Jesse w/o invitation, Rangel snubbed, FISA sell-out, untethering the mayor, wrestling with pigs, new spies and redstateupdate
By LisaB on August 14, 2008 at 12:58 PM in Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Current Affairs, Democratic National Convention, Jesse Jackson
1) Jesse Jackson is still paying for his “nutty” remark on television. The Hill has a story saying Jackson will not likely be speaking at the Democratic convention.
As an aside, a Jackson friend also said Al Sharpton would not speak. No offense, but ya think? AA speakers more likely to appear include Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty and Congressman James Clyburn.
But apparently NOT House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel. According to Politico, Rangel is on the naughty list for daring to support his fellow NY delegation member, Hillary.
The Obama campaign is denying House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel a speaking role at this month’s Democratic National Convention — a move those close to the powerhouse Harlem congressman view as a spiteful snub.
Rangel surrogates approached Obama staffers this week about the possibility of securing him a slot at the podium, making the case that it would showcase reconciliation between the nominee and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s African-American supporters.
But they were told that the 78-year-old congressman’s support for Clinton earned him a place at the end of the line behind Barack Obama’s loyalists — even if Rangel played a crucial part in prodding Clinton to abandon her presidential bid in June.
Definitely a changing of the guard in terms of AA political representation to the public.
Read the rest ->
2) TalkLeft (the Politics of Crime) has a new crime on Wednesday’s article. Big Tent Democrat objects to Mort Halperin’s pivot on FISA. Seems he was vehemently against it until he was suddenly for it - right after Obama flipped. BTD cites an interview between Glenn Greenwald and Halperin during which Halperin did the stammer of shame - “that’s not what I’m here to talk about.”
GG: One of the reasons why I think ended up surprising a lot of people - your ultimate support for the bill, aside from your background - is that there was a letter that was sent on June 9, 2008 — just a month before you ended up writing that op-ed in the New York Times — that was signed by a whole variety of organizations - the ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Open Society Policy Center, with which you were at the time affiliated - that essentially said that the current version of the bill that was being circulated -
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GG: My question is, were you essentially indicating to them, that if he came out and supported the bill, you would essentially lend support for him?
MH: I was indicating to them what my view was as to whether or not the bill was one that people should vote for. And I provided that advice to anybody who was interested in my personal view on the subject.
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GG: Now, last question here, and that is, I had heard before we began our conversation that either you were about to depart from, or already departed from, the Open Society Policy Institute where you had been employed for quite some time as the president. Did the Open Society Institute end up opposing final passage of the bill, and did that have anything to do with your ultimate separation or departure from that organization?
MH: No, I have not departed from them. I have by mutual agreement become a consultant, to leave myself free to speak out more freely on the substance of these issues - which is what I thought you wanted to talk about, which is the only reason I agreed to this conversation.
GG: What do you mean by that? You thought I wanted to talk about what?
MH: The substance of the issues. Not these kinds of questions about process. But - I think I’ll leave it at that.
GG: Okay, well, I thank you very much for taking the time, I appreciate it.
MH: Okay.
BTD wonders if Halperin represents a “new” kind of progressive. You know, I really don’t think so. I think Halperin represents a much more amoral type of character - ready to go to whatever side he needs to. Anyone following the FISA story should read this interview. If you were adamantly against FISA, you got sold out.
3) WaPo has a story on another Obama friend - Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick. I won’t rehash THAT long story here. Just note the title of the article says it all.
Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick Hopes to be Untethered to Attend Dem Convention
Even though he’s currently wearing an electronic tether that prevents him from traveling outside the Detroit area, Kilpatrick hopes a judge will grant him permission to fulfill his superdelegate duty of nominating Barack Obama for president at his party’s convention, the start of which is just a week and-a-half away.
Think Kilpatrick will get help from Obama?
