It Ain’t the Whitey Tape, But . . .
By Larry Johnson
Email: larry_johnson@earthlink.net
Site: http://NoQuarterUSA.net
About: Larry C. Johnson is a former analyst at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, who moved subsequently in 1989 to the U.S. Department of State, where he served four years as the deputy director for transportation security, antiterrorism assistance training, and special operations in the State Department's Office of Counterterrorism. He left government service in October 1993 and set up a consulting business. He currently is the co-owner and CEO of BERG Associates, LLC (Business Exposure Reduction Group) and is an expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation security, and crisis and risk management, and money laundering investigations. Johnson is the founder and main author of No Quarter, a weblog that addresses issues of terrorism and intelligence and politics. NoQuarterUSA was nominated as Best Political Blog of 2008.[1] He has worked as a private consultant on issues of international terrorism and security for the U.S. Government and private companies. Johnson has appeared as a consultant and commentator in many major newspapers and news programs.[2]
Contents [hide]
1 Background
2 Views
2.1 1996
2.2 1998
2.3 1999
2.4 2000
2.5 2001
2.6 2003
2.6.1 Plame affair
2.7 2008
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links
[edit]Background
Larry Johnson moved to Washington, D.C. in 1979 to begin work on a Ph.D. at the American University. Although he completed successfully all coursework and comprehensive exams, he did not write a dissertation. In 1978 and in 1983-85 he worked in Latin America on community development projects as a community organizer. Returning to the United States in 1985 he joined the Central Intelligence Agency, thanks in part to a letter of recommendation from Republican Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) that helped to "open doors" for him at the Agency.[3] Johnson entered on duty at the CIA in September 1985 and was a classmate of Valerie Plame. Every member of that class was undercover. After a year in the Career Trainee program, which included a stint with the Afghan Task Force, Johnson was assigned as an analyst in the Middle America Caribbean Division in the Latin American Affairs Office of the Directorate of Intelligence. He received two Exceptional Performance awards and was promoted ultimately to Senior Regional Analyst for Central America.
Johnson remained undercover in the CIA until October 1989, when he resigned from the CIA and started a new job in the Office of Counter Terrorism at the Department of State. Johnson played an instrumental role in launching the Terrorism Rewards program international advertising campaign (working with Diplomatic Security officers Brad Smith and Michael Parks). [4] Johnson also was involved in a variety of crisis management response operations, including the release of hostages from Lebanon and liaison with the Pan Am 103 families. He left government service in October 1993 and started his own business as a consultant.
After leaving government service, Johnson became a frequent guest on many major television news shows when a question of terrorism came up. He was first interviewed by CNN following the capture of Carlos the Jackal. Johnson subsequently appeared on CNN, ABC's Nightline, CBS, the BBC, MSNBC, the Jim Lehrer News Hour, NBC, and NPR. In December of 1999, for example, Johnson was hired by NBC to serve as its terrorist expert for the Y2000 and was in Time Square with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric ("a lot of fun and the best way to see in the New Year"). Johnson also was hired in January 2002 as a Fox News Analyst and remained under contract until February 2003.
Since 1994 a significant focus of Johnson's consulting work has been with the U.S. military special operations forces in scripting and conducting military counter terrorism exercises. He traveled under orders from the U.S. military to Iraq in May 2006 to work on a short term project.
A registered Republican who supported President Bush in 2000, Johnson became a strong critic of the Bush administration in May 2003 for its conduct of the war in Iraq and, a few months later, for its role in the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame.[5] He was also featured in the 2004 political documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism. Since Robert Novak's controversial disclosure of Valerie Plame as a CIA operative in July 2003, Johnson has contributed to public discourse on intelligence matters, often sparking further controversy. He has been interviewed by both the mass media and the alternative media and published commentaries on a variety of issues, including the Plame affair, the controversy concerning Mary McCarthy, and the resignation of Porter Goss as Director of Central Intelligence.
[edit]Views
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[edit]1996
In 1996, Johnson noted that terrorism worldwide was on the decline. "Terrorist incidents [both internationally and in the US] have fallen to levels not seen since the 1970s. Whether measured by the number of incidents, the number of fatalities, or the number of groups, raw statistics demonstrate that the level of terrorist violence has declined since the mid-1980s. In fact, the evidence suggests terrorism was more widespread and deadly 10 years ago."[6]
He also wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times suggesting that the newer and more deadly terrorist threat to the U.S. was embodied by "networks of terrorists, mostly foreign, working within its borders." Exemplifying this threat was Ramzi Yousef, one of the masterminds behind the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. In the article, Johnson suggests that enhanced cooperation between intelligence agencies, particularly the FBI and CIA, is mandatory to meet the growing threat of terror networks.[7]
[edit]1998
In 1998, Johnson argued that while overall terrorism was declining, the threat from bin Laden and al-Qaeda should be the focus of American counterterrorism policy:
The nature of the threat posed by Bin Ladin is highlighted by my final chart, number 7. Osama Bin Ladin and individuals associated with him have killed and wounded more Americans than any other group. This chart also illustrates that groups such as Hamas and the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) prior to 1998 have killed more foreigners in the anti-US terrorist attacks. If we take into account the bombings of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Osama's status as the most lethal terrorist is certain.[8]
In addition, he told USA Today that bin Laden had participated in "virtually every major attack of terrorism against the United States" in the 1990s. Johnson underlined the threat posed by bin Laden, saying that he was possessed by "hatred and craziness." If left unanswered, "he would continue to terrorize Americans around the world. He has no compunction about killing women and children. He's a complete egalitarian in his murderous attitude."[9]
[edit]1999
In an interview with PBS's Frontline for its 1999 program, Hunting bin Laden, Johnson discussed Osama bin Laden.[10] According to Johnson, Americans had "tended to make Osama bin Laden sort of a superman in Muslim garb." "Actually," he continues, "Osama bin Laden, in my view, represents more of a symptom of a problem, and the problem is this: the Saudi Arabian government, not just Osama bin Laden but many people in Saudi Arabia, have been sending money to radical Islamic groups for years." Johnson continued:
When you look at who's killed Americans in the last 10 years, the individuals he's supported and backed--I'm basing that upon the initial information that's been released in the indictments and conversations with others in the intelligence communities--Osama bin Laden has been the one killing Americans. No other terrorist group in the world has been out killing Americans except for Osama bin Laden.... Osama bin Laden remains out there as the one really targeting us. So, we recognize that he's the threat. He's serious about wanting to kill Americans, but as long as he's in Afghanistan, as long as he doesn't have access to a cell phone, as long as he can't just hop on a plane and travel wherever he wants without fear of being arrested, his ability to plan and conduct terrorist operations is extremely limited. We have to recognize [that] he would like to do a lot of damage. He would like to kill Americans, but wanting to is different from being able to, having the full capabilities in place.[11]
In the interview, Johnson doubted the ability of members of bin Laden's organization to plan and put their lives on the line:
There's not another Ali or Mustafa out there at this point and Osama bin Laden in my view has not been a very effective organizer or leader. He talks a great game and puts out terrific threats as far as stirring the passions in the United States and maybe firing up the imaginations of some young Muslims throughout the world. But when push comes to shove, can he get a group of people who are together who will say: we are going to plan an operation, we're going to put our lives on the line, we're going to go out and try and kill people and we don't care what the consequence is? It hasn't happened.[12]
Frontline asked:
[Is it] ... fair to say what you're saying is that the president of the United States, his national security advisor, his deputy national security advisor for counter-terrorism, are basically blowing smoke [about the danger posed by bin Laden] and his followers]?
Johnson responded:
They're grossly exaggerating the problem. They are hyping it. They shouldn't be talking about rising terrorism. Instead of saying "terrorism's rising," it's not. "Terrorism is spreading," it's not. "More people are dying from terrorism," not the case. But what they should be saying is, "There's one individual out there that really doesn't like us, and he's made it his mission in life to kill Americans, and we've gotta deal with him." But we need to have a voice of reason in that process instead of putting ourselves out crying wolf, because this is essentially what's taking place right now. They call it the administration that cries wolf.[12]
[edit]2000
Johnson co-authored an article in 2000 with Milt Bearden which focused on the threat posed by al-Qaeda specifically, rather than terrorism trends in general. Beardon and Johnson note that new information emerging about the bombings at Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 points to the threat posed by Imad Mugniyah and Osama Bin Laden will require "a coordinated policy that will employ a full range of covert, clandestine, diplomatic, and military operations," concluding:
The Clinton Administration has shot its bolt on the terrorist problem with small effect, and no last minute show of force will change the record. A new administration can start afresh with a more sharply defined set of terrorism goals – Mughniyeh and bin Laden and their protectors for starters – and bring the full, coordinated force of American diplomatic, military, and intelligence capabilities to bear on the problem.[13]
[edit]2001
After Johnson's testimony to the special forum at the U.S. Senate, Gary J. Schmitt, executive director and CEO of the Project for the New American Century, refers in the Daily Standard (blog) to an op-ed piece Johnson wrote two months prior to the 9/11 attacks, claiming that Johnson argued that the US had little to fear from terrorism.[14]
In an editorial entitled "The Declining Terrorist Threat," published in the New York Times on 10 July 2001, Johnson says:
Judging from news reports and the portrayal of villains in our popular entertainment, Americans are bedeviled by fantasies about terrorism. They seem to believe that terrorism is the greatest threat to the United States and that it is becoming more widespread and lethal. They are likely to think that the United States is the most popular target of terrorists. And they almost certainly have the impression that extremist Islamic groups cause most terrorism.... None of these beliefs are based in fact.... While terrorism is not vanquished, in a world where thousands of nuclear warheads are still aimed across the continents, terrorism is not the biggest security challenge confronting the United States, and it should not be portrayed that way.[15]
Ten days after the 9/11 attacks, after quoting the above passage, Timothy Noah concludes a post in his "Chatterbox" feature at Slate: "Johnson's analysis, we now see, was bold, persuasive, and 100 percent wrong."[16] Johnson defended himself against such attacks:
The rightwing is resurrecting an op-ed I wrote in July 2001. I stand by the full article. It is still relevant today. I am accused, incorrectly, of ignoring the threat of terrorism. In fact, I correctly noted that the real threat emanated from Bin Laden and Islamic extremism. President Bush, for his part, ignored the CIA warning in August 2001 that Al Qaeda was posed to strike inside the United States.[17]
After September 11, Johnson appeared several times on FOX News to address the question of military action against terrorism. On 14 November, he defended the FBI's proposal to interview 5,000 students in the U.S. suspected of having information relevant to the September 11 investigations:
I think they should talk to everyone that they feel they have a need to talk to. I mean, look, this is war. This is not a legal proceeding. This isn't the O.J. Simpson trial. The folks that attacked us -- they murdered Americans. And we've got to recognize that in wartime, we should do things differently.[18]
[edit]2003
In January 2003, Johnson wrote an analysis of the relationship between the upcoming U.S. invasion of Iraq and the threat of transnational terrorism. According to Johnson, Bremer's response was to tell him that "it didn't matter what Saddam did or didn't do, we were going to war."[19] The paper warned that an invasion would "do little to destroy the infrastructure of radical Islamic terrorism responsible for the 9-11 attacks." Noting that Saddam Hussein's regime has been a longtime supporter of regional terrorist organizations such as the PLO, Johnson examines contacts between Saddam Hussein and transnational terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda:
There is no doubt that Iraq is a state sponsor of terrorism—i.e., a country that provides financial support, safe haven, training, or weapons and explosives to groups or individuals that carry out terrorist attacks. . . . According to Central Intelligence Agency data, there is no credible evidence implicating Iraq in any mass casualty terrorist attacks since 1991. . . .
