What or Who is Obama’s Base?
By LisaB on July 2, 2008 at 4:15 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs
I think the potential “new” Democratic base is becoming clear at last. Or at least the base for the GE. Whether Obama would run from this base like he has from the one he used to win the Democratic nomination (presumptive), remains to be seen. But let’s look at what we got, shall we?
1) A fascinating piece by David Brooks at the NYT includes information about some of Obama’s heaviest donors, not by individual, but by class and work sector. He sees some interesting trends.
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Brooks discusses the breakdown of Obama’s supporters, contrasting that with the campaign’s constant assertions of the “low donation supporter” as if they are merely processing $5, $10 and $25 checks from the “little guys.” Based on information at opensecrets.org, Brooks finds the following:
As in other recent campaigns, lawyers account for the biggest chunk of Democratic donations. They have donated about $18 million to Obama, compared with about $5 million to John McCain, according to data released on June 2 and available at OpenSecrets.org.
People who work at securities and investment companies have given Obama about $8 million, compared with $4.5 for McCain. People who work in communications and electronics have given Obama about $10 million, compared with $2 million for McCain. Professors and other people who work in education have given Obama roughly $7 million, compared with $700,000 for McCain.
Real estate professionals have given Obama $5 million, compared with $4 million for McCain. Medical professionals have given Obama $7 million, compared with $3 million for McCain. Commercial bankers have given Obama $1.6 million, compared with $1.2 million for McCain. Hedge fund and private equity managers have given Obama about $1.6 million, compared with $850,000 for McCain.
When you break it out by individual companies, you find that employees of Goldman Sachs gave more to Obama than workers of any other employer. The Goldman Sachs geniuses are followed by employees of the University of California, UBS, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, National Amusements, Lehman Brothers, Harvard and Google. At many of these workplaces, Obama has a three- or four-to-one fund-raising advantage over McCain.
Brooks notes that all the heavy donors are all highly educated. It is also apparent that these donors are “information economy” professionals for the most part. Brooks ends with this:
If the Democrats are elected, this highly educated class will have much more say over policy than during the campaign. Undecided voters sway campaigns, but in government, elites generally run things. Once the Republicans are vanquished, I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for that capital gains tax hike or serious measures to expand unionization.
Interesting. Remember when George Bush told a bunch of millionaires that they were HIS BASE? Well, perhaps change some of the industries, from coal and oil to information management and finance and you’ve got the same thing. Also note what these sectors don’t typically represent: blue collar workers, low income workers and/or manufacturing industries like the auto industry.
2) The Independent has an interesting, and more objective piece about Obama than you’ll find at most MSM sites. Dominic Lawson writes about Obama’s many flips between the “good” Obama and the evil twin Baricky. It’s definitely worth a read.
Lawson starts out with a passage from The Audacity of Hope:
“I find comfort in the fact that the longer I’m in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that a striving for rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition, and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience.”
Thus spake Barack Obama. These words appear at the conclusion of the chapter entitled “Politics” in Obama’s 2006 book The Audacity of Hope. They also sum up much of what we now know about Obama: a man of stunning articulacy, but also stunning self-regard.
Lawson goes on to detail the many position switches Obama has managed in the brief time since the primary season more or less ended.
Those who actually supported Obama during this [primary] process now divide neatly, if unevenly, into two groups. The first, smaller, group is full of buyer’s remorse. The blogosphere is hissing like a catherine wheel with their anger with Obama, obviously, but above all with themselves. The second, much bigger group, continues to buy Obama’s story. They argue that everything and anything is justified if it helps to get a Democrat back in the White House; some of them add that “of course” Obama doesn’t believe any of the things he is now saying to woo the “redneck states” and that once in the White House he will revert to his “true beliefs”.
To this group we must address a simple question. How do you know what Obama really believes in, other than his own destiny – and, of course, his conscience?
An excellent question. And I don’t think anyone has a clue. But here’s the thing.
*While claiming to raise most of his funds from “small donors,” Obama has actually raised most of his money from wealthy donors of the “information age” elites. Just whose interests will he look after here?
*He has ruthlessly switched positions on many hot-button items of importance to traditional Democrats who got him to where he is now (see NAFTA, FISA, public campaign financing, and others). Just which direction on any of these will he ultimately go?
* Then he drops the f-bomb on his supposed base: the proposal to keep the faith-based policy of GWB. Is this a ruse? Will he do this or is it just a way of getting evangelicals to vote for him?
* Obama has discarded many friends of long standing, some who probably helped him on his way up. Is Obama the kind of man who easily drops long-term relationships or is it the new friends who won’t last in his organization?
So, three questions:
1. WHO is Obama?
2. WHO is his real BASE?
and, perhaps most importantly,
3. HOW will we be able to tell?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
There never was any question as to who his base was - yet the illiterate who are the Obamazombies are the ones who defend him to the hilt.
