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Obama Stands Accused of Conduct Unbecoming a Presidential Candidate [Updates: Chicago Tribune, more MSM]

By SusanUnPC on April 17, 2008 at 9:03 PM in ABC News, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Pennsylvania

I cannot believe that the official campaign for Barack Obama put this video on YouTube to show off the candidate. 1) His language and behavior on this video are juvenile, and 2) He flips off Hillary Clinton in the video.

I cannot recall hearing such whining in my life from the mouth of a major candidate. This man is incapable of withstanding criticism or handling difficult questions. He is not only defensive and inept in his excuses, but he is also petulant — and then he delivers “below the belt” attacks on Hillary Clinton, while condemning such tactics. Which is it, Barack? Are you for or against attack tactics? Or does it only work one way? And is that because YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH, mister (to quote Jack Nicholson, a Hillary Clinton supporter).

See, this is the problem I’ve always had with Barack Obama compared to Hillary Clinton or John Edwards. Obama is not a “buck stops here” kind of leader (whereas Clinton and Edwards clearly are). Obama can’t take the heat, and he can’t take the jabs. He wimps out and then he whines. It was plain, last night in the Philadelphia debate, that he can’t take the pressure of bruising questions. And it’s even worse in his rally speech here today, where he tries to pin the blame on everyone, from the debate moderators to Hillary, rather than on his own pathetic performance last night.

Further — as you’ll see below in a short clip, just below this longer video — he flipped off Hillary in a “street” sort of way. But it is undeniable — I have asked several people to confirm — that he indeed did give Hillary the finger, and it’s clear from the audience reaction that he did so.

And here’s the short clip that shows Obama giving Hillary the finger:

MSM & BLOG UPDATES:

The Chicago Tribune‘s blog, Swampland has the video up, and notes: “And that’s the part of the videotape, courtesy of Fox News, where viewers need to pay some attention to the hand that Obama raised to his face, and the finger with which he scratched it.”
The same video is also up at the Baltimore Sun‘s site. That video, at both newspaper sites, provides a clearer angle of Obama’s finger as he makes the gesture. We are working to get that video up at YouTube.
The L.A. Times blog, Top of the Ticket, has video and this headline: “Barack Obama makes a one-fingered gesture while speaking of Hillary Clinton.” (Read the LAT story.)
ABC News has video but doesn’t point out the gesture he’s making — however you can see two women behind him, to your left, who “get” what he’s doing, and laugh and whisper about the gesture.
Taylor Marsh writes, “Obama Gives Clinton the Finger?.”
Memeorandum lists more blogs linking to the Tribune story.

See also: Red State blog’s “Talk about no class: Barack Obama gives Hillary the middle finger“:

After losing the debate tonight, Obama gave Hillary the finger today. I don’t know if he intended to do that hand gesture in his pause while talking about Hillary, but it is obvious the crowd thought it was an intentional raising of the middle finger. …

(Thanks for the link, Lyn.)

Someone I know and respect, who’s both a highly successful businessman and a streetwise person, says definitively that Obama was giving Hillary the finger.

This is conduct unbecoming a presidential candidate.

This is Barack Obama’s “Macaca Moment.”

If the MSM ever covers this, Barack Obama is through.

He SHOULD be through for his inability to handle tough questions and for wimping out. He should be through for his associations with terrorists and shady businessmen and a taxpayer-bilking slumlord. He should be through for his 20-year association with a minister who hates America. He should be through for his and his wife’s lack of pride in being Americans. He should be through for his racist remarks about “typical white people” and smalltown white people who “cling” to guns and religion.

By god, if the Democratic party is stupid enough to nominate this not-ready-for-prime-time candidate who can’t take the heat, they deserve to lose in November.

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Comments are now closed.
Please see the new, clearer video of Obama flipping Hillary off in Susan’s new diary:
Clearer Video of Obama Giving Hillary the Finger & Hillary’s Own, Mature View

Mel

Someone needs to copy this video if able, and have it available before it is taken down from the net!

This guy is simply the most repulsive person in political history and he shouldn’t just be disqualified, but he should be banned from the Democratic Party!

If he isn’t, then Dean is condoning Obamas actions and is a preview of the new Democratic Party!

Change Unity and Believe…….how about Trash Obama, that is all you are!

truthtelling007

I’ve got it backed up.

blobert

This is seriously going too far.
This HAS to have legs, as well as fingers.

JKFriz

better angle right here:
http://www.mydd.com/comments/2008/4/18/102120/357/8#8

I await a retraction with baited breath.

JKFriz

Any day now…two fingers, folks. Look at the screen captures.

tiffany

Do others get the impression that although Obama is 48 years old, he acts a bit cocky in an immature frat boy way? Reminds me of someone in the White House. Please, America wake up and put an adult in the White House!!! I can’t take it anymore.

Salo

back up this one as well.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/obama_fingers_a_gotcha_debate.html

it clearly shows what he’s doing.

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

That’s the same video that is up at the Chicago Tribune blog. I’m adding your link to the story. Thank you.

It IS a much better video. We’re working to get it up on YouTube.
hells kitchen

What an absolutely sickening performance.

In December I was up in Manchester Vermont and attended John Edwards’ town hall meeting. What a difference. Only issues and substance.

The difference is depressing.

Nellie

Thanks Truthteller – you are so good at this.

Everytime I go to one of your You Tube pages, it seems like the number multiplies exponentially.
ghost2

back up the CBS version, posted by scan at Taylor Marsh’s blog.

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=4025010n

Barb

The woman sitting next to the podium (in the brown shirt), @ :44 secs. – looks like she’s saying “no, no, that’s not right” and shakes her head. Does anybody else see that?

And – the two women at each end of the back row – they both wince.

Salo

perfect angle here.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/obama_fingers_a_gotcha_debate.html

it’s very obvious what he’s doing.

Classy!
susan

Now, that was a very presidential thing to do, right??? This guy is despicable!!! He should step down from the race and resign his senate seat as well!!! STOP OBAMA NOW-YES WE CAN!!!!

Nellie

YES WE WILL STOP HIM!
Fred C. Dobbs

>>> Now, that was a very presidential thing to do, right???

Der Shrub is prone to public use of this gesture.

http://thehorizontalworld.blogspot.com/ Mary Jo Kopechne

It’s made it to the LA Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/obamaflipsoffcl.html
John Dean

Susan, I agree 100% – there is no doubt whatsoever that some folks in the crowd knew exactly what he did, and he himself couldn’t contain himself moments later.

If the press does something unexpected, by covering this widely and fairly, Obama is finished.

John
SluggoJD
Robert

I think you have to much time on your hand if you watch every obama video for when he scratches his face to say he flipped someone off. Don’t even start on whinning Clinton takes the cake, and McCain can’t remember to whine. So your negatism only embarces my motivation to make this man the president thanks.

Salo

This is what a teenager does when they insult a teacher and need deniability.

It’s pretty obvious stuff. No doubt old Obama has been on the receiving end a few times at Uof C.

lifelong dem leaving party

sadly, i think the party will indeed nominate this clod. and not only does that mean that dems deserve to lose in november, it means that we will.

in my view, if this asshole is the candidate, losing in november is the only acceptable outcome.

Mel

The saddest part of all this is that thousands more brave men and women will die in Iraq because of Dean, Pelosi and Brazile in supporting this piece of trash and giving the GOP a smooth ride ito the WH in November!

It isn’t the faulting of Clinton or anyone else, this guy is unbecoming a person to hold any sort of elected office!

The Senate Ethics commitee had better hold a hearing right now and haul Obama’s ass in front of it and demand an immediate apology to Senator Clinton and demand Obama resign immediately!

susan

Best suggestion I’ve heard all day!!! Thanks!

http://thehorizontalworld.blogspot.com/ Mary Jo Kopechne

I just came across this petition and I signed it!

“Pledge to vote against Obama in the General Election”

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/pledge-to-vote-against-obama-in-the-general-election

bubbleboy

susanUnPC, what do you have to say about this – voting against Obama in the general? Don’t you want unity within the democratic party?

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

I refuse to be pinned down about this right now. I’m letting everyone keep guessing about what I’ll do. The Democratic party and the superdelegates had better start WORRYING about the millions of unhappy Democrats like me who REFUSE at this time to commit to supporting this pathetic excuse of a candidate.

When I think back on the rich array of candidates we had at the beginning of the primary season, I am sick that this hack has gotten to the front of the pack.

So I refuse to make it easy for the dopes in the DNC. Let ‘em sweat.

grtphoto

Susan, as someone hinted about the lack of quality the DNC puts up, do you think that they don’t even want the presidency? It would seem that they sabotage their candidates; support the one who will surely be crushed and crush the one who could win.

blobert

if the democrats put this character up, it has lost its collective marbles. It will be a sign that this country is a lost cause.
We can’t go to Canada at this time, but I probably will go independent.
simon, too

You’re trying to apply a rational thought process to this group, and you shouldn’t.

Think San Francisco elite, think Khalidi, and the “hip, educated” PLO, drinking tea with Obama, and blowing up average Israeli citizens.

I mean, same with Cheney, but you have right wing businessmen taking bribes, or facilitating the sale of arms to those people.

Mel

How can you say such a thing after witnessing what is shown up on youtube about Unity and Dean’s comments again today?

Why should anyone answer such a question when the question comes out of a blog on such a defining matter?

Your logic Bubbleboy is beyond any reasonable form of thought process at all!
Antigone

I don’t know about Susan but if the party nominates this man it’s no longer the Democratic Party to which I have given my time, effort and money for almost 50 years. That being the case, I can say in good conscience I am not obliged to support its candidate.
beebop

I am going to give you my answer: Unity is as unity does. I won’t vote for him. Period. This is just what he would call “silly season” elevated to a lynch mentality. Like Chicago politics are more gentile than they are in DC?

Does he think that people are as stupid generally as the misguideds who follow his campaign? PLEASE ….

At least Cheney had the guts to leave no doubt. BOBO the clown is just too cute. Well, not for me.

simon, too

I dont think he’s cute either, he’s
ugly to me.

Terry

Maybe if Democrats refuse to support this nominee in the GE, should BO, G-d forbid, be our nominee, then perhaps we will show the world that the rank and file of the party care more about decency and competency than about winning for the sake of winning. We do our party no favor at the state and local levels in the short and long term by putting a childish, snarly, petulant whiner at the top of the ticket.

Great calamities ensue when people blindly follow without heeding one’s conscience.

Shainzona

Done – pass this link around!!!

newspaper reader

I also signed the petition. Felt good.

Northwest rain

This is so bush of snObama. Isn’t there a photo of bush flipping the bird — on two different occasions.

Several people have mentioned that they similar personality traits in snObama and bush Jr.

This guy really can’t handle the stress of being Prez — what he needs is a good SHRINK — a.s.a.p.
Fredster

And don’t you just know the Republicans are watching this and loving it?

Well, no Unity pony for me. If that thing is the nominee (I won’t call him a man-he’s not grown-up enough for that title) this Dem is voting otherwise; McCain, write-in Hillary or whoever else is on the ballot.

simon, too

The republicans should remember they lost three wars.

And then they should try to figure out why.

It ain’t happening, I’m not impressed.

Or worried.

heh.

Tom

He was definitely flipping the bird at her, a woman, who is a fellow senator and a former first lady. What an as***le?

beebop

What will he do when he has to deal with an international crsis for God’s sake? Have a tantrum in the Oval office? Cry? Scream obscenities? He is just so unprepared and immature. He has too many character flaws. If he’d done anything more than run for office since being elected to the senate, we’d already have seen plenty of this behavior!

simon, too

NO, that’s Bush, Cheney, the republicans, and their generals.

And damn, aren’t we a better country for it?

hehehehe.

Cheaters can’t lead, cheaters can’t handle it, can they?

Tricia

Is it too much to ask for an adult in the White House for a change?

And, you are so right that Obama just whines like a kid when he gets criticized. So does Move-on. I just got an indignant message from them about the debate and how unfair it was. Not a peep when Obama was getting all the media breaks. And speaking of Move-On, it was Hillary who voted against censuring them for the “General betrayus” article. Obama? Yeah, absent. Talk about betrayal!

bert

I received an email from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting about how bad the debate was complete with addresses for ABC and Gibson so we could send a letter of complaint.

My response was to Unsubscribe from thir service.

grtphoto

I did exactly the same thing!
truthtelling007

I don’t unsubscribe from them or Media Matters because they tell me what they see. But I’ll keep tabs for you so you don’t have to.
Lyn

and they had no problems with Hillary being piled on the first 18 debates? it would be funny if it wasn’t so serious
Catriley

I got an email from “Credo” which is Working Assets (ala Ben & Jerry’s guys) with the same BS. I unsubscribed and told them NOT to assume that every progressive is in the tank for Obama. their email was about how awful the debate was and that they should have focused on ending the war. I told them if they were so concerned about bringing the troops home, they should be endorsing HIllary, the only candidate with a plan and the military endorsements to back it up.

simon, too

I unsubscribed, too.

It’s just some 527 trying to make money, following the trends, not really reading them, just following them.

http://nobloodforhubris.blogspot.com No Blood for Hubris

Wow.
Shainzona

Send this video to Elizabeth Edwards – she will understand, and not stand for this insult!

