What A Contrast
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on July 22, 2008 at 5:25 PM in Abortion, George Bush, Women's Suffrage
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So Barack Obama is finally making his highly touted trip abroad. What does he do when he is on his way to Afghanistan, the country about which he could not be bothered to actually hold a meeting as Chair of the Senate’s Subcommittee on European Affairs (and NATO)? He plays basketball. Hoops. Roundball. We are currently fighting a war in Afghanistan, and he spends part of his less than two whole days there playing a game. Wow. Have we not had enough of almost eight years of an adolescent in the White House?? Do we REALLY want another one?? From what I understand, he isn’t even all that great!! Yet, he spends all of this time on the campaign trail playing basketball. Have a debate?? Oh, he is WAY too busy for that!! But he can sure find time to go shoot some hoops! Bush has his bicycle, and Obama has his basketball. It boggles the mind.
MEANWHILE, Hillary continues to work for women and the military. That is what SHE has been spending her time doing. Not hanging out and playing some game, but actually working. In this video, she is fighting for the rights of women particularly as it relates to choice.
And, she took the time to mark the 160th Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention. This is her statement:
July 19, 2008
Washington, DC – “Today we honor the trailblazers who 160 years ago rejected the status quo and gathered together in Seneca Falls, New York, to demand economic and political opportunities for American women. Thanks to the courage of 68 determined women and 32 brave men, generations of Americans who followed in their footsteps pushed our democracy closer to fulfilling the promise of opportunity for all. It took almost 75 years for women to win the right to vote, and another century for women to see gains in employment and education and economic status. But the ideal of women’s rights never died, and those fighting for it never gave up the struggle.
This anniversary gives us the chance to reflect on our progress, assess the present, and look to the future. Just as we are the beneficiaries of brave generations past, we must also be the benefactors to generations to come. We must appreciate our progress, but also acknowledge areas where we still fall short of our ideals.
As a nation, we’ve widened the circle of freedom and opportunity but while we’ve come a long way, there is still so much work to do. It is our responsibility to those who gathered in Seneca Falls to keep their spirit of determination alive — to keep standing up to inequality, shattering glass ceilings, breaking down barriers, and opening doors for women across the country and around the world.”
While Obama gallivants around in his “O” plane, playing games and pretending that all of the world leaders support his plans (which are HILLARY’S plans he stole), Clinton is working hard in the Senate for the American people. I don’t know about you, but I want the hard worker as president, not the game player. But that’s just me. And about 18,000,000 others…
What are we to expect from an imbecile?
Someone please help me out…why did these countries open the door to this phony baloney?
As a favor for McCain.
You are probably correct. Now once the selected candidate loses, how do we fix the bad taste left?
I never bit. No bad taste here.
Not us, those abroad. If this selected nominee actually becomes POTUS, will the world ever take the US seriously again?
It’s highly unlikely considering Obama flip flops quite often…..
To laugh behind his back.
As arrogant as he is, he probably felt he didn’t need their permission to use their country for a photo op.
This is how you can still support Hillary
PLEASE SIGN HILLARY’s PETITION to Protect women’s health.
http://www.hillpac.com/action/hhspetition/?sc=2497&utm_source=2497&utm_medium=e
So plays games,while she is working for uu I really can’t take it any more,my blood presure goes up and make me more determin to fight for Hillary in the concention. Obama does not believe in america and does not care about us.
Hillary or McCain
This is the lamest post I have seen in a long time…he shot two baskets while talking to servicemen and women….which is what any politician would have done. you are digging so deep to find an attack point it is pathetic. hillary and bill should be so lucky to be able to shoot a basket…clumsy as they are! i guess you would rather obama be chasing skirts on his overseas trips like old bill has a habit of doing?
give me a break! he shot 2 baskets…it was total phot-op set up city. Oh, he just happened to walk in and they just happened to be playing basketball so he spontaneously threw 2 baskets while the cameras just happened to be running….Okaaaayyyy then. Whatachump.
