It's so nice watching Obama's fallacy of hope campaign implode before our very eyes

[Herman Munster]

The way things stand right now Edwards and Clinton clearly have the momentum and Obama is in desperation mode as he sees a 3rd place finish and Dean like implosion in his future. Candidates doing well don't go on the attack.

[DemKR]

1. 3 days to sweet victory!!! YOU GO GIRL!

[Herman Munster]

4. you got that right

GO HILLARY!

[Tellurian]

20. Sing it brother! GO HILLARY!

standing on a chair to be heard! :)

[BenDavid]

54. Sing it sister. Sing it loud. GO HILLARY!

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

2. I don't like gloating, despite the astonishing level of provocation

[indimuse]

41. Hillary 2008!

:9

[sniffa]

3. it's gonna be even nicer when Hillary goes back to the Senate

i wonder if her and Obama will be able to work together in the Senate after this campaign. will they even be able to look at each other? maybe they'll use separate entrances.

another wonderful thread Hillbot. :thumbsup:

[applegrove]

5. Yup could the gloat factor dial down a bit? We are still in this all together.

I am reminded of how, after the 2004 election, GOP people got on the mixed boards and gloated their heads off - ridiculing those who lost (us). Not something we want to make a habit of. Adults try and stay away from the negative emotions.

[Sulawesi]

6. Just wow...

[Franc_Lee]

7. I prefer Obama as the sensible choice but look forward to seeing Hil go back to the Senate...

[rodeodance]

8. i would not call it imploding--but he does seem defensive lately

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

9. Offensive pointless post. You should delete it

[comradebillyboy]

10. no more offensive and poinless than most of the

anti-Hillary screeds here at DU. Obamites can hand out the shit with gusto but can't take it when its dished back.

Kurt_and_Hunter I am not suggesting you are an Obamite, nor am I accusing your posts of being either offensive or pointless.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

11. The loathsome behavior of some Obamatons is not a very good standard

[comradebillyboy]

15. very true

but human nature being what it is....I confess to not always being a very nice person.

[Sulawesi]

17. I am new to this forum, support obama, and I don't see the Obama

peeps behaving any differently...this post is an example, and there are lots of others.

[comradebillyboy]

23. welcome to DU

we are a very partisan lot and often quite quarrelsome.

[Nedsdag]

47. Thank you.

And welcome. If the poll had HRH Hillary ahead, they'd be screaming it from the top of Mount Everest.

[LanternWaste]

49. I see... "well, they did it too!"

I see... "well, they did it too!" is a wonderful defense of one's own behavior. If someone posts something both offensive and pointless, then civility, manners and honor be damned! I'll post offensive and pointless musings of mine own because well, they did it too...

And lest your fur fly in a fallacious direction, I have neither chosen on, nor ruled out a candidate yet.

[Sparkly]

12. In Iowa, it looks like a 3-way tie.

Don't know what the polls look like elsewhere. (And we all know they can change after Iowa.)

[comradebillyboy]

21. we will find, late Thursday night

which polls were wrong
and which polls were right.

[sandnsea]

13. The filth of the Clinton campaign doesn't change

If anybody thought they had learned anything by their disgusting attacks a few weeks ago - well, obviously not.

They're happy to be defeating hope. How sick. How cynical.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. Ahhh

He represented something that was good and pure and noble but was corrupted along the way...It is a story told many a time before...When this race started I wanted him to win with every fiber in my body because I felt the election of a black man to our highest office would be a redemptive moment for our nation...For the forty acres and a mule that was never forthcoming ...But it was not to be...

When the media anoints somebody The Chosen One whether it be an athlete, a politician, or a celebrity it is natural for some folks to embrace that person...It is also natural for some folks to reject him....

I was a ten year boy from a politically active family when Bobby Kennedy ran for president...My mom had taken me up to front of a rope line in 1964 in Rego Park, New York when he was running for senator of New York to shake his hand... I still have an autographed picture of him on my dresser drawer that is now forty years old...He was a good and decent man but he wasn't a cardboard saint... He ran as the brother of the martyred president but I don't remember him claiming messianic status or his followers attacking anybody that claimed he was a a politician with all the benefits and liabilities ambition brings...

Ironically if Obama was to win his victory would have undermined the principles on which he ran...These men and women are not cardboard saints... They are complex people with all the complexities that are unique to our nature...

I have had many a argument over Hillary Clinton on this board...I defended her here because I felt she was under siege and when I defended her I felt I was under siege too...It was a vicious cycle...But in my defense I never made her into something she wasn't... I never said she was more or less noble than her competitors...That her motives were purer...

They are all politicians, albeit they are politicians on our side, and I am sure each and every one of them want to make life better for Americans; especially for those Americans who need our help the most...But none of them are beyond reproach and when you present yourself as being beyond reproach some folks are going to become alienated...

[Tess99]

16. Um, when did Obama say he was a saint?

And how is he corrupted exactly?

[Sulawesi]

22. That is pretty self-righteous...

...I dont think Obama has behaved badly at all, the people on this board over-react.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. Self Righteous?

I am far, far from perfect...That's why I don't demand or expect perfection from others...If you were here the past few months you would see that the supporters of one candidate held their candidate out as perfect and attacked the candiate and the supporter of any candidate that challenged him...

