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The Reviews Are In, and They Ain’t Purty [Hysterical Update]

By SusanUnPC on April 27, 2008 at 10:54 AM in Barack Obama, David Axelrod, Fox News, Typical white person, White People

Sory, i’m just a typical white hick (but thankfully not a “typical white man”). But it shor beats being a deluded liberal who thinks that Barack Obama is the Second Coming. Or believing his bull about the Iraq War (and his “re-created” 2002 speech), or that he’ll really change America, or that he’s going to do a single thing for the middle class, or that he scarcely knows terrorists like William Ayers or partying with Nadhmi Auchi (and those questions are just so unfair), and on and on. His interview with Fox News’s Chris Wallace today may begin to arrest the delusions about Obama.

[HYSTERICAL(ly) (funny) UPDATE: "Lefties Seething Over Obama on Fox." An amusing snippet: "a Kos Kid swears not to vote for Obama, now that he has Fox cooties on him."]

MyDD‘s Jerome Armstrong levels Obama in his review of Mr. Hope’s answers. If there’s still a single sober person left at the “orange place,” they must be tearing their hair out.

Obama literally gave Hillary his middle finger last week, but today he proverbially gave the DKos/TPM/HuffPo/Code Pink/MoveOn communities BOTH of his middle fingers. Obama did another Jay-Z today to cater to the Fox News viewers, dusting all of those far-left groups off his shoulder, just as he attempted to dust off Hillary’s legitimate challenges. But, first, this specific section is for you faithful No Quarter readers:

A shorter Obama: The far left? That’s over there, and I’m willing to take them on.

OBAMA: …In terms of capital gains, I’ve suggested we might go back up to 20 because -

WALLACE: You have suggested 28.

OBAMA: Well, but what I’ve said is, I certainly would not raise it higher than it was under Ronald Reagan.

This is an Obama classic, he mentioned 28, then saw that Clinton wouldn’t go that high, so now he’s revisioning all of what he said to a part of what he said, and specifically a part of what he said that overrules all of what he said because… well, when he first said 28 he didn’t know 28 was higher than what it was under Reagan, or something like that… Anyway, getting Reagan’s name as the one he’s following for guidance on the tax code is brownies on Fox. …

As I said, that quote above was for you sane No Quarter readers. And you all recall that Charlie Gibson had to school Obama on capital gains taxes in that last ABC debate just before the Pennsylvania primary. (It’s no wonder he’s running from any more debates. It must have been humiliating to be caught not knowing or having studied the issue of capital gains taxes — no matter how smart or Ivy League educated you are.)

And, no matter how often you are being compared, embarrassingly, to Adlai Stevenson, George McGovern or Michael Dukakis …

… I’ll wager that any of those three former presidential nominees, even if they all did get crushed in the general election, could have answered that question far better than you, and wouldn’t have had to have capital gains explained to them by a TV anchor.

The next part is for the delusional left:

Obama is trying to separate himself from the most strident parts of his base, and he does this pretty effectively throughout the interview:

OBAMA: Well, I think there are a whole host of areas where Republicans in some cases may have a better idea.

WALLACE: Such as. Obama mentions deregulation of industry, charter schools, a new variation of merit pay.

WALLACE: But, Senator, if I may, I think one of the concerns that some people have is that you talk a good game about, let’s be post-partisan, let’s all come together — just a couple of quick things, and I don’t really want you to defend each one, I just want to speak to the larger issue…

OBAMA: No, look, I think this is fair. I would point out, though, for example, that when I voted for a tort reform measure that was fiercely opposed by the trial lawyers, I got attacked pretty hard from the left.

During the Roberts -

WALLACE: John Roberts, Supreme Court.

OBAMA: John Roberts nomination, although I voted against him, I strongly defended some of my colleagues who had voted for him on the Daily Kos, and was fiercely attacked as somebody who is, you know, caving in to Republicans on these fights. …

There’s much more in Jerome’s “Obama on Fox transcript,” including a link to the transcript.

My brief two cents:

Karl Rove’s analyses on Fox News have been pretty damn smart. Except when he insists that Obama is a far left liberal. He’s about as liberal as my cat is a dog, or Larry is for Obama.

The truly scary part is that Obama stands for, essentially, nothing.

Obama stands for Obama.

His entire campaign has been premised on creating a cult-like adoration of him as a transformational figure.

The issues be damned.

That worked incredibly well for a rather long time. As po’ Barry himself has complained, this campaign has gone on so long that babies have started walking and talking since he began running for president. True enough, Barry. Thing is, that’s a GOOD thing.

Because perhaps — just perhaps — there’s a shot that even the most deluded of your followers will finally see that your entire David-Axelrod-invented campaign is based on people transferring their own “aspirations” onto you as somehow able to fulfill their own fantasies.

When people fall for a candidate because it flatters their own vanity, it is just not, um, good for the country, let alone the world.

When even MoDo isn’t liking what she’s seein‘ — and she sees that your magic glitter has worn off — you’ve gotta worry, Barry.

This magic pony just isn’t the real deal.

Obamabots, it’s time to stop shopping in toy section of the store.

Andy

Did Obama say that The Republicans have better ideas on government regulations ???
WHOA!!!! Like what they did with the environment? The Bush Adm. undid most of the regulations trhe Clinton Adm. had put in place to protect the environment. In fact Bush’s first order of business in 2000 was to slash one of those same regulations.

Obama: Go tell that to Al Gore’s face.

If Obama thinks this then if he is the nominee we better vote McCain; at least we can blame a republican for doing what republicand do; like destroy the environment rathen than “a democrat”

Outrageous.

Shainzona

And don’t forget FEMA. Heck of a job, Georgie!
J. Diamond

and how about all that great regulation that the repubs enacted to stop the mortgage market from exploding?

Fred C. Dobbs

Or the ruination of the last vestiges of the deep-sea US Merchant Marine?

Shainzona

David-Axelrod-invented campaign – like Deval Patrick in Mass.

The reviews of that “campaign” are coming in and should be informative for an Obama presidency – all talk, no action. A failure.

mimi

“like Deval Patrick in Mass.

The reviews of that “campaign” are coming in and should be informative for an Obama presidency – all talk, no action. A failure.”

Among my first comments here at NO Quarter was about how the plagiarism charge was wrong. It should have been a CLONE LABEL. Obama was cloned from the same political DNA as Patrick and all we had to do was look at the results up there in MA. After all, Hillary won MA so there must’ve good reason since Kerry and Kennedy endorsed Obama. The voters up there aren’t stupid.

Shainzona

Susan: The clone label is a good way to describe the Patrick/Obama association.

ebonyscrews

Great post, Susan. And what about those Illinois senate records?

That’s 11,000 more pages of experience at the national executive level than Obama can produce, and 11,000 pages more than the Obama Illinois Senate record Obama refuses to find.
That’s right, find. Because he claims to have lost all of it. It’s fishy, to say the least.

Hillary now has 11,000 pages of her experience available to the public, and the only thing the media can do with it, is tell us that she was in the White House when Lewinsky and Bill were getting it on?

Shameful, sick and sad.

For most of his career in Syracuse, Obama was a back-bencher, with absolutely no initiative or legislative activity to speak of. His party, for that matter, was in the minority for six years, and gave him plenty of opportunity to play the opposition. An opportunity Obama never seized or even acknowledged.

