Colin Powell, A Master Butt Snorkeler [Updated]
By Larry Johnson on October 21, 2008 at 12:33 AM in Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Current Affairs
(bumped up by SusanUnPC)
Leave it to Pat Lang to thoroughly skewer the myth and legend of Colin Powell. Powell is a quintessential creature of Washington–smooth talking, handsome, low-key, and relentless in the task of butt-snorkeling. Powell did not achieve what achieved by challenging Presidents and senior commanders on matters of principle. Nope. He followed the parade, another way of saying going along with the crowd. Pat writes:
I watched this. I suppose that President Obama will find something for Colin Powell to do for the next few years, but that will be unfortunate.
Powell is someone who truly “blotted his copybook” as the Brits used to say. After a lifetime of service and achievement, Powell chose in the end to “drink the koolaid” that flowed in the bloodstream of the Bush/Cheney/neocon regime that has ruled the United States for the last eight years. He was Secretary of State at a time when his firm opposition, and ultimately his resignation would have crippled the onrushing utopian crusade for Westernization in Iraq.
He did not choose to follow that path. Instead, he chose to believe the corrupted judgments of an intelligence community leadership that betrayed the country and the armed forces by producing nonsensical estimates designed to create support for war among an ignorant and bellicose public that hungered for revenge aganst an enemy they could not even define.
Today, when he was asked by Brokaw about his role as perhaps the greatest enabler of the Iraq War decision, he took shelter behind the collection of garbage that was served up in 2002-2003 by George Tenet and company as justification for war.
For Shame! For Shame!
He should hide himself and hope that someday men will remember the good of him and not the worst. pl
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081019/pl_politico/14714
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell
PS Contrary to Brokaw, on MTP, it does not appear that Powell commanded an infantry battalion in the 101st Division in VN. Comment?
Once again Powell does the wrong thing at the wrong time. Should Obama be elected, the turd he will deliver as President will leave a legacy on par with that of George W. Bush. At least Powell will have the “distinction” of having supported both nitwits.
UPDATE–I did not hear Powell’s comments on Meet the Press yesterday, but I just saw the transcript. Powell is so disingenuous that one almost does not know whether to laugh or shriek in rage. Consider the following from Powell:
I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, “Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.”
Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim; he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian.
But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no, that’s not America.
Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president?
Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, “He’s a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists.” This is not the way we should be doing it in America.
The facts are that Obama has not “always been a Christian.” That is not true. Barack’s mother was at best an agnostic. She professed no faith. His step-father, Lolo Soetoro, was a muslim. Barack’s father was a muslim. Barack during his time as a child in Indonesia was a muslim. There is no evidence I have seen that Barack continued to practice Islam after moving back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. But the notion that Barack has been a life long practicing Christian is pure, unadulterated HORSE SHIT!
But it is not the matter of being a muslim that is so concerning. Barack’s long association with the likes Louis Farrakhan, a Black Muslim, is alarming. The Islam espoused by Farrakhan is not mainstream. Anything but. So yes, I have a problem with someone who pals around with the likes of Louis Farrakhan. People like that should not be President or work for a President. Very simple. That kind of anti-semitism cannot be tolerated.
Powell also tries to pretend the notion that Obama is “associated with a terrorist” is a hypothetical. Sorry. But established relationships with William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and Mike Klonsky, who either directly participated in terrorist attacks in the United States or supported groups who did, is no hypothetical. Obama has buddied up with terrorists and refuses to account for his actions.
But we should not be surprised. Colin Powell refused to listen to the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research objections to CIA efforts to cook the intel on Iraq. He ignored them and took a bogus case for war to the UN. So when it comes to the matter of the war in Iraq, judgment, and a Presidential endorsement, Powell is consistent–he is consistently wrong.
(Release: November 13)
on sale for only $16.95.
has a spatula.)
8% Off at $11.95, with a rare five-star ranking by 294 customers: 
And check out these: 
("This crazy redhead is on to something. Her pink Rambler story alone is worth the price of the book," writes 
- “Richard Sale’s reportage on Washington, the CIA, the American armed forces, and foreign intrigue has created a perfect background for this account of the steady growth of President Clinton as a master of the game of nations.”--W. Patrick Lang, former head of Middle East Operations, DIA
"Anne C. Heller's stunning biography of Ayn Rand" uses a "plethora of newly unearthed research and fresh insight."
POLLS CONTINUE TO TIGHTEN
McCain within 5 points
DATE SAMPLE MOE Obama (D) McCain (R) SPREAD
10/13 – 10/19 – – 48.8 44.0 Obama 4.8
Rasmussen Reports 10/17 – 10/19 3000 LV 2.0 50 46 Obama +4
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby 10/17 – 10/19 1211 LV 2.9 50 44 Obama +6 Hotline/FD 10/17 – 10/19 789 LV 3.5 47 42 Obama +5
Gallup (Traditional)* 10/16 – 10/18 2590 LV 2.0 49 46 Obama +3
Gallup (Expanded)* 10/16 – 10/18 2277 LV 2.0 51 44 Obama +7
GWU/Battleground 10/13 – 10/19 1000 LV 3.5 49 45 Obama +4
IBD/TIPP 10/14 – 10/18 1072 LV 3.0 47 42 Obama +5
Hot tamale!!!!
Larry, I could NOT have said it better and I’ve read Barry Soretoes MOM was an atheist.
If his ONLY introduction to “the Christian way” was through WRIGHT then he’s even more frigged up than anyone can fully evaluate.
HOW messed up!!! And thank GOODNESS Powell went with Bambi. I would NOT have wanted that FRAUD endorsing MACK. His phony song and dance was what made my MOM think well “maybe there is a reason to invade” and she holds it against him STILL.
Me too.
Me three. I clearly remember the day. I was visiting my political junkie sister in DC and we made a point of watching Powell’s lyin’ bullshit artistry at the UN. Prior to that we were both opposed but thought if that wonderful (from those Schwarzenegger briefings on Desert Storm) Colin Powell says it, it must be true.
He’s a freakin’ war criminal. Send him to The Hague with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Pearl and Wolfowitz.
I’m happy to let Barky be “humbled” by this endorsement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJHW2fiEJ44
Here is the Red State Update take on Powell’s endorsement
I love those Red State guys. They never miss the mark! Hilarious.
It really surprises me how few people know that Powell has a long history of lying and endorsing despicable acts.
Here are Powell cavalierly dismissing the murder of unarmed civilians in Vietnam:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/121700c.html
And he broke the law by lying to investigators to cover for his boss in the Iran Contra scandal:
http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/03/20/powell/index.html
He has been lying and sucking up for years. The media just won’t tell you about it because he is another one of the popular kids at Beltway High.
Colin Powell was the lipstick on George W. Bush’s pig.
Absolutely, Powell is a war criminal, and He supports someone like Obama, who was using against Hillary “I was allways against war on Iraq”, now we can see how much Obama was FOR!!! supporting every single bill, exeprt the one who was for better equipment and supplies for Uor soldiers there. Obamas words are just empty but fool of lies as Powell, Rumsfield,Bush etc..etc..etc..There is no record, that Obama sign anything, that will prove, that He is aeaist invasion of Iraq. Saying on TV and voting are two different things, and that is what Obama is doing. Promises from Primaries, are so diffrent what He tells us now, and now He has another liar, traiton as Powell is. They deserve each other ABSOLUTELY!!!
Don’t expect this Agnostic to give two s**ts about whatever your religious beliefs may entail. as long as you respect my right to study comparative religions in their philosophical sense alone and not place any “faith” in their realities.
Exactly. I am a practicing Christian. We meet every week on Sunday to study the Bible, both New and Old Testaments, that’s what Christian’s do.
“Rev.” Wright, teaches Black Liberation Theology. He teaches the word of James Cone, author of books like “Black Theology, Black Power”… Wright’s Church is not a Christian Church. Barack was never exposed to ANY other church that came close to Christianity in his life, just because they chose to call themselves Christian’s doesn’t mean they are Christians.
Faith 2 Action passed out flyers on Sunday at the Churches in Loudoun County Virginia, giving a side by side comparison between McCain and Obama on issues ranging from Energy, Immigration, Life, War, School Choice, etc.- on the back page they cite Scriptures that could accompany each topic, and they encourage people to pray for God to clearly reveal the Candidate that best reflects His will for the U.S.
A link to this PDF file is: vote your values@gmail.com.
To NonChristians this might not seem all that important, but to Christians this should be immensely important, for those of Faith, we have to realize times may change, but the word of God is unchanging.
“Dreams Of My Father” and “The Audacity Of Hope” have still come nowhere close to outselling the Bible, it is time for Believers to say “enough” to a man who seeks to be The Messiah. History has proven time and again, that when mere men seek to have power equal to that of God, it never ends well, for the man or the people who follow him.
I was responding to Dawnelle’s post.
Please see this video of Democrats for McCain just in from Ohio. It is great. Please pass it on and comment on youtube. Please make it viral.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKWM22iId98
Clinton supporters Talk about Aggressive Obama Cult members
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr_o2YS8PKc
Barack Obama – I Will Not Be Silenced 2008 Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrC2zMDZ5Jg&feature=related
Barack Obama – I Will Not Be Silenced 2008 Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htDM9-6_luM&feature=related
Barack Obama – I Will Not Be Silenced 2008 Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOKSc0ezyj4&feature=related
Barack Obama – I Will Not Be Silenced 2008 Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-jkUIFdfV0
As Americans, we expect certain liberties and rights that were granted us by our forefathers, who wrote documents like the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. “We the people” expect that these fundamental rights will always be protected. However, in the current Democratic Presidential Primary, this has not been the case.
http://wewillnotbesilenced2008.com/
This coordinated tactics documented in these videos is one of the main reasons I won’t pull that lever for Obama and the endless harassment of anyone that dares to dissent from the scrip.
THANK YOU
I’ve put it on my facebook where it appears they’ve taken down Will Bower’s page. Don’t know why but I’m sure it has something to do with us being PUMA and posting videos against “THEIR ONE”
and only FOOLBambi!I can’t STAND FACISTS!
the FRIGGEN LYING LEFT used to SCREAM it from the rafters that NOOO ONLY THE RIGHT IS FACIST.
BULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLlHOCKEY!!
I”M CALLIN THEM ON IT HERE AND NOW!
YOU LIE
YOU CHEAT
YOU STEAL
YOU SUCK
(ah I feel better now)
grrr (burp)
PUMA W00T!!
love DARRAGH!!
TYPOS OOPS :-}
I do wish people would get straight that The One ended up with more delegates not only because of intimidation but because of DNC “affirmative action rule” that gave Obama outright double delegates for black districts and any other district that Donna Brazile considered “especially loyal and should be rewarded.”
She is very well spoken
Yes! McCain has Obama right where he wants him!
Stock up on champagne, you guys! Your dreams are about to come true in two short weeks!
PUMA!!
Polls are tightening rather early, eh?
I predict it’s about to become very interesting.
does anyone visit your blog?
just wondering because you seem to hang out here so much…not much to do there eh?
go over to wizbangblog.com. The guy there just wrote a piece that absolutely destroys the current poll. As the term goes, if you are an “eeyore,” this will give you hope.
Great news. Let’s hope it can close up more over the next few days.
I was at my son’s Football Game last night, and it occurred to me that there really is one message that McCain needs to drive home these last two weeks. “Do we really want to change America?” I, personally, do not.
I LOVE America, and consider myself to be the most fortunate person on the face of the Earth…DESPITE some real financial problems we are going through, not just in the abstract, as a nation, but a little closer to home, in my husband’s and my own household.
Do I blame everybody in charge and want drastic changes? No. I am old enough to know that fundamentally, our Infrastructure is sound. When I hear what Joe Biden said over the weekend I do feel more alarmed about the future.
I have no idea what the ramblings of that man meant, but they certainly did not inspire confidence. In fact, upon a second read, I could not shake the feeling that Biden sounds like he is trying to find a loophole with which to extract himself.
I can not recall, ever, a VP Candidate who has done more damage to his cause than Biden.
Biden has called people racists, he has told us that when our taxes get raised, and indeed they will be, that we should be glad we can be so Patriotic, and now he is telling us that within six months of an Obama Presidency, because of his slim resume, other countries(?) will be manufacturing a crisis against us, to test BO, and we, the American people, are almost assuredly not going to support BO/JB and their plan. In fact, they will be very unpopular and take a dive in the polls…WTF?
Reading those words, made me think, McCain can win with those words. I know we all claim to hate the politics of fear. Truth is, we want to hear the arguments. We want to know what is out there that has the potential to change America.
In a Post 9/11 country, we should be more in tune to what is going on around us. However, when there was no follow up attack on our soil within a year, we went back to business as usual, the vigilance was dropped.
Seven years later, we are on the verge of electing someone we would never have considered Nominating to any party for a position of power in 2001, or 02,03,or 04. Something has happened to us in the last four years, and maybe it is just the achievement of the dumbing down of America.
In a Celebrity obsessed culture, I often scratch my head over who can be raised to cult status in this country today. In the UN-natural progression of things, we now are no longer satisfied to worship people of questionable talent, we now, it seems, feel that electing somebody because of their cool factor, is also perfectly reasonable.
