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No1butPaul
06-05-2014, 03:01 PM
Ugh ... so little of what I read is ever good these days.
Speculation about a possible political future for Michelle Obama has naturally centered on the White House. But that’s the wrong place — at least for now. Illinois has a Republican senator, Mark Kirk, and he is up for reelection in 2016. He’ll be formidable, particularly given his brave recovery from a stroke. But Illinois is a heavily Democratic state, and the race could be close. No Illinois Democratic candidate would bring the star power and nationwide fundraising capacity that Obama would...
She could represent the Democrats’ best chance to pick up a desperately needed — and winnable — seat. A December 2012 Public Policy Polling survey put her ahead of Kirk, 51 percent to 40 percent. Democratic leaders’ pressure on her to run might get intense...
“Who are we?” she repeatedly asked while campaigning in 2012. .... Who we are, in Obama’s view, is a nation in which people help each other through the agency of the government.“
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/06/05/is-michelle-running-for-the-senate/
eduardo89
06-05-2014, 03:09 PM
Oh please, no. Not another Hillary.
James Madison
06-05-2014, 03:13 PM
Oh please, no. Not another Hillary.
Now we can be racist and sexist.
eduardo89
06-05-2014, 03:17 PM
Now we can be racist and sexist.
Aren't we already?
Brian4Liberty
06-05-2014, 03:19 PM
It would be even more scary if she was running for Governor...
James Madison
06-05-2014, 03:21 PM
Aren't we already?
So long as Obama or Hillary is President it's one or the other. With Michelle, there's twice the slander in half the time!
eduardo89
06-05-2014, 03:22 PM
So long as Obama or Hillary is President it's one or the other. With Michelle, there's twice the slander in half the time!
Well as long as Barack is president you can add homophobe to that.
James Madison
06-05-2014, 03:27 PM
Well as long as Barack is president you can add homophobe to that.
Michelle's got that one covered, too.
daviddee
06-05-2014, 03:58 PM
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TaftFan
06-05-2014, 03:59 PM
We don't have to worry about her getting into the White House at least.
economics102
06-05-2014, 07:57 PM
“Who are we?” she repeatedly asked while campaigning in 2012. .... Who we are, in Obama’s view, is a nation in which people help each other through the agency of the government.“
Oh dear lord...that is cringe-worthy.
MelissaWV
06-05-2014, 08:09 PM
I have lived long enough to see several of my nightmares slowly crawling my way from a distant horizon. Slowly. Eclipsing all that is good, and all that lives free and breathes the air, and promising only blood and ashes and the agony of foreknowledge while others dance and greet the advancing end with ignorant, frothing mania.
Now we can be racist and sexist.
it really is a progressive wet dream
milgram
06-06-2014, 01:09 AM
Isn't Mark Kirk one of the biggest AIPAC shills?
(I believe so.)
http://natsummit.org/transcripts/mcmahon.htm
Even the candidate who got the most pro-Israel PAC contributions in 2010—Sen. Mark Kirk, who now holds President Obama’s seat from Illinois—barely won his election, despite a massive $115,304 in pro-Israel PAC campaign contributions, and that he raised more than $4 million more than his opponent. He still just barely made it.
Kirk’s history of pro-Israel PAC contributions is instructive. He started out getting $7,000 for his 2000 race, and it went up dramatically for each race thereafter. And when he got $91,200 for a House race in 2008, it was clear that they were setting him up to run for the Senate.
Yet until recently I never heard Kirk described as anything but a “moderate Republican.” As far as I know, his actions on behalf of Israel were never a campaign issue, and the mainstream media certainly didn’t raise it.
Yet the evidence was there for all to see on his Senate campaign website. Not only does Mark Kirk write his name in Hebrew, but it’s not in the Stars-and-Stripes, but the blue of the Israeli flag.
That last sentence is pretty remarkable, and even a bit misleading if you don't see it for yourself.
http://web.archive.org/web/20100726102555/http://www.kirkforsenate.com/?page_id=489
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/4561/oj0x2.jpg
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