Obama’s Empty Blue Boxes
By NancyA on July 30, 2008 at 6:25 PM in Current Affairs, Electability, Germany, Maureen Dowd, Obama, Qualifications
Obama’s excellent adventures have now ended. He visited the troops in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan, with a little basketball thrown in. He has wowed and wooed “200,000″ people at a free concert in Germany. We had to “jack the bus” up higher as Obama “threw” the injured troops from Ramstein and Landstuhl under the bus with us. He pretended to be president in London when he said “I have committed more troops to Afghanistan”. Skip the beginning, go to 4:26, his words are quite obvious.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmlvyXeXbyo&[/youtube]
He schmoozed Sarkozy in France and renegotiated some treaties. According to Sean Carman, Senator Barack Obama announced today that on his recent overseas tour he successfully negotiated a wide-ranging treaty with America’s European allies. Logan Act violations anyone?
Maureen Dowd of the New York Times in her op-ed piece Cyclops and Cunning chatted with Obama about gifts for his girls and Foreign Heads of States. It turns out Obama has a key chain and snow globe aide to get gifts for his girls.
She asked about those blue boxes with the ribbons that “body man”, Reggie Love, was toting for heads of state. Obama said this about those boxes:
“I was not well organized enough to personally think of what presents to give these guys,” Obama said. “Hopefully, should I end up being president, I can put my touch on the present thing. But I didn’t even know it was a custom to give presents other than state visits.”
Dowd said this:
Sure enough, “our hero” came home to a passel of economic troubles in Dreamerica, rushing to talk to Bernanke & Paulson. Some news analyses of his trip wondered “Where’s the Bounce?” The old Hillary refrain — why can’t he close the deal against a supposedly flawed opponent — echoes.
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I heard Amazon.com sells “Protocol 101 for Dummies” for $14.95! Well someone needs to order one for our “pretend president”!
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That looks like a picture of Heil H next to Lincoln. I’m sorry, but this joker must not be elected President and, dangit, we really, really, really need HRC to nominated and elected. We are in a world of hurt here and neither McCain or BHO are even close to being up for the task of righting this ship.
I am beyond pissed that stupid, stupid, stupid Dem leadership has pushed this incompetent fool forward over someone who can do great things for the Party and for the country and for us. I want them all to pay unless they get their acts together and remedy this nightmare.
“I want them all to pay unless they get their acts together and remedy this nightmare.” describes my level of being pissed as well.
That is MLK not hitler
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha … please don’t disparage MLK that way!
Want Tickets to Obama’s Acceptance Speech? Forget Ticketmaster
Money won’t get you into Denver’s Invesco Field when Barack Obama gives his acceptance speech at next month’s Democratic convention, but a pledge to volunteer time to his campaign might do the trick.
Denver Admission = Pledge to Obama
Colorado’s Democratic Party and the Obama campaign are talking about distributing tickets to the Thursday, Aug. 28, speech to those who pledge to do door-to-door canvassing, make phone calls, register voters, work on get-out-the-vote projects and otherwise help the party in Colorado this fall.
http://countusout.wordpress.com/
Actually, you could not pay me enough to sit through Obama’s acceptance speech, there is no way I will even watch it. I clicked on this Obama video and I could not get past 30 seconds — I am just not in the mood to listen to this nauseating clown, he is so yesterday and tiresome.
Same here—I couldn’t stand listening to his “Uh. . . uh.. . . . .uh. . “—had to stop the video. No, I won’t be anywhere near waiting in line to hear his acceptance speech, and God willing, it won’t happen anyway. Those loyalty oaths are for dictatorships. . .
I wonder if some hacker could be persuaded to disable the teleprompters in Denver?
go to 4:26 in the video that is where he says I have committed troops tp Afghanistan….skip the beginning.
Urm. I did skip to that (well, actually, I skipped to about 30 seconds before that, just so I could get some context in) and there is no quote that says ““I have committed more troops to Afghanistan”.
The actual quote begins at 5:05.
ditto!
ahh the loyalty oaths are here…
Did you mean “loyality oafs?”
That sounds like censorship to me…
To have to pledge support to get a ticket. Well, that is eerily familiar. No free speech allowed.
NO WAY!!!NO WAY!!!NO WAY!!!
What would happen if a lot of people signed up so they could go to the event, then never showed up to work? Maybe we should all sign up to work for the campaign and get tickets, then not go. A half-empty stadium would be pretty funny.
and he wants our soulls along with that pledge…yikes, this asshole is begining to really scare me.
