Campaign Fund Pledge “Take-Back” Fallout
By LisaB on June 21, 2008 at 10:20 AM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Campaigns & Campaign Financing, Fund Raising
The story of Barack Obama revisiting and redacting his pledge to take public campaign funds has been out for a day now. Generally speaking this announcement has been met with disapproval and disappointment, except by kool-aid drinkers at the HuffyPot.
* Well, hold your hats, the WaPo today slapped Obama for his change of, er, heart(?).
BARACK OBAMA isn’t abandoning his pledge to take public financing for the general election campaign because it’s in his political interest. Certainly not. He isn’t about to become the first candidate since Watergate to run an election fueled entirely with private money because he will be able to raise far more that way than the mere $85 million he’d get if he stuck to his promise — and with which his Republican opponent, John McCain, will have to make do. No, Mr. Obama, or so he would have you believe, is forgoing the money because he is so committed to public financing. Really, it hurts him more than it hurts Fred Wertheimer.
Holy Cow! After recapping Obama’s statements about public financing from a little while ago (he was FOR it), the WaPo characterized his move this way:
Instead, he cast his abandonment of the system as a bold good-government move. “This is our moment, and our country is depending on us,” he said. “So join me, and declare your independence from this broken system and let’s build the first general election campaign that’s truly funded by the American people.” Sure, and if the Founding Fathers were around today, they’d have bundlers, too.
* And at Politico, a timeline of Obama statements on this topic are interspersed with video of him. Wow! Really, you must see this.
* Factcheck.org at Newsweek, called bs on Obama’s justification for his switch:
One reason, he said, is that “John McCain’s campaign and the Republican National Committee are fueled by contributions from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs.”
We find that to be a large exaggeration and a lame excuse. In fact, donations from PACs and lobbyists make up less than 1.7 percent of McCain’s total receipts, and they account for only about 1.1 percent of the RNC’s receipts.
* The WSJ had this to say:
So much moral good was expected from “campaign-finance reform” that Barack Obama’s announcement yesterday that he will opt out of public financing for his Presidential run is an historic moment. Senator Obama is the first candidate since the law was passed in the 1970s not to take matching funds for the general election. Even candidate George W. Bush, flush with cash in 2000 and 2004, didn’t do that.
“Even candidate George W. Bush. . . didn’t do that.” Ouch!
* The New Republic, on the other hand, says Obama has an “inside game” where he is a ruthless SOB and an “outside game” where everything is straightforward.
The key with Obama is to distinguish between his inside game (i.e., mechanical, procedural, largely behind-the-scenes maneuvering) and his outside game (i.e., the policies/positions/stands he takes on the public stage). Obama has been as ruthless as anyone at playing the inside game, but less cynical than most when it comes to the outside game.
OK, so Obama tries to keep his evil twin from appearing to all the clueless masses, who get angel Obama. The evil twin operates in the bowels of politics and we just don’t see him? Some would call this schizophrenic. Or is it just a basketball metaphor gone bad?
* Of course, no friend to Obama, David Brooks of NYT, had an interesting op-ed today. He seems to have come to the conclusion that there are two Obamas.
But as recent weeks have made clear, Barack Obama is the most split-personality politician in the country today. On the one hand, there is Dr. Barack, the high-minded, Niebuhr-quoting speechifier who spent this past winter thrilling the Scarlett Johansson set and feeling the fierce urgency of now. But then on the other side, there’s Fast Eddie Obama, the promise-breaking, tough-minded Chicago pol who’d throw you under the truck for votes.
But the best part of this op-ed:
And Fast Eddie Obama didn’t just sell out the primary cause of his life. He did it with style. He did it with a video so risibly insincere that somewhere down in the shadow world, Lee Atwater is gaping and applauding. Obama blamed the (so far marginal) Republican 527s. He claimed that private donations are really public financing. He made a cut-throat political calculation seem like Mother Teresa’s final steps to sainthood.
Oh snap, did he say Lee Atwater? I have two quibbles with this op-ed. 1) WTH took you sooooooo long? and 2) It’s “bus” not “truck.”
* Also at the Politico, Ben Smith had this to say about what Obama’s “opt-out” says about him:
Obama’s move wasn’t out of character. In fact — though he has at times adopted popular reform causes — Obama has never been a traditional reformer. He came to politics through the community organizing movement, whose radical founder, Saul Alinsky, mocked highbrow reformers, and focused instead on the acquisition and use of power, with the ends often justifying the means.
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Kerry’s campaign, Shrum wrote in his memoir, “No Excuses,” had a fierce internal debate over whether to opt out of public financing. Obama’s never seems to have seriously considered sacrificing its political advantage for a principle and seems cheerfully resigned to being chided by East Coast editorial boards.
Hey, east coast editorial boards!! Welcome to the underside of the bus!! No, it’s not a hydrogen one either.
* At realclearpolitics, Liz Sidoti started a disapproving analysis this way:
Barack Obama chose winning over his word.
and she finished it this way.
“You’ve fueled this campaign with donations of $5, $10, $20, whatever you can afford,” Obama said in an appeal seeking donations from $25 to $2,300 and beyond.
“Let’s build the first general election campaign that’s truly funded by the American people,” Obama said — ignoring the fact that the system he’s opting out of is paid for by taxpayers who donate $3 to the fund when they file their tax returns.
