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It's over. Obama is the nominee.
The San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | March 18, 2008 | Chris Reed

Posted on 03/18/2008 11:48:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

It was extremely unlikely that Hillary Clinton was going to overcome Barack Obama's lead in delegates, states and total votes and take the Democratic nomination, but Obama's speech this morning -- graceful, thoughtful, nuanced, sweeping, challenging, unprecedented -- pretty much wiped out any chance at all. It was a speech Hillary could never have given -- really, few U.S. politicians ever could have given.

I write this not just because I think this will dampen the Rev. Wright controversy. I write this because Obama did an extraordinary job of presenting himself as the candidate of "the better angels of our nature," to use the phrase from Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address. His speech isn't just inspirational to millions of voters who are tired of cynicism and division. I think many in the political media will see it as redemptive on personal grounds. Maybe they really aren't spending their careers in swampland.

Which not-so-coincidentally is the name of Time magazine's fine national politics blog.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: Pennsylvania
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I agree that he wrapped up the nomination. However, he just lost the General Election.

Brace ourselves for a McCain Presidency. Maybe he'll invite my dad over for a few drinks at the White House (they were old drinking buddies when they served together at NAS Meridian in the 1960's).

61 posted on 03/18/2008 12:07:15 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow....Chris is pretty much humping Obama’s leg.


62 posted on 03/18/2008 12:07:17 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Yep. See post 26.


63 posted on 03/18/2008 12:07:22 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

— graceful, thoughtful, nuanced, sweeping, challenging, unprecedented —

Oh, good grief...


64 posted on 03/18/2008 12:08:48 PM PDT by Mark319 (You'd think that at some point we'd have all the laws we need.)
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To: MHGinTN
Folks, this is going to be a long and violent summer of race riots and irrational hatred lived out before the television cameras.

Could be. The phrase used by the news media back in the old race riot days was "long, hot summer," because the inner city rioters got especially restive on hot summer nights.

Maybe hillary had better pay algore his carbon credits, to avoid that happening.

65 posted on 03/18/2008 12:08:54 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Posted at the article itself: Laughing at the Dems stuck with this racist for a candidate! And for the left wing nut above that compared Falwell and Wright — exactly which Presidential candidate did Falwell baptize (like Wright did Obama) . . . and baptize the children of (like Wright did Obama’s children) . . . and marry (like Wright did Obama and Michelle) and whose sermon was the title of a book (Obama’s book was named for a Wright sermon). Keep on living on dreamland lefties. Your candidate is a LOSER who sits through racist black seperatist “G*D D*mn America” and “AIDS was created by Whitey to kill blacks” as sermons on Sundays! : )

I’m loving this!


66 posted on 03/18/2008 12:09:55 PM PDT by Greg F (Do you want a guy named Hussein to fix your soul? Michelle Obama thinks you do.)
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To: Cicero

I wouldn’t be so sure.....

Obama is losing his luster fast.


67 posted on 03/18/2008 12:09:58 PM PDT by JaneNC (I)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

68 posted on 03/18/2008 12:11:48 PM PDT by OeOeO
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I heard about half of the speech, were we listening to two different speeches? It was one of the least effectual speeches he has made, at least, to those outside his base.


69 posted on 03/18/2008 12:11:49 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (Bolshecrat, the amoral party of what if and whine.)
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To: All

The speech was excellent to bring Dems and Independents to his side. They will see voting for him will erase any liberal guilt they have for their ancestors past treatment of blacks. A black president is their ultimate pat on the back for doing the “right thing” for all America’s past perceived sins.


70 posted on 03/18/2008 12:11:50 PM PDT by Marcella (Will work in my rose garden (with wine) and not listen to McCain.)
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To: Captain Pike

Hold your horses, McCain will never bring this up and will disavow and distance himself from anyone who does. McCain will not attack Hussein he has said so himself.


71 posted on 03/18/2008 12:11:58 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A perfect example of calling the court case before the jury deliberates.

If libs didn’t have wishful thinking they would have nothing.


72 posted on 03/18/2008 12:12:10 PM PDT by Bob J ("For every 1000 hacking at the branches of evil, one is striking at it's root.")
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To: MHGinTN

A very astute analysis. I’m glad I live in a 100% white community. But many of them are liberals in the extreme, as only privileged people well out of the fray can be. So who knows, they’ll bus in protesters maybe.


73 posted on 03/18/2008 12:12:13 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: dinoparty
We cannot let these idiots tell us that questions about Wright in the general election are off-limits, which you know they will try. There should be ad after ad on the topic. If McCain won’t do it, then others should independently.

A simple commercial.

Would you trust a white politician that had a Klansman for a pastor?

Why should you trust a black one with a Black Panther equivalent pastor?

74 posted on 03/18/2008 12:12:20 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (su - | echo "All your " | chown -740 us ./base | kill -9 | cd / | rm -r | echo "belong to us")
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To: pissant

That feeling running down his leg finally found its mark.......


75 posted on 03/18/2008 12:12:21 PM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Blue Turtle
His speech was NOTHING but rhetoric

This is nothing but a campaign speech.

Hillary and McCain should have their legal teams all over the networks and cable news demanding equal free time.
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76 posted on 03/18/2008 12:13:25 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It will be funny. Obama will have the votes but he’ll be limping to the convention losing many of the remaining states. Obama is a lying sack of $&** and won’t disown his so-called anti-American, Jew hating pastor. He has sown the seeds for his defeat.


77 posted on 03/18/2008 12:13:29 PM PDT by kenmcg
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To: bamahead
Egads...where’s the puke alert! :)

We're up to Dry Heave Alerts now...
78 posted on 03/18/2008 12:13:43 PM PDT by rock_lobsta (Client #10)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I listened to Obama give an eloquent and graceful speech in the now familiar Obama cadence and after it was over I listened to a pundit or two then I let it soak in.

Once the glow/fog lifted I only saw a politician throw raw meat to his flock. The stage is now set for a national RACE revolt if Barack Hussein Obama is not elected by his party and his country – the Revs Jackson and Sharpton are openly threatening the nation with a true uprising led by all the malcontents, anti-American, whiners of the world will take over. Obama is just one more politician who is one of "the most leftwing Senate candidates Illinois has ever seen, a me-too vote for Kennedy and Clinton to raise taxes and toady to the teachers unions. Obama supports abortion rights, socialized medicine, and affirmative action, and he opposes private gun ownership, against the "live-birth abortion" bill which was designed to protect live babies born of botched abortions. Obama voted "present" on an Illinois bill to ban partial-birth abortion, and "present" on a bill to notify parents when their minor children seek an abortion. He said, "I opposed DOMA [the Defense of Marriage Act] in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying."

Obama is a Socialist who is all in favor of giving welfare to anyone along with unconstitutional Universal Health Care…..this election is more about “do you want a Socialist country or a Democratic country”.

80 posted on 03/18/2008 12:13:50 PM PDT by yoe ( NO THIRD TERM FOR THE MONSTER!!!)
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