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		<title>By: drunyan8315</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/27/an-obama-payoff/comment-page-1/#comment-1094250</link>
		<dc:creator>drunyan8315</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Rockhauler - This is only one or two steps removed from Robert Mugabe taking control of Rhodesia.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

You know, I was about to call &quot;oh bullshit&quot; on that, rocker, but then I remembered how the Dems are gaming the Federal Electoral Commission to prevent it from functioning or giving McCain federal funding, and...

well, there is some potentially dangerous stuff going down here folks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Rockhauler &#8211; This is only one or two steps removed from Robert Mugabe taking control of Rhodesia.</p></blockquote>
<p>You know, I was about to call &#8220;oh bullshit&#8221; on that, rocker, but then I remembered how the Dems are gaming the Federal Electoral Commission to prevent it from functioning or giving McCain federal funding, and&#8230;</p>
<p>well, there is some potentially dangerous stuff going down here folks.</p>
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		<title>By: landlines</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/27/an-obama-payoff/comment-page-1/#comment-1094241</link>
		<dc:creator>landlines</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey, &lt;strong&gt;shut up: he&#039;s&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strike&gt;black&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;a Chicago Democrat&lt;/strong&gt;, and you don&#039;t understand that payoffs are part of their culture!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, <strong>shut up: he&#8217;s</strong> <strike>black</strike> <strong>a Chicago Democrat</strong>, and you don&#8217;t understand that payoffs are part of their culture!!</p>
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		<title>By: rockbend</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/27/an-obama-payoff/comment-page-1/#comment-1094002</link>
		<dc:creator>rockbend</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;The problem is the press will bury this and even if they don’t NO ONE WILL CARE. They love their Messiah… spare us the details, it only makes him human.

stenwin77 on April 27, 2008 at 12:09 PM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

There is not a single thing Barry could do to change the minds of the devoted! Caught on video in a park bathroom with... Videotaped taking bribe money from... Filmed doing drugs while... - Hey, no problem, they&#039;ll still vote for him.

It&#039;s like the Global Warming religion - no facts or contradictions will sway the devotees.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>The problem is the press will bury this and even if they don’t NO ONE WILL CARE. They love their Messiah… spare us the details, it only makes him human.</p>
<p>stenwin77 on April 27, 2008 at 12:09 PM</p></blockquote>
<p>There is not a single thing Barry could do to change the minds of the devoted! Caught on video in a park bathroom with&#8230; Videotaped taking bribe money from&#8230; Filmed doing drugs while&#8230; &#8211; Hey, no problem, they&#8217;ll still vote for him.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like the Global Warming religion &#8211; no facts or contradictions will sway the devotees.</p>
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		<title>By: Captain Scarlet</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/27/an-obama-payoff/comment-page-1/#comment-1093975</link>
		<dc:creator>Captain Scarlet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;If Jesus was a republican he would be hounded out of politics!

peacenprosperity on April 27, 2008 at 11:12 AM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

You mean he&#039;s &lt;em&gt;not??&lt;/em&gt;  (Sidebar to trolls: &lt;strong&gt;kidding&lt;/strong&gt;!)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>If Jesus was a republican he would be hounded out of politics!</p>
<p>peacenprosperity on April 27, 2008 at 11:12 AM</p></blockquote>
<p>You mean he&#8217;s <em>not??</em>  (Sidebar to trolls: <strong>kidding</strong>!)</p>
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		<title>By: Rhymes With Right</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/27/an-obama-payoff/comment-page-1/#comment-1093917</link>
		<dc:creator>Rhymes With Right</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Poor-Mouthing Obama...&lt;/strong&gt;

For all that Barack Obama and his wife try to paint themselves as &quot;just ordinary people&quot;, I think this little detail tells us a lot about him. After an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2000, Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Poor-Mouthing Obama&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>For all that Barack Obama and his wife try to paint themselves as &#8220;just ordinary people&#8221;, I think this little detail tells us a lot about him. After an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2000, Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Django</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/27/an-obama-payoff/comment-page-1/#comment-1093913</link>
		<dc:creator>Django</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Kalapana on April 27, 2008 at 12:44 PM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

