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Greenwood Donating Member (240 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 05:57 PM
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Was it a dumb thing to say? Yes. But, the Obama folks need to chill.....
It WAS a dumb thing to say, no doubt. But, good grief, get a grip. Some are milking this like she took a knife and started cutting jugulars or something.

Get real, people. Amazing.
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dchill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 05:58 PM
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1. Get real? Get real?
You first.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 05:59 PM
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2. Look on the bright side...
At least this clearly demonstrates who the trolls are.
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:01 PM
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12. Yep. Clear as day.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 05:59 PM
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3. Like all the Clinton supporters 'chilled' over Rev. Wright? nt
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:00 PM
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4. CHILL? Hillary needs to GET OUT NOW.
She is beyond offensive, and if you can't see that, you are blind.
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Oleladylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:00 PM
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5. Everything is personal to the paranoid.
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:01 PM
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8. I still have yet to see an honest defense of what she said.
It was a major league fuck up. Stupid or malicious. Which do you think?
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dchill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:03 PM
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18. I'm guessing the proper response is...
You should know.
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:00 PM
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6. Fuck That
She just insinuated that the first man to inspire me in years might get shot.

No excuses for this one.
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Greenwood Donating Member (240 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:01 PM
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10. Wow. If Obama is the first man to inspire you in years....
then I am speechless.

First man to inspire someone in years....

Look, the guy has my vote but come on???
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:03 PM
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17. Politically
yes.
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marylanddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:06 PM
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22. First man to inspire me in years, too. And we're not alone...
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:30 PM
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24. My biggest fear
is that something will happen to him and has been since the beginning of this. :cry:

I've had to reasure many people that he'd be safe and she says this.
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:00 PM
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7. Not milking. Disgusted. She needs to go.
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book_worm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:01 PM
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9. how many weeks did we have to endure Pastor Wright? which wasn't even Obama's statements.
What she said was dumb and deserve denouncing.
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dcindian Donating Member (881 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:01 PM
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11. It was a hurtful and mean spirited thing to say.
It was only a dumb thing to say because it hurt her campaign.

The actual damage was to the Democrat party, the Kennedy family, and the Obama family. It is sad when you feel more remorse for a politicians career then the family of others who the attack was aimed at.

I would suggest a deep look into your evaluation process.
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:02 PM
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13. She said she regretted using RFK 68 as part of expanation of why she's still in race
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/23/clinton.comments /

she regretted comments that evoked the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy as part of her explanation for why she was staying in the presidential race late into the primary season.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:05 PM
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21. She said IF the Kennedy family was offended.
Not that I think there's much doubt.
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gulfcoastliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:06 PM
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23. She regrets the publicity she is getting, no doubt.
But she meant every word papau. You know that. The Clinton's only care about the Clinton's. They wouldn't mind someone putting a bullet in Obama and that is why she said what she did. Sorry you are blind to reality.
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wanpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 07:18 PM
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26. like your screen name gulfcoastliberal. Are there many of you (gulf coast liberals, that is)?
:)
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jaxx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:02 PM
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14. No, actually, we don't.
We've been subjected to these gaffs all along, and told to forget it...she's tired, she didn't mean it, she wants to win.

Well, so what? She's a 60 year old woman running for the highest office in the land, and she's a loose cannon. Using fear mongering as a plank, innuendo and then caps it off with victimhood when she's called on it.

Tough shit.
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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:02 PM
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15. Why? Hillary supporters jumped on Obama for calling someone sweetie.
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:02 PM
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16. No. No. Please, Attract More Publicity To That Interview
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:03 PM
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19. Yeh, it's like we're all sniping at her.
How bitter of us to cling to her comments so.
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:04 PM
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20. Just what we need...
..another President of The United States
saying dumb things.
:eyes:
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wanpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 07:15 PM
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25. for many, myself included, who think about Obama's safety because of the historic nature of this
race, this statement was crude and insensitive. I'm not milking anything. After reading stories about Obama as a monkey on a t-shirt, Obama in the crosshairs of a gun on the cover of a metro Atlanta magazine, and Huckabee's statement about someone aiming a gun at him, I find it sad and shameful that this is the only comparison she saw fit to make. This is not "faux outrage". This is about judgment and integrity.
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