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“Typical White Person” Open Thread

By SusanUnPC on March 22, 2008 at 11:58 PM in Open Thread

The Philadelphia magazine‘s “Daily Examiner” features this new “in” tote for “typical white people.”

Just as soon as you thought the latest Barack Obama controversy would die down a little bit, some enterprising young fellow with the ability to type decided it was worthy of its own Cafe Press gear. …

[T]he only truly effective way to protest the re-racialization of American politics is the purchase of this “Typical White Person” tote bag. Its roomy interior can fit six months’ worth of irony.

You can buy this and other gear from a person in Philly.

There’s more merchandise below:

I can’t decide which of these attractive items to get!

Shop for more choices here.

What else is going on in the world?

THIS IS AN OPEN THREAD.

chris

LOL, This is classic. Nothing like Humor to show where the pain is.
Patrick Henry

I’m Not Typical…I Can Jump..
Hillary_Fan

I wore my Hillary t-shirt when I went to vote a few months ago and they almost turned me away.

The only reason they allowed me in to vote was because no one else was there at the same time I was there.

Maybe I should order me a “Typical White Person” t-shirt and wear it when I vote in the general election.
Jess Wonderin

Did Granny get hers?

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

Oh gawd. That’s bad. Poor lady. Have you read her bio?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelyn_Dunham

Now this is sad:

On March 14, 2008, CBS News published a curt phone call with her:
I am not giving any interviews…I am in poor health.

– i wonder if Obama does anything for her with all his money. The bio says she lives in “what CBS News has described as the same “non-descript highrise” in Honolulu, Hawaii where she raised Barack Obama.”

– I wonder how often he calls or visits her. She sacrificed SO MUCH for him and his very expensive education.

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

She has the same phone number, CBS reports, that she had when he was growing up. Poor woman. I bet it’s been ringing off the hook. You’d think he’d get her a private number. And how about some security???

Does she have help since she is in poor health? Has he offered to pay for her to have help?

truthteller2007

he does not offer universal health care. let us hope she is insured, for barack does not plan to help her.
Mel

Here is some info about the speech last week!

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/03/23/media-wrong-again-poll-finds-most-people-didnt-obamas-speech

interesting poll numbers!

rwc

G-d this is just disgraceful and heart breaking as well. ;-(

Obama clearly has no redeeming characteristics. He’s nothing but a turd thats learn to walk and talk.

The faster he’s history the happier I’ll be.

Mike Howell

If the popular vote counts, I’d pick the thong for you Susan.
Patrick Henry

Mike..

I’d pick the Typical White Person bag..and put it over your Head..

vee

I’d like to have the Typical White Person ball cap.

Strawberrybitch

Niiiiiice. Yeah, obama you’re a real uniter. And now the butt of a million right wing jokes. Thanks for making democrats a laughing stock. Buttmunch. Just do us a favour, drop out of the race and spend more time with your family.
http://thehorizontalworld.blogspot.com/ Mary Jo Kopechne

Gotta love this American entrepreneurship. I’m especially fond of the doggie shirt.

What a mess the Obama camp has made of itself. Good thing we have a real candidate.
http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

Another Newsweek cover for Barry? How many does this make?
http://thepage.time.com/2008/03/22/obama-newsweek-coverboy/

(Am I the only person who finds the editor of Newsweek utterly revolting in his sanctimonious, pious tone?)

Mike Howell

SusanUnPC –

It’s the same utterly revolting santimonious pious tone that BO uses in his autobiography that is based on fictional and composite events and uses both fictional and composite characters.

And the quotes above are from BO’s crappy book. But please just flip through it at the store. Do not buy it – you will regret it.

norrismorris

The book is factually incorrect on MANY counts and certainly a neat invention. a mixture of carefully included and excluded data, and some made up stuff very artfully written.

quite a calculated attempt to use his skills to artfully bio his lies/truths, and victimhood.

the book is actually full of anger. and turned me off a long time ago.
This is Harvard left wing marxist black power screed put in appealing bio terms.

quite a scam. So much for “Dreams”.

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

I think it’s time for me to repost my piece on Obama’s faux books.

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/02/19/obamas-books-composite-characters-false-memories/

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

Jon Meacham.

I couldn’t think of his name last night.

Now he’s on MTP. I will try to listen. Maybe. Oh no, Peggy Noonan and Gene Robinson are on the panel too? Dear lord.

Watch here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/
(The first segment, on the economy, was quite interesting.)

kenoshaMarge

Sorry Susan,

Meacham maybe. But Peggy Noonan and Eugene Robinson? Not gonna watch that.

Noonan makes me nauseous under the best of circumstances and Eugene Robinson is in my top 3 of those who have disappointed me the most. He’s an Obama shill and has lost all credibility IMHO.

Noonan, oh my God those soft sanctimonious tones are enough to gag a maggot. When you get past the voice, you often realize that whatever the hell she said made no sense whatsoever or else was a completel distortion. yuck!

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

Does she have any clue at all how she comes across? It is clearly an “air” she puts on…. so it surely must be possible for her to turn it off. Why on earth does she think anyone can bear to listen to her when she has on her “air”?

My stars. Mr. Meacham is actually being somber. He says people realize now that Barack Obama cannot walk across Lake Michigan without sinking. (Pretty good line.)

Eugene Robinson is hopeless…. his skin, not his soul (such as it is) is speaking for him these days. (That perhaps is an unkind thing to say, but it is so.)

Mike Howell

SusanUnPc –

Did you catch Carville on MTP I think? Classic.

http://museflaneur.blogspot.com/ stellaaa

I want middle aged white woman t-shirts. Oops, that’s called Land’s End. Already have that.

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

That’s hilarious. But, yeah, we should get t-shirts with that.

http://hillbuzz.blogspot.com/2008/03...tes.html#links www.HillBuzz.Blogspot.Com

One of the lies Obama tells is that Superdelegates should “vote with their constituencies”. Richardson, by that logic, should have endorsed Hillary: the same with Kerry, Patrick, and Kennedy of Massachusetts, since Hillary won New Mexico and Massachusetts.

We at HillBuzz wondered what the Superdelegate breakdown would be like if ALL supers voted for the candidate who won their state.

Result: Hillary wins the supers 346-309, based on states that have voted so far.

For the complete results, check this out state by state, with projections for upcoming contests:

http://hillbuzz.blogspot.com/2008/03…tes.html#links

Mike Howell

HillBuzz –

And BO has spent nearly a million dollars buying superdelegates.

truthteller2007

But some superdelegates support Obama for different reasons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e9_S59KgT8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyLqKYTZ__4

Mike Howell

truthteller –

Chief Obama cheerleader Claire McCaskill was doing drugs while she was a legislator and Prosecutor.