Obama blamed his decision in part on McCain and “the smears and attacks from his allies running so-called 527 groups.” But he failed to mention that the only outside groups running ads in earnest so far are those aligned with Obama — and running commercials against McCain.
So much for being a straight shooter.
* FoxNews (transcript at realclearpolitics), as might be expected, were not complimentary. Still, the roundtable with Brit Hume did provide some fun stuff. After showing a clip of Obama, Mort Kondracke of Roll Call had this to say:
They call that “liar, liar, pants on fire.”
Wow! The kindergarten slam - only used for the most OBVIOUS and IRREFUTABLE of lies.
Oh yeah. Huffypot. Well, what do you THINK is the prevailing opinion???
Come on, you KNOW.
Johnathan Solomon is quite happy:
Barack Obama has gone back on his word, Barack Obama is a hypocrite … I couldn’t be happier. With Obama turning down public financing, idealist can be heard saying, “Obama promised ‘a new kind of politics.’” Well, let him get to that once he’s in office.
Robert Creamer apparently had to work harder to twist himself around on this one:
As a life-long advocate for public financing of elections, I believe that Barack Obama’s decision not to participate in the current presidential public finance system will advance the day when we will finally have a true system of public financing for all federal races.
Google if you must. I don’t link to the ‘Pot.
(small, medium and large sizes; for both dogs and cats)
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Shades of things to come?
OMG - I’m rolling on the floor laughing so hard”
Robert Creamer apparently had to work harder to twist himself around on this one:
As a life-long advocate for public financing of elections, I believe that Barack Obama’s decision not to participate in the current presidential public finance system will advance the day when we will finally have a true system of public financing for all federal races.
Oh, HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
Those Obamaphiles are really funny people.
That guy must look like a pretzel now.
BREAKING!!!
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From huffingtontoilet.com
Medics rushed to the home of Robert Creamer after receiving an emergency 911 call.
Huffingtontoilet staffers would not elaborate as the to cause but un-named sources claim that his latest attempt to twist himself around the latest flip flop from the obama campaign and justify it led to what the source would only describe as a shockingly disturbing condition.
When pressed to describe the condition, the source would only say that “I dont know how he will ever play b-ball again. I hope they can help him.”
Inside sources were able to snap a picture with a concealed camera before medics arrived.
Shocking is right. We wish him the best.
http://www.prosoundweb.com/fun/Photofun/76-head_up_ass.jpg
BREAKING!!!
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Thanks so much for the laugh. With all of this b.s. going on, we all need to take a deep breath and laugh.
WAKE UP AMERICA
STAND UP AMERICA
JUST SAY NO DEAL
PUMA
Love it!
Obama’s “goody two shoes” act is so transparent.
And his “Fast Eddie from Chicago” karma is piling up right out there in the open for everybody to gape at - BY THE HOUR!
He’s brazen about it. Shameless about it. He wears his skin like teflon tights.
So what’s with the poll numbers? Is he making them up too? Why the heck is this guy still neck and neck with McCain (or ahead of him) in national polls like Gallup?
Where’s the hint of buyer’s remorse? I haven’t seen it anywhere - not even on Fox News for God’s sake! Rove doesn’t even mention it (Maybe he’s too busy trying to stay out of jail.)
Is the blog world the only space where rose colored glasses (or payola, brass knuckles and death threats) don’t work???
In his post, Barack We Hardly Knew You!, Mark Shields has this quote from Sheila Krunmholz of The Center of Responsive Politics:
“Barack Obama is taking the high road all the way to the bank.”
http://tinyurl.com/3t44n9
Don’t you get it? It’s all a con. His supporters have known from the start that he’s a slick Chicago pol. The people we know who support him laugh about it, have all along. When confronted with his hypocrisy, they laugh and say, “well, it’s just politics.” He’s another George W. Bush and his administration will be just as disastrous.
Obama is tooooo Bush for me!
For 8 years, Dems bashed Bush for fusing politics and religion.
Then the Dem establishment propped up a newbie senator who’s been indoctrinated for 20 years with fusing politics and religion!
“Hillary ain’t never been called a Nigger!” - Rev. Wright, from the pulpit, Jan. 08
[other examples from Trinity, too numerous to cite]
Obama/Wright08
I am sorry - but I am OFFENDED for GW that you compared him to bozo. And this is coming from someone who used to think GW was the devil incarne. bozo is from some much deeper darker realm altogether.
Oh yes indeed his Chicago backers are very much aware of who & what Obama is. The reason for the backing of what affectionately referred to The “Illinois Combine” is that the corrupt Pols here in Chi-town want to make Patrick Fitzgerald go by-by ASAP!
Why are all these people so late to the party???
WTF!!!!
Welcome to our REALITY people!!!
This is the same self inflated, flip flopping, flagellant gas bag, we’ve known all a long!!
NOBAMA - NOKERRY 08
Will the REAL Barack HUSSEIN Obama please stand up?
Nice sum-up, Lisa….
As one editorial writer pointed out, Obama just killed campaign finance reform forever. *sigh*
But we all knew this would happen.
The world expects him to raise a shit-load of money for this campaign.
But I keep looking at the last months of the primary, where Hillary was beating him in spite of his money. It’s old-fashioned politicking that did the trick.