Until his failed Congressional bid, Chicago newspapers rarely mentioned Obama, but when they did, it was as “community activist, lawyer, and lecturer,” not as Senator.

Following his failed Congressional bid, Obama did become more active in Syracuse. Did he suddenly realize the political utility of work, to making his childhood syndrome of Ruling the World come true?

So where are Obama’s records? Why is he hiding them? Have they been shredded, to keep the public from learning of his mediocre record, or is there something damning there?

I hope he can find them soon, otherwise people will begin doubting he ever made it to a plenary. A plenary that 5,000 other state legislators around the country, did make.

That’s right, there are 5,000 state legislators in our land of opportunity of 50 states, and one of them has been touting his work as more important than the work of a woman who at times had more influence on our nation’s policies than Vice President Al Gore.

She certainly fought harder for health care than Gore ever fought for his Kyoto. Gore make films and wrote books after leaving office. Hillary took on the Republican congress, their corporate sponsors and their lapdog media, while still in office. And yes, First Lady of the White House is an office in the Executive Branch.

Stop-Obama.org

fooj

Obama’s Illinois State Senate record has troubled me from the start. I mean, who in the hell has political aspirations and then DESTROYS any evidence that can be produced to shore up his claims of “experience”?

What is Obama hiding? Talk about audacious. The war criminals in the WH don’t seem to have any trouble DESTROYING documents and evidence, either. Hmmmmm…

flyarm

why obama is picking up where little lord pissy pants, Rove and Cheney have led him..they teach it he follow suit..when you have stuff to hide..destroy it..the others have to try to prove the impossible..same as Obama’s surrogate doing his dirty work for him..it is for plausable deniability…

we won’t be changing a damn thing..only continuing the New World Order..just a different leader..

of that i have no doubt.

fly

salo

I suspect Bush was better versed in tax policy than obama. On his narrow personal interests he tends to know his stuff.

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

To be honest, I was a little suprised at his lack of understanding of Capital Gains. I mean, doesn’t the guy even own any stock?

workingclass artist

I was listening to a program carried on our local PBS station. His answer on the capitial gains tax was classic liberal leftish response…This conservative commentator called it the economic theology of the left. Perhaps this was telling….No ?
Amy

If you read Business Week April 14th you’ll see he really doesn’t know a thing about taxes. When Cap Gains came up with Maria Baritromo he talked about raising the rate and she said to him that he’ll be hurting middle class investors as well. His reply was ridiculous in that he said that maybe they will reserve a special rate for middle class investors holding stock in 401ks. An obvious mistake made out of ignorance. Money pulled from 401ks does not receive cap gains treatment as its taxed as ordinary income because it is taken pre tax from payroll. He also said its a shame some people can’t write off mortgage interest and maybe he’ll enact some form of tax legislation to let them, never addressing the fact that most people write off more than they have via the standard deduction. Also I guess he had to amend his tax return because he tried to write off a political contribution as a charitable deduction.

workingclass artist

Agree…I posted a comment the day after the debate that his answer would prove disturbing at The Wharton Shool of Business at Penn….I was just posing the commentary described by 2 conservatives saying his capital gains answer was what they termed Liberal Theology…
Their interpretation is that this stance despite common sense seems to appeal to liberals because it implies ecnomic justice which flies in the evidence of economic history….It is an ideological stance…I think it was perhaps revealing….I could be wrong….

Larry

Yeah, if by that you mean that, as a business man, it was in his interests to understand ALL of the costs of doing business. The genius of capitalism (which I fully expect is beyond your scope of understanding) is the implicit understanding that people are most highly motivated to improve their own personal situation. By allowing individuals to benefit from their own ingenuity,coupled with a political structure that protects private property, benefits ripple through society and improve countless lives. Unstated in your comment, but equally true, is that since Obama has never had to actually work or run a business, he would be relatively ignorant of both tax laws and the natural incentives of capitalism.
workingclass artist

GWB was a lousy business man….Daddy’s friends had to continually bail out lil’ georgie…Saudis can be useful for that sort of thing….

stodghie

big tent democrat, whom i typically very much enjoy, today claims that obama still retains media darling status and thinks the far left won’t leave either. with all due respect btd, yup they all will be leaving. the buxx kicking hasn’t started. there were ground rules put forth by the obama campaign before precious would even come on there you had better believe. he i am sure indicated he’d try a repub lite mode. i don’t see the typical viewers falling for the load of crxx.

if obama and his campaign are naive enough to think that one visit to faux will shut them up and make them suck up, they are bat shix crazy.

Ellen

And where are you getting the idea that Obama and his campaign think that one visit to faux will shut anyone up??? why do you people keep making up this BS about what you THINK others are thinking?

fooj

I’ll tell you what I KNOW. Obama gave his word that he wouldn’t go on Fox News yet he did it anyway. Sounds like a very bad JUDGEMENT call to me. One of many, may I add…

It’s all about his content of character.

Ellen, you’ve been had. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but someone has to do it. Little Lord Obama only cares about himself. He doesn’t possess an authentic bone in his body. Just like his beloved “uncle” said: “He’s a politician. He speaks to his audience”…
stodghie

ellen, frankly i don’t give a happy damn what your opinion is. it hurts seeing your hero has feet of clay. so take that bitter, ugly attitude over to obama central. got that!
http://Whosturnisit? TeakWoodKite

Seems to me that NQ folks posting stuff from the right side of the dial are catching grief from Obama supporters, only to hear the opposite when THE CHOSEN ONE is using the fox “garlic press” and “being of two minds” depending on which mouth he speaking from.

Thanks for the laugh anyway Ellen. BTW, is it not BS it is BO.

librc

And when asked about reaching across the aisle the first thing that he said was that states should be allowed to make laws aboutlate term abortion. Throw women under the bus.
Then he mentioned how he defended his Democratic colleagues who voted to confirm Roberts (because he really wanted to himself until told it might make him a less viable “liberal” candidate). Throw everybody who is not a rich white male or a corporation under the bus.
Ahh progressivism.

fooj

Progressivism or Libertarianism? I’m actually beginning to think they are one in the same.

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

Good ole Barry. All things to everybody and nothing to anybody.

vee

All things to everybody and nothing to anybody. That is the essence of Senator Obama in one short sentence.
workingclass artist

The thing about BABY-O is that he is a classic puppet….When it is claimed that he is a leftish puppet it is because his current puppeteers are well leftish….I don’t but any of his policies any more than I bought GWB’s idea of his being a COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE. To me the most frightening thing about him as POTUS is that we really don’t know him…and as Sugar relates he has certainly gone to an awful lot of trouble to erase the paper trail….BABY-O is a politician of the expediant willing to say and do what ever it takes to achieve power….and to do exactly what with that power….

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katmandu

I would just LOVE to see another debate, mano a womano; and I think the womano would win big.
OxyCon

You forgot MoveOn.Org.
Barry flipped them the bird too.
Lol!

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

I will correct that slight.

Shainzona

Call me cynical…but I can see Markos and MoveOn telling BO he can do this so it helps position him better. I really don’t trust these people or BO’s campaign.

OTOH..don’t forget his Granny whom he also threw under the bus….but Rev. Wright is still his favorite old uncle!

Thrasyboulos

Obama will retain media darling status and Clinton monster status until/if Obama is handed the nomination by the Dean/Brazile/Dem Elite cabal.

