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Dear Sen. Obama, Campaign Staff, and Your Media Cohorts: Have You No Shame? [Video Update]

[The VIDEO UPDATE from Brother Barack is below the fold ... and in that video he's usin' some line about Hillary actin' like Annie Oakley. Damndest coincidence, that is. Isn't it. That Barack would use the "Annie Oakley" line, and here we see a photo of Annie Oakley herself smack on the front page of HuffPo. Uncanny, it is. Simply uncanny.]

We noticed an odd similarity in two front pages this afternoon: HUGE headlines about Hillary and guns. First, there was the Huffington Post’s front page (click to see larger image):

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Then there was Talking Points Memo’s front page (click to see larger image):

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By susanunpc

And then it all made sense. I opened Mark Halperin’s The Page blog for Time magazine, and saw these blaring headlines:

After remaining silent all day Sunday, Obama lashes out against Clinton in Steelton, Pennsylvania.

“She knows better. Shame on her. Shame on her.”

Insists he does relate to small-town Americans, and mocks Clinton’s sudden vocal support for gun rights:

“Hillary Clinton is out there like she’s on the duck blind every Sunday. She’s packing a six-shooter. Come on, she knows better. That’s some politics being played by Hillary Clinton.”


VIDEO UPDATE: Brother Barack on “there’s some politics goin’ on …” and “that’s some politics bein’ played by Hillary Clinton … you know … come on …” — via Ben Smith’s Politico blog.

Brother Barack was in Steelton, Pennsylvania this afternoon. And he’s still lying to the people about not taking money from big lobbyists. Check all of our stories on the big-time lobbyists he’s raking in the big dollars from.

Special thanks to Brother Patrick Henry for sending me the video link.
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Back to the Original: This is not the first time we’ve noticed strikingly similar headlines and stories on pro-Obama sites like Huffington Post and Talking Point Memo. Halperin’s big red headlines — about Hillary Clinton “on the duck blind every Sunday” and that she’s “packing a six-shooter” — come straight from Obama’s mouth, quoted in a Fox News article.

The similarities cannot be overlooked: Have you also noticed how that the anti-Hillary and pro-Obama stories leading the Huffington Post and Talking Points Memo are exactly the same?  We are not just talking a mere coincidence.  Day after day both sites appear to parrot the same “talking points”? For those who are at least 50 years old this comes across like an American version of Pravda and Izvestia.  For you youngsters, Pravda and Izvestia were the “news” outlets for the Soviet Union.  They functioned pure and simple as propaganda machine.

I think the Izvestia and Pravda comparison does not really fit either the Huffington Post or Talking Point Memo.  But their collective behavior and cheer leading does call to mind the writings of Lewis Carroll and the antics of Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

Here are some more questions:

  • Although both websites have different editors, how close are they to David Axelrod, the Obama campaign’s media message manipulator?
  • How do they receive the Obama campaign talking points–via email or on a phone conference or both?
  • And why do both sites so cavalierly dismiss Barack’s claim that “folks in Pennsylvania, frustrated by the economies of Bill Clinton and George Bush’ are bitter and seek solace in religion, guns or bigotry?”  Why do both find it so easy to excuse words like this that, if uttered by Hillary, would in their view justify a political lynching?

Could it be the money? Consider the possibility that a big Obama money bundler, Ken Lehrer, also happens to be a major investor in Huffington Post.  Hmmm.  Coincidence? Would you be shocked to learn that another big Obama bundler, Reed Hundt — we hear in whispered discussions — is a close confidant of Josh Marshall?

I do not challenge the right of either Arianna Huffington or Josh Marshall to put up what they want.  That’s the beauty of having their own blog.  But I do think it is important to disclose any close political contacts with the Obama or Clinton campaign if you are shilling for them.  Here at No Quarter, we do monitor pro-Hillary blogs.  But we have no connection whatsoever to the campaign.  And this blog’s owner, Larry Johnson, has made it quite clear that he is not seeking nor will he accept a position in a Clinton Administration if Hillary is elected.

Perhaps we should give Obama’s campaign credit for having a better machine for manipulating the blogosphere and the press.  What bothers me is the depth of political manipulation directed against Hillary and the willingness of the media to participate in the print equivalent of mob violence.  Even someone like Mark Halperin appears to have snagged a cup of kool aid today.  He links to The Page byFox News, which quotes Barack Obama’s outburst today:

Clinton called Obama’s claim that economically depressed Pennsylvania voters cling to God and guns “elitist” and “demeaning,” and talked about her duck-hunting experience in Arkansas. Obama sounded skeptical. “She’s running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen. How she’s, she’s valuing the second amendment,” he said mockingly. “She’s talking like she’s Annie Oakley. Hillary Clinton’s out there in a duck blind every Sunday. She’s packing a six shooter. Come on!

Now where did I hear that before?

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By the way, I do not get guidance from top Clinton campaign staffers. However, a few weeks ago, I finally got around to calling the Clinton press office, and they kindly signed me up to receive their press releases. Anyone can sign up to get their releases to the media. Here is tonight’s:

Response to Sen. Obama’s Outburst

Phil Singer, Deputy Communications Director, issued the following statement tonight:

For months, Barack Obama and his campaign have relentlessly attacked Hillary Clinton’s character and integrity by using Republican talking points from the 1990s. The shame is his.

Sen. Clinton does know better — she knows better than to condescend and talk down to voters like Senator Obama did. Senator Obama’s outburst won’t change the fact that he has embraced his characterization of the millions of Americans who live in small towns.

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Comment by beebop | 2008-04-13 21:15:36

STEELTON, Penn. - Democrat Barack Obama lashed out Sunday at rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, mocking her vocal support for gun rights and saying her record in the Senate and as first lady belied her stated commitment to working class voters and their concerns.

“She knows better. Shame on her. Shame on her,” Obama told an audience at a union hall here.

I was just checking my mail for the last time and saw this …

This guy is the ultimate F-face.

It is NEVER about him, what he says, how he demeans people, how he is willing to lie or to rip this country in two.

He is shameless. He is pond scum. He is less than that. He is a one cell life form that someone should step on.

Damn him to hell.

Comment by Uppity | 2008-04-13 21:18:36

Leland Gaunt passes out more Needful Things.

Comment by ginaswo | 2008-04-14 15:07:44

exactly! chills down the spine

 
 

Comment by blobert | 2008-04-13 21:34:25

Amazing. Tonight, sweet, angel faced Obama said that the political attacks should not be happening, implying that he was innocent of that sinful stuff.
He was really boring, although CNN spun that he was much better than Clinton. Shades of Chris Matthews.

 

Comment by jwrjr | 2008-04-13 23:09:02

Someone should check to see if Obama shares DNA with slime mold.

Comment by mary | 2008-04-14 01:50:51

Slime mold indeed! You must be a gardener! There actually is a whole family of slime molds. One we see from time to time in this part of the country is called Dog Vomit Slime Mold. No, I’m not kidding.
It grows on decaying organic matter, and looks like a combination of real bright yellow dog vomit and a great big sponge. Kind of an evolutionary cousin of a mushroom.
The analogy is close here, I fear. In nature, these organisms are significant, because feed on dead stuff. But some of them are, while very beautiful, also very poisonous.

 
 

Comment by simon, too | 2008-04-14 08:15:23

Annie Oakley was a crack shot, one of the best male OR female.

Read her history sometime, it’s really impressive, she was a great woman, and a GREAT shot.

Stupid bamabots can’t read, can they?

Me, I’d take it as a HUGE compliment to be compared to Annie Oakley.

Really. A pioneer woman, respected by the men for her talent.

And then the song by Squeeze ” Annie, Get your Gun:” ” Don’t stop ’til your number one.”

According to the song, Annie’s gone electric…

Comment by simon, too | 2008-04-14 08:16:30

Bamabots are SO DUMB…

Heh.

Shi*heads.

 

Comment by Pat | 2008-04-14 11:37:16

Don’t forget the song: Anything you can do from Annie Get Your Gun

Anything you can do,
I can do better.
I can do anything
Better than you.

more: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/anniegetyourgun/anythingyoucando.htm

 

Comment by Uppity | 2008-04-14 15:09:12

A pioneer woman, respected by the men for her talent.

There is no such woman in the mind of that sexist pig.