McCaskill’s hubby, David Exposito, was caught on camera smoking dope at a riverboat casino – while she was the Prosecutor when McCaskill was in her 40′s!

David Exposito was later murdered in what law enforcement believes was a drug deal gone bad.

Have her take a polygraph. And do bet the farm on her lying.

She was promised the AG spot and has screwed the Clintons and the American public in her power grab.

McCaskill is tainted goods, but Kansas City like Chicago is just another corrupt place that an honest U.S. Attorney was trying to make a little bit better.

McCaskill hates Clinton for it. McCaskill and Obama deserve each other.

But the U.S. deserves better.

Andy

HillBuzz: the link is dead; could you repost?

Thanks.

blueasthesky

How to get high without drugs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfI_c9oyIfo
TeakWoodKite

Larry: These folks are not lightweights. What’s up John Brennan and Obama?

My string is probably caught on a branch here, but I was wondering after the sequence of Clinton and McCain getting “voyeur’ed” well before Obama. Yet BO gets out in front of the story all “outraged”?

And what is INSA about?
http://www.insaonline.org/index.php?id=1

John O. Brennan
President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Brennan was appointed President and CEO of The Analysis Corporation (TAC) in McLean, VA in November 2005.

Alexander Drew
Vice President, Intelligence Operations & Analysis

Mr. Drew is the Vice President for Intelligence Operations and Analysis at The Analysis Corporation. Prior to accepting this position, he served as a Senior Vice President and General Counsel of a technology company (?*)serving the Intelligence Community

* classified?

Jim Flynn
Vice President, Contracts and Administration

Mr. Flynn joined The Analysis Corporation in January of 2004 and serves as the Vice President of Contracts and Administration. Prior to joining TAC, Mr. Flynn worked for a number of large and mid size defense contractors.
After leaving the public sector, Mr. Flynn worked for BDM, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, AT & T and General Dynamics. In each of these companies, he managed the Contracts, Subcontracts, and Purchasing Departments as well as other Administrative Departments.

Vice President, Terrorist Screening Systems

Mr. Niezgoda has managed large-scale information technology programs in both the public and private sectors. As a Program Manager at the FBI, Mr. Niezgoda led the construction and operation of the National DNA Database

http://www.theanalysiscorp.com/
http://MyShirtSucks.com MyShirtSucks.com

Thanks for the links to our shirts!!
You definately DON’T suck!

http://TypicalWhitePerson.MyShirtSucks.com

sjc

How much of your proceeds go to supporting Senator Clinton??? Say and Prove it and you will sell alot more…!!!

Hard Facts

(Following rec’d in an e mail w/o link)
John Brennan had a long career with the CIA, even serving as chief of staff to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency – then George Tenet — and later as deputy executive director of the CIA.
And if Brennan has a loyalty, it is to his former boss and Clinton appointee George Tenet, who served as head of the CIA from 1997 to mid-2004 — under both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
A Salon article confirms Brennan’s devotion to the former CIA director in a story it ran after Tenet’s “tell-all” book, “At the Center of the Storm,” hit the shelves in the spring of 2007:
Tenet’s ties with contractors were underscored last week in a dispute between two groups of former CIA officials over Tenet’s legacy. On April 28, six former intelligence officers wrote to Tenet, saying he shared culpability with President Bush and Vice President Cheney for “the debacle in Iraq,” and suggesting he donate half the royalties from his book to Iraq war veterans and their families. All of the signatories had severed their ties to U.S. intelligence, although three of them, Phil Giraldi, Larry Johnson and Vince Cannistraro, work as consultants for news organizations, corporations and government agencies outside of intelligence.
A few days later, six recently retired officers responded. They called the first letter a “bitter, inaccurate and misleading attack” on Tenet and pointed out that it was drafted by officers who “had not served in the Agency for years.” Tenet, his supporters said, “literally led the nation’s counterterrorism fight.” And three of its six signatories were directly involved in that fight — as contractors. They included John Brennan of the Analysis Corp.; Cofer Black, Tenet’s former counterterrorism director and vice chairman of Blackwater, the private military contractor; and Robert Richer, the former deputy director of the CIA’s clandestine services. Richer recently left Blackwater to become the CEO of Total Intelligence, a new company formed with Black and other ex-CIA officials to provide intelligence services to corporations and government agencies. [Emphasis added.]
(Brennan also appeared on the Charlie Rose show defending his former boss, Tenet, against criticism after his book was published. .)
And even while an Obama “advisor,” Brennan has spoken out publicly in direct opposition to positions and votes taken by Sen. Obama, as evidenced in an article published by the nonpartisan think tank Think Progress:
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has consistently spoken out and voted against granting retroactive immunity for telecoms that participated with the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. This stance was part of the reason he won the support of Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), a leader on civil liberties issues.
One of Obama’s advisers on intelligence and foreign policy advisers, however, is someone who “strongly” supports telecomm immunity. John Brennan is a former CIA official and the current chairman of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. In a new National Journal interview, Brennan makes it clear that he agrees with the Bush administration on the issue of immunity….
So the implication advanced in the out-of-context Washington Times report that Brennan is somehow an Obama loyalist is betrayed by Brennan’s decades-long resume showing that his true loyalties are to the CIA and his former Company boss (a Clinton appointee) George Tenet. That doesn’t mean Brennan’s advice is bad; in fact, he probably can offer any presidential candidate great insight into the inner-workings of the intelligence world. And the fact that one of Brennan’s employees has been implicated in the passport scandal should not automatically tar Brennan – as the Times story does, in order to also tar Obama.
But there can be no mistake from the copious public record that Brennan is a Company man, and if he owes any loyalty, it is to the people who have enabled his career: George Tenet, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Strawberrybitch

That last line makes no sense, if Brennan is a company man, loyal to Tenet, Clinton, and Bush, why would obama hire him as an adviser? Oh wait…GOT COMPETENCE?(h/t taylor) Obviously not. At least obama should have distributed the memo to ALL his mouth pieces, not to go off half cocked about demanding AN INVESTIGATION!…at least before making sure his own backside was covered. It’s very funny actually. An Obama presidency could make Bush seem qualified and highly skilled by comparison.
Mike Howell

HardFacts –

Yours is the most bizarre conclusion from the facts possible.

Clearly he’s in the tank for Obama – he’s his advisor!

