For the love of God, stop that whining this minute, Barack!
By SusanUnPC on September 5, 2008 at 7:15 PM in Barack Obama, Race Card
You big baby. We KNOW you too well. We have seen how you can’t handle it. You can’t HANDLE THE TRUTH, mister.
You nearly have a nervous breakdown if things aren’t going your way. Instead of being a real man like John McCain, who exhorts himself and us to “stand up and fight,” you whine, pout and feel sorry for yourself. It’s always about you, isn’t it. It’s always about what makes you feel good or bad. Your ego requires constant affirmation, and you can’t handle it when your opponent is scoring round after round against you.
Now, your cheap carnival ride of a presidential ride is breaking down, and you’re up on stage now sniveling this spew again.
Thing is, you’ve done this way too many times, and we are SO on to you. It’s time to “man up,” Barky. Now, here’s what Barky is up to, yet again:
Guess which card Obama pulled out of the deck today?
With both Rasmussen and Gallup showing Barack Obama moving backwards even before the Republican Convention dropped its balloons on Andrea Mitchell, one can excuse the Democratic nominee for hearing footsteps. How desperate has he gotten? Looks like he’s playing the race card once again:
“I know that I’m not your typical presidential candidate,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told executives and employees of the Schott glass company Friday afternoon, “and I just want to be honest with you. I know that.”
“And I know that the temptation is to say, ‘You know what? …The guy hasn’t been there that long in Washington.,’ You know, ‘he’s got funny name,’ You know, ‘we’re not sure about him,’” Obama continued. “And that’s what the Republicans, when they say, ‘This isn’t about issues, it’s about personalities,’ what they’re really saying is, ‘We’re going to try to scare people about Barack. So we’re going to say that you know, maybe he’s got Muslim connections or we’re going to say that, you know, he hangs out with radicals or he’s not patriotic.’
Once again, Obama has resorted to a smear campaign against the McCain campaign. They have never –never — even hinted that Obama has “Muslim connections”. [READ MORE BELOW]
They have never made even a slight attempt to make his race an issue, despite this fourth repeat of this particular smear. Neither has the RNC nor any mainstream Republicans. …
Be sure to read all of HotAir’s story. It’s devastatingly good on the phony race issue.
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Barack is crashing - he has reason to cry.
Obama thinks someone is going to release new information on him & that’s why he’s decided to use the race card again. It’s just a distraction for what’s going to be in the news soon & he wants to blame McCain before it happens to him.
Yep. I’m sure that there’s more than a few things. It’s gonna be a truckload of scandal that the repubs will drop on his sorry punk ass.
The MSM, Dean, Pelosi, Brazile and Reid have a LOT to answer for to the American people.
I don’t want their answers. I just want them GONE.
And here’s some new news…
Presenting The Manchurian Candidate
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4821
The Canadian Free Press outlines how Obama’s been groomed by Saudi extremists to do a BIG inside job on the US?
Other than the HopeNChange(TM) useful idiots, does this concern you a LOT?
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/art...
The article is from Canada, and is very detailed.
He was influenced by, bought and paid for by Islamic radicals since the age of 25 as a route to destroy the USA from within the highest office.
“New evidence has emerged that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was closely associated as early as age 25 to a key adviser to a Saudi billionaire who had mentored the founding members of the Black Panthers. ”
This would make Obama, decidedly, a true Manchurian Candidate.
It explains why he’s never written anything in his career, and why he’s been loathe to commit to any votes and therefore voted “present” over 130 times. He’s been instructed to be a blank slate.
Obama had close ties to a top Saudi adviser at an early age.
New evidence has emerged that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was closely associated as early as age 25 to a key adviser to a Saudi billionaire who had mentored the founding members of the Black Panthers.
In a videotaped interview this year on New York’s all news cable channel NY1, a prominent African-American businessman and political figure made the curious disclosures about Obama.
Percy Sutton, the former borough president of Manhattan, off-handedly revealed the unusual circumstances about 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.”
Sutton, the founder of Inner City Broadcasting, said al-Mansour contacted him to ask a favor: Would Sutton write a letter in support of Obama’s application to Harvard Law School?
“He wrote to me about him,” Sutton recalled. “And his introduction was there is a young man that has applied to Harvard. I know that you have a few friends up there because you used to go up there to speak. Would you please write a letter in support of him?”
Sutton said he acted on his friend al-Mansour’s advice.
“I wrote a letter of support of him to my friends at Harvard, saying to them I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I certainly hoped they would treat him kindly,” Sutton told NY1.
Sutton did not say why al-Mansour was helping Obama, how he discovered him, or from whom he was raising money on Obama’s behalf.
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_sutton_saudi/2008/09/03/127490.html
I read all that this week and am wondering if anyone is going to investigate it further. I oscillate between thinking that he’s the Manchurian Candidate or the Trojan Horse. Articles like that make me favor the first suspicion.
Maybe he’s just what a Trojan fits on…
Stop your paranoid rants. He is NOT any Manchurian Candidate. It is irresponsible to suggest any such thing. The only person who was his mentor when he was growing up was Senator Carpathia.
JJ you KNOW this because?…………..
He’s such an idiot. Even Newsmax has the story how Muslims paid his college bills and Barky indentified himself as a Muslim well into his 20’s. Funny how he always ‘implies’ rather than states his case one way or another. He is still talking out both sides of his mouth.
Again, anyone who is still supporting Obama is politically retarded.
heh heh
Could you publish the link to the Newsmax article on Saudis paying his college bills?
I beg to differ slightly. Obama is lying out of both sides of his mouth.
Holy shit.
Keith Olbermann? HAVE YOU NO SHAME, SIR? Why haven’t YOU investigated this, sir? HAVE YOU NO SHAME, SIR?
Hehe!
No doubt. Well, you know that today he was finally served, as was the DNC, on the law suit that challenges his eligibility to run for President, right? The email I got is below, fyi. I’ve not seen this in the MSM yet. So everyone, please send it to all you know so the MSM is forced to cover it. I wrote CBS News so I’m wondering if it will go anywhere.
Anyway, Obama has to be wetting his pampers.
i would have loved to have seen his face
Holy shit.
Keith Olbermann? HAVE YOU NO SHAME, SIR? Why haven’t YOU investigated this, sir? HAVE YOU NO SHAME, SIR?
Hehe!
don’t you know that he has very important teenage pregnancies to investigate. he hasn’t got time to find out whether we may be electing an america-hating foreigner as president.
breaking news…..The saudi’s paid for obamas “education”…..maybe the msm can report this on 9-11…..bye bye obummer.
I was thinking the same thing. The Republicans are getting ready to tell the truth about his connections with Ayers and Raila Odinga, etc..
But here is the thing. The Repbulicans won’t scare people into not voting for him. Obama can do that all by himself.
The more he talks about his connections, the more people will want to know. I hope he keeps talking.
The Republicans are in a tough place. They can’t release enough to get barry thrown out of the race because they might get Hillary instead.
Just enough to make sure he won’t win.
