Democratic Speechwriter Rejects Party and Votes McCain/Palin
By Ani on October 29, 2008 at 10:00 PM in 1st Amendment, Backtrack Obama, Barack Obama, DNC, Democratic National Convention, Democratic Nomination, Democratic Party, Democrats Against Obama, Dems4McCain, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John Kerry, John McCain
Washington D.C. speechwriter Wendy Button aptly says So Long, Democrats, in her piece appearing in The Daily Beast. Ms. Button has written for Senators John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama, as well as other national and international leaders. She really tells the ‘new’ Democratic Party where to go. Her words are worth your time:
Since I started writing speeches more than ten years ago, I have always believed in the Democratic Party. Not anymore. Not after the election of 2008. This transformation has been swift and complete and since I’m a woman writing in the election of 2008, “very emotional.”
Not only has this party belittled working people in this campaign, it has also been part of tearing down two female candidates.
Wendy goes on to explain how she was first inspired by Edwards but not getting a job with his campaign, came to work for Obama:
I helped with his announcement speech and others. I worked in the Senate when he was in D.C. One day after a hearing on Darfur, we were walking back to the office. I was still hobbling from a very bad ankle injury and in a very kind and gentle way he offered his arm when we approached the stairs. But later in debate preps and phone conversations and meetings, I realized that I had made a mistake. I didn’t belong. No matter how hard I tried, my heart wasn’t in it anymore.
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This drift started on a personal level with the fall of former Senator John Edwards. It got stronger during the Democratic National Convention when I counted the substantive mentions of poverty on one hand and a whole bunch of bad canned partisan lines against Senator John McCain. Some faith was lifted after Senator Hillary Clinton’s grace during a difficult hour. But that faith was dashed when I saw that someone had raided the Caligula set and planted the old columns at Invesco Field.The final straw came the other week when Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (a.k.a Joe the Plumber) asked a question about higher taxes for small businesses. Instead of celebrating his aspirations, they were mocked. He wasn’t “a real plumber,” and “They’re fighting for Joe the Hedge-Fund manager,” and the patronizing, “I’ve got nothing but love for Joe the Plumber.”
Having worked in politics, I know that absolutely none of this is on the level. This back and forth is posturing, a charade, and a political game. These lines are what I refer to as “hooker lines”—a sure thing to get applause and the press to scribble as if they’re reporting meaningful news.
As the nation slouches toward disaster, the level of political discourse is unworthy of this moment in history. We have Republicans raising Ayers and Democrats fostering ageism with “erratic” and jokes about Depends. Sexism. Racism. Ageism and maybe some Socialism have all made their ugly cameos in election 2008. It’s not inspiring. Perhaps this is why I found the initial mocking of Joe so offensive and I realized an old line applied: “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party left me.”
Wendy then delivers the most blistering indictment of the current Democratic Party and certainly I agree with her reasons for holding them in such low esteem now:
The party I believed in wouldn’t look down on working people under any circumstance. And Joe the Plumber is right. This is the absolutely worst time to raise taxes on anyone: the rich, the middle class, the poor, small businesses and corporations.
Our economy is in the tank for many complicated reasons, especially because people don’t have enough money. So let them keep it. Let businesses keep it so they can create jobs and stay here and weather this storm. And yet, the Democratic ideology remains the same. Our approach to problems—big government solutions paid for by taxing the rich and big and smaller companies—is just as tired and out of date as trickle down economics. How about a novel approach that simply finds a sane way to stop the bleeding?
She correctly addresses the DNC’s outdated talking points and ideology in the midst of the economic storm we face. If Obama had any real clue as to policy, post–partisan genius that he is purported to be, he would think outside the box and propose something new. Clearly he is not capable of doing so, only stealing others ideas for his own; riding in late to take credit after doing none of the hard work required to get there. Remember “Congress will call me if they need me.”
…Not only has this party belittled working people in this campaign from Joe the Plumber to the bitter comments, it has also been part of tearing down two female candidates. At first, certain Democrats and the press called Senator Clinton “dishonest.” They went after her cleavage. They said her experience as First Lady consisted of having tea parties. There was no outrage over “Bros before Hoes” or “Iron My Shirt.”
Ms. Button remembers this outrage as well as the rest of us. All of Senator Clinton’s accomplishments and great policy ideas were tossed under the bus in favor of every negative speck of dust the press and Obama’s campaign could find to magnify.
But here we are about a week out and it’s déjà vu all over again. Really, front-page news is how the Republican National Committee paid for Governor Sarah Palin’s wardrobe? Where’s the op-ed about how Obama tucks in his shirt when he plays basketball or how Senator Biden buttons the top button on his golf shirt?
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Here we are discussing Governor Palin’s clothes—oh wait, now we’re on to the make-up—not what either man is going to do to save our economy. This isn’t an accident. It is part of a manufactured narrative that she is stupid.
Most interesting to me was Wendy’s take on Sarah Palin. It was encouraging to me that a die hard Democrat would take the time to put aside any preconceived notions and actually looks at Palin’s record:
Governor Palin and I don’t agree on a lot of things, mostly social issues. But I have grown to appreciate the Governor. I was one of those initial skeptics and would laugh at the pictures. Not anymore. When someone takes on a corrupt political machine and a sitting governor, that is not done by someone with a low I.Q. or a moral core made of tissue paper.
Obama, who wouldn’t know strong moral code if it bit him, and can’t seem to find a policy he likes well enough to hold on to against the changing winds, might want to take a page out of Sarah Palin’s book — instead of belittling her.
When someone fights her way to get scholarships and work her way through college even in a jagged line, that shows determination and humility you can’t learn from reading Reinhold Niebuhr. When a mother brings her son with special needs onto the national stage with love, honesty, and pride, that gives hope to families like mine as my older brother lives with a mental disability. And when someone can sit on a stage during the Sarah Palin rap on Saturday Night Live, put her hands in the air and watch someone in a moose costume get shot—that’s a sign of both humor and humanity.
