter fools and the media ignores it while a Republican can use a legitimate alternate spelling of a word and be smeared as a dummy on every news blast in the nation.


300 posted on 05/10/2008 4:01:35 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Does anyone still believe this is a free country?)
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