Larry Johnson on John Batchelor tonight! * Hope springs anew * Open Thread!
By SusanUnPC on January 4, 2009 at 8:58 PM in Current Affairs, Larry Johnson, Obama Administration, Obamatopia, Obamatopia Mirage, Open Thread
Do NOT miss Larry Johnson, a Sunday night regular on the great national AM radio show hosted by John Batchelor, one of the sharpest analysts out there. John hosts a provocative, fascinating show that also makes you think (a rare double offering on AM radio). Listen live here via Los Angeles AM station KFI 640, starting at 7:00 p.m. PT. (Drop by early if you haven’t listened before since you may need to download a small, easy-to-install piece of software to listen.) Larry joins the show at 7:30 p.m. every Sunday. ALSO: Uppity Woman has a great piece by Batchelor up at her blog, “RBO: Batchelor Coverage of Gaza.” [Susan's Note: This should be interesting since John and Larry will have different POVs, but they'll doubtless demonstrate how thoughtful people can disagree agreeably (a good lesson for many to learn)!,]
Ah, you cynics. You thought hopey-changey was all illusion, a game to win an election followed by [what in the hell do we do now].
But look now! Tim Kaine has just been named the new national chair of the Democratic party! Tim is known for his strong support for feminist causes, including abortion rights. (I wonder if Dr. Lynette Long will be discussing Gov. Kaine’s appointment tomorrow night on her radio show.)
And they are just lovin’ us around the world! Look at this happy group in Jakarta, Indonesia celebrating our new leader at an anti-Israel protest!
I found that image at Powerline, which reports:
So I confess to some satisfaction in seeing Obama’s likeness paraded at a hate rally in Jakarta, along with those of Maburak and Olmert. The protesters were blaming Obama for Israel’s attack on Hamas, when he hasn’t even been inaugurated yet!
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oh dear…those people in Jarkarta are going to be called racist for that photo. Oh, that’s right, they don’t give a shit about Barry and his hopey change bs.
are those bullet holes in their heads?
Sure looks that way.
eye holes.
I thought that for a second because I did not immediately understand what the photo was. Then I realized that it is men wearing masks. So those are probably holes to see out of.
But, but, but… I thought people around the world loved Barry. I thought that’s why we had to have him… because he was so universely adored.
I’ve been very curious how the Muslim world will treat Obama. I lived in SE Asia in a Muslim country for a couple years and I was told that once a Muslim always a Muslim. And that you ARE the religion that your father was born into.
OMG… I CAN’T BELIEVE IT…WHITEY TAPE IS ACTUALLY REAL! WHY WASN’T THIS BROUGHT OUT BEFORE THE ELECTION… HOW COULD WE HAVE BEEN SO WRONG.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZi6U811hxE
A stupid obot. This is the change you can believe in, folks.
what is an obot? I do not understand your word, explain…
An obot is a person with such a low IQ and paucity of imagination that they have to ask what an obot is?
LOL!
It’s alright. Propaganda and brain-washing have affected your brain. In time, even without official treatment, it’ll wear off.
It is thrilling to feel such excitement. But reality has an unfortunate way of breaking the balloons.
Don’t you FOOLS think it’s time to retire that whitey tape thing?
That’s funny – that’s exactly what sane people were saying to LJ last June!
What’s really funny is that you trolls can’t prove it DOESN’T exist, now can you? Thought so. So take the whitey tape troll nonsense elsewhere wouldya’?
People will never forget, OIAF. Never.
Any reasonable person would infer that a politically damaging tape like this would have been brought out during the epic and contentious long election season. Even the tape the LA Times was confirmed to exist, even if it wasn’t shown. With the whitey tape, you had one person insisting it was real, and a lot of anonymous sources and NQ screennames talking about it like it existed. But no reliable source said they saw the tape, or could confirm that it existed at all. So while there’s no way to prove the tape doesn’t exist, there’s no need to. Intelligent people can be confident the tape doesn’t exist for the above reasons.
^ Now here’s a man who sounds like he can function in the grown-up world.
Logical fallacies.
Who are you trying to convince, yourself?
Sure sounds like it.
Chances are, given the political climate, and the money thrown around, given the conditions under which Obama was handed the Presidency, it makes more than enough sense to think a damaging tape was, in fact, held back, by (momentarily) powerful interests.
We’re only now getting to any truth about Blago, and Rezko, and Obama, why would the tape be any different?
But you know, you can pretend.
And then there is truth.
And no amount of pretend can make that truth go away.
By skinny malinky’s logic, we can all infer that the alleged Hawaii birth certificate of the alleged Barack Obama exists only in the mind of the alleged Barry Soertoro since it is rumored to exist and yet no reliable source has seen it and Barry Soertoro, aka Barack Obama, refuses to produce it for the Judicial system that is charged with protecting our Constitution.
And, if it had existed during this drawn out and contentious election season, someone would have produced it if only to avoid the historical embarrassing legacy to the Democratic party of supporting an unconstitutional candidate.
Therefore, intelligent people can be confident that the birth certificate doesn’t exist and the witnesses, grandmother, relatives and government officials, who swear Soertoro/Obama was born in Kenya are correct and he is therefore not a native son entitled to run as a candidate for president of the United States.
