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That's what I was thinking.

It might not have been intentional, but if it was, it makes me like him more.

Although I'd still use it to trash him in the general election.

This primary season keeps getting better and better!

"I ain't never votin' fo another Democrat so long as I can draw breath! I'll vote for a dog first!" - Leola Thomas

I've scratched my face a few times with Ol' Middle. And people reacted to the "Clinton's in her element" comment IMO. But it's all good. This is what ya do to your political opponents: find something small and blow it up. Fair enough...

n/t

Actually, I meant to say it was intentionally unintentional.

You don't make that big of a pause to scratch your face.

you're the Don. Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as gift on my daughter's wedding day.

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Earlier in the speech. With a different finger.

What an immature action. Maybe he can flip off Iran too! What a jerk..............NO OBAMA!!!!

This speaks loudly to the character of the person. That is a valid issue when looking at someone for political office.

As for integrity: Erick's posting under his own name. What's yours? Oh wait, you're using a network used by pedophiles and terrorists to conceal their operations. Never mind.

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"If we want to take this party back, and I think we can someday, let’s get to work." – Barry Goldwater

Keep up the great work, Erick. Nevermind the whiney peanut gallery.

I hardly recognized you without the profanity, but the whining gave you right away.

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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.

I agree that the main blog site has been diluted with a lot of these 8 line blogs. I appreciate the long rebuttals to Obama, (in particular one of the first ones that dealt with Obama and his state legislative mentor-Emilee Whidbee?), but stuff like this middle finger should go under the redhot.
The Tom Coburn comparison to a terrorist, an important one for us to see, got pushed down the page in less than 6 hours.
I'm just giving honest feedback.

Yes, I've seen it. :)

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I refuse to believe until I see it. Until then it's vaporware.

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One of our Eagle technical people just moved, and that unfortunately took up time of his, but even so I've been working hard in between paid work to get us toward a point where we can do a public beta.

We're plugging away, and fortunately have some good testing from some of our commenters to get us to the point where we can unleash every troll in the world on this thing.

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Well in case some people were really thinking that, now they have the answer!

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Absolutely agree. This isn't nearly as serious as the Coburn analogy.

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"If we want to take this party back, and I think we can someday, let’s get to work." – Barry Goldwater

...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...

---Thomas Paine---

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I actually do find this topic silly, especially when Sen. Obama in the past 3 days has 1) compared a Senator to a convicted terrorist and not apologized or explained the difference, 2) promised not to raise taxes on those making under $200K but on the same night said he'd consider lifting the SocSec tax that ends at $90K right now, and 3) dug the hole even deeper with his disrespectful comments about religious folks in small towns.

Those are evidence of his character. Whether there was one finger or two is taking our eyes off the ball.

Unfortunately, this dip had to go and make the argument in stupid terms that distract from what may have been a good point.

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1.) Use reply to this so people know who you are talking to

2.) My wife, who is much more D inclined than I, immediately responded that there is no way that this wasn't on purpose. Keep in mind she teaches 7th graders so she sees this type of behavior all the time.

no disrespect to your wife, but the actions of 7th grade children are slightly different than constantly-scrutinized presidential candidates. Secondly, the crowd reaction is to his pause, which is certainly used to dramatic effect. He stopped talking, looked around, and i guess scratched his face. It literally makes no sense, why would a presidential candidate do something even Michael Vick feels bad about?

"[T]he actions of 7th grade children are slightly different than constantly-scrutinized presidential candidates."

Correction: they are supposed to be different.

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I consider it supporting evidence that the front page of the New York Times today (printed edition) ran the following headline, except the print version is muccccch different from the web version.

"Clinton Uses Sharp Attacks in Tense Debate"

The print version of the paper phrases it:

"Clinton Uses Broad Attacks in Tense Debate"

Everyone knows the Times now wants Hillary to lose, but calling her a broad was a little bit much, even for the Times.

I'm telling you...one of these days, Bill is going push the button (he saved the codes) and all of his media enemies are going to just be completely vaporized...BOOOOOM

you are kidding right ... you use your middle finger by itself to scratch your face ?

Guess I was raised to use the middle finger with care because it might appear that I was shooting someone the bird ...

Its pretty obvious the crowd watching Obama thought he was giving her the bird ... so what is your response to them ?

I'd say the Obama supporters that were there are in a better position to tell us what he meant than you or I ... and they think he shot her the bird ... so I'm gonna go with the folks on scene and say, yes, he shot her the bird ...

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that twit that was crying for Britney on YouTube when I see your posts KPH.
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I forget where I saw it first

That was hillarious Simpson!
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"He hasn't insulted Middle America in DAYS!"

Hee hee hee...

Politicians are not most people. Moreover, major presidential candidates are not even typical politicians. Candidates such as Obama go through hours and hours of prep work prior to making a public appearance, so as to avoid gaffes such as fingergate. Fingergate might very well say something about Obama's ability to operate in environments where his handlers are not in complete control.

