Word: chants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Aiken, S.C., not long ago. "She got a big hat. And she's smiling at me. She says, 'Fired up! Ready to go!' And it turns out that this young lady's name is Edith Childs, and she's a councilwoman from Greenwood. And she is famous for her chant. They call her the chant lady. And for the next, it seemed like, five minutes, she just kept chanting. I don't really know what to do. But here's the thing, Aiken: after about a minute or two, I'm feeling kind of fired up." He goes...
...Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hamad conveniently didn't note that the security checkpoints did not go up until years of Palestinian suicide bombings left the Israelis no choice. He failed to mention that during the recent peace conference, Palestinians gathered in the tens of thousands to denounce peace and chant, "Death to Israel." Muslims and Christians were free to travel throughout Israel and practice their religion in peace until radicals began attacking Israeli civilians. Hamad's need to blame someone for the horrid situation is understandable. But he chose his target poorly. He should look within his own community before blaming...
...Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hamad conveniently didn't note that the security checkpoints did not go up until years of Palestinian suicide bombings left the Israelis no choice. He failed to mention that during the recent peace conference, Palestinians gathered in the tens of thousands to denounce peace and chant "Death to Israel." Muslims and Christians were free to travel throughout Israel and practice their religion in peace until radicals began attacking Israeli civilians. Hamad's need to blame someone for the horrid situation is understandable. But he chose his target poorly. He should look within his own community before blaming...
...only hiccup in Obama's final day came in Rochester, where a small group of protesters in the balcony of the Rochester Opera House interrupted his stump speech with a chant, "Abortion is an abomination." When Obama's backers began to drown out the dissidents with their own cheers, Obama hushed the crowd by saying, "This is an example of not listening to each other." But when the chanters would not stop, and the event seemed unable to continue, Obama moved toward a staircase to the balcony, seemingly prepared to talk to the chanters one on one - a dramatic maneuver...
Obama crushed the first vote, not only in raw numbers, but in pure awesomeness. Margie and her supporters clapped and chanted and jumped around in their beads. Meanwhile, when the Obama supporters started to chant "Fired up! Ready to go!" into an MSNBC camera, David Gobberdiel, the assistant precinct captain of the far nerdier Clinton crew sighed, smiled and said, "Too much...