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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 10659
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 03:11 pm: | 
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When presidential candidates appear at public forums, passions about the field are often on vivid display. Monday, Senator John McCain received a question from a woman in Hilton Head Island, S.C., that was blunt and harsh.
"How do we beat the b i t c h?" the woman asked. Mr. McCain was obviously uncomfortable, trying to deflect the vitriol with humor and offering to give a translation. But he did not condemn the questioner, instead calling it an excellent question.
He then addressed the question without any apparent doubt as to whom it referred.
"There was a poll yesterday," he said, "that shows me three points ahead of Senator Clinton in a head-to-head matchup. I respect Mrs. Clinton."
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A spokesman for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton declined to comment on Mr. McCain's response. But some of her advisers said they were surprised that he had not defused the moment more artfully, given the possibility that it might stir sympathy or outrage on Mrs. Clinton's behalf in some quarters.
Some of her allies have accused her male Democratic opponents of ganging up on her in their last televised debate.
Mr. McCain has studiously avoided personally attacking Mrs. Clinton, whom he has said he likes. His campaign said yesterday, "Mr. McCain has on many occasions expressed his respect for Senator Clinton, just as he did when confronted with the question in South Carolina."
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 5739
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 04:11 pm: |
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If you think Bush was bad Hillary Clinton in the White House will bury the Democratic Party and the Women's Movement both. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 10672
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 02:46 pm: |
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I am not touting Hillary for the white house. To be frank, I am not passionate about anybody who is running in either party. Sorry, Obama supporters. |
Doberman23
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Username: Doberman23
Post Number: 1101
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 - 08:49 am: |
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hey cynique whats going on in the windy city? when do those ferries stop running? and what is up with the losing from all the sports teams there :p |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 10686
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 - 02:29 pm: |
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Ferries? Ensconced in my suburban environs, I'm not aware of any ferries in Chicago, Dobes. But our sports teams have all turned into a bunch of fairies who have lost their magic and disenchanted their fans! The Bears, The Bulls, The Sox, The Cubs are all pitiful. The Bulls are booed and the United Center is filled with chants of "Kobe, Kobe, Kobe", everytime they self-destruct in the 4th quarter. 
But I did get a big boost when Illinois upset Ohio State!  |
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