“Obama: Learning the limits of his advisers’ class-warfare strategy.”
By medusa on September 14, 2008 at 8:25 AM in Advertising, Age Discrimination, Barack Obama, David Axelrod, MoveOn.org, Race Card, Sarah Palin, Workers
Mark Cunningham’s article Why Bam’s Flailing, in the September 10 New York Post, makes clear why Obama’s numbers are slipping and his solid ground has turned to shifting sands. Simply put, Axelrod’s main tactic of stirring up class warfare and playing the race-card in a divide-and-conquer strategy doesn’t work on the national stage. Cunningham writes:
IF it suddenly seems like the Obama campaign doesn’t have any idea what it’s doing, maybe that’s because it doesn’t.
Barack Obama has never run a campaign against a real Republican. And his main strategist, David Axelrod, is way out of his areas of expertise.
Axelrod specializes inurban politics. He’s run a bunch of mayoral races (usually in cities with lots of blacks), plus contests in true-blue states like Massachusetts and New York.
By creating a culture war between the so-called Whole Foods Nation and working class Americans, Axerod’s tactics worked for Deval Patrick, but not for Freddy Ferrer in the 2005 New York race for mayor or for John Edwards’ primary run in 2004. Cunningham points out Axelrod’s overt class warfare tactics, which included naming sides:
New Yorkers may recall that he was on the Freddy Ferrer team - and how the class-warfare theme of “the Two New Yorks” managed to lose the 2005 mayoral race in a city that’s overwhelmingly Democratic.
Nor did the same shtick do much for Axelrod client John Edwards, who didn’t exactly score big with “the Two Americas” in the Democrats’ 2004 presidential primaries.
As to Deval “just words?” Patrick’s victory in Massachusetts, which also depended on Axelrod’s talents at divisiveness, Cunningham writes:
By the way, it’s not much of a governing philosophy: After less than a year on the job, Patrick has job-approval ratings to rival President Bush’s.
Sarah Palin, John McCain’s pick for VP, has thrown this class warfare strategy into stark contrast. The press and blogs have gone after Palin like meth-heads after a fix. Foaming at the mouth and euphoric at the opportunity to name call, the media sees Palin as the antithesis of the Moveon.org crowd, and more of the poster child for Walmart than for Whole Foods. And rather than be shamed as they think she should be, Palin is proud of that fact.
Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War, has a excellent article about this divide in the September 6 edition of BBC Today. Bagent writes:
During this US election cycle we are hearing a lot from the pundits and candidates about “heartland voters,” and “white working class voters.”
What they are talking about are rednecks. But in their political correctness, media types cannot bring themselves to utter the word “redneck.” So I’ll say it for them: redneck-redneck-redneck-redneck.
Bagent is being somewhat facetious in his use of the term “redneck” but not in his description of how the pundits, the politicians and the media work vigorously to attack this culture and their values. According to Bagent, “The term redneck indicates a lifestyle and culture that can be found in every state in our union.” His list of these values is relevant here:
- Belief that no law is above God’s law, not even the US Constitution.
- Hyper patriotism. A fighting defence of native land, home and heart, even when it is not actually threatened: ie, Iraq, Panama, Grenada, Somalia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Haiti and dozens more with righteous operations titles such as Enduring Freedom, Restore Hope, and Just Cause.
- A love of guns and tremendous respect for the warrior ideal. Along with this comes a strong sense of fealty and loyalty. Fealty to wartime leaders, whether it be FDR or George Bush.
- Self effacement, humility. We are usually the butt of our own jokes, in an effort not to appear aloof among one another.
- Belief that most things outside our own community and nation are inferior and threatening, that the world is jealous of the American lifestyle.
- Personal pride in equality. No man, however rich or powerful, is better than me.
- Perseverance and belief in hard work. If a man or a family is poor, it is because they did not work hard enough. God rewards those who work hard enough. So does the American system.
- The only free country in the world is the United States, and the only reason we ever go to war is to protect that freedom.
It’s not such a mystery that the mean machine of the Democratic primaries, which stole the nomination away from Sen. Hillary Clinton, is sputtering so badly now.
We all understand that there is a political class which dominates in America, and that Sarah Palin for damned sure is not one of them. And the more she is attacked by liberal Democratic elements (translation: elite highly-educated big city people) the more America’s working mooks will come to her defence. Her daughter had a baby out of wedlock? Big deal. What family has not? She is a Christian fundamentalist who believes God spat on his beefy paws and made the world in seven days? So do at least 150 million other Americans. She snowmobiles and fishes and she is a looker to boot. She’s a redneck.
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NATIONAL BOYCOTT DAY SCHEDULED FOR: SEPTEMBER 19
Our mission is to get Hollywood ’s attention that it’s ok to pick your party but it’s not ok to insult your consumers by continuously making these wild accusations. Hollywood hates the National Enquirer but the statements and comments they’ve been making these days are absurd.
So boycott Hollywood for the entire day of 9/19 (until 11/4 would be even better):
Boycott all TV stations EXCEPT for FOX.
Do not attend go out to the movies
Do not purchase any newspapers or magazines EXCEPT for the New York Post
Do not rent or buy any movies ect………
Do not buy any music especially boycott Madonna, P-Diddy, Heart, etc………..
Boycott anything you feel is connected with these crazy Hollywood Pundit want to be’s.
Is there anything we can do to get Hollywood ’s attention that it’s ok to pick your party but it’s not ok to insult your consumers by continuously making these wild accusations? The list goes on and on.
Can I add Whole Foods to that list?
I was there yesterday. My Whole Foods took over a local grocery outlet because Whole Foods is nothing more than corporatized organic big business. Whole Foods is putting the smaller organic grocers and farmers out of business.
Maybe it’s just me but it seems that Whole Foods has become a church for some.
whole foods used to be great . . no more!
I know their salad bar got really expensive.
Now I know why it’s called “Whole Paycheck”.
“Whole Foods has become a church for some”
YES! Thank-you Kelley. Exactly. It’s replaced the Church of the Environment. It’s bizarre going in there. It’s like a freak show under a tent. I just want to run in, and stock up on my favorite wheat-free pasta, and get the heck out unscathed. Instead I am bombarded with complete zealots- with a level of religious fervor I have never seen- carrying on about colon cleansing and bowel movements with complete strangers. Of course, they have their own dogmas and doctrines: flouride in toothpaste will kill you, cow milk is goverment-sponsered liquid poison, and deodorant is a useless fabrication of Madison Avenue.
It’s sad really. That level of commitment, devotion, and belief to “things” and “self”. Not to God, not to family. Not to country or community. Sad.
Hey guys, any kind of natural or organic (non perishables) are available for sale on the internet.
http://hainpurefoods.elsstore.com/
That’s just one example. Also, some of the bigger chain supermarkets are featuring an impressive array of organic and natural foods. Giant is one of the big chains that does so.
Check out your local supermarket, you may be surprised!
Heck yeah…there are “green” Walmarts that sell organic produce and grocery. Albertsons and Ralphs in Socal sell organic and have at least 1/2 of an aisle per store for organic/sustainable groceries.
But the REAL thing is *locally grown and raised* which is sold at Farmer’s Markets nationwide in parking lots/fairgrounds/vacant lots.
MG - PUMA
safeway has a large organic choice which seems to be growing weekly!
Also World Market & Trader Joes.
It’s a Whole Re-Run of the obnoxious “Moonies” cult that trolled the airports in those insipid shaved heads and swaddling of the 70’s. You want to be polite, but think: “Geez! Get a sales pitch already!”
heh heh. LOL.
Agree and wanted to add that the Whole Foods Mkt management/employees on Oracle Rd in Tucson AZ has been “taken over” by the “muscle supplements” crowd.
Teehee
MG - PUMA
I made the mistake of shopping Whole Foods when it took over Wild Oats in my town. Wild Oats used to give seniors a 10% discount on all items purchased in their store on Wednesdays. I went into the Whole Foods store a couple of weeks after they took over (on a Wednesday) and I was told that they don’t do senior discounts because their prices are cheaper than other stores. That was a big lie! Needless to say I have not been back to WF and get all my organic foods at Safeway, Albertsons and a couple of other stores in my area. I also shop at a local health food store because I can get my vitamins and supplements at a 10% senior discount any day of the week.
Okay, I’ve had my say against Whole Foods.
Boycotting is a great idea, but it isn’t enough.
We have to donate to McCain and to Republican 527 groups. (I can’t believe I’m even writing this!!! I AM still a Dem, but Obama disgusts me more than Republicans!!!)
Read this!
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Obama_raises_66_million_in_August.html
Sneaky Barky and his thugs were playing possum and pretended they were in trouble fundraising just to get more money out of Obama cult followers.
Obama will buy this election if we don’t donate to McCain camp!
DONATE!
http://www.johnmccain.com/
http://www.meetbarackobama.com/
this is a war between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’…
the likes of hollywood will outspend ‘the little guy’ every day of the week because that same ‘little guy’ apparently just cannot live without oprah’s book of the month, movie of the week, and news of the day…
think about that: it’s not simply ‘boycott’ - it must be a change in our lifestyles.
now that’s ‘change’ I can believe in…
Yes!! Exactly HOW do you raise 66 million dollars in one month…when you should have maxed out donors???? Why isn’t someone…anyone checking their donations to see if they are legal?
Has anyone checked to see how the George Clooney fundraiser for BO went in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago? I wonder how many illegal foreign donations were made to his campaign. This should be checked out. I have not heard a word about George’s fundraiser went on the MSM.
apparently, i’ve been in perpetual boycott all of my life…
what can someone like me do to participate?
if you look up saul alinsky, they are all following his playbook to take down the middle class, and that is exactly what obama will do
I’m in Fox it is. I’ll make sure my chittlens stick to it also. They’ll just have to suck it up, won’t be too hard with my daughter and her husband, but my son and his wife have to see every new release. Here’s a list of MSNBC sponsors that are within immediate reach that we can boycott till Nov. Although boycotting Mr. Clean till Nov is going to be hard for me. I use all the Mr. Clean products. The rest I can live without, find alternatives. Oh well…I’ll do it.
Nutrisystem
O’lay
Jimmy Dean Sausages
Sudafed
Video Professor
Natural’s Cat Chow, Purina
Crystal Light
Cepacol
Indulg-a-Bath
Aleve
Progresso Soup
Spiriva
Cooking Lite
Steak-umns Burgers
Infiniti
Scalpcin
Mama Lucia Meat Balls
Sea Bond
Aqua Velvet
Citracal
Mr. Clean
Bayer Products
Rogaine
“Although boycotting Mr. Clean till Nov is going to be hard for me. I use all the Mr. Clean products.”
YOU DON’T HAVE TO BOYCOTT THE PRODUCTS - JUST EMAIL THESE COMPANIES AND TELL THEM TO ADVERTISE ON FOX!
THIS WILL HURT MSNBC - WHICH IS THE GOAL, ANYHOW!
The Barack Obama Campaign and his followers/cult members/supporters/groupies/bloggers are his own worst enemy.
I’ve been noticing that the obamabots are commandeering all the cspan phone lines also.
Desperate people do seaperate things and who wants a DESPERATE POTUS like Obama.
I turn the channel everytime Obama shows his ugly evil eyes on TV, just like I do with liar Bush.
Go Sarah!!
meant Desperate people do desperate things
Hmmmm….Or FASCIST IS AS FASIST DOES…Perhaps…
Class warfare is the ( fundamental ” Religion ” ) of socialism…and Barky’s Uncle Jerry defines this class struggle in racial terms…
Think Barky does too…He is headed for Political Oblivion…chuckle…
EXCELLENT ARTICLE MEDUSA…HOPE OUR FAMILY IS OK AFTER IKE…thanks..
Thanks WCA. I can’t get through but I from what I gather they’re should be okay. No power etc but they were prepped for that. I’m trying not to worry! Hope your family is safe too!
BTW, I miss your Latin phrases!
I’m sure they’re OK…Port Arthur is where they were from ? Still can’t get pictures of Bolivar but looks as though Crystal Beach has joined the Gulf…never seen a storm that big in my life….I had no family there but my oldest & dearest friend had a beach house in Bolivar where I spent my summers and we took our kids to…Prayin for the welfare of your kin & all the folks on the gulf coast who got hit. They won’t let anyone but pro’s go down…too dangerous…Galveston was great…( sigh )
Barky…Vescere Bracis Meis !…chuckle…
Barky…Eat My Shorts !
I remember Crystal Beach! I lived in Beaumont for a year! Hope “ya’ll” are doning okay.
We are seeing some perverse manifestation of the blending of humanism, atheism and new age thinking. For lack of a better term, I will call it “humanistic atheistic existentialism”. But whatever is in the koolaid… it’s not for Core America. Having a religious belef system or a firm non-religious belief system… seems to serve as an “inoculation” of sorts against this koolaid.
Humanism is a product of the church. The early humanists believed that increased knowledge meant increased evidence for the truth of Christianity.
Existentialists believe no one is trapped by their upbringing and their social influences. They believe people have free will and can choose to exercise their liberty. In other words, existentialists believe in “The American Dream.” PUMAs are examples of people making an existential choice to remain outside of the party that abandoned them. The American revolutionaries made the existential choice to leave king and country.
Atheists have very little influence in America. Atheists come in all stripes, just like Christians. Many Christians support Obama. It is likely that almost everyone who supports Obama is either Christian, Jewish, or Muslim. Why are you blaming the atheists, who have so little influence, for the beliefs of Obama supporters who are steeped in the traditions of the Abrahamic religions?
