Sexist Jokester Headlines Obama Fundraiser [Update]
By SusanUnPC on July 12, 2008 at 11:06 AM in Barack Obama, Sexism
UPDATE: As Memeorandum.com makes clear, Daily Kos and other “progressive” blogs are ignoring this story. And, although Obama wanted Don Imus fired for referring to a woman as a “ho,” Obama’s prescription for Mac was, “I’m just kidding with you, man.” Obama told the crowd last night:
“… Bernie you got to clean up your act. This is a family affair… I’m just messing with you,” he said.
Original: What is astonishing about this report from Obama’s $2,300-per-person fundraiser in Chicago last night — we know he’s desperate for donations — is not just the crude “ho” joke that comedian Bernie Mac told (described below). It’s not just that, when he took the stage, Obama thanked “my great friend, one of the kings of comedy, Bernie Mac,” later offering only the most tepid, perfunctory criticism. One of the shockers is that the media reported, but failed to point out, the outright sexism in these comments from Mac’s routine:
“Having a black first lady is different: You’re still going have to do the dishes and the laundry and all that . . . you got to pick up the kids,” Mac said. “‘You didn’t pick up the kids?’ ‘I just came from Korea, talking about nuclear weapons.’ ‘You were on Air Force One and you couldn’t stop to pick up the kids?’”
That’s not all. Mac also said this, according to Mark Halperin:
Mac said he is a Democrat “born and raised” but added that “I’m a Republican at tax time.” …
He then talked about his wife who he’s been married to for 35 years, and how she just went through menopause.
“I can’t take it,” he said. “My house is so doggone cold all the time.”
I cannot begin to comprehend how that joke made Mac’s wife feel, or how humiliating that is to millions of American women who all go through menopause.
Then there’s that, besides Mac’s ignorance of how the White House daily chores are done by hired staff, he apparently is unable to comprehend that a female can offer more as a First Lady than doing the laundry and dishes, and caring for children.
Here’s the “ho” joke via Reuters’ blog (which also fails to tell the full story about Obama’s response). I had to search four news reports to find an accurate description because most of them — from the Washington Post to the Chicago newspapers — only delicately referred to the word “ho”:
The Chicago-born comedian and actor told what he said was a joke about his nephew coming to him and asking the difference between a hypothetical question and a realistic question.
To demonstrate the difference, he tells the nephew to go ask his mother if she would make love to the mailman for $50,000. The mother says she would make love to the mailman and anybody else for $50,000.
He tells the nephew to go ask his sister if she would make love with her neighbor for $50,000. She says she would make love with the neighbor and anybody else for $50,000.
So he tells the nephew: “Hypothetically speaking, we should have $100,000. But realistically speaking we live with two hos,” Bernie Mac said.
There was an awkward moment and nervous laughter from the crowd of about 600 people who had paid $2,300 each to attend the fundraiser at a Chicago hotel. One person objected to the word “ho” — derogatory slang for woman — and urged Bernie Mac to leave and make way for Obama.
In his speech, the Illinois senator, who hopes to become the first black U.S. president, said unity was essential in the Democratic Party. He said it should not be divided by race, religion, region, class or gender.
“That means, by the way, Bernie, you got to clean up your act,” Obama said. “This is a family affair.”
The Reuters report leaves out what Obama also said following his weak admonition to Mac. Halperin’s pool report has Obama’s complete remarks:
“That means, by the way, Bernie you got to clean up your act. This is a family affair… I’m just messing with you,” he said.
They love the womanhating so much, and it was such a central part of their whole campaign, that they’d rather LOSE THE ELECTION THAN KNOCK IT THE HELL OFF.
I’m happy to oblige. McCain 08 — the Hero or the Zero!
ABSOLUTELY TRUE Janis!!
They had BETTER knock it the HELL off!!!
(mouth agape) No way should such TRASH enter the White House. They must at least APPEAR to be a shining example of a GOOD CLEAN AMERICAN to hold the position of TOP AMERICAN!
They fail soooooooooooo miserably. They can’t even fake it well.
Otherwise they are just like US. And we want someone BETTER than WE are to be in CHARGE!!! We had the dumb ass cowboy saudi oil loving klutz next door for 8 long tragic years! WE don’t need 8 yrs of dumb ass Chicago Inner City BLT white hating gangsters either!
RISE HILLARY!!!
I think you’ve got a good point. It’s a very masculine and aggressive campaign right now.
All the “Just get over it,” messages. Today, Obama tells a woman fundraiser that Bill is a problem in considering Hillary as VP. Really, now. Let’s vet all the wives of all the VP men on the list. I wanna know. Now, this buffoon.
I’m happy, personally, to see that Obama is being entirely consistent.
Nothing we trash-talk here turns out to be wrong. LOL*
We’re so on the money, it scares me sometimes.
Obama’s messin’ with all of us.
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NOBAMA!
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I do too. Obama is as my daughter-in-laws says Ghetto. Just remember a vote for John McCain is a vote for Hillary 2012. Hell will freeze over before I vote for Obama or any democratic leader that votes against the will of thier district or state.
The video made me feel sad…and inspires me to remind people what this country has lost with the Selected Obama Nominee…Hillary Clinton as our next President…
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Hillary is not gone from our daily rituals. We send money to pay off her debt. We work to get her the nomination. We write letters to encourage her, and to influence the superdelegates in her favor.
Hillary is not gone from her supporters’ daily rituals.
I’m just messing with you!!!
BHO is so oblivious to his own sexism that he doesn’t even see it when it is happening. Why is this not making headlines today?
Please, God, wake up DNC.
Wonder how Donna Brazile liked those “jokes” at the expense of women.
Mac said he is a Democrat “born and raised” but added that “I’m a Republican at tax time.” …
He then talked about his wife who he’s been married to for 35 years, and how she just went through menopause.
“I can’t take it,” he said. “My house is so doggone cold all the time.”
Bernie Mac should move into one of Rezko’s slums and see what a real cold house is like. He’d get to see what life is like for people who rely on social programs funded by tax dollars are like, too.
Right. McCain, who, when the Clintons were in the White House, famously told a Republican gathering the joke, “Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.” And who in front of three reporters, snapped at his wife, when she teased him about his thinning hair, “At least I don’t lay on the makeup with a trowel, you c–t.” And who, on camera, when a supporter during the primaries asked him “How do we beat the bitch?”, smiled and said “That’s a good question.”
You go vote for the hero McCain. Because a few Bernie Mac jokes mean Obama is a sexist.
You people are a joke.
Is that all you’ve got? Lordy, it reminds me of the primaries when the so-called “progressives” posted over and over and over about the blue dress and Hillary’s day planner.
Get a clue. We’re here. It’s today. We’re discussing what’s going on in the present.
Either come up with something relevant, or save the bandwidth.
Nobody cares about some remark said years ago.
We ARE in a different era, and what is being discussed is our future and our values today.
Where’s the REAL birth certificate of your illegal alien Messiah?
No – Obama is just a sexist. I find Bernie Mac very funny, and if I were at a comedy club or watching BET on a Saturday night with my husband, I would probably laugh at that joke.
The point is, it was a political fundraiser for the democratic presidential candidate just weeks after a primary season rife with sexual hostilities and blatant as well as coded misogyny.
We haven’t forgotten Barky 1) referencing Jay Z with his gestures and his choice of music at his rallies ( I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one…) and 2) dusting off his shoulders and shoes ( if you’re hip to what that signifies ) and 3) giving the finger to Hillary after he bombed in the ABC debate (like it’s Hillary’s fault she’s better prepared, better informed and more articulate).
In this atmosphere, a joke referring to women as “hos” probably shows a profound lack of judgement…at best.
I CAN’T let this bother me today though with Rasmussen showing Barky lost his entire lead!!!
You know it’s due to us PUMA resistance fighters.
Here’s to us!!
Laugh at the joke?
The “ho” is the MILD part of the joke….the FIRST part tells the nephew that “hypothetically speaking they should have $100,000.”
Why? To HAVE SEX with the mom and sister.
Despicable beyond.
The menopause one didn’t bother me as much as the implication that the child’s mother and sister are whores.
Let’s face it, they are calling us whores. Moms, grandma, sisters and daughters.
He’s ok with his daughters being called whores?
I’m not going along with this ho euphemism.
It’s whore.
I read many of the blogs. I’m a 63 year old black female Hillary supporter with a 27 year old daughter who is also a Hillary supporter. She also keeps me up to date on the latest “rap” meaning. We both agree that Bernie’s true meaning and insinuation was regarding the $100,000 reference. Remember the latest news was that the Obama large donors had raised less than $100,000 for Hillary. His whole meaning was to call Hillary a Ho (whoring after Obama donors for money) and getting only (hypothetically/realistically)$100,000 for her effort. A SICKO-A**HOLE LIKE OBAMA.
How many times do you plan to post that? A hundred? A thousand?
And we’re such a “joke” that you keep coming back again, and again, and again…
Why don’t you just admit that you like what we are saying here, but try to get attention by pretending to disagree?
Don’t mind him John,
He comes here to learn the news since nobody can rely on the media anymore. Than he remembers what he is paid for and makes a half-ass remark. He doesn’t even try to be meaningful. He just has to earn his salary. Who can blame him? In our town not even at McDonald can you find a minimum wage job.
Don’t lose hart sfhillary, when Mrs. Clinton becomes president, things will change for the better and you will find a decent job too.
LOL If only you knew.
Maybe sometime I’ll really write something so you jokers who think I’m some sort of clownish Obama blogger or teenager or whatever toher cliche insult you’re using this week actually realize that there are very serious, very successful, very talented professionals who support the Senator from Illinois…in my case it is writing on a level that you might occasionally read, if you read very good magazines, but won’t often see in venues like this one…at any rate, yeah, sure, whatever, I’m a paid Obama blogger without a full time job…lol…
Then you’re smart enough to recognize my smackdown has merit.
Get into the present, and stop trying to push old stuff as though it’s a valid counterpoint.
It isn’t.
Now, if you need help in understanding this, go back and try taking a few logic classes or brush up on your argumentative skills elsewhere.
I’m sorry, your smackdown does not have merit. You accuse Obama of sexism based on a few obscure campaign references, while enthusiastically endorsing McCain, whose own on-the-record and recent comments are far more directly sexist, and far uglier. It’s blatant hypocrisy and I’m sure deep down you know it, since my impression is that you’re one of the wiser people here.
Just as I thought. OK….keep posting cheap shots.
Don’t take constructive criticism.
And be ignored as rather stupid.
The reason you need to brush up on your logic is that no matter what anyone else does, your candidate sucks. You support and defend a candidate who throws away his supporters and democratic values for power. You can talk about John McCain all you want, but that doesn’t take Obama’s tepid non-admonition of lame, sexist remarks, or every other sexist things he did, away.
Don’t come here expecting people to respect you if you’re standing up for someone who clearly doesn’t care about your support one bit. I feel sorry for the people who read the stuff you write.
He is not on the record. Both those comments you quoted were not published by the MSM 16 years ago when he supposedly said them. No it was 16 years later when someone “supposedly” remembered he said those things. Three anonymous reporters who still don’t want to be known? You don’t find that the least bit suspicious? 2 of his aides that are no longer his aides that haven’t said a word about it. Come on now. Billy Bob told me that 30 years ago he remembered someone who remembered someone who said…PLEASE! Just as Bush was on the record as saying quit pushing the constitution on me, it’s just a piece of paper. Too bad it has been debunked over and over. Fact Check has a nice article on it you might want to read. You can’t debunk these cleaims because you have no video. Not one MSM reported it, and the reporters that claim to have heard it all wish to remain anonymous after 16 years! What kind of record is that?
sfhillary,
The sexism that Hillary was subjected to was systemic and institutional. The examples of McCain and Bernie Mack are individual manifestations of these racist constructs. Men make remarks like this every second of everyday somewhere in this country. I tended bar for many years and I can vouch for that. I can also vouch for the fact that there is very little that can be done to contain this kind of talk outside of the workplace.