Johnson notes that the period immediately leading up to 2003 saw a rise of activity surrounding terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, suggesting that "Iraq is willing to help a movement that it would otherwise oppose on ideological grounds. Nonetheless," Johnson concludes, "it is important to understand that Iraqi entreaties to Al Qaeda, are most likely intended as a tactic to bolster Iraq’s ability to fight off a U.S. invasion rather than a deep-seated theological and ideological commitment to the terrorist agenda of Bin Laden.[20]
In that analysis Johnson also warns that the U.S.-led invasion was likely to backfire:
In fact there is a serious risk that a U.S. led war against Iraq may crystallize the diffused anger in the Arab and Muslim world — a heretofore unattained goal of bin Laden and his followers — and persuade more Muslim youths to take up the terrorist banner against America and her citizens.... If we decide to invade Iraq we must be prepared for the contingency that our attack will inspire young Muslims to pursue jihad against the West in general and the United States in particular. Just as the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan rallied many Muslims, especially young adults to the cause of jihad, a U.S. attack may enable Islamic extremists to attract new followers.[20]
Johnson also gave interviews on the topic of what to do with captured al-Qaeda leaders; while he did not condone torture, he suggested that a "sleep deprivation and reward system" might be useful for getting information from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed:
I don't see a constitutional right to have eight hours of sleep. You shouldn't subject someone to freezing but they don't get to wear mink coats, either.[21]
In May 2003, Johnson joined members of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) in condemning the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes:
It is a misuse and abuse of intelligence. The president was being misled. He was ill served by the folks who are supposed to protect him on this. Whether this was witting or unwitting, I don't know, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.[22]
[edit]Plame affair
After Robert Novak wrote a column identifying the wife of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson as a CIA officer, the media invited Johnson to comment on the ensuing scandal because he had been a member of the same Career Trainee class with Valerie Plame Wilson. For example, in October 2003, he appeared on Democracy Now to discuss the Plame affair. He told interviewer Amy Goodman that Valerie Wilson's cover should have been respected whether she was an "analyst" or a "cleaning lady": "if she's undercover she's undercover, period. If the media allows themselves to get distracted with those kinds of curve balls, they ignore the issue."[23]
He told a Senate Democratic Policy Committee in October 2003, "My classmates and I have been betrayed. Together, we have kept the secrets of each other's identities a secret for 18 years. Each and every one of us have kept that secret, whether we were in the CIA, in other government service or in the private sector. But this issue is not just about a blown cover. It is about the destruction of the very essence, the core of human intelligence collection activities: plausible deniability, apparently, for partisan domestic political reasons."[24]
Johnson testified at a special joint hearing of Congressional and Senate Democrats on 22 July 2005 about the consequences arising from the Plame affair.[25]
[edit]2008
In 2008, Johnson emerged as a staunch supporter of Hillary Clinton and a strong critic of Barack Obama. Larry Johnson's blog, NoQuarterUSA, became a rally point for Clinton supporters wary of Barack Obama's qualifications to be president. Supporters of Barack Obama insist that a story that first appeared on Johnson's blog--a report that Republican operatives have a tape of Michelle Obama making racially insenstive comments about caucasians--has been "refuted" Barack Obama's Fight the Smears website.[26]. However, Johnson never claimed to have the tape and reported that the Republican operatives controlling it intended to release the tape sometime after the Democratic Convention in August 2008. On October 21, however, he asserted that the operative in possession of the tape had been instructed by the McCain campaign not to release it.[27]
[edit]Notes
^ http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-political-coverage/
^ Larry C. Johnson, "About Me," No Quarter (personal blog).
^ "Former CIA Official Larry Johnson Delivers Democratic Radio Address," transcript posted on official Democratic National Committee's website for The Democratic Party, July 23, 2005], accessed November 21, 2006.
^ Interview with Larry Johnson, confirmed by his supervisor
^ "Ex-CIA official Blasts Bush on Leak of Operative's Name: Democrats' Radio Address Focuses on White House Aides' Role," CNN July 23, 2005, accessed November 21, 2006.
^ Gail Russell Chaddock, "Why Terrorists Pick On the French," Christian Science Monitor (5 December 1996) p. 1.
^ Larry Johnson, "Terrorists Among Us," New York Times (20 August 1996) p. A19.
^ Terrorism Today
^ Lee Michael Katz, "The Hunt for Bin Laden," USA Today (21 August 1998) p. 1A.
^ See Transcript of original interview with Larry C. Johnson, as broadcast on Frontline in 1999. Cf. "Interview: Larry C. Johnson," for Hunting bin Laden, transcript of interview broadcast on Frontline subsequently on 13 April 2001. See also dedicated PBS webpages for media links: Iraq and the War on Terror, Frontline PBS, online featured programs, accessed 19 November 2006.
^ frontline: hunting bin laden: interviews: larry c. johnson | PBS
^ a b [1].
^ As posted in [2].
^ Gary Schmitt, [ 07/25/2005 "Meet Larry Johnson: The CIA official Turned Democratic Spokesman Has a Pre-9/11 Mindset," Daily Standard (blog), July 25, 2005, accessed November 20, 2006.
^ *Larry C. Johnson, "The Declining Terrorist Threat," The New York Times 10 July 2001: A19.
^ Timothy Noah, "(Not Exactly a) Whopper of the Week: Larry C. Johnson," Chatterbox: Gossip, speculation, and scuttlebutt about politics (blog), hosted by Slate September 21, 2001, accessed November 20, 2006. Note the full context of this quotation:
It is, to be sure, a little bit cheap (and slightly at odds with the usual parameters of this feature) to criticize someone for making an erroneous prediction, particularly after a tragedy. Chatterbox is especially reluctant to tag Johnson because Johnson's op-ed was argued forcefully, backed up meticulously with factual data, and bravely at odds with conventional wisdom at the time of its publication. Add in that Johnson now makes his living as a consultant to corporations about terrorism, and therefore had everything to gain by exaggerating the dangers terrorism poses, and the guy practically looks like a hero. Chatterbox, who two decades ago was an editor for the New York Times op-ed page, would have published Johnson's piece had he still been an editor there this past July. In his capacity at Slate, Chatterbox might well have written up Johnson's prediction, and perhaps even endorsed it.
But boy, is he glad he didn't! Johnson's analysis, we now see, was bold, persuasive, and 100 percent wrong. Sadly, a mistake this embarrassing cannot be ignored. As a fellow skeptic, Chatterbox in all sincerity wishes Johnson better luck next time.
^ Larry C. Johnson, "Johnson vs. President Bush," re-posted and updated by SusanHu at DailyKos (blog) July 25, 2005.
^ FOX News Interview with John Garrett (14 November 2001) Transcript #111405cb.260.
^ [3].
^ a b Larry C. Johnson, "Setting the Record Straight on Iraqi Terrorism," posted in Booman Tribune: A Progressive Community (personal blog) 27 January 2003. accessed 19 November 2006.
^ Qtd. in Toby Harnden, "CIA 'pressure' on al-Qa'eda chief," The London Telegraph 5 March 2003: 16.
^ Qtd. in Nicolas D. Kristof, "Save Our Spooks," The New York Times 30 May 2003:A6.
^ Democracy Now (3 October 2003)[4]
^ U.S. Senate, Democratic Policy Committee Meeting on the CIA Operative Leak, (24 October 2003).
^ Letter to the Senate.[Needs full source citation; see "References" section.]
^ Tumulty, Karen (2008-06-12). "Will Obama's Anti-Rumor Plan Work?", Time Magazine. Retrieved on 20 June 2008.:"a story that apparently first made a big splash on the Internet in late May in a post by pro-Hillary Clinton blogger Larry Johnson"
^ Whitey Tape, API, Phil Berg, and Andy MartinSee Authors Posts (1090) on September 4, 2008 at 9:40 AM in Current Affairs
bumped up from last night by SusanUnPC
Don’t think the Republicans are loaded for bear to go after Barack? Well, what do you do when an addled old man outs your past ties to radical muslims? So Khalid al-Mansour was your sugar daddy? This bombshell comes courtesy of Percy Sutton, the former borough president of Manhattan, who describes his first encounter with the young Obama.
“I was introduced to (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him,” Sutton told NY1 city hall reporter Dominic Carter.
“The friend’s name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from Texas,” Sutton said. “He is the principal adviser to one of the world’s richest men. He told me about Obama.”
Here’s the video:
No big deal? Well, consider this.
Khalid Al Mansour is bad, bad news for Barack. Guess what? Jeremiah Wright ain’t the only batshit crazy minister in Barack’s past. Check this out–you Jews are a bunch of land grabbing thieves:
Yep, change you can believe in. So who is Khalid al Mansour? Newsmax has the story (and yes, they may be a rightwing site and the author of the story attacks me in a separate book, but truth is truth):
A graduate of Howard University with a law degree from the University of California, al-Mansour sits on numerous corporate boards, including the Saudi African Bank and Chicago-based LaGray Chemical Co. LaGray, which was formed to do business in Africa, counts former Nigerian President General Abdusalam Abubakar on its advisory board.
He also sits on the board of the non-profit African Leadership Academy, along with top McCain for President adviser Carly Fiorina, and organized a tribute to the President of Ghana at the Clinton White House in 1995, along with pop star Michael Jackson.
But his writings and books are packed with anti-American rhetoric reminiscent of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s disgraced former pastor.
In a 1995 book, “The Lost Books of Africa Rediscovered,” he alleged that the United States was plotting genocide against black Americans.
The first “genocide against the black man began 300 years ago,” he told an audience in Harlem at a book-signing, while a second “genocide” was on the way “to remove 15 million Black people, considered disposable, of no relevance, value or benefit to the American society.”
In the 1960s, when he founded the African American Association in the San Francisco Bay area, he was known as Donald Warden.
According to the Social Activism Project at the University of California at Berkley, Warden, a.k.a. Khalid al-Mansour, was the mentor of Black Panther Party founder Huey Newton and his cohort, Bobby Seale.
So, let me get this straight–a Black Panther paves Barack’s way to Harvard and a former member of the Weather Underground (and unrepentant terrorist) Bill Ayers names him to Chair the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. What other shoes are going to drop?
(small, medium and large sizes; for both dogs and cats)
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“Barack Obasma ain’t led anything….NADA”
Yeah that was funny - AND TRUE! lolz
N A D A!!!!
Where is the Whitey tape?
When is Rove going to be indicted?
Both claims made by you, both lies.
Dear Mr Johnson,
If it ain’t the Whitey tape then it’s nothing.
What? There’s a video? But that video is a conspiracy theory.
By the way, I am joking and have a great deal of admiration for you. I kinda worked with you guys in the military if you know what I mean.
I agree with you. When it comes to National Security Obama will be a disaster.
Sigh
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“I kinda worked with you guys in the military if you know what I mean.”
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Let’s leave it at that.
You piloted a black helicopter.
I remember you.
Enormous grape, right? Required several additional meters of 36 gauge aluminum foil to fashion your hat.
Intelligence work.
candymarl — so you think that if Obama is being funded by Muslims who hate this country as he runs for the Presidency is nothing then go join the braindead bots and have a good life in la la land.
not only to National Security, He will be disaster to all of US exp. His reach lobbiests and Oil magnats, not to fergat :Rezko,and others!!! This DNC stupidity and contonuency af attacking any woman, witch is fighting against OBAMA. Same all, same all. Democrats can just thanks especjally to them sefs, for beying naive and not smart enoght, not to understand good and evil. This is especjaly to Obamas supporters incl. Operah.
