Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen #57 Nog één week!

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 00:47 schreef Bananenman het volgende:
Helemaal mee eens. Ik ben op veel punten vrij conservatief, maar het ticket McCain-Palin is gewoon waardeloos. En ondanks dat ik nog maar moet zien wat er allemaal terechtkomt van Obama's plannen is het in mijn ogen een zéér inspirerend persoon die weet waar hij het over heeft.

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 07:32 schreef laforest het volgende:
En weer slaat O'Reilly de spijker op de kop

http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/index.html?playerId=oreillyhomeplayer&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=3170436&referralPlaylistId=bbeb11095dff273e354ffbd0dfa4c070c9e8730b&maven_dartZone=undefined&maven_dartSite=undefined

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Obama vote means 'death to Israel'


The Ohio plumber, who has no license and is actually named Samuel Wurzelbacher, spoke at a McCain campaign event in Columbus Monday. A McCain supporter asked if "a vote for Obama is a vote for the death of Israel." JTP hardly batted an eye.

"I'll go ahead and agree with you on that," Wurzelbacher said.

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 08:10 schreef NorthernStar het volgende:

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one can only hope

McCains hele campagne kun je samenvatten als Obama afschilderen als halve communist die iedereen arm gaat maken met belastingen en Obama op alle mogelijke manieren met "de terroristen" proberen te associeren. Vooral dat laatste lijkt nu onderwerp van McCains' laatste offensief.

Waarbij woorden als moslim, arabier, Iran, Palestijn, Pakistan, Islam, etc. gebruikt worden om die associatie te leggen. Wat weer erg tekenend is hoe "de terrorist" vorm is gegeven in het collectief bewustzijn btw.

Alles voor een headline met "Obama" en een van de sleutelwoorden.

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 08:26 schreef -J-D- het volgende:
Weet iemand een site waar de voorspelling staat voor het AANTAL staten waarin Obama een overwinning zal behalen? I.v.m. de mogelijkheid voor het plaatsen van een weddenschap.
Ik kan inzetten op 28 staten of minder of meer dan 28 staten. Historisch gezien pakt de winnaar 30 a 31 staten. Maar gezien de mogelijke uitbetalingen bij de weddenschap lijkt het er dit jaar minder dan 30 te worden.
Hebben jullie een idee/site hierover?

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 08:33 schreef Yildiz het volgende:

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Is dat zo? Ik denk dat je met de grotere staten als Californië met 55 kiesmannen niet eens de meerderheid van de staten nodig hebt. Staten als Kansas (Republikein) hebben maar 5 kiesmannen. http://www.nrc.nl/nieuwsthema/vs/

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 08:42 schreef Klopkoek het volgende:

Bill O'Reilly vs Geraldo Rivera

Voor alle O'Reilly geilers. Klassiekertje.

O'Reilly.... een sneu figuur, de Andries Knevel van Amerika.

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 08:26 schreef -J-D- het volgende:
Weet iemand een site waar de voorspelling staat voor het AANTAL staten waarin Obama een overwinning zal behalen? I.v.m. de mogelijkheid voor het plaatsen van een weddenschap.
Ik kan inzetten op 28 staten of minder of meer dan 28 staten. Historisch gezien pakt de winnaar 30 a 31 staten. Maar gezien de mogelijke uitbetalingen bij de weddenschap lijkt het er dit jaar minder dan 30 te worden.
Hebben jullie een idee/site hierover?

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 08:53 schreef AlanSmitheeJr het volgende:

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http://intrade.com

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Dat is toch wel een flinke belediging richting andries. O'Reilly kan alleen maar schreeuwen en is niet goed bij z'n hoofd.

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Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations

By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 29, 2008; A02


Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor's identity, campaign officials confirmed.

Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the campaign has also chosen not to use basic security measures to prevent potentially illegal or anonymous contributions from flowing into its accounts, aides acknowledged. Instead, the campaign is scrutinizing its books for improper donations after the money has been deposited.

