We are an African people and remain true to our native land, the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. Obama is the leader for real hope and real change.

Posted by: ja'quavius | April 22, 2008 12:48 PM

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This is good! This is so good you just gave HRC a big boost! Thank You!!! I new he was a true Muslim! You could not have said it better!

I think I'll skip reading this comment board from now on. It's too often full of venom and unsubstantiated information passed off as truth.
I do want to sign off with some actual truth. Bill Clinton was responsible for NAFTA which resulted in a huge U.S. job loss and Hillary not only attended meetings about it but also thought it would help this country. I was raised in a blue collar home and am now married to a gun-owning blue collar worker and we weren't offended by Obama's remarks about PA. But then we actually bothered to check the details and context instead of going by the sound bites presented to us by the media. And THAT'S truth.

Today, Mr. Stumped is spot on, except for his slighting national Kennedys in favor of regional Rooneys.

Layla can be assured, if she moves to DC, she'll learn to love politics, Dr. Strangelove style.

hey jacksmith, you sound very well informed and it appears you have all the required facts.

You are forgetting one key fact, first lady is not = president. A lot of the things you are saying are actually things that happened in the BILL CLINTON era. HILLARY MARRIED CLINTON she is not BILL CLINTON. If Bill and Hillary are a normal couple then a lot of the qualities that make BILL a good president may be absent in Hillary.

Well America should vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton with no expectattions of a CLINTON miracle.

The CLINTON MIRACLE is very popular esp the economic one. However anybody who know's anything about the economics will give some credit to Alan Greenspan who happens to be a relic from the prior George H.W. Bush.

A president is just as good as the people who he elects to work with. Bill Clinton had a great team and managed them superbly.

I AM NOT CONVINCED THAT HILLARY CAN DO THAT. HER CAMPAIGN SO FAR HAS NOT PROVEN THAT.

>> Kevin99999 wrote: "Why do all the idiot and sleazy commentators end up at Washington Post."

These are, alas, the voices of the Obama supporters. They sound like a bunch of vile, verbally abusive and foul mouthed hate speech mongers. What is hilarious is when they talk that way and then mock Clinton supporters for being lower-class voters and uneducated.

It's funny how liberal elites and post-graduate degreed Obama supporters fall into trash-talking, tribal, street people when they think they are being anonymous.

These are NOT the people you want to stop in at a bar and throw down a shot and a beer with. I wouldn't leave my thesis laying around them, either. You'd find it published under someone else's name in the next month.

Academics and left-wingers can be the most shrill, immature and venemous screamers. The left-wing blogosphere is filled with shrill voices of irrational Obama-cult people spitting poison, as if they are deranged.

Obama supporters are so shrill, irrational and verbally abusive, they make Maureen Dowd sound like a romantically satisfied, personally fulfilled and stable woman.

>> Kevin99999 wrote: "Why do all the idiot and sleazy commentators end up at Washington Post."

These are, alas, the voices of the Obama supporters. They sound like a bunch of vile, verbally abusive and foul mouthed hate speech mongers. What is hilarious is when they talk that way and then mock Clinton supporters for being lower-class voters and uneducated.

It's funny how liberal elites and post-graduate degreed Obama supporters fall into trash-talking, tribal, street people when they think they are being anonymous.

These are NOT the people you want to stop in at a bar and throw down a shot and a beer with. I wouldn't leave my thesis laying around them, either. You'd find it published under someone else's name in the next month.

Academics and left-wingers can be the most shrill, immature and venemous screamers. The left-wing blogosphere is filled with shrill voices of irrational Obama-cult people spitting poison, as if they are deranged.

Obama supporters are so shrill, irrational and verbally abusive, they make Maureen Dowd sound like a sexually satisfied, fulfilled and stable woman.

Mark Penn didn't quit in disgrace. He still works for the campaign.

I never have to get past the first 2 sentences of this column to think, geez, what an A$$ this guy is!