Has she made mistakes? Of course, she’s human too. But the attention paid to her mistakes has been unprecedented compared to Senator Obama’s “57 states” remarks or Senator Biden using a version of the Samuel Johnson quote, “There’s nothing like a hanging in the morning to focus a man’s thoughts.”
Her statements about Iraq were also surprising; certainly unusual coming from a Democrat:
But thank God for election 2008. We can talk about the wardrobe and make-up even though most people don’t understand the details about Senator Obama’s plan with Iraq. When he says, “all combat troops,” he’s not talking about all troops—it leaves a residual force of as large as 55,000 indefinitely. That’s not ending the war; that’s half a war.
I was dead wrong about the surge and thought it would be a disaster. Senator John McCain led when many of us were ready to quit. Yet we march on as if nothing has changed, wedded to an old plan, and that too is a long way from the Democratic Party.
In closing, I think Wendy echoes the sentiments of a great many Hillary supporters who, alternately, sit in wonderment and horror that the Democratic Party they fought for, donated to, campaigned for and believe in all these years would exhibit the behavior Ms. Button discusses here:
I can no longer justify what this party has done and can’t dismiss the treatment of women and working people as just part of the new kind of politics. It’s wrong and someone has to say that. And also say that the Democratic Party’s talking points—that Senator John McCain is just four more years of the same and that he’s President Bush—are now just hooker lines that fit a very effective and perhaps wave-winning political argument…doesn’t mean they’re true. After all, [McCain] is the only one who’s worked in a bipartisan way on big challenges.
Before I cast my vote, I will correct my party affiliation and change it to No Party or Independent. Then, in the spirit of election 2008, I’ll get a manicure, pedicure, and my hair done. Might as well look pretty when I am unemployed in a city swimming with “D’s.”
Whatever inspiration I had in Chapel Hill two years ago is gone. When people say how excited they are about this election, I can now say, “Maybe for you. But I lost my home.”
Just yesterday, Senator Biden made another mind bending statement when he said “this is a new Democratic Party not the party of the 70s and 80s. This is a party that has adjusted to the realities of a new world order.”
I am not sure what ‘new world order’ he is talking about, but if it includes demeaning women, belittling working class voters and ignoring the issues that weigh heavily on our country at the moment in favor of pretty, vacuous sound bites and “word salad.” obviously I am not a part of it.
Thanks Wendy, for having the courage to speak up and tell the Democratic Party off.
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Whoo-hoo! Go girl.
I’m sorry, but “Wendy” can piss off.
She’s defending Palin more in this article, when she SHOULD have been writing for Hillary.
I’m not buying her writing; kinda sounds like a Colin Powell “Heyyyy, Saddam Hussein is a really bad man planning on blowing up THE WHOLE WORLD in just a few days, and HE personally hijacked a plane on 9/11!” Oh, wait…
Too LITTLE, too LATE!
Sorry, but Hillary has plenty voice of her own and can write for herself.
Too bad she and Bill both chose the path of political expediency and agreed to be good foot soldiers for the Party that sold them up the river, and the incompetent fool that Hillary herself said had nothing but a good speech.
He still has nothing more.
I was a delegate for Hillary, and personally, I’m disappointed in both Hillary and Bill that they have chosen to get on board for the Fraud and all those who threw them under the bus.
I applaud anyone who comes forward before Nov. 4
Hill?
Bill?
Leave Hill and Bill alooooone!
I watched the dog and phony show in Fla. tonight. Bill C. fell just slightly short of actually kissing Obama’s ass. Leave him alone?
You watch it then tell us what you think of Bill afterwards.
I;’m with you bell’artista
ssshhhhh, you get in a lot of trouble when you state the obvious about those two around here…especially if you are an ex supportor of theirs.
You know what — for a Democratic operative to diss the people who have been her bread and butter in order to come out publicly and vote for a Republican is quite a big deal.
I agree she should have made a ruckus when all this was happening to Hillary.
Yes, she and many others should have spoken out earlier — but she is doing what many other Dem. operatives may feel — but they don’t have the guts to say out loud — or act on their beliefs.
I have to stop and give her credit for at least that much.
Furthermore, judging by the twilight zone in which we all find ourselves, I do appreciate anyone who makes the right decision in advance of voting rather than saying woulda shoulda coulda after the fact.
The travesty of Hillary being robbed of this was certainly a far bigger fraud than this one person had any control over.
Ani, this is an outstanding post. Well done.
And heck yeah - it is a HUGE deal for someone to essentially push oneself out of a job by speaking the TRUTH, and having integrity. Good for her.
Thanks, Ani!!
I’m with you.
I’m with you destardi. (just clarifying)
whoo-hoo! too…Go Girl… thank you wendy button and ani for posting this article..gives me a glimmer of hope
I think this is happening all over the place….
Many people are finally seeing the light….
I agree! I think the past two weeks have been game changers. People are finally seeing that they got sold a really bad bill of goods with OHitler. I really do think he will have to slink back to Chicago in shame. ONE BILLION DOLLARS LATER. Ughhhh….
and be made to sell that house on million dollar skid row and use his campaign leftovers to make his wrongs RIGHT in South Chicago
I trust Sarah will find a way to rush that bill through.
Go Sarah
If you go to The Daily Beast where this appeared, you’ll be stunned by the comments about this piece. I recommend you not bother but thought to mention it only to illustrate the depth of the delusion of those Obama has captured with the rapture.
What do they do? Abuse, accuse and ridicule somebody they know nothing about. Several of the comments suggest that Ms. Button is making it all up and was never a speechwriter for anybody. Right, never happened.
Reminds me of a plea I read from a woman who didn’t know how to talk to her friend about Obama. She’d tried to talk to the friend about Obama and his associations, specifically William Ayers only to be told by her friend that she was “lying” and that Obama had never known Ayers at all.
That’s how vicious it is out there so do NOT be discouraged when you run up against it. They are lost in a post-hypnotic haze and should be humored and ignored. There is MUCH work to be done and it is having an effect. Trust me.
Stand up!!!!
You are fighting the right fight, for all the right reasons.
I spoke to a doctor about Obama — this woman is a doctor! She also said that Jesse Jackson Jr. is not affiliated with Obama’s campaign. M’kay.
