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Thread #3 : Michelle Obama and Louis Farrakhan Take On Whitey

Continuing the conversation begun in Larry Johnson’s post early today. Earlier threads are now closed.

Tune in to Hannity.

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Comment by artist | 2008-06-02 08:56:29

New polls!

ARG has Hillary up BIG in SD!

And within 4 in MT!!

Comment by sonia | 2008-06-02 13:43:26

YAYYYYYYYYYYYY

pls post the numbers and link

lets make calls

may be we can get her a win ,,that be good

hayyyyyyyyyyyyyy

 

Comment by tootsky | 2008-06-02 14:02:07

I have been informed by those who I have been in contact with at the Southern Poverty Law Center that a file is being amassed on Larry Johnson. My contact there is very disturbed by all of this, in particular a many times in the last month that the phrases “white power” ” white america” and other such terms have been used.

Soon Larry Johnson will go from being a respected commentator to someone listed alongside other hate groups by the SPLC. (ADL did not respond to my queries.) The Obama campaign is also well aware of Johnsons’s behaviour. I have been informed even the Clintons don’t approve.

So let’s see the video, cokehead.

Comment by OkieAtty | 2008-06-02 09:57:50

Pillow biting troll.

 

Comment by morgan | 2008-06-02 10:07:45

Trinity United isn’t a hate group?

Or the Nation of Islam? That must be a hate group or a “gang” of some sort, right?

Gosh, how much can you buy a blogger kid for these days? Maybe you will see when your 401K is rerouted to Africa b/c the Nation of Islam has power behind the Presidency! But the republicans will stop all that… that is what this is all about. The republicans will smear Obama, and the dems will lose. You won’t see a tape until they think Hillary is gone, Larry never said he had the tape. Obama must be scared to order more bloggers here. You are a sad person, I really feel sorry for you that you can be so easily bought and misled. People with a mind of their own wouldn’t let Michael Moore, Air America, Move on and etc tell them who to choose. People with any mind at all would realize you need the experience to be President and have the strength That Hillary has…

Comment by ChrisXP | 2008-06-02 15:28:27

Gosh, how much can you buy a blogger kid for these days?

I bet they’re doing it for nothing, since such kids want sugardaddy to offer them something they want — like free crack or meth.

These trolls are simply so green of pus, they don’t even understand what they’re posting anyway. A post on thread #2 about a “DOS” attack was a belly laugh. Why? Because it’s not even called a “DOS” attack, but what the ahole was referring to is called a DDoS attack — and definitions are crucial to being considered even knowledgeable of their own jabs! :rolleyes:

Poor nubs.

Comment by MyTownTalks | 2008-06-02 15:49:16

Yeh I thought the hackers from Redmond, as in Microsoft, was a nice touch too. Hell Larry has been running an attack on his own site with these posts. I tried for quite a while this monring to get in here and all I got was a 500 error. Wordpress does not do real well under a real load and that is why so many wordpress sites fail under a digg or slashdot effect.

Comment by roger, too | 2008-06-02 15:54:21

I was wondering if someone has a solution for this?

It would seem in need of an update.

We would run into this type of problem, too, but fortunately, we had someone around who could figure out a fix.

But with a mainstream blog, or even a business intranet, it’s a little different compared to our needs, with our small company.

 
 
 
 

Comment by lastlemming@mac.com | 2008-06-02 10:22:51

ewwwwww, I bet he’s scared. . . . .

You are confirming our worst suspicions with posts like this. What we want to see is an outright denial by the Obama people.

Until then. . .well, we’ll stay in touch…

Comment by Lisa | 2008-06-03 06:53:42

So you get to make up all manner of specious allegations against him and it is HIS responsibility to deny it? How about I announce to the world that I have a picture of you fucking a farm animal….and it is YOUR job to deny that this is so and prove to me that you are not, in fact, a farm animal fucker.

Hmmm?

 
 

Comment by Dr No | 2008-06-02 14:33:36

 

Comment by Susan1968 | 2008-06-02 14:52:27

Do I need a password to post comments?

 

Comment by KEVIN W | 2008-06-02 14:55:36

THE R.N.C. HAS THE TAPE BUT WILL NOT RELEASE IT TILL IT CAN DO THE MOST DAMAGE AND THAT WILL BE AFTER BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA GETS THE NOMINATION THATS WHEN WE’LL SEE IT AFTER CLINTON BOWS OUT SO THAT THE PARTY WILL BE SCREWED AND THEN CLINTON WILL NOT ACCEPT THE NOMINATION BECAUSE IT WILL KILL HER CHANCES IN 2012 VOTE FOR McCAIN !!!!

 

Comment by ginaswo | 2008-06-02 15:22:54

hey you know the Southern Poverty Law Center has called Rev Meeks lots of things, he is a baaad man in their book, you know who Rev Meeks gives spiritual counsel to? Barack Obama!!!

 

Comment by sinking ratboat | 2008-06-02 15:35:27

I have never seen phrases like ” white power ” used by Larry, Susan, or anyone who posts articles at NOQUARTER.

You need to get your facts straight.

Comment by Lady MacBeth Obama | 2008-06-02 15:48:37

white powder, maybe, ‘eh?
As in
“that Mr. Obama he likes rock. But I reckon he’d do powder, if nothing else was available.”

Comment by Lisa | 2008-06-03 06:56:10

Yes, because all black people do drugs, right?

Talk about a bunch of dog-whistling going on here. The republicans were right about Democrats. This a hideously racist party.

You suck.

 
 
 

Comment by stodghie | 2008-06-02 16:15:24

funny i was just on the phone with them about you. look out the window for the black helicopter, fellah.

 

Comment by Donkey Brazziere | 2008-06-02 16:53:02

Behaviour is spelled behavior in America…
Are you a Troll from India?

 
 

Comment by KEVIN W | 2008-06-02 14:46:48

CLINTON WANTS TO STAY AS LONG AS POSSIBLE BUT SHE WILL HAVE TO COME AROUND SOMETIME HERE IS THE REASON FOR HER NOT QUITTING THE REPUBLICANS HAVE THE VIDEO OF HUSSEINS WIFE MICHELLE AT THE CHURCH USING THE TERM WHITEY IN FRONT OF THE CONGREGATION BUT THEY WILL NOT RELEASE IT YET BECAUSE SHE’S STILL IN AND THERE HAS BEEN NO NOMINATION YET BUT ONCE THE D.N.C. MAKES THE ANOUNCEMENT THEN THE VIDEO WILL SURFACE AND HUSSEIN WILL BE TOAST THEN THE D.N.C WILL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO APPOINT THE CLINTON HAG TO TRY AND DEFEAT McCAIN BUT BY THEN THE PARTY WILL BE SO SREWED UP THERE WILL BE NO CHANCE IN NOVEMBER AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS THE CLINTON HAG WILL NOT WANT TO TRY AND MESS UP HER CHANCES FOR 2012 SO THERE YOU HAVE IT FOLKS NO HUSSEIN VOTE FOR McCAIN ! … NO HUSSEIN VOTE FOR McCAIN !!!

Comment by roger, too | 2008-06-02 14:50:54

You tried this with Edwards, got anything else?

How is oil/war/economy doing, not too good, huh?

So, what is the real prize?

And I’m trying to help you here, I see the SOS, from camp barney.

barney, the purple dinosaur (R-Clueless)

And I say that with affection.

 
 
 

Comment by artist | 2008-06-02 08:58:42

Comment by sonia | 2008-06-02 13:48:35

holly fuck

26 points up

r u serious ??

hm

i am gonna 4 choclates

i am happy

i will pray for her win .

Comment by Tina | 2008-06-02 14:10:14

COME ON! This is ARG! They are a bunch of idiots. This is the pollster which recorded 14 point swings overnight in some of the previous contests. If you want to believe an ARG poll, go ahead. They had Clinton eking out a win in North Carolina. Heavens!

Comment by sonia | 2008-06-02 14:23:12

Well they r mostly off by 10 points ,,

So if she is up 26 points ,,,,she will win by at least 10 points ,,

I mean –she was behind before,so if she is up ,thats a good news as it is .

 
 
 
 

Comment by kat in your hat | 2008-06-02 09:05:01

All good things to those who wait…

If this tape does come out and Michelle is talking smack about white people with Farrakhan–I’m going to get really angry at Obama for staying in this race—and REALLY angry with the dem party elites who did not do a proper vetting on Obama.

George Soros apparently paid for Obama’s vetting??

–How’s this: I think the dem party knew how radical and awful Obama was all along–they figured that the only way to hide it all would be through mass media blackout on his past. The media built his cult of personality via propaganda and lies, while they protected and poromoted him and attacked Hill.

Well, it has mostly worked, but they can’t keep it up forever…

Too bad so many people feel like they don’t even know who Obama really is.

I KNOW. And it AINT good!

 

Comment by LauraInCali | 2008-06-02 09:10:02

You Trolls need to calm down and go drink some more KOOL-AID and eat some Cheetos@ DKOS or that rag HufPO. Larry really has you shitting your pants. Poor little self righteous Obamabots. If Larry has heard this stuff I have no problem with him passing it on. Don’t Shoot The Messenger. Keep up the good work Larry and bring that fraud Obama down!

Comment by stodghie | 2008-06-02 16:21:53

look those poor trolls have run out of things to say. they can’t talk that much about hillary anymore. it’s her fault you know. they keep typing mcsame for mccain. they just blather. unity ponies run away from them back to the barn. nobody likes them not even michelle. the basement where mom banned them to is dark. the beat up computer has so many bugs, even the roaches are disgusted. give a troll a break i tell you. LEAVE THE TROLLS ALONE! that’s a scream for trolls. hehehe(snark)

 
 

Comment by Not until 9 | 2008-06-02 09:13:49

Larry is being played by the Republicans. He is no closer than three degrees removed from the alleged tape. He claims to have talked to people who have talked to people who have seen the tape, yet can only provide the barest of information about it. Isn’t it amazing that Larry claims five sources, yet none can provide any more information than the other? Normally one source knows something, another knows something else and so on. You put it together and you get a pretty complete picture. Larry’s five sources, on the other hand, all know the same detail. Maybe the source of Larry’s sources is the same person who can’t believe his luck in getting Larry to be his useful idiot?

Comment by roger, too | 2008-06-02 15:08:59

Reading the AP report, I think Clinton might suspend her campaign tomorrow, though I TRULY hope I’m misreading, at some point, some politician has to take this crap on, Hillary can do it.