Sad. So sad.
http://larrysinclair0926.wordpress.com/answers-to-faqs/ i hope this is real

obama will never be elected president

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Agree. It won’t happen.

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

I agree with you both. It’ll be McGovern all over again if he’s the nominee.

BUT ! We still have a shot to make Hillary the nominee.

She’s got the fight in her to give her all in a race against McCain and I firmly believe that she can beat McCain. (And McCain knows that — that’s why he’s saying right now that he’d rather run against her.)

McCain has contempt for Obama because of how Obama screwed him over in Senate dealings — see the Washington Post on that. However, McCain both respects and likes Hillary Clinton. He fears her far more because he KNOWS she has the goods.

bubbleboy

I firmly believe that she can beat McCain. (And McCain knows that — that’s why he’s saying right now that he’d rather run against her.)

I don’t get it — McCain wants to lose?

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

McCain is saying now that he wants to run against Hillary because he hopes that some Democrats (I won’t point any fingers at who that might be) will FALL for that line — and vote for Obama because they assume McCain is being honest with them and really fears Obama.

It’s a common trick. Say you prefer the candidate you most fear. In the hope that that will weaken them amongst the group that will be voting for them.

Sam

Joe Scarborough mentioned today that he went to a Republican event last night and people everywhere were telling him “off the record” that they would much rather run against Obama and that this has become crystal clear to the only in the past 6 months. Hillary is too tough, they aren’t confident they can knock her down. It might be nice to do a post on this with Joe’s clip, I believe he said it on Morning Joe and Gregory’s show in the evening.

TeakWoodKite

never say never.

Patrick Henry

Several people have ondered about Obama touching his little finger to his cheek in the same area he touched his middle finger, around the same time and wonder if the LITTLE FINGER has any meaning as a Sign or Signal..

My research indicates the LITTLE Finger extended like that by itself is the same INSULT used in CHINA..as the middle Finger extended else where..

Also, the Little Finger Extened by itselt in INDIA..is a sign of KATTI, or Broken friendsip,or a sign that person is angry or will no longer speak to You..

I suspect there are other signs and meanings for
extending the little finger..One can assume that obama probably has learned the meaning of Hand Signs..and gestures among various peoples and cultures..

My Impression of the Video of obama during the Finger gestures..is that since he was talking about Senator Clinton and the debates, and was apparently upset and using mocking tones at that time, that it is possible the finger gestures were intended as a deliberate sign or gesture..

simon, too

I thought an extended pinky was how an effeminate gay man drank tea.

Oh, it WAS a secret signal…

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

I see he bussed the crowd in again. They always shout the same shit and hoot.

What a con man this guy is.

http://larrysinclair0926.wordpress.com/answers-to-faqs/ i hope this is real

i agree he is a con man!

dean and pelosi are out of their minds

Palomino

What an arrogant little shitheel. Self-destructive, too. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Hell videos of Bush giving the finger were all over the net. Didn’t stop them from covering for him either.
Mr J

Has anybody been watching Fox News lately? Out of the 2 hours of O’Reilly and Hannity and Colmes I would say about half the time has been dedicated to bashing Obama for the past 2-3 weeks. Tonight, with the exception of 1 segment, all of H&C was pure Obama bashing, and it really wasn’t unfounded or all that outrageous.

This guy is dead on arrival come the general election. Good job Democrats!

ChrisXP

This guy is dead on arrival come the general election. Good job Democrats!

And Hannity hasn’t even begun to scratch the surface.

Once it’s the Dem vs. Rep that’s when the sparks will fly, as then Hannity et al can concentrate the laser on their enemy.

If it’s Obama, with his whining about Hillary (who’s playing powder puff football with him) being unkind to him, he won’t last 2 weeks before his polls plummet; because like with Gore with his irritating sighs, folks will remember and grow tired of a whiner — quick!

Mary

Here is a cbs video I found with a bit of a different angle that shows two people behind him actually commenting on it at the time!
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=4025010n

bert

I love the older gentleman to the left of the screen in the blue shirt who does not applaud, shout or cheer at all. He just sits there.

Even if the MSM gets this video, Obama will be able to deflect if as he always does.

His campaign is the epitome of the coarsening of American society. And his followers are some of the most hateful people I have ever met.

I used to say if McCain was elected President I would move to Canada. Now I am thinking if Obama is nominated I will move to Canada.

Do he and his followers think they can behave this way in the General? Obama’s criticism of the media in this video guarantees they will turn on him in the General. They would have anyway because they always do and they love McCain. But now, he has done himself in.

grtphoto

He wouldn’t have the balls to flip off McCain, he flips off Clinton b/c he doesn’t have any respect for her.

Fredster

Yeah it’s really tough to flip off a woman. McCain would knock him on his keester.

BTW Barry, why doncha flip her off to her face? You don’t have the balls.

ChrisXP

Do he and his followers think they can behave this way in the General?

If they do, they’ll remember a history lesson about Gore’s sighs, and the consequences!!

Bill Delyon

And you can tell thats what they are commenting about how???

I imagine your talking about the two lady’s in the back row??

Cause if you are…..

Mercy….

beebop

I wish you were here, cuz you wouldn’t have any doubt that I was giving YOU the finger … loud and proud.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

He should sell snake oil in the lobby.
angca

you know this will somehow be Hillary’s fault.

Donald from Hawaii

Of course it is. And if the bitch would just quit, we could all finally live happily ever after, just like Obama said we would.

Palomino

Well, the Stupid Bitch Needs To Quit so Dean and Brazile can pull their asses out of the wringer about FL and MI.

hillarysmygirl

There’s a funny list on Hillbuzz.blogspot.com, Clinton Rules and Obama Rules which basically say that if Hillary is nominated and loses, it’s all Hillary and her supporters’ fault, and if Barack is nominated and loses, it’s all Hillary and her supporters’ fault. I suddenly feel so POWERFUL.

He’s such a whiny baby…I sure hope the whining is his “Howard Dean yee-haw/Al Gore sighing” moment.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

…and by the way, I would be THRILLED to take credit for helping Obama lose.

hillarysmygirl

Hi Uppity! *waving*

http://Supergram.blogspot.com Melissa

What is he running for- President of the 8th grade????
The man has lsot it- completely lsot it! He is so arrogant and believes he has already won that he doesn’t feel the need to be cautious.

God help us!

jwrjr

Not the 8th grade – kindergarten.

Birgit

Yes somebody has just stolen his sand molds

jd

I am not surprised at all. He and his supporters have been acting this way for too long but Pelosi gang don’t care b/c they finally can use him to stop the Clintons.

grtphoto

exactly right, just to stop the clintons. does obama know that he is being used? what a joke. he is so self assured b/c it is in the bag already, they told him from the beginning he would get the nom. How else can you explain the absolute disregard for fair play and arrogance?
beebop

right … general election be damned. Only the bitter little people suffer.

deke

I just don’t understand how we got here. Trashing the last Democratic president and his wife has become the accepted modus for running as a Democrat. The Clintons have supported so many of them gave seed money for bloggers and talk shows and this is the way they are rewarded. I don’t get it am I missing something.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Especially considering the party was in the crapper till Bill Clinton came along. What a bunch of slugs.

workingclass artist

Agree….The party was the loser party until 92. If Obaby gets elected millions of both pivate and public money will be spent by republicans to take him down….I guess it will be called the Chicago project and it probably won’t take as long to do it. Jeeeeeeezus he is a Putz. No wonder Dean likes him.

beebop

I would love to see a send up of BOBO’s speech notes from yesterday since obviously without detailed speaking topics and directions he is the hollow suit.

Do you think AX has to write “brush should?” “finger nose?”

The FINGER is something that Dean may truly identify with. Just doesn’t have the guts to do. So BOBO is the true puppet.

http://Supergram.blogspot.com Melissa

What is he running for- President of the 8th grade????
The man has lost it- completely lost it! He is so arrogant and believes he has already won that he doesn’t feel the need to be cautious.

God help us!
http://1strepublic14thstar.blogspot.com/ 1st Republic 14th Star

Listen to his petulant, immature WHINING! Hillary is mean to me, wah, wah, boo hoo.

If Obama thinks THIS is rough, how would he cope with McCain and the Republican slime machine come general election time?

Answer — he WON’T.

Frankly, I’m sick of Democrats nominating people who don’t recognize these Republican attacks and fail to respond to them until it’s too late. That’s the real reason I prefer Clinton — she’s already been accused of everything up to and including murder, yet she still defeats the competition.
TML

He had two fingers raised in the CBS video. Another non-issue fabricated by desperate people.

Try again.

Shainzona

You are out of your mind. His first gesture uses a pinky. Then he deliberately raised his middel finger, pauses in his delivery, and rubs his cheek.

I HAVE DONE THIS SAME THING when I have wanted to send a message to friends/associates when I thought someone was a fuck.

And the crowd certainly knew what he meant. He intended to convey “fuck you Hillary”…and he did.

TeakWoodKite

Growin’ up we called this move “hurt d-lert”.
deliberately raised his middel finger, pauses in his delivery, and rubs his cheek.

I could say he was acting like a 12 year old b**?
That is who some in this tortured country, wish to elect. oops bitter, oops I mean, “I was 8″..(still is in many ways.)

DrMK

WATCH, just frickin’ WATCH again. what are you doing, pouring the frickin’ kool aid in your eyes instead of drinking it, jeebus! i’ m frickin’ tired of people like you and your stupid arrogant a** candidate, i’ve had it!

TeakWoodKite

NI! KAC Koolaid acid cup.
Bill Delyon

I’ve come to the conclusion that most of the folks that post in here are batshitcrazy…..

Flipped her off….

Man, there seem to be no bounds……

mercy…..

rwc

Thats the best you got?

Compared to the Obama supporters who think that there is nothing wrong with Obama having year friendship with the bigot, conspiracy nut and all around hate monger reverend Wright. I’ll the company here over a bunch of Obama moral retards like yourself.

Bill Delyon

Have a blast champ!

Shots of Crown Royal for all your friends….

Classic….

Melanie

What on earth does that mean? Lord, it’s all the same with the Hillary hating crowd. A bartender offers her a shot, which she accepts. Why is that a fricken problem?

Honestly, I have no idea what anyone in their right mind see’s in this pompous ass. He has done absolutely nothing in nearly 50 years to merit the Presidency.
http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Deylon, you are ineffective. Now run along and have them send a bigger gun mmmmkay?

kenoshaMarge

Or at least one on Viagra.

simon, too

I’ve come o the conclusion low IQ men and viagra don’t mix.

I wish the republican trolls would catch a clue.

This is your brain, this is your brain on Viagra, beware fo strangers bearing gifts.

You may FEEL like a man, but you aren’t, and your decision making skills aren’t enhanced.

I could swear he seems high sometimes, Obama, like he’s taken oxycontin, or something….

Rob Gard

Mr. Delyon:
And you’re pretty full of guano yourself. If you don’t like it here, there’s a red box with a white “X” in the upper right-hand side of your browser…use it!
beebop

Is that really your name or are you just copping a feel of some of a hero of the 60′s?

Blu

The silence over at the Obama camp tells it all! They realize that this could be it, no way to W.O.R.M out of this one.
beebop

Spin this shit over at the ABC blog where someone less experienced may buy into this story.

Shainzona

His campaign posted this thing?

Even worse!

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Like all children, they probably figured Mommy and Daddy wouldn’t notice what’s there.
beebop

Hey … they had no problem with Randi Rhodes or the New (AND IMPROVED) Black Panther Party … In your face is their stock in trade.

Speaking of which … Uppity … can you just IMAGINE what this ass can do for your retirement fund? I will pull my 401K investments and put it offshore.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Beebop, if this guy were president, and thank GOD it’s not likely, he would finish off what is left of the econonomy with his Marxist ideas. Converting everything to cash in a safety deposit box is looking better all the time to me. At least if a bank folds you can still access your box.

beebop

Whose currency?

Guatemala looks better than Canada. It has gotten DAMN expensive and there’s no snow in Central America … just sayn’

Yvette

I got the shorter video if we should need it.

To get youtube videos go to vixy.net and either use their online converter or download their free converter.
Douglas

Holy shit he scratched his face at the beginning with his pinky finger up as well after a LONG PAUSE when he said “these events were inspiring” HAH…pinky finger OUT as if thats not a wink and a nod to the liberal elite ‘San Francisco’ (read, GAY!!!) latte set!!! WE’VE GOT HIM GUYS!! WE’VE FREAKIN’GOT HIM!!!

HIGH FIVES!!

Because if Daily Kos (Sorry “that evil Orange site oggidy boogidey boo”) had posted this but it was Hillary scratching her face instead of Barack you wouldn’t be messing your draws in faux, jowel trembling rage about the thuggery and petty politics of Obamatrons.

Stick to Rezko…

sandyR

i don’t know who you are. I don’t know who you support. I am assuming that it is the vile toad who just ended his career. But I want to say one thing to you: FUCK YOU.

Douglas

Is that with a scratch of the face or without? Thanks for playing.

beebop

Oh, definitely with. And laughing, just for effect and emphasis.

