Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination

Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination 1788

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:00AM
from the well-sorta-i-guess dept.

An anonymous reader was one of many who noted that Barack Obama has claimed the Democratic nomination having secured enough delegates and super-delegates to claim victory. Of course, technically this assumes that the supers all vote as they say they will and they are free to change their minds. So no doubt we'll continue to hear debate on this subject until either the convention or Hillary steps down.

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Re:...but Hillary still won't leave. (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:11AM (#23650583)

A Zombie Jesus perhaps?

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Re:Good Luck America (Score:2, Funny)

by Kr1ll1n (579971) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:12AM (#23650591)

Oh yeah, Youtube...great measure of the will of those old enough to vote...... Geez, crawl out from behind your monitor once your testicles drop and learn something about the world for once in your life...... And no, I do not approve of the job Bush is doing, I just think you need to get out more if you think Youtube=NationalMentality......

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Re:People don't learn from history (Score:5, Funny)

by The Warlock (701535) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:12AM (#23650599)

you must live in an alternate reality where the republican party stands for saner government and a balanced budget.

what's the price of gas over there?

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Re:...but Hillary still won't leave. (Score:5, Funny)

by glgraca (105308) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:14AM (#23650633)

I can picture her in a press conference concurrent to Obama's inauguration saying "I'm not making any decisions tonight; I still have a few cards to play".

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Re:People don't seem to learn from reading, either (Score:5, Funny)

by Minwee (522556) writes: <dcr@neverwhen.org> on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:19AM (#23650723) Homepage

Are you suggesting that the spell chequer was somehow wrong?
Don't you know that the Computer is your friend, and any deviation from its approved spelling can lead to your being used as reactor shielding?

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Re:People don't seem to learn from reading, either (Score:5, Funny)

by ChromeAeonium (1026952) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:23AM (#23650785)

Balrog Obama? Now that sounds like a candidates I can trust!

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Re:People don't learn from history (Score:5, Funny)

by morgan_greywolf (835522) * writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:23AM (#23650793) Homepage Journal

blatent neo-trotskyite proto-statist pseudo-"progressive"

You say that like it's a bad thing.

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Re:Spelling? (Score:5, Funny)

by morgan_greywolf (835522) * writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:24AM (#23650805) Homepage Journal

Right. It's O'Bama. He's Irish. :-P

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Re:People don't learn from history (Score:5, Funny)

by hansamurai (907719) writes: <hansamurai@gmail.com> on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:25AM (#23650811) Homepage Journal

Leaving race out of the issue, how many republicans do you think would vote for someone named Barack Hussein Obama. A name that rings with the sounds of two recent so called enemies.
Let's twist that around a bit:

Leaving gender out of the issue, how many republicans do you think would vote for someone named Hillary Rodham Clinton? A name that rings with the sounds of two recent so called enemies (Dennis Rodman is one, you figure out the other). See how stupid that sounds, troll?

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Re:Good Luck America (Score:4, Funny)

by PerdixUK (1301863) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:33AM (#23650947)

Perhaps America shouldn't have declared independence, because they obviously still need baby sitting.

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Re:People don't learn from history (Score:3, Funny)

by Carl_Stawicki (1274996) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:35AM (#23650973)

He's ...equally not white...
Actually he's more not white than Obama, for those who care about that.

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Hmm (Score:3, Funny)

by RealErmine (621439) writes: <commerce@@@wordhole...net> on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:40AM (#23651049)

So no doubt we'll continue to hear debate on this subject until either the convention or Hillary steps down.
Would an anti-Hillary step up? Someone contact CERN.

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Someone help me with this... (Score:5, Funny)

by Voltar (973532) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:44AM (#23651121)

Is Obama a black man with a white mother or a white man with a black father? As a racist white male, this question has been causing me night terrors!

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Re:People don't learn from history (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:44AM (#23651123)

Seriously my 19 y/o son has more executive experience than he does and people want to vote him to the most powerful position in the free world? Boggles the mind; it proves to me that the American left are nothing but a bunch of blind sheep.

Sad times ahead...

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Rich fat cats who like guns and religion. (Score:3, Funny)

by Hankapobe (1290722) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:46AM (#23651173)

him going on about how people only like guns/religion because they're poor, a month or two ago.
Someone needs to tell him about the rich fat cats in the Republican party who like guns and religion. Dick Cheney for one.

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Re:...but Hillary still won't leave. (Score:5, Funny)

by Swampash (1131503) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:47AM (#23651189)

A quote I saw today:

Hillary Clinton, America's Psycho Ex-girlfriend

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My new favorite saying (Score:3, Funny)

by bxwatso (1059160) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:49AM (#23651249)

Speaking as a "Typical White Person,"1 I find him a"Clean, Articulate, and Bright Affican American"2
1. Obama himself
2. Joe Biden

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Re:People don't learn from history (Score:2, Funny)

by cduffy (652) writes: <charles+slashdot@dyfis.net> on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @09:53AM (#23651333)

Let's be fair, now -- McCain only thinks torture is OK when he's parroting Bush; when he's thinking on his own, he takes the position that using torture is an invitation to enemies to torture our own troops, and opposes it on those grounds.

