Charlotte, North Carolina: Barack Obama’s Political Dumping Ground
By Truthteller on September 15, 2008 at 4:08 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Hoodwinking, Joe "Bro" Biden, Michelle Obama, North Carolina, Obama's Thugs, Qualifications, Race, Race Card
Charlotte, North Carolina, will be the site where the Obama campaign will cynically drop the race card again and again with the “hope” that racial polarization will garner a victory in the Tarheel state; it will be the dumping ground for all the race baiting and political toxic waste the Obama campaign will deploy in order to eek out a victory in November. I quote the an article published in yesterday’s edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times:
CHARLOTTE – Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, campaigning in North Carolina where black votes could help swing the state to the Democrats, said today that electing a black person to the White House would be transformative.
Biden said the policies of running mate Barack Obama make his presidency even more urgent and declared this to be the most important election that any living person has seen in their lifetime. But he particularly singled out the meaning of electing someone who is black.
“That will be a transformative event in American politics and internationally,” Biden said. “That all by itself will be significant.”
North Carolina last voted for a Democrat in 1976, when Jimmy Carter won much of the South. But the state has a large population of blacks galvanized by Obama’s candidacy, and the Illinois senator has competed aggressively here for months.
The race card will have to be dropped aggressively in North Carolina, for African-Americans comprise only 21.7% of the state’s population. This is by far smaller than the number of African-Americans in states such as Mississippi and Louisiana. Compounding this demographic constraint for the racially polarizing Obama campaign is recent polling data: McCain respectively leads Obama 17 points and 20 points in recent Research 2000/DailyKos and SurveyUSA/ABC11-WTVD polls. The Obama campaign is desperate, and they will try to mobilize each and every single African-American in that state to vote for Barack Obama, even if that entails asking Joe Biden to go for broke at the Phillip O. Academy in Charlotte, North Carolina. Yes, the Obama campaign had the audacity to asked the man who uttered to following questionable words to drop the race card in inner city Charlotte:
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” Biden said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
Everyone, it seems, suffers from amnesia when race is invoked in any political discussion. Perhaps one should say those inspired by Joe Biden’s Charlotte, North Carolina, race card have been hoodwinked and bamboozled. Or maybe Michelle Obama simply prefers the word “storybook” to the phrase “fairy tale” when Democrats discuss her husband’s candidacy. Too bad Michelle failed to remember that Bill Clinton was referring to her husband’s Iraq policy and not to her husband when she shamelessly criticized the former President at the Trumpeter Awards before the racially charged South Carolina primary. But why should we expect consistency from those who recklessly exploit the politics of race for electoral and personal gain?
How odd it is that Biden is now the weapon the Obama campaign will deploy in North Carolina as they racially polarize that state’s population in the name of cynical electoral politics. Michelle’s deck of cards must be out of aces of race. For on 5 MAY it was Michelle Obama who laid down her entire hand at the Ovens Auditorium in Charlotte on the eve of that state’s important and in many ways decisive primary. I quote The Hill:
It was an hour-long tale of resentment and anger.
First, she complained at great length that her husband had been treated unfairly in the Democratic presidential race. Every time he made a move forward, she said, “they” — she never spelled out exactly who “they” were — moved the goalposts a bit farther away from him.
First, “they” said he couldn’t raise the money necessary to run a big-league campaign.
But “once he proved that he could raise the money, then all of a sudden money didn’t matter,” Mrs. Obama told the crowd. “Everybody said, ‘Well, money isn’t important.’ ”
Then “they” said the test for Obama would be whether he could build a political organization. But “once it was built, they said it’s not an organization — the stakes changed again.”
Next, “they” said Obama had to win Iowa. But “once he won Iowa, then all of a sudden Iowa was no longer important.”
“They” had moved the bar again. This time, Obama had to win a primary state.
“Then we rolled into South Carolina,” Mrs. Obama said. “Then you know what they said? They said South Carolina didn’t count, because Barack was supposed to win.”
Then came Super Tuesday, and after that Obama’s stretch of victories in a series of primary and caucus states.
Still, Mrs. Obama complained, “they” tried to undermine her husband every step of the way.
“We’ve learned that we’re still living in a time and in a nation where the bar is set, right?” she said.
“They tell you all you need to do is do these things and you’ll get to the bar, so you go about the business of doing those things.
“You start working hard and sacrificing, and you think you’re getting closer to the bar, you’re working and you’re struggling, you get right to that bar, you’re reaching out for the bar, and then what happens?
“They raise the bar. Raise the bar. Shift it to the side. Keep it just out of reach.
“And that’s just what’s been happening in this race.”
According to Michelle Obama on 5 MAY, “they,” the Clintons, were raising the bar on her husband, and they did this to him solely as a result of her husband’s “race.” It is a scenario Michelle claims she understands. I quote the author of The Hill article again:
Even Michelle Obama herself. “I’m not supposed to be here,” she tells the crowd. “I am a statistical oddity. As a black girl raised on the south side of Chicago, I’m not supposed to be here. I wasn’t supposed to go to Princeton. They said my test scores were too high” — surely a verbal slip, because in the past she has said she was told her test scores were too low — “I wasn’t supposed to go to Harvard Law School, because they said it might be a little too hard for me. And I certainly am not supposed to be standing here with a chance to become the next first lady of the United States of America.”
The Obama campaign complained about the raising of the bar during the North Carolina primary, but now they are clearly lowering the bar with more race baiting and more racial polarization in Charlotte, North Carolina, a city they view as a receptacle for their political and racial toxic waste. First it was Michelle Obama, and now it is Joe Biden: same message, different people, more divisiveness, more distractions, more sleaze, more race cards.
The people of Charlotte, North Carolina, will be hoodwinked and bamboozled into submission. But even worse is how Obama will subject all the African-Americans of that city and state who will vote for him to so much “okie-doke” if he manages to make it to the White House on their backs. Is this post-racial politics, or am I right to view it as so much regression?
More commentary on and analysis of Biden’s event in Charlotte, North Carolina, is available at Memeorandum. Also be sure to visit Charlotte Front and Center.
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The “creative class” has been lighting matches over an open “gas can” for months. No matter the result of the Nov 4 election, it is going to explode.
Yes, the creative class has sure been coming unhinged over anyone who opposes Obama. But now, it’s starting to cost them, badly.
Two YouTube videos of FOX News crushing photographer Jill Greenberg and The Atlantic magazine. Greenberg, hired by the magazine to take photos of McCain for a cover shot and feature article, admitted on her blog that she tried to make McCain look ‘evil’ and as old and bad as possible. She also created Photoshops of McCain with blood on his face, etc.
The Atlantic has apologized to McCain and said that they may pursue legal action against Greenberg. The second video has Atlantic editor James Bennet discussing his regret over the incident. The first video is FOX & Friends discussing the photographic/photoshop slander of McCain by Greenberg:
Fox & Friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd0M0BEYaf8
Megyn Kelly and James Bennet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKe4ZerO9cU
My spouse says he will be “mad at me and blame me” if Obama loses, and that “we will have problems”.
This former Dem says Dems like my spouse are getting desperate and irrational.
My family is full of Obamabots too – no fun – but I will not be silenced or change my mind.
I have had enough. Nobama for me. Ever.
Isn’t it ironic? I had this trouble with my Republican relatives in 2000 & 2004. This year, the Republicans supported Hillary and now I can’t talk politics with my Democratic family & friends. I won’t say how I’m voting and won’t discuss Obama with them. You can’t change anybody’s mind by arguing and you can’t reason with Obama supporters anymore than you can argue with Dubya supporters.