What a man says to his wife cannot be legislated. It’s incumbent upon her to do something about it. And certainly anybody that’s been married or been around couples that fall into the George and Martha category of Albee’s infamous play, know that women can give as good as any man.
It’s also close to impossible to contain what comedians say. We have been living in a period of tasteless humor for a while now. The joke that Bernie told last night has been making email rounds among black people for about a year. When I received it last summer, I laughed. It was funny. But black people have a different sense of humor than whites. And the word ‘ho’ is part of our lexicon not yours. For years it was a fighting word, but true to the African American culture, the word was turned around a bit, if for no other reason than to keep down the fist fights. It’s the same principal that turned the word ‘badd’ into the meaning of ‘good.’ (Think of the Michael Jackson song.) The trouble arises when white people try to make use of our vernacular. It just doesn’t work. It’s a cultural thing. Sort of the way that kilts are Scottish.
There was a time when our vernacular stayed in our communities. But with tv, movies and now the Internet, along with dumb comedians like Bernie Mack who doesn’t have the good sense to realize that at a political fundraiser such a joke is inappropriate. All he proved was his stupidity and the fact that his material is clearly limited. But Bernie Mack is someone that doesn’t appeal to me. He appeals to the white executives out in Hollywood who are still making the same choices as in the days of Steppin Fetchit.
I’m frankly tired of every time we point out sexism from Obama, McCain’s words to his wife come up. If for no other reason than 2 wrongs don’t make it right. The vitriol and hatred in the sexism that emanated from the msm, the Obama camp during a professional Primary Election are among the reasons that we have remarks coming out of the mouths of men in casual conversation. American men are simply misogynist in their being. Hillary’s candidacy assaulted every vestige of the white American males ego whose parents from the cradle tell them they can grow up to be POTUS. Black American male, similarly were assaulted on racial lines. After all, black men got the vote first, so how dare a white female get to be president before them.
I wish the black entertainers who are so hungry to be a part of what they perceive to be an historical candidacy would dig themselves. Certain behavior simply doesn’t belong in political circles. PERIOD!
Now about the infamous Janet Reno/Chelsea Clinton joke. It was despicable. To me, the whole national obsession with adolescent Chelsea’s physical appearance was one of the more shameful manifestations in recent American society. It was immature, superficial and downright mean. (To quote Michelle Obama.)
The Limbaugh and McCain comments would not have been tolerated by me, private citizen. I would have invited each of these men outside and kicked their ever living ass.
But I’m not the president. And such behavior is not considered civilized and certainly not befitting any head of state. And so the Clintons behaved in a civilized manner, at least with McCain who in fact apologized and was said to feel very bad about the ‘joke.’ And Hillary forgave him and moved on. And Chelsea grew up to be a splendid young woman. Can’t find fault with the Clintons on their parenting skills.
And I dare anybody to say that it should not have happened just that way. Or that my approach, had Bill or Hillary invited these guys out into the alley, would have met with the approval of the country. If such behavior would be the correct tone to set for our youth, in particular?
So Obamabots, let the past go. The Clintons have and it’s their daughter. I’m starting to suspect that you like to bring it up as a cheap shot to pick on Chelsea.
And as far as what McCain said to his wife. Just like what happened in the Oval Office was none of my business, I’ll leave that between Mr. and Mrs. McCain. After all, how do we know what Cindy did to John behind closed doors?
I will not vote for Obama. I have a multitude of reasons why not. Sexism is but one. Nothing will get between my vote in November for McCain. Certainly not this that you morons keep bringing up ad nauseum.
Incidentally, I thought Obama was supposed to be a new kind of politician?
WIN WITHOUT ME!
Such a well thought out and articulate post. Loved it. Thank you.
Actually, I had you pegged all along as either a media pundit or journalist. I could tell by your writing.
If he/she is a reporter they need to be fired. Reporting/spreading malicious rumors 16 years after the fact without one shred of evidence? Just these mysterious reporters. Are there any real reporters left in this country? Please step forward your voice is falling silent to the bunch that feel all they have to do is say it’s so to make it so. Oh wait I know they write for the LA Times, that explains it.
I didn’t say he/she was an honest reporter, and please don’t get the impression that I’m defending “sfhilly”. People with huge egos turn me off.
I just have a feeling that he/she is a pundit for one of the news channels and is probably a writer for a magazine on the level of Vanity Fair. I’m a writer, too, with a background in journalism, although now I write fiction. I’m involved in a large writer’s group, and we critique each other’s work, so I’ve learned to distinguish writing voices. My first instinct is that “sfhillary” is a woman, although he claims to be a man. I could be wrong, of course.
More likely a writer for the Weekly Shopper.
If this is an example of your mentality, it’s no wonder you are unemployed…..that is if you really are!
“Talented, successful professionals” can be dumb just like anybody else.
At some point every single bot feels compelled to tell us how wonderful they are. They are always highly educated, have a fabulous job, a black relative and various other things. I call bullshit. Why don’t you take your fabulous self somewhere else? Why are you bothering with us? I’m sure you need to go write the great american novel or something.
Perhaps you are smarter than we think. You do conceal your talent and intelligence quite effectively.
1) Pointing out McCain’s disgusting comments simply asks voters to chose the lesser of 2 evils. Not a great selling point
2) Bernie Mac’s “jokes” were not funny and were remarkable in light of the Imus problem last year. This behaviour was exactly what much of the media alluded to in claiming Imus was treated unfairly.
3) Even more remarkable was the failure of BO to appropriately respond. Given his Father’s Day speech on the need for responsible parenting, I would have thought that he would have demonstrated enough character to stand up for the dignity of his wife and daughters , if not all women.
4) BO has made enough disrespectful remarks about/toward HRC and other women that failing to immediately respond to obviously insulting comments just fuels the belief that he is not better than McCain on this issue
Well said, seesee. You hit the nails right on their heads.
You are nastier and more repulsive than John McCain because you chose to write this filth on a public forum. Do not for one moment thing you are hurting him with this repetition because it says more about you than him.
I see. But all the writers here who repeat “ugly” stuff that Obama and his supporters are guilty of…they are not “nastier and more repulsive?” Don’t make me laugh. Anyone who condemns Obama for sexism based on those references, then turns around and votes for McCain, is a liar and a hypocrite, period.
And that’s not even to get into the way McCain treated his first wife. That’s one of the more disgusting stories in modern American politics.
Maybe you should talk to his first wife, she’s supporting him for president so she evidently doesn’t have a problem with him. But then that would require you to maybe think first.
it’s impossible to think with all the Kool-Aid sloshing around in his/her head
Why don’t you blame yourself, all the other Obots, and the DNC elites who helped selected Obama?? If Obama didn’t suck so badly in every way, people wouldn’t be voting for McCain. Why on earth should we vote for a hypocrite and a liar who is also woefully inexperienced? All your stories about McCain will not help your Supreme Master Obama’s case.
So, that remark was 10 years ago. Would you like to be held to any remarks you made 10 years ago? And don’t tell me you have made mean remarks because that won’t fly.
s/b have not made
Have you been living in the past very long?
Dang, but we Americans are nosy about private lives of the public figures, aren’t we?
I can’t wait for the day when someone answers the question of why did you divorce with, “I woke up and thought, if I have to watch TV with Harold one more night, I may shoot myself.” *haha
That would shut everyone up, eh?
Are you deliberately obtuse or just stupid? This is a young woman we are talking about here and she was a child at the time McCain “allegedly” made that remark. No one in the media then would print to joke. If you want to call an adult names, go right ahead and I’m sure you do it all the time. Since I make it a habit of not using profanity on the Internet unless it’s absolutely necessary, I will just say you are some kind of sub-human excrement. Aside from stupid, you are exactly the kind of slime your master seems to attract and I will repeat; this says more about your own shriveled soul than McCain and it served no worth while purpose, so I am led to assume this is the kind of thing you do all the time.
Obama put himself up on a pedestal. McCain has not done this. Who is a hypocrite?
The point is they are both sexist!
Not voting for McCain here. May vote for McKinney if Clinton is not on the ticket.
yawn, you are so yesterday.
Why is sfhillary so ugly? Her mother was a man had an anal birth.
Is this our Janis from RD’s?
Bernie is a really good comedian. I like him. The problem is that they all have no sense of what is appropriate for a venue. This wasn’t a bunch of drunks in a bar or cable tv or a late night comedy hour where this could be a crude form of comedy. They just don’t get it.
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Just imagine, this is the kind of a culture he will bring to the WH.
They can’t knock it off; they are what they are.
I will never vote for a mysoginist, ageist, lying flimflam man.
I must say I really didn’t expect anything else from a Barry fundraiser. I just hope a bunch of big contributors were in the audience and were immediately turned off and gave an empty envelope.
Stuff the unity bit, I’m not playing.
And I am not impressed with his family values.
He is hiding his grandmother. He’ll be bringing her out soon enough if that wife and Davie A. let him.
2 Bios @ 35 years of age and he keeps his present family holed up in a vaulted closet with the rest of his “skeletons”? G M A F B;
P U M A
Loving this blog today. Thank you, all.
Was Randi Rhodes there too, to lend support. I hear she’s big at fund raisers.
Notice how the media buried the fact that that drunk Rhodes was at an Obama fundraiser when she attacked Clinton and Ferraro?
In his speech, the Illinois senator, who hopes to become the first black U.S. president, said unity was essential in the Democratic Party
Words, just words….that’s all he has. Nothing is ever backed up with action.
And Pelosi didn’t notice the sexism.
*blech*
Annin Pelosi is too busy admiring her wooden gavel.
hahahahaha. good one. LOL
I wonder if she takes it home on weekends….
The botox has gone to her head.
She is admiring her gavel because at a 4% approval rating she won’t be able to admire it much longer!
I know what I’d do with that gavel right now if I had it….
Her skin is stretched so tight she’s lost her peripheral vision.
God Bless Hillary and her beautiful wrinkles.
Pelosi is so jealous of her.
Is anyone surprised? Obama and his supporters are sexist. Indeed, they regularly get off on this kind of rhetoric.
It is more than sexisn. That is bad enough. Obama and company are just plain crass. I don’t want that representing me around the globe.
CRASS!! That is the word!
Barack Obama is a sexist pig who hates women and he can’t hide it. He is so uncaring for women that he can’t even help his revolting self. We don’t trust him with our country. We don’t trust him with our lives. And we CERTAINLY do not trust him with our well-being as women.
One day his daughters will grow up and they will meet up with men in the workplace just like their disgusting daddy. I love poetic justice.
Soon he will learn,
IT’s THE WOMEN STUPID!
Well said Uppity!
I have thought the same thing about his daughters over the months. First I thought, why doesn’t he wait until he’s more experienced and spend his time being a good dad in the meantime. Then I thought, yep, the man always getting a job over the more qualified woman. I hope his daughters expereince that in the workplace when their time comes!
“I hope his daughters expereince that in the workplace when their time comes!”