That article gave me the creeps.  I hate to use the Nazi comparison, but, with a few changes of names and places, that article could have been published by Streicher in &quot;Der Sturmer&quot;.  Same sort of hate-drenched arrogance.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Kalapana on April 27, 2008 at 12:44 PM</p></blockquote>
<p>That article gave me the creeps.  I hate to use the Nazi comparison, but, with a few changes of names and places, that article could have been published by Streicher in &#8220;Der Sturmer&#8221;.  Same sort of hate-drenched arrogance.</p>
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		<title>By: Django</title>
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		<dc:creator>Django</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This story is racist because it&#039;s critical of Obama.  The reporter who wrote it is racist, the editor is racist, you people reading it are racist, your cats and dogs are racist, the man in the moon - racist!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This story is racist because it&#8217;s critical of Obama.  The reporter who wrote it is racist, the editor is racist, you people reading it are racist, your cats and dogs are racist, the man in the moon &#8211; racist!</p>
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		<title>By: SeniorD</title>
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		<dc:creator>SeniorD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Michael Hirsch via Kalpana&quot;

&lt;blockquote&gt;The outcome was that a substantial portion of the new nation developed, over many generations, a rather savage, unsophisticated set of mores. Traditionally, it has been balanced by a more diplomatic, communitarian Yankee sensibility from the Northeast and upper Midwest&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Talk about elitist.  What Mr. Hirsch neglects to mention is that &#039;rather savage, unsophisticated set of mores&#039; were centered upon the Individual and not Community.  The Scots-Irish immigration also build The Center of the Universe® (aka Washington D.C.), and a great deal of this country&#039;s infrastructure.  

We&#039;ll leave issues like the Highland Clearances, Potato Famine, Norther Ireland and the Celtic Church for later.  I don&#039;t think Mr. Hirsch is ready for that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael Hirsch via Kalpana&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>The outcome was that a substantial portion of the new nation developed, over many generations, a rather savage, unsophisticated set of mores. Traditionally, it has been balanced by a more diplomatic, communitarian Yankee sensibility from the Northeast and upper Midwest</p></blockquote>
<p>Talk about elitist.  What Mr. Hirsch neglects to mention is that &#8216;rather savage, unsophisticated set of mores&#8217; were centered upon the Individual and not Community.  The Scots-Irish immigration also build The Center of the Universe® (aka Washington D.C.), and a great deal of this country&#8217;s infrastructure.  </p>
<p>We&#8217;ll leave issues like the Highland Clearances, Potato Famine, Norther Ireland and the Celtic Church for later.  I don&#8217;t think Mr. Hirsch is ready for that.</p>
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		<title>By: SouthernGent</title>
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		<dc:creator>SouthernGent</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hope and change.  Yes, indeed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hope and change.  Yes, indeed.</p>
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		<title>By: trs</title>
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		<dc:creator>trs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I found myself mentally begging Wallace to follow up Obama&#039;s explanation of Mr. Wright&#039;s comments as a result from being from another time how his wife also had similar comments. Oh well, keep talking Barry!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I found myself mentally begging Wallace to follow up Obama&#8217;s explanation of Mr. Wright&#8217;s comments as a result from being from another time how his wife also had similar comments. Oh well, keep talking Barry!</p>
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		<title>By: Sister Toldjah</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sister Toldjah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Barack Obama&#8217;s interview on Fox News Sunday...&lt;/strong&gt;

After nearly two years of &#8220;the silent treatment,&#8221; Barack Obama sat down for an interview with Fox News Sunday&#8217;s Chris Wallace a few days ago. Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters has a good rundown of the questions Wallace asked, which were a...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Barack Obama&#8217;s interview on Fox News Sunday&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>After nearly two years of &#8220;the silent treatment,&#8221; Barack Obama sat down for an interview with Fox News Sunday&#8217;s Chris Wallace a few days ago. Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters has a good rundown of the questions Wallace asked, which were a&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: rockhauler</title>
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		<dc:creator>rockhauler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Apparently Dean gets &#039;the telephone call&#039; and suddenly he is telling the super delegates its all about electability. Meanwhile there is a steady stream of new stories smearing Obama. 