I do not think that is true anymore. He’s the democrat ticket - win or loose
I wonder who also paid for his trip to Pakistan??? Was it the Saudis? There was a story (can’t remember link) Which stated it was rich Muslim friends from he met when attending Occindental? I wonder if that was a fake to throw people off. What did he do in Pakistan? Who did he meet? How many college age American students were taking their break in Pakistan. Which at that time was under martial law. This was the same time that Osama called for jihad and called out for all Muslims to come to Afghaistan!
Steve1
according to this TIME article (see below) , Sen Obama’s mother worked in Pakistan in the field of microfinance during the early 1980’s.
Perhaps he went to visit her?
Learn more about his mother and how wealthy his family really was-his stepfather Soetoro was an executive for oil company in Indonesia and family had money…
His mother completed her ph.D just before she died. Depending upon what you read, she either studied microfinance (heavy duty banking infrastructure development in developing and/or less developed nations OR Anthropology…
Sen Obama’s grandmother was in banking too- she climbed from an admin/secretarial spot if I am not mistaken- to a VP spot in a VERY SHORT TIME in Hawaii after she moved there from Kansas. I do not think she had college education.
I do not know what kind of work his grandmother did while she lived in Kansas however…
I would be very interested in learning more about what his mother, and his maternal grandparents did for a living, their education, why his grandfather would not allow Sen Obama’s mother to accept a scholarship to study at the UNiversity of Chicago and instead moved family to Hawaii??? Why Sen Obama’s mother was studying Russian at the University of Hawaii (she met Sen Obama’s bio dad in her Russian language class during her first semester there),…too many questions…
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729524-2,00.html
http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/1497.html
barky sounds like your average, all-american guy, doesn’t he? heh.
Why do people think, no 0bama necessarily gets us HRC? What about Imbiben? Isn’t he the obvious step into the fray guy? Do I miss something?
I agree with the idea that we are going to have to wait awhile. The Repubs want the Dem ticket to be committed. No backing out for the Dems. If they were to let a salvo drop today, all of us would take to the streets chanting: Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!
They have to take the Dems to the point of NO RETURN.
The Repubs are going to watch the polls for at least a week to see what kind of bounce McCain/Palin got. Meanwhile 0bama is digging for dirt on Palin, I think when he let’s his stuff on Palin drop, the Repubs will counter with stuff on him.
Yeah keep talking Barky Boy. And shine my shoes while you’re at it. Hey Barky - you any good at ironing shirts, SWEETIE?
lolz
Well he WAS served today with the Berg civil suit claiming he’s not eligible to run for President. That suit includes the claim that he was registered as a muslim in that Indonesian school. That might have him sweating bullets.
Would love to see that. It would make my day.
BTW, I remember seeing a document from that Indonesian school showing he was a citizen of Indonesia. So the arrogant little shithole didn’t think anyone would pick this stuff up?
The would be the closest he’s ever been to ammo.
It has been proven that he is a citizen. If you want to make a case against him, you are going to have to do better than that.
That’s a possibility, yes. But if you look closer you’ll see he never meets arguments - he just uses an innuendo of voice tone. He has no arguments - he only asks people to accept his view all opponents are racists. He has no facts. He has had nothing substantial to say all along. Not a thing.
That’s it in a nutshell. Every time he thinks he’s about to get pinned down, he brings out the race card. “I’ve got a funny last name. I don’t look like other people who have run for president. So don’t ask me these kinds of questions, because it just proves to the world that you’re a racist out to get me because I’m black.”
Cinderella-
I think you may be on to something. Sen Obama’s past track record has been -when under attack-
the best defense…is a good offense.
Attack your attackers before they attack you.
OR
Attack your attackers about one thing while they are attacking you about something else so that the public gets distracted from the original complaint against Sen Obama…
The more emotionally charged the distraction by the Obama campaign is, the better for his team to distract the voters.
An attack of racism is highly emotionally charged. Has worked every time for him in the campaign-ask Bill, HRC and others…The only one I recall who survived this attack unscathed was Gerri Ferraro-she saw through this charade and called Sen Obama on it and Obama and team backed down real fast…They didnt want to mess with this New Yorker! Ferraro went ‘Brooklyn’ on them…
Berg lawsuit?
Khalid Monsour?
Annenberg-Ayers connection?
Let’s play which scandal will it be!!!
Do you know how sick I am of Obama’s whining?
“Oooh…I’m black. They hate me. Oooh, I’m different.” WhatEVER. Fuck him. (Oooh, will that make him cry?)
He’s working on a major smear campaign under other guises, against Sarah Palin. I can’t wait for Chicago Politics to FAIL. I want to see him go down in flames.
McCain’s speech was good. Palin’s speech was great. She’s a bulldog, really, on the campaign trail. Today in Wisconsin, she was going after ‘em all again. Good for her.
I’ve made a difficult decision to back the Republicans for the first time in years. But I’m ok with it now. I’ve decided it’s the right thing to do. We have a Dem congress. It will keep the ‘crazies’ in line. And with a maverick president and VP, it will shake up Washington and I’m good with that.
Viva la McCain!
Can we really afford a do nothing Dem congress who is into partisanship instead of getting things done? Can we afford them to block important issues still? I’m tired of the do nothing Dems. I’m ashamed to be a Dem and have yet to change but I will and soon.
I have changed. We changed to Repub for the primary to vote some local Repub crooks out at the primary level. Now we will re-register independent. No more DNC for me.
I’d like to see Pelosi gone as well as that ass Reid from Nevada. Those are the biggest stumbling blocks to progress.
Stumbling blockHEADS to progress.
Tell us when. We’re on pins and needles.
I don’t hate Obama. I despise him. A different matter altogether.
I wonder how much Michelle spends on Infamil and Huggies each month? She’s got a big ass baby on her hands.
LMAO…good one!!
Crystal….that was funny! :O
umm.. okay.
but Barry does have muslim relations– like family relations, political relations WTF?
And he isn’t patriotic… god damn Amerika, etc. WTF?
And he does hang out with radicals… you know Ayers, Dohrn WTF?
So WTF Barry?
DILLONVALE, Ohio - So much for the 50-state strategy. Barack Obama, who once pledged to compete in every state, has shifted his thinking. Now, he’ll pick and choose where to spend time and money.
Despite early optimism, Obama’s strategists are mapping out an electoral plan similar to Democrat John Kerry’s from 2004. Obama still is pushing into traditionally Republican and rural areas, such as this farm region along the Ohio River. But don’t look for the Democratic presidential nominee in, say, undeniably GOP Idaho.
Obama made a beeline for the Rust Belt when he left the Democratic National Convention last week. With a swing through Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan, Obama signaled the importance of this region to his campaign. Kerry won Pennsylvania and Michigan — two states where Obama strategists think their chances are iffy — and lost Ohio by a one-vote-per-precinct margin in 2004.
Obama has long looked for a way to win the White House without the 20 electoral votes of Ohio, the prototypical swing state. His top aides, including his campaign manager, once said they could lose the state and still win the election by picking off states that typically support Republicans.
No more.
(yahoo news)
Duh.
J—s F—–g Ch—t.
Anybody who hasn’t just fallen off the political turnip truck coulda told Barack and his Hopium-addict followers that he never had a prayer of winning states like Idaho.
Of course, that was the probably the game plan all along — PRETEND he could win those states because it helped him do well in the crooked caucuses in those red states.