Douglas

You know i’ve argued over an over again to friends who believe otherwise that “Americans aren’t stupid.”
I’d just like to take this time and expand that to be a bit more specific. Not all Americans are stupid…but, sweet jesus, there clearly are a lot of really fucking stupid Americans and most of them seem to congregate here, vomit themselves into raptures of rage over whatever “next big thing” they can find about their Manchurian Candidate. You’re all a credit to yourselves…

I look forward to your next manufactured scandal.

beebop

Douglas … you are a manufactured idiot.

workingclass artist

LOL….Bee…You crack this cracker up…Thanks.
kenoshaMarge

Must be one of the defectives manufactured in China then.

Actually it’s just one of those little attention trolls that hangs out where not wanted and tries to pick an argument.

If they really had a point of view and an opinion they would be on a blog that discusses the things that they believe and find important.

Since all they find important is themselves and how much attention they can get by being obnoxious they are not worth the attention they receive.

simon, too

Doug, have you ever though of updating?

Thanks for playing is really OLD and gives away the fact you’re not cutting edge.

No one is afraid of a moldy troll, and well, you’re weak, and setting yourself up.

You see?

You come in here like this, and you could be as DUMB as Bill Kristol from what you’ve shown us, meaning, you’re easy to troll, and , well, you’re very predictable.

Deathly in combat to your own.

Blu

Barack Obama needs to show some class, he needs to make a public apology to Hillary Clinton and to the American people. And the super delegates need to take note that there are millions of people in this country cast their vote for Obama before knowing who he truly was. A “Take Back My Vote” campaign is in order!

If this man is the Democratic nominee my vote will go for McCain.

beebop

TAKE BACK YOUR VOTE?

They are suppressing voters in Michigan and Florida because they won’t vote for him!

You think they want your opinion NOW? Why do you think money is pouring across Pennsylvania’s borders? Speaking for myself … I cannot WAIT for the polls to close in Pennsylvania just to show how truly BAD it will be. Money is tight. And I had given pretty much all I had intended. But once I find where I have hidden my Visa, I am donating.

Paul

He and his supporters are nothing but bitter stupid people. They are scary.
John D

BHO never ceases to amaze me. Now I just realize how unconventional he really is.
angca

UPDATED: HillBuzz also learned Obama is LEFT-HANDED. If he was scratching his nose, for real, wouldn’t he have used his left, and not his right, hand. An involuntary movement like scratching your nose or cheek is done with your dominant hand…which in his case would have been his left, not his right,

—–

He’s a creep
Recall Obama Now ( formerly known as ces)

someone needs to start a website where they get to put up pictures themselves scratching their face or Barack…

In her element, my arse.

Vote McCain for Prez, but kneecap him by electing Ds for House and Senate.
Mel

A defining moment has occurred today, thanks to Dean’s comments and toObama’s actions and revelations last night! The Democratic Party no longer exists, it has become a failed institution which places Communist and dictatorship over democracy!

America goes into countries promoting freedom and yet America practices dictatorship in its own home!

America promotes a persons choice to chose by a vote and yet censors voters rights!

America claims to the world of being a civil and just society which promotes values, yet allows a candidate to give an oponent thebird and uses statements such as sticking a knife in him!

Today has become America’s darkest moment in the eyes of the world and has further deepened its view in the world!

Today, the Democratic Party became an Independant Party with no morals or standing, it has basically said in Dean’s words to hell with it, there is no democracy in the Democratic Party!

Tomorrow and in November, the Democratic Party has by its own leadership given the rights of voters to become Independant of Democracy and Independant in chosing as the choice of the Democratic Party elite has made clear to everyone that Independants are free to become even Republicans for a day! Is that day in November of ’08!

grtphoto

I wrote an email to the DNC just this eve. stating why I have left the party. Who knows if anyone will care to read it or take note. Maybe if more of us, en masse do so they may care. I agree with your sentiment. I’m looking for answers as to what to do from here?

StatBabe

I wrote an email to the DNC just this eve. stating why I have left the party. Who knows if anyone will care to read it or take note. Maybe if more of us, en masse do so they may care.

I can assure you that the DNC is taking notice! Today, I got another fundraising call from the DNC, and I unloaded! I told the gal that called that there was NO WAY that I was donating a red cent to the DNC until they remedied the situation with Florida and Michigan! I also told this gal that the entire mess was on Howard Dean’s shoulders, and he better figure out a solution fast as this Democrat was plenty fed up! I also told her that I had started out this campaign with a pretty ambivalent view of both candidates, but that now, I really LOATHE Obama–not because of anything that anyone ELSE had said, but because of the arrogant bullshit coming out of OBAMA’S mouth!

Anyway, this gal on the phone went on to tell me that there had been a conference call this morning with Howard Dean and that he was on the verge of finding a solution to Florida and Michigan. I told her to NOT call me back until he did find a solution to Michigan and Florida, and that it damned well better not consist of splitting up the delegates 50-50 since that’s NOT the way the vote went! She told me that EVERYONE was mad–that she had talked to LOTS of pissed-off people, and that it had gotten worse and worse–particularly this week! I also got the distinct impression that she, too, was fed up with the Obama arrogance.

Anyway, that’s the longest telephone call that I have had with a fundraiser for the DNC after I told them I was not contributing anything! Hence, I think that the anger is widespread, and Dean KNOWS that he has to fix it–or else!

workingclass artist

Yeah…..They had a story on NPR about how the internet and the blogs are effecting this election….They are looking at what is being discussed. Whether they will do anything about it is another story.

sandyR

I really think this ends him right here. It seems like I am in the minority. But I don’t think he can get away with this. It is too much on top of everything else. His demons (that we all intuited existed) are coming to the surface. He can’t make this go away. He can’t put on a happy face again once this gets out. I don’t think I’m being naive here… giving the finger to a Presidential candidate is way far gone. I just hope the campaign uses it the right way to get it out there.
Then we can all clean the shit off our shoes from what we’ve had to wade through with this clown and his thugs, beat McCain in November with HRC and turn our attention to getting a lot of things done.
As for the poor disheartened trust fund babies… I assume that there will be an influx of really crappy garage bands….”mom, dad… can I have 20k
to make a recording studio in the basement? Huh, can I, huh?.. oh,.. coooollll.”

ChrisXP

I really think this ends him right here.

There’s plenty more to go on the other side of the aisle…

http://www.amazon.com/Bound-Man-Excited-About-Obama/dp/1416559175

Shelton Steele is Obama’s counterpart on the Right (similiar backgrounds and all). Those open minded enough — or wanting some clue how the GE will be like — might want to read it. He has some interesting revelations and questions.

He also explains why Obama is so light on policies. The price is too high now……

Read, folks, read.
workingclass artist

If SNL does a good skit about it ( let’s hope they do ) you could be right.

Hope

The Democratic Party has been on the decline for a long time now. This was inevitable because the far left wing has pushed the party over the politically correct edge. What used to be a party for the poor and the underdog has now become the party of whining far left wing demagogues who think they are above the rest of us. They are superior in every way, they think. What they need is to lose badly now and lose stunningly with a sting from the bee of reality politics.

This is so freaking stupid on the part of the party leaders. They need to step in fast if they have any hope at all.

I will relish watching the DP fail miserably in the fall. It couldn’t happen to a nicer group of losers.

lifelong dem leaving party

agree re a stunning loss needed. if obama just loses in the normal way, the dnc will think it can continue its hijacking of the party. if he wins no state other than illinois, they’ll have to see that their crap is over and they need to change.

i know it’s true, because i’ve lived through it all these years, but i continue to find it hard to believe that the only dem elected president in the last three decades is clinton, yet the dem party hates the clintons. they love the kerrys, etc., who lose. are they suffering from some rare cognitive disorder or what?

jangles

IF OBAMA, AFTER ALL THIS, GETS THE DEMOCRATIC NOM, THEN I THINK OUR ONLY OPTION IS NUCLEAR. An all out, all us on the unity pony in a full on campaign charge to help McCranky beat Obama by a landslide. Without a landslide defeat, Obama will not go away. If he were to have a Gore or Kerry outcome, he would most probably lead an Iraqi moment here in the homeland of the US of KKKA and appoint Wright as the general in charge of field operations. Obama is Bush III. They are so alike; remember the clips of Bush doing the finger wave? Same MO. Same I can do no wrong; same kind of past; same lack of international experience; same crowd manipulation. If Obama were to be elected our reputation in the world would make the fall of the towers on 9/11 look like a picnic. Only a landslide defeat would make it possible to clean out the Democratic elites who have gotten us into this mess. In the event the Dem party is beyond restructuring, only a landslide defeat creates a platform on which we might be able to begin and build a new party. This guy is uncanny. With all of this he is apparently gaining in the polls. With all of this he is apparently still raising millions and millions of $$$. With all of this, the msm is still looking on blindly and incoherently. I do not know how Hillary manages to continue and be a strong and likable candidate, still fighting like hell for this nomination. If only she can pull victory out of the next primaries at a pace that will convince Dems that she must be the standard bearer. Anglachel has a great article that only one thing unites the Obama Nation—killing off the Clintons. Something they share with the far right noise machine of the Republicans. Those two should get together and have a party.

ChrisXP

An all out, all us on the unity pony in a full on campaign charge to help McCranky beat Obama by a landslide.

The solution is to retake the party, ground up. Remove the cruft — just like investors do in a revolt to remove management that doesn’t bring home the bacon.

Dean, Pelosi and Reid are underachievers that hurt the bottomline. Tell me, what have they pushed that the Dems truly wanted them to enact?

Troops home yet?

Kyoto Accord ratified?

Good jobs in America?

It’s been 2 years now, and the company board hasn’t produced a damn.

There’s only so much a partisan can stand before they have no choice but to leave, since their issues aren’t being addressed, afterall.

When that point occurs, then the Democrat party is back in the game. If folks wait, just look across the aisle and see how long the “big tent” lasts (and it’s aftermath).
lifelong dem leaving party

interesting point. does that mean that the loudmouths will disappear into their holes after their asshole gets the nomination? then mccain wins in a landslide, but they don’t notice or care, because they accomplished their goal of getting clinton out?

i’d like to think that, so there’d be at least some bright side to this disaster. but i think they really want to elect this jerk. we MUST stop them!

Fredster

Don’t forget…If B.O. gets the nod and should he win the general, there still aren’t going to be 60 Dem votes in the Senate (at least I don’t think) and every Dem vote will be needed. Guess who can just sit in the catbird seat and watch the shit hit the fan. If that were the situation and I were HRC I’d watch ‘em squirm when they needed my vote. Same holds true if McCain gets the Presidency and Dems have Congress. I could see it-Harry Reid comes up begging for a vote and HRC says “Oh, you want me to vote for ——-. Hmmmmmm….N A H ” !

Don’t think it would happen, she’s too loyal to the Party.

simon, too

If I were looking at the right wing republicans, as opposed to the stupid democrats, I would say the right wing republican trolls are throughly confused, specious and easy to mislead.

Which gives a lot more insight into WHY those wars were lost, they’re just as, if not moreso, incompetent than their left wing coutnerparts.

They get so caught up in trolling democrats, (they think, I think the right wing is being trolled, too, but the “Bill Kristol” troll is too stupid to understand, hence, the losses) they forget to see what’s happening to their own camp, and they leave themselevs WIDE OPEN.

Wow, it’s almost as if one person does all the thinking for them, and that person ain’t bright.

Flush them boys, they’re nothing but a toilet full of turds, anyway.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

While I agree the Right Wing Republicans are truly turds, I see no difference in what is happening in the Democratic party when it comes to EXTREME. Speaking of turds, Obama is the proverbial turd in the punchbowl of the Democratic party. Just so you know that ANYBODY and I mean ANYBODY running against Barkie Obama gets my vote.

wry

this is what my dear mother can’t figure out – and she’s 80 so shes been observing human nature for a long time.

Why do these democrats hate Bill and Hillary so much?

I’m 48 and they’re the only ones I ever voted for who won. I was so happy back in 92. Happy for them,but happy for me too.

I’ve lost my guilt. Independent has a nice ring to it.

lifelong dem leaving party

know what you mean.

the other day i was telling someone how i have been a loyal dem for four decades but couldn’t be any more. when i said the part about loyal dem for four decades, the person asked the most simple and obvious question – why? i realized i couldn’t answer.

after all, the party’s given us candidates like dukakis, kerry, etc., who can’t possibly win. and it’s given very little in terms of significant legislation to benefit us in recent years.

the only time the party did us much good was during the clinton years, but the party had nothing to do with that and they just stood by while gingrich and his goons went to town on sex crap, apparently because their personal jealousies mattered more than the good of the country.

so i’m now asking why? why have i given four decades of loyalty to a party that has given me no such loyalty? and my answer is that i should’ve been more discerning and should’ve evaluated each vote based on merit without regard to party.

i didn’t do so in the past, since i credited the “d” without thorough investigation. in the future, the “d” gains no special consideration. rather, the candidate must sell himself or herself on merit. period!
Hope

Yes this is amazing. Even my own father, a former Clinton supporter, hates Bill Clinton now. I am so disgusted I could just disown the man as my father. What in the hell are they all thinking? I can’t fathom it.

beebop

Its more than the blue dress. That I know.

workingclass artist

I think they hate the Clintons because they are unflappable and sucessful. They are the hillbillies that made it. They are also centrist New Democrats as is Gore and the liberals ( New Left ) exemplified by Kennedy et, al. don’t want to give up power.
http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Apparently they are all upset about their great portfolios under Clinton. Or…….they were too young to even HAVE portfolios and just benefitted from their parents’ portfolios….Or….to lazy to work and stop buying things they couldn’t afford so they they could HAVE a portfolio. Or maybe…just maybe…the clinton years were so good, they are embarrassed to admit it. Must trash. Must trash. Shhhh. Don’t let anybody remember. Or collect sycophants who are too young to remember and toss them in with angry slugs who couldn’t get their own shit together.

