Yaaay!

(Not to mention - unless your wealth is in base metals or Euros, you should keep a close eye on it. Most other forms of wealth are evaporating rapidly right now).

No, the only thing I truly value is reading comprehension. I'll pay any tax for a government that will teach people like you to read.

Thank you

I've got a lot of work to do killing age old pseudo-memes and don't have time to do grunt work.

I struggle to pay for drugs, I know people who struggle to pay for transportation to and from jobs that are constantly teetering on the brink... and the questions we ask of presidential candidates are about accessories? ABC is just lucky I can't sue them to get the two hours of my life back.

I'm glad Obama didn't jump over the podium and clock the moderators. Good lord.

The Obama supporter view seems no longer to be: "he's a master at this game -- he will sweep 350 electoral colelge votes and change politics forever !! [heave, pant, faces blushing in anticipation]."

Nope, now it's "screw all those dumbass voters who care if he had a fundraiser with a guy who wanted to bomb Aemrica more and said so after 9-11! Screw all those dumbass voters who get into flag pins!! The media is unfair, the bvoters are too dumb, hey if they want to make this process be about stupid silly nonissues then too bad for them if they don't elect Barack Obama!1"

Because clearly he's on the path to lose the general election.

At the debate Obama all the polls show he has a better chance against McCain.

What a fibber.

It's basically a tie if you look at the margin of error and the average of polls on the respective head to heads nationally.

And we know the general electoin turns on electoral college votes.

Here's real clear politics -- these are averages of other polls showing Obama and Clinton against McCain:
Pennsylvania Obama +2.2 Clinton +6.2 -- that is Clinton does 4 points better. Clinton's mopre electable in PA NOT OBAMA.

Ohio McCain +5.2 Clinton +2.8
Clinton does 8 points better.
OBAMA LOSES OHIO. That's not a poll showing he's more electable, in fact a 5 point lead is pretty good and an 8 poitn spread shows Clinton is FAR MORE ELECTABLE.

Florida McCain +11.7 McCain +0.3

Wow. Crash and burn disaster. This would be the kind of loss that puts Florida out of our reach for 20 years. Obama is crushed by nearly 12 points.

(Guess all htose millions of Democrats read about how he wants to deny them representation at the convention. What a stupid, losing position for him to take!)

So bottom line on these tidbits of info is Obama loses 2 of 3 key swing states-- normally this means we DEMOCRATS LOSE the presidency. Again.

Because why?

Because Obama and his supports have disdain for the process, the media, and the people who do actually care about hanging out with a terrorist who wanted to bomb America more, who care about not wearing a flag pin and who care about a 20 year relationship with a pasotr who teaches God Damn America.

McGovern, Dukakis, Gore and Kerry and Mondale and yes, Humphrey all got clobbered over these "social issues" or "cultural liberalism" or what not.
So these "trivial" issues in fact are what decide elections.

Crying about what moves swing voters and decides elections is arrogant and disdainful. It does not predict nor help win the election.

Adlai Stevenson with charm still is still Adlai Stevenson.
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Okay, ally ally in come free, back into the bubble!

Jebus. Jebus. Jebus.

Saxamaphone, saxamaphone. To beer, the cause of, and solution to, most of life's problems. Eat my shorts.

Jebus.

Because Obama and his supports have disdain for the process, "

Yes, damn him for continually saying he supports whatever the party wants to do, and thinking he should win simply because he has more delegeates, more states, and a higher popular vote... what kind of wacky vote-based party does he think this is? Some kind of "democratic" party???

The electoral process in this country has never seemed more inane. From the astronomical sums of money neccessary to run the campaigns too the mind-numbingly long campaign season, its not a wonder that stupid faux controversies rule the day.

He is over. Finished. Finito. Done. You know it in your heart of heart's. Hils at this in the bag weeks ago. Soon you will be sitting comfortably at home, and hear the click-click of Manolo's, and the ringing of your doorbell. She's coming for you, so you better hide.

The Hollywood elites don't make money off of popcorn.

@29,

Your shtick is getting old.

fluteprof: Stop telling people what they feel in their "heart of heart's" [sic]. If you have some information that the rest of don't, then cite your sources.

#29, your continued obsession with the idea that HRC has it locked up is fucking comical. Weren't you going to put your rebate check up against Bellevue Ave? Why don't you go put your life savings into HRC on Intrade, where she's selling at %18? What's that? It's because you're full of shit?

Seriously, if you think HRC has it locked up, you will make 4:1 on your investment on Intrade. Let us know when you buy in.

As for the general election, again, nobody except a few million hardcore voters watched this (and not even all of us--I only saw the highlights after the fact, and realized that it wasn't worth taking the trouble to seek out the video). That leaves only the potential value of these issues to smear Obama in TV ads in the fall. But that would have happened anyway.

So there's no reason for Obama supporters to despair or Clinton and McCain supporters to crow with glee. We should all despair that our media have degraded to this level, regardless of which candidate we support, but that's not going to affect the outcome of this election.