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  not2needy4 months, 1 week ago

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  Said a confident-sounding Obama: "I told her that once the dust settled I'm looking forward to meeting with her at a time and place of her choosing." He was disclosing the contents of a conversation the two rivals had on Sunday night but did not describe her response.

  The former first lady has given no hint of quitting the race, and she has said repeatedly she may continue her candidacy even beyond the end of the primaries.

  But her husband, former President Clinton, strongly suggested otherwise

  Bout time!

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      TemplarScribe4 months, 1 week ago

      I'll cautiously agree that she has the opportunity to "seal the deal if she does it right," meaning closing ranks with Obama and joining his candidacy in some role. I'd suggest Sec. of State, but others have said she may be offered a chance to pass her long sought healthcare legislation, meaning Sec. of Health and Human Affairs.

      It's telling that Hillary's advance team have been asked to New York for a speech on Tuesday night. Most illuminating is that they were allowed to just go home, instead of making the trip. See:

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/02/clinto...

      It's also telling that Obama called Hillary on Sunday night, in part to congratulate her for her Puerto Rico win, but also, I'd wager, to give her help with her campaign debts.

      Obama will be in Minnesota for his "victory speech" on Tuesday night at, of all places, the same convention hall where the Republicans will hold their convention in September. Sweet!

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        Georgia504 months, 1 week ago

        It's the age old dilemma...does she serve in heaven or rule in hell.

        Hillary has to know how worthless the VP slot is. She's the one who kicked Gore out of his White House office. In the Senate, she can make a President B. Hussein look bad and leave not the first fingerprint.

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          not2needy4 months, 1 week ago

          oops false positive! Hillary is power hungry enough to take almost any cabinet seat she is offered. More "experience" she can tout in future endeavours.

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    lfergie8124 months, 1 week ago

    N2N

    "The former first lady has given no hint of quitting the race, and she has said repeatedly she may continue her candidacy even beyond the end of the primaries."

    That may be courageous o her part but from where I sit I can hear the fat lady warming up.

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    Spadecaller4 months, 1 week ago

    Fresh from the AP

    ...Obama selects Chelsea for VP!

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  mcgrievysr4 months, 1 week ago

  I'll say it again. Anybody but McCain. But, that's me. However, I'm hoping that it's a slew of others too.

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    not2needy4 months, 1 week ago

    Oh yeah, let's get more of a majority in Congress too, that's my dream come true!

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      Grrr4 months, 1 week ago

      The Dems HAVE to gain a true working majority in the House or it's all for naught. Congress has a bad rap for the last term, but they don't have a working majority. The current numbers are really about a 50/50 power split, since the GOP has the numbers to hold up the works. In their continuing hyper-partisan fashion. And of course they're happy to sit back doing nothing but stopping progress while saying "Hey, don't look at us, they have the majority."

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        not2needy4 months, 1 week ago

        Absolutely right, we can't accomplish anything if it's a constant struggle of power between repugs in congress and a dem pres.

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          ETproductions4 months, 1 week ago

          All the more reason this squabbling about the nomination process has to come to an end once one of the two has crossed the nomination threshold.

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  Grrr4 months, 1 week ago

  CNN is reporting that most of the 17 outstanding Senatorial superdelegates will pledge for Obama this week. Bill Clinton said today "This may be the last day I'm ever involved in a campaign of this kind."

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    not2needy4 months, 1 week ago

    Yeah, I wonder what he meant by that statement. OF THIS KIND!?

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  jovial4 months, 1 week ago

  I'll believe it when I see it.

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  raats66624 months, 1 week ago

  It looks like the end is in sight. Now let's start working on 'The REAL McCain' so we can watch his poll numbers drop like the Titanic and eliminate ANY arguments "I am the most electable General Election candidate."

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    not2needy4 months, 1 week ago

    The only way McCain could win is if the repugs decide it's worth taking the chance to steal another election. If they get Rove involved, i put nothing past what they are capable of.