But really, the republicans v Obama?

There’s horrific evidence v Obama, and you know it.

Comment by ginaswo | 2008-06-02 15:32:33

did Nedra the ohhh ahhh get out of our way we are photographing Baracks critch shot, write that AP piece

AP had been in the tank for Obama all along

they think if they keep writing it, it will make it so

I think that if Hillary doesnt take it to the floor, our votes as Dems as worthless from now forward

they STOLE 18,000 MI HRC voters votes and GAVE them to Obama in the form of 4 of HRC dels

beyond the Uncommitted which is also in violation of the Consitution, the charter and rule 13a, the 4 del THEFT must NOT STAND

The only way to fic this now is to go to Denver, to the credentials cmte which must have their decision ratified by the convention IIRC? That way this will never happen again

Comment by roger, too | 2008-06-02 15:58:33

I know, and I hope to hell I’m wrong.

 
 

Comment by stodghie | 2008-06-02 16:24:16

good luck with that! she says no.

 
 
 

Comment by PaulaR | 2008-06-02 09:16:10

Has anyone seen this article and have any comments? I found it on http://www.townhall.com.

Conservative/ACLU Arguments Beg the Question on Florida/Michigan Primaries
By Peter J. Wirs

This past Saturday, the Democratic National Committee Rules Committee voted, as many anticipated, on seating the Florida and Michigan Democratic delegates with only half of vote. Moreover, 59 Michigan delegates were awarded to Barak Obama, notwithstanding he was not on the January 15 Michigan primary ballot. As Clinton adviser and Rules committee member Harold Ickes asserted, the outcome for Michigan was a hijacking of voters’ intent because it assigned delegates to Mr. Obama even though he did not win them.

As we reported last week, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), the former chairman and now ranking minority member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is seriously evaluating whether he should call for Congressional hearings. We know that the Senator’s political brain trust was working around the clock to analyze a response to the DNC decision. Although having no direct confirmation, we would expect Florida Governor Charles Crist and Michigan Attorney General Michael Cox, among others, were waiting for the Democrats to cast their decision into stone before considering whether they should seek judicial intervention as per Specter’s brainstorming.

Specter, probably one of the most legally astute of GOP Senators, contends the DNC is violating one of the most fundamental of all constitutional rules, that once a vote is cast it must be counted. This constitutional principle, pronounced by the United States Supreme Court since Ex parte Yarborough (1884) and reiterated as recently as Gray v. Sanders (1963), is simply beyond reproach. This rock-bottom constitutional demand applies to primaries as well as general elections. United States v. Classic (1941). Reiterating black letter law stated in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966), the high court reasserted in Bush v. Gore (2000) that “once granted the right to vote on equal terms, the State may not, by later arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person’s vote over that of another.”

Conservatives responded to our May 27 column that neither the Senate nor the courts have any business regarding the affairs of a political party on the First Amendment grounds of freedom of association. Their contention was viscerally shared by the ACLU, who graciously responded to us, but after our deadline. This Conservative/ACLU argument relies on major Supreme Court case, primarily Democratic Party of Wisconsin v. LaFollette (1981) which holds that First Amendment freedom to gather in association for purpose of advancing shared belief is protected by Fourteenth Amendment from infringement by any state, and moreover, that freedom to associate for common advancement of political beliefs necessarily presupposes freedom to identify people who comprise the association, and to limit the association to those people only. The High Court went on to hold that a political party’s choice among various ways of determining makeup of a state’s delegation to party’s national convention is constitutionally protected, thus prohibiting the state or courts from substituting its own judgment for that of the party.

But the joint conservative-ACLU logic falls under the petitio principii rule as their assertion is merely a strawman that begs the question, because obviously no one is disputing the Democrats have every right to set what its rules are and how its delegates are to be selected.

But once the Democrats evoke the state’s machinery in order to hold a public primary, a bright line is crossed. As the Supreme Court in Gray v. Saunders observed state regulated party primaries “show that the State . . . collaborates in the conduct of the primary, and puts its power behind the rules of the party. It adopts the primary as a part of the public election machinery. The exclusions of voters made by the party by the primary rules become exclusions enforced by the State.” Grey v. Saunders went on to assert that “state regulation of this preliminary phase of the election process makes it state action.”

The issue isn’t that the DNC is asserting some “for members only” admission to a clubhouse. The issue is that the Great States of Florida and Michigan held primaries, which although concerning one or another of our two major political parties, is part of the electoral process. These primaries weren’t private affairs. They weren’t even party affairs. They were official state actions. The DNC was acting by virtue of the power delegated to it by the legislatures of both Florida and Michigan. The taxpayers of both Florida and Michigan, not the DNC, paid for the primaries. If the DNC wants to exclude voters, or count only half of the votes cast, or award Obama delegates he did not win, then they should hold private affairs (like that San Francisco cocktail reception where Obama asserts most of us are bitter by virtue of believing in God). Let them sell tickets and pay for the events themselves.

Keep in mind that our major political parties are not the same as a local cub scout troop. The rule initially expressed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in Bentman v. Seventh Ward Democratic Executive Committee (1966) which Senator Specter properly observed, is now the law of the land in both Federal and state courts, is that “the relationship between political parties, the government and the public has become such that, in many areas, the public interest is not only directly affected by political parties but such parties actually perform public functions imposed upon them by law. Insofar as a political party performs statutorily-imposed public functions and to the extent that its actions constitute state action, the internal organization of such political party is a matter of such concern to the public as to make it subject to constitutional limitations and judicial restraint. When the internal organization of a political party directly affects its performance of such public function then not only may the judiciary intervene but it must intervene.”

I don’t know about my fellow conservatives, but when I go to the polls to vote, I don’t want someone to cancel or dilute my vote. I expect my vote to be count as one vote, nothing more, nothing less.

About The Author
——————————————–
Peter J. Wirs is currently the Chairman & Co-Trustee of the Republican Leadership Trust as well as the incoming President of the National Conference of Public Officials.

 

Comment by rob | 2008-06-02 09:40:41

imo larry has gone over the bend.

 

Comment by jimbo | 2008-06-02 09:41:09

Face it, obama will never be president. If Rezko doesn’t take him down, or his relations with Ayers, Wright and the other guy, or the supers finally wise up, then Clinton supporters who have been slimed and insulted will.

 

Comment by awaken | 2008-06-02 09:59:45

you’re providing a link to Hannity? Hannity?

Please

 

Comment by rigs | 2008-06-02 13:43:26

this tape story sounds like abunch of BULLSHIT to me, wheres the evidence. Larry hasnt even seen it? blah, what a bunch of crock, you guys are making all Hillary supporters look like morons.

Comment by uhh somehow this notion that I am qualified to be president is uhh uhh ridiculous | 2008-06-02 09:14:15

I think the fact that no one disputes the possibility of this tape existing in the first place says all we need to know about the Obamas. His supporters and everyone else knows her racial rantings are completely in the realm of possibility and have already begun making excuses for the tape “that does not exist”.

 

Comment by L | 2008-06-02 09:24:48

It is obvious there is a tape since OBAMABOTS are
already responding with their talking points.
That she is actually saying “Why’d he” I have seen
this on many blogs this morning and from several
states. So they know about the tape and are trying
to lessen the damage with their version of what
she is really saying. If there were no tape they
would have no reason to do this. We will just wait
and make the judgement for ourselves.

 

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-06-02 13:45:53

r u feeling like a moron rigs?

aww

cheer up it will get better
it’s probably just late
stop projecting
it only gives you ulcers ;-)

Comment by rigs | 2008-06-02 13:52:43

I dont feel like a moron at all because im not parroting some tape that probably doesnt even exist. LCJohnson hasnt even seen it, get real! Hillary will gracefully exit the race, there is no need for this video crap unless there was a tape, and there IS NO TAPE!

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-06-02 14:06:19

I hope you have those ruby slippers on when you say that

and you must say it 10 times while clicking your heels (don’t forget)

pfffffffft

Comment by rigs | 2008-06-02 14:12:47

ok dawnelle, im just looking at the evidnce, and 5 unamed sources who havent seen it, (i.e 3rd hand rumours) dont make it likely. I will be back here in a week if the tape hasnt surfaced by then i hope you will admit it doesnt exist, or you can keep dreaming that it will come out before convention at some undetermined time. haha, I LOVE HILLARY, this isnt what shes about.

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-06-02 14:40:42

cya next week!

 
 
 

Comment by Betty | 2008-06-02 15:26:02

why’d he say that?

 
 
 

Comment by Isolde | 2008-06-02 13:52:47

The smell of fear. If this is so damaging to your sensibilities go back to DK and and make fun of everyone to make yourself feel significant.

I know Repubs also, and they are saying much worse is available than Larry is describing. Much, much worse. So get your “Clinton has a girlfriend” stories ready because no one cares but the underwear sniffers.

Comment by rigs | 2008-06-02 14:05:19

WHAT?> 1st. Im a Clinton suporter, so there is no fear, and if tape were real, it would be one thing. You know repubs and what they are ’saying’ well ’saying’ isnt good enough. This wont be a controversy because Johnson has no tape, he hasnt even seen it or talked to anyone who has… do you live in reality? I’m a Hillary suporter, but I live in reality.

Comment by Isolde | 2008-06-02 16:19:59

I am glad that you are a Clinton supporter and you think she will exit gracefully just like the Obama talking point of the day. I think she will suspend. The Repubs have been talking about this church and the Obama’s participation in it for months. Larry is telling us what his Repub friends are saying. It is not up to him to get or release the tape. I take it as a warning.

If you do not believe that it exists, then good for you. I do not know or really care if it does because there will be 10 other things for slimeballs like Roger Stone (who was snooping around for the other candidate who had more money than God- Guiliani) to put out in the media. The crap is just beginning. Believe it or not. It really doesn’t matter because the public will be bombarded with it.

 

Comment by stodghie | 2008-06-02 16:26:16

yeah, that is one of the little troll tricks. yeah, i am a hillary supporter, yuk yuk! i’ll damn her with faint praise all the while sticking a knife in the ole back. yeah right!

Comment by **== President & Commander-in-Chief Hillary Clinton **== | 2008-06-02 16:27:20

I foiled em. See above.

 
 
 
 

Comment by TeakwoodKite | 2008-06-02 14:02:46

BULLSHIT so I understand you want see it to believe it…no big…

all in good time…but in the meantime it goes down one of two ways .

