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	<title>Comments on: BREAKING: Obama Foreign Policy Advisor Samantha Power Resigns. When Does Mark Penn Get Fired?</title>
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		<title>By: Sarah</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great post. What I did was I went to &lt;a HREF=&quot;www.subconscious-mind.org&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.subconscious-mind.org&lt;/a&gt;. From there, I followed the tips and guides that they offer on improving your brain power.Well, I tried and I definitely can see some improvement in my condition. So, you should consider trying it too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great post. What I did was I went to <a HREF="www.subconscious-mind.org" REL="nofollow">http://www.subconscious-mind.org</a>. From there, I followed the tips and guides that they offer on improving your brain power.Well, I tried and I definitely can see some improvement in my condition. So, you should consider trying it too.</p>
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		<title>By: USpace</title>
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		<dc:creator>USpace</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great post.  Obama’s aide was right. Hillary is a monster.  Of course not the same kind of monster as Hitler, Mao or Stalin, but a monster nonetheless.&lt;br/&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;absurd thought -&lt;br/&gt;God of the Universe says&lt;br/&gt;claim to care for people&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;call yourself progressive&lt;br/&gt;your policies hurt poor folk&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;absurd thought -&lt;br/&gt;God of the Universe says&lt;br/&gt;elect women presidents&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;who cover for their husbands&lt;br/&gt;who rape other women&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;absurd thought -&lt;br/&gt;God of the Universe says&lt;br/&gt;vote for any woman&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;better than any man&lt;br/&gt;none could make things any worse&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;if you’re MAD&lt;br/&gt;punish your country&lt;br/&gt;VOTE for Hillary&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;http://www.hillaryproject.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Go here and watch ‘The Hillary Show’ with Howard Dean. It’s Hillarious!&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;http://www.stophernow.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;:)&lt;br/&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great post.  Obama’s aide was right. Hillary is a monster.  Of course not the same kind of monster as Hitler, Mao or Stalin, but a monster nonetheless.<br />.<br />absurd thought -<br />God of the Universe says<br />claim to care for people</p>
<p>call yourself progressive<br />your policies hurt poor folk</p>
<p>.<br />absurd thought -<br />God of the Universe says<br />elect women presidents</p>
<p>who cover for their husbands<br />who rape other women</p>
<p>.<br />absurd thought -<br />God of the Universe says<br />vote for any woman</p>
<p>better than any man<br />none could make things any worse</p>
<p>.<br />if you’re MAD<br />punish your country<br />VOTE for Hillary</p>
<p>.<br /><a href="http://www.hillaryproject.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hillaryproject.com/</a></p>
<p>Go here and watch ‘The Hillary Show’ with Howard Dean. It’s Hillarious!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.stophernow.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stophernow.com/</a></p>
<p>:)<br />.</p>
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		<title>By: anon</title>
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		<dc:creator>anon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Worry not people.  this was exercise in party discipline. in fact, i was impressed by the speed of her resignation. it means they mean business, no one is above the law, mess up, your out. this is what i like about the obama campaign, they want to remain on message and at the moment that message is &#039;we don&#039;t do ad hominum attacks&#039;, that&#039;s clinton&#039;s game. and they are spot on to keep that discipline up. clinton is playing miss ann to the hilt, true, but obama campaign knows something we forget...it works. you have to be very careful about how you fight the &#039;damsel in distress&#039; pose. he&#039;ll find a way and don&#039;t be surprised if one of his senatorial surrogates comes up with some nasty bit of intel on the clintons--that is how he must play it. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;she&#039;ll be back though. powers is brilliant and come the swearing in her only blemish will be that she called clinton a monster--really!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Worry not people.  this was exercise in party discipline. in fact, i was impressed by the speed of her resignation. it means they mean business, no one is above the law, mess up, your out. this is what i like about the obama campaign, they want to remain on message and at the moment that message is &#8216;we don&#8217;t do ad hominum attacks&#8217;, that&#8217;s clinton&#8217;s game. and they are spot on to keep that discipline up. clinton is playing miss ann to the hilt, true, but obama campaign knows something we forget&#8230;it works. you have to be very careful about how you fight the &#8216;damsel in distress&#8217; pose. he&#8217;ll find a way and don&#8217;t be surprised if one of his senatorial surrogates comes up with some nasty bit of intel on the clintons&#8211;that is how he must play it. </p>