I talked about his relationship to ACORN — she found nothing wrong with them.
She said all the Ayers, Rezko, Wright stuff are smears and not real.
I talked about his voting record or the lack thereof, flip flips, reneging on his word on so many things.
*crickets*
She pointed out what an honorable campiagn he has run and what a great new campaign model he is using.
I just stared at her. Then I realized I’d never want this woman operating on me. She is delusional.
My doctor is delusional as well….I think I shocked here when I expressed doubt about Obama! She said she was “surprised” that I wasn’t on board…
Well, too bad…I already know that doctors don’t know EVERYTHING! (Heck, I was the one who actually uncovered that I had CKD…the doctors weren’t understanding the damn numbers!!)
We’ll see how happy they are when they are understaffed and doling out nationalized healthcare to millions of illegal aliens for free.While paying more than half thier income in taxes and losing their investments to the government.
They both also need to be informed of Obama’s vote against protecting infants born alive during failed abortions. You know, do no harm and such.
Hypocratic to hypocrite to ‘hope’ocrisy, someone needs to highlight their utter lack of reasoning and intelligence.
Another word of advice, find yourself a new healthcare provider with better judgement.
It’ like the “Invasion of the Obody Snatchers”, I’m beginning to look in the back of trucks for giant seed pods. I’ve personally lost several friends and there are siblings I can’t talk to about this election. They just hold their hands to their ears and scream “LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA, I don’t want ot hear it”. And they want to know when I’ll go to sleep.
My frustration is magnified when I can’t physically jump through my T.V. screen and strangle Obama spokesman Bill Burton when he knowingly tells outrageous lies with a giant shit-eatin’ grin on his insipid mug, and force him to admit that the whole Obama campaign is the BIGGEST FRAUD IN THE HISTORY OF THIS REPUBLIC. For now I’ll just have to keep the Windex handy to wipe the spit off the screen.
This is just like talking to my boyfriend who now acts like speaking to me is like taking a dose of castor oil and as such, we have not even spoken for a week and a half. Nothing makes a difference to him and when he can’t speak to any of Barky’s accomplishments then he goes to what a great campaign Barrakula has run and he should win just because of that!
We were kind of waiting for the election to be over, but I think he and I are done, too. 3 years, poof! Because of Barky and his horrifcally devisive campaign!
You should see the ideological blindness about BO exhibited by some “feminists” in academia. Not a word about sexism; it’s all about racism. Unbelievable!
Yeah I read the comments too and they were nasty! Calling her a disgruntled employee, as if being disgruntled and having legitimate complaints are mutually exclusive. But then again the Bots are not logical people so what do you expect. They’re all out to destroy her just like they did to Joe the Plumber.
Yes, she speaks for me!
http://www.johnmccain.com
For Immediate Release
October 29, 2008 Contact: Press Office
Statement on Former ACORN Affliliate Employee’s Testimony in Court Linking Obama Campaign Directly to ACORN Activity
ARLINGTON, VA — Today, McCain-Palin 2008 campaign manager Rick Davis released the following statement in response to the testimony given by a former employee of an ACORN affiliate in a Pennsylvania court of law:
“Today’s testimony by a former employee of an ACORN affiliate proves Barack Obama is guilty of lying to the American people about his relationship with ACORN. At the last presidential debate, in front of sixty million people, Barack Obama said his campaign was not involved’ with ACORN. We now know that Barack Obama’s campaign was working hand-in-glove with an organization reportedly under investigation by the F.B.I. and in more than a dozen states. In addition to funneling $832,000 to ACORN for get-out-the-vote efforts, the Obama campaign and ACORN have been sharing donor lists, encouraging maxed-out Obama donors to contribute to this unethical organization.”
Oh RICO where are you? Anyone seen my pooch named RICO?
Wow…that’s all I can say. When will people learn? I hope before they cast their ballots!
NObama ‘08!
An ad on this, PLEASE??????
Someone needs to send Wendy a PUMA T-Shirt!
Amen.
I was just an a similar rampage, perhaps not as eloquent. I received a message from Bill and Hillary in my inbox … for the last time! I called the HillPac office and left a message! I am a life long Democrat and Stauch Clinton supporter! I am NOT VOTING FOR OBAMA NOR DEMOCRATS for justifible reasons similiar to the above list!
I said that I worked for Hillary, gave money, time enery and passion…. and for the Dems as well….and now I am confused. At first I thought, well Bill and Hillary HAVE to support Obama cos their dems. YET…. is the Democratic Party of today… the same Democratic Party that Bill and Hillary support? If so… then I guess, sadly, that I am wrong about Bill and Hillary. Terribly wrong. I would have hoped they had enough courage like McCain.. to put their Country before their party. They don’t.
I asked them to STOP sending me emails in support of Obama. They have no right to send me Obama emails! I suggested they put an OPT OUT for Obama crap on their site, and if that is not possible, then it is time for me to respectfully part ways from the Clintons and their mailing list.
WENDY WECLOME TO THE land of Dems for McCain! I appreciate that you honor your integrity!
McCain 08
I agree with you with all my heart. I will never again vote for Hillery or support her in any way.
I thought America and her people ment more to her and Bill than that.
voting for McCain/Palin
I just delete all the emails I get from Bill and Hillary saying to vote for BO…. don’t even read them.
I should also add, I’m also rethinking if I ever would support Hillary again.
Me, too…
I unsubbed from the email list… However I started to get them from “that one” after trying to unsub I just blocked their email address….
I just wish I could vote for Hillary again. She’s the one who should be our nominee. She’s the one who CAN!
I agree completely. The cruelest cut was when those idiots in LA hung Gov. Palin in effigy. The Hillary Clinton I thought I knew would have publicly denounced such a despicable display.
Today I requested a refund of my donations to Sen. Clinton’s campaign. Then I voted for McCain-Palin.
BTW-Did you know that it would have been considered a hate crime if it had been an AA, gay, or religious group-but women are not protected by hate crimes law.
and yet women are murder in astronomically huge numbers — simply because they are women. The hate crimes against women is huge but rarely ever called hate crime.