Sounds like typical threatening behavior from a koolaid drinking Ohitler supporting zombie. Is that the threat of divorce or?
Get a different spouse.
You should tell your spouse that if John McCain loses that you will blame him and your marriage will suffer because of it.
I’m getting flurries of email from Dem friends who are doing their best to make me see Palin and McCain for the devils they are. LOL, they can’t help themselves. Desperation is tough to deal with, given that there are no more Greek columns to bump Barry’s poll numbers.
I’d consult a good attorney tomorrow. for real….
the dems have been doing this for a long time now; they NEVER take responsibility for anything. if obama loses, you can bet it will be anybody and everybody’s fault, except obama’s and the fools that got him nominated.
Your spouse is a big fat baby and needs to get over it. You tell him that there are problems NOW if he can’t respect you.
You might as well add this one to your viewing list…more things Obama and the MSM don’t want you to know.
http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/09/14/devastating-video-for-the-media-to-ignore-obama-talks-about-job-bill-ayers-gave-him-as-qualification-for-us-senate/
Some of my family members want to write-in Ron Paul-I am now searching for the public annoucement I have heard he made asking people not to do that-that if he causes McCain to lose a state by 2 or 300 votes it would destroy him. I am hoping I can find the proof he said that to show those family members that what I said is the truth. What I said to them was-a line left blank, or a write in for 3rd party-to stay at home-or NO vote-is a vote for obama. People we do not have the luxury of doing those things this time around!
I worked my big tail off for Hillary but I can see for my self that if we allow obama to enter the Whitehouse he may never leave! Further more if he is elected we can kiss much of what we hold dear to our hearts good-bye. I personally cannot do that to my kids and my grand-kids. Two of my neices just had babies-I cannot give them to obama and I will do everything in my power to stop him.
If people don’t take a stand now you are either for him or agaist him-the only way to be against him is to VOTE NOV 4TH McCain-Palin. period.
I think you are absolutely correct.
Although I am hoping the situation can be mitigated if McCain, as president, has to work with a Democratic Congress minus Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and with Hillary as majority leader. A strongly bipartisan administration under McCain would help a great deal also.
First test is tomorrow with the Kerry-O’Reilly matchup in Massachusetts.
Any word on the polls for that race? I can’t find any online. I hope and pray the one “O” wins this year!!!
McCain Campaign needs to run an ad for the Blacks in North Carolina. The ad should be revealing how Obama voted against funds for Katrina victims and how Governor Palin donated money to victims of Katrina with her windfall fund that she saved money from slashing wasteful spending.
Governor, and soon to be Vice President, Palin is head of the National Guard in Alaska and supports the troops. She is not afraid to visit the troops without the presence of the media!
Maybe the soldiers in NC want to hear about that?
Isn’t NC a fertile ground for vote fraud? Someone in the State Elections Dept. is in the tank for Oblahblah and is co-conspirator of fixing the election for a huge
bribeprofit.They need to count all the votes and check all the phony registrations.
To Maverick: You need to report the person you refer to that is on the NC Board of Elections that you suspect will try to “fix” the Nov gen. election and what you know to support that claim.
You should call the NC Attorney General’s office and find out where and to whom you should report this possible suspect. Don’t worry about whether the claims are true or not since you have no way of knowing that. Most importantly, don’t wait until after-the-fact when it seems nothing can be done even if fraud is certain.
In addition, find out from the AG’s office how to go about being an observer at the polls as well as election central where the votes come in and are counted. Whether this is a sure-fire way to control such fraud or not, it can’t hurt.
Cudos to responders to Asheville Citizen Times (my local paper)
The 3 who commented were not the bitter HICKS Bambi surmises they are!! Well aware of what’s going on.
Thanks for posting this Truthteller!
Electing the first woman to the white house that has gotten there on her own merits without playing the leftist victimization card of gender while simultaneously meeting the demands of raising a family that has presented its own set of challenges would be truly transformative.
hillary DID get their on her own. SHE helped BILL get where he got; she wasn’t just staying home baking cookies, as you’ll recall. i know there is no sexism, but when hillary was just starting out, there was what, about 1% women in the highest levels of government? she might have figured it was safer to help her husband than to try to go into politics herself. and for that, she is slandered by the likes of low-lifes like you. hillary has earned every damn thing she’s got, and she didn’t need any help from terrorist buddies and benefactors, like mr. hussein.
editing my comment above; not sure if the OP was sarcasm or what.
Hillary did it on her own, and lifted women everywhere up with her. Just look at the record, especially the creation of the vision of universal health care for the US!
Here, here. Palin isn’t president yet, she’ll have to go up against Our Girl! It’ll be the most exciting election ever.
that would be a hoot.
playing the leftist victimization card of gender.
Wynterskye, to whom are you referring here?
I did NOT intend to demean Hillary in any way, didn’t even use her name. My comment is directed at those loony leftist like Steinem that seek to keep women down as victims of male gender discrimination as much as so called black leaders like Jesse Jackson keep blacks in their place (yes, a racist term in this case black on black racism) by demeaning those who so dare as break out from the victimization mold and seek the opportunities (the message of MLK) that have always been available to them. Without victims, the leftist elitist is powerless, hence all the vitriol spewed at Palin from the feminist left as she presents the worst of all role models for their daughters that demonstrates a woman can have it all and gain it independently on her own terms.
The far left abhors rugged individualism in that they believe the people lack sophistication and intelligence to shape their own future and destiny and need to be guided and ruled by a permanent class of political elites. The far leftist agenda is a rejection of Jeffersonian thought which acknowledges the common person, the laborer, the farmer, vested with inalienable rights can join with others so endowed with the same rights in a system of self governance in which government is subservient to the people.
agreed, especially on the rugged individualism part; there seems to be a divide between leftist big city dwellers and the rest of us. i don’t necessarily support the ‘making it on her own’ part because we all get help, and why shouldn’t a husband and wife help each other and work as a team? seems like that should be the ideal, instead of ‘turning the tables’ so to speak, and have women dominate and men all stay home, out of sight, out of mind, while the woman gets all the glory. it just seems like hillary is taking a lot of crap because, god forbid, she decided to help her husband with his career (for a number of years) instead of working on her own.
Yes, Yes Yes! and the Democratic Party fucked it up.
Axelgoebbles you mean.
First! You’re scaring me, TT. I have kinfolk in CLT.
Obama Has Issues And He’s Dead Wrong on All of them!
Empty rabble rousing rhetoric
This is the problem with blindly entrusting your future to an individual who has accomplished nothing of any consequence in his past. It’s not hope you’re feeling, its euphoric blind faith.
As is always the case with career rabble rousers (aka community organizers), the fact that they have never been in the game does not hamper their ability to talk a good game. Obama says that words mean something and without any deeds to talk about, he’s right. However, compared to action and real experience, or in his case a complete lack thereof, empty words mean damn little.
Read Entire Article: http://countusout.wordpress.com
whoever wrote that needs to do a little more research
While I do not dispute her claims about who is paying…what is messed is this
in 1960 breakdown between Individual and Corporate contributions to federal revenue was something like 52/48
in 2004 it was 87/13 (and that included payroll tax which means they aren’t paying CRAP in federal revenue)
Despite the claims our corporations are burdened by tax more than any other country in the world, we have found ourselves dragged into international court with sanctions applied for being a CORPORATE TAX HAVEN.
fact is, under our current laws and policies, corporate entities have more rights than citizens
That’s why they were ‘incorporated’ in the first place — as entities imbued with all the civil and legal rights of ‘natural persons,’ corporations embody the obedience women were casting off over a hundred years ago. And look what hath been wrought!