 
 

Comment by jm korbel | 2008-04-14 19:11:38

dear,dear I don’t want to make you more mad but here is his latest and, this time, he has outdone himself:

now he says “Is Hillary Clinton being a Good Democrat (obviously implying she is not) by giving the Republicans this against me in November?

definitely from a different planet, no .. galaxy…. no, that’s not it - BLACK HOLE!

 
 

Comment by sister of ye | 2008-04-13 21:16:49

“She knows better. Shame on her. Shame on her.”

I’d say this seems a bit schoolmarmish, but that would be an insult to schoolmarms.

Perhaps someone should inform Mr. Obama that comparing Clinton to an American folk hero like Annie Oakley ain’t necessarily an insult. Perhaps she should enliven her next campaign stop with a few sung lines from Annie Get Your Gun. I suggest “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better.”

Comment by Uppity | 2008-04-13 21:24:46

I bet she could outshoot him. She can do most everything else better, so why not?

 

Comment by jackie | 2008-04-13 21:47:52

I was thinking the same thing. Annie Oakley is an American icon, a hero. If they want to compare Hillary to Annie, that’s fine with me. These people are clueless.

Comment by Ga6thDem | 2008-04-13 21:59:23

Clueless is right. Annie Oakley? Is Obama so clueless that he can only think of one women in the last 100 years that has shot a gun?

Comment by MIKE SHARP | 2008-04-14 00:33:41

Shooting ducks with a six shooter?

Comment by carissa | 2008-04-14 10:10:56

That’s what my husband said!

 
 
 

Comment by wry | 2008-04-13 22:31:39

And isn’t this the same guy who started “Sportmen and Sportswomen for Obama? Phony…you know Hillary can “outgun” him, she’s a TOUGH broad.
My admiration grows for her with each insult she withstands. And, I’ll tell you,I hope I look half as good at 60.

Comment by Adrienne Grey | 2008-04-14 04:21:32

Outgun him, outbowl him, outsmart him…

*****A

Hillary: One Tough Bitch

 
 
 

Comment by The Gringo's Wife | 2008-04-14 00:57:56

Oh please insult me! Call me Annie Oakley!

Wear it proud Hillary!

I posted yesterday about Mr.Obama’s bitterness showing up as disprespect and sarcasm. He did not dissapoint, did he? This is one emotionally messed up dude. He makes GW look like Howdy Doodo (sorry Doody was too cute for that lint licker).

Hillary can play “Annie Get Yer Gun” to Obama’s “It Ain’t Easy Being Green.”

Oh come now, with those long legs ans arms and that tiny head … Obama is Kermit!

Yes, yes! Please join me in the vision ….

Cute as a button but no cojones. Nada. Zip. We are talking JCPenney flat front, up to the navel, stretch waist flat man! But he’s a man, man!

“Frog looks like a lady, doodum, doodum! Frog looks like a lady … ” Am I the only one that suspects Kermit is a pond short of a lilly pad?

Just saying that maybe Obama is right. Hillary is twice the man Obama is. “He’s not a man, man!”

No man I ever met, whether real or big screen, would ever act like such a BRAT.

 

Comment by StatBabe | 2008-04-14 04:02:28

Perhaps she should enliven her next campaign stop with a few sung lines from Annie Get Your Gun. I suggest “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better.”

What a GREAT idea! Whether Obama and his people ever realize this or not, bringing up Annie Oakley in reference to Hillary Clinton only serves to elevate Hillary’s status with a lot of us older women who grew up fantasizing about being another “Annie Oakley” in a different male-dominated arena. I doubt that there is a woman over 45 who did not at some time during her childhood have dreams of growing up to be just like Annie Oakley! Call it whatever you want, but stirring up memories like that are the very thing to actually energize a feminist resurgent campaign for Hillary.

 

Comment by Uppity | 2008-04-14 15:10:00

Shame on her. Shame on her.”

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! She’s picking on meeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!

 
 

Comment by Uppity | 2008-04-13 21:17:13

Nice Try, Barry and Huff. I give it a 2. The people in small town America give it a zero. No pass, fella.

This does remind me of why I never go to that Huff site except accidentally when I am googling something.

I wonder if Barry ever hunts? If he does, does he wear that same black suit?

 

Comment by scott | 2008-04-13 21:18:56

Dear Sen. Obama, Campaign Staff, and Your Media Cohorts: Have You No Shame? »

“Media Cohorts” you had them covered with Campaign Staff.

 

Comment by Andy | 2008-04-13 21:21:06

The HRC campaign have to respond much more aggressively and turn the tables back to where they belong: to BO’s remarks. The HRC campaign needs to cut this bullsh— swiftly and strongly and shame him back into his stupid hole he alone digged for himself.

I never trusted Mark halperin; a couple of months ago he was on Charlie Rose with his mouth full spewing
sh– on Clinton and lauding Obama like the Messiah.
Then he had leately some more “objective” pages but
you could tell back then at “that table” with Ch.R.
who he really is.

Shame on him for the red lettering: the Scarlet shame is on Barack Obama.

 

Comment by mr | 2008-04-13 21:21:24

obama will never win he is so so arrogant

 

Comment by JoeySky | 2008-04-13 21:24:06

He still doesn’t get it. The more he insults Hillary, the more he solidifies her base against him. She asked him a real question that a lot of us want him to answer. He came around insulting her, and in the sense insulting us.

He doesn’t get it.

 

Comment by Kyle Young | 2008-04-13 21:24:56

“For those who are at least 50 years old this comes across like an American version of Pravda and Izvestia”
“I think the Izvestia and Pravda comparison does not really fit either the Huffington Post or Talking Point Memo.”
Then why write it?

Comment by blobert | 2008-04-13 21:37:17

I found it interesting. Didn’t you?
They are two clueless blogs.

 

Comment by salo | 2008-04-13 21:40:10

cash payment rather than revolutioary socialism is involved.

Hearstian journalism is the nearest example for my mind.

 
 

Comment by SensibleWoman | 2008-04-13 21:25:06

So much for his spiritual side, eh? This response has got to be the most childish bunch of nonsense….

Obviously he still just doesn’t “get it”. Sheesh!

Comment by beebop | 2008-04-13 21:30:08

Yeah… kind of puts those comments at this evenings little “do” at CNN in a whole different light. The imperitent little ass knew exactly what was brewing. He’s really full of himself and thinks that nananananah is going to solve his issues.

 
 

Comment by blobert | 2008-04-13 21:27:45

Since 2000, the propaganda machine has become more and more powerful.
The media becomes more and more abusive.
The take over of blogs to manipulate the minds of young people, encourage droid behavior and instill them with passionate hatred of Clinton, is absolutely frightening.
These blog droids are at the point of chanting Heil Obama.

Schools need to start teaching their impressionable young a thing or two about propaganda.

All of this is worthy of an investigation. Where is the money behind all of this coming from? An individual? A group?

Comment by The Gringo's Wife | 2008-04-14 01:11:59

Depending on your limit for conspiracy, you may appreciate watching http://youtube.com/watch?v=_dmPchuXIXQ.

You bet they are on the move to something. The “they” being those that truly have the power. They that through the Fed created not just a housing mess, but a banking mess.

This has led to GW Pooty Head attempting (did he? no news of consequence these days)to pass something or another giving the Fed MORE POWER. Also, those kick backs they gave us via our “two latte” tax refunds, were nothing compared to what the banks got.

And the party is only getting started. I am socking away cash. do you know how many banks closed before the big crash? Take a guess and then go watch the youtube video.

Comment by simon, too | 2008-04-14 08:23:37

This has led to GW Pooty Head attempting (did he? no news of consequence these days)to pass something or another giving the Fed MORE POWER. Also, those kick backs they gave us via our “two latte” tax refunds, were nothing compared to what the banks got.

They’re stupid, though, don’t forget, everything you see here, from Cheney, or Obama is very real, quite the screw up.

I wish, sometimes, everyone could see how these men think, how simplistically idiotic they are.

NO fooling.

They can try to destroy all they want, but they are nothing to fear, they’re so DUMB.

The rest of the world has figured out what FOOLS they are, Americans need to see it too, how stupid Obama, CHENEY and their ops are.

A lot of ex ops out there are MORONS.

Stone, wasn’t that his name?

 
 
 

Comment by beebop | 2008-04-13 21:27:47

Mark Halperin is a disgusting example of someone who thinks he is important.

