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Submit your question now for Bill and his roundtable guests, and selected questions will be answered on the HBO.com website in our weekly program Overtime, immediately following the Friday premiere of Real Time on 4/18/08.
Please be aware concise, single-topic questions have the best chance of being selected.
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Scheduled guests:
Scholar Cornel West, politician and writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali, blogger Markos Moulitsas, and Real Time correspondent Jeremy Scahill.
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(415 of 910)
Apr 18, 2008 11:47 PM
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Chris Mathews said he couldn't explain why Catholics seem to go more for Hillary than Obama.
Seems to me that people who belong to one of the most institutionalized religions in our world would obviously lean toward the most institutionally established candidate; which in this case would be Hillary.
Barack wears the mantle of the outsider, or new rebel, breaking onto the scene.
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Apr 18, 2008 11:47 PM
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Im an intelligent woman, what the hell is that guy talking about. He needs to speak like NORMAL POEPLE
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Apr 18, 2008 11:47 PM
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> With such a push for progression in America. Whether
> it deals with education, economic standards, and
> social upgrading (for all citizens of United
> States). Then why is the majority (non minority) of
> America question Obama. Just because his education
> out bids the national average of intelligence of
> f United States. I think this time we should go for
> the intelligence, not for the D average public....
> A.K.A (President Bush)
The fact is that 40-50 percent of Americans drop out of High School. It's no wonder that the uneducated masses would accidently elect a moron President.
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Apr 18, 2008 11:46 PM
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And it will get a lot worse before it gets better. The cost of kicking oil will be enourmous but nessarry expence. Then counting the economic equalization of the world
economy......
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Apr 18, 2008 11:46 PM
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To Bill and the rest of the roundtable,
The argument that most people both White and Black keep talking about Obama is doing so well because he's Black. Really a mix Black American with a name like Barrack Obama are you kidding me??? The real truth is that he is doing so well because he speaks well and people see that as Presidential, WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT!!?? And yes I'm a Black American.
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Apr 18, 2008 11:46 PM
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When people don?t believe that their government can make any real difference in their lives, people tend to become single issue voters. Is it a problem that the things that Democrats try to change?the economy, healthcare, getting out of Iraq?are much more complicated than the things Republicans are usually trying to do, like allowing the second amendment to keep going, prohibiting gay marriage or prohibiting abortion?
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Apr 18, 2008 11:44 PM
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If Barack Obama is an elitist and out of touch for his "bitter" comments while he was raised by a single parent home and at one point was on public assistants, how is it Hillary gets a pass on growing up in Wellesley because she "slummed it" in Scranton shooting with her grandparents on the weekends and summers?
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Apr 18, 2008 11:44 PM
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Christ, we've already got "I Hate Hillary with Chris Matthews" (<< formerly known as Hardball), followed by "Me Too with Keith Olbermann"...please Bill, don't become yet another forum for the Hillary Haters...your to cool for that.
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Apr 18, 2008 11:44 PM
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In history all empires have fallen... WHat is the difference with us? I men face it after ww2 is when this country got great and it was in lage part due to veterans benifits. And he economical boost from ww2 providing good jobs.
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Apr 18, 2008 11:44 PM
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Socialism-The stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.
Hey Bill, are you a socialist?
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Apr 18, 2008 11:43 PM
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the clintons have a done a great job of gettin everyone too talk abotu how "great" their time was.... and no one in the press likes too talk about all the bullshit that bill clinton put the country through. the proof is seeing statements like this one, that say How great the 90's were and how we need to get back to that. people should be really careful of any politician who is trying too resell you the past. if it was so great, it wouldn't need to be changed. and it wouldn't need too be improved or made better. anyone that says how we need too elect the clinton'SS so that we can get BACK too how great it was in the 90's when they were in office, is drinkin the Clinton cool-aid and either doesnt remember that presidency or doesn't want too. he was one of two presidents impeached. AND he at least had the sense too wait till AFTER he was in office before he got caught lying. I only wish we had been lucky enough too get HIS dishonesty ON VIDEO TAPE!!!! 
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Apr 18, 2008 11:43 PM
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With such a push for progression in America. Whether it deals with education, economic standards, and social upgrading (for all citizens of United States). Then why is the majority (non minority) of America question Obama. Just because his education out bids the national average of intelligence of United States. I think this time we should go for the intelligence, not for the D average public.... A.K.A (President Bush)
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Apr 18, 2008 11:43 PM
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To Cornel West:
In a paper authored by Martin Luther King, Jr. entitled "What Experiences of Christians Living in the Early Christian Century Led to the Christian Doctrines of the Divine Sonship of Jesus, the Virgin Birth, and the Bodily Resurrection" he argued against the promise of verisimilitude in all three titularly cited stories. Can someone deny these core doctrines of the faith and still mantle themselves in the Christian brand?
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Edited by amproff at 04/18/2008 8:47 PM PDT
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Apr 18, 2008 11:43 PM
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Chris Matthews is a blue collar guy? He a multi-millionaire!! WTH Bill? Blue collar guys have 3 Mercedes in the driveway? A $4.4 million dollar summer house in Nantucket? Damn dude!
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Apr 18, 2008 11:41 PM
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Are We Bitter ?
Speaking as a soon to be single mother of a child with autism, I would say?.. hmm, abso-posi-&%#@*&^-lutely! Now the part about clinging to my gun or religion, not so much. Well actually not at all. But the part about being bitter ? I am right there. And so are a lot of my friends. They too have special needs children. In fact, I would go further and say that we?re pissed. I?m amazed that we haven?t run amuck enmasse, throughout the suburbs, spilling over into neighboring urban centers, screaming, randomly slapping people, pillaging and possibly raping everything in sight. Ok ? forget the raping part. I?m still absolutely amazed. Oh that?s - no time? who has time for that. Too busy chasing an ever shrinking dollar.
Who and what am I ?bitter? about? A myriad of different irritants. Like the fact that the price of gas actually increases between fill-ups, or I mean half fill ups (who am I kidding ? I rarely fill up). Or that even though there is an increased awareness about autism, my life, the life of my son and the sons of all my comrades ? hasn?t improved. School districts are strapped for cash and seem intent on balancing their budgets on our children. Advocating for your child becomes a full time job, which of course is in addition to the full time job many of us hold to pay the mortgage. Autism has also become more of a haves and have-not's type of issue. Most interventions for autism are disallowed by insurance companies so you have to dig deep. For example ? ABA consultants in our area run from $65 - $125 an hour, not including mileage, copies, or phone time. No regulation either, so you?re pretty much on your own when choosing. I?m mad about the state of the economy, the real estate slump and another trade agreement (as if NAFTA has been such a hit) while we continue to spend billions in Iraq. Wonder how many billions Halliburtan is getting out of this deal and did they actually write the entire budget or did they get some help from the Pentagon or the Department of Defense. And finally, I?m still a little miffed about my home of New Orleans and so little has been done since Katrina. So Barack?s words were kind ? we?re way beyond bitter.
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