I like Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy. I am rabble. I’m here because I am roused against “The One” and his many who are “Legion.”
Thanks, Steven! I was afraid I was gonna have to say something to Fred!
I take the point, though, that there are some – Obama – who don’t have “real world” experience. I do not fit into that category, just so you know! And I rabble rouse for truth and justice, so there’s that!!
Electing a Traitor to the White House will be pretty damn Transformative too.
Barack Obama – Against the War since 2002, against a troop reduction since secret meetings in july!
Barack Obama – “Dear Iraqis, DOnt negotiate with Bush and keep our boys and Girls in there till i win ktnxbai!”
American Voters – “Dear Barack, Fuck You.”
We already have traitors in the White House.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk_fPi-24Iw
GW and his pals betrayed the public trust.
Just watched you vid.
Now say it! We’ve got to dump Pelosi and Reid. Vote Republican down the line.
I agree Perry. The same traitors Pelosi and Reid refused to Impeach.
These are the Dems supporting Obama. This doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.
Perry, I love your videos! Great stuff!!!
LOL Perry. I also like the video of yours’ where you say that people who hate the Clintons are a tiny fraction of people and they think that everyone hates the Clintons! That’s funny too.
So Biden is telling these voters because Obama is half black they can make history by voting for him. And oh, he’s clean too. Cripes, what a fucking MORON. He must be hittin’ the juice pretty hard. It is very irresponsible to promote someone simply based on their ethnicity. Hope those NC voters aren’t that stupid.
This whole thing has made me ill. I never thought the Democrats would come to this. Always an Independent since 1972 (first year I could vote) and never have I voted for a Rep. presidential candidate. This will be my year for change for certain. The thought of the Obama’s in the White House sickens me. This will set race relations back years no matter what the outcome, though I believe Obama will lose “handily.”
“…try to mobilize each and every African American in that state to vote for Obama….”
How about their ability to mobilize people who are not in the state, but come from an adjacent one (or far away?) and vote in caucuses, primaries, etc.
And, if Obama is the Messiah, how about the ability to raise the dead, or lift their names from tombstones, and have them vote, too?
It’s not just the south. I live in the southwest and my Santa Fe newspaper is playing the race card almost every day through their commentary and selected letters to the editor. It will be interesting to see how the Hispanic population here reacts to the AA race baiting.
I live in NC. It is RED. It is going to stay RED. BHO is wasting his money in NC unless it’s to pay for voter fraud and Diebold hacking.
He may just do that. It hasn’t stopped him yet. McCain better have a lot of people in the polls on November 4th.
Obama is a fraud!
this north carolina voter is voting for mccain/palin ..but i am a typical white person with a bible and gun..
Yea, me too…voting for McCain and Palin. First time voting for a Republican. You see, I am clinging to my principles.
No bible, no gun, just a bitter white woman voting Rethug for the first time.
The devils (Obumble, Pelosi, Brazile & Dean) made me do it.
There has to be a huge number of votes for McCain to offset the vote cheating that will be performed by Oblahblah.
I think we’ll find out who ‘they’ are when the Whitey Tape airs…
Do you believe it exists? I have certainly not ruled out that it does.
I am dying to see the tape if it exists. I wouldn’t doubt it does for a minute. I haven’t heard any updates on this in awhile.
According to the Obama campaign it does. They claim Michelle said “why’d he” and not “whitey”.
How could a tape that doesn’t exist be misinterpreted?
Lol, good point!
Racism.
Lets hope it’s part of an “October suprise”.
Let me get this straight: Biden says the most important decision any of us can make in our lives is to elect a president based on race?
Then I want Will Smith for president. He is better looking, has a nicer body and has a hell of a record at the box office.
I don’t want some community organizer who has done nothing in his life but perpetuate his own myth and run for office.
Nah, Will Smith doesn’t do it for me. I like that actor who played Stringer Bell on The Wire.
Morgan Freeman….very presidential
ok you got me there. And he actually does have experience playing the president and god.
I’d vote for him, except that there is a 9 out of 10 chance that he supports Obumble.
On Obama and Freeman:
If you have no doubt that Obama thinks he’s G-d, then you shouldn’t now.
So the President can be an inexperienced idiot as long as he’s the right color?
America has been through that before with non-AA candidates.
Ultimately, the public rejected them.
If Obama should win and he’s not up to the job the public will rip him apart. That’s why he and Biden are leaning heavily on race. If things go wrong, no matter how bad things get, it’s not Obama’s fault. Any criticism will be because he’s black (of course his mom was white but let’s not talk about that).
In that case I pick BILL COSBY for President.
He can dump his Race Cards in a heaping pile of garbage, where they belong, but it won’t get him a win.
Silly us. We didn’t pay close enough attention to BB. We knew he was nothing but a projecting narcissist, but why didn’t we notice his projecting when he declared he would turn Red states Blue.
He’s actually turning Blue states RED!
…NM, WA, and more and more are leaning McCain now, and then we hear New York, BB has lost 18 pts since JUNE and now risks turning New York RED! I guess she really is the Big Red Apple!
How about Oblahma projecting onto Governor Palin the banning of books? We all know Palin never banned any books. How about when Oblahma projected onto voters during phone banking that Hillary is a Marxist and wants to take our constitutional rights away? Is Oblahma projecting much?
Truthteller, you are right. This is regressive. As I have stated many times, when I think of Barack Obama I do not think of him in terms of his race, or the color of his skin. However, everytime the race card is played by his campaign, I cringe. I do not like being called “racist” (and I have been personally attacked like this) because I choose not to support him. I do not support Barry because he is not trustworthy, is opportunistic, narcissistic, manupilatitive, arrogant, sexist and most of all UNQUALIFIED! It has nothing to do with the color of his skin. And the playing of the race card time and time again serves to drive a wedge between people, a wedge that becomes harder and harder to close as time goes by.
I wonder if Joe Biden is having second thoughts?
I am sure Joe Biden is enjoying himself. Besides, he knew what his responsibilities would be when he accepted Obama’s offer.
<blockquoteI am sure Joe Biden is enjoying himself. Besides, he knew what his responsibilities would be when he accepted Obama’s offer.
You’re right, Biden is enjoying himself, just like I do on a roller coaster ride. When its over I say, ‘That was fun.’ When its over there’s nothing left, a memory gone the next day. Biden is a fucking user and he knows where this is heading and he doesn’t give a damn what he says as long as it makes B.O. and Axelrod smile. I hope he has one helluva hangover.
Doesn’t it remind you in a weird way of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes?
…Ssssso Obama is Tom and the Democratic Party is Katie?
He’s past 2nd thoughts and is on “what they heck was I thinking”.
You would think with todays news, Banking Biden would be hiding for cover. Not trying to sow seeds of racial discourse in North Carolina.
^ discord
I hope Hillary does not join the VP ticket with Obama. Joe Biden better not step down. Early voting is September 30th. So if Biden was going to step down and let Hillary become the Vp nominee it would have to be before then.
Obama is a loser and HRC needs to leave him sinkk on this ship by himself.
1) For better, for worse, Biden is the VP Nominee.
Politicians learned that harsh lesson in 1972 when the McGovern campaign had Eagleton step aside due to the revelations of his history of depression and shock treatments.
The nominee only gets one shot at the VP selection and it better be a good one. After that, it is a lose/lose situation regardless of the reasons and regardless of the assets of the second choice.
2) The worst possible outcome in 2008 would be if Hillary, for whatever reason would become part of this ticket which has always been a disaster waiting to happen whether it comes before the election or after.
It would be nice to see a Central American-style coup where Hillary marched in with the generals of the armed forces and took over the country.
Oh, I would pay to see that happen.
