The quality of intent: What is really at stake in the 2008 Presidential Election
By Heidi Li on October 6, 2008 at 6:15 PM in Barack Obama, DNC, Democracy, Democratic Party, Democrats
“What is the quality of your intent?
Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words do not seem harsh or offensive, the impact is shattering. What we could be experiencing is the intent behind the words. When we intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through. We cannot sugarcoat the feelings in our heart of hearts. The emotion is the energy that motivates. We cannot ignore what we really want to create. We should be honest and do it the way we feel it. What we owe to ourselves and everyone around is to examine the reasons of our true intent.”
(emphasis mine)
Indeed, now more than ever we cannot ignore what we really want to create. The upcoming Presidential election is regarded by many people as a pivotal for our country. I agree. But I think it is pivotal less for the impact it will have on the issues that press to the forefront of our minds, partly driven there by politicians and the mainstream media: bailout bills, vice-presidential picks, whatever.
I think this election matters most because it poses a question to all Americans, but especially to Democrats, about the ways we find it acceptable to practice politics in our country.
Many of my Democratic friends acknowledge that Senator Obama's campaign relied on less-than-savory, even dishonest, measures to secure his spot as the Democratic candidate; they will admit, when asked pointedly, that they are disturbed by Senator Obama's truth squads and training camps, by his manipulation of young children when he urges their parent to have them tell their grandparents to vote for him; by his refusal to denounce sexism or take concrete measures to affirmatively demonstrate that he understands the pervasiveness of that social ill; by his tepid stands on reproductive rights and equal rights for gays and lesbians; by his commitment to tying Church and state closer together.
But these friends excuse Senator Obama's methods by saying that he has done and is just doing what it takes to win, and after all, isn't that what Republicans have done for years?
I refer those with that point of view to the quotation above from Thurgood Marshall, an often overlooked hero not just of the civil rights movement on behalf of black Americans but a hero for all progressive Americans, because while he naturally enough, given his circumstances, began his career with great concern for black Americans, he ended it by fighting for the rights of all Americans who did not enjoy the equality of opportunity that has been the hallmark of U.S. democracy since the country's founding, and which was renewed by the programs that Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated.
Apparently, many Americans have found Senator Barack Obama's words to have a shattering impact. But what is the quality of the intent of a candidate who resorts to dishonest, manipulative, authoritarian methods to gain office?
And what is the quality of the intent of those who hurl accusations of racism against those who do not want this sort of candidate representing them as Democrats?
As the quality of Senator Obama's intent has become clearer to me over time – a will to power including the power to completely silence any diversity of expression within the Democratic Party itself – I find his words ever more grating, and certainly not inspiring.
I do not believe this country is well served by authoritarian political parties or politicians – consider for example George W. Bush and the Rovian Republican style. But Republicans do not have a monopoly on authoritarian attitudes and tactics, and neither do conservatives in general. The French Revolution – meant to end authoritarian rule in France – ended in The Terror – tyranny by mob rule.
The glory of the United States of America lies in its ability to encompass really difference and real diversity while at the same time creating an environment for equal opportunity, the protection of individual dignity, and the generation of prosperity that can be shared by all. Authoritarians try to make difference and diversity go away, first by pretending it does not exist and then silencing dissenters so it seems as if it does not exist. We cannot ignore what authoritarians really intend to create.
At the same time, we have to reflect on what we really intend. I intend my country to have at least one political party that does not cram unity down my throat, that realizes that women's rights are human rights, that will not aim to put in office candidates whose vision of the presidency is an imperial one.
The emotions that I see and feel in my heart when I examine it closely: hope that Democrats will be the ones to keep our country democratic and determination to see the Democratic Party restored to its traditional principles and methods and returned to being a democratic institution.
These emotions undergird the reasons of my true intent when I argue that the only way to fix the Democratic Party is to refuse to support its Presidential candidate this year.
I do not want my Party, the Democratic Party, to be defined by an intent to win elections by any means necessary; I want my Party to be able to win elections on the basis of truly democratic and historically Democratic intent.
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Heidi, beautifully expressed.
If the Democratic Party surrenders its principles, it is worthless. If the Democratic Party is willing to turn a blind eye to Senator Obama’s tactics and lack of qualifications or honesty, then they have forever abandoned the moral high ground.
Considering the complicity of a number of powerful Democrats in the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac scandal, it doesn’t look like morality is high on the list any longer.
His “accomplishment lack of” is huge and gaping!
Hillary made it so apparent in the primaries.. In comparison,O has nothing to offer.
When I experienced the inflamed rhetoric of the O supporter to be win at all cost with all the claims that he won the most states, the most caucus states, and he won this and that…
As if winning was all that mattered. Be damned the voice of the democratic voter.
Many an evening in late May 08, I looked into the eyes of Madame Pelosi or Howard Dean and listened to their words that “it will be decided fairly soon”… and it is all “being worked out”
I then witnessed the May 31 hijacking.
That was an ugly blow!
O and his enablers were truly fearsome.
I heard words of betrayal. I knew then, that real democracy where each one has a voice and a vote, well, this was too much for this crew.
Too Much Democracy.
I knew then, they were taking me for granted and MY VOTE DID NOT COUNT.Sure enough, in the fraud they called the Convention Roll Call, I saw my vote of Calif delegates fly right out the window.
History will record a real sham. Not the truth…but the “decision”.
MY Democratic party believes in one person-one vote.
This in NOT my Democratic party.
I see a cadre of smart, accomplished women emerging as a new voice for equal rights in this heart breaking election.
That’s something.
Time to face reality….The democratic party no longer exists. Period.
You are sadly correct. My former party of 32 years has abandoned everything it once stood for. It is only a shell of its former self–the obamacrat party of one.
The same Democrats are in Congress before Obama announced his campaign. How is it the party no longer exists?
Well, obtuse keyboard warrior in name only, it was taken over by ignorant, sexist morons like you. How does that work for you obamlobotobot.
ignorant, sexist morons only?
You forgot ageist, misogynist, delusional and homophobic.
Oops. Mea culpa. I’ll remember those next time and also add illiterate and whining.
WILLFULLY illeterate and STUPID.
so sorry to model behavior that I critique … WILLFULLY illilterate and STUPID.
Agreed, I’ll add those, too.
You do have a way with words Ferd!!! LOL!
Thanks. I am after these morons now. Months of this nonsense is quite sufficient. I believe it is time to call them on their bs.
Ferd the Impaler! When he is through with the trolls they will all need colostomy bags for certain!
Yeah, Ferdie is always on point and fun.
Just wait till the OBushOBots figure out how badly they were played.
Course the dim ones won’t get it until their late thirties.
The smart 20 somethings I know are all voting straight R this year – they already get it. I have to say that I have been pleasantly surprised by some of the converations I have had with kids in college and in their later twenties. They see the situation pretty clearly and are voting for America first.
What area of the country are you in?
I don’t give out information like that but in my volunteer work I interface with college students across the country.
The kids are allright, except for the ones who are scared stinkless.
Forgive me. I meant it only in the most general way — as in Southwest, Northeast, etc.
I know how important privacy is, believe me.
Thanks for responding.
No prob, I appreciate it.
I’m in the Northwest, but as I said I interface with students all over the country; Seattle to Boston, Ann Arbor to Tuscon.
Look at Survey USA polls.SUSA
According to them Mc is up a point nationwide.
They seemed to be the most realistic in the primaries.
Anyway, They show the 18-30yr old going for McCain. So you are correct there.However, the women are going more for Obambi in the over 30 range! WTH ?
Do not reply to “Freedom Fighter” — he is a waste of time.
Wow he is off the deep end in serious need of cult deprogramming!
A team of psychiatrists would go looney themselves trying to peel away all the bs from free-dumb. It is a hopeless case.
Yes, but now we see how corrupt they are. The same democrats who caved into Bush every time. The same Democrats who refused to impeach Bush. Those are Barack’s surrogates=same old, same old.
same old, same old.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Because the ones in Congress are led by Pelosi who only thinks about her Speaker post and whose intent is to glorify herself.
Hyperbole. It not longer exist to take your needs and wants to task. In other words what he means is that you no longer exist to them. Capisce. Exactly what Hillary warned about Bush. She used to say that people didn’t exist for Bush. And now paradoxically and ironically her entire party is just a picture of Bush. How come, you ask?
Simple, they absorbed, appropriated and mimic their nemesis. They did that by obsessing on him. They obsessed until the transformed into him.
