[Update x2] Axe on Rahm * Open Thread
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on December 17, 2008 at 5:20 PM in Current Affairs
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OPEN THREAD + this video from MSNBC’s Morning Joe today. And here’s a tidbit that is important for our newer readers to know: Our DCMediaGirl, who’s unfortunately been too busy to do her radio show or write for us (and we miss her so much!), knows Joe Scarborough and has worked with him in the TV business. DCMediaGirl is a great fan of Joe’s mind, independence of thought and opinion, and his qualities as a human being. (There’s more on those two below the fold.)
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NOW, ENJOY YOUR OPEN THREAD! And happiest holidays to all of you.
P.S. I called our local county shelter, and they are in desperate need of cat and dog food, as well as financial donations. If you are able, please include a donation to your own local shelters at this time. Every shelter in this nation is overwhelmed by animals that people can no longer care for because of our tough economy. Later today, if the roads aren’t too icy, I’m going to deliver a few cans of wet cat food to the shelter. It won’t be much, but every little bit helps.
Animals have no voice except for the kind-hearted people who work and volunteer at shelters and who help run advocacy groups such as HSUS.
They can’t tell us how desperate they are for some food and some love.
So it’s up to us to think of them. And help them however we can.
You’d be surprised what shelters need. Everything from bleach to soaps (including laundry soap) to trash bags to WET and dry food to U.S. postage stamps to printer paper, and on and on. Whatever you have “extras” of, they’ll gladly take.
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Thanks for the reminder about the shelters … never thought about the “other stuff” they might need! Cheers!
December 17, 2008
Pictures: Barack Obama as a college freshman
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5361432.ece
Obama smokes.mpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpt3c_GSpn8
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Is a lie of omission a LIE?
Re: the photo of young 0bama smoking a cig.
It’s fairly obvious that the media sat on that photo until now.
In the article it says that they kept them locked in a safe so they couldn’t be used against him. I’m guessing it was the photographer herself who did that…?
Shelters have an endless need for towels, sheets, blankets that might be too ripped or stained to give to a thrift store, too.
Is that how Axelrod’s voice usually sounds? His voice was wavering. I haven’t listened to him to know if that is normal or not. If not, he was very very nervous.
I have heard him many times and that’s not his normal voice. Very very nervous. Then he lied when saying that Barack did not campaigned for Blago when we here have seen videos of Barack doing so.
I think Axelrod is coming apart for some reason.
Some of the “waver” sounded like cell phone fade, but he was practically stuttering, not confident in all the other measures of his speech.
Axe is showing signs of abuse. I think Obanana is ahead of schedule also in becoming a tyrant jerk within his inner circle – you know Hussein type of El Comandante.
You know, I always expected Bush to unhinged on any certain day, but Laura was able to keep him calm at night after a good reading of Mother Goose.
But Michelle not being a reader, I think we are going to see Obanana come unhinged ahead of schedule, perhaps even before inauguration day.
thank you for the mention of helping animals. I support my local SPCA with money, food/supplies and my time. Anything people can drop off is welcome. Old blankets, paper towels, laundry soap, treats, toys. There are always people asking for donations for a good cause but rarely for animals. They surely will appreciate it and are in the shelter through no fault of their own. I can’t say the same for all people who get donations. A friend of mine said a woman he knows has a 20 something daughter w kids, no husband, Goes around to all the local churches and signs up at each one and gets more donations than she knows what to do with. It’s sickening. Because of greedy people like this some kids won’t get anything.
Did everybody see how The One threw the GBLT community under the bus? It’s safe to go back to MyDD and post there as well. I have been posting for 2 weeks now and have not been hide rated or banned. The place is dead and it woud be great to take it back to further our cause of exposing Obama as a fraud. The trolls and obots got tired of the place. Here is the link to my diary. http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/12/17/17276/795
“The place is dead..”
Good, and hopefully more will follow.
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Yes the he threw the Gay Community under the bus. Ask me if I’m surprised? Ask me if I feel sorry for them.
Not!
They supported this jerk.
Anyone with half a brain knew what to expect.
