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[rimbecano]

I heard NPR's Mara Liasson (national political correspondent) today at the Phildelphia Bar Association's Quarterly Meeting. She had a great (if telling) quote from Barrack Obama (although I don't doubt that it's actually older than that...):

People say Democrats don't believe in anything, and that's just not true. Democrats do believe in

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[thewhitephoenix]

It sounds like something you would find in a Dan Quayle or George Bush quote book.

[celeloriel]

Obama said that at a roast of the VP and the President, at which he also sang something.

[resipsacrap]

Finally condescended to adding me back, eh :)

Do you think Obama has any real chance of being the Dem candidate in 2008?

[chrastan]

I think if Obama wanted the nomination, the "Anybody But Hillary" wing of the Democratic Party would cohere behind him so fast you'd see Mark Warner spinning in the dusted and blinking confusedly. It seems pretty clear he doesn't though, which is unfortunate (at least for him) as history has pretty clearly shown that the longer you stay in the Senate, the harder it is to get elected. Only two Presidents in the 20th C. went directly from the Senate to the White House (JFK and, I believe, Harding), and both (I think) were in their first term. The longer you stay in the legislature, the easier it is for an opponent to read just about anything they want into your Senatte record...

[chrastan]

Hey, rimbecano: Do you know what happened to jatsu13? On my profile page, there's a line through his UserID...

[jatsu13]

Mostly work. The 'strikethrough' probably had to do with my account getting suspended for posting copyrighted material (since yanked).