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Christopher Hitchens on John Edwards' endorsement of Barack Obama
The Mirror ^ | May 15, 2008 | Christopher Hitchens

Posted on 05/15/2008 7:32:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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Yeah, but Obama's anti-white racism is okee-dokey, right, Chris? The hypocrisy of the left is monumental!
1 posted on 05/15/2008 7:32:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Obama’s going to have to publically endorse gay marriage before Elizabeth will announce her presence with authority, for BO.


2 posted on 05/15/2008 7:37:12 PM PDT by Alia
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He sure used a lot of words just to say that that the greedy bambulance chaser is after the Attorney General job in a Bama administration.


3 posted on 05/15/2008 7:38:20 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (De-Globalize yourself !)
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Yeah, sure. Obama hasn’t played the race card at all. I also like how the rich cracker Edwards plays the class divide.

These 2 morons were made for each other.


4 posted on 05/15/2008 7:40:04 PM PDT by toddlintown (My kingdom for a beer!)
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I’m amazed how the MSM has greeted Edward’s support of Obama as the Second Coming. Look at the facts. Edwards is a shyster trial lawyer who couldn’t even carry North Carolina, his home state, in the ‘04 election. He didn’t run for reelection to the Senate because the polls indicated that he’d be overwhelmingly defeated. His run for president recently with his socialist “two America’s” nonsense reaffirmed his reputation as a serial loser. He’s endorsed Obama and is hanging around because he hopes to become Attorney General or get some other plumb.


5 posted on 05/15/2008 7:45:03 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
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a Bama administration

Bamas Breakfast in Little Italy: http://www.chicagogluttons.com/bamas-breakfast-in-little-italy


6 posted on 05/15/2008 7:49:55 PM PDT by XR7
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Sounds like Silky Pony wants to be Veep!


7 posted on 05/15/2008 7:50:33 PM PDT by SuziQ
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This low grade moron writer, “His wife is important in..”

She was hired by a Soros concern a month ago, as if the tea leafs were not already in place and saying what they were saying a month ago.


8 posted on 05/15/2008 7:58:58 PM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3/Cry havoc and let slip the RINOS)
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You can be assured Obama was high bidder. He didn’t make his move without a promise.


9 posted on 05/15/2008 7:59:17 PM PDT by elpadre
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To: T.L.Sink
or get some other plumb

Was that an intentional pun, a Freudian slip, or just a misspelling?

plumb (plm) n. 1. A weight on the end of a line, used to determine water depth. 2. A weight on the end of a line, used especially by masons and carpenters to establish a true vertical. adv. 1. In a vertical or perpendicular line. 2. Informal Directly; squarely: fell plumb in the middle of the puddle. 3. also plum Informal Utterly; completely: plumb worn out. See Note at right. adj. 1. Exactly vertical. See Synonyms at vertical. 2. also plum Informal Utter; absolute; sheer: a plumb fool. v. plumbed, plumb·ing, plumbs v.tr. 1. To determine the depth of with a plumb; sound. 2. To test the verticality or alignment of with a plumb. 3. To straighten or make perpendicular: plumb up the wall. 4. To examine closely or deeply; probe: "Shallow ideas are plumbed and discarded" Gilbert Highet. 5. To seal with lead. v.intr. To work as a plumber. Idiom: out of/off plumb Not vertical. [Middle English, lead, a plumb, from Old French plomb, from Latin plumbum, lead.]

I think the word plummet (to fall) may come from the same Latin root.

Or perhaps this is all related to your screen name "Sink".

10 posted on 05/15/2008 8:01:02 PM PDT by reg45
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Or perhaps The Breck Girl can be First Lady.


11 posted on 05/15/2008 8:02:39 PM PDT by reg45
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The endorsement of Senator Barack Obama by former Senator John Edwards is a signal, though not an absolutely decisive one, of a shift in the commitment of the Democratic Party's unpledged centre.

yeah. by the time the breck girl jumps on the bandwagon, you can bet it's gotten most of its momentum already.

12 posted on 05/15/2008 8:06:34 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (the jihadis are the shock troops of communism.)
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Or perhaps The Breck Girl can be First Lady.

She's no lady!

13 posted on 05/15/2008 8:07:20 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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The endorsement of Senator Barack Obama by former Senator John Edwards is a signal, though not an absolutely decisive one, of a shift in the commitment of the Democratic Party's unpledged centre.

Or maybe Edwards held off until a time of maximum damage.

Hillary's free press ride after West Virginia was derailed by Edwards. Who knows, Hillary's next big win might bring Gore to Obama's side.

Do powerful dems dislike Hillary as much as we do?

14 posted on 05/15/2008 8:22:05 PM PDT by GOPJ (The "thug-way" - Hill won't stop 'til she wins or Obama accepts her as VP .)
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Just in time for summer “reruns”. Bring back the hair video!


15 posted on 05/15/2008 8:43:16 PM PDT by Notasoccermom
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To: reg45

It’s just a common figure of speech, as in “political plumb.” I think people who are anxious to ascribe Freudian interpretations to commonly used conversational nouns have some other things to worry about.


16 posted on 05/15/2008 8:47:26 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
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Elizabeth Edwards is the wife of John Edwards. Is she a superdelegate? What now... do the wives have to get up there now too when a superdelegate endorses someone? This is getting absolutely comical.


17 posted on 05/15/2008 9:03:41 PM PDT by cubreporter
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Glad to see that Hitchens mentioned Edwards’ use of “class warfare” in his VP campaign.

He is nothing but a liberal-chic Marxist-lite who doesn’t mind having had 4 homes worth over $12 million, clear-cut a hill to have a 29,000 sq ft monument to himself built on it, and took his client-victims to the cleaners, his.

What a piece of crap. Oh, I forgot, he is a leader of the Democrat Party. Sorry!


18 posted on 05/15/2008 9:10:47 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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The Clintons have a right to be shocked. He was their “Black President”. He put his office in Harlem. The blacks fully supported the Clintons.

Oh, but then a black man ran for President. Sorry, Bill and Hillary — race trumps all.

Nobody should be expected to vote for someone of another race when there’s someone of their OWN race running.

Oh — I mean if it’s a BLACK person.

If whites said they were going to vote for the WHITE candidate, it would be evil and racist.

But given two liberal democrats, one of which has long enjoyed overwhelming black support, the black man gets 90+% of the black vote — that can ONLY be racism, there is no other plausible explanation.

And the white democrats will remember how the blacks turned on the white woman to vote for the black man.

It’s time for Rush to dig up the information about the WACO hearing where Conyers went after Reno, and Rush explained that it was only because he was a black man and she was a white woman.

There is a reason that, 30+ years after the civil rights movement, and in the era of enlightenment, there is only one black in the senate, even though half the senators are democrats, some from democrat states where there is virtually no republican opposition, which means the democrats could run anybody they want.

In Maryland, when they had a choice to elect a black man, or a white man, the democrats chose the white guy. Then they did it again in the general election when the republican candidate was black.


19 posted on 05/15/2008 9:45:49 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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If I were cynical, I’d say that Silky Pony is after the Veep spot.

If I were really, reeeeeeally cynical, I’d say that Silky Pony agrees with Hillary “I’m White! Vote for Me!” Clinton that Obama is in fact unelectable, and therefore SP is supporting Obama merely so that he can lose, and SP will then have another shot at the whole thing in four years.

But that would be cynical to think that, wouldn’t it?


20 posted on 05/15/2008 10:03:42 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (Marxist Hillary and Socialist Obama will trash the USA for the next 30 years. Vote McCain.)
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