Comments on: What or Who is Obama’s Base?

By: Angus

Angus — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:21:55 +0000

Sounds disgruntled.

By: DancingOpossum

DancingOpossum — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:57:02 +0000

Funny how he can manage to be the “most liberal senator” and GWB’s twin at the same time.

He’s not a liberal. Even voting with the Democratic Party 100% of the time doesn’t make you a liberal or a progressive. (For comparison’s sake, see Kucinich, or Edwards.) Anyone who’s read his books or watched him in action can see that he supports many policies favored by the neocon wing of the Republican Party. It’s not like this is some big secret or tinfoil conspiracy; it’s all right out there in the open. Look at his economic advisors; look at his close relationships with people like Doug Kmiec; look at his contributors. He’s not “shifting” to the right, he was always there.

By: Hope Floats

Hope Floats — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:36:56 +0000

The government does impose term limits here.

By: Hope Floats

Hope Floats — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:33:29 +0000

Joseph Nye has openly endorsed Obama praising him as the new face of “soft power.”

By: Hope Floats

Hope Floats — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:21:36 +0000

Graduating MCL from Harvard qualifies him for the Senate not the White House. Obama continues flunking on the actual test for experience. He gives the wrong answers on UHC, Iraq, Iran, etc. He is not ready to be President.

By: Hope Floats

Hope Floats — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:17:54 +0000

And there you have it. Hillary ran on her many qualifications. Obama ran on Hope and Change.

One was proud of her historic run. Another has constantly warned “they will try to paint me as a scary black man.” Only one of these ran on a true message of Hope, and I’ll give you a clue. Her husband was the Original Man From Hope. I’m very inspired by her bid for the presidency.

By: educatedwhitewoman

educatedwhitewoman — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:53:27 +0000

Better do some research and quit spouting Obama myths. He wasn’t at the top of his class; he was the first affirmative action editor (not selected on merit) of the HLR, and he never wrote a single article for the review. After Obama’s lackluster performance, they changed the rules at HLR, adding the requirement that editors actually write articles!

By: rapp

rapp — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:43:42 +0000

Obama will lose this election because he keeps changing positions like the last 2 Democrats did. He becomes untrustworthy. Bill Clinton kept his positions all the way through.

By: rapp

rapp — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:40:40 +0000

To everyone who said Kerry lost because he was swift-boated, that is wrong. Democrats would like to believe that but it isn’t true. He lost because he talked down to us and not to us. He acted like he was better than us. I’m from Ohio, the swing state that won it for Bush.

By: Wilfred Mott

Wilfred Mott — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:54:48 +0000

Dear god, you actually make me feel a little sad to be a country-man of yours.

Okay, can we have a history lesson. There once was a candidate called Bambi, he came to a disillusioned leftist party full of vim and vigour. The left saw him as a Messiah, a new politician, hope, things can only get better… yay!

It didnt matter that this man seemed to change his tune according to what was vogue at that moment, because we had to get rid of those nasty right wingers.

So many on the left stated time and time again, that Bambi was merely playing the middle-class, and when he got to power, as he surely would, he would be the leftist wonderful prime minister they so craved. Things indeed can only get better.

Question: How’d that turn out? How’s civil liberties in this country now? How’s tax? Who took us to war in Iraq? What happened to people like Kelly, thrown to the wolves by Cambell et at? Please tell me things really got better, please tell me the third way was a success?

Fast forward a few years, and Bambi Mk 2.

Are you so desperate to believe?

Do you actually believe for one moment Obama will pull America out of Iraq? My arse! Yes, I’m sure he will get into power and leave the multi-billion dollar bases empty, I’m sure he’ll turn round and leave pipe-lines and oil companies unsecured, I’m sure he’ll let the Kurdish people get slaughtered in a crush between Turks, Shia and Sunni. I’m sure he’ll click his heels three times and get everyone out… or perhaps, as Power indicated, he’ll suddenly find that things on the ground means we have to stay the course. Hasnt he already started saying how wonderful Petraeus is? Does Petraeus want out?