DOWD - shut your f8cking mouth! You do not have the right to speak of Hillary Clinton!
I got as far as :41 before I was forced to stop listening. Pls. I do not think that I can take any more.
Congratulations, you out-lasted me.
Oh my God. He didn’t know it was a custom to bring gifts? Does this guy do any research before he does anything?…and please tell me the key chain and snow globe comment was just a joke.
Obama knows exactly what He is doing,. I can not believe, that You are so suprise by Obamas remarks, or You are no different then HIM…
His 300 advisers must have failed to send him the memo…
When you are hosted by ANYONE, ANYWHERE, you should not only bring a token gift of appreciation but also send a thank you note after your visit…
Is that not standard protocol for any decent world citizen?
Obama probably thinks that an autographed picture of himself is a suitable gift.
seriously? you are focused on the blue boxes? (head shake)
“Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.” Jonathan Swift (emphasis mine)
Obama and pretense and overrating … perfect!
LOL…Aaaaand I hate that VANITY ( THY NAME IS OBAMA ) FAIR PIC….
What a Schumck! LOGAN ACT AS AN OPENING ACT TO THE FINAL ACT…..PLEEEEZ
( SIGH ) Thanks for the Post Nancy….It musta stung to have to quote Maureen O’Gag….But Duty Calls…lol
This country nearly went to war over a pig once. Dismiss blue boxes if you like, but being president is not an entry level position that you can learn as you go.
Don’t worry about Hillary getting the nom. They’ve already announced she gets the keynote address on Tuesday night…and I just received an email from her that says this:
“Dear Friend,
“The commitment you and I and thousands of others have made to helping Barack Obama win on November 4th means more than making sure he defeats John McCain.
“A genuine 2008 victory also has to include putting an end to Republican obstructionism in the Senate.
“The current GOP Senate minority has set an all-time record: using the filibuster more often than at any time in history. On more than 80 different occasions, they have blocked progress on ending the war, stymied efforts to rebuild our economy, impeded forward movement on health care, or stood in our way on a whole host of other issues.
“In these last 100 days before the election, let’s pour ourselves - each and every one of us, heart and soul - into electing Barack Obama and giving him a filibuster-proof Senate, ready, willing and able to create the authentic change America is yearning for.
…
“What you do now could set the stage for an enormous era of progress for our nation - progress that Barack Obama can lead us towards - and that a shrinking Republican minority in the Senate will be powerless to stop.”
My guess is Obama gets the nomination.
You can NEVER BE SURE! It’s starting to occur to these jerks that bo is a problem! He’s another gwb=== how sad that is!
Anyway, that may do him in… As far as Hillary’s email, she must give the appearance that she is in his corner. She’s too much of a professional for it to be any other way… IT’S THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ARE REJECTING HIM>> The Leadership is getting nervous. So, you never know!
J
I didn’t get that email and neither did anyone else I know. Hillary hasn’t given up on becoming our next POTUS. She wouldn’t be sending out something like that until after the convention. I don’t think the email you received is from Hillary.
I never got that email either. Here’s what I got yesterday.
Dear Diana,
Summer is a time for simple pleasures: family vacations, baseball games, and dinner out under the stars. At least it is if you aren’t running for president!
It sure is nice having a little more time on my hands, and I’d love to spend some of it with you. Would you like to join me for dinner?
During the campaign, I had the chance a few times to grab meals with supporters, but they were always rushed thanks to the frenetic pace of the campaign. This is my first chance to sit down and spend some real one-on-one time with you. If you enter today, we could be having dinner together soon!
Join me for dinner. Make a contribution today.
My staff has been calling this my “retirement dinner” — not because I’m retiring, of course, but because we’re working on retiring the debt we owe to small vendors all over the country. And everyone who acts today will have the chance to join me — along with a guest — for a dinner to talk about whatever you’d like.
Let’s go to dinner! Contribute now, and you and I could be enjoying a summer dinner together soon!
Join me for dinner. Make a contribution today.
Thank you so much for all your wonderful support.
All the best,
Hillary Rodham Clinton
To Diana:
Yes… I got that same email from Hillary to have dinner with her.
And I WILL contribute later today!
Thanks for posting that…
I didn’t get it. the wording is unlike any I have received from Senator Clinton’s campaign. I think the lackey made it up himself.