[Sulawesi]

30. I can't speak for what happened before I was here, and

apologies if the "self-righteous" thing gave offense. I have just seen a lot of petty attacks, all against Obama, and this one, cheering the death of hope, is pretty over the top.

[cloudythescribbler]

55. I think Sulawesi has a point -- there is an incongruous # of Obama-bashers here

although, fortunately, there are a lot of Obama supporters too, to answer them. However, in many of the most hostile threads, like the one demanding an apology from Obama for letting McClurkin on his podium, the Obama supporters often stay away (a general phenomenon on attack threads -- usually only the supporters of the attack congregate there).

[NoPasaran]

18. I don't think this is at all productive

[Tejanocrat]

19. It does seem a bit like he's TRYING to lose Iowa.

[Crunchy Frog]

64. Pity he's such a failure at everything he attempts.

:rofl:

[Franc_Lee]

24. DU'ers shouldn't be surprised to see a Obama win in Iowa, those people think outside the bubble.

[IndyOp]

26. Geez. I am not supporting Obama, but I don't think it is nice to watch anyone's

campaign implode -- particularly not when he has millions and millions of people who care about him.

:(

[Bitwit1234]

27. Wait wait wait here comes Mighty Mouse. or should I say Oprah

[sniffa]

32. you should make this an OP

:thumbsup:

[AtomicKitten]

28. I heard if you say that over and over with your eyes closed

it still isn't true.

[DemKR]

29. just watch lol

[lojasmo]

31. Clinton's ground game in Ia is shyte

My wife has 6 employees going down there to help them out, and the Clinton camp was nowhere to be found. Lo's workers sat around for two days without being able to do anything for Clinton.

Yuck.

ABC. Kthksbi

[sniffa]

33. heh heh heh

:rofl:

[tammywammy]

35. I love these kinds of threads

[sniffa]

36. so do i

back to the top

:rofl:

[Nedsdag]

48. Me too!

Keep it up, guys! Keep it up!

[Horse with no Name]

34. I'd pick Obama over Clinton any day of the week and twice on Sunday

and he isn't my first choice.
With that being said...it will be a thrill watching Clinton's-Corporate-Charade-Campaign self-destruct. It will be a victory for "we the people" when she goes down...

[Sulawesi]

37. I just wanted to bump this nasty thread to the top...

...to demonstrate how we are all bouncing around in a silly, and too often nasty, way...driven by polls and a remarkable level of disrespect among people that support different candidates.

[mdmc]

42. thank you my friend

Being in HRC's (new) backyard, I didn't know that there were other candidates being supported. :kick:for the nastiness.

[babylonsister]

38. Care to reconsider this in light of recent developments?

:rofl:

[mdmc]

39. As long as we stop HRC

I could care less.

[Dr. Strange]

40. Yeah, I hate hope.

We need to stay the course, dammit!

[krabigirl]

43. Thank you! Finally others are seeing the light!

[sniffa]

44. ...

:rofl:

[CyberPieHole]

45. K&R for Donnie McClurkin and the Paucity of Hope n/t

[Nedsdag]

46. You've completely lost what is left of your mind.

Go ahead. Keep it up!

[Eurobabe]

50. You and your Bots are the reason I will never support Clinton

and I am a Biden supporter.

How they (DU mods) let you continuously SPEW venom on other Dem candidates on this board is outrageous.

[sniffa]

51. "Who let the bots out!?"

[Infinite Hope]

52. Not necessarily true that candidates doing well don't go negative.

Especially in a primary/caucus. Negative attacks are used for voter suppression of one's opponent(s). He is doing well, but by suppressing even a small number of voters of his opponent(s) could make a world of difference.

[JackORoses]

53. is this the Hillary Magical Mystical Circle Jerk to Jinx Obama thread?

3 words... 2nd Choice Votes

You cannot avoid this Caucus Reality.

[tammywammy]

56. I like watching imploding campaigns too

Too back Obama isn't imploding.


Keep up the good work.

[Egnever]

66. .

[snowbear]

70. Tammy --- I thought you were backing Obama???

What's the deal?

[sniffa]

57. o'rly

[mrreowwr_kittty]

68. sniffa you rock my world repeatedly

Especially since I know Obama let you down before.

[Arugula Latte]

58. Wow, remind me not to let you pick my stocks for me. n./t

[HughMoran]

59. Wow, you got 14 rec's for that?

lol - ooops

[JackORoses]

60. I think you meant Explode, Hermie

ahahahahaahahaha!

[jgraz]

61. I see a bright future as a Sunday Morning pundit for you

:rofl:

[Crunchy Frog]

62. Prognostication not going so well this election cycle is it.

:spray:

[Blue-Jay]

63. -snort-

[joeprogressive]

65. redaction? n/t

[Egnever]

67. Man sometimes the permanency of the web bites you in the ass

[DUyellow]

69. LOL

[loveangelc]

71. haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[cali]

72. wow. look how damned desperate barack is now.

He WON IOWA. He must be beside himself with desperateion and fear.

[bklyncowgirl]

73. Good morning Nostradamus. Got any hot tips at the track for us? nt

[sniffa]

74. Obama's toast!