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Obama Changed My Mind About McCain
Great American Journal ^ | February 24, 2008 | JR Dieckmann

Posted on 02/24/2008 8:14:23 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican

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To: ricks_place

“Senior citizens will vote McCain.”

Ha! Just wait until you see who AARP endorses.


61 posted on 02/24/2008 9:20:45 AM PST by ought-six
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

The internet is full of an accusations about Obama. Mr. Sinclair made a starling accusation recently. Not long ago a mega church preacher was outed by a call boy. The preacher resigned in disgrace. It was all over the news. The media picked it up and ran with it for weeks. The preacher had a wife and family. The media has no interest in looking into this story about Obama? They went after Mccain. The media is biased.


62 posted on 02/24/2008 9:25:04 AM PST by oldironsides
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To: PlainOleAmerican
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63 posted on 02/24/2008 9:26:57 AM PST by egginanest ( "Never interrupt me when I'm trying to interrupt you." -Winston Churchill-)
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To: blackelkspeaks

Excellent post. My sentiments, exactly.


64 posted on 02/24/2008 9:35:54 AM PST by Kimberly GG (God Bless our true conservative patriots..... Duncan Hunter & Family!!)
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To: PlainOleAmerican

Tell that to the myopic “true” conservative purists here who place ideology over national security and the economy.

You know, the useful idiots who insist on staying home or writing in some loser’s name, like Huckabee or Thompson.


65 posted on 02/24/2008 9:37:29 AM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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To: shortstop
Take a clothespin.....or wear one of these, hehehe.


66 posted on 02/24/2008 9:40:15 AM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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To: blackelkspeaks
“The people get the kind of government they deserve.”

This is exactly where we are today. We have so dumbed down our electorate that we can not expect a good outcome. Voters today are so ill informed as a result of their lack of desire to inform themselves. By depending on the msm to give them their need info, they have become sheeple following what they think is the correct position.

Last week on Glenn Beck, a female caller proudly pronounced herself a modern progressive. When queried as to what the progressive platform/movement had as its beliefs, she could not respond. She instead said she like the word because it sounded "current" and liked referring to herself as one. These are the mind numbed robots following Obaaaama....

67 posted on 02/24/2008 9:40:15 AM PST by The Forgotten Man (He works, he votes, generally he prays--but he always pays....)
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To: Grunthor

I’m all about the senate at this point, not McStain...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1975472/posts?page=89


68 posted on 02/24/2008 9:43:25 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: Jackknife

The writer makes a very real case for the tough choices ahead.


69 posted on 02/24/2008 9:44:23 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: xjcsa; isrul
But you are more likely to get a "Grow up. Shut up and tow the party line."

It has nothing to do with "party line" and everything to do with America's future safety.

Bugging out of the Persian Gulf and surrendering military control of 70% of the World's known oil reserves to suicide-martyr Iranian Islamist nutjobs who are actively seeking nuclear weapons and ICBM's to deliver them to Israel and U.S. soil is simply not a strategic situation that America can live with, literally.

John McCain (R) and Joe Lieberman (D) have a position that nothing but Victory is acceptable.

Barack Obama (D) and Ron Paul (R) are stupid and naive enough to be calling for a bug out.

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Obama 13 months ago:

Published Jan. 30, 2007 ...... Obama wants troops home by spring ’08 ……. Illinois senator, presidential candidate introduces bill to force redeployment

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McCain 14 months ago:

Published December 27, 2006 ..... Novak: McCain's 'aggressive surge' stance backfiring ........ conservative columnist Robert Novak suggests that Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) "aggressive" push for a U.S. troop expansion -- or "surge" -- in Iraq may be costing the top 2008 GOP contender in the polls, especially when matched against another presumed front-runner, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY). "The decline in the polls of [McCain], as measured against [Clinton], reflects more than declining Republican popularity ......... "It connotes public disenchantment with McCain's aggressive advocacy of a 'surge' of up to 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Iraq

"I understand the polls show only 18 percent of the American people support my position. But I have to do what's right, what I believe is right and what my experience and knowledge and background tells me is the right thing to do in order to save this situation in Iraq ... In war, my dear friends, there's no such thing as compromise. You either win or you lose." - Sen. John McCain's reaction to the Iraq Study Group Report, 2006

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If the November election was between Joe Lieberman (D) and Ron Paul (R), I would vote for Joe Lieberman (D) without thinking twice about it and Republican "party line" or "party loyalty" be damned.

The type of Islamist religious nutjobs who did this armed only with box cutters and airline tickets out of Boston are poised to acquire military control of 70% of the World's known oil reserves along with nuclear weapons and ICBM's to deliver them to a majr metropolitan area near you and some people are still fixated on whether the only candidate that has stated that there is no substitute for Victory over these animals is a "RINO" or a "real conservative"?

Has America reached to point where it is simply to silly to survive the 21st Century?


