Last Round: Rendell Gets a Call From Obama [Updated]
By SusanUnPC on March 29, 2008 at 1:19 AM in Barack Obama, Pennsylvania
Order your last round. You’d better make it a stiff one. Here’s what Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell told CNN’s Larry King about the call he got from Barack Obama:
RENDELL: “I had a call from Senator Obama and he said, you know I’m going to be the nominee, and I didn’t argue with him, I said, sure, and he said I just want to make sure nothing happens in Pennsylvania, the campaign here, that will make it harder for us to win in the fall. And I said, senator, don’t even worry about that for five seconds.”
The video shows Rendell’s affable demeanor — but underneath that affability lies a tough, hard-knuckled fighter:
(Thanks to C.S. for grabbing this.)
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what insufferable presumption; what wanton impropriety; what complete and utter audacity; what vulgarity: barack obama feels entitled to the nomination, and he believes he can intimidate governor ed rendell. we shall never capitulate to obama, who we will derail.
entitlement is right. I just hate Ted Kennedy right now.
>>> I just hate Ted Kennedy right now.
I got ya beat by 28 years.
Me too! Hated him ever since he savaged Jimmy Carter and then ignored Carter after he was nominated. Not a “good” loser our Teddy.
Sometimes I think we lose sight of the fact that just because someone is a liberal that in and of itself doesn’t make them a good person.
rrrreally? I never knew all that about Teddy.
I’ve learned a WHOLE lot this last 8 yrs. When I changed from Indie to Dem in 2000 for Gore I thought I did a GREAT thing.
Then I got all involved in Wes Clark’s campaign again thinking I was doing a GREAT thing.
After he was upstaged by Kerry I willingly went along thinking it was a GOOD DEM thing to do.
Years at the DNC blogs turned me into a PUG hating, flame throwing Liberal until about a year ago when all the TRUE natures of some of these OLD OLD long time DEMS like Kerry and Kennedy and Leahy started rearing their ugly head for me.
I’ve been late in coming to the realization that there are NUTS and BOLTS on BOTH sides and I need to be a better interpreter of reality. (apparently)
I learn more every day coming here and a few other places.
Thanks & Peace
GO HILLARY
btw I served 6 yrs under Carter and that especially pisses me off to hear that!!! I love that mans heart. They don’t get much more pure than that! Shame on Teddy.
Lucky you to have served under Carter. I know of NO other politician that I respect as much. Probably because he’s not all that good of a politician. He is too smart not to know how to play the system so it must be that he just refuses to do so. He’s way too honest for our system.
Amazing. Your experience is almost the same as mine except that I switched from Republican to Democrat in 2000.
I, too, like Wesley Clark. I’m amazed at Obama’s sense of entitlement with everything. I wish the Gov had put him in his place a little more. This is the problem with political parties. They rarely do reflect the will of the people, only the will of the few.
You know I lost respect for him many years ago when I was a girl. He let a young lady die in his car. Just left her. He like Ob has no morals. It is true, just because people claim to beliberal doesn’t make them have integrity. Rev Wright should have been the downfall of Obama. Lou Dobbs show..wants more dialog on this. We need to make sure all people in North Carolina are azware of Rev Wright. Keedp him in the media. Its amazing there are people that don’t know about Rev Wright. WE need to get this out more.
Ditto and then some. I never liked him or trusted him. He’s perfect for Obama. Two hypocritical thugs who want to ‘help’ the poor and middle class just so long as they don’t live nearby. With the other hand, they are taking money from Wall Street.
The smarmy phoney underbelly of the Democratic Party.
“I just hate Ted Kennedy right now.”
Oh please I gotta have a piece of that.
On http://www.savagepolitics.com there’s a great article in their archives that talks about Ted’s dividing the Democratic Party which led to Reagan being elected. The article also talks about how the Party keeps doing this and not putting up the most electable candidate. It’s worth a read considering that they are doing it again.
Recently seen in Nevada (where Hermann Goering would be a Liberal) bumper sticker:
“I’d rather hunt with Dick Cheney than ride in Ted Kennedy’s car.”
For those of you with friends and family who voted for Obama and now regret their decision, here is a new website for former Obama supporters who want to take back their vote in light of the Rev. Wright scandal among other things. Pass it along.
http://www.itakebackmyvote.com/
This web site is not credible and no one will take it seriously.
He really is an arogant SOB to presume anything…
I hate this guy more and more every day if that is possible…
yes, it is possible. he and his supporters make it possible.
truthteller- you are absolutely correct-Obama is suffering from self-inflated importance. But the media person’s comment “Obama’s call might be the only thing that will make the governor watch his tongue” indicates an inflated perception of her own importance, too. On O’s payroll?
Many in the media are on O’s payroll. Why do you think they are so biased? Don’t think Obama could put together a campaign himself. Even though he had J Kerrys email lists from his 2004 campaign that gave him a good start.
you gotta be kidding me with this.
I think it’s safe to assume that the more personaly invested a person is in a POTUS camgaign, the less they are “kidding”.
There’s opinion running around, even from other senators (Leahy, Dodd etc.) that continuing this race damages democrats in the fall.
BULLSHIT
You know who’s definitely not kidding around? Karl Rove.
On c-span yesterday:
(unfortunately not viewable now, but maybe they’ll fix that)
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=204606-1
I heard Karl describe this race as a problem for Republicans, because McCain is now only getting 20% or less of the exposure that Clinton and Obama are getting. He was trying to motivate listeners at the venue (many of whom were diligently taking notes) to resolve this.
I’m sure many would like to jump in at this point with how they hate Karl, but consider this;
based on his own success and experience, does Karl’s opinion about how the election is going have credibility?
Duh…YEAH!
Were this a legal case, that call would be referred to as ‘jury tampering’.
I call it racism. Eventually peeps need to address this because it is oppressing kids who try and elevates kids who don’t give a d***n
what the hell? what are you gaming now? and what does this have to do with ‘oppressing kids who try and elevates kids who don’t give a damn’?
Racism?
Like John Kerry saying we need to elect Obama because he’s a black man?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/kerry-obama-cou.html
If we all started referring to Obama as biracial and not black some people might actually think differently. They want to make history, he’s not black. He’s half and half.
Are you serious?
Oh go away!
People have a right to their opinion and to not be guilted into voting for this biracial fraud. Besides, a lot of young people have been deprogrammed because of Wright’s statements. The kool-aid ain’t happening for a lot of folks anymore.
Isn’t it clear you should stop drinking it.
OMG, WOW I cannot believe it … Was that a threat?
Is Obama accusing Rendell? What a nerve…What a pompous arrogant…
This is really really scary. Unbelievable…
Chicago mafioso all the way.
It is hard to believe the fix is not in.
Rendell better show some teeth and stand up for HRC
in every single TV show on Sunday…
It’s outrageous…
Thankfully, he has been. Rendell has been a fabulous and loyal Clinton supporter.
He was great on the Charlie Rose show Wed evening, he pointed out how the media gave Obama a free pass for months and has dumped on Clinton. Was very sharp and convincing. I think the other senators need to shut up and let the people vote.
Gov. Rendell was great/articulate when Charlie Rose was asking him some very intense questions. Rendell covered all the important facts about why Hillary is the most qualified, why she needs to stay in the race, etc. and he said it with great strength and conviction. Am going to try see if there is a YouTube of that interview and will try to post it.
Hope this works: YouTube of Gov. Rendell on Charlie Rose. This is just one of his answers to one of Charlie’s questions. The interview was about 15 minutes long and the rest may be at PBS website:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXYDNibSbOo
I think Ed Rendell acted appropriately. This is what you say to someone who is mentally ill. Agree with him and make him go away and then do just as you were going to do before he called.
But I agree this is a threat.
I don’t even know what to say about this any longer. It is all very perplexing. I think the Democratic Party has been coming to this point for many years now. It is just all coming to a head. I don’t believe that the schism is just going to magically heal up like some party leaders seem to envision. These fissures and cracks are just too deep at this point.
I will not vote for Obama and in fact, hate to say it, might in the end vote for that sour puss McCaine just to prove a point. What point - I’m not sure. I’m just completely dizzy over this and want revenge.
Obama is a scumlord.
Yes, they MUST be shown that they cannot do this, cannot ram an undesirable nominee down our throats. This is why I sent an email to Howard Dean. And I encourage others to do so.
I am sick and tired of him, Pelosi, Reid, Leahy and others standing before the press and declaring that everyone is going to make nice come Nov and also suggesting that it’s Hillary Clinton’s fault if we don’t.
WRONG!
It is Obama, Kennedy, Kerry, Dean, Pelosi, Richardson, Casey, Reid, and the host of other Democrats who have waged an all out full assault on Hillary and have allowed Obama to come off as if ‘butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth.’
They haven’t played fair. And I’m never going to forget that.
I called Dean this week and left a message with his receptionist saying I was disappointed in how he handled Florida, in the personal attacks on Hillary, and the calls for her to drop out.
That is the “Audacity of Arrogance”.
Gemmie some.
I am SURE Gov. Rendell had a few choice comments for the gutless wonder.
Michelle Obama: “Give Us Something Here.”
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/03/17/michelle-obama-give-us-something-here/
Ed Rendell is one of the sharpest people out there which is why Obama is so jealous that he supports Hillary. Even though the entire media supports Obama he can’t handle it if Hillary gets good endorsements.
that is going to be the name of the new book that ObamaMama’s twin in Boston, Gov. Duval Patrick is going to write. Another example of racial pride…he has done jack s*** since he became Governor a year ago.
His one big item that he wanted to get passed in the Legislature last week……(3) casinos for Massachusetts…where the hell is Duval, in New York scouring with publishing houses to get his new book published. Naturally, the casinos got shot down, the people in the state are wondering what in hell did we give this guy a chance for when he can’t even be here to back the biggest piece of legislation yet on his agenda… Kinda makes you wonder what the priorities are of the likes of Duval and Obama…are they really all “talk”….no action…food for thought…
Oh!…the best thing he did for himself once he became Gov….got himself a new Caddy and couldn’t understand why people were outraged on his selection…in the end, he kicked in half of the cost. Mr.big shot…nice new Cadillac…high taste, no morals.
I am from MA, how do you think we feel? We voted for him because he too promised “change”. This is what we got. And he succeeded Mitt!!!
Oh for fuck’s sake!!!! Excuse me a sec, I need to polish off this Bombay Martini…Obama needs to…he’s such a little…I can’t even…uuuuuuuuh. I’m trying hard to stick to my creed of NO DEM ON DEM VIOLENCE but this just breaks the friggin’ camel’s back!!! Obama is an ass, a self absorbed prick. That’s it, not only will I not endorse Obama if Hillary loses or gets squeezed out, I will openly endorse McCain JUST to live up to my namesake. Screw him. Shit, I’m pissed…and out of vermouth.
Now that’s serious. Being out of vermouth, I mean.
Antigone! The misery of our girl Hillary could put your suffering to shame.
And what is this crap I hear tonight regarding giving Hillary Clinton an exit strategy by having her run for the Governorship of New York? I heard it on MSNBC Olbermann tonight just a few minutes ago. Who are they kidding? Are they planning on killing off the brand new Gov Pat or what? I believe it was Jonathan Alterman (sp) who made this statement. He said they were trying to save Hillary’s chances for the presidency in 2012????He also said that he couldn’t say he who his source was but it was a prestigious PERSON in the senate.
What a load of crap.
Alterman is a buffoon who has been calling for Hill to drop out every day since well before Texas and Ohio. And he and the rest can just STFU. She will be no one’s governor, Patterson is just fine, but she will be our president…
I am sick of these anonymous democratic or campaign sources. Without a name I assume they are lying.
Hope, do yourself some favors here, QUIT WATCHING OLBERMANN. Its not hard.. I just turn it to a more credible station like FoxNews. (snick)
I have watched Countdown almost everyday (recorded every day when I didn’t watch) for 5 years. Went cold turkey and its not hard. He’s gone from our channels, same with Tweety, and Dan “my own voice is all I hear” Abrams. Just tune out…check out some CSPAN instead.
Chris
I think I’ll take your advice and ban the channel from my house.
We did, my remote has a delete/add feature (I’m always accidentally deleting channels) but we did intentionally delete MSNBC. We’d been wanting to do it because of the constant prison and catchapredator shows that disgust us, but now it has become clear they’ve really lost all journalistic integrity. FoxNews never had any, but…know thy enemy. I had been avoiding HC, OReilly and all others but Brit Hume, but now they are exposing how it looks outside the Democratic race. That becomes invaluable in some ways.
But MSNBC is a joke, their ratings suck, they are full of their own leftist crap and need to have their ratings tank.
Chris
Yes who wants to watch that horrible predator show. God life is hard enough without having to watch those sex offenders.
Headphones and a laptop.
My habits have turned upside down.