Lyn

Here is a better angle and you can tell by the lady in the last row she knows what he did and tells the lady next to her something http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=4025010n
Good Lord could you imagine HIM as POTUS after last night and this could you imagine him talking to world leaders?

Blu

The link you put up went to a video of Obama brushing off his shoulder. He gave Hillary the finger in the video on this page at 1 min 18 sec.

Hope these videos do not magically disappear.

truthtelling007

I have these and many other videos saved.

newspaper reader

thank you, truthtelling007.
Northwest rain

Thank goddess that Gore invented the Internet!

Thanks truthtelling007 for saving the (flipped bird) evidence!

simon, too

Actually, Gore helped facilitate it’s creation, providing, through the Senate, proper legislation and financing.

So the comment was accurate.

Cliched thinking is not healthy, neither is repeating old republican talking points.

http://www.food4humanity.org HoosierHoops

No Quarter Quote of the day.. from a deke..
‘
I just don’t understand how we got here. Trashing the last Democratic president and his wife has become the accepted modus for running as a Democrat. The Clintons have supported so many of them gave seed money for bloggers and talk shows and this is the way they are rewarded.’

So Deke..is this is what’s your saying is..If it wasn’t for the Clinton’s there would be no demo party? No Gore.. no Dean, No pelosi, no Reid..(Obama)nothing..????
And no good deed goes unpunished.

Shainzona

Of course he’s not saying that. But he is saying that BO and friends have turned Repug Swiftboating into Hillary Hatred by trashing the last Dem to win two terms as POTUS; by trashing two lifelong public servants who have always worked for the benefit of the AA community; and trashed the first truly qualified woman to run for POTUS – the most important position IN THE WORLD – a women who is so smart, she can actually help correct the problems that will be left by the Bush administration.

That’s a pretty sick track record if you ask me…and a lot of other people.

Sick!
beebop

You must like the view from inside your ass.

Hope

I can’t stand this little shithead. If I saw him face to face right now I would tell him directly what an absolute dupe this dumb creep truly is. I don’t even think this turkey knows who he is really. He’s having an identity crisis like everyone else on reality TV. Who gives a shit about his pain and his freaking whining. Can you imagine listening to the whining all day and night for four years?? Oh God what a national disaster this wimp would be for all of us.

SensibleWoman

I wouldn’t even acknowledge his existence. He’s just not worthy of it.
ChrisXP

I can’t stand this little shithead.

Maybe Hillary supporters can do something to send the Obama camp a message.

Remember during the early days of the Iraq war, and how Iraqis took their shoes and hit posters with Hussein’s face on them? Doing so is one of the worst insults an Iraqi could do.

Tie it all in: mail Obama’s HQs a shoe. Even better, glue his photo on the sole, to give his camp a clue.

Not only will it remind Obama’s camp “it’s about the issues, stupid”, it’ll register the ultimate displeasure.

Michaela22

This guy has absolutely no class…Stuff like this shows that he does comes from the South Side of Chicago and learned all the “gutter tricks”…and this arse wants to be the next President of the United States.

To look at him repulses me…you can dress him up but you can’t make a gentleman out of him…low class piece of shite. The more I look at this video the madder I get…he knew exactly what he was doing…send this off to ever station…fix his black ass…
Fleaflicker

I agree with you Susan. Obama is Toast!
TeakWoodKite

“senator Clinton looked in her element”. BO Preaching from the pulpit not looking up.
“That’s her right…to twist the knife a little bit.” Believe me BO if she had wanted to twist the knife, you would never see it coming. You think it’s funny eh? Smug eh?

45 minutes? 10 seconds for you I think. “thatsall righ” “fairly typical”…”beat it to death”.

Obama is looking for tax free status with his Amen groopies. I hear the same AMen crap, it makes his snake oil cheap.
Ron from S.F.

I had been wondering why after several terms in the Illinois legislature and two years in the U.S. Senate, Barak Obama was in such a hurry to run for President. Two years in the Senate is barely long enough to find the mens rooms. Maybe he didn’t want to leave a voting record. You can’t vote “present” in the U.S. Senate.

chris

its called ambition.

blobert

He got too far too soon.
This will kill him off early.

If Kennedy and Kerry hadn’t fallen all over themselves to force things, he would have gotten nice visibility, lost, worked on high profile projects, and in 8 years his Chicago buddies would so be far in the background they would be harmless.

He would be ready.

Barack Hussein from a Chicago hellhole and seedy pals is going to have a tough time.
He can’t send his goons into Free Republic and take over the way he did Daily Kos.

simon, too

He didnt’ send goons, he sent cash.

pm317

I will do everything in my power to defeat this asshole if he ever gets nominated. Let us see who gives him the finger — what is a politician without votes? I also predict this will be his first and last senate appointment. They are all using him now for their own purposes and will be dropped like a hot potato once he is of no value.
Mel

What is sad and funny, is Obama is talking all day about being asked what he considers non-questions about thigs like wearing a flag pin, anti-American Wright association, association with terrorist Ayers, calling small town Americans bitter, bigots and gun toting bible thumping people because of desparation, and yet those questions aside from the bitter one were easy to answer quickly:
I hate the flag
I love my bitter minister
I love my terrorist friends
I hate small town Americans!

Takes what one minute to answer truthfully, yet Obama chose to take 20 minutes to answer them with non answers!

So Obama, shut the fuck up!
ChrisXP

Glad that you said it that Obama whines and is a wimp, because that’s what I said earlier tonight while overhearing the Fox News coverage of last night’s debate.

The guy has skin as thin as paper — but not surprised, since he’s not black or white, but confused.

Fredster

And last night during the debate he could have commented “Ya know George, let’s get down to the brass tacks. People are hurting, jobs are being lost, soldiers are dying needlessly. Let’s talk about that.” But of course Barry didn’t say that, did he? It’s so much better to pout and whine the next days and flip off a fellow Senator.

Fleaflicker

This is either Obama’s CaCa moment or ours. I would rather he be eating the shit.

beebop

It will take more than us talking to us to make it a caca moment. Even the BOBO supporters sense that flipping the bird may be a little declasse for a Presidential candidate … so they are just sayin’ he didn’t do it. He’s such a sneaky bastard that he did it and left enough doubt. So. You have to be willing to take a stand and call him on it. He’s just arrogant enough to think no one will.

no pasaran

Obama is a coward and a thug. And what’s up with the cheering crowd? Obama learned well from Wright in those 20 years. He learned to use hatred to motivate his followers. The video reminds me of the gesturing Wright and his jeering congregation.

pm317

He learned to use hatred to motivate his followers.

I have always thought his MO was to use the perceived hate for the Clintons as his starting point and he has pretty much converted those young people to be hatemongers, hasn’t he? Nothing can explain their irrational hate toward Senator Clinton.

no pasaran

Exactly. His MO has worked well except for that he was not able to foresee that the strategy would divide the Democrats to such an extent that his campaign will be suicidal if he makes it to the GE. He is still under the delusion that the Clinton voters will just turn the page and support him in the GE.

OxyCon

You need to have this CBS video, which nails it.
Look at the reaction of the women at the top left of the screen (red shirt w/glasses). She gets it immediately, then approvingly tells her friend what Obama did:
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=4025010n

Bill Delyon

What are you, a lip reader???

mercy….

OldCoastie

no school teacher on the planet would not recognize that little manuever – very 4th grade-ish… he isn’t so stupid he thinks he’s fooling anyone, is he?

workingclass artist

LOL…Yeah we became expert at these gestures by about 4th grade. You nailed it.

beebop

I read at another blog that this is just a follow-up to the finger that he gave the working class during his speech in San Francisco …

workingclass artist

Earth Quake this morning ….5.2 on the scale…epicenter on Indiana/Illinois border…Question..COULD THIS BE EVIDENCE OF OBAMESSIAH AND MINIONS HAVING A TANTRUM ?

DEM

That was atrocious. It’s very obvious in the CBS vid. Even if that’s not what he intended, it seems pretty clear that a significant number of his supporters (like the lady with the friend) THOUGHT that’s what he intended… and cheered.

I’m still trying to figure out how Senator Obama can be simultaneously a) new and fresh and changy and b) snarky and pejorative.
raymo

He is just another version of this:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushflippingbirdanimated.htm
SJ

This is so classless and to think this man wants to be POTUS, I hope this video goes viral so all can see the kind of man Obama is, I know his supporters would approve of this but god this is so disgusting coming from a individual that is seeking the highest office in this land.
pm317

What he did was despicable. But what he is saying and he finds the need to say it is all very pathetic — he cannot take her on when she is standing next to him but has to mock her and denigrate her when she is miles away. What a shameful, shameful coward he is? He is a coward for not answering those questions (they did not come from Clinton). He is a coward to have bussed people to caucuses and for having used all lowly tricks to get those delegates at caucuses. He is a coward for not letting FL and MI count. He is a coward not to have run his campaign with any dignity. We will give him the finger when he leaves.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Like all cowards, he is brave when he is away from the confrontation. This is the mark of a true coward.

Northwest rain

He is both a coward and a bully. Or rather he is a passive aggressive.

He needs a full time Shrink.

This is typical of a Narcissistic personality.

Not once has he reigned in his followers — therefor I must conclude he supports their use of intimidation and threats. (This is one form of passive aggression — sort of like the female duck who doesn’t beat up other ducks — she just sends her mate to wack the heck out of the other duck.)

Hope

Absolutely true! Narcissistic Personality Disorder. I hate this shithead! I think we are seeing the demise of our great nation friends. Can you imagine any other candidate in the past flipping the bird at their opposition? This is truly a sign of a dying society. We accept anything now?????

This guy is probably going to be the nominee. I pray that he is disgraced and loses his fucking pants. I despise this bastard.

simon, too

That’s what I was thinking, nothing says
pu%%y like passive aggressive.

How would he fight when he faces a real contest?

Why, being the good little Arab op he is, he would BOMB innocent civilians, those who can’t fight back.

workingclass artist

Next Obamessiah’s campaign will be sayin that our collective intyerpretation of this universal ( in Western Civilization ) gesture is….Racist.

orionATL

one question:

is this more obama campaign “dog scratching” ?

or just a little allergy kicking in?

simon, too

Obama is irrelevant.

His mother, though, would be ashamed, if she knew what he did.

SJ

Whats will all the dusting off of his shoulders and the shaking of his foot as if he just steeped in something yuck.

Such class !!! every American should be so proud of this kind of behavior, Obama must have a rather dim view of women, I wonder if he will dust off his wife like that is he disagrees with what he says.

Dem_base

What is really sad is that he has two daughters and still acts this way toward women.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

He is a serious sexist pig. The kind I used to see a few decades ago in corporate America. You wouldn’t get on the elevator with them either. Younger women, who don’t know about that struggle don’t see the signs in this pig. Signs that they are about to take a respect-dive if he were to be in charge.

He is the bottom of the sexist pig pile. He is honed to hate women and it shows. His manhood is associated with dominance and poking fun. He can’t dominate Hillary. She is superior to him intellectually and she handles herself with far more grace–and it simply boils his testosterone.

Hope

He’s a racist. He hates whites and won’t come out and say it of course. He threw his own grandma under the bus, goes to SF speaks against the working class people, makes mention of the typical white people, his wife Machete Michelle is only proud of her country once in her lifetime, Rev Wright is their mentor/spiritual advisor/leader, he has terrorist friends, kisses Hamas’ ass and then tries to deny it, disses women and just generally holds everyone in contempt that isn’t just like him. He’s a sick, silly little boy! BOY! Got that! He’s a stupid little twerp of a twit that never grew the fuck up. So fuck him and fuck the horse he came in on!
otherlisa

And I have to add – he is NOT a radical leftist. If he were, I might like him better. He is a centrist, and a corporatist, a supposed Democrat who praises Ronald Reagan, does not support universal healthcare and has made way too many noises about a Social Security “crisis.”