<p>she&#8217;ll be back though. powers is brilliant and come the swearing in her only blemish will be that she called clinton a monster&#8211;really!</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;under massive pressure&quot;? I read that Obama announced her &quot;resignation&quot; less that two hours after the Clinton campaign called for her firing. Weak...very weak. Yeah, I understand the racial dynamics involved, but he&#039;s going to have to test them sooner ot later. With all the white supporters he has, and all the whites who don&#039;t necessarily support him, but are incensed at the way Clinton is conducting herself, I think he can chance breaking out of the &quot;non-threatening black man&quot; mode once in a while right now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;under massive pressure&#8221;? I read that Obama announced her &#8220;resignation&#8221; less that two hours after the Clinton campaign called for her firing. Weak&#8230;very weak. Yeah, I understand the racial dynamics involved, but he&#8217;s going to have to test them sooner ot later. With all the white supporters he has, and all the whites who don&#8217;t necessarily support him, but are incensed at the way Clinton is conducting herself, I think he can chance breaking out of the &#8220;non-threatening black man&#8221; mode once in a while right now.</p>
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		<title>By: ct</title>
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		<dc:creator>ct</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ chicanaskies -&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;If we start getting angry with Barack and demanding that he fight back tooth and nail, I fear that it is only giving in to Hillary&#039;s manipulation.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Yeah, I get that. I&#039;m not angry with him, but how is he going to win this thing if he keeps quiet? It was reported (I think it was on Keith Olbermann) that he stated &quot;I won&#039;t get into a knife fight.&quot; I also understand Barack is in a terrible bind.  However, the working stiffs (especially in Pennsylvania) will see Barack isn&#039;t &quot;man enough&quot; to stand up to a woman, and she knows this. It&#039;s akin to a woman constantly abusing her man and when he strikes back he&#039;s considered the batterer. And you know how Hillary&#039;s supporters love to rescue their damsel in distress. I just want to know how will Barack get through this without getting slaughtered?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ chicanaskies -<br /><i>If we start getting angry with Barack and demanding that he fight back tooth and nail, I fear that it is only giving in to Hillary&#8217;s manipulation.</i></p>
<p>Yeah, I get that. I&#8217;m not angry with him, but how is he going to win this thing if he keeps quiet? It was reported (I think it was on Keith Olbermann) that he stated &#8220;I won&#8217;t get into a knife fight.&#8221; I also understand Barack is in a terrible bind.  However, the working stiffs (especially in Pennsylvania) will see Barack isn&#8217;t &#8220;man enough&#8221; to stand up to a woman, and she knows this. It&#8217;s akin to a woman constantly abusing her man and when he strikes back he&#8217;s considered the batterer. And you know how Hillary&#8217;s supporters love to rescue their damsel in distress. I just want to know how will Barack get through this without getting slaughtered?</p>
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		<title>By: TruthSeeker</title>
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		<dc:creator>TruthSeeker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Some clips on Samantha Power story on Tucker and the Clinton strategy of floating possibility of Obama VP&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Tucker kicks the ass of the UK reporter who wrote the story on Samantha...really good. Check them out if you care to :)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id&lt;br/&gt;=83ea373b-45b9-4401-a5fb-a37350118700&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id&lt;br/&gt;=d523a013-fd6f-4575-9e79-c51ee48fec7e&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id&lt;br/&gt;=a9ece67d-f1fa-4c16-807a-519673e95f7f&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id&lt;br/&gt;=aacd7282-e3ab-4b5a-bc08-c22ec925c9a4&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id&lt;br/&gt;=bad2d378-285a-4cac-8219-9d3c029904b9&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id&lt;br/&gt;=6a06c86d-a7da-4cc8-8508-3f31871742d0&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id&lt;br/&gt;=2d7eb409-c2ed-46ef-8e80-037152f8432b</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some clips on Samantha Power story on Tucker and the Clinton strategy of floating possibility of Obama VP</p>