But, the Gay Community is not the only one kicked to the curb with the selection of Warren.
I doubt AA ministers are going to thrilled at not having one of our own get that choice spot at this ‘historic’ Inauguration.
Again, ask me if I care?
Not even a little bit.
Geez… and I thought I’d have to wait a really long time before the fun started.
yeah talk left is better. i go there to view some of btd’s comments. he has settled back down to sanity and critques of obama.
I hardly post at MyDD anymore since the discourse there is so juvenile and narrow in scope. That’s unfortunate because some of the more level-headed diarists are quite good. But posters there are generally very immature, and invariably obsess about troll rating and rec’d diaries. They are also intolerant of different views, attacking anyone who challenges their blindness toward the ONE. For the most part, an exchange with a poster there is to descend into the depths of stupidity or ignorance–or both. It’s really rather tiresome.
After feeding my 6 cats and as of tonight a 7th in my house, ugh…my husband loves cats…and feeding some outside we are doing our part as best we can, and have a warmer water bowl outside for the cold weather.
My wife and I have 12 cats, with all but the original two being rescues from shelters or from the wild. We love them dearly but that will be all for us.
Hi Ferdie, Nice to know that about you and your wife. I have a stray. Found him in the brush on a Floida highway. He was less than 2 months old. We just had our 6th anniversary. Nigel is great company. I’m feeding two stray and very feral cats out of my garage now. Can’t get near them. Gosh, they’re beauties.
Hi, tillthen. My wife, Katmoon has found some way to make all the various strays and rescues behave with each other and with us. I think it may be some sort of Kitty voodoo. One of the foundlings was a beautiful tortoise shell. The others are typical domestic shorthairs.
bless you for that berfie. i have 3 indoor kitties and feed two outside kitties also. when ike came in i took the three indoor cats and left. i was so worried about the other two. fortunately there is shelter here for them. i left food with a neighbor to put out for them. we didn’t have flooding here but i was worried about the trees falling. when i came back, they heard my voice and came running.
that is awesome stodgie ….. I need to go taake some food etc to the shelter….
Audit obama “For Cause”
by murphy on December 17, 2008
in PROWL, Uncategorized
http://pumapac.org/2008/12/17/3456/
The now famous Mr. Doodad Pro, who listed his occupation as “Loving You,” loved obama so much he contributed more than 1,500 times. There is no way to know, unless obama tells the FEC, who Doodad is and whether he is a real person. This is fraud.
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Presidential campaigns will never be the same again.
Kennedy Goes on Tour Upstate
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/nyregion/18upstate.html?_r=1&hp
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Same playbook, Caroline Kennedy does a tour, just as Obama did his world tour. Camelot or same lot?!?
backlot.
I just e mailed Governor Paterson about not appointing Caroline.
I don’t think New Yorkers are going to be impressed.
The NYC people will. Upstae not so much. We need a Senator who comes from the other part of the state west of the Hudson. It’ll never happen because the Gov and the legislative leaders all hail from the great city of Oz. We are the serfs here on the other side of the Empire state. Patterson is now taxing everything that moves and the good old middle class will be paying for it. But wait, come to NY everyone because we will have relaxed rules for welfare and medicaid etc. Come one, come all, move here and get a free ride from day one. A 30% increase in welfare benefits is on the table. I cannot wait to get out of here. It is beyond ludicrous. Pretty soon there will be no one working or left to pay for all this taxation. Run far away from NY if you are a productive member of society. Otherwise, you will have your blood sucked dry.
The NYC people will. Upstate not so much. We need a Senator who comes from the other part of the state west of the Hudson. It’ll never happen because the Gov and the legislative leaders all hail from the great city of Oz. We are the serfs here on the other side of the Empire state. Patterson is now taxing everything that moves and the good old middle class will be paying for it. But wait, come to NY everyone because we will have relaxed rules for welfare and medicaid etc. Come one, come all, move here and get a free ride from day one. A 30% increase in welfare benefits is on the table. I cannot wait to get out of here. It is beyond ludicrous. Pretty soon there will be no one working or left to pay for all this taxation. Run far away from NY if you are a productive member of society. Otherwise, you will have your blood sucked dry.