Then there was that Michael Hirsch story in Newsweek. Who does Hirsch support? Hillary or Clinton? That piece sounded like confirmation of Obama&#039;s bitter clingers observation. Is this the evidence that Obama is directing his loyal followers attention to &#039;those guys, the ones who have oppressed our people&#039;? 

Sharpton is on the march, recreate68 targets the democrat convention, and is suggesting that democrat direct action counselors go one on one with republican delegates to the republican convention to help those delegates get their minds right. 

In case you are having trouble with this rant, the bottom line is this; we&#039;re beyond politics here. This is about gangland, tribalism. This is about mob rule, and power mad thugs doing a power grab. They know exactly just how far they can push this with lawyers explaining to the activists just exactly where they cross the line from political protest into street violence. 

This is only one or two steps removed from Robert Mugabe taking control of Rhodesia.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apparently Dean gets &#8216;the telephone call&#8217; and suddenly he is telling the super delegates its all about electability. Meanwhile there is a steady stream of new stories smearing Obama. </p>
<p>Then there was that Michael Hirsch story in Newsweek. Who does Hirsch support? Hillary or Clinton? That piece sounded like confirmation of Obama&#8217;s bitter clingers observation. Is this the evidence that Obama is directing his loyal followers attention to &#8216;those guys, the ones who have oppressed our people&#8217;? </p>
<p>Sharpton is on the march, recreate68 targets the democrat convention, and is suggesting that democrat direct action counselors go one on one with republican delegates to the republican convention to help those delegates get their minds right. </p>
<p>In case you are having trouble with this rant, the bottom line is this; we&#8217;re beyond politics here. This is about gangland, tribalism. This is about mob rule, and power mad thugs doing a power grab. They know exactly just how far they can push this with lawyers explaining to the activists just exactly where they cross the line from political protest into street violence. </p>
<p>This is only one or two steps removed from Robert Mugabe taking control of Rhodesia.</p>
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		<title>By: Maxx</title>
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		<dc:creator>Maxx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I bet Obama got in bed with Killerspin because the 1st Church of Hate Whitey and Damn America supports ping pong. Probably because it involves smacking white balls with a wooden paddle.

ReubenJCogburn on April 27, 2008 at 12:49 PM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

That&#039;s funny. You win.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I bet Obama got in bed with Killerspin because the 1st Church of Hate Whitey and Damn America supports ping pong. Probably because it involves smacking white balls with a wooden paddle.</p>
<p>ReubenJCogburn on April 27, 2008 at 12:49 PM</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s funny. You win.</p>
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		<title>By: 2theright</title>
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		<dc:creator>2theright</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;d be surprised it this goes anywhere. Most of the msm won&#039;t care to cover it, most of his supporters won&#039;t care.
They would be very upset if a government agency investigated and slapped the cuffs on him and hauled him to jail. If there is an investigation, will most likely end after the election anyway, but may be another nail in his much deserved coffin.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d be surprised it this goes anywhere. Most of the msm won&#8217;t care to cover it, most of his supporters won&#8217;t care.<br />
They would be very upset if a government agency investigated and slapped the cuffs on him and hauled him to jail. If there is an investigation, will most likely end after the election anyway, but may be another nail in his much deserved coffin.</p>
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		<title>By: 29Victor</title>
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		<dc:creator>29Victor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Heh. Not only is he FOR SALE, but also he goes CHEAP.

petefrt on April 27, 2008 at 12:53 PM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Maybe this is what he means by &quot;change.&quot;  Any &quot;change&quot; will do.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Heh. Not only is he FOR SALE, but also he goes CHEAP.</p>
<p>petefrt on April 27, 2008 at 12:53 PM</p></blockquote>
<p>Maybe this is what he means by &#8220;change.&#8221;  Any &#8220;change&#8221; will do.</p>
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		<title>By: 29Victor</title>
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		<dc:creator>29Victor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;The Los Angeles Times reports on a one-hand-washing-the-other relationship with Robert Blackwell Jr&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Black-water-well-gate!!!  dun..dun..dunnnnn