I will never watch Operah show, because She supports someone like Obama. Shame on You Operah.
Operah, the fat lady, has sung.
Quick Vote
Does John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his VP nominee make the GOP ticket stronger?
Yes 31% 977
No 69% 2191
Total Votes: 3168
cnn running one of those fair and balanced polls. Let’s counter the Obots people.
LOL they are such friggin jokes.
Let the Obots tinker with the online polls all they like. Any sensible person can see Palin has clinched it for the Republicans.
May God help America. But anything is better than Obama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu4IFSGIUFU
I don’t think we need to worry about them anymore. Starting tonight everyone’s in this race and they all know we don’t need those Web 2.0 polls anymore. Grin grin grin.
Yeah, those polls at cnn are something…
I loved listening to Wolf and Cafferty (Sp?) brag about how they were the “most watched” channel(and so most respected election news source) for the DNC convention… Wolf looked like a little boy trying to be a good Boy Scout and sour puss Cafferty called Fox news the f word channel… What a bunch of maroons I thought as I changed the channel.
In the CNN commentary. after Sarah’s speech, Gloria Borger said “and my.. she was going to refer to the Dems. and she got stopped by I think it was Cooper who said “they’re not yours” and she quickly shut up and looked down sheepishly. Not that it wasn’t obvious when ever she opens her mouth where her bias is.
However was nice to see her show herself.
CNN and for that matter the rest of the cable news channels should know that if we had a real television news alternative they would have no ratings. They are so offensive to the “news” that many are already tuning out. Democracy Now, CSPAN and the internet is where most tune in for news but I still keep one of those muted cable news shows on in the background in my office for breaking news. I’m hoping to break that bad habit as to not add to their ratings.
It is how the questions are worded. They word them in such a way as to elicit the response they want.
I think we should let them believe their garbage. The silence on November 5th when he goes down in all but his own state will be that much more delightfully and deliciously deafening, don’t you think?
McCain/Palin.
Neighbors
absolutely McCain is much stronger. Those pools are taken by Obamas friendly Media, so , this not supprise me at all!!!
After all, how many people thay ask, among them selfs???CNN???
You should not be suprise, pool maybe 1 hour agter Sarah Paline speach, who thinks about pools in a such short time??? CNN,Progresive Radio, Move ON, Anderson Cooper, Campbell Brown wno was wvishesly attackin some republican speaker, about Palin capabilities as Cheef-Commander of USA???, and next day She was saying how She(Brown) was touch by wathing Sarah Palin holding in Her arms Her little baby boy. What a ugly woman Campbell Brown is. The only normal and toughtful person on CNN id Lou Dobbs, no one else!!!, the rest is a bunch of scavangers!!!
I can not believe that I was a democrat, after what they did to Hillary, now they are continuing the same on Palin with a hudge help from Media again!!!But now we know who DNC with Pelosi and Dean as bosses. This is a total failure of DNC!!!They just help US -Independence to make up OUR mines and We will fallow(most) Palin and McCain!It is time for WOMAN do just as I will do…Palin was great and She will take “a NO” for answer, I wish Hillary could speak as Palin did!!!
Palin will not take a “NO”for answer, that is what I thought…
Republicans lie to pollsters, too. Give the enemy the information you want him to believe, especially when it’s a far left, pandering liar like Obama. He will adopt you position, if the polls look favorable. So keep him on his message by keeping him in the dark. Let him get over-confident, so he has no idea what’s in store for him in November.
My favorite was Fox doing basically the same poll only you had to text message your vote. Gee, I wonder who responded to that?
Why do they even pretend?
Any word on Joe Biden’s daughter getting arrested?
Is Joe’s daughter pregnant? No? Then it’s not important.
Signed MSM/Corporate media.
LOL
omg…LOL
He’s problably drunk on campaign trail again, so he wouldn’t comprehend anything about his daughter.
Oops, Obama got in bed with a rich thug again. When will he learn?
This interview is not recent. Any idea how this was discovered right now and by whom?
OMG. Rudy Gulliani is cleaning the OBAMAS clock tonight
I thought his speech sounded really mean-spirited. Palin did a much better job of sticking to Obama because she came across as resolute while Rudy came across as a smart-ass. In my opinion.
I really liked it when Palin made the crack about being a mayor of a small town being kind of like being a community organizer. I am so tired of the condescending attitude of so many in Washington to people from flyover land. I am still convinced that that was why the DC insiders hated Bill Clinton. He was a hick. And Jimmy Carter was just an ol’ peanut farmer. What a bunch of snots!
I think my most favorite moment of the night was when Andrea Mitchell asked Rudy what he thought of her speech and pointed out that he is a professional speaker. Palin made him look like an amateur. For example when the crowd got excited he didn’t just pause and let them, he made awkward statements. She had much better timing and delivery.
Bernay…
Rudy’s speech was supposed to be mean spirited. The whole thing was set that way in what seems, to my memory of previous Conventions on both sides, like the normal way of it.
Before the main act, you bring out someone who you relate to whose opinion you appreciate who can chew on as much Opposition ass as he likes, and cut him loose.
I cannot say that exposing the shortcomings of a person whose first thought of scruples is whether or not the euro had replaced them, who is a proven liar (and that, sadly, is one of his lesser shortcomings) really counts as mean spirited.
By his being the bad cop, Sarah can come in, say her piece and defend herself, and then turn on the good cop at the end. Its a nice play but not uncommon.
I seem to remember Ronald Reagan stepping into Rudy’s role once… The Great Communicator killed that night.
This was solid by Rudy but he didn’t steal any thunder from the ‘Cuda.
To quote Samuel Morse, “·– ···· ·- - ···· ·- - ···· –· — -·· ·– ·-· — ··- –· ···· - ··–·· “
Rudy is a smart ass that is why we love him. LOL
However Sarah is an Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove. She has such polish and poise and she is so smooth until the punch connects, whoa!!!!
I am so proud of Governor Palin. It gives hope to my daughters (21 & 10)I never thought in my life that the GOP would have such a together woman on a national ticket.
Thank-you Congresswoman Ferraro and Thank-you Hillary Clinton.
Go SARAH!
I never thought as a proud feminist and liberal that I would feel the same way. Although I don’t agree with the rnc platform I do believe the presidency can trancends party politics. It’s good to have a balance of power, we see the arrogance on both sides when one party gets to much power. I think both McCain and Palen will be able to work with a dnc congress and avoid gridlock while at the same time giving some oversight. They both have passion and as a woman you have to respect for both her intelligence and grit although I do wish it was Hillary making the history. We truly need a third party.
for the first time I watch Gulliani speach , and He was great, and this is not over. Republicans are getting united, Democratic Party is going down and Obama will be fighting for “HIS POLITICAL LIFE” He will be uncover all the way,. After McCain speach tonight it will start for the real campain. They will not lay down as poor Hillary did, and will get what they deserve. I mean those Obamas supporters. Over 30% of Hillarys fans are behind McCain, and it is not over Yet!!. If Obama choose Hillary for VP, it will be a different story, but His false EAGLE , hate toward woman, whites,other color people and for sure Spanish, will!FISA…abortion flip-flaps and more and more…..
Do I hate Obama,??? NO!!! but I dont trust Him at all, and I hate His lies,his hate toward woman, Middle Class, ordinary people,dirty pass, and empty speaches. He full US all!!!
I wonder who teach HIM to be so naive and so hateful??? Mr.Wright and more!!!
It all has to do with his mother, who Rev Manning referred to as a w***e. Who abandoned and dumped him with grandparents. BTW-so did his Muslim Kenyan father. Than he was mentored for over twenty yrs, using Soetoro’s wording his “Uncle Frank.” A confirmed Marxist and bisexual. He is a confused man-as he stated in his book. Scary, we don’t need this in the W/H.
Rudy crushed obama.
Blood Ties
Barack HUSSEIN Obama jr.s’ paternal side is eighty percent Arab. He is tied by blood to the Islamic cause.
“New evidence has emerged that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was closely associated as early as age 25 to a key adviser (Khalid al-Mansour a.k.a. Don Warden) to a Saudi billionaire who had mentored the founding members of the Black Panthers.”
Guess that is why it was so natural for Michelle to do the Black Power punch on stage ….. the signs are always there. Praise to the New Yorker for caputuring it so well.
absolutely great catch…
The New Black Panthers claim that when Obama is elected they will change America the Melting Pot to a Molten America. They DID have a place on Obama’s official web site. Do they now? Don’t know I stay away from trashy places.
Make you run right out and vote for Barry Zero right?
OT but it will hit here and elsewhere soon enough
The National Enquirer claim that unnamed sources say Sarah Palin had an affair with her husbands ex partner. They say they were right about Edwards so we should believe them now.
I say this MONEY will buy you a lot of votes and a lot of liars.
I don’t believe it…
maq — And the media is heading over to Alaska to get the dirt on Palin. After all as they say — Obama is a known figure. He has been running for President for quite some time. No matter that he was never vetted at all. The media doesn’t want to vet Obama in Rudy’s opinion — They want him to win.
Gulliani is not running for President anymore, so what ever Obama will say about Gulliani we allready know.
Wast time for Obama. Someone call for Obama to get clean, but it is impossible, He is not clean, we know some of, can You imagine, the whole dirt witch i hidden under very tick skin, protected by Rezko, Ayers,Media and more…???
and more is coming!
Obama is paying for what He did to Hillary,Bill and US…it is about time.
I want to have Democratic President and my choice is Hillary. DNC screw up Hillary, and it will be a sad day for DNC,CNN,MoveON,Progressive Radio with ; ED SHULTZ,Randy Rhode. Randy call Hillary and Geraldino, a hore. Anderson Cooper 360 spend His own time campaining for Obama.
GOD is FAIRGREAT FRIEND OF THOSE WHO ARE GOOD AND HONEST and YES I pray, that one day Hillary will get to the top all the way!!! to clean this worm-eaten DNC and Democratic Party.And I will come back if all those who betray Hillary (Richardson,Reich,Dodd,Pelosi,Reid and others will be gone . For their own richnes,power,for their lies in 2006 election, for their rotten political life must be thrown from DP!!!
Check this out–you Jews are a bunch of land grabbing thieves
Why should that be considered an insult? How do you think those 50 stars came to be on our flag?
se
Wow, our founding fathers were Jewish?
se, you are promoting antisemitic smears…
se would feel right at home at Wright’s church.
would feel right at home at Wright’s church.
Nah. I’m an atheist.
Are you an American? If so, how can you be so ignorant of this country’s history?
se
Or at this website.
Wow, our founding fathers were Jewish?
se, you are promoting antisemitic smears…
Say what?
I was asking how “land grabbing thieves” could be considered an insult to any American.
What’s that to do with anti-Semitism?
se
Yea and you are trying to divert this post away from Barry and his dark side. No pun intended. No racism intended either.
Where you quoting someone when you said “you Jews are a bunch of land grubbing thieves?”
1. If quoting someone else, please make it apparent so the statement will not be attributed to you.
2. I think most would consider that statement antisemitic.
Yeah, that was really Moishe Epstein crossing the Delaware.
you should live long enough to see such ice on the rivvah!
LMFAO!
They want tax for tea?!! POISON I give them.
