“Obama Implodes in Georgia”
By Bud White on September 12, 2008 at 6:00 AM in Barack Obama, Bloggers, Florida, General Election, Georgia, Howard Dean, Ohio, Pennsylvania
One of the arguments many Obama supporters made against Hillary was that she did not support Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy. Obama embraced the 50-state strategy to garner the support of the netroots and other activists. In a mydd diary posted this January, Obama, with his usual humility, was quoted as saying:
I think that we’re shifting the political paradigm here. And if I’m the nominee, I think I can bring a lot of folks along on my coattails. You know, there’s a reason why in 2006, I made the most appearances for members of Congress. I was the most requested surrogate to come in and campaign for people in districts that were swing districts, Republican districts where they wouldn’t have any other Democrat.
A narrative was developed in the blogosphere that Obama, unlike Hillary, would be able to touch the hearts of red state conservatives and turn them into Democrats. Hillary was too polarizing, it was argued, and she would be fighting for Kerry’s states plus 1.
It was mandatory at dailykos to believe that Obama was a map-changer. A diarist from North Dakota named Ab2kgj, in a post which would be funny if it weren’t so painful, suggested that Obama had a real shot at grabbing that state:
I’ll start with ripping a part of McCain’s base right out from under him. I live in North Dakota, and I have a feeling that we will be more of a swing state than people realize. Up here in nowhereland, the reason that Republicans do so well is because of “family values,” and an automatic 15 point bump in the polls. I gotta tell ya though. I see change in the air, because we also can smell phonies a mile away, and John McCain calling us “his friends” doesn’t seem to cut it for the sensible, middle of the roaders up here.
Regardless of what Ab2kgj sees in the air, Obama is not going to win North Dakota, but that fact didn’t stop the Obama campaign from expending millions in red states.
The Obama campaign has always known that they would have a hard time winning both Ohio and Florida, the recent path to the presidency. Campaign manager Plouffe:
said Ohio and Florida start out very competitive — but he stressed that they are not tougher than other swing states and said Obama will play “extremely hard” for both. But he said the strategy is not reliant on one or two states.
Talk of map-changing was utilized by Obama in the primary campaign as a tactic to hide his real weakness with blue-collar voters. Obama and his team have shown disdain for this core group of the Democratic Party, and Obama’s “hope” message fails to offer them a compelling reason to vote for him. Anglachel explains their hostility this way:
In the minds of the liberal elite, the problems and failures of the progressive agenda could be laid at the feet of bigoted whites, the “Archie Bunkers” of the North, and the “Bubbas” of the South. And there lies the strategic fault line of the Democratic Party, the willingness of a significant portion of the party, and I’m willing to wager the majority of the party power brokers, to see the electoral problem as how to minimize the damage of the Bunkers.
Not only has Obama insulted these Democrats who live in the greater Appalachia region with accusations of being bitter and bigoted, some of his supporters inferred that voters’ resistance to Obama was because of racism. But the real problem is that Obama does not appear to offer solutions to their economic problems. Howard Fineman believes that part of Obama’s troubles now stem from the fact that he does not articulate a clear, concise economic message:
It is not enough to be for change – everybody is, or is trying to be. To make it stick, Obama needed, and needs, to put forth an easy-to-grasp grand proposal, one that would encapsulate what his central message. That tagline? That he is dedicated, body and soul, to advancing the economic interests of hard-working, average Americans. He has the makings of such a proposal – his tax cuts for low and middle-income families. But he has yet to package that, or anything else, in an easy-to-grasp, hard-number plan for voters. Instead, he’s got more of a laundry list than an actual rallying cry.
Turning their backs on the rust-belt, Obama’s team, as recently as June, looked to deep-red states:
“You have a lot of ways to get to 270,” Plouffe said. “Our goal is not to be reliant on one state on November 4th.”
Plouffe has been pitching such a new approach to the electoral map in calls and meetings, according to several people who discussed the conversations on the condition of anonymity because they were meant to be private. Plouffe confirmed the descriptions in the interview.
Plouffe and his aides are weighing where to contest, and where chances are too slim to marshal a large effort. A win in Virginia (13 electoral votes) or Georgia (15 votes) could give Obama a shot if he, like Kerry, loses Ohio or Florida.
Although it appears Virginia is still competitive at this point, Georgia is now off the table. A new poll by InsiderAdvantage says that “Obama Implodes in Georgia,” and:
Poll Position survey of likely registered voters in Georgia indicates a steep decline for the Barack Obama campaign and likely explains why the candidate is moving resources out of Georgia and into other states.
Q. If the election were held today, would you vote for:
John McCain: 56%
Barack Obama: 38%
Other: 2%
Undecided: 4%
Obama’s collapse in Georgia has been sudden and dramatic. McCain is in the process of solidifying his base, but the demographics of this collapse do not bode well for Obama, and we should expect smaller but real shifts towards McCain in the more competitive states; that has always been the danger of over-extending your resources into unwinnable states:
InsiderAdvantage’s Matt Towery: “This is a huge slide from what had been, in our prior surveys, a relatively close race. The reason is simple—Obama lost serious ground in virtually every demographic.
“At first glance it would seem that Obamais headed for no better than the low 40 percentile level achieved by John Kerry in 2004. But let me warn observers that in both our national tracking and surveys in other states, the biggest change has been a near parity between the two candidates among the youngest of voters.
“Should that group return to Obama and the African-American vote end up where we expect it to be, the race could be closer in November. But as of now Georgia is no longer a “leans McCain” state. As of this survey, Georgia is in the McCain column.”
Obama’s shrinking map is not a shock to Hillary supporters, but it’s ironic now that Obama will have to turn to Ohio, Florida, and, particularly, Pennsylvania to attempt to squeak out a victory, places where he performed poorly in the primaries and to the voters he and his campaign have continually insulted.
i am so proud of my country…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Speaking of which, did Michelle even show her face yesterday?
http://img229c.imageshack.us/img229/3164/miclasstz6.gif
Michelle and Rev Wright do not like America and as Rev Wright said God damn America and said 9/11 was the chickens coming back to the roost, why would she.
Any one who payed attention to Obama’s sneering face while walking to the pool to throw his rose would understand why Michelle wasn’t there.
Plus I think her excuse “her daughters were starting school” is an action to point the finger at Sarah about proper Motherhood.
The Obama’s are despicable people.
well she’s got a LONG way to go to proper motherhood taking her kids to Rev. Wrights church and not being proud of America until Obama ran for President.
Michelle could have gotten the kids ready for school and still made it to NY and back again if she REALLY wanted to show her face at 9-11. That was strategic.
She knew she would remind everyone of the
racist Wright’s “chickens came home to
roost”. so GOD Damn America! Nobama
alone was bad enough, but both of them
front and center, too much. Any way, she
is not proud of America, so she stayed
home. We need to make sure they both stay
in Chicago and do NOT move into the
WHITEHOUSE.
Read my lipstick, McCain & Palin, 08
Why not take the drilling moratorium out of the funding resolution and allow a fair-up-or-down vote on domestic drilling?
That’s why we have our own message for Reid and his liberal allies in Congress who are dead set on raising the price of gasoline and keeping us dependent on foreign oil at the behest of left-wing special interests.
Harry Reid needs to be told, in no uncertain terms, that holding the American people hostage is not a “game” and the American people are not going to let him get away with it!
Moreover, our elected leaders (particularly the conservatives in Congress who have bravely championed the call for domestic drilling and lower prices at the pump) need to understand that NO LIBERAL-INSPIRED “COMPROMISE” OR SO-CALLED “COMPREHENSIVE” LEGISLATION WILL BE TOLERATED… PERIOD!
If Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and liberals in the House and Senate want to play games and shut the government down over this issue… SO BE IT! The American will know who is to blame!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized
We all heard about Mitt Romney being a Mormon …but so is Harry Reid. Which serves to show that Mormons, like Catholics, do not always think alike.
In fact, the existence of Reid makes Romney’s Mormonism moot, doesn’t it? So why was it consistently brought up?
The US oil and gas industry is sitting on 68 million acres of oil and gas fields already cleared for extraction.
They are idle but still the oil companies and the GOP want to open up even more lands for extraction.
The question is, why don’t the oil companies do domestic extraction on lands already cleared by all levels of government?
Answer: because they want to be able to book those leased lands and it’s oil as assets to inflate their balance sheets. That’s why.
The allowing of offshore drilling should have been made CONDITIONAL on existing extraction on already cleared lands.
I knew they were despicable but I didn’t know they were ‘people’. They’re not ‘people’ in my book - not even close.
Does anyone have video of that with the roses, both Obama and McCain? I didn’t get to see it.
Your grammar (or lack thereof) parallels your intelligence (or lack thereof).
roseeriter just be quiet. It’s people like you that are dragging this country down.
The chickens did come home to roost.
I know you are probably one of those foaming at the mouth neo-cons that think that islamic extremists attacked us because they “hate freedom”.
This is an utterly and completely warped world view. 9/11 was blow back for the decades of interferance in the middle east, support for their greatest enemies (real or percieved), supporting the brutal dictatorial regimes in the region, and the economic and political exploitation of an entire generation of people.
It is like having a dog; you starve the dog, you beat the dog, you taunt him… and then you are utterly surpised when one day he bites the sh*t out of you. It must be because he hates the freedom you have? No, he just hates you.
People need to stop thinking there is a single layer of causality in all of these issues.
Wright was correct when he said the US invited 9/11, because we did. Innocent people did not deserve to die, but the US government has to start thinking about the long term impact of its policies.
I’m glad to see that even 9/11 hasn’t changed some people’s view that any evil that takes place in the world is America’s fault. I wish I lived in another country so I didn’t have to be responsible for my actions. I’d set bombs every day, and if I was ever caught, I’d blame America’s foreign policy during the Nixon years. (Ayers anyone?)
If you would like to convert to Islam and submit to Sharia law to appease the fanatics, feel free. Because that is the only thing that will stop the terrorist attacks, according to statements from their leaders.
But perhaps we could offer other concessions to the terrorists in an attempt to keep the peace. For example, we could give them Israel, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, India, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, etc. How many countries full of innocent people would you like to offer the terrorists in the hopes that they’ll leave you alone? Would countries with huge oil reserves or nuclear weapons count extra? Would the killings of women and jews in the football stadiums be televised? Let me know when you have it all figured out.
roseeriter — Those Obama’s always have to get a dig in at the rest of us. We get it now and we don’t need them in the white house. No Way No How No Obama
That is strange because I remember reading how Obama dropped off his girls on the first day of school. Found the article the first day of school was 9/8 for his daughters, so if that was their excuse??!!
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/08/politics/fromtheroad/entry4425109.shtml
Roseeriter—you saw that, too! The difference in body language and facial expressions between McCain and BHO was very revealing. BHO just threw his rose and McCain very reverentially bent his knees (probably with some pain because of his POW torture) and placed the rose at the pool.
I don’t think BHO and Meechelle like America either—why would BHO create a detailed economic policy to get us out of this morass when he doesn’t genuinely care if our country sinks or swims.
I get it now. Not showing yesterday is consistent with not being proud for anything here except for those who support her husband.
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSDAH72079920080907?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&rpc=22&sp=true
http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2008/09/11/the-death-of-opec.aspx
russia is building military in venz, and other countries, and talking to opec to bring the price of gas up,,,,create shortages, while pelosi and reid, refuse to use our resources and make one lie after another for it.. put the dots together people!
Michelle was at Pelosi’s plastic surgeon getting a botox touch up for her smile so that it would stay in place for the next 8 weeks.
Meanwhile Daily Kos allowed this image to be posted
From Ace of Spades HQ (he screen capped the page too for when it gets scrubbed)
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/twincopyhh5.jpg
I am linking to his image so that no extra traffic goes to that shithole of an Obamination.
Jeremiah, all you get is a FORBIDDEN page when you try to access this link.
Here is a direct link to the article on Ace of SPades HQ.
http://minx.cc/?post=273272
Oh, that is terrible.
Please stop the sexist comments about women.