4) At the Althouse, Ann Althouse calls out our favorite Murrow never-will-be, Keith Olbermann. Seems KO jumped on yet more tasteless remarks (does he HAVE any other) Rush Limbaugh made about the Edwards “affair.” Althouse doesn’t agree with Rush, but she thinks KO took the wrong tack. Interesting. Maybe we’ll see a throw-down between Rush and KO. Just stay out the way. As you probably know, it’s never wise to wrestle a pig (and I’ll leave you to choose which one is the pig in THIS situation) because you get all muddy and the pig enjoys it.
Double ditto for getting in a wrestling match with TWO pigs.
5) At realclearpolitics is an article from the Boston Phoenix. The article says the press has gotten the presidential race wrong from the start, going so far to say the writer predicted Obama would do well back in early 2007. Although this article doesn’t offer much in the way of detail, it is the first “post-campaign” type of article I’ve seen.
6) EJ Dionne, also at realclearpolitics, talks some more about the Obama/Clinton “feud.” He says that during the primaries, it was a Clinton strategy to try and “de-legitimize” Obama victories - without including, of course, any Obama dirty dealing.
The more Obama’s victories were cast as less than real, the more passionate Clinton’s own supporters became about the injustice of her defeat. A minority of her supporters threatens trouble at the Denver convention unless Obama gives her a roll call vote in which never-say-die Clintonites could express their loyalty one last time.
Obama has already given the Clinton forces a night for Hillary and part of a night for Bill. In truth, he has little choice in a nearly 50-50 party, but the Obama people have to be frustrated with the Clintonites for not recognizing how far he is going to give them their due.
Yet some of the Clinton folks still think that Obama has not been respectful enough of the Clintons and their historical contributions. Bill Clinton is clearly put out. This perceptive politician has to be more aware than anyone of the mistakes he and his wife’s campaign made. That makes the whole thing harder, for him and for Obama.
Just more “Obama = healer = peacemaker” stuff. Blech
7) USAToday has an article today about the roll call question.
Some of Clinton’s supporters are circulating a petition to put her name in nomination. Democratic Party rules require the signatures of 300 delegates, with no more than 50 coming from a single state. The rules also require that the candidate sign the petition. Whether Clinton will do so is now under negotiation with Obama.
“She’s in a dicey position,” Hildebrand said. “She’s got a lot of people who worked incredibly hard for her, who dedicated their lives to her mission, her candidacy and who are very passionate about this.”
One of those supporters is Allida Black, a George Washington University historian who said she cashed in her retirement savings to finance travel to 14 states for Clinton. Black, a Clinton delegate from Virginia, is helping circulate the nominating petition.
“This is not a spite Obama effort,” she said. “This is for Hillary to get the respect her campaign merits.”
Another Clinton delegate, Rosina Rubin of New York, argued that in acknowledging Clinton’s supporters, the Democratic convention would also be paying tribute to an important constituency. “Her achievement this year is really a culmination of everything women in politics have done in this country since before we had the right to vote,” Rubin said.
8 ) This is from Tuesday at MSNBC. Homeland Security is looking to set up its own spy group.
WASHINGTON - Concerns about foreign spies and terrorists has prompted the Homeland Security Department to set up its own counterintelligence division and require strict reporting from employees about foreign travel, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.
The new directive comes as the federal government increases its counterspy efforts across all agencies and raises the awareness of intelligence vulnerabilities in the private industry as well as in protecting government secrets.
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Homeland Security is creating a counterintelligence system now, because there is currently no place for such a function in the department — which was formed by 22 disparate agencies — said a senior U.S. government official who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to publicly discuss intelligence.
I’m no expert at the DC agency game, the spy game or the DC power game. Still, this strikes me as significant.
9) This morning, therealbarackobama has a bit from Rev. Meeks, including video. Meeks calls for a school boycott until Chicago schools get more “white money.” I don’t disagree with Meeks’ concern about education although I think having students stay home is - well - counterintuitive. Meeks does say at about 1:40 into the video that he wants the “white schools” and, barring that, “white money.” I wonder if that “white money” is connected to the notion of “education debt” talked about by Obama.
Having been involved in education for over 20 years, I can tell Meeks that underfunded schools is a result of funding them by property taxes. Urban schools are not the only underfunded schools either; rural schools suffer from the same problems, and they are more likely to be majority white.