The Obama organization said its extensive review has ensured that the campaign has refunded any improper contributions, and noted that Federal Election Commission rules do not require front-end screening of donations.

In recent weeks, questionable contributions have created headaches for Obama's accounting team as it has tried to explain why campaign finance filings have included itemized donations from individuals using fake names, such as Es Esh or Doodad Pro. Those revelations prompted conservative bloggers to further test Obama's finance vetting by giving money using the kind of prepaid cards that can be bought at a drugstore and cannot be traced to a donor.

The problem with such cards, campaign finance lawyers said, is that they make it impossible to tell whether foreign nationals, donors who have exceeded the limits, government contractors or others who are barred from giving to a federal campaign are making contributions.

"They have opened the floodgates to all this money coming in," said Sean Cairncross, chief counsel to the Republican National Committee. "I think they've made the determination that whatever money they have to refund on the back end doesn't outweigh the benefit of taking all this money upfront."

The Obama campaign has shattered presidential fundraising records, in part by capitalizing on the ease of online giving. Of the $150 million the senator from Illinois raised in September, nearly $100 million came in over the Internet.

Lawyers for the Obama operation said yesterday that their "extensive back-end review" has carefully scrubbed contributions to prevent illegal money from entering the operation's war chest. "I'm pretty sure if I took my error rate and matched it against any other campaign or comparable nonprofit, you'd find we're doing very well," said Robert Bauer, a lawyer for the campaign. "I have not seen the McCain compliance staff ascending to heaven on a cloud."

The Obama team's disclosures came in response to questions from The Washington Post about the case of Mary T. Biskup, a retired insurance manager from Manchester, Mo., who turned up on Obama's FEC reports as having donated $174,800 to the campaign. Contributors are limited to giving $2,300 for the general election.

Biskup, who had scores of Obama contributions attributed to her, said in an interview that she never donated to the candidate. "That's an error," she said. Moreover, she added, her credit card was never billed for the donations, meaning someone appropriated her name and made the contributions with another card.

When asked whether the campaign takes steps to verify whether a donor's name matches the name on the credit card used to make a payment, Obama's campaign replied in an e-mail: "Name-matching is not a standard check conducted or made available in the credit card processing industry. We believe Visa and MasterCard do not even have the ability to do this.

"Instead, the campaign does a rigorous comprehensive analysis of online contributions on the back end of the transaction to determine whether a contribution is legitimate."

Juan Proaño, whose technology firm handled online contributions for John Edwards's presidential primary campaign, and for John F. Kerry's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee in 2004, said it is possible to require donors' names and addresses to match those on their credit card accounts. But, he said, some campaigns are reluctant to impose that extra layer of security.

"Honestly, you want to have the least amount of hurdles in processing contributions quickly," Proaño said.

Sen. John McCain's campaign has also had questionable donations slip through.

Dan Pfeiffer, Obama's communication's director, said that "no organization can fully insulate itself from these problems. The McCain campaign has accepted contributions from fraudulent contributors like 'A for You,' 'Adorable Manabat,' 'The Gun Shop,' and 'Jesus II' and hundreds of anonymous donors."

But R. Rebecca Donatelli, who handles online contributions for the McCain operation and the RNC, said security measures have been standard in the GOP nominee's fundraising efforts throughout the campaign. She said she was "flabbergasted" to learn that the Obama campaign accepts prepaid cards.

"Yes, a gift card would go through the same process as a regular credit card and be subject to our same back-end review," the Obama campaign said in its response to questions about the use of such cards.

Campaign finance lawyers said there is a long history of debate within the FEC about how to ensure that donors use their own credit cards.

Election lawyer Brett Kappel said the FEC has never grappled with the question of cash cards. "The whole system is set up for them to accept the payment, then determine whether it is legal or not. And if it's not, send it back. That's what the statute requires," he said.

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 08:49 schreef JoeyT het volgende:

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Dat is toch wel een flinke belediging richting andries. O'Reilly kan alleen maar schreeuwen en is niet goed bij z'n hoofd.