The foundation of Obama’s house of cards (RACE) is crumbling.
Obama is doing the running man dance now. Just shuffling and sliding his feet up and down, but not going anywhere.
He is losing traction. What does he do? What does he know?
Class-Warfare and race card politics: Chicago style.
PATHETIC!!
Quick comment on Obama’s act of treason:
I hope the Iraqi govt. has audio and video of their meetings with Obama. The media is circling their wagons around Obama to try and insulate The One. Need to release the proof and expose Obama’s words and deeds.
How long can the media keep their charade up? A tape of Obama’s comments sure would make it difficult for the media to cover it up.
Just got home and I am catching up on the days events … Bottom line is that it looks like Obama is continuing the attack, and McCain camp is still playing nice …
I know McCain chose to pass up the chance to nail bambi on the unfairly edited interview, and the computer ad, but I guess it also appears he is going to give him a free pass on the Itaq tampering thing ???
I think everyone on this site is starting to act like the kooks on kos, byu that I mean everyone here is starting to believe things that just are not true ..
Everyone here believes Obama is imploding, and everyone on Kos think Obama is on his way to a landslide …
Both are false. This election is very very close, and McCain needs to understand he is going to have to hit Obamas character to win this thing. McCain cant just keep giving him a free pass on character issues, and instead just focus on issues.
Obamas weakest point is his character. Yeah Obama has no policy plans but he is not a republican, and given Bush 25% approval rating, that is enough to giive Obama cover on the policy issues.
McCain needs to stop saying he wont question Obamas patriotism, and he needs to stop saying how honorable Obama is, because Obama is just slamming him on character issues, calling him to old and a liar. People will hear it enough and they will start to believe it.
McCain just conitinues to run one of the weakest campaigns
I agree, I wish McCain would hit him, and hard. He’s got plenty of ammo (not that the mainstream media would cover it). I *hope* he is one step ahead of us and has some fireworks planned. I thought he/the campaign was asleep at the wheel until he announced the Palin pick…hopefully he’s got some more juice in this thing.
JM08…I think that this is the calm before the storm. I believe McCain will unload on Obama in such a way that he will never recover from it. Just let’s bide our time and watch.
<blockquoteJM08…I think that this is the calm before the storm. I believe McCain will unload on Obama in such a way that he will never recover from it. Just let’s bide our time and watch.
I hope you’re right, Postmaster, not only does Obama frighten the hell out of me, but also the rioting and loss of life when he loses.
YES! UNLOAD! UNLOAD!
Playing nice on character did not help HRC. But I think probably that McCain’s camp has internal polls telling them that they got all the mileage out of those issues they could get and to move on. I notice that McCain came out today with an ad on the economy and a strong stump speech in Fl on the same. Listening to Palin in CO I heard the same message on the economy. Charles Lemos at By the Fault put up the McCain ad with a list of McCain’s positions on the economy. McCain is stronger in that area than you might think and I think the campaign knows that they must move to that territory and claim it. They can’t win this thing with lipstick, ageism and sexism.
No Quarter also posted the advertisement. See Susan’s diary on the front page.
i have to agree… the race is very close and will remain so.
the dems are not only energized, they are absolutely rabid.
if more people wake up, it will be a mccain landslide… IF.
That’s what peeved me about Hillary campaign. She complimented Oblah too much and it wasn’t even genuine. They need to stop that. And not put out the issues because Oblah will twist it or adopt it for his own.
While the compliments are irritating, I just think they do that while twisting the knife. They have to say something nice every now and then just to look decent. I wondered why the heck McCain was spending his campaign money for an ad congratulating Obama after his speech at the Dem convention. I thought he could put the money to better use. But then I thought..hmmm maybe something’s coming here. Next day, it was a knockout punch with Palin’s announcement.
And, don’t forget, the very popular McCain saw first-hand, the repub nomination slip from his hands in 2000 into the hands of another empty suit. McCain had beaten George W. in NH only to come to SC where lies were circulated that their precious adopted African child was his illegitimate child. In addition, George W. stole McCain’s message, made it his own, and won! McCain has been here before.
She’s not African, she’s Indian, from Mother Theresa’s orphanage.
I think what McCain is doing is letting Obama dig his own grave by fighting dirty, and keeping his own hands clean–see, he set off the rampaging monster that is obamachine, and now he’s sitting back to let everyone see what a hypocrite Obama is. I mean, when you hear all these ads calling McCain dishonorable when he’s not doing anything, it gets you thinking.
Just got home and I am catching up on the days events … Bottom line is that it looks like Obama is continuing the attack, and McCain camp is still playing nice …
I know McCain chose to pass up the chance to nail bambi on the unfairly edited interview, and the computer ad, but I guess it also appears he is going to give him a free pass on the Itaq tampering thing ???
I think everyone on this site is starting to act like the kooks on kos, byu that I mean everyone here is starting to believe things that just are not true ..
Everyone here believes Obama is imploding, and everyone on Kos think Obama is on his way to a landslide …
Both are false. This election is very very close, and McCain needs to understand he is going to have to hit Obamas character to win this thing. McCain cant just keep giving him a free pass on character issues, and instead just focus on issues.
Obamas weakest point is his character. Yeah Obama has no policy plans but he is not a republican, and given Bush 25% approval rating, that is enough to giive Obama cover on the policy issues.
McCain needs to stop saying he wont question Obamas patriotism, and he needs to stop saying how honorable Obama is, because Obama is just slamming him on character issues, calling him to old and a liar. People will hear it enough and they will start to believe it.
McCain just conitinues to run one of the weakest campaigns
I disagree. This election has just gotten started. The vast majority of voters are only now beginning to pay any attention at all. The election will still be a referendum on Obama and who he really is. You are right that those rich deposits haven’t been mined yet, but timing is everything. Plus it will be the 527s that will do that not the McCain campaign. It’s still to early, just wait. There are five or six killer issues from birth circumstances, to Ayers to foreign passports and dual citizenships to muslim ties and at the core – Obama’s lack of American roots. Any ONE of those is enough to take him out and I am confident there is substance behind at least several. And that doesn’t even count the whitey tape.
I think the race is close and I’m not counting on anything, but seeing that more states are solidifying in McCain’s direction, I feel fairly confident that Obama is on a downward spiral. I have not seen Obama put out anything positive since Palin came on the scene.
OKay. But McCain doesn’t need to attack. The more Obama and surrogates attack McCain, Palin and Palin’s children the worse things get.
People will remember being referred to as stupid inbred hicks. Remember Obama supporters are not distinguishing between the races when they make comments like that.
Anyone that doesn’t support Obama is the same. They’re all uneducated and down right stupid. Obama has never condemned those types of comments.
To paraphrase LBJ, if your opponent is shooting himself in the foot, stay out of the way.
Having witnessed the “voting irregularities” in Charlotte, N.C.on May 6th, what you say in your article is a possible happening. Considering I know more than one person who witnessed the massive effort by the Obama campaign to sign-up felons at the Mecklenburg Courthouse is reason enough to worry about voter fraud all over N.C. Now, if we go by the polls and honest citizenry, we will see McCain-Palin win the state.
Trisha… I will point out that felons, ONCE THEY HAVE COMPLETED THEIR SENTENCE OR PAROLE, are once again eligible to vote. Something the system doesn’t tell them or just outright lies to them about.
I’ve registered people who did something naughty as kids and got a felony conviction. They’re 50 years old, never been in trouble again and have led a productive life and they though they STILL couldn’t vote. You cannot imagine their elation when they found out it wasn’t true that they had lost their right to vote for life. I even had one guy who teared up!
so that on it’s face isn’t wrong. of course, lol it’s hard for me to accept that anything above board could have been Barky’s motivation either *w*
Be careful on that felon rule. It varies from state to state.