I remember years ago arguing with WOMEN about whether rape could really happen — they believed there was no such thing as rape. These were women — totally ignorant women — misogynistic women.
Very few girls get through to adulthood without some sort of unwanted sexual encounter or assault.
I would have been just as pissed if it image was Mrs. Obama hanging from that rope. But then she’s black and there would be outrage — because of the color of her skin and not her sex.
This is probably one of my major reasons for voting for Palin — because she knows, she is aware of what it is like growing up female in a man’s world. She’s not perfect — none of us are — but we need more women in the highest offices in the land who can make a difference — because they care.
How about the double standards — Palin is beautiful therefore she must be a bimbo.
Some say that Obama is handsome (gag) — but no one has said that because they believe him to be handsome — therefore he must be a himbo and dumb.
OK….can someone please explain to me how, with so many Democrats coming out publicly against Obama, he can be so “up” in the polls?
Doesn’t make sense, does it?
Well, we know the polls are over-cooked like soggy spaghetti.
Uppity pointed out in her Gallop Poll post of last night — this is a two point race, according to them, then they also offer their new “expanded” polling model that is used just for Barky. This model has never been used in the presidential race before. What does this tell you?
We will only know the real story next Tuesday. I wouldn’t expect much honest reporting from pollsters or the MSM before then.
Let’s just hope their are enough poll watchers on the ground to prevent fraud.
Can someone explain to me why Obama is spending over $$$$ONE BILLION DOLLARS$$$$ if Obama is so far ahead in the Polls.
Can someone explain to me why the Obama campaign is begging for campaign workers in battle ground states if he is so far ahead?
Because that is pure felgercarb that he is ahead?
I bet if the truth was known mac is ahead by 8-9 points EVEEN LARGER AT A GUESS!
LETS get rid of him Tuesday~~
You think at this point Der Precious wants to line the ACORN coffers and whatever other groups he can funnel money into as his candidacy goes down like the Titanic? If he puts up the appearance of going to win he can keep begging for money? OK my tinfoil hat is off now.
I always thought a big part of the screwy things we’ve seen are related to money laundering, so the more that’s spent, the better…from the launderer’s point of view.
GOOD POINT.OBAMA NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND THAT UNLIKE THE CIGARETTE “MARLBORO”,TRUST IS SOMETHING MONEY CAN’T BUY.HE MIGHT JUST BE WASTING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR NOTHING
He’s even begging people to stay home from work and school in order to do his bidding. Heard that some business and schools are “not amused”.
Carol…thanks for sharing….hope the press release gets traction….
I agree, thank you Wendy. When a NQ member posted the link in comments yesterday, I thought then how very strong her statement was. I shared it widely this morning.
Thank you for posting it.
Well, it looks Wendy Button is another
racistperson who woke up and smelled the roses.The party I believed in wouldn’t look down on working people under any circumstance.
How about their own family members:
OBAMA AUNT FOUND IN BOSTON SLUM…
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5042571.ece
Priceless.
joe the plumber is every average American. The “liberal media” immediately ran to dig through his underwear draw and tried to destroy him. Too bad howard dean doesn’t watch cable or he might tried to stop it.
Wait, wasn’t Michelle Obama’s classic quotes during the primary about how “If you can’t take care of your own home how can you be president of the united states” Thanks Michelle for the message, we heard it loud and clear, meanwhile Obama’s half brother is living in a buck a month(I guess Obama doesn’t believe in spreading the wealth around) and now his poor aunt is living in a slum, unreal
Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.
She played her part. obama has no use for her any more so under the bus she went. This is the craziest election ever.
Notice how she said she couldn’t talk until after November 4th?! What could that mean? Maybe BO is afraid she’ll mention that he was born in Kenya.
Haha… like making a contribution to the Obama campaign necessarily means you’re a US Citizen.
I think MO words were: “if you can’t run your own house, how can you run the White House.”
Right then, in that instant, I lost all respect for her and knew I would never support her or her husband.
Any woman who talks like that about another woman is spiteful, hateful, and opportunistic.
I don’t want either of the Obama’s near the White House. This long-term Dem is voting McCain/Palin.
Incredible.
Via drudge. matt drudge has lost his power. A few years back a drudge link to a story like that would have set off weather radios. It would of had road block cable coverage. Today? Nothing.
Maybe it’s because there are so many other blogs - like NQ - that folks are reading for news (also Free Republic, etc.).
There are other choices.
My brother loves Drudge, but I just don’t like his layout - it’s too overwhelming.
I prefer NoQuarter, Free Republic and American Thinker.
Drudge is the most powerful man in the NEW media. The MSMs know this.
Figures the story shows up in a British Newspaper.
They still require their reporters to investigate.
Well we know you don’t believe in hardly anything you say you believe in, you total lying sack of shit!
That felt good to say that!
It felt good to read it.
Thank you so much for this, Wendy.
And on a similar note, according to Hillbuzz, Team Hillary believes McCain will WIN New Hampshire, Iowa and Maine!
- NH and Maine largely because of Joe the Plumber (0bama’s spread the wealth nightmare) AND Sarah Palin - the people in these states love her - and they’re very comfortable with women in public office all over both those states (think Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins - many female mayors and city officials)
- Iowa largely because of team 0bama’s caucus fraud and his Chicago thugs all over the state (per Hillbuzz: “We were told tonight that no one is yet picking up on the fact that Democrats in states that held caucuses, and who saw firsthand the fraud, voter intimidation, and other vile tricks Obama pulled in caucus states have NOT forgotten about any of this. These people are still LIVID that a Democrat dared to use Chicago fraud and intimidation to game the caucus system. The Clinton delegates from caucus states have been coordinating efforts amongst themselves for payback against Obama on November 4th…”
Former Hillary campaign workers in those states say they “have never seen enthusiasm for a Democratic candidate so low — or fear of small-business-killing socialism so high.”
Lots more about this at Hillbuzz - hmmmmm….somehow I’m getting the feeling that a lot of democrats in caucus states are plenty pissed off. And I’m getting a pretty good feeling about November 4!
