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David Gergen on the Maliki “Leak”

By SusanUnPC on July 22, 2008 at 11:27 AM in Barack Obama, Iraq, Media

“…Barack Obama made the first mistake of his trip, in my judgment, in releasing a statement in which he said exactly what Maliki had said in those conversations. We have a long tradition in this country that we only have one president at a time. He’s the commander in chief and the negotiator in chief. I cannot remember a campaign which a rival seeking the presidency has been in a position negotiating a war that’s under way with another party outside the country.”

– David Gergen, CNN’s AC 360, July 21, 2008

I have complete confidence that Hillary Clinton would have the judgment not to release such remarks or place herself “in a position negotiating a war that’s under way with another party outside the country.”

  • BytheBeardofZeus

    The Junior Senator from Illinois will now negotiate Troop withdrawls with foreign leaders???

    Press fluff at eleven.

    • s. hall

      bythebeardofzeus

      I guess Obama was too busy being trained by an Executive Training Firm as to how to look President to actually look at our Constitution. I think Bush has been quite patient with the candidate in chief. Maliki said — I spoke with Bush last Friday and we negotiated a deal and I am satisfied. About Obama he said that Obama should come back when we learns more.

  • Can’t stand crybabies.

    He is brilliant and I hope that his brilliance keeps on giving. Before November please!

    • don tufts

      what planet did you come from?he makes 6th grade stupid remarks almost everyday.he is not yet the president ,god forbib ,he is not even the official nominee yet.he proves he is dangerous and full of himself by his actions,i for one dont want him anywhere near the football!

      • Can’t stand crybabies.

        Sarcasm! I think that the creep is a toad! I love it when he screws up.

        • Can’t stand crybabies.

          I hope he gives the fool-aid drinkers a whooper on his world tour. I can only pray that his next screw up is of biblical proportion. Perhaps, the fool-aid drinkers will be shaken.

          • Northwest rain

            Your whinner/messiah also known as snObama is a threat to National Security — an so are his cult members.

            Thankfully snObama will lose in Nov. and then hopefully he will go to jail after Rezko starts spilling all the details of how Obama was involved in the Pay offs etc.

            In other words Obama is one of the crookedest politicians to try to snag the office of Prez — since never.

            Now go away baby — your mom needs to change your diaper — you STINK.

            PUMA

            • Can’t stand Obama crybabies.

              He is not my messiah…I know he is a threat. I worked for HRC during the primaries.
              I changed my sign in so I would not be mistaken for a bot.
              He is evil incarnate. This is actually playing out to become a scarier version of POTUS than Stephen King could come up with.

          • hillarysmygirl

            I got your sarcasm…

    • Judge Judy

      Na, he’s THE CANDY COLORED CLOWN THEY CALL THE SANDMAN.

      • Judge Judy

        The Sandman

        “The Lord of Dreams learns one must change or die and then makes his decision.”

    • http://www.belltoll.com belltoll

      Are you sure he knows he is running for President? During his press conference in Jordan, where Chicago News Network (CNN) did not air the questions of the reporters-only Obama’s answers, he kept refering to himself as WE. I felt this to be reminiscent of a Kingship and not a PRESIDENCY!

      • Tuppence 411

        Ahhh yes. The royal “We”. Only works well for Monarchs and Popes since no one thinks they are talking about themselves when they say “we”.

        One of the most ineffective (and lazy a$$) bosses I ever had used “we” when he spoke of his grand plans. Nothing ever got done. No one ever knew what the hell they were suppose to do to move the ball forward. Does “we” mean the boss will do it? Does “we” mean I should start on it? Does “we” mean Bob? Does “we” mean Kathy?
        We figured out real quick “we” just meant he was bullshitting. ALL TALK, NO ACTION REQUIRED.

      • Northwest rain

        There are man signs that Obama is not right in the head (batshit crazy) — he speaks of himself in the third person — not good.

        And then the royal “WE” or his head is populated with lots of other wacky nuts.

        PUMA

    • methinks

      And once again, OBrilliance and his judgement (lack thereof) catapult him into doing things he should not be doing. My, the ego is grand! Good for the world to see immaturity in action. Certainly JMc is not strutting around like this.

