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Tagged with 2008 election, barack obama, john mccain, sarah palin
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I think barack obama was saying that if a country was going to attack us and we could not seek any other peaceful resolution we would have to fight back.
Printing: Conversations with the Young and Politically Motivated 2007
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I think barack obama was saying that if a country was going to attack us and we could not seek any other peaceful resolution we would have to fight back.
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September 4th, 2008 12:15 pm ET sarah palin is a attractive package with the same old republican rhetoric. mitt romney calls out the liberals and yet he was govenor of the only state that has national health insurance. i find it hard that people get caught up in the excitement of the moment and do not listen to what is being said.abraham lincoln did not organize the republican party and barack obama said he would raise taxes for families making over 200k a year, i find all this misleading and insulting to my intelligence. one thing about saral palin, she did not even try to be hillary clinton. with a bs in political science how can you compete with a lawyer , who so much experience as a senator in nyc. and then rudi juliani attacks the media. he loved the media when 911 happened!
senwick commented on the word barack obama
The 44th President of the United States.
November 5, 2008
kewpid commented on the word barack obama
But the 43rd person to occupy that role ;)
November 5, 2008
bilby commented on the word barack obama
I hope we can soon do better than a single listing on a compilation of Brazilian Politicans.
November 5, 2008
rolig commented on the word barack obama
Fits perfectly in my "curious words in the news" list.
November 5, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word barack obama
I'm very disappointed, since he has got an official account on Flickr but not on Wordie.
November 8, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word barack obama
Ha ha ha!! Damn, he BETTER not get an account on Wordie. We can't afford to have him get sucked into this site.
November 8, 2008
elgiad007 commented on the word barack obama
I was thinking along those same lines. I have a hard enough time getting my menial tasks done during the day without getting drawn to the browser screen, as I am now.
November 8, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word barack obama
BarackObama's favorite word: Ohio
BarackObama's least favorite word: suntanned
November 8, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word barack obama
I think Virginia instead. Don't you? ;)
November 8, 2008
bilby commented on the word barack obama
Onomatopoeia that best describes Barack Obama: ?
November 8, 2008
gangerh commented on the word barack obama
Obamatopoeic.
November 8, 2008
oroboros commented on the word barack obama
Re: "43rd person to occupy that role"--
"Harrison defeated Cleveland in 1888, making it necessary to consider Cleveland both the 22nd and 24th president."
From Language on Vacation by Dimitri Borgmann
November 9, 2008
asativum commented on the word barack obama
Er, why wasn't Mr. Cleveland simply the 22nd president, who happened to serve a second term later on?
November 10, 2008
kewpid commented on the word barack obama
I believe it's even officially sanctioned in an Act of Congress. Who decided it was a good idea to entrench this weirdness?!
November 10, 2008
reesetee commented on the word barack obama
*waits for our resident American history expert, chained_bear*
November 10, 2008
bilby commented on the word barack obama
She's busy. She's our resident pipsiculturist.
November 10, 2008
reesetee commented on the word barack obama
These moonlighters--never around when you need them. ;->
November 10, 2008
beecher commented on the word barack obama
Not that Obama is truly a favorite word but it is an interesting name that possibly helped him win the election. See what I am talking about:
http://walkinthewords.blogspot.com/2008/11/obamas-name-wins-election-thanks-to.html
November 11, 2008
sarra commented on the word barack obama
From that link:
Obama has three separate vowel sounds compared to McCain's one.
Very mistaken. Fine on Obama, but McCain has one vowel in each syllable (note the much-forgotten-in-English schwa), plus the diphthong in -ai- must count for something.
November 11, 2008
beecher commented on the word barack obama
Right you are serra, I am embarrassed to have made that mistake. Though I still don't believe the dipthong carries any additional weight.
November 11, 2008
sarra commented on the word barack obama
Ah, that'll be fine!
November 11, 2008
beecher commented on the word barack obama
Sarra - sorry I didn't even spell your name correctly in the previous comment. I don't know where my brain is. At any rate, here is a link to a post acknowledging my mistake. Thank you for pointing it out.
http://walkinthewords.blogspot.com/2008/11/we-all-make-mistakes-mccains-schwa.html
November 11, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word barack obama
He's got a Twitter account, too! It's outrageous. Maybe he doesn't even know about us.
April 30, 2009