“Sexist” comments mean that the comment states or implies that personal merit or social standing or power is justified by gender. Such as, “Women should stay home and have babies.” The implication is that women should have a certain social position and no other, solely because they are women.
However, I don’t see why this comment is sexist. It implies she needs a medicosmetic proceedure to mask her emotions. As anyone might express the emotions similarily (and facial expressions have very universal meanings)or want to mask them, there is no gender bias.
Excellent.
I never once mentioned pigs lipstick or stinky fish when talking about Michelle or Madame Pelosi.
If you are looking for sexism please visit BarackObama.com.
The Resident Male Chauvanist Pig in Chief can help you clrify your understanding of the definition of sexist.
jeremiah — you put lipstick on a chauvanistic pig and he’s still a chauvanist pigs. He appears to be getting tired of the of attacking Palin and is now going after older Americans and their lack of computers. Obama’s strategy appears to be how to lose an election one constituancy at a time.
His new campaign slogan is going to be
Change we don’t need you to believe in.
That brushing off the shoulders is going to prove the turning point where people realized that this smug prick was not presidential. It was about the stupidest thing he’s done all campaign long. And the best part was, it was so unnecessary.
He did it because that’s who he is. The abc debate humiliated him. Obama had had such an easy pass by the msm, he was totally unprepared for tough questions and he flubbed that debate. When he came on stage with that gesture, you see a man who had totally lost control of his emotions and his rational state of mind. That certainly isn’t the personality or character of a POTUS!
My fourteen year old son saw that and thought it was cool, but not presidential. He said doesn’t want the president to be that immature and foolish.
Your son is gay.
well, aren’t you a pathetic piece of human garbage!
Obama is instrucing his Obot’s to throw Gay’s under the bus now? Who will be left to vote for him? Just the AA’s?
You are a piece of trash.. But you probably already knew that.. Dickduck
What’s wrong with being gay? Oh yeah, Barky is a closet self-hating homosexual and must slam gay people to distract from himself. Man, if that doesn’t mke him sound even more like a republican, I don’t know what does.
When I found out what it all meant, it sure frosted me, but the problem is that the WHOLE meaning is only immediately clear to a relatively small group. I wouldn’t have known without blogs. Sure, we all know about shrugging shoulders or brushing off after getting knocked down. But that masks and misdirects the Jay-Z message. It is such a middle-school wise guy gesture, too bad more people don’t understand or they could see his arrested development.
Mimi, I agree. That is exactly what happened. Instead of him going back to the drawing board and ‘hitting the books’ and learning something new so he might do better next time, he insulted everyone else involved with the process — Hillary, first and foremost, just because she happened to show up prepared. Horrors!!
Unfortunately, he couldn’t go ‘back to the books’ about Ayers — he didn’t have an appropriate lie prepared. But after the backlash of his supporters, Gibson, Mr. Big Anchor, was cowed, as was Stephanopoulos, and no one brought up this legitimate question again.
Then the Hillary bashing continued without interruption.
That move, and the finger move are 2 things that I just cannot get over. IMHO, a person who is Presidential should live on a higher plane than that…should never have used such crude communication…especially directed toward an honorable political opponent. It would appear that he desires to President of approx.1/4 of the voting United States population, the people who voted for him in the Primaries. Why else would he insult the sensibilities of others?
I would totally run ads featuring that clip of him brushing off his shoulders with the question, “is this the kind of person we want representing the United States to the rest of the world?” The ad might have to explain what the gestures mean, and especially show the part where he was brushing “excrement” off his shoe. That moment was so horrible to me. Just because Hillary bested him in the debate! That kind of reaction was just vile and adolescent (no disrespect to upstanding adolescents).
What about the ‘finger’ he shot Hillary in a speech as he was talking about her attacking him. It’s on YouTube (Zhkq11UExcw). Supporters say he was just scratching his face, but come on! No one does that with their middle right-hand finger on TV! The crowd reacted to it, and Obama smiled as he continued. Later, in the same speech, and in other speeches, he did ‘just’ scratch his face with his left index finger (He’s left handed). There is just no doubt that it was a ‘bird’. Yeah, he’s quite the ‘winner’.
Whenever I see that video..it reminds me of the Reverend Wrong, his mentor taught him well…
Didn’t we see Obama taking the kids to their first day of school via limo as a photo-op?
I though it was very noticeable that she was not there, however I really don’t think either McCain or Obama should have been there.
Where do they wait to start school until Sept. 11th? I smell a lie.
Oh, and BTW jangles, I didn’t see anything sexist about women in Jeremiah’s post. Were you referring to the Botox that Pelosi needed to take her friend Michelle to get? See, Oprah tried to steer her towards her ridiculously expensive eyebrow waxer, but they realized that the permanent angry b**ch expression was caused from the perpetual scowl, and thus, the need for the botox. Michelle has a lot to be angry about, you see she’s been oppressed by “the man” her entire life, and she apparently has also been stuck living in a country she doesn’t respect or feel proud of, so an intervention medically was requested by the Magazine Editors who were spending too much time airbrushing her numerous “Jackie O” photo sessions. It’s not sexist, men get botox, too. Barack goes with her, in fact, she gets the syringe and he gets his weekly Zoom treatment (don’t tell anyone I told you this, but HE SMOKES)
No she did not. It was striking, and yet no MSM seems to have mentioned it. Why not?
No, dogs aren’t allowed.
Thanks Bud, great analysis.
And as you point out Ohio, florida, and PA are important. That’s why Obama didn’t go to PA for the 9/11 memorial service there…
If McCain won’t make hay out of that incredible slight to PA and all America, then 527s need to
jump on it.
Florida dems should still be feeling that sting from Obama’s shutting the door on their primary.
I don’t see how all the chickens are even finding perches to sit on. So many chickens…
New poll; McCain leading in Ohio by 1 point. He was down by 5.
So many chickens… LOL!
Democrats on Capitol Hill fear Obama fallout
By Andrew Ward in Washington
Published: September 11 2008 23:30 | Last updated: September 11 2008 23:30
Democratic jitters about the US presidential race have spread to Capitol Hill, where some members of Congress are worried that Barack Obama’s faltering campaign could hurt their chances of re-election.
Party leaders have been hoping to strengthen Democratic control of the House and Senate in November, but John McCain’s jump in the polls has stoked fears of a Republican resurgence.
A Democratic fundraiser for Congressional candidates said some planned to distance themselves from Mr Obama and not attack Mr McCain.
“If people are voting for McCain it could help Republicans all the way down the ticket, even in a year when the Democrats should be sweeping all before us,” said the fundraiser, a former Hillary Clinton supporter.
“There is a growing sense of doom among Democrats I have spoken to . . . People are going crazy, telling the campaign ‘you’ve got to do something’.”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c2f69ce-8031-11dd-99a9-000077b07658,dwp_uuid=4d9dd3aa-5fbd-11dc-b0fe-0000779fd2ac.html
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Leaked Video of Democrat Strategy War Room Discussions
Absolutely Not Safe For Work
http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i2a7maeftqt9
Oh My!! That was fun!!
absolutely fall-down-funny!!!
if there is a Oscar for rewriting movie scenes this is a finalist…can I have more,sir?
HA HA HA HA HA HA….LMAO! Too funny!
Fantastic. SOOOOOOOOO funny. Love it, love this blog.
Very funny! Wonder what movie they borrowed from, given the German.
After all, we’ve compared what Obama is doing to the early Nazi Party take over of Germany. We could hope his putsche has devolved into the Obamacrat Party death throes.
The name of the movie this clip was taken from is The Downfall:
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi277610777/
It’s based on Hitler’s last secretary’s (Traudl Junge) diary as to what went down with Hitler in his bunker the 12 days before Berlin fell to the Allied Forces. It was a powerful, well-done, well-acted film, showing the complete insanity of Hitler. It is recommended.
This “editing” on the part of Jeremiah is so hilarious—good work, Jeremiah. Bravo!
ah nono. i just found it at Ace of Spades HQ i had nothing to do with making it.
That was so damn funny. I am embedding it on my blog.
rolfl
If their so damned worried now, they should be, while real Americans struggled to put gas in their cars this summer so they could go to work, Nancy Pelosi walked out on the GOP Senators, and announced that Congress was breaking for the summer. If they (her fellow Dems, and my former party) had stood up to her, and turned the lights back on they wouldn’t have to sweat it out alone until November, now. From what I hear, their godlen boy has sucked the Fundraising tit dry, and he hasn’t been worried about the down ticket Dems., I think they just might get all that change they’ve been asking for–Be Careful What You Wish For…
I’ve been telling all the Democratic candidates in my state whom I really support that I don’t like it when they link themselves to Obama. When I wrote Mrs. Fowler to complain about her comments, the major point I made was that I AM a Democrat who can’t vote for Obama but am planning to vote Democrat down ticket and that I am worried that her comments were hurting down ticket Democrats.
Maybe we can get all the down ticket dems to distance themselves completely from O–serve him right for buying superdelegates. Those superdelegate who were bought, however, should be humiliated.
Well maybe they all should have thought about this before they pushed out the best candidate of 2008 forced Barry on the ticket. Oblahblah always said he was “realigning the electorate.” Guess these pols didn’t realize he was talking about cutting their constituencies out of the party. What a joke the New Democrats are.
Democrats hysterical and fearful of losing elections?
That is music to my ears after what they did to Hillary, and the Democratic base.
FIRE HOWARD DEAN!!!
BRING THE DNC BACK TO WASHINGTON!
I hope these people are shitting bricks.
Bricks? Try Cinderblocks!
Obama plans sharper tone while Dems fret -
NYT
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26667449
Is it wise for Obama to attack McCain’s old age?
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/still_ad
Mr. OfraudlyingfraudwomanhaterfrauddidIsayfraudbama is going to have a tough time selling that pay equity for women when he is all fine on the woman being picked over for the man employment policy and McCain is not afraid to put a woman in a pwerful position.
Mr. OhIreallyhatethatmanbama, you suck!
Thanks JoseyJ…
We will see how this plays out, but I think he just lost the senior vote.
I thought the ad was smug and condescending.
Sharper tone? Well, that will help. Have you seen the 527 ads launching today? The ones from the McCain campaign. Check it out at By the Fault.
Let the heads roll. We should all continue targeting those superdelegates who voted Obama against their constituents’ primary votes. Anna Eshoo & Barbara Boxer are on my list.
Hillary told them, he CAN’T WIN. She knew what they refused to acknowledge, so eager were they to make some sort of bullshit point with a sorely flawed and woefully inexperienced candidate. This guy is overanxious, hubris-laden, and not too terribly smart. He’s also got integrity issues.
Skin tone is not a substitute for skills. Obama doesn’t have the skills yet. If he’d cut a deal to run as Clinton’s VP, he might have spent eight years learning, and perhaps kicking over the traces of his corrupt Chicago past, and this whole mess would be on cruise control now–the Dems would be making their hotel reservations and fighting over tickets to the “best” inaugural balls instead of whining, shitting bricks, sending out OBOT bloggers to try to depress motivation and disrupt discussion, and spinning like tops.
They didn’t listen. And now, gee whiz, those chickens are coming home to roost….for four more years.
That’s pretty sad when 2 months before the GE downticket Democrats are distancing themselves from Obama. Planning to make sure they don’t say anything bad about McCain or Palin. They know. The MSM may not want to, be interested in vetting him, their constituents will.
They’re looking to those extra 7 states only they know about to make up the difference.
http://img229c.imageshack.us/img229/3164/miclasstz6.gif
Today we are all Georgians.
That may be the most clever answer I’ve seen yet!
yeah best response of the thread!!
!!!!
Brilliant.
Bwahahahaha…
Obama has imploded in Florida, too:
FL poll: McCain 50, Obama 42
Sept. 10 poll of 511 likely Florida voters by InsiderAdvantage/Poll Position: John McCain, 50 percent; Barack Obama, 42 percent.
http://blogs.tampabay.com/buzz/2008/09/fl-poll-mccai-2.html
And, REALLY BAD NEWS FOR DEMOCRATS:
The battle for CONGRESS is COMPETITIVE:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/110263/Battle-Congress-Suddenly-Looks-Competitive.aspx
Wow. Just wow. Ogreat-one losing I expected. But losing congress too? DNC better open it’s eyes, quick.
http://img229c.imageshack.us/img229/3164/miclasstz6.gif
I am pretty sure after that display in the congress by Cohen yesterday…
…where he ran up to the podium
…with his crazy alfalfa hairdoo
…and declared that Sarah Pontius Pilate was trying to crucify Barack Jesus Christ COmmunity Organizer Obama,
….a lot of americans thought
…we need a real change and fast!
