2 notes to readers: Kara - I watched every bit of the San Diego credit crunch poinsettia bowl...heartbreaking. Boise State is one of my favs after USC. Yttk: Thanks so much for the link in your comments above! I am surprised and pleased at the level of disgust re: Warren among some obama pods. It gives me real hope that thinking liberals are not a historical curitosity - but still might be out there somewhere...
Marx beget Lenin Lenin beget Stalin Stalin beget Mao Mao beget Che Che beget Castro Castro beget many in the land of America: Dorhn, Ayres, and many of the Weather Undergroundeth that did worship bombs. And many others of the Imbecile Tribe who believed the wearing of the Che tee-shirts did maketh them matter. But the wearing of the tee shirts did maketh them sillier than they already were-eth
And into the land of Daley many went for to worship in the Temple of the Combine.
The Combine did beget Axelrod, who knew Rezko.
And Rezko beget Blagojevich. But Blagojevich was stillborn So Rezko beget another. And he was Lord Obama.
And down the road-eth did live Wright. For he liveth in the house his temple did buy for him. And Wright beget Wrath. And Wrath did overcome Wright. And it was music to the Lord's ears. For the Victims did jump up and give money. And the Lord did see an opening. For the Lord is wise. Until the day the temple of Wright was of no use. And it was stashed neatly under the bus.
These three things the Lord doth give us:
*Black Liberation Theology
*The discrete socialism of the Bourgeoisie
*Bald faced opportunism.
But the greatest of these is Opportunism.
And the Good News was proclaimed through out the land by the village idiot: Keith Olbermann.
Wow. Reverend Wright. How many groups of people can you insult? All of New England, Texans, Italians, Jews.
The same people who were defending Wright two weeks ago - WRIGHT IS RIGHT! - are now calling him a nut-job. Senator Obama says Wright is not the man he met twenty years ago. Reverend Wright is apparently a Power Ranger and has morphed before Obama's eyes! These are the same people who said Reverend Wright was taken out of context. Since he's repeated everything he said in those You Tube moments the argument has been proven incorrect.
Senator Obama said a month ago: "I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community." We are supposed to accept that he's had a change of heart. Is he now disowning the black community or is he a typical politician reacting to polls?
Senator Obama has said repeatedly that it's not just being ready on day one. It's having the judgement to do the right thing on day one. Senator Clinton voted for the war so she has bad judgement. we are not supposed to remember the climate of the country at the time or that her decision was based on bad intelligence or that she is a Senator from NEW YORK. We are supposed to take the giant leap that Senator Obama sat in church for twenty years, never heard Reverend Wright make any of these "controversial" statements and now, only now, realizes what a mad man Wright is. The same man he disinvited to his coming party because of his "controversial" statement he prayed with in the basement before announcing his candidacy.
What I LOVE is that Huffington Post, Cheetos and all the proud defenders of the Great One are now saying that we need to talk about ISSUES!! Which one? Hope, Change or Bosnia? They also know that Senator Obama is a good and honest man who has been hoodwinked by a man who is milking his fifteen minutes of fame. You see, they know Senator Obama better than Reverend Wright who has known him for twenty years. So when Wright says that Obama is just saying what he needs to say as a politician to get elected we're to believe that Wright is lying because his followers know him better!
The problem is that now his followers are too entrenched in their fantasy to see who he really is. Like Julia Roberts, they want the fairy tale. They cannot accept that maybe their hero is more than a little flawed.
So they excuse everything. He does poorly in debates. No More Debates! Looking down his nose at working class people - well, we're smarter and he's just telling the truth! Screwing Florida and Michigan - they broke the rules! What if it were their states? Running ads in Florida which broke the rules? Hillary was there on election day! (For a victory speech - not to campaign) Keith Olbermann saying that someone should take Hillary into a room and only he emerge? Keith is a God! Ayers. He's just a neighbor. Ayers is more than a neighbor? I'm waiting to see how they spin that. Rezko? He never did anything for him! Plagiarizing speeches? They're friends and share the same views. Randi Rhodes? Free Speech!
They're so invested they can't see that his stock has fallen like Bear Sterns. Keith Olbmerann, Huffington, Rich, Dowd and Matthews are not the Fed and there won't be enough credit available in the general election to bail him out.