Hillary has the actual Democratic positions in this race.

workingclass artist

I beg to differ…He says what he needs to say to get what he wants.
Once he is in office he will change…He is a radical left puppet, look at the puppeteers.

sandyR

Everybody in American knows what getting the finger looks like. Nobody’s gonna believe that gesture was anything but that gesture. Spin opportunity is 0. Game, set, match.
http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

“This is a contact sport. If you don’t want to play, keep your uniform off”
…bill clinton
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/bill-clinton-no.html

Strawberrybitch

Uppity, I’d love to be a fly on the wall when the Big Dawg and Hill see THIS!

orionATL

what obama evinced last night was a VERY prickly irritability when questioned about his past.

this is NOT cool in american presidential politics.

he also exhibited the characteristic of turning any critical question about himself back on his opponent, rather than answering it .

to me, this is a sign of gross inexperience at this high level of of american politics.
mac addict

Is this getting any play anywhere else except this site? Has the Clinton campaign or the Obama responded?
MarkL

That nearly makes me want to campaign for McCain (whom I think is an idiot), because McCain definitely has an ounce of human decency; Obama, none.

lifelong dem leaving party

agree. disagree with mccain’s politics, but know that he would never publicly flip off a lady, whether a political opponent or otherwise. i know the obamanuts will say that hillary’s no lady, that hillary can’t expect to be treated like a lady when she’s a candidate, etc. they miss the point that it’s not about hillary, it’s about obama and his disgusting lack of basic manners. the snub was just the first glimpse, this was another, and i’m sure there will be many more to come. whether it’s hillary or someone else who dares to cause him a problem, he behaves like a spoiled child rather than an adult dealing with someone who disagrees with him. not exactly what we need in a president.

saw an article that he’s probably not going to agree to any more debates (claiming no point, we all know he’s just scared). i wonder if he thinks he can get by with that in a general.

prostratedragon

Careful. McCain has addressed his wife in profoundly disrespectful terms in the presence of strangers. True it was years ago, but I bet it’s still like it was yesterday to Cindy McCain.

Really shaping up as a banner year.
kenoshaMarge

In our disdain for Obama we don’t need to give McCain a pass. He smirked and smiled when a woman in his audience called Hillary a bitch. Not much class there by either of them.

He is said to address his wife in less than stellar terms during one of his periodic tantrums. He’s a FRICKIN Republican! How can any Democrat/Liberal/Progressive say they will support him?

I will never vote for Obama. But in my rage at him and the Democratic Party I will not pollute my vote by casting it for a war-mongering Republican.

If Obama is the nominee I will write in Hillary Clinton. If it happens and enough Hillary voters actually did that it would send a powerful message to the “Leadership” of the Democratic Party.

Voting for either Obama or McCain would, to me, be voting against all that I have believed in. IMHO

beebop

I am totally in agreement.
workingclass artist

Agreed…..Don’t think I can vote for McInsane either….maybe givin up and HOBOING IT to Canada…

jimbo

Dean, let the people decide, especially now that Obama seems to have made things worse. Bring in MI and FL, you really don’t have any way out. Do it now, then let things decide themselves, the way it always should have been. Let Obama and HRC battle it out, let the best person win. Then we all can vote for the winner, and stop the bitterness. Do it right.
http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2008/04/17/did-obama-give-hillary-the-finger-today/ Pamela

Unbelievably tacky and crass and so obvious. Of course before the “finger” there was the “Snub.”
MarkL

Was there any news coverage of Obama’s equating Coburn and the murderer, Ayers?
Beelzebud

Good luck.

Maybe if you fling enough poop on the wall something will stick.

Bill Delyon

Plenty of poop being slung around these parts…

Classic stuff..

raymo

Con man. Thug. Petulant. Classless. Mommy issues. Pissy. Insecure. Narcissistic. Unprepared.

Now tonight I see this nobody gives Hillary the finger?

Hey Caroline Kennedy, does he still remind you of your daddy? Because he has NEVER reminded me of the great JFK.

I guess that’s a cheap shot at Caroline, a decent woman, but I am so disgusted. I have been planning to write Hillary in on the ballot if she doesn’t get the nomination. But this little bastard just might make me angry enough to vote for the old bastard. We’ll see.

Dawnelle

Petulant Prick pretty plain to see!

but that doesn’t disqualify him from CIC.

Rev. Wright disqualifies him because Rev. Wright is still held in high esteem by BO (as he keeps saying) and a LOT of us just can’t get over the political stubborn ignorance of that lame move. (or LACK of move)

Had he politically put Wright to bed and had Wright kept his EGO driven mouth shut this whole thing would be dying down like Sniper-gate.

BO’s petulance has doomed him.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

It would be out of character for him to admit he was wrong or denounce Wright. Narcissists cannot do that kind of thing. They are never wrong and believe that if you can’t see that, then there is something wrong with YOU.

Dawnelle

oh jeeeeezus it’s GW all over again

ChrisXP

oh jeeeeezus it’s GW all over again

Not even close.

Just wait if he gets nominated. The real eye-opener for the US and the world, is when he’ll be applying policies.

That’s when folks will start to see the egg crack.

workingclass artist

Agreed…The question will be who is this guys Cheney ?

beebop

And you KNOW that RIGHT NOW as we speak errr … type … K Olbamamann is working on an INDIGNANT Gerri Ferraro style spittle spewing HOW DARE YOU SIR for the bird … right?

kenoshaMarge

Sorry to disappoint you Bee but haven’t you noticed that Olbermann’s “Special Tantrums” are never aimed at the “One” or the one’s cheering on the “One”.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Uncle “I love the pooor so long as they don’t live near me” Kennedy made her do it.

http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/ Gloria

Immature street punk in action. Obama is a disgrace. Who in his right mind will vote for this guy?? NOT ME…never!

He acts like a standup comedian. And a bad one at that…and I thought George Bush was terrible! This guy is just as bad….he can’t speak English very well, either. He gets his gerunds and prepositions wrong…
Latina

Superdelegates unswayed by Clinton’s attacks
By Patrick Healy Published: April 18, 2008
Throughout their contentious debate on Wednesday, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton tried again and again to put Senator Barack Obama on the defensive in a pointed effort, her advisers say, to raise doubts about his electability among a small but powerful audience: the uncommitted superdelegates who will most likely determine the nomination.

But although Clinton gave it her best shot in what might have been their final debate, interviews on Thursday with a cross-section of these superdelegates — members of Congress, elected officials and party leaders — showed that none had been persuaded much by her attacks on Obama’s strength as a potential Democratic nominee, his recent gaffes and his relationships with his former pastor and with a onetime member of the Weather Underground.

In fact, the Obama campaign announced endorsements from two more superdelegates on Thursday, after rolling out three on Wednesday and two others since late last week in what appeared to be an orchestrated show of strength before Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary. Obama advisers said that one of the pickups on Thursday, Councilman Harry Thomas Jr. of the District of Columbia, had initially favored Clinton, but Clinton advisers denied that, and a Thomas aide said he had been neutral before Thursday.

In interviews, 15 uncommitted superdelegates said they did not believe that recent gaffes by both candidates would carry any particular influence over their final decision. They said they had particularly tired of all the attention, by the Clinton campaign and the news media, on Obama’s recent comment that some Americans were “bitter” over the economy and chose to “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them” as a result.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/18/america/18dems.php

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

He’s got his planned superdelegates on ice for these occassions. he really thinks everybody buys his crappola.
http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Notice they don’t “name” those “uncommitted” delagates they “interviewed”.

What an infant this man is.

mel

axelrod had the gun assoc hold off for 3 weeks to announce obama yesterday in support, this is a game of scoring points and nothing more by doing this!

Griff

This is amazing…the people on this blog are hallucinating about an imagined offense,(and judging from the language used here, nothing should offend them) in the meantime the article about Superdelegates and Dean calling for them to make up their minds goes unnoticed.
Some priorities…

lifelong dem leaving party

dean’s crap didn’t go unnoticed – check out the comments to the article about him.

those who have visions of obama in the white house are hallucinating; the rest of us just see.

if our language offends you, you must share obama’s delicate sensibilities. he does seem to be swooning after a few not-all-that-tough questions.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

I love watching Barry go into the fetal position. He’s such a wimp.

OldCoastie

you’re not a high school teacher are you? if you were, you’d see this several times a day…

pm317

This section from that article was conveniently left out. I wonder why?

“Obama argues that he will put more states in play, but I haven’t seen him put the coalitions together as strongly as we need to,” said Joe Turnham, an uncommitted superdelegate who is chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party. ( Obama won the Alabama primary in February; Turnham has known the Clintons for many years.)

“You have to put together blue-collar workers, veterans, seniors and swing evangelical voters and compete in states like West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania,” Turnham added. “I feel like Hillary has shown more strength there.”

Janis

The way I see it, if we get this creep foisted on us, we have two choices:

1) Vote Obama. That will leave us with one corrupt evil party (the Repubs) and one newly minted corrupt, evil party that will have been rewarded for its behavior. End result: no hope.

2) Vote McCain. That will leave us with one corrupt, evil party (Repubs) and one party that tried to get corrupt and evil, or at least more than usual, and will have gotten slapped down hard enough to leave handprints on their foreheads. End result: some hope.

Hillary or McCain. PERIOD. If you think things are bad now, you have no idea how bad they could get if #1 happens. You think Iraq is bad? Try a nuclear exchange that wipes Israel and Iran off the map.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

I completely agree. I will go with McCain if this crackpot is the nominee.
ChrisXP

The way I see it, if we get this creep foisted on us, we have two choices

There is a third choice: write-in.

No need to pick between worse and worst, you can still write in a candidate of your choice.

lifelong dem leaving party

i’m in texas, so mccain will win my state anyway, but if you’re in a close state voting for mccain instead of writing in hillary could mean the difference in obama winning or losing the election. and i desperately want obama to LOSE!!!

just saying.
pm317

I would have to block this obamination from winning which means I vote for McCain.
Janis

Agreed. A third choice is no choice at all — McCain is it.

Dem_base

It goes deeper than this. The Democratic party leaders are failing us big-time.

We need to clean house, good-bye Dean, Brazile, Nancy P, etc.

Good-bye to the sham of caucuses.

We need party leaders who think years in advance and plan accordingly.

No party leader with half a brain would let someone with the lack of credentials like Obama run for President. The Dems had a chance make solid runs for Pres for the next 16 years and blew it with petty Clinton-hate.

The only successful two term Dem President in how long and these “leaders” are dragging their own through the mud.

Nominating BO will send the Democratic party down into flames. I say burn baby burn and rebuild anew.

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Birgit

Hmm If I focus my eyes not only on the finger but on the crowd in the backround it seems to differ in the variants of the movie. Can it be true he did it more than once ?

Mary

Different camera angles, I think.
http://speaktruth speaktruth

Yes, I noticed that too. Seems to definitely have been two times.

So this was planned – same disgusting speech. No accident.

Makes it much more ugly!

The Gringo’s Wife

More interesting to me, was the reaction from the two while women to his right. They look a little shocked and not quite the same afterwards. They may have warmed up afterwards.

Barry’s mental illness is showing. It goes like this … If I hide my eyes, nobody will see me.

beebop

Mental illness is a real disease. Barack Obama is an artificial illness predicated on disease. I have nothing but abundant love and empathy for the truly ill in our soceity. He is not in that group.

true progressive

Barack Obama is out of touch.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

He’s in touch with himself. Pun intended.

Sharen

There is MUCH more to the video then that..here in Los Angelez they showed a clip of him actually using his arm in the F U gesture..ya know, putting his hand on his chin and doing the FU gesture..this guy is just scary as hell..not only is he a racist, a liar and a hypocrite, he is also a thug..if anyone doesn’t think he didn’t learn anything from Wright you are all fooling yourselves..he IS a product of Wright..the ones that sip his Kool Aid are all in that cult like atmosphere..kinda like Heaven’s Gate or Waco Texas..they are young and naive and have no clue that he would RUIN THIS COUNTRY..be afraid people, God help us all if he gets elected president..now I am not saying that Hillary if perfect because she is not, but damn, at least you don’t have to worry about her chilin with Hamas and hating White people behind all our backs..she would NEVER flick him off..EVER..she has more respect for him then that..wht a total pompass ass this guy is..WAKE UP PEOPLE

pm317

Do you have link to that other clip?

Christines

This marks the true character of Obama!

A friend said….

I’m from the streets. In my younger days of course! That was street. That was intentional. Most would miss it. People of color, myself included, probably caught it. Notice the hoots! Among other things, its called filipping off on the down low. If someone “not hip” catches it, it’s called a busted move. (Got caught)
ChrisXP

Pat Buchanan nails it! This is also a preview for all the Dems of what’s in store in the GE (when partisans no longer are safe in their partisan corners, but have to fight in the open)…

http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20080415/cm_uc_crpbux/op_335819

In Barack’s mind, black anger and resentment at “racial injustice and inequality” are “legitimate.” But the anger and resentment of white folks, about affirmative action, crime and forced busing are born of misperceptions — and of “bogus claims of racism” manipulated and exploited by conservative columnists and commentators to keep the racial pot boiling and retain power, so the right can continue to do the bidding of the corporations that are the real enemy.

Barack has stumbled into the eternal failing of the left-wing populist. He cannot concede that the anger of white America — that its right to equal justice has been sacrificed to salve the consciences of guilt-besotted liberals — is a legitimate anger. The truth that Barack dare not speak is that reverse discrimination is pandemic and that the folks in Middle Pennsylvania have a valid grievance that ought to be addressed.

Ah, the other AA. That redheaded stepchild that seems to mean African-Americans to Dems, but when conservatives see AA, it means Affirmative Action.

If Obama wins the nomination, he’s cooked in the GE. Once the GOP gets to all the messy details, he’ll be in the pot while the Republicans toss an arugula salad in his name.

