<p>I understand the repetition of “The One” can be annoying. I know when I read posts here, that I’ve had to learn to ignore all the outrageous insults directed toward (insert name of any conservative politician or figure here) when trying to understand someone else’s points. The insults are just distracting.</p>
<p>Officially such ugliness on CC is known as churlish banter. ;)</p>
<p>Calling Senator Obama The One however, fits. That was a masterpiece of political parody.</p>
<p>If we’re going to use the term I suggest we standardize the font style and color. Bold and blue seem to fit. It’ll be a brave new world for old time liberals. :)</p>
<p>I believe it was Oprah Winfrey who first annoited him The One in those early primary stadium rallies that were the perfect blend of vacuous celebrity and narcissism.</p>
<p>It will soon be unlawful to criticize The One. Once he wins the election protections of speech under the First Amendment will be amended to acknowledge The One.</p>
<p>Then we’ll all get to wonder who’ll be invited to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom.</p>
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<p>I wasn’t being faced with “facts” and I certainly didn’t change the subject, Hard-Knocks. I was simply crying “uncle” and figuratively throwing my hands up in frustration. Basically, what I said was: “I got your point. Enough.”</p>
<p>Why did you put facts in quotation marks? You asked for evidence, and you got it. </p>
<p>I would have no trouble with your saying that you got his point in that exchange, but instead you just dismiss id as being an Obama hater. So what if he is? His point re: the race card was valid.</p>
<p>As I’ve already said, I respect most of your commentary, even if I disagree with it. Now if I can only take it upon myself to read a noob faq so I can make a cool smiley face…</p>
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<p>We will be so overcome with Bliss from the Divine Light shining down on us from **The One **that there will be no need for constitutional amendments.</p>
<p>In the interest of promoting an increased awareness of Visual Basic I offer up the following CC code pages:</p>
<p>Smilies: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/misc.php?do=showsmilies[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/misc.php?do=showsmilies</a> :D</p>
<p>vB Code (use this to create colored text and more): <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/misc.php?do=bbcode[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/misc.php?do=bbcode</a></p>
<p>Thank you for this public service announcement –
I wouldn’t otherwise be able to do The One!
Now I’m worthy!
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<p>The One</p>
<p>Thanks for the color tip. Do you have a style guide recommendation for “Hussein”? :eek:</p>
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<p>Oh, Hard_Knocks, who knows why I do ANYTHING. I love my punctuation marks–especially commas and quotes. What can I say? … I was frustrated because the “evidence” (there I go again!) seemed more like a volcanic venom spew. … I’m only human … I think. 
… interesteddad is one tough cookie–I doubt my little flame-out bothered him one bit. … Right?</p>
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<p>Indeed, you are. Now I feel that we can speak as equals! :D</p>
<p>Wow! Thanks, I’ve always wanted to do this! :D</p>
<p>BTW, there’s an easy shortcut for bold or italics. After you’ve finished typing your message, highlight the word you want in bold and hit CTRL-B. That will insert the bold commands around the selected type. Same thing for italics, just type CTRL-I. CTRL-U for underline.</p>
<p>newjack:“Also, no one played the “race card” in “Obama Co-Chair Questions Hillary’s Tears.” You don’t even know what the “race card” is so quit using to that pejorative.”</p>
<p>I had asked you once before, so please enlighten low IQ voters what a race card is. You seem to be saying that a lot.</p>
<p>Let’s see if it works!</p>
<p>Interesting, parent2noles, that you believe Obama will win the election. I don’t believe he has an iceberg’s chance in hell of winning. And that’s probably a good thing for many reasons, not the least of them being that it won’t be possible to blame the errors of the next President on Obama. If Obama were to win, it wouldn’t matter whether he was actually a good and effective leader, an abysmal failure, or somewhere in between. He would be invariably be reckoned a failure (the threshold of tolerance for any errors on his part, being especially low), and his failure would in some way be attributed to some “pathology” inherent in his race. Then hell would become a hospitable place for icebergs before another black person of any political persuasion would have a chance of being elected POTUS.</p>
<p>Yes, I know you heartily disagree with that assessment. So, let’s just agree to disagree, shall we?</p>
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<p>Well, respectfully, I think that’s an attitude that is doomed to leave any candidate who is not a white male hanging out to dry. People are better than this, poetsheart. Obama’s candidacy and his brilliant, improbable campaign is already proof that people are better than this.</p>
<p>The fact that he made it this far is indeed proof positive that things have greatly improved since the days I when sat in a classroom segregated by mandate of law. I’m just not convinced they’ve improved so much that a black man in the oval office will not be judged by a less forgiving yardstick than the one used to measure a white one. I’d like to live long enough to be proven wrong on that.</p>
<p>Well, keep your hope alive, PH. I am confident that day is not far away.</p>