It is real; as the other tapes of BO “overseas” doing the “controvesial”.

a) before Denver
b) after Denver

It doesn’t exist and nothing ever sees the light of day or The Rethugs make a deal with BO and the DNC that we won’t release it if you DON’T prosecute us.

This has happened before.

a) before Denver
b) after Denver

Rocky Mountain High it ain’t.

Comment by stodghie | 2008-06-02 16:27:38

hey teakiepoo, stfu!

 
 

Comment by Scott | 2008-06-02 16:45:46

I think the tape is under tight security at area 51.

 
 
 

Comment by JDRhoades | 2008-06-02 13:46:22

I look over to the right of the page and I see the following words over Senator Clinton’s picture:

Pony up or perish!

Heh.

 

Comment by Mudkipz | 2008-06-02 13:46:25

But we weren’t done “getting real” yet in regards to the absence of any tape or verifiable information regarding a tape! It’s a long process!

 

Comment by thom803 | 2008-06-02 13:47:42

What happened to the rumor that Neil Cavuto is dropping a bombshell today? Is that going to be a non-event?

 

Comment by AnninCa | 2008-06-02 13:47:50

I personally the debate is over.

I believe that there is no “Democratic Party” now. It’s over.

The Democratic party relied upon moderates, and we’re done. We are just done.

Comment by uhh somehow this notion that I am qualified to be president is uhh uhh ridiculous | 2008-06-02 14:25:22

Moderates? Obama is far left.

Comment by HillaryMadamePresident | 2008-06-02 14:59:18

I think that’s what she meant. The moderates have been overtaken by the far left.

Comment by Ivory Bill Woodpecker | 2008-06-02 15:39:44

And the wrong kind of Left, at that. Not a working-class Left that concentrates on bread-and-butter issues, but a quasi-Puritan, pseudo-intellectual Left that lambastes us ordinary working stiffs as ignorant, bigoted savages and then turns around and says “Vote for us!”

And they keep doing that, and they keep losing the WHite House, and they. just. never. LEARN.

 
 
 
 

Comment by Gary McGowan | 2008-06-02 13:48:56

Off-topic, in a narrow sense, but I don’t see this mentioned anywhere:

Clinton Sweeps Puerto Rico

June 1, 2008 (LPAC)–With 49% of the vote counted Hillary Clinton had 108,612 votes (68%) to Barack Obama’s 51,411 votes (32%). Clinton campaign chairman Terence McAuliffe said the Puerto Rico result underscores Clinton’s strength among Hispanic voters who will be crucial to Democratic chances in November. “Hillary’s proven once again here that she wins it 2-to-1,” he said.

Hillary Clinton she has now won 8 of the last 13 contests, starting with the March 4 primaries.

The demographic breakdown of the vote reported by CNN and FOX TV shows that Hillary Clinton won all categories. She won 66% of those who learn less than $30,000 per year. She also won those who had higher income. She won women, sneiors and she also won 61% of the men and 54% of young people. She won 60% of those with university degrees, 65% of those who considered the economy the most pressing issue. She also won those who were opposed the war in Iraq. Finally, she won the majority of those who wanted change, but not Obama’s version of change.

 

Comment by artist | 2008-06-02 13:50:02

Obama was supposed to win these states.

 

Comment by JDRhoades | 2008-06-02 13:50:29

The Democratic party relied upon moderates, and we’re done. We are just done.

We were relying on moderates when we nominated John Kerry and we got our asses handed to us.

Comment by WestPalm4Hillary | 2008-06-02 13:53:12

And so now, what? You think your coalition of NIKES (No Income Kids w/ Education), affluent liberals and the African Americans they condescend to is the winning combination?

What PLANET do you people live on?

My God, I actually think this “split” in the Democratic party is a looong time coming.

Comment by Arabella Trefoil | 2008-06-02 14:02:37

I belong to PUMA. (Party Unity My Ass)

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-06-02 14:13:03

LOL more like Hillary Dems Uniting with Moderate Conservatives

something I didn’t think possible before all this

 
 

Comment by James | 2008-06-02 15:01:48

The winning combination is to GET THE MOST VOTES, not try and figure out the perfect combination of demographics. “If we get the soccer moms and the civil servants, that’s the magic formula.” That’s bullshit.

And it has been a DISASTROUS strategy for the Democratic Party, and lost them both houses of Congress.

HERE’S an idea – how about the party actually STAND FOR SOME PRINCIPLES and BELIEVE IN SOMETHING instead of standing for nothing but pure politics?

 
 
 

Comment by Gary McGowan | 2008-06-02 13:51:04

Off-topic, in a narrow sense, but I don’t see this mentioned anywhere:

Clinton Sweeps Puerto Rico

June 1, 2008 (LPAC)–With 49% of the vote counted Hillary Clinton had 108,612 votes (68%) to Barack Obama’s 51,411 votes (32%). Clinton campaign chairman Terence McAuliffe said the Puerto Rico result underscores Clinton’s strength among Hispanic voters who will be crucial to Democratic chances in November. “Hillary’s proven once again here that she wins it 2-to-1,” he said.

Hillary Clinton she has now won 8 of the last 13 contests, starting with the March 4 primaries.

The demographic breakdown of the vote reported by CNN and FOX TV shows that Hillary Clinton won all categories. She won 66% of those who earn less than $30,000 per year. She also won those who had higher income. She won women, seniors and she also won 61% of the men and 54% of young people. She won 60% of those with university degrees, 65% of those who considered the economy the most pressing issue. She also won those who were opposed the war in Iraq. Finally, she won the majority of those who wanted change, but not Obama’s version of change.

 

Comment by TeakwoodKite | 2008-06-02 13:51:29

for Mr.Murder from last…

Yea he was a “conservative” player. according a story in the Sun-Times…compared to the 450,000 in the hole Rezko is in…one has to ask what is conservative?
BO ever have any gambling debts early on that got him “in with” the wrong crowd? Hope not.

In some circles 450 large is more than a kneecap is worth.

Unless you already own the Broadway Bank it was written from then you would want to collect on both ends….what a guy Rezko is….

“Just someone you knew” eh BO? Like “a guy in the Nieborhood”?

I can’t BO thinks he has any credibility left to stand on…

 

Comment by Sugar | 2008-06-02 13:52:34

This feeble attempt by the Obamakids to try to use reverse psychology to get Larry or anybody to show the tape is really sad. lol You fools hope that by releasing the tape earlier, it will soften the blow, but let’s put things in perspective. Jeremiah Wright ain’t over yet! We’ll all get to see Eraser Head again too! Do you really think it matters when this tape is released!? Kick rocks!

 

Comment by DianeJ | 2008-06-02 13:54:10

The story regarding the “Michelle Tape” makes sense to me. Look how much data needs to get out there for people to wake up and smell the coffee. OBAMA CAN NOT BE TRUSTED. For certain he knew the beliefs of Wright and Phleger and I guess we can add Farrakhan to the list.

Obama can not be trusted. He lacks experience in foreign policy. Michelle Obama is a strong women with a strong voice. here is a highlight from her thesis –

“There is no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black community, I am obligated to this community and will utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit the black community first and foremost.”

 

Comment by heh_man | 2008-06-02 13:55:22

Hey Lar, who are you getting your information from, Jason Leopold?

How many hours until we see the tape? And are those clock hours, or business hours?

 

Comment by paranoid.pj | 2008-06-02 13:55:55

My five friends have all told me that they each have a friend that has seen a video of Larry Johnson taking a dump on the American flag, rolling it up, and smoking his dumpflag! If you want to see the video GET REAL! Paranoid.pj’s description of the video is the story!

Comment by AngryWhitePerson | 2008-06-02 14:47:13

Did your five friends also take a dump on the fallen police officers’ memorial in Portland? Because that is where the bright Obama campaign decided to stick their porta potties for their “75,000 person rally.” While the flag was still half mast. Did they not notice they were literally crapping on a memorial?

I believe Vince linked to it yesterday. What a fucking disgrace. Shitting on America, that’s the Obama plan.

 
 

Comment by marie3548 | 2008-06-02 13:56:30

MyTownTalks News You Can Use Home About Contact Michelle Obama Whitey transcript
Posted by admin on June 2, 2008Well this is total rumor and I have no idea if this is accurate or not, but I was sent an email with part of the alleged speech of the reported Michelle Obama words where she mentioned Whitey. Take this at face value and I have no data what so ever if this is accurate or not, but since there has been so many comments on this topic then I will share what I was sent. Normally I would ignore this content, but since I’ve seen several Obama supporters on this site and other sites tell part of the exact phrase it may have some merit. You can make up your own mind. Me I’m still waiting for the entire tape before I make up my mind on what this really means.

Reported verbiage from Michelle Obama’s tape

“Once again, the white man keeps us down, what’s up with Whitey, Why’d he attack Iraq, Why’d he let Katrina happen, Why’d he leave millions of children behind. This is the legacy the white man gives us”

 

Comment by Jack | 2008-06-02 13:56:37

“Why do you feel the need to keep bringing up Obama’s race. Those of us here that post on a regular, if not daily, basis don’t make that an issue.”

Because you and the rest of the people on this site are filled with a hatred that borders on irrationality. Because you’re pushing a racially-based smear based on a video that no one has seen. Because there have been many comments here that stir up racial divisions and at best could be described as white resentment.

Comment by deelee | 2008-06-02 10:43:17

“Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary”

troll [trəul] noun
an imaginary creature of human-like form, very ugly and evil-tempered.

Jack let’s face it you (and your many associates) are trolls.

 

Comment by Northwest rain | 2008-06-02 14:59:08

One really doesn’t have to go far to find the racist statements of either Mr or Mrs Obama.

Mrs. Obama college thesis — loaded with racism. She’s been a hater for a long time.

And then there are many statements in Mr. Obama’s books — the one that really stands out and hit my Kansas family: “white trash farm boys”. THIS is a racist statement — it is also an elitist statement.

“what trash farm boys” is a direct quote from Mr. snObama’s book.

These people do not belong anywhere near the white house — we do not need racist and people who associate with extreme racists in the white house.

The tape does exist and it WILL see the light of day.

 
 

Comment by tootsky | 2008-06-02 13:56:58

I have been informed by those who I have been in contact with at the Southern Poverty Law Center that a file is being amassed on Larry Johnson. My contact there is very disturbed by all of this.