Me, I’ll be pouring ketchup on his snotty gourmet spread (and no, I don’t like French cooking, either).

rwc

Don’t forget about the accompanying exploding heads that will come with a Obama defeat.

It will be amusing to say the least watching Kos, Marshall and all the other far left authoritarian scumbags see their hopes and dreams go down in flames as the GOP dismantles their god.

The whining will be of historical proportions.

lifelong dem leaving party

agree. it will be so much fun to watch them cry in their wine.

but i’m staying home that night – afraid of violence from obamanuts when he loses.
bert

But Obama’s defeat will not be his fault, nor will it be the fault of his supporters who do not see he is not electable. No. Again, it will be Hillary’s fault and the fault of all those poor yokel racist types who just don’t get it.

At age 62 and for the first time in my life I am ashamed to be a Democrat and a liberal progressive.

Dawnelle

Ok so Hillary shows up at the beginning of Colbert

l8tr out comes X jumpin junkie Cpt Pat to endorse BO while waxing poetic over Bagdad burning

then I change the channel out of frustration and when I tune back in there is JOHN fricken Edwards!!!

Is this some kind of hideous mean joke? Ya know this kind of crap we’re finding out about BO is EXACTLY what John Edwards used to claim he was fighting against! He should have come out for Hillary. He should have by now.

I’m disgusted with them all by now. All the uncommitted SUPERS can kiss my butt! I can see Dean’s frustration to be honest. I wish they’d make a fricken decision! How obvious does it have to be for some of them???? ARGH!

mel

Edwards will come in just before the NC vote gis wife has basically already stated who it will be!
The Gringo’s Wife

Don’t fret about Edwards.

Politics is all about timing. Edwards will be a more stunning announcement right before NC. And I suspect we will see then Hill’s choice for VP.

Yes, that is my prediction. And it was sooo good to see him last night. After having to put up with Barry, John looked like sunlight and freshness and goodness …

Okay screw it … why pretend. I think he is Edwardlicious. Yes, VP! I can enjoy him for four years or maybe eight … He can then maybe go for four or maybe eight… heavens! That’s a possible 14 years of Edwardliciousness!

I happen to agree with his politics so he is not just another purdy face to me. But he was the authentic man of HOPE. Obamacon stole his stump speech and nobody said a word. And when I see him, I feel good about my country. I feel pride. Just as I do with Hillary and honestly I feel the same for McCain (veterans — all of us).

Hillary/Edwards ’08

Sounds perfect doesn’t it?

formerobamasupporter

I just switched my vote to Hillary Clinton. I hope other Obama supporters join me.

pm317

Thank you. For the sake of this country, you did the only right thing.
Melanie

God bless you. Hope you are living in PA.
The Gringo’s Wife

formerobamasupporter –

Welcome to the Carol Ann station. You have seen the light! Amen!

Make sure you share your change of heart with all of your friends, co-workers, family and neighbors.

Yai!

Amalia

and they think basketball is important as a topic
for conversation but not Wright/Ayers/Rezko/Auchi?

over at the orange site there is a thread lauding
the coverage of Obama’s game as portrayed on HBO.
don’t these people know what kind of nuts they
sound like? Basketball….we gotta talk about it.
The pastor who converted him and got THOUSANDS
of dollars from Obama, not so much.

unbelieveable.

formerobamasupporter

this is one reason why i switched my vote from obama to clinton. other obama supporters’ unwillingness to come to terms with reality convinced me to support clinton.

Recall Obama Now ( formerly known as ces)

HM…there’s something I don’t like about Obama, but I can’t quite put a finger on it…

Oh, yeah….FINGERGATE!
Dawnelle

Clinton supporters take a “slap of reality” in the face each morning as our WAKE UP CALL

We NEED it. We CRAVE it!

HIT US WITH YOUR BEST SHOT of REALITY

we take it well
like Weebles we may wobble but we won’t fall down (anyone remember that?) LOL

(I think this is my cue to sleep)
Recall Obama Now ( formerly known as ces)

here’s hope for ya

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/17/barackfinger.jpg
William

Obama and his svengali Axelrod have run his campaign as an attempt to capitalize on Clinton-hatred. Formerly confined to the right-wing, they found new disciples in a bunch of diaffected young people who found it convenient to make the Clintons scapegoats for their own unhappiness. They then went after Black people, convincing them that the Clintons were unrepentant racists. They knew that the media would help them in all of this. Obama and his wife despise the Clintons; every physical action of his, from his “you’re likeable enough,” to “the snub,” to this last, appalling gesture, reflects a man of immense arrogance and contempt for others, who is certain that the game is already fixed in his favor, so that he can be as scornful and derisive as he pleases.

Not only are the Democrats going to nominate a candidate who can’t win, over one who almost certainly will win (check out the newest SUSA matchup polls if you doubt this), they are trying to purge the Clintons from the Party, thus ultimately leaving it more in the wilderness than it was in 1972. I thought that what happened in 2000 was nightmarish; what occurred in 2004 perhaps more so; but this is the worst ever; a suicide drive off a cliff, with the insane driver smirking at the wheel, because it is his daddy’s car.

Whatever

Oh, please, G-d, yes, please let it be so and let them succeed in purging the Clintons from the party.

Please, then let the masses arise and beg Hillary to become an icon of a new Progressive party that operates from the center-left. Let other brave centrists join this movement and end the stagnation that is a two-party system.

With 30% of Democrats polling that they would vote for McCain if Obama is the nominee, that’s a pretty good starting point for a Third Party run.

I have zero doubt that Hillary could sew up this nomination if things are allowed to run their course, but it’s looking more and more like our party is being hijacked and I have no qualms about following Hillary in whatever path gets her to the White House.
lifelong dem leaving party

agree completely.

trying to pollyanna this disaster as much as possible, maybe this mess will be the impetus for either a total cleanup of the democratic party or the end of it as a viable party and the birth of a new and more valid entity. just dreaming, i suppose.

lifelong dem leaving party

clarification – didn’t mean agree re purging the clintons, just agree re getting her into the white house and re a new party. typed faster than thought on earlier post – happens at this hour.

OldCoastie

maybe one of you spy guys could take a look at this – appears to be Obama, same day, different venue using the same gesture at the same place in his speech… from the

LA Times blog

he is wearing the same tie, the camera angle is different – still, it looks to be a different audience and his speaking cadence seems different…

funny how the same spot would itch at just the same point in the speech, doesn’t it?

coincedence? I think not!

mel

same occassion, same video

jangles

See the posts over at TM. Definitely two different occasions. He appeared in two different places today and you can clarify this by closely examining the people behind him—they are different people. It is two incidents; same gesture; same instance in the speech. Thus I guess we can be assure that this was carefully planned and rehearsed. Also, the first video was posted by the campaign. That is about as in your face FU all very much as it is possible to get.

OldCoastie

no – we worked the 2 videos frame by frame – same event unfortunately… the camera angles and an edit threw us for a loop.

anika

they are from the same raleigh event just from a different angle.

But here is the link to the greenville event later in the day

http://www.witntv.com/home/headlines/17847404.html

I cant watch this on my mac .. can someone go thru it on a PC and see if he repeats the gesture.

He can weasel his way out of doing it once… but twice would be damning…

beebop

Someone with better gag reflexes will need to watch this … I am babysitting a niece with the poops and have all I can handle ….

texas jina

I agree. Once, an accident. Twice, at the same instant and with the same little smirk, not a chance.

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http://dianej.wordpress.com DianeJ

What is next from this guy.
The Gringo’s Wife

Oh ::snap:: This is part of his stand up act? I can already tell you that Barry’s supporters will think this a sign of strength rather than a sign of a weak/lazy mind. He has the ability to be very smart and articulate. But he chooses to be crass.

Hey! Barry did help himself here! He is showing he is not an elitist! Just a run-o-da-mill jackass.

The same way he has had many opportunities to pick up some Hillary’s supporters along the way but has chosen to alienate them in favor of working his base into a frenzy of hate and finger pointing … (yes, yes, pun intended).

You do realize that the middle finger was pointing at Barry, yes? Well Barry, I’m pointing at you too baby. With both hands because you deserve the extra effort.

appears to be Obama, same day, different venue using the same gesture at the same place in his speech… from the

LA Times blog

he is wearing the same tie, the camera angle is different – still, it looks to be a different audience and his speaking cadence seems different…

funny how the same spot would itch at just the same point in the speech, doesn’t’t it?

coincidence? I think not!

OldCoastie

we wuz wrong ;-(

further inspection showed it to be the same place, same time… different camera angle…

EuroTrash60

You all need to get a flippin’ grip. The guy was scratching his face, I’ve done this before without malice.

It’s no wonder the GOP might win in November, LISTEN TO YOURSELVES!?!?!

DisenfranchisedVoter

Oh please. If Bill or Hillary did the same thing it would be the front story on MSNBC. The Obamabots made a huge deal out of Bill’s fairy tale comment. So if you are wondering who started the analysis over every little word and movement of their opponent it started with the Obama campaign and the media kissing their ass.
Strawberrybitch

Oh fuckin’ please. Scratching during a televised speech? Obviously, you’ve never done stage work. I’ve had itches so bad I’d thought I’d go nuts, but I knew hundreds of people were watching every movement I made. There’s no way I’d scratch with that many people watching. Why not pick your nose or scratch your dick while your at it Obama. You’ve got that much class…sweetie.
Fredster

The GOP is gonna win if Barry is the Dem nominee.
Indi-Girl

Sadly I don’t think they can see it. Even right-wing sites are calling them moronic. Totally cringe-worthy. Focus on making good arguments about the issues guys – goodness knows Hillary is incredibly strong on them.

MissDarla

He flipped off Hillary today during two separate stump speeches–both copies are on the net/youtube. One is in front of group of mainly women and the other in front of men. Obama first scratches his chin with his pinky finger and then when he mentions Hillary’s name, he scratches his cheek with the bird–both gestures are done at the exact same time in his stump speech on the exact same words. Coincidence?

Mary

Oh, please give us links!
OldCoastie

MissDaria – we’ve been hashing this out over at TM – we think, though they look very different, that the camera angles are significantly different, showing different audience members and that one of the videos had a little edit and the quality of the 2 was different… a bunch of us ran both videos slowly side-by-side and the gestures and words are quite identical… DARN! it would’ve been a good one though if it had been true!

we got excited for a minute!

OldCoastie

but it is the same video… same place, same time…

mel

what is missing from Obama is aside from being exposed, he lost the debate on the issues! He was stunned by Clinton’s new umbrella policy, he refused to clarify Isreal, he stated new payroll taxes, and fumbled every other question on issues! Isn’t a POTUS suppose to know his policies on issues?

Just review the issue side, Obama lost, failed, blew it, but POTUS is suppose to be dumb isn’t he?

yikes

Clinton’s statements about Israel were downright frightening, more right wing than Bush to be honest. I wouldn’t be broadcasting her position on this if I were you, in fact she’s very lucky that the press is ignoring it in favor of the ridiculous.

workingclass artist

How is building a coalition with middle east states against nuclear proliferation frightening ? Sounded sensible to me.

texas jina

He’ll deny that it was intentional. His campaign will come up with 2 to 20 other photos of him doing the same thing. The media will show this for days. Prognosticators will analyze it and discuss whether, if he did mean it, it will mean anything to voters. And, somehow, it will be Hillary’s fault again. [Don't you know? She's so irritating, such a B!#%h! that she would drive any rational man to.........]

And, of course, it will distract from the important stuff. Except that, this time, it does mean something important. It means that a person we are about to be asked to trust our country with, our future to, our very lives with—-this person does not have the self-control of an adolescent boy.

mel

link it, Obama is using Rev Wright actions on stage now! Remember Wrights gyrating when talking about Bill Clinton?

And Obama says he never was present for any of those shown sermons, today proves otherwise

jangles

Doubters, pahleeeeeez—try scratching your cheek with your middle finger; it is not a natural act. No way was this guy scratching his face; if he says that it is just another Obama lie like he never saw that questionnaire.

DisenfranchisedVoter

I’ve personally NEVER scratched my face with my middle finger. Is this normal? I usually scratch my face with my forefinger.

workingclass artist

Well i often use my elbow….But then again I’m just a bitter cracker.LOL

yikes

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Thanks for the belly laugh y’all.

We’ve gone past silly season, and into absolutely crazy season in politics. If you are taking the premise of this thread seriously you have lost it.

The most disturbing part of the video is when he picks his nose.
OldCoastie

oh jangles – I teach in the public schools – there is no doubt in my mind that this is a behavior common and starts in the 4th or 5th grade – not a teacher on earth would be fooled by that smartass behavior… the only thing Obi would win would be a trip to the principal’s office for being disrespectful and a few hours in detention.

yikes

Wow, I would hate to be in your class. I have a little more patience with my students, but maybe that’s why they like and respect me.

gochatts

This may be the stupidest attempt at slander in the whole campaign. Even more asinine than worrying about whether Obama wears a Chinese made American flag pin.

jwrjr

Even if you accept the proposition that this was a misinterpreted gesture (no matter how much evidence there is against that), it says something about BHO’s judgement that he would do something that easily “misinterpreted” in public. If he did something like that in a diplomatic setting he could start World War 3. But then he doesn’t do diplomatic, does he? (Just ask the committee he is the chairman of.)