Obama bring with him cynicism and apathy, just like Blair did. He says what he says to get power, he believes in nothing, and will turn 180 at a moments notice. I’m pissed as its already started to happen, much to my chagrin my wife supported and voted for him in the primaries, now, after a week of pandering to the right she’s begun to realise… he’s no new politician, just the old type with a good PR company.

Here endeth the rant!

By: Billy Beane

Billy Beane — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:10:00 +0000

Many of the most progressive Supreme Court decisions protecting individual liberties were all written by Republicans justices appointed by Republican presidents. Here’s a sample.

Boumediene v. Bush granting habeas corpus rights to non-uniformed enemy combatants captured on the field of battle was written for the majority by a Republican, Anthony Kennedy, appointed by Ronald Reagan.

Romer v. Evans, invalidating laws denying gays the right to bring local discrimination claims is another Kennedy decision.

Lawrence v. Texas, invalidating criminal prohibitions against private sexual acts between consenting gay adults is yet another Kennedy decision.

Planned Parenthood v. Casey re-affirming the Roe v. Wade decision recognizing the right to abortion was written by Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the SUpreme Court and another appointee of Ronald Reagan. Kennedy joined O’Connor d in the majority opinion.

Roe v. Wade itself was authored for the majority by another Republican, Harry Blackmun, who was appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon.

Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down laws allowing racial segregation, was written by another Republican, Earl Warren, an Eisenhower appointee.

Gideon v. Wainwright, granting indigent non-capital criminal defendants the right to publicly-funded counsel was a Warren decision.

Miranda v. Arizona requiring that certain rights of a person being interrogated while in police custody be clearly explained, including the right to an attorney is also a Warren decision.

By: red_sleeves

red_sleeves — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:01:37 +0000

Anyone able to validate the following?

1. 1854: Pro-life Americans establish the first major anti-slavery party. The Republican Party is born.

2. 1862: Pro-life politicians are the first to abolish slavery in Washington, D.C. They are Republicans.

3. 1863: Pro-life politicians issue the Emancipation Proclamation, in order to set all slaves free. They are Republicans.

4. 1865: Attorney John Rock (a registered doctor), becomes the first black member of the Supreme Court bar. He is a Republican.

5. 1870: Pastor Rhodes Revels becomes America’s first black Senator. He is a Republican.

6. 1872: Louisiana gives America her first nonwhite Governor. He is a Republican.

7. 1872: By now, the first seven African-Americans are in the U.S. Congress. They are all Republicans.

8. 1884: John Lynch, a Congressman, becomes the first black to preside over a national convention. He is a Republican.

9-11. The 1890s: During his stint as New York City Police Commissioner, Teddy Roosevelt is the first leader to open doors to women – and the first to welcome Jews in the department. But there’s more. Teddy becomes the first to introduce standardized pistols to the force, in order to protect innocents. He is a Republican.

12. 1901: Teddy Roosevelt, a balanced conservationist, becomes – according to Time 2006 – the first President “to make environmentalism an issue.” He is a Republican.

13. 1901: President Roosevelt upsets Democrats when he invites the first African-American to dine in the White House. He is a Republican.

14. 1906: President Roosevelt becomes the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He is a Republican.

15. 1916: Jeanette Rankin becomes America’s first congresswoman. She is a Republican.

16. 1916: Also – according to Gov. Thomas Judge — Rankin becomes the first “woman in the world to be elected to a parliamentary body.” She
is a Republican.

17. 1921: Pro-life politicians are the first to establish and back the controversial Dyer Anti-Lynching Laws. They are Republicans.

18. 1925: Florence Khan becomes the first Jewess to serve in Congress. She is a Republican.

19. 1938. Former President Herbert Hoover becomes the first statesmen to rebuke Adolph Hitler in person. He is a Republican.

20. 1943. Hoover is the first major statesmen to back the controversial Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, which finally convinces President Roosevelt, the Democrat, to create a War Refugee Board, in order to rescue Jews. He is a Republican.

21. 1950: Joseph Mc Carthy, a great patriot, delivers his famous Wheeling speech and is the first Senator to publicly blow the whistle
on the largest nest of Red Fascists in the State Department. History will vindicate the Senator. He is a Republican.

