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A Mother of a Vote
The Washington Post's Dana Milbank reports that on Wednesday a majority of House Republicans voted "against motherhood." Actually, they voted against a resolution "celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother's Day." After the resolution passed unanimously, Republican Representative Todd Tiahrt of Kansas stood up and said, "Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider the vote." The House re-voted and this time 178 Republicans voted against the resolution. Milbank lampooned the move, writing, "Republicans are now confronted with a John Kerry-esque predicament: They actually voted for motherhood before they voted against it." The reason Republicans voted against the resolution is because they are trying to delay everything brought before the House as part of their obstructionist strategy.
When asked about the vote House Minority Leader John Boehner explained, "Oh, we just wanted to make sure that everyone was on record in support of Mother's Day." Baffling. "If Boehner's explanation doesn't make much sense," Milbank wrote, "he's been under a great deal of stress lately." Milbank was referring to Repupublican Representative Vito Fossella's love child scandal. Fossella did not vote on the pro-Mother's Day resolution.
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(Page 1 of 2)TJ6:32PMMay 9th 2008
TRY AS YOU MIGHT, I DO NOT THINK YOU WILL SUCCEEED IN CONVINCING HILLARY CLINTONS VOTING BLOC TO VOTE FOR OBAMA BECAUSE REPUBLICANS AND MCCAIN ARE SO TERRIBLE. THESE WOMEN WILL NOT VOTE OBAMA NO MATTER WHAT.
I HAVE READ ALL KINDS OF POSTS ON HOW ROE V. WADE IS GONNA BE OVERTURNED IF MCCAIN WON.
WOMEN KNOW ALL THESE TRICKS. HILLARY SUPPORTERS WILL NOT FALL FOR IT. I KNOW MANY OF THEM ON MY SITE WILL NEVER VOTE OBAMA. THE MAJORITY WILL NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA.
THEY WILL VOTE MCCAIN IF HILLARY IS PUSHED OUT...
SO BURY IT!!
HILLARY OR MCCAIN... 08
SW6:53PMMay 9th 2008
What is wrong with you people! Hilary Clinton would never get elected in the general. Barack Obama is the best candidate we have ever had. He will unite the country he is and incredible human being. We should all feel incredibly blessed if he became our president.
Peggy10:12PMMay 9th 2008
TO; SW
When I want to hear soaring rhetoric about hope and change and feel "incredibly blessed", I go to church. When I want to feel good about my President and my country, I vote for Hillary Clinton.
Dee1:08AMMay 10th 2008
SW
I cannot for the life of me understand how anyone can back and vote for Senator Obama, I personally don't trust him, his wife or their friends to put it mildly. The only thing that Obama has shown me is a great smile, charisma, smooth talking, arrogance and avoidance to a lot of questions. You ask what is wrong with people not wanting to vote for him? Please explain to me how you can put your trust in him without talking about Hillary Clinton or John McCain?
Cheryl Folston3:46AMMay 10th 2008
TJ....."I KNOW MANY OF THEM ON MY SITE WILL NEVER VOTE OBAMA. THE MAJORITY WILL NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA.
THEY WILL VOTE MCCAIN IF HILLARY IS PUSHED OUT..."
Im so sick of seeing this. Is this a threat? Who really cares? Because if Hillary gets the nomination We the Obama backers will not vote for her either. Most of us will not vote for McCain, because we arent quite that STUPID. We just WONT VOTE. We are Democrats after all. I really dont care, if Obama doesnt win, I'd like racist white america to get just what they deserve...MC CAIN. I personally will not vote for another white person to be President of OUR country.
lairmaz6:21AMMay 10th 2008
Cherly Folston,good, because no one wants someone to become the Democratic candidate just because African-Americans live in dense populations in Southern States and all want to vote for their own race there either. Do the rest of us a favor and stay home, Hillary supporters will go out and vote for McCain and the Democratic party will learn not to pander to any particular vote again, just be smart enough to represent the person who best represents the nation as a whole, leadership-wise. And that person is only www.HillaryClintonSpeaksForMe.com
Ethel7:41AMMay 10th 2008
All you Obama haters- get a life! Other than the color of his skin, what would make you think that he has no right to beat Hillary Clinton - a white person?
Que sera sera7:43AMMay 10th 2008
The Democratic Congress is in the process of destroying the Democratic Party. Proof exists in the role currently playing out, by the Super Delegates, in this farce of a nomination. They gave themselves the power to do this.
With complete disregard of some states rights, they are insisting on the nomination of a person who is unqualified and has too many negatives to list in a short post.
This is a sign of what may come if Barack Obama is elected. How many Executive Orders will he sign giving the US to the UN? Will he open the gates to all comers from other nations? Who will stop him? Not the groveling Super Delegates.
Susie8:49AMMay 10th 2008
Obama remarked in one of the first debates: "You're likable enough, Hillary."
Obama is not likable enough for me.
Let's start a write-in campaign for Hillary Clinton if she is not the nominee selected by Nancy Pelosi.
Briana Milito9:07AMMay 10th 2008
I wonder if people realoze that if MCcain gets in he will run the country just as Bush has .......caN OUR COUNTRY RELLY TAKE THAT ???
lmay10:52AMMay 10th 2008
To all of us who will always support Hillary...lets stay on it and make sure the superdels know we will be voting for Mccain.
There is a list of them on LOBBYDELEGATES.COM...
At this point it can't hurt her campaign..
Phyllis Kunz2:19PMMay 10th 2008
Hilliary CLinton gets it.
Well, at least she got it once.