Go cash your check from the Obama campaign and buy your guy some waffles. Just don't ask any real questions while he's eating!

iam sur that hellary is black inside,but obama is blond in side

jacksmith and GRACE may need to get some new meds...they seem a bit unhinged...

Why do all the idiot and sleazy commentators end up at Washington Post.

Do you really feel you have presented an accurate description of Colombia? Does it bother you that paramilitary death squads seem to be linked to the highest levels of the Uribe government? That some 17 trade unionists have been murdered in the first three months of this year alone? Does that square with your claim that this is a country that is an "adherent to market economics and democratic norms?" I thank the US Congress and Speaker Pelosi for taking the concerns of Human Rights Watch and others seriously. Who cares how this makes Chavez look? That's the same sort of corrupt morality that led us to defend the murderous governments of El Salvador or Chile just because they were "on our side" in some geopolitical calculation. Maybe you should, you know, present facts accurately if you are going to hold yourself out as some sort of expert on politics.

Nice one-sided pro-Columbian trade presentation by Stumped. No mention AT ALL of the fact that Columbia has the highest murder rate among people trying to organize labor unions, OR the fact that the president's brother is intimately connected with the rightwing paramilitary gangs that commit the murders of these trade unionists.

It's a little thing that kind of gave the "cynical" Speaker Pelosi some pause. It also gives pause to most people who have values that extend beyond the bottom line of the large corporations that want to offshore themselves to Columbia. But hey, why mention that the folks upset about the proposed trade deal with Columbia are basically FIGHTING TERRORISM. That word has been co-opted for sole use by the neocon types who now run the Post.

Stump blows it.

People want us to count 35 years of what Clinton experience, beings a first lady for more than half the time? How have so many with great experience have utterly failed? Why is Obama where he is with no experience, majority of all American people are backing him, why? How come, with no prior experience, is he running better political campaign ever, isn't that much itself sufficient to judge his abilities?

RE: Coffee talk in DC...
You forgot to mention the METRO service vs METRO cost debate, the odds of sitting in beltway traffic for 10 hours in a given week, property taxes and home values, banning halloween and kickball in schools, and a myriad of other exciting local issues, especially the bathroom needs of local politicians.

RE: You might be an idiot - You make a very good case for re-electing Bill Clinton. Too bad he's not been able to find a viable loophole...or, has he? PS - I have every reason to believe you actually ARE an idiot.

PRESIDENT BUSH WAS THE WORST PRESIDENT NOW OBAMA REMIND US OF BUSH. HE IS THE WORST PRESEDENTIAL DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE. JUST COUNT FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN VOTES AND CALL IT A DAY.

CLINTON IS THE DAVID AND OBAMA IS THE GOLIATH.OBAMA SPENT $20 MILLION JUST TO LOSE THE COSTLIEST PRIMARY IN HISTORY. MORAL OF THE STORY IS YOU CAN'T BUY VOTES.

OBAMA WAS BOUGHT AND PAID FOR YEARS AGO BY AUCHI, REZKO, OPRAH,KENNEDY, AL GORE, PELOSI AND GEORGE SOROS TO BE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR DICK CHENEY'S ENERGY BILL. THE DNC WANTED A 50 STATE PRIMARY TO BRING OUT NEW REGISTERED DEM VOTERS.
COAL OR SHALE OR MOUNTAINTOP MINING CAN BE VERY LUCRATIVE IN MONTANA, S.D.,N.D. IDAHO, COLORADO, & PENNSYLVANIA.
6 RED STATES GOVERNORS GOT TOGETHER WITH NANCY PELOSI AND SAID WE WILL GET DEMS THE HOUSE AND SENATE BUT YOU MUST GET US DICK CHENEY'S ENERGY BILL PASSED. TOGETHER WE WILL GET THE SENATE AND CONGRESS MAJORITY TOGETHER. NANCY PELOSI- 60 IN THE CONGRESS AND HARRY REID- 20 MORE DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE.