No problem, he also transformed into a Democrat. How about that? I bet if Bush would run again you would vote for him.
Heidi — Thank you for this. You are right to put the squabbles over fault, policies, VP picks, etc., aside, and focus on what really matters. None of us should feel that we are less important than any other member of the body politic. That’s where the concept of equality came from in the first place, and surely that is what it was meant to mean.
Your head-in-the-sand-ignorance is baffling. The Democratic Party has been overtaken by the likes of Soros and his billions; money can do a lot of persuading. Don’t believe me? Check out the many quotes attributed to MoveOn president Eli Pariser about finally *taking over the Democratic Party.* This is a group I used to be a part of…but I saw what was happening…what the new agenda was…and got out.
People were used by these new Democrats: I was one of them and I feel stupid that I did not understand what they were doing earlier on…
Elected officials only do not the Party make. Your commentary is stunning in its naivete.
The aim of Obama, Sanders and other socialist in our country is to destroy our economy to fool the weak minded into thinking the “free market” does not work. Then the political parasites promise to continue nurturing the “do nothings” from cradle to grave with billions of working American’s money. ALL of these people will always vote for the New Democrat (socialist) who always take home the “pork.”
This study was first proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
Sounds liked ‘Atlas Shrugged’
A Reichstag fire a day – keeps democracy at bay.
Since they took people’s representative votes in the form of delegates and gave them to obama. Simple as that. You may still be part of the Obama party but I am not.
In the end, this is what the democrats will have. They will have those that loved Obama and nothing else. These people are for the most part, not loyal to the democrats, they are loyal to a man. After obama is gone, they will have nothing.
That is a good prediction to which I will subscribe.
the democratic party has been going in a very bad direction ever since congressional dems refused to back al gore in the 2000 election crisis. the ’selection’ of obama is merely the final nail in the coffin.
Exactly. The D Party is now The Party Of Soros. I call them SorosCrats, SortOfCrats or SorryCrats.
I think you hit the nail on the head.
Soros is an evil man and has a habit of destroying countries by messing with their economies (England, for instance).
He’s got all the money he could ever want.
What could his motive be, speaking of motives — lust for power, plain and simple.
He reminds me of Lex Luther on Superman.
An evil man who just loves messing with the world and killing humans way beneath him.
Obama is a “useful idiot” to Soros.
Evil exists and we are seeing it unfold now.
We saw it with Stalin and Hitler and many others — now we’re seeing it in Soros and Obama and others who want to use the U.S.A. as their evil sandbox.
But we,the people, with God’s help, can stop Obama.
Obama is a “useful idiot” to Soros.
The kids don’t get that.
You’d think they would understand after the FISA thing, the NAFTA thing, the Faith Based Initiative thing, that OBushie will do what he is told to do.
I think that’s why the DNC did what they did to Hillary – because they knew she’d be a lot harder to control. Why, she may even have been a success on her own merits if they let her in!
Can’t have that.
The kids seem to have no clue the guy is an empty suit.
Speaking of which – The SNL skit that mentions him is no longer on NBC website….. hmmmm.
No, the D party is now the party of O., relocated to Chicago remember.
They left me at the RBC cheat and I cannot move on from that.
Heidi,
“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is formidable, for he is known and carries his banners openly against the city, but the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through the alley and heard in the very halls of government itself. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.”
Cicero
All good nicknames, but I like “SorryCrats” best.
Hehehehehe.
We’d all be SorryCrats if they had anything to say about it.
Have at.
When the excuse for bad behavior is that the means justify the ends–and the means are dismissed as just what the other party did–what is the difference between the parties? Only the candidate. There is no other point of choice. The people who think there is a party difference are deluding themselves.
Heidi,
Your own passion and goodness emanate from the beauty of your words. The sentiments expressed not only uplift, but inspire to coninue the fight, Yet the fight, it is clearly seen, must not be resorting to gutter level tactics, but by honest discourse coupled with a strong sense of moral clarity and rightness.
Thank you for the true serenity of your words. Your voice echos what so many of us are unable to express with such clarity.
Welcome to NQ! Susan and Larry are both people whose integrity and ideals are of the very highest quality. Hope you enjoy your visit here.
Thanks Heidi. I love Thurgood Marshall.
Heidi, when will you have your own blog talk radio show? I could listen to you forever!
You are in the exact place Obama wants you: in fear and despair and not fighting mad working hard to elect McCain. The feeling so many people want Obama is false. The MSM and polls are rigged.
Keep a stiff upper lip and carry on!
Volunteer. Call. Canvass. Talk to your neighbors. Send links…send articles.
I have encountered some people who listen to reason and are now not voting for O.
I will put my country, USA first, I have always loved her and will continued to do so, love the USA.
I will be voting for MacCain/Palin ticket this time.
I do not know what Sen. Obama stands for, tell me if you know.
I own my Vote.
Re-distribution of wealth……which will leave the country and help some other nation prosper. After that, his socialist party will have no one to tax.
Can you say banana republic?
Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction.
Thomas Jefferson
I read somewhere that when Obama was little, he drew in the sand or cement, “Obama is King.”
The seeds of the lust for pure power started early with him.
He is not the puppet for others more powerful and more evil than he is.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
You and I probably can’t relate to a lust for power — most of us just want to be able to work, live a good life and enjoy our friends and family, but there are human beings that are not satisfied until they hold tremendous power over mankind.
Obama is one of those people. His friends are also humans filled with power-lust.
Beautifully stated! Thanks for expressing so eloquently the ethical sentiments that inform our rejection of the kind of politics and politicians who have dominated—and wish to dominate—this country.
The fight for democracy has never been easy.
great post…I think the problem w Obama supporters is they are lacking in the importance and belief of integrity and character. Obama is doing what he needs to win?? That is truly pathetic. The fact that millions have that attitude, that it is ok to lie, cheat and steal, is astounding. The rest of us will just have to show them IT ISN’T OK.
I think the problem w Obama supporters is they are lacking in the importance and belief of integrity and character.
I don’t think that. I think the majority of his supporters are clueless…either adults who have been followers all their lives, or clueless kids who are scared out of their wits by fear of a draft (as if.)
I don’t think the majority of them are bad people at all. Simply scared, uninformed, and vulnerable to manipulation.
Rottenfish,
I worried that the truly clueless people like you will put Obama in power and Obama will change this country to
The People’s Republic of America.
If you want to know what the radical left has in store, you should read Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. It is spot on especially the ends justifies the means. Obama is more communist than anything else. His calling is more towards getting his own kingdom as Alinsky teaches. All of this thinking has warped some of our young since most of the college professors live by Alinsky rules as does the Media, I believe they all went to the same college didn’t they.
Rules for Radicals:
Men don’t like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experince, they need a bridge to cross from their own experience to a New Way. A revolutionary organizer must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives, agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for Change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate.
I spoke Friday with a college junior in NO, who is also black. He told me exactly what you just said. He said he could never vote for a D for that reason.
Maybe Nancy,Harry, Donna and Howard should listen.
I don’t think it helps to demonize politically naive college kids, myself.
Much better to speak reasonably with them, adult to adult, imo.
When I say supporters, I am talking about voters, not partisans.
I think one of the main reasons this is happening because people have lost their faith in a Higher Power and Good and Evil.
Everything has become relative.
This is dangerous because it’s a lie.
There is good and there is evil.
If you don’t believe it, just imagine how you would feel if an intruder came into your home and killed one of your loved ones — and then got away with it, to boot.
Alinsky’s God was the devil, so far I believe Obama’s is too.
I agree with you.
Heidi, thank you for the thoughtful post. I agree, that whatever their intent; i.e, wanting to promote a Black candidate for President, their methodology is wrong, wrong, wrong. I cannot support this new Democratic Party that allows fraud in their caucus, convetion roll call, and illegal voter registration, etc. I don’t recognize my party anymore. The only way I know, that will force them to change, is to vote them out of office, and make sure that BO is soundly defeated in November. Hopefully, we will then have the opportunity to bring about a new and better Democratic Party. If not, then we seriously need to start a third party.
If Senator McCain and Governor Palin overcome all of the fraudulent votes garnered by ACORN, trained by Obama and Public Allies, founded by Obama, who are paid through funding by our government to “get-out-the-vote”, socialism in America will come to a screeching halt. Everyone on welfare, who is able to work, will be weaned from the socialist troughs funded by American taxpayers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4
Heidi you do wonders with words and I thank you.