What I don’t understand is WHY these low-level, ‘average’ Democrats who are supposedly always questioning everything, have never questioned Obama?
Again, it reminds me of the Bushbots. Scary, really.
Answer: clever marketing.
“What I don’t understand is WHY these low-level, ‘average’ Democrats who are supposedly always questioning everything, have never questioned Obama?”
They don’t want to be called racists, and that is part of the reason why BaJoke was picked by the George Soroses of the world: You can always play the race card while concomitantly feeling good while playing what Thomas Sowell calls “mascot politics” by running on the ‘first AA president’ theme.
Excellent work by you on this piece, LisaB. This saves many of us from having to read more of Brooks’ drivel. Wow, David Brooks will look at some incredibly basic statistics and try to divine for us all some larger meaning. Who knew, Bobo?
And the “first woman candidate” was not mascot politics? Is there no pride that the party to have a choice of either historic choice was the Democrat Party? Who are the Repugs running? Another old white guy.
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WOW! Not only are you bots racists and sexists, you are ageists.
Another old white guy
OMG you are sooo right! Let’s run a middle aged black male. All we need is HOPE and Affirmative Action.
I’d like a party that ran the most qualified people for the ticket. If they turn out to be female or black or Asian or Latino or old or handicapped - then that would be fine for us all to congratulate ourselves on not letting those differences stop us from electing the best. It just seems like the cart has been put before the horse: Let’s elect an AA because he’s AA. Fine with me if you can show he’s the most qualified, but otherwise it’s affirmative action at its worst. . Hillary was qualified. She happened to be female. I would never have gone along with electing her just because she’s female.
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.
Claiming that someone who was top of the law class at Harvard is an affirmative action candidate is so beyond stupid, it is laughable. Go on say what you really mean - there are enough on here who would love to don a white sheet for the night.
Tell that crap to the poor Black people who went without heat in the housing units in Obama’s district, while his rich sponsors who were in charge of turning ON that heat ran off with all the federal funds.
It appears that Obama is the racist.
Mary — 700 died of that Chicago heat and nothing was done to help get them out of their houses. Most of them were old, poor, infirmed and frightened of their neighborhood. Obama in charge.
True, it wasn’t only the cold. The heat killed many, many people. People who had no fans or a/c and were so surround by crime they were afraid to open their windows. Bo’s crimanal buddies have a lot to answer for.
egad, my typing is getting worse.
The 1995 heat wave took place two years before Obama was a state senator. Thank goodness you weren’t in charge
Despicable. Just downright evil. There’s a special place on Hell for Obama and his cronies.
If you believe he was top of his class. If he was, he wouldn’t fail so miserably without a teleprompter. I still remember the hilarious ABC debate. It’s like the DNC elected a baby.
jr — the reason Obama fails so miserably without his teleprompter is because he’s afraid to say where he really stands. He knows that would finish him.
He graduated with a “D”..I was reading up on it in January..
Where the hell did you get that one UK? In what alternative kool-aid drinking universe was Obama at the top of his class at Harvard Law? HA! Talk to the people who were there! He never published. He never clerked for a judge. He has refused to release his grades and we all know the selection process for editor of the law review was not based on grades the year he was “selected”.
I keep seeing a pattern here. Nobama keeps getting “selected” for president on qualities other than merit. No wonder he keeps inflating his biography.
In fact, people had trouble figuring out why he get on the Law Review since the editor usually comes from the top 2% of students.
He was never editor. he was an itnern at best.
Top of the class??? White sheets??? You’ve got quite an imagination there.
Why is it that BO’s supporters can never support him? All they can do is call people who don’t support him racist and attack the other candidate.
The ‘new’ politics bares a striking similarity to the old ones.
What is laughable is that someone is running with 2 years of experience in the Senate. Don’t know where you work, but would you expect to be qualified to run your company after working there for two years? And Obama somehow has such an ego that he thinks he’s qualified to run the entire country after two years? Obama may be qualified one day WHEN HE HAS EXPERIENCE. Right now, no way.
He was top of his law class at Harvard?
Does Harvard have a pattern of turning out incoherent “lawyers” or something?
What does UK stand for again? United (for)Kool-aid?
We’re just assuming this person is in the uk. It might stand for uncle knucklehead or something.
You found out his grades? Wonderful! He hasn’t been so forthcoming about most things. How about Columbia and Occidental, as you are such an excellent sleuth?
How do you know he was at the top of his class in Harvard. Show me the grades!
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!
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.
yawn. you know nothing, limey.
The first “woman” viable candidate was the most honest, highly qualified, sincere, trustworthy, and tough, Hillary would have been one of the greats and history would have told the story. Her lifes work proves it.
