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CK_John Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:09 PM
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The posts this weekend seem to mark the beginning of the acceptance phase. Why so sudden?
Is the denial phase behind us? Is the spite phase behind us? I don't know, but I hope so.

Maybe we just realized there is a general election to worry about. Maybe the decision challenged realized that all the candidate's are present and a decision will be made with or without them.

All of sudden everybody is worried about what they will do when Hillary wins the nomination. Which to me seems likely, but it is not over yet, a vote will be taken in a few months. The sudden change of tempo has me baffled?
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:12 PM
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1. Well, I, for one, have NOT accepted her inevitability. n/t
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:13 PM
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2. You are not alone
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:16 PM
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3. Neither have I, and frankly all this crowing and yowling on the part of certain partisans
Is disgusting and juvenile, to say the least. Trying to decide who to ban already:eyes: What's worse, it isn't even their board:wow:
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:24 PM
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9. Count me in on that...
...the only thing I'm "accepting" is the fact that it's Sunday night right now and when I wake up it will be Monday morning.

:patriot:
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bonito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:42 PM
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14. As I n/t
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:17 PM
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4. Like Yogi Berra used to say: It ain't over until it's over!
There is a lot of hot air right now, with no basis in fact. Not a single vote has been cast, and the Iowa caucus always manages to do something really stupid.

Let's talk about this in March, when all will be over but the shouting.
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CK_John Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:19 PM
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6. I agree, but what changed the tenor this weekend? n/t
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Ricki Donating Member (51 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:21 PM
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7. Media overload
It'll wear you down. Also no announcement from Gore.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:30 PM
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10. Yankees lost! That certainly changed my mood this week!
Edited on Sun Oct-14-07 10:34 PM by IndianaGreen
Every 4 years we go through a DU cycle of Thought Police that runs around demanding loyalty from everyone.

Case in point, at this time in 2003, Dean had a commanding lead in the polls in Iowa. I remember seeing a lot of posters with Dean avatars that behaved like absolute assholes, and were very nasty to everyone else. The funny thing is that none of them had been among the group of Dean DUers that had supported Dean since he was languishing in the single digits in late 2002. They were all gone when Dean's campaign imploded.

I often wonder if some of those posters with Hillary avatars are even Hillary supporters. They sure don't project the positive image that Hillary's campaign tries to project. For all I know, they are probably the same ill-mannered Dean "supporters" or Kerry "supporters" that we had to endure.

Instead of wasting energy on Hillary, who hasn't received a single from the Democratic voters, we should be worrying about having another stolen election in 2008.
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Auntie Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:31 PM
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11. because she is so far ahead of
Obama and Edwards in the polls. It's been like the media has accepted her winning as fact...but anything can happen between now and then. Remember the sudden fall of Dean after the scream? Hillary could cackle too loudly!
And leave it to the MSM to turn up the volume.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:18 PM
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5. John Dean 2004
It ain't over, till it's over

No, that has nothign to do with candiate loyalty either

Just a political check
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Sisyphus39 Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:23 PM
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8. Plenty of time for front-runner to fall back!
Can't lean over THAT far backward!
I'm still supporting Kucinich and expect to continue doing so. I'm beyond going for the lesser of two evils. No evil will get my vote.
Here's a video all should see . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIO-tCPSfHA titled "Things Are a Lot Worse than We Thought," with Nader speaking.
Hillary is a mugwump on the fence -- mug on one side and wump on the other.
Political player, nothing resembling a leader. Letter of the law without the spirit. Feathering her personal nest for whatever happens and whoever wins, expecting the money to buy her in.
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:37 PM
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12. I accept nothing other than a real candidate of the people...for the people...

Certainly not Hillary, who has undergone a complete make over to be "easy to dance to" for corporate
interests and The Money Party ... along with her acceptance of perpetual war in Iraq...

Certainly not Obama, who quickly morphed into a Money Party candidate when he talked about 12-24 months
to get out of Iraq then upped the ante to 2013 along with Hillary...

Probably not Edwards, who will get crushed by the spin machine of the corporate media.

I accept no candidate who is a Republican by Proxy, not now, not ever, no matter what they call
their philosophy. Embracing "the reality" of staying in Iraq is "the tell" - the sign that the
candidate has been approached, bought and shackled by the purveyors of the war economy. We have
a reckoning as a nation - we've been prosecuting a war that's killed 1.0 million people, mostly
Iraqi civilians. These are people who would be alive today were it not for the illegal invasion
that OUT party supported. Sorry, "they" did this, NOT IN MY NAME, not in yours, only in the name
of shameless war profiteering.

Anything but the truth about this war is unacceptable, just like it's unacceptable to support those
who won't even talk of the dead. We've had seven years of that.

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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:39 PM
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13. You're mistaken -- it's the middle of the propaganda phase
when Hillary's campaign deploys plants to all the blogs to make it seem inevitable.

Just a phase.
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illinoisprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:43 PM
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15. For me, it is always IF. the big IF because no one knows the future.
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illinoisprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:44 PM
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17. What changed? Everyone is just sick to death of the bots and are ignoring them or
making fun of them.
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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:44 PM
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16. Over 90 days until the first votes are cast...
I wouldn't say anything is "inevitable" at this point.

If you think it is, I have passes to the Richard Gephardt Presidential Library I could send you. As an added bonus, some free tickets to the Edmund Muskie Presidential Library will be added.

:rofl:

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JohnnyLib2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:56 PM
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18. Now you've gone and done it!

Going on midnight Eastern and you've stirred up a good one. Remember, those phases overlap...denial fades slowly. :evilgrin:
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MannyGoldstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-14-07 10:57 PM
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19. Hart, Tsongas, and Dean Agree! Hillary Has It In The Bag!
Just as Dean rode to victory the 30% lead he had a month before Iowa, Mrs. Clinton has this sewn up.

:rofl:
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