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		<title>By: Sarah</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2008/05/12/barack-obama-pool-shark/#comment-360778</link>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 19:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ohh boo hoo.
I don't want to hear I'm not racist.
Or I'm not feminist, or I'm not a womanizer, or I don't think.

Check out the facts for a second. Everyone's sooo compassionate towards Hillary Clinton. Remind me what happens when her pathological streak gets the best of her in the middle of a war? I can see Hillary now, having locked herself in the oval office crying and saying she doesn't know what to do. Yes this is a hyperbole, but you can understand this. There are plenty of women who wouldn't have this problem. Hillary just isn't that woman.

Obama on the other hand, has sort of...gotten his ass on his shoulders for "beating the Shoe-in" as some of you put it. He's the new guy, Let's not forget he can get an old guy to run with him...sayyy John Edwards? or Kerry? or well anyone that might just back him enough to make it look like he knows what he's talking about. 

I don't want another Kennedy with all the best intentions but dismissed early from office for all of the worst reasons. That's where we're at. Wartime, economic Trough, what's to stop this from being 1963 allll over again, well plus nuclear warfare. The new generation of college students are a load of liberal humanitarians that have been wanting to fight global warming and hating the war since they were in the 5th grade. What happens when these kids get into the world. We will be to another decade of supreme change! Do we need another summer of '69?

1960 here I come?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ohh boo hoo.<br />
I don&#8217;t want to hear I&#8217;m not racist.<br />
Or I&#8217;m not feminist, or I&#8217;m not a womanizer, or I don&#8217;t think.</p>
<p>Check out the facts for a second. Everyone&#8217;s sooo compassionate towards Hillary Clinton. Remind me what happens when her pathological streak gets the best of her in the middle of a war? I can see Hillary now, having locked herself in the oval office crying and saying she doesn&#8217;t know what to do. Yes this is a hyperbole, but you can understand this. There are plenty of women who wouldn&#8217;t have this problem. Hillary just isn&#8217;t that woman.</p>
<p>Obama on the other hand, has sort of&#8230;gotten his ass on his shoulders for &#8220;beating the Shoe-in&#8221; as some of you put it. He&#8217;s the new guy, Let&#8217;s not forget he can get an old guy to run with him&#8230;sayyy John Edwards? or Kerry? or well anyone that might just back him enough to make it look like he knows what he&#8217;s talking about. </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t want another Kennedy with all the best intentions but dismissed early from office for all of the worst reasons. That&#8217;s where we&#8217;re at. Wartime, economic Trough, what&#8217;s to stop this from being 1963 allll over again, well plus nuclear warfare. The new generation of college students are a load of liberal humanitarians that have been wanting to fight global warming and hating the war since they were in the 5th grade. What happens when these kids get into the world. We will be to another decade of supreme change! Do we need another summer of &#8216;69?</p>
<p>1960 here I come?</p>
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		<title>By: Ratgurl</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2008/05/12/barack-obama-pool-shark/#comment-360765</link>
		<dc:creator>Ratgurl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>John Settlemyer:

You don't like following the rules, do you?

It is apparent that you're more concerned with having your candidate of choice win by any means necessary than for them to win fairly.  That is reminiscent of the 2000 election when Bush STOLE the presidency from Al Gore.  Would you be happy for that to happen again?  Have you enjoyed the past 8 years of idiocy dominating this country?