No more Stephanie Miller, Randi Rhodes, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann. I never did listen to blowhole Ed Schultz. 12 hours a day of in the tank and over the top for that obmamanation.
Amen. No more suffering those am radio commercials.
a prestigious PERSON in the senate like Teddy Kennedy, John Kerry, Pat Leahy and on and on? All the “old bulls” that run things and have been waiting for a chance to get back in power?
They might want to let Giuliani in on that. He’s already feasting on Gov Paterson with the help of Bruno. They’re even talking about a ‘Special Election.’
These people are slime!
He also said that he couldn’t say he who his source was but it was a prestigious PERSON in the senate
I got it….I bet the prestigious PERSON OR persons WERE, either Kennedy, Kerry, Dowd, Leahy, ….give me a break….what a bunch of BS artists….like they give a flying leap for Hillary and what she can or cannot do…she sure as all hell has done wonders on her own so far without the likes of this “tribe”….with friends like them, well…who needs enemies…she needs to tell them all to go pound sand….
Hope the good people of Ma vote them out for good….hypocrites….
Alterman is the latest Hillary Hit Man for Obama and MSNBC a wholly owned subsidiary of the Obama for Pres. campaign.
He has been a relentless critic of Hillary and has presumed himelf [courtesy of pompous ass Olbermann] of being a political sage and “insider” . Alterman is nothing but a leftist bigot who has been an Obamaton from the start. He has little “insider” info, except the Talking Points that obviously are being directed at the media. He’s repeating what he’s told to do. So is Talking Points Memo as Josh Marshall is doing the same.
Why has the Media been pushing Democrat Talking Points? Because they feel the political climate calls for a Dem win, and they believe that endorsing the winner [OB], they will have ACCESS,
The Media are whores and enablers whether for Bush or Obama. It’s all opportunism. They are running true to form. Olbermann started as a pompous liberal obsessed with O’Reilly as Fox’s numbers by far exceed MSNBC. Now he’s become an absurd partisan who should NOT be tuned into as he has not shown any fairness or balance. This is a mean spirited program that featuresMatthews,Russert,Olbermann,Alterman, as a showcase for Obama.
None of them know what Hillary wants, or if she doesn’t gt nominated what her plans or aspirations are. And Alterman sounds more like an ass every day.
I need to polish off this Bombay Martini
Anybody that Blogs while drinking Bombay Martini’s is ok in my book..
Somebody make a run to the store and get some Vermouth for Strawberry Bitch.
( was that shaken or stirred?)
What is status of SEIU union in Pennsylvania?
I asking because Obama was jacking aroung the SEIU in Nevada.
Yeah, but Bubba came to town, causing the Obamabots to scream, “NO FAIR!,” and tightened them up.
The Obamabots tried to rig the Nevada caucuses by holding them in some of the casinos, “the better to reach those service workers not able to take off work.”
The reach was for the Culinary WOrkers’ Union vote, which has a string AA and New American (Hispanic) membership.
Bubba went up and down Las Vegas BLVD (da Strip), gladhanding and drawing TV cameras.
Result: of the nine Strip caucus locations, SEVEN went for HRC.
The Obamabots got their clocks cleaned in this county.
Good Point. I was attempting figure out what part of the Penn. party machine BO was strong arming.
What an arrogant Ass Obama is! Yeah! You are going to be the nominee Obama. You are right. We’ll just give up now, and hand you the Presidency. We’ll ask Bush to leave the White House now, so you and Michelle can move in tomorrow, and start destroying our country. You deserve it, you know because it’s all about running un-contested for you, Isn’t it? Everyone just needs to get out of your way so your destiny can be achieved.
I DON’T THINK SO! You don’t deserve to step on the White House lawn you Anti-American arrogant fool. You are never going to be President period! And every arrogant step you take is bringing you closer to your downfall. I’m looking forward to watching your demise. And by the way, I love long dramatic movies too. Watching your tragic drama unfold is going to be movie worthy of The Oscar!
I swear to God that is totally how I feel, his antics have made me so angry I cannot contain it at a healthy level. I will vote McCain before him, no way in hell will I help him get into the WH. Again, how is it that he’ll be a “uniter?”
You took the words out of my mouth and probably out of another 100,000,000 people!
I just read the article Susan linked (is at the end) and yes, it was a clear threat b/c at the end the correspondant says:
Unbelievable…Truly disgusting.
That phone call may be the only thing to get Governor Ed Rendell to watch his tongue.
A Brown Shirt “nazi” threat. You know where this shit is going don’t you?
Yeah, and how strange of CNN to insert that in there…because from Rendell’s quote alone, I did not totally get the significance. So this was a threat? What were they threatening?
>>> What were they threatening?
Oh, maybe that Al and Jesse might descend upon him, in their borrowed jets, and stip up the local pot.
Maybe find someone to sun against Rendell?
Brown shirt indeed !! What is Obama trying to do? Pull a John Lewis on Rendell?? Now Obama will pull some shit and cry foul in PA on election day ; hell Obama is already accusing Rendell.
What do you expect from Obama when the media is telling him he’s the one 24/7 , when they convince him that he can prevaricate until the cows come home and never be called on it, when the democratic leadership shills for him. Give me a break he’s telling the governor of PA who used to be chair of the DNC I believe what, no hanky panky ? Is this because of what Casey just pulled ? I’ve heard there is no abiding affection between him and Rendell. Also, what makes Obama think that he has not done more than enough himself or through his minions to ruin the whole deal for the general? He almost sounds like Bush did when he told Gore that Jeb said he won Florida on that fafeful election night.Obama is seriously full of himself and his hubris will be his undoing.It is just a question of when.
I smell a bowl.
It’s a psy ops method of propping your enemy up, to the point he feels so entitled, so arrogant, he will do anything he chooses, sort of like Bush, and Cheney.
And given he feels an illusory absolute power, you can then tweak him, tweak his arrogance, sort of like a sculptor chipping away at a piece of wood. YOU see him, he doesn’t see you. He has, in effect, given complete control to his enemy, buying into an artificial environment that was deliberately created for him, by his foe, sort of like a Skinnerian box. That’s the ideal, anyway, this in no way indicates how Obama, and the democrats were set up, or even if they were.
Heh.
What it means for Clinton, I don’t know, what it means for Obama and the democrats, I do know: losers. I hope she perseveres, she is the only shot the democrats have at the Presidency, period.
I read this morning Bush was seeking more power for the Fed, and it occurred to me he, and they, really are trying to run the country like a corporation, the two are incompatible.
Bush and Cheney’s plans to dismantle the federal government would never have succeeded, and this one won’t either, it feels like 2005 all over again, but this time, it’s obvious nothing they plan has any hope of working, they simply don’t get it.
If he is the nominee then he’ll find out real quick what his arrogance cost him. MY VOTE.
Fuck Barack Obama and his minions. I’m fucking fed up with them, and their audacity of hope. Talk about sense of entitlement…this fucker is smug, arrogant, and full of himself. His arrogance makes Bush seem like a monk. His followers are political neophytes at best if they think trying to guilt me or others into voting for him or blaming us for a potential McCain is sound politic. Do they use this technique to get dates? “Hey baby, if you don’t go out with me, you’ll wind up with Ted Bundy”
I don’t care what they think about Clinton, she didn’t pander to me, didn’t guilt me into anything, and she got my vote. If she is the nominee in Nov, i’ll vote for her. I’m not a card carrying democrat, i’m an independent who hates the Democrats more than the Republicans. I know the Republicans are moral freaks, control mongers, coward yellow belly chicken littles, but at least they are consistent and show it. Democrats lie to you. They tell you they want impeachment, then yank it off the table when you vote for them. They are the party of inclusion, unless you live in Michigan and Florida and didn’t vote for their candidate of choice. They are all about bringing in the VOTERS, unless those voters didn’t crown their king.
I’m voting independent in November and damn proud of it, unless Clinton is the nominee and then I’ll consider it because of she will have proven to outlast all the fire storm.
Barack Obama is a fucking myth folks. His followers are enchanted by their own self-esteem floating trips. He steals his ideas from others, claims them as his own, and then scoffs when called on it. The male bonding is disgusting to watch between Leahy, Dodd, Richardson, Olbermann, Matthews, and on and on. They wreak of their own bad colognes. And I have no problem waiting out another 4 years of a Republican because I already lived thru Reagan/Bush I before the Democrats got it together. I’m not a pedestrian citizen, and I don’t mind suffering some more to not cave in to some peer pressure punk like Barack Hussain Obama.
“You know I’m going to be the nominee”
yeah, jackass, just like John Kerry was “reporting for duty”, put that in your “lockbox” and smoke it you fucking cokehead.
(note: yes, i’m in a grumpy mood, it will pass..after November when Conyers balks on his impeachment promise and proves to you yet again its all just bad theatre)
Chris, try to relax, and now that you have been effing off everybody, why don’t we examine and give serious thought to why are so many people supporting Obama
I am not challenging you or anyone on this site, but have we ever examined why you have keep blaming CNN, everybody at MSNBC, Radio hosts, better known blog sites, various journalists and commentators?
I don’t know why, but maybe we should give it some thought. What do they know that we don’t?
Isn’t it simplistic to believe as some people here suggested that everybody is ‘paid off’.
Would like to find out your, and anybody’s thoughts about this.
Thank you.
I do believe their is a relation between special interests and Obama’s media coverage. And I believe your thinking is predicated upon a dangerous metalepsis that mistakes effects for causes.
amateur etiologist here:
do not effects eventually become causes?
Thanks for briinging this up. I was wondering that myself.
I visit this site because I was looking for a group of people to engage with who are supporting Hillary, because, frankly, I don’t know anybody, professionally and socially, who are Hillary fans. But I believe you can be supporting Hillary and still try to be realistic and wanting to find out why all those we are complaining about here, the media, etc., do not.
I completely agree. I’m not what one should call a “hillary supporter”. I rarely speak about Hillary because my criticisms are already well heard by others and effectively covered. I’m focused on the myth that is Obama and the myth that his people are about the “end of the politics of destruction”.
Additionally in some events like the Bosnia story, I’m focused on the exaggerations of her attackers because I find them completely hypocritical and over the top. Including the assholes who say stuff like, “SHE TOTALLY LIED”.
No she didn’t…she was in Bosnia, she met with the people she said she met with, she published the account in her book then got cocky later. TOTALLY LIED would mean…she was really in Washington having tea, watching it on TV and just made it up.
Does she have issues? Yep, and they are well covered and getting a magnifying glass on them ever second. But she gets one slip up and it gets 10 magnifying glasses. He gets one slip up and his apologists come out.
Additionally I am well documented on NQ for stating clearly I wasn’t a supporter of either. But then some lies came out towards her, Obama’s thugs started threatening superdelegates, making arrogant comments towards her supporters, and heckling anyone who wanted to question his credentials.
On NoQuarter there were some serious questions brought up and to what outcome from the Obama supporters? Sneers, insults, calling people Rethuglicans who are clearly Democrats, and then worse…saying Clinton was dividing the party.
You know, when this all started and I still thought Senator Obama was a-okay, just that Senator Clinton was better, I really wondered about this. I felt like I was living in a twilight zone with all the Obama fawning…I liked the guy fine, but I couldn’t understand the fawning. So I figured I must be missing something and started doing independent research on my own, actually looking at his voting record, looking at his record in the state senate and I just walked away thinking “Huh??? This guy is just not qualified to be President…”
And I just don’t see how any sane person who cares about the issues, not just about charisma, can come to a different conclusion. I am smart, I am successful, and I did the leg work to try and examine this angle. To me, it is a bias, pure and simple. I think part of it is they are tired of the Clinton story, Clinton is nothing new for them, and they are sick of covering the Clintons.
But the most important lesson I have learned from this election is to trust myself. It doesn’t matter what the media says, I am just as smart as any of them, and am perfectly capable of recognizing bias when i see it.
Sam,
You are not alone. I had planned to support the Party in Nov. in the beginning. I was a Hillary supporter. But then, Obama and his gang of thugs PISSED ME OFF. Add to that the media’s BIASED coverage and then gaslighting everyone that they were being fair and square.
Chris above makes an excellent point with regard to the way the Bosnia story was covered:
“I’m focused on the exaggerations of her attackers because I find them completely hypocritical and over the top. Including the assholes who say stuff like, “SHE TOTALLY LIED”.
No she didn’t…she was in Bosnia, she met with the people she said she met with, she published the account in her book then got cocky later. TOTALLY LIED would mean…she was really in Washington having tea, watching it on TV and just made it up.”
It’s been this kind of over-the-top coverage on Hillary while giving Obama a pass on just about EVERYTHING.
Lest we forget, blogs like No Quarter, Savage Politics and voters like us FORCED the media to cover the Wright flap with any degree of scrutiny. They just couldn’t ignore what everybody was watching on youtube. They wanted to but they couldn’t.