<p>Tucker kicks the ass of the UK reporter who wrote the story on Samantha&#8230;really good. Check them out if you care to :)</p>
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		<title>By: chicanaskies</title>
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		<dc:creator>chicanaskies</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My dear Obama supporters,&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I understand the anger towards Hillary and the frustration towards our country&#039;s tendency to believe her lies,but please stand tall behind our man Barack.  As someone mentioned above, Hillary is manipulating everyone (the media, her supporters, etc) to try and &quot;emasculate&quot; Obama and prove she&#039;s a &quot;fighter&quot;.  If we start getting angry with Barack and demanding that he fight back tooth and nail, I fear that it is only giving in to Hillary&#039;s manipulation.  In other words, Hillary will have succeeded in manipulating not only the media and her supporters, but also in manipulating US into getting angry with Barack and telling him to &quot;get a backbone&quot;.  I have faith that Barack has it under control.  Let&#039;s stand behind him, not let him get punched around, but be aware that this is probably the very image of him that Hillary wants us to believe-- that she is a &quot;fighter&quot; and he is &quot;weak.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My dear Obama supporters,</p>
<p>I understand the anger towards Hillary and the frustration towards our country&#8217;s tendency to believe her lies,but please stand tall behind our man Barack.  As someone mentioned above, Hillary is manipulating everyone (the media, her supporters, etc) to try and &#8220;emasculate&#8221; Obama and prove she&#8217;s a &#8220;fighter&#8221;.  If we start getting angry with Barack and demanding that he fight back tooth and nail, I fear that it is only giving in to Hillary&#8217;s manipulation.  In other words, Hillary will have succeeded in manipulating not only the media and her supporters, but also in manipulating US into getting angry with Barack and telling him to &#8220;get a backbone&#8221;.  I have faith that Barack has it under control.  Let&#8217;s stand behind him, not let him get punched around, but be aware that this is probably the very image of him that Hillary wants us to believe&#8211; that she is a &#8220;fighter&#8221; and he is &#8220;weak.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
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		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ donna l. - Very interesting comments and food for thought!&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;My view is that Clinton would have played the victim card no matter what and drawn this out for days if not weeks depicting herself as Poor Little Hillary. This would have dominated everything else - especially since she wants to distract attention from how the NAFTA-Canada story is coming back to bite her, and how she is angering so many Democrats with her all-but-endorsement of McCain. Obama would not have been able to get any of his message through if he was fighting her over Power the whole time.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;By resigning right away, Power took the issue off the table and left Clinton with nothing more she can reasonably demand. If she keeps going on about it after this, she looks incredibly vindictive. Hopefully it will be a one or two day story, that&#039;s all.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;And Obama is able to get back to presenting his message to voters.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I wish that Power had not had to resign, but I think it was necessary after what she said in order to keep it from overwhelming everything else.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;My $0.02.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ donna l. &#8211; Very interesting comments and food for thought!</p>
<p>My view is that Clinton would have played the victim card no matter what and drawn this out for days if not weeks depicting herself as Poor Little Hillary. This would have dominated everything else &#8211; especially since she wants to distract attention from how the NAFTA-Canada story is coming back to bite her, and how she is angering so many Democrats with her all-but-endorsement of McCain. Obama would not have been able to get any of his message through if he was fighting her over Power the whole time.</p>
<p>By resigning right away, Power took the issue off the table and left Clinton with nothing more she can reasonably demand. If she keeps going on about it after this, she looks incredibly vindictive. Hopefully it will be a one or two day story, that&#8217;s all.</p>
