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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 02:48 PM
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"I won my constituency. I won 55 percent of the white vote."
Who said that? David Duke in the 1991 runoff election for Governor of Louisiana against Edwin Edwards.

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Lucky 13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 02:49 PM
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1. Well damn. That about says it all.
Any Hillarites care to defend THAT one?

:rofl:
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Leftist Agitator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 03:20 PM
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13. "Any Hillarites care to defend THAT one?"
Of course they won't. They're so enthralled by Queen Hillary, Her Royal Clintonness, that even when that liar stoops to the level of David-fucking-DUKE, it's A-OK with them, because anyone who doesn't like Hillary is sexist, it's the media's fault that 60% of the country can't stand her, and SHE IS OWED THE PRESIDENCY, DAMMIT!!!

They would be fucking hilarious if they weren't so contemptable.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 10:58 PM
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18. Mindless sycophancy is never attractive. No matter what.
:shrug:

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BklynChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 02:49 PM
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2. that's quite embarassing for her.
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kwenu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 02:50 PM
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4. Her whole campaign has become embarrassing.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 02:50 PM
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3. Clinton supporters simply don't care that she's running with a racist strategy.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 03:22 PM
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15. Not only that. They make themselves into pretzels trying to blame Obama
for it.

About 12 kinds of wrong.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 02:51 PM
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5. That's frightful.....
Edited on Fri May-09-08 02:52 PM by marmar
To see this family (the Clintons), which got me excited about politics while I was in college in the '90s, devolve into what they've devolved into, is very distressing. I'm listening to an analyst on Randi Rhodes dissect the Clinton campaign right now, and I've got to say I'm done with her, and with Bill. I feel like I've been stabbed in the back by a campaign I got out and worked for on the campus of Eastern Michigan University in the fall of 1992.

:hurts:

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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 02:55 PM
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6. I've never been a HUGE fan ... but I've supported the Clintons.
I voted for Bill in 1992 and 1996 and supported Hillary in 2000. From then on, it's been downhill ... nowhere nearly as rapidly as the last year. She's exposed a contemptable character flaw, imho.

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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 02:58 PM
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7. What about the people who support her
Explain that one because that's what has surprised me most of all. How can they ignore this hideousness, or worse, defend it.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 03:08 PM
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8. I never underestimate the human capacity for denial and avoidance.
Edited on Fri May-09-08 03:13 PM by TahitiNut
I've not been entirely free of such mistakes in my life, either. At the same time, I'm sure SOME harbor "just a little bit of racism" ... but they call it something else. "Realism" or "pragmatism" or whatever. Indeed, projecting it on Obama is a common avoidance.

On top of that, it's common to be REACTIVE when one sees what one might regard as over-kill or extreme opposition to someone they might support only slightly. Bill Clinton benefited from the INSANE over-kill by the radical right-wing in the 90s. There was a reactive component to the support he got on the left that wasn't warranted by his political ideology or policies. I'd guess Hillary's support has some folks digging in their heels.

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K Gardner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 03:10 PM
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9. You surely need a pic of David Duke in there. Gads.. this is sickening.
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panAmerican Donating Member (864 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 03:10 PM
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10. How the mighty have fallen.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 03:10 PM
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11. Pat Buchanan would be proud.
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K Gardner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 03:15 PM
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12. Ewww, ewww.. I just went to the website to try to find a pic. *shudder* Buchanan's
article about the "caucasian race is going the way of the Mohicans" was up there.

God, these people are scary.
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Renaissance Man Donating Member (420 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 11:01 PM
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20. Well
If you think that's scary, go to Duke's website, and lo' and behold, he has one of Pat Buchanan's articles on his BLOG. What's that statement about birds of a feather?
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crankychatter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 03:21 PM
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14. great catch k/r n/t
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 03:22 PM
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16. It should be noted that Bill Clinton was the Governor of the neighboring state of Arkansas then.
:shrug: ... running for President.
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 03:23 PM
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17. Wow.... someone send that one to KO....
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 11:01 PM
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19. he's just stating a fact, how can that be offensive?
...according to some people here who have no chance to convince me to vote for McCain. :eyes:
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