It’s clear that you know how to cut & paste, but your analysis is pure Obamaton.

Let me posit that if he was a Clinton supporter, he might be one of her advisors and not her opponents?!

Additionally, BO’s most stalwart supporter, Claire McCaskill, like the true Republican that she denies she is, voted for the Telecom Immunity bill.

Please consider a LOGIC course in a philosophy department where Bill Ayers isn’t on the staff.

TeakWoodKite

Hard Fact; thanks for the post. In terms of Obama and Brennan, I was not attempting to infer anything specific…However it’s a strange crowd to run with.

Richer recently left Blackwater to become the CEO of Total Intelligence, a new company formed with Black and other ex-CIA officials to provide intelligence services to corporations and government agencies.

Total Intel, as the company is known, is bringing “the skills traditionally honed by CIA operatives directly to the board room,” Black said. Black had a 28-year career with the CIA.

“They have the skills and background to do anything anyone wants,” said RJ Hillhouse, who writes a national security blog called The Spy Who Billed Me. “There’s no oversight. They’re an independent company offering freelance espionage services. They’re rent-a-spies.”
TeakWoodKite

Just odd that Blackwater was responsible for assisting in the escape from the Green Zone of one Aiham al-Samaraie.

He [Rezko] allegedly paid it through his new company called Companion Security to Iraq Electricity Minister Aiham al-Samaraie, a classmate of Rezko at the Illinois Institute of Technology two decades ago.

http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Energy/Briefing/2008/03/05/rezko_linked_to_15b_iraq_power_bribe/6778/
roseeriter

Do they come in black? You know that old typical saying-

Once you try black you never go back?

This is just a typical white person’s comment.
Mel

Let’s see, Typical White Person ok!

Now the next new slogan is The other 2 Conventional candidates! Hmmmm those 2 candidates happen to be white, sort of racial remarks are they not?

So Whities are conventional

Please Senator Obama, Unite us as only you can with your New Style of Politics!
http://noratings.blogspot.com/ Bud White

I just did a post about Obama’s use of racial politics in this campaign and his association with Rev. Hate. I’d love some feedback.

thanks,

http://noratings.blogspot.com/
Mel

So this being Easter Sunday, did everyone go to Church Service to listen to their Pastor gesticulate like a horny peacock and spew out ignorance, hatred, and bitterness towards America to truly inspire your religious faith while instilling such values in your children….

Or

Did all you Conventional, Stereotype Whities go to church service to listen to your Pastor preach that The Son of Man died for our sins and instilled the belief within you to love your fellow human beings?

PS remember to RECYCLE, Obama does all the time!

simon

I am going to make an Easter brunch for my loved ones, including ham for the meat eaters, biscuits, gravy, rice, french toast and quiche, followed by fresh strawberry pie for dessert, served with sparkling cider.

I cannot go to my church as I support women’s choice, and LGTB rights. I will not support those who seek to suppress those rights.

Someday…
http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

Jesus Christ almighty!* Mel … (holds sides)

………

*used here strictly as a profane figure of speech
chris

no, sorry, I’m a buddhist, I spent hours explaining that Tenzin Gyatso isn’t a “god-king” because that wouldn’t make sense in Buddhism…as he himself said, “i’m a simple monk”.

But why let the facts get in the way of a good meme?

Newport News Dem

Old Lindsey Graham had me screaming at the tube with his shameless performance on DeFace the Nation.

Bragging that oil revenues are up in Iraq. THANKS!!!!
The surge is responsible for the Sunni Awakening – LIAR
We must win to balance Iranian influence in the region, WTF was Saddam you twit.

These people are below contemptible, They are serial liar and purveyors of propaganda.

Channeling Mike Malloy, Have I told you how much I ate these people today?
Andy

Re-inventing the wheel : the Chicago Tribune calls it “transparency” : More on REZKO

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-obama_.1mar23,0,2958057.story

My take: Obama is dripping this info. before the debate so that it is all “old news” by then.

Would it work?…. He can surely count on the media’s help….

TeakWoodKite

Andy, I didn’t see a link within the Tribune article publishing the lists Obama gave them …

No it won’t work. Obama will be repeatedly clicking the button for more pain killer from the IV “drip”.

“sticks and stones…but names will never hurt me” does not apply to the Jr. Senator from Illinois.

Andy

TeakWookKite, I couldn’t find the link to the list either. It is not clear to me whether Obama’s camp release the list to the public or “only” to the Chicago Tribune (very convenient…). The Page of Halperin has only a reference to the Trib. as well..

http://thepage.time.com/2008/03/23/obama-releases-more-documents-reiterating-rezko-ties/

I just heard the replay of Brooks&Shields on the News Hour yesterday and
I couldn’t believe Brooks’ take on Obama speech… intellectually honest?
C’m on …

There seems to be some sort of talk out there (Dan Balz WashPost article) from Dem. strategists (and DNC politicians?)
as well that the Wright flap is over as far as the primaries go…. but will come back in November (and that Obama will deal with it then..wishful thinking)

It might be over for the media but I don’t think it is for the people…

The DNC is so out touch….

TeakWoodKite

The more names BO puts out, the more it will become apparent how involved he (and his wife) is to the minority contracts / hospital kickbacks.

The “flap” is a snowball, even if the Dem’s wanted it to go way, that Taiko drum will continue.

Just how I see it.

simon

And you know, Obama just seems to have an issue with responsibilty, I wonder if he gets that from his Mom, too?

Obama is too much responsibility for this country to assume.

He’s like a child, just all over the place.

Tim

Rezko could be the final nail. More on Rezko please!!

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

Yes, you are correct. We must get back to Rezko.

My new story touches on Rezko again, and the victims of both Rezko and Obama.

no pasaran

“Osama? Oh yes hi, Obama here. Yes, what’s that? Oh yes, you’re right, we in the west have been and are evil, I understand… But you know it is the rich white people who have the power and you know I have brown skin like you, I’m not like all those typical white people. Osama you have said some bad things but I think I know where you’re coming from….”
Andy

Another sane article from Mark Steyn.

Saturday, March 22, 2008
Mark Steyn: So much for the ‘post-racial’ candidate

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/wright-obama-black-2003940-america-rev

Jake

I wonder if you appreciate the irony of the fact that you’re using Mark Steyn, a right-wing neoconservative ranter, to tear down someone you probably agree with on 99% of the issues. That kind of thing seems to go on a lot around here; in another thread, people were quoting Pat Buchanan to tear down Obama.