Not slamming ads on TV every 15 seconds. And not hiring droves of people to canvass. We already have that message. He’s got money and kids to knock on doors.
What McCain will do and is doing is more what works, in my opinion. Meet with people. Meet with them alot. Answer questions. Be open to the press.
Repeat. Rinse. Lather.
If Hillary could generate the huge wins by spending 1/4 of what Obama did, so can McCain.
McCain needs moderate surrogates speaking in the liberal states, and let the conservatives handle the red states.
I agree wholeheartedly. Listening to voters doesn’t seem to be one of Obama’s strong suits.
May was his worst month of fund raising …. what’s that all about? I wouldn’t count my nest egg before the chicken lays it … history in his case is no indicator of the future. No more republicans sending their $2,300.
I think June will be worse.
The pro Obama blogs, in comments, seem to show the FISA cave-in pissed them off, refusing to contribute, asking for refunds.
The chickens are coming home to roost.
Obama is without principle or ideology, with the exemption of his own personal advancement.
He can be bought, by the highest bidder.
He’s a white collar criminal! LOL
Can you just feel the healing?
But they own and control the government, so they don’t have to worry, they can do whatever they want, doncha know…
A brain trust like the crooks in the movie, “Fargo,” really, doesn’t Axelrod remind you of Bill Macy’s character,the used car dealer, underneath the projections, and pretense?
The next flip flop will be that he’s not black anymore but has now embraced his white genes…
Down is up. More is less. Backward is really forward and white is black…now I get it.
I’d say that pretty much sums up Barack Obama.
In the light of these recent events, the Clintons should get as far away as possible from this train wreck.
Just make up some believable legitimate excuse.
Or at this this point, just ANY excuse.
Can we induct Hillary now and get the REAL winner? Well people we’ve been right all along and haven’t been bamboozled by this gangsta!
These absolute fools who have religiously believed in this FRAUD are just waking up now? Curse every last one of them!
I was over at Huffington and you should read how disillusioned some of those half-wits are today? FOOLS!
It can only get worse now for that horrible, anti-semitic, anti-white bastard. I hope he’s swiftboated to the tenth circle of Dante’s hell.
The sad thing is that when Obama disappoints his followers start saying Hillary should step up and do the right thing. Hillary should fillibuster against FISA. These people are just bonkers, like the Dubya people.
Dang! That statement by Robert Creamer is so twisted that it makes absolutely no sense. Obama’s decision to opt out of public financing will help public financing in the long run? Okay…The only people who believe that would be desperate, clingy Obamabots.
Which part of “look at his pattern of corruption in IL” did those numb nuts have a problem understanding?
And they’re educated, right?
LOL.
I’m not speaking of those who engineered Obamas career, and stole the nomination from Hillary, I’m speaking of legitimate press, who should have known better…
jack too….the legitimate press is a lot of inexperienced journalists these days in large part.
The industry is pretty much decimated, so I think the reputation of “legitimate” is historical only.
Look at AP. The political stuff this year was nowhere close to objective or neutral. Now, they are going after sites that quote them and want money if you go over 39 words? LOL*
TV national news is a joke. Hillary is giving her speech in SD, and the talking heads are talking as though they are the news?
The news reports only on the news these days. Half the stories are self-referential. Why? Because they have no reporters anymore to generate real news.
I remember, as a kid, watching news reports about the 80’s youth simply entering journalism to news read, in it for fame, and fortune, as opposed to civic responsibilty.
And here we are, with an true alternative press on the Internet, now, the death of the MSM.
Nature abhors homogeneity, I guess in part a function of evolution.
Even the fascist governments of China, and the former USSR could not sustain, no growth without truth.
Do they still teach journalism in high school and college? Or do they teach a class on how to be a talking head?
Journalists should,, at the very least, know the difference between right and wrong, and should be invested in saving, protecting, and maintaining their country from abuses of power.
Otherwise, really, given the power of the press, such as it is, they’re traitors, eunuchs to the wealthy.
Journalism degress are not required nor encouraged for MSNBC/CNN/HuffingtonPost.
A solid foundation in ass kissing and pandering to the Presumptive Selectident however is.
Look at Judith Miller, though, and the rest of the Iraqi War/Obama crews.
Do you think it even occurred to them to question the ethics of what they did?
They’re good little corporate soldiers, the worst of corporate America, though, simply children, trying to earn Daddy’s love, but “Daddy” is Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, or Karl Rove.
Ask them how effective, ethical, journalism protects the Constitution, our governemnt, and they can’t tell you. Even if they could, they’d trade it for a hundred thou a year, chump change.
It’s just some variation of the cartoon Frank Rich, all the way down.
GREAT POST ON CANNONFIRE. http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/
“Why we can’t “Get over it”: Threats from Obama cultists”
…Donna Brazille came right out and on a talk show with Maureen Dowd if Obama does not get the nomination “there will be blood.” She is also defending the Rev. Wright by saying an attack on him is an attack on the black church…..
…Back in February, talk show host Tavis Smiley put on a “State of the Black Union” event in New Orleans. Hillary showed up; Obama sent his regrets. Smiley offered a very mild public criticism of Obama. Guess what happened?
“There’s all this talk of hater, sellout and traitor,” Smiley said to me in a telephone interview. Smiley even mentioned getting death threats, but wouldn’t elaborate. He said his office has been flooded with angry e-mails. “I have family in Indianapolis. They are harassing my momma, harassing my brother. It’s getting to be crazy,” Smiley said.