This remark has me in a state of rage and disbelief.
csuzeq are you a woman? Have you ever been in a work place, where you had to put up with sexual harassment, on a daily basis?
I am a 51 yr old woman. I worked at several such places. One in particular, has changed my life profoundly, for the worse. I endured the worse kind of sexual harassment, imaginable, followed by being raped by one of my supervisors. All of the males who worked there did these things, as to fit in. They all thought, even their corporate headquarters, of it as one big fr’n joke. I now live with daily anxiety and depression. Diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. I tried for 15 yrs after the rape, to continue and support myself and my family in the workplace. Only to continue to put up and endure the same kind of treatment. My last job that lasted 12 years, was in a local hospital. I worked in the laundry dept., which I thought would be a “safe” place. All women with the exception of 2 men. But the administration placed a man, who was harassing the nurses on the floors, in the position of being our supervisor. That man started to stalk me. He would watch me from the hospital security cameras. He new my every move I made at work. I found him many times outside of my house. I received many phone calls from him, made at a pay phone a block away from my home. But the very last straw, the one that now makes me live in this hell hole of fear, is when he questioned me as to why I was at a certain place in my car. Which meant that he was also following me, while I was driving at night. But that particular night, it was not me driving my car, it was not me he was following, it was my 17 yr old daughter. I live with constant fear, anxiety.
Unless you have truly experienced this kind of treatment, you can never truly understand the consequences of it. You would never wish it upon these 2 little girls. No matter how much you dislike their father. They should never, ever be held responsible for their father or mother.
So to make a statement hoping that Obama’s girls experience this kind of treatment is totally and morally wrong. They are innocent little girls. They should never have to pay or be wished upon, to ever endure these horrifying experiences.
The writer wasn’t wishing bodily harm on these little daughters. It was about usurping women at every twist and turn soley on trumped up technicalities. He is woman-user.
I feel for you. You are being terrorized and that is another non-issue for the BO camp.
Crime is being completely ignored in this country while we are out fighting the terroists from coming here. It is something I just don’t get. Thanks for sharing. I do understand being a mother of 4 lovely daughters, myself.
Their Daddy could stop that treatment by trying to lead for example. Instead he IS the very example of the opposite. I bear no respect for him whatsover.
I totally agree, their daddy is a danger to all women.
He has no respect for women.
Obama, the DNC and the MSM have proven that they condone the mistreatment of women.
Women’s rights in the work place, that have to do will sexual harassment, have come along way in the past 15 yrs.
If he his elected, it will be a very sad day for women. He will undo our protective rights.
I also have not one ounce of respect for him or his wife. The sight of him or just hearing his voice makes my physically ill. But I would never wish that kind of treatment onto his daughters.
NOBAMA
They’re going to grow up spoiled and even bitchier than their mother. Let them see what their father unleashed. That’s the law of balance.
What does this say about Mrs. Obama or the self hating women who have endorsed Obama??
Women are women’s worst enemies — and then there’s Obama — who would be an enemy to women all over the world.
PUMA
And, really? What is it about his Grandmother that he cannot honor her? This bugs me and for such a long time now – I don’t need to know anything more about him. How come there are no recent pics of her in the midst of his family? = just there with her two adorable granddaughters? No such pretty pictures (yet). 3 generations of women…he couldn’t care less. To see her at least once with Mrs. Rodham and Mrs. McCain would have been pretty sweet at Mothers’ Day. Historical, quite frankly
Remember,’believe’ he was too busy mocking JMc at the time…lost bearings, confused?
Just venting….
I read he didn’t even go to visit his mother when she was dying.
I have one sure prejudice in life. I pay attention to how men treat their mothers and waitresses.
That has always given me all the information I need about how that man will eventually treat me.
He didn’t visit his Mama?
Well, his Grandmother was really the one who poured everything she had in to him,
the greedy, typical, antipathetic white woman…
She is with us in sprit under this runaway bus… Best wishes, Mrs. Dunham.
Now there is bio, if any one was so deserving; would be so very, very interesting.
Highest Bidder?
He’ll be on the Today Show on Monday morning telling us to lay off his convenient grandmother. It is apparent that he is also antipathtic toward white people, too.
Mrs. Dunham is the very person who makes him eligible to run for the highest office in our land. How ironic? Nah.
PUMA YAY!
As a male, I can say you are on to something– especially the waitresses. I refuse to eat out with certain people because of their boorish behavior to waitresses and check-out people.
Men that are rude to servers or shop people or other drivers get dumped by the woemn om family instantly.
woemn om is usually spelled women in.
I guess he missed the lesson about honoring your mother all the days of her life at TUCC…they were too busy teaching about the woes of the US of KKK…
I notice he didn’t demand Bernie apologize for making sexist remarks about Michelle!
Uppity, I hate Obama’s guts, but let’s leave the poor girls alone. There enough vitriol going around as it is.
Frankly, the funds should dry up due to the selection of material.
How stupid can you get. You’re trying to woo Clinton’s women supporters, and the guy selects overt sexist material to trot out?
Lordy, this is just one gaffe after another.
all this in front of an audience..can you imagine behind closed doors how ghetto it really gets?
Oh what a surprise… news reporters picking and choosing what to report! I’m so sick of it. If I had just read…
“That means, by the way, Bernie, you got to clean up your act,” Obama said. “This is a family affair.”
then I would actually have given Obama a positive point in my mind… as I’m sure most people who read the article did. But the fact is, he then added…
“I’m just messing with you.”
Awww Obama and his sexist supporters are so pally with each other… how cute. *rolls eyes*
We’re in a coup and we are being blind-sided, I mean distracted.
Wow. Just when you think They couldn’t look sleazier.
Please, will no one in this kingdom rid us of this Obamanation?
“I’m just messing with you”-That’s the key word, he’s messing with the whole country.
POTUS: Pimp Of The US
If we call Michelle the First Ho, will BARACKUDA object?
Hell no he wouldn’t care.
That wife of his has trashed him for years apparently! That’s how he gets up each day to her “commands” and promptly roles over.
Did you see the look on the eldest daughters face when Michelle said it probably bothers her when she sees Mommy and Daddy snuggling (or something to that effect) and the kid looked up at her with a look of “say what?”
Watch the tape. That’s what I picked up on immediately. And I don’t even have a freeze frame.
lol rolls over
they’re not good enough actors to have roles in all this
Jesse Jackson would not have been able to cut his nuts off, Michelle has done that a long time ago.
No bout a doubt it!
This calls for a fist bump!
Hey, fist bumps – all around!
Nooooooooooooooo! lol
Laugh or cry…LOL
That calls for a fist bump!
Hey, Fist Bumps ! all around!
P U M AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
That is priceless!
There’s an idea. Let’s call her Ho Obama from now on. What makes him think everybody else’s wife is a ho but his?
Nobama and Hobama.
I guess if Obama had a son he’d laugh at Bernie’s joke and call both his mom AND sisters “hos.”
When he met with her and her fundraisers in NY, someone asked how he planned to unify the women given the sexism against Hillary. His response went something like, “There’s another woman who has been mangled, too.” If, just once, during his campaign, he had stopped and condemned the media and his supporters in clear terms, he could have gained some respect from me. There is no doubt he wanted his campaign to go in this direction. Whether it is because he has no respect for women himself or was willing to use anything to demean and diminish Hillary’s campaign (probably both)something has changed because it is ok now. They have made it legitimate. Any woman looking for a promotion or running for election for any office will face the possibility of the same treatment because the barriers have come down. His daughters will suffer, but growing up with a father like him, they have no doubt, already learned their place in a man’s world.
rev manning has a video where he says that he called obama’s mother a XX but he did nothing. manning was calling him out in a street way and obama didn’t answer. the good rev ridiculed him for hit.
Obama is scared of Bernie Mac and he wants Bernie’s money.
Take away my sense of humor. Let me see… would a comedian saying “Obama shine my shoes” be funny? Or, for dessert we’re serving Viagra to the men attending so they can make this night more memorable to their partners?
Humor is for those not being singled out in a disgraceful remark.
Or, for those 2,300 donations you get a watermelon and a bucket of KFC… do you think that’s funny?
I think racist and sexism remarks are not for humor. They are for attacking a group of people and it is humilating.
How about: “on my way to the show I was driving behind you and saw you throwing chicken bones out the window”
“..for dessert we’re serving Viagra to the men attending so they can make this night more memorable to their partners?”
That’s hilarious! It would be even funnier if the comedienne looked around and said, “heaven knows, they look like they need it!”
This is typical of the ignorance, vulgarity and disrespect Obama, his associates, campaign workers and supporters have for women. After what was said and done about Hillary I am not suprised. It would however suprise me if anybody, woman or man, would show that they have some decency and rebuke this. Sadly this type of disrespect to women is more prevelant in the black community-just listen to a little rap music. It’s nasty, vulgar and violent. It began to cross over to young whites and that is where all of Obama’s punks came from. With incidents like this becoming more common I have no doubt that the majority of Americans will rebuke Barack Obama and put John McCain, a war veteran, in the White House. There are not enough ignorant and vulgar people on God’s green earth who would vote for someone like this who has no respect for not only women, but for this country.
Well, we already know nobody in the DNC will have the guts to protest it.
And we’ve heard from Obama’s women corps. Will they speak out?
Boxer? I’m waiting to hear!
Claire? You there?
There are great at making condescending remarks implying that we’re overly-sensitive and should be respected for our “feelings.”
But will they have the courage to stand up for women?
I’ll be shocked as hell if I hear a single word.
It always surprises me but I think it’s truly generational with the disrespect thing.
I hear my daughter with her friends (male and female 20 somethings) and the way they talk to each other is (to me) awful~!
They call each other the worst names.
And hearing them just rolls off their back.
And they don’t understand why it bothers us. They think we are too sensitive. I think it’s so sad that the generations are getting more and more hard and cynical.
It really is sad.
It is sad. I remember reading about a college survey just recently. Young women in their 20s were asked if they would rather be rich and famous like Britney Spears or have meaningful careers that served their communities. The majority of them picked being rich and famous like Britney Spears. If young women want to emulate someone who has been used, abused and become an alcoholic/drug addict before she was 20, then something is desperately wrong with our society.
Yes, there is. It’s been the Republican and corporate rule, with their money is everything attitude and competition is the only way to do things. The corporate way of cheating as much as possible for a buck, regardless of who or what you hurt, along with stealing everything you can lay your metaphorical hands on, has corrupted our culture.
Combine that with disregard for the well being of others, and not understanding that we are all in this together, and we have this result in the society.
Actually, I blame it on the phenomenon of “Reality T.V.” Have you seen the stuff that goes on on those shows? There’s no respect at all between the sexes. The mentality is: use people for what you can get out of them and then throw them away. The women wear as little clothing as possible to titillate the male audience. If I had grown up watching stuff like this on T.V., my ambitions in life would have probably been much different. I don’t think we can blame this on either political party. We’re all to blame.
Will they speak out?
They’re all too busy explaining how the word “ho” is actually empowering and feminist.
I’m going to write my group, “Women Count, Too!”
This is perfect for that group.
But he jumped all over Imus for the same remark.
And thanks to Imus, we have the new and improved MSNBC. If they are not vomiting on the Clintons and demonizing the Bushes, then its child predators and life behind bars 24/7
Thanks to Imus, they bought in and sold out.
Just gives me leg chills.
Forgot to say,
You’re soo pretty, Mika. Smooches! All the best to Mrs. Greenspan.
UCK ack EXactly HOW MSNBO has become!
