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Let the Deprogramming Begin

I gotta tell you. Sometimes we receive blessings from unexpected sources. Today I was fortunate enough to receive a link to the following video by bigticer. It is the first in a series designed to counter the claims of the Obama Cultists.

Today’s lesson is: How To Counter The Claims By Obama Cultists That You Are A Racist Because You Don’t Support Obama. Listen carefully and learn well. This gentleman speaks the truth wisely. We all owe him a debt of gratitude.

Just Say No Deal

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  • Kevin

    Great video
    The problem is that is what we have been saying all along, and guess what?
    They still call us racists or worse.

  • Joe Smith

    Yea I talked to a friend of mine and I told him about the church and he said that he does not think Obama was aware of Wrights views.

    What do you say to that?

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    How bout them Lakers? *blink*

  • Aka

    Who cares about this video…
    Where’s the “Whitey” tape?
    Still can’t find it?

  • Duck

    Everyone:

    Take a look at this YouTube Video:

    Obama Lies Again, Maybe We Should Believe Larry Sinclair

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=5ZIR4nTAZaY

    There he goes again…
    Barack Obama lying his ass off again…

    I’m starting to believe Larry Sinclair

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

    Kevin, who cares? We figured out long ago that it’s what they do when they want to change the subject that points to what an inept lying thug their candidate is. It’s been so overdone, it no longer has any impact whatsoever, except to piss off the electorate who are sick of hearing it.

  • Old White Guy

    I’m an old white guy and I take issue with anyone of color accusing me of being a racist. Can’t I vote for another old white guy without having to defend myself?

  • fran

    Have you heard the latest Obama pander? There was just a report on ABC News that Obama is courting the evangelical vote, praising Jesus with hands held high. I don’t have any problem with Jesus, but how, exactly, does this fit with his “progressive” bonafides? Can we say homophobic, pro-life anyone?

    And what, exactly, is the difference between Bush and Obama again? McCain is going to look left of BO if he keeps moving to his right.

    This guy “will do anything to win.” Where did we hear that criticism before?

  • http://paganpower.wordpress.com/ PaganPower

    He went to a church for 20 years and had no idea that Wright was like this?

    He is either the biggest liar in the world. Which only proves he is a hustler.

    Or thinks you are the most gullible person in the world. Which only demonstrates how little he really thinks of you.

    Or he is the densest person in the world. Which only proves he is completely unqualified for the office.

    Take your pick. None of them are pretty.

  • http://Txdi Dianne Villarreal

    Too bad I’m on dial up and can not see any of the video’s!
    But have enjoyed and learned a lot in reading all of the articles and the posts from everyone.
    There can never be any one to replace Senator Clinton, ever.

  • http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Winter08/2008Election.html Jeremiah God Damn AmeriKKKa Wright

    Obama the Denial Candidate.

    He denies culpability for everything.

    Lets give the denial candidate what he deserves.

    Deny him the white house.

  • alexei

    Obama follower, your master is calling you.

    “The term you used does not promote Unity. You must be reprogrammed in order to further our message. Please report to your nearest Obama puppet factory immediately. We do not wish to make a recall. Yours, Puppet Master Obama”.

  • http://home.comcast.net/~vincep312 Vince P

    I love this video

    It’s an Obamatron coming to the slow realization that Obama is a liar and a fraud, who has taken advantage of the speaker’s idealism.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6LtKDwVo-o

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    Part of the problem was that the media didn’t know him well at all, didn’t have follow-up questions on many of the topics that came up.

    Just a simple question after his speech about how he hadn’t heard Wright talk that way would have outted him immediately. “We know that there are many such tapes available. You said you hadn’t heard him speak this way, so I was curious as to how often did you attend Trinity?”

    Nobody really asked him questions.

  • Julie

    So is Obama…well Obama is at least bi

    so what’s your point?

  • Clara Barton

    Why would he give $22,000 in one year to a man or a church that he had no idea what their philosophy was? He’s lying if he says he had no idea.

  • Jaki Baez

    Excellent- video- PUMA- Right to the point!