<p>And Obama is able to get back to presenting his message to voters.</p>
<p>I wish that Power had not had to resign, but I think it was necessary after what she said in order to keep it from overwhelming everything else.</p>
<p>My $0.02.</p>
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		<title>By: Black American Princess</title>
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		<dc:creator>Black American Princess</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So now she&#039;s playing the poor poor Hillary card again.  SOOOOO transparent.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080308/ap_on_el_pr/clinton</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So now she&#8217;s playing the poor poor Hillary card again.  SOOOOO transparent.</p>
<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080308/ap_on_el_pr/clinton" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080308/ap_on_el_pr/clinton</a></p>
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		<title>By: justice58</title>
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		<dc:creator>justice58</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I&#039;ll say it if no one else will ...&lt;br/&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;br/&gt;I&#039;ll help you to say it!&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;F%%% Jessie!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll say it if no one else will &#8230;<br />&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />I&#8217;ll help you to say it!</p>
<p>F%%% Jessie!</p>
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		<title>By: Submariner</title>
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		<dc:creator>Submariner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hillary Rodham Clinton has singlehandedly disabled the Democratic Party for the next eight years. Her husband did a similar thing when he cost the Dems the Congress and later cost Al Gore what should have been a clear path to the White House. It took about ten years for Democrats to recover from the insult.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The Gettysburg moment of February 5 decided the outcome of the primary. Hillary could have continued running an issue oriented campaign. However, she not only attacked Barack on the issues but also his very nature. She cast doubts about Obama&#039;s religious affiliation, insulted his supporters as deluded fanatics, and in the ultimate act of betrayal, &lt;a HREF=&quot;http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2008/03/clinton_ive_crossed_commanderi.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;explicitly stated that John McCain is more qualified to be POTUS than Obama&lt;/a&gt;. In essence, HRC became the woman who agreed to Solomon&#039;s solution of cutting a baby in half to settle a custody suit. With such open contempt his supporters could never adopt her. It was almost as if she didn&#039;t think that she would need us in the fall campaign or actually believed her commercial depiction of the electorate as babies readily guided into bed. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The Dems can&#039;t recover. Barack was a resplendent JFK. The personal and racial attacks were sure to come in a general campaign. But to have a white female fellow Democrat slinging calumnies has prepared the nation for when the heavyweight, no condom wearing, straight &lt;a HREF=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ATM&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ATM&lt;/a&gt; Republicans get into the mix. Without such preconditioning by HRC the nation would have probably been repulsed at such a spectacle, the way it was when Bill Clinton first dropped his turds in South Carolina.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;As it stands, Barack is trying to win a bike with a flat tire. By not putting Hillary Rodham Clinton in check, the party elders as well as the Black superdelegates who held steadfast even as HRC&#039;s venom reached toxic levels fractured their party. HRC can&#039;t get the nomination without mass defection and Barack is a once beautiful suit that&#039;s emerged from the dryer after being laundered.  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Needless to say, HRC is finished politically. She can never be a national figure. What she did can&#039;t be undone in the next election cycle four years from now and certainly not within the current one. To openly proclaim the legitimacy of the Republican challenger over Obama has sealed her fate and maybe Barack&#039;s.