No kidding.
good lord, what was with that hair? How can you even get such thin hair to stand straight up in the air like that? Crazy man, that one.
MOOSE!
or is it spelled Mousse?
in any event the MOOSE he used to get his hair to stnad up may have been like Hillary’s orange Pantsuit - letting us know in a subtle way that he was with us and being forced to say this….after all he is COHEN…most likely jewish….but on the other hand he is the same guy that compared Hillary to glen close in fatal attraction and said she just wouldnt die and kept coming back…so maybe it was Mousse.
LMAO @ “Crazy alfalfa hairdoo” I actually thought it was one of his horns sprouting. I think the whole lot of Obama’s supporters have them. Or maybe Obama’s cult is smoking the new drug of choice, salvia, since it is illegal in only a few states. I sure hope that whom ever is our next Potus, he will wage war on drugs. Drugs destroy the lives of millions of our kids. I watched a few of the salvia video’s on utube, it is sickening and heart breaking to watch these kids.
Fox News Chicago Illegal Salvia Report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLWK9GN-nF0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmfOpLlov08&feature=related
Oh no. I kept thinking that if McCain won he would not be able to get more radical policies enacted - like his stupid tax cuts. The two things he would be able to do without Congress is the Supreme Court (unless the Dems get some spine and get away from the stupid idea that they can only object to a president’s choice on issues like corruption, not ideology. They are a coequal branch for crying out loud!) and military actions.
The Blue hairs in FL (I love you guys, I seriously do, you really were the greatest generation) turn out to vote, and they are going to support John McCain big time, not for the same reasons the rest of the south will, but because every time they vote they realize it may be their last chance to have influence on this country. These are the people who fought to preserve our Liberty, and they can recognize that Community Organizer does not equal POW and a real Senate voting record to stand on. They want to leave this world in better hands for their children, grandchildren and the generations to come.
I am a blue hair who was for Hillary. Again, the politicians try to push the little people around. Again, we need to remind them that this country is of the people, by the people and for the people. The democratic leaders cannot control the people of the United States. All politicians serve at our discretion, not theirs.
People generally don’t vote for the candidate who holds them in low regard. My 94 year old mother recogizes it. I recognize it in my fifties. How many voters fall between us? I have no intention of voting for someone so smug and condescending that he doesn’t give a rats ass that I know how little he thinks of me, my vote and my opinion.
beebop,
I just commented on Obama’s latest ad… I found it smug and condescending…
Those two traits will sink Obama, I am hoping his campaign sinks before November.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
Can anyone be surprised? This year the Democratic party has presented itself as the party of hate (dailykos), misogynism (treatment of Hillary & Palin), racism (Jeremiah Wright), terrorism (Bill Ayres), fascism (Obama), anti free speech (liberal blogs). Sure isn’t the Democratic party that *I* knew. Let them reap what they have sown.
Excellent, Heather–plus “elitism” because those who are not cling to their guns and religion. Also “ageism” as those of us old enough to know better were symbolically thrown out of the party.
From the start, the Obama campaign strategy has been to throw people out of the party.
You don’t have to be a political genius to see the problem with that.
Don’t you think the Obots love to drive people away? Why else would they call their fellow Democrats racists, smear the more popular candidate, and generally act like characters out of a gangster movie?
Most of us have been thrown out of “progressive” blogs or forums, simply because we disagree. Many of us have suffered great indignities and even harm from Obama supporters. We’ve all heard stories about how Obama operatives tell Democrats that their careers in the party are over unless they toe the line.
The motto seems to be when in doubt, throw someone out.
And now they can’t figure out why their numbers are dropping. So much for the theory that progressives are smart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyrMS6MBuSg
yes…unortunatley…the following strategies have proven to be ineffective throughout history:
Awesome !
omg…LOL….you are off the hook! hahaha
Jeremiah, as always you provide a good laugh for the day, you do your part to make sure we all live 8 years longer!!
Why aren’t you running for something, Jeremiah? Oh wait, you’ve got a grip…
OMG! Yer killin’ me!
On another note back to Pennsylvania, let’s not forget that great American James Carville’s analysis:
you got Pittsburgh on one side, Philadelphia on the other side, and Alabama in the middle.
This cracks me up because I was raised in the Alabama part of Pennsylvania and I KNOW it’s still Alabama.
Sorry about the run on italics. I’m the one cracked up, not the Ragin’ Cajun.
they are about to find out there is a whole lot more alabama in america then their is austria.
Give em 8 weeks.
I LOVE James Carville! Not the most arractive guy in television, but he could eat crackers in my bed…cuz I am so hot for his mind
Carville jumped on the trash Palin with misogynous BS bandwagon.
But, Carvel is pretty sharp, so I believe he may have done it knowing that it would encourage more Dems to pile on, actually help McCain/Palin popularity.
They call it Pensyltucky in this part of the woods .. where we remain bitter and clinging to our guns and religion.
Shallow person that I am, I liked “Kissing your running mate’s wife full on the lips” best!
You continue to amuse the shit out of me, Jeremiah.
Love this whole thing…
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Surgeons are going to be very busy with this particular new surgery..
Jeremiah,
Humor even in tragedy is what makes life bearable.
NQ rocks!
LOL! Great post. Yah, what a genius Obama is, destroying his own party, but at least Durbin, Kerry and Daschle got what they wanted–they won’t have to share power with a (only people who know WTH they’re doing in the Democratic Party) Clinton.
Absolutely accurate. But going after new registrants who don’t even offer proof that they’ll vote, plus the willingness to trade the loyal, super voters for the hope & change buyers is the kind of thing college kids do. Works in theory, but you only work it once. Get your butt kicked and know better next time. A slight update to the tried-and-true always carries better odds than completely abandoning tactics that keep you close in favor of a reckless roll of the dice.
Is it racist to suggest that this strategy cannibalizes the party members who contribute, volunteer and know their neighbors well enough to get their candidates elected in exchange for deadbeats who weren’t there for the party before and most likely won’t even know how to find the polling location on Election Day? An Obama sign in your yard is cool, but try to get one from your local Democratic Headquarters. In Pennsylvania, because Obama is operating on the cheap, kids are being asked to do the job that professionals are unwilling to do. Party faithful paid by the DNC are toeing the line, but the district office holders who supported Clinton because THEY KNOW THEIR CONSTITUENTS are too busy making up for the time and income they wasted working for the candidate they deemed - in their professional opinion - the most qualified in a Primary that turned out to be crooked. They now attend to their personal priorities. “Your” Obama is YOUR job.
The next election cycle begins in January. How can they go to their neighbors and union members offering their knowledgeable opinion on Judicial candidates and local magistrates if they fail to remain faithful to their word? Presidential elections bring out the crazies. This time they managed to take over the Party. It’s a question of which prevails: beginners luck or establishment experience? As a State Committee person, my endorsement is the most reliable thing I have, and in Pennsylvania, candidates can take that to the bank. Don’t expect me to ‘pivot’ to the chosen one when my neighbors saw what I saw in Denver.
Clinton/Clark was the ticket I wanted to see. They would have won Arkansas, and maybe even Missouri and/or Tennessee. They would have a shot in FL, and no problem in OH or PA.
Obama’s lame. Dean deserves him.
OMG! That was the same ticket I was hoping for until BO and the DNC “selected” the idiot. Great minds think alike.
Now that would be the Dream Team. Maybe next time.
He he. I bet Clark’s voting for McCain. He’s probably saying “and I switched to the Democrats why…?”
Hillary would’ve won Missouri for sure! It would’ve been a squeaker, though!
Even though I knew this would occur way back in February, reading it makes me very sad for what should be a blow out year for Dems. The Party bosses should pay with their jobs and reputations come November 5th.
They may lose seats they were expecting to win this year if it keeps on gong this way.
This could the shocker of an election to top all shockers of all elections.
their ‘jobs and reputations’?
i had something a little more befitting - and decapitating - in mind.
Let Jesse Jackson have a go at their gonads.
Amen!! I do not believe the DeaNC ever wanted to win this election for some reason. You do not steal an election for the good of the people and what the DNC/RBC did on May 31st was change the certified results of an election in Michigan. At least half the party is corrupt so why do I want to support them? Also got a request from the DNC asking for money, haha, I sent a little letter in their reply envelope, with no stamp, telling them how I felt about the corruption in my old party and why I am now an independent, signed it “Nobama and PUMA”.
Nobama!!
I sent mine back saying that it was above my “Paygrade” to support “The One”. Signed it with a “Lipstick Kiss”.
I’m sure they never thought that a bunch of “members” of their party would sell their souls over some petty nonsense…Or that Democrats like you guys would start thinking Hannity and Malkin were valid news sources…It’s all quite amusing
too bad you’re not
That was their first mistake, not thinking about what they were doing. According to the article, they are not amused.
Once everyone saw how the kewl people in the DNC were selling their souls for kool-aid, it seemed ok. Why, are you saying now that it wasn’t ok for Dean and Pelosi to sell out to the Marxist/BLT party? Too late, marketing works, once people start selling souls everyone wants to.
Did you heard dumbama in the Presidential Forum yesterday say it’s his job to make the Government cool again? That mixed in with lines he stole from McCain and Palin of course.
Apparently a Dumbama Government will be smoking pot and crack and probably women jumping out of cakes and stuff! Or maybe just a fireworks display every night at 10!
We should ask him what he meant by cool.
Say, Mr. Dumbama, do you mean cool as in I’m freezing my ass off becasue I can’t heat my house this winter since you pissed of the Saudis and they won’t give us any oil anymore, or cool in that it’s now legal to smoke pot, but I wouldn’t have money to buy it even if I was so inclined? Please explain!
Stealing certified votes from one candidate to give to another is not “petty”, it destroys our democratic freedom to have our votes counted. That is supposed to be the cornerstone of democracy. But then again, I’m sure that trying to talk to someone who’s brain is soaked with kool-aide is a waste of time.
Like these people keep saying to us:
Get over it! Your candidate is gonna lose!
No, sweetie, their problem is that they spent 19 months doing exactly what you are doing here: Telling half the Dem party that something is wrong with US if we don’t like him, rather than asking themselves what was wrong with HIM that we won’t vote for him
You are so blind that here you are like clockwork, continuing their grand tradition of “Lose big, and blame those stupid voters.”
Run along and tell Donna and Nancy that all those ordinary blue-collar non-elitist people they wanted out of their party are taking their advice. You guys can sit around consoling one another on Nov 5th over how “right” you are, as you huddle in your little irrelevant corner of politics where you deliberately and foolishly marginalized yourselves.
Doesn’t make me sad.
They insulted me, exploited my hapless, desperate community and set racial relations back decades. They also put sexism forth as a viable way to treat women.
These people deserve to be squirming in their seats. They deserve to lose.
Dean, Pelosi, were silent when Hillary was being tarred and feathered in the msm. What? They didn’t think women would notice? Even men noticed?
I’ve been so p.o’d with these people, I wouldn’t care if the Republicans took over the Congress. As much as that would be a horrible thing for me, it would be a great thing long term for the Democrats.
Right now I’m walking around with my Voter Registration form, waiting for Nov so I can cast my vote for McCain/Palin as a Democrat. I intend to be the first person at my polling place. After I cast my vote, I’m walking to the mailbox at the corner and mailing my new form which will change me to ‘Unaffiliated.’
These people insulted me, ignored my legitimate complaints, and behaved like the worst despots to push 0bama down my throat. Democrats IGNORED 18 million voters. It doesn’t get any stupider than that.