1. TO GET THE SAME TAX BREAKS THAT OIL COMPANIES GET.
2.WITH OIL GOING TOWARDS $120 A BARREL THIS STRIP MINING CAN BE LUCRATIVE BUT RELEASES AND IS COSTLY.
3. GORE HAS A CLEAN COAL DICK CHENEY ENERGY BILL SIGNED BY OBAMA. IT REQUIRES ELECTRICITY TO BE PRODUCED 20% BY WIND, SOLAR, AND ALTERNATIVE ENERGY. COAL WHICH IS OUR CHEAPEST FORM OF ELECTRICITY IS THE MOST WIDELY USED.
THIS SOUNDS GOOD ON PAPER BUT IT COULD COST AMERICAN TRIPLE OR QUADRUPLE OUR ELECTRIC BILL. SO FOLKS COULD HAVE A $400 ELECTRIC BILL INSTEAD OF A $100. THINK ENRON. AMERICANS FAMILIES AND BUSINESSES ARE ALREADY REELING FROM $4.00 GAS PRICES.
COAL STATES WANT THE SUBSITIES AND TAX BREAKS. BUT TEARING ALL THE TREES OFF A MOUNTAIN AND GRINDING SHALE INTO ENERGY POLLUTES MORE WATER AND RELEASES MORE CARBON GASES THAN IT'S WORTH FOR ENVIROMENTALISTS. SHELL TRIED IT IN 1980.
OPRAH PROMOTED THE INCONVENIENT LIE BUT AMERICANS ARE NOT FOOLED.
AMERICANS ARE SO BITTER THEY CLING TO GUNS AND CLING TO RELIGION AND HAVE HAVE ANTIPATHY FOR THOSE OTHER THAN THEMSELVES.
NOW OBAMA INSULTED THE GUNS AND RELIGION FOLKS IN ALL THE COAL STATES SO THEY WON'T VOTE FOR HIM NOW. THESE WERE THE VERY PEOPLE THAT WERE PROMISED LONG AGO TO PELOSI AND REID. ALL THE MOUNTAIN COAL STATES ARE LEFT AND WHITE MALES STILL WON'T VOTE FOR HIM AND NOW HAVE REASON NOT TO BECAUSE OF HIS DISTAINFUL COMMENT.

CLINTON WILL WORK FOR ENERGY ALTERNATIVES AND SOLUTIONS.

CALL AND WRITE YOUR SENATOR AND CONGRESS.
WWW.USSENATE.COM
WWW.CONGRESS.ORG

TELL THEM 3 THINGS.

COUNT MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA VOTES.
CLINTON NEEDS TO GO ALL THE WAY TO THE CONVENTION.
CLNTON MAKES THE BEST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR NOVEMBER.

Will white Americans vote for a half-white? Will males half-white or white vote for a female? Will Republicans cross over and vote for the Democratic candidate they think less likely to beat Senator McCain?

MY FELLOW "BITTER", STUPID, WORKING CLASS PEOPLE :-)

If you think like Barack Obama, that WORKING CLASS PEOPLE are just a bunch of "BITTER"!, STUPID, PEASANTS, Cash COWS!, and CANNON FODDER. :-(

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think Barack Obama with little or no experience would be better than Hillary Clinton with 35 years experience.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with no experience can fix an economy on the verge of collapse better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) led the greatest economic expansion, and prosperity in American history.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with no experience fighting for universal health care can get it for you better than Hillary Clinton. Who anticipated this current health care crisis back in 1993, and fought a pitched battle against overwhelming odds to get universal health care for all the American people.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with no experience can manage, and get us out of two wars better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) went to war only when he was convinced that he absolutely had to. Then completed the mission in record time against a nuclear power. AND DID NOT LOSE THE LIFE OF A SINGLE AMERICAN SOLDIER. NOT ONE!

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with no experience saving the environment is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) left office with the greatest amount of environmental cleanup, and protections in American history.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with little or no education experience is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) made higher education affordable for every American. And created higher job demand and starting salary's than they had ever been before or since.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with no experience will be better than Hillary Clinton who spent 8 years at the right hand of President Bill Clinton. Who is already on record as one of the greatest Presidents in American history.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that you can change the way Washington works with pretty speeches from Obama, rather than with the experience, and political expertise of two master politicians ON YOUR SIDE like Hillary and Bill Clinton..