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;HRC can&#039;t be the nominee because of the immediate exodus which would ensue. She can&#039;t be a VP because of the nature of her attacks. She can&#039;t really throw her support behind Barack without openly marinating in hypocrisy. The scorn she has heaped on Obama and his supporters is irrational to a degree approaching &lt;a HREF=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=8jIuHoQIJRs&amp;feature=related&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Faye Dunaway&#039;s portrayal of Joan Crawford&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Barack would need to craft a political version of Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods in order to win this thing. Chuck Hagel as VP would be a prerequisite for Obama to avoid becoming another Michael Dukakis. Such a bold maneuver could not only help retool and recalibrate the campaign, but revitalize the &lt;a HREF=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbo_Jumbo_%28novel%29&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jes grew&lt;/a&gt; spirit which characterized Obama&#039;s ascent.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Hillary has effectively ended her chance at higher office. Yet I&#039;m at a loss to understand why the leadership allowed her to wreck the party? Al Gore and John Edwards should have thrown their weight behind Obama after February especially when McCain was the presumptive nominee. Howard Dean should have been more vehement about strict adherence to the rules regarding Florida and Michigan. The leadership should have spoken to big money donors and told them to refrain from putting more money into the Clinton campaign, and given off the record comments to superannuated political reporters like Bob Woodward about the futility of a Clinton resurgence. It was as if the owners of the manor just stood by idly as a mad woman defecated in the kitchen without thinking that eventually they would have to eat there. The Dems are dysfunctional.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hillary Rodham Clinton has singlehandedly disabled the Democratic Party for the next eight years. Her husband did a similar thing when he cost the Dems the Congress and later cost Al Gore what should have been a clear path to the White House. It took about ten years for Democrats to recover from the insult.</p>
<p>The Gettysburg moment of February 5 decided the outcome of the primary. Hillary could have continued running an issue oriented campaign. However, she not only attacked Barack on the issues but also his very nature. She cast doubts about Obama&#8217;s religious affiliation, insulted his supporters as deluded fanatics, and in the ultimate act of betrayal, <a HREF="http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2008/03/clinton_ive_crossed_commanderi.html" REL="nofollow">explicitly stated that John McCain is more qualified to be POTUS than Obama</a>. In essence, HRC became the woman who agreed to Solomon&#8217;s solution of cutting a baby in half to settle a custody suit. With such open contempt his supporters could never adopt her. It was almost as if she didn&#8217;t think that she would need us in the fall campaign or actually believed her commercial depiction of the electorate as babies readily guided into bed. </p>
<p>The Dems can&#8217;t recover. Barack was a resplendent JFK. The personal and racial attacks were sure to come in a general campaign. But to have a white female fellow Democrat slinging calumnies has prepared the nation for when the heavyweight, no condom wearing, straight <a HREF="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ATM" REL="nofollow">ATM</a> Republicans get into the mix. Without such preconditioning by HRC the nation would have probably been repulsed at such a spectacle, the way it was when Bill Clinton first dropped his turds in South Carolina.</p>
<p>As it stands, Barack is trying to win a bike with a flat tire. By not putting Hillary Rodham Clinton in check, the party elders as well as the Black superdelegates who held steadfast even as HRC&#8217;s venom reached toxic levels fractured their party. HRC can&#8217;t get the nomination without mass defection and Barack is a once beautiful suit that&#8217;s emerged from the dryer after being laundered.  </p>
<p>Needless to say, HRC is finished politically. She can never be a national figure. What she did can&#8217;t be undone in the next election cycle four years from now and certainly not within the current one. To openly proclaim the legitimacy of the Republican challenger over Obama has sealed her fate and maybe Barack&#8217;s.</p>
<p>HRC can&#8217;t be the nominee because of the immediate exodus which would ensue. She can&#8217;t be a VP because of the nature of her attacks. She can&#8217;t really throw her support behind Barack without openly marinating in hypocrisy. The scorn she has heaped on Obama and his supporters is irrational to a degree approaching <a HREF="http://youtube.com/watch?v=8jIuHoQIJRs&#038;feature=related" REL="nofollow">Faye Dunaway&#8217;s portrayal of Joan Crawford</a>.</p>
<p>Barack would need to craft a political version of Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods in order to win this thing. Chuck Hagel as VP would be a prerequisite for Obama to avoid becoming another Michael Dukakis. Such a bold maneuver could not only help retool and recalibrate the campaign, but revitalize the <a HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbo_Jumbo_%28novel%29" REL="nofollow">jes grew</a> spirit which characterized Obama&#8217;s ascent.</p>