We have only two weeks left to convince some very naive people to put down the HOPE bong, and face the fact that we don’t know everything we need to know about BO, and what we do know, based on EVERYTHING and EVERYONE the man has been associated with is Barack Obama is the wrong man for this job. He is not lying to these people…he does intend to change America, he does intend to redistribute our wealth, he does intend to wage War in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and he will need a draft to do that.
Is this the kind of CHANGE we were looking for?
“Do we really want to change America?” This is the message we need to get out there. Time is running short, and four years can seem like a mighty long time when the wrong guy is in charge.
You are so right, I do not want to change AMERICA, I want to change the whole Congres, Senat,White Hose, put new people there, start all over. But,not people like Obama. Yes, I can give chance to McCain, because I believe that His values are not as new Republicans , especjaly last 8 years. 2 Yesars of democratic Congres, and look what happend with Economy,Illegal Immigration, Health Care. Just 2 years, look wj=hat DemocrATS DIE WITH PELOSI ON THE TOP. Now Gas prices are going down, why???? because Democrats are running the show, and Obamas friends from OIL Corp. doing him a great favot. It is not Republicans, but Democrats. Just look ate the history of Socjal Security, who screws us up. Who tax SS, Who let Governmens use S Security savings for their own PORK programs, just look closely , who truly is destroing OUR!!! Social Security!!! Who decided to pay Social Security to illegals???? CARTER!!!, LOOK AND MAACE yOU JUDGMENT!!! TAXES on Social Security, Clinton-Gore. Look at the facts. Now Obama will sperad OUR money to those who are not paying TAXES, and why they dont pay taxes??? because they are working for CASH!!!! Thank tha WE have someone like Joe THE PLUMBER, who has guts and is not affraid to as questions, we nee millions of JOE THE PLUMBERS!!!! eHOSE TAXES WILL NEVER GO TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT PAYING TAXES, because there will not be any proof how many of those we have!!!!!, IT WILL GO STRAIT TO PEOPLE LIKE ;OBAMA, Reid,Pelosi,Richardson,Dodd and others pockets!!!
I saw only 1 article admitting the polls were tightening.
The media has decided it’s over.
Amazing, huh?
I’m thinking that OPowell’s endorsement will hurt barky, not help him.
I think you are correct. This isn’t supposed to be about “race” and with Colin endorsing him, it’s proof that the “brothers” stay together – no matter what.
Yes, there’s that…I was thinking more about the irony of OPowell being one of the henchmen in G.W.B’s admin and how funny it is that now he’s endorsing obama…
obama is now saying, of course, that he will offer OPowell a position in his admim…in effect bringing more of G.W.B.’s policies right back into the White House…uh oh, I’m sure I’m being racist for calling it the White House.
And let’s not forget good, ol’ Condi. She’s been so helpful to GeeDubya, hasn’t she? And she’d be an AA female. Wow, Barky would really have it together then, wouldn’t he?
And let’s also not forget all those signing statements, and all the power that sooooo many far, far lefties were afraid that Hillary would abuse. I mean, what happened to that conversation?
Just 10 days ago, Powell was testifying on behalf of Sen. Ted Stevens, of Alaska, and of the bridge to nowhere fame. Powell said of Stevens that his character was “sterling.”
At best, Powell’s not a good judge of character. Either that, or he’s just another of the corrupt beltway insiders.
I think that’s pretty obvious. The nature of his endorsement, also, reminded me a lot more of Richardson’s: Let’s KILL MCCAIN. *haha
Not true, I know a older Black guy that I talk to at the Gym and he can’t stand Obama. he asked me what was wrong with all my white brothers supporting Obama. I said they must all be very low information voters or suffer from White Guilt like Bill Ayers and Obama’s mother.
i guess powell must want some international gig to keep his face before the public. powell, don’t worry we won’t forget.
Agreed. It highlights the fact The Precious’ only real qualification is as a symbolic idol Powell craves during his lifetime.
Actually, even the great Digby admitted Obama is not a progressive, and then urged her readers to vote for “The Symbol.”
Gimme a break.
The guy who says he wants to get us out of the war being endorsed by the guy who got us into it. How ironic.
Right you are!
Hope the McCain camp see that irony. Great talking point. If any of your friends or family try to offer enthusiasm NOW for Powell, and his Endorsement that is a great way to respond.
ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe Reports: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in power and he will need supporters to stand by him as he makes tough, and possibly unpopular, decisions.
“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
“I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate,” Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. “And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you – not financially to help him – we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/biden-to-suppor.html
……………………..
My prediction is that under an Obama administration the wars will escalate and we will see his dream of drafting women come true. Albeit we have never seen his selective registration because he hasn’t provided it. Many will be unhappy and rightfully so.
Isn’t that utterly strange, woman voter? I am paranoid about everything these days, but I can’t figure this one. Maybe Biden was just running off at the mouth again. I can’t see how this helps their camp. It just makes me more afraid.
“Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”
WTH does that mean? It was pretty clear when GWB made bad decisions and the “fear card” always came first. The Dems haven’t been in complete control of the government since I’ve been old enough to vote and it’s something I have always wanted to see. Now, it’s scaring me.
I wonder how long this has been in the “works” Has Colin Powell been the spy who came in from the cold? Advising both campaigns?
In 2004 Barack Obama started being promoted by some in the Democratic party. Remember the gushing over his speech at the DNC in 2004? In 2004 the following Democrats* pushed to invite the UN or OSCE. Colin Powell as Secretary of State, wrote the letter that opened the doors to them entering America to monitor our elections.
The majority of the 13 Democratic senators were black. The impeached Alcee Hastings of Florida once headed up this committee but recused himself.
*Names of the thirteen House Democrats and these follow:
Corrine Brown of Florida
Julia Carson of Indiana
William Lacy Clay of Missouri
Joseph Crowley of New York,
Elijah Cummings of Maryland
Danny K. Davis of Illinois
Raul Grijalva of Arizona
Michael M. Honda of California
Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas
Brenda Lee of California
Carolyn Maloney of New York
Jerrold Nadler of New York
Edolphus Towns of New York
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2004/08/foreigners-monitor-us-elections.html
http://www.osce.org/item/34260.html
WASHINGTON, 10 October 2008 – The OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened a limited election observation mission to monitor the 4 November elections in the United States of America.
The deployment of the mission follows an invitation from the United States government. As a participating State of the OSCE, the United States has committed itself to conducting elections in line with OSCE standards and inviting international election observers.
Don’t tell me this is not about race. Forget the Bradley effect, I call this one the OJ backlash.
His endorsement told me, anyway, that he just was handed the talking points by the campaign.
Just my take, anyway.
He trashed Sarah. He trashed McCain on race card issues.
He offered no real evidence of either.
Nah*…..just the way the campaign wanted to position him.
It’s obvious it’s a racial thumbs-up.
He’ll be outta the news by this evening. He got the Sunday news crowd only.
It’s ironic how Chavez, Castro, Khafi, and even the Communist Party of the US of A can say they want Obama as POTUS and no one flinches. Powell endorses him and all of a sudden the polls are tightening. Did people just switch to Kool-Aid light?
New article by Stanley over at the National Review:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTc3NzZkZDYxODZiZjE2OTg5YWRmNDkzM2U0YTIwZGQ=&w=MA==
“Butt-snorkeler.” How descriptive of Powell. I might add a German equivalent: “Radfahrer,” literally, bicyclist. Picture the nose down, legs pumping furiously to get ahead, eyes focussed straight ahead on the goal–the butt in front. The endorsement of the arch-liar Powell should cost Obama dearly.
Butt sorkeler…lol…made my day Larry…You Rock!
Over at Savage politics…they are quite savage towards COLON POWELL as well…A GOOD FOLLOW UP TO LARRY’S XCELLENT ARTICLE…imho
it’s the top story…
http://savagepolitics.com/
Yup, hanging around here sure has made my vocabulary more colorful.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/biden-to-suppor.html?cid=135546621#comment-135546621
Obiden was speaking Sunday, and he is preparing his followers for a crisis, with Obama making decisions that will even shock them…..
Here we go!
Melissa,
Was reading all about this statement in the last 30 minutes.That is a bold and borderine outrageous statement to make.What is that international crisis?
Why is Joe stating that he will make decisions regaring the crisis that will not be popular with the people.?
Crazy his revelation of this ! it is pro-Republican as it is McCain we can fully trust in foreign matters.
What was he thinking and what is coming upon us ?
Biden is starting to sound like a simpleton.
What we will be asking in 2009: “Gen Powell, do you agree with President Obama’s assertion that there are WMDs in Pakistan?”
Here is the transcript: http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=2225
Whitey tape part 2-
I hope people realize what Powell did.
I think the best ads that could be made right now would be..
“Want to stop ACORN from getting your tax dollars so they can fix elections? Vote McCain.”
” What did Powell say about WMD’s? Do you want to be lied to again or do you want straight talk out of your President? Vote McCain.”
“Obama wants to raise your taxes so he and his friends in the democratic party [pic. of Pelosi/Reid] can give it to ACORN. Vote McCain!”
I read where ACORN rented a place in OK., signed a yrs. lease and never payed a penny, yet the fund was emptied out….just saying our tax dollars at work, fixing the election.
The Mac campaign won’t touch it. This endorsement is a very minor blip on the radar and will be forgotten tomorrow.
If Obama becomes pres, dont be surprised if you see powell at the U.N arguing that pakistan is a threat and needs to be neutralised. maybe biden knows something cos he said that within 6 months of obama taking office, an international crisis is very likely.
yup….that’s precisely right.
I’ve also heard some discussion of the possibility that Israel, feeling threatened by the loss of U.S. support in an Obama Administration (I hope I never have to string those two words together again), acts unilaterally to take out the Iranianian nuclear program during the transition period between the election and the inauguration. Once in office, Obama confirms their worst fears by slapping crippling sanctions on Israel at the request of his other friends and contributors in the Middle East.
I heard several months ago that if Obama wins, Israel will attack Iran while they can still obtain American support from Bush. I think it is a very believable scenario.
API has released the Michelle Obama audio tapes to Berg!!! Hooray!!! Obama’s candidacy is going down!
link please
Not true
Andrea, please don’t play games. If this is true it is a wonderful thing. If you are playing games with us, there is a special place in hell for you and the rest of the pack who delight in throwing out tid-bits of mis-information because you don’t have brains enough to take part in a sensible converse.
Just a reminder to put things into perspective:
And another reminder who the big kahuna really is, Mac:
Wow–that’s a whole lot of scrolling to get through that list. Very impressive! Thanks! It’s safe to say that this kinda offsets the Colon endorsement.
The problem with this….(not the military endorsements….they are totally legit. The military was backing Hillary because Obama is viewed as a disaster)….
but the others? Those are Republican appointments.
So that isn’t so impressive.
Oh God, now Axelrod will have to get Donald Rumsfeld to endorse Obama!
I’m happy to see Gen. CLARK on that list!!!! W00T!
but disappointed I didn’t see Wilson under the ambassador list?
?? no JOE endorsement ??
(maybe I missed it somewhere else?)
This may be a “different” Wes Clark. This Wes Clark endorsing McCain is a retired Air Force Brigadier General, wheras I thought that Gen. Wes Clark, former Presidential candidate and Hillary supporter, was Army.
Wes Clark is not only army, but a four-star general. He has, most unfortunately, endorsed Obama after campaigning for Hillary Clinton. This is very odd; can there actually be two retired military Wes Clarks?
doubt it – 2 Wes Clarks?
this list must be partially bogus then or a depressing typo
Dawnelle, that’s a different Wes Clark, an Air Force Brigadier General (one star).
THE Wes Clark is an Army General (four stars), and he’s backing Obama, at least nominally–though I can’t think he’s very happy about it.
The 4 star Wes Clark “endorsed” The Precious alright.
He sabotaged his own “endorsement.” Still LMAO at that!
But… but… but.. Matt Damon endorsed Barack.. isn’t that worth more than all those ambassadors and military brass?
WTF?
McCain asking people to make ads.
How are you “Joe the Plumber”?
Tell us in 30 seconds…
http://www.johnmccain.com/Joe/
I think a very effective ad would be Lots of people asking the questions we have all asked here…lots of questions, and lots of people saying “I’m Joe The Plumber”
Example: “I’m Joe The Plumber…why won’t you show us yor Birth certificate?”
or “I’m Joe The Plumber…why did you use taxpayer money to travel to kenya to campaign for your cousin, Raial Odinga?”
McCain is pulling in that sector. How fast? How many?
That’s the big question.
Those of you who are concerned over his Kenya roots will remain fringe voters.
I’m not concerned. I’ve known about his personal history for 2 years now.
I’m a LOT more worried that he’s just a weak Democratic president, who will cave to the current DNC leadership…..who are idiots.
Larry Johnson, can you please tell us what the hell this relates to? I hope this doesn’t mean BO and Biden have some sort of Nixon-like secret plan:
ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe Reports: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in power and he will need supporters to stand by him as he makes tough, and possibly unpopular, decisions.
“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
“I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate,” Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. “And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you – not financially to help him – we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”
Not only will the next administration have to deal with foreign affairs issues, Biden warned, but also with the current economic crisis.
“Gird your loins,” Biden told the crowd. “We’re gonna win with your help, God willing, we’re gonna win, but this is not gonna be an easy ride. This president, the next president, is gonna be left with the most significant task. It’s like cleaning the Augean stables, man. This is more than just, this is more than – think about it, literally, think about it – this is more than just a capital crisis, this is more than just markets. This is a systemic problem we have with this economy.”