Had Clinton run a fair &#38; clean campaign &#38; won the support of all these SDs that are flocking to Obama now, she would be the shoo-in.  People like me would have never questioned her capability and would back her both with our votes &#38; our finances.  Countng MI &#38; FL after all agreeing to the rules is tantamount to  saying "mulligan."  I've got some news for you - this is reality.  There are no do-overs in life.  The rules were set &#38; agreed upon, so stop trying to change them in the middle of the game.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John Settlemyer:</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t like following the rules, do you?</p>
<p>It is apparent that you&#8217;re more concerned with having your candidate of choice win by any means necessary than for them to win fairly.  That is reminiscent of the 2000 election when Bush STOLE the presidency from Al Gore.  Would you be happy for that to happen again?  Have you enjoyed the past 8 years of idiocy dominating this country?</p>
<p>Had Clinton run a fair &amp; clean campaign &amp; won the support of all these SDs that are flocking to Obama now, she would be the shoo-in.  People like me would have never questioned her capability and would back her both with our votes &amp; our finances.  Countng MI &amp; FL after all agreeing to the rules is tantamount to  saying &#8220;mulligan.&#8221;  I&#8217;ve got some news for you - this is reality.  There are no do-overs in life.  The rules were set &amp; agreed upon, so stop trying to change them in the middle of the game.</p>
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		<title>By: John Settlemyer</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2008/05/12/barack-obama-pool-shark/#comment-360718</link>
		<dc:creator>John Settlemyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 02:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>An Inconvenient Truth

I see an “Inconvenient Truth” which the DNC is forced to face is that Florida and Michigan will count in the fall general election; Florida and Michigan hold the DNC by the balls! Why? The fact is that Florida and Michigan are two (2) of nineteen (19) battle ground states with 44 of 196 electors for the upcoming General Election.  In the fall general election theses two states may well hold the balance of power as to which party walks away from the election and which party [once again?] starts planning for the next election.  Should the DNC continue to take a hard line and not seat the delegations from Florida and Michigan as elected by their voters, and then the DNC risk the real possibility of losing in those key states. 

Most importantly these two states have 44 winner take-all-Electoral College Votes which represent 22.5% of the total of 196 contested electoral votes in the “battleground States.” If Florida and Michigan’s delegates are not certified by the DNC then those states votes will have been annulled in a most undemocratic process, by the party which claims to be “Democratic”. If my vote were not counted by the DNC then I would take my delegates and nominate our own candidate and place that person on the November ballot in my state, leaving the national candidate to fend for itself in the other 48 states that the DNC thinks should be counted.
 
The Democratic National Party is playing this issue out as one of discipline however, more and more what it is showing the voters is that the two major parties not only want to vet the candidates for the November election,  but they want the public to have as few choices as possible as early as possible in that selection process. Why else are we seeing pressure for one candidate or another to drop out as early as possible, before most Americans can express their choice?   By Supper Tuesday how many Republicans and Democrats were left on any given states ballot? How many were considered to be serious contender.  Far from being one of choices our electoral system, is designed to limit the choices very early.
 
This system is far from a “Democracy”. In trying to determine a national order of voting the two major parties are vetting the vast majority of voter’s choices early in the process thus allowing for the maximum collection of CASH as early as possible in the process. 
Both Parties seem to saying ‘to hell with the voters, we know what they need.’    

This paternal attitude toward voters ignores the base of the DNC organization.  What is likely to happen here is another case of George McGovern where the party picks a star instead of a winner; the choice of that core of the Democratic Party is represented on the map of the Electoral College. On November 5th 2008 we are likely to wake up and ask how the Republicans won. The answer will be that the DMC has forgotten the core of the party. To win in November the DNC not only retain its own core, but attract some of the Republican Core. Does this core care that Howard Dean wants them to vote after Iowa? No furthermore it’s none of the DNC business when Florida and Michigan vote.

This core is not worried about Race, we are worried about JOBS! I’ll Vote for a Black, a Woman, Asian or anyone who I fell will stabilize the economy. I’ll even vote for a Republican. What I won’t vote for is someone who lacks a plan or is going to give the nation’s future away in a bunch of feel good programs but fail to address the real problems which we face on Main Street.

Votes for Clinton dose not prove I am a Raciest any more than a vote for Obama proves I am a Sexist. More than this I resent the fact that Oboma implies that any white that does not vote for him is a racist. What would the result be if 96% of Whites were voting for Hillary? Then he would have a case that America is a Racist nation. The Silence is deafening out here. So let’s shut up about these side issues just vote. By the way let’s count all the votes not just the ones Howard Dean wants to count. The DNC, Republican, Green or any other party should not be concerned with when or how any state selects it delegates. 