Strawberrybitch

Bingo! High School speech 101, keep your friggin hands on the podium!
Strawberrybitch

Bingo! High School speech 101, keep your friggin hands on the podium!
Indi-Girl

Do you have any idea how ridiculous your arguments have become? Seriously, this site is a total embarassment and is regularly referred to in line with Hilary-is-44 and TaylorMarsh – if you think that’s a good thing, well all the best to you. I support you in spreading this wide and far, because honestly, it just makes you all look incredibly foolish, and petty. I think overall you’ve hurt Hillary’s campaign far more than boosted it, and that is very, very sad.

Percy

THESE ARE TWO DIFFERENT STUMP SPEECHES!

IT IS INTENTIONAL!

LOOK AT THE BANNERS in the background.

LOOK AT THE PEOPLE behind him.

THIS GESTURE WAS SCRIPTED into his speech!

TWO DIFFERENT EVENTS>>> SAME GESTURE!!!!!

OldCoastie

Unfortunately Percy – after a bunch of us studied the different versions over at TM, we found them to be the same tape… it seems very different – lighting is different, sound is different, audience appears to be different, but it is due to the different qualities of the recordings and the different camera angles…

if you watch is gestures closely they are perfectly identical (albeit from different angles) and all the uhs and irks are in exactly the same places… in the LA Times version there is a momentary rough little edit that can throw you off as well… run ‘em side by side, a few frames at a time – you will see…

sorry! we were so happy when we thought there were 2!

Percy

dang

thanks

Charles Lemos

It is all over the place now. I’m stunned. There are no words to express what I feel. He is simply pitiful. I actually feel sorry for him.

I have long said that his approach to politics was similar to Richard Nixon and that he shared some of the same characteristics, narcissism for one. And I have argued that like Richard Nixon it was only a matter of time before he unraveled. This is the unraveling of Barack Obama and it is not pretty.
Mr.Murder

Comment by Mr.Murder | 2008-04-17 08:17:33

Mr. Bill, Oh Nooooooooo!
Barack’s campaign is getting mashed like a cheesy SNL character.

BTW, Mr.Hand is now giving you the finger!

The same day he actually jumps the shark on flipping the bird.

Wag the Dog.
Flip the Dog Off!

My, how he’s elevated the discourse.
http://chenzhen.wordpress.com ChenZhen

I watched that video twice and never noticed it. So, I watched it again. The crowd was reacting to his “in her element” line, NOT the damn scratch. And it’s highly unlikely that the women behind him could have even seen which finger he was using to scratch his face anyway.

Watch the video again, people. He scraches his face 3 times, with three different fingers.

This is seriously off the deep end.
Catriley

Stupid and immature. Not presidential material, but then again, look at Bush. It was deliberate.

Equally troubling were his comments about Hillary today, saying that Hillary “knows how to twist the knife in you”, regarding the debate. Any wonder why his supporters are so violent.
formerobamasupporter

i remember when i used to bombard comments threads with other obama supporters in order to invalidate arguments that were favorable to clinton. i see obama supporters are attempting to do that here. did they receive the email? notice all of them make the same argument. yes, they did receive the email.

Fredster

That’s why they are ignored.

http://v4hill.com v4hill

Here’s my version with slo-mo and closeups…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFWTpYlU-UI
http://www.hillaryclinton.com terrondt

obamabots, deal with it. stop whining and get over it all ready.

http://chenzhen.wordpress.com ChenZhen

ummm…even over at Hot Air (nowhere near Obama supporters, of course), they are mocking you guys.

But by all means, leave this thread up.

/rolleyes

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grace

when we hillary supporters have to resort to such accusations to take down obama, that’s when we’ve lost. reading into someone scratchning his face and making a mountain out of a molehill is exactly the kind of behavior that people condemn us for. we need to focus on actual issues if we want to make a real difference. shame on you.
CognitiveDissonance

Wow, what a lowlife piece of excrement. I’d vote for a pig before I’d vote for him. Yes, this should be his Macaca moment. But the big question always is: will the media run it? Somehow, I don’t think so. We need to be deluging the media to links to these videos.
carrienae

All he talked about was the first part of the debate but when issues were asked he was rumbling and lost of words. Obama… please we are not fools. You can’t take the heat…. can’t even answer the questions on issues strongly and properly…can’t even be specifics. Obama has the charm of a car salesman. He and his supporters are the equivalent of the neo-cons. They are the “NEO-LIBS,” changing the real essence of the Democratic Party. We cannot have another Bush in the White House!
My God, where does this country go to? Now he thinks all these questions are distractions??? Welcome to the real world of politics.
kc

Praying Obama would do or say something stupid in the next couple of days, so Hillary can win a resounding victory in Pesnnsylvania.
residentcynic

Wanna hear my new nick name for BAWAK OBAMBI?

FLIPPER!!!
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http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Check out THIS ping. Gearing up, they are. Imagine THAT TV spot. Clear as day, HAMAS HAS endorsed their buddy barry.

Oh this is going to get ugly. And I am going to LOVE every minute of it. I may actually watch TV more just to see them wipe him out for me.

Alien

Here it is from a foreigner. A high profile person should never scratch their face. It shows a lack of- confidence . Too much gesticulation (unless you are italian ) is a sign of well – lying. Just look at Brooks on Newshour =when he gesticultes almost always about Iraq he knows he is lying.

Speakers should keep their hands firmly out of sight.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

unless you are italian )

Hey!

american sawbuck

He’s a street punk and no Harvard education will make him anything else.
Go back to the Left side of Chicago barry and leave this country in the hands of the people who care about it. If not Hillary and I hope it is, I will vote for Senator
McCain.
http://lkcampbell.blogspot.com Lucinda

I’m at a loss for words. I haven’t voted Republican in 32 years, but I will if Obama is our nominee.
Howard Dean wants our party to heal in three months. I don’t think 4 years will be long enough
I’m also wondering how in the world the cable news media will ever get back it’s credibility.
Justinian

It will be a pleasure watching this narcissist go down to defeat at hands of a real American hero, Sen. John McCain. Please send this video to Bill O’Reilly at Fox News. He is probably the only one with the guts to air it.
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beebop

Why don’t crawl back to DKos? I am sure that this kind of thug behavior is getting high fives from the element that that supports fuck America first.

http://thecommanderguy.blogspot.com/ The Commander Guy

Well I’ll say one good thing about the debate last night…. At Least Hillary held off on pulling her Long Rumored Wardrobe Malfunction stunt.

She really coulda played the Victim then.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Were you stroking and hoping?

ces

obamascratchfever
Mike

This is great – really great. I’m definitely voting for this guy in November, assuming he gets the nomination – and I’m a registered Republican. If anyone deserves the finger it’s Hillary Clinton.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Thanks for your input Mike. We promise to give it all the weight we think it deserves.

Is the Obama camp running out of A-String internet posters or something?
beebop

Mike: This one’s for you iIii ….

My name is beebop, I am NOT running for President, so I approve this message.

Ted the Head

Obama is a whiner and crybaby. What a POS. Hey Hussein…man up you pussy!
beebop

Do you think that he’ll dispense with a day’s campaigning to go to his “home state” and see what it looks like on the ground?
http://www.food4humanity.org HoosierHoops

Is this anyway for baby jesus to act?
jes

It’s very clear that he gives her the one fingered salute.

He displaying his street creds to establish a stronger bond with his low-class cheering supporters.
ChooChooMagoo

Did Obama made the finger gesture about Hillary twice – at two different speaking venues? I’ve seen video of him making the gesture while talking about Clinton and they show two different audience background and two different podiums. Check out youtube -1) Obama Gives Hillary “The Finger”… In front of children and 2) Obama gives Hillary the Finger!
http://thecommanderguy.blogspot.com/ The Commander Guy

Uppity

GET WITH THE PROGRAM!!!

Obama is an Elitist today. He can’t be an elitist and a Marxist at the same time. They cancel each other out.

You musta missed the memo.

workingclass artist

Stalin was an elitist….PURGES…Did you get that memo….Putz

simon, too

Haven’t you heard the song by T Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello “The People’s Limousine?”

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Commando! Get with the program! Elitists in politics have had hidden marxist or socialist agendas for decades. It’s just a matter of which way their egos swing. And this one’s ego swings Marxist. Just like his daddy!!! Have you seen some of Barak Senior’s writings by any chance? No, I didn’t think so.

Now onto the rest of the program, Commando! Barry will have a November percentage take that starts with a “3″. You heard it here first!

Mel

Once again Obama gets on a stump and does he spend time talking about issues, no he rarely does! During his lowball talk on the debate the night before, he says it took 45 minutes before one issue was called upon!

Not so Obama, it took 27 minutes before the first question was asked, about gun control and your stance upon it, which you were caught lying again and questioned, and you lied again!

During the first 27 minutes, you dominated the time giving non answers to relivent questions of your judgement! Or does it appear that Senator Obama considers questions which he has lied continually upon are not relivent, to him?

The unfortunate thing Senator Obama is when issues were discussed, the only revelations you came up with is increase in payroll taxes and increase in Capital Gains taxes! Hmmmm America is in dire straights right now and your answer is higher taxes?

So the knife is being stuck in whose back Obama, who deserves the finger, not Clinton, but obviously you do!

But Obama you tend to stick it to everyone you have no use for don’t you, the Black Congress you stuck it to, the Black Ministers you stuck it to, MLK you stuck it to. When you continue to preach you are a black man and lad di da di da crap, who’s back did you turn yours to when you were done needing their vote? Seems a pattern with you Obama, people in the slums of Chicago, in small town Illinois who’s water was infected with toxic nuclear waste, Maytag workers, the pattern is there Obama, it is all about charater and judgement and Obama you have none, except for what advances your own asperations!

To quote your spiritual guide and self proclaimed Uncle:

No no no, not God Bless Barack, God Dam Barack
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simon, too

It was an invisible mime, controlling Obama’s thoughts and actions, manipulating him like a robot, playing monkey see, monkey do.

Oh, wait, that’s the movie I saw last night “Presidential Wannabes Controlled by Planet 9.”

Anyway, Obama looks like a fool.

Can’t his campaign see, is this supposed to make him look masculine?

Doesn’t he have ANY control?

That’s some childish embittered man, even Bush has more public control.

Imagine that tool with the army…

beebop

I’d like to imagine that tool in the army, to be honest. Can’t you just imagine a drill Sargeant busting his ass?

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Waaaaaaaaaa! My manicure is ruined!!!!!!!

beebop

Yeah … Michelle would do better.

http://thecommanderguy.blogspot.com/ The Commander Guy

An Interesting Alliance has formed between Clintonites, the Talk Radio Right and the Conservative Elite. These parties and their wingnut footsoldiers form an Axis.

All speak the same talking points and share a similar goal. These days it can be virtually impossible to distinguish a Red State Wingnut from a Clintonite by their respective use of rhetoric when reading the comment boards on the internets (such as here). Since these groups have combined forces, maybe there is a new group of people who qualify to be labeled as wingnuts. Perhaps they are all wingnuts now.

Right now, we have a new name for this alliance of Clintonites, Talk Radio Wingnut Warriors and Conserva-gensia.

The Big Three are now named:

THE AXIS of the INCOHERENT.

beebop

Yeah …. well …. good luck getting that “candidate” past McCain without the support of the people you are insulting here. Criticism is something that your candidate and his mindless followers don’t take very well.

How proud are you of driving email domains off line?
How proud are you of driving radio talk show hosts off line?
How proud are you of talk show hosts who call Democratic heroes “whores?”

You know something, I consider it a BADGE OF HONOR to be insulted by you.

Please come back and do it more often to remind me — not that I need it — why I would have to be comatose to support BOBO the clown.
workingclass artist

Spoken like a proper little FASCIST…Commando….Are you in command of your diaper ?
http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

An interesting alliance has been formed with the Obama Camp, high school students, old hippies who never grew up and still have lava lamps, thugs from Chicago, looters and burners from the 60s, SDS members raised from the Dead, middle eastern savages looking to expand their horizons, guys with penis problems, and boys who can’t resolve their relationships with their mothers.

We shall call it the Sophomoric Alliance.

workingclass artist

Uppity you really nailed it esp. with the MOMMY ISSUES…LOL

kenoshaMarge

except about my lava lamp.

Fred C. Dobbs

You left out:

idiots who scream, “PLAY FREE BIRD!” at live concerts;

old farts who still play, “Satisfaction,” at ear-splitting level on the Volvo radio;

socially-dyslexic Boomers who wear white socks with their Birkenstocks;

anyone over age 6 in any tie-dyed garment.

deke

Do we have a new Obama employee on board. I hope you are getting the same $1.50 per hour that the Obama’s nanny is getting.
By the way Commander Guy if you look up the resumes of Obama’s economic advisors you will see what actual right wingnuts look like.

When you come onto this blog know what you are talking about not the talking points handed to you by your employer

Linda

I think this is the frosting on the cake of Obama showing how incompetent he was in the debate. He is like some thrteen smartaleck kid who thinks it is not fair that the teacher expects him to answer the same questions on the test as all of the smart kids do. Now he thinks this is cute. For pete’s sake, this guy is just like George W. Bush!!!!!
http://thecommanderguy.blogspot.com/ The Commander Guy

Uppity and beebop – This b 4 u. Since the wingnuts on da board are playing the st00pid game, I’ll play along.

