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REDFISHBLUEFISH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 10:26 AM
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Media hype and bias did not win it for Obama again last night! Hillary beat the hawks!
MSNBC was upset last night, CNN took a spanking. The media who to me seem to want to force Obama down our throats so they get the real big story for the fall, McCain beats Obama the country is still racist. The media knows full well about Obama's record, inconsistent claims, untrue claim to a "positive message " that is laced with attacks on Clinton and Rezko TYPE ties that are not getting covered. Yet they crown him as electable even before his issues and past are slandered, pointed out and used like a club by the Republicans. Their is ample subject matter for Republicans to "discover" in time for the general. I swear in 2004 I thought MSNBC and CNN was wanting Bush to win and in 2008 it appears they like McCain. They are already dubbing him a Maverick and a favorite among the center. I for one am glad the media lost last night, It is about time we took our country back from them.

HILLARY 08!
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 10:30 AM
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1. Obama won more delegates and more states last night...
so I guess I don't get your reasoning here.

Also, for what it's worth, I think Obama's the better candidate to go against McCain, for several reasons. First, conservatives don't much care for McCain. A McCain nomination could disenfranchise a lot of them -- but if Hillary is our nominee, count on their inexplicable loathing of the Clintons to put them back in the voting booth. Second, Obama has already been shown to draw a lot of independents and a few moderate Republicans -- which means that Obama can steal votes from McCain in the general. If you what to talk about the campaign on a pure politics level, I think Obama's the best choice of the two Democratic contenders.
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Saturday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 10:32 AM
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3. Yea, that big state win in Alaska. 400 people voted. lol n/t
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 10:54 AM
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6. Hey laugh if you want (and, yeah, it's kinda funny), but...
those 400 people translate to 18 delegates. It's not a lot, but every little bit helps.

Also, Obama won 13 states to Hillary's 7, so it's not as if Alaska was the deciding factor there.


Anyway, I gotta say, more power to those 400 people, regardless of how they voted -- you try getting to the polls in Alaska in February, eh?
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Saturday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 10:31 AM
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2. Did you see Terry McAuliffe give it to Matthews last night?
Ass Matthews laughed and called it "flackery".
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 10:37 AM
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4. I saw that.
It was great!

Tweety's eyes betrayed his mockery of McAuliffe.

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sunonmars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 10:39 AM
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5. The best bit was the hand wringing over California

They pushed poll after poll for 3 days before California, saying Obama would win California and what happened, they were all wrong again, she crammed it down their throat.

The same with Mass. She made them look stupid.
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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 11:14 AM
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9. No kidding. They were practically getting on their knees pleading w/people to vote for Obama
They knew if they gave voters the illusion that Obama was so close in CA that the voters might fall for it and jump on the band wagon. Instead, the voters thumbed their noses at the media and boarded Hillary's bus.

People are finally waking up to the Republican media and what they're up to, at least the people outside of LaLa Land are waking up.
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 11:08 AM
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7. Well, after a year of having Hillary Clinton...
jammed down my throat as the assumed nominee, it's refreshing to have a taste of something else....
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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 11:10 AM
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8. K&R
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MoonRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 11:20 AM
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10. They want a bought and sold Republican. This time it's McCain.
Edited on Wed Feb-06-08 11:23 AM by MyPetRock
Last time it was *. Corporate media powers that be don't want to risk having a Democrat in the WH. The faux love and admiration for Obama by Morning Joe and his obedient sidekick Mika is pathetically transparent.

Maybe Americans really are stupid enough to fall for this con. I hope not, and yesterday's results make me hopeful the media has played this hand one too many times. But if we do fall for it, for the upteenth time, like lemmings heading for the cliff, we deserve President McCain.
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