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In Response to the Cafferty File: Why Do Some Clinton Supporters Want To Derail Obama?

Oh, Jack, you grumpy fossil, still up to your old tricks. Why should we bother to respond to this question knowing you’ll never bother to report the correct answer.

The better question is, why does Jack Cafferty still act clueless when he surely has a college education? Is common sense optional at CNN?

The drive by hit squad media can resist no opportunity to treat Hillary Clinton or her 18,000,000 voters dismissively and disrespectfully. Jack, your latest piece is no exception.

But since you asked, we have a problem voting for Obama, the newbie Senator from Illinois, when Senator Clinton is ten times more qualified. We do not like, trust or believe in him. The country is in too much of a mess to hand it over to a disingenuous flip-flopper.

What he lacks in experience he more than compensates for in arrogance — a dangerous combination we have endured eight years of with George Bush to devastating result. Can you blame us for not wanting to relive the experience with the ‘Democratic’ version of the same. Although now, Obama is acting more and more like a Republican, reversing his positions on FISA, public financing, gun control, women’s rights, the death penalty, Iraq withdrawal, the Iran threat, Israel and more.

Are you really trying to tell us we should just blindly vote for someone who behaves this way simply because he has a (D) after his name?

Here’s one of your viewer’s on air comments:

Clinton supporters and others who are trying to derail Senator Obama are unhappy with their own lives. Mr. Obama is confident, intelligent, and knows how to galvanize the population.

We are quite happy with our lives, I can assure you. What we are afraid of is that his inexperience, his cluelessness on foreign policy, his fondness for Reaganomics, his capitulations on important issues and all around whiffle-waffling will give us reasons to be unhappy.

Actually, as to the viewer’s comments above, I think the reverse is true. A wise friend correctly pointed out that many of Senator Obama’s supporters are looking for something outside themselves to complete them or solve their problems. They think he is the answer, although they have no logic for their reasoning.

I have yet to hear anyone make a cogent argument to me for supporting him that has anything to do with his qualifications or his true policies. As I believe Wes Clark, of all people, said months ago while campaigning with Hillary in Texas: “We are not electing student council president here.”

Once, at a church service, I remember the Reverend saying, ‘be involved, not enthralled.’ Truly, I feel compassion for those enthralled to this false messiah because I have learned the long way that the romance of the thing is very different from the reality of the thing.

As to your thesis that PUMA members wish to derail Obama, I posit: Do we need to?

He is doing a bang up job of derailing himself.

Obama has a huge financial advantage, and the press swooning over him like high school cheerleaders. If he is so able to “galvanize the population,” why is he still in a dead heat with a 71 year old Republican without much of a platform? In a year when the Republican brand should be all but demolished…

This should tell you that we are not the folks who are derailing Obama. PUMA is not the problem. We are only a few bitter voters, after all, who should take a chill pill according to you. The problem is that many Americans are awakening from the kool-aid induced stupor of his lovely speeches and they are starting to notice that the media is thoroughly in the tank for him.

Contrary to your statement, Barack Obama did not ‘win. No one ‘won.’ Neither Senators Clinton nor Obama have enough pledged delegates to reach the nomination. Super Delegates can ‘pledge’ whatever they want now. Those pledges mean nothing until they vote at the Convention. Jack – surely you know this. Why do you pretend otherwise?

In another sign of political shortsightedness, Senator Obama has not made any efforts to reach out to the many voters that he and his campaign insulted throughout the primary. Instead, he has dismissively instructed us to “get over it”. Six weeks after the fact, this has not changed. So who is it that is “cutting off their nose to spite their face?”

Jack: throughout this primary, you have behaved just as rudely toward Senator Clinton as the worst of Obama’s college-aged paid bloggers, who have called Hillary and her voters every filthy name in the book.

You and they might be wise to reflect that such behavior is a very big reason we do not wish to support him. If this is the unity, hope and change such a person inspires — we want no part of it.

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Comment by Tricia Spiegel | 2008-07-24 11:34:42

GREAT post. I quit watching the guy logn ago, but you have said it all here!