Yep, just like clockwork…..Obama’s in trouble (richardson, etc) and the bots come out to distract, deflect….typical.
And to think these pathetic F**ks get PAID to do this. What a bust.
I don’t get paid for this.. no no.. just my own AMUSEMENT. In fact, I just got done cooking my lovely wife a delicious stir-fry with some veggies I bought at my local asian market, and I’m just sitting down to move some files from my desktop to my new media server. Nope, jaut having a beer and taking a look at the rediculous rantings of the Pumabots here… just injecting a little sanity really…carry on with the hate though! It’s throughly amusing!
Really?
I figured you for a Kentucky Fried Chicken kind of guy.
You know, they have dirve throughs now, KFC — for the kook on the go, wasn’t that thoughtful?
“drive thru” — ’scuse my typos, and grammar.
Are you sure you didn’t just have a McDonald’s Happy Meal? What toy did you get?
I got a Hillary nutcracker with mine!
I know some people find the image of nutcracker offensive, I know some scardy boys who shudder at the thought — a woman able to take them down.
So they over compensate, blog and stupidly support Obama.
Tara Reid, I figure she can take a guy like Jon Feaveru (sp?), you know?
Richardson’s in trouble, Obama’s clearly not.Quite likely he asked him to leave.
So… did Obama “throw Richardson under the bus”?
or…
Did he not “vet him properly”?
Is Clinton’s similar dealings “off the table”? or is it all “business as usual”?
One again the Angry Pumabot reality distortion field cranks up to create a kaleidoscope of possibleperversions to beleive in….
Once again a stupid mindless Obamabot thug comes to call when Obamamessiah needs a distraction.
imustprotest, Best to you and yours.
The person asks if Clinton is “off the table”. The irony is that They were crying foul when Ken Star spent millions in tax payer dollars to find nada.
You don’t see them saying this time and money would be better served investing in k-12 education with the aim of educating young people to think critically?
Along with impeachment, thats off the table.
And channelling the voice of Solder4Hillary…
The focus should be Richardson and any impropriates, and his connection with the President Select. The fallback distraction of what we used to consider as far right behavior, “Clinton bashing” is ironic and sickening at the same time. I agree. What ever happened to concerns about social issues? Protection and shielding of The One seems to take precedence.
Yes, as the list is growing, now not just across our country, but in other parts of the world O-shit solicited for support, are saying, O-’s silence on matters important is NOT GOLDEN.
When he has nothing good to say on the subject, he gives the lame response “only one president at a time”. But gee, that sure doesn’t keep him silent on other areas the ONE President addresses, jobs, taxes, economy, stimulus package.
Can he not give any surprises to the nonkoolaid drinkers? I mean, even we deserve a surprise now and again. We can’t have predicted E VERY SINGLE OBVIOUS ACT HE WILL BE DOING….or NOT DOING we should say.
You’re a disgrace to America and the reason we are in trouble “Heartland Dumbazz.” Fraudbama’s in BIG TROUBLE. Do you READ? Wow…just…wow. At least we can confirm the Obot IQ is unilaterally below 50.
I can REED real GODE!!! What in the world are you blathering about? Richardson is being investigated, he was asked to leave the administration. Cest la vie. Nothing to do with Obama, and proably won’t be the last of the old guard dems to be shown the door. That’s the change you can believe in. Are you the front line of the Angry Pumas? Sure seems like you’ve taken a few volleys to the head.
Another idiot comment Heartland Dumbazz-Troll. I am nowhere near a PUMA, although I hold them in very high regard for taking the stand they did against the criminal DNC and the Fraudbama theft of the White House. Go do your “reeding” Obot troll. Oops, you’re on the clock. Maybe later LOL.
Heartland…..I hear your mommy….I mean you “wife” calling…she wants you to clean up your room. Better go now or your parents won’t pay for that spring break vacation this year.
Ahh, there we go… nothing like a little hypocritical misogyny to strike fear into the opposition! There there, let it all out, my angry little puma…
Heartland Dumbazz…what up with your idiot self calling everyone here a PUMA? You called me one. What a joke. I love the PUMAS for what they did, but just because someone has the brains to detest Fraudbama doesn’t make them PUMA. Just makes them America loving folks with common sense and intelligence.
Did you report in to HQ today for your talking points? Or do you get extra pay every time you say “angry”?? Bots, so typical, so predictable. Run along now little one, I still here mommy calling you.
How many times do you get paid to use the word “bot”?
Jizzbrain Dem…what do they pay you? A nickle a post to sell out America? Is it worth it?
Man, I only wish. If I only had a nickel for every stupid bot on this blog….I’d be rich, and probably donating to Obama’s Inaugural and Defense Fund.
just like clockwork…
Obots and
Orangey Skies?
…
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Ah, they said on GMA orange is the new hot color this year, as opposed to last year’s purple.
I’m sick of orange, it was in about five years ago, tired, now.
OTOH, Marc Jacobs is using vintage Steven Sprouse to decorate (some of )the new 2009 Louis Vuitton bags, “the Roses” very beautiful, (sort of like the cover of Todd Rundgren’s “Something, Anything),” a bright splash of color.
Pricey, though.
Oops! I guess the sight of foreigners NOT celebrating the messiah Obama is cause for Obots to go back to OT taunts.