Comment by Kevin | 2008-06-02 14:11:20

Help, help! I’m being repressed!

Comment by Ulahane | 2008-06-02 15:36:17

Bloody peasant!

Comment by Ivory Bill Woodpecker | 2008-06-02 15:45:29

Tootsky’s mother was a hamster, and his father smelt of elderberries. I fart in his general direction! ;)

Comment by Betty | 2008-06-02 15:55:25

I fart in his general direction!

I remember the first time I heard it – that frechman standing on the battlements, I doubled over laughing.

 

Comment by Lady MacBeth Obama | 2008-06-02 15:59:28

lol. These stupid Obama people (I am saying this with a French accent). Monty Python is one of the cures for Obama-psychosis. I think the center for de-programming people will be using it a lot with these poor broken-down trolls.

Comment by Ulahane | 2008-06-02 16:04:11

Absolutely! “The Life of Brian” would be a good place for them to start.

 
 
 
 
 

Comment by Al | 2008-06-02 14:50:44

You’re full of it. The world is a lot smaller than you think.

So tell us, who is your “disturbed contact” at SPLC?

Comment by tootsky | 2008-06-02 16:08:01

The initials are PW.

 
 

Comment by Rob in Chicago | 2008-06-02 16:00:11

I think that TOOTSKY may be confusing his acronyms, and that he made is report to his contacts at the ASPCA.

 
 

Comment by Tarc | 2008-06-02 13:58:16

I don’t eve see how she was ever down in MT or SD. Demographically those should’ve been in her column all along.

 

Comment by Chris | 2008-06-02 13:59:54

I seriously can’t believe this Obama guy, this is the last time we should ever let a black man run for president. I mean look at the complications here, this may be the first president we’ve ever had that married someone that used an inflammatory remark. We can’t seriously look at our country in the same light if someone like this gets elected president, god damn I think next time we should have a vote after issues like this come up so we can fully grasp the situation and then have the people decide if it’s relevant or not.

Cause it’s not, and you’re stupid.

Comment by TeakwoodKite | 2008-06-02 14:25:02

It is not about race Chris. So if it is for you that is sad.

On the merits BO is unqualified. And in many respects reckless and immoral as a person.

That Obama and his igits chose to make it about race is his problem and I am not going to be guilt-ed for anything.

Comment by Northwest rain | 2008-06-02 15:03:22

Exactly — this is about an individual named Barry Obama who just happens to be black.

And really I could care less about the color of his skin or his gender or sexual preferences.

It is about the content of his character and I find Barry Obama extremely lacking in the character department.

 
 
 

Comment by JDRhoades | 2008-06-02 14:00:01

The story regarding the “Michelle Tape” makes sense to me. Look how much data needs to get out there for people to wake up and smell the coffee. OBAMA CAN NOT BE TRUSTED. For certain he knew the beliefs of Wright and Phleger and I guess we can add Farrakhan to the list.

The tape is real because Obama cannot be trusted. Obama cannot be trusted because of the tape.

The way you keep chasing your tails in circles like that, it’s no wonder y’all sound so disoriented.

Comment by Chris | 2008-06-02 14:02:28

The tape is real because Obama cannot be trusted. Obama cannot be trusted because of the tape.

The tape is about as real as my third thumb

Comment by hillarysmygirl | 2008-06-02 14:16:43

That’s not a thumb.

Comment by Sugar | 2008-06-02 14:38:33

hahahahahahahahahaha! It’s not a pinky either!!!

 
 
 
 

Comment by JAY in Los Angeles | 2008-06-02 14:01:44

Larry — I’ve been asking around, and sure enough — you did yourself a disservice by overstating the gravity of the news you had today. I hope you recover because I like what you’re doing here.

But your credibility was damaged by this publicity stunt.

Comment by Betty | 2008-06-02 16:02:58

It ain’t over yet – deep’leyd plans.

 
 

Comment by Kevin | 2008-06-02 14:02:01

A little history lesson for the wee children trolling here…
Time and again the Dems nominate propellerheads for POTUS, time and again they lose. When they nominate a centrist (WJ clinton) they win.

 

Comment by Jack | 2008-06-02 14:03:15

Hillary Clinton has summoned top donors and backers to attend her speech tomorrow night in an unusual move that is being widely interpreted to mean she plans to suspend her campaign and endorse Barack Obama.

Obama and Clinton spoke Sunday night and agreed that their staffs should begin negotiations over post-primary activities. In addition to help raising money to pay off some $20 million-plus in debts, Clinton is known to want Obama to help out black officials who endorsed her and are now taking constituent heat, including, in some cases, primary challenges from pro-Obama politicians.

“This has never happened before,” one donor said, referring to the personalized request by email to attend the event in New York Tuesday night.

Obama is expected to claim enough delegates to put him over the top that night at a separate event in Minneapolis.

Earlier in the day it was reported that Clinton staffers were being urged by the campaign’s finance department “to turn in their outstanding expense receipts by the end of the week,” another sign that the run at the White House was nearing an end. In addition, Politico wrote that members of Clinton’s advance staff had received calls and emails Sunday night, summoning them to New York City and telling them their roles on the campaign are ending.

Comment by roger, too | 2008-06-02 14:27:24

If this was true, Obama still goes to prison.

Which was/is the goal, all along.

Can you get your head around it, yet?

 
 

Comment by Big Al | 2008-06-02 14:03:29

So why is Larry holding out? Because he HAS nothing in his hand.

I call bluff. I’ve seen poker bluffing before, or as it’s called in politics: lying. All odd, isn’t it, how it happens just as Obama is t-h-i-s close to being the Democratic nominee for President. “We have a smear! Be scared, people!”

Clinton has smeared, and apologized, before. Hell, she did it last week with RFK. But that’s because she knows the Rove tactic that says too much fear is bad, but it works in dribs and drabs. Be scared, don’t be scared. I don’t think Obama is a Muslim, of course Senator Obama isn’t Muslim. I talk about shot politician when referring to Obama, I apologize for that comment.

You. Are. Being. Toyed. With. And most of you have no idea.

Google “argumentum ad metum”. Fear appeals are nonmonotonic, meaning that the level of persuasion does not increase in proportion to the amount of fear that is used. A study of public service messages on AIDS found that if the messages were too aggressive or fearful, they were rejected by the subject; a moderate amount of fear is the most effective attitude changer.

From the front page… FYI, for those expecting to SEE the tape, GET REAL. Read Larry Johnson’s description of what is ON the tape. That is the story.

Self confessed. The smear is the story. There is no tape. Do not be alarmed.

The story is: are you gullible, or not?

Comment by roger, too | 2008-06-02 14:31:35

You have no idea what the fuck yo are talking about.

Did it ever occur to you, you suck?

I mean, really, TRY to see something other than that lil pea dick of yours, really, try NOT to think like the real K**, no one admires him, he’s not smart, now, is he?

This was supposed to be your big troll day, and it’s come off like a little small wet fart.

Big deal.

It’s very real, and corrupt actions DO have consequences, straight down the line.

 
 

Comment by Oh, Come On! | 2008-06-02 14:06:18

You’ve GOT to be fucking kidding.

WELCOME TO ROMPER ROOM.

The Pant-Suited Wonder is going down in flames, deal with it!

So, it there’s a tape, BRING IT, you retards…I DOUBLE-DOG DARE YOU!

Comment by roger, too | 2008-06-02 14:24:05

parody, right?

 

Comment by TeakwoodKite | 2008-06-02 14:41:55

It’s your tongue….

Comment by roger, too | 2008-06-02 15:28:15

xerox?

missing it again, the difference between those who can, and those who try.

 
 

Comment by PISSEDOFFWHITEY | 2008-06-02 15:36:58

One thing you can be sure of…that snuff dipping Mrs.Obama did not sit in silence in that anti-american church for twenty years without running off at the mouth about white people. That kind of hate ozzes out one way or another way.I don’t know if there is a tape. But if not, it’s because they can’t find it. GO MCCAIN!!!

 

Comment by KEVIN W | 2008-06-02 15:43:24

THE CLINTON MACHINE DON’T HAVE THE TAPE THE R.N.C. HAS IT…….. IF THE CLINTONS HAD IT THEY WOULD HAVE RELEASED IT BY NOW AND GOT RID OF OBAMA AND HAD A CHANCE AT McCAIN BUT THEY COULD NOT GET IT BUT THAT IS THE REASON SHE STAYED IN FOR SO LONG THEY WERE TRYING TO AQUIRE IT BUT TO NO AVAIL THE R.N.C. IS WAITING TO RELEASE IT AFTER SHE BOWS OUT THEN IT WILL DO THE MOST DAMAGE THE D.N.C. WILL THEN TRY TO GET CLINTON BACK BUT BY THEN THE PARTY WILL BE TOO SCREWED UP (not that they aren’t srewed up already !) BUT THEN CLINTON WILL REFUSE BECAUSE IT WILL KILL HER CHANCES IN 2012 NO HUSSEIN VOTE FOR McCAIN !!!!!!!

 

Comment by KEVIN W | 2008-06-02 15:55:53

YOU GOTTA BE A COMPLETE MOORON TO EVEN THINK THE TAPE IS NOT REAL DO YOU THINK THAT FOR A MOMENT THAT WITH ALL THE MEDIA ATTN THAT THE CHURCH WAS GETTING SOMEONE IN THAT CONGREGATION WANTED TO CASH IN (A LITTLE pssss. how much will you pay if i have this……..) WE ALL KNOW THE ANSWER PLENTY JUST FOR THE RECORD THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO SELLS MORE LOTTERY TICKETS THAN ANYWHERE IN THE MIDWEST AND YOU THINK SOMEONE DIDN’T SEE $$$$ SIGNS LMFAO NO HUSSEIN VOTE FOR McCAIN !!

 
 

Comment by rwc | 2008-06-02 14:13:05

Wow the obamabutts are panicking like a bunch of shithouse rats cornered by a exterminator.

Good, because it means there is something to Larry’s claims about the RNC having the goods on Barky.

Comment by Cal | 2008-06-02 14:25:01

LOL Funny comment.

 
 

Comment by Deep Truths | 2008-06-02 14:13:25

Either Larry likes abuse or he’s one proud peacock to have THREE threads. Ha.

Rumor: Neal Cavuto breaking news at 4pm regarding Obama.