So, while I don’t disagree there’s a serious problem, I loathe the racial angle to this. Yet again, a broader and more complicated issue about funding education gets reduced to race. I call BS on that.
And where do BO’s children go to school????? University of Chicago Lab school. And how much help did he provide to the Senator Obama Kogelo Secondary School in Kenya, that lacks water, sanitation or electricity after promising to do so?
None. The Evening Standard covered this story some time ago.
And that project that Obama and Ayers worked on that was supposed to revolutionize Chicago public schools? Well, I don’t have time enough to go there. Let me just refer you to a previous post by Steve Diamond at therealbarackobama.
10) Need some redstateupdate? Here’s Jackie and Dunlap on John Edwards. Hold on tight. . . .
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I love these two but that was a visual I did not need in my brain.
Brain bleach! Stat!
LOL!
I think old Dunlap must be reading NO Quarter. WaddaUthink?
Thanks for the laugh inbetween all the tragedy.
It just may keeps some of us from losing what’s left of our ever leaking gray matter.
#1 on your list was almost enough to send me over into the voting for McCain column, even though my father would roll over in his grave so fast it would probably register on the Richter scale. But it did push me from the “Don’t intend to vote for Obama, but may change my mind” category to the “No way in hell!” category. He really is more power-hungry than Bush, isn’t he? No wonder so many of his supporters act like the Bush-bots. Many of them are probably one and the same.
georgia — Obama is very vindictive too. Charlie Rangel, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are not going to be allowed to speak at the Convention. Obama is about Black Liberation not Civil Rights. Rangel is seeing first hand what a bastard Obama can be.
Someone should point out to BTD there is still another option. Wish they would stop rationalizing on FISA. You either want a president to uphold the constitution or you don’t care enough to do the right thing. I go to newsvine once in a while and they use the same arguments. It’s better to vote for someone one you now know to be a liar than to admit you made a mistake in judgement and vote for Hillary. This word, “Progressive” is beginning to make me ill. Where are they progressing to? Morphing is more like it IMO. Like Jeff Goldblum in The Fly.
Deliciously horrible. Yahoo! A couple of pointers to other fun:
Howard Dean just excreted yet another “save Obama” cow paddy to the masses, asking us to whine pubically and loudly about the new Corsi book. To defame Corsi on his theory of a ‘North American Union’, he delivers the following quote: “Jed Babbin, editor of the conservative newspaper Human Events, says: “I guess there are people who believe in [the plan for a North American Union]. But there are people who believe in Bigfoot.” [Newsweek, 12/10/07] ” Thing is, it looks like Big Foot is about to be confirmed. Boy oh boy, Bill Clinton was RIGHT when he said this was going to be a doozy of an election season:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402882,00.html
Just like John Kerry. Shocked indignation only stokes more attention and undermines the credibility of their media puppets.
Hey Barry, “Sign the ____________________” (Whatever the release for Indonesian documents is called)
Kerry could have stopped the whole Swiftboat thing if he had released his entire set of military records. He tried to play cute and released a partial record and in the end it screwed him. The next question is why play it cute unless your an arrogant ass, you have something to hide or both. I’ve known Kerry for 30 odd years and I know he’s an arrogant ass, but I also think there’s more to the story and he has a dirty little secret that he’s hiding.
Breaking (unless it has already been posted)
Hillary will be on the ballot at the convention. A joint announcement by the Obama and Clinton camps. On Foxnews and on their site.
Obama is saying she won’t get as many votes as she did in the primary.
Of course she won’t, Obama replaced most of her delegates.
But it is still a great victory!
Obama said what?
Got a link?
the links won’t post. go to CNN.com and Foxnews.com
I heard them say on FOX about her not getting as many delegates as in the primary.
Not really, IMO.
It will make it harder for Dems to justify holding out and voting for McCain/Nader/no one. Sorry, but I somewhat prefer the divisive environment we have now, where we can rightfully say we were screwed and we ain’t gonna take it. Because, you know, this is not about having our feelings hurt, it’s about not wanting Obama to be president.