  • alexei

    The same inane refrain from Obama followers. That’s because they have no reading comprehension. Your master is calling you. He doesn’t want you to remind voters about his problem with Michelle. He is so pathetic, so says his wife. Can’t you envision her spouting the Black Liberation Theology spiel? After all, for the first time in her adult life, she is proud of her Country!

  • Kevin

    You are correct as usual. What happened with centro? got PNGed?

  • Jaki Baez

    I just read one of your post comments- and I am puzzled at Obama pandering to the Religious front. What is he going to discuss with them? The Arabic Prayer song that he admirely told one of our reporters that he knew by heart? Definitely not Christ, anyone who is for partial birth bashing the head of a child and also involved with vile behavior should not be pandering, I say.

  • Kevin

    Forgive me ann, but the opening is tooooooo big.

    #17 is wonderful and thank you, I enjoyed taking a quick walk to the common for the parade.

    (dives into foxhole)

    :) -~

  • http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html Hillary’sSimplytheBest

    I wouldn’t worry about that. There was a woman evangelical reporter at the Larry Sinclair’s NPC. Once her emails go out to her evangelical peeps he’ll be toast with that voting group.

  • Jaki Baez

    Comment by Aka | 2008-06-22 18:15:14

    Who cares about this video…
    Where’s the “Whitey” tape?

    __________________________
    That shouldn’t be so hard to
    find- Just look at the woman’s face
    and that tells you it exist.

  • Michelle

    That’s got unity written all over it!
    We all unite behind MCCAIN against obama.

  • Pat

    Yo, Obama-nut — be sure and send me a postcard from Guyana.

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    I’ll be interested to watch how the MOVEON.ORG petition goes regarding Obama’s FISA move. That’s a bit of deprogramming right there.

  • peter pentagram made too many enemies

    this dude is a fag!!!

    GO OBAMA 08

    You’re married to an Asian woman, aren’t you?

    Ever think of military service, I see you in a Hawaiian shirt, the male equivalent of the women’s “moo moo.”

    A “moo moo,” is that how you spell it?

    You know, those big caftans Ethel Merman would wear?

    Like a big tent…

  • Teakwood

    Respectfully, I would say your friend is not being honest with himself. He was duped by his own “need to “believe”

    It is hard to ignore 20 years of “God damn AmericKKKa”, and “he was my spiritual mentor”, then he was “a crazy uncle” then he was under the bus.

    The he was not under the bus, then he was…

    Just like Ayers was a “just a guy from the neighborhood” and Rezko was some one “I did 5 hours of work for” …

    Tell your friend to do his homework.

  • Kevin

    looks like this one got the “b-squad” trolls
    not exactly the best and brightest we’ve seen

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    *haha….

    Can’t stand Kobe myself. Arrogant and got whupped.

    But I don’t say that out loud here.

  • Kevin

    mu mu

  • BluDawg

    Poor Poor Obama, you can’t have that tape now.

    You must wait until after August.

    Don’t have a tantrum, Okie Doakie!

  • Dee

    Anyone who wants to t-bag Larry has his own gender preference issues. You can get help for that.

  • peter pentagram made too many enemies

    Actually, he’s got closeted homosexual trying to cover by marrying an Asian wife, as she won’t suspect I’m gay as easily an American woman would, yet,” written all over him.

    Ah, the life of a you tuber…

  • Kevin

    ubuntu

  • BluDawg
  • blueasthesky

    If you want to see YouTube videos with a dial-up connection, you can. You just have to wait a while for the video to download.

    Click the Play button (the little rightward-pointing triangle/arrowhead in the lower left). The triangle will change to two vertical bars, the Pause button. Now click that.

    Then you have to wait for the red bar to crawl all the way across the bottom of the YouTube window. How long this takes will depend on When it does, click the Play button again and you can watch.

  • KG

    He has been raising his children in a church of which he has no idea what the fundamentals of their theology are? Will he do the same for Americans? Will he take us down a path which he has know idea what the fundamentals are?

    This is pure inexperience and the lack of a desire to go down a path to doing the right things.

  • alexei

    This Obama follower is being recalled for reprogramming. The Puppet Police will be here shortly to pick up this malfunctioning Obamabot.

  • Aka

    Sure, I can envision it, so why not start a rumor about it too?