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-07-24 11:43:56

Yeah, that was my number one question. “Who the heck is watching Jack Cafferty?”

Comment by kenoshaMarge | 2008-07-24 12:15:30

Wolf Blitzer!

 

Comment by Mickey | 2008-07-24 13:40:15

I stop watching the ass (Jack)when he mention Hillary “needs to just pack up her toys and leave”.
This of course was when everyone was asking her to leave the primary so there Lord Obama can take it from her.What an ass Jack is. I hope he reads this.
I stop writting on CNN comments a long ,long time ago and stop watching after Hillary was pushed out.
That guys gives me the creeps!

 
 

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-07-24 11:47:54

I agree with EVERY thing you said except this

his lovely speeches

I believe he “lifts” those as well?

AND to JACK

HEY Old Wooden Head

Knock, Knock

It’s TIME

Time who?

TIME TO RETIRE FOOL!

Comment by Ani | 2008-07-24 11:50:32

yes…perhaps I should have put “lovely” in quotes — but I was trying to be kind.

Comment by corage | 2008-07-24 12:56:33

another great post ani. my collection of ani’s greatest hits is starting to overflow.

i would love for you to send your post directly to cafferty.

 

Comment by Lou | 2008-07-24 13:10:21

cheap speeches

 

Comment by ddh312 | 2008-07-25 18:53:04

Speeches crafted by JFK’s extremely talented speechwriter from long ago. Obama just delivers Ted Sorensen’s masterful words. Now you tell me, just how difficult is that with a bit of practice? For a guy who was, after all, editor of the Harvard Law Review. And, especially, over the course of an entire elongated primary season. Not too difficult I say.

 
 

Comment by CheatedFLVoter | 2008-07-24 11:58:30

That’s great,ani, I hope he reads it. You put in words even he can understand. I agree with you totally.

 

Comment by N. Lee | 2008-07-24 12:45:38

I absolutely hate cable news and anyone who is in the tank for Nobama, but pleeezzeeee stop the ageism. Age has nothing to do with policy or prejudice. Just as sexism rocked this primary election and angered millions of voters, ageism could easily take the election in November down. Ageism should be left out of our actions and vocabulary from here on in.

There is nothing wrong with age. Only a narcissistic nation of beautiful, elitists would be in the tank for a complete inept narcissistic candidate. When we start making old jokes, we are as bad as they are.

Comment by lusitania | 2008-07-24 13:38:43

…..Ageism should be left out of our actions and vocabulary from here on in.

There is nothing wrong with age. Only a narcissistic nation of beautiful, elitists would be in the tank for a complete inept narcissistic candidate. When we start making old jokes, we are as bad as they are…..

GREAT POINT!

 
 
 

Comment by s. hall | 2008-07-24 13:14:06

tricia spiegal — Did Cafferty have a problem with Reagan Democrats? Does he have a problem with the Christian Right who will reject Obama? Guess his problem arises because the media has tried so hard to force Obama on us and 14% of Democrats say NO WAY.

 

Comment by Joyce | 2008-08-11 13:38:58

We can now see why Republicans have controlled the White House for most of the last three decades. It is narrow-minded people like you who call themselves Democrats (and Republicans), but are really caught up in personalities instead of issues. I hope and pray Democrats like you are in the minority, because people like you are responsible for the trouble this country is currently in.

Thank God for the youth and the previously disenchanted because they will save poor lost souls such as you when they elect Obama the next President of the United States. I pray for all of you lost souls every day. Anyone who believes that the Clintons are the only ones who can save this country are really sad and narrow minded.

I voted for Bill Clinton, but I have had enough of the Clintons. Inspite of how I feel about the Clintons, I would have supported Hillary over John McCain if she had won the nomination.

 
 

Comment by untilthelastdogdies | 2008-07-24 11:36:06

Cafferty’s an ass, plain and simple.

Comment by MaryPat | 2008-07-24 14:07:27

Couldn’t agree more. He and Olbermann could star in a remake of “Dumb and Dumber.”

