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The Democrats' supersized headache
Toronto Star ^ | 2/16/2008 | Tim Harper

Posted on 02/16/2008 6:07:24 AM PST by markomalley

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To: markomalley

Will there be civil violence if Obama doesn’t get his way?


21 posted on 02/16/2008 7:14:21 AM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: cgbg

You are so right, cgbg. Obama is just the sort of candidate the superdelegates were created to prevent, but they will not have the backbone to serve as intended.
As for the Clintons, I would add that it isn’t just their incompetent campaign or the scales falling from people’s eyes. Nothing drives people away quite as effectively as menopause and a heart operation. The Clintons are, in a word, old. Your basic Democrat is an adolescent.


22 posted on 02/16/2008 7:18:49 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( Peel back tabs for tagline. Do not remove this label. Obey.)
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To: blam
...civil violence...

Civil? Violence?

23 posted on 02/16/2008 7:22:01 AM PST by FreePaul
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To: FreePaul

1968 DNC

24 posted on 02/16/2008 7:30:54 AM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam
Will there be civil violence if Obama doesn’t get his way?

There will not be the level of protest in the streets of Denver, Colorado like there was in the streets of Chicago in 1968. I guess that gives the superdelegates the cover they need to "vote vagina".

Folks, it's REALLY important for this to happen. We've already lost 2008, no matter what, there will be a liberal taking the oath of office in January. But it's vital for black America to divorce itself from the Rat party, and having Hillary steal the nomination, then go on to win the White House that "should have been Barack's" is an essential part of this narrative.

They will toss a monkey wrench into anything she wants to do, and this will lead to the train wreck that gets conservatives back in the Congress in 2010, and then a true conservative nominee up to bat in 2012.

If you're hoping and pining for a McCainiac victory, then you might as well talk your congresscritters into passing that Schwartzenegger amendment, so we can have an even more liberal Pubbie nominee next time!

25 posted on 02/16/2008 7:32:22 AM PST by hunter112 (The 'straight talk express' gets the straight finger express from me.)
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To: Eagle Forgotten
*** It's not that simple. ***

I know. But I was trying to keep it as simple as possible as to 'Super Delegate'.

It's that 'Super Delegate' tag the Dem use and have that is confusing. And it was only last week that Bob Beckle said on FNC he helped create the 'Super' Delegate. So I don't think that term is an MSM creation.

And in today's world what happened to Mayor Daley and the IL delegation in 72 would not occur. They'd (most) be 'Super Delegates'.

btw, I LIKED the old (real) Mayor Daley, he took no cr*p. He defended his cops after the (cough) '1968 Police Riot' AND gave a 'Shoot To Kill' order to the CPD during the 'King Riots' when the natives 'residents' were burning down the West Side, looting and 'snipers' were shooting at firemen and ambulances. After that order went out - publicly - the looting and 'sniping' ended pdq.

26 posted on 02/16/2008 7:38:38 AM PST by Condor51 (Vote for McInsane or Ugga-Bugga? Decisions, decisions, decisions.)
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To: hunter112

Good analysis.


27 posted on 02/16/2008 7:45:15 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Condor51
Only the Dems have these 'Super' Delegates, Republicans don't.

A FReeper pointed out yesterday that the pubbies have their own version of the super delegate. The are the uncommitted delegates. Per the FReeper, the Dims have about 27% super delegates and the pubbies have about 15% uncommitted delegates. I do remember Daley's walk and thinking at the time the Dims just threw out the guy that stole the 1960 election for Kennedy by voting his dead a few dozen times. I thought it was 68 but in retrospect I think you are correct it was 72. Regardless it was a great four years for the radicals in the Dim party. A lot can happen in twelve years when the commies run the schools.

28 posted on 02/16/2008 7:45:59 AM PST by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: Condor51
For the youngsters on this thread:

Brief History Of Chicago's 1968 Democratic Convention

29 posted on 02/16/2008 7:48:36 AM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam

The Rev. Al Sharpton has promised massive protests....get the popcorn....


30 posted on 02/16/2008 7:54:11 AM PST by spokeshave (Hey GOP...NO money till border closed and criminal illegals deported)
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"The Rev. Al Sharpton has promised massive protests....get the popcorn...."

How many Black people in Denver?

31 posted on 02/16/2008 8:13:23 AM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam

Maxine Waters will be at the convention.... she can incite a riot on her own...no justice no peace...


32 posted on 02/16/2008 8:27:30 AM PST by JoanneSD (illegals represented without taxation.. Americans taxed without representation)
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To: blam

Maxine Waters will be at the convention.... she can incite a riot on her own...no justice no peace...


33 posted on 02/16/2008 8:27:44 AM PST by JoanneSD (illegals represented without taxation.. Americans taxed without representation)
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To: markomalley

The key seems to be is to get “Dee Obammah” and Hillary to destroy each other at the convention.Perhaps one of them could be encouraged to start a third “Bull Moose” party?


34 posted on 02/16/2008 8:38:41 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Eagle Forgotten

Giuliani paid about 60 Million clams for that one delegate.

I hope he used it wisely.......

And McCain took out a loan to survive. But then he admits that economics are confusing to him and he needs to learn more about the subject. (Probably after he hopes to get elected.)


35 posted on 02/16/2008 8:42:21 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP
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To: markomalley
It may all come down to how hard the Clintons, their dynasty hanging by a thread, the traditional path to a convention win looking increasingly unlikely, will fight to wrest this nomination from Obama.

They will kill anyone for it.

Again.

36 posted on 02/16/2008 8:44:31 AM PST by bannie (clintons CHEAT! AAAALLWAYS!)
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To: markomalley

This is going to be way more fun than the Olympics.

Putting by lots of beer, bbq wood and meat cuts for back yard fun.


37 posted on 02/16/2008 8:46:07 AM PST by NaughtiusMaximus (Refusing to calm down since the Waco massacre.)
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To: blam
"The Rev. Al Sharpton has promised massive protests....get the popcorn...."

How many Black people in Denver?

Not enough for a riot. Denver just isn't the rioting type, at least in the last 60-80 years. If there's a riot, it will happen somewhere else.

38 posted on 02/16/2008 8:57:17 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: cgbg

Hillary has run the most inept primary campaign in the history of the country. Her authoritarian and arrogant style has assured her electoral humiliation.

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And I must say that this is a sweet thing to see and restores my faith that karma DOES exist. As all the bozo’s she has screwed over and families of the murdered are overjoyed to see this person NOT SUCCEED!!!


39 posted on 02/16/2008 9:23:41 AM PST by Southerngl
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To: flowerplough

Yes that is true, but a lot more things as well ,she wants to get even with that scurge called the Vast Right wing conspiracy,which translated means every red blooded traditional American


40 posted on 02/16/2008 9:35:57 AM PST by ballplayer
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