...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...

---Thomas Paine---

this guy knows every time he steps to the podium how to act...that was calculated...

" Got to love the Lord for making things like that."
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And for the sake of a low-rent thrill, he pulls a little stunt that SURELY he had to know would further cheapen and tarnish his above-the-fray image. Or, more shred than tarnish.

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The roar from the crowd calls attention to and confirms the bird.

It's so 7th grade...like that entire Party.

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

But he scratched his face earlier with his pinky. He's just ambifingerous or something.

according to Whoopie, THAT is racist.
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I know- I do find it unbelievable that so many people were offended by that statement just because Whoopie was...

when i read your comments without words they sound a lot smarter.

" Got to love the Lord for making things like that."
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" Got to love the Lord for making things like that."
Morally Compromised

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but let's get serious. is this a forum for real discussion or useless slander?

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Are you even from America?

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yes actually believe it or not. I mean if you consider "Obama is a Mussolini-like Marxist" to be telling the truth? God bless ya.

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" Got to love the Lord for making things like that."
Morally Compromised

Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion

let's see...Marx was the original defender of the prolateriat working class.

...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...

---Thomas Paine---

You used quotes to make it look like somebody made a statement that they didn't actually make.

Bored now.

Moe

PS: 56 minutes, 41 seconds.

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Friday afternoons rock on RS!

" Got to love the Lord for making things like that."
Morally Compromised

Friday slackerssssss.

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And I'm telling you, for the second and last time: lose the attitude. Because I'm being nice.

Moe

PS: Libel. When it's written down, it's libel. Mind you, truth is a perfect defense there, too.

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...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...

---Thomas Paine---

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I mean remember he did attend his "hateful" church for 20 years...

it is "hateful" there is no love and forgivenss in that church...no sir....they are no more preaching the word of God or Christ in that church than they were in the Karl Marx "church".

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It took about a half-hour of legitimate conversation to get banned from posting on this site.

" Got to love the Lord for making things like that."
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...merely removes any doubt about whether I was right to put in the ban in the first place.

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view so you can educate yourself...

http://www.marxists.org/subject/frankfurt-school/index.htm

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I am a fairly new user here. And I would never claim to speak for Redstate, it's directors, nor it's moderators. But I am fairly confident in saying that "legitimate conversation" nor mere dissent is enough to get you banned.

All of us know this is a conservative community.

It has been my experience that those who enter here with opposing views are welcome as long as they keep postings thoughtful and considerate.

AzRenegade

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I was a far lefty myself. Not all lefties, but most lefties, question the very sanity and right to existence of those with whom they disagree. Do the lefties here understand that and can they admit it? They can come here to discuss and learn, but not insult. I don't go to lefty sites because all I would get is insults and obscenities.

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

I was more of a social liberal and a moderate on fiscal and national security issues until my first post college paycheck.

In high school and early college, I was an "I am Woman" hear me snore, bra banning (the guys were sure supportive of my feminist ideals back then -- gee do you think it might have been the lack of a bra on an 18/19 year old?) ERA supporting idiot. But, thankfully Jimmy Carter cured me of all my liberal tendencies and I was wise enough to cast my first vote in a Presidential election for Ronald Reagan (a post election date, late November birthday saved me the lifelong disgrace and shame of voting for Carter)

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I was one of those teen/early twenties boys in the seventies who was very supportive of 18y/o girls "letting it all hang out".

I even had a feathered mullet and a polyester suit.

Life sure was nice before aids, the drug culture, and life in the fast lane caught up with us.

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...and respond.

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

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is write a blog on subjects near and dear to our cold, hard hearts (those few of us who have hearts), as opposed to dropping a whiney comment in a blog we might not agree with.

Take a hint. Whiners have a short but brutal lifespan around here. They are rightfully identified as lefties.
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some of us are not only heartless, we are souless and merciless as well! And damn proud of it!

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Obama's base is becoming a personality cult, and there is no hope there.

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I'd love to see your factual evidence for this assertion.

Have you ever even spoken to an Obama supporter?

My assumption is there wouldn't be much of a conversation -- you'd call the person a Marxist or an America-hater and the contact would be over.

It's funny, because I've spoken to many Obama supporters and none of them exhibited any signs of being a cultist. All have reservations about him, but believe he is a better choice than Clinton (untrustworthy, old politics, etc.) or McCain (not too bright, a continuation of Bush policies, etc). The most common thread in their support for Obama was the hope that he would be able to change the discourse in this country. But that's all it was -- a hope, since no one I've spoken to saw Obama as having much chance of succeeding.

And none of the Obama supporters spoke about McCain with anywhere near the antipathy that I have seen expressed by RedStaters many times (especially before he locked up the nomination and became the only way to stop a Democrat from being elected).

I await the results of your in-depth socio-psychological study revealing the evidence for your claim. (Note: I'm not holding my breath.)

you have spoken with are int