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 09:10 schreef AlanSmitheeJr het volgende:
Zeker voor Obama: DC, DE, MD, NJ, CT, RI, MA, NH, VT, MN, NY, PA, VA, MI, MN, IA, WI, IL, NM, CO, CA, OR, WA

Dat zijn 23 staten in totaal.

NV, NC, OH, FL, MO, IN en GA zijn twijfelgevallen. Als Obama ze allemaal wint heeft hij 30.

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Op dinsdag 28 oktober 2008 21:58 schreef Arcee het volgende:

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Is dat niet vreemd dat die uitslagen nu al bekend worden gemaakt?

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 09:15 schreef laforest het volgende:
Weer is McCain dichterbij gekomen in Pennsylvania
Nog steeds een grote achterstand helaas maar geen dubbel digit meer

10/27/2008
46% McCain
53% Nobama

Bron is Rasmussen btw

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2 Rivals’ Plans on Fiscal Issue Add to Deficits
By JACKIE CALMES
WASHINGTON — While both presidential candidates enter the campaign’s final week promising to be the better fiscal steward, each has outlined tax and spending proposals that would make annual budget deficits worse, analysts say, with Senator John McCain likely to create a deeper hole than Senator Barack Obama would.

Mr. McCain, the Republican nominee, has proposed bigger tax cuts. He has also promised more in spending cuts, but he has not specified where most of them would come from. Even now that the financial crisis has given rise to one bailout package and prompted both candidates to call for billions more in stimulus spending, Mr. McCain has stuck by his promise to balance the budget by the end of his term, a pledge that fiscal analysts call unachievable.

Mr. Obama, his Democratic rival, has vowed to reduce the deficit and put it on a path to balance. He also promises an expensive effort to make health care insurance more widely available, a raft of other spending programs and tax cuts for most families and small businesses. He would raise taxes on the wealthiest households to help pay for his health care plans.

Neither presidential candidate has provided enough detail, especially about spending programs and what they would cut, for budget groups to put price tags on their agendas.

Conservative and liberal analysts agree that the next president should not be expected to balance the budget in his first term, because short-term deficit spending can stimulate the economy and the crisis is forcing the government to spend more in aid even as it collects less in taxes.

But for the long run, they say, the president’s fiscal record will hinge on whether he can achieve the health care cost savings each promises, which in turn will help control the fast-rising expenses for Medicare and Medicaid. Neither candidate has a comprehensive proposal to address unsustainable growth in those programs.

“Neither one of them is being fiscally responsible,” said David M. Walker, a former head of the Government Accountability Office who has long warned about the perils of deficits.

The next president will inherit economic challenges greater than any other president since Franklin D. Roosevelt 75 years ago. Yet while the country entered the Depression after a decade of budget surpluses, today’s crisis hits a nation in worse financial shape — with growing wartime deficits, heavy borrowing from foreigners, and crushing retirement health costs for aging baby boomers looming.

The deficit for the 2008 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, was $455 billion, or 3.2 percent of total economic output. Analysts say it could reach $1 trillion in 2009, or more than 7 percent of projected economic output, with the country in recession and fighting a two-front war. During the 1980s, the deficit peaked at about 6 percent of economic output; economists consider anything above about 3 percent to be a worrisome level for the deficit.

So far, both Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama have insisted they do not have to have to scale back their pre-crisis platforms.

The fiscal outlook and history suggest otherwise. Among past promises that crashed against realities: Roosevelt’s pledge to balance budgets, Ronald Reagan’s and George Bush’s antitax vows and Bill Clinton’s middle-class tax cut. The current President Bush kept his biggest promises, for tax cuts and a Medicare prescription-drug benefit, but the national debt has doubled to more than $10 trillion during his administration.