The Delaware lawmaker managed to rake in an estimated $1 million total from his two money hauls at the downtown Sheraton, the same hotel where four years ago Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., clinched the Democratic nomination. Despite warning about the difficulties the next administration will face, Biden said the Democratic ticket is equipped to meet the challenges head on.
“I’ve forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I’m not being falsely humble with you. I think I can be value added, but this guy has it,” the Senate Foreign Relations chairman said of Obama. “This guy has it. But he’s gonna need your help. Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, ‘Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?’ We’re gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I’m asking you now, I’m asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you’re going to have to reinforce us.”
“There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, ‘Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don’t know about that decision’,” Biden continued. “Because if you think the decision is sound when they’re made, which I believe you will when they’re made, they’re not likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they’re popular, they’re probably not sound.”
Biden emphasized that the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border is of particular concern, with Osama bin Laden “alive and well” and Pakistan “bristling with nuclear weapons.”
“You literally can see what these kids are up against, our kids in that region,” Biden said in recalling when his helicopter was forced down due to a snowstorm there. “The place is crawling with al Qaeda. And it’s real.”
“We do not have the military capacity, nor have we ever, quite frankly, in the last 20 years, to dictate outcomes,” he cautioned. “It’s so much more important than that. It’s so much more complicated than that. And Barack gets it.”
After speaking for just over a quarter of an hour, Biden noticed the media presence in the back of the small ballroom.
“I probably shouldn’t have said all this because it dawned on me that the press is here,” he joked.
“All kidding aside, these guys have left us in a God-awful place,” he then said of the Bush regime, promptly wrapping up his remarks. “We have the ability to straighten it out. It’s gonna take a little bit of time, so I ask you to stay with us. Stay with us.”
What the heck is he babbling about?
Obama’s already disowned every Democratic platform and backtracked on every reason ever given to support him in the first place. So this “mark my words” probably refers to The Speech in which Obie said he wasn’t against war, just dumb wars. His war(s) will be smart. Sen. Rubber Chicken (C-credit card) just said that everything Obama promised while running is inoperative.
Sounds like projection to me.
What is troubling about it though, is that we really do not know what Obama intends to do. His record, his associates and his waffling do not inspire confidence in his character or his plans.
huh??? WTF????
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Yeah, and no one will test McCain. Because they don’t NEED to…he’s already been tested.
He passed the test, too.
I found those remarks incredibly disturbing.
Biden just loves to babble. It’s scary.
Why do I constantly have to hear Palin is stupid and dangerous when we have Hezbollah Joe around? Is he campaigning for McCain? How were these remarks received? I am sure he gets a pass, just like the FDR/TV comments. Arg.
You are so Biden’s statment is the ultimate in stupidity and ignorance.
Pro-Repulican as it can be.Great way to persuade the undecided in Obamas corner HaHa NOT.
Meant to type ” You are so right ” oops
Only because of the Couric interview. She was devastatingly bad on that one interview.
I will always wonder what really happened. I’ve watched her. She is so not that person we saw on that interview.
Either she really did completely choke…..or Couric is, truly, a horrible, horrible person.
probably a little of A and a LOT OF B!
Probably you got it.
It’s a mix.
Or what else was going on around her at the same time?
couric is a horrible person. the way she treated elizabeth and john edwards when they announced the return of the cancer told me all i ever wanted not to know about her.
Like I said up above Biden has become a simpleton. Why in the world he would be kissing this upstart’s ass is beyond me. It is out there for all to see barry has no REAL accomplishments. The whole Dem party makes me ill kissing ass to this wannabe POTUS. I can’t believe I have been a loyal DEM for 28 years.
The ride is OVER!
O’Biden is off the reservation once again.
All the more reason NOT to elect the mentally deranged ticket of Obama/Biden.
It’s a mirror image of the Bush/Cheney machine
except this time Bush is Bidena and Chainsaw aka “the shooter” is BAMBI!!
watch out America!!
Bambi might have better aim!
Larry,
This was my first big laugh of the day, butt snorkeler… Powell’s endorsement of Obama is further proof that he will be Bush III if elected (or installed by fraud, as he has a history of achievement through dubious means).
This endorsement was hinted at at the convention, as I remember the rumor that he was going to speak at our convention with that announcement… That kind of takes away his reason about Palin and makes him a lying fool once more.
Come on, Galt! Way too long of a posting. Just put the link up next time!
Did you practice the viola today? (-;
Andrew, you are one smart dude. Seriously.
What about the API tapes? Did Berg listen to them yet?
What tapes? I doubt any exist. Berg’s site has no mention. You would think it would.
No, but the person Berg has been in primary communication with americasright.com just confirmed he spoke to Berg and he is the one that will be dispersing the tapes!
Until Berg confirms there is no story.
Only a talking mule would believe this story.
arabutt, take a hike!
Perseverating troll.. ^^^^
The troll seems to have been shown the door.
Great news about the Michelle tapes! If these bear out to be true, then it is “done” for Obama’s campaign. Wow. I pray it is true!
What news? Just more talk. And Berg’s site has no mention. He is being alleged to now represent API.
you know i never stop shaking my head at the stupidity of the bots.i just read a comment over at will bowers blog and i quote”now that colin powell has endorsed the one the military will now back obambi by 95% because they all love powell so much”.excuse me while i vomit,thease people dont have a clue.stormin norman just endorsed mccain and that might help mac a little with active duty but powell, give me a break,most will see it for what it is brother love plain and simple.
Coward Powell needs to go back to school and learn about Martin Luther King:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiSOVFUiXy4
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Colin Powell lost almost all credibility with me when he went to the UN and made that infamous speech. Larry Wilkerson, chief of staff to Powell when he was Secretary of State, said that the evidence was “cherry picked.” I remember him saying that Powell knew the evidence of WMD was shaky, but still he went to the UN and played cheerleader for the war. He could have resigned in protest, had a press conference and told the world that the evidence was just not there. Powell could have become the most admired man in the world at that point. He could have easily been elected president, himself, had he just had the guts to stand up and tell the truth, or at least not been the one to carry the water for Bush and Cheney.
“Truth”…I don’t think the Obama team or voters have a clue what that is. Obama lies over and over and these people just fall at his feet…Powell lied to America and they love him..if he would have done as you have said chances are there would have not been a war at all…don’t they see that?
For pure delusional fiction, read the Chicago Tribune endorsement of Obama, their first endorsement of a Democratic presidential candidate since FDR. The edorsement said that the Tribune finds Obama trustworthy and honest and a man or integrity and superior judgment, and slams McCain for choosing Sarah Palin.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-chicago-tribune-endorsement,0,1371034.story
yws these people flip flop like the man at the top.
Hated Hillary Now they love her
Hated Powell Now are doing carthwheels hes on their side….
Good God what a rollercoaster ride it is.
It’s fine wait till the draft Men & Women all 18 and older and your all sent off to Pokistan to put them in their place…
These people are so scary!
The Tribune is a right wing rag and always has been, so no surprise they endorsed the fake Democrat and Dumbya doppelganger. I’m sure they’re delighted to see the Chicago Machine go national.
Frankly, I think Powell and Obama are probably a lot alike.
They are empty suits. That’s why Powell did what he did.
He’s smooth, educated, attractive…..that’s it.
Pat Buchannan was on morning joe this morning, said when he was in the White House Powell was just a Colonal. He advanced very quickly over many other people, his color was very helpful to him and that took him to the top
Hello people! Who cares about the Powell endorsement?!?!? That is old news. The real news is the release of the Michele Obama audio tapes to Berg! Get on board here! This is the only viable way to remove Obama from becoming President. Jump into the discussion here. It is all over the other blogging sites!
Go there to discuss. We require confirmation before jumping on any bandwagons. As of the time I posted this comment there is no confirmation on Berg’s site he is involved.
Francis,
What other sites are the Michelle tapes being discussed on?
oh here is FRANCEASS the talking mule again.
Nope, no deal. This is a fake story until proven otherwise.
think much, troll? :mrred:
Gee Larry, don’t hold back – tell us what you REALLY think. LOL.
About Barack Hussein Obama:
Poll finds Americans reject redistribution of wealth as suggested by Barack Hussein Obama
PRINCETON, NJ — When given a choice about how government should address the numerous
economic difficulties facing today’s consumer, Americans overwhelmingly — by 84% to
13% — prefer that the government focus on improving overall economic conditions and
the jobs situation in the United States as opposed to taking steps to distribute wealth
more evenly among Americans.
================================================================================
Barack Hussein Obama is a national security risk: a clear and present danger.
Quote from the Barack Obama book, Audacity of Hope, “I will stand with the Muslims
should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” And this man wants to be
President? I and several tens of millions of people think NOT.
http://www.nextgenerationcorp.com/NextGenBlog/?p=32
================================================================================
On February 27, 2007, Barack Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the
prettiest sounds on Earth.” In an interview with The New York Times, Senator Obama
recited, “with a first-class [Arabic] accent,” the opening lines of this Muslim prayer:
“Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet… ”
http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-muslim-call-to-prayer-one-of.html
================================================================================
Dubai Ports rejection helped US economic growth
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0307/0307dubaiportsrejec.htm
Reject Barack Hussein Obama, the Dubai candidate and help US economic growth!
Obama is a national threat:
Quote from the Barack Obama book, Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
And this man wants to be President? I and several tens of millions of people think NOT.
http://www.nextgenerationcorp.com/NextGenBlog/?p=68
ORGANIZING AND ISLAM
Organizing in neighborhoods has taken two paths that reflect historic dichotomy between integrationist and nationalist strategies. Many top conununity leaders collaborate on urban issues through city’s grasgroots network, forging multi-racial coalitions, while others take black nationalist approach, looking only within the African-American community for leadership and resources.
In first category are Ani Russell of community policing network, 312-461-0444; Jacky Grimshaw, former strategist for Harold Washington now working an community transportation issues; 773-278-4800, ext. 133; and Barack Obama, 773-684-4809, whose work to empower blacks has included his law practice, community organizing, philanthropy and most recently electoral politics: he is a candidate for state senate. A quiet leader with broad vision of empowerment and redevelopment in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood is Sokoni Karanja, 773-373-5700, whose nonprofit Centers for New Horizons provides social services, youth programs, education and child care.
Chicago is home base for African-American Muslim organizations. Muslims have been visible forces for organizing and stability in many neighborhoods, only some of them aligned with controversial leader Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam. Organizer Kublai Toure, 773-538-7217, is a member of Jim Brown’s Amer-I-Can youth organization, with projects ranging from helping arrange gang traces to trips to Chicago Cubs baseball Sitines for public housing youth. Mikail Bilal, 773-721-6588, is chek of the Muslim addiction-prevention group Millati Wami, with twice-weekly meetings on South Drexel St. for recovering substance abusers. Abdul Rashid Akbar is the Muslim chaplin at Cook County jail, 773-721-6588, where many incarcerated African-Americans convert to Islam. The Nation of Islam’s contact point for the media and editor-chief of The Final Call newspaper is James Muhammad, 773-602-1230. Ayesha Mustafaa reports on the larger Muslim community as editor of The Muslim Journal, 312-243-7600.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010723055650/www.newstips.org/blackchicago.html
This Community paper was sponsored in part by the Woods Fund. Barack Obama was a member of this anti gun foundation, so they would probably not lie about his true religion.
Hello? Who cares about all this other crap? The voters aren’t buying it, so get over it. Let’s focus on what WILL matter. It is Michelle Obama, in her own voice, verifying that Barack was an Indonesian citizen! That is all that matters right now. That makes him ineligible to be POTUS!
Anthony, you are absolutely right! Nothing else matters right now. The Powell endorsement will be old news by the end of the day. However, the Michelle Obama tapes will not go away. I do hope Berg releases them in the next day or two!
Berg’s site has no mention of anything.
Poor trolls are just not getting a bite on the API tape. Time for new bait.
LOL*…..you can tell a troll by how often they will toss the bait out without success, eh?
The statement that most jumps out is that Pat identifies the “bellicose” public as part of the war scenario. Good golly, I thought nobody would ever say that! That remark was a bannable offense at HuffPo. I’ve sat and watched all these years and wondered however in the world can these people deny that they were practically lathering for revenge. Well, they got it.
Colin Powell said he’d like to see a black president in his lifetime. Does he not realize that it could have been him? I don’t understand why he’s endorsing Obama when Obama’s views run so opposite his own.
On Meet the Press yesterday, Colin Powell explained his endorsement of Barack Obama and his misgivings about John McCain and Sarah Palin in considerable detail. What’s not to understand?
Transcript:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27266223/page/2/
uh … his judgment? Lying with knowledge at the UN? Where do you want to start? How much time do you have?
Do you mean Powell’s recitation of Team Obama’s talking points??
master butt snorkler….LOL
Powell has no credibility-he helped facilitate the run up to a war in Iraq. He endorsed Obama because he is black, plain and simple.
You mean the war that John McCain and Sarah Palin strongly support?
That war?
The one Obama said we couldn’t win…..and then we did.
What are you referring to? Bush’s “mission accomplished” pronouncement? Or recent McCain/Palin assertions?
I’m afraid we’ll see how “won” the war is when we’re no longer providing the Iraqi government with a free 12 billion dollar a month police force. Assuming we ever stop, of course.
that war the one voted against when we was not even in a position to vote?
WTH??
No, the war of the Roses stupid!
