Obama building war machine to respond to 'Swift Boat' attacks »
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"He's not going to sit there and sing 'Kumbaya' as the missiles are raining in," David Axelrod, Obama's chief strategist, tells Newsweek for its Apr. 28 issue. "I don't think people should mistake civility for a willingness to deal with the challenges to come."
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Georgia50
April 20, 2008, 8:56 p.m.First two items for the Obama war machine:
1. How do we undo reality?
2. how do we keep the words that come tumbling out of Obama's mouth from meaning what their plainly understood meaning is?
Lot's of luck, Bammy.
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slate
April 21, 2008, 8:35 a.m."He's not going to sit there and sing 'Kumbaya' as the missiles are raining in"
He'll be too busy heading for the bunker to sing.
With all the things he's said about war and how he will deal with it all, now he wants us to think he'll be a strong CIC?
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ML2007
April 21, 2008, 12:37 p.m.Georgia,
"1. How do we undo reality?"
What reality exactly are you talking about? The truth will unveil all lies. Your rhetoric here is weak. Exactly, what are you insinuating?
"2. how do we keep the words that come tumbling out of Obama's mouth from meaning what their plainly understood meaning is?"
Easily. Obama is intelligent and well spoken and other than to people who are a little on the slow side like you, his meanings do not need explaining.
I don't think "Bammy" needs any luck. The last I heard, he is winning the nomination, and you NeoCon racists are running scared.
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tchef
April 21, 2008, 8:43 a.m.We as the voting public need to see these attacks on all the candidates as what they are. Then we need to ignore them. Let's concentrate on the issues.
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ProudBlueTexan
April 21, 2008, 11:04 a.m.Don't ignore them, send them back where they came from. Those Swift Boaters have telephones and addresses.
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Endoscopy
April 21, 2008, 1:21 p.m.The first thing to consider is whether they are truthful or not. If truthful then we need to take them into consideration because they are an issue. If not ignore them. That is what free speech is all about.
When George Washington ran for his second term allegations of being a traitor were passed around. Those false allegations went nowhere but they were allowed to be said and printed.
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aniokly
April 21, 2008, 9:17 a.m.We need to know everything about a candidate to make a decision about who to vote for. It is not negative reporting if the information is true. Did this guy sit in church for 20 years while an old Black Nationalist cursed, and damned the very country he wants to be President of? Yes. Does he have radical friends like Arab business men, Mr Rezko, Mr Auchi, and a man with close ties to the PLO, Mr Khalidi who want us to surrender in Iraq? Yes. Does he look down his nose at ordinary Americans when he is in the presence of his rich friends? Yes. He thinks there is something wrong with people who have guns to protect themselves, and people who regularly attend Church service. The Democrats must do better then this flawed candidate to compete in the General election, and they know it.
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V.O.R.
April 21, 2008, 11 a.m.As usual, you buy all the poison. This is not who Barack Obama is. As for Rezko any politician in Chicago who does not have contact with some type of slimeball probably has locked themselves in a closet and wont come out. And Rev. Wright? You completely mistate the case. Most of his sermons contain no such speech. You didn't and will never listen to Obama's clear explanation. I recited to you the tale of my rascist gramdmother but you didn't listen.
No, you would rather have Bush III? Let's see if we can bring this country to it's knees in four more years?
The associations you raise with the PLO are so far fetched as to lead me to ignore your post. America has bowed at the feet of Israel for years. It has brought us little good. A fair reassessment of our Middle East policy is due on Day One in the White House, whoever the candidate. You won't see one from the McCain crowd. They will only offer continued diplomacy(sic)at the point of a gun.
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Dionys
April 21, 2008, 12:16 p.m."It is not negative reporting if the information is true. "
Then again what's "true." Certainly not your silly statement about his pastor cursing and damning the US. Unless you're a low-context moron. Which I suspect you are. As for having Arab friends, you have no further to look than Bush who's best buddies with the Bin Ladens and the House of Saud -- who provided just about every 9/11 hijacker with their passports and assisted with their visas and funding.
"Does he look down his nose at ordinary Americans when he is in the presence of his rich friends?"
Bush? Yes.
Stop spreading your silly lies. People see through them when they look. You're just making it hard to elect your alzheimers president who will sink us further in debt to reward the rich.
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SpareChange
April 21, 2008, 12:52 p.m.aniokly
do you seriously want to open that can of worms with your candidate mcCain?
It's one thing to be associated with people who do messed up things, it's another to actual do messed up things.
McCain sought out the support of Paster Hagee who preaches about the destruction of the world - rapture - and how the US mus accelerate it through war with Iran.
McCain was one of the Keating 5 in the Savings and Loan scandal,
McCain is breaking his own campagin finance laws,
McCain did fund and arm the KLA, a radical muslim army,
McCain did vote against the GI Bill,
McCain did vote agains the Bush tax cuts and now is for it,
McCain did vote against a minimum wage increase
and there is more .... and we will go on.
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simonsez
April 21, 2008, 10:04 a.m.Swift-boating represents telling the truth.
What's wrong with that?