Hiam Solomon.
When you look at Obama’s friends and supporters from the last 25 years or so has been scum to put it nicely.
A grab bag of America haters, racists, communists, ex-terrorists, a slum lord, arms merchant, socialists and Chicago political thugs.
This guy is a shit magnet.
And the Democrats threw Hillary aside for this long legged mack daddy of the axis of evil.
Hillary and are his supporters now. Along with the vast majority of Clinton aides and voters.
WOW! this is good. Did you see Palin’s little daughter waving. hahaha. That was adorable. The part about being an advocate for families of special needs was heartwarming.
She’s a great speaker. She’s NOTHING like what the media has been trying to portray her.
Yeah, but the irony is that dumb ass commentators are saying things like, “she delivered a prepared speech… how will she do in an unscripted environment?” I kid you not…
AT lease as well as uh uh uh Obama
Yeah, but the irony is that dumb ass commentators are saying things like, “she delivered a prepared speech… how will she do in an unscripted environment?” I kid you no
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That’s a valid question. She did give a prepared speech she had practiced and practiced giving and did an excellent job. She may kick ass in unscripted moments but it is a valid question until we see her in unscripted moments and answering media questions.
I can flat guarantee that Governor Palin spent less time prepping for her speech than the anointed one.
He paracticed and practiced and choreoraphed and rewrote and then had professional writers cut up to an hour out of it (thanks God).
Mrs Palin had from last Thursday to make campaign stops as the writers scrambled to write a speech for her. SHE helped make tweaks and tended to her kids. And she Rocked the house FOR REAL.
And when the lights come up today she is a who lot stonger. ANd Obama looks a whole lot less presidential.
joy…
as for the prepared speech it has come to our attention that Gov Palin co-wrote it, and continued to rework it for most of the day yesterday.
i think she’s going to dish out some pretty good whup ass in a debate with biden
then of course, Mac will clean the stuttering barack’s clock in debate as well.
dems are toast. couldn’t happen to a lovelier group of elites and crooks.
I believe, that most of Democrats are scare as I am as ex -democrat, because they love their Party, but they hate current DNC and are scare as most of US are. They were lied and use in ugliest way as can be , for Obamas goods, not for them. Power hungry Democrats??? use those ordinary and hard working Democrats and even Republicans, as dirty way as possible, and I just hope, that they will (those real Democrats) put their contry first, and next, it will be time to clean their Party from people like Dean,Richardson,Pelosi, who betray them as they betray Hillary and Bill, who truly care about Middle Class, Unions,Health Care,jobs for all, not only Democrats.Black People betray them so badly, and choose someone, because of their skin color especjally, and Obama is not just black, but He is Mulatte. How sad this is, how they believe someone, who dont care about them in first place, who they dont know. How sad it is, that those young and naive people fallow someone, who they dont know. This is a crime, that could not be punish by LAW, but people could punish by not supporthing those, who commited …
There are plenty of interviews of her already as Governor of Alaska. I have not heard her utter nearly the number of umms, ahs, and other filler sounds that Obama uses to give him thinking time so he can carefully phrase his non-answer answer. He rarely gives the listener a clear idea of what he just said.
In just one speach, Sarah Palin make more sense, then Obama and Biden in 17 months combine. Just in ONE SPEACH. Now , there is news about Biden doughter.
I like Joe, but I dont understand , why Man like Biden can take job as VP , after most of His supporters-senators turn Him down. Look at those who are around Obama, take a good look.
How Joe can fallow someone, who d.ont have respect for anyone, but Himself. Can He hear, that in all those big speaches in front of thousand of His supporters, those supporters are not screaming “USA”, but “OBAMA”and “OBAMA” only. Dont this is telling You, whoi is first for Him, is Himself, not THE USA!!!He loves to hear those screems “OBAMA”. Yes, what kind of patriot He is, if that is all He wants to hear”OBAMA”, not “USA”. FLAG PIN, NO HAND ON HIS HEART WHEN PLAY NATIONAL ANTHEM . Now He start all this, because He need OUR votes. Sory, but not sorry, and is way to late!!!
so , for Media Obama friendly,NOW this is excuse for attacking Palin???, who are those bosses in Media, that are letting to do a such stupid comments. Dont they know, that we listen this shit for 17 months, and NOW they can only fool Obamas fans!!! Hillary told US; empty Obamas speaches” but not to many of US listen then. We were listening Media, and now enough is enough. Keep hands of woman like Geraldino,Hillary,Sarah and more. Keep hands from those, who put USA first before their own eagle like OBAMA!!! He sell US to Fisa, G
He told US, what we want to Hear, not what we should, and WE learn OUR lesson. Hillary,Geraldino,Sarah are right. Now WE need man to fallow those great woman, and we will have OUR great country were belongs, ON TOP OF THE EARTH, as example to other money and power hungry liars and players , who only care about, their only selfs.
Sarah,Hillary,Bill,Geraldino teach US to listen, and use common sense, and we are doing just that!!!
leisa — the media never reminded people that Obama takes his speech writer to all his events in case he needs to change a word of his speech. He also has his teleprompter handy. The man cannot open his mouth without a teleprompter. Otherwise we hear things like this country has 57 states.
Palin co-wrote her speech which is more than the Manchurian Candidate could do.
The ‘advocate for families of special needs’ was, I thought, just pandering to the families who have kids posting over at Daily KOS. No?
lol, uh yes, they would definitely qualify as “special needs”…..
They need CHEETOS, Kleenex and lube.
Good comment lol! And they looked a bit like some of the mob (aka Anarchists) creating havoc outside the Convention. They were pepper sprayed as was Donna Brazille - was she one of the ‘Anarchists’ also? Or was she just walking on by?
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The ‘advocate for families of special needs’ was, I thought, just pandering to the families who have kids posting over at Daily KOS
Percy Sutton;”A Weekend at Bernies” the guy did not blink for 30 seconds.
Percy Sutton has a storied past, an Interesting person. Who was that wealthy man?
Khalid al Mansour; Does he have any connections to Auchi’s micro-lending bank that Auchi open in the last year in Nigera?
(it might not be Nigeria Sudan?, need my notes)
(NewsMax link)
What is Ayers relationship and past with Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour?
Columbia U was quite the spot for meeting seedy intellectuals.
Mr Johnson, It is not weather the shoe will drop it is the size of the foot that is in it.
tick tick tick tick tick tick…..
>>> Mr Johnson, It is not weather the shoe will drop it is the size of the foot that is in it.
And, the Burning Question becomes: will anyone have the will to stick that foot up Hope-a-Dope’s ass.
The RNC boo chorus is jevenile and they are losing listeners for that reason. Very poor use of political theater.
Whoever wanted Palin to pause for staged boos needs to take a back seat. It is diminishing her potential message for reform.
hey mr murder, stop being a old fogie. she needed to clean their clocks and dang after the performance by bambi and company, as an independent who used to lean democratic i booed right here at home. i am sick of their bull.
After that fake roll call vote at the DNC conventions I was seriously throwing the bird at Pelosi while she was on the TV…
Those weren’t staged boos, and btw the Dems booed, too. But Republicans enjoy it more. Divisive politics are fun; it’s called healthy competition.
The Republicans were very gracious congratulating Obama on his historic candidacy. They made it clear it was nothing personal; he’s just your typical snobbish tax-and-spend big city liberal.
Obama could not be as classy. He started complaining about Sarah Palin’s speechwriters - for the record, he has had Bush speechwriters working for him from the beginning of his campaign - and he is interviewing with Bill O’Reilly while McCain accepts his nomination.
Mr.Murder… You are on wrong blog, but if You like US to support Your opinion , You are dreaming. We have enough of people loke You!!!
As for Obama advisors, he best keep his mouth shut or a bone from another closet skeleton’s foot will pop out of it.
Can you believe the audacity of McCain’s pick of Palin? Biden looks like politics as usual, while the Repub ticket looks fresh and energized. Jeez, I’m a life-long Democrat writing this too. sigh I sure hope Obambi gets disqualified soon for being born outside of the U.S. Otherwise I’ll suck it up and vote McCain.
Rudy was right:
McCain was looking to the future when he made his selection.
Obama was looking to the past. Joe Biden represents the worst of intrenched partisan politics.
I think all women can be proud to support Sarah.
Larry, you’re pathetic. Seriously dude, you’re a loser. Even your blog is lame now. Barack mopped the floor with you and your lies.
You stupid, stupid bitch.
Whassa matter pookie? Are you a sore Obamabot?
awwwwww poor obambot, watched his leader getting SPANKED!
He’s only upset because he’s not getting spanked by Barry (or giving Barry the spanking).
ROTFLMAO!!
His butt’s sore just from watching Barry’s get kicked.
dang i love the fear of smell on the obambies!
Poor bot with his underoos in a knot.
Love the smell of scared-shitless Obamabots! Your “messiah” is going down, Obamabots!
Larry Johnson, many thanks for a very interesting blog, and thanks as well for letting all types post (including obots!). My first post here in your arena!
OSBAMA is a real danger to our country. You who post here make feel that even with our differences, thos of us with good will can work well together when necessary to make America more secure (Job #1).
Gov. Palin energizes me as a Republican and yet does not scare me as a guy with Libertarian leanings.
McCain/Palin 2008
And if it is Palin vs. Hillary in 2012, may the best woman win!
Republitarian-No-Troll As a Hill Dem I welcome you to this blog. The only good thing Obama did in this election was to bring Democrats and Republicans who loves this country together.
McCain/Palin 08
PUMA
dude??? There’s that word again.
Hey Casey that “notion” again?
Stupid?
You just left your IP on a blog run by a former CIA intelligence officer.
Dude.
Smoke another one.
really representin’ for woman-hating obamacrats, aren’t you? why didn’t you call larry a stupid n—-r? [EDITED BY ADMINISTRATOR] you know, just as a cute, funny insult, like the way you guys throw the b-word around.
well, we have some leftover from Obamas cam here, and how we know this, just this dirty remarcs, . By by leftover…
You are judged by the company you keep!!
Not only shouldn’t Obama be our President, he should not be allowed to hold ANY United States government position.
THROW OBAMA OUT!!
Khalid Al Mansour - this dude isn’t in a mental asylum? How did government screw that up? lolz
Looks like we have a vetting problem!
Seattle Moss — However, we are assured by AOL this morning that no matter how good her speech was the crack media and punditry are landing in Alaska to dig up the dirt. It makes my head explode.
Obama won’t talk about his years in New York, or how he supported himself. did al-Mansour pay for Columbia College? Did al-Mansour pay for Harvard? Although Sutton does not specify a date in the video, this would likely have been in 1988 when the 27-year-old Obama was applying to Harvard Law. Two years later, while still a law student, Obama improbably received an advance to write a memoir that would be called “Dreams From My Father” which finally was published in 1995. Some people are suspicious about the theory that publishers had sought out Obama, still an unknown, with contract in hand. Why would a publisher pay an unknown writer a hefty advance? And if ghostwritten, would his publisher have invested the fee needed to rescue the project after four years of amateurish dithering, a dithering that also included an extended stay for Barack and Michelle on Bali? The whole book story smells of purposeful intervention by someone, like al-Mansour.
definitely doesn’t pass the smell test. talk about unvetted; jeezus christ, and he’s the PRESIDENTIAL nominee, not just the vp nom.