I think Biden doesn’t know what he’s saying. He makes stuff up off the top of his head. Probably there was a random association between JFK:Obama, Cuban Missile Crisis:? and Biden’s synapses just flared up.
Drinky Winky scares me more than Obama does.
Hes terrifying, yet everyone nods and smiles like he is profound.
I always held that Obama would choose a weak VP, because he is The One and doesnt need no stinkin VP.
But this is beyond weak. This is scary.
I agree. It’s both scary and pathetic.
Indeed an ass snorkler he is!! How could racism, on his part, not be a part of this knowing where he came from and knowing Obama’s ties to terrorists, Middle Eastern and domestic, and shamefully, above all to Odinga!! My God, what a horror Obama did in supporting him there in Kenya with our tax dollars. Powell is just another POS. How sad. The Divide is indeed widening.
Powell was used by the Bush Administration because he is/was a respected black man. Powell let himself be used twice, before Bush’s election, and after when as Sec. of State, he (Powell) allowed himself to railroaded by Bush/Cheney’s thirst for war.
Powell is a coward. He can’t stand up for his race or for the principles of integrity.
Powell, like Gore, or fighting their inner demons and choosing the wrong sides. Making the right judgement at the right time distinguishes, winners from losers and heros from self-serving cowards.
What about the API tapes? Does Berg really have them?
Berg’s site has no mention of anything..
Request for urgent business relationship – First, I must solicit in strictest confidence in this transaction. By virtue of being a civil servant in Nigeria I am unable to access millions of dollors (USD) of money.
roflmao
Watch Coward OPowell lie to the world and set America on to a path the iraq fiasco:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYBA9JD5oW4
Powell has zero credibility… he is a lying scumbag… Does he think if Obama is president that he won’t be prosecuted for war crimes or crimes against humanity?
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
americasright.com, the site that has always been in personal contact with Berg, has stated Berg did CONFIRM that he will be dispersing the tapes to the U.S. media, on behalf of API. He is Berg’s mouthpiece, so it must be true.
Yes, that is correct. I read the same thing. Berg is the one they entrusted the tapes to. Couldn’t have picked a better guy to protect them and issue them to the “right” people! (if you will pardon the pun)
I see that Joe the Plumber has scared Obama, and Drinky Winky’s comments have scared America, and that the shit must be about to hit the fan.
The real bad stuff hits the fan by the end of this week.
API TAPES WILL BE OBAMA’S UNDOING!
Another attempted smear, this time by Powell. Have they no shame?
So, while Powell claims to be supporting Obama partly because of the smear that he is a Muslim, Powell in fact smears McCain by implying that McCain stands by and allows the Republican party to smear Obama.
In fact, neither McCain nor the Republican party has never condoned such smears and the other day in a public forum at a campaign rally took the microphone away from a woman who claimed that Obama was an Arab and corrected her. McCain said that Obama was Christian.
The only one who smears and stands by while McCain is smeared by his party is Obama. Obama himself has argued that “they” will use the race card and even when McCain asked him face to face at the debate to repudiate the Lewis comment equating McCain/Palin to segregationist George Wallace and the firebombing of a Birmingham church where 4 little girls died, Obama refused.
Birds of a feather fly together — and Obama and his supporter Powell obviously don’t understand the meaning of truth and honor. If there was any doubt about Powell’s willingness to do the right thing when the chips are down based on his performance before the UN, he just dispelled those doubts.
Clearly, Powell can lie with the best of them. No one would have condemned Powell if he’d been honest and said, I am sorry that I won’t be supporting my life-long friend, John McCain who is a great and honorable American. But I want to support Obama, who although young and inexperienced is an intelligent man and he makes me proud to be an African-American. That would have been the honorable statement.
Once again Col. Lang has cut thru the bull to make a reasoned judgement. He also did this about a month ago on a much more important issue. That is when he endorsed Obama over McCain.
ColOn Powell is just demonstrating that he is not biased or prejudiced (racially)by showing he can serve a black nitwit just as well as he can serve a white nitwit. ColOn is only proving the point he can be a yes man for two opposing views at the same time. YES THEY CAN. Obama says he was against the war that Texas skunk, GW Bush, started [in Iraq] with the aid and abettment of ColOn. Now, essentially, ColOn has to be saying Obama is the better CIC because he opposed something he helped start with his lieing UN speech and counterfit evidence. Meaning ColOn is a liar and a flip-flopper and Obama & Cult are jumping up and down with glee that the lieing flip-flopper has jumped in bed with them. No wonder everything is all Fxxxed up. If it walks like a skunk, smells like a skunk, and looks like a skunk, it is obviously a skunk even though it talks like a Magpie. ColOn is trying to hustle “US” again and sell US another skunk for CIC.
Okay . . . are some of you brain dead? The API story is all that we should be concentrating on! It is all over the blogs EVERYWHERE because this is the only story out there that will impact Obama’s campaign. Get on board, here! I hope Berg releases the tapes in the next 24 hours!
go to Berg’s blog then.
no, not biting until i see the proof, and stories aren’t proof. there is nothing there.
this is a hoax to take the focus away from barack the socialist, joe the plumber, acorn-ayers-obama and the weather underground, fannie and freddie dying by the hands of barky, dodd, and kerry.
Barky will crash by his own self, his arrogance, hubris, and his drunk idiot vp obiden.
Can’t think of a better guy than barky to be sent packing back to “Rezko Mansion”.
I agree Dr Kate but hope Hannity is the first to get a copy and air it just as PST sits down for dinner 6pm….. Many will drink to that!!
just shut the hell up about the API crap. Cooper and the rest of you idiots go on over to an Obama site and tell each other how much you love the ONE.
The NY Daily News was yet another paper, now numbering at least 25, that backed George W. Bush in 2004 and now support Obama. The Long Beach (Ca.) Press-Telegram and Asbury Park (NJ) Press did the same. So did the San Gabriel Valley (Ca.) Tribune, Salt Lake Tribune, The Naples (Fla.) Daily-News, the New Haven (CT) Register, the Times-Reporter in New Philadelphia (Ohio), Las CRuces (NM) Sun-Newsm, Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gazette and the Yakima Herald-Republic in Washington, among others. In addition, the Plain Dealer of Cleveland, which sat out the 2004 contest, endorsed Obama.
You guys almost ready to come on board? Or are you guys gonna stomp your feet about the terrist for the next 4 years?
terrist? please improve your grammar.
LOL terrist?
What is that?? terrist?
terrist:
from the word ‘terra’, meaning Earth, World.
A proponent of one-earth, one-world philosophy.
Ex:
“I strongly support a One-World Government.
I am a Terrist!”
LMFAO!!!!
Times-Reporter in New Philadelphia (Ohio),
ROFL @ this one……..world renowned it isn’t.
Plain Dealer of Cleveland……… as if they can change my mind.
Oh yeah, I always let a newspapers’ endorsements sway me……….bwahahahahahahaha.
Jump onboard? nah I don’t think so. I’ll walk 40 miles thru the desert first.
uh um uh how many of these papers also endorsed the war?
So, they’ve supported an empty suit two cycles in a row, huh? Gosh darnit, that’s good enough for me!
Coming on board in
3…
2…
118,000,000.Just not to long eho, Obama was attacking Hillary for supporting attack on Iraq, it was the most important then, to trash Hillary just for that. Now Powell the biggest liar about Iraq will hold position in Obamas Cabinet. Now we can see, that Obama never was against this unjastified attack and hundreds of thousand Iraqies are dying, because of those lias by Powel in UN.
Now Obama sie threatning Pakistan.
How we can let those lies passing US with no reaction ex.from FOX.This will backfire at Obama, o YES it will.
He just lied and lied and lied trough the whole primaries and we did do nothing, and we were to lasy to give our votes to Hillary. Now Hillary is a bug supporter of Obama, and acts like nothing happend. Obama trach Her, trash Palin, Middle Class, and You believe that He will save US. He will be President of His ideology, that is all. He will take mone from people like Joe, and give to those ,who are working for cash, so they dont have to pay taxes. Dont we all know this.???
We are accusing Republicans about sutuatin with Social Security, but just start learning who truly give Government right to spent Our money, and who give rights to give illegal immigrants right to receive OUR Social Security(Carter was the one)even, they didnt put penny in!!! and now He supports Obama and advise Him to do the same
The number of prominent American leaders whose wise counsel must now be totally disregarded because they’ve endorsed Barack Obama just keeps getting longer and longer, doesn’t it?
Nor is it sufficient to simply disagree with them. They must be thoroughly discredited. Otherwise, we might have to give serious consideration to their reasons.
We certainly don’t want to go down that road.
Colin Powell not only sold Bush’s Iraq war to the U.S. public and the world via his 90-minute United Nations dog-and-pony show (including illustrations of Saddam Hussein’s so-called WMD “factories” and “laboratories”) but Powell also was Bush’s point man to LOBBY the U.S. senators — which Powell did aggressively. Powell went one-on-one with the senators who needed convincing, and relayed the pleas from UN weapons inspector Hans Blix to have the senate pass the AUMF resolution, which Blix said would strengthen his negotiating hand. Blix never believed in the need to actually launch the war but wanted the AUMF resolution so he could negotiate with Saddam Hussein from a position of strength.
Colin Powell — who deserves as much blame as anyone for selling Bush’s Iraq war to the senate and to the United Nations — is now endorsing Obama.
That — combined with Obama’s choice of Joe Biden, who also voted FOR the Iraq war resolution — is enough to make one throw up.
Obama told us for more than a year that it was people like Colin Powell and Joe Biden who had the BAD JUDGMENT to lead us into this war.
But now, I guess their judgment should be “respected”?
I don’t give a flying fig that Colin Powell has endorsed Obama — it looks like nothing more than Powell’s attempt to do a Pontius Pilate and wash his hands clean of blame for the Iraq war.
What a bunch of sniveling liars they all are.
It’s also John McCain’s and Sarah Palin’s war.
You seem to forget that Colin Powell was one of the people the Bush administration lied to. He was deliberately misled. Vital information that cast serious doubts upon the credibility of intelligence he was relying upon was withheld from him before his UN speech.
Didn’t anyone here watch the Frontline documentary on the Bush administration tactics leading up to the invasion of Iraq? Or was PBS already on your list of unreliable liberal media propaganda outlets?
You fail to understand that Powell knew he was being misled. He had his own branch of the intelligence community, INR, telling him the info was bad. He ignored what he was being told and went, by and large, with the Administration’s lies.
thank you, Larry.
Let’s just cut the “he didn’t know” crap, ok?
He DID’NT KNOW !!! MG how many times have we heard this used as an excuse for these people.
First Powell but just look at all the times it has been used for obama Wright…Aryes just to name a few.
I never bought that excuse when my children used it and i don’t buy it from these guys.
Iwill never forget seeing Powell on tv helping get us into Iraq.
that’s not the war I knew. Guess since Powell is endorsing Obama he can now start using Obama’s excuses.
Yes, he played the role of the empty suit.
I do not fault him personally. He was a lone AA guy in the midst of a storm of passion.
What has made me just a bit nuts is the unwillingness of the public to take THEIR part in this debacle. Or maybe it’s not a debacle?
Anyway, I absolutely knew people wanted blood in this country. They were demanding that.
It was pent-up revenge.
That’s what I liked about the article you posted.
The author didn’t shy away from pointing that out.
That’s the true unwritten story in this election.
People are mad at Bush?
Why? Frankly, you practically demanded he go to war!
So where is the responsibility of the public in the last 8 years?
What’s this BS from moveon.types Gimme a break.
When Bush headed off to Afghanistan (only) and not also into Saudi Arabia (as MOST OF THE PILOTS WERE SAUDIS)
MOST of us (PUBLIC) KNEW it had NOTHING to do with who really DID IT!
And a LOT of us knew he’d go back in to Iraq after his DADDY failed to do it in the first GULF WAR! Any excuse he could find. We were discussing it before he ever made the bad right turn. And truly I think it was the GDAM MEDIA again PUSHING FOR BLOOD!
Most of us were NOT real caught up on the Taliban and the rest of the despots that hate us. We found out real quick.
but the MEDIA (and it was MOSTLY FOX NOISE BACK THEN)
yea they wanted blood
The Bush Administration and Rumsfeld wanted to go to war in Iraq because they could then use their “shock and awe” air force. Rumsfeld complained publicly and often about the lack of targets in Afghanistan, and that we were only able to use our air power in that country to re-arrange the rocks.
You are so right. Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan were the correct targets. Iraq was Chimpy McFlightsuit’s idea and the MSM bought it hook, line, and sinker. We eliminated a potential bulwark against Iran (and strengthened their hand) so George the Dumber could make right his Father, George the Wiser’s alleged failure. Iraq was a major nuisance but never a significant threat (and George, the Wiser knew it). So now Afghanistan is a basket case, Pakistan is becoming increasingly unstable, and Saudi Arabia is still a breeding ground for Wahabi terrorists.
thank you
No, the public supported him.
Finally a salient point. See Larry, you can get to root of the issue without an Ad Hominem Abusive attack. You could have easily dismantled Powell with his performance at the U.N., his complicity with G.W. Bush’s torture regime, and his failure to concentrate Bush’s attention on Al Queda. As an extra added bonus you could have also pointed out how Powell was unmanned by Dick Cheney and let himself become Dead Eye Dick’s sock puppet. Just present the facts on Powell; they are more than enough to sink him.