I can’t STAND MICA OR pardon me fellow Sisters but that HAG Andrea is TOO MUCH!
mika has a mouth and likes to keep it open. that’s about all i can say for her.
Sadly this type of disrespect to women is more prevelant in the black community-just listen to a little rap music.
Gotta disagree here — the vast majority of young white guys think Obama’s fantastic, and it’s their womanhating that’s doing it.
Believe you me, 20-something white guy culture is flat-out gynocidal. It’s no better there.
You’re right Janis. What was your FAMOUS remark about then being filled with rage because they’re not ….a super model yet?
I sent that to my BOT nephew (age 26) and he got enraged which means it hit a nerve.
Majority of americans don’t get any repect for women. Tha lack of respect for women of Barack Obama, is not going to be a problem for them. That’s the problem.
It was how Barry was raised, I guess.
I want IMUS to jump in Al Sharpton’s face about the use of ‘ho’s’. What an ongoing display of sexism and reverse discrimination. I bet if asked Al Sharpton would come up with a 30 minute spiel of how this is white americans fault. JERKS
no, they would defend by saying that is just black culture!!
Jesse Jackson has pretty much cleared up any misconception he supports Obama. He and Rev. Al have deplored Rap music for a long time for it’s violence and disrespect to women, especially as regards African American women. I’m still wondering if there will fall out from the older, politicall active Black population to Jackson’s slip in front of an open mic. The press has tried to spin in Obama’s favor, but how would they know what that community thinks about his comments? It’s a fact, some African Americans still have doubt and are uncomfortable about Obama.
I am a 63 year old black female Hillary supporter with 37 and 27 yr old daughters who keep me up-to-date on rap. Take note of this: To cheers, at a rally in Atlanta, Obama referenced the rapper Lil Wayne as follows: “maybe you are the next Lil Wayne, but probably not, in which case you need to stay in school”. Now he could have used any rapper but he chose Lil Wayne. Why? May be the following lyrics explains why and why the crowd laughed and cheered so wildly:
“I get on top
She drop it like its hot
And when I’m at the bottom
She be Hillary Rodham”
HE’S AN A**HOLE AND NOT FIT TO BE POTUS.
thanks for calling it like you see it and telling us something more we need to know.
It’s part of black culture to disrespect women, but the same guys are always on hand for “mothers day” with their hands out.
It is not “reverse” discrimination!
That excuses their behavior.
What we are seeing is racism. So call it what it is — RACISM.
Some AA/Blacks are racists — this prejudice against someone who is different is learned behavior.
Sexism is also learned behavior — and snObama is a sexist — misogynistic jerk.
snObama is a hater — he hates women, and older people and he believes he is superior to nearly everyone — this is why he is so lazy. He is so superior that he doesn’t feel the need to put out an effort to learn and REMEMBER what he learns.
PUMA
Sharpton came to notoriety by using a woman.
A child, Tawanda. Otherwise he would just be something JJ would use to hone his nut slicer.
jokes about marriage and the dynamic between husband and wife during menopause are not sexist, but I bet that little outburst felt good, huh Bentley?
Menopause is not a dynamic-where did you pick that up-at your college health class? It is a serious time in a womans life and hardly a joke.
Women make fun of menopause all the time. I think to make it into a serious horrible thing that must not be spoken of makes it into something worse than it should be.
Men like to make fun of women in menopause because it corresponds to the time in their marriage when they have a dead fish in their own pants. This way, they have an excuse in menopause.
Men just crack me up. They make jokes about women sexually when they are generally the biggest joke in the relationship.
roflol
I’ve always said there’s a reason why older men go for younger gals and not their own age.
We know.
LOLOL…you are the best, Uppity!
Men not, sexist that is not the same thing.
Why a young woman would waste herself on one of these dead fish has always been a mystery to me!
Considering that something like 40% of women don’t like intercourse (but perhaps like other forms of sex), it could be because it’s a dead fish.
Whenever you see a younger woman with a much older man, you can pretty much figure she doesn’t like intercourse as much as other women so she doesn’t miss it.
Older men make up for it, sometimes, by giving more presents and attention to the younger woman. That may be more important to the her. Her part is looking pretty on his arm, making other men jealous.
money, honey.
LOL
Hillary or Bust wrote:
Women make fun of menopause all the time, I think to make it into a serious horrible thing that must not be spoken of makes it into something worse than it should be.
If that was his only gender related comment, I don’t imagine we’d be discussing this. and mostly it’s about Obama’s judgment and general disrespect for women and about the MSM’s selective reporting.
AND…..as far as the frequency of women mentioning menopause, black folks make fun of “Niggahs” all the time…yet seem to be a bit hyper-sensitive about non-whites using it…..
funny….
Yes, that is the point. A group or person can make fun of themselves, but when others do it it is not a good thing because it is a form of disrespect.
Who does it matters.
the joke saying the wife and sister are HOS is totally unacceptable for a WOULD BE POTUS fundraiser, end of story.
Of course they aren’t, dear.
There is a proper place for jokes like that baracknophobia. A fund raising event for a presidential nominee isn’t one of them
This sort of humor might found at a stag party somewhere or perhaps a “stud” bar — where the men dress in leather — but when a dumb ass candidate is trying to unify the party — it shows exactly WHY the democrat party is DEAD.
PUMA –
I agree with you. This was not a comedy club event. It was a political fund raiser. There should be a difference in the act. And with Obama it is all an act.
Hillary or McCain – Obama would be an even bigger joke than Bush is. I never thought that was possible.
mac would be ok on hbo or in a comedy club. otherwise, he is out of line.
Yeah, in an alley in chicago.
My husband and I joke about menopause all the time…but I don’t think Barky of all people should be having MENOPAUSE jokes at his events…considering his followers nasty ageist and sexist remarks during the primary.
Let them stick to fried chicken and watermelon and Colt 45 and food stamps jokes and see how that goes over.
Fried Chicken is a deadly serious topic and that is why the half-white, half-Kenyan/Arabic Obama lectured the dumb black folk who feed their kids leftover “Popeyes” for breakfast!
On a side note, no wonder Jesse wants to cut off Obama’s Donna-Braziles for talking down to Black people.
I remember reading how Jesse had dinner with a family who served him broiled or baked fish and he told them he’d always eaten fried fish.
yes it is sexist and btw men have male menopause. It manifests in hilarious ways. Picture a fat, balding guy in his 50s in a Corvette.
Didn’t Obama call for Don Imus’ firing for saying “nappy headed hos”?
Obama never denounced his National Campaign Co-Chair, Jesse Jackson, Jr.statement to the Washington Post regarding Hillary:
“The natural reminder here is O.J. [Simpson] — how does an African American candidate attack a white woman?”
Now there is his fundraiser with statements about hoes.
There is a common thread in Obama’s personality.
He is SEXIST!
And, I’m starting to believe so are his supporters from their poor defenses.
I’m a woman who had endometrial cancer and as a consequence had a full hysterectomy. For three years I’ve been fighting with my internal thermostat and it’s hell. It’s NOT funny. It’s NOT something that Bernie Mac or anyone else has the right to make a joke out of. It’s a miserable experience. If you really want to know something about someone, just look at the company they keep. Can you imagine this at a White House dinner?
I won’t even get started on the racist crap that came out of his miserable mouth. And BO is just “messin’” with him? Absolutely UNBELIEVABLE.
I am sorry you had cancer but he was not making fun of women with cancer. He was discussing typical garden variety menopause. I have not hit menopause yet so I can’t speak of it from personal experience but I sure hope to hell I’ll have a sense of humor about it. I have friends in menopause who joke about it so I don’t think it should be off-limits to comics.
you just answered my question that you are in fact a woman. When you begin menopause I guarantee you won’t have much of a sense of humor about it. I have not been through it yet myself but I am sympathetic to those who have. I doubt I’ll find humor in night sweats, hot flashes, erratic periods, mood swings from hour to hour. Now does that sound like fun and a joke to you? I don’t think it does. And why in the world it would be acceptable to call a woman a “ho” is beyond me. That is derogatory.
Don’t tell me what I will or will not have a sense of humor about. I have a sense of humor about my damn period, which comes every month and I get horrible, debilitating, painful cramps from it. They say that comedy is truth + pain, which to me is a recipe for finding a heck of a lot of humor in menopause. I refuse to go into my senior years as a woman railing and bemoaning my body’s transition time. I will find the humor in it and that will make it easier.
Now if you want to make menopause into some dreaded awful event that’s off-limits to humor, that’s your business. But that’s not how I approach life.
And I’m not justifying the “hos” comment. But I do think people need to lighten up about the other stuff. Getting offended by every little thing makes people stop taking you seriously and hurts our greater cause here.
you are a dumb ass hillary or bust…..i guarantee you, menopause is not funny.
you mean like saying monkey is a race attack, that kind of sensitivity, gimme a break
it was on the internet just yesterday that some member at a town hall meeting used the gterm “black hole” regarding financial matters. the black members then called him racists. now isn’t that special?
Why don’t you just BUST? You already addmitted you don’t know what you’re talking about. When you get to that point in your life your opinion will matter. Right now it doesn’t.
I wouldn’t think of telling you where to laugh or not laugh. You can laugh your head off about your cramps and when you go through menopause, you can get some giggles or hysterical laughter about that too. A woman making a joke with other women who are going through the same experience is not a valid rationalization for any joke belittling women. I promise you, a women going through a change of life will be more sympathetic in the jokes than a comedian. My husband told me about that joke last night. He didn’t laugh and neither did I. We laugh together a lot, but these weren’t funny jokes. They were offensive. Not all women feel the same about any part of their reproductive parts or function,but I have enjoyed each passage because they offer unique opportunities to understand the entire experience of being a woman. It is for that reason, I despise sexism in any form. It is who I am above all else. If someone asked me to describe who I am, it would be the first thing on the list, even above wife, mother, grandmother, sister, daughter or my profession. African Americans more than any other group should understand how offensive and painful to be ridiculed for the essence of who you are. Every time I hear an off hand remark or derogatory joke, it reminds me of the struggles of the past, present and probably future. That members of my own gender are sometimes willing to accept the status quo always makes me a little angry. Remember the John Lennon song? “Woman is the Ni##er of the World.” Great song. If you read the lyrics, you might see yourself there. If you are a woman.
There is a difference between laughing with someone and laughing at them. And the use of ho, which btw, Reuters defined as slang for WOMEN!, is inappropriate language at fundraisers, at backyard BBQs, at nearly any event at any time and any place. If Obama deems it okay for use at non-family functions . . . well, that says it all!!!!!
Uppity, I think you’ve given us the slogan.
IT’S THE WOMEN, STUPID.
Actually I find it funny. Humor is different for different people. But then again, I agree with Tina Fey that bitch is the new black.
Like she said “Bitches get things done!” after all, look what we’re doing to Barky’s polls (see Rasmussen today) and his fundraising!
If you are female and go through menopause then have a sense of humor about it. But how can a man even know what it feels like to go through menopause?
Obama is a bigot!
He didn’t say he knew what it was like to handle menopause. He said he couldn’t handle the house being cold all the time. Big deal.
The “hos” thing is another story. But I think folks are overreacting to his menopause comment.
His whole routine is inappropriate and is BIG DEAL.
He isn’t even funny. I’ve seen him a couple times. His jokes are lame and he tries too hard.
well gee after months of calling ALL Hillary supporters bitter dried up old cat ladies, I wonder why it would be considered inappropriate to make menopause jokes at an Uhhbama fundraiser for unity, are you that dense?
apparently, she is that dense.