Way to do Farthead Dem. You showed your true IQ.
BWWAAAHAAAA!!
Ding ding ding: Troll alert!
It is so inspiring that trolls work on weekends…a lesson to us all.
It’s all the Obots have. Mindless ridicule.
They can’t comprehend that the Republicans CHOSE not to use it. Just like John McCain — for reason I’ll never fathom — chose not to run the great commercial he had set to go that showed Jeremiah Wright. Cluck, cluck.
We had no influence with McCain’s campaign or the GOP. We reported. They had it. They didn’t use it. End of story.
Susan…we all know it exists. And believe the McCain camp had a 50/50 shot that if they used it they would be labeled “racists” or it would somehow backfire. I don’t understand a lot of McCain’s choices, the ones that somehow seemed honorable and gentlemanly, but ultimately the lack of truth about Fraudbama cost him the election. And our country is in trouble now. Sigh. As for Larry and you reporting on it…good job. Anyone with a brain believed it was out there…especially with James-Brown-in-a-Dress practicing her “Why’d He?” nonsense.
Anyone with a brain should be able to understand that there has never been any proof that Larry’s story was true. In fact, Larry contradicted himself, telling irreconcilable versions of the story (sources were all Republicans at first, then the majority of them were Democrats). Michelle on stage with Farrakhan? Didn’t happen. Laying blame for Katrina at an event that supposedly took place before the hurricane? Impossible.
And the belief that the “why’d he” thing came from the Obama campaign is an NQ legend and nothing more. Simply did not happen. Came from an anonymous poster at boomantribune who didn’t cite any source. But it feels good for people like you to believe the self-serving myth.
pressboy-the-troll…did any of you MORONS ever realize that we ALL heard of the whitey tape from REAL people in politics? Not little boys blogging for Fraudbama from Gaza in their mommy’s basement, in their underpants. Long before I came to NQ I knew about it from people who wouldn’t take your phone calls. WHY on earth is ANY of this a surprise? Quite frankly, all you have to do is read MeChelle’s illiterate thesis to know that she’s probably ranted about whitey 1,000 times and someone has a tape. At this point you’d be a total MORON to deny it. ROFLMAO. WE paid for her edumacation and all she DID was piss on whitey and race bait. Oh well. And it’s YOU people who KEEP ON BRINGING UP THE WHITEY TAPE. The rest of us have moved on.
Yeah. We keep bringing up the whitey tape. You lot keep bringing up Obama brushing his shoulders.
We all have our irrational obsessions, I suppose.
Funny thing about that. We have proof that Obama made that gesture and what it means. We have the tape and the finger one, also. You guys are still hoping the whitey tape ain’t true. Really now, isn’t that why you obots keep mentioning it?
It’s that one shytty little thing that would put some undeniable mud all over your little bot faces. You still just pray it doesn’t exist. Otherwise, why bring it up?
Otherwise, why bring it up?
To remind the world that everyone who believes it does exist is a hate-blinded, intellectually deficient, credulous dupe.
You kow, I understand the illusion you have of discrediting as offense, but you do understand when you lie, you drown yourself, throw yourself into confusion others can, and will, take advantage of?
No, you dont.
It failed for Rove, it fails for the governments who use it as a matter of course, whether Israel, Russia, or our own political parties.
But dont feel bad, there are people considered experts in their fields, during the day anyway, who don’t get it, either.
Yeah the “black” man tells us all daily what a genius he is…then he tries to pass off Fraudbama’s immature, despicable acts as figments of our deranged imagination. Very sad. At this point aren’t even the dumbest Obots getting that they bought a lemon?
Wow. A white woman mocks a black woman by referring to the black woman’s “edumacation.”
You need to think about where your self-proclaimed hatred is taking you. Confronted with factual refutations of your statements, you reply with ebonics — solely because the person you’re hating on is black.
“Edumacation” and an accusation of “race baiting”…in the same sentence. What a glaring lack of self-awareness. This is just a wild guess, but you don’t have as many Ivy League degrees as Michelle Obama, do you?
The whitey tape issues are still these:
1. Larry told demonstrably false stories about the whitey tape.
2. The “why’d he” explanation did not come from the Obama campaign.
Your claims that Larry’s tape stories were self-evidently true, and that Michelle Obama offered a “why’d he” defense, are false.
Try dealing with reality, instead of going racist.
How do you know the republicans aren’t using it to push things like Clean Coal Tech through (I still can’t believe Barky supports it)or the FISA mess or perhaps to keep Bush and his minions out of the Hague? Hell, If I were a republican, I’d use it to save my ass and my party. Is it beyond the realm of possibilty that the neocons aren’t using it to blackmail him? What else can explain ‘the most liberal person in the senate’ and his lunge to the center?
Yes Strawberrybitch…this is all way more complicated than the trolls understand. We all already KNOW how filthy this whole political mess has become…and it wouldn’t shock me if that tape was out there being used against Fraudbama already. Like I said…why on EARTH is the tape a big shocker when Mechelle expresses her hate on a daily basis anyway?
OIAF, one of the reasons I decided politics wasn’t for me (damn the student loans) was because it truly is a blood sport. People you think are life long friends (Richardson) can turn on you like…well…Judas. People like this ‘pressboy’ (ie mailroomguy) see politics like checkers when it’s actually like Vulcan chess. You need to see it coming from all sides, I’m not that bloodthirsty or clever.