    • TeakWoodKite

      You had me! :)

      It is the edge of the known universe when Sarcasm the same as some of the comments made by his supporters. Praising their god as it were.

    • Hope Floats

      That sounds like believe. “I want him so bad!” I want whatever she’s on.

    • BARB

      I don’t find a candidate is brilliant who thinks there are 58 states in the US. Compared to Obama, Bush is genius.

  • http://IthinkIfeel... Tricia Spiegel

    Obama does not seem to understand that he is not our President. In so very many ways he has shown that he is not presidential material–this is just another example. His style is of an autocratic self-proclaimed king.

    I think too many people do not realize just how fragile democracy is. I see so many cracks in it over the last 7 years–and it might fall completely apart with an Obama reign.

    • Clara Barton

      Tricia,
      Obama seems to believe (you know, “Change you can believe in”) he is the president. His mind is already there which is probably why he’s so prickly when questioned or when a reporter reminds him during questioning that he’s actually not even the nominee yet!!

      Which is it? Delusions of grandeur? Narcissism? Megalomania is the one diagnosis that seems to cover his problem.

      meg·a·lo·ma·ni·a –noun 1. Psychiatry. a symptom of mental illness marked by delusions of greatness, wealth, etc.
      2. an obsession with doing extravagant or grand things.

      “The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.” [Bertrand Russell]

      Meg`a*lo*ma”ni*a\, n. [NL., fr. megalo- + mania.] (Pathol.) A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.

      • bodemokrat

        not to be confused with michellegomaniac in
        which the subject believes the only reason a
        person could possibly have for not wanting to bask
        in the charming fuzzy glow of her personality
        is racism!

      • s. hall

        clara barton — last week Obama actually said — when I was a Senator. Delusions of Grandeur for sure.

        • barack who?

          Delusions of grandeur is a very polite way of stating something far more serious as it applies to his ability to run his own campaign, let alone the country:

          This man has a fragile hold on reality.
          I’ve seen the posts that refer to his “mental illness”, and trust me, that is not a subject I take lightly. However with each passing day it becomes clearer why he has such a shield of protection around him. He is not in touch with the real world, clearly he depends on the coaching of his handlers and advisers, and someday, hopefully before Denver, Mr. Accident Waiting to Happen will go BOOM.

          • Clara Barton

            Sure would like to see his campaign Go Boom before Denver. Believe me, I did not make that mental illness post above in jest. This is nothing to joke about. In his little, twisted mind, he’s already living in the WH.

      • chezmadame

        Here’s a differential diagnoses:

        Narcissistic Personality Disorder

        An all-pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behaviour), need for admiration or adulation and lack of empathy, usually beginning by early adulthood and present in various contexts. Five (or more) of the following criteria must be met:

        1. Feels grandiose and self-important (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents to the point of lying, demands to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)

        2. Is obsessed with fantasies of unlimited success, fame, fearsome power or omnipotence, unequalled brilliance (the cerebral narcissist), bodily beauty or sexual performance (the somatic narcissist), or ideal, everlasting, all-conquering love or passion

        3. Firmly convinced that he or she is unique and, being special, can only be understood by, should only be treated by, or associate with, other special or unique, or high-status people (or institutions)

        4. Requires excessive admiration, adulation, attention and affirmation – or, failing that, wishes to be feared and to be notorious (narcissistic supply)

        5. Feels entitled. Expects unreasonable or special and favorable priority treatment. Demands automatic and full compliance with his or her expectations

        6. Is “interpersonally exploitative”, i.e., uses others to achieve his or her own ends

        7. Devoid of empathy. Is unable or unwilling to identify with or acknowledge the feelings and needs of others

        8. Constantly envious of others or believes that they feel the same about him or her

        9. Arrogant, haughty behaviours or attitudes coupled with rage when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted

        Source:
        American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition. Text Revision (DSM IV-TR). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

      • squeazzy

        Megalomania? or may be he knows that he’s going to be the prez. He knows this because of his “friends”. Friends that are helping him a lot. I think this is the big, big problem. Like he told to Rendell “you know I’m going to be the nominee”

      • bemused

        He is not right–his actions are inconsistent. Think part might be his messing with his nicotine habit, or whatever condition makes his lips and gums so blue like chronic O2 deficiency. His gaffes usually come from inserting the wrong words (facts are words) into a sort of pat speech that doesn’t say too much. And if they are Freudian slips, hmm. This one about ethnic cleansing, for instance:
        http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/

  • lorelynn

    well, I do remember a time when a campaign negotiated the release of hostages held by a hostile government.

