Treading bitterly toward the 3rd term of George W Bush...

[kentuck]

My advice to all DUers would be to tread softly on the present ground. Everybody wants to win. Bill Clinton misspoke again. Hillary sniper fire. Hillary and McCain attack Obama. Obama says Americans are bitter. Obama is "uppity". There is a pattern here, if we choose to look more closely.

The Democrats are being divided by the media and the Republican attack machine. Some Democrats are joining in the attack, to the detriment of themselves and the rest of the Party. They are opening the gate for a third term for George W Bush in the person of John McCain.

Open your eyes people. You are being used. It is true that politics can make strage bedfellows but beware of who you go to bed with. You may wake up with buyer's remorse. And worse...

[Saturday]

1. Interesting how we're being "used" when Obama makes the gaffe, isn't it? nt

[kentuck]

2. If you have noticed, it is not just Obama's "gaffe"...

It is Hillary's gaffes, and Bill's gaffes, and Hillary's gaffes again. And if McCain makes a gaffe, someone whispers in his ear so he can correct it and all is forgotten. There is not equality in the "gaffes". Therein is the danger.

[Saturday]

9. Were you on the pots and pans bandwagon yesterday?

Or did you come to the defense of those who wanted true and not biased media coverage? Were you silent then because it was Clinton in the spotlight? Weren't we being used then? Now, all of a sudden we're being used because it is Obama making the gaffe. Your mirror is cloudy.

[kentuck]

10. But it is clear today...

As to your question, I have not been one of those that attack Hillary unmercifully. I think we should all beware the direction we are headed. I can recall the last eight years on DU. Most people here have been very bitter about what happened in 2000 and 2004. Now, some of those same people are acting like hypocrites...bitter hypocrites.

[screembloodymurder]

5. You've proven his point

In spades.

[Window]

6. Yes. You can count on it. Sad, but true.

[tekisui]

3. Strange bedfellows indeed. McCain and Clinton

are practically spooning with coordinated attacks on Obama. Almost like their strategists/lobbyists are connected....

[screembloodymurder]

4. Great post.

We are being goaded into attacking each other over the meaning of a single word.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. Yes that is exactly what is happening and we being played.

Keep it up folks. Keep catapulting the propaganda.

[EFerrari]

8. It's so easy to just step right into the manipulation. Good point. n/t

[IndyHatedByBothSides]

11. I've generally been an Obama supporter...

...but he deserves all the heat he's taking for this gaffe. Yes, many of us rural folk own guns, it's our constitutional right to do so, and sometimes in rural areas they are needed. Obama just gave New Hampshire to McCain.

[kentuck]

12. He never said he was going to take your guns...

You might try thinking outside that little red box?

[IndyHatedByBothSides]

13. Google "Canada" "Liberal" and "beer and popcorn"

Sorry for the reference to Canadian politics, but it was a "beer and popcorn" moment for Obama. He comes across as the stereotypical political big-city slicker looking down on us rural folk. Not good.

[Berry Cool]

14. Not to me. He came across as telling the truth about what your life is like.

Or at least what life is like for many rural people. And that it shouldn't have to be that way. And he sympathizes with you. And he wants to do something to change it.