You did mean the 57-59 state strategy correct?
there wss a column in our newspaper this morning that said “Obama hopes to turn Indiana blue this year”. I didn’t read it I just thought “right!” Indiana hasn’t went Democrat for a President since 1964 and it won’t be this year either. We bitterly cling to religion and guns here too!
And the Indianapolis Star and the ghost of Homer Capeheart.
And this is why Bayh wasn’t chosen, ultimately.
Obama folk “are mapping out an electoral plan similar to Democrat John Kerry’s from 2004″?
oohhh… there’s a good strategy. that worked for Kerry, right?
I’m John Kerry and I’m reporting back to the Senate
I’d assume he’s written off Florida? I mean,like anyone here will give him the time of day (except for the Bubba State of Fl Dems).
This is when I knew 0bama was a fool. When he was boasting about turning red states blue.
Please!
There are states that even Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter didn’t win. At first I thought he ascribed to what the DNC believes, that people hate Bush so much they will vote Democratic. I always knew they were grossly overestimating Bush-hatred. You know when a president is hated and despised when people take to the streets to protest. That never happened even as people slowly became disgusted with the war.
It’s only the radical leftwing that believes the war on terror has been exaggerated. People in the center, still are terrified of another 9/11. And even though it was proven that Sadaam Hussein had nothing to do with the World Trade Center destruction and that Bush created more terrorists by going to war, a lot of Americans ironically feel safer with the country fighting a tangible war away from our shores.
So when 0bama, egged on by Dean, started making pronouncements, I knew he was living in a dream world and that he was completely out of touch with his racial identity. Instead of going after votes that he never was going to get, he squandered the opportunity and alienated the voters he really could have gotten. He wanted to be able to brag that he won states that even Bill Clinton didn’t win. I always thought it was very telling that he wanted to win without Ohio. Why? He can’t relate to that blue collar crowd. He really does look down on them. They’re too coarse for his tastes. And he’s uncomfortable around them because they can see through him.
This is where his whining comes from. He’s throwing a tantrum. He probably grew up doing this to his grandparents and now he’s using it on white Americans. Shouldn’t he be simply making his case about why people should want him to be president? He can’t control what people choose to believe, but he can control how he presents himself to the voting public.
But it’s the Democratic leadership that I am really angry with. For them to saddle us with such a complex candidate because of their own Clinton-hatred is unforgiveable. They must pay.
They simply must pay with their jobs.
And try to explain to bots that CA. could go red because of Prop. 8! That really gets their BP up!!!
They also have a very popular Republican governor.
Well this CA Democrat will be voting for McCain—1st Republican vote ever. McCain will carry all of CA except LA, SF and probably Santa Barbara maybe San Bernadino, SAC and Riverside. What will make it hot in CA this year is the CA Republicans are hyped to turn out. Remember that the biggest business in CA is agriculture. The big question will be how the Hispanics vote. If they turn out for McCain, he just might take the state.
I live in California as well (San Diego) and McCain still has some more ground to make up if he’s going to take California. He’s about 10-11 points down in the state right now, according to the most recent state poll listed on RealClearPolitics.com. So, he’s definitely got his work cut out for him. But these polls were taken before he named Palin as his running mate and before the GOP convention. So, who knows? But if Barry loses California, he’s toast.
I’m a life-long Democrat living in CA and my whole family is voting for McCain for the first time in 30 years and so are many of my friends. We all have reregistered “Undeclared” here so we can do so.
Polls are generally crap. The best poll will be after November 4th.
I’ve been saying that Cali can go red since (at least) Clinton won Cali over Obama.
Look at the regional map of the primaries. You can tell where Obama’s hopey changey crap didn’t take. Hell, it didn’t even take L.A. County, where all of those supposed Obamatronic celebrities live. All down south it’s ruled by conservatives. Obama was strong in the Bay Area, but that’s no surprise…there are lots of hopey changey lovey dovey hippies up here. But even then he just barely got Alameda County where I live (I think).
And guess who was the first president to turn California blue in many years during the election? That’s right, Bill Clinton. California was a red state before 1992. And like someone else already mentioned, we’ve got an immensely popular Republican Governator.
So as an Asian/Hispanic American who hopes his Asians and his Hispanics come out for McPalin, I can only say “GOOD RUCK, OBAMA! You’re gonna need it.”
BO will say or imply anything that he thinks will get him elected. Does he not realize that there is video tape of these tactics? Talking out of both sides of the mouth doesn’t work anymore.
HRC2012
He’s still doing it in his Penn stump speeches. he’s blaming Bush’s admin onto McCain.
Is it true Obama Camp and the DNC has less money than the RNC? I bet he wished he had taken that 85 million from the Fed gov’t. He was greedy that’s why he flip flop on campaign finance.
Barack Obama is a very immature and self absorbed. He is obsessed with his image. Not even Sarah is whinning about what they will do to family. At least she allows her surrogates to do the attacking.
I’m immune to the race card now. I betcha Sarah is too. Play it, you big snotty nosed a$$hole.
Jeremiah Wright would expect you too.
Playing the race card was part of the Obama campaign strategy long before the primaries began. It is no accident but a planned event to gain votes.
MUCH less money than the RNC. This is why that HUGE fund-raising advantage that Obama was reputed to have over McCain was always an illusion. Democratic contributors tend to send their money to the individual candidate. Republican contributors tend to send their momey (or at least a much greater percentage of it) to the national party organization itself.
One of the first bills Obama wrote in the Illinois General Assemby was a declaration that 1 Nov 1997 would be Islamic Community Day.
It did not pass
Interesting isn’t it?
90th General Assembly
Summary of SR0110
Senate Sponsors:
OBAMA.
Short description:
11/1/97-ISLAMIC COMMUNITY DAY
Synopsis of Bill as introduced:
Declares November 1, 1997 to be South Shore Islamic Community
Center Day.
Last action on Bill: SESSION SINE DIE
Last action date: 99-01-12
Location: Senate
He had a lot of Islamic constituents in that part of Chicago. Perhaps he made a campaign promise to them. I don’t think that that is a big deal.
Let’s please NOT go there at this blog. Okay? We have substantive issues we can discuss.
he’s got NOI members on his Senate staff.
Probably more than a few on his campaign staff
That’ll help in FL
NOT!
Susan … absent anything substantive at all in that session, doesn’t this strike you as somewhat peculiar?
But if that’s the substance of this “great reformer” it does say a lot. A man is what he does. McCain spent time as a POW and has worked across the aisle in DC for the rest of his career; Obama suggests legislation to honor the former Bird Cage tavern. Speaks volumes I think. It’s part of his history. Period.
Here’s the link
http://ilga.gov/legislation/legisnet90/summary/900SR0110.html
I just love to see this fraud whine!
Obama is Running out of cards!
He better start looking for a new game to play.
I Have a Scheme is the only game he knows. He’s running out of people to play it with.
I am a big Palin fan, I’ve been studying her for months. McCain has won my vote because he showed the good judgment to chose her. I am supporting McCain because of the women he surrounds himself with, including his wife Cindy.
Obama is another candidate who cannot get himself elected without the help of women, people like Hillary who must go out and try to prop his limp self up for him. Please vote for this sack of poo, I promise to do all his work for him! I already gave him my policies, the lines from my speeches!