Obama supporters emphasize Christian and American values that you do not emphasize and they de-emphasize Christian and American values you emphasize. In a sense, the differences in emphasis are much the same as those between Democrats and Republicans.
Humanists, existentialists, and atheists are not responsible for the Obama phenomenon.
I am not an atheist.
you gotta love Nietzsche…
My favorite Reagan quote~
“Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience…without God there is a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot endure…if we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under”.~Ronald Reagan
me too!
I noticed that, too…especially during the conventions. Moderators should cut them off. There’s no excuse for blatant sabotage….shame on people who allow them to break the rules.
Divide and conquer? More like divide and suicide. What the Obama campaign has done is what no-one really thought possible. They have resurrected the Reagan Democrats, but in their all new incarnation “The Palin Democrats.” Reap what you sow boys.
They are running out of constituancies to tell “stay home if you don’t like it, we don’t need you!”
Barack Obama changing the face of politics into something really really ugly.
The really think that just AA and egghead vote will bring them the White House.
Gee…there’s a whole lot o’ real estate between them cities…chuckle…Aaaand 13% is….well…13%…aaaand he does’nt have all of that
you can thank the likes of brazile, jackson, sharpton, pelosi, reid and dean…
my apologies to those i omitted from this most prestigious list.
For the moment, you should leave Jesse Jackson Sr. and Al Sharpton out of the mix.
If you have really been paying attention, you would have noticed that both have been uncharacteristically silent.
I caught Sharpton on a local cable station speaking in the pulpit and his talk was filled with veiled remarks that indicate he is not happy with 0bama’s tactics. He was careful not to mention 0bama by name, but it was clear that this is who he was talking about.
And Jesse was busted on Fox making those ‘unfortunate’ remarks, remember?
Both these men are between a rock and a hard place becaues of the AA community’s blind adoration and desperate commitment to see a black president. This is the closest we’ve ever been to that goal and most refuse to judge 0bama objectively.
The last thing Sharpton and Jackson Sr. want to do is be called old ‘Uncle Tom’s or leaders who are no longer relevant to the AA community.
Also Jackson Sr. has to deal with the fact of his son’s involvement with the campaign and the obvious strained relations he has with his son.
Xcellent points Mimi…Hmmm….
i’d be glad to leave those two out of the mix.
it would have been nice if they never were in the mix. since they were major pushers of kool-aide and hate, i don’t think i’ll be sending them the milk of human kindness just yet.
ditto.
Those two aren’t innocents in the use of race discord to promote an agenda.
NOPE!
Sorry, but just like people in the bush administration can’t be excused for their part in bush’s policies, even though they had personal doubts, sharpton and jackson can’t be excused either.
They all stood by while reprehensible tactics/policies were put in place, without SAYING A WORD.
THAT is culpability!
I feel sorry for a lot of people in this mess, but most for the “desperate” people you have often referred to, Mimi. Why are there still so many desperate AAs? I know that is a big, big question.
I hope the following isn’t offensive to anyone. It just seems to me that something should be done about the desperation, but Barackula is completely the wrong answer.
From a white perspective I think part of the shock of this season is that a lot of us mean honkys sincerely felt things were getting steadily better for AAs. I remember when the backs of buses had special white seats, when no one thought anything of the many ways blacks were looked down on (including dark people of India and Polynesia). That discourse is cringe-worthy nowadays. My son and I both were passed over in school and employment at times in favor of minorities. Here where I am that would more likely be Hispanic, but–same principle. We didn’t care because we had been taught to believe that those slots were going to deserving, hard-working minorities who would otherwise miss the chance to get at that big Pie we all want a slice of. And it seems to have worked. I see dark executives, doctors, lawyers, all over the place.
Now we have, this is the objective truth, a minority candidate who is very unqualified. In spite of every opportunity, he’s a do-nothing, lying thug. How do you think this makes affirmative action look? It’s on the ballot in several states and the best argument pro or con I’ve seen was by a black man (against–thought it contributed to a gimme mentality and chronic victimhood).
So desperate people think, because of a physical resemblance, that this unsavory man in a high place is going to somehow elevate them out of their personal dissatisfactions and make them finally proud of themselves. To me this is worse than being desperate, this is totally out of touch with what is important in successful living. I have been desperate at times, like having no shelter, no money, no friends, being 12,000 miles from home–but I never thought that the looks of authorities was going to affect my situation in any way. I knew I was where I was through my own actions, and it was my own actions that would get me out.
Truly I fear for these desperate people if they have leaders like Barackula. He is playing on the tiniest of similarities to suck their energy, and setting them up for a worse situation, because they are associating and giving fealty to a thug, an inexperienced arrogant crook. The dirt spreads. If I were AA I would be praying that this man didn’t become the figurehead of blackness in America.
I’m sorry to say, but that simply is not the view of society that most AAs have. That is your perspective as a white person. And frankly, the truth is somewhere in-between.
0bama took advantage of this. He exploited the sociological pathology in the AA community, poverty, poor education, ignorance and anger.
Without question, there have been a lot of high profile accomplishment among AAs. But statistically, the 0prahs, Will Smiths, Michael Jordans are still in the minority. Don’t be fooled by all the black weatherman and journalists on tv. There are still masses of poverty stricken AAs.
How do you think despots get into power? They exploit the masses. And I agree, AAs should be praying he doesn’t get into power. Why do you think I’m voting for McCain.
Mimi, what you said about the “masses of poverty stricken AAs” can be said about ANY group in this country–even whites.
For every white millionaire, there are thousands of whites living (barely) paycheck-to-paycheck.
Just as racism, sexism and corrupt behavior see no ethnic or gender barriers, achievement doesn’t either.
Mimi, I appreciate your posts, and always want to hear your perspective. The racism, sexism mess is so complicated. As a woman, I am hurt that we had to wait 50 years after black men got the vote. I also think that Whites are distressed at being lumped together. There are whites that immigrated to this country after slavery. Millions of them. There are the Northerners that fought the civil war to free the slaves. There was an underground railroad. I don’t know why Michelle Obama can’t celebrate that, or attend a Quaker church. The civil rights movement involved white people, too. I think these are some of the reasons that you get so many different opinions from white people. Mimi, just keep talkin’. Your comments are so appreciated.
low support from NV AAs for Obama
mimi, what do you think about the lack of support from AAs (for Obama) that these polls show?
One of the comments says that Obama really never lived the Black Experience. I thought about it, and you know, I am Caucasian but in some respects I have lived more of the Black Experience than Obama has.
Perhaps, some AAs are discovering the truth about 0bama. You have to realize that there are a lot of low information voters in the AA community.
Also, when 0bama labeled the Clintons as racists, he sparked a visceral response which made blacks not focus on him but on the Clintons so-called racism. You know the saying: “blood is thicker than water?” It’s when family members close ranks and protect each other even when they may hate each other.
There was a hysteria during the Primary and AAs focused on beating the racists at all costs. Now that Hillary’s out, many may finally be letting information in and discovering what I knew last year. That 0bama is not what he says he is.
It’s tragic that it’s too late for Hillary. But I think this is what’s happened for many.
“If you have really been paying attention…”
excuse me - i have been paying attention only enough to know that jesse jackson jr. is obama’s co-chair:
“The natural reminder here is O.J. [Simpson] - how does an African American candidate attack a white woman?”
as for sharpton, “he’s made the strategic decision to keep his support quiet.”:
“I’m gonna do whatever I gotta do to help… Hillary Clinton has never done nothing for us.”
of course these two men are ‘unhappy’ with obama - it advantageously implies him to be a ‘moderate’ to the majority of the voting population.
i do concede they’re in a tough spot, but that’s politics.
Jesse Jackson Jr. is another vile misogynist thug. I still remember the comment about did Hillary cry during Katrina….referring to AAs affected by the storm. As if Katrina only affected AAs, did HE “feel” also for the whites whose lives were devastated by that storm…
This election has brought to the national stage the racism by the AA leadership. I look forward to a REAL post-racial candidate, and the way things are looking, they will probably come from the Republican Party.
My comments were about Jesse Sr.
Try to keep up.
Big difference between father and son.
Huge difference. I campaigned for Jesse Sr in SC. I would not spit on JJ Jr if he was on fire. He is not fit to carry his father’s name.
YOU KEEP UP… you responded to MY comment.
and, how ’bout the sharpton thing?
Besides, can’t we all just get along?
Let us fight the Good Fight together!
The Jesse Jackson charade for Fox’s live mic was a tactic to put the minions off Obama for his FISA vote. That’s all that was. Manipulation.
EXACTLY!
I got a call to volunteer yesterday and when I told them no, the kid was shocked! In two days, I have gotten several calls from BO, something is going on………..
I got a call last week. It sounded like a young kid. I said no. He asked if I could help in a few weeks because they really needed a lot of help. I simply stated I was not voting for Obama and would not help in any way.
They are shorthanded here in Ohio. Folks like myself who have always helped with the phones ,delivering of signs, or casing neighborhoods delivering pamphlets have taken what thhe DNC said to heart. We are staying home.
I’ll be voting Mccain/Palin
It’s not just the women Hillary supporters either. I’m in Ohio also and a lot of real middle of the road walmart people are very unsold on Obama. And all he is doing is pushing them further away.
Shiloh the only Obama yard signs I see are the ones left over from the primaries.
I think he will take a spanking here.
I think Barky’s support was inflated artificially by Christian Campers gamin the primaries…ROVE’S WETDREAM…AAAAND THE DNC FELL FOR IT WITH A LITTLE SHOVE FROM OUR EXCELLENT COMMISSAR DONNA BRAZEAL…AND COMRADE DEAN THE UBERPUTZ..
Yup.
Yep. This was no strategy a supporting member of the Democratic Party should have ever run. This strategy, in and of itself, is Exhibit A on why Obama should be kept out of the White House. He is no leader. He has not put the good of this party. let alone of the country, first.
Something weird is going on here in big blue California.
My husband & I spend every day on the freeways. Yesterday we made 3 trips to an overflowing Costco in Burbank. Afterwards we realized that we have NEVER SEEN ONE Obama/Biden bunper sticker.
We’ve seen 2 Obama stickers left over from the primary which was balanced by the 2 Hillary stickers we still see. This is unheard-of here in Hollywood where everyone is happy to declare their allegiance to the left wing on their vehicles.
Any other L A or Californians notice this phenomenon - or lack of?
Washingtington State here, the only Obama stickers I see near Olympia are on beat up old Volvos or the occasional Prius. Considering we live in a blue state and Gregoire is falling behind Rossi should tell you something. She endorsed Barky over Hillary.
I live in Southern CA, I’ve seen maybe a handful of Obama bumper stickers including since the primaries. Yesterday I saw a McCain bumper sticker and gave the driver (a woman in a truck) a “thumbs up”
it’s the same thing right here in upstate new york - no yard signs or bumper stickers.
but there’s ’something in the air’ since Sarah Palin.
one democrat running for congress was running some serious ads linking himself to ‘the obama change’; last two weeks… nobama!
Riverside County here and I have not seen one Obama yard sign anywhere around here. My daughter lives two cities away, same thing there. I have seen McCain signs, I’ve seen Hillary with McCain bumper stickers over them. I’ve seen both McCain and Hillary bumper stickers. I haven’t seen any Obama at all. I didn’t see hardly any at all during the primaries, most were Hillary.
Oh and guess who it is coming around here every few days registering people? Discussing, actually asking your thoughts on the issues? Not telling you what your thoughts should be. Republicans. I haven’t had one Obama supporter knock on my door.
I’m in the Los Feliz/Silverlake/Atwater area of L.A. What stickers I do see are Obama ones, but not nearly as numerous as expected.
Some of you no doubt experienced it when you had Hillary stickers, but a lot of McCain voters won’t put stickers on their cars since those High Guardians of Free Speech Obots tend to vandalize your car.
The only signs here are huge McCain signs…..not one Obama sign about that I have seen in CA.
Hah! I’ve noticed that here in California as well. It’s interesting but those signs are fading, you can barely make out his name on many. A literal manifestation of BO’s election chances…fading.
i can’t see any hard-working, tax-paying American (middle-class or otherwise) wanting socialism…
I have recieved my fifth request for $$$$ in past 2 weeks from Obama.
They have collected over $60 million in past month I understand. Since refusing Federal funding they’ve got to hustle for $$.
I want to be referred to as a Clinton Democrat or possibly a McCainocrat!
If you have time, you can check this out…The last bit about the finger is a fantastic picture that you won’t want to miss!!!
The Past Week: Recaps and Random Thoughts, September 7-13 (Where’s Obama’s Empathy?; Body Language a la Clinton/Obama; Lower Pay the Obama Way; And a Finger Back at ‘Ya, Barack!)
http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/the-past-week-recaps-and-random-thoughts-september-7-13-wheres-obamas-empathy-body-language-a-la-clintonobama-and-a-fitting-gesture-for-the-state-were-in/
LOL omg!
Now thats how you flip a bird!
Take Note Obama, if you want to flip the bird next time don’t hide behind the “oh i was just scratching my cheek meme wink wink”
LOL
This is a great link. I do not support Obama simply for the many despicable acts during the primary. Numerous reasons that many here have voiced.
Previously there was a post that Obama had snubbed the construction worker at the 9-11 ceremony in New york. Through the above link, I noticed, while watching the complete video, that it was not the case. I do not support Obama and will do anything within the law to prevent his winning but neither will I remain silent when we the people are being misled. This may have already been corrected–if so then as Maxwell Smart would say “sorry about that”.
I won’t say he snubbed them, he did shake hands with them, but he seemed to be going through the motions, knowing there were news cameras there. McCain seems to be more comfortable in face to face contact with people in a crowd.