70 posted on 02/24/2008 9:44:45 AM PST by Polybius
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To: org.whodat

WHAT?

You had better read it all again...


71 posted on 02/24/2008 9:46:41 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: PlainOleAmerican

I feel the same way, McCain disgusts me, but Obama is even more disgusting- and dangerous.

He’s like a weak Jimmy Carter, and I didn’t think anyone could be weaker than Carter.


72 posted on 02/24/2008 9:46:54 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: PlainOleAmerican
This writer has it exactly right, no matter how much I'd love to cast a vote against McCain in the general election, just as I did in the primaries.

Ditto.

73 posted on 02/24/2008 9:47:45 AM PST by Zechariah11
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To: Grunthor

You are making a choice for the evil one. Do not delude yourself into thinking that no choice is not choosing. I am not bashing you but you should not be deluded into your high road position.

The only rational choice for conservatives is to vote for McCain and make terrible noises about his poor policy choices. Threats to withhold support may also help. He may listen at least a little bit.


74 posted on 02/24/2008 9:48:55 AM PST by businessprofessor
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To: tueffelhunden

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1975477/posts?page=24

People really have to get over their little temper tantrums and move on to the senate races. The only place we can do something about it all is in the senate and house races.

Or, we can sit around an bash the three losers some more if you like. Not one of them is suited for office. Feel the need to point that out again do you?

Are you ever going to move on to something productive?


75 posted on 02/24/2008 9:50:07 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: All

Obama [Your GOD] knows your soul is broken...
Obama [Your Case-Worker?] will REQUIRE you to work.
Obama [Your Case-Worker?]will DEMAND that you do what he says.
YOU are cynical...
YOU are uninvolved...
YOU are uninformed...
Barack [Case-Worker?] will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual.

IF....this can be posted in every WELFARE office/Jail/Prison/drug rehab, etc. with a few words changes it would be more appropriate. I will be damned if I will stand for someone saying this to me.


76 posted on 02/24/2008 9:51:56 AM PST by BigIsleGal (Love to Those on Rainbow Bridge and Luck to Us Who Aren't)
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To: John Semmens; All

READ THIS AGAIN all you myopic faux conservatives busy in your pity parties and temper tantrums...

Obama Proposes “Labor Battalions” [semi-satire]

In a move the candidate characterized as having the dual purpose of restoring “a sense of community” and “combating obesity,” Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill) said one of his first policy initiatives if he is elected president will be to ask for legislation establishing government-run “labor battalions” wherein people will be called upon to “toil for the collective benefit of society.”

“Americans have become too self-centered, too greedy,” Obama said. “This isn’t their fault. Our society doesn’t insist that they put aside their petty personal concerns for the good of the whole. As president I will be giving Americans the opportunity to do just that.”

While all the details of this proposal haven’t been laid out, the gist of the plan calls for every working American to contribute one month a year to community projects. “People will get their hands dirty investing their sweat for a better America,” Obama rhapsodized. “They’ll be out in the fresh air getting exercise, too.”

Those reluctant to contribute to the effort “will be asked to attend special education sessions to try to help them overcome their selfish aversion to work for the common good,” Obama continued. “We will change America, one soul at a time if that’s what it takes.”

read more...

http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm


77 posted on 02/24/2008 9:53:10 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: Old Retired Army Guy
"I thought it was just me, but you seem to detect also that his wife may be a little bit of a racist."


"Hmmmmmmmm.....COULD be!

78 posted on 02/24/2008 9:53:39 AM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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To: Grunthor

Obama Proposes “Labor Battalions” [semi-satire]

In a move the candidate characterized as having the dual purpose of restoring “a sense of community” and “combating obesity,” Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill) said one of his first policy initiatives if he is elected president will be to ask for legislation establishing government-run “labor battalions” wherein people will be called upon to “toil for the collective benefit of society.”

“Americans have become too self-centered, too greedy,” Obama said. “This isn’t their fault. Our society doesn’t insist that they put aside their petty personal concerns for the good of the whole. As president I will be giving Americans the opportunity to do just that.”

While all the details of this proposal haven’t been laid out, the gist of the plan calls for every working American to contribute one month a year to community projects. “People will get their hands dirty investing their sweat for a better America,” Obama rhapsodized. “They’ll be out in the fresh air getting exercise, too.”

Those reluctant to contribute to the effort “will be asked to attend special education sessions to try to help them overcome their selfish aversion to work for the common good,” Obama continued. “We will change America, one soul at a time if that’s what it takes.”

read more...

http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm

NEED WE POINT THIS OUT ONE MORE TIME?


79 posted on 02/24/2008 9:54:18 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: pallis

The problem is, we can’t believe McCain, but we CAN believe both Obama and Clinton, and that alone is reason enough to vote against both of them...


80 posted on 02/24/2008 9:58:48 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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