I had not heard that– it is bullshit to the nth degree. I’m a professional writer and I can tell you there is no harder nut to crack than a book deal. The famous best sellers you hear about are nearly all done with inside deals of some sort. Got a story about sharks? Jeez guy. So do 500 other people. Oh. You married the boss’ daughter. Instant bestseller. Someone with some investigative chops needs to get on this one. There is there there.
Now this makes alot sense. It does explain everything? But the question now is when is someone going to do thing about all this. Because even if I vote for McCain. What real difference is that going to make if Obama friends also already bought the voting machines?
Larry Johnson,
You need to give me credit. I sent this to you when I saw it. Give me my props.
From TI (soon to be convicted felon), “Bring em out, Bring em out”
LOL!
PUMA 2008!
Props from me ok?
this one?
http://townhall.com/blog/g/c2df500d-0189-47d8-a454-54de9f6584c3
Wish I could scrape it before it is scrubbed.
I wrote about it here 2 or 3 days ago. But who cares? Good job Larry. We are all in this together, America first.
[...] September 3, 2008 Another SoetorObama connection is about to become public knowledge: Khalid al-Mansour Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized Check these out, via NoQuarterUSA.net [...]
WAS JOE BIDEN VETTED?
#1.Ashley Blazer Biden,the daughter of Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of obstructing a police officer outside a Chicago bar in 2002.
#2.A son and a brother of Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) are accused in two lawsuits of defrauding a former business partner and an investor of millions of dollars in a hedge fund deal that went sour, court records show.
The Democratic vice presidential candidate’s son Hunter, 38, and brother James, 59, assert instead that their former partner defrauded them by misrepresenting his experience in the hedge fund industry and recommending that they hire a lawyer with felony convictions.
The legal actions have been playing out in New York State Supreme Court since 2007, and they focus on Hunter and James Biden’s involvement in Paradigm Companies LLC, a hedge fund group. Hunter Biden, a Washington lobbyist, briefly served as president of the firm.
A lawsuit filed by their former partner Anthony Lotito Jr. asserts in court papers that the deal was crafted to get Hunter Biden out of lobbying because his father was concerned about the impact it would have on his bid for the White House. Biden was running for the Democratic nomination at the time the suit was filed.
Hunter Biden was made president with an annual salary of $1.2 million, despite his inexperience in the hedge fund industry, the lawsuit said. Before that, he had been part of the Washington law firm Oldaker, Biden & Belair, which earned $1.76 million in lobbying revenue in the first half of 2006, according to Congressional Quarterly’s CQ MoneyLine. One of its biggest clients is the National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys, a District-based group representing law firms specializing in investment and corporate law.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...
SO WHY NO PRESS COVERAGE? TOO BUSY COVERING 22YR.OLD DUI’S?
Another twilight zone moment..
This is the first republican convention that I have watched all the way through and loved it.
Did I mention that I skipped my former party’s convention..What a shame!!
Dean…Your going down!!
I hope you remember how to be a doctor!
that was the first Republican convention I watched all the way through as well. I didn’t go near the DNC.
Dean the mad Dr….someone warn Vermont….
seattle moss — This is the first Republican Convention that I ever watched at all. Like you I didn’t watch the Democrats — Its sad they turned into a cult. They all have the same dead eyes now when they speak of UNITY.
I was pleasantly surprised that its the Repubs which appear to be the mavericks now. I loved Palin and McCain is a genuine hero.
Gosh, the old man, Mr. Sutton, was so feeble and slow, I had to look to see if my computer had frozen up there were so many delays between his statements.
Weekend at Bernies eh?
This pathetic nutjob al-Mansour sits on numerous corporate boards? And I am unemployed? Where did I go wrong?
you didn’t
No..You didnt..but the Leadership at the Democrat Party did…Promoting and putting up a candidate for President of the United States who has the Reputation of being the Most Liberal ..and Inexperienced Candidate for President in 100 years..
Senator Barack Obama..The Son of Chicago..
They supported His Candicacy KNOWING that He spent Much of His Adult Life..Befriending and associating with a KNOWN…Self Confessed TERRORIST and BOMBER
who attacked United States Government Institutions..WILLIAM AYERS..Who Regrets that he didn’t do more in the way of Terrorist Acts..inside the United states..
The democrat leadership did this..after the TERRORIST attacks of 9/11..KNOWING taht thier Candidate BARACK OBAMA had a long Personal relationship with William Ayers…The TERRORIST who was FILMED Stomping on the Flag of the United States..
Thier Candidate, Barack Obama has other Associates who are known for thier Anti American Rants..Like His Mentor and Pastor…Jeremiah Wright..and a Convicted Criminal TONY REZKO…
WHY does the Main Stream Amrican Media Ignore that..?? Because OBAMA”S known Terrorist friend and Bomber is a CAUCASIAN..or an American and Not a Saudi or a Muslim..?? What is the Difference…Obamas Friend William Ayers attacked some of the same Places the 9/11 Terrorists did..Whats the Difference..??
Would the News media ignore Obamas terrorist Association if Ayers was an Arab and a Muslim..
An American Government HATING Terrorist and BOMBER..is still a TERRORIST..There is No Difference between OSMA….AlQuada ..The 9/11 Terrorists and Obamas Friend and Associate WILLIAM AYERS..
How can they Promote Obama for President of the United States..and Commander in Chief..??
How can someone like that even get a Security Clearance..??
I am a lifelong Democrat..BUT ..I will never Vote for any candidate..of any party who has spent most of his adult life associating with a known Terrorist
like William Ayers..Knowing He attacked United States Government Institutions..and associated with other known Anti American Terrorist Groups..
To me..There no longer is a DEMOCRAT Party..that party has been Hijacked..
Larry Johnson is right to make an Issue out of Barack Obama and Bill Ayers..The TERRORIST..
Shame on ther Main Stream American News Media..for NOT making that anh ISSUE..
DISGUSTING ..and a BETRAYAL..
but.. but… Palin’s daughter is pregnant…
This world needs more pretty babies. Good for her!
We also know of his support of the Muslims after 9/11. We know what the court documents from The Muslim Brotherhood trial said. That memo said they will “destroy America from the inside.”
In Denver the DNC gives a standing ovation to a member of the Brotherhood Muslims. An invitation from Barry Soetoro citizen of the world.
Ordinary typical Americans agree with what that Israeli writer said…regarding Obama..
“We know who you are and who your friends are”
McCain/Palin 2008
DEAR AMERICANS,
LET STICK TOGETHER AS ONE STRONG ARMY TO DEFEAT THE EVIL DESTRUCTIVE MACHINE OF THE LEFTIST LIBERAL MEDIA WHO ARE TRYING TO DICTATE THEIR VIEWS TO THE REST OF US.LET’S TELL THEM THAT THEY ARE VOMITTED
What I want to know is why nut job al-Mansour was raising money for Obummer to go to Harvard? Al-Mansour is an adviser to the Saudi royal family and was raising money for Obummer’s education? Now is this not something we should know more about?
Obummer is really the most mysterious political candidate I have ever seen.
Things are never as they seem.
The FBI always say that when they talk about counterterrorism and those who are “agents of other governments” and are basically in a covert status…which means that what you see is NOT what you will get.
Those FBI agents know their stuff. I am sure there is a large dossier on BHO in CIA files as well as FBI files, but obviously, it will be the citizens and electorate and the good people of the US who will have to keep a “covert operative” from gaining access and control of the WHouse.
people, are you up to it?
What happened to the student loans?
HARP — Student loans Baraky don’t need no stinkin student loans — he’s got friends in high places.
yes, he does seem to have far more than the “normal” amount of associtions with radical muslims.
Nice Job Governor Palin.
A disability advocate in the White House (about time)
Why don’t Gloria Alred file a lawsuit against the DNC for the corruption at the Denver DNC convention?
…because the DNC is a private club and not a governmental actor. This is why the DNC’s decision to ignore votes didn’t trigger either lawsuits or government intervention. Get it? However, voters in every state enacted laws entitling the name of the nominee of the Democratic Party, as chosen at its nominating convention, to be placed on the general election ballot. And these laws can be revoked. (After all, we don’t automatically print the name of the Libertarian or Green Party candidate on the ballot.)
Obama and his amazing technicolor O-bots (a reference to Jesus Christ Superstar, not the color of his skin, *tsk, tsk*) all claim Obama to be some great and brilliant Harvard Law School Journal editor, who managed the impressive feat of graduating magna cum laude. (Of course, only summa cum laude is a higher achievement.)
Bullshit!
1. Obama never published an article which was customary to the journal’s editors. It takes real brain power to publish a technical article in that most prestigious of student journals.
2. Obama’s predecessor (preceding editor, a conservative Asian guy if I recall correctly) has openly hinted Obama got the job out of a kind of “affirmative action”. Whatever the case, it was certainly by an early and peculiar form of “operation chaos” by the rightwing students of the law school. That is, there were two major candidates for the job, both were white. At the last minute, the conservatives knew they were gonna lose, so they threw their support behind the seemingly likeable “black guy”, i.e. a tolken vote. The liberal white guy who lost was actually more fiery and outspoken than Obama–by a mile, and then some.
In the past, prior to Obama’s arrival at Harvard, the editorship of the student law journal generally went to the student with the highest grades. This was not the case by the time of Obama’s tenure.
3. Obama got B’s in high school and won’t release his grades from Columbia. Nor will he release his grades from Occidental College. There’s only one reason why Obama won’t release his grades from Columbia and Occidental: It means he got into Harvard (and Columbia) on Affirmative Action. Recall also that Obama Sr. also went to Harvard, which Means Obama Jr. is also a legacy. An underrepresented minority and a legacy–that’s two HUGE advantages!
4. While it is true that Harvard Law School grades its papers “blind” (where names are not put on the test itself, but rather on numbered envelopes containing the correspondingly numbered tests which the instructor supposedly grades the test not knowing the identity of the student), this does not necessarily mean Obama actually earned the magna cum laude graduating status he was given.
a. The Ivy League, including Harvard, is notorious for inflating grades.
b. All grad schools in general perform grade inflation. A “C” in most grad schools is realy an “F”.
c. Imagine what it would be happen to Harvard Law School’s lofty street cred if their student journal editor, who was traditionally the top scholar did not graduate magna cum laude?!?
IT IS SIMPLY NOT AN OPTION.
EVEN A MORE MODEST BUT RESPECTABLE CUM LAUDE GRADUATION STATUS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR THE GUY WHO IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE LAW SCHOOL’S TOP DOG.
5. As a “civil rights attorney” Obama never argued a single case. He worked full time for 4 years and another 4 years part time where he basically did the work of a 1st for 2nd year junior lawyer. That is, he did bureaucratic paperwork requiring the minimum of legal expertise and experience. Hillary, on the other hand, was voted one of the top 50 lawyers in the country, participating in the Watergate hearings, and numerous cases on the civil rights of women and children.
6. Obama has told so many whoppers where he brazenly pads his resume. One such instance surrounds his repeated claims of being a University of Chicago law professor. BULLSHIT. Obama is technically a law professor, but in reality, he was nothing more than a lowly teaching instructor. There’s a HUGE difference in power, salary, perks, intellectual prowess, intellectual achievement, etc., between a mere teaching instructor and a full tenured professor at any university, much less that of the lofty Univ. of Chicago.
Take the above points in their collective totality, and one simply canNOT possibly believe Obama actually graduated “magna cum laude” without actually seeing his graded papers. Put is this way: There’s no way in HELL all the other editors who preceded or those who followed Obama were so utterly UNaccomplished w.r.t. legal and intellectual accomplishments. NO WAY. Such accomplished people go on to have stellar legal carreers, whether they enter politics or not.