John Fund, a conservative propagandist who has asked asked whether Obama practiced Islam in Indonesia, says that he has had his “life threatened.”
Hillary-supporting Philadelphia radio talker Steve Corbett attained nation-wide attention when he turned against Obama. Guess what happened to him?
In the thousands of emails I’ve received in the year that “Corbett” has been on the air, I have not received a single death threat - until yesterday.
“We will kill you when Obama become PRESIDENT OF USA.,” the email reads. “You would see!!!”…
What makes this threat to kill me all the more mysterious is that it appears to have been sent through Barack Obama’s official campaign website – barackobama.com – the website that sends me official announcements of Obama’s campaign comings and goings.
The emails I’ve been receiving daily about my unwavering support for Hillary Clinton, including a particularly nasty one yesterday from an Obama volunteer in Wilkes-Barre, have become increasingly aggressive.
So have some of the calls to my show.
enjoyed reading on that link, thanks.
This isn’t a game. It has been increasingly obvious some people involved with Obama have not ruled out threats and/or violence to get what they want. The threats, veiled and not so veiled, by some in the Democratic Party have set a perfect example for them. And we thought this could only happen in undemocratic countries.
Right.
And others, smart people, will fight back, they don’t really have the ability to counter it, they’re not smart, the Obama bots.
And it’s a shame it has to come to this, but, you know, who the hell will allow themselves to be intimidated by some low IQ deluded dandelion seed poof?
(I’m thinking of scattered dandelion seeds, when one “poofs,” on the dried flower, they scatter).
We have to stand our ground - democracy and our freedom is at stake. When people back down, dictators are born.
I wonder how similar he is with Woodrow Wilson (the closest America got to having a Fascist president).
Wilson was an intellectual. from Havard (i think). deep thinker.. part of the Progressive movement.. but he had goon squads all over the country committing violence on his behalf.
Wow. I never heard that. Got any links?
I’m beginning to think we are living in a Banana Republic, what with all of these threats of violence, death, mayhem. It’s time for the FBI to get involved in a big way in exposing and prosecuting these Obama people. This is the United States, folks, and no one…NO ONE… is going to take your vote away from you. Brazile says that things will get bloody? If it does, it will be because of the actions of people like her and the rest of her Obama idiots. As Georgie once said…bring it on! I suspect the Obamabots will be the first to run for the trees. They are so afraid they are going to lose. People who feel they’re winning don’t resort to this kind of extreme behavior. That is about the only thing they’ve been right about. Obama is toast.
I’m glad some are starting to notice the ‘banana republic”. I lived and worked, on fringe of national politics, in a 3rd world country. The 1st time I saw bozo on TV I saw right through him - a typical sociopathic 3rd world gigolo on a power trip. Let me assure all he does not mind LYING - he ENJOYS it. He does not want to help. He wants to HURT.
And he is derivative of a mentality that has no concept of functioning democracy. To he and his, a campaign is WAR and ask Muhammed is quoted - you are supposed to LIE to your enemies - that’s the best strategy of war.
We are being diminished and degraded to the level of a 3rd world status, pre-democratic and as others are saying above it is only concerted ACTION of our citizenry that we will stop this tyrannical take over.
No joke. No exaggeration. Have seen it coming. There it is.
I wouldn’t worry about threats from Obama supporters. They have no balls whatsoever.
cowards love groups of thugs though. watch for that especially at the convention though i think that will be a barfy lovefest.
I could be wrong, but I think all those taxpayers that checked the $3 box for the Pres campaign fund have been thrown under the bus.
I wish Hillary would stay away longer and let this jerk implode.
I hope Bill Clinton never helps.
If Hillary can not be President I wish should would go into the private sector. Obama does not deserve her.
I want her to stay in the Senate; we need somebody there who has a clue what needs to be done.
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No. You are correct. I can feel the tread marks on my face.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…………
things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm………
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103056.html?hpid=topnews
Tavis Smiley Will Cut Ties With Joyner Radio Show
One of Sen. Barack Obama’s toughest African American critics is quitting his long association with a national radio show after
facing a backlash from the program’s listeners.
Tavis Smiley said yesterday he will resign in June as a twice-weekly commentator on the syndicated “Tom Joyner Morning Show” after more than 11 years with the program.
Tavis Smiley is such a class act. The one who should be leaving is Joyner.
Tavis got all kinds of race traitor hate email when he criticized Obama for not coming down here to New Orleans personally to speak at the State of the Black Union conference. Obama offered up Michelle instead. Hillary stopped campaigning and came PERSONALLY to give her support and time. Obama has thrown black people under the bus many many times. He has totally and completely taken them for granted.
Tavis should be complimented and supported for standing up for what he believes! Obama could’ve come down here and spent some time. He’s been to New Orleans TWICE since Katrina and only to give speeches at TWO private colleges. He’s really done less for New Orleans than Hillary, Edwards, and even McCain.
that was news months ago.
Time is running out to help Hillary Clinton retire her campaign debt. She is forbidden by law to use any of the public fund money to retire the debt. The more she is “helped” by Obama and the DNC thugs in the retirement of this debt, the more beholden to them she will be within the political system. If supporters will donate the cost of a coffee or pack of butts (whoever still smokes) or a cocktail or an ice cream, that will put a big dent in her debt. Thank you for listening!