Hillary IS the best one still
i agree 100% with you
And a bona fide valedictorian—I think that stood then and stands now for “top of the class”.
Another day — same jerk obamabutt trying to explain away his messiah’s arrogance and stupidity.
That’s kind of amusing coming from a country that still worships decaying Monarchs.
Yea, Hillary is a “Mascot.” I guessed you missed the 35+ years of documented and accomplished public service. And the astonishing breadth and depth of knowledge and intelligence. She’s just a “token.” If that were true, where are all the other strong, brilliant, experienced, and compassionate women candidates? Hillary is exceptional, not a “mascot.”
And p.s. being “different” whether it’s a woman or a minority is not a qualification to be president. That’s the problem here. Since when did knowledge and experience become secondary criteria? Oh yea, with Reagan and then Bush. Now we have Obambi.
TROLL ALERT:
UKfordems = FastForward
SEC = FastForward
waste-o-time jackasses, both
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.
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.
The Anonymous Liberal
Thursday, November 16, 2006
“But I think Deval Patrick’s success hints at an even more interesting dynamic that will arise if Obama’s should manage to secure the Democratic nomination. If that should happen, it will be THE story. And not just here in the U.S., but around the world. Obama would be the first African-American to win a major party’s presidential nomination. He’d be just one momentous day away from becoming the leader of the free world. No matter what else happens in the campaign, no matter who his opponent is, that single story line will dwarf all others. Throughout the campaign, media coverage will be dominated by discussion of the historical significance of the election. Newspaper and magazine headlines will scream “Is America on the Verge of Making History?” Throughout the country, there will be a pervasive sense that we are on the cusp of a dramatic and important historical event, that we’re about to take a bold new step forward as a nation. And believe me, people will get caught up in it. It will be a potent political phenomenon. Obama’s opponent, whether it be McCain or Romney or whoever, will have to try very hard to counter the sense that he is standing athwart history yelling “stop.””
http://www.anonymousliberal.com/2006/11/successful-test-run-of-obamas.html
Well, certain people had no fucking problem with cheating the first woman president out of making history, so why should WE give a fuck about the first black president?
This article was written in ‘06.
That’s why I posted it.
As a resident of Massachusetts- I am laughing my sorry ass off at ” Deval Patrick’s success”. Success? he is useless.
He can’t get anything of substance thru
the statehouse. He keeps trying to balance the budget and pay for programs with “funny money”. Revenue from casinos not even built and voted down!
Why did Massachusetts- a state made for Obama to win with Kennedy and Kerry backing- come out SO BIG for Clinton? Because we told David Evilrod- “Been there, Done that, No thank you”
Fool me once- shame on you
Fool me twice- shame on me.
I really think Deval Patrick was Axelrod’s test run , his beta version.
If Deval Patrick is such a success, why did Hillary win MASS by 17 points? Obama had Patrick, Kennedy and Kerry on his side. Could it be they were bamboozled by Patrick, so they could see through Obama? The idea that we are suppose to vote for someone just because they are black, is insane.
Mass is one of the only states where there was no cheating in the primary race. I checked every state. Mass cast nearly 1 million votes and counted all of them!
Obama is by definition an ARAB AMERICAN..Check it out on in the inernet..He ia 50% White, 43.25%ARAB AMERICAN, and 6.75% African American…I have read by minority definition to be considered in that minority you must be 8% of that blood line.
It’s just like Dubya’s peeps. The Obamabots are a bunch of young kids who don’t know diddly squat about politics. I was amused to hear my aesthetician, a recent immigrant from Britain, telling me how Hillary Clinton and John McCain are scary–she’s afraid of them–but she trusts Obama. She’s about 21 and probably has nine months job training–no higher education. I have four degrees related to politics, am a native born American, followed politics for 40 years, but this person looks at me and sees a 60 yr old and immediately assumes she needs to explain politics to me. Same with my stylist–also about 29. Both young white women who adore Obama and trust him because he’s a man who lectures and scolds people in an authoritarian manner.
Dubya’s crowd were Bible thumpers were had only recently paid attention to politics and got easily propagandized by Faux News.
So sad that Americans really have become so uninformed and ill-educated that we can’t get a viable presidential candidate.
Don’t talk that way about their hero
McGovern DukakisObama.Now you understand why Democrats have only elected 2 presidents in 40 years.
uppity — exactly — Bill Clinton a two term successful president was savaged by the Obama campaign with nary a word of support from the DNC. The Democratic Party deserves loser.
Exactly s. hall. Thanks for saying this. Bill Clinton savaged by the Obama campaign and the AA community on whose behalf he and his wife the should-be and would-be greatest president HRC, also savaged by false charges of racism while Nobama and the DNC and Pelosi, Dean, Brazile stood by and did absolutely nothing. Sickening. I checked out of the Democratic party Sunday morning after the Democratic Party Rules Committee stole the votes of Florida and Michigan voters and handed them to BO, their selected candidate. This is Bush and 2000 all over again. Another arrogant leader focused on himself.