What is undeniable is that Obama tossed his rose onto the pile, while the McCains kneeled down and laid their roses on the pile in a more respectable manner.
As a former Democrat and now and Independent I can say with confidence that Republicans go to church for preaching and Democrats elect politicians who preach. Leave the preaching for the church. The fundamental weakness of the Democratic party is the notion that a small group of people can figure everything out and save the rest of us. That is not leadership. So when they run into genuine leadership from a Republican or anyone else, and genuine leaders are almost always humble servants, the Democrats talk down. In the end the Democrats show how disconnected they are from the reality of America! And the Democrats are in denial for sure because their only response to the reality that is America is that Americans are too stupid. The Democratic party needs to implode to rebuild itself, and hopefully Axelrod, Brasile, Pelosi, Dean and Obama will detonate the collapse. They are well on their way, and for that I have confidence in them.
Good post. I think it can be further summarized by saying that political split in America is between those who believe in the freedom of the individual and that we are the best when we are the sum of those free individual parts, and those who believe the individual must be suppressed in favor of a cradle-to-grave nanny state (like we saw in China). Too bad the issue of abortion has blurred that line and left so many of us wondering which line we really want to be on which side of.
Amen. I don’t need someone with Zeromama’s questionable character advocating sexed for my nieces, that I can tell you.
obama has voted for sex education to five yr old, to teach them the parts of the body and all about homos,,do you want your chidren or grandchildren being taught twisted sex theories? i dont
I request that Tish be barred for her antigay speech.
I honestly don’t believe she’d be allowed to stay if she disparaged African-Americans in general, so she shouldn’t be allowed to disparage gays either.
Get the obnoxious troll off the board.
I second that. Emailing admin.
Well said.
Well said.
Well said.
http://marklevinshow.com/gibson-interview/
this is a link to the palin gibson interview, please note the dark lines are the ones that were excluded from the media, to the public
McCain hits 50% - Obama at 47%
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
Also, Obama raised $66M in August.
Man oh man all those bundlers in the basement of Hammas Headquarters must be damn busy right about now.
I wonder how much of that fundraising came from DOODAD!
That is not a good total. He needs to be upwards of $100 to remain competitive. No wonder he is pulling ads. This is the real news. That is his undoing. Arrogance. Didn’t recognize that the republicans were setting him up.
It’s the same thing that brought down the Titanic, the “unsinkable” ship. Hubris. Obama didn’t see the iceberg, called Palin. Now…it’s only a matter of time before he goes down and goes down big.
66 million? Wow, that must be why Starbucks is closing places.
And then there’s this:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/35_expect_mccain_victory_34_say_obama_will_win
And for those who missed it last night, Zogby has McCain ahead in NH, PA, and VA. http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1549
“66 million? Wow, that must be why Starbucks is closing places.”
too funny - so much for the latte-clutching crowd…
Now this IS good news!
Ooops… 66M is quite below their target: remember the DNC collects very little so Obama’s + DNC totals are
lagging. McCain has his 84 Million in public funding locked up since Sept. 1 and in addition the RNC is raising lots of cash…
Just as important is Obama’s burn rate, his outflow of cash.
Obama started August with 11 million in spite of huge amounts of cash raised in June and July.
It’s really not rocket science. Voters don’t like to be steriotyped, ridiculed, and insulted. Try not to mock small towns and call the folks bitter, clinging to guns, religion, and bibles. Tell your surrogates not to refer to people as “white trash” like Erica Jong did.
And when trying to pander to the women’s vote, try to avoid using words like “pig” or “fish”. Women don’t like that. And always avoid playing assorted misogynistic rap lyrics like “99 problems and a bitch ain’t one”. We’re kind of sensitive about stuff like that. Watch the gestures, too. Most of us don’t like to be viewed as something to wipe off your shoe.
Good luck Obambi. I woke up this morning to discover my dark blue state is now called “barely Dem”. Minnesota which hasn’t voted for a Republican since Nixon, has been demoted to only “leaning Dem”. NY is starting to look like a swing state. You’re coloring the country a funny shade of purple, Obama.
“NY is starting to look like a swing state.”
if I have anything to do with it… NY for McCain-Palin!
I’m there with you.. A rural redneck New Yorker..
lol…I’ll take mustard on my knish…chuckle…& hot sauce in my chili with a cool chaser BARKY….
That list of values describe me to a “T” and I’m first generation Cuban American!
ditto… i’m first generation, too.
Do you remember which polls? This is the strangest news so far. Michelle must be running this campaign.
good summation.
Sarah helped Obama raise at least 10M at the end of August according to the campaign.
His numbers are falling well short of the 100M per month he projected he would raise at the end of the primaries. And the DNC is suffering too. Even with all the money he is spending he is not able to seal the deal. It is comforting to know that most Americans are not as misinformed as the Obama supporters and don’t hate our country so much that they would risk an Obama administration.
They shouldn’t have spent so much money on the Obscenity convention of crass hollywood glitz and bling.
That disgusted me so much. Tell me again how the obamacrats really care for the poor poor people?
Stupid hypocrits.
Go McCain/Palin!!
the democrits care about poor people by having their coronation in an outdoor stadium
A good article. I had wondered why Axelrod was considered a successful political strategist.
Rove has been saying he can’t fathom the ‘divide and conquer’ Axelrod strategy that requires insuluting the very people you want to vote for you.
Rove divided the COUNTRY - along electoral college states - Axelrod divided the party.
Utter disaster.
And, the socialist part only works when a dictator manages to gain power.
We’re fortunate that our system of checks and balances works. Dems - voting Republican this time - are using the levers available to us to rebalance the excesses of Dem party actions.
True….But then again Germany was a democratic state in 1933….I’m just sayin…Not that big a diff between Fascists & Socialists….when they operate with absolute power…
Please refrain from capitalizing “fascist” as it refers to things Italian. This garlic nose will take offense!
I hate to agree with Rove but he’s right.
Obama campaign slogan:
All of you racist, redneck, ignorant crackers - Vote for Me!
and…
you pig, fish, dust on my shoulder, shyt under my shoe, middle finger deserving inferiors whom I look down my nose at….vote for me.
yeah, and he taught donna brazile almost every he knows:
http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Summer08/BrazileRoveConnect.html
Oh, so socialism only works when a dictator gains power?
Then please tell me when Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark became dictatorships.
One might also note that the converse is true. Iran (under the Shah and the mullahs) has never been “socialist”. Under the Marcoses, the Philippines was not a “socialist” country. In Chile, the first avowed MARXIST elected DEMOCRATICALLY was overthrown (and executed) by a military junta which became very dictatorial.
And, the icing on the cake–Cuba, in its pre-Castro (pre-Socialist) days, was every bit a dicatatorship but with a CAPITALIST veneer.
Saw this on another site and people were having fun with it so wanted to share it her for discussion.
Obama says missile shield cannot target Russia: Poland’s Sikorski
“In talks with me, senator Obama made the realisation of our (missile shield) agreement conditional on whether he will be certain that the system is not aimed against Russia,” Radoslaw Sikorski said at a joint press conference in Warsaw with Russian counterpart Sergei Larvov.
People were saying its a gaffe because exactly what is the purpose of a missile not for protection so how is this thing going to work for Poland if Russia gets hostile, wonder if the media going to dig into this and ask Obama to explain, some seems to think he is not up with national security as he should be.
I bet if this was Palin that made this statement it would of been a hot topic by now
Link to above story!
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Obama_says_missile_shield_cannot_target_Russia_Polands_Sikorski_999.html
this the moron even know what a “SHIELD” is??
BO truely is dumber than dirt!
even bush is not this dumb
how can an almost 50 yr old man be this freaking stupid?
Obama thinks the shield is a condom for kindergarten children..
LOL OMG–sad but true!
OH BROTHER!
um, haven’t read this article, but don’t we have laws about citizens making political deals with foreign countries. And is this the same Obama who couldn’t tell Oreilly (the pathetic wimp) what any strategy would be towards Iran or Iraq (cause we can’t tilt our hand)?
I appreciate your analysis, but those two blowhards are a good reason why
ignore last sentence fragment please. wrong place.
dang… i am a redneck!
well… then I am an “Asian redneck” !!!
I never knew how freaking radical/liberal the media was.
LOL…All kinds of shades of red in the neck…chuckle…2/3 of the country are Workingclass either culturally…or economically…
Here’s how you know 4 sure…Workingclss folks are absolutely allergic to snobbery and pretense
2/3? It is far more than that. How many people don’t have to work for a living? 1 percent?
If you work for a living you are working class, no matter the level of education.
are you serious? the U.S.A. is a bona fide ‘welfare state’ - be it social or corporate, we are far from ‘Adam Smith’…
We are all rednecks now. Say, who’s gonna make that T-shirt?
and I’m an east coast, liberal, MA low-educated, urbane white trash, urbanite redneck who believes in animal rights, doesn’t own a gun and is an atheist. oh well..
My friend, today we are all rednecks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfyayWe6_oY
I do not understand the MADNESS that has swept this nation.
In the end, I blame George Bush, for his presidency was so bad it has turned the weakest willed amongst our citizenry into raving lunatics. Anything to win.
Sarah Palin seems to have been the last straw, however. The straw that broke their backs, and compelled them to throw whatever remaining decency they had out the window. From your typical cliche online O-bot trying to walk the fine line between “suck on some hope-dope and join us” and “you’re a redneck racist piece of trash and we will crush you in November”…. to the Hollywood and “creative class”…. Sarah is like a red flag to a bull(shit). They’ve all become completely unhinged. I can only hope that “regular” Americans can stay strong enough to resist the non-stop propaganda orgy brought to them by the media.
I watched SNL last night. Sarah Palin was mentioned about five times. Not Obama. Not McCain. Palin. I can’t wait for the election to be over. As a (now former Democrat), for a while, I stated that I didn’t care who won this election. Either way we’d be screwed in different ways.
Now I want McCain to TROUNCE Obama, and relegate him to John Kerry status forever. I am so over him. He and his surrogates have divided his own party, and now this country. An added bonus if McCain wins will be a depressed and suicidal media. We MUST show the media that we will NOT allow them to dictated either the terms of this election, or the eventual winner. They were successful with Hillary, but luckily the Republicans have been able to join forces with the PUMAs using the lessons learned in the primaries to stop this ongoing perversion of our Democratic process.
I will be fine in a McCain presidency. So will this nation. McCain is NOT Bush. NOBAMA. Ever.
The SNL skit was pretty humiliating to CLinton as well. The longer i watched the less i thought about Palin and the more i remembered how everyone in the Left leaning Media was piling on Hillary to get out and trying to paint her as some self entitling monster.
By the end of the skit, i wasn’t laughing at all…i was thinking about how they fucked over Hillary and are now trying to fuck over palin.
Really they do themselves no good at all.
Your post reminds me of how they are saying ‘yes a woman, just not that woman’ about Palin. Seems they acted the same way toward Hillary. What women then????
Joe Biden in a dress i suppose
This morning all the pundits are talking about what Obama and Biden have to do to take Palin down. It seems so sleezy to me to run your campaign like that.
Why doesn’t Obama go out and do some town meetings with McCain and let people ask him questions. Obama is afraid of people who ask him questions. Doesn’t he know that the white trash out in the country have him pegged as a coward for this reason alone.
He is also a coward for not revealing his records. He still hasn’t done that.
He is a coward for voting “present” 163 times.
He is a coward for not choosing Hillary as his VP.
He is a coward for not addressing the Sinclair accusations.
I think he is the worst kind of lying coward. This man has never stood firm for anything. How foolish that he is even being considered for president by the American people.
PUMA
IS THIS WHY PELOSI AND REID REFUSE TO LET USA DRILL OFFSHORE? BUT LETS RUSSIA? IS THIS WHY PELOSI AND REID WILL NOT LET THE USA USE ANY RESOURCES, COAL, SHALE, SO ON UNLESS THE HAVE STOCK IN IT? it is known that radicals like pelosi, have been following the communist path for centuries, and people vote these anti americans into office? are you kidding me
The Russian stock market went lower than 1,400 points due to the reduction of the oil prices and the ongoing of outflow of capital, which investors currently conduct. Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin added more fuel to the fire when he said that Russia’s oil companies would not be provided with an additional reduction of tax burden
The RTS index dropped by 7.51 percent to 1,395.11 points. This level was previously reported in June 2006. MICEX index dropped by 9.08 percent to 1,158.07.
The price of a barrel of oil reduced to $104.23, having lost $1.25 in comparison with Monday.
Rosneft’s shares slipped by 9.54 percent, Gazprom – by 8.47, Lukoil – by 9.29 and Surgutneftegaz – by 6.16
Ore-mining companies followed the oil sector. The shares of Norilsk Nickel reduced by 12,76 percent.
Russia’s Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin said in Moscow during the annual Reuters Investment Summit that there would be no additional tax concessions made for oil companies in the nearest future because the concessions from 2009 would be enough.
“As an economist, I can say that Russia has reached the line when we can not reduce taxes anymore. I hope the president will put an end to the tax debate in September,” Kudrin said.
The opening of US stock exchanges exacerbated the situation on the Russian market even further. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by 0.23 percent to 11483,95. Standard & Poor’s 500 lost 0.55 percent and made up 1260,78 points.
The positive effect from the news about the nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lasted for only one day.
Well, except for the white trash comment, I agree with you in your assessment of cowardice concerning Obama.
I came to a conclusion sometime ago, and it was startling to me, that Obama was cowed by the very population itself - perhaps it was the ~I could no more ditch Rev Wright than I could my typical white granny ` and then shortly after bazoom - gone - and then I see him claiming it was for the “cheeeeeeeelllddreenn” - his children, not the community property children of castro commie usa.