And McCain and his campaign were smart enough to exploit this when Palin was chosen. If 0bama had picked Hillary (and I’m glad he didn’t) Palin would still be in Alaska and he’d be ahead in the polls. Although I’m not one of them, a lot of Hillary’s voters would have rallied around this ticket. Who knows, maybe a lot of us would have changed our minds by November.
But 0bama showed himself to be a petty, vindictive, small and ultimately stupid man and chose Biden. The country saw what we’ve known for months, that he is NOT cut out to be POTUS.
A senator, with no executive experience, blows his first important decision whereas, John McCain aced his.
Leon Panetta was quoted as saying “that one of things you have to learn to do in politics is how to get along with people you don’t like.”
Clearly, 0bama despises the Clintons and he was egged on by champion Clinton-haters like Kennedy, Kerry, Dean, Arianna Huffington, Kos and that whole radical leftwing fringe calling themselves Progressives. They were smug enough to think they didn’t need their base.
These are elitists who think they can remake the world in their image. How are they any different from the radical Conservative right wing? And they’ve had their legion of assholes from every walk of life: celebrities, New Age gurus, trumpeting their disgusting message: that America would be a better place if it just wasn’t for ‘them.’
Well, ‘them’ outnumber you guys. ‘Them’ is the face of America. The Clintons tried to explain this to you idiots but you would not listen. You could have OWNED Washington for maybe 8 if not 16 years. But no, you all just had to kill the candidacy of the best candidate. And in doing so, you’ve created a Republican woman star.
Thanks Democrats.
That’s why I’m not sad.
Couldn’t have happened to a better group of ‘folks.’
I know.
I was hoping to get some more Democrats
in congress. The Dems could actually lose 5-10 seats in the House instead of gaining 10-20., bringing
their totals down to a slim majority that could
be as small as 221 seats.
Even more impressive than the implosion in Georgia has been the complete derailment in North Carolina, which was supposed to be, along with Virginia, the ultimate New Battleground… It won’t happen.
And I DOUBT Obama will win either Florida, or Ohio, or Virginia. His only chances will be NOT losing Pennsylvania or Michigan, and grabbing Colorado AND either New Mexico or Nevada.
in PA he’s only up by 3.
Pennsylvania is not a strong blue state, like Massachusetts. Check out the map of PA 2004: those two blue islands in the NE part of the state are -
Hillary country - Scranton.
The blue in the SE part of the state is Philadelphia and some surrounding counties. Keep in mind: the Philadelphia city limits define its county boundaries. So if any of the Philly burbs go for McCain, PA is red again. And I haven’t even talked about western PA yet.
My prediction: McCain takes PA by a percentage point or so.
Be warned:
I received an email asking for volunteers from NY to go to PA to register voters for 0bama.
I say this is a state where people are going to have to watch for voter fraud.
I hope the good people of PA get angry about busloads of out-of-towners coming to strongarm their state.
mimi-
The Philadelphia machine has voter fraud down to a science. I have friends in the city who were actually TOLD they couldn’t vote Republican at a polling place…and they had a strong feeling after they left that their votes were thrown out.
There was a notorious incident where union goons beat down Republican activists, in front of TV cameras. (my BF is union, however the Philly guys have kept the city in the dark ages for a long time.)
My point is the Obots won’t have to strongarm the Philly voters. I don’t know if the Republican party in Philadelphia is going to be vigilant on this, I can find out. However I don’t think the Obotic tactics will work in the rest of the state. The Obama campaign flooded us to the point of harassment with all his stupid primary ads and Hillary still took PA by 9 points.
Yes, voter fraud would be the only way that BHO could ever win NC. The talk of it being in play was absurd. NC is and has historically been a red state for the top of the ticket.
The Philadelphia suburbs are very republican but are not the kind of republicans that Bush appealed to and for that reason democrats have done well in Delaware, Bucks, Montgomery, and Chester counties. I have worked with both democratic and republican politician in these areas and I know one thing McCain is the democrats worst nightmare in those 4 counties. Unless there is a game changer between now and November the Obama campaign is doomed to failure in Pa. The tragedy here is good Democratic congress people like Joe Sestak who face a very powerful republican machine will most likely be voted out of congress, he is having trouble raising money because of Obama’s opting out of public financing. People should be enraged because of his actions and how they have hurt the down ticket democrats.
Spot on Deke! My better half is from Delaware Co. and he swears Obama will never take HIS part of PA. He seems to think the vote there will look pretty much like the Primary vote looked, with McCain taking Hillary’s place on the winning end of the ticket. I think he’s right, and I think jeremiah was right about Michiganders going for Mccain in Nov.–there are a lot of hunters and fisherman, real outdoormen type. Resembles PA and OH,. Sarah Palin is their kind of woman and she will be the reason MI goes Red in the GE.
I didn’t know that about Sestak. His office has been very helpful to me. (He’s turned out to be a pleasant surprise!) If other of his constituents are as pleased with his service, maybe his road won’t be so tough.
Is Sestak really in trouble?
Please tell me this is not so.
I’m expecting a completely red map. I’ll be shocked if he wina any state!
I never shared Soetoro/Obama’s vision of us “low information” voters succumbing to his Svengali “charm” and sweeping him to victory. I always felt he would have to win this election the Bush way because “fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me…you can’t get fooled again.”
We’re no longer naive voters; we are probably the most cynical voters this country has ever had and we may not have won the battle of the delegates but we have every intention of winning this war against democracy that Soetoro/Obama has continued.
Ironic, isn’t it? The GOP made us cynical because of 2000, and 2004. Now because we’re cynical, we’re voting FOR the GOP in 2008!
Ironic? I think it was probably part of their plan all the time, LOL!
I’ve thought that this has all ben part of the Big Plan by the GOP, too. Knock out Hillary, present someone fundamentally reprehensible across the board as the Dem nominee, get the idiot twenty somethings to act like swine to everyone, and then present the only option - a GOP nominee to win the election.
Ironic and part of the big plan. If those Obots hadn’t have been so
S-T-U-P-I-D!!!!!
Woot!
Hillary was absolutely straight forward and forth right with the Democratic leadership last Spring-
“The map won’t change. He can’t win.”
I miss her!
He imlodes all over - McCain leads in electoral votes now
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/mccain-ahead-in-electoral-polls/
The idiots in the Democratic party need to get Ohitler to quit the race and put back Hillary on top of the ticket where she belongs. Long shot you say? Yes but its their only chance.
Ironically it is the people Ohitler and his thugs shit on the worse who will guarantee he will never be president. PUMAs rock!
And it’s people like you who guaruntee she won’t either, which is sad, because they would both do better than the person running right now who couldn’t find the truth if it bit him in the butt
It is people like me that you freely insult who left the Democractic party because of Ohitler and people like you who don’t know better than to crap where they eat.
No Barky Ever. Get over it.
Not Now!
Not Later!
Not Ever!
You and your pod buddies ruined our party.
Now OWN YOUR SHITTY CANDIDATE!
jeremiah — spot on –
If you refer to McCain and the truth, I suspect he will soon loose some truth on Obumble that will inflict grade four lacerations on his butt, and by extension yours too.
Would that even be legal?
Maybe. We’d be getting into uncharted waters. But there is a time limit to getting on ballots. And many people get early ballots in October.
It was clear from the start that the 50 State Strategy (or was it 57 state strategy?)was idiotic. Where did Dean and Barack get this idea, watching the final season of “The West Wing”?
It is ironic that he won the primary largely because of his advisers’ brilliant delegate strategy and firm grasp on the complexities of delegate math, but is now losing the general partly because of a foolish electoral vote strategy.
Hillary, thanks to Mark Penn, lost the primary because she used a general election strategy. Zerobama is, inexplicably using his primary strategy of keeping it close in states he loses and running up the score in states he wins in the GE where it does no good.
This really brings Obama’s judgement into question. He and his supporters have made a big deal of how his running the campaign demonstrates his abiity to run the country.
It now appears that his judgement is only as good as the judgement of the advisers and handlers whispering in his ear.
He sold the Democratic party on a pipe dream by
astroturfing the internet with fake support,
gaming the cuacuses to get way more delegates than he would have earned legally (without bussing in supporters and intimidating and vote stealing)
Paying off superdelegates with 10K-30K above the table and matching under the table donations,
and convincing everyone that the historic nature of his skin color could make up for the lack of credentials.
They bought it hook line and sinker and tossed out the best most qualified candidate in living history for this fraud and his 57 state strategy.
The problem with a pyramid scheme like this is eventually the base required to support it is so large that it fails.
Look everyone! It is failing!
The HPS-57V (Heinz Pickle Strategy - 57 Varieties) was clearly a grab for the condiment vote. Ohitler forgot one thing though. The Vatican opposes all forms of birth control.
Yep. He never should have talked to Kerry about heinz!
Now, lemme say first, I was a Deaniac back in ‘04, and mad as hell about how the media took him down, and maintained that if California just had an earlier primary he’d have gotten the nomination . . . so this year has been a super disappointment to me as far as Dean goes . . . for a long time I couldn’t believe he was _really_ in on this fiasco . . . but I do now.
Here’s my point:
Do you remember people criticizing Dean’s comment about how the Dems shouldn’t be ignoring the folks with confederate flags in their truck window? I remember this because I grew up in confederate flag territory. It’s just ironic that the stupid DNC, finally headed by a guy who realizes the importance of those “redneck” and “white trash” voters should, in its “50-state” strategy, do nothin’ but insult them and drive them away.
Agree. I have said for the last four years that for the Dems to win a GE again, they would have to have a Bubba on the ticket. But the Dems continue to write the continuing saga “50 Ways To Lose An Election..or can I shoot myself in the other foot, too?”
Can’t tell you how many times I was excoriated at daily kos for sharing the “bubba” wisdom about Democrats. It takes a bubba to counteract the Dem reputation for being too lefty.
So what do they do this year? They picky a super-lefty! “Flip the narrative” I think was the arrogant term Obama kept using. Reminds me of Enron … where the “smartest guys in the room” built a house of cards that fooled everyone.
I nominate the Democratic Party for this year’s Darwin award.
liz — for me the dumbest move was to tell the base of the Democratic Party that it was not needed and could stay home. We were the worker bees of the party and when they didn’t want us anymore a lot of us switched parties.
Why did the Democrats make a dumb move like that?
Exactly! I remember when Dean made his “God, gays and guns” comment. He was right on target about the need to reach those voters, and they are reachable with the right appeal.
But, he was 100% wrong with his approach. The Democratic Party needs to make some concessions to working class, social conservatives and moderates. Some actually policy change would be extremely effective, but at the very least they need to show a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T for these Americans.
Instead, Dean, Obama and the rest of the DailyKos wing of the Democratic Party decided they were going to win these voters with an appeal that more or less said:
“We realize that we need your votes, and therfore, we are going to convince you to see yourselves as the ignorant, bigoted, bitter, clingy, troglodytes that we think you are.”
For some odd reason, that hasn’t worked out so well.
Dean made a god, gays and guns comment? wow…
was that before or after that asswipe decided that gays couldn’t be proportional in delegates as blacks are because it would upset people like Donna Brazile who didn’t want gay rights to be confused with civil rights?
Dean? You know, I think I like the other Dean
–Nixon’s Dean– better than this piece of ick.
It’s one of life’s mysteries, isn’t it? Fer instance, The One Whose Color Changes Everything is the 3rd highest recipient of Fannie and Freddie money, raking in $174m since running for Senator of Banking in 04. James Johnson, the CEO of Fannie was Bo’s head of VP search. Now, I know that as a low-information ignorant voter whose only criteria is being an old, bitter racist, I am not supposed to notice these things. But why hasn’t Mr. Change ever talked about investigating, prosecuting and fixing this congress-enabled crime against the taxpayer? Or am I just supposed to overlook the whole housing looting opportunity because it is considered minority and Democratic turf?
above my pay grade - well said. Getting supporters with insults. Sounds like a good ploy if you are planning to take a dive.
I think you are getting off track with the 50 state vote strategy. The strategy is a good long term strategy but must be in place at the local levels first before it came be implemented. The strategy has been in place less than 4 years and has not yet been fully implemented. The problem was Obama thought he was some kind of transformational candidate who could appeal to all people irregardless of their party (post partisan), that has nothing to do with a 50 state strategy which is party centric.
