Wow. Commenting as a hip young white guy with a social need – affordable health care – that’s not only disgusting, it’s wrong. I support Obama, and I’m so sick of Hillary’s gender card-playing, GOP-esque campaign.

Well, there goes South Carolina.

Clintons: paragons of taste.

For a women in politics, she (and her staff) should know better.

Clinton’s planning for way beyond S Carolina or Nevada. She’s looking to Florida and to the Super Feb 5 primaries. Race baiting could help here there.

Can I slap the person(s) who ever thought it was HIP to call Bill Clinton, “The First Black President.” It was always a line in a comedy skit. Did he think people really believed it, did he?

Dare I ask where is the media coverage on this? Or do we have to wait for her to choke up again…

I already have an imaginary black friend.

Does that mean I can’t vote for Obama?

C’mon Tim, get a grip. You’re a journalist and you know how it works.

So, we’ve got an unnamed ‘adviser’ talking off-handed, off the record, to a reporter giving his/her perspective. What, people can’t have an opinion? This is racism?

All the ‘adviser’ ’suggested’ was that Obama was style over substance. That’s an on-going theme of the Clinton camp. What, he can’t mention Obama’s black? Obana IS cool and DOES appeal to the young. And the young DON’T have social needs right now. At least that they’re aware of.

The man is running for POTUS. In case you missed it, he IS black. It IS an issue. And if he gets the nomination, and I hope he does some day, the Cons are going to beat this country over the head with the fact he IS black. And they WON’T be as nice about it.

This is crap Tim and you should be ashamed of yourself.

First of all, this guy’s wrong in assuming Hillbill is going to cater to a person’s ’social needs’….What’s the reference? What, in her past, makes ANYONE think she’s the ’social’ candidate? 2nd of all, can we imagine Obama as our ‘imaginary’ green friend also? Pretty nice how he put the word ‘imaginary’ in there. Like Dennis said, he IS black. We don’t have to imagine it. And, he’s ‘hip’.

But, since we don’t have any articles about the real news lately, let me comment on a few:
1. The State Department is afraid of Iranian Speed Boats…..
2. Bush just sold 20 billion dollars worth of weapons and missles to Saudi Arabia……

Now, to comment on the news that we’re FORCEFED EVERY SINGLE DAY: Barack is black and Hillary is white, Rudy is funny looking, Mitt is confused, Huckabee’s a fraud, and McCain is little. Anything else???

im not looking for an imaginary freind im looking for a progressive president who can clean up the mess Bush is leaving behind.

Do they actually think that’s helping them? If they keep playing the race card they will lose the nomination before Feb. 5th. They will lose South Carolina, they will lose New York, and they DONT want to lose New York.

And blatantly pointing out that Obama is indeed a hip, black guy just further accentuates how simply uncool Hillary is. And also, that Obama is the first presidential hopeful that people feel comfortable saying is cool.

I would rather have vivid hallucinations of an imaginary black friend than Hillary Clinton as my president.

You’re all missing the point. The Clinton camp said Obama was NOT cool unless you’re young, have no social needs, AND need an imaginary black friend.

It’s basically drawing attention away from the fact that Obama has a FAR better chance of helping pass legislation to meet the needs of anyone with social needs or who is older or who doesn’t need an imaginary black friend. Does anyone really thing the right wing sociopaths will let Billery do anything at all if it gets into office? I thought not.

What infuriates me is the fact that something like this, said by an anonymous “Adviser” to a British newspaper, can be pasted all over the internet and then people take it seriously. This is kind of frightening. Take it with a grain of salt, people.

Let’s face it—Obama is getting a lot of support from middle class white people who feel guilty. Obama is just black enough so they can assuage their guilt, but not so black that he scares them. He really doesn’t say much. He’s an attractive package, but let’s hear him address some serious issues—like the economy and the cratering dollar. How about the national deficit? Unless THOSE issues are addressed nothing else is possible.

Mike,
Unfortunately what either Obama or Hillary say about the economy isn’t really important. The reason is that the president has almost no power to control the economy.

Up until now Obama has said FAR more than Hillary to convince voters to vote for him. By the way, his words are exactly what make him “not so black that he scares” people in your words, so your notion that he “doesn’t say much” and benefits from racist overcompensation is demonstrably idiotic.

The truth is that Obama is the best natural politician in 50 years. Far better than Bill Clinton, Reagan and even JFK. When the guy speaks people just get giddy. He simply has IT. Not to mention he’s far more intelligent than Hillary in any meaningful way, which will enable him to appoint advisers who will make up for his only shortcoming: his experience.

The guy is simply awesome. To say he’s benefiting from his race is to say you have never heard him. If anything it puts your ignorance on display for the entire world to see.

Y’know what? In the spirit of Coach I’m going to say that this dearth of posts on actual news is b.s. and will post on the most important issue-besides the economy- facing us today.

Here it is: Iranian pleasure boating has apparently caused a U.S. military response on par with raising the “threat level” to fuchsia.

Hey Jed (coach), this one’s for you: read the response I gave to the Jewish neoconservative Dee on her whipping up terrorism fears to protect Israel.

C’mon respond. I dare you.

Yawn!!!

Did you happen to notice how much the price of OIL jumped since a couple of little speed boats swarmed around a trio of huge destroyers that could have quashed them easier than a horse swating a fly off his ass?

Someone also pointed out that since the arab prince visited GW and they had that romantic walk through the crawford woods in 2005 OIL has gone from $50 to $100+ a barrel. Impressive achievement A? GW may even be able to claim a Climate Change Coup in the future by virtue of reduction of gases from conservation due to the economic slowdown from high fuel prices.

And now india produces a car for a fifth the price of our nearest competitor, nice. We’ve done real nice.