I just saw that maggot turn into a pile of pliable mush. There was not even an ADMISSION that “the American people” sopke on some policy measure and he listened (after consulting the required fallout polling in making the change, and being satisfied it wasn’t disastrous) - because this was HIS PERSONAL CRAP - not some national policy.
Maybe that was it, but it just blew to pieces any chance he had for me to respect him. I saw a blatant liar, that stood up and played a game thumping his chest, trying to “get away with it” - then moments later cowering with his down, telling more lies as he lay on the mat pinned without a single brain cell capable of extracting him.
No honor, no “word”, no sense, just nonsense. What a pathetic twit, that during his campaign, he changes, after swearing he won’t in front of us all, his own personal “historical relations” - and expects all of us, to suddenly pretend ” He never knew or associated with Rev Wright “.
Sorry, when you dumped him, you admitted you’re guilty as sin, and don’t deserve a Presidency, let alone a Senatorship. It told me 20 years of your life is less important than lying and pretending to be someone you are not. Yes, it was SPINELESS. MUSH. EMPTY.
I’d let you keep a local alderman in that district if you kept your church tie solid and it was majority of residents there, that’s IT.
It’s just astounding to me he didn’t keep his church, or just drop out of the race, and keep his self respect and honor, and life.
What the BLEEP! are we doing here, putting up with something like that ?
I just don’t get it, and cannot think of any equivalent ever.
What a weasel, a total washout, a total guilt ridden spineless charlatan kooker, dumping 20 years of his life, pretending that makes him “clean now”.
I guesss Joe Biden will have to explain to me how Obama is clean, or if he still is.
Pliable punk, chameleon, liar, con artist, fakir, tom fooler, faker, loser faqua…
I just CANNOT get over that.
How did that “pass” here in the USA ?
Are we now grooming during the campaign, and tossing a 20 year mistake on the groom job ? Forget the haircuts, we’re going to reorder your personal life, because you’re such a dope, you’ll do it !
Forget it O - I am sorry, but just on this one point alone yer gone from my book of possible candidates, there is just no way.
If you would have stuck by your word and 20 years of your life, well then that’s different, and you’d at least consider yourself qualified.
I see him alone, at night, sitting in his house chair, his hands in his head, weeping like a baby over his loss.
20 years of your life, you swore to all of us you couldn’t ditch it, or your spiritual mentor, but then you caved in like a loser, came back on after all your exculpatory yakking and saying everything you thought should flow from your lying lips in “excuse” - explaining the sanity you “hoped” would find a spot in the public, but there was no HOPE, no you couldn’t be a man, no you couldn’t be who you are, who you have been for 20 years,no AUDACITY to be you, nope you dumped on yourself, on your word, on your promise, you became nothing, in front of us all.
I see you crying, face in your hands, alone in your front room chair, late at night, shaking like a baby weeping, because you screwed yourself, your family, your children, your church friends, and everything you did for those 20 years there, because, you’re….what is word to use… it’s unclear to me.
What does it say about “community organizer” skills ?
It’s just so low and so unprecedented.
I’m not sure how that passed, I guess the USA is really, well you’ve proven… it just isn’t NORMAL at all.
How are you still even there Obama ?
How disgraceful can it get ?
One more thing, how did you just DUMP on those church goers, that you stood with for 20 years ? How did you manage that ? How many thousands of people did you just say by what you did ” you shouldn’t be at that church, you should be out of it!” ?
GO AWAY OBAMA. GO AWAY, DON’T SHOW YOUR FACE AGAIN ON PUBLIC NATIONAL TV.
GO AWAY. GO BACK TO YOUR CHURCH AND APOLOGIZE, AND BEG TO BE LET BACK IN LIKE YOU SHOULD.
funny that…
a communist, muslim radical women
0bama.
I know some Obama supporters, although they all had turned Clinton supporters in the end and did nothing about it! Anyway, I think i will tell them that Obama should try donning a dress and out on some lipstick and those $600 earrings of MEchelle’s and see if women will like him.
Maybe Obama in drag is the woman we can elect in the I’ll elect a woman, just not that woman arguement. I would never elect drag man, but maybe some people would. I have been asking myself the same question, What woman then? I have said, too, that I don’t have a problem electing and African American, just not that one, and sadly, we don’t have another one at this time, that I an find.
Without Hillary, we just do not have another woman in the future who is prepared to lead this nation. Palin is acceptable if she gets in by default, but the what woman? She was Hillary and it will be years of not breaking the glass ceiling. As for the AA candidate, after this debacle, it will be many years of AAs being connected with Obama and no one will go there again.
Women and AAs, set back years over this con man! Very Sad!
Exactly my thoughts!
If Pelosi/Reid had the courage to impeach Bush instead of distracting the country by starting the primary season prematurely, thus ensuring that almost any Dem candidate would burn out, then…
Obot anger at Bush, and the war - would have resolved itself if Bush got what he deserved.
Now their anger is unleashed and projected onto anyone who is NOT THE ONE…
Obots are stuck in the past - unable to move beyond Iraq…and Bush. Rest of us want to get on with the business of running the country again.
“If Pelosi/Reid had the courage to impeach Bush instead of distracting the country by starting the primary season prematurely…”
me thinks that was the purpose of the push for a democratic congress in 2006 - to start the primary.
impeachment? never - the dems are making tons of cash on the iraq war, too!
Well as to the impeachment/ removal part I would just love to see that evidence and arguments over it in the Senate.
I frankly do not believe they have a chance to win on any count, and I believe they know it, and that’s why they won’t move, all those foolish lies will crumble.
It would really destroy these left democrats badly, so many of their untruths would be blatantly exposed in very high coverage, the big lies would die away, and the blacklash would be severe. It would be “embarrassing”.
McCain 50%, Obama 47% for third straight day in Presidential polling:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
Battlegrounds: Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota, Colorado, breaking toward McCain
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/13/battlegrounds-florida-pennsylvania-breaking-for-mccain/?print=1
http://www.startribune.com:80/politics/national/president/28353589.html?elr=KArksc8P:Pc:UthPacyPE7iUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article808637.ece
http://www.zogby.com/50state/
It is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING that deep-blue Minnesota, Mondale Minnesota, reliable Farmer-Labor Minnesota is now completely tied: a new Battleground State…
I could bet that it was not in B. Hussein Obama’s plan that in late September/early October he would have to divert funds from red and pink battleground states to defend his flank in navy-blue Minnesota…
great news! i was hoping for that!
Me, too. Proud Minnesotan here!
We are known for Minnesota nice so these attack my opponent plans backfire. MN nice states, do not tell me why not to vote for the other guy, tell me why I should vote for you!
What exactly would it mean for a missile shield to be targeted at anyone? Of course it can’t fire weapons at targets other than incoming missiles so the only sense in which it can be targeted at anyone is by being targeted against missiles fired by the country so targeted. What? Obama wants a scenario wherein Russia (but not Iran) can fire a missile at Poland or elsewhere in Europe and our missile shield will somehow promise to let through? Russia (with Obama’s support) seems to be saying: “Your attempted defense against our potential offense is offensive.”
Targetting shields at someone is like lighting your farts on fire…its sounds good until you think about it.
case and point and you really must watch this!
gosh you crack me up.
Obama is a dangerous man who obviously has Russia’s interests more to heart than Poland, one of the US’s important allies. don’t forget Poland, Bush said during the debates, and people made fun of him. Poland, the Democrats and media scoffed. Too bad they don’t realize that Poland is a NATO ally. Basically, Obama is asking Poland not to protect itself against a Russian missile attack, even if those missiles are fired by non-Russian terrorists from within Russian airspace? Of course, O’Reilly didn’t even bother to go there with Obama during his interview. Don’t expect Charlie to ask for a clarification either. McCain needs to bring it up in the debate if it is as bad as it sounds.
They should run an ad based on this support Obama gives to a dangerous Russia. And Obama questions Palin’s ability to stand up to Putin?
Obama will be Putin’s poodle, the way Blair was to Bush. Putin is already practicing his judo moves with Sarkozy, think they have high hopes for wimp Obama to be elected?
http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnLD230451.html
i spent four months in Poland last year - man, do they love America and its people!
I don’t know. I’m an educated (hyper-educated, in fact!) urban dweller and I can’t stand the man either.
The difference is I have some life experience, particulary in Corporate America, and I recognize a hoax of a man when I see one.
This is all so McGovern-ish and Dukakis-ish, it’s downright laughable. Adults don’t let children pick Presidents.
Fixed for you…
lmao
Hmmm. I live in a big city…learnin my way around a computer…Aaaand I’s have an advanced degreee frum a Trublu Ivyyy League…chuckle…Aaaand I can’t stand Barky & his travellin GLAM SHAM either !
People that do not work in the corporate workplace usually don’t get all caught up in Techie crap because they don’t have to be tied to a computer & like Mac I prefer to use a phone to speak into…Not Text..chuckle…
I also prefer grownups to be POTUS
YOu know how Barky won his Editor-Ship at the Harvard Law review that his campaign is always talking about??
He set one faction against another.
a bunch of the candidates threw their vote to him because they couldn’t win and didn’t want the guy who was leading to win.
Now where have we seen this before.
That’s how I remember it. It was in the late 1980’s during a racially charged period at Harvard. If I recall correctly, Harvard wanted to get an AA in the LR Editorship position. They rigged it so that Obama would win.
Sorry, don’t remember specifics. But I do remember that Obama was all Eddie Haskell about it. Everybody thought Obama was on his side - all at once.
At the time I wrote it off as Academia as usual.
Hmmmm….very interestink…no ?
Scary, another squeak, by pure luck.
How does that explain the ego problem ?
Let me guess, he is destined, it comes out of nowhere, from the clouds, from above…he doesn’t even have to do anything, the ultimate affirmation…
LOL
“glam sham”… i love it!
Sounds like “shabby chic,” doesn’t it …
I predicted in June that Obama would not get 100 electoral votes. That was premised on a lot of stuff coming out that he worked hard to hide eg birth details, legal name, foreign passports, dual citizenship etc. I’m not surprised to see blue states begin to look questionable because Reagan carried those states. And now we have a new generation of Palin Democrats. I can still see a scenario where Obama wins Illinois, DC and perhaps Vermont.
I’d love to see the ‘Washington outsider’ - the faux one, take only D.C.
Not even land of Lincoln, Illinois either.
McCain/Palin 08
between this “funny!” piece of crap:
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/09/22/080922sh_shouts_saunders
and today’s NYT article on Palin (investigating her in a way I HAVE NOT SEEN THEM DO TO FAUXBAMA)
I am ready to cancel both subscriptions…Why do they NOT get that not all of their well educated audience delights in mean-spirited, partisan BS? And that we do not all LOVE Fauxbama?
I would applaud you for dumping the Times, they are already being bought out by that Mexican tycoon, Carlos Slim, see here:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/mexican-billionaire-slim-takes-64/story.aspx?guid=%7B3A8C3CDD-FD57-40C5-9C45-FD2492E62388%7D&dist=msr_5
Check Wiki for Slim’s profile. Look for some dramatic changes at NYT, in what direction it’s not clear yet.
OH I KNEWWWW THEY’D BE BOUGHT OUT SOON! Canceled my sub to the Times in May after they dissed Hillary for winning Indiana by only 2pts.
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He thought inspiration, hope and change was all he needed to win the WH.
Might have something to do with the rural redneck vote.
Have you all seen the latest Newsweek Poll internals?
Newsweek, of course, has skewed it for obama, but the internal numbers are like a HUGE neon sign flashing the words
OBAMA IS UNELECTABLE
The internals of the Newsweek poll show that Obama is hemorrhaging.
He is losing support among all the key demographics.
It is all over but the shouting for Obama.
It was over before it started for those who saw what a blunder it was to nominate him. He is a fatally flawed candidate who never had a prayer.
Funny how Dean, Pelosi, and Reid have turned what was supposed to be a cakewalk into a tossup at this point.
From the Cheetoh brigades we have had all sorts of attacks on Palin. Even some of the more even handed sites are repeating the memes generated by the edited ABC “interview” not realizing Gibson and co pulled a fast one.
On the other side we have what? A McCain ad bashing the sexism coming from the left, an ad making fun of Obama’s messiah celeb status, and one 527 about his Ayers lies.
Wait until the 527s start in earnest then lets look at the numbers.
“Funny how Dean, Pelosi, and Reid have turned what was supposed to be a cakewalk into a tossup…”
no kidding… those incompetents must be the next to go!
I laugh out loud whenever I hear “Obama represents change” from the Obamabots.
Such a statement is absoluty FALSE.
Hillary agrees.
0bama may represent change. McCain and Palin will actually BRING change about. One is a painting and the other is reality. I am all for the real thing.
On Thursday Mr Obama did take advice from Bill Clinton, who is understood to have suggested ways to show those workers that he cares, an area where the former president excelled.
But it is a measure of his plight that the man who derailed the ambitions of Mrs Clinton, the most powerful woman in Democratic politics, now needs help from her husband to overcome the popularity of another alpha female who may be an even greater risk to his White House ambitions.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2909844/Barack-Obama-under-fire-for-ignoring-advice-on-how-to-beat-John-McCain.html
Ooooh….the irony….
Did he really take advice from Bill Clinton?
Or was it merely another photo-op since he was in town for 9/11. A way to get all those phone calls from panicked Democrats offering their advice to stop. a way of saying, “See, I’m consulting the top dog, so leave me alone!”