I can give her the money I just saved by cancelling my Sierra Club membership.
After Clinton has endorsed and is now campaigning for Obama, every penny given to Clinton is also an endorsement of Obama’s friends and partners such as William Ayers, Rev Wright, Lewis Farrakhan, etal. NO THANK YOU–NO DEAL!!
I don’t think that’s true.
typical irishman - pause and hear this -I thought like you did on this - I was wrong!
IT IS IMPORTANT. I got email verification from an indie group who phone conferenced with Hillary herself. The fact is if we don’t help retire her debt - obama is ONLY TOO GLAD to do so - and will expect more than she - or we - want to give in return. That’s a way they want to get her obligatedbefore the August convention!
Hillary made it very clear:
#1. By law, any contribution made to her campaign will NOT be forwarded or otherwise shared in any way with the DNC or obama campaign. None. Not at all. Only used to help pay her campaign debt.
#2 Hillary wants to remain free and clear of his influence. Usually the ‘loser’ of primaries has their debt paid off by the leader and the DNC. She does NOT want to do that and we should NOT want her to have to do that.
## So please all who possibly can let’s pitch in and help Hillary stay FREE AND CLEAR - on all our behalf. If we each could scrape out just $30, that would take care of it. That’s what I’m doing. Hope others will. I consider it an investment in preserving American democracy - as well as a THANK YOU to the ONLY candidate that has really stood up for US!
http://www.cafepress.com/dogs_of_war/1696652
There is a new ad on the site for cafe press, and I swear, the buck toothed baby in front of the white house, I dream about that guy every night…
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Maybe it’s something I ate….
Heads up black voters: You are the next group in line Obama is going to throw under the bus.
Good for you Travis. You deserve better. Obama can’t even come close to understanding what you have done for the black communities over the years. The last thing you need is take shit from a shithead like Obama, clearly a bought person with no soul.
Did you not see the scathing article at Black Agenda? His father’s day speech was really a travsity. I couldn’t figure out who his audience was, because it’s for sure it was not the people in the room ….
with the exception of those in the aa community who think for themselves and took a brave stand for their beliefs, i don’t have any sympathy. they enabled this man without blinking and eye and turned on one of their best friends. no, none. i also feel that way toward the young women who prance around taking for granted all the hard earned rights we sacrificed to get for women. they are gradually losing it and are just too american idol centerned to care. when they hit the tough spots, then whine time begins.
What has TM said about all of this? Haven’t listened to her since HRC stepped down, couldn’t handle the “he’s better on the issues” cop out, not swayed by the SC picks either. I wrote her to say this, and asked her if she really believed that he would be better just b/c he’s a DEM. Proof is in the pudding, he has caved ALREADY and blatantly, so who’s to say what else he’ll decide to do? I trust nothing. She shouldn’t have either, too bad on her.
My criticism of TM and TalkLeft is that they rushed to the unity pony before seeing what was going to emerge.
Now, they are left out of No Deal, and that group is going to expand exponentially. Obviously, some professionals are involved in that one.
But Talk Left is more about crime politics, anyway. Lots of their core readers were totally sick of the politic threads. And TM is more about getting back on the air. I have always thought she was mostly self-serving to the max.
As someone said, she’s schoolmarmish too often.
exactly right, didn’t wait to see what was going to happen, I knew, why didn’t she?
talk left overall is better than tm. jeralyn has tried to police the blog. i have begun pulling away due to their avowed support for obama. the “we won’t criticize michelle” idea left me cold. i am beginning to wonder if they are rethinking their positions as time goes along. “just because he says he is a democrat” doesn’t work for me.
Ah, pudding, I think I will make custard, today, maybe a creme burlee…
I have a bunch of eggs I need to use up…
Were Hillary taking it to the convention and forcing these criminal MoFos to be out in the open and certifiably antiDemocratic I would happily help out. However, since she is aiding and abetting this travisty let her and Bill use some of their OWN millions.
No, I dont think that is right, either.
It’s all dirty, sometimes you have to take the financial hit as a cost of war, as a cost of standing up to the corruption.
My goodness, the lil PR troll dont’ understand they can incur loss, here, too.
How the hell can they make an effective decision, then?
They can’t, and it shows.
Government is just a place for crooks like Rezko, and Stuart Levine to do business, now, but it WILL clean up.
trolls, not troll, sorry, lil PR trolls, PR troopers…
Obamaspeak
More empty promises from the Hopey Changey Snake Oil Salesmen Bacrack Oblowme.
But its just more of the same distractions from the real problems americans face.
We need to develop a new energy source to eliminate our reliance on foreign oil.
If someone could just figure out how to make a car run on Bullshit Promises flip flops Lies Hatemongering Raicebaiting Mysogyny and Dirty Politics, I would be one of the first to buy the Obamamobile with or without the tax credit.
Somebody forget to wake up the O-bot cult, they are missing all over the web. Waiting on new orders?.
Eerie isn’t it? Maybe it’s because instead of insulting them we are now asking them for specifics on the Change claim. The few they were able to repeat before have now been reversed by Obama.