22. 1953: Former Catholic Congresswoman Clare Luce Booth becomes the first female ambassador to a major world power. She is a Republican.

23-5. 1954: On his 30th anniversary, as FBI Director, the liberal Associated Press, Washington, acknowledges that J. Edgar Hoover is
responsible for three firsts. Before his time there was no “fingerprint file [1], no crime detection laboratory [2], no training program [3], and no prestige.” He is a Republican.

26: 1955: President Eisenhower becomes the first President to appoint an African-American (E. Frederic Morrow) to an executive position on
the White House staff. He is a Republican.

27. 1957: Eisenhower becomes the first President to order troops to protect black students at Central High, Arkansas. He is a Republican.

28. 1957: Eisenhower’s Civil Rights Bill makes him the first President to strongly back black voting rights and protections in the post-war
period. He is a Republican.

29. 1959: Hiram L. Fong becomes the first Asian-American Senator. He is a Republican.

30-1. 1964: Margaret Chase Smith (not Hillary Clinton) is the first woman to run as a U.S. Presidential candidate for a major party. She
is a Republican. (Note: Smith is also the first female to be elected in the U.S. House and Senate too.)

32. 1964: Hiram L. Fong becomes the first Asian presidential candidate. He is a Republican.

33. 1964: Barry Goldwater is the first person of Jewish ancestry to run as a U.S. presidential candidate for a major party. He is a Republican.

34. 1964: The Grand Old Party is the first (and only) party to strongly back the Civil Rights Act (83%). Thank God for the Republicans.

35. 1971: Herbert Choy becomes the first Asian-American to serve on the federal bench. He is a Republican.

36. 1971: Romana Acosta Banuelos becomes the first Hispanic-American Treasurer of the U.S. She is a Republican.

37. 1971: Senator Strom Thurmond, a former member of the racist Democratic Party, renounces his past, and becomes the first southern Senator to hire an African-American, in a senatorial office. He is a Republican.

38. 1973: Henry Kissinger becomes the first Jewish U.S. Secretary of State. He is a Republican.

39. 1985: Significantly, Reagan becomes the first world leader to describe five dictatorships (Cuba, Iran, Libya, Nicaragua, and North Korea), as “outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, loony-tunes and squalid criminals since the end of the Third Reich.” (Loud cheers and laughs.) He is a Republican.

40. 1988: Reagan becomes the first President to sign legislation which acknowledges that – under FDR, the Democrat – Japanese internment camps were based upon “race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership.” He also offers a formal apology and compensation to survivors. He is a Republican.

41. 1988: Lauro F. Cavazos, the former Secretary of Education, becomes the first Hispanic-American to serve as a U.S. Cabinet Member. He is a Republican.

42. 1989: Julia Chang Bloch becomes the first Asian U.S. ambassador. She is a Republican.

43-4. 1990: Antonia Coello Novello becomes the first woman and the first Hispanic-American to become a Surgeon General of the U.S. She is a Republican.

45. 2001: Elaine Chao becomes the first Asian-American Cabinet Minister. She is a Republican.

46. 2001: Colin Powell becomes the first African-American Secretary of State. He is a Republican.

47. 2001: The late Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt becomes the first and only President to receive the Medal of Honor, America’s highest military award. He was a Republican.

48. 2005: Alberto Gonzales becomes the first Hispanic American Attorney General of the U.S. He is a Republican.

49. 2005: Condoleezza Rice becomes the first African-American female Secretary of State. She is a Republican.

50. 2008: John McCain looks like he will become the first President born outside of the continental United States, in the Panama Canal
Zone. He is a Republican.

By: maniaco

maniaco — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:48:35 +0000

TROLL ALERT:

UKfordems = FastForward

SEC = FastForward

waste-o-time jackasses, both

By: maniaco

maniaco — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:45:27 +0000

UKforDems = FastForward

SEC = FastForward

waste-o-time jackasses both

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Meanwhile in other (OT?) news,
isn’t the Credentials Committee meeting on Monday, July 7th?

By: maniaco

maniaco — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:37:53 +0000

SEC = FastForward [yawn]

who cares what latest jackass SEC thinks, says or does!