Yeah, it is so Presidential to be shooting hoops in Chicago twice as long as campaigning.
On the very day the Gov states he wants to call in the National Guard for his old district…no less.
I guess brushing up on that three pointer was more important to his supporters then actually solving probelms.
Clumsy? Your messiah bowled a 37, that is pathetic. The typical 4 year old can beat that score. But Obama is accustomed to residing in the gutter — he spent 20 years in Wright’s filthy church.
elisabeth..blah blah blah
There you go with the anti-clinton bit. You people are pathetic and I bet you voted for bush, moron.
You obamabots make me so sad with your lame-o
crybaby kneejerk half assed idiotic automatic
‘barry lovin’ verbal poop. just go check your
diaper fill your sippy cup with koolaid and sit
back and wait for friggin dimbulb barry to
burn out. Then the adults in this country can
get on with the job of cleaning up the mess
you made!
Jeeez!
Here is how you still can support Hillary.
PLEASE SIGN HILLAR’s PETITION to Protect women’s health.
GO TO
hillarypac.com
Teleprompter broke again.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/obama-wants-to.html
Damn that pesky technology.
That’s not the same technology I knew.
**snap**
omg
and he went to harvard?
TOKEN!
Affirmative Action at it’s best.
Such insight! Such brilliance!
We need Obama’s wisdom to tell us that Israel is the friend of Israel! Great Light O’ Fauxbama, enlighten us with your wise judgment (”Rev “GD America KKK” is like an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don’t agree with” -Obama) and leadership (”It is true we haven’t had oversight hearings” - Obama who says he’s too busy campaigning to hold meetings as chair of the European Affairs subcommittee).
Has he parted the Red Sea on this trip?
Well, in all fairness (something the Obama camp doesn’t really grok), Obama’s little excursion didn’t have Eilat or Aqaba on the schedule. (If Baracky could manage to part the Red Sea without even being on the Gulf of Aqaba, then I think we’d all have reason to be truly afraid. Even Moses had to actually BE on-site to do the parting–even if scholars don’t accept that it was the REAL Red Sea.)
As of today, some of the up echilan are questioning if Obama graduated from harvard or was law review professor..his lies are paper thin.
Dear God, not another idiot in the White House. I just can’t handle another four years of banging my head against my computer keyboard. It’s starting to affect my depth perception.
Funny!!!
God, he’s channeling bush.
He says that all the time:
“Let me be perfectly clear” and then goes on to contradict himself, stumble around, make ambiguous statements, and leave the listener going, “huh?”
Israel is friends with itself. W.O.R.M.: Israel has strong self-esteem.
He doesn’t even self correct. Usually, when someone misspeaks like that they instantly realize it and correct themselves. I think part of him knows that he’s in way over his head.
Well he did say in 2004 that he was no qualified to be President.
sorry…not qualified to be President.
But haven’t you heard? His supporters say he is brilliant. We must stop believing our lying eyes and ears!
I’m just glad at least ONE reporter is brave enough to report the truth!
The MSM is responsible for making Obama look Presidential, when he is really just an Empty Suit with Empty Rhetoric that sounds pretty but has no substance.
To make a Community Organizer a CEO of a large Corporation would be insane and I have no words for how insane it would be to make a Community Organizer a world leader.
The leaders of all of these countries are probably having to take a “dumbing down” course so they can communicate with The Great One. I believe the course is entitled WORM.
We cannot afford an Obama administration. When is the last time this guy has been drug tested?
He looks like he is on weed and crack
Maybe he’ll finally legalise crack for us all…seeing how great Whitney turned out on that…
“Crack is wack”!
The contrast between HRC and what’shisname is remarkable. Substance over style; content over format. You name it and she has it in spades over Toodles.
Hillary has plenty of style, thank you very much.
Hillary has style and grace and class and chutzpah and high IQ and..well long list of positives.
Is it evil to pray his plane goes down?
