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Crissa
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Post by Crissa » Sat Jan 05, 2008 7:47 pm

...But the numbers were encouraging:

> [url=http://www.groupnewsblog.net/2008/01/iowa-wrap-up.html wrote:Percentage of total vote[/url]]24.5% Obama
> 20.5% Edwards
> 19.8% Clinton
> 11.4% Huckabee (R)
> ...

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Post by MrWaeseL » Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:15 pm

Congratulations to Barack "well, AS A BLACK MAN I feel that," Obama
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Post by tzor » Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:49 pm

I'm going to ignore the Republican caucus for the moment because the Republicans don't do the same thing as the Democrats do, but the Democratic Iowa caucus is generally unique in one aspect. It's not a secret ballot but a public affirmation of a candidate, with real pull and tug and last minute arguments by other real people. Therefore the Iowa caucus says something.
Ironically what it doesn't say is who is going to win either the nomination or the election. But for a moment, a brief moment, politics became local and personal. Not like those Stupid Tuesdays where candidates who can't flood 20 or more states at the same time with advertisements haven't got a snowball's chance in Key West of getting any significant percentages.
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Post by Username17 » Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:40 am

Certainly going to be interesting. Whoever comes next will have to pull out of Iraq. But pulling out of Iraq is going to be frought with peril if done by a democrat. The neocons have already promised that if we leave Iraq the terrorists will follow us home. And since the Bush administration hired ex-Death Squad members from Central America as mercenaries and gave them passports, the statement is literally true.
Just like in 2000, the neocons are threatening to destroy the country with civil war if they don't get their way. Of course, it hardly matters because them getting their way involves the country being destroyed regardless.
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Post by JonSetanta » Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:59 am

> FrankTrollman at [unixtime wrote:1199619627[/unixtime]]The neocons have already promised that if we leave Iraq the terrorists will follow us home.

Yep. They'll make sure the prophesy becomes reality.
Because, naturally, money talks and justice walks.
We really should cut back on the pessimism, though. Cmon.. have faith that the Good Guys will win!
..whoever the Good Guys are?

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Post by Captain_Bleach » Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:29 am

There are no good guys; becoming a politician means that you must resort to propaganda and smear campaigns to win. Sticking by your beliefs, no matter how much harm they do to innocents, is completely optional, but nevertheless popular.
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Post by ckafrica » Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:56 am

> FrankTrollman at [unixtime wrote:1199619627[/unixtime]]And since the Bush administration hired ex-Death Squad members from Central America as mercenaries and gave them passports, the statement is literally true.

Are these part of the private security firms?
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:33 pm

> ckafrica at [unixtime wrote:1200052598[/unixtime]]

> > FrankTrollman at [unixtime wrote:1199619627[/unixtime]]And since the Bush administration hired ex-Death Squad members from Central America as mercenaries and gave them passports, the statement is literally true.

> Are these part of the private security firms?

I know that Blackwater is notorious for hiring people like that. By saying that, I'm not saying someone else isn't doing it too, they very well might be.
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