What the failure has shown is how big a narcissus Obama is and that he is just another wishy washy democratic candidate in the mold of Kerry, Dukatis, and McGovern.
On the other hand, those of us in Red or Purple states don’t want to be that way and without some funding on the national level we have little chance of becoming Blue. So I like the first level of the strategy– let’s try to be competitive everywhere. That’s the only numerical way to electoral growth.
BUT the strategy was stupidly implemented. A real uniter, like Sen. Clinton, could have made this strategy work and by appealing to the blue collar base expanded the Party.
O’Precious? Uh. Not so much.
From a strategic point of view, the 20 ev’s in Ohio shows Obama with a 1% loss, Florida at 5% ( 27 ev’s )and a 3% lead in PA, which isn’t much. There is a reason why he is losing the key demographics that should be added for consideration. The states that are willing to drill for oil have pledged their support to McCain and now with Hurricane Ike and the shut down of the rigs, with the south red states, is a political transgression. Plouffe doesn’t comprehend the history of the states very well and tandem thinking in parallels.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
Great insightful writing Mr White.
Watching Washington Journal, I saw a new Obama ad concerning John McCain- ” a lot has changed in Washington since 1982, but not John McCain. He’s admitted that he doesn’t use a computer, and doesn’t even know how to send an email…”
Quick Question: WHY SHOULD ANYONE GIVE A SHIT IF McCAIN USES EMAIL OR NOT??? Jesus Christ, maybe he lacks the tech skills necessary to maintain a Facebook page or download the latest music, too! Can’t have someone like THAT near the White House, now, can we?
What the Obama thinks are important skills for a President to have- the ability to organize a neighborhood, get a huge crowd of morons cheering, and send that cool new YouTube video to a friend, just makes me wonder what kind of regressed frat boy gamer the Democrats gave their nomination to this year.
Yeah, everytime I see that assertion I laugh out loud. They think it’s so crucial for a President to read their blogs every day. Perhaps they want the President to post a diary at Kos like Keith “You’re No Murrow” Olbermann does.
Whatever.
It’s patently ridiculous that they keep making this argument because NO one cares whether or not the President of the United States knows how to surf the net.
I do not want the president of the United states to surf the net under any circumstances.
If he ever read and saw some of the shit on it he might just decide to put humanity out of its misery.
The ad is pandering to the ignorant but computer tech whiz kids who worship Obama. Obama loves the game ’sticks’…too bad he’s such an unqualified player.
We won’t need to hold elections in the future. They’ll just have Guitar hero competitions!
The problem is, why target a demographic you already have, and insult another (there are many people in America who still don’t use a computer or send email…like my mother and my cousins…) What a maroon this guy is.
John Houser Obama’s strategy appears to be how to lose an election one voter group at a time.
especially this place of jokers
If you are looking for Gravitas and intelligent conversation with a slight left tilt and an emphasis on integrity and objectivity,
Might i suggest Daily KOS?
They may be serving what you are hungry for:
Double flip flopped tofu burgers masquerading as meat and grape koolaid.
you are on a roll today
send the scum to the cheeto sucking place.
But try a garden burger Reverend… they aren’t that bad. Now a tofu burger is a different matter.
Agreed. There is a big difference between being President of the United States, and president of your computer club.
I wonder how many foreign Presidents / Premiers / Prime Ministers do their own emails? Isn’t that what your staff is for? Wasn’t one of the problems during the Carter Presidency that he got too involved in minutiae?
By the way, you folks over at Washington Journal, do you really know how email works? Could you fix it if the system broke? Or do you have staff to do that for you?
lol…i cant wait for the McCain Response.
I am thinking:
hehe…yeah wont ever happen but would be funny as hell.
ROFLMAO - dat chit is too funny!
I like it. Maybe a 527 ad?
Are you mentally unhinged? The entire world now works through computers and emails. yes, if someone doesn’t know the mediums that would actually make for our gravest terrorist attack (yes, attacking our computer networks would lead to far more catastrophe than anything else, it’s pretty much a proven fact), then there truly is no helping you.
Are you really that shallow and stupid? Maybe McCain can get 300 technical advisors to help with that like Obama needs 300 foreign policy advisors. And the learning curve is not that hard to learn how to e-mail, as if a or any president would be really sending his own e-mails. Now I know I’ve heard it all when that is what you are trying to imply. Geeez, we’ve really dumbed down America if you’re any example of what people expect in their president
Prep work, finishing details, and junk are done by email. The biggies still use phones to seal the deal and negotiate. If it is really big it is face to face. Middle and lower management use email to get info and after details are approved. Many of the biggies do not use email personally or only minimally. That is why they have staff.
I agree, besides isn’t one of the reason Bush doesn’t email is because of the electronic trail it leaves?
Like you said minor and finishing details but nothing of any importance is discussed.
This is such a non-issue Obama should be ashamed to bring it up.
Besides didn’t Obama and Scarlett’s emails prove to be a hot potato for him? Clooney had to issue a million dollar challenge about his email relationship with the One.
How does email benefit a President who deals with top secret information?
Truly a non-issue, just more bait for the delusional Obama supporters.
Wow, now I have an idea! Anyone got a kid who can hack into Odumba’s emails? We’ll find all of his friends there, I bet. Ayers, Rezko, Auchi and more!
Plus some hating on the clintons’s too!
Not to mention, emails have gotten a lot of people in trouble.
I think too many kids rely too much on email. It’s not helping to relate on a human level. Everything is in the abstract in cyberspace.
I knew email was not a good thing when I heard that this is the standard way this new generation ends their relationships. Huh?
That shows an emotionless generation with no guts. Oh yeah, I want someone like that in the WH.
Not!
Or how about the whole lot of knuckleheads that got busted for distibuting child porn for e-mailing a picture of one of their classmates drunk and naked at a party. Yup. The fate of the future rests in the hands of these critters.
You really have no clue about what executives do and how they do it, do you? Have you ever heard of secretaries? Chiefs of staff? Information officers? Opposition agents? Those are the people who do the email. Confidential things are still done in person.
Oh so Obama knows how to put up his own firewalls and monitor the activity on his own network 24/7.
That’s right, I forgot he was CIO of a Fortune 500 company it’s right there on his resume under Playing Pretend Jesus and Campaigning for POTUS.
McCain may not know how to use e-mail but he knows how to pick a Veep that cut off his opponent at the knees.
“Comeback here or I’ll bite your legs off!”-The Black Knight.
So, now you’re saying that someone can’t be President unless he’s a computer tech? Obamabots diss McCain’s war experience and they praise Obama because he knows how to surf the net and send out an e-mail? Honestly, how old are you guys? 16?
Yeah, Obama knows how to use email. He emails everything in. He emailed the flight 93 mourners in PA yesterday, rather than showing up to grieve with them in person as McCain did.
He emailed the hurricane victims in LA, instead of showing up to be supportive in the face of the coming storm, as McCain did.
Me, I would prefer a hands-on president who does not think the USA and the world is some kind of virtual reality game.
There are enough cheeto-eaters huddled in their basements glued to computer screens online, I really don’t want one in the oval office.
The world is REAL, not virtual.
The real question is can he ride a Segway ?
Hey dumbass, when computer problems happen. They call their IT guys.
You have to remember all the time, Obama is campaigning to “the youth.” He doesn’t realize it’s the boomers who will take him down.
This is a really stupid tactic on Obama’s part, to go after McCain on email issues. I know people who are in their 30s who have a hard time with emails! More people than not struggle with computers and get frustrated with them. So who is Obama reaching with this juvenile ad? Guys who sit around all day and play Xbox.
Real smart, Obama.
Obama is now fully-committed to engaging in the silly season, further undermining his claim to represent a new kind of politics.
Why is his campaign stepping into the obvious, basic traps set by the Republicans. How more contrary to his “new type of politics” message can Obama get, than to run an ad belittling McCain’s lack of computer savvy?
The incompetence the Obama campaign is demonstrating in undermining what should be their base stretches credulity.
Obama reeaally needs to pick up young voters. He is losing ground bigtime in other demographic groups.
He’ll have to lower the voting age ASAP. Kindergartner’s maybe?
Yeah! Give us a president who thinks being the leader of the free world is just a computer game. I can see him now, the E*Trade Baby in the Oval office.
“Ooops … did I hit the red button? Oh well, reboot. Urp … urp … bleeaggh.”
Obama could lose Michigan, too.
15 State Polling Results look very good for McCain:
http://campaigndiaries.com/2008/09/11/poll-roundup/
This morning Rasmussen had Obama ahead in Washington by only 2.
Also, as to the meme the left is spreading about the “Bush doctrine” Weekly Standard has a long list of how ABC analysts have defined it. http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/09/what_exactly_is_the_bush_doctr.asp Giggle. Even Gibson has called it different things.
I see that Kerry won Washington by 7. And Obama is leading by 2? He’s under performing Kerry?
Well consider their tag lines:
Kerry has it over on barry.
Thank you, katmandu. Like Governor Palin, I, too, was uncertain as to what Charlie Gibson meant b the “Bush Doctrine.” Please, everyone, spread this cite around. Send it to Mr. Gibson at ABC.
So Palin nailed it right on center. Unreal. What a lady. Now I am impressed. Thanks for showing me that.
Are you aware ABC edited Sarah’s interview. I understand the full interview was on Nightline last night. All other versions were edited. It seems that her answers to the questions were more explicit than we have been shown. I sure wish they would rebroadcast the full interview.
Obama will lose in Michigan. Don’t worry.
How much money you willing to put on that?
Considering i grew up in Michigan, have family in Michigan, and now that Hillary kicked Barry’s ass hard in Michigan even though he stacked his vots with Edwards and Richardsan, I am willing to bet what an Obama Campaign Button will be worth on November 5…ZERO!
Isn’t Michigan still pissed at the 1/2 vote delegates to someone not on a ballot even stealing 4 extra from Hillary debacle?
I think they are a bit more pissed about the ex-mayor of detroit at the moment.
THe one Obama was hugging.
I was born and grew up in Michigan as well (suburbs of Detroit), and came to Chicago for law school (and a career) in 1973. Barky will be a clear winner in Detroit, Ann Arbor (University of Michigan), and (probably) Southfield, Michigan, but Michigan is a big state, with lots of rural areas, and very solidly Republican areas just outside of East Lansing (Michigan State). Then there is the upper penninsula as well. I think that the only way Obama wins Michigan is if the turn out in Detroit and Ann Arbor greatly exceeds previous election turn outs. Michigan could be very close.
Barack Obama: “Change does not move from top to bottom, but from bottom to top.”
Then please, Barack, drop out of the race and go back to neighborhood organizing. If you really believe that you are the agent of change we have been waiting for, and if you really believe what I just quoted and you aren’t just spewing cliche’s, then please practice what you preach and stop trying to get to the top.
Notice that Obama’s commercials nowadays criticize people who use “change” as a slogan- “change can’t just be words, it has to mean action…” Jesus Christ.
Words. Just Words.
I love this place. There is too much to learn.
I know, it’s so hard to keep up.
One might say that the “Chickens have come home to roost”
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
Snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.
My dream was also Clinton/Clark as was stated above.
Barrak America’s CHICKENS
are coming home
To Roost!!
You racist son of a bitch!
I figured I’d save FF and that bowel movement guy from having to say it.
LOL
You missed the wacko that was here last night. She was channeling Carries mother with turrets syndrome and a bad case of illiterate leftism.
LOL!