If you stripped all the Hillary references from this blog and its comments, you’d be left with something that looks uncannily like the nuttiest of the right-wing blogs (e.g., Michelle Malkin, Little Green Footballs, Red State, etc.). The exact same distortions of Obama’s record and stances appear over there.

I think the unhinged Hillary supporters on this blog need to stand back, take a deep breath, and ask themselves if they really believe what they’re saying. Have they become so invested in one candidate that they’ve distorted the other candidate beyond recognition? Are they repeating the sins of unhinged Obama supporters on other websites like Daily Kos? Do they realize that playing the same games as the wingnuts only wrecks our chances of beating McCain in the Fall?

Mel

Jake, Obama’s own words, and lack of actions will do that, so distortions are few, facts are plenty, just read the post above you, Obama’s words again!

Or you prefer the right wingers to bury him completely and have 4 more Republican years in Washington?

Jake

You know, I started thinking about what I’d do if I were evil and I wanted to further demoralize Republicans who preferred a candidate other than McCain. I’d probably find a blog or a community where Huckabee or Romney supporters hung out. Then I’d start demonizing McCain by distorting his statements and questioning his character. The locals, still smarting from the rejection of their candidate, would undoubtedly take the bait and pile on. I’d stand back and watch as the McCain-bashing reached a fever pitch, reveling in the knowledge that I’d done my job: those Republicans will hate McCain, all because I lit the fuse. They might even stay home, refusing to vote for the guy they’d worked themselves up into hating.

Such a dynamic seems like it might be going on here. It would certainly explain all the echoes of right-wing talking points I keep seeing here.

norrismorris

Jake,

Please take my advice. I and my parents have been active in progressive politics for years.

Politics is not unlike the art of Chess, or War.

You don’t have a clue as to how to handle McCain, and suggest you leave this to the pros who are trained to do this. Hopefully they’ll be better than the crummy handling by Brazile and Shrum in 2000, and 2004. And pre-Clinton ’93. Losers all.

Evil is currently in full view on Wright’s videos, and just read some Farrakhan and Wright sermons if you want a touch of evil.

Republicans are far smarter at War politics and discipline in party elections. Worry about Obama.

He’ll need it as Rove has been starting to plan his attacks and believe me he knows his demographics and micromanagement of data to an extent I have not seen from any democratic strategist in years and years.

As Brazile,Axelrod, etc., and the schmucks I’m seeing plan to go, they lose against the GOP unless somehow they continue their ugly smear tactics, and then of course. Obama looks like an angry defensive black politician against McCain, the hero. Voters don’t vote for victims, or angry ranting and race discussions.

I can just see a tv commercial showing Obama and Michelle’s children listening to one of these rants. Family values??

norrismorris

Jake, You’ve got a lot of nerve. You sound like a complete fake. I and my mother marched in Selma. Where wer you Jake? I served on the Board of Directors of the NYC chapter of the Urban League of A. in the 60′s. Where were you and what were you doing? I have been a progressive all my life and stil am, but I do not approve of Obama on many significant levels.

If you think the Black panthers and Malcolm X are representative of this country, you are nuts. You also have repulsive hubris to suggest that I am a right wingnut because I oppose Obama.

Do you even know who
hitney Young was? He was head of the Urban league and part of MLK movement. I worked with him and valued his friendship for years until he died.

During huge DC demonstration against Vietnam war, i hired a bus and loaded it with young and old protesters and took a suite at the DC Statler, where those who could not afford more slept on the floors, and rested and washed up. I met people from all over the country [and the
world] who helped to put the wheels in motion to end Vietnam.

You haven’t earned the right to put down anyone who finds Wright repulsive and obama repulsive for allowing Black Panther Banners all over his website, only scrubbed when the Wright mess began. Paranoid hate dpeech is not progressive under any circumstances.

Where were you that gives you the stones to even SUGGEST that I want the GOP to win because I object to Obama and much of his past and his views?

You sound like the totalitarian communists who kept telling us for years, “For the greater good, the end justifies the means”.

You sound like a left over 50′-60′s exteme leftist who thought the Weathermen would “change” America, no matter what the cost.

Listen Jake, the end doesn’t justify the means, and I’m white and don’t need your or Obama’s permission to disagree.
norrismorris

Agreeing with anyone on an issue, or on some of an issue does not mean support. You seem to think like a communist…in black or white, or better…a rightwingnut.

There are areas of agreement between the parties. This does not signify support for the right wing.There are areas of agreement even between enemies. Does this escape your lockstep mind?

You are a very close minded and naive person. I’ve been reading your comments, and I beleive you have no political experience whatsoever. If so, Jake, what have you done, when, and where that gives you the right to be so judgmental and “knowledgable” that I completely challenge??

Buchanan is not someone I endorse, but occasionally I agree with him, and others far left. What does that mean?

Jake, nothing. It means I can think for myself and make my own true decisions. I don’t think you can do this and wonder about your political background. I doubt you’ll tell us with real attribution.

Jake

My point is not that it’s wrong to find agreement with people who you normally disagree with. My point is that it might behoove you to ask yourself why so so much of the anti-Obama rhetoric here resembles right-wing agitprop.

A little self-examination is in order around here.

norrismorris

Simple Jake. Take the extreme right wing coin, and flip it over.

What do you see?

An extreme left wing coin.

They are the same. Destructive and counterproductive. Both encourage lawlessness ans rigid control. Both inhibit free speech, and democracy as it was meant to be .

For all the people, not a bunch of extremists representing small factions on either side.

Patrick Henry

Norris..

I agree.. My Worst Fear was that this year we would Flip from One side of the Coin..The far Right coup of the Bush Neo Cons.. to some Form of far left Extremism in Retaliation..

I just didn’t see that happening with Hillary Clinton as the Democrat Candidate Front runner..

This was the year That I Hoped things were coming back to the Center..and that there would tremendous UNITY and Opptomism among Democrats..Independants and Republicans who really cared about the Economy and want to find ways to end the war..

So..Whats Happening..?? More of the same DIVISION..ANGST..Fighting..arguing..and Extremism..All because of Obamas entrance into the political picture..

What does it look like Our Choices Are NOW.?

A COIN FLIP..

John McCain..who my wind up being even MORE Right Wing that the Bush nweo Cons…How many BUSH people get to stay around for another OSP Game..What Promises Were Made..What Back room deals…Why did all the BIG MONEY get behind McCain.>why was He resucitated when He needed OXYGEN and Life Support..??

I Think Because His Policys will BEST Suite
the Objectives of the REPUBLICAN POWER PLAYERS..and the NWO..