Yawn? At least you’re up front about how asleep you are on the fact that Israel is responsible for the U.S. attack on Iraq and the coming attack on Iran.

In other news, I assume you’re all for a high gas tax to hasten the end of U.S. dependence on oil and an end to our support for terrorist regimes in the middle east correct? The higher the price of oil goes, the quicker we switch to dependency on energy from somewhere other than the middle east and the faster we wake you up from your brutal antisemitism. I got news for you: we could run our country entirely on solar energy and our troops would still be in the middle east.

Now why would that be?

Another thing,

If driving up the price of oil were the only reason for the Iranian speedboat freakout, then why did it happen in Iran? Why not in Canada, where we import most of our oil from, or Venezuala? Or Mexico? Or Saudi Arabia? Russia? Nigeria? Angola? Threatening these nations would drive prices up far more than threatening Iran would.

Iran though, happens to be the only country capable of developing nuclear weapons that could be used to attack Israel. It is the only country that has openly called for Israel’s destruction. It is one of the few countries Israel has actually threatened to attack.

And in America, the only people who support wars against the “Islamofascists” tend to be either right-wing Jewish neoconservatives, evangelicals with strong support for Israel, weapons manufacturers and idiots. (Well I guess you could use the term “idiots” to describe all of the above.

Jed seems to fall into that category as well. Keep yawning Jed. We’ll wake you up someday.

Dude, it’s an “anonymous” source! What bull. I’m an Edwards supporter now having to decide between two corporate candidate (Obama, Clinton), but this is ridiculous. Your bias is out of control.

You must apply the same standards to ALL candidates, especially since the increasingly inflammatory rhetoric is threatening to tear the Democratic party. If you and the rest of the press applied the same standards, then the Obama camp would not be pushing distortions of statements from both the Clintons and their staffers/supporters wouldn’t say such nonsense like the following:
*Jesse Jackson, Jr.–a national co-chair–saying that Clinton has no compassion for Katrina sufferers (overwhelmingly black) simply b/c she didn’t get “emotional” on camera; and
*Michael Eric Dyson on MSNBC saying that when Clinton commented that she was ready to lead and Obama wasn’t that it was indirectly racist (thus, any criticism of Obama must be somehow racist).

You slammed Clinton for playing the “gender” card when in all honesty it was the fool Mark Penn who did–not her–and yet when Obama’s staffers pull something like this you instead slam Clinton for an “anonymous” source?! Come on! It’s one thing to be biased in favor of Obama, it’s another thing to let that get in the way of reporting the facts, especially when the rhetoric is so racially charged.

I must stress how insane it is that fools on this site are just assuming that this is true. What proof is there? It’s an ANONYMOUS source. This is no better than tabloid coverage.

Nice point Dennis. The PC Gestapo have gotten this country to the point where any mention of race or sex is going to be labeled as racist or sexist. There is nothing wrong with noting that Obama is black and Hillary is a woman. That doesn’t mean they aren’t qualified to be president, those are just the facts. That is no different than pointing out the fact that Jesse Jackson Jr. and Michael Eric Dyson both wear their ass as a hat (maybe I should mention here that I have many black friends so no one thinks I’m a racist for speaking negatively about two black men).
As for the ordeal in the Straits of Hormuz, after the U.S.S. Cole bombing in Yemen, I can understand why the State Department would be concerned about Iranian speedboats approaching US destroyers.

Also, I find it interesting that many here feel the Republicans are the worst at mudslinging during campaigns, but it looks to me like the Democrats are already giving them a run for their money this year.

All of Hillary’s advisers should be exposed, shaved, sterilized and destroyed.

How come the ‘forcible sodomy’ comments don’t get as much attention as the indescretions of these Clinton advisors?

It’s not for the country, its for the leaders.

We get more oil from other nations, but Venezuela and other oil exporters have nationalized most of its oil industry. Oil price increases are bad to these men(whether in government or business) because they bring bad publicity. Businesses getting control over oil fields, and contracts to create the infrastructure for them is the point to this war(as well as some religious overtones), not some nationalist interests. As long as America doesn’t tip completely, these men could care less about how their profiteering harms the rest of this country. Not just the oil men, but any industry leader that can make a cheap buck at taxpayer expense.

Ugh. This site is crap. It is pretty hard to stay engaged and provide traffic to a site that continually “filters” out what you write. Way to encourage readership.

On Israel being responsible for U.S. war policy:

Coach, Jed, Coach is right (since you’re all the same person anyway, I’ll just refer to you as moron from now on…can you remember that?}

Posting under three (or more???) different names to provide the illusion of support for your lies is funny. It really just shows how little factual information you have to support you. In between illegible screeds on how childish you are, irrelevant facts about oil prices and anti-Semitic rhetoric you made only one point worth responding to and that is this: Moron Coach: “The reason we would still be in the middle east fighting for their oil is because western oil companies want their hands on it. Not for us. But, to distribute to all the other (third world) countries.”

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since this site doesn’t like it I’ll write it again:

I say this is worth responding to because it illustrates you idiocy, childishness and ignorance in your own words. The obvious retort to your kiddie theory is this: the U.S. will have switched to renewable energy because the price of oil has gone too high and for no other reason. Now think, moron about that situation: the richest, most powerful country and economy on earth can’t afford oil and so switches to alternative energies, yet the poorest third world countries CAN afford that oil? And this is what’s keeping U.S. forces in the middle east? Grow a brain.

Thanks rolling stone for allowing me to express half my opinion.

fire your IT person(s). They are obviously not qualified for their work.

Rollingstone.com is deleting all the comments from non-Obama people. Apparently, they don’t like anyone making obvious points on why they think the way they do. What are you scared of? The truth? I am sure.

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