I have thoroughly reviewed the Constitution and in fact the Constitution states “ Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress” Article 2 section 1.  The Constitution was further modified in by the 12th Amendment after the development of political parties; however at no point in this most fundamental law of our country, I can find any requirement as to who votes first.
 
Florida and Michigan’s votes will count in the fall so why not count them now? Unless the books are so cooked that Oboma can not win if they are counted why make such a big deal of this issue.  Who set the dates for the Florida and Michigan primaries? The Republican led state government! As I see it the DNC has two choices. Either, they can seat Florida and Michigan’s delegates, as elected by their citizens, or face the possibility of not having a legitimate Democratic candidate on the ticket in those two key states and losing to the GOP.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An Inconvenient Truth</p>
<p>I see an “Inconvenient Truth” which the DNC is forced to face is that Florida and Michigan will count in the fall general election; Florida and Michigan hold the DNC by the balls! Why? The fact is that Florida and Michigan are two (2) of nineteen (19) battle ground states with 44 of 196 electors for the upcoming General Election.  In the fall general election theses two states may well hold the balance of power as to which party walks away from the election and which party [once again?] starts planning for the next election.  Should the DNC continue to take a hard line and not seat the delegations from Florida and Michigan as elected by their voters, and then the DNC risk the real possibility of losing in those key states. </p>
<p>Most importantly these two states have 44 winner take-all-Electoral College Votes which represent 22.5% of the total of 196 contested electoral votes in the “battleground States.” If Florida and Michigan’s delegates are not certified by the DNC then those states votes will have been annulled in a most undemocratic process, by the party which claims to be “Democratic”. If my vote were not counted by the DNC then I would take my delegates and nominate our own candidate and place that person on the November ballot in my state, leaving the national candidate to fend for itself in the other 48 states that the DNC thinks should be counted.</p>
<p>The Democratic National Party is playing this issue out as one of discipline however, more and more what it is showing the voters is that the two major parties not only want to vet the candidates for the November election,  but they want the public to have as few choices as possible as early as possible in that selection process. Why else are we seeing pressure for one candidate or another to drop out as early as possible, before most Americans can express their choice?   By Supper Tuesday how many Republicans and Democrats were left on any given states ballot? How many were considered to be serious contender.  Far from being one of choices our electoral system, is designed to limit the choices very early.</p>
<p>This system is far from a “Democracy”. In trying to determine a national order of voting the two major parties are vetting the vast majority of voter’s choices early in the process thus allowing for the maximum collection of CASH as early as possible in the process.<br />
Both Parties seem to saying ‘to hell with the voters, we know what they need.’    </p>
<p>This paternal attitude toward voters ignores the base of the DNC organization.  What is likely to happen here is another case of George McGovern where the party picks a star instead of a winner; the choice of that core of the Democratic Party is represented on the map of the Electoral College. On November 5th 2008 we are likely to wake up and ask how the Republicans won. The answer will be that the DMC has forgotten the core of the party. To win in November the DNC not only retain its own core, but attract some of the Republican Core. Does this core care that Howard Dean wants them to vote after Iowa? No furthermore it’s none of the DNC business when Florida and Michigan vote.</p>