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  david_nwpa4 months, 1 week ago

  What has bothered me all along with this primary campaign season is that everyone has been yammering to throw in the towel for months. What good would that have done? Why not let South Dakota and Montana have their say? If the Democrats contend that every vote counts, then let them have a choice right up to the very end. We have sufficient time between June 3 and Denver for one candidate or the other to drop out.

  Until then, we still have a race.

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    not2needy4 months, 1 week ago

    That is true, however.. while we are fighting each other, we are allowing McCain to gather steam. We need to join together and get our strategy against McCain rather than against each other.

    Many states didn't get their say in the repub primary, not saying it's all good, but we really need to start banding together. Our inner party bickering is too draining.

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    not2needy4 months, 1 week ago

    ROFL.. From what i've been reading, she's still intent on making some calls to already committed superdelegates to see if she can get them to change their minds.. She certainly doesn't go out without a fight, got to admire her determination.

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      icono14 months, 1 week ago

      As I understand it, the Super Delegates can change their mind. Maybe that is what The Hill is working on.

      Possible interesting issue; how can Comrade 'kiss my grits' Barry get delegates from a state, Michigan, when he removed himself from the ticket for the primary of that state as a possible candidate for the DNC candidate for president.

      He didn't get a popular vote count but he gets the delegates. How so?

      It 'sounds like' and 'looks like' a partisan gift and or an inside deal to take The Hill out of the race.

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        not2needy4 months, 1 week ago

        He didn't have his name on the ballot because it was an illegal election, he was trying to do the right thing, and if Hill had done the right thing, she wouldn't have had her name on the ballot either. She said she didn't care with Mich and Fla did, because at that point she thought she had lost both of those states anyway, then when she realized she had won them, and desperately needed those delegates, she started rocking the boat. It was nothing but fair that he was awarded some of those delegates, and it really wouldn't have been fair to anyone to give her all the delegates when Obama tried to do the right thing.

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          fsev414 months, 1 week ago

          Other Dem candidates removed their names also. I not sure if all did but its quite possible Hill's name was the only one on the ballot. Ickes was on the committee that voted to unseat the delegates but now wants to change. Not right.

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            bluetexasvalley4 months, 1 week ago

            Chris Dodd was on the ballot. But they also had an Uncommited designation. Hillary got 55% of the vote. So they gave her 55% half votes,and Obama got *less* than 45% half votes, which he graciously accepted.

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              Lurch4 months, 1 week ago

              Chris Dodd said his campaign did not have enough money to waste taking his name off the ballot, otherwise he would have.

              But the real question, and the one that has not been asked/answered as far as I know is, are the citizens of FLA/MI going to hold their state representatives responsible for costing them their right to vote in the primary/causus?

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                icono14 months, 1 week ago

                Good point lurch

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        Grrr4 months, 1 week ago

        Allowing the delegates from FL and MI to be seated at all, contrary to the rules set forth at the start, was the gift. Allowing Clinton to receive any MI delegates at all, as the sole candidate that scabbed onto the ballot, was quite a cave, too, I thought. And as to why the delegate distribution, Clinton didn't get 100% of the vote, either. 50% FL and 55% MI. And what she is working on is swallowing her pride leading up to ceding this race BEFORE the unpledged delegate deluge that follows on the heels of tomorrow's primaries. Seems to me, anyway.

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          icono14 months, 1 week ago

          Interesting.

          Thanks for the info.

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          Georgia504 months, 1 week ago

          You Dems need to look at it this way: do you want FL and MI to go GOP in November?

          I think you dodged a bullet.

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            Lurch4 months, 1 week ago

            But you are missing the real point Georgia. The GOP should be punished, irregardless of the Dem delegate results, because it was the GOP state reps who knowingly and purposefully broke the rules of both parties out of pure greed for more power (no surprise there).

            The irony of this whole primary-greed is that if FLA and MI had waited til their original dates or even gone later, they would have had a huge influence on this election. Instead, they get booby prizes.

            Nobody to thank but the Republican state reps who demanded the state break the rules and hold the votes of their constituents hostage.

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        Lurch4 months, 1 week ago

        > He didn't get a popular vote count but he gets the delegates. How so?

        You just need to remember one thing, this is not the Republican Party and they do not reward those who do not follow the rules.