PUMA!
hillbuzz dot wordpress dot com
I dunno….hope it’s true. The polls say opposite. And didn’t Maine go for Barkie for the primary? Same with Iowa.
Read the article at Hillbuzz - you might be newly encouraged.
I just did. I want to believe it but then is it too good to be true? To say Maine is comfortable with female politicians is the same argument used for Hillary win in February — which didn’t come true. Since the people relaying the info are BO workers, what are the chances they are just feeding false info?
Maine and Iowa were caucuses — we know what happened at the caucuses.
No one caucuses in November.
word.
There are millions of “Wendys” out there. And those millions (PUMAS like me) will be the ones to help make…
John McCain
44th President nof the United States
lol… I thought there were only 12 PUMAs
OK, great- so I hope the other 11 PUMAS also go vote for McCain’ just like I did… LOL
Thank you for sharing this Ani~~ and TY for all your hard work here at NQ…
and of course TY everyone else.
Let’s make sure we see the last of
“that one”
Tuesday
ALL say after me welcome to THE NEXT
President John McCain
Say it enough times it becomes true~~
JustMe,
Thank you for your kind comments and for hanging with us and getting the word out.
It is amazing that blogs like this and so many others have to dig with a teaspoon for the news since 90% of the MSM refuses to report it.
They really deserve to be horsewhipped for their failure to look out for the interests of the Amiercan people. I thought that’s what freedom of the press was all about — well, at least I hoped.
Truly it has been a very painful year living in this twilight zone — but for the wonderful people I have met, in person, and in the blogosphere, who share the same goal.
Keep the faith.
How is this for a Halloween scare?
Indydogg and Ani talk about the disconnect many of the Obotomized have.
We know when Obama did 180s on FISA, Iraq, and campaign finance the kos eaters made excuses about winning the election.
Obama has millions who will never find fault in anything he does.
If he is elected and decides to shred what left of the Constitution, who will stand against him?
Not Kos. Not MSNBC. Not Marshall. Not the Washington Post. Not the New York Times. Not CNN.
Krystallnacht, anyone?
yep.
Here’s another surprising rejection I see on my AP feed (refdesk.com):
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2008-10-29_D944GOGG0&show_article=1&cat=breaking
This is about the infomercial and says it was misleading, calls him out on many points! and so quickly, too. AP has been rather pointedly favorable in their headlines and I see it as a definite change.
FirstRead on MSNBC says people are voting against BO and (wait for it) they’re NOT racist, John King called out biased journalism on CNN the other day, and now AP criticizing THE ONE. Hmmmmm….
I think the reality is suddenly hitting at least some in the MSM - 0bama’s probably gonna LOSE. They should know - they’re the ones who’ve had to cook the polls and skew every single bit of coverage for months and months and months. Now they’re finally figuring out it hasn’t worked.
Anyway, that’s what I think…
What? Criticism from the kool-aid sipping Obama propagandist? Its not November 5th yet.
You are right about MSM realizing OBO’s defeat is upon us. Perhaps they got the inside scoop on those phoney polls that they put out. Still, for these particular MSM you named I’d say its a bit scary or disconbobulated (sp) to hear it from them. Sort of like the world turned upside down - again.
In that link it says that in Obama’s informercial he said “Here’s what I’ll do. Cut taxes for every working family making less than $200,000 a year…” but not that long ago, wasn’t it $250,000? Soon it’ll be $150,000…then $100,000. Who knows how low he’ll go. He’s gonna have to dig deep into a lot of people’s pockets to afford to do the things he wants to do.
That’s what Joe the Plumber said. He said that next it will be $200k, then $150k, then $100k and when will it end? It’s a slippery slope.
I wish BO would take his scrawny little ass and slide right down his own little slippery slope of lies and deceptions into a deep, dark hole, never to be seen again.
Biden’s already said something to the effect that at $150k-$200k you won’t really get a tax cut, it’s just that your taxes won’t go up.
Too bad none of these clowns can figure out a way to spend less of our g/d money so they don’t have to raise our taxes continuously.
MSM always raving about the huge crowds that B.O. draws. But they never mention that there’s ususally a free concert attached to it. The latest one is one here in Tampa this coming Sunday. A free concert by Jimmy Buffet for Obama at a huge venue, The Ford Amphitheater. They don’t confirm whether B.O. will make an appearance or not. Anyway, a gal said that Obama.org says come get your free tickets at designated early voting locations. She went to get hers & they insisted she either go on and vote early for B.O. (she wanted to wait till Tue…and BTW was voting for McCain)….so then they said to get the tickets she needed to sign up to volunteer for Team Obama. Is this crap legal? Coersion, bribing? Huh?
Ooohhhhhhhhh NO, not Jimmy!!!! Damn, I love Jimmy Buffett…………..
I’ve just snapped my Jimmy Buffet CD’s in half. I’ll send the pieces to him with a McCain/Palin bumper sticker. ParrotHead no longer.
ParrotHead?
More like Bird Brains for ‘Bama.
Two breaking things I found on another site….Can any find any more info on these two topics
LA Times Tape
http://israelinsider.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2018399%3ABlogPost%3A11939
Michelle Obama API Tape
http://members.boardhost.com/zendevil/msg/1225306297.html
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/apifox-news-deal-sean-hannity-show-and-greta-van-susterens-show-on-the-record-to-air-the-michelle-obama-tape-in-less-than-24-hours-from-now/
The API thing is to be considered bullshit until Fox verifies. That story has been around for maybe a couple weeks now of a Michelle tape but other than API making claims, there has been NOTHING produced.
That’s from the API link. How convenient. You actually believe this?
Wow. Thank you for posting this, Ani! There’s something incredibly touching about an “insider” going against the grain and speaking up–character.
I read this post the other day and now wonder if it’s at all related to this person or if it’s simply one more–
I’ve seen this posted and reposted a bunch of places — I don’t think this is related to Wendy. Whether this particular piece is authentic or not as to the person ‘confessing’, the tactics described therein certainly seem accurate.