Obama’s achievements are purely in politics, namely ruthless politics (vis-a-vis the brutal backstabbing of Alice Palmer) and divisive race-baiting (vis-a-vis Hillary). He also beat Alan “Uncle Tom” Keys, who’s one of the biggest jokes in American politics. Not much to brag about, if you think about it.
His other big achievement is his two national best autobiographical sellers, which were really just both works of self-glorifying fiction rather than fact. But writing such works requires the talent of a Hollywood screenwriter and nothing more. He is no Faulkner. He is no Toni Morrison.
P.S. I’m was pro-Affirmative Action. I still am pro-Affirmative Action. I will always be pro-Affirmative Action. After all, white women are the biggest beneficiaries of Affirmative Action, despite the ever present glass ceiling that hangs over them, as it does for most minority groups. Of course, women benefit from Affirmative Action in the sense of justice, rather than quotas; this can easily be seen in the fundamental fact that women achieve higher grades than men in both high school and college.
If Affirmative Action was taken away there would be rampant racism and sexism within both the work place, college admissions, government contracts, etc.
Whites, in particular white males, who fret over Affirmative Action are just stupid. Really stupid. Royally stupid. Such morons should not be worried about a few blacks and Hispanics who supposedly “steal” their jobs or positions at elite schools and so on, because the real threat to them comes from the bottomless pits of cheap labor, namely China (manufacturing jobs), India (high tech, H-1B visas), and Mexico (illegals). Women who achieve higher grades, and in particular native born minorities are truly the least of their concerns.
The GOP of course always run, i.e. race-baits, on the Affirmative Action issue, gets into power, and then sends jobs overseas.
But then again, Obama out-race-baits the GOP, and then some.
The issue of Affirmative Action is important w.r.t. Obama because:
i. I’m adamantly pro-Affirmative Action–but not for the presidency of the United States. Who the hell would be?
ii. Obama and his wife repeatedly played the race card, often hinting that the Clinton camp, Geraldine Ferraro was alluding to it.
iii. Obama and his O-bots keep repeating the mantra about how he’s the super “brilliant” former Harvard Law Journal editor.
iv. Obama ruthlessly defeated an eminently more qualified woman by his incessant race-baiting, gender-baiting, as well as character assassination.
All of this makes Affirmative Action a profoundly relevant issue.
good info; i think obama’s been milking affirm.action for a long time. no doubt that’s why he doesn’t want his grades released.
Obama got a pass through every aspect of his life.
Whats remarkable about his story is how utterly unremarkable of a man he actully is.
That’s perhaps the most insightful observation of Barack Obama ever to be put out, JeremiahGDAkkkW.
You’ve hit it spot on. Obama is truly unremarkable.
You could only control the unremarkable guys. Sarah Palin is not controllable–thank God.
The death toll of black Africans due to the Muslim-controlled slave trade is 120 Million.
no doubt; black americans are truly clueless when they embrace islam, like it’s a religion of justice and equality. heck, some arab countries just gave up slavery in the latter half of the 20th century.
Some Arab countries, and other third world countries have and sell slaves. Human trafficking is still out there. This affects mostly women and children from impoverished areas in the world.
i watched a so called journalist(actually a bot) try and get in newt’s face about obama and palin. newt asked him just what has obama ever done. come on, tell me. that guy ran so fast, his shoes burned rubber.
And the hits just keep on coming! I for one do not believe Obama graduated Harvard magna cum laude anything, I think this is another one of rhis hyped fictional stories about himself.
We need to defeat Obama in November for certain! We need to ruin him so he can never play pretend politics or potus again! Send him back to Chicago where Obama can get some serious therapy by a well qualified therapist! as long as said therapist puts on her BS filter!
IF THERE IS A PLACE WE CAN SEND OBAMA TO GET A THERAPY,WHERE ARE WE GOING TO SEND HIS SUPPORTERS WHO ARE SO DRUNK WITH HIS KOOL-AID?
They will just have to get over it.
If not, they can walk backwards 30 feet, turn and run forward at full speed, leap in the air, perform a triple flip with 1.5 twists and disappear up their own asses.
omg….LOL
“I for one do not believe Obama graduated Harvard magna cum laude anything, I think this is another one of rhis hyped fictional stories about himself.”
Actually, graduating Magna cum laude from Harvard Law is the one thing I do believe about Senator Obama’s background. I have a j.d., cum laude and one thing I learned in law school, the only way to upgrade it to magna cum laude is to possess two skills: backstabbing and brown nosing. Senator Obama excels with both skills.
but he did take the cracksmoking 101 class in the back of a limo. I here he completed that class magna cum larry.
There is even talk that he went to Larry’s hotel for a refresher the next day.
omg! How do you think of these things so early in the day? (I’m west coast)
i didnt sleep last night. I got so pumped by Rudi and Palin’s speaches i have been reading every review commentary as it popped on the net from the media.
You are NOT RIGHT-ROTFLMAO!!
Oh, it was LAUDE alright, Jeremiah. LO LAUDE.
Just because BO graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude doesn’t mean he had a high GPA. It just means that after subtracting the students who graduated summa cum laude, of the remaining students, he graduated in the top 10% of his class. Theoretically, he could have had a C average. http://www.law.harvard.edu/ocs/employers/HLS_Grading_System.htm
And Harvard has a well-documented history of inflating grades.
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&q=boston+globe+harvard+inflates+grades&as_ldate=2001&as_hdate=2001&um=1&scoring=t&sa=X&oi=archive&ct=title
(My ‘blue collar’ law school had no grades, just pass/fail; but our bar passage rate in the state was second only to Harvard.)
I don’t thing Patrick Fitzgerald is licensed in psychotherapy.
navyvet 48 — maybe this is why Obama never had one friend speak up for him at his convention. They all knew Obama was a nothing.
roflmao “shit magnet”
I’m still trying to figure out if Khalid Al-Mansour the preacher is the same as Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour, the international attorney, businessman, author, teacher and advisors to Saudi princes. In my googling, I found this:
A press release for La Gray Chemical Company (founded by two Chicago chemists, the company manufactures AIDS, Malaria and hypertension drugs in Ghana for African nations) describes Al-Mansour as: “Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour, a widely respected expert, author and speaker on, among other topics, Africa’s economic challenges. Al-Mansour advises an African economic development organization called New Partnerships for African Development. He also directs an initiative that seeks out Africans and African-Americans who are entrepreneurially inclined and committed to the continent. At no cost to Graham and Lartey, Al-Mansour has thrown his full support behind LaGray, and is rallying friends — including Fortune 500 ceos and Shaquille O’Neal — to gift financial support to the company.”
This Al-Mansour is known to raise money for his pet projects, it’s possible in the late 80’s, Senator Obama became one of his pet projects. Would the nutty preacher in the above video have Fortune 500 CEOs as friends, sit on boards with Carly Fiorina and organize Clinton White House tributes for the President of Ghana? Would the nutty preacher have the kind of friends who would write recommendations to Harvard Law for young men they’ve never met and invest money in a drug company?
There is a review of a speech given by a Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour in Capetown in 1990 where the writer Peter Hammond states: “As I attended their Wednesday, 24 October, rally in the Good Hope Centre, Cape Town, I was surprised by the extremism of Dr. Al-Mansour. Seldom has it been my misfortune to endure such a loud illogical stream of venom from a public speaker. Al-Mansour must have been an embarrassment to all sane Muslims. Not that Christians don’t have some similar fanatics disgracing our podiums with hysteria and unsubstantiated drivel. But this American Muslim (described as a Californian lawyer, banker, businessman and activist) went beyond all extremes in his outrageous statements.”
http://www.frontline.org.za/news/vol%202%201990/JihadAgainstChristianity.htm
While I’m having a difficult time wrapping my cute little head around the nutty preacher and the guy who is sitting on boards, soliciting funds for a chemical company, organizing White House tributes as the same person, it appears from this video of Khalid Tariq Al-Mansour discussing his book “The Birth and Death of Christianity”, they are:
http://tinyurl.com/5u8c7x
Okay, Al-Mansour is a Jekyll Hyde type. He rewrites the history of the world. Maybe he rewrote Senator Obama’s personal history too because he wants to do more in the White House than organize tributes for presidents from Ghana.
Scary.
I THINK WE CAN SPEND THE REST OF OUR LIFE TIME SOLVING THE OBAMA ENIGMA WITHOUT REACHING EFFECTIVE RESULTS BECAUSE THE LIST KEEPS GOING ON AND ON AND ON.HE IS IN HIS OWN WORLD.HE IS THE DARKNESS IN THE NIGHT;VERY VERY OBSCURE
There is a level of “Mandelbrottyness” to this that sometimes boggles isn’t there. Just when you think you’ve peeled that last layer off the onion, there’s another onion’s worth magically before you.
All we can do is keep the list fresh and hope the sheer weight of it crushes him.
And here’s another onion layer.
I decided to google Peter Hammond since everything else I’d read about Dr. Al-Mansour listed attributes that didn’t mesh with the videos of the nutty preacher Al-Mansour. Mr. Hammond is a South African controversial right-wing Christian who dislikes gays, lesbians, muslims, Halloween and a pro-gun lobbyist. Two years ago charges were brought against him for taking his children out on Halloween to shoot paint balls at Trick or Treaters. It seems Mr. Hammond doesn’t like pagan holidays or something.
Several years ago he was arrested in Sudan for gun running.
A few years ago he co-authored “The Pink Agenda: The Ruin of the Family.” The South Africa deemed the book was unsuitable for children under age 18 because it came close to hate speech.
http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=&id=569
From Mr. Hammond’s writings:
“Christians are not doomed to defeat, but called to victory. If God can actually change us, then He can use us to change some part of this world. Christians can change the course of human history by prayer and obedience to God. The Bible is full of example of believers “who through faith conquered kingdoms…” Hebrews 11:33 and recent history confirms the power of prayer (Here are some examples from The Power of Prayer Handbook):
Shortly after I was converted to Christ early in 1977, I remember a missionary from Overseas Missionary Fellowship urging us to pray for God to open the doors to Red China. Even as we prayed my heart was filled with unbelief - how could a Communist country like China ever be open to the Gospel again? Yet, we have seen Mao Tse Tung die, his little “Red Book” discredited and the doors to China have gradually opened since. Not that China is at all free - the brutal massacres of thousands of unarmed civilians in Peking’s Tianamen Square have shown that Communism is still in control in China.”
“Pray that the persecutors of the church may be exposed and opposed. Pray that the persecutors may be brought to repentance, or that they may be removed. Pray that the persecutors may fall into the traps that they have dug for others, that their declarations may come back to haunt them, and that their actions against God’s people be exposed, confounded and confused.”
Why is it the deeper I dig into Senator Obama, the more nutcase extremists I find? Mr. Hammond isn’t connected to Senator Obama other than through a six degree of separation thingy. But still, as we expose the Senator’s background, the more confounded and confused I become.
Is Dr. Al-Mansour the respected expert, author, speaker, attorney, etc. who hangs out with Fortune 500 CEOs and at the White House on even days and on odd days the nutty, extremist preacher who attracts other nutty extremists who denounce him? If he’s this Jekyll and Hyde, why would Sutton mention him? What am I missing here? Where’s the puzzle piece that fits?