Well…they had lunch….and cozied up for the cameras….chuckle….then Bill said he’d go to Florida for lil’ Barry but he had some grownup bizness for the foundation to attend to first..chuckle…Bill has his priorities…chuckle…
I’m sure Bill gave him some really fantastic advice(wink, wink).
Maybe something like, “Ok, Barry. Here’s what you do. It’s the woman, man. They are the problem. Well, them and those damn working class voters. You need to act like a leader. Leaders tell people what to do. You tell those women, “Hey, that’s enough now. You get on the unity train right this minute. See, Barry, kiddo, women love authority. They think it’s hot! Those working class people, well, son, you tell them they either vote for you or you’ll take away their jobs. That will work with them because they are afraid of authority man. that is why they are stuck in these low level jobs. See? Ok, bye Barack. Hope it helps, buddy! Barack leaves, Clinton comes into the room and Bill and Hillary laugh hysterically. Hillary tells Bill, That was great, but i thought I would bust a gut listening and trying not to laugh. Oh, Bill, you make this past year bearable. that dumb little shit is just stupid enough to believe you. Let’s call John McCain. he’ll get such a kick out of this!
Many in the Dem leadership (fellow Senators and Congress people) now say Obama’s not listening to them. Knowing that I agree that the meeting with Bill was a photo-op.
Why should Bill go to bat for a person whose surrogates savaged his wife and daughter?
I suspect that Bill will find more pressing prior commitments between now and November.
Hmmm, does O hate white women now ? A double whammy.
” The Democratic presidential candidate’s slump in the polls has sparked pointed private criticism that he is squandering a once-in-a-generation chance to win back the White House. ”
I keep hearing this once in a generation thing. I guess a generation is 4 years now. Maybe it’s lefties self battering, somehow flailing at themselves for a twice in 40 years record of win ?
(that latter doesn’t make sense)
So it’s got to be the KOOKER problem, again. The kind of point is, they’re REALLY whining a lot about Barry’s squandering the “chance” because this good a chance doesn’t come along ‘cept maybe once in a generation (cept for 2004)…(OMG- reactionaries everywhere!)lol
LOL - Man the decoding problems… I guess the plan is if they tell Barry it’s a whole generation blowout he’s blowing away here, he’ll really take it more seriously.
It “reverse motivational psychology” with a hefty dose of “delivery venting” designed to impress important desires, relieve panicky tension, and create a massively overblown backwind for forward movement. ROFL
I don’t know.
me thinks the damage may be done…
The only ones left on the bus are the hopium addicts.
There are now easily enough demographics under that bus to stand up, hoist it onto our shoulders, and walk it right back to Chicago.
The hopium addicts keep screaming and flooring the gas pedal, to no avail. Too many people under the bus for their tires to touch the ground.
“There are now easily enough demographics under that bus to stand up, hoist it onto our shoulders, and walk it right back to Chicago.”
lol.
If Obama slide keeps up it sure looks as if by Nov there will not be much blue on the map, maybe CA, NY and Hawaii, everything else will be red.
It would be interesting to look at some of the old maps when Hillary was in the race that people made in regards to if she won the nomination or if Obama did, I think there were a few that was saying most of the map would be red if Obama won and the left Hillary out.
Hillary kept telling them its not the delegates its the map but they did not want to listen Donna and crew taught Hillary was bitter and did not want to get upstaged by a black man, oh well where is the great wise Donna now I would love to hear what she is thinking.
Rove had her winning the Appalachia Swath - exact map that gave Bush his wins and WJC his.
Electoral map never favored Obama - this has been the biggest source of frustration for me.
50-state strategy was flawed from the beginning.
Dems utterly, fatally, stupidly ignored THE FACTS ON THE GROUND…all for BOzo.
And, we’re to believe we’re the low information red neck voters?
DNC=Dumbasses No common sense!
Donna thought she could make us ALL STAY HOME!
Wrong, biatch!
Politricks Gone Wild!
Friends don’t let friends vote for nobama!
McCain/Palin ‘08
You know I live in the capital beltway. I have a master’s in international relations. I shop at DWR and Room & Board for furnishings. I subscribe to Martha Stewart Living, Dwell, Domino,etc… I do alot of food shopping at Whole Foods. I eat sushi and make latte’s at home with my Francis Francis X5 machine. I am also a staunch Hillary Clinton supporter and lifetime Democrat who has now become independent and will be voting for McCain/Palin in the fall.
Why is that? Because I don’t think that my educationa or my taste makes me better than others. My father got to college and grad school on the G.I. Bill after the Second World War. My mother grew up on a ranch in Colorado and have numerous great uncles who were ranchers, cowboys, and stockhorse breeders. I like a cold beer and good BBQ.
I always knew that there were elitist pompous asses in this country who claimed to be “progressive” but the disgusting displays this primary season have chilled me to my core.
I agree. I too am college educated, have shopped at ‘health food stores’ for decades, my father was a WW2 vet, a ‘card carrying socialist, and a doctor, my aunt and uncle have two doctoral degrees each, my brother and sister in law both have terminal degrees, my grandmother (a Bostonian) campaigned with Kennedy in the early days and was of the ‘artist class’, yet none of the above (who are living) support Obama because they are not swayed by the clique that is Obama’s base.
Usually, people from working class roots who move up in the world, then look down on or are embarrassed by their upbringing, flock to cities like NYC, Chicago, and LA to reinvent themselves and erase their roots. Just like Obama, who has purged his years at Columbia from his oh so vaulted three-book deal that passes for a bio.
‘reinvention’ is one aspect of ‘aspiring to the american dream’ - what these young urbanites don’t know yet, haven’t experienced is that the self must grow, must be integrated to be considered healthy…you can’t forget where you came from even as you move up the ladder or achieve highest rungs…
most americans come from the middle class…it’s dysfuntional to deny one’s roots. hence, rampant self hate, rampant projection, rampant hate of all kinds.
obots know not what they do…
What the hard-core left has devolved into propagating as a “unifying” ideology is that everyone must share the pain and be equally miserable. Self-loathing is not enough for them, you and I have to hate ourselves too if we are ever to have empathy for those less fortunate. That’s why religion has to go right out the window for them, you don’t want anyone finding hope in God and in church, just in secular politicians.
I resent this notion that only ‘elitists’ shop at health food stores.
When I started caring about my health in my mid 20s, I began shopping there because supermarkets didn’t carry a lot of the foods and supplements I wanted to make a part of my diet.
I don’t eat fast food not because I look down on people who do, but because I don’t want that shit in my body. I live in an AA working poor/poor AA community that’s now being gentrified. Most of the people I know eat the wrong food and when I can, I gently nudge them to care about their diet. I’m known as a respository of diet/nutrional supplement/alternative therapy information and share it enthusiastically when asked and have helped quite a few people make healthy changes and adjustments to their diets. When people wind up with diabetes, high blood pressure, and other ailments they suddenly realize the importance fighting for their health.
I shop Whole Foods when I can afford it. It has lots of good things, but it does have an elitist kind of image. However, I was just there the other day and noticed more working class, non-elitist types picking up a few things. Yes, maybe the very people that 0bama can’t seem to relate to and enjoys lecturing, are simply caring a bit about their diets.
The elitist mentality is about attitude and intolerence. They are no better than the extreme Conservative Right Wing or any group that tries to force their ideology down people’s throats.
This is a Democracy! I can’t believe how many times I’ve had to remind Democrats of that this election cycle. There is no one Right way. People are entitled to live according to their personal preferences and beliefs. And fair-minded people understand and respect that. The most anyone can do is offer a helping hand. If it’s rejected, move on. Ultimately, human beings have to lie in the bed that they make for themselves.
Kelley “yet none of the above (who are living) support Obama because they are not swayed by the clique that is Obama’s base.”
If you see this I would be interested in your description of that clique base as interpreted by those relatives you’ve named.
perfectly said! I have my masters in computer engeineering.. I work with a huge variety of people, some only have a GED, some have their PhD,
one thing they all have in common, they are all hard working americans, no elitism.
They all want what is best for this country, their kids, their families…
education, money does not breed elitism. It is a view that you are better than other people.
and most americans HATE THAT!
To do it over again, I would have been born in the West!
Excellent essay Medusa; thank you for it and telling us about Cunningham’s and Bagent’s articles. Seems Axelrod has a very socially narrow view of the US….
Hillary was right !!! Can we have her back now?
no. The DNC is going down in a fireball of epic proportions this election season. Throwing hillary on the bonfire and pulling Obama off of it won’t put the flames out.
he have gone over the edge.
agree with you Jerry….a vote for McCain/Palin 08 = a vote for Clinton/2012…If we are to take back our party…the FOLKS AT THE TOP & THOSE CHICKENSHITS THAT SOLD OUT TO BARKY OR CAVED….HAVE GOTTA GO….ALONG WITH THE FASCISTS WHO HAVE USURPED THE PARTY BUILT BY FDR & THE WORKING CLASS…imho…
No we can’t have Hillary back. She was right and the Dem leadership will never admit they were wrong.
They’d rather lose than apologize.
Yes, the Dem leadership is as arrogant as BO…and the point is they would rather lose than win - and that means a loss based on our lives, our children, our civil rights, our soldiers, our families.
selfish SOB’s…
“ego first, country second.”
I would love to have seen the faces at Obama Central when John McCain announced his choice of Sarah Palin. After they took care of one “bitch” problem, another one slaps them up along side their collective head.
Let them scream and foam at the mouth that McCain only did it to get former Hillary supporters, that’s she’s inexperienced, or what ever shit excuse they want to make up. Truth is McCain has, with one stroke, turned a certain Democrat victory into a toss up.
Has there ever been a presidential campaign run so poorly that the opposing candidate’s choice done so much damage?
They leaked a video from Obama Campaign Headquarters regarding how they are dealing with the Palin Choice.
If you have not seen it you really should
http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i2a7maeftqt9
Hysterical. The kind of thing you know you shouldn’t laugh at. But you do.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/09/14/2008-09-14_barack_obamas_big_blunder.html
With top Dems fearing Barack Obama is in a hole, the Obama campaign has made a weird decision. It’s going to dig that hole deeper, harder and faster.
How about a new idea? How about putting some meat on the bony promise of “change”?
The decision to stick with a mostly-nasty approach should finally end the myth that the Obama campaign is a flawless machine. It had an extraordinarily appealing candidate, a message of change to an unhappy nation and made brilliant tactical decisions that defeated the Clintons.
That rant might be comfort food for the nervous base, but will likely alarm independents who already aren’t sure about Obama. By further scaring them with scorched-earth partisanship, the Obama team will only cede to McCain the label of the real independent.
I like this comment:
Obama is just an angry, stuttering, stammering rookie. It’s all he’s got.
Thank God we have our own vote!
McCain-Palin ‘08
Hillary 2012
Stuffing the caucuses was a brilliant decision? More like thuggery. And how hard is it to beat a primary opponent that was the target of media sexism and lies for the last 15 years?
Yet in spite of these advantages he couldn’t close the deal without interference from Dean, Pelosi, and Reid.
Don’t worry, supercilious Charlie is just as clueless about that caucus thievery.
Kind of hard to take those special self proclaimed elites seriously when they are so ignorantly uninformed in the very areas their employ demands they excell at.
I guess it’s more important to them, that they mold and shape their viewpoint and present it as an undeserved gift, so the masses may gratefully absorb their decisive and benevolent conclusions and therefore take the proper course.
ROFL -
keep in mind with all of these polls they work on a model projecting turnout among demographics.
They assume obama will have massive support. BUT, i am sure they are overstating for O and understating for Mac.
I bet you could take 2-5% from obama. He is in bad shape and just as most of us predicted he would be on clintons side.
Also, keep in mind that these polls, some, are of 500-1000 poeple. I really doubt that 500 poeple are representative of america, or even a state for that matter.
Except for Rasmussen(polls 3000 poeple) and Gallup(polls 2700) i would not take the polls very seriously.
Of course there is trends, the RCP average is a good indicator. At the same time though, i do not know anyone who has been polled.
As long as McCain can keep the seeds of doubt sewn among democrats obama will keep dropping. If folks think he will lose or he is weak, they will not vote for him.
I bet obama gets close to the same votes kerry did.
I think McCain can outdo bush’s numbers form 04 as well.
The only solid support obama has is from the angry left. And they angry left is getting so angry it is turning off some dems.
I totally agree with you, although I think the “angry left” would better be described as “psychotic”. I thought the “end of days” crowd on the right were bad.
Well put, Eurogirl. I was having dinner with a neighbor/friend the other night. She’s a 60 year old shrink, was a major supporter of Hillary, and will vote for Bozo because she’s a Dem. When I asked her about his associates, she said she admired Ayers and agreed with Wright about America.
I nearly returned the dinner she made–although somewhat digested.
I’m beginning to think the “angry left” are completely NUTS!
You know Abagail Adams put it best over 200 years ago when she wrote a letter to her young son John Quincy Adams when word got back to her that he had become alittle “full” of himself.
Abagail reminded her son that he had been afforded opportunities of travel and education that no one else of his generation had received. If he HADN’T become as learned as he had, it would have shown that he had squandered this great opportunity. However, Abagail reminded him that he should remember that while others might not know as much as he, that did not make them worth any less or he worth any more.
I see around the world the squalor that so many live in. How many great minds, poets, artists, scientists, etc…will never come to pass because they must spend their lives tolling in misery for basis subsistence.
We here in America have been afforded a great opportunity to expand opportunity to our population. Yet, you have a sizable number of wealthy people who talk a great game about “progressivism” when they wish to extend their hold on their own piece of the American pie while extolling the virtues of liberalism; when they are anything but.