Comment by roger, too | 2008-06-02 15:30:41

How are you feeling, given Yves St Laurent died?

Find a new designer yet?

Maybe Tory Birch?

Comment by Deep Truths | 2008-06-02 16:25:19

News flash, no one lives forever.

WTF??

 
 
 

Comment by Nomoredem | 2008-06-02 14:17:07

One question for the Obama crowd, why doesn’t Barack himself go on national TV and say there is no tape? Just curious, maybe he missed that conference like all the sermons.

Comment by Adam H. | 2008-06-02 14:32:20

Why do you feel such a need to have Obama validate rumours and innuendo? Why should he go on TV and deny something for which there is so far no evidence?

Comment by KEVIN W | 2008-06-02 15:47:18

BECAUSE IF HE DOES AND THEN IT COMES OUT HE WILL BE BRANDED A LIAR !! AND THERE IS NO DAMAGE CONTROL FOR THAT LMFAO NO HUSSEIN VOTE FOR MCCAIN !!!

 
 
 

Comment by destardi | 2008-06-02 14:21:43

ARG was wrong before….Don’t hype those numbers, you’ll only be disappointed.

I hope Cavuto has something good at 4:00 today!

 

Comment by yttik | 2008-06-02 14:36:20

Darn there’s a lot of trolls out today! I can’t hardly sneak in a post.

Keep up the good work NoQuarter!

Comment by TeakwoodKite | 2008-06-02 14:49:21

There sure are…none of them worth plinking at.

 
 

Comment by borehole | 2008-06-02 14:42:47

Nothing says credibility like ending a post with “tune in to Hannity.”

 

Comment by Sugar | 2008-06-02 14:43:49

Yeah, Larry is smoking them out!! Shouldn’t you trolls be somewhere kneeling at the altar of Obama hoping he doesn’t get his ass kicked too badly tomorrow night?

Comment by yttik | 2008-06-02 15:01:20

LOL, this is fascinating! The trolls are so thick you can almost smell the fear. I hope they’re all potty trained.

Thanks for your blog, Sugar. You’ve been another great voice of sanity in the midst of all this.

 
 

Comment by RedDragon62 | 2008-06-02 14:52:39

I see that Idiot TOOTSKy is at it again! Trying to strike fear in those of us that post comments here isnt the way your “Savior” is going to win Toots!

Do you really believe that your threats are going to silence us? This tactic has been in play far too long and it is time someone stand up and say…”ENOUGH”!
AA’s are not the only ones in this country that Vote! To come here and try to stir up your racial stew is Bullshit and we are not going to fall for it anymore.
Go run to your “Super Liberal” friends and cry racism all you want. We all know who injected race into this Primary. There are Memo’s from Obama’s camp where they are giddy with anticipation at the thought of useing this. Obama, in his own book, even discusses how crying racism has worked here in Chicago for many years!. Your Candidate has learned his lesson’s well. But I submit this to you Tootsky, So have we!

No longer will I allow ANYONE to call me a racist. I will not allow empty minded assholes like you to paint me as a race baiter!
You can cut and paste our comments all you’d like. You can come here and threaten your “SUPPOSED” files all day long! The day has come when “ALL” of us, those of various races and religions, have finally had enough of the use of ones race to silence REAL discussion.
Go back to the hole you crawled out of. Your threats dont work here.

Comment by Kevin | 2008-06-02 15:23:48

Here, here
well said

Comment by Betty | 2008-06-02 16:20:13

 
 

Comment by tootsky | 2008-06-02 16:09:25

And you get your talking points from Lyndon LaRouche.

 
 

Comment by Yellow Dog | 2008-06-02 14:55:36

Utterly humiliating.

 

Comment by catriley | 2008-06-02 14:57:18

Do the Obamabot trolls have any idea how obvious they are being today?? If they weren’t scared shitless and trying to spin this tape desperately, they would not be here.

It’s laughable. There are more trolls here than regular posters — desperation smells sooo icky.

Y’all are freaking out because you KNOW that this tape exists, and you know that maybe 29% of the population would actually vote for Obama once they realize the gravity of M.O. as the first lady.

The trolls cannot get away from the cult-thought long enough to ask themselves this question:

If any presidential candidate they have ever supported in their life had a spouse that referred to black people in the same derrogatory way, (just insert black for white in the alleged comments), would you still support them? If your candidate attended a church where blacks were called “The enemy” and it was preached that blacks killed “white” baby Jesus, would that be okay? How about a “spiritual advisor” and friend of your white candidate that did sermon mocking a black candidate. Would that be okay?

Really?

Oh.. you cult members say that anything people close to Obama says is okay because it’s their truth? Or because they believe it’s the truth about being black in America? Hmmm… that’s a matter of opinion. The sad thing is that people like David Duke, and 100% of the people in white supremist groups believe that their own particular brand of hatred and racism is THEIR truth about being white in America.

Hate and racism isn’t exclusive to one race, and no one gets a free pass on prejudice because of their own skin color.

The cult of Obama is coming down for a hard landing.. maybe not now, because too much $$$$ has been ivested in the machine (buying SDs, and the media), but it will absolutely come in November when your cult is handed a stunning and humiliating loss to McCain. Even if all the Hillary supporters voted for Obama in November, Obama’s radical associations and racist inner circle, render him unelectable to the voters you STILL need… the swing state voters, the Reagan Democrats, the Clinton Republicans, and the moderates.

Oh.. and considering the tape has M.O. on a panel with NOI Farrakhan, you can kiss the Jewish vote goodbye forever. Poor little cult trolls.

Comment by borehole | 2008-06-02 15:17:44

Yeah, dude, I haven’t been this scared of a nonexistent tape since Gore Verbinski’s remake of The Ring.

And I think you’ve got us pegged wrong. Hardcore Obama fans are busy trying to get the guy elected. Most of the “trolls” here are just train-wreck enthusiasts.

Comment by roger, too | 2008-06-02 15:44:06

I wish you were smart.

Do you look like Jonathan Singer too?

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

 
 
 

Comment by John | 2008-06-02 15:02:09

The tape will not see the light of day till Obama has won the nomination, that’s obvious. The GOP will not risk the Democrats tossing Obama overboard and nominating Hillary by releasing it now.

The tape will come out in September, if it’s even seen as being needed- by then Obama will be down 15-20 points in the polls already anyway. The tape may still be released to build McCain’s margin and possibly save some GOP Senate and House candidates. But it won’t be needed for the Presidential race.

 

Comment by max | 2008-06-02 15:02:16

Alert!!! Hannity is going to have Roger Stone on his radio program…Up Next

 

Comment by wtf | 2008-06-02 15:07:51

god, larry. you are an idiot of the highest regard.

 

Comment by Sugar | 2008-06-02 15:08:33

Not to mention, all of the excuses about the church having done some good things in the community are basically fluff as well. Hitler was “good” to the Germans too, but that doesn’t negate what he did to the Jews or negate how crazy his ass was.

Comment by Adam H. | 2008-06-02 15:58:37

Looky, an association fallacy! I bet you convince lots of people with that one.

 
 

Comment by samb | 2008-06-02 15:10:32

Why would you want someone as president who thinks of us a typical white people, And his wife maybe calls us whitey. If the tape is real i,am going to vote for McCain.

 

Comment by Sugar | 2008-06-02 15:11:11

Hannity is talking about the tape now. lol Oh, trolls. It’s going to be bad.

 

Comment by Violet Slandre | 2008-06-02 15:16:01

Holy cow. The video is more devastating than I thought.

 

Comment by JDRhoades | 2008-06-02 15:18:06

So you supposed Democrats have thrown in your lot with Sean Hannity and Roger Stone? The same Roger Stone who founded an anti Clinton organization called C.U.N.T.? Good luck with that.

 

Comment by Kevin | 2008-06-02 15:19:40

And as a typical white person clinging to my guns and agnosticism, I resemble that remark. What is truly frightening is that when you confront an obamabot with “I’m not supporting him because he is woefully unprepared, unqualified and lacks the sound judgement necessary to serve as president” the response is “YOU’RE A RACIST!!!” And countering with “look at the racists he surrounds himself with!”
the response is “double doody racist” It’s like reasoning with my 2 year old. I wish colin Powell had run as a republican so the racism argument would be moot.

 

Comment by wtf | 2008-06-02 15:24:19

what a bunch of faux democrats. you guys believe in hannity, fox news, rove, and roger stone. good luck. now join the gop, and become the bigoted elitist that they are.

Comment by Kevin | 2008-06-02 15:32:39

 
 

Comment by Jill | 2008-06-02 15:25:23

This quaint little blog should be renamed “Sore Losers”.

Comment by roger, too | 2008-06-02 15:48:18

Obama hasn’t won.

And every time, you, and the others, comment in this manner, you show you’re fucking idiots.

And you want to go to Washington?

You cant even look to see how this really worked out for Bush, you have no analysis skills at all.

Where is this going?

You have no fucking clue.

Unless you wanna work for some bozo organization in Tehran.

And I bet Larry has a picture…

get it?

 

Comment by Deep Truths | 2008-06-02 16:35:37

Obama hasn’t won the Democratic Nomination that not possible until August. Until then there’s PLENTY of scandals to come. Then if he’s still not indicted for Resko, etc. and manages to steal the nomination, Democrats for Clinton will make sure he loses in November.

No way in hell is an under qualified, domestic terrorist, racist, and misogynists will become president of the United States. No fucking way.

Comment by Deep Truths | 2008-06-02 16:47:33

If Rev. Wright video would have come before Super Tuesday, he’d been vaporized. Not even a chance for VP with his background and associations. Don’t forget, he has been recorded in meetings with Rezko (undercover), and the Feds are just warming up. The IL governor is next on the docket and Obama is like the center spoke of the wheel of corruption in Chicago. The only reason why Obama is up for prez is because Gov. Blogavich will most likely be testifying about graft and influence peddling. Info available at REZKOWATCH.COM.

Don’t act like you can’t google this info – perhaps you’re just afraid that its true. No speculation regarding his association with Ayers, Rezko, Auchi, Assassamare, Wright, Pfleger, et al.

But for Obamabots, its all about how cool to elect a Black man. Glowing malleable Obamabots all in a row.

 
 
 

Comment by JDRhoades | 2008-06-02 15:27:58

Wow the obamabutts are panicking like a bunch of shithouse rats cornered by a exterminator.

SANE PERSON: Wait, there’s no tape? Hilarious!

