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I should have picked Hillary over Obama
St Louis Post Disgrace ^ | August 11, 2011 | BILL McCLELLAN

Posted on 08/11/2011 5:28:38 AM PDT by Second Amendment First

I was splashing around in Lake Michigan last week when the realization hit me like a wave — I was wrong about Barack Obama. I should have voted for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary three years ago.

At the time of the primary, the decision seemed easy. I saw in Obama the same qualities Jack Kerouac saw in Dean Moriarty in "On the Road." He was 'something new, long prophesied, long a-coming."

Hillary was not new. She represented the second act of "Billary," and I had tired of that play long before it ended its eight-year run.

So I voted for Obama in the primary and then again in the general election. I even left the election night party at the Pageant — a party with an open bar and filled with state legislators, union guys and other acquaintances — to go to the Chase Park Plaza, where the Obama people were celebrating. I knew almost nobody at that second party, but I was there when the networks declared that Obama was the next president. People cried and hugged. I got teary myself. A black president. The times they are a-changing.

Indeed. They keep getting worse.

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KEYWORDS: guilt; hillary; remorse; white
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1 posted on 08/11/2011 5:28:39 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

A black president

yes...thats really the only reason everyone voted for him. talk about racist.


2 posted on 08/11/2011 5:31:06 AM PDT by annelizly
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To: annelizly

White guilt.

These mea culpas are getting old. If they fell for the BS the first time around, what does that say about their judgement?


3 posted on 08/11/2011 5:33:07 AM PDT by randita (Obama - chains you can bereave in.)
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To: Second Amendment First
At the time of the primary, the decision seemed easy. I saw in Obama the same qualities Jack Kerouac saw in Dean Moriarty in "On the Road." He was 'something new, long prophesied, long a-coming."

So is the coming world ruler also known as "The Beast." Seems more and more people are ripe for the picking.

4 posted on 08/11/2011 5:33:07 AM PDT by PapaNew
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To: Second Amendment First

Folks, Mrs. Bill “Slick Willie” Clinton is every bit the Marxist/communist that Obammie the Commie is.

Don’t believe this new leftist diversion that she is some sort of a hawk or centrist.

She is a hardcore leftist who agrees with everything Obama is doing.


5 posted on 08/11/2011 5:33:11 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: Second Amendment First
Hitlary was have been a shade better than the One on the 'I hate the USA,' scale.

Even a brain dead zombie could see Oslama was a community communist.

6 posted on 08/11/2011 5:33:21 AM PDT by deadrock
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To: Second Amendment First
Fascinating description of the thought process of a progressive:

I was splashing around in Lake Michigan last week when the realization hit me like a wave — I was wrong about Barack Obama. I should have voted for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary three years ago.

7 posted on 08/11/2011 5:33:45 AM PDT by DManA
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whoever gets the nomination is who they’ll vote for despite all their handwringing.

they’re all leftists first and foremost.


8 posted on 08/11/2011 5:34:20 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (My mind is like a steel trap: rusty and illegal in 37 states.)
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To: Second Amendment First

....and all the lefties think they are so smart and above us...they’re “progressive”. BS.
They are knuckle dragging, emotional immature oafs.


9 posted on 08/11/2011 5:34:38 AM PDT by AlphaOneAlpha
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To: Second Amendment First

Morons. They will never figure out it is the ideology that is a failure not the person.


10 posted on 08/11/2011 5:36:30 AM PDT by rwh
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To: Second Amendment First
odd --> Margery Eagan of the Boston Herald shares the same regrets --> Belatedly but finally heading for Hill

but I'll bet that both these columnists will be voting for Obambi in 2012...

11 posted on 08/11/2011 5:36:56 AM PDT by xtinct (The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you..Be Strong Patriots!)
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Now, now, Bill; you got your “Hope and Change”. That it turned out being less than what you expected,what can I say?


12 posted on 08/11/2011 5:37:19 AM PDT by LRS ("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
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To: randita; DManA

It’s not about judgement or thought processes. These are liberals and emotion is what guides them.


13 posted on 08/11/2011 5:37:50 AM PDT by Second Amendment First ("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..." - Thomas Jefferson.)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeGPzk8Oca8

I remmeber how upset this woman was when the convention rejected Hillary and chose Obama. She knew it was a mistake.


14 posted on 08/11/2011 5:39:57 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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To: Second Amendment First; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; calcowgirl; ...
This entertaining. But he has point.

Obama has set back Keynesian socialist economic dogma a decade undoing the damage that Republicans did when they were in power, in them setting back the belief in capitalism(good example=TARP).

Last night Ed Schultz MSNBC had a fit because Obama not only wouldn't support the recall efforts in WI, but he won't even mention the fight going on there. He and the other socialists at MSNBC are calling for Obama to fight for a massive Roosevelt type stimulus public works program.

Obama realizes the wind has changed on deficits and spending, and at the least he will play act like he agrees looking to re-election and poll testing everything he proposes.

15 posted on 08/11/2011 5:40:36 AM PDT by sickoflibs (If you pay zero Federal income taxes, don't say you are paying your 'fair share')
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To: Second Amendment First
Where oh where is that brave, experienced far left dem/lib/prog/pop who will run in the primaries against the stain?

Hitlery is the dem/lib/prog/pop equivalent of our good old boy newt...she's had it.

So....truthfully....who - in that diaper full of crap called the "democrat party" - could mount a realistic challenge to the stain???

16 posted on 08/11/2011 5:40:45 AM PDT by Logic n' Reason (The stain must be REMOVED (ERADICATED)....NOW!!)
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To: Second Amendment First

Just a leftist cry baby that Obama has been to weak and hasn’t delivered enough liberalism.


17 posted on 08/11/2011 5:41:09 AM PDT by RED SOUTH (If you liked George W. Bush, you will LOVE Rick Perry! Follow me on twitter @redsouth72)
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To: Second Amendment First

Another stupid communist checks in.


18 posted on 08/11/2011 5:42:12 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Second Amendment First
Dear Bill,


19 posted on 08/11/2011 5:42:49 AM PDT by McGruff (a Sarah Palin supporter and proud of it.)
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To: Second Amendment First

the only regret the left has is that 0failure has gone too fast, waking up America before they secured everything they wanted... including the irreparable demise of the country


20 posted on 08/11/2011 5:43:24 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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