After Hillary gets what Denver group et al. have asked for, Obama and DNC will be able correctly to say that Clinton “lost fair and square” and now her supporters had better well fall into line.
Which I still will not be able to do, unfortunatley.
not if she gets less delegates. that will show he replaced them. no different than what the RNC did.
But she herself will be one of the delgates voting for Obama, so by definition, she would HAVE to get less delegates.
And she will likely be saying vote for Obama during her pre-vote speech. That would be ridiculous and I would be very disgruntled.
Yes, she will. Reports are that she will use her pre-vote speech to thank her supporters and publically release them to vote for him. Then she will cast her vote for Obama herself.
Why would you be disgruntled? This is her vote, do do with as she pleases.
I didn’t say anything about her vote. I said her speech.
Yes! It’s just a show. The fix is in. I’m not so gullible.
fif, her speech and Bill’s are the only ones I will watch, and it will send a “tingle” up my leg to see her on fire again. I’m betting it will only be minimal for Obama and primarily about the Party.
Agreed.
Replaced, forced out…and one down…
Too little, too late
Obama overheard talking to himself while shaving: “Ugh! Yuk! I’ve tried everything to avoid even standing with this woman but I need unity. Do you hear that? Unity! Standing with her in New Hampshire was awful but at least I can continue searching for someone else to run with me. Forcing her to raise money for me, despite her own campaign debt, well, that was taking candy from a babe, right? But they keep talking about her. Why can’t she just deliver her voters, deliver the money, and stay out of sight? Now she’ll get her name in nomination. Well, it will be my pleasure to control the delegates and buy them off (with money she raised, hee hee) and let’s give her 100 or so votes, just to give her a nice pat on the ass and say ‘Well done, first women. You go, girl!’ Yeah, let her have her moment. And let me still figure out how to win an election without her. Michelle, what should I do?”
AP has also announced that Clinton will be on the ballot so that there will be less co,plaining when Obama wins the nomination. Either they are seriously arrogant, the fix is in, or both. My bet would be both.
“Replaced”? How about bribed, intimidated, and extorted delegates to vote for him. And can we add murder to the list now that one of the Arkansas SDs has been killed?
I’m not sure about murder (yet) but the rest is true. Hillary could still pull this off but it would take more courage than most of the bureaucratic delegates have.
But miracles happen everyday. Obama is taking a chance but he is so sure his gestapo tactics will work, he’s not worried at all.
Pelosi said there would be surprises. The one I would really like to see, is Bill Clinton giving him the same salute he gave Hillary, say kiss my ass and walk off the stage.
I hope this doesn’t make the PUMAs go soft and cuddly and make them feel like they can vote for Obama. Democrat (liberal), Republican (conservative), or Independent (moderate), this country must not allow Barack Obama (Barry Soetoro) to get even close to the White House.
Agree! No Obama! Another rigged vote won’t make me change my mind.
Of course, if there is a miracle and Hillary wins, those cages will be filled with different people than they were meant for.
I think agreement came now because the Obama camp got all it’s
gestapoducks in a row and the cages thing backfired.I’m not going soft! NObama 2008!
heather — Hillary or McCain no other option
democracy first,
why would you call this a victory? A vacuous gesture that means nothing is all it is.
Hillary is the people’s choice and there’s nothing obama can do to get us to pretend otherwise.
How will they determine and control the number of African-American faces on the podium? Will there be any Indonesians? The pressure … the pressure … They need to create that one perfect shot that will appear in the papers and on t.v. Who will be front and center? Who will be absent? Will Jesse be at the convention? On the floor where Obama can talk down to him? Will they check for cutting pliers at the door? What to do … what to do …
My guess is that the African-Americans are officially under the bus, at least until he’s in the White House, where his true affiliations may become evident — except that he always puts himself first so I don’t anticipate any landmark civil rights legislation such as we got from that typical white person, LBJ.
