Campaign 2008

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

That was a real crackerjack retort there.

 

Thanks!

 

haha Nader

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

Plus, Obama has no real legislative accomplishments that stand out since being elected to Congress.

 

Nuclear Proliferation:

Obama and Lugar co-sponsored legislation expanding the Nunn-Lugar framework (which basically allows the US to fund the destruction or securing of nuclear weapons in other countries) to deal with conventional arms.

 

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wi...rack_obama.html

 

Our bill would launch a major nonproliferation initiative by addressing the growing threat from unsecured conventional weapons and by bolstering a key line of defense against weapons of mass destruction. Modeled after the successful Nunn-Lugar program to dismantle former Soviet nuclear weapons, the Lugar-Obama bill would seek to build cooperative relationships with willing countries.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...5120201509.html

 

Avian Flu:

Obama was one of the first Senators to speak out on avian flu, back in the spring of 2005, when it was a quintessentially wonky issue, not the subject of breathless news reports...on avian flu...Obama [showed] up early and often. He has sponsored legislation, including...the first bill dedicated to pandemic flu preparedness. It's a good bill, providing not just for vaccine research and antiviral stockpiles, but for the kinds of state and local planning and preparedness that will be crucial if a pandemic occurs.

 

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wi...rack_obama.html

 

Regulating Genetic Testing

 

So imagine this: you know that you and your spouse are at risk for carrying this disease. You both get tested; neither is a carrier. You give birth to an apparently healthy child. But after a few months, the child you love stops developing normally, and it turns out that both your test and your spouses were misinterpreted, or screwed up, or whatever, and as a result your child is going to die a horrible death by the age of four. Oops!

 

In your copious free time, you can think of more cases in which screwing up a genetic test would be disastrous. After you get through with the cases involving children and inherited diseases, consider the effects of misreading a genetic test and informing a man that he is not the father of his child when in fact he is. The possibilities are endless.

 

[Obama] has introduced legislation that addresses this problem.

 

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wi...rack_obama.html

 

Reducing medical malpractice suits

 

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton teamed up to introduce legislation aimed at helping hospitals to develop programs for disclosure of medical errors...Again, I think it's good policy: this really is what the evidence suggests is the best way to reduce malpractice claims, and it does it without curtailing the rights of people who have already been injured through no fault of their own. Moreover, when people feel free to discuss their errors, they are much more likely to figure out ways to avoid repeating them. (The legislation provides support for this.)

 

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wi...rack_obama.html

 

Also, Obama has worked on bills dealing with:

 

-"health care for hybrids" bill

-energy security bill

-Hurricane Katrina relief, including ban on no bid FEMA contracts

-public database on all federal spending & contracts

-CAFE standards

-veteran's health care

-voter intimidation

-lobbying reform

-ethics oversight

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All those emails I got didn't mention those!

 

 

[BUTT 0]

Something tells me that when Ralph loses this election to Obama he won't complain that he "felt like a nigger" like he did last time.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

I hate Martin O'Malley

 

If he manages to get away with this, I am moving to Delaware or some other non retarded state that doesnt believe they can stop global warming on a state level.

[Guest Vitamin X]

in addition to all that, one of the big reasons I support Obama is because he's the only candidate who's advocated the use and care of bicycling as a valid urban commuting option, and something that should be far more important when building traffic infrastructure within cities. This may seem like more of a civic thing than a federal-level thing, but it helps tremendously to have a lot of federal support for cyclists on that level. He's big on keeping the net deregulated as well, the only candidate left to do so. Tech and bike support, in addition to all the things smitty listed (some of which I didn't know) is why I support him.

[Dobbs 3K 0]

OMG he really is Muslim!

 

http://drudgereport.com/flashoa.htm

 

Seriously, do they think this is going to help at all?

[Guest Michael Myers Resplendent]

I think he's just cosplaying as a shopkeeper from Secret of Mana.

 

Hey Dobbs, how did YOU of all people join the Obama cult?

[bobobrazil1984 0]

OMG he really is Muslim!

 

http://drudgereport.com/flashoa.htm

 

Seriously, do they think this is going to help at all?

 

It's not going to help the Clintons, but its going to hurt in the general. there are huge swaths of people who believe (because they "heard" it) that he is Muslim, and that he didnt want to raise his hand to his chest for the pledge alliegance because of his muslim religious beliefs. It seems stupid to "informed" people, but people don't follow politics as closely as internet political discussion people and really think he is and would be surprised to hear he was christian.

[EricMM 0]

I think he's just cosplaying as a shopkeeper from Secret of Mana.

 

Hey Dobbs, how did YOU of all people join the Obama cult?

 

Damn you Czech, damn you to hell.

 

I read your comment, clicked to open the picture, answered the phone at work, looked at the loaded page, and almost died laughing. I just imagine him doing the shopkeeper dance...

 

The guy hung up...hopefully he had a wrong number...

[EricMM 0]

I hate Martin O'Malley

 

If he manages to get away with this, I am moving to Delaware or some other non retarded state that doesnt believe they can stop global warming on a state level.

Hey Marvin you suck and you're wrong. PLEASE get the fuck out of my state. The more states that enact this kind of thing the closer we'll be to a national plan.

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Glen Beck Conservatism: Spending money for the good of Americans is Evil Liberalism, but spending 100x that much on Iraq & a dislike for Mexican people is Patriotic.

 

 

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OMG he really is Muslim!

