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BamaBoy — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:33:26 GMT

--“”I better not hear anymore about crapping on Hillary. I said it once and I will say it again, Obama could not and would not have won without us Hillary supporters voting for him. Could not have happened and DON'T FORGET IT! It made me sick to have to vote for him but it was better than McCain. You want a fight during the Obama term, keep up that smart talk and there will be, I promise, Division in the Ranks. You all know too well we voted for Obama reluctantly.
Kathy, Charlotte “”—

Say it all you want, Kathy, and then go take your med’s. Let me let you and all of your wanna-be-diva friends in on a little secret, WE ALL who voted for Obama put Obama in the Whitehouse and don’t YOU forget it!

Obama’s land slide shows that very likely he didn’t even need the disenfranchised Hill voters to win and because all of the voters put the man in office NOBODY owes you a damn thing. Get over yourself.

--“”Go girl! Obama will pay dearly if he screws up this deal. We will not stand for it. I like what you're saying. “”—

He will pay dearly because the voters who put him in there are the same voters who can put him out. Stop pretending that you are holding Obama or anyone else hostage as though you angry gals have some ability to, as a minority group of voters, control anything…

I’m not trying to take away the importance of anyone’s vote in the election but for any group to come up and claim sole responsibility for Obama’s win is the height of prima donna-ism. And by making the claims that the angry Hill gals are making they are certainly down playing the importance of everyone else’s vote for Obama.

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pat huntington ny — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:33:35 GMT

As I was saying all along to the Hillary supporters who were going to vote McCain...the Obama administration would look very familiar as he appoints lots of people who served in Bill Clinton's administration [its only natural to do that], and thus, his admin. would look very much like what a Hillary admin. would look like.

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Eric, Salinas, CA — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:36:38 GMT

Geez what don't you people understand about people from the Clinton administration getting positions in the Obama administration? Every new presidential team picks from the past administration's teams. As long as none of the incompetent thieves of the current misadministration aren't allowed back then we're okay.

The list has many good names although I would never put Colin Powell in charge of Education. He has no experience and look at how poorly he performed as Secretary of State where he had no experience. Colin Powell should be Secretary of Defense, he's got lots of experience for that position and it's time to bring back the Powell Doctrine for our military, not the clueless war on the cheap nonsense from Dummy Rummy.

Yes We Did!

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BamaBoy — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:37:19 GMT

Rock n Roll, Obama. Looking good so far. Sure would love to flip through some of the doc's from that vault.

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Ron Indiana — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:38:48 GMT

Wait a minute...the headline sounded like here we go again. One of the biggest mistakes of the Clinton administration was that they brought in people who did not know how Washington worked. They lost precious time with on-the-job learning. In these risky times I think I want people who in their past turned a deficit into a positive balance sheet. Where's the beef regarding some of the Clinton financial people returning? Tell me! The country is in serious trouble and Paulson, in the last 48 hours has turned to a Bushie who wants to give money to banks without strings attached. It helps Wall Street, but not main street. Clinton's secretary Robert Risch (Sp) understands the issues, bring him back too.

MSNBC...Don't be dumb!!

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Amy B Portland, Me — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:42:10 GMT

Last night I got an email survey from Zogby, the polling organization. I've been responding to these surveys for the past year. This time, I noticed the questions were of the "push polling" sort, designed to put doubts in one's mind about Barack Obama. The survey looked just like a Zogby survey, but it was obviously a scam by people who want to raise doubts about Obama, even before he has been sworn in. And this came after the election, from people who apparently don't want Obama to succeed as president. I just want to warn peole that the far right has not gone away, just because they lost the election. Getting this email scam was very upsetting to me. I am afraid of what the far right are going to do to attack our government.

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FULL MOON — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:42:14 GMT

Bush has set the bar so low that if all Obama does in his first term is undo some of the Bush policies, he'll be a smashing success. George W. Bush - hater of America. Be proud, the 20% of you who still support this horrible excuse of a human being.

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See No Change Here — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:46:58 GMT

If we wanted the Clintons back in the Whitehouse, why didn't we just elect Hillary?

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Ryan, Charleston, WV — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:48:45 GMT

The Clinton folks have been through a bi-partisan transition, so in that aspect, they are the only people TRULY qualified based on past experience. However, it is debateable how affective the Clinton 1992 transition was, so that could argue for not using any Clintonistas for help. But, again it is almost inevitable that Clinton folks would be used, as many of the qualified people are going to have had former ties to the Clintons (see Rahm Emanuel). Too, the Obama admin is getting much better marks thant 1992 Clinton for already for being on the ball, as he has already named his CoS (Clinton did not name most of his folks until mid-December).

Ultimately, as long as the Obama admin sticks to its established standards of the one-year look back period, no work on anything that would cause a potential/apparent conflict based upon past work, and cutting off all current lobbying ties, I think it will be fine.

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Fair Game — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:50:44 GMT

If Sarah Palin were pro-choice she wouldn't have the liberal riff-raff on her back.

Maureen Dowd and Joy Behar are two whack-jobs that will do anything to bring Ms. Palin down. They'll need to work overtime because Palin is getting more air time than Obama. She's everywhere!