Is it evil to give the finger to your opponent while smiling? O is a deviant.
Never wish that on anyone.
I defiantly want BHO to live, so I can see his face as he concedes and congratulates McCain.
Those are my sentiments too!
I want to see his face when Hillary wins the nomination in Denver.
I wish to see his face when he looses his senate reelection bid.
That is one of the only two good things about this campaign(after HRC)………………BO loses in fall 2008 AND in fall 2010. Then we may be done with him. Our lips to some one divine’s ears.
hell no go for it !
Yes, in most religions, but I have to catch myself when the thought pops up.
When bush used to say 100os were praying for him, I was praying against him.
No!
OOPS. No about praying the plane goes down!
Unfortunately, that is evil. But here are some other ones: pray for a temporary coma that he comes out of in February 2009. Hope that he decides to hop a space shuttle to follow his world tour with his universe tour, then gets stuck at the space station, or Mars. Will Smith will get sick and Hollywood needs Obama to replace him. America can wait Bam Bam, the big screen needs you now!
Obama is evil.
No. God save this country.
Yes.
She needs to be our President. She can do so much good. She is a brilliant leader and motivator and she upholds Democracy for all not just a few. She is loved around the world.
Damned, I wish she were our President.
She would make a better President than big dawg and she would make a great commander in chief since she has T fortitude. She doesn’t trip on her tongue either like BHO does.
I’m tired of cheap speeches from a nobody presumptuous wanna be BHO.
We need Hillary and we need her now.
Delegates? Are you listening? We are still behind you Hillary delegates. Hear our plea. It’s not too late.
Sending strength to the delegates to do the right thing.
No candidate has 2210 required pledged delegates to win the nomination. It’s up to the delegates and an open vote for nomination.
I miss Hillary, she should be POTUS!
She doesn’t trip over her tongue because her brain is fully engaged all the time. Obama has a disconnect because he is just mouthing the words. His performance in the debates should have been enough to eliminate him as a candidate. His umm and uhhhh are a curiosity and at times, he stops speaking completely for several seconds and then he picks up. I wonder if there is a word or thought he goes to, like someone under hypnosis, to connect? Hillary’s sanity and intellegence is missed a great deal in this house. She made him look like a bumbling high school freshman.
Is it evil to pray he gets caught in the terrorist crossfire?
It is acceptable to pray for bad things to befall Ofraudma, no matter how extreme. He is praying bad things happen to us, like him being POTUS! Fair is fair!
Shit I wouldn’t wish him being President on our worst enemy!
He is evil!
I agree.
It’s a permissible prayer to ask for help in times of trouble, or protection against enemies. You can do that and hope that God is even more imaginative than you!
To be released tomorrow:
The question is will he be in Germany when he says it.
I wonder if he is going to say, ich bin ein berliner?
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SUPER DELEGATES….SAVE US!!!!!!!!!!
Someone, anyone, please, please stop him. Stop him in his tracks from being our candidate, from being our president. Please someone stop this insanity.
He oozes incompetence and all the idiots see is some godly creature walking on air surrounded by a shining light.
I don’t know about that. Andrea Michell has done a turn around, and she was a Koolaid kid. I think the press doesn’t like to be made fun of, and the video from good old Mccain just hit the spot! Could you see yourself having dinner with your husband and that video comes on, and you “see” yourself ” saying the “thrill down my leg! The aura! He is something we never thought could happen here in the United States! Look at the crowds, OMG, they are overly expressing their desire to have change! This man is nothing we have ever had in our country!” Blah..Blah..Blah…I am sure that the journalist that is looking at themselves in the video is wondering what kind of idiot they look to the viewers! Today, we can say , that Mccain played Hardball!
CNN wasn’t acting all loving last night either. I was quite shocked!
That is the change we have been waiting for!
They are loosing viewers. I cringe in disgust everytime I pass that channel in my guide.