HoB, if Bernie Mac were playing that joke to a roomful of women and their husbands, many of whom were in that boat, I could see it.
But, as others have said here…Obama’s entire campaign has been making agist, sexist attacks on Hillary supporters so to echo those attacks with this kind of joke is DUMB at the very least, and offensive in this context.
it isn’t the joke necessarily so much as the place he chose to use it. also people are sensitive after this horrible primary. we get it and will get over it. i have a sense of humor. i think chris rock is a hoot. and i just love richard pryor. but there is a time and place.
The problem is Hillary or Bust, a fund raiser for a presidential nominee is no place for crude jokes of any kind.
God some people are dense.
Women make fun of themselves — and that is different from a black woman hating male chauvinist PIG degrading women.
Obama HATES WOMEN — and he especially hates OLDER women.
exactly
we can joke about it cuz it’s embracing our OWN pain
like blacks can call each other the N word (they are embracing their pain)
but don’t be crossing over on either front
it’s just NOT legitimate
but then again Barry isn’t so he’s consistent
Let’s call Michelle “HO OBAMA” from now on. If it’s good for the rest of us, then Barky the pig shouldn’t mind.
They joke about it because women and men have been socialized to make jokes about women’s health issues.
Lee you hit the nail on the head!
Women’s health issues are trivalized even by those who are supposed to deal with them. How else do you explain health insurance companies routinely paying for Viagra but not birth control?
This institutional misogyny is really offensive. Obama participates in it as if it was natural. Which only compounds the offense.
that kind of talk is common and acceptable in black culture. If that is how they want to act, their busiiness but is crude, vulgar and nasty and VERY DISRESPECTFUL TO WOMEN. But I don’t want that garbage in the White House. No matter what Obama says or does, his punks defend him. That’s because they are as nasty as he is.
it’s as much generational from what I see around here
what ever color
the younger they are the more likely they are to call their pal a nasty name and laugh about it
(too strange for me)
Sorry to butt in, but you need to get a grip on your daughters behavior.
Imagine having someone spouting crude jokes like this before an audience of world leaders and diplomats. Oh dear…imagine the audience included some of those opposed to our western culture.
Or a female head-of-state!
Actually, didn’t we already have that with Bush? He’s made crude remarks at state functions and didn’t he give Chancellor Merkel of Germany a back massage?
He’s liable to ask Merkel if she’s otr.
Thats not acceptable at any’culture’. The lack of respect is NOT culture. And even blacks want lacking respect to women they can’t.
I didn’t say they were respectable. I said “imagine…”.
let’s hope we NEVER have to imagine it again! hehe
Agree, Dawnelle. Frankly, I don’t think we’re going to have to worry about it. Anymore I simply can’t “imagine” him making it to the WH.
The vision has to be collective to manifest into reality, and I believe most folks are coming to realize their vision of change is quite different than his.
I’m inclined to agree.
I’ve seen things manifest themselves this campaign that I never thought possible!
TIME for some CONCERTED CONCENTRATED MINDMELD SPOCK “not for the one” efforts!!
RISE HILLARY RISE
Like a PHOENIX in AUGUST RISE!!
that kind of talk is common and acceptable in black culture.
That kind of talk is common and respectable in ALL cultures. In grad school, I spent 24 hours a day surrounded by young white men who acted EXACTLY THE SAME WAY. I’m not going to be pointing any more fingers at young black guys.
I think you’re quite right, Janis. This year, I became inured to sexist comments right and left on blogs.
I put up with it on blogs. But at a $2300 per plate fundraiser that was probably more Hillary supporters than anyone else? No, that’s bull.
He either needs to get a fast lesson in appropriate choices or step aside.
OR……McCain needs to let his Republican witty guys have at it without saying a darn word.
Because some of their jokes were darned funny……AND mildly racist.
This door swings both ways.
I find Blacks of a certain age more conservative and respectable and appropriate than society in general.
This is part of youth culture which right now is dominated by an urban ghetto mentality which whites find appealing.
It’s white kids buying all those rap records. There aren’t enough black teenagers in this country to make Jay Z that rich.
too true! i wonder how kook they’ll think it is when they have chidren. how quickly our youth turn old.
Isn’t it about time for those superdelegates and those big money contributors (not the ones from the Middle East) to Obama to start receiving mountains of emails and postal mail spelling out each and every mistake, every sexist comment, every flip-flop in cold, hard numbers that they can understand?
How can anyone still support this pathetic excuse for a man, for an American, for a patriot? I can only conclude that Obama supporters lack good judgment, just as their candidate lacks it. Either that, or they are the most intellectually dishonest, delusional people around.
they’ve got no morals or values, that’s it in a nutshell. Anyone who did would not be supporting him.
They are afraid of Barack The Thug Obama. We will do them a big favor in November by getting rid of their little kneecap problem. Then we will get rid of them too.
Yes, it is.
I dunno. I did not find the Air Force One or menopause jokes to be offensive to me personally. The “hos” one I just didn’t get from reading it. But this stuff (from a comedian, and making fun of marriage is typical comedian fodder) does not bother me in the way that the MSNBC “Hillary makes me want to involuntarily cross my legs” stuff did.
Just my 2 cents.
well this was not a nightclub, it was a fundraiser and things like this will not win over Hillary’s huge base of women. That is the point. This was not the place for those types of jokes.
Exactly….it’s not a bar, and the material was selected.
There were, no doubt, a great many Hillary doners in that audience. His doners are maxed out for that type of deal.
The jerk picked the jokes purposefully.
Let’s just rub it in a bit more, eh, and watch them STILL pay $2300 for the right to be insulted.
Man, they should have walked out and asked for their checks back.
i’d walk out and cancel my check if i’d been there. if more people did that, the jokes would stop.
Exactly. There’s a big difference between The Comedy Club and a political fundraiser. The problem is that people who have no class don’t realize that there’s a time and place for everything.
The big problem is that you accept the sexism of the Comedy Club like funny. if it’s funny…is funny, my dears.
Well, I don’t think it’s funny at either location. I am a woman. I am not a ho, and I don’t vote for men who think I am!
Michelle Ho Obama. Has a nice ring to it.
I think his Mamma was the HO
I’m not even sure Michelle is a woman. And as long as you don’t do what IMUS did and add Nappy headed you will probably be OK.
Stanley Anne was a Ho’s Ho.
Oh good, then racist jokes are back in style.
That will make a lot of people happy.
Oh, no I don’t think it’s funny. I don’t watch Comedy Club, because of the crude stuff on there. However, I don’t believe in censorship, either. If you ever start with censorship, then someone has to decide where to draw the line, and for all I know something that I write might end up censored.
People have to decide for themselves whether they will or won’t listen to stuff like that. Any candidate for president should be sensitive enough to realize that some things just aren’t appropriate and don’t uphold the dignity of the office.
you know i get to choose when i think something is funny and when i don’t. i don’t got to church and say fxxx you out loud. so i expect obama and his buddies to SHOW SOME DAMN RESPECT.
Boy are you correct! Is this what we have to look forward to at white house state dinners. Can you imagine the jokes about the Lincoln Bedroom?
Just came back from your site. Guys, you have to check it out. Some great writting. I have to disagree with your comment. Comedy is all about timing and the timing is off for off for jokes about women. I am a fan of Bernnie Mack and being from Chicago, I have the occassion to see his “drop by” act. He should have adjusted him material. Had the situation been reversed and a white women was telling a joke about a black man, KO would have doing one of his Special Comments. Timing!
Hillary or Bust, thank you for the two cents. That’s about what it is worth.
Obama is terrible. He just gets worse and worse with each passing day. And with each passing day, the media is having less and less credibility.
Come on. Yes they are rude jokes… but they are jokes. You are going to pick apart jokes from a comedian, but let jokes from the ACTUAL CANDIDATE go by. MCCAIN HIMSELF berated Chelsea Clinton.
John McCain made this odious joke about Chelsea Clinton back in ‘98.
Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”
– Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998.
Give me a break!
I’m going to agree with you here in that if we start getting overly anal about every perceived sexist slight then we lose our credibility on the bigger, more obvious issues of sexism. Comedians talk about marriage and menopause. That’s a given. The hos thing was questionable but we need to lighten up about the other stuff.
just curious, are you a woman?
Yes I am, and I honestly did not find the menopause or Air Force One jokes offensive to me personally whatsoever. I have not hit menopause yet, mind you, but really, if you can’t find some humor in hot flashes, then you need to lighten up. And WOMEN COMICS joke about that all the time. I don’t think a man should be railed against for joking about menopause by saying he can’t handle a cold house. Women DO have hot flashes in menopause. It is not offensive to joke about the consequences thereof. It’s not like he was going on about bitchy PMS mood swings.
The hos thing is questionable but the menopause stuff – lighten up, please.
I’m memopausal and nothing is funny to me now!
LOL OSBP. Hugs to you, girl.
Just remember, tis a time when you can kill and not see a day in jail!
I can’t see them walking again!
lol*……now, that was funny!
Sorry but you are an idiot.
How old are you? Menopause is not a joke, like haha funny. Earlier you said that you joke about your periods, and when you do, I bet you usally get an empathetic response. If you weren’t getting the response you wanted/needed you wouldn’t be making a joke out of it. That’s the same about menopause.
Comedy is to make people laugh, like haha funny not ugh funny. There’s a nuance that I think due to your age you don’t get but you will, once you do reach the menopausal state.
You saying to lighten up is the same as saying “get over it”. You’re on this site because you didn’t “get over it”
No, we do not need to lighten up. Calling a woman a hoe is like calling an AA a “n”. Absolutely unacceptable!
That’s right. I’m not a ho and I find it very offensive.
I disagree. I think not speaking up over the years has OBVIOUSLY allowed the world to think that we didn’t notice.
Enough of the tough woman crapola. It’s just leading to overt sexism.
I’m done with that false pride.
We should speak out. We must speak out.
And we really should have been speaking out all along.
One issue is that many women, in particular young women, do not object to being called hoes to their face. So much of the rap music is filled with derogatory words about women.
Obama is catering to this generation. It’s appalling. But Obama’s view of women fits into the derogatory terms used in rap music.
At 2300 for a chicken dinner, I doubt there were many rap generation kids in the audience.
It’s been a no win situation for women. As we broke more barriers and entered more workplaces that were traditionally dominated by men, women had to put up with the sexism or be branded as “too sensitive. Claims of, “see women are too emotional to handle the job”….or “if you don’t like it, leave”. That is what they don’t “get” when they tell us to “just get over it”….we’ve heard that many times before in various forms. Time to get our voices back and tell the “leaders” of the DNC…No Deal.
that is not acceptable either!! As usual you defend your master by pointing the finger at someone else. By the way this is 2008 not 1998
So what? My point is it is comedy. You don’t have to like it, but this is what comedians do. They make jokes and a lot of material offends a lot of people.
wrong place to do it at!
When Keith Richards mentioned lynching in his stand up routine you would have thought he brought the sky crashing down.
Just words?
Did he mention the “n” word?
I think he used it multiple times. But a more subtle remark by a female sportscaster while reporting on Tiger Woods. She made a joke about, I’m sorry I don’t remember it exactly, but she said Tiger would get “hanged” for something he did. She meant it as a joke and I think she was even a friend of Tigers. There was a huge outcry and she was fired, even though Tiger himself came out and said he wasn’t offended.
Open mind, go slam your little dick in a door.