    Maybe some bitter pathetic suckers will actually believe it. You can say it’s hidden with the “Whitey” tape next to the Iraqi WMDs and LJ’s credibility and you’ll post more about it next week. EXPLOSIVE stuff indeed!

  • BluDawg
  • peter pentagram made too many enemies

    Astroturf doesn’t care, it might put on a show, all kabuki, but it doesn’t care about anything other than the agenda of those who pay, whether it be Soros, or some wealthy republican kook.

    That’s it’s purpose, a false front, false wallpaper if you will.

    Moevon’s actions dont match it’s words.

  • Betty

    He said ‘there ya go, my gift to you” and my response was spontaneous – “God bless you, thank you”.

    I hope you read this.

  • hats

    It still is SOOOOOO easy to turn a blind eye on the INCONVINIENT TRUTH of BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA.

    Goodness gracious. Why it would be work for mainstream media to bring forth the plain facts.

    Quite a painful admission for those most vested. And most hurtful of revelations for the laced koolaid crowd in perennial denial.

  • peter pentagram made too many enemies

    The media school, downtown, on Michigan Ave?

    It was called Columbia, right?

    Had a friend who studied engineering, there, audio engineering, (for recording studios…)

  • BluDawg
  • Kevin

    His link to the collective is damaged and he cannot hear the voices of the others.

  • Teakwood

    Ask BO or MO, they are the ones who would know about it.

    I mean really, when MO has trouble getting to sleep at night, does she count sheeple or “whities”…

    Or just wonder how pathetic her husband is?

    And would some one please tell me WHY, on national TV, MO would insult her husband so easily? The words were spoken without reflection on their impact. So if you ask me …she has no compunction about letting it rip. It’s not butter MO it’s Parkay!

  • peter pentagram made too many enemies

    Thank you, Kevin…

  • hats

    It is easy to sell your soul to the devil when adulation is all you seek.

    Doing the right thing is waaaaaaay too hard for him.

  • Loyal Eagle

    Great video. Excellent point: Obama supporters have no reason to support or even believe Obama, making his followers nothing more than members of a cult.

    I think Hillary is stuck in a position of having to (at least appear to) support Obama. I would LOVE to see her switch parties and run against Obama.

  • BluDawg

    I see the Internet Cafe in Gaza is open this evening
    ;)

  • Teakwood

    We’ve got cows!

  • StrawberrybitesBarky

    Aka, tell me, why should the GOP release the tape now when Barky could still be side stepped by the Super delegates? Please answer honestly. If you were the GOP when would you release the tape?

  • Kevin

    and this is important because?

    Oh, I get it.
    A teacher.

    Like I am supposed to be impressed by you?

    Big deal

    Go grade some papers

  • Betty

    Gosh, he lied right to our faces, remember – maybe 5 hours of work for Rezko – stood right there on national television and lied to the the citizens of the United States. History will not be his friend.

  • Aka

    Okie Doakie.
    August now is it?
    OK sure, why not?
    Like Jesse said, “Keep hope alive!”.

  • pasmalltowngirl

    Great post, thx. I have watched all of BIgticer’s video’s. They are all worth watching. here is a link to his YouTube page.

    http://www.youtube.com/user/bigticer

  • BluDawg

    Breaking News

    Obama to Jacksonville,

    “did I mention I’m Black”

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

  • http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html Hillary’sSimplytheBest

    yawn … it’s called the “koolaid effect” which can block weaker minded humans ability to reason properly.

  • Kevin

    no problem, remember the simpsons episode where homer works from home, gets much fatter, and starts wearing a mu mu?

  • Teakwood

    Not before you do BO ok?

  • StrawberrybitesBarky

    Damn. You are a thickie.

  • Teakwood

    Moveout.org

  • DirOfTheObv

    Thanks for this video!

    Here is a suggestion of ground to cover. What do you say to Mr. Charles Steele, quoted in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, as saying that the reason Michelle Obama gets treated differently from her husband is because she has SLAVE BLOOD and he does not?

    Here’s a link to it:
    http://www.ajc.com/search/content/news/stories/2008/06/21/gabeo.html

    Remarks appear in the final three paragraphs of the article.