 
 

Comment by beverly leslie | 2008-07-24 11:38:04

This is just more media harrassment to get us to fall in line. The fact that they are devoting time to riducle us means they are scared. They should be, everthing they have staked their reputation and career’s on is going to tank big time in November. So keep it coming guys, your disrespect of us just unites us more and keeps us strong.

We are not alone in our fight against these theives of democracy. At work yesterday, I met a customer in the store who is puma. Very random but very welcomed. We are all over and will not fall in line.

Comment by Susan | 2008-07-24 11:48:40

I hope it’s a slaughter in November! Not a Blue state to be found!

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-07-24 11:54:11

it will never happen

it would be a great HAHA moment

but I think there are just too many gone gaga

we need an aerial dekoolaidifying repellent spray mist to cover the whole of the nation especially in places like

Oregon
Illinois
Vermont
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Connecticut

he’s sure to get at least those 6

Comment by PuppyDogMom | 2008-07-24 12:04:18

Not necessarily. Today, McCain has closed the gap to be in a statistical dead heat with BO in Michigan, Minnesota, and Colorado.

Comment by scott in jupiter | 2008-07-24 13:09:12

Remember McGovern only won 1 state and DC.
barky has a chance to make history by winning none.

 
 

Comment by vonay | 2008-07-24 12:45:21

The ONLY way to make sure BO loses is to vote for McCain.

Staying home or voting for a 3rd. party candidate will only insure Obama wins.

We need to keep this lying piece of crap out of the whitehouse, then vote Hillary in 2012.

Comment by N. Lee | 2008-07-24 12:50:32

I agree 100%.

Can’t take a chance on Nobama wining.

Vote McCain (if Hillary is not nominated at convention by a miracle)

Comment by BJinChicago | 2008-07-24 22:23:45

When will you people wake up? Clinton will not be given a chance at the convention. Roosevelt’s DNC is dead, murdered by Brazile, Dean, Kennedy and Kerry.

Keep Obama out of the Whitehouse; our country cannot take another incompetent as POTUS.

McCain 2008; Clinton 2012.

 
 

Comment by s. hall | 2008-07-24 13:32:26

vonay — I agree. The DNC under Howard Dean and Donna Brazile needs to learn an important lesson and they will only learn that lesson if this is a total blowout. No one gave the Republicans a chance to win in November. However, the Democratic Party has once again taken defeat from the jaws of victory. They miscalculated when they planned for Obama to be the nominee in 06. They had not counted on high gas prices and foreclosure rates to destroy this economy.

They also believed if Hillary would walk away after Super Tuesday no one would notice the fix was in for Obama — but Hillary stayed on. And in the interim everything changed. The issue has become the economy. Once again, the media and the DNC miscalculated our anger and fear of the future. They thought they could hand us amateur who could shoot hoops and that would satisfy the American Idol viewers. It shows they have have no respect for the American People. They think we’re stupid. I don’t vote for anyone who thinks I can be played.

 
 
 

Comment by PadrePIo | 2008-07-24 11:58:07

So four more years of Dick Cheney’s policies are OK with you? Not me. I may not vote for Obama but I will only vote Democrat on every down ticket race and so should everyone else who is a Hillary or Edwards supporter. Hey Larry when did this become a republican blog?

Comment by missE | 2008-07-24 12:07:39

I will not vote Obama. I will vote for Sen. Mary Landrieu D-LA but not for Rep. Jefferson D-LA if he makes it on the final ballot (God forbid) as he his a crook.

 

Comment by kenoshaMarge | 2008-07-24 12:18:07

This is a blog, like the country, where people get to choose who they will vote for. You got a problem with that?

Comment by Idiocracy08 | 2008-07-24 12:55:35

You mean like Dick Cheney’s energy policy that Obama voted FOR? Or things like the FISA bill??? Obama - dick cheney’s cousin??? No thank you!

Just because I do not like or trust Obama doesn’t mean I’m a republican. Just because I would rather vote for McCain than Obama doesn’t mean I’m a republican.