When we have become them, when Democrats look like Republicans, when the end justifies any means then it is time to tell our party one thing. PUMA
Live chat at my house for tomorrow’s debate.
I have not changed my mind one bit in months – McCain is going to win and it won’t be close. That said, for those of you so worried about what if Obama wins, I say this: We get the government we deserve. If Obama wins he will fail miserably. His own party will fracture and republicans will be monolithic in the opposition. He sees big majorities in both houses, but the party will find itself unable to form winning coalitions. In short, we will have four bad years but this cancer on the party will have been removed. I would guess it means an open door for Mitt Romney in 2012 and he is probably already salivating.
One thing is for certain: as long as Obama draws breath, I will hate him and do everything in my power to bring him down.
Keep dreaming.
We will and The fraud and corrupt thug will go down. Our dreams will become reality.
We will keep dreaming and the Fraud and Corrupt thug will go down. Our dreams will become reality.
Hope is cheap.
hadenough,
Why don’t you tell Ombama that his campaign slogan “hope” is cheap.
There are only 2 Obama signs around my neighborhood, the rest are McCain. I’m with you, Shiloh, McCain is going to win big!
I live in Northern California in an area that you would expect to go heavily for Obama. The strange thing this year is that there are pretty much no signs up anywhere for either candidate. Moreover, bumper stickers are few and far between. I can drive on the freeway for an hour and not see any bumper stickers at all. It’s never been like this before, so close to an election. I don’t know what it means, but it’s eerie.
same in CT — which is VERY surprising. the few signs I see are 70/30 for McCain.
It means your region of the country is non-competitive in this year’s election.
I live in Northern California, too. I live 12 miles from Davis, which is very liberal (University of California, Davis is there) and that’s the only place I have seen Obama bumperstickers.
I’ve seen none in my little town or the towns close by (closer to the S.F. Bay Area).
When Obama loses, he and his supporters will blame it on race, but it has nothing to do with race – it has to do with who he is (and who he isn’t).
Well my dear it sounds like fetile grounds.
Get your stack of stickers and tell everyone why John McCain can help the USA weather the coming economic storms.
A single grain of rice can tip the scale.
Thanks, Jackie, so true.
Someone once told me, “If you think you’re too small to make a difference — you’ve never slept in a tent with a mosquito.”
Let’s be mosquitos for the truth and freedom!
NoVA is O country sorry to say.
I even called the local McCain office about a total lack of campaign signs. No presence displayed anywhere whatsoever on the main thoroughfares. And just a few on lawns and in windows.
This is reminiscent of Hillary pretty much giving up on VA. Yes I know McCain/Palin plan a rally in Richmond but they need to hit places further north in O country.
Send email tip to Mac about this. info@johnmccain.com
Because, former democrats are afraid to put up McCain signs. We usually live in very democratic areas, if we put those signs up we would open our homes up to vandalism.
I don’t want to be on the recieving end of the Obama armies wrath. I will keep my vote private and go cast it in a booth.
O won’t take that part of CA. That’s Republican.
He’ll take the state via the city vote.
Astra 14,
In MI, I saw a lot of McCain yard signs, more than Obama signs.
By the way, an Obama’s Red Guard removed my McCain yard sign. Fortunately, I had 4 signs. I still have 3.
Put vasoline on the metal part … I swear it works. It makes it extremely difficult to take out of the ground.
Strange, to feel this way about a Democrat.
And I do, too.
Shiloh:
YOu always talk with such confidence. Do you know something the rest of us don’t or are you an optimist?
Y’know Shiloh…I have called over 1000 people in the last week I have had very few Obama supporters in my responses.
I think that there are more undecided folks looking for answers then every before.
But I do know that positive thought works out to be positive actions.
Take a bumper sticker and share the uplifting message of hope the McCain way. He really gets what it is to have hope and to make a positive difference. You can too.
Jackie,
You are wonderful!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/06/opinion/polls/main4504633.shtml
Robert, I’m curious – is it your intent that you be viewed here as confident? because in fact, you have reason to feel confident, but you aren’t coming across that way. You come across as needy and your need is to feel that you are having an effect on the sentiments of anyone here. If you feel that you are I’m pretty sure you’re wrong and your even being here is strangely uplifting. Do you have any actual thoughts about issues?
Everyone quit being scared and fight. I am now making phone calls for McCain. It is so easy. I have given money to help the campaign. I talk to everyone I can. Speak out – make people talk. Sarah Palin has the brains and the intestinal fortitude. Follow her lead. If John McCain could handle 5 years in a prison camp -he with our help can take down Obama and his thugs!!
Great job,Larse12!
Larse and Jackie,
I am deeply moved by both of you.
http://www.gop.com/News/NewsRead.aspx?Guid=768aa784-72f3-4b43-acb6-c5fe81d901cd
OFF TOPIC; RNC UNLOADS ARYERS FILE
Here’s the info from the link above:
The last sentence in that article stating “We are Communist women and men, underground in the US for more than four years.” really tells it all about Obama. It is no surprise to me that Obama would gravitate to this culture based on the far left and possible Communist leanings of his mother, his father, his step-father, growing up in Indonesia during a time of when the communists had taken over, his friendship with the “Frank” in his book who was an apparent communist. These are his people. He is comfortable with them. Why American cannot see this is beyond me. If we elect him we will have put someone in office who has no American democratic values. I believe America will never be the same again.
Heidi Li as always expressing herself with class, howbeit I disagree with her ideology.
Some of Obama’s supporters are objecting to conscience clauses that let doctors opt out of doing abortions.
I find nothing progressive or democratic about Obama’s thugs. They’re Nazis who are forcing red staters into Ein Volk, ein Vaterland under Ein Fuhrer.
Many people said that Obama should not be guilty for his association. I do not think this is the ultimate issue.
Obama has so many friends, donors, and mentors who HATE, absolutely HATE America. I don’t believe that Omama loves this country; thus, he is not qualified to be our president.
Ayers aids a rape: This guy just keep gettng worse for Obama. The person who wrote this is not someone to be dismissed.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=9E8CD8A7-E90B-4311-8AA9-AEFD014A14B2
She needs to get out there in the media and tell on him.
Wow, she wrote that in 2006!
There was no advantage to her. But I want this on the front page for all the world to see. I am enraged in a very personal way.
I am going to go puke now.
Wow. What a horror story.
That’s a very disturbing story.
These people (Obama, Ayers, Wright, Rezko and the others) — they have no soul – or they have sold it to the Devil.
No soul! You are exactly correct. She has lived with that, feared Ayers would write about it–while Ayers goes on making friends with political power and acts as though he is above it all. She is the one who has made positive contributions to education and understanding.
we need some bon bons asap.
I hate having to look at the glass as half full when I might rather see it as half empty but… For everyone who might otherwise feel down in the dumps about the current status of the election, cheer up. Today I initiated a discussion with 2 classroom aides about BO, by asking whether either had seen Sean Hannity’s expose last night. The women, both BO supporters, had not. But they were curious as to what had been broadcast. With every revelation, they rejected the news. ‘If this was true, the press would have reported it.’ I launched into my laundry list of what other information about BO the press has not reported, and which I have confirmed through extensive research. For example, he refuses to provide his medical records; there is no evidence he attended Columbia; and he is the subject of a federal lawsuit based on questions whether he is eligible to be POTUS under the U.S. Constitution. They hadn’t heard any of this. Taking advantage of this opportunity, I asked whether they would concede the following. If I could prove any one of these claims I was making was true then, they would agree that everything else coming from the press about BO could be wrong, too; and would conduct their own investigations. They did.(Here’s the half-full part.) This exchange confirmed for me that, some of the people who support BO only do so because they still don’t know him. And this only means, we have to work harder to introduce him to them.
Thanks so much for your post. And your handling of the situation is so admirable.
I’ve been in sales for a long time and one of the hardest things to overcome is peoples’ resistance to being open to what you have to offer.
Here’s a proposition that some salespeople use: “If I could offer you a better product for what you’re paying now, or less, is there any reason you wouldn’t be interested?”
That’s basically what you did and it is brilliant.
Yes, there are still 30 days (including Nov. 4th) before the election is decided.
Plenty of time to work hard for the truth.
I’ve printed this before, but will print it again. Some things that I do:
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Don’t give up. There are millions of patriotic, freedom-loving Americans that share our fears and concerns.
Remember this – in the Revolutionary times they had no t.v., no Internet, only word of mouth and pamphlets.