Other Side of the COIN..

Now its OBAMA..Being supported by the FAR LEFT MONEY MACHINE that has Infiltrated The Democrat Party for a long time Now..Like the neo Con Extremists…There are also Far Left extremists with Opposite ideology in the Democrat party..

Knowing what we Know NOW..I Think Obama is FAR LEFT of Hillary Clinton and the Moderate Arm of the Democrat Party..

NOW..As Larry Johnson just Noted in His Article POLITICAL POVERTY..The Fight is On..
All The Media Disinformation and Mind Control..for Various reasons..All the Moles and Sympathizers and HACS…who are Trying to control Public opinion…Who Support McCain and the Neo Cons..but try to Manipulate Public opinion In favor of OBAMA
and against Hillary just because they think
Obama will be easier to Beat..

Obama’s People are desperate..this is a One Shot Opportunity..I think Obama is even exceeding thier expectations..Perhaps at First they were Hoping For a VP Slot..

Now that they have Tasted VICTORY…Like Heroin Addicts..they Are HOOKED..and will Steal from Family and Friends to support thier Addiction Now..They will SELL thier SOULS to the DEVIL..for Power..They will Bribe other People with a TASTE..

Tempting..always Tempting..The DEVIL has Many Tools..But a LIE is the Handle that Fits them All..

These Games are Powerful..DisInformation is powerful..Mind control is Power..Super Powers
and thier Agencies Play these games..

If there EVER was a Time for TRUTH..it is Now..Thank God Former Inasiders Like Larry Know how the game is Played..and Now has the Freedom to Come OUT to the People..

On this Easter Sunday Day..a Time of belief in Renewal..for some of us..I Hope Our nation..The United states of america…will be resurrected from the Conflicts we endure..from the hyprocicy of the Ruling Elites..from the Thorns that they Pierce us with..

And may we Find our Freedom and Salvation
in TRUTH..

A Resurrected America..

norrismorris

The right wing will take advantage of any weakness shown by any challenger.

If I disagree on a point that the right wing may seize, it does not an cannot invalidate my search for truth, or denial of obvious flaws in an obviously very poorly vetted Obama.

Your argument remains specious and naive. undemocratic and anti free thinking. And a rejection of the truth about someone you bought before examining the merchandise.

The right wing will rip him, but my reactions and knowledge have nothing to do with that and i will not accept this fake because the right wing is after him.

They will be after any Dem nominee, no matter.

Andy

Jake:

He surely makes much more sense than the stupidities the MSM and many of the DNC/Obama pundits say.
I don’t care who Mark Steyn is: read the piece and think for yourself. That’s what I do and I agree 100% with him.

Of course if you rather be a sheep and follow the DNC/Obama line, be my guest. I don’t have to.

This idea of for the “Good of the party” is
pretty absurd: what’s this communist Russia?

Use your brains man.

norrismorris

This is Marxist Doctrine. I have heard it for years.

It never worked. It is anti democratic, rigid, and ultimately EXTREMELY DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA AND THE WORLD.

From a long time Democrat who thinks her party is off the rails.

Marxist ideology will take America further down to the floor itself. Third world America.

sjc

Oh we pity your ignorance.
Kool Aid anyone???!

Jake

More deranged racial tribalism from the pro-Hillary fever swamp. I have little doubt that Hillary would be ashamed that this kind of race-baiting is taking place in her name. Obama was right. We have a long way to go on the topic of race in this country.

Andy

Do you prefer a violin or a guitar?
Mary

Would you like some cheese with that whine?
TeakWoodKite

Speaking of KOS Didn’t Senator Clinton at the KOS convention?

Do you prefer a violin or a guitar?
Any thing with a string for me. LOL

TeakWoodKite

oops
Didn’t Senator Clinton speak at the KOS convention?

norrismorris

Clinton spoke at Kos Convention where she had the guts to take a lot of heat from deranged and ignorant leftist rants. I saw it. She was calm, and made her case amid a great deal of hostility.

She tried to explain to these leftist reactionaries that there are all kinds of lobbyists.

These stupid rigid nutcases cannot understand that : Planned Parenthood, Pro Choice, Sierra, Common Cause, and so many lobby’s are actually good as they represent those without a voice that need to be represented and heard.

With this bunch…it’s all or nothing.

No lobbying at all, it’s all bad which of course is not true. Those who are voiceless neeed lobbying to advance their ideas on any number of progressive causes.

She showed them she could debate,instruct, and do it without anger. Kos has left the station and I would never give them a hit again as they don’t deserve it after trashing bloggers and lack of fairness shown. Same with HuffPo.

Finally, Clinton listened, spoke and tried to reach these extremists.

TeakWoodKite

I give Sen Clinton credit for going and speaking. Not that Obama would go NO to speak at Travis Smiley’s event.

Speak volumes.

Norrismorris, thanks for sharing some of your past. I am always fasinated by the experiences of others.

John D

“Obama was right”

I think you meant Obama was Wright, right?
norrismorris

Listen Jake,

You sound either like a troll or an angry Obamaton, or either an angry black or angry leftist.

Get real, O is a fake, a trash and burn politician with a hit squad equal to none.

Trashing Bill as a McCarthyite is as slimy as it gets. UGH!

The only swamp you allude to is the one O came out of from his 75 day a year day job on Illinois senate as he took payoffs and money from Rezko,Exelon, Crown, and all the rest. Chcago politics are the sewer of machine politics as current Rezko and Gov.B trial are letting all see.

Calling Hillary names is to be expected from plants and trolls on MSM and websites.

He will never be legitimate,,,no matter what happens. Just wait and see.

Currently Clinton beats O in most polls and is even or ahead of McCain. O will do well with west, as it’s full of smaller votes and leftist at that.

If dems continue to be blackmailed in endorsing O, they will pay dearly for this.

Oregon means nthing in electoral college, and whites in southern states will bury him.

Patrick Henry

NORRIS MOREOFTHIS..

You points are right on..Its obvious you are doing your own homework like many others here..Doing Background..looking at Obamas record in Illinois..Looking at how is achieveing his political ambitions and how many people he has stepped on..The moment He achieved one objective..He neglected his responsibilitys..and found ruthless ways to Climb Higher..

Look at The REAL Data about the people Obama has associated with..With ties to Syria..and Saddam Bagmen..and Money Launders..