Obama’s Ministry of Truth is busy working on including the race angle into his reasoning behind breaking this pledge. There has to be something racist about public campaign financing and honoring a pledge!
lol
I have never seen a racist campaign up close before. It is so ironic it is all coming from the Obama side. Even FOX is treading very lightly on Obama.
there was a troll released on this site yesterday by an Obot from Poland!
Look at this YouTube video. It shows all you need to know about Obama. He is a disgusting little creature who will do anything to win, even lie and cheat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU5V3fO7B1U
You fascist pigs who support the war criminal McCain are just pissed because my man Obama is going to raise five times the amount of money old man McCain can raise. Barack Obama is going to be the next president and there’s nothing you can do about it. ALL POWER 2 THE PEOPLE. http://www.power2obama.com
Latest fundraising numbers don’t back up your claim. Why is Obama only raising about as much money as McCain? I thought Obama was supposed to be the superior fundraiser. Well, I guess when you lie and cheat, eventually it comes back to bite you in the ass. Obama is a tumor on American society. It needs to be excised and chemotheraphy applied.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU5V3fO7B1U
Could it be that all those college kids that were donating their parent’s hard earned money to the obama campaign are now on summer break and spending that money on beer, pot and parties?
By the time November rolls around they will have a new idol to worship and obama will be just a faded memory.
John McCain raised one million less than Barky in May. It was Barky’s worst month. I guess the republicans are finished donating to BO now that he’s sewn up the democratic nomination. What did he say at a rally? He doesn’t care how poor you are …. give him five dollars! Now, damnit!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGxzqwRJUzM
Actually, most of the Obama supporters I’m reading on the blogs who are deeply disappointed in his FISA cave-in , are REFUSING to give him any more money, and some are emailing asking for refunds.
Look for Obama’s fundraising numbers to go DOWN next month.
Those Freepers are so obvious!
ah shut up, power2obambi!
“power2obama.com”
Your quote “my man Obama”
IS A RACIST REMARK!
Why are you a racist?
Exactly what I was talking about! The racism is coming out of the Obama camp.
Are No Quarter readers retiring Hillary Clinton’s $22.5 million dollar debt?
Obama is a pandabear from China who was dropped in China by aliens in the 5th century, he’s been hiding in a cave and moved to Hawaii in 1961 and now is running for President as a black guy, theres a tape out there of him dancing with his children as his real pandabear self I have not seen the tape but I have a friend on the westcoast and one on the eascoast who do not know eachother but have eaten peanut butter out of each others butts before who have both seen the tape of him dancing, just watch when the Panda tape drops in October it is OVER for Panda Barry.
Actually, he’s a refugee from the “retarded moo(se) unit of targeted chaos,” (RUMMY, for short) via the Pentagon. Somehow he wandered into the US government, and thought he was king.
He thinks he can troll, too, just like you.
That would explain the poor condition of his gums.
LOL So Funny! The Obama Nation Prog Blogs are exploding over Mr. Flip-Flopper, Change My Diapers Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get a load of this! LOL
PJEvans June 20th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
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How do we get through to ‘Mr Next President’ that he’s about to lose a whole lot of potential votes?
(I haven’t sent him much money, but I’m inclined to ask for it back. I can use it. It’s two tanks of gas for my fuel-efficient car.)
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/06/20/obama-replied/#comment-79538
LOL
“(I haven’t sent him much money, but I’m inclined to ask for it back. I can use it. It’s two tanks of gas for my fuel-efficient car.)”
Having some trouble raising campaign funds Mr. Chicago Money Bag Man?
LOL
91 Percent of Obama Donors Not Required to Be Reported to FEC
I know nobody here likes NRO, but please read it.
It has everything to do with this post.
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWE1NzgxYThlZTVjNGEzZmMzOGY5Mjg5NzEyOGNkY2Y=
I ment to say everybody here dislikes NRO
What about the Move-Orcs? What are they saying now to this new kind (same old)politics of Osbama Bin Lyin’?
Obama Insults Half a Race
The Black Agenda Report
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=661&Itemid=1
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen FordFatherDayObamaCrowd
The Black man who wants to be president spends Father’s Day at church in loud and general denunciation of Black males. For added insult, he describes them as “boys.”
Barack Obama’s primary audience isn’t the conservative Black Pentecostal congregation, but “white social conservatives in a race where these voters may be up for grabs,” says the New York Times. In America, even the “Black” corporate candidate runs against Black people. How did such madness come to pass in 2008? Blame the Black “progressive” misleaders who failed to challenge Obama when they had the chance. Now it’s too late, and African Americans are reduced to objects of derision.
Obama Insults Half a Race
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Obama used the occasion of Father’s Day to give Black males the back of his hand.”
I can’t believe he used the word “boys.” That is just low, really low.
These are the people who voted him into office. Instead of helping them, he turned on them to pander to racial stereotypes.
http://www.australia.to/international/0%2C25197%2C23040467-260%2C00%2C00.html
Wouldn’t be ironic if it is Obama’s own arrogance that brings him down? We don’t need tapes - he is self-destructing before our eyes.
for the life of me i cannot understand how his campaign especially axelrod is letting this happen. obama cannot control himself. he is running off at the mouth, amuck, and on a path hellbent for self destruction. don’t let me stop you obambi.
Notice how it’s “Kool” to be a low down sneaky bastard like Obama, but Hillary is a “cold, calculating b*tch”, according to the Obamatons?
Her intelligence and accomplishments make them feel inadequate, so they lash out in order to restore their self-image.