Well, people are criticizing the media for bias, so they think putting a few not so good remarks will fix public opinion. Just give them a few days they will be back to their same fawning self.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/obama_spars_with_couric_over_s.php
Here’s a partial transcript of Katie Couric trying to get an answer out of the rock star on the surge.
Notice he says what he WOULD have done –
Looking at this article, it seems like the ones applying reconciliation pressure were Levin, John Warner, and some gal from New Yawk named Clinton.
Whoops — here’s the article I referred to:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-08-26-sunday_N.htm
As usual Barry takes credit for work others were doing…and is it just me but even the way he says things drip with arrogance:
I have no idea what would have happened had we applied my approach, ..
He not only steals the credit, he takes full credit!
Here is what CNN is now saying about BHO.
This is a repost from politicallydrunk.blogspot.com
commonly known as Politically Drunk om Power. This site has been very helpful to PUMA’S and is not into party politics.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
CNN Reporters: Obama “Presumptuous” & Negotiations Overstep His Authority as a Senator
Last night on Anderson Cooper 360, two CNN political analysts charged that Senator Obama overstepped his authority as a United States Senator in acting as a negotiator with the Iraqi government and publicly disclosing statements made during those interviews. During an interview with Anderson Cooper, David Gergen, CNN’s Senior Political Analyst stated, “Barack Obama made the first mistake of his trip, in my judgment, in releasing a statement in which he said exactly what Maliki had said in those conversations.
We have a long tradition in this country that we only have one president at a time. He’s the commander in chief and the negotiator in chief. I cannot remember a campaign which a rival seeking the presidency has been in a position negotiating a war that’s under way with another party outside the country.
I think he leaves himself open to the charge tonight that he’s meddling, that this is not his role, that he can be the critic, but he’s not the negotiator. We have a president who does that. So, I think the underlying facts support him, but I think it would be a real mistake — and I think it was a mistake — to get into these conversations and let it be used politically. ”
Gergens comments were later echoed by a second CNN Analyst, Gloria Borger, who charged, “I do agree with David. And Candy, in her earlier piece, talked about walking the fine line between being this candidate and being presumptuous. And I think that he may just have crossed that, because, you know, it is a tradition. You don’t talk about these private conversations. And it’s not up to Barack Obama right now to negotiate troop withdrawals. It’s up to Barack Obama to be on a fact-finding mission, which is indeed what he has said he was on. ”
Gergen and Borger have it right, Senator Obama is not the President and in fact is not even the official presidential nominee of his party. Obama’s trip to Iraq is a taxpayer funded “Fact-Finding” mission in which he has no authority granted to him by congress nor the administration to engage in negotiations. His actions yesterday were indeed ‘presumptuous’ and violated his duties as a United States Senator.
The President of The United States is responsible for the course of foreign policy, and although Obama has the right to question or criticize that foreign policy, he has no constitutional authority to act in a negotiative role with foreign dignitaries.
The current administration is in ongoing negotiations with the Iraqi government concerning the role of US forces in assisting that government; a government that has been strengthened by a ’surge’ that Barack Obama opposed and claimed would fail. Obama overstepped his role as a Senator and potentially undermined ongoing negotiations by engaging in diplomatic negotiations for his political gain.
Obama actions yesterday should be condemned by other members of congress, just as former President Carter’s actions in Palestine earlier this year were condemned by congressional members. Obama is not the President and he is on a taxpayer funded fact-finding mission. Senator Obama’s actions in Iraq yesterday clearly demonstrated his use of this trip for political purposes; the military should immediately pull funding for the trip and charge the Obama campaign for the millions of dollars that this overseas farce is costing.
No Congressional Member has the authority to engage in negotiations or dictate US foreign policy. Yesterday’s actions show a clear arrogance and lack of respect for the office of the presidency and state department
Where is the video?
HAHAHAHA!!!
Good things come to those who wait!
Did you know about the movie:
Hype-the Obama effect??? Sadly not out until September 1st! We knew the repubs were’s going to help us though, only repubs.
