I saw that on CNN, they were reporting that ONLY Hillary Clinton was on the ballot in Michigan. Then I listened to the radio and heard people calling in from Michigan saying that Dennis Kucinich and Gravel were on the ballot as well. I'm starting to tune out CNN lately - I stopped watching FOX last year because I couldn't stand their crap - is CNN far behind? What does politics really mean any more? You have two parties running so you have an either or choice. You have 29,900 more lobbyists floating around buying political favours than you had 30 years ago. Hundreds of millions of dollars backing some favoured runners while the media ignores all the others - I'm not sure anymore if this is politics. It's more like being in a candy store and being told that you can have the mints or the gum - your eyes wander at the 20 other candies you'd like to try - but you are forced to choose between the two offered by the man holding the money. sammieswife.
Super Tuesday Looms on the Horizon
by hillbilly 30 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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hillbilly
Romney takes Michigan...looks like MI republicans would like the guy who laid them off.........
Hillary ran anyway after the party asked all dems to skip Michigan. Look for some clash at their convention
Gulliani goes for broke in Florida
Paul got some face time in MI
What's the rest of the week shaping up like?
~Hill
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hillbilly
We are down to 2 Dems... I listened to the last Clinton-Obama debate and they sounded like in-laws at dinner trying to be nice to each other.
Republicans...Huck is out unless he puts up big numbers Tuesday.
Rudy and Fred are out... Romney and MCain are the big players.
When will Ron Paul get a press agent? Will Ralph Nader come out as an indepenent and spit the vote?
Prediction, observations , emotional outbursts....
~Hill
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snowbird
Alabama is one of the Super Tuesday caucus/primary states.
I predict we're going to hear and see some things we never would have thought possible.
Stay tuned ...
Sylvia
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Terry
I think it is interesting to see how people inform themselves. The Political process is a model of how it happens.
Emotion plays too large a part. I talk to people casually all day and measure their depth of participation in learning what
is happening.
It surprises me. It does. There appears to be parallel with Religious information gathering going on.
I'm saying this. Whatever a person believes/thinks determines who they listen to. In choosing only one source (the source they agree with) the other side is eliminated.
That leaves them listening to only a filtered and biased side of things which serves to reinforce what they ALREADY THINK.
How do you learn anything when you do this? You don't/can't.
I will usually watch and listen to competing venues. I measure the extremes by hearing the "talking points".
For example. The Republicans have decided they will trash John McCain at all costs right now. Desperation is in the air.
The really volatile big-mouth opinion-brokers are making McCain into the Anti-christ and vowing to vote for Hillary if McCain gets the nomination.
Not only is this childish and short-sighted, it paints them into an ideological corner they can't get out of.
Republicans have made Hillary into Satan for years. Now, saying they'll vote for her makes them look like idiots.
McCain doesn't march lock-step and they can't handle it.
On the Democrat side of things, the long knives are out too.
Fox News tends to tell more of both sides. Talk Radio is saturated with haters like Rush and Savage. These two are different only in how they spew hate.
I go to the Drudge Report and click on several of the links to blogs and columns of contributors on both sides to see what prattle is in the air.
My personal opinion at the moment is this.
John McCain is the only fellow that worries every body. Why?
He goes his own way without following an ideology. That scares the hell out of Washington.
Nobody controls McCain and nobody ever has, not even the Communists who tortured him.
McCain had a chance to get out of prison and escape the three times a day torture when his father pulled strings.
HE REFUSED.
Why?
He would not leave unless the prisoners who were in BEFORE him were let go FIRST.
His captors wouldn't do it, so, McCain spent another FIVE YEARS rather than play into the game of token release.
Think about that a long minute.
This guy is different. Is it different good or bad?
It is change, baby. It isn't the sort of change Washington D.C. can tolerate.
I think McCain would shake the very foundations of how things happen.
Watch the firestorm if he gets the nomination.
He is odd man out no matter what.
A maverick, a self-thinker, a square-peg cannot/will not be accepted by the ESTABLISHMENT.
Voting for John McCain is like putting Ray Franz back in the Governing Body of JW's.
Think about that one.
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BurnTheShips
Terry, I think you just changed the whole way I view the race.
Thank you.
Burn
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snowbird
Terry is one righteous dude.
He never fails to deliver - whether the package be good or bad.
I'm still looking hard at Huckabee.
Sylvia
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reneeisorym
Voting for John McCain is like putting Ray Franz back in the Governing Body of JW's.
I'm sure McCain is a great guy -- It's just that a lot of us don't agree with him on what this country needs. It's about the issues and not just about the kind of person you are voting for.
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SixofNine
I really think Obama has Tuesday. Talk about peaking at the perfect time! It's a thing of beauty. If it had been last Tuesday, Hillary would have taken the lions share of states, but tomorrow? I think Texas will actually be relevant this year (March 4).
But I think Obama has this one, and if he doesn't stumble badly, the White House. And I think that is transformative and exactly what the world needs right now.
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SixofNine
Oh, and on the Republican side? Romney has this one.
"This one" being Utah, of course.