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  The Race and Gender Split: videos, cartoons and a pocket guide to Obamabots

  http://camelsnose.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/the-race-and-gend...
  42 days ago in Camel’s Nose · Authority: 12

  It started with a rumor that the Obama campaign was hiring 400 bloggers to woo Hillary’s online supporters. Clinton supporters, already unhappy about misogyny in the mainstream media, were not amused. Said Cannonfire– “Obama volunteers are being told to ratchet down the anti-Hillary hate, because someone in the campaign realizes Hillary Clinton supporters are not very likely to support Obama if he becomes the nominee. Which means, of course, that Obama controlled the Hillary-hate in the first place. His was the hand on the spigot.” The hate in the blogosphere has been palpable, perpetrated by anonymous bloggers identifying themselves as Obama supporters who pasted the same misogynistic hate messages and Obama campaign chants in the comment sections of political articles. Clinton supporters have dubbed them “obamabots”. Like a battered wife, they’ll be back. Says Lavender Liberal: Notice something? For about three days after his supporters declared Barack Obama the “presumptive nominee”… the constant bashing… suddenly subsided, to be replaced by sickeningly cloying calls for “unity” and “graciousness,” ’cause, after all, “we’re all Democrats.” Why did the obamabots stop posting their cut and paste messages? Could it be, as Lavender Liberal suggests, that “The Big Giant Head at Obama Central texted new marching orders to the cell phones (or perhaps directly into the brain-chip implants) of all Obamaniacs simultaneously”? Or maybe it was encoded into the Edwards endorsement of Obama ? The bots were watching all the news services–we know they were following the speech, because they were posting nasty messages whenever a news service didn’t publish something about the Edwards endorsement instantaneously enough for their demands. When Edwards mentioned Hillary Clinton’s name, about 1:20 minutes into the speech, there were boos all around. Then Edwards made the “we are a stronger party, because Hillary Clinton is a Democrat” comments. Then the obambots stopped pasting their venom. The Lavender Liberal, bracing for the expected change in online tactics, created a pocket guide, based on the cycle of domestic violence model: Another Hillary forum prints its own unprintable reply below the fold (NSFW). One visitor posts a link to Jo Jo singing “Too little, too late”, another to Carole King’s “It’s too late baby”. Some blogs–and radio stations–are talking about a Obama boycott, a boycott of NBC, and whether to vote for McCain or write-in Hillary’s name. Many are expressing disappointment over NARAL, an organization that Hillary Clinton took some political heat for in giving them her support in 1999. At Hillaryresponders.com they are planning a DC rally for the May 31 rules committee and chatting about a million woman march on the Democratic convention in Denver. A new video from GeekLove08 declares “Make your vote count, vote Republican”, and includes scenes from the riot-torn 1968 Democratic Convention. The names of Howard Dean and Donna Brazile are invoked over and over, and not in a good way. Even the political blogs have become divided. One poster who reports an abundance of “obamatons” on Huffington Post says any comments favorable to Clinton are taken down by a moderator within an hour of posting. MoveOn is said to be a huge fundraising machine for Obama. Probably the most sensible thing that has been said all week came from Bill Clinton talking informally after a campaign event. He said we not only need to unite the nation with regards to race and gender, but also by income and geographical location.
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  Full Text Transcript of John Edwards Speech Endorsing Barack Obama

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  47 days ago in Brought over the wall · No authority yet

  Full Text Transcript of John Edwards Speech Endorsing Barack Obama by Brought over the wall (brought-over-the-wall) @ Mon, 19 May 2008 02:19:23 -0500 And in fact there’sa wall around Washington DC. The American people. today are on the outside of that wall. And on the inside are the big. corporations and the lobbyists working to pr... Original post: Full Text Transcript of John Edwards Speech Endorsing Barack Obama by at Google Blog Search: brought over the wall Technorati tag: Brought over the wall Sun, 18 May 2008 02:19:13 -0500
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  Barack Gets a Silky Pony!

  http://conservativemonsoon.blogspot.com/2008/05/barack-gets-...
  50 days ago in Conservative Monsoon · Authority: 2

  As many of our faithful frequentairres may know, former Donk POTUS candidate John “Breck Girl / Silky Pony” Edwards has announced his endorsement of the most holy one, the prince of peace, liberal messiah-in-waiting Barack Obama, for the U.S. presidency in a speech in North Carolina just yesterday. Skipping all of the kissy-face make-nice prefacing “Hillary is a great gal, but … (boo-boo!)” stuff
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  My Favorite Passage from John Edwards’ Obama Endorsement Speech

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  51 days ago in Progressive Patriots — At Progressive Patriots, we strive to spread the word of the Constitution that outlines American patriotism, and to defend the liberties the Constitution guarantees. · Authority: 23

  Irregular Times has the full text transcript of the speech in which John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama for President. My favorite passage: there’s also a wall that’s divided our image in the world: the America as the beacon of hope is behind that wall. And all the world sees now is a bully. They see Iraq, Guantanamo, secret prisons and a government that argues waterboarding is not torture. This is not okay. That wall has to come down for the sake of our ideals and our security. We can change this. We can change it. Yes we can. If we stand together, we can change it. It’s true, you know.

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