American Presidential Nominees...

[shan]

if i were arrested for what posted here , you deserve a death sentence for what you posted here

[The Smoking Man]

if i were arrested for what posted here , you deserve a death sentence for what you posted here

Very bright of you.

This is the mentality brought on by the newer 'freer society here in China is it, shan.

Death sentence for words.

You must be so proud.

There is an old saying that our children chant in the west, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."

And you in the proud 'Han/Wu' race are advocating the death sentence for 'words'.

If they ever bring in the Nazi party, I'll give you an excellent recommendation for Field martial.

See this Polly, this is the race you aspire to be like... Mainland Chinese.

Doesn't what shan says here scare you?

Or are you still advocating Buddhist teachings?

[shan]

Smokie , you are funny

When did you become a coward?

You seem using the words “ fear” “scared” a lot

What are you afraid of ? do you think when I say “ I give you a death sentence “ and you will be killed soon?  the person who lives in an illusion is YOU , as a grownup, you even can’t tell the difference between a real life and a virtual world


This forum is a place for fun, people come here to seek happiness and get a relief from heavy work, don't turn a playground to a grave yard by your personal discontent;

[The Smoking Man]

Smokie , you are funny

When did you become a coward?

You seem using the words “ fear” “scared” a lot

What are you afraid of ? do you think when I say “ I give you a death sentence “ and you will be killed soon?  the person who lives in an illusion is YOU , as a grownup, you even can’t tell the difference between a real life and a virtual world


This forum is a place for fun, people come here to seek happiness and get a relief from heavy work, don't turn a playground to a grave yard by your personal discontent;

Round about the time you began appearing like an idiot.

[shan]

yes, i appear like an idiot but you are a real idiot , and an irritating idiot

since as an administrator , you guide the board with a low class/rude way

[The Smoking Man]

yes, i appear like an idiot but you are a real idiot , and an irritating idiot

since as an administrator , you guide the board with a low class/rude way

Only since you started posting tripe.

Besides ... you can always leave... like you always do.

[Drive By]

ok enough fighting. you are perfectly entitled to have you ultra nationalistic views dont know how it sits with the buddhuist stuff but dont need to. as a catholic i am an atheist.

[Art]

yes, i appear like an idiot but you are a real idiot , and an irritating idiot

since as an administrator , you guide the board with a low class/rude way

As opposed to deleting posts he doesn't like you mean? That isn't high class Shan, it's called high-handed.

[shan]

now i know why you three guys "臭味相投“”无可救药“

rice ball can do the translation , by the way

[Drive By]

i cant read the characters because computer wont llow. however is it 'dao jiang hu'

[shan]

lol, fei dan tao jiang hu, er que tao de hen li hai

非但淘桨糊,而且淘的厉害

[shan]

WASHINGTON - The biggest day ever in US presidential nominating contests began on Tuesday, with Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in a close fight and Republican John McCain aiming for a knockout blow against Mitt Romney.

Twenty-four of the 50 states hold nominating contests for one or both parties on "Super Tuesday" for a huge haul of delegates to this summer's nominating conventions to choose the candidates for the November presidential election.

Clinton, a New York senator, tried to hold off a late surge by Obama, an Illinois senator who has cut into her once commanding leads in opinion polls nationally and in some states in the coast-to-coast voting.

"The fact that we've made so much progress I think indicates that we've got the right message, and the question is are we going to be able to pull some states out," Obama said on NBC's "Today Show."

"No matter what happens though, we're probably going to see a split decision tonight," Obama said.

More than half of the total Democratic delegates and about 40 percent of the Republican delegates are up for grabs on Tuesday. Georgia is the first state to end voting at 7 p.m. EST (2400 GMT), although West Virginia Republicans will make their choices at a convention earlier in the day.

Opinion polls show a tight Democratic race in many states, but a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll showed Obama opening a 13-point lead on Clinton in California, which alone has 441 delegates to the nominating convention -- more than one-fifth of the total needed to win. California polls close at 11 p.m. EST (0400 GMT).

Among Republicans, McCain had solid leads in most of the big battleground states. But McCain, an Arizona senator, and Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, changed their plans so they could make late dashes to California, where opinion polls showed a tighter contest.

"We wanted to come back and put an exclamation point on the kind of support I'm getting here," Romney told reporters in California late on Monday night.

A new Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll showed Romney up by 7 points in California, although McCain held commanding double-digit advantages in New York and New Jersey.

Clinton and Obama, who had split the first four significant contests, used Monday to hunt for support in delegate-rich Northeast states. Both campaigns spent heavily on final advertising sprees from coast to coast.