Like you, I did my own research on Obama. And I stand by what I discovered: HE IS NOT QUALIFIED or READY TO BE POTUS!
Oh boy … DJ, are you that naive ? Did you vote for Bush in 2000 or 2004?
A better question would be how does a 2 year Senator raise 200 Mill to run for the presidency when he has no known accomplishments. You want to believe the myth? Go ahead — I will see you in the Bread Line. We have serious problems in this country and it sounds like Obama doesn’t care for us typical white people especially if we don’t vote for him.
The fat cats in this country who have given money to Obama want to stop Hillary from getting elected and going back to those evil days of the 90’s when we had peace and prosperity.
How do we know there isn’t campaign/money laundering going on for Obama - maybe coming from some questional countries in the Middle East?
There’s got to be many many reasons for his rise and we aren’t privy to the info folks. Politics as usual I guess.
Rezko wanted the Illinois Governor to run for President but the gov got caught and so did Rezko. Do you think they fingered Obama for President to do some evil work?
I’m sure Rezko will expect a pardon at the very least if he wins the nominee and the general. With the Wright stuff coming to light, I don’t think he has a prayer in the general though. Too many people have doubts about him now and the Republicans are going to exploit his weakness over and over on patriotism. Michelle opened her mouth, Wright opened his, Obama didn’t have his hand on his hear, blah, blah, blah. It’s crazy to have him for the nominee. I will be very interested to see how he does in NC and PA. All the polls that I have read that show him doing well in NC, have really weird internals.
I do think that Rezko is hoping for a pardon.
“You want to believe the myth? Go ahead — I will see you in the Bread Line. We have serious problems in this country…”
This just about sums it up for me. But I don’t think he cares about black people either. He’s just exploiting our history to be POTUS.
This guy is scary. The Gov Rendell phone call is just on record.
Mimi
I think you have a great point there. I think the basic problem with Obama is that he simply is absent of any empathy. He is a very cold and calculating person without true emotional depth.
Mimi,
I agree with you. Came across this article that was very interesting read titled, Obama Plays a Crooked Game
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Obama ascribes all racial offenses to the past, where the only guilty white people are dead.”
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=565&Itemid=1
Frig Off!! and your psycho babble DJ!! Don’t come here and patronize! You, maroon, should know better than come to a site NOT knowing anything(!!!) and treat any of us like a baboon! Frig Off, I say and don’t tell me or anyone else to ‘calm down’.
Vimes, I appreciate your view. I welcome DJ’s comments to me. I am not going to simply calm down when patronized and condescended, and I appreciate the solidarity on the issue.
As was said on CNN tonight…maybe this makes both candidates stronger…but it certainly makes me examine my own bullshit and make sure its sound. In most cases it is because its simply my view. I don’t have to quibble about my view.
And last, I type so many words on these issues that its a shame DJ and others enter the conversations midstream and don’t realize…we’ve covered the details ad nauseum
I’ll wager a guess as to why the media is fawning over Obama. You’re not going to like it. They’re simply obliging the GOP by delivering the most positively beatable candidate in November.
Did you really believe that the same exact people that trashed Al Gore, John Edwards, and (after he got the nomination) John Kerry, have all suddenly woken up Democratic-leaning?
Has it been so long since the last election, or are some of Obama’s supporters so young or uniformed that they didn’t know who runs Fox News? Or what corporations run NBC? Or how many times we found the MSM to be working directly from GOP talking points faxed out each day during the last election?
Most of them know exactly what they’re doing. Delivering the weakest candidate to the GE, to be trounced by McCain. the reason Hillary has been so villified for so many years is because she’ scares the hell out of them. The KNOW that she could win the presidency, and would be America’s choice for the first female president.
My sentiments exactly - since when has the “liberal media” ever done jack for the liberals?
That’s the new talking point, isn’t it. I’ve seen it spread around the blogs today….”gee if you support Clinton when everyone else supports Obama, don’t you think there’s something wrong with you?” Yes, there’s something wrong with me and about 50% of the other primary voters who also voted for Clinton
And the other one is “I don’t know anyone who supports Clinton”. My answer to that is to ask you, “do you get out much?” Or is it just you and your box turtle.
DJ I’ve tried all of that toleration bullshit. This guy is a fraud! PERIOD! I can taste his fraudulent perfume all the way from here to the moon and back. He is a liar, a cheat, a con artist, a moron and just plain arrogant and bombastic. He thinks himself a savior of sorts, a leader of the oppressed and just generally thinks his MERDE doesn’t stink! Well he needs to take the clothespin off his nose and get a whiff of his own shit! He’s a turd! PERIOD! He smacks of intolerance, although he claims to be the MOST tolerant; he claims he’s not a racist, yet finds himself in good company with Rev Wrong a man on a mission to destroy “typical white person(s). I would assume that we won’t hear how FILTHY this man is until we get to around, say, September when the IDIOTS who got conned by this charlatan begin to wake up and realise that they’ve been hoodwinked by an anti-American, racist, wimp with no backbone. If he thinks it will be a piece of cake to beat John McCain because his JUPITER SIZED ego prevents him from looking at himself in an honest fashion like any normal human being, he’s got another think comin! How will that skinny, twig-tongued freak look up against a decorated war hero/prisoner of war? This guy really is in for it and it couldn’t happen to a nicer person. I look forward (if he gets the nomination) to his belittlement.
And like Chris above, I’m willing to wait four more years if I have to just to watch this little BoyToy get had by the Big Boys. Snobby snit of a twit.
Clinton and Obama are neck and neck - they’re a percentage point apart. Your guy is not blowing this away. Please try to understand that.
Well first, I’m not ‘effing’ everybody off. And I’m quite relaxed, but thanks for your concern.
The motivations have been discussed at length by many estute commentators here. I believe the most obvious is that people are placing their idealism before practicality and that in many cases there is a lot of idealistic projection on to Obama by people who are known failures when it comes to change.
If you look at many of his backers they voted for NAFTA too, they voted for the Authorization to use Military Force on Iraq, they voted the same way as Clinton. In fact Obama voted just like she did in many cases and now claims to be different.
I don’t believe they’ve been “paid off”. That would cost too much. But the fact that the various pressheads and hosts have chosen sides is a problem as much as it would be if they were proClinton and antiObama. I don’t need them to be for one side or another.
When Dan Abrams starts a segment off, “is the press being biased against Clinton” and then does his little checkmark system that overwhelmingly nails Clinton, he giggles to himself as he does it.
I’ve had two amazing editors to work with, and they would chew my ass if I tried to pass off biased news pieces. They’d tear my pieces to shreds if I was railing on a city official from my ‘liberal’ bias or my ‘progressive bias’. They were clear, tell the story, not YOUR story. It was hard to do but I learned it.
When I covered a story I was perfectly able to bring on advocates from contradictory sides, whether a duality or a multiple of voices, but I wasn’t allowed to bring on 2 for and 1 against and get my pieces aired. We learned the hard way that if we turned in pieces that were open to accusations of bias they would be denied.
So I hold these news outlets to that standard.
First CNN:
CNN ebbs and flows in quality depending on the hosts.
Situation Room: Blitzer is a joke to begin with, but to his credit its hard to tell where he advocates. This is good overall, but he softballs and misses tons of opportunities that could leave to wonder. His moments with that windbag Jack Cafferty are shameful. He enables Jack Cafferty to engage in his bullshit populist rants that are only selfserving. Jack Cafferty says, “is the media being biased against Clinton…pauses for a sec…NAAAHHH…he scoffs then piles on with his bullshit sexist views, his bullshit cynicism and then reads letters to confirm his views. This is what they have to offer?
Lou Dobbs: First, we know Lou is full of himself and he does his little challenge of Obama to come talk to him about immigration, but mainly he just doesn’t have a clue about how to be a journalist, he’s a talking head, so gotta wait until it comes news again. Same with situation room, the main issue is often his panel selections. Does he play fair witness or just scoff and gaffaw?
but mainly
The new show they have at 7pm that used to be Paula Zahn has a host I don’t know who just sneers and asks petty assumptive questions of Clinton’s supporters while she softballs Obama’s supporters with tacit approval of their accusations and insinuations. Just like Lou Dobbs, Olbermann, OReilly, she’s too far in the mix. Her voice leads the questions and she sucks as an anchor.
Thus leaving Anderson Cooper. He’s not so bad in my experience and he asks some good questions and hard questions on both side. Worst case scenario will be bad panelists.
And as was demonstrated in the other piece on NQ:
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/03/28/why-doesnt-cnns-roland-martin-get-axed-like-carville-and-begala-did/
Roland Martin doesn’t qualify himself as an Obama supporter and is allowed time and time again to be a panelist without this disclaimer. Now for the record I respect Roland Martin on many issues, but tonight when Lou Dobbs asks him about Michigan and Florida he doesn’t bat an eye about it. “Do you support a Michigan and Florida revote”…and he answers with Obama talking points faster than Jackie Chan can knock you out. When the other panelist Robert Zimmerman tries to answer, Martin talks over him louder and louder. He’s a joke.
MSNBC -
Matthews is already on record as a Clinton hater, but that isn’t my focus on him…he hosts biased panels without anyone to advocate for Clinton’s position or a neutral party. He often has lopsided conversations that float his hatred for Clinton.
Keith Olberman does the same thing when he brings on Jonathan Alter, then Rachael Maddow, and anyone else to agree with him. If he were to want to be Edward R. Murrow (who he insults with his very presence and assumption to say, ‘good luck and goodnight’ as he turns his fat head off camera everynight) he would have the role of moderator between two views, one for - one against…but that isn’t his mission. He thinks Obama is a good guy, is gathering people from across america, and Clinton is a harpy who just must die and get out of the race. He is the worst of these because he set the bar so high in his rants on Bush that he thought he had an unquestioning audience who would just go where he wanted to go.
Well, not so fast Keith Olbermann….
Some folks, including ones here, got sick of his Special Comments long before they were directed at Clinton because we recognized he was grandstanding. I may have enjoyed his rants at Bush, but that isn’t why I turned to his show. I tuned into Countdown to get access to stories that weren’t being covered. But not now…he’s a hack. He’s become a parody of himself.
Dan Abrams - same thing…he was always a parody of himself. He rarely brings on guests worth a flip and doesn’t always identify their campaign affiliation or proclivity. He sets up his nightly “fact check” but if you pay attention he doesn’t have all the gaffes of the Obama supporters and Obama up there, he henpicks them. He then applauds himself if once in a while Obama comes up with more checkmarks against him so he can prove he’s being fair.
Well the problem with this scenario is the audience has to assume he’s played fair witness. I track both campaigns all day long and I can do the same thing and come up with a henpick if I wanted to. Plus Abrams softballs and excuses either side, is prone to exaggerate himself, and as I said about Olbermann, Abrams is a parody of himself. He’s too arrogant to host such a show. He rarely listens to his guests because he’s so busy flapping his jaws.
I haven’t seen much of the new David Gregory show because we finally deleted MSNBC from our channel line up.
My suggestion is that people get away from the 24hr news cycle shows. Check out McNeil News Hour a bit more. Be cynical about the news shows and their motivations.
I love what Louis Black said the other night (paraphased): “I’m sick of these news folks who get up there and instead of telling us the news they try to deliver a punchline! That’s my job!)
MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC are ALL owned by CORPORATIONS. CORPORATIONS LOVE the Republican Party for all the reasons we already know. $$$$$$$$$$ (tax breaks/incentives) and deregulation.
Do you honestly think the CORPORATE-OWNED news networks want a Democrat in office? NO! They don’t. That is why the MSM is shoving Mr. Hope down our throats. They know the man has no chance whatsoever of winning in November. The MSM LOVES John, I-was-tortured-in-Vietnam-so-I-am-entitled-to-
no-scrutiny-as-a-candidate McCain and will make damn sure McCain, the MSM’s chosen republican president, is the next president.
The republicans have no qualms about playing the race card during the GE. They will wipe the floor with Mr. Hope and the Corporate-owned MSM will be at their service to help them do it. Mark my words. Mr. Hope is being set up to be torn down in November. There is no way he can win and the CORPORATE-OWNED MSM will see that he doesn’t.
May the lord bless you and keep you
and comfort you when Obama win the general election
Obama08
Meow Meow Maria:
Take your seeds of self-serving piety elsewhere and plant them in someone else’s cat box - snookums.
HILLARY 2008
HILLARY 2012
Maria, we’re gonna NEED the Lord to bless and keep us if Obama gets into power.
You ready for that number on your forehead?
Using the Lord’s name to back up your snarky post. Real Christian of you, asshole poser.
Kiss my ass. Stuff that in your peace pipe and smoke it.
‘God bless us’, or is it more accurately ‘God help us’ (since we’ll need it)?
Maria
stay the course for christ. he is knows what is going on. he is at work and we don’t know the detail. but we are on the winning side.
by and large, the public is dumb about obama and those dumb ones vote. so the mania continues. but the lord has a way of getting in his omega’s last word. of course.
blessings,
thanks for noting.