Look at Obama’s sugar daddy’s on Wall Street. They have made an absolute mess of the economy and yet they are backing Obama. Who thinks that these folks have all of a sudden developed a “moral compass”?
Take this as an example. George W’s brother Neil caused the Silverado Savings and Loan to go belly up in the 80’s. Now his brother is into developing “educational software”. Now you have Obama’s connection to Bill Ayers who calls himself an “educator” and Obama is talking about charter schools (backed by Wall street money) and expanding No Child Left Behind; which has been an abject failure.
People like Bush and Obama want our children to be taught to take tests but not to develop analytical and reasoning skills. They don’t want them taught geography or civics as they will be more maleable and easier to con; which as been abundantly on display this primary season.
correction:
which has been on abundant display this primary season
eurogirl70;
Why would this country teach the skills and subjects you raise???
The sheeple think for themselves?
And be able to call “Bullshit” when they see it, having been educated about history and responsible civics?
Naw, that would lead to an informed electorate. Can’t have that. That would mean reason would trump hope.
Teakwood:
Precisely:
Neither the “far right” nor the “far left” want an informed electorate. They want “followers”.
I think it’s a far cry into insanity to think the republican or the far right isn’t a 100% pro civics lesson backing group.
I think the painful truth for you is the left (and the whole democrat party) has denied that to children for decades now. All the “new teaching” flowing in from the 68′ers, and all the attacks on traditonal USA, coupled with a scream so loud about civil rights, that EVERYTHING before that is considered expendable, including the base truths.
Only now, past 911, and under the Patriot Act, is any real thought given to this, but one will find that in the religious right schools, and the same republican home schools, that the teaching you flagrantly claim is denied by the right, ANY PORTION of it- is delivered in full measure.
Where it is lacking, is in the lesser, public school portions, where control of the cirriculum, let alone the students, was long ago ceded by a long string of careless 68′ers hammered to crap by their own overlords new enlightenment designer teaching methods.
I never mentioned the communist infiltration, but never forget that either.
Don’t ever forget, it is REPUBLICANS, who have had to scream from the benches we aren’t a democracy, but even that fades now at the national level.
Now, the demcorat side, is taking on a love for dissing religion, and of course we know exactly which religion - and how many of that left side claim this nation was never founded at all with it in mind - that is of course the new non optional history revision.
Gee, sorry you haven’t a clue on this topic.
I could go on for a long time, believe me.
What a prattling shade of faux intellectualism.
I hope trying to chew me a new asshole makes you feel better there sports..
If you think I am some 60’s radical think again shithead. My parents were born in the 20’s and 30’s. I came along in 1970. I was raised to believe in this country and to be patriotic. Patriotism doesn’t mean blind obedience to anything. It means logic and reasoning. Why do you think I am not voting for Obama/Biden.
I don’t give me that crap that it is the left that is all bad. The right has its’ fair share of assholes; you being a prime example!!
You are no different then the assholes on the left who say that anything on the right is bad and everything on the left is good; only your rationale is in reverse!!
Don’t blow smoke up my ass pal; its’ exit only!!
That is so interesting. So a “lefty” such as herself has no problem with Ayers resorting to violence but ask her about hunting and gun ownership and she’ll probably have a tizzy fit. Sexism and racism are only bad when it comes from the otherside. I am a lefty by the way. But a true one. Hypocricy, violence, sexism and racism have no place in my life. And over controlling PC is just another form of mind control. Logic and reason should rule the day.
well said strawberry. Medusa I am very sorry about your friends “reveal”. I too am a real lefty and Ayers and Wright’s actions have no place in a civilized society.
I would like to see Wright last for 30 minutes in Zimbabwe or Liberia. He has a religious “gig” that has made him very wealthy. Ayers is another example of a child of wealth who goes off against the “establishment” and rails against mommy and daddy but cries for daddy to come bail his ass out of trouble with high-priced attorney’s!!
Excellent post on Axelrod’s tactics. It has been very obvious from day 1 that this campaign was wrong on alot of fronts.
Thank you for a great Sunday morning article and great posts!!!
Wow. This is truly the picture of a campaign in crisis!
Obama campaign refuses to listen to Democrats advice; won’t call back Senators and Congressional Reps who keep calling him:
http://countusout.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/barack-obama-under-fire-for-ignoring-advice-on-how-to-beat-john-mccain/
this is likewise compelling:
http://countusout.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/if-you-like-michigans-economy-youll-love-obamas/
Great article as always!!!
Eurogirl ..I’m with you sister…
The latest polls are encouraging, but the MSM will be relentless for the next 2 months, so there could be a slide.
I am working for NOBAMA!
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20080914_Obama_s_change_could_cost_big_bucks.html
Obama’s change could cost big bucks
A few tax cuts? Negligible effect. Bigger government? Bad idea.
Time to get the maverick team in there to shake things up and trim the fat off the Washington DC beltline.
The More you KNOW Obama…
…the More you NO OBAMA!!!
Funny, I remember reading an article that stated on of Kerry’s detractors also was awarded a medal for his actions in an incident that earned John a citation for bravery. So, was this Swiftboater lying in Vietnam or was he lying on the campaign trail for Bush?
When I read an article that misstates something I know about I tend not to believe any of it. You know, “lie to me once …”
As an add on to the above:
Where are Obama’s class mates from the colleges he attended? Why haven’t we heard from any of them?
We are hearing about Sarah Palin from anybody who ever set foot in Alaska, even if it was a stop over on an international flight.
MrMike I was thinking the same thing during the convention. The only ones who spoke of Barry and his past were Michele and her brother.
Why is that?
i’ve read that all former friends/classmates/roomates, etc. of his or Michelle’s are under gag orders…no kidding!
how’s that for creepy?
These people have been told not to speak publicly unless they consult Obama’s campaign first.
Something you’ll read in the Chicago Tribune and the Boston Globe. MSM/Corporate media? They’re ignoring that story too.
So much for free speech and democracy.
Based on that rule of Journalistic integrity, How can we ever support Obama then?
and as i stated in a response just a little bit further down:
That slur on John Kerry is simply an outright lie. Don’t make the mistake of passing on lies when you quote right-wing sources.
It’s fine to support whatever source you choose to make a point, but I really resent it bitterly when people allow themselves to be manipulated into blatant lying while they do so. I have met Kerry’s fellow Swiftboat veterans in person. They couldn’t have more admiration for him. They campaigned for him–are you now impugning every single one of them as liars, too? It’s despicable; it’s no different from smearing John McCain’s service, which the Democrats are now doing.
STOP IT.
John Kerry never called himself a war hero: The Navy did. His records were public record. The Swiftboat Veterans are complete LIARS.
You don’t need to smear a veteran to make your points–whether or not you like the man. When you smear John Kerry’s service to country, you smear EVERY VETERAN’S SERVICE TO COUNTRY.
I think the actual definition of Swift-boating is this:
Someone gets smeared by a lie for something that is truth.
Kerry is a war hero - his records attest to it as do his fellow veterans.
He was smeared by the lie that he was NOT a war hero.
To say you’ve been Swiftboated means you’ve been smeared with lies.
Unlike ABC i dont selectively edit material i find to serve my purpose.
I higlighted those points in bold that i felt were important and left the rest of the quote intact.
I think its perfectly appropriate to leave it in there as that is coming from the right and that is their opinion as wrong as we may think it is.
Had i listed that article and snipped out that piece i would have been just as guilty as Gibson was on ABC chopping off Palins answers to make her look stupid and uninformed.
Once someone brought it up later i would have looked just as stupid as gibson and ABC for editing it out.
You may not like some of the views on the right, but they have them and it is important that they not be selectivly omitted to avoid making you upset…
True. I was too young to vote during the Kerry campaign, but even then the way the right was attacking him made me sick to my stomach. Plus my family is pretty conservative, and they were all disgusted. I think we can all agree that the hardline electioneers on both parties sides do nauseating things to win. But that was especially nauseating.
Yeah, us vets get a little testy about that.
Everybody who survived Vietnam was a hero in their own right. I have no problem with Kerry deciding to trash his medals… they were his to do with what he wanted. I think for me though… that one liner years later… “reporting for duty” was where I drew my personal line in the sand. You may disrespect your own service… it’s a “free country” but don’t try to disrespect or belittle someone else’s service.
I wish the media would talk openly about whether academically… Obama qualified for admission to Columbia and Harvard or not. We have heard the flip-side to that argument. We already know what a “mean” country we live in. So, from this man’s life so far… how exactly so?
Those WERE NOT HIS MEDALS! I thought everyone knew that, since he finally admitted it. His medals were safely at home. The medals he flung so dramatically on those Washington granite steps belonged to another vet.
As I understand it, they were his service ribbons, not his medals. Two different things.
Now, now. Obama’s records are missing. How dare you question THE ONE?
Dam! I thought the president of the HLR was the only thing he had going, not that’s gone. That was his claim to fame in Chicago.
The same can be said for his efforts in writing “energy legislation” in Illinois Senate. When billions of dollars of clean coal technology R&D leaves his state, he says nothing, zip, nada. Why?
can you say Exelon?
What pol would want to raise that is issue in a campaign built on quicksand? (H/T truthteller)
Any direction BO goes in responding to his short comings will lead to even more detramental disclosures to himself.
An example of this was Rudy on MTP today. Brokaw was asking if the ad about Obama and sex education.
Rudy danced around Obama’s educational work and Saul Alinsky. If Obama responds to any of these points, he risks bringing the Ayers and Rezko’s back into the conversation. He can’t afford to do this and tactically he can’t denigrate McCain or Palin with out creating a perception that he’s a vindictive lightwieght.
He has boxed himself in. Name one issue where Obama can raise that won’t backfire with in one news cycle.
Brokaw was asking
ifabout the ad about Obama and sex education.I recently read that the absentee ballots(can you spell fraud?) are starting to vote September 30th.
I think Obama will try to get a jump on these before more about him trickles out, like he did with the Caucuses.
so it would seem that a bomb or 4 could go off before then…
can you say Whitey Tapes???
There were always two often repeated phrases: “safely nominated” and “third week in Sept”
Who needs to pull out the Whitey Tapes when BO is imploding just fine on his own?
Pulling out the Whitey tape is like chopping off a vampire’s head after you stake it in the heart.
Its going overboard, but if you have the special effects budget why not?
Not that i am comparing anyone to a vampire.
Bwahahahhahhaha!
YES, BRING BACK HILLARY! I’m an educated, apparently semi-redneck Democrat who never for a moment considered voting for Obama. It all started with his sneering comment to Hillary about her being “likable enough,” and it has gone downhill from there. Dissing Hillary is biting him in the ass.
I admit it, I’m enjoying the BO camp meltdown resulting from the Palin pick. omg, the whining is delish.
MCCAIN/PALIN ‘08
Obama’s call for “unity” was actually a rallying call for divisiveness and hatred. That about defines his whole campaign!
And here it is nearly two years later and we have a very divided America.
The rednecks (though I refer to myself as a renaissance lady because I embrace the simpler things in life yet some of the hard work of pioneering women with some modern technology, I can what comes out of my garden, I paint, and I quilt) are midddle America. Our blood runs red, white and blue.
We look out for our fellow man and help when the need arises. We tend not to look down at people, we are quick to accept others with different views, slow to judge.
When we are insulted, with hatred slung at us, such as you are a racist because you won’t vote for Obama, we get our hackles…and we remember because we have long memories.
And we don’t let go of the pain and hurt by these vile insults very easily. And yes maybe we become bitter but we usually exact our revenge first. And Axelrod and Obama will be our targets come November. We will exact our revenge when we pull the lever!
And it is beyond too late….to turn back the hands of time. Sarah Palin is one of us…she shops in thrift stores, you know I do that too! I have never hunted but have women friends who have their own deer stands. I have fished…my father taught me that art at a very early age!
Although Sarah Palin dances across the stage in a skirt, she still exudes an air of strength….and you can imagine her in a plaid flannel shirt, boots and jeans getting ready for the morning hunt. She brings us back to our very roots! And I know she brings me back to my very roots and that is a very comfortable place, something I have longed for 2 years!
This is what converted me when I watched her speech. It’s obvious that she is tough, and also bright. Since McCain is the top of the ticket, I trust she will learn well from him. We won’t have the two positions flipped as in the Bush/Cheyney era. (Pres/V.P.)
constitutional, meeting with rogue leaders without preconditions and the unity of Jerusalem. He even qualified his Iraq policy by stating it would be “refined” according to “conditions on the ground.” Most recently, in light of the economic downturn, Mr. Obama stated he might reconsider implementing the tax increases in his economic plan.
continue: http://countusout.wordpress.com/
Does this man actually stand for anything? Nothing I can see except winning. Doing something when he wins? Not his problem.
Hardly leadership traits.
A debate Obama cannot win
Sunday, September 14, 2008
His record simply does not correspond to his rhetoric.
Mr. Obama’s “new kind of politics” - which was based on telling the truth, being a principled politician and treating one’s opponents fairly - collapsed once he secured the nomination in June. He reversed course with dizzying speed on NAFTA, FISA, public financing of campaigns, whether the D.C. gun ban was constitutional,http://countusout.wordpress.com/
A little levity for this Sunday morning: Tina Fey as Sarah Palin. Watch for the ‘gun’ action. She (Sarah) is still in our heads and hearts. I loved this skit. Its not a put-down because its supposed to be satire. And it works in a perverse way.
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/pali...
Let’s face it peeps. Sarah is SEXY. Has anyone seen Joe Biden lately? Does anyone care?!?
WOW everyone really needs to read this and pass it along.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=74877
Wow. I often wondered how this guy managed to go to the best schools with such humble beginnings.