How ironic. We have two male candidates barely tolerable to the public as they are, who must rely on women surrogates to get themselves elected. Tell me, is there some reason we don’t just put the more qualified women into office instead?
Maybe its Saudi sexism?
Interesting point which raised a question in my mind. Has Secretary Rice ever gone to Saudi Arabia in the capacity of her job? Did Madeline Albright?
I really never paid attention. Anybody know?
No no no. John is not barely tolerable. I think women should be all over politics. There aren’t many countries in the West anymore who haven’t had a female PM. But there’s nothing wrong with John. John is a good man and very tolerable.
It seems to me that Campbell Brown (for whatever reason)is obsessed with Sarah Palin. Is it just my imagination?
McCain/Palin ‘08
Hillary ‘12
No, I think you are correct. I caught my husband trying to shake the TV to shut her up, LOL.
You can see the hatred in her eyes, not sure what that’s about, but she’s shooting sparks.
LOL@ shaking the TV…did he lose the remote?
I can’t stand C Brown.
Thanks yttik! Hey maybe if your hubby shakes the TV enough it will shut her up…..oh well…one could only hope.
McCain/Palin ‘08
Hillary ‘12
hey I got a question about that crazy Campbell Brown woman.
She was shooking hatred sparks at Hillary as well.
Do you think Barry the Arse has promised her the job of press secretary in his never to be
administration?
I see it too. She’s possessed.
The CNN News Director should tell her to bring it down a notch or two, maybe three.
I don’t consider myself a feminist because feminism often was too consumed with a kind of politics that ignored issues within the female community and instead pretended that men and the male patriarchy was entirely to blame.
Yes, men may own a lion’s share, but women, as we have see in this Primary, often sabotage each other. Feminism never addressed this and the way women can be relentless in enforcing certain codes of the group. It’s also true that women often have visceral responses to other women that has no basis. As much as I hate to say this, it’s mostly founded in the emotion of jealousy.
Campbell and Sarah are different kinds of women. Campbell sells that southern patrician stock, the working professional intellectual woman. She’s a quintessential ice princess who only recently had a child. It’s my understanding that she recently converted to Judaism after having been reared a Catholic. Sarah Palin is a down-to-earth kind of woman. The kind of woman who is smart by instinct not intellect. She is not afraid of anything, least of all her womanliness. The kind of woman that used to be described as salt-of-the earth.
I think it’s clear that Brown has pangs of jealousy. She clearly doesn’t think Palin is qualified. I urge her to really study 0bama’s resume. She’ll be surprised to discover that apart from being a man, his resume is very very thin.
I was very disappointed with CNN over this. When they showed the replay to show that Campbell Brown had not “Crossed the line”, they only showed the part that questioned her experience and qualifications (which is perfectly legitimate). What they left out were Brown’s questions about whether Palin was a bad mother for taking the nomination and thereby exposing her daughter to public attention.
No, Brown has completely lost all credibility since the Tucker Bounds interview. She reminded me of a frantic crack whore trying to score a rock. She just went on and made a statement that she didn’t do anything wrong and that CNN doesn’t think she did either. She should have been suspended like David Schuster was for making that disgusting comment about Chelsea Clinton.
The Muslim connections and hanging out with radicals comment is a pre-defense due to Obama’s Bill O’Reilly interview that covers Ayers, Rezko, etc. this coming Tuesday. Millions watch Bill’O and America will have questions following that interview…watch it happen.
Remember that scene in the Godfather where Vito Corleone slaps his godson at his daughters wedding for being a whiny Hollywood actor who’s not getting the role he wants? “Be a man! Be a man!”
Hey Crybama, grow some already you pathetic wuss!
The crazy thing about this is, the stuff he mentions is all true. That’s why the Democrats should not have run him this year.
Obama has a funny name? So do millions of other Americans (native born and naturalized). Big deal.
If he didn’t like it he could have stuck with Barry Soetoro, or even Barry Dunham if he wanted to blend in. He wanted to claim his difference, his specialness. I think he’s misleading us about HOW he’s different, but he’s running ON that difference and them claiming that people shouldn’t notice. Which way does he want it?
Hmmph..he wants to have his cake and eat it too. He wants to ‘claim’ his difference but he isn’t willing to own up to his own birth certificate.
Fraud. HE’s a fraud.
I am getting worried that Sarah Palin may be a fluke. Until I see her do a sit down interview, I’m not sure if she has a full grasp of the issues. It seems all her speches at rallys are scripted. Would love to see her take charge and do her own townhall. Perhaps Mccain camp can let her focus on eneryg and the economy. Get her comfortable talking to large groups.
ANother wise strategy they should let her focus on the upcoming VP debate and not go on any of the sunday press shows. They have to control her actions very well because the media will look to set her up. Just like they did Dan Quayle with those silly esoteric questions.
I hope she is practicing how to answer those foreign policy question sand know Mccain position on mostof the issues.
I am not worried about Palin, I am sure she will be just fine.
She is not a fluke. She is the real deal. She’s never been on the national scene before, but she is all grace under fire. She’s smart, she’s tough, and Obama is going to rue the day he ever heard her name.
I watched the 90-min. gubernatorial campaign debate video (I lost the link, maybe someone has it) and she’s the real deal.
This is a ridiculous narrative that you have. Are you trying to flame us?
Check you tube. She has done a sit down with Charlie Rose and on CNBC. There are probably more.
Someone whose name is “Anon” concerned that someone else is a fluke? Sorry. Too funny …. thanks for the giggle.
“It seems all her speches at rallys are scripted.”
Ya think? Obama speaks ex tempore, right?
TROLL.
Oh for goodness sakes. She’s been in the national spotlight like ONE WEEK? 0bama’s been out there 18 months and he doesn’t do well off script still.
Look, they are probably prepping her and getting her up-to-speed on things. They’re not going to let the press get at her until they cover ALL the issues that the press will surely ask, especially on foreign policy. She is being prepped.
And I don’t blame McCain for exploiting the treatment of her as a way of prolonging it. Let the msm stew. If I was McCain, I’d tell them the minute you interview 0bama tough then you can interview Sarah.
Cry us a river about this stinky.
The Unexamined Life
By Linda Chavez
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/the_unexamined_life.html
Good one. Thanks.
How is this not bias? Why weren’t tougher questions asked?
The msm has lost all credibility. It will be a cold day in hell before I believe anything from them.
He is so so many decades too late.
Backtrack Barry, you are pitiful, truly, ask the many BASE of the Democratic Party that have sickened with your demeaning and gutter politics. We don’t want to live your hateful, selfish, divisive world-NO THANKS!
If Hillary wasn’t the nominee,
McCain it will be,
and he backed that up with Palin for VP!
hey Linda, you’re a poet!
Great title! It also applies kike this:
For the love of God, stop that whining this minute, trolls!
Oh noooes!!!! You guys LOVE ABC polls!!!!!!!
WASHINGTON - Just four in 10 say Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has enough experience to be president, while nearly two-thirds say so about Joe Biden, her Democratic counterpart, a poll showed Friday.
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Views of Palin largely reflect partisan loyalty and show she’s having little initial impact on which presidential ticket people support, the ABC News survey showed.