Fishbowl DC reported this morning that Time’s Mark Halperin “has a filthy, dirty mouth,” quoting from his interview yesterday with Sirius Radio’s Bill Geddie:

BILL GEDDIE: Haven’t we heard all along that [John Edwards] doesn’t like [Hillary Clinton], haven’t we heard this?

MARK HALPERIN: Yes, that’s right. And I can tell you, he’s really skeptical of her ability to be the kind of president he wants. But, he kinda thinks Obama is..he thinks Obama is kind of a pussy.He has real questions about Obama’s toughness, his readiness for the office.he has real doubts about Obama, not just as a president, but as a general election candidate.

This afternoon, Halperin issued a very vague apology on Time.com’s The Page:

I’m sorry. In a live radio interview this week, I used a word I shouldn’t have. The fact that I was conveying other people’s words is no excuse for my lapse in judgment. It won’t happen again. — Mark Halperin

He has grown really fond of his own by-line and his useful life as a journalist — much as Josh and Arianna is over.

Comment by simon, too | 2008-04-14 08:25:08

he thinks Obama is kind of a pussy

Someone had to say it.

 
 

Comment by Mostest | 2008-04-13 21:35:15

Off Topic:

I would like to see someone ask Obama why his African Grandmother still is improvished and living in a hut? Someone should ask him if he has offered to help her out since they are doing so good as of late. The Obama’s purchased a $1.65mil mansion and I understand Michelle likes Jimmy Choo’s shoes. A nice pair of Jimmy Choo’s can setup Obama’s grandmother up with a “housekeeper” for a year. Depending on how big the house, a few thousand could put his grandmother in a nice bricked fenced house.

Would you buy a $1.65 mil mansion and live in Jimmy Choo’s shoes and BEFORE you took your grandmother out of a HUT for mere thousands? Community Organizer my A$$. He is doing to his grandmother what he did for the folks in the southside of Chicago…ABOSUTELY NOTHING… but campaign window dressing. Sickening.

I Know that Obama will not win the demo nomination.

Comment by The Gringo's Wife | 2008-04-14 07:50:17

Because it would look even more elitist if your African grandmother lived in a two story hut with running water?

I think they wear the grandmother as jewelry.

 
 

Comment by Terry | 2008-04-13 21:37:20

Meanness, sarcasm, and smugness just don’t work for BO (recall how his snide “you’re likable enough” comment played in NH or the “snub” at the SOTU spech). Yet, he goes there so easily. Does he think his mocking riff on Annie Oakley is going to make him look less favorable to Penn voters (or any voters outside of SF)?

I think he really believes Hillary should be ashamed for criticizing him.

The arrogance. The sneering. The sense of entitlement. It really is too much. I honestly don’t get the attraction of this guy.

And I won’t even comment on the Obama is the Second Coming er, I mean, Compassion Forum on CNN. I think I’m going to throwup.

Comment by Mel | 2008-04-13 21:48:34

First experience in meeting a con man Terry?

 
 

Comment by kacey | 2008-04-13 21:39:19

I saw Obama’s response and I was totally taken aback. When Hillary Clinton was angry about the mailers the Obama campaign sent around in Ohio (which were factually inaccurate and she had every right to be angy), she was portrayed like a ‘crazy old woman’ and mocked in the media.

But Obama is treated like the hero who is just “speaking the truth.” But seeing the video of his recent performance, not only is his demeanor rude and condescending in his response to what HRC said, it was totally misogynistic. I personally found his behavior embarrassing. Obama mocks her (I don’t recall her mocking him, rather explaining why she believed differently) and then he calls her “Annie Oakley.” Of course the media will ignore the blatant sexism, as will most of the blogosphere (unless its as you pointed out, to mock Clinton). After all, when you can define the position of First Lady as “sippin tea in the White House,” calling your female opponent “Annie Oakley” is rather tame.

I find it really interesting that a person who keeps talking about how words are important, tries to run away from his own. People who support him are repeating his revision that people are bitter and frustrated, and that’s what he MEANT. But THAT isn’t the problem with what he said, because we know people are frustrated. The PROBLEM is that he said that people cling to guns and religion BECAUSE of that frustration, instead of acknowledging that guns and religion are an integral part of small town America. Guns and religion exist in good times and bad times. THAT’S why what he said was condescending. Mocking Hillary Clinton isn’t going to change that.

Comment by sister of ye | 2008-04-13 21:51:14

That’s why I suggested above that Clinton should embrace the Annie Oakley gibe and turn it with humor. Maybe go onstage with a western hat, saying, “I understand Sen. Obama suggested I should wear one of these.” She’d look a lot better in it than he did.

Comment by Uppity | 2008-04-13 21:59:34

I LOVE IT. Then we can show a shot of the dork in his black cowboy hat.

Comment by Terry | 2008-04-13 22:28:37

GREAT SUGGESTION! The only thing worse than that cowboy hat was his bowling form. Gawd. Hillary’s not bitter, just better!

Comment by Uppity | 2008-04-14 15:11:59

The only thing worse than that cowboy hat was his bowling form.

There was a milquetoast quality to it.Flaky Barry picks up a bowling ball. He must have stuck out in the bowling alley like a turd in a punch bowl.

 
 
 

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-04-13 22:33:33

As long as she doesn’t try to pretend it is anything other than a DIG back at the Odrama camp.

The Drill Instructors used to call me Annie Oakley in basic training and I took it as a compliment! (expert rifle badge)

Even though I don’t even own a gun (weapon) now days I still have fond memories.

I’m sure BO and his elite inner circle thought it was quite a clever dig. NOT. Only if you believe like they do.

Annie was OK

 

Comment by SusanUnPC | 2008-04-13 22:47:20

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-04-14 12:41:20

 
 
 

Comment by Uppity | 2008-04-13 21:55:47

Any woman who votes for this jerk really does not understand that, in the world of work, shit rolls downhill. The attitude of the president of the United States rolls down hill to corporations. And his attitude is the WORST I have seen in my not too short life. I despise him. He is the biggest blatent sexist pig I have EVER seen run for president.

Comment by Uppity | 2008-04-13 21:56:45

And I do believe on this score that he is Nation of Islam alllllllllll the way.

 

Comment by Mel | 2008-04-13 22:08:29

Oh you are just a bitter person because he hasn’t done his magic phone trick on you, shame for your bitterness Uppity!

 

Comment by jwrjr | 2008-04-13 23:16:16

The cheney/bush regime’s attitude of utter disrespect for the law certainly has rolled downhill to the corporations.

Comment by Uppity | 2008-04-14 15:27:52

If he said that to me, National TV would have carried slapping his sexist fast and my finger marks would have remained for the day. He’s just the kind of miserable sexist shit I remember having to deal with in corporate America a few decades ago, before we fought back. I cannot even tell you how much I recognize him for the pig he is. And every day he pulls another round to confirm it. he’s the guy in the 70s that women were afraid to get on the elevator with. I despise him

Comment by Uppity | 2008-04-14 15:29:02

would have carried slapping his sexist fast

make that would have carried me slapping his sexist face.

I despise him so much I can’t even type about it. This man is EVERYTHING we fought against decades ago. EVERYTHING.

 
 
 

Comment by Hope | 2008-04-14 00:20:39

He’s a narcissist. Plain and simple. Tiny little boy who stares at himself in the mirror and sees the world in his own eyes. Only thing is he’s horribly myopic and has tunnel vision.

If this country votes this little shit in, we deserve everything we are going to get. His popularity speaks to the disintegration of our nation’s social fabric. We are looking at the mouthpiece for a generation of wimps.

 
 

Comment by JM | 2008-04-14 00:34:48

I find it really interesting that a person who keeps talking about how words are important, tries to run away from his own.

I agree with you wholeheartedly. He says what he means, people get offended, he offers an apology that is not an apology, and then he says let’s all move on. I say “Strike 3 and your OUT”!

 
 

Comment by JoeySky | 2008-04-13 21:40:18

Susan, I heard that there is a video of Obama saying those words. and it was very childish and awful. we need to find that video.

Comment by SusanUnPC | 2008-04-13 22:48:34

It has been added. It is horrid. I mean, he is horrid. See just below the fold.

 
 

Comment by OxyCon | 2008-04-13 21:48:15

Newkindapolitics, eh?
Obama is a gutter snipe.

Comment by Terry | 2008-04-13 22:32:06

Or perhaps, gutterball snipe.