In the general, Obama will cleave to the right, and McCain to the left, but the loons from both camps (the hilarious “left” for Obama and the neocons/theocons for McCain will “understand”.

An incompetent all positions cypher vs a batshit nutty warmonger. Another trainwreck for America in the offing.

Thanks, Big Media. You’ll probably get the wars you covet.

emilyR

well, as much as I hate Rev. Wright, I am going to have to quote him, “no…no..no.”

Obama will not get the nod. Obama is now quoting another character, the wicked witch
from the wizard of oz….”I’m melting….melting…”

Ellen

Oh Emily – you hate Rev Wright – have you ever met him or been to his church? You are simply a hateful person as is everyone else on this blog – and it seems like you are proud of it.
I think I need a shower.

fooj

Actually Ellen, it is WE who need the shower. Your ignorance and lack of concern for TRUTH is fucking stunning. You’ve got some nerve projecting your “hatred” bullshit in regards to Wright. Give me a break.

Team Obama and his little minions such as yourself have created all of the chaos and turmoil within the party and then you preach your “hateful” diatribe? You are no different from the Bushbots who made a career out of projecting their bs onto everyone else. Honestly, after living the nightmare for 7+ years one would think you people would realize it isn’t working anymore.

Mr. Fizzle has lost his shizzle and it’s no wonder with whack-jobs like you backing him.
flyarm

May i ask you Ellen..why are you here??????????? Other than to be an aggrivation..like a splinter in ones ass….you are beginning to become a puss-y boil!

You do not like anyone here, and yet you are compelled to post here..why??????????

Please i am sure someone at the orange house..you know the place they guy won’t let 9/11 be discussed ..and that is greek and not even a dang dem..i am sure he is calling your name..and missing your bullsheet.

You are missing your calling dear..

fly
stodghie

ellen, shut the fuxx up! you are a a disgrace. we need to shower reading the garbage you write.
Mistaia

Honey you don’t need a shower, you need some cult deprogramming and some medication.
http://Whosturnisit? TeakWoodKite

Oh yeah?! you think you are going to get one, eh? When the water is turned off and BO was to busy humping Rezko for cash, were the f**k do you think those people took showers in the middle of a chicago winter when bary lied about not knowing about their plight?

Ellen; who knows Ayers wife personally and by default Bill and Barry, is a misinformed kool-aid drinker. Do your homework.

Back to being a kite now…yikes…
workingclass artist

Ehemmm……Ellen I found the videos posted at the new defending the faith blog (Truth about Trinity) all about THE CIA CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY AFRCAN AMERICANS WITH U.S. OFFICIAL GOVT. ISSUE CRACK to be particularly enlightening…..He is a disgrace and so is his #1 protege’ Barack Hussein Obama.

stodghie

good points! i think it would be fun to email all these leftie bloggers who adore precious just what he is saying about them. ask for a response. i doubt we would get one, but just the thought of irritating them gives me a chuckle.

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

Wow.
I haven’t been able to stomach MoDo for months now–maybe she went back on the HRTs. Now if only Nora Ephron and Jane Smiley would do the same (hot flashes are a bitch, yall)

I don’t think the neo-left, the so-called “progressives” and those with CDS will abandon Obama. In fact, I think he”ll need to have them surgically removed. He’s their imaginary hip black friend, don’t forget. Ask any shrink what happens when you try to force a psychotic to give up his/her hallucinations….

I think maybe the mainstream is beginning to see that the “emperor” has no clothes (except for his 4 or 5 suits, that he patches up and wears) Yeah,right.

He’s an empty-headed poser, wasting our time.

stodghie

i think a number of them already know what ole barry really is but haven’t received the marching orders from the dons yet.
SensibleWoman

He’s an empty-headed poser, wasting our time.

And A-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l those $$$’s that could’ve done a wh-o-o-o-o-l-l-l-l-e lot for how many in need?
Iphie

In fact, I think he”ll need to have them surgically removed.

That’s what I think he’s trying to do — I think Barry’s beginning to realize that his cheerleaders might potentially do more harm than good. There are two problems with his surgical removal plan — 1) if he does successfully remove them, who’s he going to replace them with? He’s already pissed off large portions of the Democratic base. And 2) the type of surgery he’s attempting is a dangerous one — there’s always the risk the patient won’t survive the operation.
Shainzona

…”empty-headed poser”.

Great description!
Andy

The last debate and loss in PA was just too humiliating for Obama. He came off as a very weak man: My impression is MoDo doen’t like to be associated with “weak men”; kind of a non-challenging game for her….

Mel

Oh darn, this is just the same old politics, take my own words and use them against me!

When will you people finally understand that my words mean nothing, and therefore I am a different candidate, not your conventional candidate and no other country on earth can my story be told, and I become POTUS! Oh darn, I am in the USA right now aren’t I?

So all you church going, gun huggin, bitter folks just shut the fuck up and let me be Pwesident(spelling on purpose), because Axelrod said I am!

Where is my Michelle right now, these meanies are attacking me again, need some more race baiting to shut em up!

Obama ’08 and NO MORE DEBATES!

Fred C. Dobbs

Michelle is reading her Winnie Mandela handbook and organizing the Michelle Obama Soccer Club.

allimom99

Oh, Fred, THAT was priceless!

Mel

Anyone watch NBC and ABC this morning with Tim and George?
Poor old Dean is still sort of freaking from the litte I have seen and Brazile is gray wig day, that only means supporting obama again claiming disgruntled Clinton supporters will all run to Obama in the fall again!

Didn’t get it all, I was at church, so missed the most of it! I was disapointed there too, cuz my Priest did no hip rotating, he did bring up chickens though, said sorry he wasn’t his usual today, had been sick the past few days, his chicken dinner kept coming back again and again!
john

agree with ya’ll.. but the article about BO’s Illinois state experience should say, “Springfield” not Syracuse..

State Capital of Illinois: Springfield.

Also, if one scratches the surface of BO’s Illinois career, it is very very very (did I say VERY) thin. His first campaign for State Senate? He basically hired a Harvard lawyer friend to come in and challenge the signatures on the petitions of his rivals. His first statewide election? against a carpet-bagging Alan Keyes..

Record as a Senator from Illinois? Zilch. I voted for the guy and I would have a hard time justifying a re-elect to SENATE let alone president vote.

Plus, he lied to the people of this state: he said he would fulfill his 6-year term in the senate.

All talk. No action.

rjj

In the interests of party solidarity and of keeping things positive I would like to point out that that The One is extremely good at:

1. complaining about minor inconveniences/discomforts, AND

2. making excuses.
allimom99

And Alice Palmer’s been campaigning for Hillary – go figure.

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

You’re probably right, Shainzona. Nothings too big to sacrifice for the ‘movement.’ MoveOn has sold its soul to the Big Empty.

LIke Wright says, BO has to say these things because he’s a politician.
street_parade

I don’t think there is a ‘far left’ in this country and if there is, it won’t be voting for a Democrat or a Republican. What there is, is an echo chamber (DKos, etc.) that came into being as a reaction to George W. Bush and as he fades into the sunset they needed something to hitch their wagon to….enter Obama.

There are also a fair number of idealists who wanted to fall in love. The early days of BO, starting with the ’04 convention and building to a crescendo last year were tailor made for them. He began to diminish into a politician with the start of real-life elections when he had to try and garner the votes of Americans who weren’t in the market for a used car, so to speak.