HILLSTERICAL NUTJOB: Look! They’re panicking! It must be true!

 

Comment by Cindie | 2008-06-02 15:29:41

well….
Let me just say this, if Obama is the nominee this is one Floridan registered Democrat that will be voting REPUBLICAN for the very first time in my life.
Obama is what we call just simply unelectable.

 

Comment by Kevin | 2008-06-02 15:42:26

What the obamabots want so dearly is to get us into a word association game like chevy chase and richard pryor on the old snl, just to prove that its race that motivates us, not qualifications, morals, experience.

 

Comment by samb | 2008-06-02 15:42:58

lets look at the whole picture, We have a Pastor who is angry at the united states goverment, We have a Priest who thinks hilary is entitled because she is a woman and white, he has a unabomber living down the street and a slum lord friend that donates money to his campaign. Do any of you have more interesting things going on in your life.?

Comment by Kevin | 2008-06-02 15:52:11

it could be a sitcom…
Next on NBC a very special episode of the Obamas, where barack has to kick another dear spiritual adivisor to the curb.

“Michelle!!! Michelle!!! Where’s my Kenta Cloth? You know I can’t go to Rev. Wright’s house without it”

 
 

Comment by PadrePio | 2008-06-02 15:44:19

The name calling and tattling is typical of a spoiled white brat. Larry has struck a nerve. They know Michelle or Lady Macbeth is capable of ranting about “whitey”. I can sympathize with the Obamabots. They are white upper middle class and naive. They have a huge emotional investment in the Hope Pope so he can’t be a racist who really despises them, he just can’t. What would it mean if he really does hate white people? How can the messiah not love the bots as much as they love him? Ask Arianna, Keith, Rachael, or Ed they’ll tell you to keep up the faith the Hope Pope loves all of his little bots and Michelle loves you too.

Comment by tootsky | 2008-06-02 16:12:28

And you have no problem with “striking a nerve” over unsourced, unverified and probably fabricated information. The important thing was “striking a nerve”?

 
 

Comment by thom803 | 2008-06-02 15:49:55

Bill Clinton is now hinting that it’s over. Senate Democrats say it’s over.

Larry, if you think your little stunt here did anything, you’re wrong.

You’re going to have to do better than this to save Hillary.

It’s over. She can win South Dakota and Montana by 100%, it’s still over.

Comment by Sugar | 2008-06-02 16:00:01

And, if Obama is the nominee, it’s over for him too. It was over for him from the day he announced his candidacy. You fools just didn’t want to believe it. He knew all of this negative stuff was out there about him, thus the urgency to run now. Hoping to slip his way into the Oval Office. America says–not so fast sucker!

 
 

Comment by thom803 | 2008-06-02 15:55:27

Basically, produce the tape or it’s done.

 

Comment by thom803 | 2008-06-02 16:02:05

Look, I’m not an Obama supporter. But I can face reality. Reality is, without a shocking revelation, this is over.

It doesn’t matter how much you mock Obama supporters or state that McCain will crush Obama.

LARRY, GET THE TAPE OR IT’S OVER.

THIS IS A FACT!!!!!! HILLARY CAN’T WIN UNLESS SOMETHING DRASTIC HAPPENS NOW!!!!!!

 

Comment by roger, too | 2008-06-02 16:04:55

These trolls are the stupidest things I have ever ever ever read.

If this represents the threat to democracy, there is no threat to democracy, only corruption.

Stupid guys with the equivalent of microphones.

Nothing a cattle prod can’t handle.

Git along lil doggies…

 

Comment by silver | 2008-06-02 16:06:31

Wow! After reading all the insults and negativity thrown in Larry’s direction today, he must have hit a raw nerve. The Obama fans are acting like a bunch of jumpy cats on a hot tin roof.

Unlike a lot of politicians, Larry actually knows what he’s talking about. And unlike a lot of news organizations, Larry’s investigative skills and knowledge are top-notch. If I were a super delegate who’s already endorsed Obama, I’d stock up on Imodium D. —Especially Wexler. I’m sure Floridians still have that memory of him emblazoned on their brains—the one where he’s yellin’ at the DNC to take away their votes!! I know that’s the kind of guy I look for when I want representation—someone who wants to take it away. Obama must have promised him a new cabinet position as Captain of a Disney cruise ship.

 

Comment by joemama | 2008-06-02 16:10:24

i don’t think he is a pigfucker, i just want to make him deny it.

Comment by roger, too | 2008-06-02 16:15:08

Troll boi, you aren’t smart enough.

Bitch, isn’t it, to finally understand you’re dumber than a pile of fresh dogshit, and you, thinking you’re, ahem, competitive.

I was thinking about Roger Stone yesterday, and I’m sure Roger could, and would, be the first to tell you the CIA sometimes sets up it’s own.

Brutal, isn’t it?

Much less some almost was, or wannabes, who, ahem, BLOG…

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

(Sorry Susan, I dont like the trolls, they’re really dumb. “Prom date” is not strategy, it’s a teen age dilemma…)

 
 

Comment by JDRhoades | 2008-06-02 16:12:01

Wow! After reading all the insults and negativity thrown in Larry’s direction today, he must have hit a raw nerve. The Obama fans are acting like a bunch of jumpy cats on a hot tin roof.

Jebus, you people never stop lying do you? The commenters here are doing no such thing. They’re either mocking you or demanding that this alleged tape be produced. If that’s what you call “jumpy,” you are seriously disturbed.

Comment by AngryWhitePerson | 2008-06-02 16:37:18

Why are these fucktards demanding ANYTHING? What does anyone owe them? Obamabots were up all night waiting anxiously, I’d say that’s a tad jumpy. First to post this morning, first to whine and complain.

You’re a liar. And a freak. I mock YOU and laugh at your idiotic comments. I can’t imagine how you get on in life actually.

 

Comment by Justice | 2008-06-05 05:03:11

JDR are you one of BO’s paid Bloggers, does the campaign want you to sit around in here and try to debunk this tape.

I can only see one reason of you being here, and that is either because you have nothing better to do, or you are just scared that this tape is really out there, so you are hanging out here to get any info you can.

I wouldn’t doubt this tape being out there just look at the other shocking tapes we had to endure… Wright the Plfelger, now BO’s friend that helped him get a house, and helped his campaign Tony Rezko was convicted for 16 counts of money laundering, extortion, fraud, directly after Mr.Obama got to secure the nomination. So why don’t you go waste your time trying blog around to prove that’s not true.

If you zObamabies don’t think this tape is out there… then quit being so jumpy & nervous and quit hanging out on this blog.

Just wait it out, pretend it doesn’t exist, and just tell yourself that more and more, that way when it hits You-tube and media networks everywhere the TRUTH can just hit you that much harder, like a slap in the face, or a ton of bricks, they might even have to call you out a ambulance when the shock takes over.

If the tape really doesn’t exist then CHILL.

I’m pretty sure it’s out there though, I can’t wait to see the look on the DNC members faces, and all the people who have been going around trying so hard to spread lies, and cover up cover ups. I wonder what the look on your face and the rest of the Obamabots will look like when you see it for the first time hahaha.

When this tape comes out I’m going to record it and then throw a party cause I know it will be over for Obama… NO one in their right mind will support and vote for him. There is already enough bad information about him in circulation, about his radical anti- American friends… I don’t even have to see this tape.

I’m smart enough to KNOW not to vote for BO.

 
 

Comment by Deep Truths | 2008-06-02 16:14:36

Well so far Cavuto isn’t saying much but he did have a Ms. Christian who was on youtube saying Obama is an ‘unqualified black male’. 850,000 hits so far.

She siad she would not vote for Obama even if Hillary was VP, yet she would vote for Hillary/Obama.

I did notice that Cavuto kept cutting her off when she began to mentioned why he wasn’t qualified.
Obvious that they(Fox News) are indeed playing this out for McCain. Who’d a thunk it?!

Republicans should listen up: Obama has middle-eastern money flowing in – more than Republicans. You can’t assume that Obama can’t when with all those amoral repubs and amoral DNC type dems around.

Clintonian Democrats are the only upstanding people you can trust.

 

Comment by TiVo | 2008-06-02 16:20:38

Seriously folks:

My mothers, sisters, uncle of a friend heard that…

Now come see the evidence Tuesday morning @ my site and give me site traffic.

http://nobrainsusa.net/blog/2008/06/02/thread-3-why-the-fukc-are-you-so damn-gullible-/

You can’t have it both ways.
Hillary is the better candidate but Obama is beating her. I came in last in a track meet but I AM the better athlete.
I came in last in Jeopardy but the audience cheered louder for me.

Anyone in here wanna buy Manhattan?

Why would the Repubs hold onto a tape so that they “can beat” Obama?

So by holding onto the tape they are admitting that the citizens DO believe that McCain will bring Bush’s third term. And they need to use dirt(or made up dirt) to secure a win. Wouldn’t facts of what they are brining to the table be enough to win?

And oh look I am giving the idiot of this blog more creedence by posting here–DOH!!!

Comment by roger, too | 2008-06-02 16:29:45

Dentures stuck today?

New epoxy for the false teeth, old troll thing?

LOL

“HELP! THE TROLL NEEDLE IS STUCK IN THE GROOVE!”

“I’M FAT! I HAVE FALSE TEETH AND I THINK IT’S 1962!”

“BOB, I WET MY PANTS!”

Things troll bob thinks, when he thinks no one is listening…

That, and “how bout a false edit?”

Again, what year is it?

 
 

Comment by thom803 | 2008-06-02 16:23:51

Seriously folks, I’m a Hillary supporter and I have little reason to be positive right now.

We were supposed to have the tape today, or so I heard.

The Dems are deciding this thing before the week ends. That means Obama as the nominee, unless something huge happens.

Give me reason to stay positive.

Comment by **== President & Commander-in-Chief Hillary Clinton **== | 2008-06-02 16:25:51

Here is a MAJOR reason to be positive!

I’ve been saying this for weeks, Hillary ain’t no quitter!

Go to rezkowatch DOT blogspot DOT com to read the rest of this:

Bad news for Obama, Hillary’s not conceding

Ever since Saturday’s DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee backroom deal handing Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) delegates, when his name was not even on the ballot in Michigan because he removed it, MSM has been clamoring ceaselessly how it’s all over, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) is not only conceding to but also endorsing Sen. Obama.