Powell was misled? Is that how you justify it? lol. dig deeper, Powell knew exactly what Bush was upto. To say that he was misled is to discredit his intelligence. grow up. Go back to the kossacks or huffingtons where you got this sort of thinking.
even my MOM knew what BUsh was up too
“he’s gonna unleash a hornet’s nest” were her exact words!
Either Barry and his endorsers are just stupid as HELL
or they are BOLD FACED EVIL LIARS & FRAUDS!
You are so right. Hell, anyone with half a functioning brain knew what was going on. And the answer to the either/or is the latter.
I’m afraid you are right
we’d rather pity the fool
than HATE the Evil
indeed :-/
How so? McCain sent the troops over there? oh wait..Palin did right?!? I distinctly remember her voting for that war….not. for all I know maybe McCain supported it, maybe not, someone else can tackle that one. Even if he did, at least he didn’t vote present and gave his stance at the time, I don’t frickin’ care if he’s not always right, at least he’s ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS consistent, which is a million times more than I can say for obama, obama changes his mind to suit his needs and you can’t deny that, you just can’t, you can try, but then you’d be full of crap, just like he is. I’ll take consistency over hype any day of the week.
Consistently wrong would not be good but MACK has stood up for some bills against his OWN party that COUNTS! Especially with a DEM house and senate
FLIP floppers are so 04 (LOL)
Barry must NOT have gotten the memo
of course that’s part of his mantra package “will do ANYTHING TO WIN”
THE THINGS THEY WARN you of (for their “opponent”) usually end up being the things they DO.
(no examples necessary I’m sure as there are too many to name)
PBS is all that and more. In fact they may be the most despicable because their name implies they are Public, which silly me always thought was non biased.
There are many many many connections between NY and Chicago and PBS. There are many connections between the people on PBS with foundations who are socialistic at best. George Soros is pulling strings and the puppets are dancing.
One PBS supporter is the Joyce Foundation a CHICAGO based organization which had Obama on it’s board. They along with Barack Obama have tried more than one assault on our 2nd Amendment.
Glad the PBS name came up. Those bastards have been feeding our children Sesame Street and most of us thought it was all about ABC’s.
N.Q. is now slagging PBS and Frontline? Because PBS is “Socialist?!?!” Quick inform the Ford Motor Corporation, Archer Daniels Midland, Mutual of America,and Exxon-Mobile stockholders! Somehow socialists have managed to hoodwink those company into paying for subversive programing! Of course, now I get it, how nefarious! Masterpiece Theater is really part and parcel of George Soros’ evil plot to ruin our moral fiber with fagot British drama! I also knew that big yellow bird was up to no good! Waterboard that freak of nature immediately!
On top of it the larger point being made is the hypocrisy of Obama, he attacks everyone who had anything to do with supporting the war except those who are useful to him. (eg. Powell, Biden). If supporting the war is a sign of your lack of judgment what does it say about your judgment when you support Nobama or how qualified you are to be VP.
Yes, PBS IS on the list of unreliable media outlets.
If Powell had come out for McCain, this is exactly the kind of thinking that you might have read at Politico and of course the “dialogue” would have been disgusting. Powell doesn’t have the courage of say, a Tavis Smiley. He had no interest in running because of “danger.” He’s got some very ambiguous ideas about American politics. He is another individual who wants to be on the right side of the color divide in my opinion.
I think Powell coming out publicly for Obama now is very telling. Telling that McCain has been tightening it up. They are using their last efforts and are running out.
Everyone knows Powell has been an Obama supporter from way back. Powell was offering advice to Obama from the earliest primary days.
What’s funny is that they think or are trying to kid themselves this will have any importance. At least not the way they expected. LOL
The pro War man who left office in disgrace supporting his fellow African American. WOW . (snark).
Aren’t we all gettoing tired of the lack of originality from all of Barry’s supporters and surrogates. He tells them to use the same talking point. The same one the NY Times used on Hillary, the same ones his surrogates used on Hillary.
Come on….folks, we have it all memorized. “I’m voting for him because he represents change. I’m concerned over the negativity their campaign has engaged in. He has enough experience from day one. I’m not voting for him because he’s African American“.
…uh yeah right.
Shades of announcing superdelegates after big Hillary wins …. sniff … sniff … sniff … desperation and flop sweat share similar odors.
Ooh, I wonder if Barky has dirty pictures on Powell…like he did on John Edwards.
John Edwards’ crash and burn HURT Obama. Edwards would have helped Obama in Blue Collar districts. Now he is so radioactive that no politician will be any closer than one county over from him.
Besides there were more than enough pictures in the public domain (thank you National Enquirer et al.) to sink Edwards. They were lying around in plain view. AP, UPI, Reuters, NBC, CBS etc, etc, etc, all had either pictures or film of the happy couple that on second look confirmed that something underhanded was going on. After the story broke there was more than enough documentation in archival files at major news outlets to sink Edwards for all eternity. To blackmail someone you have to have EXCLUSIVE documentation of the dirty deed.
Besides if he could get incriminating photos of both Powell and Edwards don’t you think he could also find a few pictures of J Sid in a compromising position if such a thing existed?
I don’t see it that way at all. Edwards’ endorsement was carefully timed to knock the wind out of Hillary’s sails from the victory in WV (I think). Perhaps you National Enquirer readers knew about the affair, but few of us with lives of our own believed it until much later. Now go back to DailyKooks.com.
What’s wrong with Tom Brokaw? He couldn’t repudiate any of Powell’s garbage?
The scurrilous charge about Muslim baiting is ridiculous! Remember it was THE ONE who made some American Muslim Women in Headscarves move from behind him at a rally because, ew, it wouldn’t look good!
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11168.html
Over at Salon they are wetting themselves over this endorsement by Mr-WMD-at-the-UN Powell. Just add this to the long list of flip flops: campaign finance reform, FISA, Bush’s faith-based initiative on steroids, off-shore drilling….
Powell’s endorsement is a joke.
Disqusting! A large crowd in Fort Lauderdale- screaming Obama and Hillary Clinton screaming for them too. It is a good thing that Fort Lauderdale is majority black- otherwise I would be worried. My friends couldn’t even get around the traffic due to the large crowd. What is wrong with these people?
Hmmm…it seems a bit hypocritical that Barak Obama has done all he can to pin John McCain to George Bush at every turn, yet he is now considering an administration post for Bush’s former Secretary of State who basically made the case in front of the world for the Iraq invasion!!! Makes you wonder…
Justsaying well said.
nah, not wondering at all really, I’m just laughing at all the obama supporters who are defending it and such, all the people who have the anti-GW stickers on their cars, the anti-war ones, then the obama sticker right there too. Shit man,they just make it up as they go, why be consistent with anything? go ahead and be all anti-meat and wear leather sandals and belts, go ahead and bitch about the environment and cars while you drive your 30something year old vehicle that spews out nauxious black smoke everywhere, I think I’ve figured this all out now, We have repubs, democrats, and a new party of “hypocrats”, who are voting in a product and a concept, and not the person we need in these times. pathetic.
we also have Independents and Unaffiliated :-]
sorry, got off on a rant and didn’t list the indies and unaffiliated, my bad, kind of silly really since I’ve never claimed a party myself.
Today I voted straight repub in hopes of cleaning some house a bit, I’m completely and totally disgusted with the demobamatic party this season, done, no vote from me, previously I was open to just about anything, not this year, sorry if that was the wrong thing to do, but I can’t vote demo this year after everything I’ve seen and read and heard.
You don’t get to be a four-star general or a chairman of the joint chiefs of staff (in a Republican administration, by the way) by being a “butt-snorkler”.
General Powell joins the growing number of conservative Republicans who are now endorsing Barack Obama. I wonder just how many Republicans are going to be voting for Barack once they pull the curtain closed in the voting booth?
In fact, there’s a good chance that John McCain himself, if there is still any of the honorable patriot left inside him after his despicable campaign, will vote for Senator Obama when nobody’s looking. I get the feeling that Cindy wants him to be president more than McCain himself wants it.
What a bizarre attitude. Cindy hates this publicity.
How incongruent is your attitude?
Very.
Michelle is the pusher type, but I don’t think that’s awful. She’s just an enthusiastic wife.
Cindy? Hardly.
Ann, well put if mildly put. Poop Ratzo is full of … himself.
Wrong. You may want to consider the possibility you are just not very good at it.
Of COURSE he’s wrong.
The only ones who DO advance to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (as in First Gulf War) are the ones who go along to get along.
Good grief. I can’t believe Americans don’t realize this.
Just goes to show you know nothing about promotion in the military.
What a moronic post. Go to the back of the class where you belong, halfwit.
How the hell do you call Powell a conservative Republican? He is at best a liberal Republican. There always was a question on the Republican side if he was truly a Repub.
So pretty much everything you said is uninformed drivel. Clearly a solid Barry supporter.
didn’t know the POPE ratzo was such an idiot.
You can say the race has been “tightening up” once you see at least one singlej poll that shows McCain in the lead.
Even the FOX News poll has Barack with a comfortable advantage.
Keep dreaming, but you should start getting comfortable saying “President Obama”. You might not like it, but it’s going to happen. Intrade has Barack ahead 84%/14$. The markets may be volatile, but they are never THAT far wrong.
Vuoto said:
Intrade has Barack ahead 84%/14$. The markets may be volatile, but they are never THAT far wrong.
That is exciting news….I’ll be sure to follow any info the market brings…Volatile you say, Ya think!
Well, the polls are tightening, I think, right on schedule.
The reports of McCain’s demise are greatly exaggerated, in short.
I personally predict….
It will be one heck of a long night on election day.
Complete with accusations of vote stealing, etc.
This is NOT a mandate.
This IS a 51-49% country.
Get used to THAT!
and PUMA has crossed over so those numbers are off by ??? what 2,4,6 percent? I wish I had better numbers.
That’s the big unknown. How many PUMAs and how many follow through and vote for Mac?
One, right here.
NQ will let any halfwit post here and, from the content of your post, I’d judge you to be one Class A half-wit, Goober. Why don’t you go get your job back at Wally’s Gas Station and save us the trouble of having to read your crocks of manure.
that makes no sense. of course the polls are tightening any moron can see it. McCain doesnt have to be in the lead to have a tight poll.
In addition the Repubs always outperform polls, Zogby said if the polls are in the margin of error going into the election McCain wins in a landslide. Zogby has been the most accurate and is no conservative.
yes you’re absolutely right, obama has run a CLEAN campaign, what will all the cunt t-shirts and all. He did an awesome job of telling his supporters to stop that behavior, oh wait a sec….he told them to get in people’s faces and such, that was obama right? He then attacked a normal citizen, made fun of him, probably got him in a deep well of crap, all for asking a question….and don’t go there with McCain used him so he deserves it, that’s bs and you know it. IF obama wins, we’re fucked, sorry for the language, but that’s the bottom line. How anyone can vote for the guy is beyond me, he has no qualifications, no morals, his past is kept secret and when brought up is called racism, and he might not even be a US citizen, how do you justify that vote?
Yep, we are fucked if this guy gets in!
So extreme. so much hatred.
You guys are doing the Republican party so much damage.
Zero tolerance and a shrinking tent is not the direction that this party needs to follow.
Most of the view points on here are not all that rational. I agree with McCain. Obama is a decent guy who just happens to have a different view and philosophy. He is as American and is as patriotic as you and me.
All these ridiculous personal attacks get the party no where.
And if he does get elected the country is not going to fall off a cliff. Here again I agree with McCain, that you have nothing to fear if he gets elected.
I think the country can go no where but up after the mess that Bush is leaving this country in.
I would be willing to BET any money that there is not ONE patriotic BONE is BARRY SORETOES BODY!
NOT ONE
and that’s only PART of the reason I’m NOT voting for him.
Mack absolutely HAD to say that. You don’t think for a nano second he believe it do you?
ROFLMAO! NOT.
typossssssssss time to quit
We still have a long ways to go down even further, if Barry gets in we are screwed, you haven’t even begun to see how bad things can be with a “practice president” and partisan congress running the show. If barry was decent, he wouldn’t be hiding his past, he wouldn’t be going to a fake church, and he wouldn’t be selling a huge lie to the American public. McCain has to say nice things about him, after all, it is politics. It’s not like JMac can come out and say, “this dude sucks ass” and get away with it. Of course, obarry can say whatever he wants but I digress, there is nothing decent about this man, he is evil incarnate, just look at his past judgement and decision making, look at how 1,000’s of people on his district are starving and homeless, look at how he pushed his opponent off the ballot on some technicality, shit man, just look at how divisive he has this country and how nuts all his supporters are acting. Do you really think people who follow a “decent guy” would have cunt on their t-shirts? God help us if he doesn’t win, people are going to go apeshit.
What hatred?
Because we think he is a socialist based on his socialist affiliation (not to mention his membership in the chicago socialist party),because we think he has been misleading about his Muslim upbringing based on a document that said he was a muslim filled out by his DAD and his own confession that the Muslim call to worship is one the most beautiful things he’s heard, because we think he is a racist because of his 20 year affiliation with Rev Wright (giving him tens of thousands of dollars not to mention filtering 100,000s to him through Annenberg) and Khalid Al-Monsour, because we think he can’t be trusted since he won’t release his birth certificate, college transcripts, his law review writings, his senior thesis, his medical records, passport travels, Annenberg files, because we don’t think he’s honest since he lied about public financing, NAFTA, botched abortion bill, kindergarten sex ed bill, FISA and his 95% of Americans “tax cut”, because we consider him divisive for calling anyone who opposes him a racist including honorable public servants like Bill Clinton and John McCain.