<<<>>>>>>>

HOLY $&^%!!! HOLY $&^%!!! HOLY $&^%!!!

NEW Information has surfaced linking Hillary to a known COMMUNIST. http://www2.nysun.com/article/66933

It can’t be true, can it?!?

This article even suggests that this Notorious Communist mentored the young and impressional Hillary during her formative Years. And engaged in all sorts of noxious commie behavoir.

It can’t be true, I just can’t be true.

OMG ….. I just had a horrible thought. WHAT WILL THE REPUBLICANS think about this?

Surely they won’t hold Hillary’s past association will a known Communist against her. They couldn’t do it.

OMG….OMG….OMG….OMG!!!

Out.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Hell half my professors in college were communists. Woot! Call Joe McCarthy!
workingclass artist

Change your diaper COMMANDO…I can smell it through the net…JEEEEZUS.
beebop

I am cutting and pasting your “contributions” here this morning. I have a page that I keep on my desk top. It started out as “ten reasons that a Democratic candidate will win in November.” Since then it has suffered several changes so that now, I have two pages. One of them — where your shit will end up — is Why the Intellectually Lazy Prefer BOBO (that was yesterday’s change). Again, I use it to remind me why he is such an inappropriate candidate.

Thanks and bye!
http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

b 4 u.

How old are you?
Mel

Can’t believe this idiot can’t read, must of been an Obama camp supplied talking line!

Clinton worked for the lawyer at the firm who was not connected with any of the so called wrong doings, but WFT, it is a feable jab anyhow isn’t it!

Axelrod must be pulling what little hair he has out trying to trump the screw ups of his guy!

So did Clinton buy a house thanks to one of that law firms clients, like Obama did?
Mr.Murder

It’s obvious Hillary’s a Communist, those years she slogged through the Wal Mart board.

As for Obama, he’s THE ONE. To prove that he’s giving THE ONE finger salute!

JoeySky

I’m making this comment from a point of view of someone who is living in a foreign country.

Granted that Obama’s finger was unintentional, it will create a nuke bomb if he did this while making speech “in the same context” referring to a foreign leader.

Imagine he’s making speech referring to Sarkozy the French Prime Minister, Merkel the German Chancellor, or Hu Jintao the Chinese President, and scratch his face with his middle finger. There will be an uproar in those countries, and they won’t take excuse from Obama supporters swamping the blog.

His conduct is unpresidential. He is not ready for prime time. DNC backs a wrong horse. And it turns out to be a huge embarrassment.

workingclass artist

So much for all that INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE OBAMESSIAH claims. This guy is a disater.

http://thecommanderguy.blogspot.com/ The Commander Guy

Glad your concerned too, beebop. This is serious stuff.
http://myspace.com/loyaldissent Garlic-Nosed Guitarist

The problem for someone riding on a high horse is when they fall the drop is much more painful. The anointed one will soon find this out.

Thanks to everyone who supports Hillary Clinton. And thanks to Larry and his team for this Website — it gives me hope and information the MSM is deliberately keeping from us.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Hi Garlic Nose! I’m a Garlic Nose too! I don’t no a single Garlic Nose who will vote for him. They are major pissed, and oh what the hell, there are only 6 million of them!

Those whom the gods would destroy must first be made drunk with power.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

change No to Know pls.
http://myspace.com/loyaldissent Garlic-Nosed Guitarist

Hey Uppity,

Those whom the gods would destroy must first be made drunk with power.

Are those the Greek gods or the Roman Garlic-nosed gods?

BTW, I love your blog and recommend others pay you a visit.

Ciao,

G-N-G

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Hey thanks, fellow Garlic Nose!

http://myspace.com/loyaldissent Garlic-Nosed Guitarist

Your quite welcome!

Janis

We Garlic Noses are everywhere, aren’t we. Heh.

Talktruth

The clearest video I’ve seen is at ABCnews.com (http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4675790). The angle on that shows unmistakeably what he did – FLIP OFF AMERICA! What a moron! And he’s no patriot. Here’s an excerpt from the link where the “bird” stories are, about a flag incident:

“[McCabe] admits that she’s more likely to give Clinton the benefit of the doubt while looking for fault in Obama. For example, McCabe says that she once saw Obama on television and noticed that “he turned his back on the flag” before the Pledge of Allegiance ended. That irritated her to no end.” http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/34071.html

It made me cry. I actually get choked up during the Pledge, and for someone running for president to do that is unbelievable. Given all that we know about BO, he should step out of the race and down from his Senate seat. Now.
http://www.sugarnspice.typepad.com Sugar

Man, I don’t know about this one.

I’ve looked at three different angles and I just don’t see it and because I dislike him so, I’m trying to FIND it, but I just don’t see him intentionally flipping her off. Maybe he did it subconsciously, but it doesn’t look to me like he did it on purpose. I think we’d see something different in his eyes if he had, but I don’t. In the CBS version, the angle is better and I still don’t see it.

JoeySky

Sugar, see my post above. Even if it’s unintentional, it’s still unpresidential.
Talktruth

Sugar, go look on http://www.youtube.com. They have at least four videos. The close-up will give you the clearest picture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rML9yEE46ls

It’s so hard to believe that someone running for president would do this. Even if they thought it was funny, it would be a great risk to their campaign. I guess he thinks it’s worth it. Yet again it is shown, BO has NO judgment.

blobert

Drug-abuse judgement. Like GWB.

http://thecommanderguy.blogspot.com/ The Commander Guy

Uppity – Easier to do when using your thumbs.
Talktruth

You know what else is awful? The sheer joy he got from it. Look at the huge grin and the twinkle in his eye – he loves this kind of “game”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhkq11UExcw

Disgusting!
http://myspace.com/loyaldissent Garlic-Nosed Guitarist

There have been no new posts since last night on this blog. I wonder what the alchemists at NoQuarter are cooking up?

I bet it’s something cool!

Ciao,

G-N-G
blobert

How deeply have Republicans embedded into our party, so that they control our caucuses and nothing he does makes a dent?
no pasaran

I am more and more convinced Obama shows a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The four characteristics seen for a diagnosis are:

1. grandiosity: example: knows more about foreign affairs than his opponents because he lived in Indonesia from ages 6 to 10 and visited Pakistan as a college student.

2. envious: example: repeated denigration of both Clintons and a strategy of tarnishing Bill Clinton’s legacy.

3. sense of special entitlement: example: could not afford his mansion so mobilizes shady character to purchase house he “deserves”. He is much better than Washington and all the other politicians because they are all hate mongers. Not him, he is a hope monger.

4. lack of empathy: example: had no scruples of outing and using private comments by his grandmother on national TV. For political gain he sacrificed the woman that raised him and supported his college education.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

They also need to be worshipped and they cannot understand why everyone doesn’t realize they are superior.
http://myspace.com/loyaldissent Garlic-Nosed Guitarist

Howard Dean is hallucinating if he thinks the party will unite around Obama. Never going to happen.

Dean’s excuse for thwarting the democratic process and his own party’s rules (Dean’s demand to know who the super D’s support) is a need for “time to heal.”

All he’s gonna get doing this is plenty of “time to heel” [sic] or “time to hell.” [sic]

Sad to say it, we could be facing an “anyone but Obama” election which is reminiscent of the “anyone but Bush” theme from before. Somehow though, Hillary is going to survive this nightmare and become the nominee. I predict more skeletons are likely to fall out of Obama’s deep abysmal closet.

Ciao,

G-N-G
Talktruth

Good call.

Lisa Hussein

This is exactly what Senator Obama is talking about. You would rather talk about which finger he used to scratch his nose(as a certified Obama supporter I watch him closely all the time and HE ALWAYS 1. SCRATCHES HIS FACE TOO MUCH AND USES THAT FINGER) Give me a break. You can get mired in silliness and the politics of cynicism or you can start fighting for the politics of hope. There is a high school in Pennsylvania that doesn’t even have a geometry teacher, and you folks are whining about which finger he used to scratch his nose. Folks are dying in Iraq, loosing their homes, begin tortured and your talking about a nose scratch?!?!

pennsylvaniamother

Obama does not have solutions to the problems you discuss. Clinton gives hope, not Obama.
Salo

Obama offers no solutions himself. He’s a formalist post issues sorta doofus.
Mel

Well can’t talk about the issues with Obama, because he doesn’t have any answers except for raising payroll taxes and his better judgement as we’ve all seen visa vie his associations!

So go back to Axelrod and find out his answers to higher taxes, 15 million without healthcare, his former policy advisor stating the pull out from Iraq is campaign rhetoric, Nafta is campaign rhetoric, his voting for Cheney’s tax give a way to the oil companies, his doubling Capital Gains taxes, his refusal to define an attack on Israel, how about them answers, since all you can do is just say words, give answers, everyone has been trying since last year to get them and none ever come from you Obmabots!
Janis

… as a certified Obama supporter I watch him closely all the time …

You should unglue your eyeballs from the TV tube. Your foamy devotion is a bit psychologically unbalanced.
http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Oh how sweet. Another Hussein. You’re not cultists or anything. Naaaaahhh.
http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

I bet you are all excited about the potential of Barry turning those dying guns in the other direction, right?

“I am not opposed to ALL wars.”
…Barry

jes

I’m beginning to wonder what sewer Obama and his band of immature thuggish cultish supporters crawled out of.

Well, with Obama I guess we know it’s the Chicago sewers.

Even the Republicans have more class than to behave like this in public.

The Gringo’s Wife

Barry came from the adopted loins of Reverend Wright. (snik-a-doodle-do)
http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Let them talk. Every time they show up somewhere, Plastic Jesus loses some more votes out of sheer fear.

not an idiot

You people are idiots, the man simply touched his faced. Stop baying for blood and trying to find every little incident to incriminate someone. Damn, I’m starting to believe Americans really are smallminded and gullible, it makes me sad to be considered one.

beebop

If that’s the case, then there is no need for you to be here telling us what we didn’t see. Surely, you don’t care how idiots vote?
Mel

Then move to Kenya!

The Gringo’s Wife

This is such a proporous thread! Not sure if anyone has this but thought I would share the link.

This is the longest and best recording that I have seen of the event. The Swamp: http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/obama_fingers_a_gotcha_debate.html

It is a clear view of his “flip.” I’m scrapy and let me tell you if Barry had done that to my mother or other woman I cared for, I would have gone for his knees. (Learned everything I know about fighting from Roadhouse — prayers for Patrick Swayse. We love you man!)
http://thecommanderguy.blogspot.com/ The Commander Guy

The problem is that this Board B infested with wingnuts, of both varieties that is.

You got the original recipe wingnut and now we got the new and improved clintonista brand of wingnut.

Ya see, anyone who gets worked up about the way that Mr. O scratches his nose is a WINGNUT.

It’s just the way it is.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

U B praktikly unabil to rite lyke a adullt.

Mel

He tried to wing it instead of copy and pasting the Axelrod prepared statments…lol

Jeff

I’m just glad to see that people here are planning on picking their president by his perceived hand gestures, when scratching his face.

Run with it, folks. You are feeding exactly into the entire point of Obama’s candidacy: to rise above the ridiculous and inane reasons good people don’t run for office in this country.

Whether it was Al Gore’s sighing, or John Kerry’s windsurfing, or Barack’s bowling, or now how he frigging scratched his face–people are sick of this crap, folks. They are done with the moronic disqualifiers the media–and yes, blogs like No Quarter–have decided to assign to our presidential candidates. Have a field day with it. Maybe Hillary can throw it into her stump speech. It will get your campaign NOWHERE.

The problems our country faces are simply too great to make decisions in the adolescent, giggling, bra-snapping manner being used here.

Mel

Most accurate poll SUSA:

McCain vs Clinton or Obama in key States April 17:

Mass: Clinton +15 Obama +2

Clinton 56
McCain 41
Undecided 3

Obama 48
McCain 46
Margin% 7

New York: Clinton +16 Obama +9

Clinton 55
McCain 39
Undecided 6

Obama 52
McCain 43
Margin% 5

Ohio: Clinton +11 Obama -2

Clinton 53
McCain 42
Undecided 4

Obama 45
McCain 47
Margin% 8

Calif: Clinton +13 Obama +7
Clinton 53
McCain 40
Undecided 7

Obama 50
McCain 43
Margin% 8

Added this one for Obama…lol

Missouri: Clinton +1 Obama -8

Clinton 47
McCain 46
Undecided 6

Obama 42
McCain 50
Margin% 8

Alabama: Clinton -26 Obama -32

Clinton 34
McCain 60
Undecided 6

Obama 32
McCain 64
Margin% 4

So Obama, these the States you claim will be yours, from your showings in them in the Primaries? Drinking kool aide again Obama?

Oh and see Richardson is a real good supporter in New Mexico huh?

New Mexico: Clinton -3 Obama -6

Clinton 46
McCain 49
Undecided 6

Obama 44
McCain 50
Margin% 6
like that matters

Now he can kiss my vote goodbye.

“Yeah, Obey-ma.”

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Gosh I love those obamazoids. Every time they show up somewhere and repeat the phony “hope” message, they make it easier to defeat this guy in the end.

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