Senator Obama needs to get a big coop (how fortunate that Rezko sold him back land for an extra big back yard), because the chickens have come home to roost.
Obama is a liar. He stayed in that church for 20 years. He listened to Wright for 20 years. Wright said nothing new yesterday. Obama is lying to save his fraudulent ass.
Obama went after Wright and "repudiated" him today because he poll numbers are falling in N.C. End of story. Any tall tale from Obama now about how surprised he is by Wright is BULLSHIT. Barack Obama has no integrity. Zero. Obama cannot be trusted to walk the dog, much less run the country.
CNN said Obama looked "hurt". Good God. What's next- Keith Olberman brings him a blanket while Huffington rubs his shoulders, and Ducky at the Cheetos blog plays patty cakes with him to cheer him up? THIS MAN CANNOT BE PRESIDENT. Obama is poison. By taking deception and deceit to new levels Obama now represents the opposite of hope. He represents a contempt for the process that rivals Nixon.
I have problems with Senator Obama. Rezko, Present votes, lack of experience, unwillingness to answer questions, Reverend Wright, equating his grandmother to Reverend Wright, Ayers, how he won his State Senate seat, his wife. His race is one of the few things I like about him.
But I have more issues with his supporters. If you go over to ObamaPost the commenters call anyone who doesn't support Senator Obama racists. It doesn't matter what you're argument is - you are a racist.
I don't like Obama's health care plan. You're a racist.
I have questions about how Obama bought his condo and his home. You're a racist.
I do not understand how he could sit in that pew for twenty years. You're a racist.
Run an ad featuring Reverend Wright. You're playing the race card.
Obama lost in Pennsylvania because all of Senator Clinton's voters are racist. (And stupid, drunk and gun toting as a bonus!) That's really going to get Clinton supporters to vote for Obama in the General if he wins the nomination.
It's an effective way to end the conversation. Not so fab at uniting which is what he claims to have the ability to do. Just because you shout louder doesn't make you right. A mob is still a mob. To tell your opposition that they're racist and that's the only reason they're not supporting your candidate is to alienate them forever. It's not going to pull them into the fold when you need them back.
What should have been a race showing how far we've come has pushed us WAY back.
Women and blacks are both considered minorities. Blacks because they are and women because of the way we've been treated. Both groups have had to fight to get where we are.
Senator Obama has benefited from the advances; Senator Clinton helped create the advances. I would love to know if he checked the box stating he was black on his application to college. Same with Michelle. Is that racist? No, it's not, thank you very much. But I would be curious if they benefited from their race to get accepted.
Young women don't remember a time when abortion wasn't legal. They don't know about coat hangers. Older women who went out and protested for the right to choose no longer have the need. Who's going to continue the battle? The right to control our bodies has been chipped away. Parental notification, having to have a sonogram, lack of clinics have eroded the options for women.
The Civil Rights Act passed. The Equal Rights Amendment didn't.
I do not believe that Obama supporters are all sexist. It's too bad they don't offer us the same courtesy.
I thought that Senator Obama's lastest foot in mouth statement on Clinging to Religion would disipate like everything else negative about him.
I was wrong.
Michael Goodwin of the Daily News calls him Snob-ama in an op-ed today.
There are thousands of articles on the Google and as JM pointed out yesterday CNN spent quite a bit of time covering the Bad News Barr-y.
No Quarter has part of the video up of Senator Obama's speech at a fundraiser in San Francisco. His supporters may say he speaks the truth but if you watch just the little bit of the speech he is calling small town people racist. Period. He says when the "pitch" is that government can change the fact that it's delivered by a 46 year old black guy named Barack Obama that adds another layer of skeptism.
You see, they're cynical, racist and bitter. And I wonder at the word "pitch." Is he in advertising? By the way, the crowd titters appreciatively at his remark. Oh, isn't he just the funniest? Mocking small town people in big industrial states at a fund raiser where the price of admission was $2300?
I find it interesting, too, that the Reverend Wright said that "Hillary doesn't know what it is to be black man" yet Senator Obama can put himself in the shoes of a small town (assumingly white) person and tell us exactly how he/she feels. In John's post below when he is agonizing over the price of arugula, you know he feels their pain!