  • Destardi

    1)You’re not addressing the points that are valid and credible

    2)This post isn’t about the “whitey tape.”

    3)You CAN’T address facts/reality, because…you’re an obamabushbot authoritarian.

    Congratulations! Thank God I’m not like you.

  • DirOfTheObv

    NAFTA FLIP FLOP:

    FLIP FLOP!!!! Obama LIES. Yes LIES. And he is totally unashamed of doing it. He will tell you he does in so many words…..

    Like in the latest Fortune Magazine article where he explains what he really thinks about NAFTA.

    Totally contradicts what he told the voter’s of WI, OH, PA etc. And his statements completely mirror verbatim the accusations the Canadians, earlier this spring, told the MSM. Namely, that his aides told them not to worry about what Obama said about NAFTA on the campaign trail, that it was just rhetoric: (below described by John Nichols of The Nation http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/330911#comments)

    “Obama’s interview with Fortune magazine — headlined “Obama: NAFTA Not So Bad After All” — is the best news the McCain camp has received since Mike Huckabee folded his run for the Republican nomination.

    If Obama takes the economic issue that white working-class voters best understand off the table, he creates a huge opening for McCain in states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

    And that is precisely what the Democrat cynically dismisses his appropriately anti-NAFTA rhetoric during the primary season as “overheated and amplified.”

    In her interview with the candidate, Fortune’s Nina Easton reminded Obama that earlier this year he had called NAFTA “devastating” and “a big mistake” and suggested that he would use an opt-out clause in the trade agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico to demand changes that would be more favorable to workers and farmers in all three countries.

    Obama replied that, “Sometimes during campaigns the rhetoric gets overheated and amplified” — which would have been enough of an indication that he was backing off the stance that contributed significantly to his success in the February 19 Wisconsin primary that proved to be a critical turning point for his campaign.

    But the presumptive Democratic nominee for president dug the hole deeper.

    “Politicians are always guilty of that, and I don’t exempt myself,” he continued, suggesting that those who doubted his sincerity when he denounced NAFTA in a speech to Janesville, Wisconsin, autoworkers might have been right. ”

    So yes…Obama Lies….he knows what he’s saying is NOT where he stands, but he’s saying it anyway….that’s a LIE….and he is NOT ASHAMED OF DOING IT.

    That IS “Audacious”!!!

    Were you counting on him on FISA? …Guess again.
    Were you counting on him on Public Financing? …Guess again.
    Are you counting on him on the war? …?

    WAKE UP People! How do you know what he’s telling you he’s for. and going to do. is IN FACT what he will be for. or what he will do. when in office?

    VOTE AT YOUR OWN RISK FOR OBAMA!

  • jwrjr

    Neither McCain nor Clinton say anything about Obama being 1/2 Black, so he has to bring it up. Sorta tells you who is the real racist, doesn’t it?

  • Destardi

    change?

    What change? Using homophobic slurs is change?

    You expose you and your dear leader puppet for what he is…

    Human garbage.

    “I attended that church for 20 years…but I never inhaled.”

  • missE

    Columbia College is on Michigan Ave. I went there in the 80s. I studied advertising and marketing.
    I now work in the movie business.

    Axelrod is giving America a master class on smoke and mirrors.

  • DirOfTheObv

    I don’t see why not…a bunch of black people are voting for Obama cuz he’s black!

  • josgirl

    Don’t need it anymore.

  • memyself&i

    How would you know, and why should it matter? It does not makes what he says less important or true.

  • DirOfTheObv
  • Will Smith

    When a political opponent tells you “Get over it” — NEVER GET OVER IT.

  • Aka

    Yeah, I’m just an intramural troll now but I’m practicing on the weekends in hopes of trying out for the varsity troll team later on in the election season.

    Keep your fingers crossed for me!

  • http://obamafact.blogspot.com/ Mel

    Simplest answer is:

    I might be a racist today, but you will be forever stupid!

  • josgirl

    “I’m not racist, I have black children.”
    Works whether you do or not, no matter what color you are.

  • missE

    “Why are they attacking Michelle Obama, first lady Michelle Obama,

    Mr. Steele must think Obama’s Presidential seal is real.