<p>This core is not worried about Race, we are worried about JOBS! I’ll Vote for a Black, a Woman, Asian or anyone who I fell will stabilize the economy. I’ll even vote for a Republican. What I won’t vote for is someone who lacks a plan or is going to give the nation’s future away in a bunch of feel good programs but fail to address the real problems which we face on Main Street.</p>
<p>Votes for Clinton dose not prove I am a Raciest any more than a vote for Obama proves I am a Sexist. More than this I resent the fact that Oboma implies that any white that does not vote for him is a racist. What would the result be if 96% of Whites were voting for Hillary? Then he would have a case that America is a Racist nation. The Silence is deafening out here. So let’s shut up about these side issues just vote. By the way let’s count all the votes not just the ones Howard Dean wants to count. The DNC, Republican, Green or any other party should not be concerned with when or how any state selects it delegates. </p>
<p>I have thoroughly reviewed the Constitution and in fact the Constitution states “ Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress” Article 2 section 1.  The Constitution was further modified in by the 12th Amendment after the development of political parties; however at no point in this most fundamental law of our country, I can find any requirement as to who votes first.</p>
<p>Florida and Michigan’s votes will count in the fall so why not count them now? Unless the books are so cooked that Oboma can not win if they are counted why make such a big deal of this issue.  Who set the dates for the Florida and Michigan primaries? The Republican led state government! As I see it the DNC has two choices. Either, they can seat Florida and Michigan’s delegates, as elected by their citizens, or face the possibility of not having a legitimate Democratic candidate on the ticket in those two key states and losing to the GOP.</p>
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		<title>By: Kim</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2008/05/12/barack-obama-pool-shark/#comment-360705</link>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So Jody, you say you are going to vote for McCain because Hilary is not in the race. Does that make sense? To vote for someone you don't agree with on views just because you don't like the other democrat candidate personally? But do what you want to do that’s your giving right. Just know that you are voting for a woman who cannot manage her own campaign. She has been financially broke at least twice in the last 6 months. How is she going to manage the economy when she cannot manage her own campaign trail? She is in debt and hasn’t started campaigning for the November elections yet. So yeah Jody…go ahead and vote for a financially broke economy or more of the same 8 lousy years...You're really looking at the issues at hand; how smart.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So Jody, you say you are going to vote for McCain because Hilary is not in the race. Does that make sense? To vote for someone you don&#8217;t agree with on views just because you don&#8217;t like the other democrat candidate personally? But do what you want to do that’s your giving right. Just know that you are voting for a woman who cannot manage her own campaign. She has been financially broke at least twice in the last 6 months. How is she going to manage the economy when she cannot manage her own campaign trail? She is in debt and hasn’t started campaigning for the November elections yet. So yeah Jody…go ahead and vote for a financially broke economy or more of the same 8 lousy years&#8230;You&#8217;re really looking at the issues at hand; how smart.</p>
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		<title>By: DAVID</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2008/05/12/barack-obama-pool-shark/#comment-360701</link>
		<dc:creator>DAVID</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 22:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Who is behind the MSM silence on this?