Senator Obama seems to spend a lot of time explaining himself. On this he started out defending his remarks and when that didn't work he now says he regrets them. Like his fab speech on race. He never explains why he was sitting in those pews for twenty years.
Michelle Obama goes to a black separatist church and then wants more white people behind her for the photo op. Pushing the black people to the back of the bus.
On April 6th, I reported that Barack Obama’s website had a disgusting analogy comparing what is going on in this election as a choice between two types of slaves: Field Slaves (Obama supporters) and House Slaves (Hillary supporters). Since bringing this to the attention of the world-at-large, suddenly and without explanation, the offensive page has been scrubbed, like so many other clearly offensive statements and connections from the Obama campaign.
Senator Obama is not the descendant of slaves but of slave owners. His followers liken the "house slaves" (us) to beer swillin' rednecks with no education. They are so much better and smarter how can Senator Obama call them field slaves?
If Senator Clinton won a state the super delegates need to go with the overall vote of the entire country. If Senator Obama won the district the super delegates need to go with the will of the district.
Senator Obama gives us hope. We're still hoping that our votes here in Florida will count and that he'll stop fighting us. Good luck to us!
Senator Obama wants to be president of the United States of American and goes to church who's minister rants, "God Damn America!"
Same minister preaches about black separatism and has a brand new $10 million house in a gated white community on the golf course.
Senator & Mrs. Obama went to Ivy league schools, own a million dollar home and have had every opportunity and for the first time she is proud of her country. I guess her husband becoming a U.S. Senator wasn't a proud moment for them.
The left (myself included) thought that Ann Coulter calling Senator Edwards a "faggot" was beyond the pale. But when the left's version of Ms. Coulter, Randi Rhodes, called Senator Clinton a "fucking whore" she was exercising her freedom of speech and should be commended for "speaking the truth."
Say anything bad about Senator Obama and you will be called a racist thus effectively ending any opportunity for an actual conversation.
Here are a few more conversation stoppers:
Jacksonian Democrats might as well be Republicans. I have utter contempt for the uneducated masses - they might as well go raise tobacco and cotton on their plantations and wallow in self-pity for losing a job and being too stupid and unmotivated to find other work.
As for the correlation btw. Hillary and the Jacksonian Democrats - she's a Republican anyway, so it's a natural fit. Bob of NJ Apr 03, 2008 10:55:06 AM
Is it not funny that Mr. Barone reaches so far into our past to find a respectable-sounding label for these voters - who could much more easily and accurately be called hillbillies, rednecks, yahoos, flat-earthers, or bigots?
Why treat these goobers with more respect than they deserve? (Oh, right, because they help your candidate win...) Mike of WA Apr 03, 2008 11:10:24 AM
Both of these comments were on an article dissecting the campaign in US News and World.
Can't you just feel the love? Senator Obama spreading his magic of bringing people together.
I read an article and one of the comments called Senator Clinton a liar then went on to say how honest Senator Obama had been about the Wright Stuff. I suppose you hear what you want to hear. He said he had never heard any of the sermons in question then said he did. That's candor!
If you support Senator Clinton don't bother going on Kos or any other Obama blogs - you will be vilified and forced away. I hope we at Liberal Rapture will let everyone say their piece, question and still maintain civility. Ironic that Senator Obama represents a new way for politics, a civil way and his supporters think Randi Rhodes was not only right but should be sainted for "speaking the truth." Her freedom of speech is being infringed upon. She can say anything she likes while lambasting Geraldine Ferraro for saying what she believed. Agree with us or shut up. Keith Olbermann had a special comment for Ms. Ferraro, did he do the same with Ms. Rhodes? I don't know because I no longer watch.
When the Wright story came out Norah O'Donnell lamented, "How can we move on from this?" Anderson Cooper thought we should be talking about the issues instead of "politics as usual." (By the way, Mr. Cooper, Reverend Wright in in NO way politics as usual.) When the Bosnia story came out it got more attention than Natalie Holloway and the Duke La cross story combined. No need to talk about issues when you can magnify Senator Clinton's faults for hours and hours!
It's so Bushian. Until his poll numbers dove under 50% nothing he said or did mattered to his supporters because he was "strong." Hooker in the White House press corps there to lob soft ball questions - who cares? Obama lies about his parents? So what, he gives us hope. He's not just likable enough, he's lovable. His dealings with Rezko, what dealings with Rezko -Hillary lied about Bosnia.