Hell yes it’s Red in Georgia! (Actually, Red & Black, How ’bout them Dawgs?), but seriously, I heard that back in February about how he was going to change the map and take the Southern states. I thought then that he was out of his tree. There might be a large AA population in GA.,AL.,and Miss. but that is not enough. The night I turned on Fox and saw Jeremiah Wright for the first time, and then I read about letting babies die in utility rooms, and I knew he was dead in the water down South. They don’t go for shit like that down there (I guess they’re still not “progressive” enough), and don’t assume the Bubba’s are all racist either, cuz I’ve lived up north and down south, and race relations seem a damn sight better in GA. than they did in PA. or DE., where there appears to be open hatred towards each other. No, the reason they don’t go for that Liberal stuff Obama peddles, is the southerners see the influence that the influx of east coast transplants have had in their schools, and their communities, and they feel like they are pushy, aggressive and they don’t discipline their kids very well. People down south, Black and White have manners, and they believe that you respect your elders, they still say the pledge of allegiance, and they send more troops to the wars that we engage in than any other area of the country. Obama’s problem is he believes if he shits in a dixie cup, everybody’s gonna line up with a spoon. If being smart enough to see the difference between good and bad values makes somebody White Trash, then I aspire to be biggest piece of White Trash on the face of the Earth!
Good Gawd…”Obama’s problem is he believes if he shits in a dixie cup, everybody’s gonna line up with a spoon.”
EEEWWWWW
Trying to rid my mind of this visual.
HA!
Here look at this picture it will get rid of the visual for you.
http://d0.biggestmenu.com/00/00/30/d0137f88d8aa0765_m.jpg
HaHa!! Did not help with the visual.
not even with the added bonus of the oreos?
This reminds me of a situation in the hospital called a Code Brown, an emergency which will never get the sympathetic media portrayal of a Code Blue. The Dems have created a code brown and now they get to sit in it until a nurse shows up to fix it. But–maybe she’s taking a break.
well that explains why all those people in hospital robes don’t wear underwear…its code brown preparation.
Bingo!
I’m waiting for the GOP to really lower the boom on Obama with Rezko, Wright, and Ayres — then watch as congressional candidates are attacked for supporting Obama….
All the Oborg who keep telling us how crucial it is that McCain be beaten should now be telling Obama to step down, and let Hillary be the nominee. If its that crucial to beat McCain, then they should acknowledge that Hillary is still the best candidate to do that….
The Oborg are showing signs of moving in that direction. The PUMA worm has infected their master CPU.
That can’t be done. I think the party is badly badly damaged right now. Maybe, maybe Hillary can fix it after the elections. But if it was for me, I would like to see Hillary say PUMA.
Another EC map that shows McCain winning:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
Two, four, six, eight,
What would we appreciate?
Attack ads, attack ads, BAIPA and Ayers attack ads!
And don’t give me any lip, Obama supporters– at least your candidate realizes that to win, he has to go on the attack. I’ll give him that.
I was not aware till now at the extent that Gibson eidted out her complete answers. It seems Gibson and ABC did not want anybody to hear her talking about being a outsider etc.
I still think overall did she did quite well in the interview, and Gibson came off really bad, but its a shame that her strongest parts of the interview were cut out.
McCain cant say the interview was too tough, but they certainly can complain about the way it was edited.
I am still looking for the full transcript without edits or the full video without edits of her responses.
I was really annoyed they kept cutting off her answers…found that really disturbing.
Yes. Because they advertised for the ratings and then they cut off her complete answers. It shows not only biased journalism but an anti-democratic intent.
The editing cuts were obvious throughout the televised segment. I bet most viewers were peeved off and wondered what they missed.
Jake Tapper headline:
When He’s Facing a Tough Woman…Obama Goes on SNL
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/when-hes-facing.html
From the article:
“Obama often complains about the media not covering enough substance, and focusing on too much entertainment-related tabloid nonsense.”
WOW. Now that should be a sobering slap across the face, but I doubt The One will see when the joke is on him. He never does. Case in point: Clinton saying Obama will win “pretty handily” in November. If that is not a helping push over the cliff I don’t know what is. LOL. And Obamabots are ecstatic thinking Clinton is foreseeing the future. Irony is not part of the bot vocabulary or understanding. That is fer sure.
Big Dawg was just making an editorial comment on Obama’s “pretty hands” (never seen a hard day’s work.)
Next week SNL could lead with Wright’s adulterous affair.
OMG, A Democrat might lose georgia, wow, you’re right, Obama is awful…
Clinton won Georgia twice.
joe bob now says
*crickets*
Lovin’ it!!!!!!!!!
Joe Bob we are having a lot of fun on this thread so far. Du us a favor and try not to troll till you have had your third latte.
Its such a nice day go out and get some sun and imagine what a wonderful world it will be soon. While you may not end up with Obama to save you from yourself, with President McCain to Protect you from yourself you still win! We all do!
Obama is offal.
The entire Obama express is about to derail and crash and spill their lattes all over themselves. They have greatly underestimated the intelligence, determination and courage of middle america. Having a college education, nicer house, fancy clothes etc. does not make someone a better person or necessarily smarter. The one thing we have that they don’t is common sense. I’ll take that over book smarts any day.
Dems Nightmare Scenario:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
nonono…
The Dems REAL nightmare Scenario:
World of Warcraft Expansion 2 is being released October 31.
There goes the college kid and basement dweller vote!
Is anyone else noticing how you couldn’t go on any website or you’d see an Obama ad? Well, now I am only seeing McCain everywhere! I love it!
Oh baby I’ve waited a long time for this. I visit rasmussenreports almost every day …
wahoo!
What’s got into Tapper today? This is really funny:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/barack-isotoner.html
That schoolyard bully Ohitler will never even make it to junior high.
“Barack ‘Isotoner’ Obama”
I LOVE THAT!
“If the gloves don’t fit, you must acquit!”
Ouch, that’s a good (evil) one.
From the article:
Continues Plouffe, “We will respond with speed and ferocity to John McCain’s attacks and we will take the fight to him, but we will do it on the big issues that matter to the American people. We will not allow John McCain and his band of Karl Rove disciples to make this big election about small things.”
My, my. They do think they are smart and everyone else is stupid. They huff and puff this kind of rhetoric and then they release an ad that does not deal with “big issues”, but attacks McCain, personally. My, my. The plot is lost and the lights are out.
OH so that’s why they’re doing ads about McCain not using e-mail.
Yeah, it’s beyond ridiculous at this point. They are not even aware how utterly stupid they sound.
Exactly. The BIG STUFF. Email. Lipstick. Pigs. Stinking fish. Only difference is that in previous removals of Isotoners, he was going after Clinton with the full support of the media. Now going gloveless is going to be a lot trickier. Best go right for the gut: email.
Oh yeah, and they’re gonna show Sarah Palin a thing or two, and call her a pig. Now THAT will show everyone they mean business and care about the issues of importance to this country.
“Small things”, like Obama’s accomplishments? No he couldn’t have meant that, as Obama’s accomplishments are non-existent things. Sorry Obie, to paraphrase Liz B above, if the Isotoners don’t fit, you must now quit.
Barack may have to throw the kitchen sink, the dishes and the entire buffet!!!
Tapper’s en fuego!
We all knew this when we were voting for Hillary. It was obvious that Obama had no chance in November.
No chance at all.
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They cut off her answers because they are in the tank for BO like everyone else, and they wanted to “shape” the interview a way that put her in the worst light. Clearly if they allowed her to get out her “populus” message it would have made her look better, and therefore it ends up on the editors floor.
Gibson was a complete ass. He was tough, but thats not my complaint. My complaint is his whole demeanor and the way he asked the questions, it was like he was a interagator, and that would throw anybody off their game a bit, but I think it was so obvious that it actually will help her score points with the public.
If I was McCain I would never give Gibson another interview through my whole presidency. That kind of behavior from Gibson is unexcusable, ecspecially from someone who has been around as long as he has.
But again overall it was a plus for her I think. Not a game changer, but a overall positive interview in political terms.
I dont think you will ever find the full version on video. I am sure ABC has it under lock and key, unless of course someone leaks it, which I hope is the case …
is there even a full version of the unedited transcript at least?
Thats a good question about the text. I saw a expanded text version of the interview, but I still dont think it was the entire interview.
I only saw portions of the interview. But she
looked him straight in the eye and answered directly and confidently. He looked like a freakin’ ass. She looked cool and confident and
very like-able.
She’s a natural.
“Who is this Democratic Governor? Considered Presidential Timber after being Elected to Public Office for the First Time…But It’s Sarah Palin Who is “Inexperienced” ?”
http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/who-is-this-democratic-governor-considered-presidential-timber-after-being-elected-to-public-office-for-the-first-timebut-its-sarah-palin-who-is-inexperienced/
Read through the resume and take a guess! (answer at any of the sources listed at the end….)
Thanks for the compliments Liz B! I live in Middle Georgia and it is now and always was going to be red in November. For those peons to think they could change anything down here is laughable. If you look at the voting demographics, the only places that are blue are near the mid-size cities and Atlanta. And that red has been getting deeper every year. I have always been the lone Dem in a room full of Republicans and have worked with some who are very active in the party and they have a strategy here that is working - forget the national scene, focus on our own backyard. They are now the majority here in all the pertinent offices and the legislature. The only reason Obama was doing so well for a period of time was that the polling was so limited, IMO.
Yes Ma’am, I came from Fayette Co. and I was the lone Dem. in my friends, too. The south can always be counted on to vote for “values”, they believe that the main issue in Americas is it’s rapidly decining values. Now that I’m a Mom and have had to listen to my teen trying to sneak Lil Wayne past me, or the day I overheard a group of 6-year-old girls singing about their “Lovely Lady Lumps”, I’ve started to see the light! Besides, we Georgians don’t drink Grape KoolAid, we drink Sweet Tea!
It is a sick society when six year olds know the lyrics to “My Humps”.
But hey, William (I won’t give him the dignity of acknowledging his “creativity” with his name) is also the douchebag who put out the “Yes We Can” video. It was that day that the Black Eyed Peas coolness died for me.
Be sure to drag out the Sweeeet!
Poor, poor Little Boots, spend 6 million dollars on his coming OUT speech at Mile High, and what did he get? Baracuda! Ha ha..Mr.Soetoro produce your original birth certificate, where are your medical records? Purge our party, bigtime, First, the screamer, Ms Rules-Donna, hypocrite-Welxer, Lerch-Kerry or if you prefer, the sad sack, with that crazy wife, Ms. Heinz! We need to make a complete sweep of all the Mugabe wannabe thugs, deprograming. Clinton, 2012!
This is new– Rasmussen has Obama down to a 2 point lead in Washington.
Perhaps McCain may yet find a way to stumble onto victory– sort of like Captain Parmenter in the theme song from F Troop.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/washington/election_2008_washington_presidential_election
We need to remember that “America is a bunch of racists” and are lying to the pollsters about supporting Ohitler. Seriously I think that “white guilt” may be inflating support for Ohitler and that 2 point spread is actually much bigger in McPalin’s direction.
well i know anytime i get canvased or polled i say i am an enthusiastic Obama Supporter.
I don’t know who is calling or how much info they have on me.
Screw that!
Ofcourse whenever they ask for money i tell them i already gave my 5 bucks to him in february.
Me too. You’re the first person I’ve seen mention this, but it’s exactly how I react to being called. I don’t trust the Obama goons not to have my house under observation.
Anyone else out there feel this way? Or are JGDAW and I true paranoids?
If McCain is only down 2 in Washington, I’ve got to think the next poll out of Oregon will show him at least tied or maybe ahead of Barry by a point or two.
If you look at the General Election Results for the past 4 elections, Wahington and Oregon always run parallel to eachother, with Washington being about 2 to 4 points more favorable to the Democrats.
Zerobama is no on defense all over the country in states that would have been fairly safe for a generic Democrat this cycle: WA, OR, PA, MI. He sure could have used some of that cash he squandered in Georgia and Indiana in these battles.
If WI and MI get close again, Barry will be in a made scramble on defense, and be very limited in his ability to play offense in OH, NM, CO, & VA. He might as well abandon FL at this point.
Obama is hurting local Dem races. He’s caused the generic congressional polls to drop from a 11 point Dem advantage to something much smaller.
Around here the Republicans flat out say while campaigning, “he/she supported Obama, do you trust their judgment?” How am I supposed to respond to that? Your party supported an unqualified buffoon, so we’d like the opportunity to do the same?
Chickens have come home to roost.
Racist!
And roast.