    Still, Obama is not proceeding with genuine care here for the lives of people in Iraq.

    • s. hall

      lorelynn — I remember when Jesse Jackson negotiated for Hostages. However, we have one President whose is our Commander in Chief. No presumptive nominee should be allowed to make Foreign Policy for this country. As I recall Hillary told Obama the same thing at one of their debates.

      • lorelynn

        I was talking about Reagan – not Jesse Jackson. Emulating Reagan is not to Obama’s credit.

      • Nellie

        I believe this statement of lorelynn’s:

        well, I do remember a time when a campaign negotiated the release of hostages held by a hostile government.

        Was referring to the hostages taken by the Iranians during the Carter years. Carter had negotiated their release. However, Reagan/Bush I campaign negotiated a secret deal behind Carters back. So the hostages were held for another 3 months, until Reagan was sworn in.

    • churl

      Yes and Raygun was involved in dirty tricks of the worst sort– undermining a sitting president (not always a bad thing) while endangering the lives of the hostages and military forces attempting rescue– all to help elect him president. Meglamania is the topic.

      • lorelynn

        My point is that Gergen was part of the Reagan admin – he certainly knows of another instance of this happening and it is not one that is to Obama’s credit.

        Unless you think emulating Reagan is a good thing for a Obama to do – I don’t.

    • Northwest rain

      This was the way Ray-gun won — his negotiators (probably pappy Bush) to hold the hostages in Iran to make Carter look worse. And it worked — the hostages were released after Ray-gun won.

  • Hillaryfighter

    Amid fawning media over Messiah, McCain has opened up a 10 points lead in Ohio according to Rasmussen.

    John McCain has opened a modest lead over Barack Obama in the key swing state of Ohio. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the Buckeye State shows McCain attracting 46% of the vote while Obama earns 40%. Last month and the month before McCain held a insignificant one-point lead over Obama.

    Seven percent (7%) of voters say they’d prefer a third party candidate over either McCain or Obama and another 7% remain undecided.

    When “leaners” are included in the totals, McCain leads Obama 52% to 42%.

    • http://www.belltoll.com belltoll

      APPLAUSE FROM THE GALLEY’S!

      Still, it would be better if HRC takes Denver by storm.

      I saw Nancy Pelousy on TV today. She’s beginning to look a bit haggard. I say, Run TRAITORS RUN!

      • imustprotest

        This is good news about Ohio….all eyes on Ohio as McCain must get Ohio to keep Obiteme from becoming POTUS.

      • Can’t stand Obama crybabies.

        Botox can’t save her face. As they said in the Wizard of Oz, “She’s melting!”

    • barack who?

      THIS JUST IN:

      WE THE EMPEROR BARACK OBAMA POSSUMUS I has just ordered a nuclear strike on the state of Ohio.

    • ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

      BWAAAHAAAAAAA!!!

      WooT!!

    • Elizabeth Reilly

      Good lord, that must mean that Ohio is racist!!!!!!

      I seem to remember a time when Nixon (a true megalomaniac) designed new, gawdy uniforms for the house military (I don’t remember what their official designated name is) and boy, was he shot down in a red hot minute. Seems he also want a special trumpet fanfare when he entered.
      Obama is touched by the same grandiose insanity! Nero, anyone?

  • wodiej

    I agree…keep it up Obama…no one will need to bury you, you are doing it all by yourself. It is infuriating that the Republicans won’t say anything een though I know why and Democrats are just going along with it. If Obama does steal the nomination I hope to hell Hillary drops back.

    • s. hall

      wodiej — I watched as the pundits on CNN called Obama exciting while calling McCain old and disliked. It looks like they are doing to McCain what they did to Hillary. I think if Obama picks Richard Lugar to be his VP — then McCain should pick Hillary. Talk about an exciting campaign.

  • Jack

    I came across this interesting article about the Obama cult gathering in Germany: http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/07/word-torture-obama-staffers-in.html The boys advising Obama are full of it.