Yes you are right and that’s why I am really regretful that I got so involved in this 2008 Fraudbama nonsense. My stomach is way too queasy to deal with scum like this. Any other year…I never would have cared. I always knew politics were dirty, but if Clinton won, Gore, Kerry, etc. what the hell. But this is a whole new ballgame IMO and I really don’t think American Politics have ever been this vile, low, filthy and sickening. Since the fish stinks from the head, I can only thank Fraudbama for the retching I do on a daily basis.
OIAF, Yes, this is the worst political season I’ve ever seen – and the most misogynist. I think worse things will be coming out about the O, things we, who frequent this site, already knew, but which are going to be new to the public at large. What with this economic turmoil, the wars, etc., and we have a big Zero (O) to deal with these crisis. I’d like the nightmare to end now…
I know what you mean,Strawberrybitch.
Vulcan chess
Gawd, after all these years, I still have the hots for Spock.
Hell, If I were a republican, I’d use it to save my ass and my party.
Yes, Strawb… that’s much smarter than using it to win a presidential election.
Sheesh.
Not necessarily “black” man…Quite frankly, I still think it’s AWESOME that Fraudbama and the Dems have to clean up the financial mess they made with Fannie and Freddie. As much as I know Fraudbama is going to suck azz as a “President” and it’s a total JOKE…best to let the Dems seal their own fate so we can get rid of them in 2010 and 2012. After the Fraud, if he even makes it through one term, there won’t be a so called “Dem” in the White House for another 30 years.
You’re such a git. There is no way any president (besides someone like Hillary) could weather the next four years. The republicans will do what they did the last two times, let the democrat take the fall like Jimmy Carter or fix the whole bloody mess like Bill Clinton. Meanwhile they have time to fall back and regroup. Go back to Hollywood with the rest of the limpwristed pseudo intellectuals. You’re out of your league in politics. Entertaining the brainless masses is where your talent truly lies.
UCB – Better yet, go and ask those people on “The Corner” in Baltimore if BO made their lot in life any better.
Ask them if the drugs are gone.
Ask them if the gang banging has claimed another innocent life.
We all have our irrational obsessions, I suppose
One thing I’ve noticed is that these Obots, as they are called, is that they keep dragging up their own version of “facts” with no proof and expect it to be considered sacrosaunt!
One very real fact is that Michelle Obama, soon to claim the title of “first lady” attended the God Damn Church of America also and that if she wasn’t aware of the “chickens coming home to roost” sermon it is because she isn’t the church going Christian she claims to be. And yet she did not feel any need to show her respect for the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack or to shore up her husband’s image by attending the seventh anniversary of the country wide memorial honoring the victims and the relatives.
Take that fact and twist it into a positive.
Why on earth would you use it against a candidate when you could use it against a President…or his wife?
Chess 101.
Is this the peanut gallery we have to look forward to for the next four years? UG!
You really expect anyone to believe that someplace, someone is just holding on to this tape – give me a break. The reality is there is no such tape and you all know it. suckered again by Larry.
until you can prove it, it doesn’t exist, period.
for someone so ill, you sure don’t stop your viciousness do you Susan.
Probably buried just like all the other information about Soertoro/Obama, from his legitimate birth certificate, all those Kenyan relatives that claim he was born in Kenya, the immigration papers for/from Indonesia, college attendance, where he got the money to travel around the world, to Pakistan when it was off limits to Americans, and on what passport, who contributed to his campaigns to get him started in Chicago politics — and where did all the millions come from since he only worked part time?
Truly a Man of Mystery! No fact too small to hide of fake, as he admitted about his fictional biographies.
I will say that has to be the best I’ve ever seen Michelle look.
And Code Pink is demonstrating outside Barry’s new digs in DC.
Does anyone have a link to this?
This would be too funny.
Oh gawd. Do they have any concept what a parody of themselves they are?
But I am still angry that they sat right behind Valerie Plame Wilson during her important testimony before Congress. Completely unnecessary.
They’re nothing more than attention hogs.
(What’s sad is that, years ago, they used to create stunningly beautiful demonstrations — there was one — I have a photo of it somewhere — they created a Picasso bird of peace, with people, on a Santa Monica beach. It was visible only from the air, and someone flew over and took a shot from a plane. Just stunning and eloquent.)
I remember seeing code pink people disrupt Hillary rallies by yelling over her.
Plus one of their founders was on the board of the Women’s Media Center who also pushed Obama.
So they are one of the “women’s groups” that don’t seem to care about women.
Also they seem to have swooned over Obama as the great bringer of peace. When Mr. Lightworker doesn’t deliver, I wonder what they will do?
I can’t believe it’s a good thing to be seen as a false messiah. Don’t people get upset over things like that?
As for the work they used to do… I never saw any of the art or anything, but it does sound beautiful. I was on their website trying to find out if they were protesting the O and didn’t find anything on that, but did see that they had some blip where Molly Ivans had said nice things about them. So at one point I guess they had something good going for them. Maybe they will again.
Ivans comments were from 2006.
John Batchelor is one of the rare few analysts worth listening to. Very astute and balanced, not like the other media frauds whose gyros are out of whack.