As for the election and the convention, he knows he’s got African-Americans in the tank. Plus Jeremiah Wright has already broadcast the “Let Obama do what he has to do to get elected” meme so they won’t protest much.
I’ll be surprised if we see black faces beyond his own family.
>>> Will they check for cutting pliers at the door?
Back on the ranch, we called these devices, “emasculators.”
>>>Rangel is on the naughty list for daring to support his fellow NY delegation member, Hillary
Gives new meaning to “brownshirts.”
Off to the Gulag with him.
Gulag is Russian.
In America we call them “Camp Obamas”
I don’t care about Jackson and sharpton, but Rangel is a powerful member of Congress. “Spiteful snubs?” This is nothing new from Team Obama and their “tightly wrapped” campaign.
I have turned off CNN for good. Cannot stand their pompous “shock” that McCain could compare Obama to Moses. They act like the bogeyman “conservatives” invented a few weeks ago from whole cloth, while everyone else had been talking about it for a year. There are websites dedicated to Obama’s messianism existing from long ago.
I’m with you, Jack. CNN makes me puke.
Obama is going to throw all of the slobbering DC insiders under the bus, they just don’t know it yet.
Clinton supporters, like Rangel, will definitely be put out in the cold-even if they switched to Obama.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rep. Lewis (Sharpton, too), & all Clinton supporters-out.
Who’s in? Jesse Jackson, Jr., Rep. Clyburn (barely), Kwame Kilpatrick, Chuck Hagel, maybe Dodd, and Colin Powell-the once principled man who sold his soul to Bush, then went before the UN and lied about Iraq having WMD. The rest of the BO administration will be filled with questionable characters from the Chicago Machine.
Instead of “old DC politics”, it will be “new” Chicago politics. That is the only Change we will get.
If the SDs don’t wake up and stick together to stop this, they are all going to be under the bus.
The Obamabots are just pissed because they were about to float the idea that Obama was found in a river, floating in a basket…
Second fun item: The “Barry Soetoro”, religion = “Islam” document.
http://www.daylife.com/photo/01u33pL9Ns06D
Is it making the rounds? If not, it should be. Maybe it’s old news but has Obama or his fleet of lawyers ‘debunked’ it? I think this calls for a prime time messianic speech, of epic proportions. To maybe the whole world not just the U.S. Topic: the philosophical connections between “Barry and Barack”, “Soetoro and Obama”, and “Islam and Christianity” and how only he can unite these disparate concepts and move us all toward true unity.
Because, you know, Barry/Barack Seotoro/Obama, the Islamic/Christian, is so erudite and we’re all just morons. Only HE can explain this to the huddled masses yearning to vote for him.
Heather, are you a right wing republican?
Both of your posts in this thread would lead one to believe as much considering your support for the bigot Corsi, and now your attempts to beat up on a six year old.
Come on, you are better than this.
Dritches…I dont care if Obama is a indian,Jews or christian.What I dont like about him is trying to hide and degrade Islam.from I am never been a muslim to I never learn Islam.In Indonesia,if your religion status islam,you have to learn about Islam in school.But instead Obama admit his did learn about Islam he denied it.My husband is a freerthinker,he read and learn about Islam,but does that make him a Muslim…NO….
Ha ha, I’ll take that as snark but a few points, just in case:
1. I’m a 4 generation genetic democrat. Just today I was going through my elderly dad’s family papers and found a letter in which a colleague describes my great-great grandfather Robert as a ‘true democrat’ (dated 1914).
2. Corsi may be a “bigot” but: a) I’m fed up with leftwing penchant for ad hominem attacks. Why not discuss what a person has said? and b):
3. The big foot thing is amazing and completely a-political. They are announcing DNA results on a body, tomorrow in Palo Alto CA (technocrat central),.
Corsi’s book is filled with lies and distortions. You know that. Go look them u on media matters. Are you going to claim media matters isn’t a reliable source?
Calling Corsi a bigot is what he is. An anti semetic anti catholic bigot. ad hom is what Corsi calls it when his lies are exosed.