Phyllis Kunz
FOXYLYNX5:58PMMay 10th 2008
I, FOR ONE, AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF THE WONDERFUL OBAMA THAT I COULD JUST THROW UP! I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT THE DEMS HAVE SCREWED THIS UP SO BAD. I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR THAT GUY, EVEN IF HILLARY WERE V.P. I WILL VOTE FOR MCCAIN FIRST AND SO WILL SO, SO MANY OTHERS. THE DEMS DESERVE WHAT THEY GET.
FOXYLYNX6:02PMMay 10th 2008
IT'S TIME FOR A 3RD PARTY - A PARTY THAT STANDS FOR THE WORKING PEOPLE AND THE ELDERLY - THE ONES THAT PAY THE TAXES. I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF THE DNC THAT I AM GOING TO VOTE MCCAIN. I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR THAT CHARLETAN, OBAMA AND THE MEDIA CAN KISS HIS REAR END ALL THEY WANT, I WILL NOT BE ONE OF THE.
Randy6:44PMMay 10th 2008
It is not over. West Virginia, Kentucky. If the votes are 70-30 she can start to win again. Then Oregon and Montana 60-40. Puerto Rico even more. This is so very do able . Don't let the media give us a candidate. If she starts to get momentum again and she will. The fickle supers will flip.
Hillary 2008 send $5 for America
millard adams9:45PMMay 10th 2008
What excatally is obabam's plans, to help America & its people? Has any one heard any of his plans? What has he done in the past? Where is he getting all his money from? Clinton has been investigated, so has MC Cain. Has Obabamma shown his tax returns. like Clinton & McCain? Wake up America, before we become another Iraq
Lin Cruiz12:53AMMay 11th 2008
Vote for Obama ,he has not a clue,
he has NO real solutions, for he is too new!!!
if you think things are bad now,
Vote Barack and you'll see
He cares for himself, not for you or for me.
He lives in a mansion, his wife you'll agree ,
is a bitter, angry woman,who is not,for the cou-ntry!!!
America needs an EXPERIENCED,RESILIENT PRESIDENT....not an exhausted wanna be trying to do "How to be a President 101"........someone said training wheels.....how true...America needs someone ready to get America back on track NOW...we can't afford to have someone trying to learn the ropes for the next 4-8 years...America won't make it!!! The people need REAL solutions NOW!!
We do not support Obama for what his pastor said....WE DO NOT SUPPORT OBAMA because of what HE DID NOT DO!!!!! He did not stand up for America in the so called church of the "Damning America" Wright!!!....for 20 YEARS.....and people think he will stand up for America on the world stage...GET REAL!!!!!!!!!!!...and he wants to be President...YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING!!!!!!
LIES....that is OBAMA....
(1)"I wasn't in church"..."I was in church...."
(2)"I didn't know that about Wright"..."I did know that about Wright"
(3)He just said "silly stuff"....."I am offended by what he said"
(4)"small town bitter Americans"....."I chose my words poorly"...BUT..."words are important"
(5) "my spiritual mentor,... like my uncle"..........."just my retired pastor"
etc.,etc............and we ACT AS IF HE DOESN"T LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What drugs are Obama supporters on...have they lost their ears!!!!!!!! UNREAL
Lin Cruiz12:54AMMay 11th 2008
Vote for Obama ,he has not a clue,
he has NO real solutions, for he is too new!!!
if you think things are bad now,
Vote Barack and you'll see
He cares for himself, not for you or for me.
He lives in a mansion, his wife you'll agree ,
is a bitter, angry woman,who is not,for the cou-ntry!!!
America needs an EXPERIENCED,RESILIENT PRESIDENT....not an exhausted wanna be trying to do "How to be a President 101"........someone said training wheels.....how true...America needs someone ready to get America back on track NOW...we can't afford to have someone trying to learn the ropes for the next 4-8 years...America won't make it!!! The people need REAL solutions NOW!!
HILLARY '08
We do not support Obama because of what his pastor said....WE DO NOT SUPPORT OBAMA because of what HE DID NOT DO!!!!! He did not stand up for America in the so called church of the "Damning America" Wright!!!....for 20 YEARS.....and people think he will stand up for America on the world stage...GET REAL!!!!!!!!!!!...and he wants to be President...YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING!!!!!!
LIES....that is OBAMA....
(1)"I wasn't in church"..."I was in church...."
(2)"I didn't know that about Wright"..."I did know that about Wright"
(3)He just said "silly stuff"....."I am offended by what he said"
(4)"small town bitter Americans"....."I chose my words poorly"...BUT..."words are important"
(5) "my spiritual mentor,... like my uncle"..........."just my retired pastor"
etc.,etc............and we ACT AS IF HE DOESN"T LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What drugs are Obama supporters on...have they lost their ears!!!!!!!! UNREAL
lmay2:23PMMay 11th 2008
Before voting for Obama read this book.
America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It--by Mark Steyn
I was never an Obama supporter and now I am even more afraid of him. This book is not an anti Obama book, but it's eye opening. Looking at Obamas associations..ie Auchi..Odingo and the list goes on. Ask yourself who will Obama appoint to those high ranking positions in our government?? It will be a slow process.
Hillary we want you to win this thing but if not we will vote for Mccain!! No doubt.
American people...educate yourselves on where this man Obama came from.
We take our freedoms for granted. Not worth the risk to me.
Go Hillary!! Go Mccain!! Protect our country.
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David S.6:09PMMay 9th 2008
Just shows the childishness that Congress is capable of. Yeah, both parties are guilty of it; and yet John Boehner, the GOP congressman who represents Southern Ohio, likes to portray himself usually as being above it all.
And, adding to this nonsense, he tossed fellow Republican congressman Fosella under the bus. With friends like this....