Sorry for the double post.
I do not support Caroline Kennedy to be my Senator.
And I will not vote for her in 2010.
I will not vote for Gov Paterson if he picks her, even though I know he’s being put in a political bind by all the powers-that-be over this.
This is the most disgraceful turn of political events in NYS ever.
carolyn on tour? give me a break. for one thing she has a last name but no charisma. she isn’t jfk or robert. well she isn’t teddy either. what she is a weathy older woman with no real background for what the suckups tell her she was born to do. it is not in her training. she wasn’t that involved with the kennedy rough and tumble politics. her mom removed her from it long ago. carolyn will disappiont. shame on you ted.
Obama and Caroline Kenendy set this whole thing up. The only Reason he gave Hillay a Job in his administration is to make the way for Caroline to be senator and then run for President. Caroline Kennedy knew she could not beat Hillary for that New York Seat.
Obama and Caroline have outsmarty my gal Hillary. I just hope HRC does not endorse caroline Kennedy. THis entire NY senate seat was in emotion from the the time Obama became the nominee.
I think you are correct, we have been played!
The real play will come when Hillary is removed from SOS for something that really wasnt her fault.
Probably. But I figure after 4 years of investigations & scandals, Hillary is probably going to run again anyway.
She’ll be able to use the very same arguments Obama used against her in the primaries. LOL.
Agreed.
It’s depressing to see how she’s been treated but I gotta say she shoulda stayed in to the end and then flipped them all the bird and ridden off into the sunset.
instead . . . well . . . .
And WTF would she tell her supporters to’lay off CK” (as reported in the Daily News) when she was was tarred and feathered by the media?
WhHy the he!! does she feel compelled to come to the aid of the back-stabbing bytches who helped destroy her?
And can someone please enlighten me about how the heck the brilliant Clintons were out-maneuvered?
basil the Clinton’s are never really outmanuvered. They make mandates for another day I believe.
If I recall correctly after Barry and President Clinton’s lil lunch barry looked like a schoolboy.
Something is in the works
I think it is somewhat of a stalemate but right now Obama holds the edge. He is definitely manuevering the game board as per plan. Clintons have something on OB and he has something on them is my guess. It must be big on both sides because of how they both acted. She backed off during the campaign in kind of an abrupt fashion when all the signs pointed to her gaining the momentum. She campaigned for him and he granted her the SOS position and made nice to her publicly. It is probably pretty viscious behind the scenes. I do agree that it looks like Ob set the table for Caroline to start her move towards the Pres. after Obama is done as payback for her support. I’m sure he’s thinking 2012, as is the DNC. What a monkey wrench if he gets kicked out or only lasts for 4 years. I never count the Clintons out, but so far he’s winning imo. and they seem disinclined to attack on any level. We shall see but I think she will regret leaving her Senate seat. Maybe she just doesn’t want to continue this kind of stressful lifestyle and will make the SOS position her swan song. Maybe that’s the only choice she was given. Oh the intrique of it all and we will never know the wole truth I’m afraid.
Meant 2016.
IMO, her giving her endorsement of BO wasn’t such a big deal – it was during the primaries, and Hillary won NY. I certainly don’t think it deserves the payback of a footup toward a future presidential run.
My guess is this is one more thing “about Obama”. I’ve heard others say he’ll probably dump Biden by 2012, and then throw CK on as his VP, to offset any potential run by Palin. I’d say it’s more likely to be that, then a presidential run.
What she did just wasn’t that big for such a huge payback, and I think BO’s paybacks are confined to things that help himself. If he doesn’t need you anymore, forget the payback, you’re under the bus. So whatever this move is, I think it’s for him, not her, or the democratic party.
But it is interesting that CK gave the max to Hillary before the primary started. Then turned around and endorsed BO. Something’s up with that.
If CK gets the Senate seat then BO will have Biden resign and will run with CK in 2016.
I agree with that too. And knowing Hillary I think she will endorse Caroline.