33% of the population was for the Revolution and Independence from England, 33% was against it, and 33% were undecided.
Our numbers are in the millions, but we must communicate with one another.
Continually plant seeds of doubt with people about Obama.
Find out what their “hot button” is.
Gather information – start a file with You Tubes, links to articles, etc.
Make up a boilerplate e-mail or fax to send people and if they give you their e-mail you can send it to them.
If it creates doubt in them and causes them to change their mind, they will talk to others. Remember the movie, “Pay It Forward?”
We have the whole month of October before the election. That’s like a lifetime in politics.
Don’t let fear paralyze you and do not underestimate the power of the truth.
Talk to people that you get on the phone with for customer service calls. Plant a seed before you hang up.
I will say to Customer Service People, “Hey, I’m just curious – what do you think about Obama?”
If they are unsure or like him (most people are not as involved as we are and really don’t know much about him, except what the media says.) ask them if you can send them a little something, via e-mail, about Obama.
Just copy and past your boilerplate e-mail onto a new message and send it to them.
Or take information with you to the store.
Print it out – with links to truth about Obama.
Hand them out to people in the line at the grocery store, or while you’re waiting in line at the DMV, or wherever.
Just start up a conversation and say,”Hey, what do you think about Obama?”
Before you leave, hand them a sheet with information on it.
Don’t be afraid to speak up. This election is about our Freedom!
You and I are ordinary people talking to ordinary people.
Believe me, it’s powerful.
This is what our Founding Fathers did in the beginning of this great country.
In 1776 Thomas Paine wrote “Common Sense.” It was written in plain English for the common man to understand. It made a huge difference.
There is so much garbage on Obama that all you have to do is scratch his “skin” and green and yellow pus oozes out.
All they have to do is have a little doubt that causes them to make that first scratch.
How many times have you read a comment or heard someone say, “I liked Obama – until I started really looking into who he was. Then I realized he was not good for America.”
Don’t give up! Never give up!
I ask God to help me reach one person a day to plant a seed of doubt about Obama.
The truth is on our side!
Robert has a potty mouth and that is about how the Obama cult followers talk most of the time. Ignore him. He can go somewhere else and talk his trash. Shame on him. His mother must be disappointed.
He just got scrubbed but good. Probably the first bath he’s had in ages.
Robert’s mother posted on another blog earlier today. She was not happy. LMAO.
some of you get shaken by obie to easy.
They want us to think it is over. It is not over. Voting ends Nov.4th.
Keep your chins up and your chest out. The polls can say whatever the pollster wants them to say,
also, the 2nd day of the RNC obama was up by 8.
5 days later Mac was back and in the lead. polls swing and really they are just reflecting the news.
Obama is far from wrapping it up. We should just keep telling HIS supporters it IS over. Most of the supporters he has are the most unreliable voters in our history. Mccains are the most reliable.
We do our part on election day.
From the primary’s us Hillary supporters should know just how much of a disconnect there is in the MSM and the Polls.
We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Johnny fired a shot today along with Sarah. That means pull yourself up by your bootstraps and lets ride on to freedom.
In the words of John S. Mccain. “fight with me”
I hope you are right. Do you really believe it? I want to believe. I know that there is enough time for the polls to turn around, I mean it only took 12 days for the polls to go from McCain to Obama. Still, I have doubts. The MSM is soo strong. Hillary was destroyed by them. The last little hope I have is how enthusiastic Palin and McCain are. I mean, if I were facing near certain defeat, I would be devastated. Obama does look corpse like recently. I don’t know. I’m so scared.
Andrew, ignore the polls. No matter who or how many times they get posted, ignore them. I do. I don’t trust them. On Election Day, first thing, get to the polls and vote for McCain. That’s what I’ll be doing before I go to work. That is one less vote for Obama and one more for McCain.
And if this is your first time voting for a Republican, you’re not alone there either. It’s mine too.
Did you notice the same thing with the candidates’ demeanor?: McCain and Palin are bright and shiny, Obama looks sad and angry. I don’t understand it. Why isn’t Obama cheering?
Because the proverbial chickens (of all kinds) are coming home to roost and those weren’t the chickens he knew.
ha ha ha Ferd! THat was funny
Why isn’t Obama cheering? Because Obama probably thought he’d have it easy and just slide into the Presidency without a problem. He thought all Hillary’s supporters would just fall into line and vote for him, which they haven’t. More and more is coming out about his associations with radicals/terrorists/and his getting huge $$$ from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which I’m sure he didn’t want to have come out at all. And I’m sure he knows that the polls don’t mean squat either. It’s Election Day that really counts. He has good reason not to look happy or cheer for his standing in the polls.
Well, I am making sure my parents are going to the polls immediately and voting straight Republican. My mom is really worried about Obama. She doesn’t read the blogs or watch the news and doesn’t understand why people would be voting for such a wacko. My dad doesn’t like McCain but I am slowly convincing him that he is better than Nobama and his goons.
Good for you!
You are doing exactly what you should be doing.
George Soros, his puppet master, is going to take Obama to the shed for a good whipping if he doesn’t pull this off.
Think of all the time and money he and the rest of the thugs have invested in this neophyte.
I am very worried about the polls. Dare I say it, unless McCain and/or the RNC start hitting Obama hard in the next couple of days, Obama will win. I just went to drop off my daughter’s voter registration to the county courthouse and it was inundated with college age kids with Obama stickers on! The youth are finally going to come out to vote. I know they typically register but don’t vote, as I was a campaign manager for the Democratic Party for 12 years, but this time I think they will actually vote! McCain has to come out now with EVERYTHING we know about Obama (ie. Larry Sinclair, The “whitey” tape, Ayers, Rezko, the birth certificate/Berg case . . . the list goes on and on!
Don’t be. They are rigged.
Andrew,
I think last time you said you are not yet old enough to vote. A lot of us have been around a lot longer and have bene through many elections.
Stop the fear. A month is a lifetime in politics.
Help get out useful information instead — post links, send articles, talk to people who can vote.
McCain and Palin have big reason to be enthusiastic — take a cue from them and let go the rest.
Your comments help a little in relieving my agitation. I just go to school everyday and see those Obama buttons and Obama bumper stickers, and Obama T-shirts and I want to scream. I saw someone with a McCain T-shirt get threatened. The teachers openly profess that they are voting for Obama and one teacher showed a sexist picture of Palin and her daughter to us. It is so crazy!!!!! I am just worried. I don’t want to have to deal with Obama-drama. McCain just seems like the right person for this country and I don’t understand this Obama stuff.
Andrew – I live in a college town and it was crazy during the primaries and the summer. Obama signs and talk was everywhere. It was overwhelming – believe me it was horrible. Now, the neighborhood is down to 2 Obama signs versus the rest of the McCain signs. That’s pretty telling right there.
Just relax. Don’t be afraid. There’s a reason Obama looks worried and McCain/Palin don’t.
I think Obama is worried they might bring up all this other stuff on the internet. Republicans will hang with the terrorist card.
Andrew – take courage and keep posting and sending out articles and YouTubes.
By the way, one of the Communists’ Goals was to take over one or more of the political parties (guess which one they are taking over?) and (from the 1963 Congressional Record):
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
Read the whole thing here, Andrew, and commit yourself even more to working for what our Founding Fathers fought and died for and so many others after them, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, all inalienable rights (given by God, not men or the State, so no man, NO MAN — can take them away.):
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/5/8/133540.shtml
I just let my friends for O know that I’m voting Mac. That usually slows down the talk.
In your case, I’d not do that. You might tell your teachers privately that you found the sexism offensive.
O’Lielly was just on his radio show saying the election was over and that Obama was almost certain to win. I want to smash O’Lielly over the head so badly. I don’t know why I ever listened to him.
I sent an email to Bill and told him he was a pinhead. He (or his staff) has done zero investigation into Ayers and Obama. I told him to come here to get the facts.
O’Reilly loves Obama for some reason.
he touched his leg…. seems he has a thing with men and legs!
Third party votes and staying home or doing write ins won’t cut it. We have an end goal even if you have to close your eyes and hold your nose. We are looking for results. We need every PUMA to pull for McCain and Palin and our country and our freedom. This is serious and there are no excuses. Please.
But we all perservered through the media bias. Once we dug in Hillary kept winning and winning……After feb. 19th she won most of the primaries. She won all the one they said she could not win.
