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Please oh please keep this racist, toilet-mouth pastor in the news..at least till Nov election..everytime he opens his pike, the media will replay one of his “top ten hate US KKK America” speeches...and eventually, I’d bet there will be video evidence showing Obama nodding his head with approval when the hate speech against the country (or the Whites) was spoken by this hatemonger. Please oh please rev Wright, keep on talking, the US KKK America want to hear more from you. LMAO.

These people have the gall to tell us the adversities they face when they grew up...let me see - got into good schools, scholarships because of affirmative action...be the first black editor of Harvard Law Review w/o any significant writings of his own (hmmm...affirmative candidate - anyone)..and making millions while donating 25K to Rev. Wright’s church and complaining they have not done paying with their student loans...and yeah, nothing to be really proud of this country even with all these advantages...Compare to McCain, shot down and captured in a foreign country...offered to get out early because his dad was the pacific commander of the navy - BUT HE DIDN”T - suffer 5 and a half yrs of torture by the Viet Congs...Hmmm...he had it easy indeed...I just wonder out loud if the reverse is true, how fast a Michelle Obama or a Barack Obama or for that matter, a John F Kerry would denounce the US KKKA in order to get out of the POW camp first...I have to say I can handle BHO, he seems to be an Ok guy..but Michelle Obama - she is wicked to the first degree...and she would be an even more lightning rod than Hillary ever was in the 90s.

Gene Robinson is a “rat” supporter 100000%...he is a troublemaker here...his column is not meant to be supportive of Rice - read the last few sentences - can you imagine anyone write the same about Hillary or Michelle Obama - fashion show, daily workouts and the whole works - ...Seriously, Rice will add little to the ticket in the electoral sense, but more baggages..if McCain is willing to risk the same baggages about GWB ties, Iraq, affirmative action and “pro-life” issues, and needs a minority who can bring in electoral appeal and supremely qualified to be Prez - it would be Colin Powell (and he will be 70 - a downside clearly)..

IMO, BHO can’t win the general w/o some support over the downscale white males - the lunch bucket crowd - his Rev Wright issue is frightening to this grp and prime for McCain to take make significant inroad there...these are the angry white males that turned out in 1994 midterm election...so contrary to CW, McCain should not pick a veep for the minority votes (his own appeal to the indies is enough), but rather someone can channel the angry white males to his camp...hmmmm...how about Fred Thompson with his little red truck driving around in rural counties of VA, WV, OH, PA and MI..A McCain/Thompson ticket makes perfect sense if BHO picks Jim Webb as his veep...both folksy white male, but who looks more presidential in a debate and who’s more believable in the acts..(Webb could make WV competitive and has appeal in both OH/PA rural counties, his approval rating in VA is not that strong but with Warner running for senate, VA could be a nailbiter altho the military votes in VA could go for McCain)..

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And we want the democrats, who phuck-up so badly with their Florida and Michigan mess now, to redesign our electoral system...no thanx...The dems want proportional wins in their primaries and this is how Obama get his unusually large share of pledged delegates...if the dems are using the Rep. rules, the Hildabeast would be in the clear lead after “her” wins in Ohio and Texas.

Watch bot FNS and MTP this morning...Juan Williams have Obama nailed, he is probably the only black commentator who got the issue right - it is not guilt by association, it is not about racial relationship in this country but rather it is the judgement on why Obama is taking his children to this church, staying in this church for 20 yrs...voters are asked to vote for Obama because of his “better judgement” but what kind of judgement of he exercised in his 20 yrs sitting in the pews of Wright’s church.

On MTP, I get the sense the PeggyN is drifting towards Obama, she’s one of the writers I really like and will be very saddened if she get caught by the Obama the Messiah web.

The most interesting observation though is from Chuck Todd, he said the “D-day” for the dems will be early May - the Indiana, North Carolina primaries...If Clinton sweeps both Obama will be in big trouble...if Obama wins both (very unlikely because Indiana), Clinton will be out...so all eyes on the NC primary...for operation Chaos - I think NC will be one place to watch..unaffilated voters are allowed to vote there and registerations are ongoing and last till April 11..