Well at least she went. More than 300,000 people have been displaced in Kenya and are living in tents or with relatives. What has their favorite son done for them? Has he gone over to bring the parties together? No, that might involve actual work and what if he couldn't make a difference? How would it look?
Because it's all about perception. There's a scam email going around stating that Senator Obama has done more in his four years in the senate than Senator Clinton has done in eight. It's wrong but you'll see it quoted everywhere. Go to FactCheck.org and it's completely disproven but who wants to bother with facts?
Obama has injected a poison into the body politic of the United States. The ugliness Obama has stirred up is real and severe - all the more damaging because he is so charming. We are past now the dizzying, frothing, mindless adoration from Huffington and the Daily Kos. We are now past the snotty, childish attacks on Clinton by Olbermann and Caferty. We are into a new realm now. The hatred quietly coached and encouraged by Axelrod is now bubbling forth everywhere. The media has been taken by over by a hate filled sickness. The nastiness and bias against Senator Clinton is so severe at this point that it can only be called psychosis. Clinton bashing for sport has infected a huge portion of the media. This infection results in a fear of questioning Obama the man - not the hype. But mostly it is a fear to face the cold truth about how much we have willingly surrendered since 9/11. Which is, finally, our soul. This infection has a host. It is the Obama campaign.
The Obama campaign has no basis in reality. Nor does it want a basis in reality. This means anything can be projected on it. Hope, progress, better times, sexism, denial. The man leading this infection is profiting greatly from it. He is a skilled magician. Nothing in his history, and nothing about what he promises indicates an understanding of reality. This makes him the perfect post Bush man. Even questioning his most basic lies - that the Kennedy's brought his father to America - is off limits to those who hold the megaphone.
Our sickness serves them too. The infection is spreading:
Randi Rhodes called Senator Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro "fucking whores" on stage. Do the math with me on this one moment: a liberal female talk show host called the first female V.P. candidate on a major party ticket and the first viable female Presidential candidate "fucking whores".
For fun.
This is a symptom.
Obama supporters are rallying behind and defending Rhodes.
This is a symptom.
The Democratic Governor of New Mexico refused a a call from the Democratic President who appointed him to 2 cabinet posts.
This is a symptom.
Barrack Hussein Obama spent 20 years in a church that preached, bluntly, racial separatism. Yet, the national conversation on this has been stuffed by a media infected.
This is a symptom.
The Obama campaign is responsible for this. I include Olbermann and the rest of the Obama adoration society in the media as part of the BHO campaign. It began last spring with the "1984" video. Barrack Obama has run his campaign with misdirection. Because misdirection is all he has.
It did not have to be this way. He could have run an honorable campaign. But he is not an honorable man. William Ayres, Rezko, Rev Wright and his repeated lies prove this now - beyond doubt. He is a demagogue.
Those of us who have not been infected by the Obama psychosis can see those who are. We can see them clearly. I now hold out no hope that sanity will return. The media has determined that the electronic lynching of Senator Clinton must proceed. Facts be damned.
Whether this means they will turn on him once the nomination is settled or it means BHO is truly the Manchurian candidate I do not know.
I do know we their will be a post Obama moment. A point when those left standing will see clearly what happened. We won't stay unconscious forever.
Frank Rich does a knife job on Senator Clinton today. It's horrible that she "lied" about being under sniper fire in Bosnia. Why would he mention that the pilot took evasive action to avoid sniper fire? Why would he mention that everyone on the plane was instructed to sit on their flak jackets to avoid sniper fire? There's really no point in Mr. Rich doing anything whatsoever to aid Senator Clinton.
The real-estate deal began when a Chicago couple (two doctors) took jobs elsewhere and put their property - a lovely, spacious home in Kenwood with a vacant yard -- on the market. The Obamas liked the house but lacked the money to buy both the house and vacant yard.
What happened next is where the questions arise. Obama recently acknowledged that he toured the property with Rezko. After that, Obama made a discounted offer for the house, and, at about the same time, Rezko made a full-price offer for the side yard. Both offers were accepted. So, the obvious question is: Was there any hidden link between Rezko's full price deal and the discounted price Obama paid?