I think we are the ones who hold principled disagreements with your “messiah” but it is you who make unfounded, irrational accusations of hatred, racism and extremism. Save your condescending advice on “shrinking tent” politics for people who don’t support probably the biggest tent candidate in LOOOONNNGGG time like John McCain. You people make me sick!!
Meanwhile, you’re the party attacking Joe the Plumber.
Hate? Take a look at blogs about Sarah’s accent.
I cannot believe you seriously are deluding yourself that the Democrats are not completely hypocritical this year and not one whit better than the most rabid Republican.
The vast majority of Americans are still not taking part in all these polls that tout Bobo, and they’re still tightening! Attacking Joe the Plumber was probably the biggest mistake BO has made yet, and dragging out Powell (at long last) just looks totally racial! The pro-Bobo media can keep whistling past the graveyard all they want, and they can blame it all on racism and Hillary when the ballots are counted and they weep–but McCain will still be President-elect!!
Obama will name Powell to be in the next administration? He of the UN/Iraq charade? Who’s next? Al Sharpton as ambassador to Israel? Bill Ayres as head of the newly-formed Dept. of Education? Rev. Wright as Director of National Religious Outreach? Louis Farrakan as Sec’y of State? I think we’ll have a lot to question even before this “crisis” of Biden’s hits us.
Larry, OMG Butt snorkler!!!
That deserves a Pulitizer Prize.
ROTFL!
Larry,
You do have a clever turn of phrase.
I can’t understand just why everyone is getting all bent out of shape when anyone endorses Obama. Take a good look at their skin.
McCain needs a 30 second television ad to put away Obama, and here it is.
Four clips, one voice over:
Clip one; Colin Powell delivering the WMD UN speech.
Clip two; Obama turning to Hillary in a primary debate pontificating that he was the only one running that was against the war.
Clip three: Powell endorsing Obama on MTP
Clip four; Obama stating there’s a place for Powell in his administration.
Voice over: CHANGE YOU CAN SEE WITH YOUR OWN EYES
Vote McCain/Palin
Send it to the campaign?
I just did. thanks. Also, feel free to paste it at other sites; send it to contacts. What could it hurt?
Brilliant!
Barky is the one who said being Muslim is a bad thing by putting it on his fight the smears website.
Then tell that to Obama, jerk.
Why would he, idiot?
He’s not a muslim. Get it?
No, of course you don’t. Enjoy your irrelevance come November 5th. Keep hammering this bs. You and people like you are the best thing the Democratic party have going. Thanks for driving Republicans to the left side of the ballot.
here is some truth, hurts. over 90% of Republicans support McCain (more then supported Bush last time), not really driving that many to the “left side”. A higher percentage, by the way, than Dems who support the “big O”. Thanks for “driving” Dems to the right side of the ticket.
Also the point is he was a Muslim as a child (it’s documented) and he is afraid to say it for fear of losing votes, he’s afraid to let Muslims in the camera shot for fear of losing votes. And Powell is wrong; he has not “always been a Christian” both his dads were Muslim and his mom was an atheist, by his own admission he didnt come to the Christian faith till his 20’s and an instrumental “door” was the good Rev Wright.
He is hiding his Muslim heritage and his Muslim supporters because he’s a opportunistic coward. That is why you “tell it to Obama” you idiot!
In the wake of Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama, conservative critics offered some pushback on the General’s decision, with several, most notably Rush Limbaugh, suggesting that the decision was based purely on race. But this morning, CBS’ Bob Schieffer made it clear that behind the scenes, Powell’s words echoed the criticism of many Republicans, saying, “What Colin Powell said yesterday and why it was so riveting to hear him, he was saying aloud what a lot of Republicans are saying privately.”
who the hell cares what Bob “frickin’” Scheiffer says.
And “a lot of Republicans” seem to be supporting the McCain/Palin ticket, to the tune of over 90%.
Trust me, I am a Republican, Powell was NEVER much of a Republican. I defy you to show me where Powell’s politics match the Repubs positions, he supports quotas, he’s pro-choice, he supports increased social spending, he supports increased taxes, he has taken an entirely different stand on international diplomacy and UN then most Repubs. over the last 8 years, his only connection to the Repubs is military spending.
Ill informed Obots!
Powell has been bamboozled before.
Master butt snorkeler Colin Powell sees an able apprentice in Barack Obama. Seems both always want to be on the side of current power brokers. Just when we needed Powell to speak truth to power he went before the U.N. and spoke on behalf of the Iraq invasion. He’s a legend in his own mind.
Within moments of Powell’s speech at the U.N., callers to C-Span were calling him a liar!
These people had access to international news channels and were certain that he was intent on enforcing the lies of the administration.
Also, at that time, several of our ambassadors resigned, as well as several Brits!
Powell’s statement regarding Obama was totally scripted, not off the cuff.
He sold himself AGAIN!
Let me ask all of you folks posing the “Socialism issue” a simple question. What is it about Obama’s plan that suggests he’s a socialist? The fact that he wants to tax the extremely wealthy and cut taxes for the extremely poor? This isn’t a redistribution of wealth. There’s nothing here that suggests Obama is interested in taking that money from the wealthy and GIVING it to the poor. That’s not what he’s doing with his tax plan. He’s simply putting the burden of our society a little bit more on the shoulder’s of those who can most handle it and taking it a little off of those who can’t. That burden of our society, as Powell so clearly put it in his Meet The Press appearance includes maintenance of our roads, police forces, fire departments, schools, public infrastructure like bridges, public utilities (sewer, water, gas), our military, etc. Now I don’t know about you, but I tend to think that these burdens of our society are incredibly important to us as a nation. And its easy for me to say because I’m not in the 5% of the country who’d be taxed a little more, that I think taxing the rich is a good way to go towards making sure those things are ensured and supported by our government. Hell, whatever taxes I would end up paying under an Obama presidency I would much prefer go towards these VITAL services. Call me a Socialist if you like, but I just think I’m a patriot.
I don’t know where to start.
First of all, those who don’t pay taxes will get a welfare check. Who’s financing this? Why, it’s the tax-stung rich! There’s a transferal of wealth, right there.
When you say he’s “taking the burden off those who can’t handle it and putting on those who can,” there’s a wealth redistribution. Right there. Besides which, the richest in America already pay a HUGE tax burden.
You don’t understand economics. Not in the slightest. Taxing the richest, most productive members of society and businesses is economic suicide at the best of times – in a recession it’s criminally insane.
Big business will reclaim their losses. Most likely by raising prices on our mass produced goods. This makes everyone less prosperous and hits the poor hardest of all. Paying more for everyday staples means people have fewer dollars with which to chase the kinds of goods and services that small businesses offer. And since many small manufacturing businesses purchase their raw materials from big businesses who will pass their tax increase onto them via higher prices, then the profit margins of many small businesses will suffer. They will either put their prices up as well, go out of business or lay people off.
Taking money from the most productive in order to put into public works projects is exactly what FDR did – and he prolonged the Depression for years longer as a result. We need genuine economic growth, not a rearrangement of existing wealth.
Besides which, there is a moral issue at stake. Namely – who the hell is ANYONE, least of all Obama, to tell people that they “earn too much”? To punish the successful for their success is perhaps the worst possible thing to do to society.
You’re not a patriot. You’re a shallow thinker without morals who believes that when people put hard work and effort into creating wealth, that you have a right to plunder it against their wishes. The American way is about individualism and freedom. This means economic freedom too. We did not get to be the most powerful country in the world by punishing success and you ought to think about that before you call yourself a patriot.
aptittle,
here is your proof Obama is a socialist.
http://web.archive.org/web/20041101020633/http://freepress.org/Backup/UnixBackup/pubhtml/newparty/newpart5.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20040827000726/www.newparty.org/principles.html
Well put.
A minor point some tend to forget at times:
Without capital, there is no capitalism. Pulling dollars from those who INVEST in the economy and turning it into INCOME for people who are going to order a new TV with it, is not capitalism. It’s taking potential investment capital in the U.S. and sending it to China as income.
Obama was asked about his plans to increase the capital gains tax to “spread the wealth” to others because of fundamental “fairness” (whatever that is) and it was pointed out to him that the government and, in turn, the economy tends to be hurt by increases in capital gains taxes because investment and productivity drop and he was asked what he would say if this premise was shown to be true. He said he’d still do it out of a sense of “fairness.” Harm the economy, if that’s what it took, to get money to people he thought should have some more and take from those he thought should have less.
And, to get back to capitalism, he would then expect, I expect, those from whom he took more to get up the next day and merrily go about their way making even more, with a whistle and a jaunty step, motivated and thrilled to be doing more for their fellow comrades. The Soviet Union collapsed under it’s own weight, eventually, without a shot fired, because the collective didn’t work.
It doesn’t work on Survivor (who wants to do more work so some fool can sleep in a hammock all afternoon) and it doesn’t work in the real world. Maybe the One would like to change the course of evolution while he’s at it, sort of reshape the human species in his own benevolent, sackcloth and ashes, caviar, champagne and lobster self.
Good luck but please do not save me a seat on that bus. I’ll walk the walk, thanks.
apttitle:
$250,000, the amount of joint gross income that will trigger the Obama Tax Increase, is not a lot of money these days, particularly when you are paying full or partial support for kids and grand kids, elderly parents, or making payroll for a small business employing others, and RObamaHood is seeking this increased funding not just for roads, police, firefighters, and schools, but to fund his private O-Bot army that he wants to fund at the same levels as the military. Read his plan, and get an understanding of what a “refundable tax credit” really is. That is a welfare check by any other name. It is a credit from the government against taxes owed, but if no taxes are owed, then it is a check from the govenment in the amount of that credit to someone not even paying taxes. That is what Obama is proposing.
Apttitle.
When Bill Clinton raised taxes on “the rich” he also cut spending. ALL the money went toward lowering the deficit. The “rich” didn’t balk because they knew a lower deficit would ultimately mean a stronger dollar making them even richer. Bill succeeded.
By contrast, Obama wants to raise taxes on “the rich” to redistribute the money in the form of a check, in part, to people who don’t pay taxes and the rest to people who make less than the rich. That is socialism in its purest form. Poor baby you have to use your brain to reason and read between the lines because Obama will always lie about EVERYTHING. Notice he doesn’t dispute the charges of what his plan does he counters that these people who do not pay taxes pay a payroll tax. Have you ever seen on your check stub a category called payroll taxes? NO. You see medicare, social security, and worker’s compensation. Obama can not even be honest in that statement.
I am an AA female and OBama is a lying, racist phony which is the reAson I AM NOT VOTING FOR HIM. I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR HIM, NOT EVEN FOR DOG CATCHER. HE IS A DISHONABLE MAN.
Larry, do you have any clue to what makes a person a Muslim? If you did then you would not claim Obama to be one. But let’s play your silly game.
You, Larry Johnson have proof, that Obama:
Has pronounced the Shahada; that Obama publicly declared “I testify that there is no true god (deity) but God (Allah), and that Muhammad is a Messenger (Prophet) of God.”
Has performed Salah the daily ritual prayer, five times a day when he was in Indonesia.
Has given zakat, compulsorily charity, at least once a year to a mosque.
Has performed the Fast of Ramadan while in Indonesia.
Can recite a single verse from the Holy Koran either in Arabic or translated into English / Indonesian?
You have photos, home movies, or other documentations of this?
No what you have is an entry into a school house ledger submitted by Obama’s parents to fulfill a bureaucratic requirement that a child be identified in one of three distinct categories. As Obama’s parents did not have the option of declaring “none of the above.” they went with the stepfather’s religion. Even that was a stretch as Lolo was a very indifferent Muslim.
You are correct in stating that Obama was not “always” a Christian. For most of his early life he drifted outside of any religion. He was exposed to Islam as a child, he got some R.E. from the private school he attended but there is zero, zilch, no proof that he ever took the faith to heart. Scores of boys and girls all over the world regularly ignore their R.E. classes all over the world. The classes had no effect for Obama because neither parent was re-enforcing the lessons at home. Ann was too busy doing remedial ed and Lolo was too busy drinking. ( A huge no-no in the Muslim faith)
Waving around a piece of paper is no proof of faith Larry. Even you admit that when he returned to Hawaii Obama was no longer a Muslim. At best, and this is stretching the claim to beyond the breaking point, Obama had a child’s understanding of Islam. A child’s understanding of a faith is not an adults. Obama’s faith as an Adult, his world view, his anchor is not only Christian but “Born Again” In that world view Obama the Muslim (if he ever existed) was burned away and born anew as a child of God.
But we don’t even need to go there. Obama’s early faith was informed by his mother an Anthropologist. For him, in those early years, Religion was a curiosity, something to read about in books and then place to the side. Obama had other things on his mind at that time. He was, in short, a miniature of his mother; a pint sized agnostic. That makes him neither Christian nor Muslim, it makes him unaffiliated.
Larry, Obama never “lied” about not being a Muslim. He lived in a Muslim land, but the faith never gained a foothold on him. He was exposed, he went to mosque a few times, he had to listen to boring lectures about the faith; that is it. That does not make him a Muslim in any stretch of the word.