But hey, I just have antipathy towards other people because I am garlic-nosed and support a candidate who is only “likeable enough.” Snipe indeed.

 
 

Comment by 1st Republic 14th Star | 2008-04-13 21:55:00

Here’s what Clinton said:

She then introduced a fond memory from her youth.

“You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught me how to shoot when I was a little girl,” she said.

“You know, some people now continue to teach their children and their grandchildren. It’s part of culture. It’s part of a way of life. People enjoy hunting and shooting because it’s an important part of who they are. Not because they are bitter.”

Minutes later, in a slightly awkward moment, Clinton faced a question from a woman in the audience whose son had been paralyzed by a gunshot. The woman asked Clinton what she would do about gun control as president.

Clinton touted her husband’s record on gun control during his administration, and said “there is not a contradiction between protecting Second Amendment rights” and the effort to reduce crime.

Noting that many hunters and gun collectors want to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals, Clinton referred to her positive childhood experiences with firearms.

“As I told you, my dad taught me how to shoot behind our cottage,” she said. “I have gone hunting. I am not a hunter. But I have gone hunting.”

Clinton said she has hunted ducks.

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Somehow, Obama, Huff Po and TPM turned those mild comments into “Clinton BECOMES a Gun Lover,” and “BRAGS she shot ducks.” They also further enhanced the extremism of their comments by illustrating their faux outrage with photos of Annie Oakley.

Clearly, there’s no depth too low for them.

I think we can see why Obama’s supporters are so anxious to make Hillary Clinton quit now — the more people see of Obama, the less they like him.

Comment by Uppity | 2008-04-13 22:11:26

TIME……….is not Barack Obama’s friend.

 

Comment by MessyMarcy | 2008-04-13 23:12:34

I usually don’t watch the Obama videos, but I made myself watch this one all the way through. What an ass he is. Does he always repeat everything several times? This is considered eloquence? It annoyed the hell out of me. And that sneering and smirking — he’s just like Dubya. He even affects that thing like Dubya where they roll up their shirt sleeves — like either of them has ever done a good hard day’s work in their entire lives. I just don’t see his charm, but then I didn’t see George W’s charm either.

I grew up on a farm and was taught to shoot by my father; are we the demographic he is now belittling? And as many years as Hillary lived in Arkansas married to a politician, I would be shocked if she said she had NOT been duck hunting — it’s a major sport almost right up there with Razorback football.

Comment by StatBabe | 2008-04-14 04:41:59

And as many years as Hillary lived in Arkansas married to a politician, I would be shocked if she said she had NOT been duck hunting — it’s a major sport almost right up there with Razorback football.

I am originally from Arkansas, and I honestly believe that my father must have been the only man in the state who wasn’t an avid duck hunter! For some reason, my father never wanted anything to do with guns or hunting, whether that was related to being a WWII veteran or something else, I don’t know. I just know that all my other relatives in Arkansas were duck hunters, and in fact, my great uncle had a heart attack and died in a duck blind. I never went hunting myself, but I did learn how to shoot a rifle at summer camp when I was 7 years old, and that was certainly not unusual for a kid from Arkansas (or anywhere else in the South, for that matter).

Comment by kenoshaMarge | 2008-04-14 09:04:05

More years ago than I care to think about, my father taught me how to shot a shotgun. It was a 16 gauge with a plastic stock and a kick like a cannon. Purchased at the local Sears & Roebuck store. Note: I do not like loud sudden noises, have a love for all animals so of course I was a perfect candidate to be taken pheasant hunting by my father.

I hated it, all my sympathy was with the pheasant and the one shot I fired on that long ago morning seriously wounded a small chokecherry tree. Dad decided to simply instruct me in how to load and fire a gun at inanimate objects thereafter. I learned to fire a shotgun, now a small 410 with less kick and killed me a whole passel of pumpkins and tin cans.

I am sure if I had a chance I could still fire a gun. I don’t want to but I could. My latest weapon of choice is a baseball bat and 911 on speed dial.

To make fun of a woman who remembers a day long ago when she did a little father/daughter bonding moment is not only wrong it’s condescending. But then Senator Obama is so frequently condescending to us females it makes my head hurt.

His rant comparing “Annie Oakley” to Hillary Clinton would be humorous, and I’m sure it is to his cohorts, if it wasn’t so ignorant. Maybe him being a product of them “mean” streets of Jakarta and Hawaii he never had him a little set of plastic six-guns, a cowboy/cowgirl hat and played cowboys and “Native Americans” in the back yard until suppertime. (Yeah, we called it Suppertime not Dinner. Just shows how low-income/low-class my family was.) My little brother had “Roy Rogers” six-guns and I had the “Annie Oakley” outfit. My cousin Liz was Dale Evans.

And by the way Senator Clueless, you don’t hunt ducks with a six-gun. Betcha Hillary, being from the Midwest, knows that.

 
 
 
 

Comment by DEM | 2008-04-13 22:06:16

I can’t figure out how to link, but the video of Obama’s mock-fest is here: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0408/Obama_mocks_Annie_Oakley.html

Truly appalling; esp the way he seems to get a head full of steam once he gets a few chuckles from the audience.

The Clinton campaign really needs to hammer home the point that Obama made his original comments in response to the question of why HE (Obama) was/is having trouble in places like Ohio and Pennsylvania. All that blah-de-blah faux-ciology that BO has been spewing since then is nothing but spin. He’s trying to change the topic… once again.

Comment by Andy | 2008-04-13 23:01:21

The video is appalling, really disgusting…

And it is full of lies.
He said that Clinton voted against a bankruptcy bill that would protect PA people (when he was the one that voted against capping predatory rates by Credit Cards) he even says she support the Colombia trade and that his main assitant was working to have it pass; that hse campaign for 10 years with Clinton for Nafta,

This guy has no class; I have never seen Hillary Clinton mock Obama as he is doing here with her and laughing and picking it up worse and wosrse with off the cuff remarks that are not off the cuff at all but planned.

This is really off the top…. Its like he made demeaning comments and his response is insulting HRC for them. Absurd….

Comment by Andy | 2008-04-13 23:08:14

above should read
“that she campaigned for 10 years with her husband Clinton”

(sorry, that video really ticked me. He is really an ass…)

 

Comment by Catriley | 2008-04-13 23:10:59

The thing that average Americans need to pay attention to is that Obama never just disagrees with Hillary, he always MOCKS her or ridicules her. He’s nasty and so is Axelrove. They are not nice people. Do we really want another snarky a**hole in the White House?

The MSM never really discussed the fact that OBama did an evening of stand up comedy mocking and ridiculing Hillary early in the primary, all the while saying that he’s all about unity in the Party.

He’s a mean little toad.

 
 
 

Comment by Silver | 2008-04-13 22:11:53

Sister of ye,
I think that’s a fabulous idea that Hillary embrace the Annie Oakley comparison, and I especially like the song “Anything you can do, I can do better”. PLEASE send that suggestion to her campaign!!! I understand that when she was called a monster by Samantha Power, they played Monster Mash at her rallies.

Besides, I always admired Annie Oakley!!

Comment by SusanUnPC | 2008-04-13 22:49:46

I had Annie Oakley cap guns, holster and hat when I was little. Wish I still had ‘em.

Comment by LandOLincoln | 2008-04-14 01:24:04

Annie Oakley has always been my idol–and I used to be good enough I could shoot tin cans off fence posts, shooting over my shoulder using a mirror.

That fool doesn’t know how much he’s complimented her. Wonder if he even knows which end of a gun is which?

 
 
 

Comment by clyde | 2008-04-13 22:15:31

I have known for some time that these blogs have been coordinating with the Obama camp. I had always thought it strange that John Avarosis suddenly dropped his McClurkin rant as if it the whole McClurkin thing had never happened. I basically accused him of having coordinated his capitulation on the issue with the Obama camp because certainly the were beginning to feel the heat. And I know damn good and well Avarosis didn’t drop the issue out of the goodness of his hear. Of course my blog comments were either deleted or ignored but the accusation never answerd. Or somebody would point out the Obama anti gay shirts which he had put on sale just before he dropped the issue. It had obviously worried Obama enough that his camp pulled Avarosis into the fold. By the way, you really have to look for the shirts now. They are pretty well hidden and are never mentioned.

Then, in exploring old posts I found one dated Jan 21 (you can find it in the archives) that once again had to do with Obama using another homophobic supporter to campaign for him. But the difference was as stark as night and day. Avarosis practically fell all over himself trying to excuse the Obama campaign and telling everybody why they shouldn’t be upset blah bloah blah.