Another nutcase extremist backing Senator Obama wouldn’t surprise me. One that has manipulated his rise to presidential candidate wouldn’t surprise me. But something isn’t meshing here for me. There’s something off here. Maybe it’s a great conspiracy to send us all off on a goose chase to prove we’re nuts so no one will take us seriously. But that’s not fitting here either. Did Sutton have the name wrong?
About the only thing I’m sure of is that as we try out different puzzle pieces, I’m going to be introduced to even more nutcase extremists that I didn’t know existed. I’m beginning to understand the phrase that ignorance is bliss. Unfortunately, the DNC has given us a candidate where we can’t afford the luxury of bliss.
Thanks for doing that research. I too am rather confused. The more I find out about Obama, the more murky the whole picture becomes.
What is amazing is that this mystery man has come so far with nobody really knowing anything about him. Will the Republicans clear things up for us soon?
The less I know about Obama, the better I sleep at night. No charismatic speech-givers funded by dirty money, thanks.
Like you I am troubled by the contradictions. You would think that Obama’s record would preclude him from POTUS. Yet, despite his questionable associates, he is backed by the power elite. Why?
there is nothing particularly mysterious or complex about Obama.
He is like a rubics cube that has had all the color stickers removed.
You can imaginte that its very complicated to solve or you can accept that no solving is neccessary since its
already done.
my my, but bambi sure has a load of trash he is trying to hide under his mattress. it will all come out and make the dim watts look like even bigger fools. shame!
Okay, so when is the long promised Whitey Tape going to appear? Or like magic are the Repubs so certain of the Palin speech they don’t need the Whitey Tape any more?
What time is it in Gaza, anyway? Three, four in the afternoon?
Why don’t you let that monitor cool down for awhile and go catch a grenade in your teeth?
LOL Zeke. When I’ve visited Muslim countries, there’s always something to keep you busy between prayers. You can beat the dirt out of your rugs, splash water in front of your doorstep, drink tea, wash your feet, stone a homosexual…
Not sure about Michelle’s whitey tape, but i have a white in my pants you can come look at.
Jeremiah Wright guaranteed Obama would lose.
William Ayers guaranteed Obama would not just lose, but be vilified and humiliated.
Khalid al-Mansour is guaranteeing that the rest of the democratic party is likely to pay a high price for being so stupid as to allow Obama to be the nominee.
But Palin…..Palin will make democrats happy they lost.
I could make a crass comment about how outclassed the republicans have the democrats. But, the truth is, the democrats have decided to betray our country and attempt to sell us out to evil muslim fascists. While the republicans have decided that they need to represent both their republican constituents AND those who normally vote democrat.
The DNC has had lots of problems since Clinton lost his mind during his second term and became so corrupt. But not until this year has it been so bad that the DNC wasn’t even a legitimate party anymore. Clinton lost more than the nomination. She lost the honor and viability of the party.
That’s a problem. And unless Clinton can take back control of the DNC and only if she chooses to reform it, we are looking at the dissolution of the democratic party over this.
LOL, that $70 million Ken Starr investigation says a lot more about Starr, the GOP, and the corporate media than it does about Bill Clinton.
And for you information, the Clinton Admin was one of the most honest, least corrupt, least indicted, least convicted admins of all time–certainly of last 100 years.
Hint: IKE, JFK, LBJ, FDR, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, etc. all had affairs. There are many sex scandal rumors about Reagan, Bush41, Bush43, McCain, etc. Harry Truman couldn’t run for his second full term because of a corruption scandal. Reagan wss trading arms for hostages, on top of supporting religious freedom fighters in Afghanistan against the Soviets. Ever heard of bin Laden? Or how about Nixon and Watergate?
Corruption was so much worse in the past than it is in modern times, than it is now. And repeat: The Clinton admin was one of the most honest of all time, contrary to corporate media mythology.
You’re obviously suffering from “out of sight is out of mind” disease.
P.S. To “liberal media” is nothing more than corporate media. To say the mainstream media is liberal is like saying MTV is liberal. No. They are simply wolves in sheeps clothing. When MTV started out, it was run by the kids. Kids love music and back then, MTV was about music. But then the “suits” took over and MTV quickly degenerated into a cesspoll of bleeped-out profanity and blurred-out nudity. Liberals fight for more openness and less censorship; the suits then take these hard fought victories solely for the purpose of making a buck.
There are a some of true liberals working within the corporate media such as that douchebag Keith “get a shovel” Olbermann and Bob “I see Dicks!” Herbert. And there are even more of those moderates and psuedo-liberals too of the Chris Matthews variety. But ultimately, they don’t decide what is to be covered or not covered.
If you want to see liberal media, go to Canada or Europe. US mainstream media is nothing more than corporate media that obsesses over black crime (racist scapegoating) and garbage of the Britney, Lindsay, Paris variety. They simply exist to put forth fear-mongering and titillating garbage, both of which are nothing more than opiates, or crack if you prefer, for the masses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT-Hq117w8s
—this is how Europeans feel about US media
Good point about the honesty of the Clinton Administration, Beowolf.
The media has brainwashed most Americans into thinking the Clinton administration was corrupt in some way. But the precise opposite is true.
In point of fact, the much-maligned Clinton Administration had the fewest number of convictions and forced resignations of any administration of the 20th Century. That’s a fairly objective measure of corruption.
By this measure, the Clinton Administration was the cleanest two-term Presidential administration since Teddy Roosevelt.
The most corrupt admnistration of the century was Ronald “Death Squad” Reagan’s. The Reagan gang would sometimes rack up more convictions and forced resignations in a single day than the Clinton folks managed in their entire eight years!
Again…unlike the Clintons, Obama is dirty. If you dont know that he is and are voting for him then you havent done yur homework
I knew Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton was my president.
Barack Obama is NO Bill Clinton.
Barack Obama Knows Tony Rezko.
Tony Rezko knows some guy named Bubbu who wants to play Hide the Salami.
Tony Rezko is singing right now.
Thank you for defending the Clintons. And you explained really well why “mainstream media” or “liberal media” are not accurate terms.
“Corporate media” is a much more apt description. Next perhaps you can tell us why the corporate media is shoving Obama down our throats?
Beowulf, I think I love you.
Thank you, Beowulf.
lmao you said “since clinton lost his mind during the 2nd term?”
r u NUTS????
that’s a blatant lie
the rabid republicans hounded him endlessly cuz HE WAS NOT from the INNER cabal of Washington either
just like Sarah
God bless John McCain for putting Saracuda on his ticket. This is the next great American leader. I would follow her to the gates of hell!
Death toll estimates for things like slavery done centuries or even millenia ago are pretty dicey at best. That said, it’s quite plausible, indeed quite likely, that the Arabs enslaved and killed more Sub-saharan Africans than Europeans. Why? Because they’ve were doing it since the time of the ancient Egyptians at least, and they live right next door to each other. Proximity is everything, which is why “good fences make good neighbors”.
By comparison, the transatlantic slave trade lasted about 300 years only.
Louis Farrakhan gives some crazy estimate like 600 MILLION. Naturally, he overlooks the key roll played by Africans themselves. Africans most certainly did enslave themselves for millenia. This in no way excuses the paramount role of whites (w.r.t. the transatlantic slave trade), but it should at the very least be foot noted. Why? Because for instance, it gives a little insight into things like that horrific Hutu’s vs Tutsi’s genocide of the 1990’s wherein 800,000 people were literally hacked to death.
Europeans themselves were enslaved by the Arabs for millenia and as late the 1700’s by the North African Corsairs, i.e. pirates. One estimate on the Corsair’s enslavement of Europeans puts the figure at an astounding 2 MILLION! Eastern Europeans were also enslaved by the Mongol hordes back in Ghenghis Khan’s time. And of course, Europeans enslaved themselves during pre-Christian times.
At any rate sir, I should caution you to discuss such topics very carefully and thoroughly. A disproportionate emphasis of one set of facts over another set of facts is simply cherrypicking, which is nothing more than a form of lying.
Context is everything:
1. Given anything, to figure it out, one must first identify the proper context to which it belongs.
2. Next, you must look at all the facts.
3. As in Animal Farm, all animals (facts) are equal (true), but some are more equal (more important) than others.
That is, to figure out context, enumerate all the facts, then weigh each and every one accordingly.
Once that is done, the answer easily drops out, not unlike how you pinch a loaf on the John each and every morning. Ew…
But then again, figuring out the context to anything can very often be very difficult. :- /
The above comment was in reply to VinceP1974’s post: “The death toll of black Africans due to the Muslim-controlled slave trade is 120 Million.”
Beowulf, you are on a roll this morning!
Thank you for this great post on the history of slavery throughout the world over the last 3,000 years.
Humans are like animals. They have to destroy each other, while at the same time, need to feel victory over something, somebody, some place.
Today, humans are being “enslaved” by “job employment” that is restrictive, controlling, sometimes demeaning, sometimes uplifting, sometimes rewarding, sometimes punishing and sometimes destructive to the cause of human beings across this world.
No matter, the day will come when humans no longer have the desire to do these evil things to each other. Granted, that may be a long time away, maybe some 350,000 years into the future, when the animal nature of human beings is subsumed to the divine and spiritual nature.
We sure don’t need no stinking whitey tape! I mean, seriously, Michelle has already said such hateful things that no one would be one bit surprised what racist things she was recorded saying! (Of course, I for one have to wonder why the Obama camp put out the excuse that she said “why’d he”. They at least FEARED that the woman had been caught uttering such words! And it’s not October yet. I still have to wonder what the basis for this story is.)
Anyway, Obama is so mired in unsavory associations that it’s like an overwrought novel! Terrorists, Black Panthers, Afrocentrists (which have barely been discussed), and black liberation theologists! How can any new allegation even be startling?
oh i want that whitey tape to drop to ensure the Obama’s never have an opportunity to run for any political office above dog catcher.
You would have us believe
Obottom is the Manchurian Candidate?
the simple answer?
yes.
But in a much more insidious way than inn the original film
Why Not?
How else would one be able to surreptitiously control the most technologically advanced and sophisticated military-industrial complex of the entire world?
To do something like that takes great sophistication, long planning (30-40 years) an apt and willing “culprit” and a dumbed-down electorate and gullible voter nation.
Country First!
Beowulf, thanks for the information about the Clinton admininistration AND the SCLM (so-called liberal media). I get SOOOOO tired of hearing this crap from Repuggies, especially the dopes who still proudly support Preznit Honor-and-Dignity himself.
That’s not the Khalid Al Mansour I knew….
it just amazes me these guys all changing their names and running around in african garb. my family, friends and neighbors would all think i was nuts if i changed my name to ann bolin and ran around in english garb or my signifiant other tried to wear kilts to the office. we would be counseled to get some help. it says to be that some of these folks have a very low self image and that includes obama. ok, well that is a problem for some, but i don’t have room in my home/head for someone’s emotional issues especially not when my country is fall apart.
i respect any groups’ right to indiviuality, language and holidays. heck i see folks in the type of clothing of their country all the time. but they don’t try and make it my problem. see the difference.
Something tells me when the polls come out at the beginning of next week that accurately reflect the McCain bounce, that the messiah and his devoted followers are not going to like what they see …
They will just stand on their heads as a way to explain their bitterness with what they see.
JM08 whoever or whatever owns Obama made a foolish move when they allowed him as a Presidential Candidate to run against the Republican VP Candidate. He lost whatever stature he had and made it obvious how much he despises women. The big money who supports Obama is not at all certain that he will win this thing for them — I smell flop sweat. All because of the attack of the killer baracuda.