Thanks for posting this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8npeYfKI_ns
This was from the article. Wow.
I am a few years younger than Obama. But I was also at good colleges in the Northeast during the 80’s when there was a huge push for diversity in admissions. Placements and endowment scholarships were being handed out like candy to the most unlikely of students. We all knew who was there because they earned it regardless of race, creed, or sexual-orientation, and who was there because they fit a needed demographic profile at the time. It was what it was. I don’t begrudge either Obama the opportunities they were given. Just don’t pull the wool over my eyes. Tell you what Oblahblah- I’ll show you my transcripts, test scores, and student loan documents- if you show me yours.
what more can one say?
Michelle Obama benefitted from such programs, too.
Thank you for posting this info…I can assure you the situation is the same on colleges campuses currently - we know who is there because they have the grades/scores/writing abilities/achievements and who is there to satisfy some admission officer’s need to exterior decorate the campus with color.
MG - PUMA
“And Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. Put down your division, that you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones, that you push yourselves to be better and that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved and uninformed.” Michelle Obama to UCLA
Didn’t Mao say something along these lines? Creepy.
So Obama will control our lives based on what he will allow us to do.
Can you say dictatorship? I knew you could.
I Left PA 40 years ago — lived in NY every since — Geez, come to find out today — I AM A REDNECK!!!!!YEAH!!!!
I live outside of a Syracuse, they had an “Orange Carpet” night.
Being a little “redneck” is good thing.
When obama opens his Harvard yapper, he loses votes. He is like a bad cell phone - he just can’t connect and is roaming around yapping about change, change, change.
Keep it up, Ozero. The jig is up! You ain’t foolin’ small town America and the voters in the swing states!
Obama’s credibility is ZERO! NADA! ZIPPO!!
And BTW, Barry, I know Jesus. Jesus is a friend of mine. You are no Jesus!
McCain-Palin ‘08
Hillary 2012
[...] [...]
From the primaries, Obama made attacks against Hillary claiming her to be polarizing, likeable enough and old Washington. Hillary returned the favor by calling Obama out for open debates which Obama chickened out on and his total lack of experience, being a one speech wonder.
Did all this teach McCain something, sure did, on both sides of the fence, McCain learned Obama’s attacks and his weaknesses all of which he has exploited, proving the real agent for change in DC is the mavericks, his constant record of battling even his own party, all of which Obama talks about but has no record of doing.
Then McCain challenges Obama to a series of debates and again Obama talks yet fails upon delivery.
Obama picks a sexist candidate for VP, McCain brings onboard a woman candidate, now Biden is drunk constantly because the VP debate will expose to the world the sort of person Biden really is or the least it will do is destroy him at the handling by a woman. But it also invoked against Obama what he thought was left behind in the primaries, his automatic sexist attitude, a real failure of Obama’s.
You need to ask yourself, who in the past several weeks has proven to be a uniter and the real agent for change and given hope to people against a corrupt Chicago political machine?
This nation owes a huge debt of gratitude to Hillary because it was she who uncovered O’s weaknesses.
MG - PUMA
exactly short term win ugly and a longer meaning months term massive loss but also great damage to an old brand Democratic Party, I was with a group or life long Dems last night and they are lost to the Party now even to the point of saying they had no clue Dems where like what they have seen, some had never ever supported a Repug and now they are lost to the Party the don’t like Obama or his tactics and these weren’t Hillary supporters they are just now anti Obama New Dem party…
Brilliant Analysis of why Obummer is Otanking:
Excellent analysis!
Interesting insight. I would take the nuclear power issue a little father down the road here.
Obama says he supports nuclear power, yet he will be unable to go there due to his “lobbyist contributions” and connections to Exelon.
At this point any thing BO attempts will only raise his negatives.
“Who is the more foolish? The fool or the fools that follow him?”
Obi-one-knowbi
Another article showing the bias in the Gibson interview - documenting the questions asked Paulin vs the Obama questions
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/charlie_gibsons_interview_ques.html
Of interest is also an article at
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com
posted on Sept 13th “Dean, Obama and the European
Socialist Party (Dean is a keynote speaker at one of their conferences)
Snippet from the article:
AXELROD WAS DOING ALL RIGHT WHEN HE HAD NANCY,DONNA,HOWARD,THE DNC CREWS WORKING WITH THE MSM.THERE NOT GOING TO TIP THE SCALES WITH THE GOP.
Start Your Engines!
McCain will be speaking at the Sylvania 300 (LIVE on ABC at 1:00 pm EST) in New Hampshire today.
This is genius!
McCain will get to talk with voters in New Hampshire and the added bonus is that it is a NASCAR event!
The Sylvania 300 will be LIVE on ABC beginning at 1:00 pm EST.
Just read an article that McCain will address the crowd at the Sylvania 300 over the PA system and give the command to the drivers: Start Your Engines!
LOVE IT!!
McCain-Palin ‘08
Hillary ‘12
I can’t drive 55.
Just saw him. The crowd gave him a warm applause.
BO? The offer was extended to Obama but he blew it off.
something about…(fill in the blank)
He turned it down? Isn’t NH a swing state and very vulnerable to the Republicans?
Here’s an easy, no studying required event on a Sunday afternoon with thousands of registered New Hampshire voters in the crowd and he turns it down? Okay, I don’t think he wants to win anymore, I guess it’s too hard.
Hey Axelrod and trolls, question for you:
We all know about Obama’s strategy after June 3rd, rock shows in Europe and a grand rock show to make Oprah cry on August 28th.
But where is Obama’s strategy for August 29th and beyond?
He tried the race card, had is shoved up his ass, tried the feel sorry for me because of my life and had it shoved up his ass, tried the additional pathological lies and had them shoved up his ass, Obama must be keeping the manufacturers of KY Jelly rolling in dough!
They have one card left.
The Riot Card!
They have been threatening it on occasion if Obama doesnt get selected and now are beginning to astroturf it if he doesnt win the election.
Frankly i think they may need to burn a city to the ground to make that card actually work. Otherwise its just going to come across as hysterics and fear-mongering.
further musings on the riot card:
If they do burn a city to the ground before election day, the electoral backlash will be vicious and unforgiving.
If they burn one to the ground after election day, it won’t change the outcome.
It is a losing card.
Hmmmm….13%….is….!3%…..nuff said..
BO’s crowd? They don’t have the energy for something so real as a riot. They’d have to drop either their cell phone or their latte to pick up a brick. Plus they don’t like getting their hands dirty. They’ll riot on Daily Kos instead.
No store window will be safe from being shattered by a text message.
You think these Millenials will get off their asses and riot?
I think it depends on how the radical left handles the November loss that is imminent.
They don’t handle “winning” well. I’m sure they won’t hanldle “losing” well.
In any case, I don’t care what they do. I’m not going to be threatened by a bunch of brats hopped up on high fructose corn syrup.
HAHA!
IF I WERE PRESIDENT McCAIN, I WOULD “VETO” ANY BILL TO REBUILD THE CITIES THAT HAVE BURNED AND ASK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO VOICE THEIR OPINIONS THROUGH THEIR CONGRESSCRITTERS AS TO WHETHER OR NOT TO APPROVE ANY SUCH TAXPAYER FUNDING.
IF YES, SO BE IT - THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER SHALL REBUILD THE CITIES.
IF NO, LET COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS REBUILD THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS!
As long as the rioters are kept under wraps and control in the FEMA camps !!!
Those camps that can house several thousand people are already manned by armed guards and ready for the slightest hint of insurrection.
Remember that any insurrection or rioting won’t be considered as something domestic. The understanding is that something of an “insurrectionist nature” by “insurgents” within the US are creating instability…hence the DHS has the FEMA camps already prepared for this eventuality.
No local jails will these rioters go to…they will go to heavily armed camps where NO ONE CAN GO TO SPEAK TO THEM…remember…The Patriot Act I and II?
As long as the rioters are kept under wraps and control in the FEMA camps !!!
Those camps that can house several thousand people are already manned by armed guards and ready for the slightest hint of insurrection.
Remember that any insurrection or rioting won’t be considered as something domestic. The understanding is that something of an “insurrectionist nature” by “insurgents” within the US are creating instability…hence the DHS has the FEMA camps already prepared for this eventuality.
No local jails will these rioters go to…they will go to heavily armed camps where NO ONE CAN GO TO SPEAK TO THEM…remember…The Patriot Act II?
The wheels are coming off the Obama bus!
Obama surrogate Claire McCaskil just went off the deep end this morning. The Obama campaign has yet again, stooped to a new low: attacking McCain becuase of his age and skin cancer that he had.
Obama Surrogate Attacks McCain for Age, Cancer
September 14, 2008 11:05 AM
On This Week with George Stephanopoulos this morning, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., a surrogate for the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., raised the age and health of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., when discussing the qualifications, or lack thereof, of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
McCaskill said she stood by her remarks that she’s “uncomfortable with anyone, regardless of gender, that is going to be vice president to one of the oldest presidents we’ve ever had that has never met a world leader.”
When Stephanopoulos asked her it was fair to raise McCain’s age, McCaskill doubled-down and mentioned his past skin cancer, saying, “I think what we’re talking about is a reality. Other people talk about his melanoma. We’re talking about a reality here that we have to face. This is someone who’s going to be one heartbeat away from the presidency. All of us know it. I just think that it’s the facts, George, and that’s something that we need to start focusing on, are the facts, instead of distortions and lies.”
McCain campaign surrogate Carly Fiorina said that she thought the attack was “disrespectful in the extreme. This is ageism. All you need to do is look at the schedule that John McCain has kept for the last two years to realize that he is one of the most vigorous, most energetic campaigners, frankly, in my judgment, out there.
OBAMA and his creepy surrogates:
D E S P E R A T E !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well hang on now, if this is acceptable the republicans should trot out the “Barry could get shot going to the gas station” fear card from Michelle’s Interview, which means that Joe Biden is one heartbeat and a tequila shot away from the presidency…YEEEHAAAAW!!!!
Wait…somehow that may not work…thank god the republicans don’t come to me for how to run their campaign.
It is easy to see that John McCain has more stamina than Obama who needs frequent breaks.
As far as world leaders, didn’t Obama meet world leaders for the FIRST time during his PR disaster AKA European tour?
McCain should accompany Sarah on a trip overseas to meet with world leaders. Would that suffice with Claire since it is the equivalent of what Obama did?
The fact the Europe says they would vote for Obama overwhelmingly should set of alarm bells.
cripes, she acts like McCain is on his way to the boneyard…he’s only 72!! He will be just fine. In 4 years Palin will be ready to take over for him.
McCain’s Mother is 96 and still bright and vibrant and active. ANyone see her practicly jump up out of her seat when they talked about her to wave to the crowd?
I was like Damn girl…thats a lot of energy!
yes, I seen her and she looked very healthy and vibrant to me too.
his mother would put Obama to shame and his NEED for time off and R&R
To be fair, BarkO’s trip to Hawaii was NOT R&R - But it WAS a trip to ‘FIX’ his Birth Certificate. That’s Work!
None of the “fish heads” even mentioned that McCain has a valid reason for not using a keyboard. They love being “in-line”. Paul Baggalia looked very worried when the topic of having Sen. Clinton drag him across the finish line. Her absense is notable from the talking head circuit. They send Shumer instead.
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I would like to see an ad that has McCain using voice rec software to send an email to Obama.
Opening scene;
McCain;(speaking into a mic)
“Memo to Obama; Senator Obama, since you take pride in dissin a veteran about his in-ability to send email or google, I just thought you should know that I have this really great technology now and the first one I am sending is to you.” (add text/ video)
McCain “computer…send”.
How do we know Obama doesn’t have cancer or some other serious condition?
McCaskill should have been asked: “If Obama is so much healthier, why won’t he release his medical records”?
Hah! I guess Sarah will have to do that one week tour of Europe thingy that BO did so she can match him in the ‘meeting world leaders’ sweepstakes.
She better not have a rock concert though, ’cause if she draws a bigger crowd, BO will be even more jealous than he already is.
John Edwards was never running to win anyways, just to keep people like Wes Clark(huge Clinton supporter) out of the picture.
John “Vanity of vanity” Kerry saw to it. Harvard types got something against Rhodes Scholars.
Fight for every vote, and all that.
Axelrod moved up the ladder by finding a way to lose. See also McAuliffe, Brazille(the ultimate affirmative promotion).
He isn’t a winner and doesn’t run a great campaign, as everyone is beginning to find out. Media and big money will pick the winner, he’s simply ornamental.
Jake Tapper over at ABC exposes Obama’s “email” ad attack against John McCain.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/why-doesnt-mcca.html
The Obamabots are crying!
HAHAHA from one of the Comments on that article:
BRILLIANT!!!
LOL!
This one is brilliant, too!
McCain may not use the computer, but he has never said he “hit the wrong button” in his vote.
That is brilliant, but unlike Obama, McCain’s campaign is smart enough not to offend any
potential demographic (except puffed up celebrities who deserve a reality check).
It’s the respect factor, and that’s why he’ll win.
Celebrities don’t vote.
They just play people who do on TV.
the nascar event is brilliant
To be honest, McCain has been running a better operation than Obama since obama went on his magical mystery tour.
They simp[ly are outsmarting him. They also lulled him into a fake sense of confidence. They thought it would be change vs experience a movie Obama already starred in against Clinton. McCain flipped the script.
Also, McCains campaign was planning to wait until after the conventions to define obama. But they realized they had to do it sooner, so came the celebrity ads.
Now they have defined the race on their terms and have a strategy mapped out to defeat Obama.