The crash to earth began with the losses in Ohio and Texas and the start of the “revelations” (Wright, slumlords, call everyone a racist, etc). I’m sure that BO has his 28% just like Bush, who will stick with him no matter what. But I do wonder what the youthful idealists are going to think now that their ‘dream date’ is revealing himself as the Republican-lite he’s always been. Explains all the money he’s raised, though.

stodghie

yeah, i have to wonder about ole kos. he is after all a former repub and sorta runs his site in a order marching formation like the repubs like. he was disillusioned with bush so now who is he going to be disillusioned with in order to build kos back. (which i don’t think will happen). kos went from being a very interesting blog with great front pagers to the pathetic crax it is today. none of the sane will go back. i think he and others will have to sorta manufacture outrage in order to have something to write about sorta like faux does. now isn’t that appealing.

street_parade

I think Bush was kind of a cottage industry for people like Kos and Huffington and Lord knows the comedians are already getting nostalgic for him. Even Michael Moore, who had a career before Bush could never have reached the heights he did without such a rich vein of source material. (A documentary that grosses over $100 million and makes its director a star?? Wow!)

If I was a cynic, I’d say that these folks have rooting interest in McCain. If he’s in the WH they remain relevant, otherwise, not so much. One of those “things that make you go hmmm…”

john from IL

agree with ya’ll..

btw: the article about BO’s Illinois state experience should say, “Springfield” not Syracuse..

State Capital of Illinois: Springfield.

Also, if one scratches the surface of BO’s Illinois career, it is very very very (did I say VERY) thin. His first campaign for State Senate? He basically hired a Harvard lawyer friend to come in and challenge the signatures on the petitions of his rivals. His first statewide election? against a carpet-bagging Alan Keyes..

Record as a Senator from Illinois? Zilch. I voted for the guy and I would have a hard time justifying a re-elect to SENATE let alone president vote.

Plus, he lied to the people of this state: he said he would fulfill his 6-year term in the senate.

All talk. No action.
rjj

Did Brazile really wear a gray wig?

Is that something like earth tones? Gravitas drag??

workingclass artist

I thought it was a dead animal….Ooops….How very working class of me…

jwrjr

Road kill? That would be symbolic of an Obama presidency.

Fred C. Dobbs

It looked like she was being molested by an old possum.

Ramasan

need photo of Donna, please. Too funny.

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

I notice Donna’s appearances on CNN are fewer and shorter these days.

http://Whosturnisit? TeakWoodKite

I gues the “don’t hurt yourself” stuff boomerang’d

Kathryn

Doesn’t the fact that he won’t even show up to a debate without the MSM pundit crap make him a wimp? What is this “we have had enough debates” garbage I am hearing from Obamabots. What, you guys can’t even show UP? That is worse than take your ball and go home, that’s out and out cowardice. If he can’t handle a toe to toe debate with Hillary, how’s he going to fair against Putin? What a girlieman.
Iphie

Does anyone know how the people at DailyObama are reacting to his Fox appearance? Have their heads collectively exploded, or are they furiously working to apply the WORM rules to this as well?
rjj

Like I said before, Dowd is hedging. She can’t afford to be completely wrong in this. She doesn’t have Judy Miller’s rich husband or influential friends
Mel

And you all recall that Charlie Gibson had to school Obama on capital gains taxes in that last ABC debate just before the Pennsylvania primary. (It’s no wonder he’s running from any more debates. It must have been humiliating to be caught not knowing or having studied the issue of capital gains taxes — no matter how smart or Ivy League educated you are

And Obama was complaining it took 45 minutes to get to the arena of how stupid he is on issues, he should be jumping for joy that it wasn’t all issues, and he’d have to be asking Charlie, George and even Hillary for understanding what Payroll tax increases mean that he is imposing also on every American!
Tom

Obama donor received a state grant
His letter on behalf of a table tennis company preceded the funding.

By Chuck Neubauer and Tom Hamburger

Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

April 27, 2008

WASHINGTON — After an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2000, Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama faced serious financial pressure: numerous debts, limited cash and a law practice he had neglected for a year. Help arrived in early 2001 from a significant new legal client — a longtime political supporter.

Chicago entrepreneur Robert Blackwell Jr. paid Obama an $8,000-a-month retainer to give legal advice to his growing technology firm, Electronic Knowledge Interchange. It allowed Obama to supplement his $58,000 part-time state Senate salary for over a year with regular payments from Blackwell’s firm that eventually totaled $112,000.

A few months after receiving his final payment from EKI, Obama sent a request on state Senate letterhead urging Illinois officials to provide a $50,000 tourism promotion grant to another Blackwell company, Killerspin.

Killerspin specializes in table tennis, running tournaments nationwide and selling its own line of equipment and apparel and DVD recordings of the competitions. With support from Obama, other state officials and an Obama aide who went to work part time for Killerspin, the company eventually obtained $320,000 in state grants between 2002 and 2004 to subsidize its tournaments.

Obama’s staff said the senator advocated only for the first year’s grant — which ended up being $20,000, not $50,000. The day after Obama wrote his letter urging the awarding of the state funds, Obama’s U.S. Senate campaign received a $1,000 donation from Blackwell.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-killerspin27apr27,0,5998760,print.story
buckskin711

well, i just read the transcript of obama’s interview with weenie wallace. what a joke, he had him on the hot sear with bill ayers and didnt press the issue. obama reverted back to his stock answear, ” i was only 6 or 7 years old then, and he’s basically just a guy in my neighborhood”…..i almost threw my cup at my tv ! chris wallace stinks. obama would not have gottten away with the ayers thing if fox would have given it to sean hannity. chris wallace also told all of the other talking heads to cool it talking about wright awhile back, i smell something bad with fox going on with this.
http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

I saw him READ a speach in Indiana last week. He read his entire speech from a script. It was on the economy. He actually had to have his talking points written down word for word because, as with so many other important subjects, the guy hasn’t got a clue when it comes to substance.

Fred C. Dobbs

What, no TelePrompters in Indiana?

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

It was a kind of whistle stop, town hall thang. He didn’t take his eyes off that text, let me tell you.

Ellen

and how often does Hillary read her speeches??? She is a talking robot, and when she goes off script she sounds like a complete idiot-she can’t even tell a joke. a lot of politicians read speeches you know – and they usually don’t even write them. Obama is one of the few that has written his own big speeches – Hillary does NOT.

PMS

Ellen,

I have bridge for sale in NYC you might be interested in.

workingclass artist

LOL pms…Perhaps condo development in the OKIEFENOKIEE (sp?)

stodghie

hey ellen, are you really that dumb? that must be some koolaid you are drinking. get off your duff and go doe some research before popping off on here again. it is a well known fact that precious has a speech writer. i hope all the obama people are as poorly informed as you.

Catriley

You know that things are getting bad for Obama when I’m standing the supermarket persuing the cover story of The Globe all about Michelle’s control freak ways. It was a nice comedic diversion from the primary. They say the campaign calls her “H-H” for “head honcho” and they joke that they wait each morning to see what side of the bed H-H told him get up on.