I don’t even have a dick and it hurts to read that!
heh
LOL…
Suppose that next January the White House Chef/comedian gets on stage and tells this joke…
“Barack Obama arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave last week. I had to quit my job,” he said. “The house is just to doggone dark.”
Would that joke be funny or offensive? Would it make a difference if the chef/comedian was white? Black?
They are sexist jokes. Others have had to make apologies for joking on race (much more minor comments). How would AA like it if McCain or Hillary had a fundraiser and someone used the “n” word in a “joke”?
The MSM would be all over it as would Sharpton, Jackson, Lee, Obama, etc.
These derogatory comments are never appropriate. But coming from someone who is no doubt an Obama supporter, making derogatory comments about women is fine.
Obama is a racist and sexist individual.
Vote NO Obama.
No, I’m done playing that game. I’ve done it all my life. This year, we were told that nutcrackers sold by MSN was OK, but then we watched as benign comments were literally howled about as racist by the Washington insider elites.
Nope. If you are going to twist everyone’s nuts and call them racist over nothing yet turn aside and act as though jokes made at the expense of women is OK, then you can wear the label hypocrite.
Because that’s all it is.
Hypocricy.
What is really the message?
Women are the niggers of the world today.
It’s OK to make THEM uncomfortable. After all, it’s JUST a joke.
And why don’t we just get over it.
That has spawned millions of remarks that all of Hillary’s supporters are menapausal cunts.
And Obama’s fundraiser comedy choice targets just that group. I bet you think that was accidental, right? He just happened to have some good menapausal jokes lying around.
What an idiot.
It was deliberate.
THANK YOU-EXACTLY!!
BRAVO! I’m a 50yo woman, and you nailed it.
That’s it, exactly. As I said…I find menopause funny. I’m CONSTANTLY checking the thermostat on the AC to make sure I’m not freezing my poor husband and son.
But after all the dried up, menopausal, hag remarks this primary…WRONG CHOICE OF JOKES, BARKY.
Why not joke about black men on the down low smoking crack in the back of rented limos? Now that’s funny.
now that is funny…lol
First guy that calls me the c word in person, I will tear his arm off and beat him with bloody end of it.
my thoughts exactly!
Where is your link that McCain said this?
BluDawg,
I realized it is good that you asked, because too many times things go by without source. The first is a link that cites the second link as its source.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/09/john-mccains-crude-chelsea-clinton-joke/
http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html
So it was ok that krammer ridiculed AA’s in his routine because it was comedy?
Good point. The MSM was all over Krammer for using the “n” word and he wasn’t at a Presidential fundraiser.
Let’s see if the MSM picks up on this one.
Bet they won’t because: 1. It’s Obama and 2. It’s about women.
Everyone should bombard their favorite pundits with that Reuters article and ask them to hold BHO to the same standards as everyone else.
Obama doesn’t appreciate “Ho” joke at fundraiser
CHICAGO – Barack Obama faced a potentially sticky moment on Friday when comedian Bernie Mac told a joke about “hos” at a fundraiser for him but the Democratic White House hopeful quickly told him to clean up his act.
The Chicago-born comedian and actor told what he said was a joke about his nephew coming to him and asking the difference between a hypothetical question and a realistic question.
To demonstrate the difference, he tells the nephew to go ask his mother if she would make love to the mailman for $50,000. The mother says she would make love to the mailman and anybody else for $50,000.
He tells the newphew to go ask his sister if she would make love with her neighbor for $50,000. She says she would make love with the neighbor and anybody else for $50,000.
So he tells the nephew: “Hypothetically speaking, we should have $100,000. But realistically speaking we live with two hos,” Bernie Mac said.
There was an awkward moment and nervous laughter from the crowd of about 600 people who had paid $2,300 each to attend the fundraiser at a Chicago hotel. One person objected to the word “ho” — derogatory slang for woman — and urged Bernie Mac to leave and make way for Obama.
In his speech, the Illinois senator, who hopes to become the first black U.S. president, said unity was essential in the Democratic Party. He said it should not be divided by race, religion, region, class or gender.
“That means, by the way, Bernie, you got to clean up your act,” Obama said. “This is a family affair.”
Campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki added: “Senator Obama told Bernie Mac that he doesn’t condone these statements and believes what was said was inappropriate.”
The comments came the day after Obama appealed to women voters to unite behind his candidacy.
You left off the part where bo said “just messing with ya”
To get an open mind is not to get an open ass. Swallow your own s*it, thug
Ah open mind? Has it occurred to your open mind, that you have repeated something about a person, not a group, and you enjoyed repeating what he supposedly said, even though at the time, newspapers, and tv news people refused to repeat it because there was a young girl involved.It hasn’t been repeated again, until Obama supporters began a while back, to make a point with absolutely no reguard to the feelings of this young woman? I’m sure she didn’t hear anything about it at the time because Hillary and Bill were very protective of her. So ponder this: Who is really the disgusting SOB here? Hmmm? Here’s another one: Who’s the real disgusting piece of human excrement in this story?
GO AWAY TROLL!
Is this the type of entertainment that an Obama White House will entertain guests with? Ho’s, menopause, sexist jokes?
Obama is bigot.
yuck the world has just become more crude with each generation!
I hope the majority of Americans are NOT READY for this type of CHANGE and will VOTE THEIR REAL MIND in
AUGUST
then NOV won’t matter!
HILLARY IN A LANDSLIDE!
Can you envision if Obama gets into the White House and the Queen visits. Can you image what Obama’s invited entertainer would call the Queen?
Of course, he probably would have Castro of Cuba, Gaddafi of Libya, Kim Jong of North Korea, and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela sitting around her.
QUIT making me use my vision for EVIL!!!
lmao (ribrib)
Do they know that women have the vote? I think this campaign is in for some rude shocks!
When Obama finds out, he will want to take the vote away.
He’ll take it away but then will quickly remind us that he will restore it when he becomes president.
they know but they know too that women don’t do anything about this kind of things. so where’s the problem?
Oh, just let Barky keep burying himself. He surely isn’t heeding to wise advice for the inexperienced fellow.
Glow Fading?
The latest NEWSWEEK Poll shows Barack Obama leading John McCain by only 3 points. What a difference a few weeks can make.
A month after emerging victorious from the bruising Democratic nominating contest, some of Barack Obama’s glow may be fading. In the latest NEWSWEEK Poll, the Illinois senator leads Republican nominee John McCain by just 3 percentage points, 44 percent to 41 percent. The statistical dead heat is a marked change from last month’s NEWSWEEK Poll, where Obama led McCain by 15 points, 51 percent to 36 percent.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/145737
WAIT, and all the news of his latest didn’t reach the polls yet. There’s that one latest comment of Obama telling Rally goers, that we should be learning Spanish, instead of worrying about the Spanish learning English. I’m sure that will go over REAL big for a majority of Americans…oh wait, did the media even cover that one?
Yes it was covered harshly over the past 2 days, but that’s not really what he said.
Another W.O.R.M. – what Obama really meant. So what did Obama really mean, open mind? Explain it to us.
Open mind…brain falls out. oops.
Is that Haiku? Did I get the syllables right?
I`d like to copy this thread.How do I set a laser printer to stun?
ROFLOL!
(in my best Scotty voice)
I just can’t DEW IT CAPTAIN!
If you haven’t notice, at the beginning of the primary Obama would do anything to stay away from any “Black” events. MLK day in Memphis he skipped it. The Black Agenda with Tarvis Smiley, he Skipped it…At that time, he was playing up his wife grandmother in the news….blalalalalal……. the money was coming in…. Now that most people are beginning to see who this fraud is… the money is drying up and guess what…. Obama can’t wait to tell everyone about his blackness….. Anyone who thinks Obama has the interest of America at heart is either blind, deef, brain dead or all.
Here’s the REAL difference:
Hypothetically speaking, we should have HILLARY.
But realistically speaking we’re stuck with this a**hole!
Awesome comment! Sums it up.
I’m not “deef” or brain dead. I wanted Hillary and now I want the remaining Democrat, even if it’s Obama. I know most at this site disagree. However, McCain’s 2 conservative appointments to the Supreme Court for the next 30 years will cause much more harm than Obama ever could. And Hillary could be the next Supreme Court Justice if we push hard enough.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy
Presidents don’t control SCOTUS appointee’s decisions.
That is Oblahblah fearmongering!
Of course they don’t control their decisions. However, more and more appointments have become shifted. Look at the last four appointments. Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito. Nowhere close to center. Roberts is the only one who even claimed he would be a strong advocate for centrist views and impartiality during his confirmation, which he has abandoned since taking over as Chief Justice.
Roberts has voted liberal in many decisions,
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-court-john-robertsjun29,0,5374420.story
Pardon, but Hillary isn’t even qualified to be a judge, nevermind on the Supreme Court. She’s never spent a day in her life on the bench, and her legal work was 35 years ago working for a private firm and sitting on boards offering legal perspective.
Good golly….she’s a politician, through and through. And she will remain one.
oh shut up! she is more qualified that many that the repubs either put on the court or tried to put there.
Stick it up your ass Open. Nobody is getting Hillary out of the way by planking her on a court. We are going to kick your candy assed pig Obama back to Chicago and see you and your limp dick in four years. How’s that for a plan, asshole?
for real!
Hillary would be WASTED there!
She has such rally power! Any one that can get an 80+ women out to not ONE but TWO different rallies not to mention “defacing her car” with a bumper sticker “not just ANY name goes on my bumper”
you should have seen me late at night a few months back scraping and scrubing the old DFA sticker, kerry/edwards sticker, clark sticker
HILLARY STAYS
next a pink PUMA
Uppity, how do you really feel?
It’s no use. Nothing sinks into your thick heads. Presidents only put forth a candidate for sc.
You’d really like that, wouldn’t you open mind? Put her in a black robe, hide her away in the Supreme Court so you wouldn’t be reminded how superior she is to BO.
Open Mind you need to open your eye’s!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9IkEoce3xY
My eye’s what? I don’t need to open my eyes. They are open. I respectfully disagree.
Good then you see the 0bama crash comming!
Electorial Map.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNfr6HK5EwE
That was cool! I disagree with him about NM and MA and CO!
The Precious One saw nothing more wrong with Bernie Mac’s comments than he did when he raised his own middle finger to flip-off Hillary Clinton (to the delight of his followers).
I’ve also no doubt that BO and his coordinators knew full-well the content to be expressed by BM – suffice it to say, BO enjoys the hell out of vile sexist “humor.”
Oh and Bernie Mac – get ready for the bus.
Obama’s big yellow bus.
We don’t want Hill on the court. We want her making laws not interpreting them. We want Hill for Prez be it now or later. More than 18 million people want Hill for Prez. (there were thousands upon thousands who voted Hill and had their votes thrown in the trash)and there are a few million Republican men and women who want to vote for Hill.
http://realclearpolitics.com/
This is a great site, because, whomever you are for, it shows several polls – state by state and nationwide.
Obama should have apologized unequivocally to the crowd. This shows me how tepid he is about women’s rights, and about trying to please everyone, without being ale to take a moral stand. Will that be the mark of his presidency?
Probably.
That is what I think also. He knew he should stand against those jokes, but his courage failed him, so the remark about messing around. He’s the joke.
Church is a family affair. Wait till Wright and this guy are booked for the Rose Garden! NOT! Come on Hillary…bust a move!
PUMA. On to Denver.
Nobody but Hill for Prez. No we won’t get over it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og6k6xhxpDM
another great video-love that song!!
Ain’t it the truth. Love this video!!