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Re:The Republican Party is not "conservative". (Score:5, Funny)

by dvice_null (981029) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @10:17AM (#23651781)

> I wish Slashdot editors could be real editors, and check their work.

We will see a black female president who supports communism and is a Debian core developer, before that happens.

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Re:People don't seem to learn from reading, either (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @10:19AM (#23651811)

Last I checked it was still Borat.

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Re:The Republican Party is not "conservative". (Score:5, Funny)

by EMeta (860558) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @10:37AM (#23652197)

And high oil prices will in turn decrease consumption, which will save the planet! The neocons are actually trying to save us from ourselves, you see. It all becomes so clear now!

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Re:People don't learn from history (Score:3, Funny)

by Cairnarvon (901868) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @11:00AM (#23652661) Homepage

I don't think Chelsea is even running.

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Re:People don't learn from history (Score:3, Funny)

by Zebraheaded (1229302) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @11:02AM (#23652707)

Is Hilary Duff the other?

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Re:People don't seem to learn from reading, either (Score:5, Funny)

by genner (694963) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @11:07AM (#23652811)

I can se Mccains slogan. Obama shall not pass.

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Re:People don't seem to learn from reading, either (Score:5, Funny)

by Quiet_Desperation (858215) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @11:15AM (#23652989)

Balrog Obama? Now that sounds like a candidates I can trust!
His foreign policy would be unstoppable. Well, unless the terrorists pull a Gandalf out of their turban. I can't believe I'm even typing this nonsense!

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Re:...but Hillary still won't leave. (Score:3, Funny)

by urcreepyneighbor (1171755) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @11:17AM (#23653033)

Chelsey Clinton
Chelsea? I'd hit it.

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Re:Why should she go away? (Score:3, Funny)

by geminidomino (614729) * writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @11:17AM (#23653037) Journal

And your kids will carry that DNA...

Be afraid, be very afraid...

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Re:People don't seem to learn from reading, either (Score:5, Funny)

by f8l_0e (775982) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @11:18AM (#23653051)

That doesn't make sense. That's Gandalf's line, not Saruman's. :)

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Re:...but Hillary still won't leave. (Score:2, Funny)

by maxume (22995) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @11:25AM (#23653173)

Either your math is more awesome than normal math, or you are making quite the comment on Reagan's second term.

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Re:The Republican Party is not "conservative". (Score:5, Funny)

by wooferhound (546132) writes: <`tim' `at' `wooferhound.com'> on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @11:27AM (#23653215) Homepage

The Republicans
are the
Grand Oil Party

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Re:People don't learn from history (Score:5, Funny)

by Mister Whirly (964219) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @11:28AM (#23653247) Homepage

I know. If the price of gas gets any more expensive, rappers are going to start drinking it!

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Re:The Republican Party is not "conservative". (Score:2, Funny)

by fredan (54788) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @11:51AM (#23653671) Homepage Journal

not to mention that she is the one that has developed Duke Nukem Forever!

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Re:People don't learn from history (Score:3, Funny)

by Tanktalus (794810) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @11:56AM (#23653735) Journal

So all you "Obama hates all white people" folks out there, do you honestly believe he hates his mother and half of himself??

Seems plausible to me - I can think of someone else [wikipedia.org] who hates half of himself...

(For the humour-impaired: just because I think it's plausible doesn't mean I necessarily believe it to be true.)

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Re:People don't learn from history (Score:5, Funny)

by Foobar of Borg (690622) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @12:00PM (#23653817)

I know. If the price of gas gets any more expensive, rappers are going to start drinking it!
You know, that's probably the best argument FOR rising gas prices I've ever seen. Now, if we can just get the country music scene on board. I'd like to see Billy Ray Cyrus chugging a fifth of 100 octane gas (the kind used in NASCAR that gets sold all around the Charlotte, NC metro area during the Holy Days of NASCAR).

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Re:People don't seem to learn from reading, either (Score:5, Funny)

by dave420 (699308) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @12:54PM (#23654917)

YOU SHALL NOT PASS... legislation, because that's the job of Congress.

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Re:The Republican Party is not "conservative". (Score:5, Funny)

by Cassius Corodes (1084513) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @01:38PM (#23655609)

I was looking for a candidate that stood for higher taxes, more government, less free trade, more social programs and was anti-defence. Thnx for letting me know!

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Re:Just So Yo Know What You're Buying This Time (Score:3, Funny)

by Squiffy (242681) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @02:10PM (#23656093) Homepage

"Octoroon" sounds like an eight-sided cookie.

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Hmm (Score:3, Funny)

Someone help me with this... (Score:5, Funny)

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Rich fat cats who like guns and religion. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:...but Hillary still won't leave. (Score:5, Funny)

My new favorite saying (Score:3, Funny)

Re:People don't learn from history (Score:2, Funny)

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Re:People don't seem to learn from reading, either (Score:0, Funny)

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Re:...but Hillary still won't leave. (Score:2, Funny)

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