Comment by BJinChicago | 2008-07-24 22:32:00

Just so you know, he is related to both Cheney and Bush. Scarey, isn’t it?

 
 
 

Comment by vonay | 2008-07-24 12:48:17

So OBama in the whithouse is ok with you? If the republicans and Hillary dems. don’t get out and vote for McCain, we’ll have Obama for 8 years.
WE have a dem. congress go McCain will not be able to do much. But McCain is a maverick so I think he’ll be ok.
AT lease he loves this country.

Comment by MIDem | 2008-07-24 15:00:55

bambi figures it’s 8-10 years.
Maybe he’ll do away with elections altogether.

 
 

Comment by vonay | 2008-07-24 12:49:22

I’d rather have 4 years of McCain than 8 years of Obama.

 

Comment by s. hall | 2008-07-24 13:35:19

PadrePLO –I will not vote for anyone who wants a National Domestic Security Force which will cost as much as the Military. Who does he think are the enemies of this country that he would need to spend an extra 600 Bill on this? I can live with Republican policies because I know they still believe in Democracy.

Comment by Black Liberation Theology-it's whats for dinner. | 2008-07-24 15:22:19

Yes you can be on either side of the isle and have different solutions to the same problem. but you have to love this country.

Obama loves himself only. and only half himself.

 
 
 

Comment by rw | 2008-07-24 13:16:04

that’s a real fear for the DNC…despite their bravado. time is eroding the luster of their hollow tin favorite son.

Comment by s. hall | 2008-07-24 13:39:29

rw — Obama is giving us every bit of razzle dazzle he can muster but he cannot fix this economy. He would rather grandstand in Berlin then go down the streets of most American cities where we have watched the American Dream die and tell us how he can fix this. You can’t feed your family on sizzle.

 
 
 

Comment by beebop | 2008-07-24 12:23:40

Jack’s used to koolaide. Here he discusses it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgT4WgdMvsQ

 
 

Comment by veritas | 2008-07-24 11:38:25

 

Comment by Puma too | 2008-07-24 11:38:45

Bravo! Bravo! How true it is that Obambi cannot unite anyone. He won’t get my vote. Jack Cafferty is a mean spirited old man. He always has something nasty to say about Hillary and Puma. I mute him out. By the way, I feel great. I just removed Taylor, the traitor, Marsh from my bookmarks!!

Comment by wodiej | 2008-07-24 12:03:05

haha, Taylor the Traitor…congratulations! You just cleaned something else out of your closet.

 
 

Comment by AnninCa | 2008-07-24 11:38:51

Quinnipac polls just released show that McCain is picking up the “independent votes” in major swing states. I don’t follow that poll, so take it with a grain of salt, but McCain just pulled ahead with them in CO and within 5 points in MN. LOL*

So I suspect we’ll see a lot of flack. Don your jackets!

I do not think that PUMA is particularly influential on the national level. We’re a solid minority vote within the Democratic Party that normally would have gone……Democrat. That’s all.

But the same is true for Jewish Dems, where McCain is doing much better than Obama, nevermind his SOP comments on his world-wide photo-op trip.

PUMAS annoy people because we’re so not the type to rebel. I liked what some poster said that we have puzzled them. We’re your moms. We have confused the Dems just like moms do to families when they finally say, “I’m not picking up your underwear anymore, and I really mean it.”

Everyone wants us to return to our usual behavior.

I can tell them, get over it. It isn’t going to happen. This PUMA deal is for real, it’s staying, and it’s just the way it is.

It’s the fall-out from the DNC, from Clyburn, from Obama, from the Dem leaders.

How dare they trot out that “equal pay” horse and beat it. They have been pulling that since I was a teenager. Hell, they can’t pass a minimum wage law, nevermind an equal pay law. Don’t try to sell ME that old line.

PUMA is here to stay. I’m not in line with PUMA at this moment about Hillary and the convention, but I’m sure I will be once we’re past that.