    To see some of the campaign literature (purchased and distributed by the Obama Camp throughout Berlin):
    1)http://www.daylife.com/photo/01G97l05tz9ed
    2)http://www.daylife.com/photo/00jU3JQddd5Rb

    This guy is so pathetic, and I absolutely abhor the media for there shitty journalistic methods that create these cult like sensations.

    http://www.obama-wire.com

  • Judy

    There have been many jokes about narcisstism. However, the more we learn about this guy – I fear he is a nut case.

    He cannot separate reality from fact – he is not the President of the United States. Yet, his arrogance goes beyond belief.

    Axelrod fits the mold of Obama too. Axelrod is without a doubt a scary character that has used deceitful tactics to win other elections.

    Could someone put out the damn truth about Obama – I am older, and for the first time I have totally turned against the media. What are they doing? This is not China!!!!!!!!!!!

    • JoseyJ

      Listening to Limbaugh now – about people turning against the media because of their adoration of The Messiah.

      • Hope Floats

        57 channels and nothing on.

  • AF catfish

    The video of Gergen, and Gloria Borger agreeing with him, is here.

  • Diana

    Well we have Farrakhan over there telling the Middle East that Allah has come to the USA and now she will be chastised. How is it Farrakhan happens to be speaking on AlJazeera TV at the same time Obama is there? This has really bothered me that I saw that interview the night before Obama began speaking with leaders there. Is Farrakhan going to be part of his cabinet? Appointed to something?

    • s. hall

      diana — I would if Farrahkan is in charge of the Brown Shirts. Obama is one scary dude.

    • Betty

      No, but there will be a whole lot of “little” deposits by the “little” people to obama’s campaign right around, say, late September. When everything is fast and furious and not easy to trace.

  • Todd Nash

    This is NOTjust a gaffe.
    NOT a simple break from tradition.
    This is a VIOLATION of role and responsibility at national scale.
    The administration needs to instruct Obama to immediately cease and decist his marketing campaign at the expense of critical national matters. The Senate must immediately reprimand this behavior.

    • Katmoon

      And, truly you know the military are being “polite”, they have only one Commander and Chief at a time; thems the rules.

      • Todd Nash

        This is really serious. Such action in any organization, any business, much less in the government of the United States, is ground for termination – FIRED!

        BO is making a circus out this country.

    • wodiej

      THEY GIVE NEW MEANING TO THE WORDS INTELLECTUALLY CHALLENGED…there is no other reasonable explanation for it. The DNC should be reining BO in. They must like to lose.

      • s. hall

        wodiej — this time I am going to help the Democrats lose. I was going to vote for the down ticket Democrats — Now I will vote a straight Republican ticket. Obama is splitting the Democratic Party and destroying our credibility around the the world with his arrogance and stupidity. Somebody needs to give Obama a time out. If the Democratic Party and the media won’t do it then the voters will.

        • ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

          moi aussi!!!

          (me too!)

        • brodie

          watakushi, mo! (me, too)I’ll vote against every Dem. who voted for FISA. They must be punished- goodness knows, we all are by this monumental thievery of our primary by this idiotic megalomaniac.

  • Andrew

    Barack Obama’s fundraising number fraud. The FEC reports that Obama only made around $28 million in June. Where did the rest of the money go?

    • JoseyJ

      We were told it was $50M for June!

      Do you have a link to the FEC numbers?

      • Andrew

        It is on the FEC site. I just picked this up on another blog. They are really confused because the numbers don’t add up. Something fishy is going on.

        • ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

          I heard a 25 Mill donation dropped on the last day..what an amazing coinkydink!

          lying sacks of sxxt

          BIG MAC beat him fundraising in June, and they ‘fixed’ it…

    • http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

      50 million showed up on the last day of June. Isn’t that nice?

      Gotta love that oil money.

    • Katmoon

      Maybe had to pay for some of that fundraiser held in China in June for him.

      Obama Campaign Plans Fundraisers in China
      By Matthew Mosk Posted at 3:14 PM ET on Jun 10, 2008
      Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are in the midst of a fundraising binge, and it appears there is nowhere the two White House hopefuls won’t go in search of dough.
      Next week, the Obama campaign will hold two fundraising events in China.