Clinton voted in suburban New York, accompanied by her husband former President Bill Clinton, after appearing on several morning television shows.

"None of us really understands what the impact of all these contests on one day will be for for any of us," she said on ABC's Good Morning America.

With Clinton and Obama running close, aides tried to lower expectations and predicted a lengthy battle extending to Ohio and Texas in March and Pennsylvania in April.

Because Democrats distribute delegates in proportion to their vote statewide and in individual congressional districts, candidates can come away with large numbers of delegates even in states they lose.

A LONG CONTEST

"The nominating rules of our party are really designed to prolong a contest between two strong candidates," Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said.

Obama campaign manager David Plouffe cited Clinton's once commanding leads in many of the 22 states holding Democratic contests. The Obama campaign's goal is to win a few states and stay within 100 delegates on Tuesday, he said in a memo to reporters.

In contrast, many of the 21 Republican contests are winner-take-all when awarding delegates, meaning a strong day by McCain could give him a commanding lead.

McCain predicted victory at an early-morning rally.

"We're going to win today, we're going to win the nomination and we're going to win the presidency," McCain told a crowd of several hundred in New York's Rockefeller Center following his appearance on NBC's morning show.

In dueling commercials, McCain and Romney both invoked former President Ronald Reagan in an attempt to question each others' conservative credentials.

Romney has tried to take advantage of conservative qualms about McCain's views on taxes, immigration and campaign finance reform, while supporters on talk radio and in the Senate have questioned his temperament.

McCain said his prickly reputation comes from fighting corruption and wasteful spending.
"I've never been elected Miss Congeniality because I've fought against these practices that have caused the American people to hold us in such low esteem," he said on the "Today Show".

"In all due respect, a couple of those people that are criticizing me are not the most respected members of the United States Senate," he said.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won the first contest in Iowa, also remains in the Republican race, and has siphoned conservative votes from Romney in some contests. He is aiming for a strong showing in the South.

[shan]

NEWSWEEK

In the wake of Super Tuesday, both camps have claimed victory: Obama because he won more states; Clinton because she got more votes and won the largest states. Both campaigns can credibly claim to have the wind to their back as they enter the next stage. Yet because of the nature of his candidacy, a draw or even a close Clinton victory at this stage renders Obama more attractive to those who like him but are reluctant to gamble on an unknown.

Obama is appealing because he offers an immense, if unproved, potential for greatness. Hillary Clinton's appeal lies, in large measure, in her familiarity—in the sense that with her we know pretty much what we will get. She is a bit like the comfortable neighborhood swimming pool, while Obama is more like the ocean—full of wonder, mystery, and beauty, but also peril. The problem for Clinton is that, as more and more people dive into that ocean, it becomes less and less scary, and even more people are tempted to join them.

Obama's advisers are fond of arguing that the more people get to know about Obama, the more they like him, that the longer he campaigns, the more viable his candidacy becomes. The truth is more complicated. People seem to like him well enough even at first glance. Many are not convinced, however, that he is quite real, that the soaring rhetoric of hope, unity and change is compatible with a practical plan for governing.

Obama's rallies, which tend to attract larger and more delirious crowds than Clinton's, are full of people who swoon over the man but cannot tell you precisely why they support him. They talk of his power to inspire, his ability to unite, his promise of fulfilling so many dreams, but little of it is about anything tangible. Yet the higher he soars, the longer he stays airborne, the more realizable his quest for the presidency seems. That can be seen most clearly in the way support has grown for his candidacy among black voters. Initially most blacks did not back him—in part because he was so unfamiliar, but also because he seemed like such a long shot. He now enjoys overwhelming black support, because after a big win in Iowa and impressive showings elsewhere his candidacy seems much more real.

Much the same seems to be happening—albeit not quite as dramatically—with other groups. In several of the contests on Tuesday, Obama beat Clinton among white males; he consistently beats her among young people. And he even appeals to people who don't normally consider themselves Democrats.

"I can't tell you how many Republicans I know who have never supported a Democrat before [who are supporting Obama]," his adviser Valerie Jarrett told me. At Obama's rally at Chicago's Hyatt Regency Hotel, Rosalind Vantoyl, a 35-year-old entrepreneur, sported a T-shirt identifying herself as an "Obamacan." Vantoyl explained that she was a registered Republican who had never before worked for a Democrat, but "I felt called to this in a way I haven't felt called to anything." Why? Because Obama "transcended the divide, the labels, and the dogma."