I have already sent an e-mail to a woman running against our Republican governor that when she put her support behind Obama, she lost mine. Another Dem running for my district called me for support. I asked if he was supporting Obama and he said yes. I said well you just lost my vote. I would be willing to bet most Dem’s are so I am most likely voting a straight Republican ticket this year.
If Obama is serious about ending corruption and business as usual in Washington, when is he going to speak out against Congressman Rangel?
Chuck Rangel, a lawyer who has been a member of the tax-writing committee for three decades, is under fire because of disclosures about his failure to pay taxes on rental income from his Dominican Republic beach house, his use of Congressional stationery to solicit financial support from corporations with business interests before his Congressional committee for a City University center that will bear his name, and his many rent-stabilized apartments, intended for low income residents but used for his campaign offices, in Upper Manhattan.
http://nobho.blogspot.com
If Obama is serious about ending corruption and business as usual in Washington he will jail himself.
Rather than promote “Change” and reform the corruption that is Chicago “It ain’t beanbag” politics, Obama eagerly climbed aboard the Tax Looters R Us Gravy Train. As a state Senator and chair of the Illinois Senate’s powerful Health and Human Services Committee, Obama pushed legislation that paved the way towards hospital contracts for his developer pal Rezko, who in turn contributed heavily to Obama’s campaign, and enabled Michelle to land her University of Chicago Hospital’s Vice President for External Affairs position.
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/33028.html
http://nobho.blogspot.com
Virginia is the biggest puzzle to me.
Nestle next to TN. and NC. and yet the trending is SO different!
Largest part of the population is located in Fairfax and Loudoun Counties, latte sippers all. Loudoun has the Highest Median Income per household for 2008. The Middle aged White guys call each other “Dude”, and their wives throw Botox parties with the frequency that rivals the amount of times Obama can say umm…urr..umm.
Go below those two counties and it’s Red the rest of the way down.
If McCain can manage to convince the “Desperately seeking the next trend” voters in these 2 counties, he’ll have no trouble sealing the deal in Virginia.
Obamanation is not in a meltdown because Sarah Palin is appealing to Hillary voters. Obama is spiraling out of control because the Obama Reform House of Cards, Smoke and Mirrors has been exposed as a hoax by a real reformer, Gov. Sarah Palin.
http://nobho.blogspot.com/
Johnny, I think McCain is enjoying the benefits of Clinton voters who were cheated from the nomination by the ObamaSoetoro thug tactics and the DNC.
Spot on!
Please enjoy a complementary hot buttered popcorn and cool tall one! On the house.
That is true. But the real meltdown started when Sarah the Reformer came to town. When people heard her story at the Convention, they wanted to be on board. Hillary voters are a subpart of the larger group that is getting bigger every day.
johnny;
as an independent voter, and i must say these PUMAs are the ‘real deal!’
i have never seen a more committed and (may i say) principled group of people in a L-O-N-G time…
in my opinion, this WILL be the difference!
go PUMAs - and i, for one, respect you all!
It gets bigger every day as people recall their own frustrating experiences and begin to identify with her and to admire her courage and renew hope.
“Today is the first day of the rest of the campaign,” Obama campaign manager David Plouffe says in a campaign strategy memo. “We will respond with speed and ferocity to John McCain’s attacks and we will take the fight to him.”
Oh, you wanna get down huh? You think anyone has even BEGUN to fight you people??
AND:
Hey did anyone see the NEW Obama ad against McCain this morning?? They are mocking his age, and I don’t think seniors will freakin’ appreciate it.
I gotta find it.
Racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, elitism and ageism. Nice pallet of tools the Ohitler campaign uses.
It’s a surefire way to alienate every voter in the land.
Barack “Gutterball” Obama
The more Obama and his band of thugs open their mouths, the more people see them for what they are: slimeballs
Hey Obama, I thought you claimed to be a new kind of politician? Obama is nothing but a Chicago bully wrapped in an empty suit.
But as we all know, Obama is use to rolling gutterballs.
Pathetic!
I haven’t seen it yet but I am not suprised. They have used about every other form of discrimination. They’re stupid….
Here it is:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/still_ad/
I agree, it is now safe to add ageism to Obama’s growing list of “amazing” attributes!
Wasn’t Biden on the welcoming committee when McCain got there?
All about the important issues American face. Yes Sr.
Pathological habitual liar.
Ha, well, while they’re firing wildly into the darkness and missing the target every time:
Biden living up to his gaffe-prone reputation
By John M. Broder
Thursday, September 11, 2008
http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=16081515
Biden needs minders cause he’s so OLD … lol
One thing I love is when they have dem
experts as color commentators. And under their name it says something like “Gephardt’s
campaign manager.”
I just hit the floor laughing. This is something they want to brag about?
Gold plated invitation to the McCain campaign! Cool!
McCain replied, “I will meet you anywhere, anytime, anyplace. Bring it on! Let me get those ads we’ve kept in the vault!”
Wow, they resort to quoting corny sayings from the 1960s. I thought Obamalites *hated* baby boomers. Now they’re stealing our sappy words?
Oops, forgot the quote:
“Today is the first day of the rest of the campaign”
Most of them are confused with the fact that people born in 1961 are overlapped with Boomers and Generation X. Give me the boomers over the generation x any day..
Have only gotten mail asking for donations up to this week, now am getting calls and emails asking for donations from Dems., $ is needed to counter the Repubs., the electorate is being lead by “personality” not issues.
Get it, in their warped mind, or cynical self, Sarah Palin appeal is all about “personality”, the cult of Obama is all about “issues”…implode please, state by state to follow the Dean Scream paradigm.
I’m suddenly getting calls from the DNC and the DSCC too. Told ‘em not giving money to the Democrats this time.
Oh? Why not? They ask?
BARACK OBAMA, I respond.
{{{{crickets}}}
So, I say goodbye and hang up.
Got Plouffe’s memo this morning and unsubscribed from their list [for the 2nd time]. In the comment section as to why I’m unsubscribing, I wrote: BARACK OBAMA.
It’s pretty clear to me that Democrats are feeling quite desperate at this point, which only adds to the stink of “loser” around their “presumed nominee.”
I hope you’re telling them you’re sorry you can’t give because you maxed yourself out to the GOP the day McCain announced Palin…there was just something about that gal’s personality…
good one…I may use that.
BO never had a snowball’s chance in hell of capturing GA, anyway. What the hell was Plouffe smoking?
i am sure he was just thinking of all the extra cash money he would be making off of Obama and the DNC…
just like Rezko
just like Daley
etc etc….
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
The crack Barry got from Sinclair.
when is the sinclair story going to break?
keeping that baby surpressed has got to be taking a lot of money and resources.
Come on media, let Mr. Sinclair have his day in the sun.
let me guess… arrogance?
When the GOP comes out with all guns blazing, it’ll be all over for Obama. Finis. This is the GOP we are talking about. They know how to win elections. Only the Clintons could beat the GOP. Obama is toast!
AGREED….
McCain now +3 in Ras tracking…
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
If BO actually incorporated a fifty state strategy, then why didn’t he put his name on the ballot in Michigan?
Like Caucus Delegates, some states count more than one time.
oooh…good point!!
You have to name your aliases to put your name on a Michigan Ballot…
seriously
I`m declaring Nov 4 a national holiday…..PUMA DAY.
I’m taking 11/4 and 11/5 off from work. 11/4 to be an election judge or video the vote and the 5th because I’m afraid of the rioting Obots. Seriously!
Ohio Poll has McCain Ahead, Not Obama
http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/09/ohio_poll_has_mccain_ahead_not.html
Good thing we run an electoral college.
that’s alot of pets and dead people…
Obama won’t win the popular vote. He didn’t in the primary and he won’t in the general.
Give it a little more time. I hear the boats a comin’
I’m from VA, and yes it is different from NC and TN.
If you think of it like CO, you are probably closer to the mark…pretty moderate-minded voters. Republicans have an advantage but Clinton-type democrats do well too. Mark Warner and Jim Webb being good examples.
There are 3 urban areas to concentrate on–NorVa (northern Va, outside D.C.), Richmond, and down where I am is the Hampton Roads area. Hampton Roads is a heavy military area (Norfolk Naval Base for starters) with both active duty and A LOT of retirees.
McCain will take VA, imo.
I expect there will be lots of dead people voting for Obama in those locations lol
I can’t speak for TN and NC, but VA has had pretty clean elections. I worked on them for 7+ years in NoVA and it was all very professional. I definitely agree with cdo that VA is going to go with McCain. Recall that former Republican Webb just won a Senate seat there. Between McCain’s military record and Palin’s hockey mom and family values, it is a lock on the state.
At this point you have to at least be BRAIN DEAD to be voting for zeromama ….
I’m from NOVA and I think Obama is getting weaker by the day there. Based on Marc Fisher’s interviews with Dem and indie women yesterday, Obama is in big trouble there.
Speaking of women, equality, etc. –
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NmEzMTZmNTk5MDI0NTZmNjUwMjllN2ZlZTc0MWFmYzY=
Women nationally make 77 cents for every dollar a male makes
On Obama’s Senate staff, they’re up to 83 cents on the dollar. Huzzah!
McCain’s staff? He pays them $1.04 for every dollar he pays his male staff.
Now ask yourself why Obama did not select Hillary.
Equal Pay Act is off the table for the Obama campaign now. The blowback from the McCain attack ad, using these stats, would be devastating.
Of course, there is a good chance McCain’s people will put out an ad about this, even if Barry never brings up Equal Pay again.
That’s why I get so angry with Hillary. And that was what she featured when she came down to Florida early this week.
don’t get angry with Hillary. She’s on sabbatical.
Just in:
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in McCain Closes to Within Two Points of Obama in Washington
.. Washington.. the state! Not good news for Obama..
Obama may be still ahead in Washington, but look at the favorable ratings in Washington and most other states of the union. McCain 60 Obama 58.
You can see that in lots of states.
Yes, Obama will definitely change the political map by coloring blue states red…
OH! WOW!!!!
Obama has become so toxic, I fear for our down ticket candidates.
Here in my state, Inhofe is running ads now with his Democratic opponents picture next to Obama.
What was a promising candidacy is probably going to tank.
Even Stevens has a shot again in Alaska… Who would have thought?
I also was raised in the Alabama part of Pennsylvania –one of the reasons I left actually — and God love them — and I do — it is still Alabama.
Right, those oil companies–darn left-wing liberals, all of’em!
Spare me. Our dependence on foreign oil enormously benefits Republicans most, and Democrats secondarily.
And who, pray tell, are Reid and his “liberal allies”? Would that be the Democratic Congress that has done every single damn last thing that the REPUBLICAN president (a universally acknowledged crackpot and moron with a 20% approval rating) wanted?? Those liberals?
The RW cockroach infestation is getting deep in here.
Oh, and great post Bud White!!
Somehow, these fools thought that the same strategy that put Deval Patrick in the MA statehouse would work for the whole country. A Republican–Mitt–had become govenor in MA, yes–by lying to everyone just like he always does. He convinced liberals, even greens, that he was on their side and then betrayed them. So, I guess, the Bobo camp thought Repubs could be charmed into voting for a man closer to Stalin than Reagan(!) It sounds to me like their plans bear more resemblance to winning a video game than the Presidency. And, seeing how immature Bobo is, that might be. The whole thing is like a mass hallicination: a radical black candidate with a mean-mouthed wife paints two civil-rights icons as racists, has race-baiting friends and associates, gives excuses for terrorists, is dubbed the most pro-abortion pol in the nation–but he’s gonna win GOP votes!! They knew they’d lose the Archie Bunker and Bubba votes, but–hey!–just create new, pro-BO voters! George McGovern was mild compared to Obama, and the former got DC and MA. But Bobo is counting on Indiana!
Obama’s supporters are varied, Corporatists, Extreme Left, young and naive Dems, mainly those who were promoting his race as the defining reason and African Americans. They were hoping the base would follow blindly. But the AA’s and Corporatists and Symbol voters knew what he was and that was that he was and African American that acted like a Corporatist Republican and thought he was the perfect opportunity to slide in a Corporate Puppet (Manchurian Candidate) because he looked like folks believed to be Democratic. They pushed him to run NOW, because “people would want Anybody But Republican” and his record would be too obvious as a Republican Light if he waited.