Comment by Tuppence 411 | 2008-07-24 11:50:53

I think PUMAs have the ability to be extremely influential. Don’t buy Barky NObama’s PR spin on changing the “map”. The map is not going anywhere. It WILL be the same, boiling down to a few swing states. Remember only 60,000 people in OH made Bush president in 04. Only 500 people in FLA in 2000 (putting aside for a moment all the voter fraud and Supreme Court bullshit).

1000 PUMAs in PA or IN or MI or CO or whichever State ends being the “it” state on the eraserboard this election season can and will decide whose President!

 

Comment by Arabella Trefoil | 2008-07-24 11:53:23

Quinnipac polls just released show that McCain is picking up the “independent votes” in major swing states.

Thanks for reporting this. The fact that McCain is winning over independent votes tells me that “bitter Hillary holdouts” aren’t the cause of Obama’s bad numbers. The fact is, Obama is a terrible candidate.

Comment by Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy | 2008-07-24 12:28:55

ACtually, Quinnipac has been one of the more (if not the most) RELIABLE pollsters this season. Rasmussen was notoriously wrong - mainly in support of Obama. So, it is interesting that Rasmussen is now showing McCain up and Obama trailing in some states.

 

Comment by beebop | 2008-07-24 12:29:11

AND McCain is doing it without the MSM swooning that he no longer wears Pampers when he goes to the Middle East — never mind three hundred handlers and still can’t remember what committee he serves on. When the real Barry story starts to emerge … Alice Palmer, grades from Harvard (and trust me, someone in the RNC knows them), what an “organizer” really does, how he bought his house etc. from the 527’s the DNC will only wish that they hadn’t said “get over it.”

 

Comment by s. hall | 2008-07-24 14:01:16

arabella — McCain is getting 86% of Republicans and 14% of Democrats as well. Obama better end his world love quest and come back to the USA and start pandering big time.

 
 

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-07-24 11:58:18

Minnesota really?

ooo great

I just read BArry was up by double digits in Wisconsin?

WTF Is Wrong with Wisconsin????
(didn’t that used to be Kansas?) LOL

(Feingold SEEMED like such a logical non extremist type)

Comment by PuppyDogMom | 2008-07-24 12:08:03

I’m from Wisconsin. I haven’t a clue what’s going on here. And Feingold? He, to me, is a huge disappointment. He stopped answering my emails. He seemed to be a man of integrity, but this support of BO puts some doubts on that.

 
 

Comment by kenoshaMarge | 2008-07-24 12:20:00

You’re not in line with PUMA about making sure that Senator Clinton’s name is in nomination at the convention? Why not?

 

Comment by N. Lee | 2008-07-24 12:56:21

PUMAS annoy people because we’re so not the type to rebel. I liked what some poster said that we have puzzled them. We’re your moms. We have confused the Dems just like moms do to families when they finally say, “I’m not picking up your underwear anymore, and I really mean it.”

Way funny! very true indeed!

 

Comment by s. hall | 2008-07-24 13:47:01

44 years a Dem. Now I’m an Indie who will vote Republican. I learned something this year. Crooks and liars are members of both parties. Guess I didn’t notice before cause we Dems so rarely win.

Fowler, Cafferty, DNC and the rest of you stooges message received. We the Democratic Base are speaking loud and clear. When you stand for nothing you will fall for anything. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

PUMA 08

 

Comment by DAB | 2008-07-24 15:57:34

My guess is that most PUMAs are moderates — hardly the rebel type. This must have them scratching their heads. Also if we are so few in numbers, why do they all seem so concerned?

BO has not been able to “galvanize” me or my hubby yet — I guess you could say that we are “ungalvanizable”.

 
 

Comment by roseeriter | 2008-07-24 11:39:05

Can’t stand Cafferty- He’s a dry drunk and so biased and why CNN still allows him space, but then CNN is just entertainment info now and a poor blip news outfit.

 

Comment by wodiej | 2008-07-24 11:40:18

Excellent post!! I agree, Cafferty is a drunken asshole

 

Comment by NObamaNoHow | 2008-07-24 11:41:22

Well said, Ani. I’d like to ask Jack Cafferty why he wants to derail or prejudge the democratic process.