Dritches, Obots think that calling others republicans is an insult…
Did you know that as a citizen of a republic we are all “technically” republicans?
Come on, you can do better than that. What other insults designed to cut into a persons cred do you have up your sleeve?
Ugly twists, contortions and projection; all troll tools will not win you points.
hey britches, pull em up, your ass is showing.
so old, “republican”. “beating up on a little boy”? what grade are you in.
Since when is a 46 year old man who lies and obfuscates the truth is a “little boy”?
Obama is likely going down….either at the convention or in the GE.
Off Topic.
Will Bower (PUMA/Just Say NO DEAL will be on HARDBALL on MSNBC at 7pm EST tonight.
Whoo-hoo!
Maybe Chicago shouldn’t have given all those tax breaks to developers like Rezmar. Rezmar alone got $7.8m, and that’s only one company. They went and reduced the amount of low income housing, got tax dollars to do it with and tax credits to boot. Taxpayers of all colors got stuck with the clean up. It’s starting to look like the bottom line is that all this structured finance and wheeling and dealing has left the American people, of all colors, broke. White tax money, black tax money - ripping off the cash cow aka the citizens is an equal opportunity employer.
The 3AM phone call happened: and Obama is an idiot.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/the_3_am_phone_call_is_real.html
The child candidate is going to get us all killed.
Rangel had a hand in forcing Hillary out of the race. When it came down to the end he was nasty toward Hill and insisted she give up. So I say to him, you reap what you sow. I hope all those turncoats go down with Obarf.
Yeah!!!!!!! Ahhh uhhhh UNITY!!
Hillbuzz.wordpress.com has some info about Obamas BC (New Emails Makes Rounds State Attorney General Investigating Obamas BC) hope its true.
Spiteful Barky. Just like George Bush, only taller.
Charlie Rangel actually has something to say and knows how to articulate a point without behaving like a stick-up artist - unlike Crown Heights Al and HymieTown Jesse.
‘Wonder if Kanye “Bush Hate Black People” West will sing the National Anthem.
Get this -
http://hickeysite.blogspot.com/2008/08/kanye-west-fatburger-in-orland-park-and.html
b) For the sake of his party, Obama needs to come clean on anything that might fuel ’smears’.
For “anything that might fuel ’smears’”, Obama thinks that all he has to do is deny the charge and have his Borg call the one making the charge a “racist” and the charge will go away.
Why would Obama put anyone first, he gets nothing out of it his ego will never allow it.
I think that there are whitey Tapes, I think the R’s have suitcase full of junk that they will unpack once a week until the election.
BO has more skeletons thatn a Halloween shop. The R’s will serve he and the little MS. up on a blue plate special.
Then the D’s will finally have to turn this boat around.
Just because Hillary is on the 1st ballot doesn’t mean that BO stands a chance…with all the weird stuff that is oozing out.
Maybe that have Obama on stage preaching hatred against the United States at his church.
I am so revolted by absolutely EVERYTHING connected to Obama, his campaign, his “new” sleazy, slimy politics and the fascistic Democratic Party that I am gleefully and happily voting a straight up and down Republican ticket in my state’s primary (August 19 )
Everything connected to Obama is one or more of the following: mean spirited, illegal, immoral, cruel, bigoted, exclusive, misogynistic,a lie,stupid,corrupt, ignorant or hateful
“Jesse Jackson is still paying for his “nutty” remark on television.”
Well if he’s not busy, perhaps he’d like to come to a PUMA party? I’d love to hear his nutty speech all over again.
Speaking of Jackson, Pelosi has some nerve accusing Hillary supporters of not being gracious. I’ve never threatened to actually cut anybody’s jewels off. That would be ungracious. Speaking of ungracious, Michelle’s desire to scratch Bill Clinton’s eyeballs out wasn’t exactly good manners.
I think Rev. Jackson finally saw the real Obama. He & others have been strong-armed into silence. Guess he just had to vent to somebody. I don’t blame him. Obama is going to walk into the WH on the backs of those who supported him, then slam the door in their faces.