The Democrats shouldn’t have worked so hard to push out Rudy Giuliani early, thinking that the Maverick was finished and they would get the chance to run against Mitt Romney.
Obama’s problem is that there is too much time for reality not to shine through. He may have the media covering for him (GE, Media, Hollywood, Energy and Military), because he is their perfect puppet, but the rest is still coming out because he has to campaign.
We all looked at Obama the man, not the symbol, so we’re not surprised. We didn’t drink the koolaid and just click our heal ans say “just believe”. Those already got reality on Backtrack Barry’s latest flips when they pleaded to stop flipping and go back to his original position and he said NO, maybe you’ll agree with me on 90 percent of my positions. Fine example of holding his feet to the fire, NOT. He’s telling them he will do what HE WANTS, not the voters-already. (yes, we already knew that), but now the extremists who really should have shared what they were consuming, thought he was some mystical person, the chosen one that his promise to cut Military was the example. “Finally someone willing to get rid of the Oreos True Majority have been feeding on, cut the Military. And now, Backtrack Barry is talking of INCREASING our MILITARY. Talk about a slap in the fase to those naive persons.
This campaign was too long to have too much time for information to come out and that’s what happens when someone is a fraud and they take every side of a position. The only question is will enough informaiton leak out through the cracks for the people to see what a dangerous person he would be to have the position as President of The United States.
Like a Chicago journalist wrote to me over a year ago says it best, ”
Yes, Obama is a cynic and a liar. Having spent about an hour alone with the man, I also think he’s very shallow, a rank hustler.”
Another reason why the Dem’s are freaking out. It was bad enough that had to fight the Maverick, but now the Maverick is really looking like their Symbolic Change with a Woman, where Bambi didn’t have the chutzpah to do when he had the strongest WOMAN he could have chosen, but the Woman who is running also completes the ticket on real life Executive experience. lol
Well, I’ve just received a 2nd response to my emails that Camp Obama is sending out filled with all lies on Sarah’s positions, including the already debunked lie of her banning books. And the reply is the same, I would rather….. So, in other words, THEY KNOW IT LIES, but the END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS. How low the Democrats have sunk.
Barry’s latest “get tough ads” are going over like a lead balloon on MYDD. (For those who don’t know this site is about 50/50 split between Obamabots and Hillary supporters who have decided to go down with the ship)
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/9/12/6434/07836#commenttop
This doesn’t happen often, but I agree with the majority of them 100%.
The “Still” ad starts out kind of funny, but pulls back from the humor and comes off a bit petty and mean, and will probably offend many older voters.
They should have gone over the top with the humor. Instead of harping on McCain’s lack of computer skills, they should have labeled him as “stuck in the 80’s”. It’s not really true, but they might have made it stick a little.
Also, how could they NOT use “Dancing Queen” by Abba as the background music? McCain has said this is his favorite song. Instead they used some light modern jazz type music, that seemed more late 50’s early 60’s.
In the “Real Change” ad, Barry looks tired and cranky, not charismatic or positive, and doesn’t bring anything new to the table. In fact, it makes his once electrifying “change” message look old and stale.
Hey Above,
good analysis, but a warning… the obots steal ideas. Their way of thinking is quite linear and obvious. When an intelligent person looks at an issue they see offshoots and possibilities an obat can’t realize.
I’ve had ideas swiped by the little turds a couple of times. So, when you know the weaknesses to exploit in McCain, be very, very careful.
They do love themselves some plagarism and idea stealing over at Obamadreamland. Don’t help the rummy punks.
Understood. Thanks!
OMG! I just laughed watching that change one. The Odumba is slamming his own mantra! It makes him look even more stupid than he is IMO. That isn’t easy to do with his stupidometer!
McCain is a genious. Odumba attacks himself! Love it!
mydd in meltdown:
“I’m sorry but I am officially embarrassed.
Why why WHY WHY!!! did the Obama Campaign have a better strategy for beating Hillary Clinton (a fellow Democrat) than winning the GE? What’s the message people? What’s the PLAN?
I am so angry, frustrated, reeling right now that I cannot see straight. That same helpless, sinking feeling from 2004 is back BIGTIME. What the hell is wrong with the Obama campaign?”
;>
Off topic, but this is a good one:
START EACH DAY WITH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK
1. Open a new file in your computer.
2. Name it ‘Barack Obama’.
3. Send it to the Recycle Bin.
4. Empty the Recycle Bin.
5. Your PC will ask you: ‘Do you really want to get rid of ‘Barack Obama?’
6. Firmly Click ‘Yes.’
7. Feel better?
GOOD! - Tomorrow we’ll do Nancy Pelosi!
LMAO!
I love this idea!!!!!
On June 3rd, electoral-vote.com published their last Clinton vs. McCain map (http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Clinton/Maps/Jun03.html)
She was ahead 327 to 194, with Michigan undecided.
Back then, Obama was at 276 to 238 with Indiana and Virginia undecided.
The current map has Obama at 268 to 270 behind, no ties.
Clinton’s gains would have been, based on that last matchup: Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, West Virginia, Nevada, New Mexico, Florida, North Carolina and, of course, Arkansas. She would have afforded to lose the tied Michigan, Florida plus even Ohio and would still have won the election with 280 EC votes, easily.
Obama would have picked up Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio (barely) and Iowa. He could not have afforded to lose even Iowa.
Currently, Obama picks up Colorado and Iowa.
4 years ago, the map looked similar. Nevada and Florida were tied, Kerry was way ahead in New Mexico and lead 273 to 233. Kerry lost in the end.
Obama’s argument that he would change the political landscape is a fairytale.
Hey! Let’s not get “racist”.
I get it. So what Bill Clinton said yesterday that Barack was going to win handily was the next to the last chapter of the fairy tale. That makes my day.
Clinton fairy tale act 2: Barack will win the election and he will win handily.
Poor Barack, he looses everywhere.
Create enemies and they will pluck your eyes off your face.
what ever happened with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg8iZgapf3Y
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
she said I am sorry, not very well, but she did apologize.
Amerians are suffereing each day and all Obama can do is put up an ad mockling Mccain that he doesnt know how to use computer.Obama is really out of touch..my parents doesnt even know how to uses them is he mocking them too..what an elist
You know I thought the same thing about my parents, They are in there 80’s and live in rural America…you know the kind of voter he needs…never used a computer…
I don’t remember.. but isn’t JFK the one Obama strives to copycat? Did JFK use computers?
Did Lincoln? Did FDR? .. I just can’t remember if they did or not…
hmmm..
But I guess the Obots can always point out that Jesus used computers.
Thanks Larry,
We need every state the republicans have gotten in the past…
I used to ask my husband….if we have more registered dems in this state why does it always go to the republicans…I posted a link here yesterday to a article form a local paper saying ….The percentages of state voters who identify themselves as Republicans or independents have increased since the 2006 general election, while Democrats have seen their overall share of registered voters fall to a historic low….Democrats can no longer claim a majority of voters in the state, as their numbers dipped below 50 percent for the first time in state history.…yes Obama is causing change all over the US., just not the kind he had in mind….to be fair..I know the dems have been registering a lot of new dems all over the US., Hillary was a big boost in the numbers during the primary, a lot of those new dem voters were independents but went dem only to vote in the primary, the question is who will they vote for in November. The number of people who identify themselves as democrats is dropping as the election gets closer…this election is making history in more ways then people realize….I believe it is going to be very close in some states.
I have only checked the numbers in my state but I do find it a bit funny that for the first time in the history of the state the republicans are on top…
Thanks Larry,
We need every state the republicans have gotten in the past…a extra would be nice
I used to ask my husband….if we have more registered dems in this state why does it always go to the republicans…I posted a link here yesterday to a article form a local paper saying ….The percentages of state voters who identify themselves as Republicans or independents have increased since the 2006 general election, while Democrats have seen their overall share of registered voters fall to a historic low….Democrats can no longer claim a majority of voters in the state, as their numbers dipped below 50 percent for the first time in state history.…yes Obama is causing change all over the US., just not the kind he had in mind….to be fair..I know the dems have been registering a lot of new dems all over the US., Hillary was a big boost in the numbers during the primary, a lot of those new dem voters were independents but went dem only to vote in the primary, the question is who will they vote for in November. The number of people who identify themselves as democrats is dropping as the election gets closer…this election is making history in more ways then people realize….I believe it is going to be very close in some states.
I have only checked the numbers in my state but I do find it a bit funny that for the first time in the history of the state the republicans are on top…
I think I am wearing out my keyboard on my lap top here..I was adding to my post and it posted…sorry for the double post…
Link for 527’s (try again):
http://www.bythefault.com/2008/09/12/here-they-come-a-plethora-of-527-ads/
If it doesn’t work, go to bythefault.com
HOLY SHIT!!!!
8 EIGHT ATTACK ADS!!!!
OH MY GAWD!!!
the site has them all up on the same page
http://www.bythefault.com/2008/09/12/here-they-come-a-plethora-of-527-ads/
devestating
Oh, these are just the pre-game snacks.
He is gonna run out of lipstick before the republican pacs run out of Barry Bacon to fry.
This is only from ONE GROUP. Imagine what else is out there. Holy Hell’s a mighty! Hold onto your hat there Mabel! It’s going to make Ike like like child’s play …..
I am going to need a lot more Orville Redenbacher’s Gourmet Popping Corn. Time to go to COSTCO.
Obama’s biggest problem is … Obama. Specifixally, when he does badly in a state (Georgia, fo example), he sees it as a failure of the voters but not as a failure of his campaign
Camp Obama decides to officially claim the Change mantle, while insisting “No, I’m the candidate of change” -NO LIE(I laughed lastnight watching the Hurricane-a greaty movie and I LOVE Denzel, but in the movie there are clips of Ali saying “I feel Hope for Change”…and then the Hurricane saying, he had to “transcend”)
“Obama in touch with our roots: Changes Like The Wind”
seriously, this coming from ABC’s Jake Tapper (what a shocker)
The new Campaign slogan
“The Isototoner Campaign”
“Barack ‘Isotoner’ Obama to Take Off his Third or Fourth Pair of Gloves and Get Tough
September 12, 2008 7:11 AM
Like any number of Democratic candidates before him — Mike Dukakis, Al Gore, John Kerry — Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, is once again declaring that he is going to take off the gloves and fight back against attacks from the Republican party.
This is what you’re going to hear from his campaign today, anyway, which is unveiling two new TV ads, including this attack ad against Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
But just so you know — this is by my count the 4th time Obama’s campaign has officially or unofficially made such a declaration that Obama will “take off the gloves” and fight back.
That’s a lot of pairs of gloves.
The Isotoner campaign, one might say.
Another part of today’s claim is that the Democrat is going to aggressively claim the “change” mantle.
As part of this — the staggeringly fresh assertion that Sen. John McCain has voted with President Bush 90% of the time, a factoid Obama has only made seven thousand times before.
Today will also be, per the Obama campaign, the first day of the home stretch. This will be, to my count, at least the second time the Obama campaign has decreed such a new beginning, perhaps even the third.
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe lays this all out in a memo called “Heading into the Final Stretch” today saying that “Obama said earlier this week ‘enough is enough.’ This election is too important and the challenges too big to spend the next 54 days talking about trivial non-issues. Today is the first day of the rest of the campaign..”
Continues Plouffe, “We will respond with speed and ferocity to John McCain’s attacks and we will take the fight to him, but we will do it on the big issues that matter to the American people. We will not allow John McCain and his band of Karl Rove disciples to make this big election about small things.”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/barack-isotoner.html
Barry’s problem is that “taking off the gloves” doesn’t do much good when you have no fists under those gloves and your opponent has an iron jaw.
Yeah, and yours is glass.
The one thing that will make me supremely happy
about the impending John McCain presidency:
WE CAN STOP DISCUSSING THIS LOSER, MEDIOCRITY,
BARACK OBAMA, and look forward to Hillary
Clinton’s presidency which will begin in 2012.