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Democrats Look for Way to Avoid Convention Rift
New York Times ^ | 2-16-2008 | DON VAN NATTA Jr. and JO BECKER

Posted on 02/16/2008 8:17:04 PM PST by rdl6989

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To: underground
We can only hope this is as much fun as Chicago ‘68 :)

I'm sure the institutional memory of the 'rat party as well as many of the bigwigs remember Chicago well. But the Clinton machine was not a factor then, and they may just be ambitious and ruthless enough to risk another meltdown in order to seize the nomination. After all, they have demonstrated in the past that they are perectly willing to cannibalize the party to satisfy their personal cravings fo power.

21 posted on 02/17/2008 5:33:34 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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22 posted on 02/17/2008 5:35:07 AM PST by Jim Noble (Look out kid, they keep it all hid)
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To: johniegrad
"As a 15 year old boy watching it on TV, it felt as though the entire fabric of the nation was coming apart."

I was 17 then and felt much the same as you. The behavior of the defendants and media at the "Chicago 7" trial that followed gave me yet another feeling that our country had changed for the worse.

David Horowitz in his book "Radical Son" gave a good account of what people were behind those riots, and how they did it. It was no accident.

23 posted on 02/17/2008 8:18:17 AM PST by VR-21
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“democrats look for way to avoid convention rift.”

hopefully, the sovietism they’ve inflicted on the entire country will turn on them and rip their collective backsides.


24 posted on 02/17/2008 9:08:48 AM PST by ripley
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Seat the white racists to the right. The black racists on the left. And all other racists in the middle. Should work out fine. Bring your own firehose.


25 posted on 02/17/2008 9:11:06 AM PST by sergeantdave (Governments hate armed citizens more than armed criminals)
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To: Rennes Templar

I heard it this way.

The Dem Primary is a car wreck.
No, it’s a train wreck.

No, it’s a train wreck into a car wreck, with a baby on the roof.


26 posted on 02/17/2008 9:12:11 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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To: rdl6989

Former Vice President Al Gore

There’s the answer front and center, now the problem is how to get Gore the nomination without looking like a racist or a chauvinist. I have been saying for months that Gore will be the dem candidate.
For all his denials he’s been running and he wants the nomination. All they gotta do is beg him...for the “sake” of the party.


27 posted on 02/17/2008 9:25:17 AM PST by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: VR-21

No good came of that event.


28 posted on 02/17/2008 10:39:05 AM PST by johniegrad
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