To make matters worse, although I’m sure many let it get by them at the time, Avarosis pretty much admitted he was now in the Obama camp and would get his talking points from them with this little tidbit:

We’ve talked to the Obama campaign about this, and they assure me of a few things:

1. Caldwell has not, and will not, be asked to do anything for the campaign (and this means, we hope, that Obama won’t be doing appearances with the man any time soon).
2. Caldwell was simply wrong when he told the papers this weekend that the campaign asked him to travel around the country on their behalf. In other words, Caldwell was freelancing when he called the paper for an interview.

Talk about someone being star struck. Worse, it tells us how cheaply so called progressive values can be sold for these days when you stick your hand out to the Obama camp.

Oh and Americablog’s pictures coordinate with The Obamington Post and TPM.

Comment by Fredster | 2008-04-14 02:15:25

John A. drank and swallowed (smirk) the kool-aid a long time ago.

I used to be a regular reader there but as the anti-Hillary and pro-Barry posts got more and more strident and as you became more and more of a target of insults and such if you posted something pro-Hillary it simply was not a place to be. They had posters who would use the most vile language towards pro-Hillary folks and John A. would not do anything.

His going into the tank for Barry was amazingly quick. However, ya know…a girl’s gotta eat and John does have that expensive orchid habit as well as an appetite for trips to Europe on Air France (much better food than American airlines as he posted so many times).

I understand his hits have dropped quite a bit (won’t catch me loading that website) but I read that somewhere. Good. Maybe he’ll have to go get a real job. :-)

 
 

Comment by LikeH2O | 2008-04-13 22:16:42

When I read what BO said about Hillary being Annie Oakley out there, packing a six-shooter, I felt as if I had been punched in the gut. His mocking tone, his belittling of her, trying to make her appear small. Nice attempt at trying to change the subject from his CA statements.
The man has a problem. He is the one who is small.
I felt so good when he was out of the country on vacation. I wish he had never returned. He is like a blight that won’t go away.
I think I can’t get any angrier, and then he opens his mouth and it just increases my anger level.
He is an insult to the human race.

Comment by Janis | 2008-04-13 23:48:32

 

Comment by simon, too | 2008-04-14 08:30:14

When I read what BO said about Hillary being Annie Oakley out there, packing a six-shooter, I felt as if I had been punched in the gut.

It was a compliment.

Annie Oakely was a crack shot, and Squeeze, one of the greatest English bands, ever, wrote a wonderful song about her.

It’s a gift, makes Hillary look hip, and cool.

Stupid Bamabots, do some research, shith&%ds.

 
 

Comment by Kathy | 2008-04-13 22:17:41

I saw an ad last week that featured Clinton talking about her grandfather teaching her to shoot. I think I saw it on No Quarter-had a huntin’ dog and everything. I guess Clinton really is a witch for anticipating Obama would insult gun owners and releasing an ad before he even said it.

 

Comment by clyde | 2008-04-13 22:18:18

I forgot to add that I think we should keep on them until they come clean about their connections. Not that they will unless we somehow show how phony they really are. Progressives indeed. I guess only if the price is high enough.

 

Comment by Lea | 2008-04-13 22:18:45

Some time ago I saw on TPM’s site that he is affiliated with Huffpo. A lovely partnership.

I think that Obama is a colossal pr**ck but that is so ad hominem. Instead I’ll just say that his political skills are way, way overrated.

 

Comment by jangles | 2008-04-13 22:30:14

Most of the focus on these comments has been on the elitism and condescension they express. I think another important component of these comments that needs more air time by all of us is the basic falseness of the statement Obama made concerning the economy of PA during the Clinton years. That is just plain wrong and he probably does not know it is wrong because he is woefully short on the facts of any case.

 

Comment by jangles | 2008-04-13 22:36:19

Isn’t name calling the last refuge of those who have no real argument to make?

 

Comment by Northwest rain | 2008-04-13 22:37:40

Obama — Shut the Fu** up.

It is not at all unusual for fathers to teach their daughters to shoot. I grew up in the military and that’s what dads did back then and probably still do.

Obama is just plain ignorant, stupid and a snob.

He really has no understanding of America — it’s shocking how stupid he is.

On the other hand — Obama keep opening your mouth — you either lie or make a fool of yourself.

Comment by kenoshaMarge | 2008-04-14 09:19:05

My dad taught me too. He thought that it was important to know things that might come in handy at some time in the future. He also taught me how to check the oil and transmission fluid in my car and to check the water level in the battery. If I mention that does it mean I think I’m Mr(s). Goodwrench?

These people really do not get average Americans. I was not on board with the elitist stuff but damn they are proving the point of every one that suggests that they don’t understand average people.

The funny part is that the elite pundits and over-priced media types don’t get it either and so they see nothing wrong with his remarks. Too funny really.

 
 

Comment by wry | 2008-04-13 22:40:18

Lisa Shiffren wrote something really good on this topic. It was on National Review on line.

 

Comment by jawbone | 2008-04-13 22:45:16

First:
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/04/its-time-to-get-obama-skeptical.html

If you haven’t seen this post, do not miss it.

Second: I got a real kick out of visualizing Hillary as Annie Oakley! That woman was not only a fantastic shot but a really interesting person. Groundbreaking.

Third: Wasn’t Obama’s campaign all over Hillary back in Ohio when she said, “Shame on him” for some brochure he sent out in Ohio? Can’t recall it right now–voter gave her a copy and she was appalled at this RNC talking points. I can visualize her very straighforward anger.

Fourth: He sure is taking her words out of context and twisting them on several issue.

He is right ticked off.

 

Comment by Claude DiDomenica | 2008-04-13 22:49:38

Obama once again sticks his foot in his mouth revealing who he really is and rather than do the human thing and apologize, he faux-apologizes then immediately attacks Hillary for what he did.

This pattern of blame-shifting has gotten old and no longer is effective since it is so shallowly transparent. His campaign is amateur night — just imagine amateur night trying to run the Whitehouse.

I’ve never seen such a horrid man running for office. The man has no shame, speaking of shame.

I’m glad he has gone on the offensive, it doesn’t divert us from what he did, it actually keeps his original gaffe very much alive and we are still talking about his original nasty comments and Snobgate will bleed over into next week.

He made a huge mistake marginalizing the heart of America and he will pay dearly for it. 0% chance of winning the general election, even with Soros backing him.

 

Comment by Mel | 2008-04-13 22:56:12

Years ago I was in New Orleans, on Bourbon Street and a guy came up to me and said he’d bet me $5 he knew where I got my shoes! I had a few to many kool aides that night and said yea sure, and took him up on the bet! Well he then responded “you got one of your shoes on your right foot and got the other on your left foot, that is where you got your shoes!

Shame on me for being so gullable, but at the same time, learned to listen carefully at what people say!

Obama is as true to words as this guy is and this is no joke, and Clinton, Obama took the blinders off in his speech today, so go bury him alive Hillary, as American doesn’t need some phoney con artist in Washington!

 

Comment by Andy | 2008-04-13 23:03:43

Let’s see if ABC doesn’t show a clip of that video on Wednesday’s debate… yeah right.

Comment by Andy | 2008-04-13 23:04:46

meant ‘ABC shows’

 
 

Comment by Andy | 2008-04-13 23:04:05

Let’s see if ABC shows a clip of that video on Wednesday’s debate… yeah right.

 

Comment by Catriley | 2008-04-13 23:06:05

I do believe that the NRA has got itself a new candidate. Trust me… I have this feeling that Obama has an NRA person working on his campaign. This is too coordinated, and too gun-specific.

because he pandered in the Red States and lied about his actual record and policy on gun control, he has picked up the NRA’s interest in him.

Comment by SensibleWoman | 2008-04-14 00:16:40

Naw, I read an interview (can’t remember where) the other day with the Democratic Gov. of Montana. Gov had interviewer handle a couple of different types of guns at the beginning of the interview to “get the feel” so to speak.

Anyway, Gov answered a few questions and then the next to last question was whether or not he thought either of the Dems would be able to carry the state. Governor answered “No”. Interviewer asked “Why?” Gov. answered simply “Guns”.

Not exactly a what I would call a fantabulous delegate win in THAT western red state for Bama.