<p>Hillary has effectively ended her chance at higher office. Yet I&#8217;m at a loss to understand why the leadership allowed her to wreck the party? Al Gore and John Edwards should have thrown their weight behind Obama after February especially when McCain was the presumptive nominee. Howard Dean should have been more vehement about strict adherence to the rules regarding Florida and Michigan. The leadership should have spoken to big money donors and told them to refrain from putting more money into the Clinton campaign, and given off the record comments to superannuated political reporters like Bob Woodward about the futility of a Clinton resurgence. It was as if the owners of the manor just stood by idly as a mad woman defecated in the kitchen without thinking that eventually they would have to eat there. The Dems are dysfunctional.</p>
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		<title>By: justice58</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey you guys,&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;This sh%t never ends---look at cheaters in the Texas Caucus:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/07/politics/uwire/main3918175.shtml</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey you guys,</p>
<p>This sh%t never ends&#8212;look at cheaters in the Texas Caucus:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/07/politics/uwire/main3918175.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/07/politics/uwire/main3918175.shtml</a></p>
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		<title>By: Der Vandernder Yid</title>
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		<dc:creator>Der Vandernder Yid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>On a positive note, I&#039;m breaking down why Obama will be the nominee this Fall.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a HREF=&quot;http://underamicroscope.wordpress.com&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://underamicroscope.wordpress.com&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On a positive note, I&#8217;m breaking down why Obama will be the nominee this Fall.</p>
<p><a HREF="http://underamicroscope.wordpress.com" REL="nofollow">http://underamicroscope.wordpress.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hillary has no scruples.  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;As for a ticket with both Obama and Clinton on it...it will not happen.  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;And it would be hugely negative for Obama.  If Obama is at the top of the ticket, then having Hillary undercuts one of his prime arguments of change.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Not to mention that the Clintons could and probably would try to sabotage him at every corner.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The Clintons have a way of ending the political careers of others who associate with them and their scandals.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The only acceptable alternative is Obama at the top of the ticket, and no Hillary. That is the only Democratic party ticket I could ever vote for.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hillary has no scruples.  </p>
<p>As for a ticket with both Obama and Clinton on it&#8230;it will not happen.  </p>
<p>And it would be hugely negative for Obama.  If Obama is at the top of the ticket, then having Hillary undercuts one of his prime arguments of change.</p>
<p>Not to mention that the Clintons could and probably would try to sabotage him at every corner.</p>
<p>The Clintons have a way of ending the political careers of others who associate with them and their scandals.</p>
<p>The only acceptable alternative is Obama at the top of the ticket, and no Hillary. That is the only Democratic party ticket I could ever vote for.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Really sad to see her go.  But you have to let a head roll in a campaign sometimes.  Hopefully she&#039;ll come back in an Obama administration.  I saw her on Charlie Rose (or Democracy Now!, can&#039;t remember), and she was spectacular.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Really sad to see her go.  But you have to let a head roll in a campaign sometimes.  Hopefully she&#8217;ll come back in an Obama administration.  I saw her on Charlie Rose (or Democracy Now!, can&#8217;t remember), and she was spectacular.</p>
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		<title>By: rikyrah</title>
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		<dc:creator>rikyrah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;&#039;m afraid you will be in a minority. Jesse Jackson is waiting in the wings to become the &#039;reconciler&#039; between the Obama and Clinton camps. He was on The News Hours last night setting the stage for his prime-time role at the convention as the man who brings everyone together. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I&#039;ll say it if no one else will ...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;FUCK JESSE.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;He&#039;s as stupid as the rest of them thinking that we&#039;ll, in essence, be Good Little Darkies. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Got news for him. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;No day in hell.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>&#8216;m afraid you will be in a minority. Jesse Jackson is waiting in the wings to become the &#8216;reconciler&#8217; between the Obama and Clinton camps. He was on The News Hours last night setting the stage for his prime-time role at the convention as the man who brings everyone together. <br /></i></p>