On another topic the “whitey tape” thing is only a persistent irritant if you empower it by reacting emotionally to it. I suggest that we ignore it.
By the way, let the facts reveal that the LA Times is still sitting on a video that is far more damaging the any “whitey tape” would have been.
When ever is see any reference to the “whitey tape” I immediately recall the LA Times journalistic malfeasance.
I immediately recall many other instances of what would have been very damaging information for earlier presidents public relations not coming out for years, some until they were dead. I am sure many of us who read and follow histor can name a lot of them. I myself wonder why’d he denied it by saying she was saying “why’d he.”
But I do notice one thing: when there is a news item that is really troubling to the obots about THE ONE’s behavior, they bring up the tape in order NOT to discuss the issue at hand.
For all you obots who don’t know logic, that is called the “straw man” or, perhaps, also the “red herring” tactic, a logical fallacy. Your illogic is exactly why you voted the way you did.
I suspect the Feds confiscated that LA Times tape. Just a hunch . . . “ownership” seemed to change hands.
He is personally opposed to abortion and same sex marriage. Another personally sexist and homophobic politician which fits into recurring sexist and homophobic pattern of Obama and Warren.
As I’ve been warning for a year now, the Obamian Age will put women’s and GLBT rights 50 years.
Not to mention the fact the Obamas are very classist and racist against whites.
Not to mention that when Fraudbama falls flat on his criminal azz it will also destroy a lot of race relations in this country.
Does this mean Dr. Demento (Howie Dean) is out?
Yes, Howie was thrown under the bus. At least Howie was openly pro-choice and enacted the nation’s first civil unions law in Vermont.
PUMA?
Obama owes a lot to Dean …
Obama used Dean’s strategies for fundraising over the Internet and campaigning in all 50 states. Yet, Dean has been missing in action for many weeks. Instead of thanking Dean for giving him the blueprint to reach the White House, Obama seems to have forgotten him. Or, maybe Dean couldn’t face the truth about Obama anymore and he decided to fade away? Very mysterious!
You mean Dean didnt get anything for all of his efforts.
Poor Howie…all of that caucus fraud he perpetrated, and the huge knife he stuck in HRC’s back…for what? LMFAO…I hope he’s in Cuba.
What do you think John Kerry is up to these days? He seems to be in hiding. I wonder if someone has something on him, too.
horse-face is sulking. he wanted to become SoS.
Just one more time for old time sake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pqiFRNSnqs&feature=related
So someone who doesn’t want to overturn Roe v Wade is anti-choice?
When the chairman of the DNC personally doesn’t favor the right to choose? Yea, skinny, there’s something wrong with that. When he “personally” doesn’t support gay rights, why is he a good candidate for chairman of the DNC? Obama voted for immunity for telecoms who violated the law to cooperate with Bush. He refuse to accept public financing for the GE which may not mean anything to you, but for some Dems (and ex-Dems) it means he is going to owe some favors down the line. You can claim these donations were $10 at a time, but that isn’t going to fly with anyone who isn’t delusional.
“When the chairman of the DNC personally doesn’t favor the right to choose?”
You know very well that this whole word-game “Right to choose” is intended to shift the debate away from the fact that, scientifically speaking, a viable human life might be terminated by a medical procedure and that this introduces innumerable medical ethics issues.
Common sense suggest that it is a reasonable debate and should not be made a mockery by the matra “Right to Choose” as if your rights were being infringed upon in an open election. We are talking about a human life, cruel and unusual punishment, and the infliction of pain on the unborn.
I reject the “Right to Choose” rhetoric on its face. It is a very delicate issue and such tactics are a sure sign of changing the subject by obfuscation.
Winston, will you concede we have the right to disagree/ When a viable baby is born, every effort should be made to provide medical attention.
But your opinion of a woman’s right to choose abortion, before that stage is based on your religious beliefs not mine.
Women have made this choice since the beginning of time and would continue to do so if Roe were overturned. The difference being the circumstances under which the abortion is performed. I won’t explain my situation to you or what led to my decision, but I had an illegal abortion as a teenager. I have never regretted the decision and I won’t apologize.
Your opinion means nothing to me. And I stand by my words. The Democratic Party is the Party who has promised me other women will not have to go through what I did and it has occurred to me this year neither the RNC or the DNC has the slightest intention of ever overturning Roe because it is such a convenient tool to pull the strings of the largest voting block in the country.
So screw you and your self righteous piety.
Okay, last comment for a long time. Promise.
Oppression exists on three levels: institutional, symbolic/cultural and personal.
Roe v Wade and gay marriage laws are institutional but PUMAs argued against symbolic/cultural sexism and homophobia.
Racism is outlawed in the US but symbolic/cultural and personal racism are more pernicious and difficult to uproot.
Even with Roe v Wade or gay marriage laws secured, cultural and personal sexism and homophobia are more pernicious.
How exactly is being opposed to abortion a sign of sexism? Millions of women are opposed to abortion.
Sexism would be if you were only opposed to killing males and not females. Most people who are against abortion are against it no matter what the gender of the unborn fetus happens to be.
Sheesh.
Tim Kaine. Looks like BHO is obamacratising the democratic party. Hes doing much more damage than one can imagine.