To the extent that people reading about the misinformation and intentional efforts to demoralize McCain voters, realize that in reality he is doing much better than the media would have us believe — that in itself is helpful.
It has been a very tough election for all of us and, honestly, some of these tactics have worked on my morale too. Having been a NQ fan for several months I was a little wiser but nothing really prepared me for all of the machiavellian tactics that were indeed in play.
Tune out the noise and your morale will be great!
I quit watching the news entirely and I feel much better. I used to have Fox News on 24/7, but now I just get all my news through the Internet.
As a Republican, NoQuarter is a tremendous comfort to me.
I feel so happy that I have become united with my long lost American brothers and sisters who were once Democrats.
I believed all the lies, too - that people in the other party hated America.
Obama will never know that he has become a uniter, but not in the way he boasted of being.
He has brought Republicans, Democrats and Independent American patriots together to defeat him and his Marxist plans for our wonderful country.
I am one of those Dems who was duped by my party. I would never even consider having a friend who was a Republican. Things have changed. Now, if I was not in a relationship already, I would consider even sleeping with a Republican!
THROUGH CIVIC EDUCATION,A PROGRAM THAT WILL BE SUPPORTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND PUBLIC AFFAIRES,WE ALL GONNA LEARN HOW TO PUT THIS COUNTRY FIRST BEFORE ANY OTHER CONSIDERATIONS,WE ALL GONNA LEARN HOW TO LOVE THIS COUNTRY AND PROTECT IT IN GOOD OR BAD TIMES,EVEN WITH THE PRICE OF OUR LIVES.
DON’T JUST VOTE PARTY LINE;VOTE FOR THE COUNTRY,VOTE MCCAIN/PALIN ON NOV 04 2008
McGalt…are you propositioning Beth? Naughty naughty!!!
But now that you know they are doing it — just treat them like the irritating little bullying schoolchildren they are. Or brush them away as one would swat a fly.
As Maggie Williams once wisely said:
We. Will. Not. Be. Distracted.
I. Agree. One Gazillion. Farking. Percent.
WaPo: Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations
Of course he is. Crooked is as crooked does. Obama is a disgrace to this Nation, and it’s incomprehensible that millions of people worship this sheister.
what a load of bullshit.i run a small blind bus and since i do in home sales without a machine,i use avirtual terminal on line and unless everything matches incl the 3 diget security number the transaction is denied.god do they have no shame or is it they really do think we are that stupid.
Millions of Obama’Bots have proven to Obama that there’s no downside to betting on stupidity.
From the Washington Post? Home of genuflecting Eugene Robinson Obamabot extraordinaire. Good heavens, the sky is indeed falling.
Obama-Biden’s “New World Order” Democratic Party should change its name to the “Cattle Prod Party” considering the depths to which the party players will stoop to round up votes for “The One.” I’m flabbergasted that ACORN alone hasn’t screwed this candidate’s chances to occupy the Oval Office. Too bad Ms. Button didn’t wake up and smell the stench of every form of ‘ism on the planet in time to go to bat for Sen Clinton, but better late than never, I suppose. Ms. Button will certainly sleep better at night knowing she isn’t still part of the most lying, sinister, misogynistic political party in history. Pelosi, Reid, Brazile, Dean–hope you’re proud of your fraudulent candidate and your despicable party.
Right on EightBelles!
maybe there’s a lot of us out here! My husband and I voted early for McCain/Palin and we’re still registered Dems.
Two registered Democrats in my household voted for Palin and “Grumpy” today. It felt good.
You might be interested in this
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/apifox-news-deal-sean-hannity-show-and-greta-van-susterens-show-on-the-record-to-air-the-michelle-obama-tape-in-less-than-24-hours-from-now/
Did you read it? They are making a claim the alleged Michelle tape will be released, then say they will deny they have an agreement with Fox to air it by telling you about the agreement. Why you spreading a link to that bullshit?
be careful with the api link…trojan virus
TOP story as of the time I am writing this on foxnews.com:
McCain Slams LA Times for Double Standard in Withholding Obama-Khalidi Tape
Poor Barky’s infomercial. Wah! wah!
good.
testing…my posts aren’t going through..
Obama blows it with a sexist ad with Sarah winking.
Shelly Mandell, president of Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women: “I am outraged by the new ad put out by Barack Obama. It is sexist and demeaning to women. These tactics started with Hillary Clinton and continue, growing even more disgusting with Gov. Palin. I was a Hillstar for Hillary and an avid supporter. Trashing two women clearly in a sexist manner in one election is an outrage and must be identified and stopped. There must be consequences. Let female Obama supporters take a good look at this and still believe their candidate supports women’s rights and women’s dignity.”
Oh my gosh - that is great - late but great.
Don’t suppose I should hold my breath, though, til her statements get the wide coverage they deserve. But, maybe they’ll inspire (or guilt) other women to get out there and stand up for women.
The tide is turning FireFly…
AP… Obama was vague and untruthful about spending cuts in his infobama commiercial
MSNBO…Obama all the time…Even they’re getting sick of it..
This is what you call….C.Y. Ass
The media are waking up to the fact that Obama could lose and they backed the wrong horse and have pissed off half the American people
McMoss, I think more than half.
Thanks for braving those place that make me puke, to gauge the reaction.
McGalt..I get my information with a full gauze filter to reduce contamination.
I wonder how many of us started out this year watching Mathews and Olberman and were permanently drivin away??
That can’t be all that good for ratings.
Seattle - Well Said!!
“The media are waking up to the fact that Obama could lose and they backed the wrong horse and have pissed off half the American people.”
They’re no doubt noticing the loss in their viewership as Americans, disgusted with their lack of journalistic curiousity, courage and integrity, turn them off.
The MSM are becoming increasingly irrelevant and unnecessary.
Shelly Mandell came out 2-3 weeks ago at a McCain/Palin rally in California and endorsed Palin. Not late at all. She’s a true feminist and is putting her country first.
Boy, they (BO and Co.) are really going after Palin!… the VP nominee , not the POTUS nominee. And to hear the MSM constantly questioning McCain’s Palin pick for VP as hurting the campaign. ha!… clearly a bullseye for Mac.