” I know the Republicans are moral freaks, control mongers, coward yellow belly chicken littles, but at least they are consistent and show it. Democrats lie to you. They tell you they want impeachment, then yank it off the table when you vote for them. “
Your whole post pretty much echoes my feelings. But the above quote in particular.
I’m a life long Democrat and I finally get it. I’ll be joining you among the ranks of Independents!
Look, this is politics as usual. What’s interesting about it to me is that Rendell discussed the call.
Obama shows poor sense trying to muscle someone over whom he has no leverage.
Excellent point. Rendell showed no fear. And this phone call will reflect really bad on Obama.
If the media actually discusses this…
People, we should email Joe Scarborough about this. He has been very respectful of Hillary and has taken some in the media to task for the way they treat her. He also professed his love for her and Chelsea, the CLinton women, and their toughness yesterday, so major props for him!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVQ2yEp67jA
But he was also a politician, so he will understand if this is really weird or not…
JS is one of the only people that actually gives Hillary fair treatment. The discussions that they have on the show seem more balanced right now to me. Of course once the GE is on, all bets on that will probably be off.
He’s also the only media person that I have seen on the air trying to have some kind of dialogue on racial issues and he seems to be making a real effort there. My hat’s off to him for even attempting some kind of dialogue, I don’t always agree with where his head’s at, but I think he is sincerely trying to understand another person’s (racial) point of view.
The thing about Obama’s speech is he says let’s have a racial dialogue, but then he doesn’t go on to have one….it’s all swept back under the rug, I suppose the time to have that conversation will be after he wins the GE? Since he KNOWS he is going to be the nominee.
So just by saying let’s have the conversation and not having it, he somehow solves his Wright problem? It just isn’t going to work like that.
But that just standard operating procedure for BO, listen to what I say and believe, what I say is the truth, not what I actually do.
I really and truly don’t trust him. I went back and looked through a lot of clips of speeches he has made, and the way he described how he was going to run for office, new type of politics, blah, blah, blah and what he has actually done, it’s pretty disgusting and I think very unethical and dishonest. I don’t think a candidate should be getting up there and saying this crap unless they really mean it and are going to follow up on it.
I’m no McCain fan and I’m sure the 527s are going to be going great guns on whoever is the dem nominee, but I do have respect for some of the things that he said disavowing people who spew out crap. Now if BO had done that back in SC, etc. instead of playing the race card crap with the Clintons, I might not have had a problem eventually voting for him in the GE, but his doing that and not even mentioning in his uplifting race speech, how his preacher spoke hatefully about both Hillary and Bill, to me that was more about personal hate than race hate …I just see BO as a huge hypocrite.
JS is doing a good job as far as Hillary this year. I’m glad someone else sees it that way. I think he is doing an outstanding job and they don’t just have an Obama love fest every morning either.
Yeppers and Rendell had the balls to make it public.
Now if it will just get out there further.
I’ll do my part.
This is a message to Pennsylvania from Rendell. He is saying basically that Obama threatened your governor and all of the citizens of your state. If you do not get in line now you will suffer later when I am Prez. This is Chicago Southside thuggery. The Bushies did it for years until they lost all of their power with Iraq. Agitate, threaten, keep the public unhappy, and preach hope, redemption, and only one person can save us all. It is passive aggressive and manipulative. The Repubs are going to go apeshit insane with this. They are going to turn Obama into a gang leader and call it the Democratic war of the Crypts and the Bloods.
Certainly. LBJ could pull this off, but not Hope-a-Dope.
He may be just cute as a button, but I don’t hear any testicular clanking when he stands up.
Lotsa gall, not much ball.
LOL Fred C. Dobbs; that was good.
Obama trying to play politics with someone that knows how to play them better. Don’t know why his “advisors” didn’t clue him in that it’s not smart for a novice to get in the ring with a champ.
Definitely - I don’t doubt for one second that Ed Rendell gave him explicit instructions as to what he could do with his threat - I am emailing Bill Press about this, who is one of the few who might actually give it some play.
I hope he uses this same method to defeat McCain if he gets the nomination, can ya see it:
(Ring Ring, ….Ring Ring)
McCain: “hello?”
Obama: “listen up old man…I’ve got just one thing to say to you…”
McCain: “look punk, who are you calling old?”
Obama: “shut up biaatch, I’m telling you, i’m up in the polls, its now October 4th and you know what is happening in a month, dontcha?”
McCain: “now look..”
Obama: “I’m telling you, you better now, I’m gonna be President, so you should just quit while you’re still able.”
McCain: “now wait a minute..”
Obama: “no, you wait a minute you typical white person. I’m Barack Obama, and I don’t remember seeing your picture on the cover of Rolling Stoned.”
McCain: “look here Sen. Oba…”
Obama: “shut it flap trap, I’m telling you what its going to be like, you see, and just drop out now so you can save some face.”
McCain: (click)
Obama: “You hang up on me! You dare hang up on me?!! But I’m Barack H Obama, boy, and I’m gonna eat your lunch”
(the above is a fictional narrative and not intended to smear anyone but Barack “I’m the fucking nominee” Obama. Any resemblance to McCain is purely fictional and presumptive on the part of the author who could care less what gimpy has to say.)
Yeah!!! LOL
I laughed so hard when I read this. Thank you!
Good to know there are more “ringy dingy’s out there.
707
( LOL falling backwards off off chair )
Passenger Pigeons and Pony Express. If that’s what it takes to get the real news to the people, then where do I sign up to help?
I was reading the Detroit News today and when they attribute things to Obama he “says”
When they attribute things to McCain he “derides”
When they attribute things to Hillary she “chastises”
What a load of hooey that is! And I counted them, NOT ONE TIME did Hillary or McCain get a says and NOT one time did Obama get a biased attribution.
The Fix is in Folks are we going to just sit around and take it?
That’s so wrong. A couple years ago, I watched parts of a 20+-year-old series of journalism classes on PBS — they aired in the middle of the night so I DVR’d them — and one of the lessons was about the preference for using “says” or “said,” because it’s a benign verb, and there was quite a warning from the instructor to be extremely careful about using any other verb — such as asserted, maintained, or even noted — because it could improperly infer things about the person speaking.
I don’t think the instructor imagined that any reporter would use “derides” or “chastises.” Good god almighty.
Susan, I know this is OT, but I haven’t been able to find that video with the knee capping reference. I think I have it narrowed down to the Morning Joe show. I think it may have been part of his stump speech in 2007 though. I have listened to more of his speeches than I care to trying to find the clip.
His speeches, especially the 2007 ones are particularly toxic to me in that he talks about what an uplifting campaign he is going to run, etc. and he turns around and does the opposite.
The Rendell call is a prime example of his true nature.
He so reminds me of the Republican way, claim the high road, but in your actions take the low road while still proclaiming to be taking the low road.
What is truly amazing is it works.
Hell No, We Won’t GO, Hell No We Won’t Go.
And trust me, as a Scot, I can dig in my heels deeper than a mule. I’d slap Al Gore himself to show that my vote for Nader in 2000 wasn’t a waste. Trying to guilt me out of it, smear me away from it, did nothing after 8 years, and I’m gunning up for some more in November 2008.
I already comprimises once in the last four years with John “ready for duty” Kerry who got his ass handed to him. So using the fear card of McCain is for amateurs on amateurs. Barack Obama needs to learn a valuable lesson. And what he may not understand from his perch is how many people I now see being very clear they are not voting now at all, or will not vote for him. He really expects to get them back and they can point at Hillary Clinton all they want.
The more they point a finger at her the more morally corrupt I see them being because I’m not saying these things because of Hillary Clinton and it would be false to call me a Hillary Clinton supporter. I did vote for her in the primary and will vote for her in November, but I’m hardly the ideal supporter because i’ve already called her to task. i will be on the phone pressuring congress for the next four years regardless so at least I’ll know the candidate i’m dealing with.
The Obama people also contacted the Canadian Govt. to tell them not to worry about Obama saying he hates NAFTA because he is only saying that while running for the Presidency. Once he gets in his people said it will all be very different.
Obama doesn’t even think about governance.
For him its all about who to threaten and who to reward. Obama should be a Chicago Alderman. That’s the level of this campaign. Thank you Ed Rendell and The Canadian Govt. for bringing these things to our attention.
Either Obama is a total amateur or he is a charlatan or perhaps both. America we can do better.
I don’t think he is about governance, either.
It really spooks me out that he did a little community organizing and was already asking how to be a state senator. He does nothing for five years, and then the last year a bunch of other people’s bills are given to him to sponsor, so he’ll look like he did something. Because he had already asked a big wig to help him get elected to the US Senate. No sooner does he get there, he starts runing for president.
So he’s climbing a ladder because of help from others and hasn’t bothered to do much himself. He’s only interested in the big prize - he’s not interested in paying dues or learning the ropes. He just wants to get there. I can’t help wondering - “why?” It really makes me suspicious.
“He’s only interested in the big prize - he’s not interested in paying dues or learning the ropes. He just wants to get there. I can’t help wondering - “why?” It really makes me suspicious.”
Me, too!
Kinda like the 911 hijackers only being interested in FLYING the planes - yes, an unfortunate analogy, but this is the future of our democracy at stake here. Pretty serious issue…
>>> America we can do better.
HAITI can do better…
I must say, Barack Obama does not bring out my best side. EVERYTHING I hear about him, his wife, his minister, his so-called “policies” — it all reminds me of one of those very bright, very arrogant graduate students. You know the type, they think that no one is as bright as they are, that their take on the world is unique and powerful. They pity the lowly intellects that came before them.
And all one has to do is wait, until the gaping jaws of reality swallows them whole.
But alas, Obama is NOT a graduate student. Unless this is a nightmare, he is running for president. He has mounted a divisive and hostile campaign against the first viable female candidate, who is so much better qualified, so much smarter, so much more capable.
Obama is using the cultural biases of sexism, misogyny and the unromantic fact of knowing a candidate’s history against Hillary Clinton while exploiting the cultural ambivalence of racial politics, the commercial appeal of being a hip biracial unknown, with the militancy of 60s establishment-blaming ideology.
If he wins the nomination, he will drag the Dems to defeat. No doubt he will then stand back and look down his nose at the hoi polloi, who didn’t support him.
“Obama is using the cultural biases of sexism, misogyny and the unromantic fact of knowing a candidate’s history against Hillary Clinton while exploiting the cultural ambivalence of racial politics, the commercial appeal of being a hip biracial unknown, with the militancy of 60s establishment-blaming ideology.”
This deserves to be repeated because it is spot on!
Are any of us surprised? We’re the 1/2 of the Democratic Party who have figured out Obama is an arrogant, chauvinistic, Chi-town thug. I swear, if Clinton can pull of this nomination the best part of it will see his face. Either that or when he loses to McCain. I’ll be laughing.
I seriously DON’T want to vote for Barry or John. I’m going to write in Clinton if she is not on the ticket because of these A**holes!
How do you write in a candidate on an electronic voting machine? I have never had to use them in No Ca.
Teak I did it once when back when Nixon ran. I just wrote it on the ballot down at the bottom.
Teak:
Push your face up to the screen and swirl your tongue around a bit to make the letters of your chosen candidate. I think that should do it.
After all those dirty fingers have used it? YUC! LOL. I guess I will have to take a car key and engrave it on the screen.
I will bring a big bad magnet and lay it over the memory card while doing so…
Disclaimer;
I am joking and have no intent to invalidate the will of the voters,unlike some other people who are.
If Obama gets the nomination the only way McCain can lose my vote would be to choose Jeb Bush as his running mate.
For me to vote for Obama (assuming Clinton loses), I would have to be convinced that Obama is the best of all possible options. With crap like this phone call, that is getting to be nearly impossible. And Obama (and his minions) have only themselves to blame for it. He and they may be the best friends a hypothetical third party has ever had.
uh oh-obama invokes reagan AND bush sr as foriegn policy mentors!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/28/AR2008032804155.html?tid=informbox
If this fool gets around military people with an agenda other than his we’re screwed.
And I am not inferring anything against those in uniform.
Sounds like Obama just threatened Rendell the way a goon would.
But Joe, what exactly was he threatening? I don’t get it…
Lord, this reminds me of when he called SNL’s Lorne Michaels…
Obama was mad for some comments Rendell made in private when asked about what will happened in PA. So now he is playing himself the card again
and threatening Rendell that if Obama loses too big in PA he’ll blame it on Rendell. I think Obama wants Rendell not to help Hillary “too much”.
O is threatening that if R doesn’t play ball w/him and O wins he will take R out.
And he’ll cry foul on election night in PA.
Obama wants to make sure that if loses in PA be by single digits.
