He Was Too Busy, But Hillary Got Help for Veterans [UPDATED x2]

This is a MUST read. Yes I know it is in The New Republic… But is quite an interesting piece about the dirty politics teh Obama camp has been playing.

“Race Man” by Sean Wilentz
How Barack Obama played the race card and blamed Hillary Clinton.
Post Date Wednesday, February 27, 2008

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=aa0cd21b-0ff2-4329-88a1-69c6c268b304

Oops, I think I just duplicated my post. I’m sorry

Isn’t that a hell of a piece? I just scanned it fast this morning. Will revisit it soonest.

It’ll have the ‘droids tearing their hair out while they attack, attack, attack, deny, deny, deny. Oh the e-mail that Wilentz is going to get. He’ll handle it, no doubt.

Must check to see if they have comments over there. That oughta be rich.

Trusty WordPress prevents that from happening. I click twice sometimes too, and get a page telling me I tried to post a duplicate comment. Am trying to get our wonderful Moses to add a link on that announcement page that takes people right back to the comments, but that may be difficult, technically, to accomplish.

The piece is excellent; long but absolutely brilliant; I think. I scanned the comments and of course there are plenty *really* angry and dismissive ones (hope Wilentz handles them ).

Do you think it will attract mass media attention?

I think I duplicated it in different thread down below; my apologies again (didn’t mean to spam).

Just heard Georgiaa Rep. John Lewis, superdelegate has switched to Obama.

Why are they not waiting until after next Tueday. So the superdelegates weren’t supposed to decide the nomination, huh? Looks like they already decided.

I am SO disgusted!!!!

Oh dear. That’s a heartbreaker. I know that the pressure on him has been enormous and quite threatening at times … as with Tavis Smiley who got death threats, and had his mother and brother harassed with nasty phone calls … but I had hoped he’d stand his ground.

You’ll find better articles on Obama at the American Conservative mag. Liberals may find Traditional conservatism more palatable — especially on issues concerning Iraq (we don’t want world wars, either).

This is an excellent write up about O-Bomba a year ago…

http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_03_12/feature.html

Mimi wrote:
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Just heard Georgiaa Rep. John Lewis, superdelegate has switched to Obama.

Why are they not waiting until after next Tueday.
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Two words: Cynthia McKinney.

The revolt against here was thorough. The same can happen to Lewis.

GA politics is a fickle thing. Republicans and Democrats will work together to unseat someone they dislike. Heck, even had my city’s Democrat party pushing for Dems to vote for a Republican state representative and mayor.

Oh, no…. I am so dissapointed on him. Why? they are threatening him anyway to unseat him as “an old candidate”. It’s nauseating.

This blog is tiresome. Hillary is not going to win the nomination. I know that upsets a lot of people here, but that’s the way it is. We have a lot of major problems coming at this country and the triangulation/move to the center-right bs of the 90s will not help. All that did was create a republican majority (no one paid me $5 mil to come up with that!). Our best hope as a country is to unite to the degree that it is possible while facing the issues of global climate chaos, oil depletion (and 60 years of unsustainable sprawl), and economic decline (which will require relocalization of economic activity). I truly am sorry for Hillary, but she hasn’t the talents or disposition to accomplish these tasks. She is a wonk through and through and should stay in the senate where she is well-suited to be. She will lose Texas, Vermont and likely Ohio. Then this blog will have no purpose, save to help McCain destroy whatever chance we have to turn this country around. Btw, we are in Iraq to control their oil to survice our unsustainable lifestyle. The mission failed, but we gave it a try.

Okay this was hard on him. But will someone explain to me how his caving under political pressure is somehow a plus for Obama while suggesting that the reason Hillary Clinton voted to give Bush the authority to go to war was just caving to political pressure? It seems to me that is caving to political pressure is a bad thing it’s a bad thing for everyone.

Veterans aren’t coming home in six months so they need all the help they can get
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Yes, the personnel will change – even in the White House. But the commands will remain. And this permanent, force-projecting base is of course just the icing on the imperial cake in the region; the U.S. military already has its boots in the ground all over the area, as the newspaper notes:

Col. Michael A. Carroll, USARCENT’s chief of staff, said the command has a footprint in 22 of the area’s 27 countries, where it conducts theater security engagements, peacekeeping and exercises with other militaries. [Not to mention a couple of good ole shootin' wars.]
http://www.chris-floyd.com/

The guy who wrote that has made some pretty inflamatory remarks in the past.

However, these Obama words seem to be ones he tried to distance himself from for Texas:

“Senator Clinton made an unfortunate remark, an ill-advised remark, about King and Lyndon Johnson. I didn’t make the statement,” Obama said in a conference call with reporters. “I haven’t remarked on it. And she, I think, offended some folks who felt that somehow diminished King’s role in bringing about the Civil Rights Act. She is free to explain that. But the notion that somehow this is our doing is ludicrous.”