There was a cut and paste here taken from a KOS diary about how they were going to register felons. They use a list and then register them and VOTE for them! They called it a “new meaning to voting”
The magical thing that happened in the race was the Wright rant. Prior to that the assumption was that whenever race comes up it will be to Obama’s benefit. But Wright changed all that. Now when he plays the race card it only reminds people that he cynically planned his whole campaign around race, rather than around, say… country first, and on top of that HE is the one who has surrounded himself with racists from Wright to Farrakahn to Michelle. People are way beyond “wouldn’t it be cool to elect a black president,” and are now concerned with who the man is beneath the skin, and if there is anything there at all.
The CNN are at it again. Do you remember, Sen. Clinton is polarizing?
Now CNN are talking agaian, with that talking head in the situation room, asking how much is Gov. polarization is a problem?
How come CNN are not asking that same question of Obama, polarizing the democratic party?
CNN’s job is to get OBama elected. Same as MSNBC.
They keep ignoring poll after poll taken nationwide.
The public see an obvious media bias for Obama throughout the primaries and into the GE.
Having an old white man lick BO’s ass is obviously transformative. Now this is like a bad Disney movie.
That language is a little gross. We get the point.
Who was the last presidential candidate who made race such an overt part of his campaign? It was George Wallace!
But Obama is an even more divisive candidate than George Wallace. Obama has divided us not only on the basis of race but also gender, age, and social class. Deliberately opening old wounds for political gain is despicable.
but at least wallace made it an overt premise to all…
And, of course, anyone who said they were voting for Hillary because she is a woman was called a reverse-sexist.
That name-calling has even accelerated when it comes to Palin.
Off Topic -
To be filed under “Oprah Watch”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,422985,00.html
Oprah takes on Washington for child protection bill
how convenient is that! stupid $%#@&!
Speaking of gaffes, Senator Obama had the following this morning:
“If we’re going to ask questions about, you know, who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily,” Obama said.
Now, if John McCain or Sarah Palin had admitted to this, the media would have a huge headline: “McCain-Palin Admit to Running Negative Campaign to Hide the Issues!!!” So, what does ABC do, they untangle for their favorite genius:
“What Obama apparently meant was that McCain, not Obama, has put out more negative ads.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5803765&page=1
This must have just been more ‘nuance’ from Obama the great communicator and Ivy-league genius. Kind of like the ‘my muslim faith’ line. Or the ‘I will end the war immediately and I am the only one who didn’t support it’ line that he used to be up on Senator Clintons ‘faulty’ judgement.
Do you think the reporters will be there to bail him in his talks with Iran and North Korea. What about in Israel? Will they make sure that the Israeli’s know what he means when he says an ‘undivided Jerusalem?’
It’s called a freudian slip. You know, when you inadvertently say what’s really in your heart or on your mind.
Another W.O.R.M.
“If we’re going to ask questions about, you know, who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily,” Obama said.
WTF? This guy cannot communicate.
Folks, some hypocritical Obama people on left are trying to set up a case where the Republicans will have stolen the election if they win this year.
The irony is that they ignore voter fraud by their own party.
You have to sign up for an account to comment here. I’m not going to right now because I use a static IP and I don’t want the crazy editor of that site tracking me down. But if you don’t mind posting something about the caucus fraud here, that would be great:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/How-To-Steal-An-Election-by-Brian-Lynch-080914-382.html
I guess stealing an election is only OK when your guy does it.
This sounds like more projection to me. Ahh they are already setting the stage.
Ms Obama
With respect may I ask; Who the fuck are “they”?
You seem to use that phrase often in your earthquake messages about your husband’s wonderful abilities to govern America.
To me it sounds like you are race baiting again.You are getting good at that lately!
My, my, you are such a talented individual! What is that phrase, “God Damn America?”
Guess you learned well from Jermiah Wright and Louis Farakahan how to play the political game.
Keep it up babe, you may get another 100% pay raise from Chicago Medical Center and Mayor Dailey compliments of your husband’s failed status as a POTUS nominee!
Nice try, but no brass ring!
No kidding! How far could the “goalposts” have been moved for them. They are multimillionaire Ivy League grads and contendors for the White House. My GOD they have been held back.
Why is Biden playing with Obama’s race card?! This is demeaning and destructive to not only the Democratic Party, but also to the country. It is a sad statement to Biden’s long career in public life that he is now playing racial politics by pushing ‘white guilt’ in a pathetic attempt to win votes.
Free beer?
It might help build his audience up.
I saw a video recently claiming to show him staggering drunk on stage with Barack and Michelle.
I agree there is 5 or 6 killer issues McCain could hit Obama with, so why wait ?
I can understand if he only had 1 or 2 issues to hit Obama with, then you might one to save them till later, but McCain could put out one every week or two till election day.
If McCain waits to unload them all at once at the very end, then it will just be too much at once, and people wont be able to comprehend it, and they will think it is just McCain piling on, and it will have the same efect as when the media tried to hit Palin with everything at once when she was first named the vp.
Not to mention people beging early voting in a few weeks.
It is unexcusable that at this point in the election we still have not had the McCain campaign bring up Rezko, Ayers, Rev. Wright, obamas desire to have our kids speak spanish etc.
I live in a battleground state (ohio) and I see all the commercials. I see tons of negative Obama ads, and the democratic 527’s already have two hard hitting ads out against McCain, I saw the sex ed to kindergarteners ad once and then it dissapered, and I have not see any Republican 527’s yet. I have seen the ads on websites, but nothing on the airwaves. My guess is that McCain has put a redlight to the repub 527′2, thinking that they are unhonorable.
Pretty soon republic donors are going to stop giving, if they dont see McCain fight.
Now I see Obama is accusing McCain of being dirty. Obama is running a smart campaign. He puts out all the dirty ads, and then accuses McCain of being dirty, so he gets his cake and eats it to. And he knows he can get away with it, because all McCain talks about is windmills …
With all due respect—if Obama is doing all that negative stuff and it’s so good, why is he not dominating the polls? Why is blue WA in a 2 point dead heat? Why is NY solid blue now a “swing” state? The McCain campaign has been dominating air time with Palin and it seems to be working with voters. Palin is out on her own this week with her husband and she is delivering for McCain. I saw 4 of the Repub 527 ads on By the Fault and I assume they are running somewhere. I think McCain won the lipstick war, he won the old man doesn’t know how to use a computer (because of POW injuries) and today we have a big smear story McCain will win on an Atlantic Monthly cover story and photo that was done by a photographer who brags about how she tried to make McCain look evil—and Atlantic falling all over itself in apologia. All of these add up to an Obama who is mean spirited and has a pattern of trashing his opponents, using sexism, having supporters who are zealots of the worst sort. I think McCain is running a very smart campaign.
Benedict Obama Strikes Again!!
OBAMA IS DENYING!!!
BECAUSE
OBAMA IS LYING!!!
However MSNBC covered exactly what he said back in JUNE!!!
And again Here is todays report from NYPost for Comparison!!!!
DENIAL?
WHY?
WHO IS LYING NOW BEEYATCH!!!!!!
BUSTED AGAIN BACKTRACK OBUMMER!!!!!
But that’s not “What Obama Really Meant.”
“Now let me be clear about this….”
This is just a distraction from the real issues. And did I mention I have big ears?
The notion that somehow uh uh er.
Oh come on. We should expect Berserk Ohitler to do whatever it takes including extending human suffering in Iraq to become our next dictator-in-chief. Our troops are mere pawns to Der Fuhrer.
