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Bullet1987 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:48 PM
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Look for the Clinton's to Launch a Swiftboating Campaign against Obama after NH
I'm telling you...I can feel it. The Clinton campaign is likely not going to win tomarrow and may very well get blown out of the water two states straight. They want to do anything to destroy this Obama Wave sweeping over the primaries...and will launch probably one of the nastiest, most vile swiftboating campaigns ever seen WITHIN the Democratic Party. They're desperate as hell, and you can already see it shaping up now. I was watching this program on Attack Ads on CNN's Broken Government. It was called The Campaign Killers or something. Obama better not let this stuff sit in and take effect. When they attempt to swiftboat him, he needs to react fast.
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SoFlaJet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:51 PM
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1. Oh you mean like the ones
they used (through their surrogates) about Kindergarten, or drug use or "present" votes cast in Illinois? They'd NEVER resort to Rovian tactics
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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:55 PM
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12. My God, not his voting record. Those mean people.
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 05:00 PM
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14. No, the madrassa bullshit
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:51 PM
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2. Did you just not swiftboat the Clinton Campaign
with what ifs and I thinks and probably will launch and desperate as hell rhetoric? The basis for your post is You can feel it?
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featherman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:52 PM
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3. There's no call for that kind of nonsense
Wild baseless speculation not helping
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MannyGoldstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:52 PM
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4. It's Already Happening
I heard HRH HRC being interviewed this AM - she was claiming that Edwards and Obama say one thing, than do another thing. Edwards does this, of course, but Obama?
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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:54 PM
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8. Was she inaccurate?
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george_maniakes Donating Member (831 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:55 PM
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11. Did she go into any detail about obamas "say one thing, do another" behavior....
or was she all talk? I mean really hillary, wheres the beef?
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MannyGoldstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 05:17 PM
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18. She Mentioned SIngle-Payer Healthcare, And The "Patriot" Act
I disagree with Obama's stand on single-payer - but I don't think that he's been inconsistent. Don't know about the "Patriot" act.
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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:53 PM
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5. If there's dirt to come out about Obama, it will come out. Whether from Hillary's camp, or not.
I heard a rumor months ago on what that "dirt" might be. It stuck with me, becauase if it is that, it would destroy Obama, any candidate.


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george_maniakes Donating Member (831 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:58 PM
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13. im guessing hes a manchurian candidate. Am i right?
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:53 PM
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6. Oh hells yea. The scorched earth campaign begins in T-27 hours
Fuck America and what she wants as long as the Clintons don't go down in defeat.

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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:54 PM
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7. "I can feel it"
:eyes:
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:54 PM
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9. If that did happen, it would work against them, and it will work against
ANYONE who trys it to any candidate

The people may actually determine the candidates, and not the party machinery, but it remains to be seen


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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:55 PM
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10. Wouldn't surprise me. Bill isn't use to someone else
in the party being the Rock Star
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 05:02 PM
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15. I clicked expecting to see some evidence
A lot of people are having a lot of "feelings" lately!

:P
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USA_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 05:14 PM
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16. snopes.com
Someone circulated some letter purporting to have ''proof'' from this source that Obama is some Muslim radical. It even alleges that he was a student at a Wahhabi school in Indonesia although it is difficult to see how such a school could exist there under ultra fascist Suharto.

Don't know who actually is circulating this nonsense but it is clear that the Swift boating has already started.

As for Hillary, she has really screwed her chances of getting elected by alleging that she would have voted differently on Iraq after having given Bush her great endorsement for all these years. Moreover her remarks about Iran haven't been exactly those of a peacenik. If anything, she is a bigger flip flop than Bush.
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USA_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 05:22 PM
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19. I Did A Little More Research ....
and it turns out that it is Fox who is spreading the smear campaign:


http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 05:15 PM
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17. ironic, because this post is an example of swiftboating.
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