        Hillary did not follow the rules, so why should she be rewarded for not following the rules and why should Obama be punished for following the rules?

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          not2needy4 months, 1 week ago

          Her republican roots certainly came out during this primary, showed me a side to her i didn't know existed, and i didn't like.

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          aniokly4 months, 1 week ago

          But they did reward those who did not follow the rules. They even gave Barak 4 delegates from a state he didn't even have his name on the ballot. I have a cousin in Port Huron who is a life long Democrat. She is livid. She thinks Hillary would have won had the DNC not created such a convoluted system to reward the black person. She swears she will vote for McCain. We shall see.

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      Spadecaller4 months, 1 week ago

      "And lets not forget the lesson of RFK?'

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  aniokly4 months, 1 week ago

  There are still over 200 unpledged Super delegates, and any superdelegat can change their vote all the way to the convention floor vote. He really hasn't been winning by as much as she has lately, and he is yet to win a battleground state. They are very close in the popular vote, and the Delegate numbers.

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    ETproductions4 months, 1 week ago

    Yeah, Ani, we all know what you die-hard RepugniCons really want. Hillary as the Democratic nominee. Her chief supporters include Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Aniokly. So much for the electability argument.

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      not2needy4 months, 1 week ago

      As i have said before, repugs see the writing on the wall, they know this is going to be a win for the dems in Nov. Hillary was born and raised a repub, and if she could have pulled out the nomination, with a ticket like McCain vs Clinton,, it would have been a win win for them.

      However don't forget Anne Coulter, she's been a Hillary woman since day one, for the reason mentioned above, early on Anne Coulter said that Hillary was much more conservative than McCain was.

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  automan9094 months, 1 week ago

  Hillary is much more electable at this point since we finally know what Obama is all about. If the primary started over now she would easily kick his butt just like McCain will do too.

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  Spadecaller4 months, 1 week ago

  Here's the group of spineless jackasses (more commonly known as Superdelegates) who remain uncomitted:

  Bud Cramer (AL)

  Gabrielle Giffords (AZ)

  Nancy Pelosi (CA)

  Jerry McNerney (CA)

  Mike Honda (CA)

  Sam Farr (CA)

  Bob Filner (CA)

  Susan Davis (CA)

  Mark Udall (CO)

  John Salazar (CO)

  Allen Boyd (FL)*

  Tim Mahoney (FL)*

  Ron Klein (FL)*

  Jim Marshall (GA)

  Rahm Emanuel (IL)

  Nancy Boyda (KS)

  Dennis Moore (KS)

  William Jefferson (LA)

  Charlie Melancon (LA)

  Don Cazayoux (LA)

  Rep. Michael Michaud (ME)

  John Sarbanes (MD)

  Steny Hoyer (MD)

  Chris Van Hollen (MD)

  John Olver (MA)

  Niki Tsongas (MA)

  John Tierney (MA)

  Edward Markey (MA)

  Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (MI)*

  Rep. Bart Stupak (MI)*

  Collin Peterson (MN)

  Gene Taylor (MS)

  Rep. Travis Childers (MS)

  Rep. Rush Holt (NJ)

  con't:

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    Spadecaller4 months, 1 week ago

    Rep. Bob Etheridge (NC)

    Rep. Mike McIntyre (NC)

    Rep. Tom Udall (NM)

    Charlie Wilson (OH)

    Marcia Kaptur (OH)

    Rep. Zack Space (OH)

    Rep. Dennis Kucinich (OH)

    Rep. Dan Boren (OK)

    Bob Brady (PA)

    Jason Altmire (PA)

    Tim Holden (PA)

    Rep. Mike Doyle (PA)

    John Spratt (SC)

    Lincoln Davis (TN)

    Bart Gordon (TN)

    Nick Lampson (TX)

    Jim Matheson (UT)

    Distinguished Party

    Leaders (DPLs)

    Jimmy Carter (GA)

    Al Gore (TN)

    Fmr. Senator and Majority Leader

    George Mitchell (NY)

    Fmr. DNC Chair Bob Strauss (TX)

    Senators

    Ken Salazar (CO)