Hey, even my Sister, who was drinking the koolaid, told me she watched that Rev. Wright interview and laughed at how desperate it was to be trying to repackage that guy for OBama’s sake. We had a good laugh when we were discussing puppy names, and how much fun it would be to name it after Obama. “Obama pooped in the laundry room again”, etc. She even joked that the Miata in front of us at a stoplight, with the obama sticker, was fueled by koolaid. She is SO over her Obama-love affair.

I woke up on the wicked side of the bed today, apparently.

yikes

Do you really think that people weren’t saying the same things about Hillary? I like Michelle, I think it’s great that she’s a strong woman.

I happen to prefer lemonade to Kool-aid.

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

Ever read her thesis? I have. This is one angry black woman.

workingclass artist

Yeah I read it….This woman whining about not feeling welcomed like she did’nt fit in…..Ask yourself….Could this woman fit in anywhere with such a large chip on her shoulder…The laws of physics would prevent that….

Catriley

No.. the point was that the tabloids are starting to turn, and that kind of stuff in the checkout line gets seen by an awful lot of voters.

Has nothing to with “Michelle”, and everything to do with the mood of the Country regarding Obama.
fooj

That’s right. Make this about Hillary. Everything is ALWAYS projected towards Hillary, isn’t it? Pathetic.

workingclass artist

I think you and your sister may be starting a trend…Obama pooped in the laundry room….LOL…Priceless….

PMS

“Bad Obama! No! No!”
(slaps hand with rolled up newspaper)

http://Whosturnisit? TeakWoodKite

Catriley…That was real funny stuff in the Globe. The uncomfortable thing about it is they are correct…Got to Love MIB.

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SILLY

It’s funny how Richardson is now saying that he’s supporting Obama because of Clinton’s tactics when just a few months ago he was calling out Obama & Edwards for being too negative against Hillary, as the clip shows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q40ge-ivEg0

watch it

and pass it now

sjc-tx

Richardson has his hand out… He’s going to be very disappointed when Obmmamamma spits in it later!

workingclass artist

Richardson is still feeling the sting from Carville and how his endorsemnt means SQUAT to Hispanics….He is headed to the land of INSIGNIFICANCE….

rojo

Gotta love it. He finally got to where he thought he was going to get a chance to say what his plans for the country would have been (had a moderator asked him) and Matthews interrupts and takes it right back to Hillary
Ellen

That’s right…logical – Richardson does NOT like any negative campaigning – didn’t like it when Obama and Edwards did it and doesn’t like it when Hillary does it…what is so confusing about that? He obviously thinks Hillary has done more of it than Obama, hence he supports the latter. DUH>>>

beebop

“What I am proposing,” Richardson said last week at a candidate forum in Nevada, “is that every Democratic candidate sign a pledge that we will not engage in any negative campaigning toward each other.”

Richardson spoke as the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were arguing over comments made by an Obama donor who said the Clintons are liars, among other things. Clinton’s campaign demanded that Obama apologize, and Obama said he shouldn’t be responsible for something someone else said. Richardson took Clinton’s side but said the whole mess was damaging.

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/57661.html

I don’t remember Governor Richardson’s voice when Bill Clinton was called a racist ….

Ran a google and just as I suspected … not a peep!
fooj

Who gives a shit what Richardson thinks, Ellen? Hell, he can’t even get his state to report election totals until weeks after the contest. Funny how New Mexico seems to have such a problem with accuracy…

Richardson is about as authentic as his name is. You figure it out.

MarkJ

Obama is less an “Manchurian Candidate” than a “Seinfeldian Candidate”:

It’s a candidacy about nothing.

Hell, Obama would feel right at home in Monk’s Coffee Shop, sipping coffee and eating Big Salads all the while moaning, “Missed out on the make-up debate, baby!”
jwrjr

I see where Dean says that it is up to the candidate not nominated to heal the split in the Democratic party. I guess he believes that the DNC has no responsibility for it. I bet the voters in FL and MI are impressed by that.
I saw on another website (not K$$, I don’t go there) that the Obama cultists think that the Wallace interview was just wonderful. Talk about lunatic fringe …
No doubt Obama will show how progressive he is by picking Lieberman as VP.
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sonia

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obama the BITTER CHICKEN

http://Whosturnisit? TeakWoodKite

of two minds…

Sonia, that cracks me up. Thanks.

Patrick Henry

Now if We could just..

PLUCK PLUCK PLUCK PLUCK PLUCK PLUCK ..

yikes

Interesting, the folks over at Kos don’t seem to feel that way, in a diary on the interview most people seem excited that he mentioned the blog at all. They are agreeing with him that they did go after him on Roberts, and I’ve seen at least one post hopeful that if they keep attacking him they can help him win.

How about his “race card” comments in this interview? In spite of the numerous individuals on this site who have called him a “race baiter” he was given a huge opportunity to attack Bill Clinton but he very clearly gave Bill the benefit of the doubt and said that he didn’t feel that his comments were intended to attack him because of his race. If he were truly a “race baiter” he would have seized the opportunity – so cut it out already!

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

he very clearly gave Bill the benefit of the doubt and said that he didn’t feel that his comments were intended to attack him because of his race. If he were truly a “race baiter” he would have seized the opportunity – so cut it out already!

Oh cut the crap. Obama’s MO is and always has been to have his surrogates do the dirty for him so he can pretend to be above the fray. Funny how the race problem always comes up when he needs it most. But guess what? White people are getting sick and tired of it and if this guy ends up the nominee, George McGovern is going to look like a success story next to Obama. And it will all be because of his followers.

workingclass artist

Agree with you uppity….I don’t think shooting at Clinton’s offices in NC are going to play well to the crackers…..Folks don’t like to be bullied…
Catriley

Yep. that is also Bush’s M.O. It’s classic Rove. You let your seconds do your dirty work, and you seem soooo above it all. Trust me, this is also McCain’s strategy.

How funny that the Obamacrats would fall for that… considering I’ve seen them blast away at Bush for the same damn thing. Oh, yeah, I forgot, Obama can do no wrong.
rojo

I’ve seen many clips of Obama at campaign stops trashing Hillary. His style is to whine that she’s being mean to him, so it’s okay if he uses some nasty dig back. I’m sick of them saying that her ads that are informational on where she stands are somehow negative toward him! Ego, or ignorance on his part.

He is the only one out there doing finger salutes, fist thrusts, and brushing the dirt off (those San Francisco elites should listen to the words of the rap that comes from).

He’s finally getting found out, and he knows it. His refusal to do any debates before Indiana are clearly the act of a coward who knows he can’t stand up to the competition. Was PA the ONLY debate that was just between the two of them? I say the debates between all 12 or so original candidates don’t count. With the race this close, he needs to PROVE to the people that he believes enough in himself to give him the right to ask us to believe in him.

beebop

Barack Obama … the drive by candidate.

http://Whosturnisit? TeakWoodKite

Ouch! Obama did not even drive though the hood in Chicago,

“true facts” ??? I am sucker for oxymorons.

(I can’t anything with ducktape on my mouth) mmm, errrr, eee\\\
workingclass artist

LOL….Of course he’s in the back of that LIMO and Axelrove and Michelle are up front…..

Ellen

last I heard it was Big Bill who brought up the race card thing AGAIN….give it up, you are not telling the true facts.

rojo

There’s a big difference between bringing out the “race card” and defending yourself from the accusations you are a racist.

