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To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (112210)	3/14/2008 8:33:46 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

FF The attraction of Obama vs. McCain or Billary is simple: He sounds like a fairly nice guy without too many dead bodies in the trunk. McCain looks and sounds like a guy that will go postal any second. Billary looks and sounds like in a bitch in menopause getting hot flashes and is addition is just too downright freakin' desperate. She is scarier to me than McCain and McCain looks like an oven feeder from Treblinka.

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (112210)	3/14/2008 9:43:35 PM
From: Kerry Phineas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

In a period when the nation needs strong leadership we have 3 top candidates who are coming in with significant liabilities. I see what you are saying about Obama. In the general election, being black will become a huge liability. Being female less so. To get elected, Obama would have to go after some of the star black politicos like Jesse, Sharpton, etc. If he is the dem, I bet its one of the first things he does.

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (112210)	3/14/2008 10:19:56 PM
From: Kerry Phineas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

(Kerry shaking his head.) "Women," he says, then rolls his eyes. "You know, with Hillary in the White House, Al Quaeda will be joined by the rest of the civilized world in a mad rush to blow up anything of interest in the United States. Hillary would then call a focus group." Sitting in his favorite chair and ignoring his girlfriend as she tries to discuss (something?), Kerry then adjusts his boys. He sips his beer. "Women. I wish Spitzer would give me $5,000.00" (Thank you very much. I'm here all week!!!)

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (112210)	3/15/2008 8:47:32 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

Obama is where he is, positively, because he won Iowa, where a full 1% of the electorate is African American and 92% are non-hispanic white. That earned him the label of serious front runner, which his organizational, speaking and money raising skills have parlayed into winning or holding close in other states. Being black has never helped any other candidate to become front runner and it is certainly an impediment for Obama. Everyone seems to forget the early polls where Hillary led among African Americans and Obama was not considered "black enough." I remember one black woman on tv who said that Obama was not African American because of his melting pot background and that blacks shouldn't back him. Hillary is where she is because she is bright and determined, has a long organizational history and is the wife of a popular former President. The fact that she gives as good as she gets with misogynist right wing critics has also made her popular with Democrats, but means her presence on the ballot rallies the knuckle draggers to the polls to defeat her at any cost. It also helped that Rudy Giuliani got cancer and whorehouse fever before their senate race. (Must be something in the water in New York) Being a strong woman has hurt her with white males and conservative Democrats. A white male with Hillary's resume would have locked up the race by now. A white male with Obama's resume would have locked up the race by now. The only reason McCain has any chance whatsover is because Hillary is a woman and Obama is black.