Well, the strong arm routine is how JJ works, so he’s getting some of it back. GREAT to see that he’s getting it from the Mahogany Bhagwan.
Just to go off topic for a minute, Tim Kaine (falsely) credits Obama with instigating a cease-fire in Georgia. If this is the case , then isn’t he also responsible for the attack by Russia in the first place, by not being aware of it and preempting it with recomendations to NATO/US.
“Obama is chair of The Subcommittee On European Affairs.
It has Jurisdiction over the countries of Europe, as well as NATO activities. “Jurisdiction: The subcommittee deals with all matters concerning U.S. relations with the countries on the continent of Europe … and with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.”
He hasn’t convened a single meeting.
Obama has never held a single policy hearing on anything, not Afghanistan, or anywhere else”.
The Democrats sure know how to screw things up!!!!!!!!
I will not be watching the convention, I cannot stand to watch her give over her delegates to Obama.
I cannot watch!!!
Doesn’t matter what happens, I will never vote for Obama!! Never, never, never!!!!!!
Same here!
The only way this is a good thing is if Hillary becomes the Democratic Nominee . .. anything else is just theatre and hokum.
Hillary 2008; if not, then McCain or anyone else!
This is when Turner Classic Movies comes in handy….
Actually, I’ve been watching them for months now to avoid the MSM….
Jim Clyburn is no spring chicken and Adrian Fenty is fugging up D.C. bit by bit. I KNEW they should have elected Linda Cropp. She’s barely perfect, but more qualified than that Obamazoid Fenty.
Same here!
The only way this is a good thing is if Hillary becomes the Democratic Nominee . .. anything else is just theatre and hokum.
Hillary 2008; if not, then McCain or anyone else BUT obama (aka bambi, pampers, zero, etc.)!
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FYI Adrian Fenty is mayor of DC and is a younger African American politican, sort of the “new guard” after Marion Barry. It’s probably too soon to say whether he’s doing a good job yet - but he’s making an effort, and the initial results look promising. Most of the voters in DC are AA so it’s no surprise that he feels he needs to support Obama, and he probably figures that BHO will be good for cities given his Chicago background.
But honestly, and I write this as a Democrat, the jury is still out on whether Democrats can effectively run these cities. They win elections, but the city conditions don’t improve. I can completely understand why New Yorkers voted for Giuliani, at a certain point you get fed up with conditions.
Fenty didn’t follow Barry.
Barry is a mushmouth, crackhead fool who made an ass of himself and was every bit as crooked as the Messiah.
Fenty followed the bow-tie wearing, hard-working, over-serious and sincere Anthony Williams–who was the polar OPPOSITE of Marion Barry in every way.
Neither Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton will have a speaking part at the convention. They were kept under raps the entire primary season. Obama did not wish to associate with them as they represent the general view point of the AA community. I like Jesse Jackson he speaks truth to truth, but Obama wants you to think that he is a different kind of AA amd you don’t need to fear him and that everyone will be treated the same.
I will never support Obama the liar.If it’s not Hillary..I am standing my grounds,I am voteing McCain.
There is noway that I will vote Obama with his bad jeudgements-avoiding the press-media who are not pro-Obama his donations taken from other countrys-His fake concerns set up in him going as if the people were for him-His Bush bills he was more for then anyother.His flip flops-his hiden and not coming forward with his true birth certificate.His lies of Hillary saying “I am the only candidate who did not vote for Bush-Dick -Chengy -Bill…When he knew he was the only candaite that did.He tried to make it like Hillary and mcCain were the ones who voted for it.When Hillary and McCain voted against it.
Obama said Hillary did not stand up to the oil cpmpanys because of this bill.OH YEAH Obama..you are the only candidate that voted for it and you are the one who did not stand up to the oil companys=-banks-credit care leanders.