I HOPE the superdelegates CHANGE their minds.

 

Comment by sarainitaly | 2008-07-24 11:41:40

Another good one Ani! :OD

I said yesterday, and I will say it again.

Party loyalty is what got GWB re-elected in 2004.

He should not have won, he had a terrible approval rating, and he was doing a crap job. (personally, why he won the first time, was a shocker…much like Obama, now) but to win re-election was incredible.

It was blind party (R) loyalty.

And I refuse to blindly support a party, just because the candidate has a (D) by their name.

If the Republicans would have done the right thing 4 years ago, we would not have had another 4 years of Bush.

Now, I choose to do the right thing, and still fight for Hillary as the nominee, and if not, then I choose the better candidate, and that is NOT Obama.

Comment by sarainitaly | 2008-07-24 11:51:47

Here is a funny video about Cafferty, by Manning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsipdm6yHZM

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-07-24 12:19:31

oh that was great! I sent that one on to my email list!

 
 

Comment by N. Lee | 2008-07-24 12:58:45

Well, one reason was that Kerry was running against Bush. Kerry is a nut case.

Comment by sarainitaly | 2008-07-24 14:42:04

well, there is also that… hahah

Why DID we get stuck with Kerry as the nominee? Still, I prefered Kerry over Bush. And millions of people were unhappy with Bush, but they remained loyal to their party. They rewarded the Bush Administration, by re-electing Bush/Cheney, after all the crap they pulled.

 
 
 

Comment by missE | 2008-07-24 11:42:02

Cafferty calling PUMAs humorless gave me my first big laugh of the day.

By the way, just saw a shot of Berlin and a band is playing before Lord Obama speaks.

 

Comment by Sharon | 2008-07-24 11:45:04

So telling that Cafferty read on-air the comments by obamabots talking about what “they” are (meaning those who don’t want bambi) instead of reading comments from the horses’ mouths, so to speak, about what “we” believe and why “we” believe barky needs to be derailed.

One of my first indications that CNN (and the others, of course) were not just “in the tank” for obama, but that it was policy on the part of the entire media corps, was on their websites - throughout the entire primary, all pro-Hillary comments were left in “moderation” for infinity - never to be posted. Hence, the comments section of all political stories showed almost 100% pro-bambi, anti-Clinton sentiments. They would not let pro-Clinton or anti-barky comments be seen - at all.

They are sooooo not about journalism. They are just bad magicians trying to create and perpetuate an illusion that bambi is overwhelmingly popular and completely inevitable.

Please, karma, be quick and ruthless!

Comment by ginaswo still says no Uhhbama | 2008-07-24 11:55:46

yep! they totally censored my perfectly factually based, reasonable and appropriate comments, yep

TWX wanted Uhhbama, their stock is doooownnn like GE stock is doooownnnn KARMA BABY

WISE UP CORPORATE AMERICA, YOU CANT GET RICH OFF THE GOLDEN GOOSE IF UHHBAMA KILLS IT!

HILLARY IS POTUS

WE HAVE HILLARY
I GOT ALL MY PUMAS WITH ME

 
 

Comment by Susan | 2008-07-24 11:45:56

I also think the media will be blamed in part for Obama’s downfall. There are just so many reasons, it boggles the mind!

I have an awful lot of trouble now watching the so called news! It is sickening. The more they fall all over their chosen one, the more people get utterly sick of him. It has been atrocious!

Obama has no substance and there is something creepy about him. I was never voting for him once I checked him out! Since January! It really has little to do with Hillary and everything to do with Obama creeping me out.

Cafferty creeps me out a little now, too, and I used to watch him and cannot stomach him now. I hope that when all is said and done some investigations happen, some of these phoney journalists get kicked to the curb right along with Ofradma!