Obama was mad by some comments Rendell made in private when asked about what will happened in PA. So now he is playing himself the card again
and threatening Rendell that if Obama loses too big in PA he’ll blame it on Rendell. I think Obama wants Rendell not to help Hillary “too much”.
O is threatening that if R doesn’t play ball w/him and O wins he will take R out.
And he’ll cry foul on election night in PA.
Obama wants to make sure that if loses in PA be by single digits.
Sorry for the double post…. wanted to correct the
“what will happen in PA…”
I doubt that Rendell can be so easily intimidated. The word is that Casey’s endorsement was seen as an ill-timed misogynistic suck up….
So Obama called Rendell and told him “I’m going to be the nominee and I don’t want any problems in PA?”
WE MUST DEFEAT HIM. So now we know how weak superdelegates are receiving his calls.
Unlike Rendell, they don’t talk about it and quietly do as the Great One says.
This arrogance is the final straw.
Everyone:
Whenever you contact a Superdelegate, remind them of Obama’s General Election unelectability. Add your personal horror over Reverend Wright (which will be forgotten in the South and Heartland as soon as they stop talking about Hanoi Jane or the Dixie Chicks). He can’t win Republicans, most Independents, and many core Democrats. And ask them, what has Obama done for our state?
Answer unless you live in his Rezko mansion or Illinois– he’s done nothing for your state and Hillary has! Let’s get on this.
Contact me at SIMSEZ3@YAHOO.COM WITH FAIRNESS NOW IN SUBJECT LINE if you can spend no more than 5 minutes a day contacting Superdelegates and demanding MI and FL be seated.
THIS ARROGANT MAN has got to be stopped. Stripping the voters of 2 states of their votes, and angering Republicans, Independents and core Democrats is the way to lose this election like every Mondale/Kerry/Dukakis before him. But maybe worse.
Um. I live in Illinois. He hasn’t done much here either. Other than learn political gamesmanship from one of the most corrupt dem machines in the country.
Just another round of Chicago Slap Down from teh awesome. Rendell looks to be openly calling his bluff. So gentle. So affable. So much better at the game. Heh.
What a pompous ass he is. He is egotistical and has so little aptitude for politics. He can read a teleprompter better than anyone, but he lacks political instinct and depth.
I think after Obama loses Pa in a big way he is going to come out and say that Ed Rendell and Hillary Clinton stole Pa from him. He will say he had Rendell’s promise and Rendell screwed him. God I am sick of Barack Hussein Obama.
Just read that Obama compared the primary to the Bataan death march…
http://thepage.time.com/pool-report-for-thursday-obama-new-york-city-fundraiser/
Yes the future is bright you Donkey cuz you are SHINING everybody ON!
THIEF!
The primary is similar to the Bataan Death March only if you cast Obama in the role of the Japanese.
You know that was the day after he came back from his vacation! and a primary had him ground down again already??
I watched this interview and boy, do I love Ed Rendell! He’s cut from the same cloth as Hillary: calm, wise, no-nonsense, smart, kind but tough as nails. He gave Barack his word that he would support him if he was the nominee, but when he said the above quotation, he did it with an amused smile, the way you relate a story about a conversation with a child.
He certainly didn’t relate it with the same enthusiasm as he did in a clip shown seconds earlier when he introduced Hillary at a rally as “The Next President of the United States!”
You are judged by the company you keep…
Hillary/Ed Rendell
Barack/Bob Casey
Is today Barack Obama Day? Or, is it just a solidarity thing?
Google’s Home Page is solid BLACK
my lord you white people are evil just like Pastor Wright said….America is afraid of the truth
Yet I’ll pray for God to keep you in his grace and mercy and bless you richly
“You white people are evil”
kind of sweeping…no margin for error, no exceptions, no differentiation…no consideration that someone didn’t agree with the comment above yours.
Barack would be proud.
And please don’t pray for me, I don’t need your prayers if they are based in this sort of bigotry you have in your heart.
But maria, you have no idea if we’re “white people.”
It never occurred to me that you were Black.
So, who’s the real racist here?
Doesn’t Obama want you to rise above all of that?
my lord you white people are evil just like Pastor Wright said…
you meant to say typical white person didn’t you?
Well gotta go..the bus is a coming and i need to toss granny under it..
Maria,
You wanna cry racism?
Here’s racism:
Judge Orders Whites Out Of Atlanta Court.
I see no distinction between Obama calling us “typical white people” and you calling us “you white people.”
You are just as racist as Obama.
Clean up your racist side of the street before projecting your unresolved issues on others.
Nah TWP, it’s further down on the page:
We’ve turned the lights out. Now it’s your turn - Earth Hour.
NO, TODAY IS EARTH HOUR day; you were supposed to turn your lights off (as much as possible) from 1 hour between 8pm and 9pm (your local time).
I plead the blood of Jesus over all the hatred and bigotry in this racist blog….In the name of the father the son and the holy spirit I pray for the evilness that plagues white america and black america
Blood of jesus…Blood of jesus clean their heart oh mighty father
It seems we have a NECROMANCER here by the name of Maria. Shut the hell up and take your idolatry elsewhere you nutcase. You wouldn’t know Jesus if you saw him in the flesh. Fucking Donkey.
Hope: Don’t feed the trolls please.
Okay.
I think Maria is just playing with us. She’s mocking religious people, not anti-Obama people.
If she’s not, she’s certainly doing religious people no favors with her speaking-in-tongues babble.
No, Fred, that’s a disingenuous attempt to allow the trolls to continue, deflect attack.
Susan will delete the trolls.
The only way to handle a troll is to fight, they tend to be morons, and sock puppets, so it’s not difficult.
But thanks for the help.
We appreciate it.
Really.
Maria,
I can see that you are just a copy-cat Christian. Your prayers seem to be to Rev. Wright because he preaches racial hate.You seem to pray as if you are better than others…you appear to be acting like a Pharisee.
You’ve been annointed by the wrong pastor. Your words are so judgemental and self serving. and spewing blood all over everyone is not a very nice thing to do.
You are a parody of yourself.
Sounds like The BIG O fears another skeleton might come out of his closet, courtesy of Penn Dems.
Honestly, I cannot stand this man’s arrogance. I remember after he LOST Ohio and Texas, that night, he told a crowd of people that he would be the nominee and the pathway is clear to the Whitehouse. Obama also called McCain and said he is looking forward to a contentious debate with him in the general. WTF?? Maybe he didn’t get the memo but Hillary Clinton is CLEARLY still in the race. New nationwide polls show that he is in a DEAD HEAT with Hillary. Obviously he is discounting the millions of Hillary supporters here.
This guy needs to go DOWN. When the pundits knock Hill down, she just gets right back up! We need to show him not to underestimate Hillary and the Hillary supporters.
EVERYONE POSTING COMMENTS - MAKE PHONE CALLS THIS WEEKEND! PLEDGE TO MAKE AT LEAST 200 A DAY! It goes by very quickly! I was a little scared to make phone calls because I didn’t know how people would react but once I got passed that hurdle, it was a cinch and I kept going and going and going…
This guy is no fighter. He wants (and has had) everything handed to him. That will make for one lousy president.
We’ll end up with another president who keeps saying “it’s hard work” instead of fighting and DOING the hard work!
It’s already made for one lousy President. You might say that there’s been a precedent set for lousy Presidents. Heh. I made a funny.
Sort of.
Rendell’s taking a lot of heat for a few innocent, and HONEST, remarks. Typical. I’ve got the video at Victory for Hillary. It seems to me that Obama is a friggin’ cry baby. What’s he gonna do when someone really comes after him?
This is the most fucked up thing I have ever heard any politician do. This needs to be covered over and over again. Governor Rendell must scream from the highest mountain top. This story needs to go to all the states left to hold primaries and Puerto Rico and Guam. This is the most arrogant hing I can remember in history. What a son of bitch. We have 7 at large delegates left to settle in Kansas I will do everything along with all the other Hillary supporters to make them Hillary delegates…Governor Sebelius can kiss my ass.
How dare that arrogant bastard who has never worn a uniform for this country use the Bataan Death March. Those people died defending our country. They were horribly tortured and died horrible deaths. You Obama are ignorant as well as an arrogant asshole. I am really pissed now. For those of you who do not know I am a 100% total and permanently disabled Navy veteran. And just am so hurt by his stupidity….how dare he!
Go Hillary ‘08. Cream him. He deserves it!
A POW reference for comparison as well. McCain would love to have that to serve to his face at a debate. Not so bright of Barack to use that line of reasoning, or lack thereof.
Thanks for your service. I know saying this is not enough but words matter. I too was throughly disgusted by the caviler attitude by the gutless wonder. He knows zip about it and thinks it is funny. If this is a preview of his foreign policy, this overtly immoral idiot should be made to walk it entire length and then stand with a bill board in the 313 saying “I am the one…who did nothing”.
Why Quit Now?
The Presidential field in 2008 hasn’t been this wide open in a very long time. Yet many pundits, bloggers, so-called experts and even various party leaders are calling on Senator Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race for the “good of the party in order to let the healing begin.” I apologize if in reading that you felt a chill go up your spine hearing echoes of John Kerry not contesting Ohio in 2004 or Nancy Pelosi taking impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney off the table. However I will not apologize in supporting someone who is willing to do anything in order to win, who is willing to and has taken on the right wing attack machine and has beaten them soundly before in the past on numerous occasions. A true fighter and champion, an FDR Democrat, not mistakenly representing the state of New York.
Some say that Clinton by all projections and polls (though we’ve all seen how reliable they’ve been this election season) would not be able to catch Senator Barrack Obama in total delegates. However if all plays out as those same statistics portend, neither will have the magic number of 2,025 to secure the nomination. Thus here is the case as to why Senator Clinton should be the presumptive nominee.
Viability in the General Election: Senator Clinton is winning the “big states” needed to win a General Election as the nominee. Granted either Democrat will likely win New York, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Illinois among others, neither will win Texas or a slew of small red states taken by Obama (see Utah) but Clinton can take home the big swing states such as Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Nevada. And while we know the Clinton’s will lead a two pronged attack against say an ad for “Bosnia vets for truth,” it remains to be seen if Obama will fight back or get wishy washy like Kerry and or Dukakis when the ads for “Rev. Wright saying Goddamn America,” are played on a virtual loop.
Count Every Vote Because Every Vote Should Count: The arguments from the Obama camp on this are priceless and I intend to debunk them on all accounts.
Delegates should count and represent the will of the voters: Fair enough, but chances of either candidate getting to 2,025 on that alone are slim unless someone runs the table decisively at this juncture. Yet pledged delegates of candidates already out of the race such as John Edwards are allowed to switch as they have already done in California and Iowa for Obama. Now if I wanted my vote to stay with Edwards or not to go to either candidate or based on recent revelations wanted to switch my vote to Clinton and yet saw it being handed to Obama, I might be a little chapped. Thus pledged delegates are still changing their votes in other states and yet we still can’t get a re-vote or delegates seated from Florida and Michigan?
Super delegates should choose based on the will of their voting constituents: So I take it Governor’s Richardson (NM), Napolitano (AZ) and Patrick (MA) along with Senators Kerry and Kennedy of Massachusetts will also be switching their votes back to Senator Clinton? Additionally is it the fault of the voters of the state of New York or Senator Clinton that she loses a super delegate with the resignation of Governor Eliot Spitzer?
Delegates and not the popular vote should decide the outcome: So if Clinton wins the big states, realistic swing states, the popular vote, I’d love to see a super delegate like say Al Gore come out and try to justify not voting for her and upon seeing that other fellow super delegates not taking from Mr. Gore’s lead on that score. Especially if someone counts the popular vote from say Florida. Say what you will about seating the delegates, but a plurality and a majority of people came out and voted for Senator Clinton there.
But rules are rules and Florida and Michigan broke them: Yeah this is going to look real great in a General Election for Democrats. Disenfranchise voters in Michigan with this economic climate and do the same to those who’ve been screwed in Florida before, yeah real smart strategy. Splitting the votes 50/50 isn’t fair to Clinton or those who voted for her. Even a fair re-vote, which could hurt Senator Obama, could also hurt Senator Clinton, who when the votes were first tallied was fresh off big wins in New Hampshire and Nevada. So much for the will of the voters and having every vote count. So you won’t even count their votes, let alone their delegates? Stupid.
Super delegates should not be deciding the winner, they in turn should be voting the will of the people: Ah yes but rules are rules and if you didn’t want it to get down to this point, you shouldn’t have come up with such a messed up and convoluted selection process in the first place, but alas there they are. Were it “winner take all” we’d likely have our nominee already! And again are those super delegates from states where Clinton won going to switch their votes to her? Is Al Gore from Tennessee going to go for Clinton? And for Howard Dean to preach a “50 state strategy,” how can we leave out millions from two of them?