  • NoTrollZone

    What exactly does O-bitsy-bitsy-baby have to do for the intellectually and ethically challenged msm to stop using him as a masturbation post?

    • wodiej

      LOL…good one…

    • Idiocracy08

      LMAO!!! Sad, but true!

    • Bye bye Obambi

      I needed that laugh. Thank you.

  • maggie

    I am getting really frightened now. This guy leaves me speechless. What if he really becomes POTUS? The thought of it makes me physically ill. He seems so shameless that nothing will stop him –PURE PATHOLOGY!!!!

    • http://www.belltoll.com belltoll

      Read the Declaration of Independence:

      ‘That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.’

      I’m thinking its time for a D.C. Tea Party if obama gets in. Of course through his support of FISA, he has forseen this posibility.

      • wodiej

        Let the Tea Party preparations begin!

  • pew

    This is a real scary video, of Farrakhan I found. He say’s the words Get Over It,and Change,Change Change.
    Is this where Obama’s is getting his information?SCARY..

    http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=9319375

  • Andrew

    Obama says troops didn’t help in Iraq. Gives credit to tribesmen in Iraq. Says surge was bad idea. Promises to send 7,000 troops to Afghanistan.

    • beebop

      Maybe he meant he’s sending 7,000 tribesmen to Afghanistan?

  • Idiocracy08

    David Gergen must be a racist! :)

    I saw that last night, and also heard the other person say this:

    GLORIA BORGER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: You know, it’s very interesting.

    I do agree with David. And Candy, in her earlier piece, talked about walking the fine line between being this candidate and being presumptuous. And I think that he may just have crossed that, because, you know, it is a tradition. You don’t talk about these private conversations.

    And it’s not up to Barack Obama right now to negotiate troop withdrawals. It’s up to Barack Obama to be on a fact-finding mission, which is indeed what he has said he was on.

    ya think?

    I hate the war. I hate that we ever invaded Iraq. I want us out yesterday. My focus isn’t on winning or losing the war. However, we have to finish what we started. And if Obama thinks it’s okie dokie to pull out our combat troops and there is suddenly peace in Iraq, he’s crazy. He supports having residual troops there. I don’t like the idea of a small number of troops over there (residual or not) when the situation is still so volatile. Judas Richardson (in my opinion) had the best idea IF you are going to pull out…no residual troops.

    And then they tell us McCain WANTS to be there for another 100 years. I heard an Obama supporter on CNN saying that again today. she said McCain wants to stay there for 100 years, or a 1000 years. I never heard him say he wanted to. I thought Obama supporters were supposed to be the more educated bunch. But they seem to think that you can live for over 100 (now 1000) years. And they obviously think you can be president for that long too.

    • http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

      Barack Obama wants to put a target on our foreheads so Osama Bin Forgotten can see us better.

      • s. hall

        Uppity Woman — The Manchurian Candidate’s batteries have passed their sell by date. Senator Obama — A CLOSED MOUTH GATHERS NO FOOT.

  • MarkL

    Gergen is a lying ass.
    What about Nixon in 1968, or Reagan negotiating with the Iranian hostage takers in 1980?
    Both of those were much worse actions. In fact, Nixon’s meddling led to the war being prolonged and millions more deaths.
    If Obama is meddling–and I think he is—-he is only following the lead of a long line of Republicans. Of course, since I think Obama really IS a Republican, that doesn’t surprise me.

    • Idiocracy08

      You know, I told someone that I thought Obama’s agenda is really to bring the AA’s over to the republican party. Nothing to back it up, just the same gut feeling I got back in 2000 about Bush and ruining the world!

    • s. hall

      Markl — We have one President/Commander in Chief. He is the one who makes Foreign Policy. We are involved in 2 wars — we cannot have a novice making his own policy. He needs to shut up and listen for a change.

  • Nader Rox

    Politico claims fauxbama “aced” the press conference; hard for me to tell since the question part was MUTED, and all I heard was a testy fauxbama answering on, and on…he even sniped at Mitchell “how many questions DO you have Andrea?”

    • beebop

      Pissing off Andrea? GOOD. Maybe she’ll pull her head out of her ass. They’ve all been treating him with kid gloves. Please piss off Andrea Mitchell. She has panties older than BO. Please piss off Andrea. Get her good and mad. Please.