These things have a way of working out. Hillary ran for the seat and won it outright. If Caroline Kennedy is appointed, she will have to earn it outright herself. If she looses it to a republican..there will be hell to pay within the party and Hillary will be no where near to be blamed.
It was obvious that Hilary was dead in the Senate with Ted Kennedy pushing and everyone reminding her of “her lack of seniority”. I don’t blame her for taking the position of SOS.
Ted Kennedy start out in life as a sexist pig and it looks like he will go out as one of the biggest sexist pigs in history.
But being appointed and running as an incumbent gives her 2 legs up and the road to earn the seat by running and winning is much easier. She’s got the seat for who she is. She should be embarrased to be out grubbing for a high elected office.
Glad she won’t be my senator.
The problem she will have is UPSTATE NY. HIllary went to every part of this state. Her and Bill would come to the State Fair in Syracuse.
The talk around town, was all the new taxes and fees the Governor is planning. Quite a few of us think that besides being legally blind, he is also legally stupid.
paterson is so not going to be relected. and caroline might find rough and tumble politics is not her cup of tea. folks will stop bowing and scraping like they did at the convention. she will find like barky, that after while saying you know who i am don’t you loses it’s impact.
You’d think she’d be embarrassed but she isn’t.
Noblesse oblige…
Ugh!
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There are plenty of people that are far more capable and deserving of the honor of representing NY than Caroline. Please, whether a New Yorker or not, make your thoughts known and call/email Gov. Paterson and let him know that should he install Caroline, he can not only kiss your vote goodbye, but he can count on you actively supporting his opponent when he comes up for election.
Patriots, please check out ginacobb.typepad.com, she has a wonderful assessment, with clear references, of Obama’s house being owned by….Rezko’s lawyer. it is crazy and insane.
And texasdarlin has a very nice walk through of how if you google Obama’s address, it is linked not to a Chicago number, but to a San Fran phone number. And that number belongs to….the Socialist party.
You can’t make this shit up.
Another day, another mystery in the secret life of the obama trash.
What is wrong with these Chicago thugs that they cannot speak without the pauses, the stuttering and the Uh, Uh, Uh’s? It is very distracting and totally unconvincing. The thought of listening to this from any of them for 4 years is mind-numbing.
Axelrod is a smarmy, lying sack of sh#@.
the stumbling over words is typical of LIARS. Especially if it is a question or inquiry they aren’t expecting. People who are honest just speak how they feel. Whey you’re corrupt like the OBama bunch you have to make things up. It’s hard to make it up in a few seconds when you don’t know it’s coming.
That type of nervousness is not all a sign of lying. It is more a sign of injury or being under the gun. Is this the way we all going to sound when Obanana takes over our Republic as a Dictator? Oops, I wasted a question.
Axelrod, what a liar! You can tell from his voice he’s bullshitting out of his ass.
Yes but more. I think from the sound of his voice that Obama has turned into a real jerk now that he has won the election and has the title of PEBO. I think what he is showing is signs of being abused and having real fear – of not pleasing The One. I say that Obama has become a tyrant within his inner circle of advisers and friends. That’s why Biden, Michelle, Hillary and everyone else is simply frozen in their tracks and completely afraid of saying one word to the press. That’s what I think.
Maybe they see some really large handwriting on the wall. They all seem messed up since Monday, including O. I’m sure O would react to fear by taking it out on others, as much as he might abuse power by being autocratic, so this is not inconsistent with your theory.
I heard him this morning on MJ and it did not sound like the Axelrod that I have been listening to over the last 10 months. When he usually speaks he is forthright and says what he has to say. I couldn’t believe the pausing and the er-ing and uh-ing just like Barry!
He was lying like a rug.
I miss Joe, stopped watching the show after getting sick of Mika’s obama drool smile every morning during the primaries. If it were on at night I could watch, just can’t take her first thing in the morning…..poor tummy.
Mika and Joe do not make for a good combination. There’s no chemistry. He need a co-host with a little more moxy.
annie, i agree about mika. she just irriates me. have you ever been to dinner with a couple and either the wife or husband keeps trying to speak over the other. she brings nothing to the table.