The repubs are looking better and better than the dems every passing day. Only BHO can pull off such a miracle. lol
I hear that all the Republicans plan on exiting DC during the week of inauguration. I have always wanted to see an inauguration, but you couldnt pay me enough to go to this one.
Heh. I bet one day you’ll be telling your grandkids you were there!
Will you be telling your grandkids you are “black”? Your username is deliberately misleading. I think one of the writers at noquarter should do a piece on the psychology of Internet users.
There are some really interesting articles about some who feel the need to deceive, Frequently, it is a person with insecurity and, hence, the debate about whether or not the use of video blogs will actually work.
In your case, for example, given you are not “black” at all, it would be necessary to choose a more appropriate name. I nailed you months ago, UBM, and called you on it.
One other thing? Bragging about wealth is extremely poor taste and might lead one to believe you are indifferent to the poverty of others
I brag about my awards, not my wealth.
I’m not going to go back and look for your coment, but I remember you saying you were “rich” which is vulgar.
Don’t worry – you won’t be missed or even invited.
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But Happy New year anyhow Kite…!!!
Happy New Year To you and yours Patrick Henry;
with my new Flight Sim I am going to travel the world, in my new Pocket Rocket this year.
They even intergated it with google sky. Amazing. Night flight, in bound to ZTL for some dinner.
It’s soooo frigging funny…Strawberrybitch predicted the loser azz trollz would show up tonight and here they are. Heartland Dumbazz right on schedule!
Nah. Just been busy with the family, holidays, etc.
Happy New Year, my angry little pumas!
You’re right OIAF….Strawberry did predict this….that’s b/c the tactics of camp Obamasoretoro are well entrenched and becoming so predictable!
BREAKING NEWS:
“Sources tell ABC News that officials on the Obama Transition Team feel that before he was formally offered the job of commerce secretary, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was not forthcoming with them about the federal investigation that is looking into whether the governor steered a state contract towards a major financial contributor.
Once the investigation became more widely known through national media reports last month, sources tell ABC News, the Obama Transition Team realized the FBI would not be able to give Richardson a clean political bill of health before the new administration is ready to send his nomination up to the Senate for confirmation.”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/01/obama-team-feel.html
AWWW… Sorry pumabots, Obama wins again!
Obama wins??? Sounds more like him whining. lol
Poor brainwashed confused obots.
You call it a “win” that yet again Fraudbama used poor judgment with Richardson IN THE FIRST PLACE? Why are you people so damned dumb?
As for this PUMA nonsense? Why is it that anyone with the brains and love of America, who detests Fraudbama, has to be a PUMA? I have a lot of respect for what they did, but I’m not one of them.
I can’t get any audio at Batchelor’s show. Can any of you?
Finally worked. Whew.
Yes Susan..been working fine…Hit the Live Icon…came right on..NP
Farthead Dem – the problem with that ABC report is that the position was already offered to Richardson…believe what you want, Obot. Obama has more dirt on his shining armor.
BWAAAAHAAAA!
I have never been able to listen to John Batchelor and Larry Johnson on the radio. It brings me to the same endless opening of window after window with no results. I try periodically and it is no where to be found. If I click the listen live it just brings me to antoher window that says listen live and over and over the same BS.
works for me. listening to larry right now.
Let’s see how much you get a kick out of the posters at Jakarta hate rallies when Hillary’s photo is in the mix. Or do you think Hillary is gonna shill for Hamas? In her heart of hearts HRC is a hawk. All the SECStates talk nice-nice but most are hawks. Rice & Powers are the wild card girls & most prone to be scammed by Hamas, the Hizzys & AQ et al. Although in retrospect Arafat had the Clintons scammed.
As for Bill Richardson: good riddance!
Does anyone besides me get anxious about Barfy talking about a stimulous package in the bilions of dolars. Think how much he and his Chicago style cronies could skim from that amount or direct to pet projects. Our grandchildren could be paying the bills for twenty generations.
You’re right, lizzy. The future looks perilous.
Tim Kaine? Are you kidding me?
As TGW put it: President-elect Obama has chosen anti choice, pro abstinence education, anti embryonic stem cell research, anti labor, anti union, anti same-sex marriage and anti civil union Tim Kaine to chair the DNC.
Like I said, is it beyond the realm of possibility that the republicans have Barky’s cohonjes(sp) in a vise? ‘Cause he’s not looking too progressive to me.
Obama has cajones???
According to Larry Sinclair, yes, Fraudbama is packing something.
8.5 and a narcissistic waste of time.
Do you think Larry Sinclair is a trustworthy source?
No, but I don’t think Barry Soretoro is a trustworthy source either.
Well, okay, Mechelle has them and she keeps them in her handbag and fondles them like a set of chinese medicine balls when she wants a new $20,000 ring or $300,000 pay raise on a hospital executive board.
Ewwwww….what would that Man-Thing want with his nuts? Ughh…Thank God I didn’t just finish dinner.
Cash or credit. That new spread in Hawaii is rather a nice touch. Mechelle is a material girl. (Squeeze!)
I wonder what the Obotscum think of the fact that Fraudbama is in a 9 Million Dollar house and chartered a 747 to take his pals to Hawaii. Never mind the bill for his Fraudu-nauguration. ROFLMAO. Seems like the Fraudbama family like spending America’s last stash of cash.