I just heard some a-hole (Sr. Editor at Newsweek…Jonathan someone) on Ed Schultz explain away BO’s new finance position…it’s OK because he doesn’t take it from the “fat cats” and it’s unique in history…and won’t it be wonderful if this windfall can help Hillary pay off her debt.
I can’t stand to listen to these yoyos.Excuse me, I have to go get a paper bag…two actually. One for barfing and one to breathe into.
How do they get away with this? Gotta get that list of corporate bundlers out in the mail. This poor sap…naw…he knows he’s a liar.
They’re facists thugs and they’ll say anything to lie chat and steal their way into wealth and power.
Pretty simple this country is screwed… We have not even come close to what lies beneath the tip of this iceberg.
verrrrrrrrrrrry interesting……….
Barack Obama’s primary audience isn’t the conservative Black Pentecostal congregation, but “white social conservatives in a race where these voters may be up for grabs,” says the New York Times. In America, even the “Black” corporate candidate runs against Black people. How did such madness come to pass in 2008? Blame the Black “progressive” misleaders who failed to challenge Obama when they had the chance. Now it’s too late, and African Americans are reduced to objects of derision.
Obama Insults Half a Race
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Obama used the occasion of Father’s Day to give Black males the back of his hand.”
FatherDayObamaChoir The Democratic presidential nominee-apparent seldom speaks directly to Black people, but when he does it is usually to denounce individuals once close to him or to criticize The Race in general for some moral failing. Thus it was no surprise that Barack Obama used the occasion of Father’s Day to give Black males the back of his hand, no doubt to the delight of millions of potential white supporters. Black males have “abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men,” said Obama, citing statistics on female-headed households. “You and I know how true this is in the African-American community.”
Even the New York Times could see through Obama’s transparent bid for white approval at Black people’s expense. Reporter Julie Bosman noted that Obama “laid out his case in stark terms that would be difficult for a white candidate to make” - terms (such as boy?) that “his campaign hopes [will] resonate among white social conservatives in a race where these voters may be up for grabs.”
In effect, Obama is following an established American electoral tradition of running against Black people. He claims to be teaming up with Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh to promote legislation to combat a “national epidemic of absentee fathers.” However, Obama’s church rant was anything but “race-neutral” - it was targeted directly at Black males. By selecting the politically conservative (in Black terms) Apostolic Church of God as the venue for his blanket Black male denunciation, Obama also reminded whites that he is no longer a member of Trinity United Church of Christ, formerly pastored by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, also located on Chicago’s South Side.
“Obama’s church rant was anything but ‘race-neutral’ - it was targeted directly at Black males.”
To make himself acceptable to whites, Obama finds it necessary to shout out how unacceptable he finds the conduct of other Blacks.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=661&Itemid=1
More from the BAR:
Obama goes race-specific-negative on Black people whenever it is useful in attracting white electoral support. Otherwise, he is studiously “race neutral” - a cynical device he deploys to avoid recognizing the pervasiveness of racial wrongs against African Americans. The candidate periodically offers loud and specific criticisms of Blacks, but prescribes no programs - not one - to address specific Black grievances. He feels quite secure with this cruel and crooked campaign posture, confident that no significant complaint will emanate from African American quarters - they are loyal, no matter what. And for that reason, they need not be respected.
The Black burden is even heavier than that. African Americans are expected to circle the wagons at the merest hint of racist threats to the candidate. Any slight to Obama, real or imagined, must be met with massive Black response, while Obama’s disregard of Black priorities and sensibilities is endlessly forgivable.
On Thursday afternoon at a meeting between Sen. Barack Obama, and members of the Congressional Black Caucus, BO said: “However, I need to make a decision in the next few months as to how I manage that since I’m running against John McCain, which takes a lot of time. If women take a moment to realize that on every issue important to women, John McCain is not in their corner, that would help them get over it.”
Get over it?
When he doesn’t get our money or our votes, hopefully he’ll just get over it.
This is the biggest fraud I’ve ever seen. Public financing IS public and anonymous and fuled by the American taxpayer. What Obama is setting up is bundled money, from lobbyists, corporations, etc. whom he’ll be beholden to.
If Clinton campaigns for this fraud or gets on the ticket with him, she will lose my support.
And he continue to claim large sums in small donations that don’t have to be accounted for. I think that is part of the big fraud. Are the little people really sending in their $5 donations, adding up to millions? How do we know it’s not a form of money laundering? Because Ob is so honest?
Don’t say what I do, do what I say!
Get over it!
I told a friend last night that I was supporting John McCain. He about fell out of his chair. He said “I needed to pull myself together and get on the Democratic Bandwagon for Obama.” I refrained from telling my friend to F.O.
Then he couldn’t help himself he bashed Hillary and praised the cheating thug - Basically the conversation ended when I said - I’m not arguing with you - I have a great idea. You vote for the cheater and theif and I’ll vote for the “what you called my guy” Because I’m not voting for a corporate facist - “you can just forget it”
Every day, more and more Obama supporters are waking from their hypnotic trance, rubbing their eyes, and saying “Hey, wait just a minute here …”.
Barack Obama is a liar, a hypocrite, an extremist, and a wet-behind-the-ears neophyte who is laughably unqualified to assume the most powerful office on Earth. He cannot be trusted with our security.
