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Re: we don't need no stinkin' primary (none / 1)

that's not a good idea for a lot of reasons not the least of which is that to appear to ignore a candidate who is a woman would make him look like a sexist pig.

by zoe on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 04:42:28 PM EST
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Re: we don't need no stinkin' primary (none / 0)

Which leaves him in the interesting position that not to ignore a candidate because she's a woman makes him a sexist pig.

by Sassafras on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 04:59:39 PM EST
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Re: we don't need no stinkin' primary (none / 0)

I don't get it.

by zoe on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 05:01:59 PM EST
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Re: we don't need no stinkin' primary (none / 0)

I mean that, if he would ignore a male rival in this situation, he shouldn't have to treat Clinton any differently.

by Sassafras on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 05:10:54 PM EST
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Re: we don't need no stinkin' primary (none / 0)

if Clinton were a male, Obama would just be perceived as extremely arrogant.

because she is a female, he would be perceived as a sexist pig.

by zoe on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 05:38:56 PM EST
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Re: we don't need no stinkin' primary (none / 0)

If Clinton were male, she'd be Joe Lieberman, and we wouldn't be having this discussion.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 07:42:59 PM EST
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Re: we don't need no stinkin' primary (none / 0)

no way.

firstly, her allegiance doesn't lie with Israel first

secondly, she and her husband haven't been shown to be bloodthirsty Arab haters

etc

by zoe on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 07:46:45 PM EST
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Re: we don't need no stinkin' primary (none / 0)

Oh, really? Then address for me her threatening to nuke Iran if Iran threatened -- yes, not actually attacked, but merely threatened -- to attack Israel.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 07:48:21 PM EST
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Re: we don't need no stinkin' primary (none / 0)

I don't think he has to do it at that level. That's what she wants him to do, trouble is he just doens't have to. She's an irrelevance and all he has to do is start attacking McCain. After all, it was Clinton who said what a great and experienced guy McCain was, to the extent that Rachel Maddow said she was fishing for a VP slot. So attacking McCain and republican politics is attacking Clinton and Obama can frame it like that.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 05:00:50 PM EST
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Re: we don't need no stinkin' primary (none / 0)

she''s not an irrelevance at all.

she 's not far behind him in the delegate count.

the rest I don't understand.

by zoe on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 05:03:03 PM EST
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