I lurv Hillary, she is a class act.
Still not voting for Obummer.
He will lose if they nominate him.
My feeling is he will get nod then GOP will let him have it, leading to him ‘voluntarily’ stepping down from the nomination since it will be clear to everyone he will lose, then he will retire to Chicago (and an ignominious retreat it will be after his ‘Adoration of the Obami Tour’).
Then we will have Hillary back and we will win in November.
And this is what I’ll pour:
Salt!
PUMApac.org
Stop lying, if You receive, I should recive to, so it is baloney.
First, He must help Her to pay off Her remining dept. or no support. So far He didnt fulfeel His promise . AS USUAL!!!
I am on Hillary’s mailing list and I did not get THAT one…
I didn’t receive that email and I have been on Hillary’s email list for over a year. Is it just barely possible, it came from BO campaign?
email to the list of Chuck Schumer’s DSCC, according to this guy:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/Clinton_Obama_needs_filibusterproof_Senate.html
That page provides this link to the full email here:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/pol/776158877.html
I don’t think Obama is being used with the expectation he’ll be elected president. Just being used to be sure an FDR-type person is not. My take is that’s just fine with Karl Rove, though I doubt he’s the main man behind it. PUMAs aren’t going to follow Hillary into supporting Obama. Obama’s not going to be president. Who is? I don’t know.
The world and the USA need leadership. Some are working very hard to be sure that doesn’t happen.
A wise person recently said, “the more forces appeal to the three presidential candidates who still find themselves in the race, to honor the promise of the American Constitution and Declaration of Independence for all nations on this planet, the greater the chance that America can return to the positive role which it played in the times of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. ”
She also said, “…sometime in the middle of the 1960s a paradigm shift set in, in which the talk was no longer about overcoming underdevelopment, through the construction of infrastructure, industry, and agriculture, but of ‘overpopulation,’ ‘appropriate technology,’ and ’sustainable development.’ Instead of producing harvests for the welfare of their own populations, the developing countries had to produce, more and more, so-called “cash crops” for export, in order to pay off their foreign debt, which had been constantly increased through the conditionality of the IMF.”
I was taught in school that the American revolution had been won. Now I know better. History is not a chronology of past events. History is what we are living.
Re: “They’ve already announced she gets the keynote address on Tuesday night…”
Who is ‘they?’ and can anyone confirm this?
Here:
http://clintondems.com/2008/07/hillary-clinton-to-speak-tuesday-night-at-convention/
“CNN reports that Hillary Clinton has accepted an offer to speak Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention. This announcement confirms that Obama will not choose Hillary to be his Vice Presidential nominee. According to the CNN report on Anderson Cooper 360, the Obama campaign believes… “
At the link immediately above, I asked, “Will Hillary be giving the KEYNOTE speech?”
Someone replied, “Since Hillary is giving a speech on Tuesday, I don’t think that it will be a KEYNOTE speech. I THINK that KEYNOTE speech is given on Monday at the opening of the convention.
Comment by RunningDogLackey above, 18:44:06:
“Don’t worry about Hillary getting the nom. They’ve already announced she gets the keynote address on Tuesday night…” may be inaccurate.
I want to know why the logan act has not been imposed on his highness. How in the hell is it that he can go around the world making foreign policy with other countries, HE IS NOT THE PRESIDENT ! Is this treason or not ? He is unbelievable and dangerous to our national security. Why is president Bush looking the other way, he should have obama arrested, this is absurd.
LOL. The piece was humor. Go read it. And be slightly embarrased for yourself.
What a piece of work - literally. Remember when the snake lipped media used to wax about “how can me help Bu$h” out of this or that criminal act? Now my own party is doing the same thing for an even less qualified candidate. I like my candidates strong - in experience, character and intelligence. Not so much “work” if you know what I mean, and some real issues could get taken care of.
Since we have all experienced the last 8 years of tripe from the media covering for Bu$h - we are not going to stand for it again.
The DNC/OPP(obama pod people)/media(corporate shills) are not drinking the kool aid - they are inhaling it straight if they think we will accept this fraud.
Is baby Obama tired from his trip? Whose turn is it to give him a bottle and burp him.
That photo with Obama sitting with his feet on his desk is a typical position for him. I read an article where other employees at the law firm Obama worked at were ticked off at him because he would go in his office, put his feet on his desk, and type his book on a lap top. Of course his book is about his favorite subject — HIM!