“Squeeze?” Ughhh…Breakfast just came back up. She’s NASTY.
Madonna.
Squeeze would be “up the junction.”
At least that’s what comes to mind, immediately.
No, nor cojones either.
Open thread? For some reason, I just experienced an extreme case of deja vu maybe because this election brings up the same **** over and over.
Let’s get back to the rally in Jakarta. Isn’t that Obama’s old home town? Isn’t that the place that gave Obama all the superior foreign policy knowledge that made him so much more informed than Hillary?
Wasn’t Obama going to change the world because he is a black man, as John Kerry told us? The whole world was supposed to love the United States again. Didn’t those people in Jakarta get the memo?
Come on, Undercover Black Man and other obots, what happened here? I ain’t feelin’ the love from those folks in Jakarta. Where is the hope and change?
One picture from one protest in no way invalidates the idea that Obama’s election helps America’s image overseas.
in no way invalidates the idea
The ‘idea’ of our Image??? This is not an academic exercise skinny malinky. People’s lives are at stake. An idea?
What of the idea? That one day my children will be judged by the content of their character? That is not an idea BO subscribes to. Or he would have shown up to the MLK tribute during the primaries.
Those who slur, slander, mock and demean their elected leaders — for no reason except that their own candidate lost — will most definitely be judged by the content of their character.
No, phony black man, we don’t demean anyone other than FRAUDULENT pieces of crap who are usurping the White House. Get off it. And may I ask what is up with the username? If you aren’t black, don’t you think that’s a little offensive?
It is not about who “won”. What an empty chalice you reach for.
I slur BO, I slander BO I mock BO, I demean BO. You speak of BO’s character?
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The fifth of the world that is Muslim is angry at Obama:
Barack Obama’s silence on Gaza bombings is galling to Arabs: A region that had high hopes for him now feels he’s condoning Israeli attack
President-elect Barack Obama’s silence on the 8-day-old offensive in Gaza is drawing criticism among Arabs who have grown skeptical about hopes that his administration will break with the Mideast policies of the Bush era.
Arab commentators maintain, however, that Obama did comment on foreign affairs when he issued a statement condemning the terrorist attacks in Mumbai and that he has given several news conferences outlining his economic proposals. They suggest that his refusal to speak out on Gaza—where at least 460 Palestinians have died, compared with four Israeli deaths from the rockets—implies indifference to the plight of Palestinians or even complicity with Israel.
The satellite TV network Al Jazeera contrasted footage of Obama wearing shorts and playing golf in Hawaii with scenes of the carnage in Gaza, by way of highlighting what it called “the deafening silence from the Obama team.”
It is not only the Arab world that has noticed the president-elect’s silence: At a gathering of celebrities to condemn Israel’s assault in London on Friday, speakers called on Obama to speak out.
“His current silence falls into the pattern of disappointment so far,” said Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. “Most people understand that the president-elect can’t take issue with what the current president is saying, but it certainly is a disappointment.”
omg. thanks for sharing this. Its getting more & more interesting. Pass the popcorn!
All of this is sad more than anything.
NQ, sorry for all the commenting today because of Hamas, Richardson and Kaine. I’m sure Larry’s show was stellar.
Gnite.
I thought it was a bad image for PEBO even when it was just people battling the ice storms and losing their jobs.
Of course Obama condones the attacks!
Doesn’t anyone else remember his comments at AIPAC last May?! He went further than any of the Jesusfreaks in the GOP dared of even thinking!
Speaking of foreign leaders – one of the leaders of Hamas noted BO’s silence about the Gaza attacks. Yet, he noted that Obama spoke up about Mumbai. The world leaders are sensing his weaknesses.
donna darko
Great post! The rest of the world is figuring out that Obama is a fraud. This man is totally clueless to let himself be photographed on vacation in Hawaii while Israel and Hamas are fighting in Gaza.
I can’t remember a time when a President-elect had so many problems and scandals surrounding him….Governor Blago, Governor Richardson, pay for play, $200 million + donations unaccounted for during his campaign, etc….
Pass the popcorn….
I’m from Canada and always knew he was a fraud.
Not news to me at all… I’ve known this for nearly a year now.
When the bombs hit Chicago, I’ll be glad I’m in the suburbs.
Larry:
I have a question and I’m hoping you or someone else with “special” knowledge of these matters can answer it. Because I can’t, for the life of me, figure out these rules (sarcasm intended).
Barack H. Obama, who has spent the last many months bleating like a violated goat about the evil perpetrated by George W. Bush (used both middle initials in the interest of fairness) and who staked his entire presidential campaign on making that fruit as rotten as possible and hanging it around the neck of anyone who opposed him (first Hillary R. Clinton and then John S. McCain) (notice I continue the middle initial tradition — this is for the NSA — do not come to my house, please — I do not find you amusing), now declares that PROTOCOL and DECORUM trumps all other considerations? Am I missing something? Or, is that smell coming from somewhere else?
He CAN’T speak a WORD about what is going on in the Middle East? And this is because it’s TRADITIONAL that the incoming POTUS not speak? About ANYTHING?