This is a very interesting video:
You Know There’s A Problem When MSNBC Attacks No-Record Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF07DUYmjUY
You know there is a problem when Axelrod sounds like he is sh***** in his pants. Axelrod sounds he is going to get spanked by Obambi if he makes one absolutely one more mistake.
I’ll bet MO wields the whip in the family.
Just one of the many First Lady duties she thinks she should be paid for.
I saw someone say something about an article where the first lady should get paid………does this have legs? she wants to get paid?
Equal pay maybe. 400 Gs.
Joe, is a year six months late, ah a year late and Mika’s father was pushing Obama big time. Joe, its like the wedding, speak NOW or for ever hold your peace and Dude you were seen throwing rice with Tweety,and Deranged Keith (yelling with bulging veins).
Obama has been on a honeymoon, and you all paved the way….asking NOTHING!
NasuS, I have been wondering after the Vets of the Northern Woods… I think about them often and wonder if there was any org regarding them?
Remeber our homeless Vets.
blog looks normal to me
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/503643.aspx
Can Rick Warren pray for Obanana and ask God in no uncertain words to ‘forgive Obanana many lies during his campaign and to help him stop lying now that he got what he wanted.’
God may laugh audibly from the sky and the roar event may create a Washington Security threat. The host of angels may laugh and ‘dislodge’ the earth from its orbit.
Poor Axelrod, even speaking the truth, like he did regarding Obama’s involvement in picking his replacement, could get him blasted! He does not know what is “safe” to say at this point.
He deserves no tears. He enabled O and Daley and any number of other trouble-causers.
I guess Blagos was just a guy in the neighborhood, huh, Barack? You never knew he was that way or said those things, right?
I am searching for your redeeming qualities, Mr. Obama. Responsibility,friendship, courage, honesty, loyalty and faith are out. I am surprised you have survived without them.
Has anyone noticed how unnerved BO appears. He sweats a lot. I can feel his emotions by just watching him. He does not have a good poker face.
No black background, but now, I’m curious.
Axlerod is clearly tired and unsure of his story. Emanuel and Axlerod are ducking and weaving from this issue, and everything that falls out of their mouths is a mistruth. Now that the Il Supreme court wont impeach Blago we get to hear him sing. This is going to get messy. Go BLAGO.
Everyone seems to have forgotten Caroline’s name is Schlossberg. Mrs. Schlossberg. And it is the writing on the wall – she will take over from Joe Biden as Obama’s vp and then run in 2016 or whatever year Obama decides to stop being Dictator….er…. sorry – President, I meant to say.
Re the background – it is always black to begin with at the top of the page at and under the first thread… have to click on it to turn it back to white – sometimes takes a couple of minutes to change to normal. Has been like that since the middle of the primaries…
“DCMediaGirl is a great fan of Joe’s mind, independence of thought and opinion, and his qualities as a human being.” I might be too, if I didn’t remember Lori Klausutis — the woman who died violently in his office, whose death was disappeared in the media. Do a search for her, or see, for example, “Who Is MSNBC Anchor Joe Scarborough?” by Denis Wright (http://www.larryflynt.com/notebook.php?id=17), “A Death in the Congressman’s Office” by Wright and Chris George (http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html), or “Never Bound by the Truth” by George and Wright (http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010911Klausutis.html).
Everyone remembers Chandra Levy. Who remembers Lori Klausutis? Scarborough’s “qualities as a human being” make my flesh creep.
i see a black background that takes up the width of the page and is about 6in tall. this is only at the top of the page.
Re Rendell: I read his comments differently. He said Matthews would be the strongest “Dem” candidate then went on to caution he’d be running against (the formidable) Specter. He also said, prefacing his remarks, he didn’t know for certain if Matthews would be running.
I don’t really take this as an “endorsement”, seems more like a weak type of praise?
Nevertheless, nothing surprises me anymore at this point. I want our country back. I hope if Matthews does run that he loses bigtime.
Sorry, I put this in the wrong thread!
Gun to my head answer: Yes. ,