We should thank Hillay for taking to the end. That is what it looks like to not give in. THe DNC riggged it for Obama. This is the GE, they don’t get to do that again. I think we should remember Sarah’s words in this sense, “Never Again!”
Johnin CA? What IS Heidi’s ideology? If you disagree with it then explain what it is? Hint:Democracy. So you disagree with Democracy?
What IS Heidi’s ideology?
That would be progressive, as per her description.
If you disagree with it then explain what it is?
Philosophically I have a problem with taking money at gunpoint from those who work and giving it to those that don’t.
So you disagree with Democracy?
As a matter of fact I never said that, but since you mention it…
We are not a democracy, the Founding Fathers specifically considered it dangerous, precisely because of the sort of factionalism and disrespect for individual rights we see in Obama’s movement.
The term democracy does not appear in the constitution, and we will never be one no matter how many ignorant politicians call us one.
We are a republic. Read James Madison’s federalist paper 10.
Glaringly missing from this discussion is even the slightest critique of some far worse villains—the Republican Party.
It’s time to remind ourselves just how awful the Republican Party is.
If the Democrats are a rotten fish, the Republicans are a rotten whale.
A protest vote for McCain/Palin may be necessary to stop Obama. But quitting a party that has just strayed in order to join a party that has put two war criminals and traitors in the White House, let 9/11 happen, lost a major city, piddled away the Clinton surplus, caused the violent crime rate to go up (after going down for eight straight years under Bill Clinton), started an illegal war, committed constant war crimes and atrocities, tried to turn the United States into a one-party state, decimated the Constitution, lost all of our allies of consequence, shamed us in the eyes of the world, smeared Democratic candidates, played dirty tricks, rigged elections, and made torture national policy (to name just a few of their recent accomplishments) strikes me as poor judgment, to say the least.
We get it, Perry. Your posts are getting wearisome.
hello? you seem to be pissing uphill, Perry. you can’t do anything but complain about republicans.
if you are not part of the solution here, you are part of the problem.
pull up your britches, roll up your sleeves, and get to work FOR something, rather than crying over spilled milk. Get a grip!
You’re a great guy Perry, but no one is forgetting what the Repubs are like…we just don’t want OUR party to be just like them!! Get it?? It’s kind of like, just because terrorists torture people, we don’t believe in torture so we don’t, as a country, torture others, no matter what the reason.
Also McCain is in a class all by himself — as is Palin — not the typical Republican. That is why I am able to enthusiastically vote for them.
In the Army we have an expression:
Lead, Follow, or get out of the way.
If you are not here to lead us to victory follow us up the hill. If you have not the courage to follow than get out of the way.
But by getting out of the way you have no right to bitch if the results are not what you want.
We do not have time to coddle the faint of heart. We must use each day to its fullest. SHare the infor you have learned here. A convert a day keeps Obama away.
Get out there and FIGHT for a better tomorrow.
A reformed America and a great future for our kids.
You are crossing the line and being insulting Perry. Why bother coming here? Neo con is not the same as Republican anymmore than Democrat is the same as radical leftist extemist.
I registered as an Independent to protest the DNC’s rigging of this primary. I will never give up on Democratic values — but I give up on the current leadership. They are corrupt and must be purged.
I only stuck with this bunch for 30 years because I thought they held the moral high ground. This year, they would be making a fraud of my values if I continued to support them.
Whatever the neocons did — their thuggish tactics do not mean that all Republicans are evil. They are not.
Just like all Democrats are not saints — they are far from it.
And two wrongs don’t make a right. Dems must learn that they cannot do this crap. It is unacceptable.
I can only speak for myself, but if we don’t protest, especially after the last two elections — then what we are saying is that we are all geldings — our votes mean nothing and we will allow the party elite and the media to choose our leaders — no matter how crooked or incompetent.
Thank you, Ani. I am a Republican, but we are all Americans first and we love our country and our freedom.
I remember a time when Americans differed in their political views but still had a tremendous amount of respect for whoever held the office of the President.
I grew up in a Republican home and when JFK was elected my parents had respect for him, never said an unkind word about him or even thought about it, but gave him the due honor he earned and deserved.
When he was killed we all mourned.
I long for those days again.
Maybe McCain/Palin will usher in those days again.
Perry is still stating fact folks. What we had during the Clinton years is exceptional. Don’t shoot the messenger. However, I cannot vote for Obama due to all the giant red flags going up around him–my vote is for McCain.
I agree. Time to clean it up. I think Mac and Pal will clean that party up and make it darned uncomfortable for a lot of Dems who have been sucking at the teat of lobbyists, earmarks, and blatant cronyism.
It’s time for some authenticity.
Ugh. Can’t even begin to comment on Perry’s post. It’s full of lies and misinformation.
I am not terrified. I am mad as H*ll!
Heidi Li, you expressed my reasons for supporting McCain better than I ever could.
How can anyone support Obama, who won the primary with the caucus fraud and strong arming of delegates? I bought my first McCain yard sign after the watching the Democratic Party put the final nail in the coffin containing Democratic principles at the “roll call vote” during our convention.
I have witnessed first hand the cheating and lying on behalf of Obama. I am disgusted that American ethics are at such a low point that people are willing to vote for a person with little moral or ethical integrity. The means justify the end. Well, that behavior is part of the reason we are in this financial crisis.
I want Americans to vote this year an make me proud to say I am an American by saying NO to Obama, a man who has a casual and easy lie or charge of racism for any question about his character and judgment.
The minute the race card was played in the primaries was the beginning of the pogrom to silence anyone who had a question regarding who Obama was, where he came from, and what he really believed in. If you ask a serious question about him and expected an answer you were a racist. For many it had the oposite effect, we questioned more but were bullied, called vile names etc. A friend of mine related an anecdote her German mother used to say to her: When they stole from my neighbors, I was afraid, so I said nothing; when they came for my neighbors, I was afraid, so I said nothing; when they came for me there was no one left to speak for me.
The Obama playbook is more like Lenin and Hitler, I’ll take Karl Rove over those characters any day.
I try to remain positive that McCain can pull this out. I really truly feel Obama would be a disaster for this country, I question his intent.
My discomfort stems more from his lack of history than anything he has actually done. It has seemed almost purposeful that he has not stayed in any one ‘job’ for any length of time; 2 years at Occidental Univ, 2 years at Columbia (I’m assuming his transfer was after 2 years at OU), 3 years as a Community Organizer, 3 years at Harvard Law, 3 years at a Chicago law firm, then the IL Senate for, what, 6 yrs but I think that was a part time job and only in the last year was he given plumb committee assignments and his name put on legislation to burnish his credentials, then in the US Senate for a year and a half and announcing for Pres. Oh yeah, I forgot the 12 years teaching at U IL law school. Well as a lecturer he probably taught one course per semester, which is 3 hours per week, which probably equals 3 years if you pro-rate it. If this was a novel, he would be the mole that works for the other side to bring down the gov. At best he ia a creation of a marketing and advertising guru who has done a great job of selling the cereal to the country as something they need, at worst he is a radical socialist in whole foods packaging.
More and more he reminds me of Coca-Cola. Even that kids song by the Venice CA parents is like a jingle. Today I was driving on the highway and saw an Obama decal on someone’s car, but not his name; it was one of the logos with his face. He’s the product of mass marketing campaign. Just one problem: false advertising.
Playing the race card is a long time tactic of Ayers and it was planned way before the election began.
He is a “brand”. Nothing more. He is the same as a patch that somebody wears across the butt of their pants. It is a way for people who don’t have a solid sense of themselves to borrow his false “sense of self”. Empty hollow shells of people following a whimsical narcissist into oblivion.
The minute the race card was played in the primaries was the beginning of the pogrom to silence anyone who had a question regarding who Obama was, where he came from, and what he really believed in. If you ask a serious question about him and expected an answer you were a racist.
- I think it worked in the primaries against Hillary and Bill (out of all the people in the world!!) but now voters are hip to that and it’s not going to work anymore. Hillary raised questions about Ayers, about Rezko and the media said that she was being negative & divisive.
I’m STILL not over Hillary not being the nominee. I’ll never get over it.
It’s time to clean house in the Damn Party and take out the garbage!
If you ask a serious question about him and expected an answer you were a racist.
Someone caled me a racist the other day. I said that I think his skin color is his only redeeming quality.
When I’m asked about Oblockhead, I just say that incompetence knows no color and leave it at that.
You said it, Ferd.
Great post Heidi. I love your blog and Tominpaine.