Have you read about Who Obamas Dad associated with in Kenya..The Politics involved ..How Obamas Dad got to the United states..for his education..Why He was Sent here.. ??Why Obama Sr. abandoned Obama and His mother to go back to Kenya..?? Why..?? So he could be an “EDUCATED” Black man who was going to Help His Black Socialist Mentor set up a New Revolutionary Government in Kenya..and they needed Educated Blackmen in the Cabinet and Administration..

Obama Srs Mentor was assasinated in 1968..and Obamas dad lost his Status..his money supply and turned into a Drunk who ha so many car wrecks He lost both of his legs and finally died in another Car wreck..Obamas family hated white people .. Look at what is fueling the Genocide and Revolutions in Africa…Marxist Doctrine..

Jake..Have you even researched any of that..??

The DATA is all out there..Why do you think people come to the Web Site of a Former CIA Analyist..and Deputy Director of CT..

For Analysis..For FACT Finding..The same Reason this Blog was Started..and is called NQ..

What was good for the Republicans and the the Bush Cartel…is good for the democrats and the Obama cartel..

Larry Johnson started digging into the Bush Administration..The Neo Con Connections..Thier Operations..Their Means..Methods and Tactics..

There is enough in Obamas Background that he merits the same INVESTIGATION..and EXPOSURE..

None of Us what that to Happen AFTER Obama is potentially elected..and go’s though a $100 Million Dollar Investigation demanded by the Republicans like the Clintons..

Sure..I want the Democrats to Win..I also want the Best vetted and best Qualified candidate from the Party..That is Hillary Clinton..Pure Logical Conclusion..Equal to any MAN..or anyone who Best represents Democratic Policy and Values..

The Clinton White Water Investigations were Petty and Political..yet they happened..

Its Not right to just White Wash Obama..until its too late..and ingnore the data..just to get him elected..and let him take over administartion of the united states government..Its Military and resources..

We here at NQ..Want to see How Dirty his WATER is NOW..Let him PROVE His Innocence and Estaqblish his Bona Fides.. He is running for The Presidency of the United States..

A Logical and Reasonable endeavor..

norrismorris

THANKS FOR THIS WONDERFUL POST. And your evaluation and analysis of Larry Johnson and his positions that were so brave and factual regarding the Plame affaire and the Bush lies.

The pitiful converts to Obama are ignorant of the true background of Obama, and smearing true progressives and clear thinkers who of course oppose Bush, seems to make them nuts.

The backstory of Obama in Africa is chilling, and his ties, his endorsements by the Black Power, mixed in with money entrenched in Pritzker,Soros,Exelon, etc backing are a chaotic mix of true liberal aspIrations mixed with corp $$$, with sinister lies and corrupt behavior, and more than that we we’ll see how he reacts with his cousin in Kenya who Obama has endorsed who is on the killing side of the extremist HORROFIC GOING ON THERE.

No one has done any homework and many are afraid of being called racists.

I am a known progressive, and thank Larry Johnson for what he has done and is doing. Actually he is a hero, as is Ambassador Wilson and wife Valerie Plame who I have seen trashed on Huffington Post because he endorses Hillary.

This trashing of an admirable man who exposed Cheney and company who denied the Niger allegations of BushCo, caused the end of Plame’s career, as well as Wilson’s.It also exposed Bush policies completely for what lies they were.

When reading the bile hurled at Wilson regarding his Post on HuffPo endorsing Hillary, I realized several things.

Either the Obama supporters are so uninformed they actually did not know how heroic and important Wilson was and is, OR they don’t care if they do know.

In other words, if he isn’t endorsing Obama, he’s nothing. The ignorance and lack of respect were sickening, and I have not been on
HuffPo since.

The more we dig in a timelined Bio of Obama the more we can see the dangers involved. Of course the democratic Party has proved once more to be opportunistic and spineless, as winning with Obama is the only issue they care about as well as taking Clinton and Bill doen as power is theirs in the party with Obama. They think.

The backroom deals are made to push Obama and use delegate count and overvalue votes in small states known to be GOP escape or leave dem party indifferent.

Party clearly feels they CANNOT risk losing seats from black vote backlash in congress and in party, and have surmised they feel most Hillary supporters will go Obama for the sake of the party.

We will see. But the dems are corrupt as hell, and since they usually guess wrong,the Wright story and others that may surface…..and then
we will see how Obama can handle GOP if endorsed, which seems likely as the fix is in.

Don’t forget Oprah when doing your homework.South Africa is one of Wright’s pet projects. Oprah left church as it got to hot for her 8 million viewers.

Lets go on with Obama’s biography.

norrismorris

Stop using the abysmal race card. It isn’t working.

Jake you are a troll and if you can’t tell us more about yourself, you should split and take your poison elsewhere.

http://vbonnaire.wordpress.com valentine bonnaire

Those T shirts. Pretty funny in that huge typeface.
There is a great read on Hillary’s mom from the LAT today…

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-dorothy23mar23,1,5640891.story

She was a child of the Great Depression, and from Chicago. There must be tons of American stories just like this from Americans of all colors and creeds in our nation.

The Baby boom is the legacy of our collective parents, and what they have lived.

It’ll be interesting to see what these hard economic times are going to bring to our culture. The article above gave a real sense of what Hillary is made of. A lot of strength. Has she ever shown that to the world during this campaign.

Are there really any “typical” people?

It’s not that easy, is it? To try and define anyone in our country this way. What unites us is our humanity.

simon

She was a child of the Great Depression, and from Chicago

Fascinating, the abuse Dorthy withstood as a girl, segueing into an abusive marriage.

Yet she still managed to raise well adjusted, highly successful children.

You have to wonder at the human spirit, sometimes.

Maybe because she was not a self indulgent, self pitying whiner.

I was impressed.
Patrick Henry

Walentine..

Good Post..Thanks..
norrismorris

valentine,

There are NO typical white people. There are generalities, but with many shadings omitted.

Blacks have bias against whites to a far more akarming degree than we all thought. They are obviously more than willing to stay angry and aggressive as victims as long as they can get away with it. Some of it is leftover hate, but they don’t seemed to have moved from the past.

Yet, there are still no “typical” black people as many blacks I know find this abhorrent.

So, again, O is palying his race card, and is counting on the FEAR of our society to criticize him roundly for his ties to Wright and the militant black power movement.

Therefore I believe the pushback will be at the general election.

Patrick Henry

Jake..Thats just inmature ans irresponsible..

No One Here starts thier comments with..

“IN THE NAME OF CLINTON..”