Super delegates would turn off and disenfranchise certain voting blocks as a result of a “stolen election.”: First off if not Clinton, who are your going to vote for John McCain, aka four more years of Bush? Secondly, I don’t mean to offend but the youth vote and African American vote don’t traditionally come out in big numbers to begin with. Thirdly, you don’t think people would be ticked off as if the election were “stolen” if Clinton wins the popular vote along with not having votes counted and delegates seated in Florida and Michigan? Additionally a way to remedy potentially losing generations of youth and African American voters is by having a Clinton-Obama ticket which could inevitably lead to over 16 years of Democratic rule. How could we lose with Hill, Barrack and Bill as a three-headed monster taking on McCain?
“The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.” Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
This doesn’t surprise me one bit. Obama is slime. He’s mediocre running against someone smarter and better than he is, so what else can he do but twist arms. If Obama is so “inevitable” then how come he isn’t being more benevolent? I mean he is risking the wrath of a lot of voters. I can smell his sweat, folks. There is something that hasn’t been revealed yet and I bet Hillary knows it.
I can’t wait to see this pig go down in flames. If not now, then in the general, for being the lying, arm twisting, sexist, racist sack of crap that he is. I know six million garlic noses will help make that happen too.
Agreed- Obama is so “inevitable” that he’s throwing everything including the kitchen sink at the candidate he’s already “beaten?” Gee, that makes a LOT of sense- if you are a kool-aid drinking Obamazombie.
Why isn’t Obama IGNORING Hillary and focusing his entire campaign on McCain now, he’s so “inevitable?” Well, of course, its because he’s NOT.
He’s going to lose PA, NC, and Indiana. And when that happens, the cries for Hillary to withdraw will look as stupid to the great mass of voters as it looks to us now.
Rendell was actually smart to do this. The only way you make a call like that is if you got something on someone.
That someone to that level would tell you “go fish” tells you all one needs to know about Barack’s political capital.
It’s done for. Like the last cigar at a table when Larry and Col.Lang get into policy on background talk.
It’s no different at all, it’s smoked.
We’re all listening to the same media narrative that allowed 2 terms of Bush and the Iraq war. The media is controlled by corporate monopolies that are also hugely invested as war profiteers. Take GE as an example. They write the paychecks for MSNBC and NBC employees. Now why would they support one democratic candidate over another? It could only be that they choose the one that the Republicans can beat in November.
Precisely!!
That is what I have been saying from day one. The corporate MSM has lulled dear old Barack Obama into a false sense of security. Just like Sally Field getting up to accept her Oscar, Obama thinks: “they like me, they really like me”.
What they (MSM) like is just how easy it will be for the Republicans to take him down in the fall for all the economic interests you just mentioned!
The common denominator being the wealthy people, like Carlyle.
But those wealthy people aren’t too bright.
Honestly, the more I see of what they’re trying to do, the more amazed I am they were even able to earn money.
But they stole a lot, just look at the war profiteering, but BOY, are they DUMB.
Her is an interesting put together pattern of Obama, 58 lies and counting, that the media has yet to focus on, why?
http://www.politicalforum.com/elections-campaigns/31596-obamas-lies-58-counting.html
Ding! That list is like a pinball machine that has just been rack’ed.
This use of Chicago style threats by the Obama campaign is nothing new.
Remember what he said about SNL and Tina Fey? He said he would have “to have a talk with Tina Fey”! Sounded like a threat when I heard it.
Then I believe he did call Lorne Michaels.
The show the following week was pro-Obama. I stopped watching after that but I believe any pro-Clinton voices have been silenced there.
That whole thing scared me a lot. Silencing dissent?! By satirists and artists. Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the last president to do that was Richard Nixon. I was surprised the story didn’t get more coverage.
OT, a thought I had about all the noise from Dean, Leahy, et al, could be response to less contributions to the DNC. They could be thinking with primary over more money for race against McCain. Though there’s truth to that, what they don’t get is Clinton supporters, Mich. and Fla., are now so pissed off at them that they will never contribute if this nastiness from them continues.
They don’t get it - it’s not Clinton, it’s the supporters who are not likely to forgive.
It’s a problem for me because the more I see of McCain (his ridiculous Non-economic policy,eg) the more I know I don’t want him.
Yeah, black is the new bitch, wasn’t that it?
One could be sarcastic and say it’s an attmept to remind Americans black men are unstable, violent.
If I were a cynical republican ops.
I don’t feel that way, but if I were a republican ops, I would troll this way.
Simon - actually it was “bitch is the new black” - loved it! BTW, your comments are brilliant! You should have your own site (if you dan’t already).
Cheers!
Obama is an arrogant elitist just like his buddy’s Kerry, Kennedy, Dean, Durbin (the list goes on!) This IS a fight for the heart of the Democratic Party and the agenda moving forward, and Obama thinks he is already King (in more than one way).
Here is the petition asking for Dean to Resign. His “leadership” make ME want to scream!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/65/petition-for-howard-dean-to-resign-as-dnc-chair
As my son and I discussed the huge forces who have become bedfellows to oppose Hillary’s nomination, and have not succeeded, it became clear that we are in the midst of a revolution, and it is not being televised.
The only ones who know about it are the ones fighting us.
We have no words to tell the people, no rallying cry left to us. Could we say there is a conspiracy afoot? Could we say “join the revolution”, we might as well add “use lemon scented dish soap”.
Well, I see your point, but the greater goal is to rid the government of corruption, the COMBINE, if you will, and that comes in both democratic and republican flavoring.
So, if this election costs Pelosi and Dean their jobs, good riddance, same with Bush and Cheney.
A little corruption is not a good thing, look at the no talents morons who practice by that sentiment.
They cannot run the US, whether it’s Bush or Obama, they simply ARE NOT smart enough.
So, good riddance, and THAT is the ultimate goal, cleaning her up.
But it’s not over for Clinton.
Barack Obama’s twenty year association with radical cleric Jeremiah Wright has sealed the deal for many.
To the point major players no longer cow to his threats.
See how much damage he causes party pillars now in trying to get his way.
In the Playoffs, you have one team leading 33-30 (a 5% difference in total points, about the same as Obama’s pledged delegate lead) at the end of the 3rd quarter. The leading team claims victory is inevitable, and that continuing on will exhaust it for the Superbowl, and that the trailing team must therefor quit for the good of the league.
What fucking, laughable, audacious cheek!
This is an excellent way to put it! Thanks!
That’s what my husband said…”You’re gonna lose, just quit the game so we can have our Victory party!”
Here in Los Angeles, on the front page of the LA Times (which endorsed Obama even tho’ Hillary won both Los Angeles and California) there’s an article about a senior senator telling Clinton to step down but she refuses. What gets my goat is that the paper acts like this is normal behavior…Aaaarrgghhh!
Obama and co are very afraid of what PA looks like. A big win for Clinton would essentially say he can’t close the deal for the fourth time. If he can’t close the deal with his democratic opponent, how is he going to compete nationally? I think they are also afraid that it will provide critical evidence to the damage Wright scandal has inflicted and they want to stop and muddle the whole process. I think we need an action plan in PA to make sure we get the full advantage that our candidate deserves — that they won’t hurt us using their now infamous shenanigans. First thing is to debunk this talk of his inevitability.
Assume for the better part of argument Maria is sincere in her language choice. Maybe she’d feel compelled for the soul of the slum lord and card playing buddy of Obama’s during his federal trial for bribery?
Certainly shivering apartment tenants felt that way in Chicago winters. As the properties became abandoned, they took on the character of abandoned subprime properties, prone to sprees of vandalism, violence, squalor.
To think, the different guy with the new kind of politics was involved up to eyeballs in it.
That wouldn’t even count missing votes to address such problems over cigarette breaks or lobby calls.
Who the hell does Obama think he is calling out the guv? OMG - What a narcissistic, pathological liar. How can ANY American in their RIGHT MIND vote for Obama for ANY office? He’s the most dangerous politician to grace the arena in well over a century. White America had better wake up before this poster child for the Nation of Islam turns this country into the New Black Panther Party. TAKE YOUR COUNTRY BACK AMERICA! REJECT NEO-LIB OBAMA NOW!!!!
I am sure Rendell couldn’t say on TV what he told Obama. He probably told Obama rightfully so to Go Fuck himself.
TT
Someone take that Obama dillweed down a peg please. I am so sick of him. I mean seriously: has there ever been a candidate anywhere in any country with such bloody arrogance?
Idi Amin.
Obama is a SOB, How dare he did?
He should quit race now.
The part of the Obama mania that insults me the most is that I believe the MSM fawning of him is just as fake as he is, meaning, that they support him by default b/c they hate anything Clinton. They’ll turn on him in the general, I will enjoy every minute.
This phone call to Rendell is an amateur mistake on Obama’s part. Rendell is that is why discussing it openly and freely. Rendell has more political capital than this guy has — Obama may have money in the campaign but not longer lasting political clout; everybody is using him for their own purposes now and drop him like a hot potato once this election is over.
look’s like he is doing an ODINGA!!!!!!!
Thanks Blaine for the Dean petition site. My comment on it.
Mr. Dean you have made a mockery of the democratic party by continuing the undemocratic caucus system where 7% of democratic voters in a state meet for a few hours on a specific date and choose to support a candidate disadvantaging those who are unable to attend. Militaty serving our country in Iraq are unable to vote in a caucus. Local party officials run the caucus, there is NO oversight from ANY official entity. All democratic candidates were on the ballot in Florida, it was a state sanctioned official election. In Michigan two candidates CHOOSE to remove their names from the ballot the others did not. This election too, was a state sanctioned official election. You stated on National Public Radio that the DNC wanted South Carolina to vote early so African Americans would have more weight in choosing a candidate. Fine, but why are you throwing ALL voters in Michigan & Florida over a cliff to accomplish this? The disgust with leadership in the DNC is rampant among voters, the “divisiveness” blamed on Hillary Clinton is not her doing, it is YOURS
It should have been entitled the “arrogance of a dope.”
I’D LOVE TO KNOW WHAT HE SAID TO RICHARDSON,
whose endorsement was meaningless, as the Latino vote has CLEARLY gone for Hillary even in NM. If you can’t win your own state primary, you probably don’t carry much clout.
Never mind that his reason for putting himself in the race was…wait for it… his EXPERIENCE! So now he’s also a flip-flopper as well. Way to go Bill. You don’t REALLY think obama will give you a job if he wins - he’s probably got some Repug in line for that!
I don’t know why the NY Giants didn’t just quit before they played the New England Patriots. They were underdogs bigtime…..2 touchdowns as I remember. I just can’t believe they actually insisted on playing in the Super Bowl. They were such evil spoil sports. They wouldn’t quit. What nerve! After all, the Patriots were annointed the team of the millenium. No need to play the game!
Hell no, Ed Rendell is too damn smart to indulge the racial baiting strategy of Obama and his band of cultists. Getting a call from Obama is worse than being roused from sleep by an eager-beaver tele-sales agent hawking an Alaskan cruise in the dead of winter; so the best strategy is to allow the caller to get tired of hearing his own voice during his one-way monologue (although this clearly does not apply to the senator from Illinois) - and then hang up. So well done, Gov. Rendell! And it’s probably Obama’s guilty conscience talking (again) considering how his people tried to subvert the will of the people in Texas during the primary election and the caucus - which the MSM failed to do an honest-to-goodness report on (and we don’t wonder why anymore). Even without the Rev. Wright, Obama has singlehandedly won the “Most Divisive Presidential Candidate title. His bloated sense of self-importance that borders on the mythical will cost him. Big time. And I hope his bad karma rubs on Kerry, Kennedy, Richardson and “Go Phuck Yourself” Leahy!
well put, you can almost see him laughing at obama in the interview, he is no stooge, i find it laughable and desperate on BO’s part to make this call…
Aaaargh! what an arrogant jerk!! I knew he was arrogant, but this tops the cake! I will never, ever let him be in the WH, I will vote for McCain all the way. I live in FL, and he will not have FL over my dead body!
Aaaargh! what an arrogant jerk!! He wasnts to take the WH uncontested like he had done his entire political life; he just doesn’t know Hillary I guess. Hillary is not going to play nice or back down- she’s a fighter- unlike him who wants it all given to him on a silver platter. A racist bigot, arrogant un-american jerk does not deserve the white house! He will not have FL and MI, and he will not win!
If Pelosi and Reid and Leahy and Casey were so worried about our country, why didn’t they fulfill their oath of office and defend the Constitution and by IMPEACHING THE CRIMINALS in this administration. But no. They don’y give a flying F… for this country or anythink else.
You know I voted for Obama, unfortunately I did not do the reasearch I should have… I voted for the hype…
and now I REALLY regret the vote.. I think Obama will say anything to anyone to get them to vote fot him… I could find find really legistative work he has done and
frankly his wife “finally proud of america” statement make me wonder DO THESE PEOPLE EVEN LOVE THIS COUNTRY???