2 term your one sick SOB
Nothing to say about McCain vs. BO in terms of experience? After all they are running on top of the ticket.
“The poll was conducted Thursday and involved telephone interviews with 505 adults. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.”
And how many thing Obama has enough experience to be president??? I’d guess it is closer to the 4 in 10…
That’s not the news we got this morning nationwide. She is more popular than any of the candidates BOT!
Anyone who still supports Obama is politically retarded.
He won’t even get one term, troll.
Did you ck today’s CBS, Gallup and Rasmussen polls? Your Messiah has lost it.
Fuck em, I’ll take an intelligent, honest, hardworking, inexperienced female bulldog in lipstick over an arrogant dishonest self absorbed all about me man any day!
OK but if he doesn’t win I am sure he’ll be an outstanding organizer in Joliet State Prison! So leave me alone! Please! You’re picking on me again!
Obama is trying to inoculate himself against the revelations about his past that he knows are coming by mentioning them in a dismissive way now. That never works if there is any substance behind the allegations, which I assume there will be. The word genuine is now being regularly used to describe Sarah and McCain. it will stand in stark contrast as voters begin to learn what many of us have long known - that Obama has a shady past full of shady characters that he doesn’t want us to know about. Sarah and John are wowing us by sharing their life experiences. Obama has NO life experiences - at least none he wants us to know about.
His past is shady and shallow.
Michelle encourages people to work in the public sector and not seek $$$$ like she chose to do?????
Cindy McCain, rich though she is, actually helps others. She gets into the mud and the blood of 3rd world nations and shows compassion.
Obama’s website is all about Obama
McCain’s is all about making the country better and encouraging all who visit to volunteer. FOr the Gustav event his site had a link to get $$ to the Red Cross. Obama said they would wait and see what was needed then use their email address data base to seek donations etc.
Well, I belong to his data base and I have yet to see dick from him except to say how he needs $$ for himself and how mean McCain & Palin are.
McCain walks the walk. Obama reads the talk.
Laura Bush and Cindy McCain were making care packages up to ship to the stom victims. What did the Dems do? Dems are about gimme gimme.
The dems? Why Obama sent text messages and emails telling people to donate to the victims! Didn’t you get the message??? That was his big donation.
He’s a shallow, self-serving, son-of-a-bitch.
No he is not trying to inoculate himself! Are you saying he’s a heroin junkie! Obama is not a heroin junkie! He hasn’t used heroin since Punahou! I read the book! Stop slandering Obama! Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
That isn’t whining you hear. It’s a fat lady singing, operatically.
Who’s we? The boogieman? That shadow that’s been under your bed, since you were a kid? Why?
I think it is the other shoe that Mr. Johnson was waiting for about to drop and BO knows it.
Every time there is bad news coming, Barky, lets out a fart… He can’t help it. It’s a defense mechinism that will be his demise.
All of what he describes is true. He can mock himself, but he can’t mock the truth.
SusanUnPc, I understand you not wanting to “go there” and I respect it. However, if BO is the one bringing it up, sticking to the facts,isn’t it fair game?
The way I see it, (being a meat eating Taoist), anyone who denies Allah, in his situation, is insulting Islam not to mention my intelligence.
A man who denies his past will deny my childrens future.
So calling a thing what it is may present an attack surface to exploit by the “Babes in Toy Land”, but as sure as the call to prayer is a beautiful sound in its own right, so is the truth.
Every time there is bad news coming, Barky, lets out a fart
Not true! It’s because of all the soul food he eats and has nothing to do with bad news! Stop picking on Obama! Boo-hoo!
A very long time ago, in a forgotten time, it was written; where as
Chemical anthropologists of the time describe the main ingredient as, what the humans of the time called, “The Naked Truth”.
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TwoTermObama: It doesn’t matter if you use bold font or believe his snake oil elixer is the slickest thing since castor oil and an upset stomach, even with a belt on it’s last notch BO can’t keep the wieght of his own bullshit from having his dudes ending up around his ankles.
oooH! Look! Designer Depends! Who da thunk! And Bigger than the ones Daffy Duck wears. way to go TotoesObama.
TEAK..
You are wiser than the Beatles GURU..
We were talking-about the space between us all And
the people-who hide themselves behind a wall of
illusion…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6kfPnNMGKA
Thanks Patrick Henry but I am just a humble Kite who everything to the wind.
Be well…Stay frosty…Storms comin.
The fat lady seems to’ve lost a LOT of weight, wears glasses & lipstick and rides a Harley.
Wow, lol the guy is a total child. He’s dropping the “prep” to “his parents” before the real shit hits the fan to try and cover his ass.
Luckily the public will see through it , notwithstanding whatever b.s. the media tries to do to deflect it.
Nice to see truth coming home to roost finally.
McCain’s camp needs to respond to that again. Let them know he’s playing the race card even though they didn’t goo there. Eventually white americans will get sick of this man always trying to blame every thing on his race.
Very true.
White Americans (and Asian Americans and Latino Americans and …) are already sick of the race-baiting.
Barack Obama:
Don’t tell me to look at you because you’re the first black presidential nominee and then turn around and tell me not to look at you because you’re the first black presidential nominee.
Which is it? Look or don’t look? You’re special because you’re AA or you’re not special because you’re AA?
Your race-baiting claims of discrimination are an egregious insult to the man on whose shoulders you stood when you made that acceptance speech.
How many AAs would vote for Obama if he was WHITE?
Way off topic, but the RNC is running ads in MA on NESN (Red Sox regional network).
very interesting
Oh please go red, my native state
Oh please go Red Mass. People won’t really vote for Obama in Mass will they? It’s one of the only states that Obama couldn’t cheat in the primary.
Yeah because they already got screwed by Deval Patrick/Axelrod. Everyone knows this yet few people know it. Goes to show. But no: they won’t vote for that sack of shit, that’s for sure.
The Republicans don’t have to bring up Obama’s muslim ties or his race because he keeps doing it himself. He’s taking himself down. Every time he opens his mouth or makes a move trying to attack the other party, he makes another mark against himself. I say let them all keep doing it, McCain and Palin can take it.
Yeah exactly. And when people confront Michelle and she asks why her husband didn’t win they will tell her.
It wasn’t because he was “black” - it was because he (and she) so did the “black” community a disservice. Heck if you want to vote on color alone why not pick the former mayor of Detroit! He’s “black”, isn’t he?
I guess Michelle’s deck of race cards is empty. Now they must rely on Obama’s hand.
They play Bridge?
He learned the hard way.
Those who live in glass madrassas should not throw stones.
I think we need to nail his nuts to the wall on this subject. “I thought you’d want to be treated just like the rest of the guys.”
The ‘race card’ is the only card IN obama’s deck!
I bet Sarah could take him in hoops one-on-one.
Give him the Great Santini treatment
>>> They have never made even a slight attempt to make his race an issue
I would certainly LIKE to, because, save for his race, he’d have been laughed off the trailer eight months ago.
But when someone suggests that he may be Fallible, Oy, Oy, Oy!!! The Suggestor is a RACIST!
