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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: Wretched Excess on February 11, 2008, 02:41:24 PM
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Obama Basks in Crowds, Momentum
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Sen. Barack Obama said Monday he is the candidate who can lead the country out of a long period of divisive and ineffective government, a theme he increasingly uses against Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was first lady for eight years.
Citing the Iraq war, global warming and economic worries, Obama told more than 15,000 people at the University of Maryland that he decided to run for president soon after entering the Senate because "I was convinced that the size of these challenges had outstripped the capacity of a broken and divided politics to solve."
The nation, he said, "wanted a politics that wasn't about tearing the country down, but was about lifting the country up."
"We need something new," he said, dismissing Clinton's suggestions that he is not tough enough to handle the White House's rigors.
"I may be skinny, but I'm tough, too," he said, drawing loud cheers.
In recent days, Obama has said Clinton has difficulty escaping a divisive past because she became a polarizing figure during her husband's presidency and her time in the Senate representing New York.
The Illinois senator held two large rallies Monday in Maryland, which holds its Democratic primary on Tuesday along with Virginia and the District of Columbia. Obama hopes to build on the momentum he built over the weekend, when he swept four contests from Clinton.
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the MSM is certainly doing it's part by slavishly reporting on the nearly erotic adulation that the Obamese crowds show for The Barackstar! something about the MSM, though, is that at some point they will feel compelled to destroy their own creation. it may have already begun with the joe klien article over the weekend. the MSM's compulsion to destroy is genetic. they can't resist it. and, of course, at some point, they will need to hype the "horse race aspect" of the primaries.
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I bet Will Smith plays the Barackstar in the movie.
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I bet Will Smith plays the Barackstar in the movie.
the ears are right.
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Jug Ears!
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The more he feels entitled to the presidency, the better the fighting will get. Bill and Hil won't accept losing. They never have had to concede and they aren't starting with this kid. The Julian Bond letter you posted is her ticket to fight for MI and FL.