  • http://home.comcast.net/~vincep312 Vince P

    It drives me nuts when that asshole (Omessiah) says we haven’t talked to Iran… Europe and the US has been groveling hat in hand to Iran for a decade now.

    It’s humiliating.

  • not bitter

    Barrow is just up Obama’s a**. God, what a manipulating idiot!

    How did it become so fashionable to suddenly want to lift up African Americans over Asians, Hispanic, Other minority American? Give me a BREAK!

  • Jeff Dahmer

    I’m not racist, I eat black children.

  • not bitter

    typo: Americans

  • Kevin

    Amusing that Alper posts “I Teach at Columbia” and poof, disappears. Real impressive display there teacher, wow us with your cv and vanish. Guess what? My dad is an educator, has a PhD too. He’s still a pompous a-hole. Just like barfly

  • not bitter

    ajc article is badly written…

    my bad….stupid comments by Steele, not Barrow, but Barrow is guilty by omitting to counter such cr**!

  • http://Txdi Dianne Villarreal

    Thank you for the information. Will do!
    Can’t wait see it and others.

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

    She got what she deserved.

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

    …and if anybody tried to ask him questions, he redirected, rerouted and changed the subject. If that didn’t work he used the race card.

  • Obama is a bum

    I agree that Obama is the racist. Obama wants to hide this fact plus he has nothing to offer, so all Obama people are just trying to create a diversion by playing the race card against those who oppose him.

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

    With no shorts underneath.

  • http://www.obama-wire.com D

    Great points (especially the 20 yr one)

    http://www.obama-wire.com

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

    That’s not the church I knew!

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

    You certainly are well spoken.

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

    He’s going to stick it in Moveon’s nose. Not that they don’t deserve it but he doesn’t think he really needs them much anymore.

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

    Sunday is always C Stringers.

  • Steven Mather

    Mr. Apter,

    I accept that people can choose Obama in good conscience, given that no candidate can be all things to all people and we all live imperfect lives. I try to appreciate why people make their choices and I’m interested in your perspective on Obama’s decision to reject public financing. What do you think of his justification? I promise not to tee off. I’m interested in listening.

    Yours,
    Steven

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

    I was a teacher once. Then I moved to the real world.

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

    Site pimp. It’s getting old.

  • Kevin

    It’s the implied “I’m smarter than you” thing. Arrogant.
    Not to degrade teaching as a profession, but the presumption of “Watch this, I’ll impress the little people with my education” just ticks me off. Guess I had too many arrogant, know it all profs who want mindless agreement as opposed to enlightened debate.
    I must have gotten that bias from dealing with my father, insists on being addressed as doctor.
    With a freaking EdD!!!

  • prabhata

    Obama is a liar.

    from the Politico http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/just-what-did-o.html

    But according to a New York Times story from a year ago, the Obama campaign dis-invited Wright from delivering a public invocation at Obama’s candidacy announcement.

    “Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack,” Wright told the Times. “One of his members had talked him into uninviting me.”

    In a phone call with Wright, Obama cited a Rolling Stone story, “The Radical Roots of Barack Obama,” (the name of which has curiously been changed on the RS website) and told him, according to Wright, “You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.”

  • KG

    I’m thinking someone just got outed.

  • Annagain

    Great video. I am very distressed to see that David Axelrod and Co. and Obama play the race card at every turn to advantage themselves politically.

    They are doing a devastating disservice to the very people in the wonderful community they are pretending to protect.

  • Poor White

    Voting for Obama and hoping for change is similar to winninig a powerball lottery ..

    Cannot gamble on this guy

  • wac for hillary

    Practice squad.

  • obamaphobe

    Please humor me, take a moment and go to http://www.truthintheword.org, then go to the second blog titled “Freaky Obama Art”. Once there, click on “Read and See all about it here”. Once you click on that, it of course, talks about Obama’s new presidential seal, but read further, check out his poster, and the artist. Then go to below that to comment #50, read what this guy says, then click on the link within that comment regarding the “jonathan levine gallery”, and you will see something very familiar. Very frightening stuff.

  • wac for hillary

    Sometimes I think he’s told so many lies, he doesn’t know how to tell the truth any more. Plus, it’s so much easier to lie since his buddies in the media aren’t going to call him on it.