Thanks for saying what I would have liked to say to Cafferty! The comments were closed when I tried to post, not that it would have mattered anyway. You see all this year I’ve not been allowed to post on CNN. I have been censored! In years past it was not a problem. Maybe Cafferty should ask why that is! I’d truly like to know that! I think why Obama is getting derailed is obvious!

 

Comment by educatedwhitewoman | 2008-07-24 11:46:13

It’s like he’s reliving his youth through Obama, as I suspect so many ex-hippie wannabees are doing right now (most of the baby boomers were not hippies, but the whole thing has been so romanticized). Cafferty actually said “it’s like he’s a rock star” - with unabashed enthusiasm and stars in his eyes, I might add, when speaking of Obama’s Eurotour. Ugh. Please, spare me the sight of a middle-aged man going crazy for an amazingly weak and inconsequential politician of no particular skill except the ability to give loud speeches written by others via teleprompter, to use any means, fair or foul, to knock opposing candidates off the ballot, and to use unsavory friends and associates to propel him forward.

Comment by N. Lee | 2008-07-24 13:05:11

ummm…..your ageism is showing thru!

The hippies were not the main people who protested. They were mostly college students. I was there.

If you don’t want to see a “middle-aded man”….
I, for one, don’t particularly want to see a “young man” either.

I’m glad you are not a bot, but pleeezzeee don’t tell baby boomers what we were or weren’t.

 
 

Comment by Denise | 2008-07-24 11:48:17

A legitimate question would be:

“Why do the media approve of Obama for President?”

Comment by roseeriter | 2008-07-24 12:17:57

 
 

Comment by simanov | 2008-07-24 11:48:40

Since when has dissing the military become the NEW PATRIOTISM?

SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that Obama has cancelled a planned short visit to the Rammstein and Landstuhl US military bases in the southwest German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The visits were planned for Friday. “Barack Obama will not be coming to us,” a spokesperson for the US military hospital in Landstuhl announced. “I don’t know why.”

Nobama

Comment by educatedwhitewoman | 2008-07-24 11:53:41

When he dropped into Afghanistan for an hour or so, according to soldier who was there, Obama walked right past the soldiers, totally ignoring them, and into the base where he met with the general. This info was posted here today and confirmed as legit by another NoQuarter poster.

Comment by katmandu | 2008-07-24 12:09:01

We you have a cite to this? It seems like par for the course for him.

Also, Wonkette has picked up the story about how many languages Obama speaks: http://wonkette.com/401388/obama-lies-about-his-foreign-language-skillz#more-401388

I’d tell Jack that I’d like a candidate who doesn’t speak with a forked tongue.

 
 
 

Comment by Dr. Charles Monaghan | 2008-07-24 11:51:40

Mr. Cafferty;
My background is as a Professor of Political Science, Constiturional Law and Psychology. I will tell you Sir, without a doubt, you are one of the most biased, prejudiced people I have ever listened to. I don’t really know what happened to you(although everyone knows CNN is in the “tank” with Obama having paid CNN millions to favor him)but I can assure you that millions of people have totally lost respect for CNN and especially reporters like you and no longer wish to watch CNN. Hope you get well soon.

 

Comment by ginaswo still says no Uhhbama | 2008-07-24 11:52:41

Actually I believe he said he didnt have a degree, I just got mine so I throw no stones, but Caffety is a raving loon, comparing Americans out of work in the ‘rust belt’ to Al Qaeda recruits, what a biiter little frakker he is….

 

Comment by don tufts | 2008-07-24 11:56:32

i guess none of the posters on cnn really know what a state senators job is ,if they did they would realize that obaaaaama is unfit to serve.that is unless people nolonger beleive that a state senators job is to protect and serve his consituants interests and not the interests of major donars at the expense of his most vulnerable constituants.

 

Comment by Guila Jackson | 2008-07-24 11:57:22

It is obvious with as much attention that is being paid to PUMAPAC that we are a force to be reckoned with. They know who we are and if they are talking so much about us, they must be scared I find it about the most difficult thing in the world to believe that any patriotic American would support such a loser who doesn’t even have the decency to “fake” being patriotic by having the American flag on his plane. When I saw that the flag was removed, I couldn’t believe that he is that ignorant. Let them talk about PUMA all they want to on the networks—it keeps our names out there. Coward Dean, Donna Brazilnut and Nancy Smellosi all need to move out of the country and take Barack and Michelle with them.