BEAUTIFUL VIDEO!!! That is just the way I feel. I miss so much the enthusiasm of those primary days.
Everyone should watch this video.
Thanks Lou – great video, showing all the diversity this nation is about.
Uppity women said: “Men just crack me up. They make jokes about women sexually when they are generally the biggest joke in the relationship.”
Look, I think that makes the point to Uppity: It is YOU that is SEXIST. You unhinged Hillbot whiners Scream “Sexist!!!!!! Misogynist!!!!!!” Waaaaahhhh!!!!
Well, FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!! I would like to be prejudice, and Misogynist against you!!!!!!!! SO “FEMINISTS”, GO SHOVE IT SO FAR UP YUR OVERSIZED ASS, that you CHOKE ON IT!!!!!!! FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK OFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feel better asshhole?
NOBAMA!
Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
- Charlotte Whitton
Olbermann, you really should watch the blood pressure MSNBC said you were on vacation.
roflol yes that could be Keith
I was thinking Jack Cafferty
or
Aravosis or Alter or Schuster
It seems to upset you to come here.
Try Obama’s website.
Go smoke your hopium pipe lilTiger.
Hmmm…withdrawals? 70% shortfall in funding for the kool-aid?
don’t walk, run to the nearest mental health clinic and check yourself in for some serious therapy-you are a danger to society.
Go slam your little dick in a door, “Tiger”.
I live with a Real Man. His dick doesn’t get all shriveled when I achieve.
Wow. Someone is severely underhung.
rofl
Someone other then Barky
You’re so funny.
I think youe exclamation key is stuck.
Hello, Michelle
Obama’s Record:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjVZhN1mkPo
Obama’s tax proposals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5zy5Y4Jl8A
Just one more example of the type of people Obama surrounds himself with. Wake up America and smell the pollution all around Obama. Join PUMA and get a breath of real fresh democratic air.
Exactly- many of the misogynist pigs that okay Obama’s behaviour and acceptance of the bad behaviour will be brought into the white house also.
He will set this country back 50 years for women.
NOBAMA
You are a bitchboy and a repugnant garbage raging tiger
oops wrong place!This is for raging tiger
What has Obama done for Chicago, let alone anyone else?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCeImyvNnZ0
A weekend tribute to our most courageous Hillary.
Not everyone is a Judas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuZmbIoyPEY
nice, thanks!
Another fun one. Thanks Lou.
I guess you guys don’t remember Whoopi Goldberg’s “my Bush” joke at a fundraiser and the uproar that caused.
The jokes were all inappropriate.
The really bad thing about the “ho’s” joke is that it’s a re-tooling of one of the oldest jokes in the book.
He: Madam, would you sleep with me for a million dollars?
She: Well, sure, I guess so.
He: Would you sleep with me for 2 dollars?
She: Of course not! What kind of woman do you think I am?
He: We’ve already established what kind of woman you are. Now, we’re just negotiating price.
New Obama Slogaan: Change like you wouldn’t hope to believe!
Go PUMAS. Onto the next step. Fight for freedom and democracy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv9QKiNqFro
Love that one Lou. Try this for true rendition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fhixk-LP2E&feature=related
now that made me cry
LIKE EM!!! Especially the last one!
I expected to see Bett(E) Midler, Diane and Goldie pop out and start singing!
I think PUMA made a big mistake including that last image, of the Obama symbol with the Islam symbol embedded in it.
That’s a rightwing talking point.
And it’s still true.
“If Whoopi and MEchelle were in a beauty pageant Whoopi would win” -Pastor Manning
Very inappropriate for that venue.
What the hell is going on here? Did Oblahma’s people not look at his act on hard-copy first??
Why the hell would they hire HIM for that event?
Congrats ladies in the O-audience: You spent $2,300 to have jokes cracked about you. How did you feel when the men laughed around you? How did you feel when Oblahma minimized the sexist jokes? C’mon, you can admit that you sort of laughed along and pretended like it didn’t bother you. You are used to it, eh? Of course you are–you always will be until you say you’ve had enough. Get a refund, women!
that almost angers me more than the men laughing about it is the stupid ass women who sit there and take it!!
same thing with all those congregationalist at TUCC while Wright or Pfleger were RANTING and LYING and being DISGUSTING!
They were cheering and hooting it was beyond believable to think soooooooo many people can gather each week and spend hours hating me and talking shit about me and my country and that ONE of those congregationalists is now trying to
TAKE OVER THE COUNTRYRUN FOR PRESIDENT!SHIVERS, SHUDDERS, SHAKING, NO WAY JOSE!
How’s THAT for my Spanish?
NO DEAL: Current DNC “Brain Trust” a “Lost Cause”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISYNRkoOxRc
Just saying NO!
http://www.justsaynodeal.com/1in18.html
DNC stole the election from Hillary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJQ70kWygrM
great video-thanks for posting!
Great video. I have never seen them mistreat anyone like they do in the Obama camp for walking into a McCain meeting with a Hillary sign. I’m seeing it more and more at the video’s being posted. I’ve never seen them swoop down on the people and grab them when John is heckled. Grabbing and ripping up signs. Shoving people. They ask them to please leave when they’re going there for Obama, and if they don’t they tell them they’ll get a ticket. Woohoo. I never seen them mistreated when Bill or Hillary was giving a speech either and heckled. Even Bush himself was heckled and people weren’t manhandled. Bruised and battered. But they have been on Obama’s side.
Sorry for all the mysogyny Hillary. Keep on keepig on. We miss you!
Sniffle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46oy01VfcHU
Thanks for posting the video’s Lou, I really miss Hillary in the news everyday and her inspiration. It’ll be a long four years if the DNC doesn’t wake up.
Puma Democrat voting for John McCain
I started out on Huffpo, where I watched with open-mouth, disbelief as one sexist poster after another called Hillery a w**re, a b*tch, and a c**t. I couldn’t believe it, and with each post I read, I became more determined to NEVER vote for Obama.
In time, it got so bad, and I became so jangled by such overt sexism, that I left the site. I never returned! I was candidate neutral at the beginning. But no more.
I am a woman. I am not a ho. Language matters. It’s about respect or the lack of it. Honesty or the lack of it. Character or the absence of it.
NObama–ever!
Trails I am with you on this. The blogs I started out on years ago that were pretty much anti-Bush turned real fast and unbelievably ugly anti-Hill Blogs. It sickened me some really intelligent posters resorted to vile hatred against Hill. It took me a while to figure out that is all they had to spout their talking points, since they really had nothing to speak of but hope and change.
The DNC can stuff their unity.
I laugh when I hear them come here and say McCain called his wife a name. Ooooo like no husband/wife/partner have ever called their spouse a name when they were angry. Talk about hypocritical! As they have the three fingers pointed right back at them. Hillary isn’t even their spouse, yet I can’t count the number of times I heard her being refered to as a “W”, a “B”, a “C”, a “Pig”, etc. Not just coming from his supporters, but also media outlets. MSM comment sections. None were filtered or removed. No reporter apologized.
I used to call my husband a cssob in fights. oops
I liked HuffPo until it became Obamabotville. Those bots scare me in the same way Reverend Jones and his dead-enders did. That sippy-cup crowd seesm to feel way over entitled.
It doesn’t matter how you feel about the sexist jokes if you’re a white woman over the age of 40 the DNC doesn’t want you anyway.
True….well, they want our checks and votes. Not our voices. Methinks that even older people would say, “Get used to it. It only gets worse.”
We don’t respect experience. Too bad. It’s the reason so much about our country doesn’t work well. We keep throwing away experience in favor of “bright and shiny,” or as Pelosi says, “fresh.”
This was fresh all right.
Somebody posted this one this morning.
I love it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuYvk5Gviao
Rumor About A Revolution
I’ve been posting that one everywhere even on myspace and facebook! It’s the best feel good video!
Dawnelle, I think it was you that posted it! Great job!
sure thing and I’m not alone
many great videos being produced by some pretty excellent people still holding out hope for a HILLARY RETURN
{{{big hugs to them all}}}
Or should I say “doesn’t want us” as I’m one of the “banished”…and proud of it!
So, where is Donna Brazile on all of this “Ho” business? Since it seems she hates Bill for his affair with Monica, she should be upset with Bernie Mac and Obama’s approval of his comedy.
I’m just wondering why this is okay simply because Mac is black. If this language came from a white man, people would be up in arms.
You hit the nail on the head. Seems blacks can pretty much say and do whatever because they have NObama and he has his Ace in the hole..the race card and he plays it so well.
Of course his Snobbiness didn’t comment on the joke.
This is the same guy who was showing his crotch to female reporters aboard a plane in the “Journalists Gone Wild” clip.
He is disgusting.
Since he called for Don Imus to be fired over the use of “ho,” he should do the same to Mack. But he is such an arrogant hypocritical moron. It’s ok for a black comedienne to use “ho” coz it’s in the AA vocabulary but a white guy is racist when he says it.
And not a peep from the press.
Guess it takes threats against the family jewels to elicit outrage from them.
And I also blame female reporters who go along with this sick, misogynistic woman-bashing agenda.
I keep saying this presidential election is a disgrace, its like a god dam circus now. Am all for new stuff but some things are better left the way they were and not have anyone by their actions degrade and disgrace the position or the office.
Elections for POTUS is a serious thing, this is the person that will face the world be the face of all Americans and America, once standards have dropped and things get out of hand habits will set in, precedents will the set and that is it, elections will never be the same again.
Obama and his gang is making a mockery of the office of President and the wiliness to get there.
Wonder how Donna Brazile liked those “jokes” at the expense of women.
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Donna Brazile is shameful. Getting on CNN she would threaten anyone if they would do “smoke room deals” to de-crown Obama, with the same breath she would say that she supported Hillary too. As soon as the “smoke room deals” were made, she didn’t once said a word, and “left on some small absence from Cnn”. Could it be that she didn’t want anyone asking her what happen to your ” I will resign from the DNC if they use smoke rooms decisions?” If there was a miracle and Obama got lost on some remote island and Hillary Clinton becomes the nominee, the first person she should go after would be this “terrible” two faced” woman who only “look at color”. Now we have Bernie Mac another one who does the same and looks at color. Obama’s remark to him about cleaning up his act, was amusing, since Obama’s backyard isn’t so clean! Picking a President for Color is not the wisdom, it is who is the most qualified, children!
Obama is so unelectable. Too bad the bots won’t admit it. We could still win the White House with Hillary.
Obama? Never.
P.U.M.A!!!!
HEY maybe this BEAR market will bring her back?
The Clinton economy was the BESTTTTTT!
You just can’t shit all over that record and be considered at all credible
facts are facts
For many years I worked as a keypunch operator in the late 1950s – 60s and 70s. Most of the people that I worked with were women of all races who were trying to help their familes. We worked night shift so that someone would be with our kids. A lot of sacrifices were made to make the lives of our familes better.
Then I went to work for a railroad with shifts the encompassed all hours and women worked them to help their families.
Todays spoiled brats that belittle women need a good kick in the a$$.
Half of them would not have the oportunites they have if it were not for their mothers working so hard.
obama and his spoiled brats that think so little of women can go to hell.
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMA RULES
He, BO, didn’t really apologize. …”I’m just messing with you.”
Wimparama.
He just keeps digging a hole and making everyone who voted and support him look like ultimate fools.
Excellent observation.
What a complete wuss BaJoke is, “I’m just messing with you.”
Is that like inviting your 20 year spiritual adviser to your campaign announcement, rescinding the invite and then praying with him in private? Don’t worry, Jeremiah, I was just messing with you.
