OMG, this has been a terrible month for Bernie Ward, first he's convicted as a pedophile and looking at prison time, NOW he's not going to be able to eat as much as he wants?!?
Life is SO unfair...
Posted on 05/18/2008 6:50:31 PM PDT by WesA
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Barack Obama set his sights on November's general election Saturday as he campaigned in Oregon, where he hopes to declare victory in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Obama has said Tuesday's primaries in Oregon and Kentucky could mark the end of his drawn-out battle with rival Hillary Clinton, and his campaign pressed home that message by announcing a symbolic return to Iowa that day.
Iowa was the scene of the Illinois senator's first victory in the 2008 presidential nominating race, and his campaign noted Saturday it is "a critical general election state that Democrats must win in November."
Polls show Obama leading in Oregon, where 52 delegates are up for grabs, while Clinton is ahead in Kentucky, a state with 51 delegates that has a similar demographic to West Virginia, where she won a thumping victory Tuesday.
His campaign says he needs just 17 more pledged delegates won through state votes to reach a majority of 1,627, not counting the "superdelegates," party officials who can vote either way at August's Democratic national convention.
Using a baseball analogy, Obama said May 8 that if after Tuesday's primaries "we have a majority of pledged delegates, which is possible, then I think we can make a pretty strong claim that we have got the most runs and its the ninth inning and we have won."
The official finishing line is 2,025 delegates, including superdelegates.
During a rally in Roseburg, Oregon, Saturday, Obama presented himself as the front-runner almost without question, attacking presumptive Republican nominee John McCain on foreign policy, the environment and healthcare.
Reviving Friday's furious row sparked by President George W. Bush's suggestion that Democrats wanted to appease terrorists, Obama said that not talking to North Korea and Iran had only made those states stronger.
"I want everybody to be absolutely clear about this because George Bush and McCain have suggested that me being willing to sit down with our adversaries is a sign of weakness and sign of appeasement," he said.
He also attacked McCain's plan for a gas tax holiday to cope with rising pump prices, which Clinton supports, as well as his other environmental plans, saying the Republican had consistently opposed fuel efficiency standards.
"For him to come to Oregon as an environmental president, but his big strategy is to do more drilling and to have a gas tax holiday for three months, that's a phony solution," he said.
Pitching his message to Oregon's environmentally-conscious voters, Obama called on the United States to "lead by example" on global warming, and develop new technologies at home which could be exported to developing countries.
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.
"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.
The Illinois senator also argued that the differences between his healthcare plan and that of Clinton "pale in comparison to the differences we have with John McCain," whose proposals would only work "if you're healthy and wealthy."
The escalating rhetoric between Obama and McCain has evoked the kind of campaign battles more common in the immediate run-up to an election -- and emphasized further Obama's pole position in the Democratic race.
But Clinton has vowed to keep fighting until the end of the primary season on June 3, and campaigning in Kentucky Saturday, she defended the plan for the gas tax holiday and accused McCain of having no idea how to fund it.
"Senator McCain said let's give everybody a gas tax holiday but doesn't want to pay for it. I think I've got the best plan. Let the oil companies pay it out of their excess profits," she said
So we need other countries’ permission before we eat, or drive, or heat and cool our homes?
In an AFP article, no less.
“This radical Marxist can never win a national election. I’m becoming more and more convinced he’s unelectable. McCain’s team ought to have a field day with this comment, if they’re smart. Unfortunately, I’m not convinced they’re at all smart.”
I disagree. America is one Obama away from full on socialism. And Americans are ready. Democrats want to be taken care of, and will gladly surrender liberty to be cared for.
My oldest is 25, he says most of his generation are not just accepting of the nanny state, but supportive.
The America I grew up in is just a fond memory.
Obama wouldn't know what leadership was if it bit him in the ass. I wouldn't follow that bozo to the mess hall if he had a flashlight and a map!
Why not? We drove our tanks and our jeeps, IN THEIR COUNTRIES, and they didn't complain at all.
Unfortunately McCain with his “enviro-tour” cannot even attack Obama on this.
Yeah, but there may not be an America 30 years down the road if he gets in. It'll be the Communist-Republic of the Northern-Western Hemisphere, or the Western Islamic Conglomerate. Either candidate, I don't see much good. Pray that neither gets in and that the GOP will wise up and put boot to teeth with McCannot
“This radical Marxist can never win a national election. I’m becoming more and more convinced he’s unelectable. McCain’s team ought to have a field day with this comment, if they’re smart. Unfortunately, I’m not convinced they’re at all smart.”
Unfortunately, I’m scared to death they don’t have the cojonas to say negative things about Osama.
Yes we could, if the government would get off their collective arses and let free enterprise do it’s thing. Get rid of their paranoia concerning environmentalist and let us drill, dig and otherwise control our own futures … we could drive our SUV’s and eat as much as we want, and thumb our noses at the rest of the world.
So it’a a NOT-Global-tested, Global test, right????
So it’a a NOT-Global-tested, Global test, right????
I forgot the “ “ around change. Computer malfunction:-0
Heads up Denver. Fire extinguishers are a must.
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
He is supported by the same kind of terrorists who did this. He wants to gut our military and to surrender the war on terror
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.”
LOL, Obama will eat like a king as president, be transported on the not so carbon neutral Air Force One AND he will most certainly be air conditioned.
Meanwhile, us peons will be starved to death.
All Heil Da Messiah!
There is no way in Hades that this man can be the President of the US. Period. End of story. He will destroy this country, and the People who are it’s Citizens.
And who cares what "other countries" might think.
Must I ask permission from Qatar to fuel my vehicle? Should I address a request to Argentina before I order a slab of ribs? Does the Prime Minister of Russia have anything to say about where I set my thermostat?
Or is Barack Hussein Obama going to decide all these things for me?
I agree, I want Obama to win just to teach the “Independents” a lesson, muwhahaha!
I would say “the bomb” to this twit, but I do not want to be banned.
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