 
 

Comment by jwrjr | 2008-04-13 23:07:13

Izvestia and Pravda are Russian for ‘truth’ and ‘news’ (I don’t know which was which). In Russia they had a saying that translates to “There is no news in “News” and no truth in “Truth”.” That seems to apply to the American versions, too.

 

Comment by Mel | 2008-04-13 23:10:25

What is so tragic is that Obama cannot stand the fact that Democrats and Republicans are disgusted with his remarks last week-end for one and seond for his failed attempt at swinging it around so people will lap it all up!

So next best thing to do is for Obama to again lie!

Obama reality check time, people are seeing through the media attempts to immortalize you and your sending your surrogates out to try and defuse things isn’t going to work either, because the great thing about common folk Americans is we can still smell bullshit from a mile away! And you Senator Obama have proven how full of it you are since your loss in NH and everyday since the stentch simply grew stronger and stronger and now folks are done smelling your words and don’t care to see the sort of bottom of the barrel that your sorry excuse of an existance hasn’t even reached yet!

 

Comment by yikes | 2008-04-13 23:13:08

“Shame on you Barack Obama”

-Hillary Clinton

“Celestial choirs will sing”

-Hillary Clinton

Now you know how it feels.

I don’t like it when they’re nasty to each other.

Comment by simon, too | 2008-04-14 08:36:55

Today I read Obama has picked up antiabortion supporters.

This is a deliberate tactic, you should be SHOCKED!, it is an effort to get the heat off of him, and the elite, and focused on Clinton, discouraging, and worrying her traditional Democratic base. The trolls will be feeding with “concern.”

I would stay focused on Wright, the elite comments, and this recent compliment, in regard to Oakley.

And look upon him with disgust, as the obsolete piece of clueless garbage he is, he doesn’t seem to really understand WHY he uses the mehtods he does, and why they are ineffective. This is the problem with subpar ops, and their methods, they really dont get the math, they just imitate.Kind of like letting K** run your campaign.

Let’s not talk about Obama, let’s talk about Obama’s mistakes, the obtuse shith**d.

I wonder how Rezko is going?

More about Obama, and the terrorists coming out, soon?

And shame on those old washed up loser democrats paying for this CRAP.

Comment by simon, too | 2008-04-14 08:40:17

See, this is the Bush Rove strategy Obama uses, based on old, and I mean OLD, military and agency psy ops, never really proven, and most likely put out as disinfo ( leave it to the mrons to bite).

It has lost three wars.

You think those morons could catch a clue?

Somewhere, I have the image of a high level guy just laughing his ass off at Rove, and Bama…

 
 
 

Comment by MarkL | 2008-04-13 23:14:06

What a pathetic child. … he would be a worse President than Bush, except his advisers aren’t as bad.

 

Comment by Catriley | 2008-04-13 23:15:24

I think that the Clinton Campaign needs to find a recording of.. “anything you can do, I can do better” from Annie Oakely and play it at all her rallies! Wish I had time to whip up a video… hmmmm….

 

Comment by mercey | 2008-04-14 00:00:57

I have a few things, not the kitchen sink to throw out there.

One, what is the curriculm for a journalist
anymore? What has happened to asking the hard questions during events such as tonight on the CNN Faith
and Compassion forum.

Incidentally, the event surely seemed
to be stacked with prospin or pro obama
pandering.

The CNN thing tonight was most certainly not a debate but a political forum theater, very staged
in both behavior, questions, and the interviewers demeanor.

Example, when Obama was asked about issues
such as abortion and compassion why did
no one point out or ask why was it that Obama voted against giving medical care to infants who survived
botched abortions? Or Partial birth abortions?

It would be a basic question for any journalists to ask if the journalist was aware of his votes on such things.

No one followed up on this, or countered his response, they just let him use the airwaves for
his propaganda.

To myself, it’s basic compassion 101 to render
medical care to an infant, whether premature, normal term, or the survivor of a abortion.

Is it that journalists can’t think this quick, do not do their research on the people or issues that they cover, or that they have become nothing more
than promoters, rather than a journalist?

Few journalist report the news anymore, rather they promote something, someone, or some viewpoint; whether it be for the corporation that owns them or whatnot.

One of the few respectable journalists that I can recall is Michael Ware, the Australian who reports
on the Iraq war.

ANYHOW……as I get more disgusted with media…..

When is a reporter, or the media, going to ask Obama about how he could have Penny Pritzker not only chairing and driving the car of his financial fundraising campaign when she comes with her history of being the chair of a predatory lending bank, Superior, that failed because her family and her
did not want to put up the cash to keep it going, instead, allowing the Feds to come in.

Superior Bank
Doug Noland
Safe Haven, (03 Aug 2001)
http://www.safehaven.com/article-200.htm

…”Interestingly, the NYT reported on another institution where state and federal regulators (filing a “cease and desist” order back in 1991) “cracked down on an overleveraged bank that was making risky loans to real estate developers and engaging in what they called ‘hazardous lending and lax collection policies.’” The institution, River Bank America, was controlled by a partnership that included Mr. Dworman and the Pritzkers. From the NYT: “‘It (River Bank of America) became a bank that did a huge amount of real estate speculation,’ one regulator close to the situation said. ‘It really looked like an institution that had become a venture capitalist.’ This person saw parallels with the problems at Superior.”…”And while the regulators should be held accountable for not closing this institution sooner, I actually sympathize with their predicament. They were placed in a difficult situation, with the players involved obviously very powerful and politically connected. “…

Hyatt Hotel Family Will Pay $460 Million in S.& L. Case
New York Times, (11 Dec 2001)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E5D6163FF932A25751C1A9679C8B63

The Lessons of Superior
John Reich
FDIC: Speeches, Testimony & Articles, (28 Aug 2001)
http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/speeches/archives/2001/sp28aug01.html
…”Poor management and subprime lending. When mixed, they doomed Superior. Clearly, there is nothing inherently harmful in subprime lending and most subprime lenders are well capitalized and well managed. But, without question, it is a risky activity that bears close scrutiny. “…

Parallels in Problems Found at 2 Banks, 10 Years Apart
New York Times, (02 Aug 2001)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E7D8173CF931A3575BC0A9679C8B63

Disabuse Your Illusion: Weighing Obama in the Balance of Reality
BaltimoreChronicle.com, (29 Feb 2008)
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2008/022908Floyd.shtml
“But this seven-year-old bank failure has relevance in another way today, since the chair of Superior’s board for five years was Penny Pritzker, … ”

More baggage that accompanies Pritzker is that she owns one of the largest, if not the largest, credit reporting companies.

This……blows my mind, that a woman raising money for any presidential candidate would be able to do so if she would own a credit reporting company because obviously she would have access to people’s financial abilities, and mega other date, in relation to their ability to be solicited or to contribute…I mean paint the picture, don’t let me do it for you…..but the most vivid color I see in this picture is collusion.

Money Maven
WSJ.com, (15 Mar 2008)
http://s.wsj.net/article/SB120554763760338773.html?mod=psp_free_today
…”In 2005, she became chairman of TransUnion LLC, a Pritzker-owned consumer-credit tracking firm. “…”With the core Pritzker empire now shrinking, some Obama donors wonder whether Ms. Pritzker will move even deeper into politics, perhaps by following Mr. Obama to Washington if he wins. Ms. Pritzker responds: “I’m not thinking that far ahead.”"

The Marmon Group, Inc. — Company History
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/The-Marmon-Group-Inc-Company-History.html

…”Company History: The Marmon Group, Inc., one of the largest privately owned organizations in the United States, is in essence a holding company for more than 100 autonomously operated manufacturing and service companies, many of which are leaders in their respective industries. …The Marmon Group has been built up and managed by members of the Pritzker family, which was dividing its holdings among eleven heirs”…

Or how about the media chasing down the lies he gets away with while he spins the topic off to the other person then we have just his ego feeding basic lies about his birth, Selma, lies about the Kennedys and his father…..

He lies about these basic fundamental things where it doesn’t serve a purpose to lie, other than ego, then he has the biggie lies…….

Side bar……..think about it……most people lie because they don’t want to get punished, in trouble…..yaddah….or they lie to make themselves look bigger.

Then we have Obama’s ole, here let me take the smote out of your eye, never mind the ones in my eyes.

That,friends is a basic Jesus teaching that can be found in the NT….but we will nevermind that I suppose because it appears that……Obama follows his church doctrine, perhaps rather than Jesus’s teachings?