I wake up in the morning and check NQ, Marc, Heidi, PocPuma, TexasDarlin, SavagePolitics, The Confluence, JustSayNodeal
It’s comforting to know that sane people still exist.
At this point it seems to be the republicans who are attempting to resort to “any means necessary”. Their strategy is devolving into increasingly erratic tactics; their central message–whatever it was–is getting completely lost in the process.
Obama remains focused, calm, and collected. His message can be stated by anyone who has been paying attention to what he and Biden have been saying. If you cut through the spin, what you’ll find is the same mainstream democratic agenda that he clearly articulated during his acceptance speech. We’ll hear it again during tomorrow night’s debate.
What alternate world are you living in?
I want some FEISTY in my president. No thanks to the calm demeanor. It’s cultish.
That isn’t calm coming from Oblockhead–it’s that pesky cone of ignorance, which makes him appear calm when he’s actually just comatose.
He’s calmly wracking his brain… what would Hillary say?
Well, she did say (during the primaries) that Oblockhead couldn’t win in November and I do believe she will be correct in that assessment.
or passive aggressive
You mean that hogwash which was supposed to pass for an acceptance speech? I have never in my life heard such a dirigible-full of hot air in one speech in my entire life. It was nonsense from start to finish. There were so many promises of goodies for his supporters, he pissed off Santa Claus. It was so bad, my dog snored. Christ.
I have rarely seen a more divisive, dissembing candidate than Barack Obama.
His arrogance is only exceeded by his inexperience.
Honestly, I really cannot imagine what campaign you have been watching.
Obama is even more divisive that Shrub, to wit:
* He has divided Democrat from Democrat
* He has divided young from old
* He has divided black from white
* He has divided the rich from the poor
* He has divided men from women
* He has divided the educated from the less educated
* He has divided families
* He has divided friends
The only groups he has united are HRC supporters and Republicans. Too bad this is the one group he did not want to unite. He even screwed that one up.
His message can be stated by anyone who has been paying attention
Let me guess: Change you can hope in?
comment by: it’sthe Economy, Stupid
you are going to be in for a rude awakening tomorrow night. Obama will be handed his butt.
okay! was waiting for an obot to show up..to all you obots, c’mon tell me…middle class family here, hubby and I are lucky enough to have insurance thru our employers. So tell me…what will Barry do for ME? What will his presidency mean for ME? I have heard all his stump speeches and have heard nothing other than he will raise my taxes. So tell me, if you want to talk about the issues, tell me how MY life will be better if Barry is elected POTUS?
No? Thought so. J,M,and J!
Sorry all for feeding the trolls but just had a very umm disturbing exchange of ideas with my best friend who’s voting for Barky. And she had the balls to lecture me on “what I hear in the news”.
it;s the grass hes smoking nothing else.
hes an air head with a spiv in his hand…
Heidi, well said. A vote for Obama is a vote for corruption, misogyny, lies, and who knows what else. A slippery slope.
BO will get a few segments of the population on Nov. 4, but when it comes down to it most will vote Country First.
We do not want this thug at the helm.
Just say no to thugs on Nov 4th!!
I’m a Republican.
The people that post here at this site (with a few exceptions – Perry Logan, Freedom Fighter, and other Obots) give me hope for the future of our country.
I’m a Republican.
The people that post here at this site (with a few exceptions – Perry Logan, Freedom Fighter, and other Obots) give me hope for the future of our country.
Thank goodness the McCain campaign still has the “whitey” tape and COLB cards to play. I can’t imagine a point in this campaign where people would be more receptive to them.
I applaud the McCain campaign for feigning incompetence, such that the above cards are even more powerful when played.
Although I’m not sure what’s taking them so long to play them…
The Whitey tape DOES NOT EXIST.
And how would you know, Karnac?
Bravo Heidi!
News on the Berg lawsuit:
Bambi’s lawyers have filed another motion. They are in deep doo doo.
http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/philip-j-berg-lawsuit-obama-and-dnc-file-motion-to-delay-discovery-judge-surrick-must-rule-protective-order-stopping-all-discovery-obama-is-illegal-alien-indonesian/
I find this astounding. Surely, no one would run for president if they were not qualified. No one could be that stupid. Yet, rather than present a certified copy of a birth certificate, (even I have one of those), they’re going through legal maneuvers to avoid presenting one to the court? I would think the judge might be wondering what’s with this, too.
What if Obama isn’t his real name? Maybe that’s why no one at CU remembers him.
Mercy, this has been an election to end all elections.
Go, McCain/Palin
INTENT is a lost word when it comes to Obama. Does anyone really KNOW what Obama’s intent is for the United States?
Since it IS his intent to obfuscate and be secretive about his background, we can guess that he is hiding his true intent.
Obama has a dark heart – one given to negativity and evil.
We can only guess that Obama and his minions from hell are only INTENT on destroying America.
So, now our INTENT is to make sure that doesn’t happen.
You are absolutely right. We are not just guessing now. We know that after January, if suckObama gets in, we are doomed to a communistic state with a failed economy and no freedom. We’ll be the laughing stock of the world.
I just can’t grasp how Obama can claim he is for harmony and “bringing people together” when his every move constitutes an overt assault on the free will and dignity of others. His world is 1984 — only 24 years later.
I am encouraged that McCain and Palin have become feisty and fight-ready warriors. They certainly haven’t given up — don’t you give up either. As you have already seen, anything can happen and there may be many twists and turns to come.
Believe it or not, foreigners listen to our diatribes and also to Obama’s speeches and context and they are better suited to decipher his intent than we are. It is easier for them for various reasons.
1. The are detached, unaffiliated and technically neutral.
2. The have been accustomed to deciphering American intents.
3. The are well practiced to deciphering American intent by listening and watching our films and other forms of art.
Yup:
“Whatever the question, whatever the issue, there’s always a back story with Sen. Obama. All people want to know is: What has this man ever actually accomplished in government? What does he plan for America?” McCain said. “But ask such questions and all you get in response is another angry barrage of insults.”
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081006/ap_on_el_pr/mccain
That was excellent and right on.
Heidi: thank your for your essay and for expressing so well what many of us think and feel this election cycle. I want the party I respected and identified with back. Unless it is purged of those who manipulated and destroyed it during the primaries, it will cease to exist forever.
CBS Poll: Presidential Race Tightens
Survey Shows Obama Leading McCain 47 Percent To 43 Percent Among Registered Voters Nationwide Following V.P. Debate
Oct. 6, 2008 7:00 PM
(CBS) In a sign that the race for president has returned to about where it was before the first presidential debate, the Obama-Biden ticket leads the McCain-Palin ticket 47 percent to 43 percent among registered voters in a new CBS News poll.
The Obama-Biden ticket led by a wider margin, nine percentage points, in a CBS News poll released last Wednesday, before Joe Biden and Sarah Palin faced off in the vice presidential debate. Obama-Biden led by five percentage points on Sept. 25.
In the new poll, the Democratic ticket leads by 3 percentage points, 48 percent to 45 percent, among likely voters.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/06/opinion/polls/main4504633.shtml
Oh, my. That’s GOOD news.
Hi, Heidi!
Thank you for the interesting Thurgood Marshall quote and your essay. I have had the French Revolution in the back of my mind this entire “season” and now it appears that you have identified the reason. We need to fight the tyranny, which is the operative word.
Just a reminder in case you missed it. Barfy bought out GOOGLE rights and has certain searches directed to his site and elsewhere to stop you from reasearching the truth. This is serious and like the super D’s and others, I believe every one who complies has been threatened. Barfy camp has no morals. Manning is right. Barfy is the emmisary of the Devil. No doubt about it.
Last week’s passage of the rescue plan still leaves the economy as Issue One in 2008 – and this could give John McCain an electoral opportunity.
He needs to seize it.
The fact is Barack Obama’s ties to the far left – to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, radical community groups and rapacious unions – are an objective threat to the nation’s already wobbly economy.
McCain should say so – in detail and with vigor. He needs to tell the truth about Obama, his allies and their economically perilous plans.
* Take Pelosi. She already put politics ahead of economic stability with her venomous blame-the-GOP lecture that doomed the first vote on the rescue plan.
McCain should remind the world.
* Or take Obama’s ties to radical “community” groups like ACORN, which pushed lenders to make bad loans, helping to spark the current crisis.
It’s a natural for the GOP contender.
* Then there’s Big Labor. It’s betting millions on Obama – because he backs Labor’s dream of scrapping the secret ballot for votes on unionizing. It’s called the “card check” plan – and it empowers unions to coerce workers into unionizing.