The tradition of not speaking ill of the sitting POTUS applies (or, used to) to FORMER Presidents, not those about to take office. Where did this suddenly discovered tradition come from?
And, this is not about what position he might take — this is not about pro-I or pro-P — it’s about Pro-BHO. Is BHO merely a PRO at election politics who has no foggy idea what he’s doing? I get the distinct impression, as I suspect do others, that he doesn’t say anything because he doesn’t have the slightest idea what to say.
I’m sorry. The incoming President is prohibited from expressing an OPINION? That’s odd. Just a few weeks ago, he was expressing his opinion on anything and everything political and otherwise.
He has campaign planks on these subjects. Does he not stand behind them? He published them then and waved them in the face of his opponents (and the sitting President). Is he now mute on the same topics?
And this is because he WON the election? Maybe, possibly, if he had LOST the election. But, he didn’t. He WON. Now he’s days from his inauguration and suddenly he has no opinion because it might unsettle GWB’s delicate constitution (I know, that was a good one, see how I slipped constitution in there)?
When did he become such a reticent fellow? A fellow so respectful of the sitting POTUS?
What he seems to miss is that he always has a position and an influence, whether or not he speaks (for my money, he could stay this reticent for the next 4 years — but it’s not likely). His silence has an effect and is having an effect. He wanted to be POTUS. And so he is. What he says is important. What he does not say is important.
And, what he will discover quickly is, when you choose silence, others will fill that silence with what they wish and you, by not speaking, provide them that license.
Sorry, as POTUS, you don’t get to be “not wrong” by not having “a dog in that fight.” You cannot vote “Present.” BHO has had sugar daddy’s during his entire political career. Oops. Problem. Now he is the Sugar Daddy of Pennsylvania Avenue, the highest ranking political figure in this nation. There is no one there to pave the way for him. He IS him. There is no HIM higher than HE now is.
Anyway, maybe somebody else can explain this to me. I, obviously, don’t get it.
Can you explain this “protocol” to me?
Because I find it, shall we say, a bit queer? That’s the British use of the word, so it doesn’t mean what you might have thought, not at all. It does not mean I’m calling him out as a wimp, or in any way suggesting the P word might apply (let’s just say it rhymes with another name for your kitty). It’s only a figure of speech.
But, certainly SOME word applies.
Can you help me out with this?
I (and the rest of the world) are waiting. I mean, really, if he’s going to save the world on January 20th, is there something all that terrible about doing it a few days early? I can’t imagine anyone who would mind.
Thanks, as always.
um, Muslim world under the bus…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/04/obama-gaza-israel
Barack Obama’s chances of making a fresh start in US relations with the Muslim world, and the Middle East in particular, appear to diminish with each new wave of Israeli attacks on Palestinian targets in Gaza. That seems hardly fair, given the president-elect does not take office until January 20. But foreign wars don’t wait for Washington inaugurations.
Obama has remained wholly silent during the Gaza crisis. His aides say he is following established protocol that the US has only one president at a time. Hillary Clinton, his designated secretary of state, and Joe Biden, the vice-president-elect and foreign policy expert, have also been uncharacteristically taciturn on the subject.
But evidence is mounting that Obama is already losing ground among key Arab and Muslim audiences that cannot understand why, given his promise of change, he has not spoken out. Arab commentators and editorialists say there is growing disappointment at Obama’s detachment – and that his failure to distance himself from George Bush’s strongly pro-Israeli stance is encouraging the belief that he either shares Bush’s bias or simply does not care.
The Al-Jazeera satellite television station recently broadcast footage of Obama on holiday in Hawaii, wearing shorts and playing golf, juxtaposed with scenes of bloodshed and mayhem in Gaza. Its report criticising “the deafening silence from the Obama team” suggested Obama is losing a battle of perceptions among Muslims that he may not realise has even begun.
IndieDogg
Kudos to your post! The problem is other world leaders that are not friendly to the US will fill the power vacuum left opened by BO. You are correct, he doesn’t know what to say. He either needs a script from his frat boy speechwriter (Favreau) or his handlers.
Whenever he’s on the news I quickly change the channel. However, the few clips that I’ve seen, he’s posing as President and saying the obvious without adding anything new. What do we expect as a nation, when this man only spent 143 days as a Senator before he made the foolish decision to run for President?
I do the same. I feel like the kid in the “Emperor’s New Clothes.” I see a naked emperor, despite what all those around PEBO keep saying.
Hey, Michael Beschloss…if you’re going to claim Obama’s IQ is off the charts, don’t you think you ought to know what he IQ actually is?
typo – he should be his. Sorry.
ROFLMAO…My IQ is higher than Fraudbama’s. He’s no genius and he’s a FRAUD. And, by the way, having a high IQ really means nothing. It certainly doesn’t mean you have common sense…as we have seen with the Fraud already.
OIAF- I agree that a high IQ guarantees nothing.
And the fact that we have never heard how he actually did in college (unlike with Bush & Gore) makes me question the “genius label.”
Yeah, really, where ARE those pesky school records, medical records, etc.? HE’S A FRAUD. My father was CEO of a major corporation and always said he would rather hire the guy with the lower IQ but the most common sense for the job. Has anyone noticed Fraudbama’s lack of JUDGMENT? Especially with his mentors, friends, spiritual advisers and idiots like
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