  • obamaphobe

    Sorry, try word.truthintheword.org.

  • Linda K

    thank you for the video. I know I’ve posted this before, but if we could all contact our M.C. and ask them to check into Senator Obama’s birth certificate to see if it is authentic. I mentioned setting precedents, and how the California governor would love to run for the presidency. Anyway, if we send enough emails to enough M.C. someone surely would be willing to check it out for us.

  • NoBO

    I’ve seen some of his videos before and bigticer is terrific! There’s a whole series of them:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nu48TgUVCo

    Just click: More from: bigticer.

  • Kevin

    Thanks, after years of blocking the visual out, you have to bring it back to forefront of my mind

  • Kevin

    NBADL-where the undrafted go before playing in europe

  • Kevin

    He’s buggered off. he left a link. go there if you want to take the risk.

  • obamaphobe

    If that doesn’t work, go to http://michellemalkin.com and click on “The Obamessiah’s Deep Humility Shines Through in his New Seal”, read the full story, then go to Comment # 50 and click on the link within that. Ya’ll gotta see this.

  • citizenjane

    MO wanted coffee, got tea. Whyyyy tea?
    Drank the coffee, spilled it on her white tee.

  • zerostress

    Maybe some bitter pathetic suckers will actually believe it. You can say it’s hidden with the “Whitey” tape next to the Iraqi WMDs and LJ’s credibility

    LJ’s credibility is pretty far gone. The “Whitey Tape” and back in 2001, an op-ed in the New York Times where he wrote that America had nothing to fear from terrorists 2 months before 9/11 !

  • Bonita

    Wow! Obama must have upped the payment rate to his trolls. They are out in force tonight with their little empty comments.

    Why do you continue to bring up the “Whitey” tape trolls? No one here wasn’t even talking about it but you can’t help yourselves.

    Don’t you want to comment on public financing or FISA?

  • Mandelay

    How do you like this article from tomorrow’s “Salon” site. I guess they really believe we’re going to “fall in” like good soldiers and march Obama to victory. “History proves…” this article reminds us. Well, let’s make a different kind of history. Make your vote count on Election Day — make it count to keep Barack Obama out of office.

    (begin quote)”Why Clinton voters will come back to the fold
    Don’t worry about those angry Hillary supporters who say they’ll vote for McCain or stay home in November. History proves they’ll vote for Obama.
    By Walter Shapiro

    June 23, 2008 | As an empty threat, it ranks right up there with “Eat your spinach now or your mother and I won’t pay for college” or even George W. Bush’s taunting promise to get Osama bin Laden “dead or alive.” During the post-primary news lull, ardent Hillary Clinton supporters have managed to linger in the spotlight with their over-hyped warnings that they intend to sit on their hands or even bolt to John McCain if they are not wooed and won over by Barack Obama.

    Now that the Obama campaign has announced that the Democratic victor and his vanquished foe will campaign together on Friday, brace yourself for the frenzied over-analysis of every sound bite of banter, every muscle twitch of body language during the Barack-and-Hillary show. The dominant story line — and you can almost see the newspaper headlines and the crawl running across the bottom of TV screens — is guaranteed to be (envision the furrowed brows of the on-air pundits): Was the joint appearance enough to win over the hardcore Hillary holdouts?

    The answer is an obvious “yes” unless Obama starts channeling his inner Rush Limbaugh by ranting about “feminazis.” Despite the efforts of Clinton activists like clothing entrepreneur Susie Tompkins Buell to highlight feminist grievances with the nomination process, the truth is that the Clintonites really have no alternative but to toe the party line. And there is a strong presumption among political scientists — based on a landmark study from the 1970s and buttressed by statistical analyses of polling data from other presidential elections — that voters rarely carry resentments from the primaries into the voting booths in November.

    So after a nomination fight without an overriding issue, there is absolutely no ideological reason — beyond ruffled feelings — for, say, college-educated feminist voters to vote Republican. As Monika McDermott, a political science professor and pollster at the University of Connecticut, puts it, “If the history of the past 20 years of voting has shown us anything, it is that women are more likely to vote Democratic and these particular [pro-Hillary] women are hardcore Democrats. They will get over how Hillary was treated very quickly when they realize that the alternative to Obama is John McCain.”