First off, this happened in June of 2005. I sold my house in a day at full price in June of 2005. This was the tail end of the hottest housing market I can remember and he got the house at a discounted price? Something is up here and hopefully, when Rezko is found guilty he will sing like a canary and we'll find out more. Gosh, maybe even the press might look into it and do some investigating, wait, I must be day dreaming.
The Wright Stuff
Senator Obama is not a Muslim. And there would be nothing wrong if he were. My issue is him sitting a church for twenty years listening and allow his children to listen to bitter, hate filled speech. Then LIE about it. If, as the meme goes, Senator Clinton were willing to do ANYTHING to win this story would have come out sometime last January. It would have been goodbye, Barry. If Senator Clinton's "Lie" about Bosnia is deserving of a column by Mr. Rich why isn't this? First he said he never heard any of the controversial things Reverend Wright said, then he did, then he said that Rev Wright apologized though he didn't, then when you read his book, The Audacity of Hope, which gets it title from one of Reverend Wright's sermons, you learn that the first sermon he heard was rather controversial. And it made him cry.
Senator Obama has credited then Senator Jack Kennedy for bringing his father to America as part of the airlift to get Kenyans here to study. Barack Obama, Sr. came the year before Senator Kennedy got involved. Senator Obama also used the civil rights movement, saying that his parents met because something was stirring in the air when people walked across the bridge in Selma. Something that occurred four years after Obama, Jr. was born. It's a lovely story, but it's just that, a story. Why is he not called on the carpet for at least, mis-remembering?
Michelle Oh so angry
I'm just going to paraphrase Ed Koch
A woman who went to Princeton and Harvard who's husband went to Harvard, who's husband was elected to state senate and the US Senate is just now proud of her country? What does she expect? Exactly how entitled is she? Believe me when I tell you she will one of his biggest liabilities in a general campaign if it comes to that.
Kind of Blue
Senator Obama has won more states! He's won more states! Has he won enough blue states? Has he won purple states that we need to win in a general? If he can't win California or New York or Florida in the primaries how is he going to carry them in the general? Senator Clinton has won more Democratic votes than him and with the Rev. Wright he can count out much Republican cross over. Or independents for that matter. As he continues to push for Michigan and Florida to be disenfranchised any opportunity he might have had to win those states in a general are GONE.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could actually watch tv or read a news paper and get some hard information on the young senator from Illinois? Wouldn't it be lovely if Senator Clinton were not being shoved out of the old boy's club and we could talk about her grasp of the issues?
Twenty years ago, while consulting her well read copy of Nostradumbass, Hillary Clinton realized that in 2008 she was going to be locked in a bitter campaign for President against a young man from Chicago.
She cleverly disguised herself as a typical white woman and flew to Chicago and managed to run into the young man at an Au Bon Pain (the Starbucks of the day.) She recommended a wonderful church and told him that no matter what the Reverend said he should stick with it. She threw a party and introduced him to all sorts of interesting people, Rezko, Ayers.
Later, disguised as a concerned citizen of his district she volunteered for his campaign for State Senate and advised him how to legally get everyone else off the ballot to ensure a win. She told him to vote present as often as possible to show that he was centrist and could bring people together.
Our woman of many faces came into Senator Obama's life when he was looking for a house, this time as a real estate agent. She brokered the deal, after many meetings with Rezko, to allow Senator Obama to buy a lovely home.
Now it won't come as a surprise to learn that she helped David Axelrod write Senator Obama's rehashed speeches and she's the one who decided that no one would recognize any of Duval Patrick's words as they were "just words." She also was the one who put the reference to his grandmother in his wonderful speech on race. Obama didn't want to do it but in her disguise of a Democratic Karl Rove, she convinced him it would be great.
In her role as a campaign advisor for Obama she set up hordes of young women to faint at his concerts. She told him that this would give him an aura of excitement. She told him to focus on the red states that Democrats will never win in the general to show that he could bridge the gap between red and blue and make America purple.
Senator Obama wanted to be specific on issues. She said, NO! Talk only about change and vague generalities. She also befriended Michelle Obama and I think you know where the quote about being proud of America for the first time came from. Who do you think convinced MSNBC that going all the way for Obama would draw the right kind of viewers?
Oh, poor Senator Obama. Set up by the evil Hillary Clinton.