It certainly isn’t a picture of his Senate Work, since he is actually never at his desk.
Actually it is his Senate work … which is nonexistent.
I’m sorry is there an actual citation that he was out there renegotiating treaties, or is that just wishful thinking on your part? I have not heard this little tidbit anywhere else.
The only thing Obama ought to be renegotiating is deals at a used car lot after he rips off his customers.
See my comment below.
Read the Act…..Or get someone to read it for you…SHEEESH!
He can’t read and has no friends. SOL, I guess.
Read the referenced oiece, or get someone to read it to you. Be prepared. You are going to feel silly.
dan you must be neck deep in the kool-aid! Kinda hard for the media to report real news when they have their heads deep in obama’s ass; oh I forgot, you know all about that! Let me ask you how can you look yourself in the mirror and call yourself a man?
It’s unbelievably easy. First off, I know I am not the kind of coward who attacks people who are politely challenging me. So, that really helps. Also, you ended up wrong here if you ready the whole thread.
yyyyeeerkkkk this guy’s ego is making me vomit. Hillary Help us!!!!!!!!!!!
the obommunist takeover is almost complete once these internationalist socialists get in they will be impossible to dislodge<! EG; CEZAR CHAVEZ ,AYATOLLAH KAMENEI/AHMANDINEJIHAD, ROBERT MUGABE! There is a reason Obama supports FISa, he will USE IT’S POWERS AGAINST ALL AMERICANS WHO ARE NOT MEMBERS OF HIS PARTY! THE OBOMMUNIST PARTY! THE INTERNET MONITORING WILL BE A ROUTINE PART OF HIS PLAN WIT THE NET TROLLS OF HIS WATHCING EVERYTHING WE DO!!!
Get a grip your trollness.
Tollness… priceless
If Hillary truly was behind Obozo 100% she would have given up her delegates, but she has not. Remember she only suspended her campaign!
That’s right. I believe this is another of those Snot trolls.
On PUMA radio, Lanny Davis said that Hillary was holding her delegates so as to influence the party platform, not so that she can run:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/NO-WE-WONT
And Bill, what’s that you say? what? oh nothing? Good. I love Bill Clinton.
OMG!!! I just heard the new “pro-Obama” rap song (and I use the term “song” loosely … simple “noise” is more like it) from Ludacris, and it is a God-send for the McCain campaign. The lyrics of this particular musical masterpiece go like this:
“I’m back on it like I just signed my record deal
Yeah the best is here, the Bentley Coup paint is dripping wet, it got sex appeal
Never should have hated, You never should’ve doubted him
With a slot in the president’s iPod Obama shouted ‘em
Said I handle my biz and I’m one of his favorite rappers
Well give Luda a special pardon if I’m ever in the slammer
Better yet put me in office, make me your vice president
Hillary hated on you, so that bitch is irrelevant
Jesse talking slick and apologizing for what?
If you said it then you meant it how you want it head or gut?
And all you other politicians trying to hate on my man,
watch us win majority vote in every state on my man
You can’t stop what’s bout to happen, we bout to make history
The first black president is destined and it’s meant to be
The threats ain’t fazing us, the nooses or the jokes
So get off your ass, black people, it’s time to get out and vote!
Paint the White House black and I’m sure that’s got ‘em terrified
McCain don’t belong in any chair unless he’s paralyzed
Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally handicapped
Ball up all of his speeches and just throw ‘em like candy wrap
’cause what you talking I hear nothing even relevant
and you the worst of all 43 presidents
Get out and vote or the end’ll be near
The world is ready for change because Obama is here
’cause Obama is here
The world is ready for change because Obama is here, yeah cuz Obama is here.”
But believe me, just reading the words to this shit doesn’t even begin to capture how offensive this will be to older white voters. The “music” backing it up is hardcore ghetto “gangsta” rap stuff. This will reinforce every lingering doubt about Obama that lower-middle class and middle classs white voters will have about possibly putting a black man in the White House.
The McCain campaign itself should stay above the fray here but get their surrogates to play this up in their 527 ads to the extreme.
This is potential dynamite.
Oops, I guess I posted too late. Still, I’ve known about this song since noon. I’m surprised it took this long for people to post it.
That has got to be one of the most stupid “songs” ever written. I wouldn’t hold that shit in my hands.
So this is the kind of crap we have to look forward to? US has 3rd world nation written all over it.