Sorry, folks, but at 4:02 PM Eastern Time, Clinton spokesman Mo Elleithee, while speaking to reporters at “the back of the press plane as Clinton flew from Rapid City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota,” said

“I think its pretty clear that she is not conceding.” Elleithee said, “I think its pretty clear that she is staying in this race. She is going, in the coming days, to be aggressively courting uncommitted superdelegates aggressively courting unpledged delegates, making the case to them that she is a candidate best ready to take on John McCain.”

When asked directly when Clinton will step aside, Elietthee told reporters, “as she has said dozens and dozens of times she is in this race until we have a nominee…Until there is a nominee she is going to try to win support.”

This is GREAT NEWS! Trolls you can bite me!

Comment by roger, too | 2008-06-02 16:33:30

I hope you are right, nothing would be better than an intelligent president, backed with an intelligent staff.

Guys like Cheney, and McCain, and their lobbyists-staffs, are SO boring.

Clinton, on the other hand, makes smart people work hard, the nation can, and only will, benefit.

Obama’s group I don’t mention, they are so STUPID.

 
 

Comment by joemama | 2008-06-02 16:28:32

would you honestly say that a candidates wife saying the word whitey is your greatest political hope at this point, or something?

…i don’t get it.

she could say every word in the dictionary and some that aren’t, and it won’t make 100 delegates go away…

Comment by Ulahane | 2008-06-02 16:31:01

It will lose the General Election. He can’t win.

Comment by joemama | 2008-06-02 16:36:19

i realize june isn’t november, but i just don’t see that sentiment in any head to head voting. i don’t see anything that gives hillary the nomination, either…

neither hillary or obama will win if half their party spends more time hating the other half of the party than they do working towards winning the white house.

 
 
 
 

Comment by HillaryMadamePresident | 2008-06-02 16:27:47

I have never seen so many Obamabots on this site…ever! And they seem to be under the mistaken impression that you have the tape, Larry. I don’t understand such hysteria from people who think their candidate won the nomination, long ago…unless they’re really worried about one more scandal.

Comment by Northwest rain | 2008-06-02 16:55:23

This is so typical of cult behavior — how DARE anyone say anything bad about their messiah — the all knowing Obami?

They’re using techniques learned in Obami camp — those of us who were unfortunate enough to live in caucus states — we’ve seen the Obami machine in action. They will lie, change the subject and bully and badger Hillary Clinton’s supporters.

I guess that’s where Obami’s “change” comes in handy — learning to CHANGE the subject.

The tape does exist — otherwise these jerks wouldn’t be here!!!

Thanks for the verification — Obami trolls!!

Oh another thing — there is NO WAY that I will ever vote for your messiah — he is a National Security Risk. Obami would NEVER pass a security check.

Comment by HillaryMadamePresident | 2008-06-02 17:11:09

I do believe you are correct. There must be a tape, or there wouldn’t be so many attacks. Perhaps some of these people were actually there and KNOW there is a tape.

 

Comment by Lisa | 2008-06-03 07:04:58

Just because I am offended at the dog-whistle lying, does not mean I am a cult member. I have heard just as many rumors that the Republicans have scads of proof (pictures and videos) of Hillary munching the muff. But no one pushes or promotes that kind of shit because it is bullshit and filthy (and gay baiting to boot).

But you have no reason putting up the race dog whistle to your lips: OMG Michelle Obama hates Teh Whitey and hangs out with Louis Farrakhan! You might as well say that she promotes Rapin’ Yer White Wimmin’ and go get yourselves a nice fucking tree for the grande finale. This is the worst side of the Democratic party we have seen since George Wallace.

I am so ashamed of all of you.

 
 
 

Comment by Seymour Glass | 2008-06-02 16:31:44

The obamacrats aredoing all they can to make sure that this issue is not allowed into the conversation.

Months ago I was banned by that punk censor at myDD, Jonathon Singer, for writing a very detailed and sourced account of just how Rezko and Wright are the direct links between Obama and Farakhan.

(By the way, has everyone seen that that fat punk Singer bragging online that he has been rewarded for his keen work as a net-censor by being given a job with Obama’s maddog lawyer Bob Bauer in Washington DC? Bauer – if you dont know – is the one who wrote the legal memo that shut down the Michigan revote over the argument that because the revote would not allow those who had ALREADY voted in the Republican primary to vote AGAIN in the Democratic Primary – that this was UNFAIR to Obama!)

Rezko went from being just another poor immigrant with a graduate degree to a filthy rich and corrupt Chicago political insider and the man Obama called his “Political Godfather” directly because of his relationship with the Nation of Islam.

Rezko’s first real wealth came from partnering up on City of Chicago minority set aside programs (the kind that Obama’s law firm existed expressly to take advantage of) with Jabir Muhammad who is the son of Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad. Their first partnership was in the food service business at locations owned by the City of Chicago. With the blessing of Chicago Mayor Daley, Rezko’s restaurant ventures included several exclusive franchises along the city’s beachfronts, on Chicago Park District property. In 2005, a fast-food company that listed Muhammad as its president lost its minority business certification and closed its restaurants after city officials alleged that Rezko was using it as a front. Muhammad and the company’s other principals were disqualified from participating in the city’s affirmative action contracting program. Minority set asides are thge coin of the realm in Obama’s Chicago orbit. Just one of the Rezko/ Muhhamed patnerships , Crucial Inc., went from receipts of $200,000 in each year before opening at concessions at O’Hare Airport, to nearly $6 million. In 1997, Crucial’s Panda Express won the right to open a lucrative concession at O’Hare International Airport under the city’s Minority Set-Aside program which directs large contracts to companies owned by Women, African Americans or Hispanics. The city awarded a 10-year contract for O’Hare Airport to Crucial Inc. in 1999, which the city believed was owned by an African American, Jabir Herbert Muhammad, the son of the late Elijah Mohammad. Crucial Inc. was also hired as a subcontractor to telephone giant SBC Communications, which received an exclusive deal to provide 1,000 pay phones for Cook County Government.

Rezko also was a central financial leader in the nation of Islam orbit as he was made the Executive Director of the Muhammad Ali Foundation. Jabir Herbert Muhammad was sued in 1999 by boxer Muhammad Ali for unauthorized use of his name in connection with the so-called Muhammad Ali Foundation. Jabir Muhammad has since sued rezko for Fraud and financial theft himself. These people are the circle of the man who now the Pelosi wing of the Democratic Party is trying to force us to have as our Party’s nominee…

——–

CHICAGO, Dec. 30 (UPI) — A federal judge ruled Chicago’s 14-year-old set-aside law to remedy discrimination against minority- and women-owned businesses in the construction industry is flawed and gave the city six months to make changes.

Minorities and women received $619 million in city contracts last year — about 41 percent of all city business — far exceeding minimum requirements of a 1989 set-aside ordinance which reserved 25 percent of city contracts worth more than $10,000 for minority-owned businesses and 5 percent for women-owned businesses.

The minority set aside ordinance was initiated by the late Mayor Washington 20 years ago. Mayor Richard M. Daley is a staunch supporter of such programs .

In a 31-page ruling Monday, U.S. District Judge James B. Moran said the city’s set-aside program as presently constituted was illegal. The judge said it was unfair that healthy, well-established minority- and woman-owned firms were eligible for set-aside contracts under the current program. Moran said the city should take into account a business owner’s net worth and lower the annual amount a minority- or female-owned firm can make to qualify for the set-aside program.

——

Of course part of Obama’s resume that makes the latte libs and the college kids swoon is how they describe how after law school Barack turned down the big corporate law firms to work in a “civil rights law firm”. Well folks if you but that I have 17 and 1/2 bridges Id like to sell you. The firm he went to, Davis – Miner, was started by the very corporate counsel (Miner)for Mayor Washington that started the minority set aside program and ever since has been working to spread that special kind of gov’t wealth amongst that city’s best politically connected citizens and partners like Rezlo and Jabir Muhammad. We already know that mush of Obama’s work at the firm was his “representing” non profits ind deals done with real estate deals done with Rezko and his development company Rezmar. Hell, Allison S. Davis actually left the firm of Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland to become a partner in Rezmar!

What will it take for Dems to wake up? Does ANYONE think that the David Boses and the othere GOP swiftboaters wont be pushing this story with the American people. Im a lefty Dem and its enough to keep me from voting for Obama in November – think it wont win over the mush middle of most of our citizens politics? My insider GOP contacts have told me that they expect to lose big in the House and lose a few more Senate seats – but they are giddy over the idea that the idiotic Democratic Party seems hell bent on letting them keep the White House. It amazes them and pleases them mightily…. It amazes me too but pisses me off to the Nth degree. What a bunch of “hear no evil, seen no evil…but Hillary IS Evil – dopes!

 

Comment by Betty | 2008-06-02 16:37:45

Bottom line: Obama will never be a legitimate nominee until FL and MI are restored as voted and no delegates illegally assigned to Obama from MI.

So is he is going to say he won he better not be counting MI delegates is his list. If he were any kind of a man he wouldn’t have accepted them in the first place.

Obama = illegitimate

Comment by Betty | 2008-06-02 16:41:44

Sorry I misspelled in the first sentence, the second sentence is completely right though.

Should be: So if he is going to say he won he better not be counting MI delegates in his list. If he were any kind of a man he wouldn’t have accepted them in the first place.

Comment by Lisa | 2008-06-03 07:08:35

Betty, no one should have gotten any delegates from Michigan and Florida. They broke the rules.

If she were anything but a craven politician, she would not be lying about how unfair the rules that she approved and agreed on are. And if you were any kind of woman, you would call her on it.

 
 
 

Comment by TiVo | 2008-06-02 16:38:21

As far as Obamabots being on thie site STFU.
That is how the internet works.

You find Xbots on the PS3 board and vice versa.

You find Stern Fans on the O&A board and vice versa.

You find Clitonites on the Obama board and vice versa.

You find PC guys on the Mac board and vice versa.
So your argument/observation/comments are retarded.

 

Comment by Scott | 2008-06-02 16:48:00

Rumor shumor – where’s the damn video.

 
 

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Comment by ericl | 2008-06-02 16:59:52

Look what has become of your site Larry. Look at the lowlifes you now can call your people. I like tboggs take on your blogg now

For weeks now Larry Johnson and the No Quarter Shriekers have been promising the Michelle Obama “whitey tape ” that would surely launch Hillary Clinton on her way to her rightful place as the boss of you and me. Last night came word that today would be Whitey Day and, like the end of a M. Night Shyamalan film, we now know that everyone can now shake their heads and ask, “Are you fucking kidding me?” as they walk, grumbling, out of the theater, suckered again.