You might like to catch Rev. James David Manning now with his new “Manning Report”:
http://www.atlah.org/broadcast/manningreport.html
He posed questions AA’s should ask whites about the tickets, election and the impact of each on race relations, state of the nation, etc. (if any are so bold to ask). I.e., talks about bi-racial America.
Anyway, he does a news summary, and always find him, at the very least, entertaining.
I’ve been noticing the latest “troll tactic.” They disguise themselves as “true Democrats” who suddenly “love Hillary.” They play all these mind games about who loves Hillary more, and accuse members in good standing of being Republican trolls (well, I guess that part isn’t really new).
They are obviously working under the instruction to sway Pumas away from voting for McCain. They want you to stay home on Election Day. They know they can’t persuade you to vote for BO, but if you vote for McCain that’s TWICE as much damage to BO than if you don’t vote at all or if you vote for 3rd parties.
This is simple math, Pumas. Don’t be duped.
Picture slicing a pizza. We’ve all done it. If you slide the cutter over half an inch, one piece will be a half inch smaller and the other will be half an inch larger. Now think! What is the size difference between the two? Answer: one inch. You’ve taken half an inch from one and given it to the other, so two halves make a whole (inch, in this case).
Put ten pennies on the table, and divide them into two groups of five. Now if you take two pennies away from one and give to the other, the difference is not two pennies, it’s FOUR! One group now has seven and the other three! More than double!
Staying home or voting 3rd party may assuage your guilt about not voting for the Democrat, but it will have very little effect on the outcome. Remember Florida in 2000… if all the people who had voted for Nader had voted for Gore, Bush would have lost. If those Nader voters really wanted Bush to lose, they should have voted for Gore. Nader never had a chance, but by draining off a fraction of Gore’s votes, he caused Bush to win.
The Obots want us to stay home if we’re not voting Dem. Don’t let them fool you with phony guilt!
Come here often, Republican?
Beating the meat there, Tiny?
he said a bad word!
I’m telling
Now hear this same “toid” as if John Wayne was saying it…
Come here often, Republican?
Has different ring to it, doesn’t it? Kinda like bellying up to the bar in Seward, sawdust foor flooring. Or even Dead Wood.
TwoToeObama; Who the frak are you some “High Plains Drifter” wannabe?
Think of NQ as a space station for a moment…k? Naw, bad analogy (BObots don’t work well in Zero G)…think of yourself a sailboat caught in a storm.
And what of the flag you fly? Will it get stomped on the ground, for the sake of gaining safe harbour? Are going to send a landing party ashore and disrsect the natives? Or are they going to demand repreations for their trouble?
Pray tell, what part of one nation don’t you get?
Obama has several cheating strategies that he used in the primaries and will use in the GE. They will count your ‘enpty top slot’ for Obama if you are Independent or Dem. They use a list of registered voters who didn’t cast a vote that day and will count you as having voted for Obama. Please consider this. It’s dangerous to sit this out. McCain says stand up.
Regarding Obama’s
strategiesfraudulent, vote-stealing tactics, I would encourage everyone who can to spend some time at the polls on election day to watch out for people who show up to vote twice (or more).They intend to use the multiple voter registration IDs that they purchased during the primaries and caucuses.
Report fraud immediately if you see it or suspect it. Call the police if the poll workers won’t address it.
There will be fraud. Watch out for it.
Staying home or voting 3rd party may assuage your guilt about not voting for the Democrat, but it will have very little effect on the outcome. Remember Florida in 2000… if all the people who had voted for Nader had voted for Gore, Bush would have lost. If those Nader voters really wanted Bush to lose, they should have voted for Gore. Nader never had a chance, but by draining off a fraction of Gore’s votes, he caused Bush to win.
See, ideologues don’t “get” this simple math and reality. They still don’t see anything wrong with voting 3rd party, yet once their party loses, it’s all of a sudden a huge surprise and burden on the country because now they’re (were) stuck with the douchebag in office. It’s that whole self-righteous “I’m voting for what I believe in” crap that gets us into this mess. They also argue that if they don’t vote for their third party, the third party loses out on federal funds, etc. Well who the fuck cares? Raise money like Obama raised money, then. Stop relying on the federal government to fund your politics. Rely on yourselves, damn it.
“I know that I’m not your typical presidential candidate,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., … “and I just want to be honest with you. I know that.”
He’s right. He is not the typical presidential candidate, he is actually the worst candidate a major party has ever put on their ticket.
I was disgusted by his O’Reilly interview. Obama wasn’t looking to be a leader, he was looking to be liked. Constantly leaning in, with dejected shoulders, hoping O’Reilly would accept him.
Malignant narcisssists like Obama have many problems. Aside from lack of empathy and self awareness, they have a very hard time sharing the limelight. Either they whine and whimper like petulant toddlers, or they outright lash out. I think Obama will become angrier and his barbs more vehement as Palin becomes more popular.
Yeah that round shouldered shit pisses me off. It’s not presidential.
They have never made even a slight attempt to make his race an issue, despite this fourth repeat of this particular smear. Neither has the RNC nor any mainstream Republicans.
This article is thin and silly. I’m not sure where you live, Susan, but here in Indiana and other bitter, Bible and gun-clingin’ states like it, there IS indeed a not so stealth campaign to link Obama to radical Muslim ties, when he isn’t being painted as an angry, racist Christian that is.
You have to understand how many of we small towners in red states get our information. For starters, I get 20 chain emails a week from “innocent” co-workers characterizing Senator Obama as the fucking anti-Christ himself. Local newspapers, everyday for the last year, have been swallowed up by hate letters to the editor launching wildly fictitious accusations at both Obamas, about everything from their supposed black reparation $$schemes to their intent to coerce us all into state run healthcare on day one. Beyond all the locally and intricately distributed whisper campaigns, many folks turn to Rush Limbaugh and Fox News for their national coverage. There they are blitzed with subliminal anti-Muslim AND yes, anti-racial minority propaganda, crafted and delivered in that uniquely repugnant way that only Republicans and Nazi Germany can.
The truth is, I think most of you KNOW what Senator Obama is talking about here. There HAS been an anti-Muslim subtext to this election all along, one that has been nurtured and perpetuated by this very website!
One other thing, what frustrates me the most about this blog is that many of you have NO actual experience in small town white America. You sit on here all day from your yuppy offices or suburban subdivisions ranting about how “elitist” and “condescending” democrats and the MSM are about rural whites when you don’t know shit about them yourselves!! The numerous times I’ve outed myself here as a white woman from a small Indiana town of 15,000, whose parents worked in factories, I’ve been called a liar, a racist, a man, a sexist, etc, etc, etc. That reaction alone tells me who the TRUE elitists are.
Obama/Biden 08
“One other thing, what frustrates me the most about this blog is that many of you have NO actual experience in small town white America…”
ummm, no…I was born in small CA town of 6,000. Currently living in an unincorporated area in southern NM.
As far as being an “elitist”, honey, I’m not Obama’s pack donkey. Apparently, he has found ~*you*~ to carry his sorry @ss. Whatever.
MG
Anyone who still supports Obama is politically retarded.
And I get 20 chain emails a week now, from so-called ‘college classmates’ who know Sarah Palin, calling her vile names. It popped up the day after McCain’s announcement. You people must’ve stayed up all night working on that one or…did Axelrod send it to all of you to distribute. He is the new Rove, you know. (Gawd, how pathetic!!!! The Dems are as disgusting as the Bushies now!)