Know your sources, and consider them before you swallow.
stodghie

gee, what a mean, spiteful, ill informed, despearte koolaid drinking obamabot you are, ellen.

beebop

And doesn’t he always look so wonderful with his nose in the air? That is the mental image I will always have of the drive by candidate.
yikes

There is a big difference between a surrogate and a supporter. I think both his and Hillary’s supporters have gone off the deep end to be quite honest. If you think his supporters are “playing the race card” then so be it, but he was given a great big opening and he defended Clinton. No amount of spinning is going to change that.

sonia

Obama’s Arrogant New Strategy

Ignoring Hillary Clinton’s presence in the race is an attempt by a marginal front-runner to present himself as the presumptive Democratic nominee.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obamas-arrogant-new-strategy/

rojo

He’s been using that strategy on and off for awhile. He also tries to pretend that he has the lead in popular vote. Look at the count state-by-state and there are no legitimate popular vote counts from the caucus states.

Thanks to the media, he gets plenty of ridiculous sound bites to use that he knows they will back him on.

Marco

He lets his surrogates paint the Clintons as racists. When it counted he was silent.
fooj

Little Lord Obama NEVER gets HIS hands dirty. He has his idiot minions do the dirty work for him. BTW- how is THAT working for you?

sonia

YOU KNOW WHAT

I AM GETTING SICK OF OBAMATROLLS GIVING AHED TIME

SO I HAVE 4 DIFFERENT E-MAIL ADDRESSESS

i am gonna register with obama,,

and leave sracastice remarks there all day long
so i can waste thier time like they do ours,,

Ellen

Oh please do Sonia…but learn to spell first, okay? then it won’t take so much of our time to read your sarcastic posts.

beebop

Don’t confuse shitty with witty … sweetheart!
jwrjr

If she spells correctly then her cover as an Obama supporter will be blown.
stodghie

hey ellen, learn to punctuate your sentences properly. do your research and please don’t come back till then. ignorant, poorly informed obamabots are such a waste of my precious brain.
http://Whosturnisit? TeakWoodKite

Ellen

“true facts” ???

speaktruth

To me, Obama has always been right wing. This is based on reading Krugman, on his economic and other advisors like Goolsbee, his many many remarks praising Reagan of all people, one of our most destructive presidents, who began the overturn of the New Deal, his talk of post-partisan politics (why would we want to vote with Repubs), his vote for Cheney’s energy bill, his Exelon association, all the money he has taken from Wall St. and energy companies, which he then lies about, his lying – the list goes on. I don’t see him as left at all and don’t understand exactly why he is painted this way. Clearly the media conspiracy is the Repubs convincing Dems to vote for him, probably McCain beats him. But they like him better than Clinton, mainly for his non-regulation policy, which I have NEVER before heard him actually say, just imply. Any lefty who votes for him now is totally crazy or a liar.
Or a very rich corporate person who likes deregulation, ala Bush, and more of the raping of American middle class and working class and poor.

Andy

I think you are correct. Also, I read somewhere that Obama worked very hard to achieve having the “most liberal record” in Congress this last year (it was not so anytime before). He knew he had to play the left but his core values are not. Center politics is fine with me but his isn’t even that. He is a propagndist playing the Reps. hand for pure personal political ascendence. He cares very little or nothing about governing for the people; to make their lives better.

buckskin711

the chickens have come home to poop on obama/wright…..that interview stunk up foxnews. chris wallace is a chicken shit just like obama..
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http://reddit.com/info/6hb0v/comments

I started you all a thread on Reddit. Would love for you to come add your enlightening arguments to the debate there.

sonia

This is a direct quote and conversation from the Official Barack Obama Campaign Site:

URL: (http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gGCjbY/commentary#comments)

3:58 am Post:

“Re: HIllary Clinton suprised me | Report to Admin Reply
By Y from Alameda, CA Today at 3:58 am EDT

yea, just slit her throat and dump her in a river in East Kentucky.

Appalachians… Shessh, they’re the worst ”

4:25 am post:

“Re: Sexism will rise like crazy once Hillary’s out | Report to Admin Reply
By Y from Alameda, CA Today at 4:25 am EDT

Just slit her throat, lock her in a car boot, and drive the car into river in West Virginia.

Ain’t gonna let no whore screw with the man ”

DO YOU THINK WE ARE GOING TO JOIN THE UNITY PONY IF HE IS CHOSEN?

GET***FUCKING****REAL

If these words were found on Senator Clintons Official Campaign site, made by supporters, towards Michelle Obama. We would be seeing “assasination attempt” all on the news, and Senator Clinton would no longer be running for President. But since it seems to be okay for Senator Obama to allow death threats, and people like Mr. Olberman can use dog whistles and turn around and just “exlplain” what he really meant.

Ellen

Wrong again……these types of comments are from totally ignorant immature fools that are beyond anything….the site cannot control every single post, even though they ask for decency.

I have seen just as bad on Obama at Hillary’s site and her supporters” many sites, trust me.

stodghie

immature fools? you are describing yourself dearie!
http://Whosturnisit? TeakWoodKite

“real truth” ???
fooj

You are a liar. Prove what you have just asserted. Show us where Hillary’s site has filthy, ugly racist comments.

We’re waiting…

glennmcgahhee

Remember when Bill Clinton handed Chris Wallace his ass on TV in an interview and accused him of the “gotcha” mentality. An embarrassed Chris Wallace has been seeking revenge ever since.
secularhumanizinevoluter

Bottom line, if you’re for Obama you’re either
1. Black and thinks it’s “our” turn.
2.College student so stoned you don’t know if you have your shoes, shirt OR pants on.
3.NOT taking your meds and the cornflakes are starting to talk to you again.
4.NOT PAYING ATTENTION
6. Somewhat dunber then a box of hammers
OR a possible combination of two to all of the above.
If you have more then three funtioning brain cells and have been paying ANY attention at all to even the CORPORATE news it is COMPLETELY clear that Obamalamadingdong is a bamboozler, a hoodwinker,a conman. He’s ALSO a race baiting,misogynistic,xenophobic,homophobic, elitest coward who is SCARED of debating a WOMAN!

jd

I am for #2
rojo

I think a good share of Obamabots fit into one of your choices, but the Kennedy’s, the SDs, the SF elitists, Oprah, etc. who are supporting him seem to be more interested in making sure they AREN’T supporting Clinton. These people are smart enough to know Obama is a fraud, but they seem to think they can control him once he’s in office.

I believe the Superdelegates should be OBLIGATED to disclose exactly what amount of money they have already received, have been promised, favors they have received or have been promised by the candidates they support. I’ll bet Obama has promised more than one person the VP position on the ticket.

Andy

I think that the interview was set up by the Obama campaign as the replacement for the debate. Obama needed to get his “right side” out for NC & IN.
The natural forum would have been the debate but since there he usually shows his chicken wings, the Fox debate seemd more appropriate. I can almost smeel Axelrove setting this up. That’s what Obama did today: talk to the NC & IN voter.
Andy

I think that the interview was set up by the Obama campaign as the replacement for the debate. Obama needed to get his “right side” out for NC & IN.
The natural forum would have been the debate but since there he usually shows his chicken wings, the Fox debate seemd more appropriate. I can almost smell Axelrove setting this up. That’s what Obama did today: talk to the NC & IN voter.