I think the Obama’s think they are OWED the presidency… and now he thinks he is the nominee?? If he can’t even stay in the ring and fight for it… how can I assume he will fight for the middle class??
and the “typical white person” comment and the Wright anti-american and anti-sematic stuff has convinced me that now the ONLY people I will vote for is Either:
President Hillary Clinton or President John Mccain…
and I am an AA man who has been loyal to this DNC for 25+ years… but I will not vote for an AA just because I am one… I UNLIKE the OBAMAs will selected someone to be president based on the content of their character not the color of their skin… and I DO NOT LIKE OBAMA’S (either one) character…
I am now campaigning for hillary, but OBAMA is annointed the nominee, I have already decided that I will vote for Mccain… the Obamas have too many issues they need to work out thmeselves… and that to me make them completely UNQUALIFED TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY.
sorry I meant:
I am now campaigning for hillary, but IF OBAMA is annointed the nominee… I have already decided that I will vote for Mccain
Ditto! And I am African American..People need to do their homework. This man is self serving and anti-american. I think we are all in deep —- if he gets in…You know he has been advertised in Iowa and other states (including Pa) for voters to be a democrat for a day…appealing to independents and Republicans…Good of the party? I think not!
I have always been a Hillary supporter because there was something that I just could not trust about that arrogant a-hole. And like you disgusted democrat, I will not vote for someone based on color and sex or because a candidate may be good looking. He just doesn’t cut it for me. I’m proud to support Hillary and will work extra hard to see that she gets the nom. I will stop by her website and make a generous donation because she needs all of our support. Join me fellow supporters. HILL YEAH!!!!!!!!
I don’t understand Randi Kaye’s conclusion: “that phone call may be the only thing to get Ed Rendell to watch his tongue”.
Can somebody explain?
Was she implying that Rendell had been charmed by the call? intimidated by the call? or just that the call was a reminder that Rendell needed?
Ed Rendell had made THIS comment about Obama in an earlier interview with Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s editorial board:
KAYE: In a meeting with the “Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s” editorial board last month, Pennsylvania’s Governor Ed Rendell who has endorsed Hillary Clinton says, “You’ve got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African American candidate.” Yes, he went there.
RENDELL: I wasn’t trying to influence the campaign, I was in a room with six guys — I don’t think it even had any windows and they asked me to handicap the race.
KAYE (on camera): The governor’s remarks sent a chill through Pennsylvania’s African American community. Here in Philadelphia, the head of the NAACP called it callous and insensitive. Others suggested it was politically motivated, even racist.
RENDELL: It wasn’t intended to be racial.
KAYE: You don’t regret your comments at all about Barack Obama and white voters.
RENDELL: Do I think there was anything wrong with it? Absolutely not. I told the truth, and we’ve got to be able to speak the truth about race without someone pointing their finger and saying, you’re racist.
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I think that’s what’s she’s alluding to with that statement. Obama was telling Rendell to watch his racist remarks or else.
It also said :
There is nothing wrong with telling the truth…I am african American and the truth is Obama is himself a racist who has used both races when necessary. Always playing the race card to his advantage or to get sympathy. Give us a better Black candidate , not a whining, self-serving hatemonger,then the country can decide. People need to speak the truth…Here is a good example of Obama race-baiting again…he is so…………slick.
Ed Rendell is a brilliant man who has outed BO on his thug tactics. It will be harder for BO to do this on the qt the next time.
But it says something when Obama calls you directly. Obama strongman Jesse Jackson Jr. made the call to John Lewis. Jackson told Lewis he will have an AA , pro Obama opponent in the primary next time if he doesn’t do as told . That got John to jump. We are amazed the AA voters dumped Hill, but Jesse Jackson Jr told a huge civil rights hero to step and fetch it boy ….and no one says anything?
Lot’s of SD are peeing in thier pants worried about these calls.. well they were. Every day it’s more plain Obama cannot win the GE. That might suit Nancy and Howard, but not others trying to win as well. The Dem elite do not want to win. Everyday Hillary is in shows that more. Ed Rendell is supporting Hillary because she wants to win.
I think they want to win, I think they are that weak on strategy.
Remember, in the 80’s, most of the military, and intelligence people were behind Reagan, and the republicans, they put that professional training, such as it was, to use, to see republicans elected.
(Those methods, though, have revealed their GROSS limitations, hence, the inability to basically use the same methods in the middle east, and win. The republicans can grab power against an uninformed populace, but they cannot sustain a victory, or power, or achieve any agenda, explaining Bush’s failure in the Middle East. And their methodology is also subject to the laws of diminishing returns. They’ve done the same things for thirty years, if they didn’t have some control of the press, they’d never achieve anything. And if they’re going to cheat, better their idiot in the white house, than a democratic idiot, because that idiot does long term damage to the party. Hands down, Clinton is the best candidate to govern, but if the wealthy and stupid want a McCain or an Obama, and they’re willing to denigrate the nation further after Bush, well, godspeed. But they were warned. If Clinton were to cheat using the methods of Obama, or the republicans, she’d be contributing to the denigration of the US government. Apparently, she’s not a traitor, go figure!)
The democrats floundering now were the democrats floundering, then, too, nothing new here, at all. They still haven’t caught on, and their strategists are MORONS.
Jesse Jackson is also intimidating Black Caucus members who support Hillary by threatening them and them and their families…In the owrds of his father count every vote and let every vote count. Oh I forgot that only applies to Blacks.! It’s a shame AA dumped Hill…especially in NY where BIll was instrumental in revitalizing Harlem…OB will do the same as Patrick Duvall. Nothing. Obama is self serving racist. People should realize his mother though White was recist as well. She only married Muslim men. Od course we know Obama ans Michelle are racist. Now they are raising 2 more to follow.
Obama should step down. He represents all that we hated about the old south. Bigotted, racist,gendist, entitlement. If you go to a white supremest church a few times you could be curious, if you baptize your kids there then you are a Klansman `nuff said
NObama til hell freezes over
Hillary 08
Chelsea 24
Obama is the Manchurian candidate.
Just wait until the recording of the phone call hits the internet. Obama is an idiot.
of course he is race baiting and wants to try to make it appear that Rendell is the racist…here we go again….Always race baiting..
wow just read that 58 lies thing
http://www.politicalforum.com/elections-campaigns/31596-obamas-lies-58-counting.html
I’m revamping my opinion regarding all Kennedy’s at the moment, I wish Caroline would come out in support of Hillary, something to not make me feel like an idiot for believing in Ted, JFK and RFK or should I say KKK, JFK and RFK
I am continually thankful that Hillary has remained in this campaign, even with all the cries for her to quit, she has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that she has the only leadership abilities to be the nominee!
The showing yesterday by Dean of wanting the SD to resolve the nominee issue proves that the DNC will stand behind one rule and disenfranchise millions of voters yet inject new rules to satisfy themselves and their favored candidate!
When the RULES of the DNC state that if no clear winner is elected by the campaign process and thus delegates have the right to chose the candidate they feel fit to lead the party into a GE, it becomes and is the reason for the convention lays false claims to the rules and rule book!
The funny part of this campaign season is that most every word spoken by Clinton has come true, from Obama being vetted and people backing away, to almost every new introduced plan by Clinton has been copied by Obama! This is a reason for Obama to be scared, exposure to being useless is not something to enjoy living with!
Some is wrong with Obama’s xerox machine…
Obama will be quoted, shooting himself in the foot again and again, whilst McCain Oppo-researchers are all layed off due to the fact that the gutless wonder has made that effort more like buying other peoples’ junk at a yard sale…
When the practice of American Democracy is compared to the Batan Death March by Obama, it is the “truth speaking to power” he mocks.
Reading FleaFlickers recent post it occurs to me that his campaign is being run as a series of “tactics” and untterly lacking in strategy…
Where else have I seen this, I think.
If the Don Siegelman case is any example of what lies ahead, the only yard sale item the gutless wonder will able to buy, will be his crooked past.
No doubt the people of PA really appreciate the way that Obama is talking to their governor . Maybe that is why Rendell publicized it?
People should have it figured out by now…He is playing the psychological game…He is daring the people of Pennsylvania to ‘prove’ they are not racist by voting for him…As an African American…don’t fall for it….Vote your conscience…Dont fall for this race baiting again…
Obviously Obama knows something — that there is some information out there that will sink him.
On Monday March 31, the Rezko trial should start up again….
There is so much out there that would sink Obama in the GE. Rezko, Michelle-Wright, NAFTAgate, UofC-”Professor”-gate, to name a few. These will be given the RepAttackMachine treatment: Rezko will be called sleeze, Michelle’s “proud to be American” and Wright’s pastor disaster will be proof of anti-Americanism at the core, NAFTAgate will be called treason, professor-gate simply lying. Kerry’s flip-flops were really quite tame in comparison, but they still sunk him under the swiftboats.
Imagine if Hillary called an Obama supporter. It would have been a circus. Outrage, pain, suffering..Cripes.
I agree with JFB in this blog… Mr Obama is race baiting and trying to stir the proverbial pot now. I think he’s playing with fire though because he’s not dealing with newbie politicians here. Gov. Rendell has been around over 30+ years and well liked by many people. It’s sad that Mr. Obama choses to stir up so much anti sentiment for the African American community at his own expense. It shows a complete lack of regard on his part…
HIs problem is he’s a good speaker but not so good on the issues and details of the issues. He’s even admitted that he’s not a detail oriented guy. I saw his interview on financial business on CNBC at the closing bell yesterday. He looked very unprofessional in the interview… giving gray or incomplete answers to a lot of the interviewers questions. It was funny at one point too. She (the interviewer) asked him about being liberal… he paused and skipped over it…. LOL
AND WHATS UP WITH HIS NEW AD running in PA? He claims to have never taken oil money in the ad (out of his own lips) However, a US watchdog group countered his claim in like 2.5 seconds. LOL He’d taken about $160000 prior to this election and during this election cycle collected thousands of more dollars from ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP. I’m not knocking him for taking the money. A lot of politicians do… HOWEVER, don’t say (blatantly from your lips)that you never have accepted oil/gas money if indeed you had and have done so…
I’m also in agreement with a lot of people that there’s something out there that is forcing all these Obama Party people to try to get Clinton to leave “quietly and QUICKLY”… I think this Rezko trial starting Monday has got a lot of his supporters worried… I mean with Hillary out of the picture, they would have a better chance at damage control in case a bomb drops about his links to Rekzo and other questionable ties (that Obama claims to “know nothing about”… He claims to not having ever met a few shady types linked to Rezko, however, he’s been photographed shaking the hand of at least one or two of them. Go figure! Another thing I think that has them worried is the fact that his buddy, the Governor of Puerto Rico was indicted this week. He was an Obama supporter… and with no former precidents set regarding the PR vote…they might be a bit worried about the numbers. There are millions of citizens in PR and they generally vote in larger numbers then we do here. Hillary has benefited and owes a good deal to the Hispanic/Latino community here so if she can continue to carry their support there it could be very good news for her… if she can close that popular vote gap her argument to the supers would be an excellent one (especially since MI and FL didn’t count for her)… So, we’ll see where things go… right now I’m hoping she does EXTREMELY well in PA. A big number for her would swell her momentum forward big time!
All over but the shouting.
Ed Rendell said Obama can win in PA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE7F56eGIm0&feature=related
HRC Supporter Dan Onorato: Obama will win PA in the General
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1rMNyr-Anw&feature=related
[...] Last Round: Rendell Gets a Call From Obama (by SusanUnPC at No Quarter) Here’s what Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell [a Clinton endorser] told CNN’s Larry King about the call he got from Barack Obama: “RENDELL: I had a call from Senator Obama and he said, you know I’m going to be the nominee, and I didn’t argue with him, I said, sure, and he said I just want to make sure nothing happens in Pennsylvania, the campaign here, that will make it harder for us to win in the fall. And I said, senator, don’t even worry about that for five seconds.” [...]
When I see a picture or video of Obama I get just as disgusted if not more than when I see a picture of Bush. That speaks wonders to me. I will never vote for Obama. He is just as smug and arrogant as Bush. If the sexist elite Democratic party officials get their way and Obama is the nominee, the Democratic party can kiss my vote goodbye because I cannot vote for Obama in good concsience.
[...] Last Round: Rendell Gets a Call From Obama (by SusanUnPC at No Quarter) Here’s what Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell [a Clinton endorser] told CNN’s Larry King about the call he got from Barack Obama: “RENDELL: I had a call from Senator Obama and he said, you know I’m going to be the nominee, and I didn’t argue with him, I said, sure, and he said I just want to make sure nothing happens in Pennsylvania, the campaign here, that will make it harder for us to win in the fall. And I said, senator, don’t even worry about that for five seconds.” [...]
Anybody out there who can put the Rendell clip on YouTube? I’m not that internet savy.
The Chicago power brokers have been strong-arming the AA politicos since NH. Why do you think Lewis, Clyburn & others switched?