Your mother would be ashamed of you..
Mel

Since an open thread, think on these words from Obama’s ’04 speech to the DNP:

that we can tuck in our children at night and know that they are fed and clothed and safe from harm;

But don’t use a 3AM ad to make people think about me!

that we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe;

Now don’t go tell that to Rezko!

that we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution; and that our votes will be counted — or at least, most of the time.

Tell this to Florida and Michigan!

I say to you, tonight, we have more work to do more work to do, for the workers I met in Galesburg, Illinois, who are losing their union jobs at the Maytag plant that’s moving to Mexico, and now they’re having to compete with their own children for jobs that pay 7 bucks an hour

But don’t bug me about it, Im too busy getting bundled money from the Crown family!

believes in an America where all Americans can afford the same health coverage our politicians in Washington have for themselves.

But I don’t!

Kerry believes in energy independence, so we aren’t held hostage to the profits of oil companies or the sabotage of foreign oil fields.

But I don’t, so I voted for Cheney’s tax relief for oil companies!

never sacrifice our basic liberties nor use faith as a wedge to divide us.

Except for my speech on March 17th to save my ass!

And as I listened to him explain why he had enlisted — the absolute faith he had in our country and its leaders, his devotion to duty and service — I thought, this young man was all that any of us might ever hope for in a child. But then I asked myself: Are we serving Seamus (ph) as well as he’s serving us?

Empty chair on the NATO sub-committee, so guess not!

And he knows that it’s not enough for just some of us to prosper. For alongside our famous individualism, there’s another ingredient in the American saga, a belief that we are all connected as one people.

Well except when I had to save my ass and divide the country on March 17th!

If there’s a child on the south side of Chicago who can’t read, that matters to me, even if it’s not my child.

I said read not FREEZE damn it!

If there’s a senior citizen somewhere who can’t pay for their prescription and having to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it’s not my grandparent.

But throwing a grandparent under the bus is fine by me!

If there’s an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties.

Rezko does have good lawyers doesn’t he?

It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family: “E pluribus unum,” out of many, one.

And I am the chosen one, Michelle said so!

Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes.

Did I say us, I meant I am but you will forgive me because, well I am Obama!

There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.

Well good line, till I had to draw the distinction on March 17th to save my sorry ass!

We coach little league in the blue states and, yes, we’ve got some gay friends in the red states.

Just don’t let me get caught being photographed with any!

We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

Well except I don’t wear a flag pin or hold my hand in respect of the national anthem, but Hillary doesn’t wear a pin either…whaa whaa whaa

I’m not talking about blind optimism here, the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don’t think about it, or health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it.

But ignore it about me, pleassseeee make it all go away! I am Obama damn it and I am entitled to be President, please make Hillary just go away, please please please!

TeakWoodKite

Yea Mel good stuff, That 04 speech is riddled with contradications when viewed in the “present”.
Antigone

He’s a smooth operator in a $3000 suit but me thinks beneath that GQ cover is a political version of Jim Croce’s Bad Bad Leroy Brown who may end up looking like a puzzle on the Convention floor.

Patrick Henry

Good Stuff Mel..

Mel

Lills when ones own words bite them in the ass huh!
Mel

kills when ones own words bite them in the ass huh!

AF catfish

Idea for enterprising YouTuber out there:

Splice together all of the calls for Hillary to drop out throughout this primary in a YouTube – then flash forward to her clinching the nomination, then winning the GE – then flash to Russert or somebody saying “When is Madame President going to drop out and let Senator Obama be president?”

That’s the rough idea. Point out how divisive it is to call for one candidate to drop out.
AF catfish

When will white women learn their place? When will they admit that they’re all racist like Obama’s white granny – because when they realize that they’ll wake up and realize their obligation to vote for Obama to absolve for his granny’s sins.

And when will WHITE women stop talking about stuff like the glass ceiling? As Obama said in his speech, this is a problem not shared by all women but just WHITE women.

His wife Michelle is not a black woman but a black AMERICAN.

simon

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23762575

57 dead today, in attacks across Iraq.

Aye, wonder if it has to do with Dick’s trip?

Can’t teach an old dog new tricks, can you?
Sammie

I’m not racist I just don’t want black panthers in the white house.

There’s another articale and people should know about Barak Obama’s minister because he believes in yakub, but nobody says anything. Yakub is the muslim devil that the black panthers believe in. And Obama is going to steal the election, like Bush did. He already stole it and he’s going to steal it at the convention again. I was so happy to vote for Hillary and now it doesn’t count?

Because i said before that she can be my senator but now i’m angry and i can’t do anything about this because obama is just stealing the election. I shouldn’t even be called an election because he’s stealing it. What will the people do when they find out that they didn’t vote for a black panther like Barack Obama and all of a sudden he’s stealing the election. First from Hillary and then from McCain. I don’t want him to be president. I voted for Hillary and that DOESN”T make me a racist.
sjc

Huh???

sjc

When will white women learn their place? When will they admit that they’re all racist like Obama’s white granny – because when they realize that they’ll wake up and realize their obligation to vote for Obama to absolve for his granny’s sins.

And when will WHITE women stop talking about stuff like the glass ceiling? As Obama said in his speech, this is a problem not shared by all women but just WHITE women.

His wife Michelle is not a black woman but a black AMERICAN.

I was asking ‘Huh”??? What the Hell does this mean???

AF catfish

I was asking ‘Huh”??? What the Hell does this mean???

That is for you to decide

Pandora

I can see republicans wearing these at their convention if Obama is the democratic nominee like they wore band-aid during 04 convention to mock John Kerry.

http://1950democrat.livejournal.com 1950democrat

How in the world did the GOP get away with that? Bandaids and Purple Hearts.

Regency

Y’know, though I personally detest BO, I have to say my beef isn’t with him as a man. It’s the fact that I know if we nominate him he’s gonna lose. He’ll be drummed out of National Politics like Teddy Kennedy out of the Hall of Saints. We will lose.

Regency

Forgot to mention why. We’ll lose because the Rethugs will turn him into Louis Farrakhan Jr. and then some. It won’t be true, but it will look true. 527s are cruel entities.

Sammie

He turned himself into that.

cynthia

I am a “typical” middle-of-road voter, my votes are based on issues less on the party affiliation. I am a registered Democrat, I voted for Arnold S. for Governor of Californina, since he is more sensible than the out of touch Gray Davis.

I can say this with certainty that if OBAMA was the Democratic nominee, He would loose BIG. NO True American will vote for a candiate whose his closest spiritual advisor for 20 years called for GOD D’ America only 1 week after 9/11.