Finally Powell did have a point. Being a Muslim is not an evil thing. Being an Arab does not exclude one from being a decent family man. The smear against Obama is that he “lied” about his faith, that he was a Muslim at one point and thus not qualified because of that fact, that Obama is somehow faking his Christianity. It is at least a three-pronged attack. It is intellectually dishonest to claim that the “smear” is merely that Obama is a Muslim. The secret Muslim meme ties in to the N.O.I. fabrication ( let’s play six degrees of separation with Obama!) the Wright exaggeration ( Obama believes everything in this small snippet of sermon that we have no proof he ever heard) and the other bits of nonsense shown as “proof” about Obama’s “poor judgment.” It is all sound and fury signifying nothing.
gtfh, troll.
Obama himself said that Wright “brought him to Jesus.”
You know what brought him to “Jesus?” The AA community in Chicago laughed his ass out of community organizing and told him to try being a part of the community first.
So he chose Wright’s church. No doubt because Wright was originally a MUSLIM like Obama.
Deal with it.
Actually, moron, the troubling aspect is to the Muslim world Obama STILL IS A MUSLIM. That means that if he acts in a manner that directly contradicts Islam, he will be seen as an apostate. It isn’t always how one sees oneself, but how is seen by others which counts. There is also the issue of Taqiyya to consider, etc.
As for the rest of your post…. drivel.
What does it feel like to be an idiot ?
Muslims do not see practice as key. Islam is patrilineal. For Muslims, that fact that Obama was born to a line of Muslim males makes him born a Muslim. Further, all children born with an Arabic name based on the H-S-N trilateral root (Hussein, Hassan, and others) can be assumed to be Muslim, so they will understand Obama’s full name, Barack Hussein Obama, to proclaim him a born Muslim.
Obama’s father was a Muslim. Obama’s grandfather was a Muslim. Obama’s stepfather was a Muslim. Sarah, who Obama calls grandmother is a Muslim. Obama’s half-brothers and sisters are Muslims. To Muslims, Obama IS a Muslim, no matter what he says.
Obama’s sister Maya was quoted by the New York Times as saying, “My whole family was Muslim.” I assume she considers Obama a member of her family. After all, she refers to him as “my brother.”
For a time, Obama clearly lived and was educated as a Muslim. Only Obama knows what he is today.
Awesomely said HARP!
I should copy & save this!
thanks
It’s not letting me post the link, but I got this from OBAMA’S website about the NYT article:
to get the link, google:
obama muslim call to prayer barackobama.com
”I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on my blog, http://www.nytimes.com/ontheground). He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his
elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.
Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ”one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
translation:
God is most great. God is most great.
God is most great. God is most great.
I testify that there is no God except God.
I testify that there is no God except God.
I testify that Muhammad is the messenger of God.
I testify that Muhammad is the messenger of God.Come to prayer! Come to prayer!
Come to success! Come to success!
God is most great. God is most great.
There is none worthy of worship except God
Joe Biden surely did not realize that he was being recorded. I can’t believe that this stuff was authorized by BO who is very careful what he lets people find out. That’s why the “spread the wealth” remark was total gold. BO never expected the world to find out his true agenda.
Hi Larry:
I was army security as well as at the White House and later at the War Room in the Pentagon with the Chiefs of Staff. I know how the brass covered up and everyone should know that it was Colin Powell who I believe was a major at the time who first investigated the Mai Ly Massacre and said it didn’t happen. It was only later revealed after a solder called his congressman that it did in fact happen – which is also why I never believed him when he told us at the UN that Saddam had WMD. His word means nothing and his endorsement means even less.
Hank Roth
Colin Powell claims that Education is very important to both him and his wife during the Meet the Press interview. Given that much of the glow job he gave to Obama was about his character, his ability to bring people together and, his fund raising abilites with little about his accomplishments during his earlier years this could be interesting. Now Colin Powell claims race had nothing to do with his choice, well after reading this Powell can same the same about education. From Slate 4/8/08 Alexander Russo “In some ways, Obama’s experience is analogous to Hillary’s failed health care initiative of the mid 90’s – he tackled a publicized, important, politically charged topic, and belly-flopped. The obvious difference is that his failure is not being discussed. And it’s possible he was merely a figurehead who was hoping to take credit for success but distanced himself from failure; I leave it to his spinners to present that lack of interest in education reform more positively”.
Powell should have done some research into Obama’s record on education given they disagreed on the Iraq War which ranks on the top of the importance list with eductation…the economy.
ha ha ha thanks i need the humore.
i coulnt believe it when powel went befor the UN , per war, and showed the satalite pictures of the baby milk factory that was suposedly storage for weppons of mass destruction. and the very next day the international reporters went there and found no evedence of any thing but baby milk.this is when i stoped beleveing bush.
from all the spy stories isnt it called a [cover story] when you invent a story that is a lie so that you can take some covert action?the neocons had the cia? or some one concoct the story , so they could sell it to us so that they could get the oil.
and there chief sailsman was mr powel.i dont believe a word he says and he fits perfictly in the lieing obama administration.
I can’t believe some of you are still on about the “Whitey” tape. I’m guessing Larry wishes you would all just forget about it.
Nice call, Larry. Those sources of yours are top notch, chief. Guess your CIA training didn’t teach you anything about verifying sources, huh?
Loser.
Losers are no-life trolls who pretend not to care, but keep coming around, pestering and pleading for attention.
You fit the profile.
Colin Powell is handsome?
Get out of here! His face looks like a cross between Joe the Plumber’s tool bag and a bulldog licking piss off a thistle.
That is lol funny ,but true..
Butt snorkeler? ha ha ha ha
I was feeling kind of low today, Larry. You made me laugh and feel better. You, like Rush, have figured this out right off. Good for you.
new zogby poll has obama up by 8…..i hope it’s an outlier tomorow
Apttitle
Obama’s tax plan of only raising taxes to those Americans earning $250,000 and above is phony. What he doesn’t say is anywhere between 30 to 40% of taxpayers do not pay income taxes. They might pay a SS tax, state tax, sales tax, etc. But, the fact is, his tax plan is a tax rebate or tax welfare plan to return income tax dollars to Americans that do not pay it.
When you run a business $250,000 sounds like a lot of money but it isn’t. A small business owner or independent contractor pays for their own medical costs, higher social security taxes, medical care for other employees, employee salaries, advertising and so on.
James in San Jose
You are missing the point. It is irrelevant whether Obama is or is not a Muslim. To understand Obama’s philisophy, value system, and integrity, voters are looking at his entire life, personal, political, social, and so on. It is not a very good picture.
His mother was an atheist. It is not plausible that he could sit in a church for 20 years and not understand the mission of Black Liberation Theology. According to its founders, it is based on black racism and Marxism. Most Americans do not want to elect anyone with that value system. He’s also friends with a lot of people that hate America from Ayers, Dorhn, Wright, Pfleger, Farrakhan, and so on. This is why after 19 mos. and $600 million dollars, he does not have the trust of many Americans.
Obama says “there is nothing wrong with stealing votes”
oh. my. god.
arrogance or stupidity or both???
we knew Obama was a criminal but jesus… we never thought he would come out and admit it…
well, maybe he is turning over a new leaf? he did come out with “spread the wealth around” a few days ago…
anyway, here is the full story on the stealing votes quote:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10202008/news/politics/obama_ok_with_ohio_tactics_134488.htm
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Why would Obama want Powell’s endorsement? According to him Iraq was a mistake and all who advocated for it were wrong.
That would bring into question Powell’s judgment.
There have been stories put out that Powell was really against Iraq all along. Well, a real man of character would have either said so or resigned. Powell did neither.
Bo is a man with bad judgment.
This is the same guy who’s been chanting “Change” since anybody would listen to him (change to what he’s not bother to tell us but Change it is) who skewered Mac McCain for having been in Washington so long and then turned around and picked a running mate (whom he did not realize was going to be a running off at the mouth mate) who’s been in the Senate LONGER than McCain. And, I might add, has not worn well.
Doesn’t even flinch at the flip, then flops with equal innocence. This guy would make a flounder spilled out on the deck of a trawler damned proud.
Barack Obama do something inconsistent? Heaven forbid.
His whole campaign was based on a speech he gave in 2002 to some 1,000 people opposing the Iraq war and he’s hammered it over and over, claiming our military in Afghanistan was doing nothing but bombing villages and killing civilians (though he never held a hearing on his blessed Afghanistan and didn’t even bother to learn what language is spoken in the country), claiming the Iraq war was started under false pretenses and was wrong and troops should be yanked out of there (he’s changed all of these positions, of course but he gets to do that because he is the One Who Cannot Be Questioned). And, who does he roll out to save his sliding numbers? The Bag man for the war effort, Colin Powell. Politics and race make strange bedfellows. Right, I mentioned race. I didn’t see Colin Powell at any Dennis Kucinich rallys and Obama’s at least a couple of counties left of Dennis. Powell just “saw the light” I guess.
Please.
Does anything this guy does surprise anybody?
FISA no. FISA yes. War No. Funding the war, Yes. Reach across the aisle = 97% Part line voting record, 8% higher then the next Democrat. Public Financing of Elections, important to stop the influence of special interests. Opting out of the public finance system. $200 Million in “small” donors. Won’t tell you who they are. Doesn’t take money from lobbyists. Takes hundreds of thousands of dollars from “bundlers” in lobbying firms, from partners in lobbyist law firms, or anybody else who’s not a “registered” lobbyist. And takes all he wants from STATE lobbyists. He only said registered “federal” lobbyists. Troops out in 18 months. 16 months. We’ll wait and see how it goes. McCain’s mortgage plan is horrible. I proposed a version of the same thing already so it’s old news.
I warned about the economic crisis 2 years ago. No, I can’t seem to find any record of my warning. Yes, I took in more in Fannie/Freddie political contributions in 3 years than any other Senator in the Senate in their entire career other than Chris Dodd and, on an annualized basis, I kicked even his butt.
Nah, can’t imagine this beacon of truth and light doing anything contradictory just because it might help him win an election. At least I “HOPE” that’s not true. I’d be so disappointed.
“Well, a real man of character would have either said so or resigned. Powell did neither.”
Like heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali. Ali stood on principle against the Viet Nam war and refused to be drafted. He gave up his boxing title that was worth mega-millions. The army assured Ali that he would just be doing USO exhibitions and would never see combat — he was more valuable in public relations (they wanted to use the champ like Bush used Powell). But the champ stood on principle. Now that’s a man of character.
Colin Powell was in the early handicapping for the 2008 GOP nomination for President. He couldn’t get any traction. The Democrats even talked about getting him on their ticket, which demonstrates how undefined his own policies had become, particularly after going to the UN as a bag man for GWB and then telling everybody who wanted to hear it, in private, that he was just being a “good soldier” when the shite hit the fan and it turned out he was using cooked data that he knew was cooked. News flash: He wasn’t a “solider” at the time; he was the Secretary of State of the United States. He tried to have his glory and eat it too.
Where do you think the rumors came from that Powell wasn’t happy with Rumsfeld and that Powell was really bothered about A, B and C but blah and blah and more blah. From Powell, of course. Straight out the back door of the SOS office.
Two points about his “endorsement” of Obama. Maybe three.
I’m stunned that, as a military veteran, he could even keep his rations down long enough to vote for the man, much less praise him. I mean think about it. A former U.S. General endorsing a man who’s chums with a couple that tried to blow up the Pentagon (and, not to forget, the bomb that killed Ayers’ previous lady and two others was headed to Ft. Dix to blow up some NonComs and their families). And, rather than have a heightened sensitivity to such a thing, he acts as if it’s a silly ole rumor hardly worth frettin’ about.
Unbelievable. To see a man I once thought (as I was told) could be special. Now, he’s just sucking up. So, he really is a politician after all. And not a very good one because Obama’s not going to use him and, if he does, nobody in the field is going to listen to him.
Have you seen the polls done within the military ranks? And Powell praises their next CIC who doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground and is already preparing everybody, through Joe One-Too-Many-Cocktails Biden, for his first major international F-up. Yeah, thanks Colin. I’m going to forget all I know about Barack Obama and get down right now to bow to the Messiah. Your nod was all I was waiting for. Get serious.
Second, does anybody on the face of the planet not think that Obama’s race had anything at all to do with Powell’s sudden crossing of the river and encampment with the Dems? He was a Republican, or said he was. Obama is not only NOT a Republican, he’s barely even a Democrat, he’s so far left of center. He probably wears Jane Fonda boxers. Astounding that Colin Powell acts like it’s the most reasonable thing in the world and that he’s actually convinced at the wonderousness of the great leader and warrior Barack Obama, who’s never done a damn thing in his entire life (oops, I let my usual cool slip a bit there but I’m really getting fed up with this grovelling and manipulation and playing the public for fools by these suck-up political opportunists who see something in it for themselves).
I hear talk all day long about race this and race that but, honestly, the only racial actions or words I hear about are coming from the Obama campaign. Alright, enough about that. But, the question remains, how many white radical liberal Democrats has Colin Powell come out for? Uh, that would be none. And it will remain none. Does anybody doubt that?
Third. And, as is the case with many politicians when you see them making a move like this (sorry, Zell Miller, and a bit of Joe Lieberman, but yes, you’re included), this final comment:
Where else did he have to go?
It’s like aging actors at a free buffet.
Understandable but not particularly significant.