Wow…threatening Jesse’s life no less.
I can see some of the old guard like Jackson pulling the lever for McCain once they get in the booth
He is threatening Jesse’s life. Ludacris is a fat pig.
I don’t see any sexism here, do you? No ageism either.
This song is offensive in so many ways. I think Obama has this effect on people.
DoroB… YARE JUST DISRESPECTFUL BASTARD, just like the rest of Obamas supporters!!!
Who needs the Whitey tape when we’ve got Ludacris?
A link to the song.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=52f_1217434061&p=1
Here is the note I sent to Def Jams recordings:
http://www.defjam.com/site/contact.php
(sorry about the length of my rant)
Your (Ludacris’s) song calling Hillary a “B” (no one must have told him what the Clintons did in Harlem) is cowardly. She got 18 million votes and she is still well respected.
Your comments about McCain are insane- try spending 5.5 years tied in a box getting tortured by really scary fuckers- not those cartoon characters you rap about. The man turned down early release in favor of other men. He is crippled because he actually served his country, fucker.
You are no longer relevant- this is not entertainment and you are too stupid to know who buys your albums and who puts you in movies. It is over for you. Remember Pepsi? It has already begun.
To those racists who really do exist and really do think obama is a thug- you just confirmed it for them and added the largest group of undecided voters to leave your candidate to his gangsta friends. You just torpedoed his campaign.
You are too isolated to know that the masses like obama because he is obama, not because he is black. Drop the victim mentality already.
I bet three gold teeth that you are not even registered to vote. Vote or die, right? You need perspective- turn around your evil ways and your talent and you could end up really, really helping people. Shame you are choosing this path.
I know you have plenty of well-deserved money. Please invest because obama has already thrown you under his bus and your career is about to take a dive. Get your head straight; do good in the world.
Obama once claimed to have Ludacris in heavy rotation on his iPod.
Bring back the draft. If these street punks are so big and tough let them go fight in Iraq or Afghanistan.
He didn’t know you were supposed to bring gifts?
Can you say jerkwater? He puts on airs that he’s so sophisticated but acts like a country bumpkin. I can just see him with overalls, a straw hat, and a wheat stalk in his mouth. Goober comes to mind.
He was supposed to get gifts, like frankincense and myrrh.
Good one AnnieO
The gold he stole himself.
that is his happiest i’ve ever seen him, his natural habitat perhaps? where he can kick back and let the combine do its job for him…..Is that a lecturn back there in his office?, betcha there is a mirror on that wall and he practices for hours……
I’m surprised nobody here has jumped on the Ludicrous song yet. And Ludicrous is someone that Obama says he likes (and his supporters say we are racist). Although one of Obama’s aides has already thrown Ludicrous under the bus
23/6 is a political satire website. The Sean Carman piece is satire.
These folks don’t quite get satire. That’s been shown sveral times already, but this is a funny non-the-less.
Is that Tweety on O’s TV on the right?? Maybe Tweety tingles O’s leg too..lol
NOBAMA!
First, Maureen you’re a female misogynist, you always have been–I guess you and Freud could have had a wonderful interview about your penis oh I mean Obama envy.
Secondly, McCain better be really careful. This guy’s megalomania is so over the top and he may become so delusional that he begins to plot some other way to get rid of the competition, maybe like the Russians do it, just slip some poisonous substance in his suitcase.
Lastly, when all the cheering and hoopla ends after the convention(the Repubs have been so patient, haven’t they)will the Secret Service stand guard on suicide watch?
Obama never held one hearing on the Afganistan war that he is chairing but goes around negotiating it with foreign leaders. That’s called being a hypocrite. Egobama has to go, he shouldn’t even be a senator.
I always felt he didn’t hold hearings because he couldn’t get clearance. How the hell could he receive a Top Secret Clearance? No clearance…no hearings.
As much as I hate to dispel any bad Barry bites, the Sean Carman piece, I believe, is snark. But MoDo has him pegged….like Icarus flying close to the sun, we can only hope for the full effect of global warming on the precious, presumptuous one.
I am crying croc tears for Arianna Huffington tonight. Here’s what she said about Tim Kaine in 2006:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/dems-pick-kaine-for-state_b_14112.html
I hope Obama picks him. What a “progressive” Obama is turning out to be. Weather vanes are more progressive.
And Kaine is pro-life, even better. Oh, pick him, Obama, pick him!