Very soon, all of these assholes who trashed Sarah will have to kiss her ass when they refer to her as VICE PRESIDENT PALIN
Don’t forget she will be President of the Senate as well. She can lob moose shit at him from the podium in the Senate chambers.
Galt, you are absolutely making my night.
You are ON tonight!
“Don’t forget she will be President of the Senate as well. She can lob moose shit at him from the podium in the Senate chambers.”
Thanks. I make weird ass connections others would never think of.
We should change that a bit to read:
“Don’t forget in addition to being Vice-President, the Sarahcuda will be President of the Senate as well. She can lob moose shit at Obama and Biden from the podium in the Senate chambers!”
Oh that would be SOOOO sweet!
I’m looking forward to Keith Overbite being a foot stool with Sarah spiking him with her heals
He might actually enjoy that so maybe she bring a whip along with Matthews on a leash.
Not good - Matthews would like it.
Of course Obama is a sexist pig, remember when he was at some rally and he used his middle finger to itch himself while talking about Hillary Clinton, this is no different. He is a disgusting sexist pig, along with a lot of other things(racist, scumbag, liar, fraud, must I continue LOL) the happiest day in my life will hopefully be when Obama has to give his concession speech, but before doing that calling Sarah Palin and CONGRATULATING HER for becoming our 47th Vice President. Now that will be AWESOME!!
Just in case ya’ll don’t remember that middle finger “itch” (yeah, right!) or ya just feel like getting pissed off all over again, thought I put up the YouTube video again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFajPWqmaCI&feature=related
excellent. female obama supporters must be low on self-respect or extremely gullible.
Good point!
How about those boyz out in west Hollywood who hung the effigy of Sarah.
They sure have mommy issues!!!
Probably a million votes for McCain/Palin on that one.
breaking news on Drudge is they have taken it down
A big “welcome” to Wendy! You’re not alone.
I reject and denounce Obama.
Future politicians will have to say the same.
I can see it now…
“I never knew Obama. I did 4 hours of community organising for him.”
If Obama loses people will scrambling..
There will be investigations…
Obama illegal fundraising
Obama gaming caucuses with acorn
Fannie and Freddie…
That’s why they’re so scared of the Mavericks!!
People are going down!!
Oh heavenly day!!
May God, in His great mercy, let it be so.
God this is going to be a great 4 years!!! I’m looking forward to the fireworks. Let McCain/Palin go after the policitians and corruption…WE THE PEOPLE CAN GO AFTER THE MEDIA AND THEIR ADVERTISERS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoOFp-RDpvM&feature=related
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For those of you who have never seen OHitler FLIP HILLARY THE BIRD…It’s so immature, so disgraceful and so petty…is this really what a bunch of moronic Dem female voters is the thing to do? Why are these women so damned STUPID?
I was willing to give that maybe he was only scratching his face, but when he realized how his audience was interpreting the gesture and then just grinned and went on, I was appalled.
If he had stopped and said, “no, that’s not what I meant” it would have been a stand up moment.
The problem with Obama is he always votes ‘present’ on stand up opportunities. Just one of many reasons why he shouldn’t be our President.
All of these celebrities who love to trash Sarah, I find it HILARIOUS that they would NEVER EVER say it to her face. Oh geez I wonder why, its because they are COWARDS, someone on another board mentioned how Alec Baldwin(Yes the father of the year Alec Baldwin) was on the toothless wonder David Letterman trashing Sarah for the way she talks, Hey Alec, how come you didn’t have the guts to say it to her face you JACKASS
Alec Baldwin called his own daughter a PIG. Who the hell cares what he says?
I’m just saying all these people are sick and I can’t wait for Sarah to win so that they will all have to call her VICE PRESIDENT PALIN, you just watch, all of these turds will all jump off buildings, good, so it will be win/win, I sure as hell won’t be on the street holding a net for them
VICE PRESIDENT PALIN
VICE PRESIDENT PALIN
VICE PRESIDENT PALIN
You go girl!
Trust me. The people in the film biz are my colleagues and I have nothing but disrespect for them. I think they’re total idiots. Period. I hope they move to CUBA and take Pelosi with them November 5.
I am in love with Sarah Palin. I know she will be POTUS some day. And for the record let one of the scumbag OHitler people call her stupid. I have 167 IQ and went to college at 15. I know smart. And it’s that fabulous woman who IS on her way to the White House.
I told someone today about your documentary, “We Will Not Be Silenced.” I will send them a link to your website.
Being in the film biz, I don’t know if you know Robert Avrech, but here’s his website:
http://www.seraphicpress.com/
He wrote an article about his experience in Hollywood:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=627B40F1-F7F6-4C15-B190-045C40A1B21F
Thank you Beth. I don’t know him personally but I know who he is. There are way more Hollywood Republicans than anyone knows. Way more. I already told this story once…but I have to relive it. I am getting low on my patriotism with all the scum in this election so I get my America lover thrills where I can.
At a Hollywood Republican secret society lunch Friday…a room full of people sharing what it’s like to be stuck in the dead zone of Hollywood psycho wing nut liberals…a woman started singing the Star Spangled Banner…one by one…EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE ROOM STOOD AND PLACED THEIR HANDS OVER THEIR HEARTS. Take that you America hating scumbag OHitler. We are here, we LOVE our country, and no matter how much you piss on America, the Flag and the Constitution, we are HERE and you will go down, one way or another. I really hate this race. Had it been Hillary, it would at least be two grown ups. Not this crack addled, low rent, lying, cheating, thieving PIECE OF CRAP OHitler.
The Republicans gave us GWB and his neo-cons.
And the Dems are trying to bring us BHO and his neo-Marxists. Two nasty groups we certainly don’t need.
The democrats bring us The NEO-COMS
No Thanks!
Three Five Zero Zero
So when do they bring this home?
Their army is ACORN.
The war is this election.
Their weapon is the vote.
We, American Democracy are the target.
I was a hippie of the days of old.
That song frightened me even then.