You left off ron paul.
he’s worse odds than the casino.
if u put money on him, u are almost certain to be disappointed.
depends on the spread
If Obama gets elected we’ll all be bent over and spread.
It still depends on the spread. I’m told mayo works
jim — right Obama is angry at all of us because he had a ditzy mom and and some absentee dads. The Misery of Barack Obama.
This history of the Democratic party is literally riddled with “Sure Thing” candidates who lost.
Uppity — The Republican Party knows how to win — just hope they want to win this year.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain… or the industries behind the curtain. The Bilderbergers know best! Go ahead, google it… bilderberg sebelius obama nothing to see here people move along…
Karma Chameleon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqeTpbV9nt0&feature=related
Desert loving in your eyes all the way
If I listen to your lies would you say
Im a man without conviction
Im a man who doesnt know
How to sell a contradiction
You come and go
You come and go
Karma karma karma karma karma chameleon
You come and go
You come and go
Loving would be easy if your colors were like my dream
Red, gold and green
Red, gold and green
Didnt hear your wicked words every day
And you used to be so sweet I heard you say
That my love was an addiction
When we cling our love is strong
When you go youre gone forever
You string along
You string along
Every day is like a survival
Youre my lover not my rival
Every day is like a survival
Youre my lover not my rival
Im a man without conviction
Im a man who doesnt know
How to sell a contradication
You come and go
You come and go
Obama was invited to a Bilderberg meeting, Hillary and Bush are members. As above google is your friend.
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So was your prime minister.
Like the Republicans, New Labour does not have long left in power.
So you support the Conservatives?
ukforDems — what does gobsmacked mean?
John edwards is a memeber too. check out You tube and see the members of bilderberger.
Joseph Nye has openly endorsed Obama praising him as the new face of “soft power.”
Dude, are you friggin’ quoting Culture Club? Just…ewwww.
Well, that certainly explains the issue of the disappearing anti-Obama blogs from Google.
The Obama base is the neo-liberal corporatist base. The see themselves as a permanent class of ruling elites of institutionalized government. They believe that big bureaucracy, like the UN, is much better able to manage our affairs, there is no trust in the voter. this is the movement very prevalent in the EU today, that of ceding individual state sovereignty to the unelected elites of Brussels.
Well don’t just hit it on the head or anything…
Guess that explains the stories that Obama is wildly popular in Europe.
Bill Clinton for King of America!!!!
Or, Hil, either one.
A joint monarchy, like William and Mary. Yah, that’s the ticket!
The government does impose term limits here.
I knew all along that he did not have all of that flush of millions of dollars from a bunch of video game players and college kids.
Anything by the elites to keep another Clinton out of the White House, who was and is for the middle class. Do we need another depression, and the global threat of communism to get someone in the White House who cares about the common middle class person?
The Bushes hated FDR and thought he was a traitor to his class. Now we have Jay Rockefeller and Kennedy and Kerry protecting their own.
We get this fraud of a democratic candidate, who is only made valid by his skin color and the excitement he engenders in the black community.
I keep seeing Kerry on TV from when I used to watch it saying “Ted and I know what’s best for the prty.”
Kerry does not care for the country! He knows Barack Obama is NOT qualified to be the POTUS, but just like the others, they ignore the middle class and lower.It’s the MIGHTY DOLLAR that rules!
SHALL WE LET DOWN AMERICA?
Hillary or McCain ‘08
Oh that reminds me, anyone seen the MSM headline that the Republicans have learned that DICK GEPHARDT–another failed prez candidate–is to be named Obie’s VP? Bwhaaaahaaaa!
Imagine the fun you could have with:
Barry/Dick 08
Just ask Larry
Geez, nobody wanted Gephart the first time around.
Or — he’s the only one who would accept??
Oh my — now that’s a winning team — NOT!
terri — that is about as exciting as watching paint dry. I knew Obama wouldn’t pick Hillary because she would upstage him. Gephardt is so white and boring he disappears in the atmosphere.
Hillary said not thanks..
no thanks…she listens..she heard us..
little money flows to big bundlers … no need to explain “who” the little donors are
Really, must we keep up this anti-Obama charade? When will we cease? There is a new lilt in the step of Americans and I for one am not going to do anything to stop it.
“Really, must we keep up this anti-Obama charade? When will we cease? There is a new lilt in the step of Americans and I for one am not going to do anything to stop it”
Really, must we keep up this anti-Bush charade? There is a uniter in office, and I for one am not going to criticize him one bit. (see dixie chicks)
f*ck obama.