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US elections: Barack Obama juggernaut 'will crush John McCain'
Telegraph.co.uk ^
| May 21, 2008
| Toby Harnden in Des Moines, Iowa
Posted on 05/21/2008 3:41:04 PM PDT by PROCON
Senator Barack Obama has established a battle-tested 50-state grassroots organisation and fundraising juggernaut that will crush John McCain in November, according to his senior advisers.
With the Illinois senator declaring himself within reach of the Democratic nomination after achieving a majority of the pledged delegates - those allocated by vote - on Tuesday, his campaign has already pivoted to preparing for the general election against Mr McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee.
Although publicly heaping praise on Hillary Clinton, Mr Obamas Democratic rival, and carefully avoiding putting pressure on her to drop out before the final states vote on June 3rd, the Illinois senators staff is impatient to launch a full-scale offensive against Mr McCain.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackobama; democratparty; democrats; elections; mccain; obama
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To: PROCON; All
I have said this many times before. Do not pay any attention too anything that comes out of the UK press! The UK press is garbage, garbage and garbage. They are wrong about just about everything. The Telegraph is just about the worst of a very bad lot. The only thing the British/UK press can do is cover scandals. They are pathetic!
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posted on
05/21/2008 5:03:35 PM PDT
by
truthguy
(Good intentions are not enough!)
To: No Surrender No Retreat
Shhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiittttt, Hillary done disenfranchised the Obuma supporters. Man, fo' shur! You got a square?
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posted on
05/21/2008 5:04:44 PM PDT
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
(Bipartisanship: Two wolves and the American people deciding what's for dinner)
To: FFranco
“McCain is not a good debater. (Obama isnt a good debater either.) McCain hems and haws, gets confused, gets his facts mixed up - remember the Shiite, Sunni confusion?”
I agree. McCain comes across very poorly. He mumbles, he stumbles, he forgets what he’s talking about, and then he lets out that weird little chuckle that passes for a laugh at inappropriate times.
Right now the spotlight is not on McCain. But when it is, the American public is going to see a man that appears to be somewhat senile and not very knowledgeable. He has a lousy persona and isn’t very inspiring
He could VERY easily lose this election to Obama, who doesn’t say anything but says it with style. He is a excellent orator.
Obama has the same kind of ability that Ronald Reagan had in connecting with people: he inspires people and makes them feel positive about themselves and our country.
His positions (what little we know about) may be all wrong, but given the American Idol mentality of a huge percentage of voters, that may not hurt him at all.
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posted on
05/21/2008 5:25:33 PM PDT
by
EEDUDE
To: PROCON
He can’t even close the sale with the dims and he’s going to crush us?
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posted on
05/21/2008 5:28:32 PM PDT
by
wtc911
("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
To: 1035rep
The only crushing we’ll see in November is this Muslims militant ass.
“Don’t crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers!”
I think the McC folks have some surprises in store for the
rats.
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posted on
05/21/2008 5:31:30 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Question_Assumptions
I believe it is; “Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty attitude before a fall.” But I am with you on this.
46
posted on
05/21/2008 6:06:55 PM PDT
by
Nuc1
(NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
To: boomop1
been in the UK the last few days the BBC has basiclly declared obama the president already
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posted on
05/21/2008 7:21:19 PM PDT
by
jonrock
To: PROCON
Never go in against Hillary when death is on the line.
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posted on
05/21/2008 7:23:12 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(Hillary Rodham Clinton is a lying slag.)
To: r9etb
Weve created a juggernaut,I'm impressed that anybody from his campaign knows the word.
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posted on
05/21/2008 7:28:45 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: PROCON
“US elections: Barack Obama juggernaut ‘will crush John McCain”
Just now figgerin’ this out?
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posted on
05/21/2008 7:28:48 PM PDT
by
Grunthor
(Juan agrees with Ted Kennedy on Amnesty, Gore on GW & says Hillary'd be a good POTUS)
To: PROCON
Do not put any money on it - unless you have extra. Odd story though I heard somebody say on the radio today the Barry would have to completely overhaul his crew because they are not the right focus for the general.
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posted on
05/21/2008 7:31:39 PM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Will this thread be jacked by a Mormon?)
To: Cecily
There are no skeletons. Hillary would of used them by now.
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posted on
05/21/2008 7:32:22 PM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Will this thread be jacked by a Mormon?)
To: PROCON
I still believe that when election day comes around that Hillary Roddam Clinton will be the Democrat nominee.
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posted on
05/21/2008 7:35:05 PM PDT
by
sport
To: Always Independent
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posted on
05/21/2008 7:37:32 PM PDT
by
sport
To: Patrick1
Bold talk for an Islamist appeaser. He couldnt even crush Hillary Clinton Good point. These people are living in a world where they take their press reviews as gospel. Given Obama's foreign socialist handlers, no doubt he will have the money advantage--but his problem will not be too little advertising, but too much. Obama does a flash job on the nitwit population, but even among them, the more he talks the less special he becomes, and the less you like him. Obama will be wearing mighty thin by October.
To: sport
I still believe that when election day comes around that Hillary Roddam Clinton will be the Democrat nominee.I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
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posted on
05/21/2008 8:34:34 PM PDT
by
T. Buzzard Trueblood
("a wee bit silly." -Lord Trimble on Hillary Clinton's claim of foreign policy "experience".)
To: PROCON
Senator Barack Obama has established a battle-tested 50-state grassroots organisation and fundraising juggernautI thought it was a 57-state organization. ;-)
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posted on
05/21/2008 8:44:31 PM PDT
by
calcowgirl
(Schwarzenegger and McCain are trying to castrate the elephant)
To: Nuc1
Yeah, that works even better.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Four Show Bro.
Satirically,
NSNR
To: ladyjane
I'm impressed that anybody from his campaign knows the word. Jug-ear-nought?
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posted on
05/22/2008 7:03:30 AM PDT
by
r9etb
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