Has he repeated his opinion in Texas?

“We have a lot of major problems coming at this country and the triangulation/move to the center-right bs of the 90s will not help.”

So you really think Obama is going to push a liberal agenda down the throats of the elected officials in Washington because he’s got this movement?

Seeing is believing!!!

The American Conservative piece is a interesting one to be sure and if its even half-correct in its analysis of Obama, he’s not a person you want anywhere near the levers of power. The man is nursing some serious grudges and hate once you get beyond his flowery rhetoric and obscurantism.

Bush is bad, but Obama promises to much worse if elected given his psychological baggage.

It might come as a surprise to you but Obama is even a bigger triangulator. He will sell out in a NY second to the republicans as he has done for example in the Exelon case. I happen to believ it is better to pass no bill than a really bad one.

It might come as a surprise to you but Obama is even a bigger triangulator. He will sell out in a NY second to the republicans as he has done for example in the Exelon case. I happen to believe it is better to pass no bill than a really bad one.

To some, the more establishment somebody is, the less progressive they must be. It’s counterintuitive to these folks, but on the Drumm Major Institute’s Middle Class Scorecard:

Obama: 75, C

Clinton: 100, A

What I found astonishing, from being biracial myself, is that he literally decided to cut off his white identity. That’s not possible without hating yourself. You can identify more with one side than another, but to deny the other self, is like a puzzle missing half it’s pieces — and what folks will get is but an actor playing a part.

Folks can see the same dichotomy with his religious affiliation, too.

The white pundits are too afraid to aske these questions even in the privacy of their own office. Whites, especially older whites not as accustomed to interacting with people of color, will dismiss any concerns about Nation of Islam staffers because they want to prove they’re not racist.

Which is exactly why MSNBC and other big corporations need diversity in the newsroom! So reporters of color can ask the questions the whites are afraid to do! CNN has done a better job on this point, but they’ve got some Obama cheerleaders on their panels.

Precisely.

Cafferty is bending over backwards to not be considered racist (or anti-semitic). Same applies to every other so-called journalist. The backlash from every special interest group could cost them their jobs.

For what? Talking about race and ethnicity without the PCness.

How can you say that? He is bipartisan. There is a big difference! When Obama compromises it is bipartisan and when the Clintons do it is triangulation. Got that? You need a copy of “the Obama Rules”.

Obama is the one saying “I am not a liberal” . Hillary has never turned against her liberal roots. Obama is the one who keeps talking about how he will “unite” the country (code for move to the RIGHT). Obama is the one preaching to Democrats about not being “religious” enough. Obama is the one who drags homophobic preachers on his campaign trail. Obama is the candidate who is working to attract Republican voters into the Democratic Party nomination process and bragging about it. Obama is not going to bring us Universal Health Care.

He isn’t even going to try. Obama isn’t going to do a damned thing for democrats. Obama is not going to deliver a unified country. He is lazy and he doesn’t care. He just delivers the same old reruns of other peoples’ speeches again and again. He is going to lose the election for us.

Nice try, but no cigar. If Obama gets elected after his slimy race-baiting for votes, his thuggish tactics against super delegates, his blatant use and approval of misogyny, and his disenfranchisement of FL and MI voters – the democratic party is going to be torn apart. I can just about guarantee that the resulting McCain Democrats will dwarf the number of Reagan Democrats.

Susan,

Over at MyDD they are saying Hillary is droppin gout Friday. Is this true?

While I was at the gym, I listened to a part of Lou Dobbs which dealt with this very issue. Now before I go into what (2) members of the panel said, I must address first the sheer hypocrisy of the “progressive and MSM” outlets.

For the past 8 years there has been a cry from the left wing bloggers that the Democrat’s in Congress have provided no oversight. They have laid down and died in the face of a President with a 27% approval rating. They cried that Nancy Pelosi was a sellout for saying that impeachment was off the table.

Now, getting back to the Lou Dobbs show, Lou actually said that it was unconscionable that Barack Obama held not one committee hearing…

We here on this blog know that Obama likes the “trappings” of position. Being a subcommittee chair gives him prestige; another feather in his cap. But, when it is all said and done he uses every position as a spring board to something else. He doesn’t nor desire to do the “heavy lifting” required of someone in

So, It should come as no surprise then that the panelist from Politico.com and the New York Daily New found nothing wrong with Senator Obama not having held one committee hearing; after all in their words, nothing of any real substance comes out of these committee meetings to begin with.

Again, please explain to me the difference between inexcusable rationalization on the right and inexcusable rationalization on the left? Other than one has an (R) after it and the other a (D)

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