Come on, Obot. You can do better than that. You people have written the book on filthy Chicago Politics and you are the dupes that Obama has tricked into doing his bidding.
Obots are the Bushbots of 2008.
Apparently this idiot can’t read and is just posting Barky’s talking points. There’s no other explanation because otherwise he would be able to see that Barky IS trying to make it about race.
Maybe you know how we felt when Obama sent out mailers in Ohio that Hilary’s health care plan would garnish their wages and that he was against NAFTA and Clinton was for it. Or when his staff referred to her in a campaign memo as “The Senator From Punjab” or when in a speech he called her Bush-Cheney Light and accused her of having poor judgment. All unfair attacks.
By contrast, the attacks in the Republican convention were fair - as they were his own words! He did say that small town people were bitter, didn’t he? Didn’t Michelle Obama say that she was only proud of America for the first time? Didn’t Obama tell the invaded Georgians to “stop the violence”? He has played up his role as a “community organizer”, right? Did he or not say “the surge didn’t work”? And they’re being kind to him - nobody brought up that he was one of the few Democrats to raise his hand on the question about giving illegal aliens driver’s licenses, and Rev. Wright’s name was never even uttered once although Obama gave a speech defending the guy’s hateful statements back in April.
There’s more: Obama cries the blues.
In our form of government we have a Judicial, Legislative, and Executive branch. Obama claims his “executive” experience was as a “community organizer.”
To expand on the definition of executive experience, please note that:
Executive experience, in part, means holding a position subject to responsibilities as prescribed by law, managing human resources, managing budgets and making decisions, which have the potential of affecting several to many people, or the public in general.
The Honorable Governor of the Great State of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has been a council person, a mayor, and now a governor. All of her positions are/were of intense responsibility. She’s qualified for V.P.
Obama has NO executive experience.
Please view the article listed below, “Obama’s Community Roots,” which reads, “In 1985, freshly graduated from Columbia University and working for a New York business consultant, Barack Obama decided to become a community organizer. Though he liked the idea, he didn’t understand what the job involved, and his inquiries turned up few opportunities.”
The article continues elsewhere, “He discovered the importance of personal storytelling in politics …” And, “Despite some meaningful victories, the work of Obama–and hundreds of other organizers–did not transform the South Side or restore lost industries.”
The same article says, “A recent Los Angeles Times report contended that Obama overstated his own importance …”
Not really much to Obama’s “experience”; no definition of responsibilities, no results.
ARTICLE: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070416/moberg.
I also just learned that Mr. Obama was head of the Harvard Law Review. However, the ONLY article he appears to have written was on abortion. Wouldn’t you know it.
Barack Obama’s Sole Article in Harvard Law Review Promotes Abortion
http://www.lifenews.com/nat4184.html
Add to Obama’s lack of experience, a severe lack of judgment.
Check out Michael Reagan’s article calling Palin Ronald Reagan’s second coming.
realclearpolitics.com
Two, karma’s a bitch, huh?
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070416/moberg
The above may or may not work. You may have to type it in.
Here’s the article: (From comment by AdrianS above)
Title: Obama’s Community Roots
By: David Moberg
In 1985, freshly graduated from Columbia University and working for a New York business consultant, Barack Obama decided to become a community organizer. Though he liked the idea, he didn’t understand what the job involved, and his inquiries turned up few opportunities.
Then he got a call from Jerry Kellman, an organizer working on Chicago’s far South Side for a community group based in the churches of the region, an expanse of white, black and Latino blue-collar neighborhoods that were reeling from the steel-mill closings. Kellman was looking for an organizer for the new Developing Communities Project (DCP), which would focus on black city neighborhoods.
Obama, only 24, struck board members as “awesome” and “extremely impressive,” and they quickly hired him, at $13,000 a year, plus $2,000 for a car–a beat-up blue Honda Civic, which Obama drove for the next three years organizing more than twenty congregations to change their neighborhoods.
Despite some meaningful victories, the work of Obama–and hundreds of other organizers–did not transform the South Side or restore lost industries. But it did change the young man who became the junior senator from Illinois in 2004, and it provides clues to his worldview as he bids for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“I can’t say we didn’t make mistakes, that I knew what I was doing,” Obama recalled three years ago to a boisterous convention of the still-active DCP. “Sometimes I called a meeting, and nobody showed up. Sometimes preachers said, ‘Why should I listen to you?’ Sometimes we tried to hold politicians accountable, and they didn’t show up. I couldn’t tell whether I got more out of it than this neighborhood.”
But, he continued, “I grew up to be a man, right here, in this area. It’s as a consequence of working with this organization and this community that I found my calling. There was something more than making money and getting a fancy degree. The measure of my life would be public service.”
After a transient youth and an earnest search for identity, Obama also found a home–a community with which he continued relationships, a church and a political identity. He honed his talent for listening, learned pragmatic strategy, practiced bringing varied people together and developed a faith in ordinary citizens that still influences his campaign message. He discovered the importance of personal storytelling in politics (and wrote short stories that refined his style).
Later, as a politician, he worked closely with community groups (though not as ardently as another community organizer turned politician, the late Senator Paul Wellstone). As a presidential candidate, he frequently refers to his community organizing, asking supporters to treat his campaign as a social movement in which he is just “an imperfect vessel of your hopes and dreams.”
Obama worked as an organizer at a time when Harold Washington’s election as mayor stirred his hopes and dreams, as well as those of blacks and progressives in the city. Interviews with people who worked with him during that time elicited few complaints–virtually everyone described him in glowing terms, including dedicated, hard-working, dependable, intelligent, inspiring, a good listener, confident but self-effacing. They expressed admiration for him as an organizer who trained strong community leaders while keeping himself in the background and as a strategist who could turn general problems into specific, winnable issues. Loretta Augustine-Herron, a member of the DCP board that hired him, remembers him as someone who always followed the high road. “You’ve got to do it right,” she recalls him insisting. “Be open with the issues. Include the community instead of going behind the community’s back–and he would include people we didn’t like sometimes. You’ve got to bring people together. If you exclude people, you’re only weakening yourself. If you meet behind doors and make decisions for them, they’ll never take ownership of the issue.”
Obama worked in the organizing tradition of Saul Alinsky, who made Chicago the birthplace of modern community organizing, as translated through the Gamaliel Foundation, one of several networks of faith-based organizing. Often by confronting officials with insistent citizens–rather than exploiting personal connections, as traditional black Democrats proposed–Obama and DCP protected community interests regarding landfills and helped win employment training services, playgrounds, after-school programs, school reforms and other public amenities.
One day a resident at Altgeld Gardens, a geographically isolated public housing project surrounded by waste sites, brought a notice about planned removal of asbestos from the project manager’s office. Obama organized the community to find out if there was asbestos in their apartments. They persisted as officials lied and delayed, then took a bus–with far fewer people than Obama had anticipated–to challenge authorities downtown. Ultimately, the city was forced to test all the apartments and eventually begin cleaning them up.
In his autobiography, Dreams From My Father, Obama writes that the bus trip changed him in a fundamental way, “because it hints at what might be possible and therefore spurs you on…. That bus ride kept me going, I think. Maybe it still does.”