I honestly worry that Obama detractors will be killed, if he is elected.
You asked for OT. You got it.
Electronic data processing
Black uniforms
Bare feet, carbines
drop the bad grammar above.
it should be
American Democracy is the target.
but you get the message.
Yea
We did this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmzsHEYOp4A
Oh, well. Just fall in love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25K1rH7SU0I
Since this is so late at night, I know that no one is going to read this except you, you retard. Ani writes great material. If you want to comment, please do so.
Do not insult her. I will be on your case forever.
Get a life and a thought.
Please
Thanks, Agust. Very much.
The campaign must be winding down. We are being nicer to each other. UnderCover. Sorry for snapping at you. And thank you for reading one of our more provocative writers with an open mind.
It is almost daybreak here on the east coast. So - everybody - eyes wide - minds open - body pumped. Let’s go forth and influence an electorate.
Only six more 7pm’s left.
We worked the phones for McCain / Palin last week in Philadelphia, calling Dems. We could not believe the results. Of the people who were willing to give an answer, my results were around 30-40% supporting McCain; my friend was getting 20-30%. And this is Philadelphia (yes, the 2008 World Series Champs)!! The polls and the reality on the ground are two very different things. Keep your chins up and volunteer for the McCain ticket. It has been one of the best things to do to lift my spirits.
thank you for letting us know what is REALLY going on.
oh my…well Wendy you have alot of integrity and guts…thanks for the post and Wendy, thank you for standing up for what is right. Please dont’ think you are alone….you aren’t!
Here’s another Democrat who has HAD IT with the way Sarah has been portrayed.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In a room full of television industry executives, no one seemed inclined to defend MSNBC on Monday for what some were calling its lopsidedly liberal coverage of the presidential election.
The cable news channel is “completely out of control,” said writer-producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, a self-proclaimed liberal Democrat.
She added that she would prefer a lunch date with right-leaning Fox News star Sean Hannity over left-leaning MSNBC star Keith Olbermann.
Olbermann was criticized by many who attended Monday’s luncheon sponsored by the Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The event was dubbed “Hollywood, America and Election ‘08.”
Bloodworth-Thomason and others seemed especially critical of the way MSNBC — and other media — has attacked Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin while demeaning her supporters.
“We should stop the demonizing,” she said, adding that Democrats have been worse than Republicans as far as personal attacks on candidates are concerned. “It diminishes us,” she said of her fellow Democrats.
Bloodworth-Thomason even suggested a defense of Palin and her supporters should be written into TV programing, just as she went out of her way to portray Southern women as smart in her hit TV show “Designing Women.”
Regarding the disgusting way that Democrats and MSM have treated Palin check out this 4-minute video discussion between Democrats Joshua Cohen of Boston Review and black professor at Brown University, Glenn Loury:
http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/15418?in=14:48&out=19:26
I thought the bots always said that Barry writes all his speeches b/c he is brilliant..
Guess it takes a woman to help, huh?
Has anyone in the media ever asked Obama about the sexism displayed during the primary or during the general campaigns? I would like to see him answer that question.
I saw Michelle Obama on Leno (?) commenting that her clothes were from J.Crew- obviously a planned swipe at Palin, although she commented how difficult it was to be in the national public eye suddenly. I think those two comments cancel eachother out. That was a time she could have stood up for woman. That very moment she could have made a statement on the sexism in this race and in America and she chose not to.
The news media has continually demoralized us into thinking that we are all wrong and Obama will win. Don’t pay them any mind. They are liars and traitors to the United States of America. Obama is not a natural citizen of this country. Pelosi and the rest of the democratic party knew and so did Hillary and Bill. I have lost all respect for both of them. They should have stood up for the United States of America. Instead they stood up for the fraud and their political party. I cannot forgive that. This woman’s story is sad but encouraging that many are now seeing the light about this fraud. If we let the media and Obama beat us down and refuse to vote for McCain then we will get an Obama in the White House. Ignore them and vote for your country, vote McCain.
Here is a poem my daughter in law sent me this morning.
‘Twas the night before elections
And all through the town
Tempers were flaring
Emotions all up and down!
I, in my bathrobe
With a cat in my lap
Had cut off the TV
Tired of political crap.
When all of a sudden
There arose such a noise
I peered out of my window
Saw Obama and his boys
They had come for my wallet
They wanted my pay
To give to the others
Who had not worked a day!
He snatched up my money
And quick as a wink
Jumped back on his bandwagon
As I gagged from the stink
He then rallied his henchmen
Who were pulling his cart
I could tell they were out
To tear my country apart!
” On Fannie, on Freddie,
On Biden and Ayers!
On Acorn, On Pelosi”
He screamed at the pairs!
They took off for his cause
And as he flew out of sight
I heard him laugh at the nation
Who wouldn’t stand up and fight!
So I leave you to think
On this one final note-
IF YOU DONT WANT SOCIALISM
GET OUT AND VOTE!!!!
McCain~Palin
2008
I am a life long Democrat and a former Hillary Clinton supporter and volunteer however, I will be voting for McCain/Palin on November 4th because I believe in country first not party allegiance no matter what. I am very disappointed in Hillary and Bill Clinton because they know that Obama is not qualified to be president.
One last thing, Hillary knew about the hanging Sarah Holloween thing in West Hollywood but she never came out and said a word nor has any other prominent female democrat or Hollywood star. Well make your mind and fight for your country. Please get out and vote for McCain.
Hopefully, when the Bobo fiasco is over, the Clintons can resurrect the real Democratic Party. If it weren’t for them, I would change my affiliation to Republican. I never would have believed I would see my life-long party belittle and attack a common man like Joe the Plumber. I would have never believed they would go so far over the far-left cliff that they would excuse domestic terrorists, Jew-haters, infanticide-supporters, sex-ed-for-kindergarteners advocates, and a whole laundry list of diabolical schemers and Marxist revolutionaries! They have bombed the path for any other black candidate in the foreseeable future and given the GOP enough political dynamite to last for decades. The long national nightmare will, in a sense, be over in a few days, but the lingering effects will last and last.