    Pre-convention polling tends to magnify the potential for defections because the standard “if the election were held today …” question asks voters to jump ahead of reality and imagine their behavior at the end of an arduous campaign in November. For example, an ABC News/Washington Post Poll last week found that 24 percent of the Democrats who backed Clinton prefer McCain over Obama. But these numbers will certainly decline as base Democrats gravitate to their party’s nominee with increasing enthusiasm. “You are asking people to tell what they’re going to do six months from now and the circumstances of six months down the road aren’t present,” says Lonna Atkeson, a political science professor at the University of New Mexico. “So you’re asking them to base their decision six months from now on the data that they have today. And that’s very hypothetical and unrealistic.”

    Atkeson is a strong proponent of the counterintuitive theory that a fractious presidential primary fight actually ends up helping a political party because it increases turnout and mobilizes more activists. And she has found a consistent pattern over the past three decades that the vast majority of voters do not abandon their party just because their favorite candidate lost the nomination. A statistical analysis of 1984 polling data by Atkeson found that by the time of the Democratic Convention former supporters of Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson had a significantly more positive opinion of Walter Mondale, now that he was their party’s nominee, than during the primaries. But Atkeson’s most persuasive evidence comes by way of an academic researcher who in 1976 polled the same group of voters (in Los Angeles and Erie, Pa.) six times from the early primaries to the November election to see how their candidate preferences evolved.

    This kind of repetitive polling is a rarity akin to finding a unicorn in your backyard. Luckily, 1976 was the perfect year to test what happens to sore-loser voters after the primaries since there were vigorous nomination fights in both parties. Despite a scorched-earth primary battle between President Jerry Ford and conservative challenger Ronald Reagan on the Republican side and widespread Democratic doubts about Jimmy Carter, the data demonstrated an unequivocal picture of party loyalty as the ties that ultimately bind in November.

    Atkeson used this treasure trove of polling data to see whether voters who had initially backed one of the losing 1976 Democrats (such as Scoop Jackson and Mo Udall) in the primaries changed their assessment of Carter after he became the de facto nominee. As Atkeson writes in an unpublished paper, “Differences between the winner and loser backer groups [in the primaries] began to decline sharply in August after both party conventions … In October, during the heart of the general election period, winning and losing Democratic factions had become very similar in their evaluations of Carter.” The same pattern emerged on the GOP side in 1976, despite the stark differences between Ford and Reagan, both ideologically and stylistically. Atkeson noted that while Carter’s popularity among Democrats increased during the campaign, “Reagan supporters showed an even more dramatic improvement in their overall evaluation of Ford.”

    A common theory is that disgruntled voters, troubled by the direction of their party, end up staying home in November. But with a record-smashing 36 million Democrats voting in the presidential primaries, this is not shaping up as a political year in which anyone will neglect to vote because, say, Whole Foods was having a sale on organic olive oil that day. “If there is a demographic group that isn’t going to vote, it certainly isn’t the hardcore Hillary types who score highly on all the indicators of likely voting,” says Bill Mayer, a political scientist at Northeastern University.

    What gets trickier to fathom is whether Obama will feel that political considerations demand that he pick Clinton as his running mate. The ABC News/Washington Post Poll found that a Barack-Hillary ticket would be a wash, with as many voters attracted (23 percent) by the notion as repelled (22 percent). But perhaps the most revealing number in the survey was the 52 percent who said that tapping Clinton would not have any bearing on how they planned to vote. As Atkeson puts it, “I always go with the data and there is just no data that says that vice-presidential candidates make a difference.”

    Party unity is never total — and there certainly are blue-collar Democrats who opted for Clinton in the primaries because she was a placeholder for their qualms about Obama. But for over-the-hill-with Hillary voters, passionate about the notion of a woman president or beguiled by all things Clinton, there will be no dramatic renunciation scene in their political future. Virtually all of them will be voting for Obama, whether they know it now or not. For a political party is a bit like Motel Six, where there is always a light on to guide errant voters home in the dark.”(end quote)

  • http://divinedem.blogspot.com Mary Ellen

    What happened to the video, they say it’s no longer available? Is YouTube in the Obama camp, too?