Leon E. Panetta, who was Mr. Clinton’s first budget director, said he had warned Mr. Obama of the realities ahead, should he win. “I’ve told him, Bill Clinton found this out. He walked into the Oval Office, and suddenly he found he had a bigger deficit than he even thought he had.” Mr. Clinton’s reaction, he said, was, “I’m not going to be able to do what I want to do!”

Mr. McCain’s proposed tax cuts would mean about $1.5 trillion in lower revenue over his term, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. Extending the Bush income tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 beyond their scheduled 2010 expiration would account for more than a third of that total. He also would change the alternative minimum tax to hit fewer middle-income taxpayers, reduce corporate income taxes and accelerate business write-offs for equipment. The 10-year cost of Mr. McCain’s tax plan would be as much as $4.2 trillion, the center says.

The Republican’s health plan mostly seeks to reduce prices. Mr. McCain would also provide a tax credit of up to $5,000 a family to buy insurance, at a cost of about $800 billion through 2013. To partly offset that, he would make workers’ employer-provided health benefits taxable as income. He also proposes savings from unspecified changes in Medicare and Medicaid.

Mr. McCain has fewer spending initiatives than Mr. Obama. His main one is to increase the size of the military. He proposes energy incentives, offset by selling permits for emissions of heat-trapping gases that are believed to contribute to climate change. He also offers income supplements for older, low-income workers and more financing for the No Child Left Behind education law.

To help balance the budget, Mr. McCain claims billions of dollars in savings from reducing forces in Iraq. Neither he nor Mr. Obama, however, account for the increasing deployments to Afghanistan. Mr. McCain also calls for cutting “corporate welfare,” ending spending earmarks for special projects and freezing domestic appropriations in his first year.

By his final budget for 2013, Mr. McCain estimated he would cut $114 billion — he does not say how — to reach balance. He would still be about $200 billion short, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. But that estimate does not include the costs of the $700 billion financial bailout package already passed by Congress (its proponents say much of the price tag will be recouped by the government in the long run) or any additional economic stimulus plans that Congress might approve in coming months.

Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a centrist budget watchdog group, estimated Mr. McCain could fall about $600 billion short in 2013, roughly the annual cost of Medicare.

Mr. Obama would extend the Bush tax cuts for taxpayers making less than $250,000 a year, and repeal them immediately for those above that level. He would cut other taxes, including for low-income workers and small businesses, and raise taxes on the dividends and capital gains of the affluent. Like Mr. McCain, he would change the alternative minimum tax to apply only to the rich, as intended, and close corporate loopholes, most of them unspecified.

Mr. Obama says the new revenue from higher taxes on the well-off would pay for his health plan, which would cost an estimated $115 billion the first year, but increase after that. That still leaves his tax cuts for everyone else to add to the deficits.

The Tax Policy Center estimated that the overall revenue loss would be nearly $1 trillion for Mr. Obama’s term, and $2.9 trillion measured over a decade. Annual federal spending, which exceeds 20 percent of gross domestic product, would grow under both men’s plans. Revenue would continue to be a lower percentage, measured against the size of the economy — 18.3 percent under Mr. Obama, and 17.6 percent under Mr. McCain, according to the tax center. The difference signals continued, deepening deficits.

The size of both candidates’ tax cuts troubles many budget analysts. Even if the next president succeeds in reining in health care costs, said Joseph J. Minarik, senior vice president of the business-supported Committee for Economic Development, those savings will take years to appear while the tax cuts would be immediate.

Mr. Obama’s spending plans, beyond his health care initiative, would mean increases for education, infrastructure, research and foreign aid, and more for bolstering the military than Mr. McCain has proposed.

He has a more ambitious climate-change proposal, mandating that companies buy emissions permits at government auctions. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that those could bring in up to $300 billion annually by 2020. Mr. Obama would use the initial revenue for energy initiatives and tax rebates to offset many Americans’ fuel costs.

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 09:25 schreef kriele het volgende:

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Ben je familie van Palin? Vanwaar je adoratie voor dat mens?