The hits just a-keep on a-commin&#039;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>The Los Angeles Times reports on a one-hand-washing-the-other relationship with Robert Blackwell Jr</p></blockquote>
<p>Black-water-well-gate!!!  dun..dun..dunnnnn</p>
<p>The hits just a-keep on a-commin&#8217;</p>
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		<title>By: petefrt</title>
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		<dc:creator>petefrt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Heh. Not only is he FOR SALE, but also he goes CHEAP.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heh. Not only is he FOR SALE, but also he goes CHEAP.</p>
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		<title>By: DANEgerus</title>
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		<dc:creator>DANEgerus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But I thought the Messiah lashed out at the Money-changers and chased them out of the Temple?</description>
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		<title>By: ReubenJCogburn</title>
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		<dc:creator>ReubenJCogburn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I bet Obama got in bed with Killerspin because the 1st Church of Hate Whitey and Damn America supports ping pong. Probably because it involves smacking white balls with a wooden paddle.</description>
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		<title>By: Kalapana</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kalapana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They really, really hate us.  Michael Hirsh let&#039;s his hair down at &lt;em&gt;Newspeak&lt;/em&gt;:


&quot;Anatol Lieven, in his 2005 book &quot;America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism,&quot; describes how the &quot;radical nationalism&quot; that has so dominated the nation&#039;s discourse since 9/11 traces its origins to the demographic makeup and mores of the South and much of the West and Southern Midwest--in other words, what we know today as Red State America. This region was heavily settled by &lt;em&gt;Scots-Irish immigrants&lt;/em&gt;--the same ethnic mix King James I sent to Northern Ireland to clear out the native Celtic Catholics. After succeeding at that, they then settled the American Frontier, suffering Indian raids and fighting for their lives every step of the way. And the Southern frontiersmen never got over their hatred of the East Coast elites and a belief in the morality and nobility of defying them. Their champion was the &lt;em&gt;Indian-fighter Andrew Jackson&lt;/em&gt;. The outcome was that a substantial portion of the new nation developed, over many generations, a rather savage, unsophisticated set of mores. Traditionally, it has been balanced by a more &lt;em&gt;diplomatic, communitarian Yankee sensibility&lt;/em&gt; from the Northeast and upper Midwest.&quot;

http://www.newsweek.com/id/134116</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They really, really hate us.  Michael Hirsh let&#8217;s his hair down at <em>Newspeak</em>:</p>
<p>&#8220;Anatol Lieven, in his 2005 book &#8220;America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism,&#8221; describes how the &#8220;radical nationalism&#8221; that has so dominated the nation&#8217;s discourse since 9/11 traces its origins to the demographic makeup and mores of the South and much of the West and Southern Midwest&#8211;in other words, what we know today as Red State America. This region was heavily settled by <em>Scots-Irish immigrants</em>&#8211;the same ethnic mix King James I sent to Northern Ireland to clear out the native Celtic Catholics. After succeeding at that, they then settled the American Frontier, suffering Indian raids and fighting for their lives every step of the way. And the Southern frontiersmen never got over their hatred of the East Coast elites and a belief in the morality and nobility of defying them. Their champion was the <em>Indian-fighter Andrew Jackson</em>. The outcome was that a substantial portion of the new nation developed, over many generations, a rather savage, unsophisticated set of mores. Traditionally, it has been balanced by a more <em>diplomatic, communitarian Yankee sensibility</em> from the Northeast and upper Midwest.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: ReubenJCogburn</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/27/an-obama-payoff/comment-page-1/#comment-1093819</link>
		<dc:creator>ReubenJCogburn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;The day after Obama wrote his letter urging the awarding of the state funds, Obama’s U.S. Senate campaign received a $1,000 donation from Blackwell.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I QUESTION THE TIMING! (Heh. Haven&#039;t done that in a while.) 