Keep the protest emails going to Richardson, Leahy, Dodd, Pelosi, Reid, & Dean.
Call or email your senators and representative and protest this effort to shove a nominee down our throats-(I call them at least once a week on a variety of issues).
Send an email to Sen. Clinton, tell her not to quit, and donate $25 or whatever you can afford.
We have to more than talk amongst ourselves. We have to act.
Which clip? a different one than the above YouTube clip? I might have others..lemme know
Obama’s acting as paranoid as Nixon. If Obama is elected POTUS, will we see a modern day version of the White House Plumbers?
Thanks to the Patriot Act, below is the actual conversation between Gov. Rendell with the presumptuous presidential nominee.
SETTING: WORKING LUNCH FOR THE PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR WITH THE STATE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
SFX: GOVERNOR’S BLACKBERRY RINGS.
Governor: Hey guys, another unlisted number. Can one of you take it, please?
Governor’s Chief-of-Staff: Sorry? Who is this again? The boss? Ah ah. My boss is over here and he’s having lunch!
Governor’s Aide: Sounds like another crackpot caller to me. You sure he’s not your counterpart at our good senator’s office in DC? Heard he wasn’t too thrilled with the endorsement made the other day to you-know-who…
SFX: LAUGHTER
Governor: Sounds like you guys are having fun. Is it really Bob Casey?
Aide: Uhm, no governor. I’m not so sure.
Governor: Let me take the call. Ed Rendell here…
Caller: Hi, Ed! Um, this is Barack. Uhm, I know that you have just watched “The View”. I know this for a fact as, uhm, the director of the CIA just gave me a briefing on this being, ah, the future resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. You know, uhm, I will be this party’s nominee! David Axelrod confirmed with me that this is a historical certainty. And in case you’re forgetting, Oprah said it first. And the entire Kennedy clan after that.
Governor: You’ve forgotten Bob Kennedy’s kids.
Caller: Uhm, who cares about the kids when I got their mom on my side? And their uncle! And I’m sure you’ve read what John Kerry wrote shortly after my problem with my spiritual adviser erupted? Vote for me – because I’m black. Uhm, tell me governor, are you a bigot?
Governor: No one has ever called me that. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be governor of this state and a proud member of this party!
Caller: Good to hear that. Uhm, why then haven’t you followed the lead taken by your boss?
Governor: Boss? But I don’t have one. You mean ex-Governor Dean? Well, he is the incredibly shrinking chairman of the Democratic Party. And we governors never report to the DNC Chairman.
Caller: (Laughter) I wasn’t talking about Scream. Between him and, uhm, Nancy, I’m sure you know who’s got the balls and wears the pants. But back to your boss, uhm, don’t you report to Bob Casey? This is new to me. I mean, in Illinois, Rod Blagojevich reports to me but (whispers) that’s our own little secret! (Loud sigh) Uhm, I can’t let the American people be distracted with my problems with another former friend.
Governor: Of 20 plus years. Seems like you have a recurring problem with a number of so-called former friends. But back to your question, no way will I report to Casey.
Caller: Uhm, that’s just terrible. It just means that your being is not ready to embrace this change for the entire cosmos that I have been championing for the entire duration of this historical campaign – pretty much like the rest of this nation. Now, that is my mission – my wife’s included – to make sure that everyone in America takes up this challenge.
Governor: It’s not that. But I have to agree with you that Americans are justified in their refusal to acquiesce to cosmetic changes for our nation’s deep-seated and multi-faceted problems.
Caller: Uhm, as a black and white man, I will have to say that it starts with race. Now you understand why I cannot just condemn my pastor, should I say my former pastor, when he said: “God damn…” Uhm, governor, I have always known you as a smart man. Uhm, you and I know that my thugs – I mean my supporters – were a bit too enthusiastic in the other states where we had already completed both elections and primaries.
Governor: Like Texas and Ohio.
Caller: Uhm, oh c’mon, governor. Don’t tell me that you never ever cheated little old ladies in wheelchairs and walkers out of their votes. Well, I mean (whispers), they don’t really count in politics! With healthcare cost at all-time high, these people are broke. They can’t even afford to contribute to my campaign – and unlike the other candidate, David and I are not happy with mere US$5! We are not cheap! Fortunately, Bundling Bill took care of that with our friends from Wall Street. My point is, it’s not entirely unjustifiable to disenfranchise them.
Governor: Like what your people are trying to do in Michigan and Florida.
Caller: Uhm, but those guys didn’t play fair and so what if I ran ads in Florida and the other candidates didn’t. I am new and I have no name recall! Uhm, I mean, there are only two Bills in this world that I don’t like and, uhm, one of them is Bill Nelson. And Carl Levin? One of my analysts did an anagram on his name and it’s “Evil with an ‘N’”. Can you believe that? Uhm, wait till the Rev. Al, Donna Brazile, Richard Wolffe, Keith Olbermann, Roland Martin and millions of other enablers of change for the cosmos hear about this! Unbelievable. So tell me, Ed, are you one of us?
Governor: Senator, don’t even worry about that for five seconds.
SFX: LOUD BEEPING SOUND.
Aide: Governor, it’s Bob Casey on the other line. Was that who I thought it was?
Governor: Yes, it was Chris Rock alright. Funny guy! And tell Bob to call me after the convention. Gongressman Jack Murtha and I are busy.
govener ed rendell is the first person i have ever seen rip chary rose a new but hole.he tore charly rose up, and out debated him, and woulnt let mr rose/obama controle the conversation.
i hope hillery chouses ed rendell as her vice presedent.
govener ed rendell is the first person i have ever seen rip charly rose a new but hole.he tore charly rose up, and out debated him, and woulnt let mr rose/obama controle the conversation.
i hope hillary chouses ed rendell as her vice presedent.
[...] attitude is that… I had a call from Senator Obama and he said, you know I’m going to be the nominee, and I didn’t argue with him, I said, sure, and he said I just want to make sure nothing happens [...]
Obama again being deemed an “uppitiy Ni**er” because he dares buck the system. You make all these statements regarding his nerve..How about thE BILLARY ticket both of them have been making presumptous staments since day one..Now the ugly daughter is riding shotgun on their coat tails
Hey Loserfield. Why don’t you try looking in the mirror before you call someone ugly?
Oh, I’m sorry, you are not tall enough yet!
Well, my son, when you turn 4 perhaps!
Obama is a total ASS!
Fear not, the worst is yet to come out on this “senator”.
Obama’s LAUNDRY LIST OF LIES.
1.) Selma Got Me Born - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965.
2.) Father Was A Goat Herder - LIAR, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - LIAR, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had
4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - LIAR, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in decades.
5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - LIAR, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn’t allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man.
6.) My Name is African Swahili - LIAR, your name is Arabic and ‘Baraka’ (from which Barack came) means ‘blessed’ in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
7.) I Never Practiced Islam - LIAR, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years,until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
8.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - LIAR, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).
9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - LIAR, not one teacher says you could speak the language.
10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience - LIAR, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn’t even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and watch cartoons.
11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - LIAR, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.
12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - LIAR, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you were just fine.
13.)An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - LIAR, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.
14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - LIAR, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.
15.) I Won’t Run On A National Ticket In ‘08 - LIAR, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
16.) Present Votes Are Common In Illinois - LIAR, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.
17.) Oops, I Misvoted - LIAR, only when caught by church groups and democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.
18.) I Was A Professor Of Law - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - LIAR, you didn’t write it,introduce it, change it, or create it.
21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - LIAR, it took just 14 days from start to finish.
22.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - LIAR, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.
23.) I Have Released My State Records - LIAR, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
24.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - LIAR, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.
25.) My Economics Bill Will Help America - LIAR, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.
26.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - LIAR, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
27.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - LIAR, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28.) No One Contacted Canada About NAFTA - LIAR, the Candian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.
29.) I Am Tough On Terrorism - LIAR, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction of Israel.
30.) I Am Not Acting As President Yet - LIAR, after the NAFTA Memo, a dead terrorist in the FARC, in Colombia, was found with a letter stating how you and he were working together on getting FARC recognized officially.
31.) I Didn’t Run Ads In Florida - LIAR, you allowed national ads to run 8-12 times per day for two weeks - and you still lost.
32.) I Won Michigan - LIAR, no you didn’t.
33.) I won Nevada - LIAR, no you did not.
34.) I Want All Votes To Count - LIAR, you said let the delegates decide.
35.) I Want Americans To Decide - LIAR, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.
36.) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - LIAR, you passed 26, most of which you didn’t write yourself.
37.) My Campaign Was Extorted By A Friend - LIAR, that friend is threatening to sue if you do not stop saying this. Obama has stopped saying this.
38.) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - LIAR, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
39.) I Don’t Take PAC Money - LIAR, you take loads of it.
40.) I don’t Have Lobbyists - LIAR, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.
41.) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - LIAR, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
42.) My Campaign Never Took Over MySpace - LIAR, Tom, who started MySpace issued a warning about this advertising to MySpace clients.
43.) I Inspire People With My Words - LIAR, you inspire people with other people’s words.
44.) I Have Passed Bills In The U.S. Senate - LIAR, you have passed A BILL in the U.S. Senate - for Africa, which shows YOUR priorities.
45.) I Have Always Been Against Iraq - LIAR, you weren’t in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time, unlike Kucinich, who seems to be out gutting you Obama. You also seem to be stepping back from your departure date - AGAIN.
46.) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care - LIAR, your plan leaves us all to pay the 15,000,000 who don’t have to buy it.
47.) I Only Found Out About My Investment Conflicts Via Mail - LIAR, both companies you site as having sent you letters about this conflict have no record of any such letter ever being created or sent.
48.) I Am As Patriotic As Anyone - LIAR, you won’t wear a flag pin and you don’t put your hand over your heart during the Anthem.
49.) My Wife Didn’t Mean What She Said About Pride In Country - LIAR, your wife’s words follow lock-step in the vain of Wright and Farrahkan, in relation to their contempt and hatred of America.
50.) Wal-Mart Is A Company I Wouldn’t Support - LIAR, your wife has received nearly a quarter of a million dollars through Treehouse, which is connected to Wal-Mart.
51.) Treehouse Is A Small Company - LIAR, the CEO of Treehouse last year, made more than the CEO of Wal-Mart, according to public records.
52.) University Of Chicago Hospital Pay Is Fair - LIAR, your wife’s pay raise was nearly 150% her already bloated rate and the hospital is a Non-Profit Hospital, which made $100,000,000 in the last 3 years. They overcharge blacks VS whites for services, and overcharge everyone in general by 538%!
53.)I Barely Know Rezko - Only 5 Billed Hours - LIAR, you have known him for 17 years, and decided to do a real estate deal with him during a time when he was proven to be under investigation. Despite this, you divided your property and had them take off $300K before the mortgage problems started. Then Rezko’s wife buys the lot beside it that you can’t afford, saving you $625,000.
54.) My Donations Have Been Checked Thoroughly - LIAR, you only gave back Hsu ($72K) and Rezko ($150K) their money when publically called on their involvement in your campaigns.
55.) My Church Is Like Any Other Christian Church - LIAR, your church is so extreme, the pastor who married you, Rev. Wright, just got done blaming the US for 9/11 and named Louis Farrahkan their person of the year.
56.) I Disagree With My Church All The Time - LIAR, you still have yet to repudiate Wright, who married you and your wife, and you still donate large sums of money to assist the church in furthering its message - hatred and revenge. You donated in 2006 alone, $22,500 to the church that you so terribly disagree with. That is nearly $500 PER WEEK - that sure is disagreement, Senator Obama.
57.) I Have Clean Connections Despite Rezko - LIAR, you are not only connected to Exelon and Rezko, you are also connected to Hillary PAC supporter Mr. Hsu, AND an Iraqi Billionaire of ill repute, Nadhmi Auchi, who ripped off people in the Food For Oil, Iraqi deal. Seems Mr. Auchi may have helped Obama buy his million dollar property long before Obama had millions of dollars. Wonder what favors Mr. Auchi expects, when Obama leaves Iraq free to be taken over by special interests such as him.
58.) I never heard sermons like Rev. Wright’s, that have been in videos all day, You Tube - LIAR! 3 days later during your Mea Culpa BS speech you said “Did I hear controversial statements while I sat in that church? Yes I did.”
Wow, that is a bit arrogant. Just one more instance of the inconsistency between what Obama is selling–the Obama ‘brand’—and what he’s actually got on the shelves.
The Caroline Kennedy departure that is the topic of news outlets today is a good sampling of the political “gaslighting” that has become our way of life out amongst the masses, and in part, of why both political parties are losing credibility today.
From a noble tradition, America deserves more, than having to descend into the depths of what might be called regicidal tactics designed to dethrone kings and elevate serfs.
The last two elections may be viewed as a part of this destructive process that will, and can lead to destruction of the nation altogether if dismissed as trivial.