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One of the most refreshing things about Barack Obama is his fearlessness when it comes to voicing a hard truth. It's an ice cold glass of unsweetened lemonade: hard to swallow, but unmistakably pure. The truth is, if you aren't bitter, you're probably voting for someone who is going to give us more of what we've been getting all along. And all C

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jrlecato4 months, 3 weeks ago

This is the problem in this country. WHITES are racist and anytime a BLACK leader tell them so they cry FOUL!!! OH, we know it's the truth ,but you can't tell us!! WHAT the ******!! The only people that have a problem with what OBAMA said are RASICT and WHITES(or more RACIST)!!
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  bluetexasvalley4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Calm down, jrlecato, this has nothing to do with race. It's more about economics and the people who have been left behind and/or ignored for too many years. Obama can not only give them hope, but he can make them feel like a part of America again. Please read the full article. :)
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    JoseMadre4 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    It would have been about economics if Obama had just stopped at "bitter", but he chose to continue into territory that seems to a lot of people like a knock against rural American whites. Heck, all that was missing was "NASCAR" from his description of the "white trash" stereotype.
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      Grrr4 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      That's a complete twist, Jose. It was obvious from his statement that he was referring to the issues that we have allowed to divide the popular vote in the last several elections, specifically he referred to religion and the right to bear, instead of voting on fiscal, domestic and foreign policy issues that really have a much greater impact on our lives, since those two issues specifically are constitutionally entangled and unlikely to change much through administrations or courts, really. Stereotyping wasn't part of it, beyond the fact that statistics describing the reasons people give for why they vote the way they do define stereotypical responses for a region, which are what politicians tend to speak to in these kinds of events. A little common sense goes a long way.
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      ETproductions4 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      I'l give you the fact that it was a bad choice of words. But painting the guy as elitist is a bald-faced lie.
      McCain's father and grandfather were both Admirals in the Navy.
      Hillary's dad was a Republican leader and business owner. She used her law degree to get into the Rose Law firm, and served for years on the board of WalMart.
      Obama's dad left when he was two. He was raised by a single mom who died of cancer largely because she couldn't afford treatment. He was raised by grandparents who could barely make ends meet. Obama used his law degree to work with churches in Chicago to help people put out of work when their manufacturing jobs were off-shored.
      Of all the candidates, Obama knows what it is to live without a silver spoon in his mouth.
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  Spadecaller4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  jrlecato
  I am in support of Obama, but it is bigotted to believe that anyone who does not support him is a racist. Are you really that incapable of thinking in shades other than just black and white?
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Shadowolf4 months, 3 weeks ago

I read it and agree...the Good ol' Boy club is running scared and lashing out at anything Obama says...
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  ProudBlueTexan4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  I want nothing but to see this backfire on clinton and mccain so big that the election is sealed.
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  JoseMadre4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Sorry, rationalize it all you like, but Obama was knocking those with whom he disagrees by belittling their world views. Even he knows he f-ed up. Why don't you?
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      ProudBlueTexan4 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      clinton and mccain are grasping at straws, big time. Let's hope Americans have outgrown their susceptibility to Swift Boating.
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engineer4 months, 3 weeks ago

Great article!
Thanks
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ETproductions4 months, 3 weeks ago

Change. American's want it. A change in the way politics is conducted. No more smear and fear and spin and wedge politics in order to keep the money flowing from the middle class to the ultra wealthy.
Voters have a clear choice. They can choose the same old smear politics masking elitist policies. They can have it from
1 - Democrat Clinton.
2 - Republican McCain.
Or they can vote for real change.
Without real change, the middle class will be completely gone soon. America will be a banana republic where the elites own everything including the government, and use force of arms to prevent that from ever changing.
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  JoseMadre4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  "Or they can vote for real change."
  Yes, real change, all that we will have left from our paychecks once Obama is through.
  Yes, real change, to qasi-Marxist anti-Semitic centralized government.
  No, thanks. Obama is a used car/snake oil salesman posing as Presidential material.
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    ETproductions4 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    There are plenty of things you can label Obama with, but claiming he's a Marxist or an anti-Semite are scurrilous lies.
    My attitude is I have seen what electing Karl Rove style crooks and liars gets us. Ten trillion dollars in debt and counting. If that's the result of small government, we can't afford any more of it.
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  Spadecaller4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  I know an anti-Semite when I meet one. BEing Jewish, I grew up with it. Posting on this site, I run into it all the time. And Obama is no anti-Semite. Try something else... how about his middle name; is that low enough for you, Jose?
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automan9094 months, 3 weeks ago

Here are the real choices.
Marxist- Clinton
Marxist/Racist- Obama
True American- McCain
The "change" would be turning this great country into a Marxist/Socialist disaster.
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Spadecaller4 months, 3 weeks ago

It's refreshing to have a candidate that refuses to resort to cheap soundbites only. I hope the people in the nation and Pennsylvania will see through the smear tactics knowing that we have all had a prolonged diet on bitter pills.
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  JoseMadre4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  "It's refreshing to have a candidate that refuses to resort to cheap soundbites only."
  lol All he usually says is "change"; when he does say more, it backfires onhim.
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    ETproductions4 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    Opps. Another typical ConMan lie. This guy has written two boks, given a long series of speeches defining his positions, participated in 18 televised debates and appeared on dozens of interview and late-night TV shows. He also has a large Web site defining his positions and an active blog.
    I can guarantee you he didn't fill all that space with only the word, "Change."
    In your smear in the thread above, you threw around the terms Marxist and ant-Semite. Could it be you and not Obama who constantly falls back on a familiar though false refrain?
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      Spadecaller4 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      ETproductions
      "Oops!" ... you are right. How would someone (JoseMadre)who only listens to 20 second soundbites and who does not read books know any better?
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    ProudBlueTexan4 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    Give it up, J, your credibility is ashes.
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dunkirk4 months, 3 weeks ago

Its a truly refreshing breath of air to listen to a candiadte talk about the real problems of America vs the BS we have been getting from the administration for the last 8 years. He identified problems that affect a large segmgent of the population and doesnt focus on special interest. Tax cuts for the middle class vs tax cuts for "everyone" that equate to 100 for you and thousands for the wealthy.
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ProudBlueTexan4 months, 3 weeks ago

"By Bitter Beer on April 12, 2008 4:40 PM
What are we talking about here? Hello, America, the story is that a very experienced politician is stabbing, wounding and trying to kill her political friend of whom a few weeks ago she was so proud and wanted to be her VP.
Vomit!
It's okay to tell lies about your own past, Hillary, pile them up. But to take the words of Obama, twist them around, distort his intention and to label him as someone who betrays and loathes the people he fights for, is.....saddening. It makes me angry for sure, but most of all I feel slapped in the face. Humiliated, to see a top Democratic politician acting so like Cain, Judas and Lucifer.
Hillary, you discredit yourself in a way that is so unAmerican, so evil, so Rovesque, that I would like the superdelegates to step in now and say: we don't want this person as our candidate or president because she is an insult to the presidency.
Hillary is not presidential, she is in the slaughterhouse business."
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