Even if Clinton sweeps both Indiana and NC, she will never catch Obama with pledged delegates..but she will get enough ammunition for the Superdelegates to get real nervous wrt Obama...and Obama is a more beatable candidate now vs McCain than he was just 10 days ago...so it is an interesting situation here...the dems will split the party if the SuperDs go for Clinton, but the longer the Clintons hang on and beat the crap out of Obama in the primaries, the more likely Obama would make a mistake, mispoke or whatever, and become just another politician - no longer the Messiah like...and seriously if IN and NC goes for Clinton and Obama couldn’t win more than a third of the white votes, you could count on the media to talk about the Wright issue again...and it really doesn’t take much to have this Wright issue be a permanent damaging factor to Obama in the general election.

I agree, operation chaos should vote for Obama here. The goal is to keep the Hillary margin lower than blowout proportion. Hillary can’t win the pledged delegates, her only chance is to get the popular vote edge. If she can’t get that edge, Obama should be the nominee. Last week, before the Wright case, Obama would be very tough to beat, but now - with his white granny, to the typical white person quotes, let alone the “god damn Amerika” video - he is a lot more beatable...he may have the young, the white liberals, but the working class whites (the Reagan Democrats) will have a hard time to vote for a candidate pro-affirmative action, talking them down as typical white persons etc etc...We want to keep the beast fighting for the long haul to bloody up Obama, but utlimately Obama would be a more beatable candidate in the general vs McCain.

This election is bad news for the GOP. Obie is a bad candidate. He has lost how many races now, people have developed an image that he’s a loser, he’s tired and he’s unelectable. Equally bad though is the state of GOP politics. The Economy sucks, anyone trying to deny that will lose this election. I am not asking for bailouts, handouts or whatever, but I want to see some leadership from GWB, the Treasury and GOP in congress to address the economic issues. To me, all these economic hardships are eminating from the housing bust. The proposal on freezing mortgage rates, freezing foreclosures by Hillary will violate every free market principles and will increase the mortgage rates of 30/15-fixed. Indeed such increases have already happened. The market is beginning to price in this Hillary risk. The Hope-Now alliance proposed by Bush and Treasury is woefully inadequate. Someone has to do something fast. If there is an adequate housing solution, the stock market will go up 20% in a very short period. This will increase optimism about the economy and increase the chance of some GOP wins this fall. Furthermore, the GOP can not win without the suburban votes. The primary asset for these voters are their homes, their retirement plans. What they are feeling now is a home price decline, a stk mkt decline. GWB maybe strong on national defense, but he’s asleep at the switch for many domestic issues. He is either intellectually not curious about those issues or surround himself with the Larry Kudlow type thinking the economy is good, goldilock blah blah. If Obama is the nominee for the dems, he will have a hard time to connect with the white working folks making 50K or less, we need someone who can connect with these folks to win the general. To these folks, they don’t care about islamofacism, that;s not their security concerns; they worry about their own job security, their healthcare security and retirement security. GWB, GOP congress and to a large extent Sen. McCain just don’t get it on this issue. Iraq is important, terrorism is important, social/fiscal conservative issues are important, but combine all these can’t fight against the rising economic populism due to the economic challenges we are facing. Ignoring the impact of the bad economy on this coming election at our own perils.

This is a good move on the part of Gov. Crist. It will allow the fight between Hillary and Obama to go on beyond this week, regardless what happen to Ohio and Texas primaries. Think about the cash pile of Obama has now if he doesn’t have to spend them on campaigns fighting against Hillary. In 1996, Dole was broke for months ahead of the convention and allowed the dems to define him as some angry old man from the last generation not worthy to lead. The same will happen here with the dems having such a large cash advantage. It is better to have them to fight against each other, burning the cash, generating the animosity instead having them to fight the Reps. - not just the top ticket but everyone running this fall. Crist will come out good with this move as well, he will look fair and maintain his 70%+ approval ratings. And if Crist can cost the dems to go at each other with their 100 MM cash piles, that’s great news for John McCain.

This “we are the ones” message will put a lot of voters off. It comes off cultish, and selfish. We are the ones - ok - so anyone not supporting your candidate are not worthy then? We are the ones for what? We are the ones doing what? Swing voters went to the rallies hearing we are the ones, we are the ones you have been waiting will sure leave the impression of they just went to a cult meeting, a cult conference chanting for some second comings. The first “yes we can” video was more interesting and less selfish...this we are the ones video will cross the line. Most voters are over 35 in age, and this kind of overly self-centered, over the top msg will not wear well. Time will tell. Maybe the Obamanation, Obamaniac is cresting. If Hillary wins both Texas and Ohio, it is popcorn time for the GOP supporters.