Or maybe he is selective about what he views as Jesus’s teachings to follow…..but it would be beyond nice and more informative if he said something other than my brothers keeper.

Obama Lies - Updated to reflect new dishonesties: LAUNDRY LIST OF LIES
ObamaLies.com, (03 Apr 2008)
http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/?p=62#comment-46

The Obama Meltdown Continues As His Lies Grow Longer
The Bulletin - Philadelphia’s Family Newspaper, (01 Apr 2008)
http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=19441967&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=8

Washington Post backs Andy Martin on Barack Obama’s lies
PR-inside, (30 Mar 2008)
http://www.pr-inside.com/washington-post-backs-andy-martin-on-r509563.htm

Should we expect an answer to these ?

Ten Troubling Questions I Asked Obama to Answer
American Chronicle, (30 Mar 2008)
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/56968

 

Comment by Clyde | 2008-04-14 00:01:17

Is comparing Annie Oakley to Annie Oakley supposed to be disparaging? Only in the minds of Obama and his blogs who try to disparage another female historical figure with their continual sexism. I guess they hate Annie Oakley too. I think any woman would be proud to be compared to this great American Icon.

http://www.lkwdpl.org/WIHOHIO/oakl-ann.htm

Whether it be a pistol, rifle, or shotgun, the legendary markswoman Annie Oakley was masterful with them all. Dubbed “Little Sure Shot” by Chief Sitting Bull (she was 5 feet tall), her sharp shooting in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show won her many awards and captivated audiences far and wide. Her name remains synonymous with firearms and entertainment.

Born in a log cabin on the Ohio frontier, Annie Oakley began shooting game at age nine to support her widowed mother and siblings. She quickly proved to be a dead shot and word spread so much that at age sixteen, Annie went to Cincinnati to enter a shooting contest with Frank E. Butler (1850-1926), an accomplished marksman who performed in vaudeville. Annie won the match by one point and she won Frank Butler’s heart as well. Some time later they were married and she became his assistant in his traveling shooting act. Frank recognized that Annie was far more talented and relinquished the limelight to her, becoming her assistant and personal manager. In 1885 they joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, run by the legendary frontiersman and showman Buffalo Bill Cody.

For seventeen years Annie Oakley was the Wild West Show’s star attraction with her marvelous shooting feats. At 90 feet Annie could shoot a dime tossed in midair. In one day with a .22 rifle she shot 4,472 of 5,000 glass balls tossed in midair. With the thin edge of a playing card facing her at 90 feet, Annie could hit the card and puncture it with with five or six more shots as it settled to the ground. It was from this that free tickets with holes punched in them came to be called “Annie Oakleys.” Shooting the ashes off a cigarette held in Frank’s mouth was part of the Butler and Oakley act. In a celebrated event while touring in Europe, Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Germany, invited Annie to shoot a cigarette held in his own lips. Annie had Wilhelm hold the cigarette in his hand and not his mouth; she accomplished this challenge, as always effortlessly. In this period Annie Oakley was easily recognizable by the numerous shooting medals that adorned her chest.

In a train wreck in 1901, Annie suffered a spinal injury that required five operations and even left her partially paralyzed for a while. Although she recovered very well, Annie toured less frequently during the latter part of her career. Nonetheless, her shooting expertise did not wane and she continued to set records. In a shooting contest in Pinehurst, N.C. in 1922, sixty-two-year-old Annie hit 100 clay targets straight from the 16 yard mark.

Annie Oakley died of pernicious anemia on Nov. 3, 1926, in Greenville, Ohio, at the age of sixty-six. A legend in her own time, the remarkable life of Annie Oakley would be celebrated in the 1946 Herbert and Dorothy Fields musical Annie Get Your Gun.

Comment by jwrjr | 2008-04-14 00:31:31

Obama is a legend in his own mind. May he is jealous of Oakley?

Comment by jwrjr | 2008-04-14 00:32:14

Correction: Maybe he is jealous of Oakley?

 
 
 

Comment by Hope | 2008-04-14 00:11:22

I’m absolutely livid. I just went over to that hideous Huffington Post, must learn to stop torturing myself.

They are eating their own over there. Over the top headlines attacking Bill Clinton and Hillary. This is amazing. It is absolutely astonishing to see this and greatly disturbing.

Pigs!

 

Comment by WMCB | 2008-04-14 00:27:49

Obama says she is in a duck blind every Sunday waving a six-shooter?

He evidently knows even less about hunting than he knows about bowling.

You don’t use a six-shooter in a duck blind, dumbass. You use a shotgun. Sheesh.

 

Comment by ca moderate | 2008-04-14 00:37:47

OMG - Bitter is not the issue you loser – calling folks racist is. Also, how can you literally say one thing and do another - complain about political attacks and then make them. I would not care if this troll attacked Hillary if he would just stop being such a whiner when anyone says anything about him. It is nice to be the Messiah - nice of him to come down off the cross for awhile and talk to us bitter, typical white people who love our religion and guns but only when the economy is bad. Also, he talks about religion- did not he only find Rev. Wright’s brand in his twenties – this is not the religion of this typical white person.

 

Comment by Alien | 2008-04-14 01:35:37

annie Oakley is an international female icon.

 

Comment by Prabhata | 2008-04-14 03:06:27

Obama does not know Annie Oakley. She was a wonderful woman, ahead of her time. She’s one of my heroes.

Comment by StatBabe | 2008-04-14 04:21:11

Obama does not know Annie Oakley. She was a wonderful woman, ahead of her time. She’s one of my heroes.

Yours and mine, too! I cannot think of a more powerful image to stir up among women like us. If I were not already in the Clinton camp, that would certainly have thrust me in that direction!

 
 

Comment by Clinton Fan | 2008-04-14 03:17:39

The Obama machine thinks they’re tough, and they think they know how to play dirty, but the GOP machine would wipe the floor with him. And it wouldn’t take them very long, either. He’s too unvetted and as we have learned, he’s pretty stupid to have spouted off like that to all those billionaires. It would probably be fairly easy for a surrogate to goad him into saying something intemperate.

 

Comment by DisenfranchisedVoter | 2008-04-14 04:10:11

I read Obama’s response but this is my first time watching the video above. Obama disgusts me. He is such a fraud I can’t stand it. The only person twisting his words is himself. He says one disgusting thing after another then he twists it and blames Hillary and Bill. Give me a break. He continues to blame the Clinton administration. Is he a Democrat or a Republican? He sounds really mad. He doesn’t regret anything he said. He hates rural America for voting for Clinton and he thinks any white person who doesn’t vote for him is a racist. He’s only angry that Hillary caught him on something he said that he knows was wrong and out of touch with middle America. His Annie Oakley comment also disgusts me. This just shows that he really is out of touch. Clinton grew up in a middle class family. Her grandfather worked in a factory. Her father taught her how to shoot. Why is that so hard to believe and why does that suddenly make her the bad guy. Obama is ridiculous. There is no way I’ll ever vote for this guy.

Comment by Uppity | 2008-04-14 04:58:34

His candy-assed sexism approach is getting more blatent. This is good because it pisses off more voting women, for starters. And if they aren’t anything else to this childish moron, they are 51% of the electorate. But the best part about it is he looks like a silly-assed kid on the playground during recess trying to impress everybody. It’s all the equivalent of “Nyah Nyah” or “My father can beat up your father”. This is the same kid who wonders why nobody wants to play with him.

Considering he acts like a limp-wristed wimp most of the time, his attempts at macho are really funny, I think. I mean, the only ridiculous thing left for him to do is point down and grab his package and yell Woooo Wooo Wooo!.

I think he’s afraid of women. Add it up. Grandmother was a bank VP and dad was a bum. Barack Obama thinks he’s running against his grandmother and and since his grandmother was stronger and way more competent than he, he’s really nervous about it. He should be. He’s incredibly inept. The longer he is away from the rally podium, the more it shows. He’s completely Ball-less on taking stances and he can’t put two words together without an Uhhhhhhhhh in between. Barry’s a mess.

 
 

Comment by Kefa | 2008-04-14 05:48:47

He can’t even win with a stacked deck….with all the odds on his side he can’t knock her out…in fact he and his side are a bunch of punks who can’t really seal the deal. The gang who really can’t shoot straight.