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 09:29 schreef laforest het volgende:

Omdat zij in mijn ogen een briljant persoon is.

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 09:35 schreef Klopkoek het volgende:
"Win or lose, many see Palin as future party"



Dat zou zo mooi zijn, die Palin als president.

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 09:37 schreef Chewie het volgende:

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Ja vooral leuk voor Obama, heb je het zelf wel gelezen relkloontje?

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 09:37 schreef laforest het volgende:

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Inderdaad, ik hoop dat dit de toekomst voor Amerika wordt, ik ben zelfs bereid na te denken over te emigreren als zij president wordt.

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 09:41 schreef Re het volgende:

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Palin mot geen buitenlanders

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 09:44 schreef Chewie het volgende:

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Waarom begrijp je dan zo verdomd weinig van wat er staat, dat de race nog niet gelopen is is een open deur maar ik begrijp best dat je elke laatste strohalm aangrijpt om nog even te kunnen dromen.

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 09:37 schreef laforest het volgende:

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Inderdaad, ik hoop dat dit de toekomst voor Amerika wordt, ik ben zelfs bereid na te denken over te emigreren als zij president wordt.

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 09:51 schreef JoeyT het volgende:

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Aah je bent niet eens amerikaans

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 10:00 schreef laforest het volgende:

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Nee, nou en?
Amerika bestaat uit allerlei volkeren die zich samen Amerikanen noemen. Melting Pot en assimilation hè?

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 09:37 schreef laforest het volgende:

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Inderdaad, ik hoop dat dit de toekomst voor Amerika wordt, ik ben zelfs bereid na te denken over te emigreren als zij president wordt.

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 10:10 schreef Bananenman het volgende:

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Alsof ze je binnnen zullen laten

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 09:28 schreef Klopkoek het volgende:

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Zelfs The Obama Times zeggen het.

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 09:29 schreef laforest het volgende:

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Omdat zij in mijn ogen een briljant persoon is, een verademing voor de politiek. De enige vrouw die samen met John McCain Amerika weer op het ware pad kan krijgen.
En natuurlijk omdat ik het met McCain en Palin eens ben (vooral Palin haar ideeën liggen op mijn lijn).

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 10:20 schreef kriele het volgende:

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Oke. Ik houd al op. Wat moet je hier nog van zeggen?

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What has energized the students, though, and particularly the young women, is Gov. Sarah Palin, in whom they see themselves.

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 10:29 schreef Argento het volgende:
Nou weten we zeker dat Laforest een troll is want Palin heeft helemaal geen ideeen. Ze heeft nauwelijks de capaciteiten om de ideeen van anderen onder woorden te brengen.

verder ga je nu op mijn foe lijst

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 10:28 schreef laforest het volgende:
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Young, Republican and Inspired by Palin

http://www.nytimes.com/20(...)ey.html?ref=politics
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Lees het artikel

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“It’s great to see other people feel similarly to the way I do, that I’m not crazy,” said Jillian Cunningham, 20, co-president of the Wellesley Republicans.

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Ms. Huddleston, 21, co-president of the Wellesley Republicans, said, “I mean, how cool to have a young woman on the ticket who’s doing exactly what I want to do when I grow up.”

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Nathalie Snapp, 25, a doctoral candidate at Harvard, where she studies chemical physics, said: “I do very much identify with her as someone who has pursued having both a career and a family. I also really want both.”

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 10:35 schreef laforest het volgende:

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Deze vrouw zit vol met ideeën waar ik het mee eens ben, of je het nou leuk vindt of niet.


_{verder ga je nu op mijn foe lijst}

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2008 10:35 schreef laforest het volgende:

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Nee ze is zo maar Governor of Alaska geworden. Gaat toch weg man, je troll gelul is gewoon een zwakte bod. Mensen hebben op haar gestemd. Je opmerking grenst gewoon aan zielig.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Sarah_Palin

Deze vrouw zit vol met ideeën waar ik het mee eens ben, of je het nou leuk vindt of niet.


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