Thinking Unenslaved

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“…always go for the black guys.”

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Vapidly overdone singer “Jewel” fawns over Senator Barack Obama during a meet-and-greet session. She immediately returned to her studio to write a pretentious song about how she “gets” minorities.

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I need to join a campaign. These guys always seem like they’re having the most fun.

(my apologies ~ i got my copy-n-paste crossed on the original post of this and thought this photo was of a preacher, not Representative Cummings.

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mmmm….warm, fresh bullshit. it’s not just for breakfast anymore!

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Wait a minute! Is it possible that Jenna has a least a shred of common sense? No, no such luck, it seems:

Obama supporter Stacy Falkner of Idaho shows off her favorite hat inside Boise’s Qwest Arena before the start of the Ada County Democratic Caucus. Several thousand people were expected to attend the event.

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“Aaaaah! I see people that haven’t made a donation! Get ‘em! GET THEM!!!!”

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“…that if elected, I will continue to undermine personal rights and freedoms in favor of corporate gains!”

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…how many states Obama would have won if the stage crew had remembered the pole.

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I’m just sad to see him go, but I can’t blame him, since the media never let him have a voice. I think this election will always be tainted by that, in my eyes. John Edwards didn’t lose any primaries. The media just didn’t let anyone know he was there to vote for.

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“Iceburg Lettuce prepares to give her acceptance-of-defeat speech, flanked by Madeline Albright and her husband. Meanwhile, daughter Chelsea enjoys a friendly goose from a campaign supporter, while another supporter seems enraptured with Hillary’s facility to ‘bring up the rear’.”

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“Fifty dollars? You’d be willing to contribute fifty dollars to my campaign? Girlfriend, for fifty bucks, I wouldn’t even let you suck his dick!”

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“At least Edwards casts a shadow, unlike several of the Republican candidates.”

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“Thank you, Senator Obama. Thank you so very, very much!”

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“…from each and every one of you!”

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“My career has fallen and it can’t get up!”

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“…she had a Kucinich in HER bed…”

“Now, lookit. What we got here is a Democrat Congress. Ah don’t get along wiff Democrats, even when they’re tryin’ ta do sumpin’ good. So Ah just veto everything they want, unless Unca Dick tells meh not to. ‘Nuff said. Damn, dirty, Democrats.”

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“…to pull my finger!”

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Indeed.

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“Together, we will crush the true patriots Rebel Alliance, toss out the Constitution establish the New Empirical Orthodoxy, and scatter the Democrats and other free-thinking beings Jedis to the four corners of the galaxy!”

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“Selsun Blue.”

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a fat, sweaty Republican pedophile, i find Hillary’s latest attempt to gloss over her voting record and change history to be deeply disturbing.

Arianna Huffington has an excellent article on the issue, from which I excerpt below:

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Instead of honestly explaining her transformation from pro-war supporter to cheerleader of the war’s progress to tentative opponent of the war to her current incarnation as long-term opponent of the war, Hillary skipped right over the unpleasant past and tried to talk only about the future: “Well, you know, Matt, I think the important thing is for the Democrats to be united in trying to either persuade or require this president to change this direction now — that’s what all of us in the Senate are trying to do.” Sure, why answer the question when you can divert attention and blur the differences between you and your opponents?

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what really strikes me about Hillary’s rhetorical spin, in this day and age, is its blatant similarity to the very things that she and other democrats complain about in the current administration: historical revisionism, bald-faced lies, and sidestepping forthright questions with non-answers and evasion. naturally, there’s a level at which all politicians are indeed cut from the same cloth, but is it too Utopian to wish that our Democratic leadership hold themselves to higher standards than those exercised by the people they’re hoping to displace?and how about this word-play from the former president, campaigning for his wife:

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“To characterize Hillary and Obama’s positions on the war as polar opposite is ludicrous. This dichotomy that’s been set up to allow him to become the raging hero of the anti-war crowd on the Internet is just factually inaccurate.”

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indeed, so describing polar opposites as polar opposites is “factually innacurate”. i can no longer discern which administration mimics the other, but isn’t it about time someone—anyone—held themselves to a higher standard? Their respective voting records are quite clear. Obama opposed the war in 2003, and Clinton actively supported it.

 
it’s unfortunate that the great leaders of the past cannot be the great leaders of the present. as Arianna notes, “Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.” one can only wonder what Franklin Delano Roosevelt would think of the political shenanigans of both parties today, and specifically of Democratic candidates whose actions repeatedly suborn principled behavior in a day and age when moral clarity and ethical thinking could, and should, be the very ideals on which to campaign.

 
Assuming he makes it through the primary, Obama is definitely Commander Other’s candidate of choice.

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photo credits: Senator Clinton: AFP/Getty Images/File/Sandy Huffaker; Senator Obama: AP Photo/Cheryl Senter

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(AFP/File)

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….when Democrats talk about blowing money on “The War.”

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