You did not stand up to the “BORN ALIVE BABIES OF ABORTAION”yOU SAID YOU DID OBAMA.BUT WHEN BUSTED YOUI LET YOU CAMP ADVISORS AGAIN COME OUT TO TRY AND COVER IT UP AGAIN BY SAYING WELL THAT BILL WASN’T THE SAME BILL.wELL YES IT IS OBAMA BITH ARE THE SAME AND BOTH YOU VOTED AGAINST SAVING THE POOR LITTLE TINY BABIES WHO WERE BORN ALIVE AFTER ABORTION” YOU LIED SO MUCH-yOU CHANGE YOUR VIEW ONLY TO GET THE VOTES.YOU FIGURE YOU GOT THE VOTES SO GOT OVER THE LINE TO GO THE OTHER WAY NOW.YOU WENSITE YOU HIDE BEHING..IT’S LIES THERE FOR PEOPLE TO READ BUT BUSTED AGAIN…
NEVER OBAMA! bigger bush but far worst!is it that Bush-Dick Chengy doesn’t want to lose their connection because they know if they have you then they can as well as some of the democratic can continue the bushes years.Sure this election was set up far beyound the democratic party we have the other insiders as well.BUSH-DICK CHENGY-NANCY POLISO..WE KNOW WHAT YOU PEOPLE WHO STILL WANT TO CONTINUE YOUR DIRTY HANDS IN HELPING YOURSELVE TO BETTER YOUR POCKETS.NO WAY OBAMA-NO WAY
HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT 08
OR
MCCAIN FOR PRESIDENT 08
HILLARY AND MCCAIN WENT MORE AGAINST BUSHES BILLS.AS OBAMA WENT WITH BUSH AND CHENGY…
OBAMA = BUSH
Obama who? Never heard of him. Unless Clinton can be recognized as the legit nominee the only other candidate I know of is the old war vet McCain.
Good article about what a joke Colin Powell would be as vice president.
http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/
Nice to read something written by an author not afraid to use the word, “uppity,” for fear that his children will be followed home from school by silver Escalades with Gansta Whitewalls.
Charlie Rangel is a Korean war vet and HERO who “hasn’t had a bad day since” he survived that war.
I’m having a bad day on his behalf, to learn that this little punkshit Barack asshole who hasn’t spent a day in uniform has the brass balls to disrespect one of our nation’s most respected military veterans, who is also the MOST POWERFUL MAN ON THE HILL.
Is Obama STUPID?
The President cannot spend money. Only CONGRESS CAN. Congress authorizes spending, and guess who holds the purse strings? Why, the Chairman of the HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS Committee.
Obama will find out–in the very unlikely event that he gets elected, or, if, as a Senator, he tries to secure funding for this or that–that anything with his stink overmuch on it, just might be tossed back to Committee, because the the Chair, Ways and Means, thinks, oh, it needs “a little more work.”
Revenge is a dish best served cold. And no one makes better revenge gazpacho than Charlie Rangel.
Fuck that Obama. What an ASSHOLE. Moreover, what a stupid, politically obtuse, clueless asshole.
And Rangel was the most vocal in pressuring Hillary to suspend her campaign at the end so Obama could start running against McCain.
Sorry, Obama is too thin-skinned to be president.
Obama doesn’t believe in reaching out….even after getting what he wants from people, he shuts them out.
Reminds me of prisoners who finally co-operate, but are then shot anyway after being promised extra rations…
With so much input from Howard and Donkey Brassiere, how could he be otherwise?
President McCain and Chairman Rangel can ensure that Chicago gets nothing but all the horse manure in the world. Let the money go to better causes such as infrastructure upgrades and health benifits for our military.
re: Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton
http://finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_4256.shtml
The Final Call Newspaper’s Exclusive Year-End Interview With The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
Barack Obama has been very careful not to position himself as Reverend Jesse Jackson or Reverend Al Sharpton as a promoter of “The Black Cause.” He has been groomed, wisely so, to be seen more as a unifier, rather than one who speaks only for the hurt of Black people. In this, he has tapped the dissatisfaction of many Whites, Blacks, Hispanics and Asians across the spectrum, because who cares what color you are if you can save them from the mess that they find themselves in.