  • standard

    Good Video! Well spoken.

  • Perry Logan

    One wonders who they’re trying to convince.

  • Scully

    Awesome video. Thanks!

  • John Rigman

    So I’m guessing that you posted this video because some black guy is saying all the stuff you wish you could say without being called a racist? This guy should name his series house nigga talking points.

  • kat in your hat

    Good video!

    I subscribed to him.

    It’s true. They are a cult.

    :(

  • PragmatismRules

    obama is still an incompetent unqualified fraud. deal with it. the tape would just be icing on the pile of sh*t named barack hussein obama.

  • PragmatismRules

    larry sinclair indicated that bambi might be one, too. so what if he is?

  • PragmatismRules

    A MESSAGE TO OBAMA SUPPORTERS FROM THEIR FEARFUL LEADER:

    “So many suckers, so very little time.”
    - – - Barack Hussein Obama, June 20, 2008.

  • http://firefox AnnieCarmel

    If he could go to TUCC for 20 years and not be aware of Black Liberation Theology being taught there, then he’d be too stupid to even be a legislator much less President.

  • PragmatismRules

    you are an idiot (are you related to barack)?

  • PragmatismRules

    try again (click the arrow at the bottom); that happens to me sometimes too

  • http://firefox AnnieCarmel

    She can’t help herself. She is too used to wanting to be “right” and using her anger to try to overpower other opinions. Putting him down is a way to attempt to elevate herself. She uses a sort of false intimacy (speaking to a group of women and confides in them regarding his personal habits..not organized, can’t pick his socks, snores, stinky)all under the guise of convincing them he’s Everyman and not elitist at all. After all that’s the word from Michelle. Then on national TV, she slips (again, girlfriend talk) and calls him pathetic while she’s there as the star. She initiates the fist bump on stage…look kids we maybe in our 40′s but we’re really one of you. She had to follow that up on The View because she’s arrogant and must be right. It made Barbara Walters look ridiculous. She has issues upon issues. Even Oprah’s finishing school won’t take off those rough edges.

  • http://firefox AnnieCarmel

    muu muu

  • weltec2

    If it does exist, Rove strategically waited for Hillary to be harrassed into submission by the Democratic leadership and is now saving it for October. That will be the final nail in the Obama coffin.

    Personally though, I don’t believe it exists. I think the RNC just put out the rumor to distract discontented Dems.

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    Betty…..that one shocked me, too.

    big one!

  • roseeriter

    Think of the symbolic image of Larry Sinclair giving Obama a BJ, white doing black.. I think that says volumes, subservient behaviour.

    Most of us girls understand that power game. Very different scenario when done out of love or done out of power/control issues…

  • ame

    Rev. Wright was my turning point as far as Obama support goes. Anyone who holds a divisive pastor in such high regard for more than 20 years has extremely flawed values.

  • Elle

    Larry,

    This blog is better than this – this post is very offensive, especially to Asians.

    Peter pentagram, surely you can make your point without this racial slur.

  • JP49

    You know I’m still worried about the DNC move to Chicago. By now most Arab countries probably have our information. Of course the Chicago machine is probably making good use of our information as well. It seems like an uphill battle and I think if the republicans are actually going to wait until after the convention in August they may be shooting themselves in the foot. I personally can never vote for Obama he is everything I despise and then some. But if McCain is to have any chance of overcoming the Messiah (sorry about spelling) the republicans better start throwing down now.

  • Erasmus

    Shapiro obviously never heard of the ‘Reagan democrats’.

  • rjj

    Shapiro must be working for McCain.

    But for over-the-hill-with Hillary voters, passionate about the notion of a woman president or beguiled by all things Clinton, there will be no dramatic renunciation scene in their political future. Virtually all of them will be voting for Obama, whether they know it now or not. For a political party is a bit like Motel Six, where there is always a light on to guide errant voters home in the dark.”

    This makes McCain look better and better. Shapiro is a leaping screaming hopping-up-and-down fool.

  • http://www.TheOtherDemocrats.com FloridaDem

    I’ve just started watching the series – this guy has nailed it. Clearly we all know much of this but, I like the way he’s done his research.

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