    Joe Biden (DE)

    Tom Carper (DE)

    Tom Harkin (IA)

    Mary Landrieu (LA)

    Ben Cardin (MD)

    Carl Levin (MI)*

    Max Baucus (MT)

    Jon Tester (MT)

    Harry Reid (NV)

    Frank Lautenberg (NJ)

    Sherrod Brown (OH)

    Ron Wyden (OR)

    Jack Reed (RI)

    Jim Webb (VA)

    Herb Kohl (WI)

    Governors

    Bill Ritter (CO)

    Steve Beshear (KY)

    Brian Schweitzer (MT)

    John Lynch (NH)

    Phil Bredeson (TN)

    Joe Manchin (WV)

    con't:

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  Spadecaller4 months, 1 week ago

  Add-Ons

  Terry Goddard (AZ)

  Alex Sink (FL)

  Steve Geller (FL

  Jay Nixon (MO

  Rusty McAllister (NV

  Jerry Lee (TN)

  32 Unnamed Add-Ons

  DNC Members

  continued:

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  Spadecaller4 months, 1 week ago

  Add-Ons

  Terry Goddard (AZ)

  Alex Sink (FL)

  Steve Geller (FL

  Jay Nixon (MO

  Rusty McAllister (NV

  Jerry Lee (TN)

  32 Unnamed Add-Ons

  DNC Members

  Joe Turnham (AL)

  Nancy Worley (AL)

  Don Bivens (AZ)

  Lottie Shackleford (AR)

  Art Torres (CA)

  Hon. Carole Migden (CA)

  Bob Mulholland (CA)

  Christine Pelosi (CA)

  Robert Rankin (CA)

  Steve Ybarra (CA)

  John Perez (CA)

  Donna Brazile (DC)

  Christine Warnke (DC)

  John Daniello (DE)

  Harriet Smith-Windsor (DE)

  Karen Thurman (FL)*

  Rudolph Parker (FL)*

  Terrie Brady (FL)*

  Mitchell Ceasar (FL)*

  Diane Glasser (FL)*

  Jon Ausman (FL)*

  Andrew Tobias (FL)*

  Richard Ray (GA)

  Edward Smith (IL)

  Vacant (IL)

  Helen Knetzer (KS)

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    Spadecaller4 months, 1 week ago

    David Parker (NC)

    Muriel Offerman (NC)

    Carol Peterson (NC)

    David Strauss (ND)

    Hon. Chris Redfern (OH)

    Ronald Malone (OH)

    Patricia Moss (OH)

    Hon. Joyce Beatty (OH)

    Ivan Holmes (OK)

    Jim Frasier (OK)

    Jay Parmley (OK)

    Frank Dixon (OR)

    Hon. Bill Bradbury (OR)

    Eliseo Roques-Arroyo (PR)

    Hon. Gilda Cobb-Hunter (SC)

    Cheryl Chapman (SD)

    Gray Sasser (TN)

    Dr. Inez Crutchfield (TN)

    David Hardt (TX)

    Denise Johnson (TX)

    Linda Chavez -Thompson (TX)

    Helen Langan (UT)

    Jim Leaman (VA)

    C Richard Cranwell (VA)

    Hon. Alexis Herman (VA)

    Howard Dean (VT)

    Ed Cote (WA)

    Sharon Mast (WA)

    Nick Casey Jr. (WV)

    Alice Germond (WV)

    Paula Zellner (WI)

    Cynthia Nunley (WY)

    Marylyn Stapleton (VI)

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  Spadecaller4 months, 1 week ago

  Jennifer Moore (KY)

  Nathan Smith (KY)

  Elsie Burkhalter (LA)

  Sam Spencer (ME)

  Jennifer DeChant (ME)

  Hon. Heather Mizeur (MD)

  Susan Turnbull (MD)

  John Sweeney (MD)

  Belkis Leong-Hong (MD)

  Debra Kozikowski (MA)

  James Roosevelt Jr (MA)