Pass the popcorn. I can&#039;t wait to find out what other shady business the Marxiah has been involved in.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>The day after Obama wrote his letter urging the awarding of the state funds, Obama’s U.S. Senate campaign received a $1,000 donation from Blackwell.</p></blockquote>
<p>I QUESTION THE TIMING! (Heh. Haven&#8217;t done that in a while.) </p>
<p>Pass the popcorn. I can&#8217;t wait to find out what other shady business the Marxiah has been involved in.</p>
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		<title>By: maverick muse</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/27/an-obama-payoff/comment-page-1/#comment-1093818</link>
		<dc:creator>maverick muse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Excellent points, Captain Ed and Beto Ochoa!

Allow me to add my own conclusion here this morning.

We just watched Obama&#039;s encore projection of his incarnation as only BHO would have himself be recognized this morning on Fox with Chris Wallace, Obama&#039;s polished and rehearsed &quot;outreach&quot; to white bitter crackers. As the nonchallant nonaggressive man who realizes he must listen more than he should allow himself to speak (hence his excuse that 21 is the magic number alotted for &quot;debate&quot;), Obama presents on camera his pretty picture of what he would have the world see. Wasn&#039;t that sweet? He loves his little girls and is determined &quot;to be with them&quot; after sewing up the campaign. Sigh, he neglects to admit Michelle&#039;s determination NOT to move into the White House with her husband, keeping her life with her daughters IN CHICAGO regardless of the election results. Her life&#039;s epiphany is the destruction of white America, aka, the destruction of anything that is not Michelle Obama.

The Obamas share more in common with the Clintons than Barack dare admit: it&#039;s the women behind their male front politician spouse designing and making the power plays. More so than BHO, Michelle owes her ENTIRE existence to the SDS whom she serves and to whom she has committed Barack to serve.

Last week the pun was that the DNC Superdelegates would align with BHO because they fear the angry black voter more than they fear the wrath of a woman voter scorned.

This week, as Barack&#039;s &quot;professional&quot; sh*t continues to hit the fan (LA Times), the &quot;Gestalt&quot; as Sunday Morning DNC Pundits put it via Tim Russert on NBC is in favor of Hillary. The onlooker should realize that &quot;Gestalt&quot; is more than mere &quot;feeling&quot; as Russert would have one think; GESTALT has more to do with the amalgam of ethos&amp;eros, of feeling at one with intellectual rigorous thought, HERE as a hideous example providing Hillary a political option, her victorious &quot;atonement&quot; over death.

MY gestalt observation this morning is that Hillary will get the DNC ticket. Along with that, the victory belongs to whomever champions the stay-at-home-mothers/wives with security, be that Hillary having her cookies and eating them too, or McCain who takes EVERYTHING for granted, not just conservatives, but women, and particularly those women who stay at home and sacrifice power, prestige and financial security in order to provide for the perpetuation of traditional values and emotional well being of families.

Now there&#039;s a gestalt worth contemplating while chewing a homemade cookie.