Comment by AnninCa | 2008-07-25 11:01:26

The stats are clear. 30% won’t vote for Obama. That’s registered Dems.

I think PUMA represents about 17%, maybe less of that figure.

We ARE the Democratic workhorses in many places, and we’re walking out on the party this year.

That has, for sure, shocked people.

Democratic offices all over the country are in an uproar because Obama’s plans don’t even include them. He’s coming in and swiping the Dem money raised for his campaign alone, leaving down-ticket Dems to come to him and beg for money.

It’s pathetic. He’s not playing by Democratic rules.

But then, that doesn’t surprise most of us.

 
 

Comment by Blu | 2008-07-24 12:02:04

A better question, why do Cafferty, Matthews, Olbermann … virtually all MSM male personalities hide behind tables when they speak of Obama?

Comment by Sharon | 2008-07-24 12:11:24

Comment by roseeriter | 2008-07-24 12:16:10

That thrill up the leg knows no bounds??? LOL!

 
 

Comment by btintaos | 2008-07-24 12:18:50

Oh, I know, I know! Becuase of their O’Boners! But they still can’t hide Barky’s ass marks all over their faces.

 

Comment by simanov | 2008-07-24 12:31:44

They’re all Larry Sinclair wanna bes

Comment by simanov | 2008-07-24 12:38:06

Larry Sinclair Wannabees.

Sorry for the typo.

 

Comment by Blu | 2008-07-24 13:37:08

Referencing Larry Sinclair as a means of bringing Obama down seems so homophobic to me. There’s no evidence that the Sinclair allegations are true and even if the allegations were to be proven true the homosexual act should not be the focus of attention, only the acts of infidelity and hypocrisy.

Comment by Donna Mohler | 2008-07-25 10:47:20

If what Larry Sinclair had no truth behind it,Why hasn’t o addressed it? hmmm? He addressed all of the “OTHER THING HE CALLED “SMEARS” . As was said prior to your post; they are all sinclair wannabees!

 
 
 
 

Comment by Andrea | 2008-07-24 12:04:07

Great post! I quit watching or viewing CNN awhile ago. Every other sentence for these goons are “the best political team on television” - When I hear that statement so often I think thou dos protest too much. Jack Cafferty is one of the worst, up there with Olberman and Mathews. I take comfort in knowing that their ratings have gone down and that they are losing respect as a credible news source.

The best statement in this posting…
“What he lacks in experience he more than compensates for in arrogance — a dangerous combination we have endured eight years of with George Bush to devastating result. Can you blame us for not wanting to relive the experience with the ‘Democratic’ version of the same.”

Thank you!

Comment by GoBama | 2008-07-24 12:19:41

Wahhh!!!!

Everybody likes Obama!

Wahhh!!!

Wahhh!!!

Comment by Sharon | 2008-07-24 12:24:09

18 million+ people DON’T LIKE OBAMA. So your “everybody” lie is just “silly season” as barky would put it. LOL!

Comment by GoBama | 2008-07-24 12:27:17

Wahhh!!!

My candidate lost.

Wahhh!!!!

Wahhh!!!!

Comment by Sharon | 2008-07-24 12:32:24

So, I see you’ve already thought up your November 5 mantra, bot.

When barky goes down in defeat and humiliation, so will you. There are none more deserving of ignominious defeat than bambi and his bots.

 
 

Comment by Sharon | 2008-07-24 12:29:11

Whoops! I meant 18 million+ DEMOCRATS don’t like Obama - plus all the republicans and independents who see right through him.

I can’t wait to see all your idiot bots on November 5 - defeated, demoralized, discredited and humiliated.

Just thinking about that inevitability makes me sooooo happy!

Comment by GoBama | 2008-07-24 12:34:30