Andy

Obama: I am your new uniter. Fear not the end of W’s presidency. Here I come for you

Trivial Psychic

And The One: the men in white coats will be coming for you or maybe a subpoena or two at a grand jury even?

Andy, you will turn on your television and the news will be on.

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Trivial Psychic

pot kettle black

delusions of grandeur

http://Whosturnisit? TeakWoodKite

also “grandeur of delusions”.

workingclass artist

Hehehe…..Good one Teak….

sonia

This is a direct quote and conversation from the Official Barack Obama Campaign Site:

URL: (http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gGCjbY/commentary#comments)

3:58 am Post:

“Re: HIllary Clinton suprised me | Report to Admin Reply
By Y from Alameda, CA Today at 3:58 am EDT

yea, just slit her throat and dump her in a river in East Kentucky.

Appalachians… Shessh, they’re the worst ”

4:25 am post:

“Re: Sexism will rise like crazy once Hillary’s out | Report to Admin Reply
By Y from Alameda, CA Today at 4:25 am EDT

Just slit her throat, lock her in a car boot, and drive the car into river in West Virginia.

Ain’t gonna let no whore screw with the man ”

DO YOU THINK WE ARE GOING TO JOIN THE UNITY PONY IF HE IS CHOSEN?

GET***FUCKING****REAL

This is my intent, my mission, my purpose and my goal if Senator Obama is not removed from public office. Because I do not want to be placated with explainations of what people really meant to say because we should be accountable for our actions, or words, and the plots of violence made on campaign websites.

If these words were found on Senator Clintons Official Campaign site, made by supporters, towards Michelle Obama. We would be seeing “assasination attempt” all on the news, and Senator Clinton would no longer be running for President. But since it seems to be okay for Senator Obama to allow death threats, and people like Mr. Olberman can use dog whistles and turn around and just “exlplain” what he really meant.

rojo

You already posted this once further up the line.

My understanding is that the posts in your message have been reported to the proper authorities, and who knows how many other places. Hillary doesn’t scare easily, which is one of her many, many attributes and something we need in our next president.

sonia

sorry

i just wanna make sure ,,everyone reads,,and knows ,,and gets mad and does something about it

Peg C.

I am a strong righty (former lifelong far lefty) but I have to say you make more sense than most, including some on the right. With Obama, there is no there there, and I saw it immediately but could not for the life of me figure out why the Dem party was swooning. Believe me, many of us on the right would rather vote for a principled Dem than McCain. But we’d rather cut off our arms or vote for Hillary (same difference) than vote for Obama and his cadre of terrorists, hate-America spiritual leaders and assorted crooks and liars. How would he actually take the oath of office and swear to uphold the Constitution and defend this country with terrorists on his speed-dial??? This is a serious question.

The only thing preventing some Republicans from jumping out of windows over our “choice” is the sheer delight we’re getting from the civil war on the left, but none of this is good for the country. Most will end up voting against rather than for, which I guess is normal but tiresome and depressing.

Again, great analysis, whether praise from a conservative is gratifying or not.

Trivial Psychic

Obama is a threat to just plain human decency. Our political vantage points should never prevent us from seeing truth.
workingclass artist

Peg….I think BABY-O and his campaign make pols nervous on both sides….Nobody likes a political vaccum….and nobody likes to be bullied…
I’m just sayin…
jwrjr

“With Obama there is no there there” sums it up fairly well. Truth is truth, no matter who speaks it.
Catriley

But we’d rather cut off our arms or vote for Hillary

Okay. Why?

I’ll tell you the reason why I’d cut off my arm to vote for her. I was not inclined to support her originally. One day I checked out her website, and spent a while watching the stories of people whose lives she’d change… videos in their own words. That put me on a path to find out more about her and her work, and her focus. What I found was a public figure that had been unfairly defined by the media and others, and was instead a quality person that earns respect on both sides of the aisle because of her work on behalf of our soldiers, our veterans, children, 9/11 victims, and others.

I’d love for you to see difference she’s personally made in the lives of so many people. If you can handle it, I’d suggest going to her site http://www.thehillaryiknow.com and watch some of the videos. Please watch the videos of: Joe Ward, Marvin Bethea (a paramedic at Ground Zero), Jeff Volk, and Lauren Manning*, in particular. If you do that one thing, you will understand why there is such passion here for Hillary.

(*you might recognize Lauren Manning’s name, her husband wrote a book called “Love, Greg and Lauren” about her injuries and recovery from the 9/11 WTC attack.)
rojo

Thanks for your post, Peg C. I never could believe the Republicans really wanted BO on the ballot. We may differ in many of our opinions for this country, but we ALL have to live under the decisions of whoever the president is. Obama isn’t just terrifying with his close personal friends in the business of hating this country, he’s refusing to tell us anything of his plans for us.
http://deleted LandOLincoln

“I am a strong righty (former lifelong far lefty)”

Yeah, like there’s a difference?

JoeySky

I blamed the DNC. They should have done the background check on O-person and never let him run. We are in this predicament because DNC threw a fake horse into the race.

rojo

I hope you have called or emailed them with that information. The DNC is begging for money, and it appeared Dean was starting to change his tune about Hillary just to get her supporters to either stop calling with their complaints, or start donating again.

orionATL

new campaign slogan:

barack obama

slicker than goose s**t.

from the jerome armstrong article in myDD cited above by susan:

[ WALLACE: The Wall Street Journal says that you are prepared to run the first privately-financed campaign - presidential campaign since Watergate. True?

OBAMA: Look, we've done a wonderful job raising money from the grassroots. I'm very proud of the fact that in March, in February for example, 90 percent of our donations came over the Internet. Our average donation is $96. And we've done an amazing job, I think, of mobilizing people, to finance our campaigns in small increments.

I have promised that I will sit down with John McCain and talk about, can we preserve a public system, as long as we are taking into account third party, independent expenditures, because what I don't intend to -

WALLACE: If you could get that agreement you would go for a publicly financed campaign?

OBAMA: What I don't intend to do is to allow huge amounts of money to be spent by the RNC, the Republican National Committee or by organizations like the Swift Boat organization and just stand there without -

WALLACE: If you get that agreement?

OBAMA: I would be very interested in pursuing public financing because I think not every candidate is going to be able to do what I've done in this campaign and I think it's important to think about future campaigns.

Obama would be re-writing the rules with the above claims that the RNC and 527's be counted or ended. I'm sure he's not going to accept public financing, but his previous pledge to do so, and attempt to change the rules midway through the game, doesn't seem like as clear a way as him to wiggle out of it. And besides, McCain might just agree here with this proposal, and then what would Obama do ]

http://Whosturnisit? TeakWoodKite

Smell a rat?

90 percent of our donations came over the Internet. Our average donation is $96

annagain

Now that Senator Obama has chosen to give a namby pamby, I’m all things to all people, flatter the Reaganites interview on FOX, as your post points out, let’s add the HuffPo/DKos/MoveOn peeps to those Sen. Obama has thrown under the bus…

To everyone frequenting those sites who supports him, I say welcome to you, we’ve got a big tent.