DAVID AXELROD or better yet, KARL ROVE, waiting to unravel the Obama campaign at just the right moment?

It is no secret that O’Reilly and Limbaugh are ready.  
http://www.enriqueyjoe.com/LARRY_SINCLAIR_.shtml

LARRY SINCLAIR ON E&#38;J SHOW (STRONG LANGUAGE)   LISTEN TO AUDIO</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who is behind the MSM silence on this?</p>
<p>DAVID AXELROD or better yet, KARL ROVE, waiting to unravel the Obama campaign at just the right moment?</p>
<p>It is no secret that O’Reilly and Limbaugh are ready.<br />
<a href="http://www.enriqueyjoe.com/LARRY_SINCLAIR_.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.enriqueyjoe.com/LARRY_SINCLAI R_.shtml</a></p>
<p>LARRY SINCLAIR ON E&amp;J SHOW (STRONG LANGUAGE)   LISTEN TO AUDIO</p>
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		<title>By: Nocas</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2008/05/12/barack-obama-pool-shark/#comment-360694</link>
		<dc:creator>Nocas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 20:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just read what Hillary spokesman Howard Wolfson said on NBC's "Today Show.". I ask exactly the same to him: democrates are asking themselves why Clinton with so much experience lost NC and won In. for so little?!!
"I think Democrats across the country tomorrow will be asking themselves why Senator Obama, with all of his money, with all of the great press, with voters being told that he is the inevitable nominee, why did Senator Obama lose West Virginia by 15 points or so?" Clinton</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just read what Hillary spokesman Howard Wolfson said on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today Show.&#8221;. I ask exactly the same to him: democrates are asking themselves why Clinton with so much experience lost NC and won In. for so little?!!<br />
&#8220;I think Democrats across the country tomorrow will be asking themselves why Senator Obama, with all of his money, with all of the great press, with voters being told that he is the inevitable nominee, why did Senator Obama lose West Virginia by 15 points or so?&#8221; Clinton</p>
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		<title>By: Ed</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2008/05/12/barack-obama-pool-shark/#comment-360688</link>
		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 20:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anyone who votes for McCain because Hillary loses the nomination is clearly not voting on the issues.  Given the three of them, Hillary is very similar to Obama, and not similar at all to McCain.  Socially, McCain is a right-wing Republican who is anti-abortion and anti-gay.  Fiscally, he favors tax cuts for the wealthy.  As commander-in-chief he's for staying in Iraq.  How could anyone who believes in what Hillary believes vote for McCain?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anyone who votes for McCain because Hillary loses the nomination is clearly not voting on the issues.  Given the three of them, Hillary is very similar to Obama, and not similar at all to McCain.  Socially, McCain is a right-wing Republican who is anti-abortion and anti-gay.  Fiscally, he favors tax cuts for the wealthy.  As commander-in-chief he&#8217;s for staying in Iraq.  How could anyone who believes in what Hillary believes vote for McCain?</p>
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		<title>By: kaye c.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2008/05/12/barack-obama-pool-shark/#comment-360684</link>
		<dc:creator>kaye c.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 19:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Barack Obama..The pool shark??No..just a shark..We do not know who Obama really is.  He has not been vetted and yet the media is making him into this magical, mysterious messiah with a glorious cultured romantic upbringing...WHY????He says the same old things..Just practiced rhetoric....HRC is the only person that can beat John McCain so I hope all of you Obamanites remember what you are doing when you vote for Obama.  You are really placing a VOTE for the Republicans.  Our Country is not up to 4 more years of Republican Rule...BRING OUR SOLDIERS HOME.  HRC can and will.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Barack Obama..The pool shark??No..just a shark..We do not know who Obama really is.  He has not been vetted and yet the media is making him into this magical, mysterious messiah with a glorious cultured romantic upbringing&#8230;WHY????He says the same old things..Just practiced rhetoric&#8230;.HRC is the only person that can beat John McCain so I hope all of you Obamanites remember what you are doing when you vote for Obama.  You are really placing a VOTE for the Republicans.  Our Country is not up to 4 more years of Republican Rule&#8230;BRING OUR SOLDIERS HOME.  HRC can and will&#8230;..</p>
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		<title>By: Wyatt</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2008/05/12/barack-obama-pool-shark/#comment-360685</link>
		<dc:creator>Wyatt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 19:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It's great to see our next president is interested in more than just the war in Iraq.  Great to see he can get out and have a little fun once in a while.  I bet Hillary doesn't challenge him to a game of 8 ball anytime soon...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s great to see our next president is interested in more than just the war in Iraq.  Great to see he can get out and have a little fun once in a while.  I bet Hillary doesn&#8217;t challenge him to a game of 8 ball anytime soon&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Eleanor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eleanor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 18:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think Obama is great. I am neither democrat or republican. I will not vote for Obama, because he is not ready. He is inexperienced. He is charasmatic, as Bill Clinton was, when he was running for office. Many voters will be blinded by his down to earth demeanor, and fun loving spirit. These are great attributes, but he still does not have the hard edge, intellect and seasoning that both John and Hillary have. Either one would be a better choice than Obama. When Obama gains some experience, I would readily give him my vote.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Obama is great. I am neither democrat or republican. I will not vote for Obama, because he is not ready. He is inexperienced. He is charasmatic, as Bill Clinton was, when he was running for office. Many voters will be blinded by his down to earth demeanor, and fun loving spirit. These are great attributes, but he still does not have the hard edge, intellect and seasoning that both John and Hillary have. Either one would be a better choice than Obama. When Obama gains some experience, I would readily give him my vote.</p>
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