A recent Los Angeles Times report contended that Obama overstated his own importance, ignoring others who were working on environmental issues; but in the book he’s extremely modest about his role and accomplishments, much as he was as an organizer when he refused fellow organizers’ suggestions that he embellish the group’s achievements. “There was no campaign without Barack,” Kellman says. “He was there to get people to organize when they wouldn’t organize at all.” Hazel Johnson, a longtime Altgeld Gardens environmental activist, says, “Yeah, he’s a good organizer. I’ve got to give it to him.”
But Obama grew restless and eventually went to Harvard Law School. “He said you can only go so far in organizing. You help people get some solutions, but it’s never as big as wiping away problems,” says Michael Evans, a DCP organizer after Obama left. “It wasn’t end-all. He wanted to be part of the end-all, to get things done.” But Obama kept his ties to DCP and worked out of its office when he ran a drive that registered 150,000 new voters in 1992 and became the springboard for his own grassroots campaign for Illinois State Senate.
Obama’s politics of transcendent unity, which has appealed to many voters, has its roots in his work as a “bridge builder,” in the words of the Rev. Anthony Van Zanten, overcoming the gulf within DCP between Catholic and Protestant churches. But this vision of harmony also reflects Obama’s distaste for conflict. “Personality-wise, Barack did not like direct confrontation,” Kellman says. “He was a very nice young man, very polite. It was a stretch for him to do Alinsky techniques. He was more comfortable in dialogue with people. But challenging power was not an issue for him. Lack of civility was.”
Obama’s organizing history may give few clues about what policies he would pursue as President, but Obama the presidential candidate still shows his roots–a faith in ordinary citizens, a quest for common ground and a pragmatic inclination toward defining issues in winnable ways. Even when Obama was an organizer, Augustine-Herron told him he would be the nation’s first black President. Now the Rev. Alvin Love, whom Obama recruited to DCP, looks at his candidacy and says, “Everything I see reflects that community organizing experience. I see the consensus-building, his connection to people and listening to their needs and trying to find common ground. I think at his heart Barack is a community organizer. I think what he’s doing now is that. It’s just a larger community to be organized.”
OBAMA IS NOT FIT TO LEAD. REASON: INSUFFICIENT EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE AND LACK OF GOOD JUDGMENT.
Adrian S-
ok…that’s one perspective on his life as a community organizer.
Here are 3 more perspectives.
Which is the truth?
http://www.windycitizen.com/2008/07/ask-a-community-organizer-what-is-community-organizing-anyway
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a74fca23-f6ac-4736-9c78-f4163d4f25c7&p=10
http://tnr.com/talkback.html?id=2e0a7836-b897-4155-864c-25e791ff0f50
As far as I am concerned- I do not care how much experience Sen Obama may accumulate in the future- I do not want him to be president or VP of our country…period…
Here is why…
http://www.barackbook.com/
Obama facebook
I dont want ANY of these people getting anywhere Washington DC, our Constitution, or our Bill of Rights.
These are all close associates of Sen Obama.
Sen Obama owes many people many favors…what are they expecting as repayment?
Eewe! Why does he always have to refer to female colleagues in such a condescending way:
He is delusional, at best. Dangerous, at worst.
He said he assumes Palin “wants to be treated same way guys want to be treated
OOPs reverse quote..
Hmmmm, this makes me wonder, is his speechwriter under the bus now? Or did he quit? I mean flipper has given this speech before.
LOL. Good observation.
I don’t like Donna Brazile since she called me Satan. But watch this video of her and Roland Martin dancing!!!! I did have to laugh! This before Sarah Palin spoke!!! HAHA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9b54_og59U
The bump is so back there.
She was tipsy. I think she has a drinking problem. Her eyes always look hungover.
Sorry, I could only make it through 40 seconds of that! They better dance now. They’ll be “feeling down” in a couple of months. No dems singing or dancing. Nope. Well, maybe Clinton dems!
We should look at the bright side. At least he stopped using misogyny for a minute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu4IFSGIUFU
God. I detest that man !!
God, I detest that man and his wife too!!
[...] For the love of God, stop that whining this minute, Barack! : NO QUARTER [...]
Obama is bringing this stuff up now to help prepare the people.
O’Reilly’s part two interview on Tuesday brings up Wright and Ayers.
No doubt Bill O’Reilly told Obama, “Listen, people are worried about this, people are talking about this…”
No, Bobo, John McCain hasn’t said you have Muslim connections. What would be wrong with that anyway?? But I WILL say you have connections with crooks, terrorists, and racists. So there.
The thing about McCain is, and this is in stark contrast to BO, he isnt just acting modest and saying he loves his country as a sound bite. He has always been this way. It is his humility that takes you aback because you just dont expect that from a politician. Going through what he did you can see why his love of country is very close to his heart. People that ridicule him just dont have a clue about what it is like to be terrorized, tortured or living under the threat of death in a foreign country. Some people are so cynical that they just dont get it, that being close to death you realize what you truly value.
Was over reading the comments at the Hot Air post and have to say, the Repub bloggers there make the majority of Dem bloggers look like thugs and bullies. Oh. Wait. THEY ARE. What an upside down world O’Mania has created… Maybe it’s just the nature of someone who calls himself a “uniter” to cause unprecedented divisions…
I believe he has muslim connections, but it has nothing to do with McCain. It has to do with HIS CONNECTIONS.
LOL!
PUMA 2008!
He must have read that Newsmax.com article.
How many times have we seen this?
He attacks, ridicules, mocks, and disdains using lies, smears, and unethical tactics.
Then, the opponent criticizes him, and he cries:
“Mean! Old politics! Divisive! Racist!” Then, he whines and complains, and his surrogates all vehemently defend him and blast the competition, and the media is SHOCKED by the other team’s horrible and unfair behavior toward the Chosen One.
It is so very tired. He was exhausted, and floundering by the time the DNC steamrolled Hillary and carried him across the finish line. Can you imagine what he is going to look like after 2 months of relentless Republican assaults?
If you can’t fight for yourself–without Hillary, the media, the DNC and all your surrogates, then how do you think we would ever trust you to stand up to tribal warlords and disturbed dictators? Go back to Chicago Bambi, you don’t have the “right stuff.”
No, Obama, keep whining. Increase your whining. Please! Whining is resonating with the majority of Americans. We love your whining. We vote for whiners. If you keep whining, we will put down our guns and forsake our religion and—-OK neven mind. Just keep whining.
[...] Obama, you poor baby, let me give you some free advice. Nobody likes a whiner. [...]
maybe Obama thinks he can whine Putin into capitulating too?
what an ass…
has there ever been an american presidential candidate ever who was such a whiner and a weazel?
i mean, does he have no shame?
does he have no dignity?
what a groveling piece of shite he is…
and to be so corrupt too…
scary…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Excuses, excuses, excuses!
Yes, whining! He sounds like a 12 year old refusing to clean his room!
But, if there is any justice in this world, he needs to clean a lot, lot more!!!
I agree with SusanUnpc.
susan something over here at No Quarter does not pass the sniff test. You and Larry have gone off the cliff with your Obama hate fest. Enough!