<p>I&#8217;ll say it if no one else will &#8230;</p>
<p>FUCK JESSE.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s as stupid as the rest of them thinking that we&#8217;ll, in essence, be Good Little Darkies. </p>
<p>Got news for him. </p>
<p>No day in hell.</p>
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		<title>By: ct</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@webb -&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;A President can FIRE the VP at will.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Yes, Technically he could. But as you can see now, they will make it impossible for him. They&#039;ll trash him non-stop in public and try to blackmail him in private. Before Iowa, I had no problem supporting Hillary if she won the nom. Now, there&#039;s no way in hell. After what Bob Johnson said, she lost my vote forever.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@webb -<br /><i>A President can FIRE the VP at will.</i></p>
<p>Yes, Technically he could. But as you can see now, they will make it impossible for him. They&#8217;ll trash him non-stop in public and try to blackmail him in private. Before Iowa, I had no problem supporting Hillary if she won the nom. Now, there&#8217;s no way in hell. After what Bob Johnson said, she lost my vote forever.</p>
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		<title>By: Webb</title>
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		<dc:creator>Webb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree CT...but here&#039;s the two virtues of an Obama-Clinton ticket:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;1. Peace in the Party&lt;br/&gt;2. If Hill &amp; Bill try to undermine Barack, Barack will have the power to FIRE/DISMISS the Clintons...It&#039;s called insubordination.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A President can FIRE the VP at will.  It&#039;s not unusual...the presidential line of succession will flow from Barack to Nancy Pelosi until a NEW VP can be confirmed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree CT&#8230;but here&#8217;s the two virtues of an Obama-Clinton ticket:</p>
<p>1. Peace in the Party<br />2. If Hill &#038; Bill try to undermine Barack, Barack will have the power to FIRE/DISMISS the Clintons&#8230;It&#8217;s called insubordination.</p>
<p>A President can FIRE the VP at will.  It&#8217;s not unusual&#8230;the presidential line of succession will flow from Barack to Nancy Pelosi until a NEW VP can be confirmed.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Clueless. Hillary is impervious. Dems have inoculated her. Obama is a Democrat. Made by the party. The party comes first and the superdelegates will broker a deal because Hillary will weaken him enough to cause doubt. Obama&#039;s young, he has a future, he will be VP.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clueless. Hillary is impervious. Dems have inoculated her. Obama is a Democrat. Made by the party. The party comes first and the superdelegates will broker a deal because Hillary will weaken him enough to cause doubt. Obama&#8217;s young, he has a future, he will be VP.</p>
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		<title>By: ct</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>anonymous - Fri Mar 07, 05:54:00 PM 2008&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;He can grow the party as VP while Hillary grows the party with Hispanics as President.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Hillary can grow the party alright - THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. &lt;b&gt;SHE CAN&#039;T AND WON&#039;T WIN IN NOVEMBER.&lt;/b&gt; That&#039;s why Rush Limbaugh and the other Right-wing radio creeps told their listeners to vote for Hillary in Texas and Ohio. They know they have a better chance of winning against her. They are also USING her to destroy Obama so he can go down in flames then she can run again in 2012. Case in Point: She&#039;s destroying the Dems by ENDORSING John McCain. I don&#039;t know about you, but I call that TREASON!  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;If Obama excepts the VP slot he&#039;s a fool. All he has to do is remember two words: Al Gore.  I also don&#039;t want Billary as VP. They (yes, Bill and Hillary) will undermine his authority 24/7.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;And for those who keep talking up this stupid &quot;experience&quot; claim, &lt;b&gt;what the hell kind of experience does she have?