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Wiley50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:12 PM
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Since Obama is only one letter different from Osama
Since Obama is only one letter different from Osama

And the name Hillary has been made a pejorative for years now,

I guess, if the powers that be choose to run
either of them,

Looks like another repuke administration come 2008

How sad

When Gore's a shoo-in who doesn't want to run

When will they ever learn?
Will they ever learn?
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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:14 PM
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1. Even I don't get that cynical, sheesh! n/t
PB
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Wiley50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:17 PM
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3. You mean, you can't hear the negative ads even now?
I do

A product so easy to trash
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:21 PM
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10. "A product so easy to trash." I don't get your point here.
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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:22 PM
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11. You can't trash a brand if the product works better than all others.
They can try but, even in America, some attention is paid to ideas.

PB
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Wiley50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:26 PM
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12. How about "SPAM"
shoulder of pork and ham

Now it's everywhere
But few will eat it
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:39 PM
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They LOVE it in Hawaii. nt
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 07:01 PM
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27. They still love it in Great Britain.
:)
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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 07:02 PM
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28. With all due respect, if nobody buys the SPAM, Hormel would drop it.
So....Somebody's buying the SPAM. Just because we don't eat it doesn't mean (like Bush's followers) that someone does, no matter how ideologically or nutritionally misguided they may be.

PB
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 07:01 PM
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26. Are you saying Illinois voters are so much smarter than voters
Edited on Sun Dec-10-06 07:02 PM by pnwmom
everywhere else? They didn't vote for the name, they voted for the man.

Negative ads are only good for shock value. No one will be shocked if the Rethugs try to pull something stupid with Obama's name. I'm sure Obama will know how to innoculate the public against this. He's already been making fun of his name, and it's working.
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 07:08 PM
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31. C'mon! There will be negative ads of ANY nominee.
That's hardly a valid criticism of Obama or sound strategy for choosing a nominee.

If we nominate Martin Luther King or Jesus Christ, there will be negative ads.

There are plenty of reasons not to choose Obama. His name is the least of them.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:16 PM
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2. yup, might as well just trudge off into the woods and die.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:21 PM
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9. I was thinking "Obama" can
remind the country that the bushits haven't caught osama YET..

Anyway, "bush" is synonymous with The Fucking Devil(bubblebrat).
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:17 PM
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4. That's a very shallow analysis.
I don't believe anyone is actually going to confuse Barack with Bin-Laden.
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Wiley50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:18 PM
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6. And Repubs are not known for being shallow? n/t
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 07:05 PM
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29. Many Illinois Republicans voted for Obama, rather than Keyes.
Hundreds of thousands of Bush voters voted for Obama.

Illinois is not that different than the rest of the country.
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flying_wahini Donating Member (856 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:18 PM
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5. sorry, I think you have a point,
if the Dems don't come up with someone besides Hillary (she's status quo and a Clinton)
and Osama (whom I like but don't think he can win)
the Dems are Doomed.... Gonna have to be someone with a military background.
period, end of story- cuz we will be knee-deep in blood and bullshit by the election.
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Wiley50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:20 PM
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8. I like him too. Both of them, in fact
I just don't believe they can win
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skipos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:19 PM
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7. We're DOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nt
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featherman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:27 PM
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13. Full name: Barack Hussein Obama
Enough said (unfortunately)
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Wiley50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:39 PM
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19. OOOH! Double Whammy!
C'mon folks, TV has made the voting public quite shallow

I didn't do it
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 09:11 PM
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37. How come Illinois voters are so deep then?
They had no trouble overlooking his name.
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:32 PM
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14. "Bush" is only one letter away from "lush" and he won. Twice.
Edited on Sun Dec-10-06 06:35 PM by pnwmom
Not to mention "tush."
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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:34 PM
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15. i have to agree with this -- "obama" is not going to "play in Peroria"
it's not my feeling on the subject... it's a rhetorical thing. if Max Cleland can be smeared with being unpatriotic and associating with "the enemy," i'm afraid that we'd be making it too easy for th pukes by sending up someone with a phonetic correspondence.

we're not ready yet, and he's YOUNG... maybe, he's not ready yet. whoever get's the nod is going to face the apocalypse bush has left behind. wouldn't an elder statesman be a better choice?
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:37 PM
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16. Senator Obama represents Peoria.
:shrug:
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:56 PM
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25. Yup. I was like: Isn't Obama the Senator of Illinois? Isn't Peoria in IL?
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 07:06 PM
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30. And not only that, he carried Peoria.
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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 08:56 PM
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34. oh you're right -- he'll totally win... if the 'pukes put up ALAN KEYES against him
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liberalpragmatist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 08:59 PM
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35. Obama was handily beating his original Repub opponent....
... Jack Ryan, BEFORE he was replaced with Keyes and before Ryan's divorce records were unsealed.
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 09:09 PM
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36. They are, only his name has been changed to
Sam Brokeback. I mean, Brownback. Whatever.
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:38 PM
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17. Elder statesmen got us into this mess.
Curious that you said "statesmen." If you really wanted someone older, there are plenty of women.

If Obama won, he'd be older than JFK when he took office.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:39 PM
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18. Since Usama was renamed Osama, maybe Obama can be
renamed Ubama.
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Wiley50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:43 PM
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20. or GO BAMA! for that matter
At least he'd win one state in the south
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:52 PM
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24. Oh, oh, I didn't realize the state of Alabama was full of
terrorist-sympathizers.

:silly:
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michaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:46 PM
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21. I have a feeling that
Obama can stand on his own. I just have this feeling that if he is what many of us think he is and what we think he can do for this party he will be just fine. The days of the Repugs with all their negatism may be proving them wrong. The American people are changing their thinking when it comes to all of this crap. If the Democrats can show their stuff for the next year and a half we might all be pleasantly surprised.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:46 PM
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22. Chip Whitley 2008!
An ALL-AMERICAN name! :sarcasm:
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high density Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 07:21 PM
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32. I'd vote for Conan!
I think he has a better chance of winning than Hillary or Obama does.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 07:35 PM
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33. Glad you caught the reference.
:D :hi:
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:46 PM
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23. what's in a name?
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet."
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 11:48 PM
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38. Yeah, let's field candidates mainly by their names. Brilliant! (n/t)
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-11-06 03:46 AM
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39. Locking
Flamebait

Thanks,
petersond
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