Vote McCain. Please.
LMAO!!! “Power to the People”???? I haven’t heard that one since the early 70s. Where’d you dig that one up, “Power2Obama”? Off the wall in a public restroom somewhere?
You’re an idiot. Now go back to playing your old Peter, Paul & Mary records.
Let’s just see how long this fallout lasts. I have a feeling that the rogue media will be yanked back by the invisible hands who see in B0 the next Bush. If I am wrong, I’ll happily admit it….
ONE MORE THING: B0bot rationalization: McCain will spend taxpayer’s money, B0 will generously spare us that.
Now - why is it that EVERY SINGLE PERSON I know who has spoken out against Obama is immediately threatened, bullied, insulted, and even have threats made against their lives and their family’s?
No one who speaks out against Hillary is afraid to do so - in fact, they revel in the attention as if it’s a badge of honor, same with McCain. And they aren’t threatened or ridiculed - just debated on policies, but still respected for their opinion.
Yet - say you’re for Hillary and against Obama and immediately, people you once thought you knew will not hesitate in calling you the most vile names you didn’t even know existed. Even to the point of threatening violence towards you.
Obama has not said one thing about this, no one from the DNC has. The media tries to bury it. While the police ignore it. Must we wait till there’s actual blood before someone will finally investigate to see if this is coming from a coordinated group (Chicago is where I would place my bets).
This needs to stop right now. No one should be threatened or harmed for their political views - that is the basis of American freedom.
This is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen and I couldn’t endure 4 more years of it should Obama win (you never know…dead people do miraculously awaken on election days and mysteriously cast their votes for Obama - or his thugs at the polling places will throw all ballots not cast for him away). The only remedy is to vote McCain in 2008 so we can get Hillary in 2012.
America comes first.
I think it is so pathetic the candidate of change continuously changes his position on the issues. This is not the kind of hope I want. I am tired of the empty speeches; empty because they have no substance. If Obama offers a policy issue on the campaign trail, chances are it was already tried. Nothing is new from the candidate except for his success with two words. Two meaningless words.
I am sure everyone would like to know Obama has raised $161,927 from lobbyists: http://www.obama-wire.com/obama_lobbyist.htm
I am sure everyone would to know Obama has a history on the campaign trail of never taking responsibility for the actions of his campaign; instead, he passes the buck off on his campaign: http://www.obama-wire.com/Apologies.htm
And now Obama has the audacity to suggest McCain will come after him on racial ground: http://www.obama-wire.com/racecard.htm
This guy is the biggest joke since 7 minute abs.
http://www.obama-wire.com
Here we go - you just have to contribute $2 to this:
http://www.dncmonopoly.com/
GET THIS NO TO B.O.
What makes this threat to kill me all the more mysterious is that it appears to have been sent through Barack Obama’s official campaign website – barackobama.com – the website that sends me official announcements of Obama’s campaign comings and goings.
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Hillary-supporting Philadelphia radio talker Steve Corbett attained nation-wide attention when he turned against Obama. Guess what happened to him?
In the thousands of emails I’ve received in the year that “Corbett” has been on the air, I have not received a single death threat - until yesterday.
“We will kill you when Obama become PRESIDENT OF USA.,” the email reads. “You would see!!!”…
What makes this threat to kill me all the more mysterious is that it appears to have been sent through Barack Obama’s official campaign website – barackobama.com – the website that sends me official announcements of Obama’s campaign comings and goings.
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/
LisaB thanks for the summary.
I don’t know why but it reminds me of when my kids were in elemtary school and head lice came home with their lunch boxes.
It will take days getting those creepy buggers out of the heads of BO’s kindergarden kids. It really sucks trying to get those knits out…think of all the laundry they will have to wash. YUK!
it seems that nobama with his epic flipflop on public funding has actually now included DNC (yes the DNC of the psycho dean) thrown under the bus.
Think about it.
When a candidate takes public funding, the contributions don’t stop but are redirected to the party, i.e RNC or DNC. In this case the little army of orcs that nobama has scrounged together would have still donated, although with less enthusiasm, and money would have gone to DNC. Most of the pie would still be spent on noabmi’s behalf but some crusts going to the other races.
So after the convention the candidates campaign spend 84 million and the RNC and DNC spend whatever was collected through private contributions. This is spent mostly on the presidential candidates behalf, but some on the congressional and senatorial candidates.
It is well known that Dart Axle-rod gets a cut from what the campaign spends. He is paid as a percentage of the money spent (whereas wolfson, hillary’s manager got paid a fixed amount).
If nobama had taken public funding, then the Darth axle-rod would have gotten a percentage of the money spent through the campaign, i.e. 84 million, although with some oversight from FEC, there are statutory rules on not only how much you spend of the taxpayer money, but how you spend it.
The money from the little army of nobama orcs that would have gone to the DNC would be spent OUT of the campaign and there would be no percentage for Axle-rod. That is expected to be 2 or 3 times the public funds, although from this months collections it sounds a little unrealistic.
If you were Axle-rod what would you like?
A percentage of 84 mil, with govt. rules.
or
an unregulated percentage of 2-3 times the 84 mil.
And who cares if the DNC is forced to beg on the street corner for a paltry 4 million a month. What goes around, comes around.
And if the messiah proudly throws another demeaning lie in the face of the sheep that is american public and media, so be it.