 

http://drudgereport.com/flashoa.htm

 

Seriously, do they think this is going to help at all?

 

Czech, you were right. She will make a much more sane, level-headed, and thoughtful leader than B. Hussein and His Lemming Brigade.

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/020...ays_Drudge.html

 

Hahaha, she's now blaming Obama for the email. Day One!

[EricMM 0]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh you cannot be serious. Cannot.

[Guest Michael Myers Resplendent]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/24/h...ar_n_88194.html

 

Haha, look at that. She nailed it, right down to gazing heavenward as if Jesus is running the teleprompter. From one former Park Ridger to another, you're a dynamite gal, Hillary. Don't let anyone ever try to tell you otherwise.

[The Niggardly King 0]

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Ready on Day One to be mindlessly erratic, make the worst decisions possible on foreign policy, and do terrible impressions!

[Brett Favre 0]

I want to see Obama win both Texas and Ohio to see how that crazy Hillary reacts. What will she do next?

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

I hate Martin O'Malley

 

If he manages to get away with this, I am moving to Delaware or some other non retarded state that doesnt believe they can stop global warming on a state level.

Hey Marvin you suck and you're wrong. PLEASE get the fuck out of my state. The more states that enact this kind of thing the closer we'll be to a national plan.

 

 

Well..thats the thing..we dont need a national plan either. But hey..you believe what you want. But the last time I checked, its global warming...er wait....now its a Climate Crisis? OK.. And you know what, Maryland tried the same thing in the 1990's to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and the latest report put a # of 28/100 on the health of the bay despite millions of dollars of money spent and various new laws inacted to improve the bay. Maryland cant even clean up something that IS their problem and they want to spend even more to try and clean up something that isn't just their problem?

[The Niggardly King 0]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/24/h...ar_n_88194.html

 

Haha, look at that. She nailed it, right down to gazing heavenward as if Jesus is running the teleprompter. From one former Park Ridger to another, you're a dynamite gal, Hillary. Don't let anyone ever try to tell you otherwise.

 

this is why we don't need no stinkin' cunt running thangs. One minute everything is cool and the next she's going crazy, foaming like she took alka seltzer without the water

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Doesn't that mean we need to spend MUCH more money on it then, Marvin? Like with Iraq, drugs, and the border when spending billions just wasn't enough.

[Brett Favre 0]

Hillary Clinton: This will be darn near impossible to fix! Have no hope! *Crowd cheers!!!!!*

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She's going to show America that we need a president able to cry on Day One of a crisis.

[Atticus Chaos 0]

RE: Obama's staunch pro choice record, I think there is this general perception that if you give the republicans an inch they'll take a mile. Partial Birth abortions are horrific, undoubtedly, but they only make up something like 0.2% of all abortions in the US, no woman chooses to have that procedure unless she absolutely feels she has to. If the numbers are so small, why ban it? Unless it is the first step to banning abortion altogether, which was how a lot of people saw it. Same goes with the born alive infant act he voted against.

 

 

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Hilary is slowly becoming the Ross Perot of the Democratic Party. She just needs to go on Larry King Live and announce she's dropping out then in the same sentence announce she's going to push harder than ever to win.

[Dobbs 3K 0]

I think he's just cosplaying as a shopkeeper from Secret of Mana.

 

Hey Dobbs, how did YOU of all people join the Obama cult?

 

I've never even played Secret of Mana, but he does kind of look like an RPG character there.

 

As for how I joined the cult, I heard the word "change" enough times that I was hypnotized and bought into it. I probably would have gone for Ron Paul, but I haven't really been obsessed with Star Wars that much ever since I got out of high school.

 

You have to realize that I'm not as conservative as some of you would think. I voted for Kerry in '04 and Gore in '00. I'm pretty mad about where this country has gone in the last 8 years, as I'm sure many Americans are. I'm sure not going to vote for McCain, as there would be no point to it...we should just make Bush dictator for life rather than electing McCain, because his policies, especially in Iraq, are basically the same. Why take an older, staler immitation when you can just have the real thing?

 

As for Hillary...I just think she would be more of the same. I firmly believe she'll say anything to any group to get elected. I mean, I don't have a source for this story, but I heard she was once speaking to a group of Jewish voters during her Senate campaign in New York and claimed that she has some distant Jewish ancestry. I mean, that may be true, but how much pandering can one person give out before people just choke on it? Also, way down on my list of concerns would be the fact that electing her would ensure two families basically ruling this country for almost a quarter of a century. I'm not that leary of that, but it's definitely not necessarily a great thing for any democracy.

 

That basically leaves me with Obama. Maybe I'm naive, but I believe he actually will make some positive changes for this country, if elected. I don't agree with him on all his positions, but there's enough in his ideas that I think have substance.

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

I think he's just cosplaying as a shopkeeper from Secret of Mana.

 

Weren't the shopkeepers in Secret of Mana rabbits or something?

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

Top Republican strategists are working on plans to protect the GOP from charges of racism or sexism in the general election, as they prepare for a presidential campaign against the first ever African-American or female Democratic nominee.

 

The Republican National Committee has commissioned polling and focus groups to determine the boundaries of attacking a minority or female candidate, according to people involved. The secretive effort underscores the enormous risk senior GOP operatives see for a party often criticized for its insensitivity to minorities in campaigns dating back to the 1960s.

 

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8659.html

[Atticus Chaos 0]

These are the same people that tarnished a well respected war veteran's record. They've never heard of tact.