 

Comment by SueB. | 2008-04-14 06:06:19

Who the heck says “on the duck blind?” Obviously not a duck hunter. In the duck blind, at the duck blind…but not on the duck blind. Never.

 

Comment by kenoshaMarge | 2008-04-14 06:49:03

Of course they have no shame. They’ve shown again and again that they are tacky twits, masquerading as politicians of substance.

I don’t care that he’s a pol. They ALL are. Thus you take the best of them that you can get and hold their feet to the fire until the give you what you want and need.

The Democratic Party has shown no signs that they are worthy of our loyalty. I respect and admire Hillary Clinton’s loyalty to a party that has shown none to her. That she is still insisting on the “party” and voting for the “party” candidate shows me that she is a party loyalist all the way.

However I am not. And I don’t believe that Obama is loyal to anyone except Obama. So if this twerp is the Democratic nominee I will feel no compunction about writing in Hillary Clinton’s name and voting down ticket for the Democrats I think will do a good job. And that sure as hell doesn’t mean voting for any more fifth columnist Blue Dog Democrats. Especially to sit in the oval office.

Listen to Obama closely. (take anti-nausea medication as needed) This is a Blue Dog Democrat as ever was.

 

Comment by Fmr Dem not voting Obama ( formerly known as ces) | 2008-04-14 08:34:30

I’m struck by the thought that his striking out at Hillary about guns is somehow linked to his own ongoing bitterness toward his father which is transfered to his mother.

Hillary learned to shoot from her father. (As many, many of us did as just another rite of passage into adulthood. My whole family were farmers and used guns to get rid of varmints and such…. definitely not because we were ‘bitter’.) The point being that here parents were involved, in positive ways, with her life.

But Barack? His father probably didn’t do this sort of thing with him. And then had to go back to Africa. But he doesn’t blame him as much as he blames his mother. Barack probably blames the women in his life for messing up his dad. I think he blames his mother for his ‘whiteness’ and therefore includes her in with the other TWP and the ‘elite white ruling class’ he hates so much.

It seems to me Barack isn’t upset about the gun thing at all, it’s the reference to Hillary doing something with her father that gets Barack upset.

Comment by ebonyscrews | 2008-04-14 08:51:58

[REALLY REVOLTING MATERIAL REMOVED BY ADMINISTRATION].

Incidentally, have you see Hillary’s new ad in PA about her summers spent in Scranton? Beautiful spot. Scranton

 
 

Comment by Mel | 2008-04-14 09:15:05

Obama is back again with the lobbyist chanting again!

I have one very major question for Barack Obama:

We know so you say you do not take money from lobbyists (as if) but you do accept bundled money from the likes of the Directors of General Dynamics, Lester and James Crown (James sits on Obama’s national finance commitee) and John Rowe (Chairman of Exelon) and the rest of Obama;s new found bagfolks, any Obama accepts these bundled funds in $100 of thousands of dollars from them, and since no one has asked, my question is simple:

Barack Obama, your denial of lobbyist and PAC money is a simple way of eliminating the middleperson and so instead of a lobbyist sitting in wait at the Whitehouse, now it will be the likes of Crown and Rowe and others sitting their waiting to cash in on their contributions, EVERYONE KNOWS IT IS EASIER TO SAY NO TO A MIDDLEMAN THAN IT IS TO THE ACTUAL BAGMAN, so before you continue your attacks on Clinton taking lobbyist money, proclaim your position on how you will deal with your bundlers when they come knocking or phoning the Whitehouse door demanding payment for their support?

 

Pingback by Hillary’s Voice » From today’s Media News mailing 4/14/08 | 2008-04-14 11:24:23

[...] Dear Sen. Obama, Campaign Staff, and Your Media Cohorts: Have You No Shame? (by SusanUnPC at No Quarter) We noticed an odd similarity in two front pages this afternoon: HUGE headlines about Hillary and guns. First, there was the Huffington Post’s front page…: “Clinton Becomes A Gun Lover” Then there was Talking Points Memo’s front page…: “FOR IT, BEFORE SHE WAS AGAINST IT” And then it all made sense. I opened Mark Halperin’s The Page blog for Time magazine, and saw these blaring headlines: “… ‘She knows better. Shame on her. Shame on her.’ …  ‘That’s some politics being played by Hillary Clinton.’” This is not the first time we’ve noticed strikingly similar headlines and stories on pro-Obama sites like Huffington Post and Talking Point Memo. Halperin’s big red headlines — about Hillary Clinton “on the duck blind every Sunday” and that she’s “packing a six-shooter” — come straight from Obama’s mouth, quoted in a Fox News article. Playing politics!  During a political campaign!  Will the shame never end?  And where is the outrage at Whoever Kidnapped Josh Marshall for using against Clinton a right-wing attack on John Kerry?  Yes, I’m talkin’ to YOU, Mike. Click through for screen shots of the mysteriously alike home pages. [...]

 

Comment by Paul | 2008-04-14 12:07:44

Do you consider Obama’s remarks as “condescending” and “out of touch”?

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Comment by deelee | 2008-04-14 13:18:51

Is there any way to get the message out to mainstream readers, (newspaper commentaries, letters to the ed, etc.) If Obama can be so denegrating to a potential president of this country, then what is his true attitude towards women in general. This is the man who was raised by, and has everything he accomplished because of his mother and grandmother (NOT HIS FATHER THAT HE HEAPS PRAISE ON), this is the man that can so cavalierly throw his grandmother under the bus, this is a man that does not respect women, period. He must think of them as little air-headed groupies that are there just to pander to him.

It’s a sad fact, but I believe that this man is depriving some village of an idiot!

Comment by jm korbel | 2008-04-14 19:20:26

sorry, but I think in his case WE are the village and if we don’t stop him, then we are also the idiots.

 
 

Pingback by Hey Obama! No one wants to be laughed at. Least of all Voters « The Confluence | 2008-04-14 13:35:37

[...] It hurts to watch. And he can’t seem to stop himself. [...]

Comment by jm korbel | 2008-04-14 19:23:26

thought you were giving a link, pingback… but clicked and page says you are looking for something not here.?

 
 

Comment by sas | 2008-04-14 13:47:40

What a freakin’ jerk!

And the Democratic party thinks I might vote for him?

 

Comment by jm korbel | 2008-04-14 19:17:56

too bad barry…bad week .. see that CBS debate - the only one you, yourself, requested, has been cancelled - because Hillary pointed out it was scheduled for first day of Passover…. got to be some irony in that.

Can anyone help? I’ve prepared juicy (and intelligent, vital) questions to pose barry on ABC debate this Wed PM.

Now I can’t find an email address for Charles Gibson ABC or George Stephanopolous (sp) ABC who are the 2 moderators.

If an provide these (or either) contact info, thanks.

 

Pingback by Obama Resorts to Ridicule: ‘Hillary thinks She’s Annie Oakley, Packin’ a Six-Shooter’ (Video) | Womenhealth | 2008-04-21 14:51:19

[...] at No Quarter, we learn that Obama’s staff got the Annie Oakley idea from Obama Post. Like Hillary Clinton, [...]

 

Pingback by Make Them Accountable / Media | 2008-05-10 02:45:55

[...] Dear Sen. Obama, Campaign Staff, and Your Media Cohorts: Have You No Shame? (by SusanUnPC at No Quarter) We noticed an odd similarity in two front pages this afternoon: HUGE headlines about Hillary and guns. First, there was the Huffington Post’s front page…: “Clinton Becomes A Gun Lover” Then there was Talking Points Memo’s front page…: “FOR IT, BEFORE SHE WAS AGAINST IT” And then it all made sense. I opened Mark Halperin’s The Page blog for Time magazine, and saw these blaring headlines: “… ‘She knows better. Shame on her. Shame on her.’ …  ‘That’s some politics being played by Hillary Clinton.’” This is not the first time we’ve noticed strikingly similar headlines and stories on pro-Obama sites like Huffington Post and Talking Point Memo. Halperin’s big red headlines — about Hillary Clinton “on the duck blind every Sunday” and that she’s “packing a six-shooter” — come straight from Obama’s mouth, quoted in a Fox News article. Playing politics!  During a political campaign!  Will the shame never end?  And where is the outrage at Whoever Kidnapped Josh Marshall for using against Clinton a right-wing attack on John Kerry?  Yes, I’m talkin’ to YOU, Mike. Click through for screen shots of the mysteriously alike home pages. [...]

 

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