I’ll link below!
What a F@%k the American people and all they have sacrificed to get to were they are additude.This guy cares about nothing but himself. No respect for anything or anyone but what he and his puppet masters want.
Listening to this remarkable woman, I feel like the Obama propagandists/manufacturers and the media that is propping up their phony make-believe candidate is really committing treason on this country.
We’ve suffered through 8 years of total ineptitude. Cheney and his friends have grown rich on destruction, and the rest of us are miserable. The life we enjoyed in the 1990s is a distant memory.
And here is this woman who is so damn smart, and such a hard worker. Even her opponents do not dispute the fact that she is tough, dedicated, efficient, and hard-working.
We had this unique opportunity to repair all the damage of the past 8 years and even catapult ourselves forward. And the propagandists and peddlers force fed this phony cotton-candy candidate and people ate it up. I mean, we are all in this boat together. Why are people so determined to make us drown?
There has got to be a way to make the SDs realize their mistake and vote for Hillary.
So true. What is Oblowhard keeping in his safe?
His birth certificate and Larry Sinclair’s phone numbers.
Exactly this is the fall of our democracy. It happened in ancient rome. People are fat, lazy, and want eye-candy. Gone are the days when progress and the experience to prove it mean something. To America if it looks good, its got to be good. I feel for us, because at this point I don’t see any change of attitude of people. Even though some are hurting, they would rather opt for what feels good to them than something that would actually be good for them.
Do you want some spinach or chocolate cake?
it’s white guilt from white racists that get him the white vote and women haters voting for him.
It makes me think they want Obama because Hillary makes them look as inferior as they really are; Obama on the other hand is their equal, which is nothing to be proud of.
What a surprise, Karmandu! Oh, wait - not it isn’t. Clinton continues to work HARD for the American people - she sent out an email today asking for signatures on a petition to protect Women’s Health.
It just boggles the mind that this guy has gotten as far as he has - my fave claim for why some Obama supporters picked him was that his policies are so close to Clinton’s, so…Well, of COURSE they are - she wrote them, and he stole them!! Frankly, I’d rather go with the smart one who actually KNOWS the policies instead of the one who can only read a teleprompter (and not even that sometimes).
The SDs really do need to stand up for the person who is the BEST choice, and who can actually WIN!!! And that is not Obama…
Now he’s dumped her policies and is stealing McCain’s. Any coincidence? Is it because he doesn’t want us to know what he is really about? Or is it his campaign strategy to win based on “the same policies?”
I stand corrected (and sorry for the typo above)! Apparently, it IS his strategy to not have to come up with anything of his own on which HE has to take a STAND. That simply will not do.
And abt his taking on the role of already BEING president?? That is dangerous indeed. Great comment abt that, Lou. That point needs to be shouted from the rooftops. Not only is he overstepping his bounds, but I have to wonder if that could be considered treasonous (remember when the Republicans were in talks with the Iranians against Jimmy Carter? There was a Congressional hearing abt it, and they were basically let off the hook. But I am not sure this is all that different - oh wait - then, they did not issue press releases or whatever abt it!). Just wondering…
I might add, I guarantee you that CLINTON would not be pulling that, even if she was having those discussions in private, she would not be broadcasting it to the world!!
I have to say, I am furious that he is taking this trip on OUR dime - his big Around The World Campaign trip funded by US??? Oh, hell no!!!
Every time I see that blithering Oblowhard on TV I think I’m in a Twilight Zone conjured up by Rod Serling’s evil twin Axelrod.
How many times has he overstepped his bounds and got USA in trouble with other countires? anyone lose count yet? Condi is always going behind him to clean up the mess. She has to go and pay these people a visit to clear things up.
Na na na..WE DO NOT WANT This man anywhere in government much less President or Democratic nominee!
His unbridled egotism is even scarier when coupled with his cult of lock-step goonies.
She is amazing.
That clown goes over there to play basketball and get photo-ops while she is over here doing the real work.