&lt;/b&gt; Hillary&#039;s my NY Senator and she has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. And if being a co-president is her argument, isn&#039;t that kind of unconstitutional? First Ladies aren&#039;t sworn in. Maybe that&#039;s why she won&#039;t release her RECORDS as to what she was doing when she was WATCHING her husband run the country.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;For those who are interested, Time Magazine has a cover story &quot;How Much Does Experience Matter?&quot; They show a timeline of experienced and inexperiened presidents. Here are a few INEXPERIENCED ones:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Teddy Roosevelt - 2 years as Gov., 1 year as VP.&lt;br/&gt;Woodrow Wilson - 2 years as Gov.&lt;br/&gt;FDR - 2 years as State Leigslator, 4 years as Gov.&lt;br/&gt;Eisenhower - 1 year as Army General&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;They turned out to be OK presidents, don&#039;t you think?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;This country needs a serious change and Hillary ain&#039;t it. In the times we&#039;re living in we can&#039;t afford to settle for an OK president who will slavishly turns to opinion polls to make crucial decisions. We need a GREAT president who makes sound judgements based on his intellect and his ability to listen to all sides of very tough issues. Hillary makes me feel like a consumer. She&#039;s trying to sell me on all of her promises and plans she won&#039;t pass because she&#039;ll demonize anyone in Congress that&#039;ll get in her way. With Barack I feel like a citizen. He is actually challenging us to become better. When have you heard that from a politican? I&#039;m a Black woman so I can say this, the only woman Hillary wants to help is herself. And I&#039;m sick of her pandering. Is she running for President for women ONLY? Barack is talking about issues that affect ALL AMERICANS. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;That&#039;s what I want in a President. Not Vice President. Not Senate Majority Leader.  Not Illinois Governor. &lt;b&gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/b&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>anonymous &#8211; Fri Mar 07, 05:54:00 PM 2008<br /><i>He can grow the party as VP while Hillary grows the party with Hispanics as President.</i></p>
<p>Hillary can grow the party alright &#8211; THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. <b>SHE CAN&#8217;T AND WON&#8217;T WIN IN NOVEMBER.</b> That&#8217;s why Rush Limbaugh and the other Right-wing radio creeps told their listeners to vote for Hillary in Texas and Ohio. They know they have a better chance of winning against her. They are also USING her to destroy Obama so he can go down in flames then she can run again in 2012. Case in Point: She&#8217;s destroying the Dems by ENDORSING John McCain. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I call that TREASON!  </p>
<p>If Obama excepts the VP slot he&#8217;s a fool. All he has to do is remember two words: Al Gore.  I also don&#8217;t want Billary as VP. They (yes, Bill and Hillary) will undermine his authority 24/7.</p>
<p>And for those who keep talking up this stupid &#8220;experience&#8221; claim, <b>what the hell kind of experience does she have?</b> Hillary&#8217;s my NY Senator and she has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. And if being a co-president is her argument, isn&#8217;t that kind of unconstitutional? First Ladies aren&#8217;t sworn in. Maybe that&#8217;s why she won&#8217;t release her RECORDS as to what she was doing when she was WATCHING her husband run the country.</p>
<p>For those who are interested, Time Magazine has a cover story &#8220;How Much Does Experience Matter?&#8221; They show a timeline of experienced and inexperiened presidents. Here are a few INEXPERIENCED ones:</p>
<p>Teddy Roosevelt &#8211; 2 years as Gov., 1 year as VP.<br />Woodrow Wilson &#8211; 2 years as Gov.<br />FDR &#8211; 2 years as State Leigslator, 4 years as Gov.<br />Eisenhower &#8211; 1 year as Army General</p>
<p>They turned out to be OK presidents, don&#8217;t you think?</p>
<p>This country needs a serious change and Hillary ain&#8217;t it. In the times we&#8217;re living in we can&#8217;t afford to settle for an OK president who will slavishly turns to opinion polls to make crucial decisions. We need a GREAT president who makes sound judgements based on his intellect and his ability to listen to all sides of very tough issues. Hillary makes me feel like a consumer. She&#8217;s trying to sell me on all of her promises and plans she won&#8217;t pass because she&#8217;ll demonize anyone in Congress that&#8217;ll get in her way. With Barack I feel like a citizen. He is actually challenging us to become better. When have you heard that from a politican? I&#8217;m a Black woman so I can say this, the only woman Hillary wants to help is herself. And I&#8217;m sick of her pandering. Is she running for President for women ONLY? Barack is talking about issues that affect ALL AMERICANS. </p>
<p>That&#8217;s what I want in a President. Not Vice President. Not Senate Majority Leader.  Not Illinois Governor. <b>President Barack Obama</b></p>
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