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The Incredibly Shrinking Democrats
Time ^ | August 24, 2008 | Joe Klein

Posted on 04/24/2008 12:44:25 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers

"This election," Bill Clinton said in the hours before the Pennsylvania primary, "is too big to be small." It was a noble sentiment, succinctly stated, and the core of what Democrats believe — that George W. Bush has been a historic screwup as President, that there are huge issues to be confronted this year. But it was laughable as well. The Pennsylvania primary had been a six-week exercise in diminution, with both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — and Bill Clinton too — losing altitude and esteem on an almost daily basis. Even as he spoke, the former President was in the midst of a tiny, self-inflicted absurdity, having claimed in a radio interview that the Obama campaign had played the "race card" against him. And that was the least of the damage.

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But that was nothing compared with the damage done to Obama, who entered the primary as a fresh breeze and left it stale, battered and embittered — still the mathematical favorite for the nomination but no longer the darling of his party. In the course of six weeks, the American people learned that he was a member of a church whose pastor gave angry, anti-American sermons, that he was "friendly" with an American terrorist who had bombed buildings during the Vietnam era, and that he seemed to look on the ceremonies of working-class life — bowling, hunting, churchgoing and the fervent consumption of greasy food — as his anthropologist mother might have, with a mixture of cool detachment and utter bemusement. All of which deepened the skepticism that Caucasians, especially those without a college degree, had about a young, inexperienced African-American guy with an Islamic-sounding name and a highfalutin fluency with language.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; demsrlosers; hahahaha; obama
Go read the whole thing. It is priceless!! And very true. The Obamamaniacs are really burning up the lefty blogs complaining about it.
1 posted on 04/24/2008 12:44:26 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers
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To: Dems_R_Losers

“...Caucasians, especially those without a college degree, had about a young, inexperienced African-American guy with an Islamic-sounding name and a highfalutin fluency with language.”

Time is such trash. I won’t give them the web hit. The sentence above shows their snotty condensation towards regular people, “especially those without a college degree”. It is exactly the same attitude that Obama has towards us and the real reason why regular people don’t trust him. Like Time, ideology and party trumps what is good for the country (just look at Obama’s stance on capital gains taxes). They’re nothing but scum writing about scum.


2 posted on 04/24/2008 12:53:52 PM PDT by Owl558 (Pardon my spelling)
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To: Dems_R_Losers
"Bush has been a historic screwup as President

"And very true"

Excited? Got the buzz?


3 posted on 04/24/2008 12:58:13 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

the smarmy American-flag-pin question from an “average citizen”

Like the picture of his without his hand over his heart for the anthem. It matters to me and many others.


4 posted on 04/24/2008 1:01:03 PM PDT by Misschuck
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To: Owl558

Well said.


5 posted on 04/24/2008 1:01:46 PM PDT by donna (McCain answers the red phone: "Hola!")
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To: Dems_R_Losers
Some of 'em ain't shrinkin'!


6 posted on 04/24/2008 1:04:32 PM PDT by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

THe Clinton Modus Operandi

Deny...they denied Obama was winning

Delay...The successfully delayed him winning

Destroy...They will destroy him after June 2, such that he will be so damages that the super-delegates can’t vote for him as the party nominee.

Bank on it.


7 posted on 04/24/2008 1:05:18 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Hillary = Senator Incitatus, Clintigula's whore...er, horse.)
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To: Dems_R_Losers
August 24, 2008

Early release?

8 posted on 04/24/2008 1:06:10 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Dems_R_Losers
For 40 years, the Democratic Party has been burdened by its inability to break free of those stereotypes.

Joe Klein, the author of the sentence above, is standing too close to recognize it, but the democratic party can't "break free of those stereotypes" because it is a stereotype.

9 posted on 04/24/2008 1:11:13 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid ... even by congressional standards.)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

There was a “HUGE” turnout for the democrat primary to select the best Marxist idiot

The fact that so much enthusiasm was shown for two American hating left wingers is downright depressing

THAT IS THE REAL STORY


10 posted on 04/24/2008 1:17:04 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: Dems_R_Losers

Typical liberal. He thinks if it is not important to him , it’s not important.


11 posted on 04/24/2008 1:20:40 PM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Dems_R_Losers
But that assumption hit a wall in Pennsylvania. Specifically, it hit a wall at the debate staged by ABC News in Philadelphia — viewed by an audience of 10 million, including a disproportionate number of Pennsylvanians — that will go down in history for the relentless vulgarity of its questions, with the first 40 minutes focused exclusively on so-called character issues rather than policy.

Hey Kline you boob CHARACTER is the issue ---how can you believe ANY candidate's stand on the issues if they don't have character
12 posted on 04/24/2008 1:23:21 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: Dems_R_Losers

By August the RATS will be ready to nominate the first person through the convention center door rather than these two idiots.


13 posted on 04/24/2008 1:25:48 PM PDT by rod1 (uestion)
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To: uncbob

Klein is worried they got character questions. Well at least the candidates weren’t dodging sniper fire while clinging to guns with bitterness during the debate. or maybe they were?


14 posted on 04/24/2008 1:28:37 PM PDT by rod1 (uestion)
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To: rod1
By August the RATS will be ready to nominate the first person through the convention center door rather than these two idiots.

Both parties could do that, and they'd be better off.

All of us would be better off.

15 posted on 04/24/2008 1:30:13 PM PDT by thulldud (Insanity: Electing John McCain again and expecting a different result.)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

George W. Bush has been a historic screwup as President
*******

but not nearly as much as his predecessory! Bill Clinton’s legacy will go down as the impeached one, Monica’s boy toy.


16 posted on 04/24/2008 1:51:23 PM PDT by quintr
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To: Dems_R_Losers
Specifically, it hit a wall at the debate staged by ABC News in Philadelphia — viewed by an audience of 10 million, including a disproportionate number of Pennsylvanians — that will go down in history for the relentless vulgarity of its questions,

What nonsense. The Obama-ites (and Klein definitely seems to be one) are mortally offended that their idol was asked questions about his associations and beliefs. Too bad. Obama has a deep bond with a hate-monger and racist and it's "vulgar" to ask him about it? Obama is "friendly" with an unrepentant former terrorist and it's "vulgar" to ask him about it? Then let vulgarity reign - the man is running for the presidency, and these issues matter.
17 posted on 04/24/2008 2:22:50 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: quintr

GWB is not a ‘historic screwup’ by any rational measure. That’s nothing but a LW mantra.


18 posted on 04/25/2008 10:17:03 AM PDT by Post Toasties (It's not a smear if it's true.)
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To: Post Toasties

I was quoting from the article’s second line. Here’s the entire first sentence: “It was a noble sentiment, succinctly stated, and the core of what Democrats believe — that George W. Bush has been a historic screwup as President, that there are huge issues to be confronted this year.”

Didn’t mean to give you the impression that I think GWB is a screwup of any kind. In fact, history will be much kinder to him than the MSM. And I personally cannot think of a single person I’d rather have had in the Oval Office on 9-11.


19 posted on 04/25/2008 11:48:53 AM PDT by quintr
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