BTW, Rush Limbaugh had better STFU at this point and get down to work with the unsettled business of forcing McCain&#039;s hand into the conservative arena! Truly, without the conservative vote, this election belongs to Hillary who may after all make the deal breaker to unify ALL women, Reagan Democrats and all. Whatever deals McCain has made have always backfired on conservatives; there is no REASON to trust squishy McCain on anything except being betrayed in his legislation. Other than low taxes, McCain has nothing to offer women voters. Hillary on the other hand, is the PROGRAM user and abuser extraordinaire. Just watch as she will manipulate women at home with her CARING motives.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent points, Captain Ed and Beto Ochoa!</p>
<p>Allow me to add my own conclusion here this morning.</p>
<p>We just watched Obama&#8217;s encore projection of his incarnation as only BHO would have himself be recognized this morning on Fox with Chris Wallace, Obama&#8217;s polished and rehearsed &#8220;outreach&#8221; to white bitter crackers. As the nonchallant nonaggressive man who realizes he must listen more than he should allow himself to speak (hence his excuse that 21 is the magic number alotted for &#8220;debate&#8221;), Obama presents on camera his pretty picture of what he would have the world see. Wasn&#8217;t that sweet? He loves his little girls and is determined &#8220;to be with them&#8221; after sewing up the campaign. Sigh, he neglects to admit Michelle&#8217;s determination NOT to move into the White House with her husband, keeping her life with her daughters IN CHICAGO regardless of the election results. Her life&#8217;s epiphany is the destruction of white America, aka, the destruction of anything that is not Michelle Obama.</p>
<p>The Obamas share more in common with the Clintons than Barack dare admit: it&#8217;s the women behind their male front politician spouse designing and making the power plays. More so than BHO, Michelle owes her ENTIRE existence to the SDS whom she serves and to whom she has committed Barack to serve.</p>
<p>Last week the pun was that the DNC Superdelegates would align with BHO because they fear the angry black voter more than they fear the wrath of a woman voter scorned.</p>
<p>This week, as Barack&#8217;s &#8220;professional&#8221; sh*t continues to hit the fan (LA Times), the &#8220;Gestalt&#8221; as Sunday Morning DNC Pundits put it via Tim Russert on NBC is in favor of Hillary. The onlooker should realize that &#8220;Gestalt&#8221; is more than mere &#8220;feeling&#8221; as Russert would have one think; GESTALT has more to do with the amalgam of ethos&amp;eros, of feeling at one with intellectual rigorous thought, HERE as a hideous example providing Hillary a political option, her victorious &#8220;atonement&#8221; over death.</p>
<p>MY gestalt observation this morning is that Hillary will get the DNC ticket. Along with that, the victory belongs to whomever champions the stay-at-home-mothers/wives with security, be that Hillary having her cookies and eating them too, or McCain who takes EVERYTHING for granted, not just conservatives, but women, and particularly those women who stay at home and sacrifice power, prestige and financial security in order to provide for the perpetuation of traditional values and emotional well being of families.</p>
<p>Now there&#8217;s a gestalt worth contemplating while chewing a homemade cookie.</p>
<p>BTW, Rush Limbaugh had better STFU at this point and get down to work with the unsettled business of forcing McCain&#8217;s hand into the conservative arena! Truly, without the conservative vote, this election belongs to Hillary who may after all make the deal breaker to unify ALL women, Reagan Democrats and all. Whatever deals McCain has made have always backfired on conservatives; there is no REASON to trust squishy McCain on anything except being betrayed in his legislation. Other than low taxes, McCain has nothing to offer women voters. Hillary on the other hand, is the PROGRAM user and abuser extraordinaire. Just watch as she will manipulate women at home with her CARING motives.</p>
<p>$.02</p>
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		<title>By: Seixon</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/27/an-obama-payoff/comment-page-1/#comment-1093815</link>
		<dc:creator>Seixon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So it will be Hillary, after all. Sorry Obama, the media&#039;s always been in Hillary&#039;s barn, the last few months were just a false front to lull you into a false sense of security. Nice knowin&#039; ya, kid.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So it will be Hillary, after all. Sorry Obama, the media&#8217;s always been in Hillary&#8217;s barn, the last few months were just a false front to lull you into a false sense of security. Nice knowin&#8217; ya, kid.</p>
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		<title>By: yo</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/27/an-obama-payoff/comment-page-1/#comment-1093814</link>
		<dc:creator>yo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;That is the moral tragedy of it all.

Ob1stogie on April 27, 2008 at 12:09 PM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Illinois politics is nothing but a moral tragedy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>That is the moral tragedy of it all.</p>
<p>Ob1stogie on April 27, 2008 at 12:09 PM</p></blockquote>
<p>Illinois politics is nothing but a moral tragedy.</p>
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		<title>By: DelD</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/27/an-obama-payoff/comment-page-1/#comment-1093811</link>
		<dc:creator>DelD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ping-Pong-Gate!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ping-Pong-Gate!</p>
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