I haven't spent the past 35 years in the trenches - to see...
- - You haven't worked so hard for 18 months and endured the last 8 years to suffer through more failed leadership...
Now this one is just funny, whether you are a McCain or an Obama supporter:
(if anyone can give me a pointer on how to inbed the video, I'd be thankful)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ted9Hzn8foY
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Obama was chosen by acclamation after his rival for the Democratic nomination, former first lady Hillary Clinton, took to the convention floor and moved to suspend the traditional state-by-state rollcall vote.
"With eyes firmly fixed on the future, in the spirit of unity, with the goal of victory, with faith in our party and our country, let's declare together in one voice right here right now, that Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our president," Clinton said, triggering a deafening roar.
"I move Senator Barack Obama of Illinois be selected by the convention by acclamation as the nominee of the Democratic Party."
Clinton's move came after her campaign struck a deal with Obama's to cut off the rollcall after two thirds of the states had voted.
Obama's official nomination came ahead of a highly-anticipated keynote speech by former president Bill Clinton, who had a rocky relationship with the Illinois senator throughout the Democratic primaries.
The timing of Obama's (acceptance) address on the 45th anniversary of King's most famous speech was pure coincidence - the date for the Democratic nominee's speech had been chosen long before the outcome of the Democratic race was known.
The scene for the closing of ranks around Obama was set in motion earlier today when Clinton formally released her delegates, freeing them to vote for Obama.
"You've come here from so many different places having made this journey and feeling in your heart what is right for you to do," she told the crowd in emotional scenes.
"I want you to know that this has been a joy. Yes, we didn't make it. But, boy, did we have a good time."
Some Clinton supporters did register their support for their candidate, but it was clear within the opening minutes of the vote, but by far the greater majority had swung around behind Obama.
Even Arkansas, which Clinton claims as her adopted state, rallied behind Obama, in a unanimous vote for his candidacy that drew huge whoops from the crowd.
Obama also handily carried Kentucky, a state that had voted by huge margins for Clinton in what as then seen as a sign of his difficulty in appealing to white working-class voters.
why do so many people say he's gonna get shot?
Because the US is full of racist, red-necked, nutters, who think that blacks should still be picking cotton. Confederate flags still fly down south.
...and they all own guns.
I hope you were joking on this one Wayne, or at least exaggerating. I know that is the southern stereotype, but it is so far from reality, it is laughable.
This southern man is for McCain, but none of us want anything bad to happen to Obama. We just want him to lose because he is wrong on the issues. By the way, if you check the left wing blogs like DailyKos, Moveon, or Huffingtonpost, you will find the biggest nutcases of all. Most of the fury is on the left at this point in history.
Calliope,Good old Wayne We are now seeing the real you. I will leave you with a thought. "The last refuge of the bigot is to accuse his critics of being racist" (with apologies to Samuel Johnson)
Only partly joking. I was raised in the US and I have relatives in North Carolina and Georgia so I do know the situation.
Most American folks are intrinsically, but unintentionally racist. They don't consciously mean to be, but they are in lots of ways that are not lost on non-whites. Some are consciously racist, but not violently so. I have a cousin who is like this who cannot disguise her revulsion at non-whites. Quite proud of the fact that the Chinese family on their street was effectively forced to move by being kept in Coventry by all the whites.
This is the same person who goes to a Baptist church every Sunday plus Bible study etc.
There is small but sizable minority who are malevolently and overtly racist such as the folks in the photo.
C'mon Zzzzzzz, you know as well as I do that the Old Boys are frothing at the mouth over the possibility of a black president. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to imagine some of these clown wishing to inflict harm on Obama.
It wasn't that long ago that MLK was bumped off for speaking out too much.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel: Samuel Johnson
Calliope,
An observation on racism doesn't make me a racist you Bozo.
I just want to state for the record, that I consider myself as a redneck and I'm proud of it...This doesn't mean I'm a racist though.
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