Transformative, huh? Does that mean Jagoff Joe will go on the wagon?
Naaaaaaah.
I am a North Carolinian and happen to be an African American female–strongly supported Hillary Clinton. Never ever though about voting for Obama and his paper thin record. What I have not seen in the bloggers’ comments here is the race by Harvey Gnatt (a well deserving and highly qualified African American)who ran for the Senate against Jesse Helms. It was not pretty and very unsightly. In this state, that I love dearly since adopting it more than 20 years ago, it is hard to imagine Obama pulling off a win here. No Democrat since Jimmy Carter has done this. We say that Jesse Helms is like Elvis, but unlike Elvis who probably is only “sighted” on his birthday, Jesse lives every day in this state.
Charlotte is the home of one of our representatives who supports Obama. The state also has another congressional leader supporting him. There are others, but I was amazed at what the 2 of these had to say after McCain announced Palin as a running mate. Quotes in the News and Observer: Mel Watts/Charlotte: “I don’t know what to make of it. I never heard of her before.” This make me think that Mr. Watts knows the names and/or recognize the names of the other 49 governors.
G. K. Butterfield: “I can’t even pronounce her last name.” This is embarrassing because the letter sounds in Palin’s name should have been learned in his early schooling and if he can’t pronounce this name/word, it scares me to know that we have a leader in Congress (representing my district) who is reading documents and legalese that far more difficult to pronounce carrying on our government.
So bottom line: Obama can play the race card, but I do believe Helms has left some lieutenants here who will fight back hard and fierce
Every account I read was that the AA south was 100% behind bambi (I’m AA)! It is refreshing to hear a voice of oppostion like myself. I a resident of Chicago who supported Hillary because of her ,just being the smartest person and voice I heard. BO is a empty suit and a well packaged marketing tool of Dean. If we will carefully look into what really happened with the DNC we will find the fight of ego’s. The DNC vs the DLC or Clinton vs Dean. The 50 state dream vs reality. Hang in there we will be vindicated on November 5th.
I sure hope they find out who in NC state election gov’t is fixing this election. Obama can’t win any election but he can pay election officials off to assist him in cheating and stealing the election..like what was done in the NC primaries.
Dem internal poll: McCain leads, PUMAs leave
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/democratic-internal-poll-mccain-leads-pumas-leave/
Its worse than I thought. Just caught fox news. McCains message today was “economy fundamentally strong” WTF !!!!!!!
So Obama spends the day SLAMMING McCain, and McCain responds by saying the economy is fundamentally strong.
Maybe McCain is senile, and no I am not a troll, but I am sick of this campaign McCain is running. He has no clue. He wont attack the messiah, but he has no problem making stupid statements.
The only smart thing McCain campaign has done is pick Palin, and McCain did that against his will, he wanted Lieberman.
McCain is just too old, he doesnt have the fight in him anymore, and just cant help but saying stupid things.
This could be a landslide for Obama. Even FOX news is starting to turn against McCain. As unacceptable as Obama is, McCain just doesnt have a clue how to run a campaign.
If this was Bush/Cheney/Rove I GUARANTEEE we would have heard about Rezko, Ayers and Rev Wright long ago. Bush won in 2000 and 2004 in elections he had no business winning by going midevil on Gore and Kerry, and now we are stuck with McCain aka Mary Poppins
Obama is the loser . . . .for sure!
First of all, the ageism in your comments is striking.
Secondly, I think McCain has done a decent job today. I don’t like fearmongering. There’s no need to cause more panic on Wall Street just for political purposes.
Obama wants to pander to our fears and promise a depression if we won’t vote for him. Do you honestly think it helps the country to repeat this meme? Part of what keeps the economy afloat is our confidence in it.
McCain knows what he’s doing. Calm down.
I see McCain as a Herbert Hoover figure–doing pretty much nothing while the country implodes from eight years of Republican screw-ups. This is a best-case scenario, you understand..
For me, it’s easy to predict how Biden would govern as Prez: a proactive Bill Clinton “New Democrat”, who pragmatically believes in both a strong government (regulation, welfare state) and a strong private sector.
But it is a bit tricky when it comes to Obama, McCain and Palin. The later three are all playing bait-n-switch: Obama’s record is that of a flaming liberal and McCain and Palin’s is that of rightwingers. Indeed, Palin’s record is that of a rightwing wacko. They are not the moderates they pretend to be.
That being said, both McCain and Palin can (somewhat) rightfully claim to have been reformers. But then again, Washington has a way of corrupting you: Bush43 was a moderate in Texas who then morphed into a rightwing neocon in the White House. Bush43’s father, Bush41, was anti “trickle down economics” and undeclared w.r.t. the abortion issue, but as a prez, he toed the line as all good little boys should.
But this is ideology. I also can’t say for sure how the three would respectively turn out in terms of competence and the ability to lead, particularly in times of crisis.
“First of all, the ageism in your comments is striking.”
Just keep in mind that while ageism is not a good thing, it is nowhere as bad as sexism and racism.
After all, all old people were once young and all young people will grow old. A black person can’t turn white, nor a woman turn into a man–not that they should want to.
JM08 – Do you have an issue with “old people?”
I’m 56, and I don’t like being treated with disrespect besause of my age.
McCain is acting from strength – he’s on the offensive. I think he is running a brilliant campaign.
I’m sure his training as a fire pilot has something to do with his phenomenal success. This year was supposed to be a shoe-in for the Dems. McCain sure turned that around, didn’t he?
JM08 is a concern troll just look up his postings on here.
Thought so, Jeremiah. Thanks for the confirmation. I will no longer respond to power-cricket JM08.
Nice try. Obama doesn’t know anything about economics and has been taking contributions from Fannie/Freddie to the tune of being their second or third highest recipient. He has also had two of their former gurus (Raines and Johnson) on his staff. He can just as easily get egg on his face because he has no real record of cleaning anything up in Chicago and his backers always get rich. Get a clue and do a little research. Start with looking up Emil Jones, Valerie Jarrett and Allison Davis. Add search terms like ‘Grove Parc,’ ‘Woods Fund,” “The Habitat Company, LLC”. That is just a start. everyone was distracted by Rezko and Ayers and there are a whole lot of other skeletons in his closet. How about Acorn?
Read ‘Barack Obama and Me’ to get oriented:
http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-02-28/news/barack-obama-screamed-at-me/
Find the article:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/
and take a look:
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/07/photo-gallery-results-of-obamas.html
If the media ever really looked into this guy and did exposes on national TV like they did to Sarah Palin he would be exposed as a fraud as a reformer and would be shown for what he is: a typical Chicago politician.
I’m starting to hear “concern” trolling.
If you heard McCain’s whole speech start to finish, and in context, his comment didn’t sound that bad, but I knew they would take bad soundbites from it. He wasn’t saying the whole economy is great…he was saying the fundamentals are strong. By fundamentals he said he meant the American workers and America’s entrepreneurial spirit. However, I knew the minute he said something at all positive about the economy that it would end up in an Obama ad.
As far as Fox goes, I think they made some sort of deal to get better access to Obama. I did read that they had a ‘meeting’ before he agreed to be on O’Reilly. They told him they would be fair but wouldn’t be ‘in the tank’ for him. I think they really want to be seen as ‘fair and balanced’ and people normally think of them as a conservative network.
I also read that, historically, the candidate running on fear and pessimism about the economy generally loses. Maybe McCain is sticking using this idea.
I personally would be more entertained by a fast-paced dogfight (figuratively speaking of course), but I think things will happen in due time. It has been reported that some of Rove’s ‘trainees’ are involved in the McCain campaign somehow.