What a way to boost membership. (And to free up time and cash to promote protectionism and undermine free trade.)
McCain can blast it as antidemocratic.
* Next, there’s the class-warfare Left and Obama’s stiff tax hikes, estimated at some $1 trillion-plus over 10 years.
Yes, he claims those making below $250,000 won’t be hit. But he’s already voted to hike taxes on folks making just $42,000 – and he plans to boost levies on Social Security, capital gains, dividends, corporate income, oil, coal, natural gas . . . and so on and so forth.
Maybe Obama hasn’t seen the news: Financial firms – many in New York – are drowning. How will they survive his tax hikes? How will the middle class?
And how will the wealthy – who likewise reside here disproportionately and who’ll be smacked but good – respond?
Goodbye, jobs and investment.
* Obama will need all that cash, of course, to feed his buddies in the health-care and public-education sectors and elsewhere. All told, Obama wants to ratchet up overall federal spending by some $1.2 trillion in just four years. Ouch.
* And what will all that buy? A bureaucracy-first, government-run health-care program, for starters – with all kinds of new mandates concerning the insurance you must have and the doctors you can see.
* Plus, McCain needs to make crystal clear that he long fought to curb Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – whose reckless purchases of bad mortgages underlie the financial mess. And that he fought against Fannie/Freddie protectors in Obama’s party, like Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chuck Schumer.
But the clock’s ticking.
McCain needs to move fast – for his own sake and the nation’s.
Can’t believe Obama protesters chanted “No USA” yesterday at Palin’s rally. But what do we expect from people who see nothing wrong with his association with Ayers and Jeremiah Wright?
Perry, you are really getting on my nerves with your constant attacks on Republicans. I am a Republican for McCain/Palin. I have come to this site since Feb. and this site made up my mind to NOT vote for Obama because of all of the incredible info that has been here. I have referred this site to many people. I have mostly been a lurker but recently have been posting articles and video’s about O’Hiltler that I thought people would be interested in. This site is a place I can come to that makes me feel better when I have to face the fact that we have a total A-HOLE running on the Dem ticket who might become POTUS. I have never been a Hillary fan before but during the primary’s when I saw how unfair she was treated, I truely was rooting for her. I didn’t care if she won or McCain. I at least knew our country would be safe. Also, I have really enjoyed some of the regular posters on here who have made me laugh so hard. Benny, Fred, Strawberry etc. and Soldier of Christ, you are really awesome. The trolls are one thing but Perry, you are really a DOWNER and make me want to not come back!
To Perry and that ilk:
In the Army we have an expression:
Lead, Follow, or get out of the way.
If you are not here to lead us to victory follow us up the hill. If you have not the courage to follow than get out of the way.
But by getting out of the way you have no right to bitch if the results are not what you want.
We do not have time to coddle the faint of heart. We must use each day to its fullest. SHare the infor you have learned here. A convert a day keeps Obama away.
Get out there and FIGHT for a better tomorrow.
A reformed America and a great future for our kids.
To Perry and that ilk:
In the Army we have an expression:
Lead, Follow, or get out of the way.
If you are not here to lead us to victory follow us up the hill. If you have not the courage to follow than get out of the way.
But by getting out of the way you have no right to bitch if the results are not what you want.
We do not have time to coddle the faint of heart. We must use each day to its fullest. Share the info you have learned here. A convert a day keeps Obama away.
Get out there and FIGHT for a better tomorrow.
A reformed America and a great future for our kids.
Did anyone see that Obama and the DNC filed papers with the court (Berg lawsuit) basically stated they don’t want to divulge any of the documentation for Berg due to privacy issues? Privacy? Really? You are running for POTUS and we don’t even know if you are truly a U.S. citizen yet! Not to mention you have not brought forward any documents/records from all your college years! If the judge doesn’t take this as a “what do they have to hide” move, I don’t know what will.
Running for President means you lose your privacy. I guess no one told Oblockhead that. He should be told to pony up or go home.
I thought Barky only had 3 days to give the information to the judge? Isn’t his time up? BO can’t tell a judge that he isn’t going to follow his orders, because it is private information. WTH?
Ring… Ring… (((Hear that??))) Kenya is calling its son home. Get Barky the hell out of here!!
Wow, that’s weird..liliam. I’ve thought of the french revolution, too. Be it pitchforks and torches or blogs and activism, we need to fight the tyranny as you say.
Riots? What if it were the majority that rioted this time if the obamanation steals the election?
What if every citizen who happens to love and understand our country – the good with the bad – decided that a coup had taken place in the form of Obama stealing the election?
Revolution? Decidedly.
And in a New York nanosecond.
I think that would only happen if the economy continues to crumble. Perhaps then the majority would rise, as they(us) may have no choice.
It wouldn’t be a happy scenario.
I would certainly feel a revolt coming if blabla comes into power, even if the economy does not totally tank, but I hope we can then find more creative and less dangerous ways to fight the tyrannty, so the tyranny does not become us.
Barr is picking up support amongst conseratives too. That is really going to hurt McCain.
Do Barr supporters not realize that a vote for Barr is a vote for Obama?
CBS poll out. O up by 3. 9 point loss in a week.
Now, anyone wish to guess who really won the VP debate? *hehe
Yay, maybe God is looking out for us.
Zogby has the same thing.
As a democrat of 40 years, like the Clintons, my experience was the Carter Presidency and Bill’s two terms.
I did not particularly like the Republican Presidents, but I accepted them.
Until now, I thought that GWB was the absolute worst!
The Democratic nominee has pitted one race against all others. He unleashed a demeaning attitude against women. The religious philosophy emanating from his church is astounding!
I lay all this directly on Obama’s doorstep, but his enablers are just as guilty.
I will not be returning to the Democratic Party!
Welcome to the enlightened view from the hill top. We Independents like it up here. We get a good view, it is a little drafty and sometimes lonely but the Kool-aide vendors do not hike this far up.
Join with us an vote for the best person in both conscience and skills.
I think once you get used to the view you will not miss the crowd.
Samantha Power was forced to resign as prominent adviser to Barack Obama on all things foreign policy after she called Hillary Clinton a “monster.” The controversy which broke out after her remark, caused her to resign, even though she would have liked to remain in place and even though she played an important role in shaping Obama’s foreign policy views.
Now a video has surfaced of this lady’s take on Israel. The video should make those who consider voting for Obama in November aware that he chose this person to advise him and that she was not fired for these anti-Israel remarks, but for insulting Hillary Clinton. It is quite safe to assume that Power and Obama agree quite a bit on foreign policy, especially considering the fact that quite some of Obama’s other foreign policy advisers agree with Power as well.
“Let me give you a thought experiment here,” the interviewer asked, “lets say you were an adviser to the president of the United States, how would – in response to current events – you advise him to put structure in place to monitor that situation in which at least one party or another might be moving towards genocide?”
“I don’t think that in any of the cases shortage of information,” Power replied. “I actually think that in the Israel – Palestine situation there is an abundance of information. What we don’t need is some kind of early warning mechanism there. What we do need is a willingness to actually put something on the line in service of helping the situation. And putting something on the line might mean alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import,” she went on to say in a clear reference to Jewish voters.
“It may more crucially meaning sacrificing or investing literally billions of dollars not in serving Israel’s military but actually investing in the new state of Palestine; investing billions of dollars it would probably take also to support a mammoth protection force, not of the old Srebrenica or Rwanda kind but a meaningful military presence,” she went on to say. “Because it seems to me… that you have to go in as if you’re serious, you have to put something on the line, and unfortunately in position of a solution on unwilling parties is dreadful – I mean it’s a terrible thing to do, it’s fundamentally undemocratic – but sadly, you know, we don’t just have a democracy here either, we have a liberal democracy; there are certain sets of principles that guide our policy or that are meant to anyway – and it’s essential that some set of principles becomes the benchmark rather than the deference to people who are fundamentally politically destined to the lives of their own people – and by that I mean people who Tom Friedman has called sharafat.”
“It requires external intervention” in Israel, she said. This even though “any intervention is going to come under fierce criticism but we have to think about lesser evils.”
Whether Obama agrees with Power that the United States should have sent forces into Israel so as to ‘protect’ Palestinians against Israeli ‘aggression’ is, of course, not know. What we do know, however, is that he has allied himself purposefully with those who do.