And keep your eyes on the rolls and the silverware.
Censorship in America, Thank you Obama…
Trevor Potter, the general counsel for the McCain-Palin presidential campaign, sent a letter on Monday to Chad Hurley, the chief executive of YouTube, complaining that the video service, now owned by Google, had inappropriately removed McCain commercials from its site.
The commercials incorporated snippets of television news broadcasts. Using provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the news organizations demanded that the commercials be removed from YouTube because they violated the organizations’ copyrights.
Mr. Potter praised YouTube as a “platform for political candidates and the American public to post, view, share, discuss, comment on, mash up, remix and argue over campaign-related videos.” Then he argued that the excerpts of news broadcasts represented a fair use, which exempted them from control by the copyright owner:
The uses at issue have been the inclusion of fewer than 10 seconds of footage from news broadcasts in campaign ads or videos, as a basis for commentary on the issues presented in the news reports.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/mccain-fights-for-right-to-remix-on-youtube/?ref=technology
also,
NBC censors SNL skit that links Barney Frank and Dems to sub prime loan frauds after the couple that made 2.5 billion in mortgage scandal complains to NBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw2k0_eUzEc
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epE9lk0xj68
I can’t read his mind. But it was obvious at the time not only that he lied in the UN, not only that he didn’t believe the lie either, but finally that he was very troubled by it all.
This is perhaps the worst type of fallen hero: the one who knows he is wrong.
Shame.
EXACTLY!!!
this is why Obama is more dangerous than George Bush Jnr…..
Obama knows he is a criminal…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
This doesn’t ring true. I still don’t think he’s going to do it. I don’t know how he won’t but I predict he will for some reason and in some way fail.
The weirdest thing? I’m not sure it’s president McCain either.
It’s weird with premonitions or whatever you choose to call them: you really don’t want them to turn out true – but they do, time and again. Very spooky.
On Rush Limbaugh a show i never listened to until this election. Rush said that McCain had gotten Powells son a job in the clinton white house, by going and vouching for the kid and to build a relationship between Powell and Clinton. For the past few years I have given Powell a sort of a free pass thinking that Powell did what he did as a good soldier doing what his commander and chief told him to do. AFter reading that bull from meet the press and finding out McCain would get his son a job and PR like that for someone. The least powell could have done is vote for Obama but keep his mouth shut and not try making swipes at Palin and McCain. This election has been eye opening, I founded out i was indoctrinated into a party full of people I don’t like. I found out the present form of affirmative action we practice is not a smart idea. And i found out how weak minded my fellow citizens are. People who i admire for their strength and courage really don’t have it, that what i though was there character was reflex and no more significant that a new born grasping your finger. Madonna isn’t a feminist she just uses it to justify her giving ranchy performaces. Oprahs not color blind she just sucks up to working class and middle white women to get ratings but when push comes to shove she see them just like every other begrudging black person does. I could go on but i don’t have the time. There is one thing i like to think obama for thank you for exposing all these jerk offs for who they really are. Had he not run for office, we might have still thought that these ding bats were good people able to transend sex and race. Everyone needs to know what the people they admire really are. A bunch of media whores with no good will for anyone but themselves. So i will send a thank you note to Senator Obama, for helping americans see what the real deal was.
OT—-Keep an eye on this…..http://www.americasright.com/
This IS heating up.
great article on Biden’s forecast of a crisis if Obama is elected:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10202008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/america_the_weak_134398.htm
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
First things first, other then his continued lying about it I couldn’t care LESS if obamalamadingdong is a muslim, christian, wiccan or pastafarrian. WHO FUCKIN CARES what brand of superstition he “believes” in? Myself, reality does quite nicely thankyouverymuch!
That being said, best post I’ve ever read about this guttless weasel product of affirmative action. One principled stand from this jellyfish(apologises to jellyfish everywhere) and ONE MILLION human beings would still be alive today. The VAST majority, and I mean like 99.9% of them of which were NO, NADA, ZILTCH threat to the United States. He is as bad as Nevil Chamberland in my book. What would that make Bush, Cenny and Rummy…..hmmmmm, OH YEAH, fucking war criminals on a par with HITLER! So FUCK him.
Why is there a news blackout on Biden’s chilling talk yesterday???? – and yes there is audio.
Biden warning : US will be attacked
“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
“I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate,” Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. “And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you – not financially to help him – we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”
Are there any journalists or news reporters left in the USA? Anybody at all that might think this is worth following up? I mean, cmon…what the heck is it that Biden thinks Obama will decide that we won’t think a good idea?
fox news:
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/20/camp-mccain-jumps-all-over-biden-remark/
ny post:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10202008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/america_the_weak_134398.htm
and censorship:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10202008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/dems_get_set_to_muzzle_the_right_134399.htm
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
and:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10212008/news/politics/joe_doh_puts_o_in_crisis_mode_134547.htm
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
and:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08212008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/baracks_favors_for_corrupt_crony_125390.htm
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs
Democrats in their own words Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam that caused our Economic Crisis
this will blow your mind… a bunch of Sleazy politicians enraged that anyone would want to regulate Fanny and Freddie and defending the crooks who drove the economy into the ground…
Take these sleaze balls names down and vote them out!
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
R.I.P., Pumas
Shocker: media endorsement tally favors Obama. I am sure you didn’t see this one coming
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/shocker-media-endorsement-tally-favors-obama/
OT, but did everyone notice that NQ’s Sitemeter is showing over 6 million visits?
NQ rocks!
They see racism in others everywhere:
The second piece of literature, paid for by the Republican Party of Florida, provides a new line of attack. It alleges that Senator Obama would be soft on crime. Few issues are as racially radioactive, especially here in Miami, so it is worth asking: Does the flier go over the line?
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/in-florida-mailboxes-harsh-attacks-on-obama/
obama is soft on crime = racism
At least to the nyts.
Yes the “liberal media” has been very good at spotting racism in others. From Bill and Hillary Clinton during the primaries to anyone, and I mean anyone that does not bow to The Precious. Kinda like they are raceophobic. At least when comes to obama and anyone not that’s not in the tank for him.
I was hoping that the Powell endorsement wouldn’t have a major impact but Zogby today shows Obama with an 8 point lead. This is unfortunate. Obama is a master in these type of shrewd political moves – it is difficult not to be an “eeyore” when he successfully manipulates public opinion like this over and over again.
obama stay’n classy:
“It’s getting so bad that even Sen. McCain’s running mate denounced his tactics last night. You know you really have to work hard to violate Gov. Palin’s standards on negative campaigning.”
firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/20/1572424.aspx
From day one when obama put out the senator punjab memo through the NC HQ putting out their Clintons are racist memo until today obama’s campaign has been a disgrace. Shameful doesn’t come close.
Hadenough If you think the one is classey I am sure you would like my bare ass………….
Facebook seizes Will Bower’s account without explanation!
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/facebook-cleanses-obama-oposition-will-bower-deleted/
Blog it, spread it – let’s google bomb this!
He cant win on his merit. What will happen when he cheats his way to a win.
Barry’s a “transformational figure,” just not in the same way The Gipper was.
Off-Topic But Extremely Important:
I just saw an ad requesting people to write to Washington against the “Employee Free Choice Act”. I clicked on the link, and as I suspected, this act is related to the attempt by the union SEIU under the leadership of Andy Stern to destroy the democratic structure of labor unions. For those of you who are not familiar, SEIU is the union that aided the Obama campaign in intimidation tactics against Hillary Clinton supporters in Nevada and other places during the primaries. They were highly involved in the caucus fraud efforts. Now SEIU wants use the Employee Free Choice Act to trick employees into a “fast-track” process to institute unionization in companies, while forcing them to adopt an OPEN VOTING procedure that exactly parallels the caucus voting structure in which SEIU was able to use fraud and intimidation tactics to help Obama get the Democratic nomination. Readers may be aware that ACORN refers to SEIU as its labor wing and the two are joined at the hip, both utilizing the same Saul Alinsky-based organizing techniques of coercion, intimidation, deception, and Machiavellian attempts at power. Andy Stern is an autocratic leader and his SEIU union is fast becoming a labor dictatorship. Under the guise of representing employees, Stern’s SEIU actually locks employees into very long-term contracts (20 years even!) in which they have no option to strike or protest. He is consolidating power and using it to negotiate partnerships with corporations, soon to be on a vast international scale. He is the enemy of labor under the guise of being a friend, and in fact he is just a power-mad dictator who wants to turn labor into a crony network the likes of which transcend even labor’s organized crime dominated heyday.
Readers need to be aware of the ACORN-allied SEIU’s grab for power under Andy Stern through the Employee Free Choice Act. Understand that this act is an attempt to institute in labor everything that has been so wrong about the present election for President. We must stop these efforts to transform our society into an authoritarian left-wing dictatorship, which is the ultimate aim of organizations like ACORN and SEIU. If you are alarmed by what you have seen with Obama’s candidacy, you must understand that his candidacy is part of a broad assault on our democracy by organizations like ACORN and SEIU, abetted by the current Democratic Party. WE MUST STOP THIS! Write to your Congressman and Senator. Read about what is going on in organized labor. Read about the authoritarian practices of SEIU, their alliance with ACORN and Obama. One great place to read about what is going in labor and how it plays out in the big picture is Steve Diamond’s site that many of us have read (www.globallabor.blogspot.com) for Diamond’s writing on Obama’s connection with the authoritarian radical Bill Ayers. We must defeat the Employee Free Choice Act. It is not what it seems. It is an attempt to destroy democracy.
In response to Powell’s endorsement of the idiot one.
Obama/Biden get briefed by White House staff regarding National Security, terrorist threats etc. etc.
(although McCain/Palin received the same briefings).
Barky panics (as he’s accustomed to doing) about the threats and asks Powell to bail him out. Powell being the consummate political opportunist/animal makes a deal with Barky for ———? Maybe VP, Joe’s is becoming a liability. (Besides if Powell’s VP maybe whoever they are won’t try and take him out to get the white dude in there).
Meanwhile, Biden gets full of something else (liquid wise) and blabs about (Known) future terrorist attacks (Good move Joe, now they’re going to go underground, reschedule and we’ll lost site of them).
The MSM run with the endorsement and hype it up to divert attention away from the security breach by Biden. They’re happy that once again they’ve fooled all of the people (with the help of the MSM ) some of the time.
God help us and protect us from these clowns.
What will you people do when Obama is elected president?
Might as well start planning now.
Important Update:
Obama & DNC Admit All Allegations of Federal Court Lawsuit – Obama’s “Not” Qualified to be President
Obama Should Immediately Withdraw his Candidacy for President
For Immediate Release: – 10/21/08 – Complete contact details and a pdf are at the end of this article
(Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania �” 10/21/08) – Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States, announced today that Obama and tbe DNC “ADMITTED”, by way of failure to timely respond to Requests for Admissions, all of the numerous specific requests in the Federal lawsuit. Obama is “NOT QUALIFIED” to be President and therefore Obama must immediately withdraw his candidacy for President and the DNC shall substitute a qualified candidate. The case is Berg v. Obama, No. 08-cv-04083.
Berg stated that he filed Requests for Admissions on September 15, 2008 with a response by way of answer or objection had to be served within thirty [30] days. No response to the Requests for Admissions was served by way of response or objection. Thus, all of the Admissions directed to Obama and the DNC are deemed “ADMITTED.” Therefore, Obama must immediately withdraw his candidacy for President.
More Information: http://www.obamacrimes.com
If Obama wins, of course our enemies will test him. Thanks to his wishy-washy foreign policy — they’re going to see how fast he deploys troops or if he folds.
The fact that Biden said it aloud and confirmed it is amazing.
Now no one can claim it’s just paranoia –Biden guaranteed it will happen.
This should bolster McCain because his strongest poll numbers are on protecting the country.
If you believe in small government — this is the one area you want your president to be totally hands-on.
My issue with Obama — like many Ivy League intellectuals/lawyers — he enjoys pondering an issue from both sides but tends to delay making a decision and taking responsibility for that decision.
I used to be married to a man like that — he loved to make dissertations but when it came time to act, he let others decide.
Let’s face it — you can’t look at this campaign as proof of Obama’s “Judgment” because Axelrod is running the show.
The messaging in this campiagn is so tightly controlled (except for wild card Biden), it’s clear Axelrod is Obama’s brain.
Obama is the guy who votes “present” or doesn’t show up on tough Senate decisions.
If he is challenged by foreign forces once in office, I think his intellectual style would cause him to freeze up and make no decision at all.
Because as soon as he’s in office he’ll be worried about winning a second term. And every decision he makes will be seen through the prism of how it will affect his re-election.
(Meanwhile, McCain is clearly the personality type who won’t care about a second term.)
Obama’s so focused on making history as the first Black president I really don’t think he’s looked at the responsibility he will have if he makes it.
Larry mentioned Obama’s relationship with Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam whose headquarters are on the South Side of Chicago. When I was growing up on the South Side the Black Muslims referred to whites as “blue-eyed devils”. I wonder if they still call us that. Just curious…since I moved away from Chicago in 1987 and have only gone back for a few Bears games.
Powell sold out conservatives as well as his republican counter parts by copping out and voting for “the black man” instead of the only choice we had left who actually was truely MAN enough to serve his country already in war. Forget Powell, he’s become less than a foot note in the book called “Flushing America Down the Toilet, by the Communist Party”.