Not sure what to make of this. Are there any recent ties to Obama or just an old man’s 20 year old memories? Anyway, did this guy help Obama get into Harvard? Who funded Obama’s education?
And, by the way, who funded his lifestyle while working for a mere $13K back in the 80s?
Palin’s teleprompter went down when her speech started last night. She was just amazing, if it was obama he would of started his ummm uhhhhh crap.
Obummers teleprompter would never have gone down.
Even if it did, there would have been one behind every styrofoam greek pillar ready to teleprompt him some more.
I noticed that Sarah Palin never said one ummm or ahhh. Also she never said “folks” or “the notion that” or “you guys”.
Perhaps Senator McCain did get it right after all
in his choice of Governor Sarah Pallin as his
Vice President.
She is no Hillary Clinton, but her performance
last night will help clear the obstacles for Hillary
to return in 2012 as President.
Pumas should be reassured that this dynamic and
intelligent woman will be a great “ally” to the
Puma cause.
Good fortune, Senex, Ireland
hi senex — good fortune to you too. Pray for those of us who love this country–
McCain/Palin 08
For now. But be assured we will defeat McCain/Palin come 2012 for Hillary ‘12!
Why does anyone think we need a or “the” whitey tape? My god the blackie tapes about whitey are bad enough. If they were any worse they would be XXX rated and some probabely are. Like old Wright doing his humping acts and vulgar trash talk.
If you go to Atlas Shrugs they suggest the preacher is the wrong guy and it is Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tario Al-Mansour’s. This guy is said to represent OPEC in the blog. He is also an adviser to the Royal House of Saudi. To read more go here - http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/08/obamas-benefact.html.
I agree the tapes of Jeremiah Wright should be a huge embarrassment. But for some reason Jeremiah Wright’s rantings are apparently acceptable to most Democrats. How is it possible that anyone would vote for a person who sat in a church for twenty years where the preacher and congregation appear to be full of hate? And in no way do I accept the story that TUCC is a typical black church.
ritamary — We were sold Obama based on the fact that he was not a typical black candidate. No way anyone running for President of the United State should hang with people who hate this country.
P.S. This Dr.Khalid wrote a book - The mind and the mindless: WILL THE WEST RULE THE WORLD FOREVER. He has strong ties with the Arab world.
Yeah.
I guess it’s going to get a lot worse, as they all come out, Larry.
After last night though, I have great faith in Palin McC and AMERICA as a whole, and you & uppity & Bud & SusanUnPc! and everybody here.
We didn’t know and now we do.
McC’s jobs will fix the poverty, my treatment plans are going to address this issue at the root, and the next four years are going to be the REFORM years around Washington, Teddy Roosevelt style.
I love you guys, hugs!
As I read this Dr. Khalid is far more interesting he also wrote a book The Challenges Of Spreading Islam In America and another book Americans Beware! The Zionist Plot Agnst.S.Arabia. He wrote lots of books. Americans Beware! The Zionist Plot Agnst.S.Arabia.
I agree with Ghost up-thread!
The American people are facing a far greater threat than an older McCain.
I think there are people behind this “covert operative” who are trying to wrest control of our government for their purposes…and WE are not going to like it!
I still think the comment “we are the ones we have been waiting for” is telling!
This man CANNOT be elected!!!
sassy so what we must do is ignore the media and their stinkin polls. They are already cheating for the GE so we must VOTE in such huge numbers that there will be no doubt about the outcome of this election. What I saw last night convinced me that the Republicans love this country and they are not involved in this cabal which consists of the MSM, the DNC and the corporate whores. God only knows what part the middle east has in all this and I hope we never have to find out. But a dead giveaway for me is Obama’s utter hatred of women and the demeaning way he treats them. Those who wear blinders now might end up wearing burkas later.
The problem of letting money arbitrate politics has become critical. Why not let the Saudi’s buy our government? Everyone else is getting in on the auction. There’s one phrase in the Declaration of Independence that keeps coming to my mind.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed–
So Sutton wrote a letter to Harvard that 0bama was a genius…but he never met him. It’s just another part of the grand illusion marketing plan of 0bama.
Where are the noble leaders? Surely there are some in America somewhere.
I would have never voted for anyone w no experience like Obama. But I feel the same way….why would anyone support someone for President who sat in a racist, American hating church for 20 years?? No one in Obama’s camp of Kool Aid drinkers will answer that. They’re friggin’ pathetic. We keep hearing about all of these shady associations. The Repub’s either know it or will and I believe they will win in November.
How can someone that has friends like this be POTUS material? WTF is wrong with this country?
How can the MSM continue to ignore this anti-American circle surrounding the history of the ZERO?
Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, James Cone, Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, and on and on.
I thought the country lost it’s collective mind when it elected W Bush. TWICE! But this, Obambi and his list of compatriots is un-friggin real. W Bush is a Saint by comparison.
I will NEVER return to the Democratic Party for forcing this crap on this country. NEVER.
Johnny if this guy gets in you may never get to vote again. A while back I read that he thinks we have too many elections and it confuses people. Obama would be a lifer and Democracy would be a distant memory.
Remember one thing, once haven taken the Oath of Office, a POTUS has the power to declare martial law, declare that he is pardoned forever, declare whatever it is he wants to declare.
Remember, BHO VOTED for the FISA…and he probably figured it would be good to use against the nation.
He has given “signals” that are too weird, too strange for an american who says he loves this country.
Khalid al-Mansour is Obama’s next Rev. Wright but worse.
I am beginning to think that THIS is the man behind the curtain, THIS is who he is beholden to. We cannot have a president beholden to a man like this. The Obama supporters I personally know also happen to have long histories of being a judges of character.
I am beginning to think that THIS is the man behind the curtain, THIS is who he is beholden to. We cannot have a president beholden to a man like this. The Obama supporters I personally know also happen to have long histories of being bad judges of character.
sorry for the double post, just correcting a typo.
The hate and bile you spew only points back at you and identifies you as the racists you are. Do you remember the issues? Doesn’t appear so. If all you have is character assassination, you’re the ciphers. Why not just end the hypocrisy and own up to the fact that you just can’t vote for the uppity negro? You’ll all feel so much better.
“Why not just end the hypocrisy and own up to the fact that you just can’t vote for the uppity negro?”
You are right, I can’t vote for this “uppity negro” (your words, not mine) because he obfuscates who he is.
So…the media and blogosphere has to lay off McCain and Palin because he was a P.O.W. and she’s a hockey mom, but this blog, which ostensibly began as THE support site for HRC, can post the most obstreperous nonsense without proof.
Give me a break! NoQuarter has become the number one character assassination site on the web. Get over yourselves. HRC fought the “good fight” and lost. She’s come to terms with it, and so should you.
It’s the economy, stupid! Remember that old saw? Well, it’s baaaack, and Grampy McSame and Sarah Barracuda have no answer. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Hmmm…
A war veteran and a hockey mom who has the highest approval ratings of any governor in the country.
Vesrsus
The “uppity negro” raised by white grandparents and a communist pedophile who got into Harvard at the behest of Osama Bin Laden. Someone who has cheated in every election he’s ever won. Someone who has accomplished absolutely nothing. Running with a man who’s been in Washington for 35 years and failed in two presidential campaigns.
It’s racism.
Just look at my post to misstickly above. Same applies to you.
haha what color is the sky in your fantasy world
Oh the race card again. Ho hum.
Obama was groomed years in advance with the funding of Al-Monsour.
There is no way in hell he got an advance from an editor when he was an unknown. They gave him an advance and then waited for 4 years for the book! Since when do book publishers EVER do that. It is very difficult to break into the world of having a book published and when they do advance money it is usually on an outline and then usually the completed book is required within a certain time frame like six months to maybe a year. Yeah, right Obama, the publishing company sought you out. NOT!
I think money was being funneled to him from Al-Monsour all along both for his book and for living expenses. How else could the Obama have afforded a vacation to Bali. The facts just don’t fit.
Obama has been in bed with Al-Monsour from the beginning.
The connection from BHO to those other extremist individuals started back in BHO’s teenage years with his friendship and mentoring by and with Frank Marshall Davis…now deceased…an avowed communist member of the Communist party of the US.
I believe that from this point on this individual FMDavis was the starting point from which BHO was able to then have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction for his life. Who knows to whom Frank Marshall Davis recommended this young man BHO to in that distant past and the word got around, in secret?
An unspecific direction could have been started from that far back…and why not?
There has been some inferences somewhere on the web that FMDavis was a sort of ’soviet spy’ in Hawaii
during those years when BHO was a teenager and was ‘mentored’ by FMDavis, who was a sort of ’surrogate father’.
For these reasons, one has to seriously speculate how the growth opportunities have been made all along for BHO to go a certain route that brings him to this point in our national history.
Certainly, having so called credentials and a resume that appears on the surface to be worthy of a
political candidate seeking the highest office in the land could easily have been a worthy plan from way back when.
As long as funds and assistance and support were available to BHO, it could very well be why he is where is today.
Khalid al Mansour is nuts… I wouldn’t waste a second with him how come he sits on ANY boards at all??
The question is how come he knew Obama back then??? Through whom??
That Sutton guy is really bizarre too. He says that he wrote to “his friends: to help Barack Obama get into Harvard and says he was told (think this is before Obama started LawSchool) that he had already taken and pass all the reuqirements to be at Harvard and “be President of the Law Review”: that last bit makes no sense.
The connection from BHO to those other extremist individuals started back in BHO’s teenage years with his
friendship and mentoring by and with Frank Marshall Davis…now deceased…an avowed communist member of the Communist party of the US.
I believe that from this point on this individual FMDavis was the starting point from which BHO was able
to then have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction for his life. Who knows to whom Frank Marshall Davis
recommended this young man BHO to in that distant past and the word got around, in secret?
An unspecific direction could have been started from that far back…and why not?
There has been some inferences somewhere on the web that FMDavis was a sort of ’soviet spy’ in Hawaii
during those years when BHO was a teenager and was ‘mentored’ by FMDavis, who was a sort of ’surrogate father’.
For these reasons, one has to seriously speculate how the growth opportunities have been made all along
for BHO to go a certain route that brings him to this point in our national history.
Certainly, having so called credentials and a resume that appears on the surface to be worthy of a
political candidate seeking the highest office in the land could easily have been a worthy plan from way back when.
As long as funds and assistance and support were available to BHO, it could very well be why he is where is today.
So Barack had the book deal when he was 29 years old???
wow. How crazy is that?
Yeah, this might be the man behind the curtain, along with Soros.
Did Soros wright a letter too? lol
Please, let there be a Whitey Tape! What say you about this Larry Johnson? Is there one and where oh where is it?
This story is bigger than any whitey tape. This is THE story of the election IMO.
I just read the newsmax story along with this article.
It scares me.
I’m telling you…Obama must NOT be president. He really should not even be a senator.
If much more time passes without a serious vetting on all these issues.
We must do something to get these questions OUT.
Larry,
Have you seen the article at investors.com on this? Yikes. Scary. Please don’t let this story die. THIS is the story of Obams. It’s the BIG ONE. It’s the man behind the curtain.
There is an impeach Obama petition circulating around (ejected from the Senate). I’ve been spending time checking out the Clinton Democrat sites (PUMA). they provide an insight into what this “man” is up to. that insight being how he “stole” the nomination by fraud, corruption.. the PUMAs provide a lot of good information and they are doing what I believe is a heroic thing: PUTTING COUNTRY FIRST and voting to preserve those principles that are most dear to a democracy.
Anyway, great site and good work!!!! thanks!
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