I’ve been doing some research into Obama’s tax program and have trimmed it down to these basic facts:
1- If you got a tax break under the Bush tax reform act from a few years ago…it’s gone, your taxes will go up.
2- bottom 40% of all Americans pay no federal taxes, that’s zero, nil, nada!
3- Top 5% of all Americans that pay federal taxes pay 60% of all income tax revenues received by the feds.
4- Under the Obama tax plan the 40% that pay no taxes will get a check for up to $1000.
5- Those earning $250,000 or less and have to pay federal income tax will get a tax credit up to $1000 to be applied toward their current year income tax bill.
6- The top 5% get nothing.
7- Obama says everyone under %250,000 will get a cut in their taxes, but there is no “cut” in taxes, actually the tax rate will increase, back to the rates before the Bush tax cut.
8- Capital gains taxes will be increased 10-20% causing a loss in jobs and increases in the cost of goods that we buy.
9- When you give a tax “cut” to almost everyone but increase what it costs to live by more than your “cut” your in negative numbers.
10- Promising almost a trillion dollars in new and expanded programs means that the money has to come from somewhere and the answer is from our pockets.
Conclusion: Obama is lying!
I suppose that if you observe that Barry O is the second highest recipient of Fannie/Freddie’s largesse, that’s Racism. The collapse of this financial house of cards is making ENRON look like a day at the track by comparison. Been nice knowing you, Barry.
and don’t forget about the now defunct lehman brothers…
Bloomberg agrees with Mccain that the fundamentals of the economy are strong. WHat are the fundamentals – work ethic, America people, entrepreneuship, hard work,
Obaa needs to stop politciizing this wallstreet crisis. The person in charge of the Banking an Housing Comittees are democrats. There should be a private prosecutor asign to this case and people like Jim Johmson, Frank raines, Barney frank, Chris Dodd, Rangel, Schumer should all be questioned.
Don’t forget Jamie Gorelick. She’s tied to the Trifecta – 9/11, Fannie Mae and Duke Lacrosse.
“Bloomberg agrees with Mccain that the fundamentals of the economy are strong. WHat are the fundamentals – work ethic, America people, entrepreneuship, hard work.”
we can have none of that bunk in a socialist economy…
Well you may not be a troll, you may be well meaning but you are certainly a hmmmmm.
Senator John McCain is brilliant at strategy. Go ahead and count him down and out. He is not weak, feeble or addle minded. If not for the corruption of the MSM he would be even further ahead of Barry Soetoro. They manipulate the polls, hide and distort the news. They did it to Hillary and they are doing it to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
OT What a bunch of crap. This am there was a McCain rally in Jacksonville, Fl. My daughter attended it. I watched it on live stream. It started out small and there was such a demand for tickets that they moved the venue. It ended up standing room only. There were at least 5,000 there, there were 3,000 online views and NBC said that he had a small town meeting. They compared his crowds to Sarahs and said she drew huge ones and he drew town hall ones. I agree she is a huge asset, but John is as well.
McCain/Palin
Country First
Of course everyone wants to see McCain. He’ll be the next President if they get Democrat voter fraud under control.
I was a resident of NC for many years and still watch the politics there closely. This is astounding news that the Obama campaign will again be using the race card/racebaiting, the standard practice used in his primary campaign. Axelrod apparently felt this disgusting tactic ‘helped’ to elect Duval Patrick, in his MASS governor’s campaign also run by Axelrod. This was pointed out on FoxNews by Geraldine Ferraro.
The NC dem primary is nothing compared to the ge. The republican onslaught will be stunning. 40% of the primary voters were A-A with them voting 91% for Obama. The other 16% of Obama’s vote on May 6th was the young professionals and college student demographics in the Raleigh-Durham area of the state. The campaign will not be able to count on more help than that in the ge that will bring out the substantial other side.
But that’s ok. Don’t tell them they are wasting their money there.
Yes, he is a fraud.
I was just thinking, after reading M.O.s rant, it is so totally sad how America is going to be divided after (hopefully) Obama leaves the scene.
I am a European woman married to an African American man.
So this whole “we” and “them” thing was quite new to me when I moved here 3 years ago.
I have personally felt more subtle racism from blacks, but we think it is natural since I am white. And my husband has reverse experiences.
He was a Hillary guy.
He did never like Obama, who reminds him of those Nation of Islam types.
but, He is a Democrat and will vote accordingly.
I think it is so sad that the first black Nominee for POTUS is such a fraud. Zero experience, cheated his way through the caucuses, playing the race card, his roots in the Chicago Style politics.
I think the black people of America deserve better than that.
What a shame.
(also I cannot identify him as a repersentative of Black America, he was born and raised in a white family and the black part of him is not a desendent from slaves – even there he is a fraud)
they make me sick. that Jill Greenberg photo of McCain and blood is beyond irresponsible. the Atlantic is threatening to sue her and they should. if someone had done something similar to Obama we would hear the media in overdrive.
how can we stop him?
I watched McCain’s Townhall this am on Fox. McCain talked about the fundamental strength of America’s work force—workers who are skilled, the most productive in the world, innovative—the core of our economic strength and he said this fundamental is strong and resilient but is being threatened by the greed and failures of Wall St. and Washington. He said Wall St. was running the financial markets like a casino and it must be stopped and he would do so. Please take a look at his economic ad on economics. Also on this site Charles Lemos has organized a series of McCain positions on the economy so you can see that he does in fact have a strong economic plan. McCain’s plan sees something you will not see in Obama’s plan and that is the tie in over time between energy independence and middle class jobs and well being.
I like it that he’s for scaling back ethanol mandates. That stuff is bad for the environment and drives up the price of corn and thus, corn is in everything.
Why do some African-Americans insist on playing the race card at every given opportunity? You look at these Asian immigrants who come here with nothing and yet they achieve more economically than some of the AAs who relish employing the race/ victim card into government gimmes.
I’m partly of Asian descent, and if anything Asian-Americans have been reverse-discriminated against in terms of college admissions, as top tier universities strive to achieve racial equity i.e. affirmative action for African-Americans. But you don’t see Asian-Americans protesting about how unfair this all is. No, instead of whining and hating America, they just work even harder. It pisses me off that Michelle Obama, rather than being grateful for her education, continue to play the victim role even as she climbs the corporate ladder.
What message does that send to poor and middle-class AAs? That they’re always victims no matter how successful they are in society. What a sick mentality this is. Hopefully the race-baiting won’t work in NC as people with common sense, Black or White, wake up to this divisive tactic.
Jill Greenberg said she did it to make money.Mccain should drag her tail in court and sue.It’s the media who will not say a thing.What the media does is control the people by not giving then sound minded choice.It’s not just the media,It’s then democratic party who abused their own candidate as well as the media did.They abused her supporters as well.Well to the media-DNC-OABAM–AND ALL who wants us top fall in line.NO CAN DO! I will never fall in you web of posion.You did this dnc-Obama-and now you want Hillary help you.Well you had who?How many people? Did it work? No,and itr won’t even Hillary can’t help you.We are the ones remember us DNC-OBAMA-Donna Brazile-Howard
And the rest of the story
Nancy Pelosi and the ones who are nothing but a coward.You all did this and no we will not fall in line.I will fight till my last breath is gone.
NOOBAMA EVER!
McCain/Palin 08
Michelle Obama,didn’t clain the corporate ladder. In Chicago Hosiptal there are many who waited for Obama to get into senate who cheat people out of money 350% charge more to the uninsured.Michelle was placed there by Obama not soon after he was elected and he cheated on that as well.Everything they touch they destory fro them to have more of.Obama’s loan records? I heard they were in Fannie Mac and Fannie Mae. Makes you wounder how they were switch around.I wonder how much money really Fannie Mae and Fannie Mac has hiden and claimming HELP!
