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sampsonblk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-01-08 02:54 PM
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Analysis: Obama's sole focus is general election (AP)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - It's Barack Obama's party now. He beat the ultimate insider at the insider's game. And he's already turned his full-bore attention to the general election contest against Republican John McCain.

During a weekend in which Hillary Rodham Clinton mounted a likely last hurrah in Puerto Rico and national Democrats resolved the sticky issue of seating Florida and Michigan delegates under a formula favorable to Obama, the Illinois senator took a series of bold steps to signal his focus was riveted on the fall campaign...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080601/ap_on_el_pr/obama_s_party_now
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-01-08 02:58 PM
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1. Oooh! They get +2 creativity points for how they describe "racist"!
:rofl:

"Obama has to deal with the issue of white working-class reservations about him, highly social conservative attitudes," said Andrew Kohut, president of the independent Pew Research Center."

:rofl:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-01-08 03:02 PM
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2. There goes the Klan vote.
They call the pastors' comments racial and inflammatory but those out and out racist pigs are "social conservative"?

:wtf:
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-01-08 03:03 PM
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3. IOKIYW
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sampsonblk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-01-08 03:38 PM
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4. I second that!-nt
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