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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 01:44 PM
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Rock The Vote: To Iowans For Biden, Dodd, Richardson, Kucinich, Paul, and Gore
You read it here first: after Iowa and New Hampshire the pundits will proclaim 2008 The Year Of The Political Independent that will advantage Barack Obama and John McCain, and disadvantage Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney.

The great realignment is at hand, and it is anti-Washington, anti-establishment, and anti-Bush with the potential outcome of the next FDR and JFK-style eras being a progressive centrist alliance between progressive Democrats and political independents electing a reformist President and Congress.

If the last shall be first, Dennis Kucinich has fired the first cannon by urging his supporters in Iowa to vote with Barack Obama and if the supporters of Biden, Dodd, Richardson, Gore and Democrats for Ron Paul take this course and rock the vote for Obama or Edwards in Iowa, the revolution begins.

The proposition in Iowa is simple: the Iowa caucus is now a referendum, yes or no, on whether the Democratic nominating process is declared over, before it begins in earnest, with the insider establishment coronating it's candidate, Hillary Clinton, or whether the real campaign begins with a reformist victory in Iowa that sets loose powerful forces for true change.

January 3 in Iowa will be the Lexington and Concord of our times, and in this year of the political independent the issue will be decided by the most disenfranchised, disrespected and disempowered groups in American politics, who are:

MORE at.....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brent-budowsky/rock-the-vote-to-iowans-_b_79237.html
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 01:47 PM
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1. Gore? And their SECOND choice?
"Stop Hillary" is really a lousy, vicious, sexist (it damn well is) reason to do anything.

But then, Kucinich does like his women younger.
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 02:07 PM
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7. You are accusing people
Edited on Wed Jan-02-08 02:07 PM by MuseRider
of being lousy, vicious and sexist then fire off a statement like that? Wow, you are so credible. :eyes:

Edit spelling
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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 01:47 PM
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2. BIDEN! BIDEN! BIDEN! BIDEN! BIDEN! BIDEN!
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 01:52 PM
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4. I join you!!!
Edited on Wed Jan-02-08 01:52 PM by alyce douglas
I hope people wake up and caucus for Biden, who do you want up against McCain or even Bloomberg, I want Joe!!! Joe is the best one to go head to head with any repig candidate. Can you see Biden up against Huckabee??? Joe would eat him alive.
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Zookeeper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 01:52 PM
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3. I watched Biden's campaign appearance last night on C-Span.
I'm off the fence; he's the best choice.

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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 01:54 PM
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5. Oh hurray!
I'm so glad Zookeeper! Join us at the Joe Biden supporters group! We'd love to have you!
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 01:54 PM
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6. wasn't he good, he's just a humble guy.
Edited on Wed Jan-02-08 01:55 PM by alyce douglas
nothing against the other dem candidates, but we really need someone like Biden to hit the ground running, and you know he will.

He knows all the players and will know how to handle them.
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medicswife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 02:10 PM
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8. I love when the kids start getting a little rowdy
at his events and he is just like, "oh, that's ok, that doesn't bother me!"
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 02:38 PM
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9. it was lovely to see his whole family, his mom what a treasure she is.
she's like 90 years old, what a good mother she is to be at her son's side on this.
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surfermaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 02:41 PM
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10. If Biden would win IOwa, he have his foot in his mouth with in hours
Just like he did , when he ran before, copied someones words and didn't give credit for them, was one of the things..
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Zookeeper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 03:10 PM
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11. Well, after 7 years of an inarticulate boob who has....
Edited on Wed Jan-02-08 03:10 PM by Zookeeper
failed to form a coherent paragraph without a teleprompter, I'll take a few less-than perfectly vetted comments over the plasticized statements of the front-runners.

Biden is real, knowledgeable and experienced.

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