How many radicals does this guy have to have known past present or future before people will open their eyes? For god’s sake there’s actually videotape of Pfleger and Ayers ranting all over the place and there’s a timeline from formerly reputable news sources like the Sun-Times and the NYT.
Comment by cathnealon | 2008-10-06 20:43:32
How many radicals does this guy have to have known past present or future before people will open their eyes? For god’s sake there’s actually videotape of Pfleger and Ayers ranting all over the place and there’s a timeline from formerly reputable news sources like the Sun-Times and the NYT.
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Cathnealon – I found this today. The list is long:
http://www.globalnewsdaily.com/Banner.htm
If John McCain would do a commercial. People would get it.
Everything about Obama is a cheap suit. There’s no real thoughtful quality or genuine concern about people, the country, or the world.
What Obama and Co really care about is perpetuating their ideology. Sick, destructive, and oppressive ideology designed to give absolute power to very few.
Obama simply is the manchurian candidate, the borg set and programmed by the very few to destroy anything that doesn’t fit into the plan.
Is this history about to repeat itself?
Just a general observation that Bush continues to be conspicuous in his absence to campaign for his party’s nominee.
I know this hurt Gore in 2000 but of course Bush is very unpopular whereas Clinton was very popular and a great President to boot.
Then I hear about this $20million investment Bush signed off on for Obama for an earmark in his district. These two guys really admire each other and that spells trouble for America.
I think you captured the internal struggle that is going on with Democrats right now. I know people that are so excited for Obama, and like your experiences, they are okay with how he did it.
Obviously, many of us are not. There is no joy in his victories because they are so hollow. There is no feeling that he is a legitimate candidate. So there’s just a feeling of dread, because we have followed this and remember the threatening of SDs, the bullying at the caucuses, the use of the race card. Is this style of politics inspiring? No.
You know, I remember the ‘92 Presidential Election. I remember Bill Clinton having a very poor chance of winning. But then I remember him literally pounding the pavement, and working 24/7. Didn’t they say he shook every person’s hand in New Hampshire. Now THAT is inspiring.
But cheating, voter fraud, lies, secrecy. Not so much. So sad.
Samantha Powers called HRC a Monster, then exited the stage. Obots repeatedly accused Hillary of being willing to do anything to win. So who’s ‘black’ and which is the pot.., er kettle?
Perry should also mention that Republicans controlled congress while Bill was President.
I am no fan of what that congress did to Bill and the witchhunt that happened. But with Bill triangulating and pubs like Mccain working with him we had a bipartisan success in american government.
However, that is more proof obama will tip the scale to corruption.
Bush took over with pubs controlling congress. It was a wreck, though i cut Bush more slack than a dem like perry ever would. I am a dem and think he was bad but he also faced huge challenges, and i think Iraq will go down as a brilliant success when history closes on it. Not to mention Bush has done amzing work on aids. Alot of Bush hate is hype. Imagine if we would all have stayed united in the war on terror and Iraq?
My point is we need a balance of power. Bill Clinton is in no way responsible for ALL of the good that happened under his lead. Just like bush is in no way to blame for all of the bad.
If Obama has a mandate from a dem controlled congress our country and rights as we know it are toast.
RCP has Obama up by 6 and winning every swing state except Ohio where McCain has a 1 point lead. RCP even shows Missouri going for Obama.
The Wall Street crisis could not have happened at a worse time for McCain- clearly it benefitted Obama even though he didn’t do crap to fix it but talk a big game.
Three things:
Don’t trust the polls.
A month is like 20 years during a campaign, plenty of time for things to change radically.
Relax and keep fighting for Mac and the good ol’ US of A!
At least under an Obama dictatorship we’ll get to don our own glorious O-labels:
http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=2403
(Be sure to check out the link to Obama’s official site to see your full choice … so much to choose from!)
I have been following this site from australia and wanted to comment on what the consequencies for the rest of the world if obamma was to win
1-Iraq-you can see it is a waiting game after the election both sides are going to fight again to test what obamma will do ,he will do nothing and the consequencies will be dire
2-hezzbollah will attack israel again a lot of people overseas see a obamma victory as a change of blanket support for israel if obamma blinks their will be mayhem as the arab countries have a lot of petro dollars
3-the most puzzling acpect of obammas victory in the
democratic primaries was the blanket support of the black vote.obamma father comes from kenya and from the luo tribe,the only reason to have a muslim name is this tribe supported slavery and supplied slaves to the arabs who took them to yemen.obamma himself has been back to kenya twice and would be aware of the history as most luos do not have a muslim name only the ones who worked with the arabs
i only bring this up as i have serious doubts on how obammas juddgerment as president will be effected by his very clear knowledge of african and arab history on his trips thier and following the trinity church in chigago,a lot of people in the third world also look at obamma to change things but as everything with obamma i think they will be dissapointed
Hillary would have done much more for the third world then obamma ever will
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Name calling Mr. Hopey/Changey?? What about the “new kind of politics”? I thought Obama was moonbeams, love and lollipops?? This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius?? Up with people…We are the ones we’ve been waiting for……..?????
The irony here is that he could have run such a campaign and still won and won against the Republicans. The fact that he abdicated that responsibility for running a dignified and honest camapign is a punishable offense in my opinion. A voter’s punishment is of course the ultimate rejection of the candidate.
‘Win at all cost’ is really an expression of disgust at their own candidate. They have nothing more to say in his favor.
And Bush-Rove is not typical of the Republicans. Take Bush I and ‘Willie Horton.’ I’ll tell you a story:
About a classmate of mine in high school. Years later, I ran into him in Boston. At the time, I didn’t know Ron had savagely raped an elderly woman on Nantucket Island (in Massachusetts), leaving her for dead. Somehow, Ron was out on bail when I ran into him. I invited him over to my apartment and lent him 40 bucks. Later on, I found out Ron was convicted of vicious, murderous rape. Why was he out on bail? Yes, Dukakis was governor then.
I googled him a few years ago. Ron was released from the prison for the sexually dangerous to live on a seminary. Within weeks of release, he murdered the priest who took him in — for no reason. This person was in my apartment while out on bail for a sick, savage sex crime against a senior citizen! – in Dukakis’ Massachusetts.
My classmate’s race is irrelevant. He was pathologically violent and could have murdered me. Dukakis allowed his release. The ‘Willie Horton’ ad was accurate.
Heidi Li – you have been on the frontline so to speak since the beginning. I want to thank you for your dedication, strength of character and continuing fight against the worst candidate we have ever seen – to think that my party is fostering this poser, cipher is horrific to me. Especially since we had the choice of Hillary Clinton – the best candidate we have ever had, instead. That alone tells me my party is gone – my issues are not represented by them. The fact that we, average American citizens have been railroaded for eight years – from “conception of Bu$h” to now by the media – wether it be tee vee or newspapers, magazines, etc., tells me we are staring at a formation of America as a true banana republic. Controlled by whoever has the most $$$. These supporters of BZero who changed horses so easily sicken me. They never mention the theift of Hillary’s votes and delegates, the lack of vetting STILL(it’s racist to question highly questionable relationships – only to morally and mentally challenged) – the hate, lies and disrespect for the former D parties best and brightest. Bizzaro world continues – geesh!
Thank you Heidi Li for your insightful words and stable graceful communications.
Boo Radly
Obama’s thugs have taken over the Democratic Party with the complicity of the DNC. The cultural far left is apparently behind it all, and the objective is evidently to push an agenda that the vast majority of Americans are against. When the dust settles next year, the party needs to jettison these loony leftists. Otherwise, it will gradually cease to exist as one of the two major political powers in the U.S.
Heidi,
Thank you for the powerful writing.
I do hope that you will (or maybe already have) written notes or articles or comments (whatever form) in either your law school’s journal or that of another school.
You rock.
As usual, Heidi speaks for me.
I go to sleep at night still terribly terribly saddened by the loss of what might have been, terribly afraid of what might be and totally sickened by what was.
A pelosi/reid congress joined to the hip to an obama WH. What gives me a sort of sick sense of solace is that with the state of the world economy, the congress and wh will be totally useless no matter who resides there, given our two “options” right now. There was another option that was stolen from us that really might have made a difference.
I am now an old, bitter female whose political views, vote, desires, beliefs and dreams are all irrelevant. Odds are that I will not live to see a woman in the wh. This is not what I have taught my daughters to believe all their lives; how do I tell them I was wrong? So terribly wrong.
The democratic party has indeed become a nightmare for all of us, democrats, republicans, independants, from which we cannot wake up.