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think all those Republicans voting for Obama in the Democratic primaries, and caucuses are doing so because they think he is a stronger Democratic candidate than Hillary Clinton. :-)

Best regards

jacksmith... Working Class :-)

p.s. You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you don't know that the huge amounts of money funding the Obama campaign to try and defeat Hillary Clinton is coming in from the insurance, and medical industry, that has been ripping you off, and killing you and your children. And denying you, and your loved ones the life saving medical care you needed. All just so they can make more huge immoral profits for them-selves off of your suffering...

You see, back in 1993 Hillary Clinton had the audacity, and nerve to try and get quality, affordable universal health care for everyone to prevent the suffering and needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of you each year. :-)

Approx. 100,000 of you die each year from medical accidents from a rush to profit by the insurance, and medical industry. Another 120,000 of you die each year from treatable illness that people in other developed countries don't die from. And I could go on, and on...

John_Lai:

Umm... I don't really get what you're saying. "Only a civilian" is supposed to mean what, exactly? To the best of my knowledge all of the current candidates for the presidency are not active-duty military.

The rest is actually rather difficult to understand. If you're referring to the debate last week, Barack's performance was unimpressive; however, I don't feel that he demonstrated a lack of fitness for the job. If one bad debate performance demonstrates that, none of the candidates should be considered.

I can understand some folks would rather have Mrs. Clinton as the nominee. What I don't get is folks who offer no reason FOR a candidate, but only reasons AGAINST. If you can only define your views by what you stand against, you really don't stand for anything.

Don't forget Zones vs Meters. We love to talk about that!

We are an African people and remain true to our native land, the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. Obama is the leader for real hope and real change.

Hooka bar? Clearly you're an out-of-touch Washington elitist!

The Redskins are decidedly NOT intersting to talk about. However, it's always fun to talk about the Rooneys and, by extension, the Steelers...

Layla,
My first experience with Washington was as a mid-level left wing politico and I found it to be a company town with a disgusting pecking order on both sides of the political persuasion. My second experience, years later, was as a monthly visitor to a girlfriend in D.C. who was a foreigner with a graphic design business. She introduced me to a completely different Washington - one filled with interesting professionals and artists from all over the world who had only a passing interest in (and much disdain for) the local political industry. I enjoyed that Washington D.C. very much.

Layla,
My first experience with Washington was as a mid-level left wing politico and I found it to be a company town with a disgusting pecking order on both sides of the political persuasion. My second experience, years later, was as a monthly visitor to a girlfriend in D.C. who was a foreigner with a graphic design business. She introduced me to a completely different Washington - one filled with interesting professionals and artists from all over the world who had only a passing interest in (and much disdain for) the local political industry. I enjoyed that Washington D.C. very much.

"As for the clear winner, my vote goes to Hugo Chavez. Pelosi's cynical refusal to allow a vote..."

How can I turn my idiocy into a job, Andres? Seriously, you're far enough to the right that one could question how you learned to read, yet you pose as an authority of whom someone with a genuine interest in a subject might ask a question? [I maintain you write the questions yourself, because they're t-ball quality at best, but I'll leave you with the benefit of the doubt]. If we can read your answer in the daily White House press releases, what good are you, sir?

You must be kidding. At critical moments, you send a boy to do an adult's job.
This OBAMA runs away from debates now because he got a phobia of questions from the media. Because, for the first time, the media takes a good look at him and discovers that they don't understand him not because of his intelligence but his skittish behaviour. He can't keep his true self covered. He has to let it out.
Now he badly needs a vacation at the heat of it. Virgin Island is a good choice. He can go there again.
Forgive him, he is just a civilian. Wars, depression are tasteless to him. He enjoys those chat about the future of ....and appears like almighty OBAMA stuff.

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