Also, about obama’s august fundraising, keep in mind that they count the sale of merchandise as donations. They also did a bit of fiddling with the numbers las month if you remember.
The money won’t matter anyway. McCain took public financing and that gives him the best 2 month total of money he has had this election cycle. Obama has been outspending him since it started. He also outspent Hillary by large amounts and lost BIG states. With obama’s lead slipping everywhere he had a lead and McCain overtaking him in key states Obama is going to need every penny just to stay even with a guy he is outspending 5-1.
I think McCain’s campaign should rip into him for the absurd money he is spending. The mCains donated money to relief efforts for Ike and Gustav. Obama, has not donated any.
The bottom has fallen out of this campaign and they are desperately trying to fix it. Too little to late.
I agree…speaking at NASCAR event will appeal to many of the everyday people.
Just showing up at one does.
Obama was offered an opertunity to do so and declined if you recall.
Well , first of all, a large percentage of Bagent’s bull(et) points are kookball comedy central, as well as the purported separation of these “rednecks” from what the collegiate freak elites claim is their sole playground.
A very simple example is a whining attack the same left already launched against Palin, ” She switched colleges six times “. Somehow, it seems, a redneck never goes to college. Maybe Jeff Foxworthy can clear that up for us ?
I agree she isn’t “one of the usual elites”, and that’s about it, when it comes to the other characterizations, thumbs down.
For instance, John Kerry lauded up his skiing, hang sailing, and bicycling. Rednecks ski, you’ll find plenty hangsailing in every two weeks spring break flesh pit, and they aren’t afraid to bicycle, by any means. I think the distinction there is, snowmobiling offends leftist enviro freaks, but many leftists snowmobile, and certainly the elite find themselves on them on occassion as well at their ski outings, especially as they age and their nose curls up even more. Same for the fishing. Lots of lefties fish, especially poor lefties - and middle classed snooter lefties can’t wait to brag what ship they were out on - deep sea is their key badge of pride wordset.
I just can’t buy much except the fact that we know she isn’t an inside DC political family elite connections part of either sides long standing networks.
On the other point related, the fact she isn’t a type that would “oohhh gross!” and scream if she had to hook a worm and fail to do it, gives confidence in a general sort of way, that offsets her looks - knocks down the elite afraid of the dirt, earth, soil, steroetype that could hurt her vying for VP.
My Aunt from New Jersey sent me an email. One of those from someone who knows Sarah Palin very well! Unfortunately I deleted it because I was so angry.
It went on to say that the people that elected her are toothless rednecks and she governed the Meth capital of the Country. It said rednecks so many times I couldn’t bring myself to read the whole thing and thats when I deleted it.
I can understand attacking her policies or experience. That is to be a given when running for office. But to attack middle America and belittle them is unbelievable.
My Aunt is an intelligent upper middle class woman with a daughter who lives in Israel. I thought for sure when I emailed her evidence of BO and his associates she would change her mind about voting for him. But I guess she’s drank from the Kool Aid.
That is a viral smear campaign email you are referring to.
Its from an Anne Kesomethign or other.
She is a very partisan democrat who basicly got shut out in wassila when Palin took office.
Sour Grapes.
Oh buy the way, did you hear that Sarah Palin wanted to Ban Harry Potter? Before it was even published when she had never heard about it?
Its sort of like how Obama was born as a result of his parents marching in Selma Alabama and meeting several years after he was actually born…which is biologically impossible…and he did say that in a church at the pulpit…and was not struck down by lightning for lying in church…which proves that God does not interfere with the day to day pullshit of mankind, despite what Michael Moore and Don Fowler would like to believe.
Actually the meth capital of the country is not Alaska. Illinois is a good place to look though.
That was a Tina Fey line in her SNL Palin/Clinton skit.
Already it’s being spread as truth by Obamabots.
I don’t think the toothless “rednecks” (translation - inherently stupid people) are in Palin’s hometown.
I think that many Obama supporters, who think they’re smarter and better than others are the idiots.
It scares me to think that someone with supporters with that type of superiority complex and lack of compassion could make it to the WH. Can you imagine what people like that would do to those who dared to disagree?
Can you say Fascism? I knew you could.
I have never envied or praised the rich and powerful, and most ordinary Americans would probably say the same.
In our sphere, we take pride in our own goals and successes!
Volunteers with Habitat, count me in, produce tangible results that last a lifetime!
Volunteers that work food banks across this country aren’t waiting for power, they are on the job!
These people are really the movers and shakers in this country, and it is perilous to insult and ignore them!
I appreciated Cunningham’s NYPOST article: ” You start to see why he couldn’t name a single right-wing friend when Bill O’Reilly asked. ”
Didn’t know that, but that is interesting, and quite disappointing. Tells me that’s a no unity at all freak of left.
” And how he unleashed that idiotic comment about how small-town people “cling to guns or religion.” ”
But that is the inner bama. That is his brain, as the elite nose curls up. Somehow I feel the need to say the clutz moron didn’t know his shoe size and bowls like a drowning, clumsy, lanky goat.
“A race against a serious Republican might have awakened him to this weakness - but he’s never been in one before. ”
Oops. The republican knocked out with the unsealed divorce record was a really good number, reminded me of the recent Kennedy killed in his own planecrash. Was a sharp, quality fella. I thought the “sex scandal” was ridiculous, he asked his wife to some French styled “couples club”
were monogamous sex isn’t entirely private, and she said “no” - and it appears that was the “end of that”. At least that is what I gathered. I was amazed when he dropped out - but then I guess - well, a white male republican is blamed for “trying”.
LOL
“In the general, he basically had it won once a Chicago paper took down the GOP nominee by getting a court to unseal unseemly divorce papers ”
Yes, golly, what a skumball way to go about things - now the O banga won’t let a single one of his papers of the past out. We’re supposed to consult his two memoirs for all our answers, and yes, he did “play with characters and made up stuff” so don’t expect any “problems”, they can “be explained” with sufficient “remorphings” and denials of the text as it reads. LOL
WOW! you unseal your personal divorce records before the campaign gets going, and I won’t drum up even my orignal birth certificate, EVER, nor my grades, nor my papers, NONE of them, not even my state leg records.. LOL
I want to punch someone in the chops again, I wonder why.
I sure hope the republicans packed about 50 mean hombres, some seriously pumped rednecks up to Wasilla, I suspect nighttime breakins and pilferring of records if not insane shuffling of the same between rapid digi camera pics. That would be a nice response to the thuggery the PUMA’s had to deal with I’ve read about.
“So it’s not such a mystery that the mean machine of the Democratic primaries, which stole the nomination away from Sen. Hillary Clinton, is sputtering so badly now. ”
Hmmm, all that kindness and niceness and hope…gone - LOL
Oh man! What a snowjob the Obamnation crap is.
“Clearly Axelrod continues to believe his class warfare strategy will work. ”
Yes, someone mentions the other part of that ad. I really didn’t want to bring it up, because I thought I would let Camp Obama bury themselves. Not to risk them actually pulling this ad that reinforces the “Elitist Arrogance” that was showing so well and that Hillary was stating would put voters off to him.
CA CHING! BB is losing the “not losable election” for the Democrats.
Using email as an example of being out of touch is two problems, many who don’t care, want or even know how, as a declaration that they are out of touch or benath others, but then also by using this tiny brain example of mocking, makes others who do use computers look at that type of elitist mocking and say “ewww, so what, how dare you”.
More of Backtrack Barry’s running to a comfort zone of more elitist arrogant angry supporters to declare people who don’t support him must be bitter, gun toting, bible thumping bigots in small town America. BB thinks everyone should have their attitude of “ME” and he should have been able to tap in to that, so there must be something wrong with them if they don’t (it’s called being smart, not full of ones self). And also reinforcing the snobbery that if you actually went to college, you must be a selfish person.
Doesn’t it make you happy not to be part of that Me society that embodies Camp Obama?
Oh I dunno. That sounds like just about every Republican Presidential campaign of the last twenty years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk_fPi-24Iw
BREAKING!
BREAKING!
BREAKING!
http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=3088211&referralPlaylistId=949437d0db05ed5f5b9954dc049d70b0c12f2749
UNBELIEVABLE!! THE AMERICAN LEFT HAVE LOST THEIR MINDS
This is a Must See Video!!!
BREAKING!
BREAKING!
BREAKING!
I live in Florida (the home of my vote never seems to count!).
For eight years I have been waiting for this election praying for a Dem to win.
This year I’m praying they don’t. These people scare me.
For a photographer to be so infantile or other so called intelligent people.
The democrats aren’t instigating class warfare so much as attempting to focus attention on the fact that the republicans are already conducting it–or at the very least providing cover for those who actually are.
Can anyone look closely at the distribution of the Bush tax cuts and at John McCain’s proposed tax cuts and not see their extreme bias in favor of the wealthiest people in our society? Those schemes are promoted by the republicans in spite of the fact that the top 10% of families already own over 71% of the total national wealth, while the bottom 40% of the population owns far less than 1%. They’re promoted in spite of the fact that they have greatly increased our annual deficits, which have doubled our national debt to almost $10 trillion over the course of only 8 years. Surely I don’t need to point out that the consequences of that will most severely impact those very classes that are cheated by the tax scam: What will become unsupportable once the debt bankrupts us will be Social Security retirement benefits, Medicare, public education, etc.
Consider too how republican deregulation has affected working people: Consider all the take-overs resulting from corporate insolvency, where workers after a lifetime of promises have lost their healthcare and their private pensions along with their jobs, while the very corporate executives who engineer the failures escape with multi-million dollar bonus packages from the buy-outs. This has happened so often it has become routine. Consider how often the republicans have bailed out the big guys with taxpayer dollars and left small investors holding worthless shares. That’s purely routine as well. We’ve seen in happening again in the last two weeks.
Accusing the democrats of class-warfare strategy for simply pointing that out is nothing more than another example of the current republican election strategy of turning everything on its head. Thus the republicans now cast themselves as reformers, as the party of change, as the guys who are going to take on what’s wrong with Washington–while what’s been wrong with Washington has mainly been the republicans themselves.
Duplicity, lies, diversion, and misdirection. There’s your republican campaign strategy. Indeed, they’ve put lipstick on the pig.
Of course the Repubs played the race card. And they used class warfare. But Hillary showed, while she was still in the race, that you could come out ahead without doing either.
To say the Dems aren’t paying the class and race card is absurd. Obama and his surrogates/supporters do it all of the time.
Where are Obama’s medical records? Where are his college records? Where are his State Senate records?
Heck, the Republicans have turned this thing on it’s head.
What they’ve done is let the nastiness of the “New Dem Party” be revealed. They’ve shown that the far left, with the media in it’s pocket, can be as nasty as the far right.
Never thought I’d see the day, but for once there’s a reality-based and reasonable post at No Quarter. The Democrats are attempting a three-peat of losing elections they should have won. The funny part is that they still don’t understand what they’re doing wrong. Like a dog that keeps chasing its tail.
According to Rasmuss poll 41% of democrats in Oklahoma support McCain/Palin. 63% McCain to 32% Obomer.
“Rednecks” is an extremely negative characterization of one segment of the Republican electorate: Lower income white people.
Obviously, I could come up with a negative characterization for one segment of the Democratic electorate: Lower income black people. But that would be racist, wouldn’t it?
Trying to characterize all Republicans as rednecks is misdirection. Both parties have broad coalitions, and there are still a ton of people who end up on the center or on the outside. I’m a white urban professional who works in finance and am little left of center. But I but have no problem voting Republican when my Democratic candidate tells me that his solution to the immigration problem is drivers licenses for illegals and for me to learn Spanish, or his solution to terrorism is to be a little nicer, negotiate more, and run every security decision by the all-knowing Europeans. And of course the guy’s never managed anything in his life except a campaign - and oh look, he’s losing.
‘Rednecks’ is better than what BarkO’s surrogates are calling us: “White trash”.
Well, if Redneck means I don’t support Obama…then,
Call me a Redneck all day!!
One other comment. I just realized what happened to the Obama campaign: They drank the koolaid too.
In the primaries, as I’m sure you remember, the Obamacrats made it pretty clear that they didn’t need the HRC voters. Their reasoning was that the “universal change appeal” of the Obama campaign would bring in large numbers of Independents and Republicans.
Now that’s a good talking point, but as soon as you start to build strategy around something that’s just not true, it’s over. Team Obama is looking around and saying “where are the independents and republicans”? Because its September and they’re missing.
The situation is obvious to us - we’re all anti-Obama and can clearly recognize that he couldn’t sell his far-left agenda and shady persona to a significant bloc of Democrats and we extrapolated that it would be very difficult to sell it to independents and republicans that are paying even the slightest bit of attention.
But since his campaign drank the kool-aid, they really did think that they didn’t need us and that independents and even some republicans would come flocking. And that’s why Obama’s numbers have been several points shy of 50% this entire election.
Spot on, Tristan.
Great post Medusa!!!
The thing Obama is also forgetting is that some of us who may live a bit in Arugala land have our roots firmly embedded in blue collar soil. Also lots of us have family who have immigrated from other countries who see America as the greatest opportunity in their life. So his negative messages fall on deaf ears
Ack! Obama’s boots are on the ground, here. Ijust received a phone call, describing BO as having “integrity,”.
I agree, I think they’re getting desperate.
LOL!!! They sure are singing Hillary’s praises! Ha HA Since when?!
Wow, college degrees, professional work history, etc. and I’m the happiest goddam redneck ever!
McCain/Palin 2008
Clinton 2012
NO Obama ever!
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Medusa,
EXCELLENT post.
I wish there was some way this messaqe could get to the public who do not have access to the internet. Voters need to see this.