From what I understand, it is a tape of Michelle Obama criticizing the Bush administration.

How you’d write it:

Why did Bush cut folks off medicaid?
Why did Bush let New Orleans drown?
Why did Bush do nothing about Jena?
Why did Bush put us in Iraq for no reason?

How you’d say it:

Why’d he cut folks off medicaid?
Why’d he let New Orleans drown?
Why’d he do nothing about Jena?
Why’d he put us in Iraq for no reason?

How Larry Johnson wants you to hear it:

Whitie cut folks off medicaid?
Whitie let New Orleans drown?
Whitie do nothing about Jena?
Whitie put us in Iraq for no reason?

This must be a great relief to the folks at No Quarter having finally shared this shocking revelation as well unburdening themselves of the curse of credibility all in one grand face-plant in a pile of horseshit.

You have now formally joined the right wing nut crowd.

You must be so proud Larry.

Eric in Austin

Comment by HillaryMadamePresident | 2008-06-02 17:17:08

From what I understand, it is a tape of Michelle Obama criticizing the Bush administration.

So, you are admitting there IS a tape? What is the source of your information? Did you alter it, in any way? Did you edit Louis Farrakhan out of the tape?

 

Comment by SirScud | 2008-06-03 04:45:38

Just a little cutty & pasty for your “FAMILY” album.

Hillary’s Ties to Religious Fundamentalists
By Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com

There’s a reason why Hillary Clinton has remained relatively silent during the flap over intemperate remarks by Barack Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, she’s a lot more vulnerable than Obama.

You can find all about it in a widely under-read article in the September 2007 issue of Mother Jones, in which Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet reported that “through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as the “Fellowship,” aka the Family. But it won’t be a secret much longer. Jeff Sharlet’s shocking exposé, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power will be published in May.

Sean Hannity has called Obama’s church a “cult,” but that term applies far more aptly to Clinton’s “Family,” which is organized into “cells” — their term — and operates sex-segregated group homes for young people in northern Virginia. In 2002, writer Jeff Sharlet joined the Family’s home for young men, foreswearing sex, drugs and alcohol, and participating in endless discussions of Jesus and power. He wasn’t undercover; he used his own name and admitted to being a writer. But he wasn’t completely out of danger either. When he went outdoors one night to make a cell phone call, he was followed. He still gets calls from Family associates asking him to meet them in diners — alone.

The Family’s most visible activity is its blandly innocuous National Prayer Breakfast, held every February in Washington. But almost all its real work goes on behind the scenes — knitting together international networks of right-wing leaders, most of them ostensibly Christian. In the 1940s, the Family reached out to former and not-so-former Nazis, and its fascination with that exemplary leader, Adolph Hitler, has continued, along with ties to a whole bestiary of murderous thugs. As Sharlet reported in Harper’s in 2003:

During the 1960s the Family forged relationships between the U.S. government and some of the most anti-Communist (and dictatorial) elements within Africa’s postcolonial leadership. The Brazilian dictator General Costa e Silva, with Family support, was overseeing regular fellowship groups for Latin American leaders, while, in Indonesia, General Suharto (whose tally of several hundred thousand “Communists” killed marks him as one of the century’s most murderous dictators) was presiding over a group of fifty Indonesian legislators. During the Reagan Administration, the Family helped build friendships between the U.S. government and men such as Salvadoran general Carlos Eugenios Vides Casanova, convicted by a Florida jury of the torture of thousands, and Honduran general Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, himself an evangelical minister, who was linked to both the CIA and death squads before his own demise.

At the heart of the Family’s American branch is a collection of powerful right-wing politicos, who include, or have included, Sam Brownback, Ed Meese, John Ashcroft, James Inhofe, and Rick Santorum. They get to use the Family’s spacious estate on the Potomac, the Cedars, which is maintained by young men in Family group homes and where meals are served by the Family’s young women’s group. And, at the Family’s frequent prayer gatherings, they get powerful jolts of spiritual refreshment, tailored to the already-powerful.

Clinton fell in with the Family in 1993, when she joined a Bible study group composed of wives of conservative leaders like Jack Kemp and James Baker. When she ascended to the Senate, she was promoted to what Sharlet calls the Family’s “most elite cell,” the weekly Senate Prayer Breakfast, which included, until his downfall, Virginia’s notoriously racist Sen. George Allen. This has not been a casual connection for Clinton. She has written of Doug Coe, the Family’s publicity-averse leader, that he is “a unique presence in Washington: a genuinely loving spiritual mentor and guide to anyone, regardless of party or faith, who wants to deepen his or her relationship with God.”

Furthermore, the Family takes credit for some of Clinton’s rightward legislative tendencies, including her support for a law guaranteeing “religious freedom” in the workplace, such as for pharmacists who refuse to fill birth control prescriptions and police officers who refuse to guard abortion clinics.

What drew Clinton into the sinister heart of the international right? Maybe it was just a phase in her tormented search for identity, marked by ever-changing hairstyles and names: Hillary Rodham, Mrs. Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and now Hillary Clinton. She reached out to many potential spiritual mentors during her White House days, including new age guru Marianne Williamson and the liberal Rabbi Michael Lerner. But it was the Family association that stuck.

Sharlet generously attributes Clinton’s involvement to the underappreciated depth of her religiosity, but he himself struggles to define the Family’s theological underpinnings. The Family avoids the word Christian but worships Jesus, though not the Jesus who promised the earth to the “meek.” They believe that, in mass societies, it’s only the elites who matter, the political leaders who can build God’s “dominion” on earth. Insofar as the Family has a consistent philosophy, it’s all about power — cultivating it, building it and networking it together into ever-stronger units, or “cells.” “We work with power where we can,” Doug Coe has said, and “build new power where we can’t.”

Now it’s up to Clinton to explain — or, better yet, renounce — her longstanding connection with the fascist-leaning Family.

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of 13 books, including the New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed. A frequent contributor to the New York Times, Harper’s, and the Progressive, she is a contributing writer to Time magazine. She lives in Florida.

 
 

Comment by Kelly | 2008-06-02 18:55:53

Has anyone asked Farrakhan?

 

Comment by John Onorato | 2008-06-02 20:03:07

It wouldn’t surprise me if someone had a tape of Michelle speaking in terms of evil whitey, doctored though it may be.

Really, though, why should whitey come under any criticism? I mean, the darkies were given the vote in 1964! Time to get over it! Racism is dead, dead, dead!

Politically, it may or may not have relevance. In the real world, where most of us have to live, it won’t.

If McCain wins, I’ll laugh. Four more years of GOP rule should be enough to kill the party for good.

Still, not a reason to slime a decent guy, which anyone who has spent time with him, like I have, would understand. And I’m no fan of MexIslamofacsists at all.

I would vote for an Australian Shepherd before I voted for McCain, because they’re smarter. It’s weird watching Hillary supporters abandon the ship like metaphorical fags.

Get over yourselves.

 

Comment by John Onorato | 2008-06-02 20:04:17

It wouldn’t surprise me if someone had a tape of Michelle speaking in terms of evil whitey, doctored though it may be.

Really, though, why should whitey come under any criticism? I mean, the darkies were given the vote in 1964! Time to get over it! Racism is dead, dead, dead!

Politically, it may or may not have relevance. In the real world, where most of us have to live, it won’t.

If McCain wins, I’ll laugh. Four more years of GOP rule should be enough to kill the party for good.

Still, not a reason to slime a decent guy, which anyone who has spent time with him, like I have, would understand. And I’m no fan of MexIslamofacsists at all.

I would vote for an Australian Shepherd before I voted for McCain, because the dogs are smarter. It’s weird watching Hillary supporters abandon the ship like metaphorical rats.

Get over yourselves.

Comment by Lisa | 2008-06-03 06:59:18

Thank you.

That needed to be said. This is madness.

 
 

Comment by John Onorato | 2008-06-02 20:06:52

Sorry for the double-post.

Show me the money, somebody.

(And I full-throatedly agree that releasing the “tape” now would be politically stupid. I just can’t see how that stopped anyone before.)

 

Comment by rlp-politcal | 2008-06-03 09:14:02

First Hannity denied knowing Turner, then he said he had long ago banned Turner from his show. While it’s probably true that Hannity banned Turner, what Hannity didn’t mention is that before Turner got banned, he was regularly welcomed on Hannity’s show, even after saying on the air that if it weren’t for the graciousness of white people, “black people would still be swinging on trees in Africa.”

Turner was once a prominent activist in New Jersey’s Republican Party. To area conservatives, he was best known by his moniker for call-ins to the Sean Hannity Show, “Hal from North Bergen.” For years, Hannity offered his top-rated radio show as a regular forum for Turner’s occasionally racist, always over-the-top rants. Hannity also chatted with him off-air, allegedly offering encouragement to Turner as he struggled to overcome a cocaine habit and homosexual leanings. Turner has boasted that Hannity once invited Turner and his son on to the set of Fox News’s Hannity and Colmes. Today, Turner lurks on the fringes of the far right, spouting hate-laced tirades on his webcast radio show. Hannity, meanwhile, remains mum about his former alliance with the neo-Nazi, homing in instead on the supposed racism of black and Latino Democrats.

…On WABC Hannity inherited (Bob) Grant’s fan base of angry white males, who listened to his show in the New York City area. Hannity recognized his audience’s thirst for red meat, racist rhetoric. However, he knew that if he wanted to avoid Grant’s fate, he needed an air of deniability. When “Hal from North Bergen” began calling his show, Hannity found he could avoid the dangers of direct race-baiting by simply outsourcing it to Turner.

 

Comment by rlp-politcal | 2008-06-03 09:19:40

Your parents and granparents mistreated an entire race of people in the 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90’s

do you white folks think that black folks just for gave your parents and grand parents.

If I sat your grand parents and my grand parents down they will have an entire different view of the great America.

So please white folks get a grip – yes some thinga have gotten better – but your hands are dirty with blood and deceitfulness.

I would not be surprise if she said it – it true!

Comment by Ulahane | 2008-06-03 09:28:23

What a load of racist crap. Yes, SOME Whites mistreated some Blacks but to blame an entire race is offensive race hatred of a Pfleger-esque level.

 
 

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