The DNC has a destructive streak, they tend to nominate lefties whose values and believes are not supported by majority of Americans.
Norma

Many many years ago, I remember a host of black comedians, such as Richard Pryor,who were talking about white folks who would cross the street whenever a black man was walking towards them on the same side of the street. Now, mind you, the comedy clubs were filled with white folks who thought this outrageously funny, but trust me on this one….it was true for the most part. Of course, this was after the riots in Watts (1965), Detroit, etc.but Obama pretty much expressed his white grandmother’s feelings for the times in which they lived.

As for my vote this year, I’m going to vote for whoever wins the nomination. It’s the democratic thing to do. I’m not happy about it but McCain isn’t the answer for a country that has been robbed of its life blood— and, to those of Iraq, et al who’s been inflicted with imperial behavior…Norma
Mel

All Americans, Black White, Latino, Asian and Native America, need to wonder why after such a turbulent week as this one for Obama has been, why the cries of Clinton to withdraw are being echoed so loudly by the Obama campaign!

Once again, facing severe questions regarding the character and judgement of Obama, an event never seen before in American politics unfolded before our very eyes and echoed within our ears repeatedly on both sides of the political divide!

Last week, Obama took center stage to speak in a masterfully orchestrated explanation of his 20-year association with Rev Wright! A speech perfectly timed to derail his opponent’s speech on Iraq!

Many media types are calling it one of the greatest speeches in American politics!

BUT was it?

Could have been, if not for the almost 20 year relationship Obama had with Rezko! Every new revelation between Rezko and Obama exposes a tighter bond and a further depth of corruption within their ranks!

Obama’s relationship with Rezko places every single word uttered in that speech of last week in a completely different context!

To be the person playing the double sword of righteousness and deception does not allow the words the speech projected to be anything more than a grasping at America’s Achilles heel for self-preservation!

Could have been, if not for Obama’s inaction to the closure of the Maytag plant and the close ties with the Crown family!

Could have been, if not for Obama’s continual lies over various situations from NAFTA to Rev Wright!

Could have been, if not for his campaigns memo of SC on Race Card!

Could have been, if not for allowing Michelle to inject race towards a completely off topic the reality talked of by Bill Clinton!

To allow Obama a free ride by using racial divide as an excuse is worse than condoning Rev Wrights speech on the Sunday following 9/11 while bodies are still being recovered from the fallen buildings along with every other bile sermon Rev Wright made, because it shows that America does not stand for change and advancement, but for allowing a desperate man to cocoon its people into silence just as his wife managed to do to Bill Clinton, by Michelle Obama twisting the context of his words with racially injected statements!

So why the cyies for Clinton to withdraw, because the Obama campaign knows many will not let the reality of Obama go and will keep it clearly and loudly brought forward as it should be, not as Obamabots wish it wouldn’t be, because every word Obama utters manages to make him fall from grace more and more and when someone in the Media FINALLY connects all the dots, the name Obama will be history!
http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=2973 jeqal

I say NObama in 08`

The interesting thing is this. We have watched voting for a candidate based on race destroy cities already. Detroit comes to mind. Is there a point where some common sense knocks a few people upside the head so that they can say “you know maybe this person has the best actual game plan for me.” I’m sick of people who mask their racism in the color of their skin. Because actually it is the “typical white” person who has fought long and hard with great personal hardship racism here in the US. If Obama wants to curse America then what does he want to make America? If all of America were black would that satisfy? Or like Rwanda will it continue on, features not black enough, this one “too white”. It’s already happening in Urban schools, apparently Obama is not able to address this issue because he IS this issue.
attending a church that glorifies Hitler and believes in the eradication of all jews…….ummmmm at least that isn’t “typical white” dogma.
Kathleen

McCain gets free press pass when he makes huge mistakes. Frightening mistakes. McCain is attempting to tie up the Israeli lobby vote by allowing Senator “radical” Lieberman to continuously hang over his shoulder and constantly whisper in his ear in regard to foreign policy. Lieberman has persistently repeated lies about Iraq and Iran (this is one of the people McCain is listening to) Terrifying

McCain’s free press pass (Abrams rips Cliff May’s excuses up)
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/03/23/cliff-may-mc
cain-was-right-about-iran-and-al-qaeda/

Chuck Todd admits media gave McCain a pass over Iran/al-Qaeda gaffe and would have attacked the Dems
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/03/23/chuck-todd-admits-media-gave-mccain-a-pass-over-iranal-qaeda-gaffe-and-would-have-attacked-the-dems/

The “cakewalk in Iraq” zealots keep pushing U.S. towards confrontation with Iran.
Chuck Todd admits media gave McCain a pass over Iran/al-Qaeda gaffe and would have attacked the Dems

Go check out what Senator Lindsey Graham had to say about Iran this Sunday. He appears to be on the “bomb bomb bomb” Iran team.

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/ftn/main3460.shtml
Kathleen

Time to join forces and focus on McCain. He is getting free press pass.

http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/…..eenwald-7/

This is a great listen and learn
Scott Horton Interviews Glenn Greenwald
March 20th, 2008

Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional litigator, renowned blogger and author of A Tragic Legacy discusses John McCain’s so-called “misstatement” in trying to foist the neocon talking point that Iran backs al Qaeda in Iraq against U.S. interests there, the major media’s refusal to call him out for it since they love him so very much, the fact that McCain would still have been at least wrong even if he had simply blamed Iran for training “extremists” of any description besides that of the U.S. supported Iraqi government itself, and the recent victory against immunity for the telecoms who conspired with the government to break the law and wiretap Americans without warrants.

MP3 here. (19:35)

Glenn Greenwald was previously a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in New York. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book How Would a Patriot Act?, a critique of the Bush administration’s use of executive power, released in May 2006. His brand new book is A Tragic Legacy.
StatBabe

I do not know where else to stick this. We have now reached a total of 4,000 dead soldiers in Iraq. Here is the link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23771735/

BTW, can someone tell me why the link thingy isn’t working for me? If I could simply write html, I’d do that, but this does not seem to work for me either.
simon

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/turkey/8528032.asp?gid=231&sz=1428

Cheney in Turkey.

Upside down and all around, corn syrup forms a glassine coat, when the solution forms a small ball upon dropping into the water, the syrup is done.

Something feels hinkey, I just can’t shake it.

Or not.

Smiling faces, they don’t tell the truth, sometimes.
steve

I just feel bad for his grandma (excuse my ignorance, is she still alive?) I can just picture the poor woman proudly watching her son give a speech, and he drops that “bomb” on her on national television…