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Old 09-08-2008, 08:18 PM
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That makes one person.

Pretty sure Thebby thinks your an ok kinda guy...but MDF still calls you a sissy behind your back
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Old 09-08-2008, 10:07 PM
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Default Obama the maverick

Happened to stumble on this little gem, to help illustrate how little the senator has done. His senior strategist lists unamimous consent measures, not even voted upon!, as examples of how Obama stood up to his party. You can't make this stuff up.

Not Just the Most Liberal Senator
Barack Obama is perhaps also the least effective Senator. This exchange
between Chris Wallace and David Axelrod on yesterday's Fox News Sunday is
hilarious:


Fox News' Chris Wallace:
Now, David, McCain and Palin do have records of
going up against their own parties. When has Barack Obama ever gone up
against the Democratic Party in the U.S. Senate?

Obama Senior Strategist David Axelrod:
... One of the first things that
Senator Obama did when he came to the U.S. Senate was push for the most
far-reaching ethics reforms that we've seen since Watergate. That didn't
please people on either side of the aisle, and he has done that
consistently in his career. He's reached across party lines to find
consensus and he's taken on his own party on issues like, like ethics
reform. You know, what was interesting about these attacks about bipartisanship
and so on is that people like Dick Lugar, the very respected Republican
senator from Indiana, spoke out and said, These are just partisan
attacks. I've worked with Barack Obama.' They worked together on arms
control. Senator Coburn in Oklahoma worked together with him on budget
issues, like putting the budget on Google so we can see how our money is
being spent, putting caps on the contracts around Katrina rebuilding.
Senator Obama has a strong recor d of working across party lines to
produce progress for people.

Wallace:
But David, because you guys always talk about ethics
legislation and the nuclear non-proliferation deal with Dick Lugar, I
went back and looked -- both of those measures passed by unanimous
consent. They were so accepted by the Senate that there was not even a
vote.
In fact, ethics legislation was one of the campaign promises.
These were not -- if I may, if I may. These were not areas where Barack
Obama went up against the leadership of his own party nearly in the way
that John McCain did on campaign finance reform, on limiting
interrogation of terror detainees, on immigration reform. He did not go
up against his own party on either of those issues.
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Old 09-08-2008, 10:23 PM
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I thought McCain and Palin mentioning taking on
Washington
during the Rep. convention with all
the Republicans delegates cheering was amusing.

Uhhh lets see, Who has controlled Washington
presidency and Congress for the last 8 and 6 years
Respectively...?

REPUBLICANS could it be.

What a joke.
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Old 09-08-2008, 10:35 PM
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I thought McCain and Palin mentioning taking on
Washington
during the Rep. convention with all
the Republicans delegates cheering was amusing.

Uhhh lets see, Who has controlled Washington
presidency and Congress for the last 8 and 6 years
Respectively...?

REPUBLICANS could it be.

What a joke.

As my new left wing friend GBBOB schooled me - it's called Politics
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Old 09-08-2008, 10:37 PM
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As my new left wing friend GBBOB schooled me - it's called Politics
Yep.
And distancing from GW...
where was he during the convention...?
Ahhh.
The hurricane.
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Old 09-08-2008, 10:50 PM
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Yep.
And distancing from GW...
where was he during the convention...?
Ahhh.
The hurricane.

Yeah..played masterfully...and George took it like a good GOP man...and he still does. Now that's party loyality - not sure I could be so civil about it.
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Old 09-08-2008, 10:59 PM
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Yeah..played masterfully...and George took it like a good GOP man...and he still does. Now that's party loyality - not sure I could be so civil about it.
Loyality is probably his biggest flaw.
The friends he put in so many places
that were incompetent, or liars, or both.

He probably still has a fondness for Putin.
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