Obama '08?

And there I was thinking I was saying interesting things. ****.

I was trying to cut through the fog and get to what the actual underlying question here is. Guess I failed. Should have spent that hour doing something else.

I'm guessing okie is going to vote for the white candidate because he's not a racist.

Of course, you were doing yeoman's work, Nimh.

This is a test period for Obama. If this is the worst things get for him, then hell - he's fine and will win the nomination and in the Fall. If he can't turn the numbers around, then he doesn't deserve to win the nomination OR the presidency. It was always apparent that these sorts of attacks would be used against him; we all knew the Republicans would do it sooner or later, well, it's sooner.

He's going to be spending the upcoming weeks trying to talk about other stuff. And I think that he will be at least partially successful in turning the conversation away from it. The story doesn't have enough legs to be the over-arcing meme for the rest of the primary, let alone the General election.

Cycloptichorn

Oh please, woiyo; are you serious? Unfortunately you probably are.

Even more depressing and dispiriting and disillusioning (can't come up with more words to express it) Hillary has passed Obama in opinion polls for the first time in months.
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From DailyKos:

Obama's speech against the war in Iraq...Hint he hits both McCain and Hillary. It was given in North Carolina today and well worth the long read.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/19/114032/682/108/479934

What has inhabited the earth since the Ice Age is man, not "peoples." In the first instance, their Destiny is determined by the fact that the bodily succession of parents and children, the bond of the blood, forms natural groups, which disclose a definite tendency to take root in a landscape. Even nomodic tribes confine their movements within a limited field. Thereby the cosmic-plantlike side of life, of Being, is invested with the character of duration. This I call race. Tribes, septs, clans, families--all these are designations for the fact of a blood which circles, carried on by procreation, in a narrow or a wide landscape.

But these human beings possess also the microcosmic-animal side of life, in waking-consciousness and receptivity and reason. And the form in which waking-consciousness of one man gets into relation with that of another I call language, which begins by being a mere unconscious living expression that is received as a sensation, but gradually develops into a conscious technique of communication that depends upon a common sense of the meanings attaching to signs.

In the limit, every race is a single great body, and every language the efficient form of one great waking-consciousness that connects many individual beings. And we shall never reach the ultimate discoveries about either unless they are treated together and constantly brought into comparison with one another.

But, further, we shall never understand man's higher history if we ignore the fact that man, as a constituent of race and as a possessor of language, as derivative of a blood unit and as a member of an understanding-unit, has different Destinies, that of his being and that of his waking-being. That is, the origin, development, and duration of his race side and the origin, development, and duration of his language side are completely independent of one another. Race is something cosmic and psychic ( Seelenhaft), periodic in some obscure way, and in its inner nature partly conditioned by major astronomical relations.

Languages, on the other hand, are causal forms, and operate through the polarity of their means. We speak of race-instincts and of the spirit of a language. But they are two distinct worlds. To Race belong the deepest meanings of the words "time" and "yearning" ; to language those of the words "space" and "fear". But all this has been hidden from us, hitherto, by the overlying idea of "peoples".

Rasmussen 3-19


Obama now leads Clinton 47% to 42%. Yesterday, Obama led 45% to 44%

Roxxxanne wrote:

Rasmussen 3-19


Obama now leads Clinton 47% to 42%. Yesterday, Obama led 45% to 44%

Thank goodness; maybe I won't be forced to vote for McCain after all. Unless of course that stupid delegate re-do thing throws the whole thing out of whack.

But in the end if Hillary gets it I may even throw my vote for McCain and vote republican for the first in my adult life (other than my father-in-law for chairman of school board-felt honor bound)

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But in the end if Hillary gets it I may even throw my vote for McCain and vote republican for the first in my adult life (other than my father-in-law for chairman of school board-felt honor bound)

You see. That's racist. The destiny of the kids is partly in a school-board's hands and here it is decided by a blood connection without any reference to the qualities or views of the man.

Oh please, woiyo; are you serious? Unfortunately you probably are.

Even more depressing and dispiriting and disillusioning (can't come up with more words to express it) Hillary has passed Obama in opinion polls for the first time in months.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080320/ts_nm/usa_politics_gallup_dc

If she gets it I won't vote as I see little significant differences between her and McCain and I don't like either of them anymore. But in the end if Hillary gets it I may even throw my vote for McCain and vote republican for the first in my adult life (other than my father-in-law for chairman of school board-felt honor bound) I am so disgusted in general with the democrats in this whole election cycle.