I say…let Uhbama throw his supporters money away by going all out here in NC. Uhbama has no chance. While there are tons of bumper stickers and yard signs, it is all just an illusion. Most of us Nobama voters are smart enough not to put McCain stickers on our cars. We know by doing so, only opens us up to a greater chance at getting our cars keyed. Seriously! Here in NC, the winner will be decided by the silent majority.
It’s all just cause and effect…the more stickers, yard signs and those damn door to door Obamabots, the more people will choose NOT to vote for Uhbama. Though we need to watch out…ACORN will be out in full force!
Don’t worry about Southerners being hoodwinked and bamboozled into submission. We know the routine all too well, and those afflicted with white guilt already succumbed to Bobo long ago. All his camp can do is try to beat the urban bushes for every whino and felon who either hasn’t been interested in voting or doesn’t think he’s eligible. The laws on the latter vary by state, and I’m sure Bobo’s minions will be pulling out all the stops to legally and illegally get these folks signed up. Whether the O-bots will be willing to load them up on election day and point them toward the polls is another matter. The biggest outcome of the vote-for-Barack-or-you-re-a-racist spiel is that it will backfire big-time. People who ARE racists don’t care!! They’ll be out on election day with bells on and will dance on Bobo’s political grave that night! And, if you’re NOT a racist, are you going to vote for a candidate whose wife and close associates ARE?!
WHOA! Lets becareful here…
I don’t see anything wrong with Obama-Biden playing the race-card in a strictly POSITIVE way, such as “Yes, We Can!”
Now, “Yes, We Can!” is obviously code to African Americans that “They’re trying to keep us down, but: Yes, We Can!” In many respects, African Americans are still an oppressed minority, as as clearly recorded year after year in the criminal-justice data, socio-economic data, etc.
By the same token, I don’t see anything wrong with Hillary talking about the “glass ceiling”, or for that matter Sarah Palin talking about it. The data on violence against women and the socio-economic data on the wage gap is proof positive women are oppressed.
As long as it is POSITIVE, and NOT scurrilous, then it is okay to talk about civil rights, be it for minorities or for women.
Of course, during the primaries, Obama was playing both a very positive racial angle as well the most vicious race-baiting (and gender-baiting, character assassination, etc.) Against McCain-Palin, he has been practicing some scurrilous race-baiting (”By the way, did I mention he’s black?”) and gender-baiting (”Lipstick on a pig”).
Knowing Obama, I’m pretty sure he’s been playing a lot of nefarious race-baiting behind-the-scenes and under-the-radar. But if you think the GOP isn’t doing the same, then you’re totally naive. A fucking pox on both their houses for playing dirty.
We PUMA’s have got to be fair here. No fucking cherry-picking, PLEASE!
Hillary, Bill, Geraldine, and Ed Rendell, on the other hand, NEVER fraudulently played the race-card nor the gender card. Even Rachel “Bros before Ho’s” Maddow said she wished that Hillary would have played up the civil rights for women angle more. Although I agree with this assessment in general, Maddows is totally naive: The GOP and the corporate media would have immediately slammed her for even for legitimately playing the gender card, for playing victim, for being a lyin’ bitch. This is exactly what they did to her when she finally brought up the issue of sexism. In fact, that degenerate tin horn Chris “shivers up my leg” Matthews immediately said she was “playing the gender card” when she first brought it up. Matthews, Olbermann, Maddow, and the rest of the corporate media whores, were constantly piling-on using the rapist defense aginst Hillary: “The BITCH brought it on herself!” Truly ironic in Olbermann’s and Maddow’s case since both are true flaming liberals.
If we slam Obama for positively playing up the race angle, then we must do likewise for Hillary and Palin positively playing up the gender angle.
Of course, if and when Barack “typical white person” Obama, Michelle “For the first time in my life…” Obama, David “Mike Nifong” Axelrod, etc., scurrilously play the race-card, then I’ll be the first to say: FUCK THEM!
Are you a PUMA? Seems like your speech is too vile to be a PUMA. Saying that Palin is “playing” the gender angle doesn’t sound like a PUMA!
Democrats for McCain! 2008
Douchebag,
Not all PUMA’s are pro McCain or pro Palin. Many are staying home. Some are voting for Nader. Many, like myself, are voting for McCain-Palin only because we want to defeat Obama.
And what the fuck is wrong with you?!? Palin has cited and even thanked Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary. The McCain-Palin campaign has (rightfully) trashed Obama over his deliberate sexist “Lipstick on a Pig” comment. Palin has explicitly invoked the “glass ceiling” and the “good ol’ boys club”, which means the same things as Obama’s (or rather Cesar Chavez’s) “Yes, we can!”, i.e. “The Man is keeping us down!” They constantly talk about how Obama should have picked Hillary as VP. Of course they are playing the gender angle–the gender card.
Repeat: What the FUCK is wrong with you?!?
What the fuck is wrong with YOU when YOU don’t realize that “playing the race card” is an inherently negative act in of itself? Seems to me that you don’t fucking read, and haven’t a clue what playing the race card means. I suggest you pick up some McWhorter or Thompson Ford and READ what black intellectuals have to say about the race card.
Hey dumbfuck,
Not if you’re being oppressed:
1. Criminal-justice data taken year after year shows blacks are racially profiled buy cops, US customs, department store employees, etc. With the case of US customs, blacks are less likely to try to smuggle in contraband, but are 8-9 times more likely to be searched. Combine this with non-verbal “microinsults” done by the “typical white person”, and you have a pretty sure-fine way of destroying a persons self-image creating alienation, etc. Alienation is the seed from which criminal behavior arises. This is well known to criminologists: ALL RACES & ALL CULTURES ARE HIGHLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO ITS INSIDIOUS, INDEED DESTRUCTIVE AND SELF-DESTRUCTIVE, EFFECTS. There’s a mountain of sociological and economic data going back 150+ years that says precisely this. And it is hardly unique to the US. Hint: Look into all those ethnic gangs of the past, namely the English, German, Irish, Italians, Jews, Chinese, etc., and compare them to the gangs of today, i.e. the Bloods & Crypts, MS-13 and even those white biker gangs, neo-Nazi’s, etc.
2. Socio-economic data shows year after year that it is easier for a white guy with a criminal record to get the same job than a black guy with NO criminal record. Everyone knows that crime and unemployment go hand in hand.
3. 1/3 of all women will be sexually in their lifetime, in the US.
4. Men kill women. By comparison, it is very rare for the opposite case to occur.
5. Women make 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work.
And btw, what the FUCK you think Hillary’s (sincere) reference to “the glass ceiling” and Palin’s (opportunistic) echo it of it means? What the FUCK do you think Palin’s (insincere) reference to “the good ol’ boys club” means?
It means the same Goddam thing as “Yes, we can!”: The Man is keeping us down!
THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH POSITIVELY PLAYING UP THE GENDER ANGLE. LIKEWISE, THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH PLAYING UP THE RACE ANGLE. IT IS ONLY WRONG IF OBAMA FALSELY ACCUSES HIS OPPONENTS OF SAYING SOMETHING RACIST–i.e. PLAYING THE RACE CARD.
You’re a real ignorant dumbfuck. You do know that, right?
“1/3 of all women will be sexually in their lifetime, in the US.”
I meant to say “sexually assaulted“.
Yeah. And electing a WOMAN would have been even more significant. And bashing women because they don’t fit into Queen Michelle’s Plan for World Domination is even more significant.