Veteran delegate and Clinton backer Montanaro knows it's time to switch
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By John E. Mulligan But Frank Montanaro, R.I.'s AFL-CIO chief and a veteran Democratic delegate, thinks a little perspective is in order. Montanaro was in Madison Square Garden 28 years ago for the mother of all split conventions -- and he says the family feud in Denver is nothing. The jockeying over the terms of Clinton's concession to Obama is "not even close" to the bitter rift in 1980 between Jimmy Carter and the Bay State's Ted Kennedy. Mind you, Montanaro is a hard-core supporter of Clinton, and, he said today, he still wishes she were the Democratic nominee after her speech last night. "Of course I do," he said, "that's how this works. But I can support Barack Obama very easily." He thinks most Clinton delegates from Rhode Island and around the country feel the same way. "I think everybody understands what the name of the game is. The last primary is over, and you couldn't have stated that any more clearly then Hillary did in her speech. " Montenaro declared his candidate's speech "magnificent" and said he's ready to go to work on the defeat of Republican presidential candidate John McCain. 
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Well, Mr. Montanaro, be ready for a socialist government. Obama is not a Christian, he is a Marxist, and just watch who will be his top adviser, none other than the honorable so-called pastor. You will be one of his peasants. Count the days until you lose all of your present American freedoms.
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Well, Mr. Montanaro, be ready for a socialist government. Obama is not a Christian, he is a Marxist, and just watch who will be his top adviser, none other than the honorable so-called pastor. You will be one of his peasants. Count the days until you lose all of your present American freedoms.
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You have got to be kidding! A Marxist? What planet or Republican blogger did you get that from? Frank is right. Hillary would have been the better pick in my mind too, but she didn't win due to the type of false rumors just like you are making here. Frank is also right that Obama needs to be elected. We don't need another 4 years of going deeper into debt, failed foreign policy, and decay at home while McCain's Republican buddies get richer.
PS: There are no flights yet to Mars, but the Sox are still looking for a replacement for Manny in left field. Perhaps, Dolores, you should try out.
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