Yo, ‘Fraudma, that’s even WORSE. Instead of sticking with your Sister Souljah for Mac, you instead look like a TOTAL chump who can’t stand up to either Jesse Jax or Bernie Mac.
Help, someone get Naomi Wolf to start giving Beta Barack some Alpha lessons. We need much less hat and tons more cattle.
I totally agree that Wright AND Pfleger were only FAUX thrown under the bus.
Wright is so uber self-righteous had BHO done it for REAL??? Wright would be all over it on National TV like flies on dog poo
Ha ha ha!
He sure would, Dawnelle.
Does BaCaca ever tell the truth, or is he always playing his wink-wink, nudge-nudge, terrorist fist jab hoodwinking game?
Geez.
Well, to be fair and equal, I think all the male candidates hate women.
Don’t forget this one, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLQGWpRVA7o
McCain didn’t SAY that someone in the audience said it!!
BARRYS AUDIENCE IS USUALLY EXTREMELY HEINOUS TOWARDS HILLARY
MUCH WORSE imo
and women ARE BITCHES (so what?) but not all of them are HOs!
Something wrong with your mind Phoenix? How is it that you still do not understand anything? I can’t speak for everyone, but the comments have been pretty clear the last few months. This vote for McCain, if it is necessary, will be a PROTEST. This isn’t about McCain for me and some of his policy plans are opposite of what I want, but I will exercise my constitutional right to use my vote to protest against a cabal of those so consumed by ambition, I know whatever they do will be against my best interest. You sound like my kids. “I didn’t do it. she did.” or “He did it to me first.”
I have been fortunate to know some exceptional and strong women who have achieved great things. I was also raised that it is dishonorable to make unkind comments about ANY female from a CEO to a prostitute.
Apparently, Senator Obama missed those lessons, which I find odd, since he was essentially raised by his grandmother. Maybe not having a decent and strong male in his life has left him with no compass when it comes to matters of honor.
His mild rebuke of Bernie Mack is telling to me. This was not a nightclub or a locker room. It would be inappropriate anyway but the disconnect is massive. This guy couldn’t make judgments about a case of hemorrhoids, much less leading this nation.
He decries anyone saying anything about his wife, and rightly so, but allows this type of crap in his campaign. He is clearly a hypocrite but god almighty where does it end?!!
My son would never dream of making remarks or even jokes like this.
However, I do think that you can expect more of the same. Obama’s public person is very immature, obviously. He hasn’t the experience. This is where it really shows.
And he’s not a fast study, either. He may be bright in some ways, but I would have expected more by this time if he’d been alert to his own mistakes.
Those in the public eye for a long time know just how their words and reactions are parsed and displayed for scrutiny by the public. That’s the gig.
The smart ones also think it through on their entertainment. This is twice now he has not.
I personally don’t think candidates can or should be so controlling that they insist on clearing every introductory speech. Will we forget the Gov. of NC’s intro for Hillary? (She makes me look like a wuss!)
But a reminder to a comedienne to steer clear of sexism, ageism, racism would have been at the top of my list were I in his shoes.
Whatever…I’m more focused on how the Dems will again let this slide without comment.
The fact is Obama knew it was wrong, hence the tepid admonishment. But per usual obama, he wants it both ways so he flip flops and says, “just messing with ya”
Yes, Obama’s version of a wink a nod.
And to think that Bill Cosby became so successful as a black comedian using no profanity, ghetto references or ho’s in his routines? Yet he’s dismissed by a lot of blacks today because he wants to bring them out of ghetto talk/mentality.
Obama is part of the vulgar, lowest trash culture and has no qualifications for the White House. JFK? What a cruel joke on anyone who would believe he has one iota of class. He’s too hideous and sickening to even contemplate. He must be stopped and right now.
PUMA
Obama is an utter disgrace.
I can’t figure out what he is doing. I think they vet the jokes before the comedians are allowed to give them. Remember Whoopie and her comments on Bush and the uproar that caused-they must treat comedians as if they are land mines now.
So either Obama wants to offend women as part of some strategy or he is still treating this with the same lack of caution as if this were a local election. Scary either way.
By the way I loved “Vote for the hero not the Zero”-very good.
Actually, I’m getting up to menopause, and I didn’t mind the thermostat joke. I didn’t like the remarks about picking up the kids at all which I thought was really dismissive. But I wonder why it’s easier for comedians to make jokes about another gender, when it would take more comedic smarts and probably guts to make jokes about ones own gender, or oneself.
Is it true that Obama had done some stand up comedy? If so, his act must have been pretty lame based on the remarks he seems to intend as humor. An Obama supporter told me that Obama’s comment about a “light shiing down from the window” that would cause people to vote for him was “self deprecating humor”. It didn’t sound at all self deprecating and in that context (at the NH debate) it was simply NOT funny. From that moment on I knew that I could never vote for Obama, and the more I learned the more sure I was that he was a poor, poor choice for President.
We need more comment at the Huff post on the Denver Ad its on the front page comeon folks ad comments ASAP
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Fred…….did my duty. Lordy, it’s hard. They are so ill-informed!
But I got one response back that said, “Perfect Pitch.”
So I’m calling it a day on behalf of Denver Dems.
If I try harder, I’ll start getting snarky.
well, as long as they spell out name right as the ole saying goes. the more publicity we get the better. the thing about huffie is that they won’t let too many anti obama responses on the blog.
sorry, Fred. I don’t see the point and I don’t want to give HuffPuff any hit.
Of course, the real story here is not the Bernie Mac jokes and Obama’s fawning quiescence. It is the US media’s failure to accurately report on it. They give a laundered version of the story, as if they were on the payroll of the Obama campaign, and not independent sources for information. As far as comparing this to John McCain allegedly caling his wife a “c—”, funny thing about that story, there is only one source for it: the book “The Real McCain” by Clifford Schlecter I think his name is. He says that three reporters, who he does not name, told him they witnessed this event. To this time, none of these three unnamed reporters have ever come forward to verify this story. Schlecter himself did not hear McCain say this and he cannot or will not produce the names of anyone who does say that they witnessed it. So it is an undocumented and unsourced allegation. In other words, any reasonable person can conclude that it did not happen.
Right. There is no way I can imagine John McCain saying that to his wife. He holds his military hero status as a source of pride and I do not believe he would portray himself…especially in public…in that way. Who knows what goes on in any marriage behind closed doors.
I shutter to think of Barry and MEchelle at home. With all the pretentious posing mixed with anger, racist rage, snorey/stinky smells, ghetto humor, and not enough money to feel really rich, it must be quite a scene.
pretty soon ole barfy won’t have as much money to thrown around. what then?
So, St. Peter is at the Pearly Gates welcoming the recently-demised, and asking them a few questions: he gets to one guy, “Okay, who are you and what is your story?.
“My name is Barack Obama, and I was the first black man elected President of the United States.”
St Peter: “Wow, the United States elected a black man for President? When did this happen?”
Barack: “About 10 minutes ago.”
Hey, you gotta clean up your act! Just kidding, man.
We know…You’re just messin’ with us.
I KNOW FUNNY FUNNY IS A FRIEND OF MINE
BUT THIS STUFF IS NOOOOOOT
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080712/ap_on_el_pr/obama_bernie_mac
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By the way? Obama wanted Imus fired, but for this guy his statement is prefaced with “By the Way..?
He lacks the courage of his own convictions.
He is not presidential material.
This entire election is a sham. This guy is so not ready to be president that it would make me weep if it weren’t so bad that it’s just wrong to break down about it.
America will survive, even this.
“… Bernie you got to clean up your act. This is a family affair… I’m just messing with you,” he said.
I know he’ll never make it that far, but he would have been the stupidest president ever.
Quuestion: When will he go away?
Answer: Never unless we get rid of him by voting for McCain.
I WILL REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER. OBAMA A SICKO-A**HOLE.
And, Obama is so guilty, because he had an opportunity to address it in person and walked away from it, declaing he was “just messen with Bernie”
putting out a statement afterwards is so COWARDLY AND HYPOCRITICAL and GUILTY of propagating the slander.
“We can’t afford to be divided by race. We can’t afford to be divided by region(religion) or by class and we can’t afford to be divided by gender, which by the way, that means, Bernie, you’ve got to clean up your act next time,” he said. “This is a family affair. By the way, I’m just messing with you, man.”-Barack Obama
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It’s too bad Mr. Rogers died. They could of had him as their PG13 entertainment. Don’t they know Bernie Mac? I LOVE Bernie Mac! He’s the best dad actor on TV for sure. Great show for kids, too. I would expect nightclub entertainment to get a little rauchy. Next time get Seinfeld. He Might be politically correct, unbiased, unsexist, unracist, and unislamist, and very patriotic. People gotta lighten up.
All those comments about menopause and the sexism of the first lady joke were a waste of time – do you really think people are so sensitive, or should people be allowed to be offended when we’re talking about a comment from an entertainer who has a reputation for an insensitive form of comedy? I like Bernie Mac – so, I ask you please don’t suggest that he should censure himself and infringe on my rights to enjoy his comedy unabridged. Unless one has been living in a cave for the last 30 years one should be prepared to be offended when one chooses to listen to a stand-up comedian. It’s no secret that Bernie Mac’s comedy is sexist – he’s a very popular comedian. I doubt his wife would be with him if she was the type of person that would take offense to his comments about her menopause. Anyone who was offended shouldn’t complain if they chose to stay in an audience at a fundraiser with Bernie Mac onstage. As for the “ho” joke – based on how you describe it and visualizing Bernie telling it – I think the audience silence may have been more due to the fact that it doesn’t sound like the joke made much sense and I probably would have been silenced by it – as a fan. Bernie, like most comedians, is bound to tell a bad joke, or several – it’s a live creative performance. Man, it is astonishing how people (media, politicos?) made such a big deal over a comedian who should be expected to make insensitive comments!
They heckled him off the stage. It was far more than a “silence” he met.
And I personally think if I spend $2300 for a chicken dinner, then I have a right to stay. The entertainer who drags up jokes older than Methusela which are nothing but sexism at a political fundraiser when the politician is striving to woo women voters should be the one to go.
I have no problem with him doing his routine elsewhere, and then everyone who likes him can pay to go see him.
It was a gaffe. And a particularly ill-timed one, at that. Obama sort of handled it, but he didn’t handle it well.
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We CANNOT allow this low class swine into the Whitehouse.
We got stuck with eight years of this and we cannot afford even a single day more of it.
Nobama 08′!
“Go slam your little dick in a door, “Tiger”.
I live with a Real Man. His dick doesn’t get all shriveled when I achieve”
I’m Not obsessed with dick size,unlike you…. Mine isn’t small anyway, I doubt a Real man would put up with you!!!!…….. You don’t get to decide what a “Real man” is!!!Men can decide that. A “Real” man wouldn’t marry you, and put up with your raving lunacy. You don’t “achieve” anyway….All your “achievements” were in an office built by men, on streets built and paved by men…. You Don’t “achieve” anything by yourself, like all people. What exactly HAVE you “ACHIEVED”…..hahahaha that we should worship your plastic achievements, whatever… I think your body parts are shriveled when someone stands up to you!!!!!, and when someone achieves against your values… haha Uppity…
pot, kettle, black…
Tiger, Thank you for telling off That Upppity Nut. When someone stands up to her nonsense, she mentions their dick size as a counter-argument! What a weak and dumb conversational tool. She is sure insecure, and shallow, often. Hope this disease isn’t contagious.