  Arthenia Abbott (MI)*

  Elizabeth Bunn (MI)*

  Debbie Dingell (MI)*

  Joyce Lalonde (MI)*

  Jeffrey Radjewski (MI)*

  Michael Tardiff (MI)*

  Richard Wiener (MI)*

  Mark Brewer (MI)*

  Hon. Kwame Kilpatrick (MI)*

  Richard Shoemaker (MI)* DNC Members (cont'd)

  Carnelia Pettis Fondren (MS)

  John Temporiti (MO)

  Yolanda Wheat (MO)

  Leila Medley (MO)

  Hon. Robin Carnahan (MO)

  Hon. Maria Chappelle-Nadal (MO)

  Dennis McDonald (MT)

  Margarett Campbell (MT)

  Sam Lieberman (NV)

  Hon. Catherine Cortez Masto (NV)

  Philip D. Murphy (NJ)

  Raymond Buckley (NH)

  Ralph Dawson (NY)

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  not2needy4 months, 1 week ago

  Thanks SC, there are a few on there that surprise me, i would have thought that Dennis Kucinich, along with a few others, would have committed by now.

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    bluetexasvalley4 months, 1 week ago

    Do you think they're all waiting to be *the one* who puts him over the top? Think of the publicity s/he'd get.

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  OLDSCHOOL1980SDDSEX4 months, 1 week ago

  HILLARY CLINTON HAS NAZI NICKNAME-You DELEGATES and other people ACTUALY WANT TO VOTE ANOTHER "HITLER WHITE SUPREMIST*... INTENT IS TO TAKE AWAY THIS U.S TRADATIONS/OUR WRITTEN FREEDOM THAT WAS**GUAR-AN-TEED CENTOURIES AGO BY THIS UNITED STATES FOREFATHERS?-What made this country so great to make others want to defect from thier homelands to come here-HAS BEEN BLOWN OUTTA DA WATER,BECUASE OF HILLARY"NAZI-HITLER"CLINTON HAD VIOLATEED OUR SACRED 1RST AMENDMENT DURING 1990S WHERE MEN CANT SHOW PHYSICAL INTAMACY"BOOTYCALLS"TO WOMEN IN PUBLIC"TESTING THE WATERS AS NATURE INTENDED*MEN CANT PERFORM FORPLAY/NOW CERTAIN STATES(Such as OHIO STATE)IS GAY?! -HITLER HILLARY CLINTON DONT BELONG BACK IN NO OFFICE**PERIOD-SHES TOO MEAN TO BE HUMAN,THAT AINT NO WOMAN,PEOPLE/COLDBLOODED**

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  aniokly4 months, 1 week ago

  I just heard Sen Clinton will make a speech tonight, and acknowledge Sen Obama has enough support today to get the nomination, and she will discontinue campaigning She is not conceeding, but suspending her campaign until the convention. Can you say floor fight? She is trying to drive him out by his own choice.

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    Georgia504 months, 1 week ago

    And why not? Considering the creeps B. Hussein calls friends, Hillary should have no trouble finding A) dirt and B) a McClellan willing to sell out.

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      not2needy4 months, 1 week ago

      Your pathetic attempts at discrediting Obama by calling him B. Hussein is childish. It is nothing but a name, given to him by his mother, named after his father. It in no way denotes his faith or anything else. HELLS BELLS even ani gave up calling him that.

      Very small of you though, but why would i expect anything else, LOL!

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      Lurch4 months, 1 week ago

      If the race between Obama and McCain were won just on quality of friends, Obama would still win by only a slight landslide.

      McCain: Hagee, Gramm, Parsely, every lobbyist who ever supported dictators like the Burmese, Iranian govt, etc. But the real `friend` killer.

      After how the Bushies swiftboated McCain in 2000 and twisted his arm on torture (npi), here is McCain sucking up to the worst president in our history:

      http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=mccain hugs bush&um=1&...

      Sick. This photo alone makes real patriotic americans sick.

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  nikkibabe4 months, 1 week ago

  The RNC wants to air all the dirty laundry that Hillary dumped on Obama.

  It will be fair game for DNC to dump all the dirty laundry that Bush dumped on McCain in 2000.

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  scott42614 months, 1 week ago

  My God! FINALLY!

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