You get to join me as one of the pesky older white women he has either taken for granted, treated in a sexist fashion, or decided he doesn’t need, along with …

1. working class voters,

2. pro-choice democrats (he said a lot of us don’t get that abortion is a “wrenching moral issue”– really? how insulting)

3. Pennsylvanians in general who are not only bitter, clinging to guns and religion, but are also dumb for not voting for him (in case you missed it –in re voting patters of WI vs. PA, the other day he just basically said that midwesterners tend to have more common sense)

4. His surrogates intimate AAs who do not vote for him are race traitors

5. Garlic-nosed italians (courtesy Rev. Wright)

6. Gay and lesbian voters (won’t take a picture with the Mayor of S.F. and takes “reformed through prayer” ex-gay man Donnie MCcurkin campaigning with him in S.C.)

7. typical white people (even in his grandma’s generation, some of those typical white people marched and died for civil rights by the way)

8. The foreign service (see. Amb. Wilson’s brilliant articles on how Sen. Obama discounts diplomats and the need for foreign policy experience (but then again, Sen. Obama did live in Indonesia from 6-10 yrs old which qualifies as vast foreign policy experience in dealing with foreign rulers and governments)

9. Those for energy conservation (since he voted FOR the Bush-Cheney Energy bill giving lots to oil companies and nothing to us — Clinton voted against it by the way)

10. and of course, any of Senator Clinton’s loyal supporters — naturally, we must be clueless to believe in her as we do.

Please forgive me if I have ommitted anyone.

How silly of us to want someone with coherent and cogent policies and experience and the know how to get the job done.

Senator Obama’s supporters may not agree with everything she says or even like Senator Clinton, but for anyone who’s out there reading this, please — take a good look at the bold and progressive ideas the lady has to offer, for health care, greening the economy, dealing with the sub-prime mortgage crisis, bringing our troops home, taking care of our veterans, dusting off our constitution and rewarding science and research in our culture again.

Senator Obama keeps changing his stripes with the changing wind — that is not the mark of good leadership, but one of a man who does everything for political expediency, and if one takes a moment to look at his voting record in both the State Senate and the Senate — that behavior is much in evidence.

How has your loyalty to him been rewarded? As Rev. Wright said in his interview Friday night with Bill Moyers on PBS, Sen Obama “says what he has to say as a politician.” This is not a good sign for someone who runs on a platform of post-partisanship and a post-racial world and doing new kind of politics. This is as old politics as it gets.

I love my country as deeply as anyone and need more to vote for than rhetoric — particularly when it is not backed up by action. Truly, this is not a popularity contest. While the ad mentioning the “3 a.m. phone call” might have bene offensive to some — it is a reality in the world we live in. Pleas remember the visual of George Bush sitting frozen for 7 minutes reading “My Pet Goat” to a room of children as the planes hit the towers. He needed to wait for instructions on what to do next. I can assure you, in all situations, Senator Clinton will know who to call, how to act in a rational, intelligent, prepared fashion.

Even the most hardened pundits who have bashed her mercilessly throughhout this campaign are softening and awarding her their grudging respect because they can see she knows what she is doing.

Please pardon my long post, but even if we lived in a completely peaceful world, as I pray we someday will, we require a leader who is the President of all Americans, who treats us all with dignity and doesn’t make disparaging or insensitive remarks to those not already on board.

We are inheriting such a huge mess from George Bush and his neocons — we cannot afford to have someone step into office who is so unprepared for the challenges ahead.
section9

The Clintons have been arguing what Karl Rove figured out some time ago: this guy has fewer clothes than Bush. He just speaks much better than Bush ever did.

Here’s the problem for Democrats; black voters figure that after decades of loyalty to YOUR PARTY, they figure that it’s their turn. Along comes Barack, the first guy who has a legitimate shot at the Big Chair, and the White Liberals in the Clinton Campaign want to turn him back.

Now I happen to agree with you people. I’m a Republican. I’ll be voting for McCain, but I’ve watched Hillary grow as a candidate, and I’m telling you, were she to win, she would be the most formidable President since Richard Nixon. Republicans have come to admire her grit and fighting spirit. When people on our side like Pat Buchanan and Blankley admire her the way they do, that’s because they see the best of old Tricky Dick in Hillary.

The problem is your party’s nomination machinery. Were it like ours, she’d have wrapped this up long ago. Her domination of the Big Blue States would have had her coronated by now. But McGovern’s idiot reforms have killed your party’s nominating process, and have allowed this Manchurian Candidate to come out of nowhere. In the process, the Adults are afraid to stand up and tell the black voters that their guy just doesn’t have it.

Obama’s key move was to sell a huge con game to the antiwar base of the Democratic Party. His signal policy plank was to move two maneuver brigades out of Iraq every month until they were all gone. You saw the first chinks in that armor when Dr. Power got fired, ostensibly for calling Hillary a “monster”. In reality, as most of you are aware, she gave the internal game away that Obama was literally much closer to Hillary, Bush, and Petraeus (events based withdrawal) than he wanted to let on. One of his inside analyst let slip a paper that indicated that a reaction force of some 80,000 men might have to remain in the region to serve as a Fire Brigade, somewhat like the Groupement Mobile of the French Indochina war. All in all, there has been the beginning of a significant walkback of Obama’s initial peace platform.

We Republicans always understood this to be a lie. As long as Brezezinski was on board, nothing radical would be allowed to happen to Middle Eastern and defense policy. But the con was allowed to be sold to the Activists so they would donate money to the Obama website.

If the Superdelegates turn to Clinton, Democrats will lose a significant percentage of the black vote for several decades to come. Black voters simply will not forgive betrayal after several decades of loyalty at the ballot box. The only way Hillary can win this thing is to outfight Obama in popular vote and then fight it out on the floor. But there will be a price to be paid.

Which is what she has decided to do. God bless her, I admire her warrior spirit. Obama simply doesn’t have what she has, which is why she’s the much more qualified Democratic nominee.

After all, fighting it out on the floor is what Dick Nixon would do.

rjj

Who is Dick Nixon?

Is he that dweeb who was voted off The Island in 2005?

workingclass artist

LOL….I believe he is referring to 2nd tier REPUBLICAN ACTION HERO Richard Millhouse Nixon aka Tricky Dick….

PC

Hillary is a war monger. So is B. Hussein Obama. One word.

RON PAUL!

PMS

That’s two words. Maybe you meant RuPaul?
Regency

Man, I hope that was a joke, because Ron Paul is two words.

Two.
stodghie

yawn, ron is so yesterday. take it back to texas.

Buckwheatz

That quote threatening to abduct and kill Senator Clinton on the OB website is a threat against a Secret Service protectee. The law REQUIRES it to be reported and investigated as a threat.
Buckwheatz

That quote threatening to abduct and kill Senator Clinton on the BO website is a threat against a Secret Service protectee. The law REQUIRES it to be reported and investigated as a threat.
ModDem

This site has completely become a Republican talking point site. The reason I know is there is no research into your claims. First off your facts are so wrong in this post. Obama didn’t give the finger to Hillary [watch the video without your hatred blinders - trust me I made a video about it myself]. Also that was ONE Daily Kos diary. If you read most of the 300 plus comments they think nothing of Obama being on Fox. Most – like me – think it was a good idea.

Reverend Wrong

trust me

You tell us “there is no research into your claims” then you ask us to trust you?

If you think so little of this site I am surprised you keep coming back.

http://www.grotte-de-han.be/index.php?docID=132 chatsauvage

Is anyone surprised? Obama will say and do anything to win an election. But at least Kos and TPM received their advertising revenue. That is change in which they and their bankers can truly believe.
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