  • Lifelong Dem for McCain

    David Gergen almost choked before he made the statement, apologetically saying he was now going to sound “contrarian.” Contrarian? A prominent political pundit and regular commentator in the mainstream media now has to apologize in advance for making one statement critical of Barack Obama? This is ludicrous, folks. Obama is not even a presidential NOMINEE, but he already thinks he’s the president. He knows nothing about foreign policy, but he has infinite confidence in his brand-spanking new foreign policy “credentials.” More dangerous than the man who knows nothing is the man who doesn’t know what he doesn’t know.

  • educatedwhitewoman

    Diana, could you give a link, please? You wrote:

    Comment by Diana | 2008-07-22 11:41:00

    “Well we have Farrakhan over there telling the Middle East that Allah has come to the USA and now she will be chastised. How is it Farrakhan happens to be speaking on AlJazeera TV at the same time Obama is there? This has really bothered me that I saw that interview the night before Obama began speaking with leaders there. Is Farrakhan going to be part of his cabinet? Appointed to something?”

    Wow, if the above is true, this is really odd because when Rev. Wright made a trip to Libya with Farrakhan, the very year Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate, when Qaddifi met with Wright and the LOI, Qaddifi said that Muslims would now have someone inside the U.S. working for their cause (and I paraphrase here – it was actually scarier, as I recall, and I’m not sure if Farrakhan said it, or Qaddifi, but I believe that it was the latter). I’m going to have to find for the link to it. Not good.

    • Idiocracy08
      • Mary

        Too scary – What on earth is America and the MSM who support Obama thinkiong?

    • barack who?

      Terrorists to guard the Anointed One: also scary.

    • pew

      http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=9319375

      Farrakhan says the words change change change and get over it. Maybe he says other things also. I didnt listen to the entire tape. Can’t stand him..
      I want Clinton back,as the nominee.

      http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=9319375

    • missouridove

      People need to wake up! How can we not understand the gravity of the likes of Farrakhan declaring BO as the “messiah” to his congregation (not to mention appearing on AlJazeera while BO is in mideast!) & Libya’s Qaddafi calling all of our country’s leaders fascists and tyrants–except of course for the chosen one BO….why do so many keep turning away from these blatant warnings?

      Can BO possibly be so naive or stupid not to realize how devastating such connections are to most any Americans with their eyes open, as well as his deep links to criminals & terrorists, andliberation theology-style racists (including NOI & its destructive UFO-cult underpinnings)? Or does he with complete knowledge nurture and harvest this whole array of negative, sinister endorsements in order to propel himself into the world scene as the false savior? Why don’t more people see that there is something deeply alarming here?

  • agent77

    Obama will bring peace and economic prosperity to the world, but he is unable to unite his party????

    • barack who?

      He has done a stellar job of uniting Hillary Dems and McCain republicans, though. And that is a good thing. Maybe this is the election when the centrists of both parties will be able to steer back to middle from extreme left and right.

      McCain took a lot of heat from the hard right in his own party, but it looks like the Old War Horse was smarter than anyone knew.

  • Andrew

    Dems worried Obama is making a fool of himself. Today on Fox News, Dem strategist warned Obama not to act like president. Obama didn’t take advice.

  • Objective analysis

    So Gergen finally realizes that Obama is an idiot seeking self glory.

    Wow. PUMAs knew that a long time ago.

  • RepublicanChick

    From the very moment I read somewhere online that Michelle Obama stated their daughters didn’t like coming to bed with them because he stinks…I just knew!

    The statement, which I summarized, told me all I needed to know about the Obamas.

    They will tell anything and everything if it suits their purpose.

    • s. hall

      Republican Chick — McCain is being buried by the Media as they continue to worship Obama. He needs to shake up the campaign by nominating Hillary as his VP. Do you think Republicans would go for it? If not, I fear he will lose and we so need him to win. Obama is talking about Richard Lugar as his VP –

      • wodiej

        can’t stand Lugar

        all this crap w Obama acting like he’s already President is just an Axelrod tactic. If people keep hearing the message he thinks they’ll start to believe it

        • Hope Floats

          It’s worked so far with him declaring himself the nominee without pledged delegates or a convention vote.

      • RepublicanChick

        s.hall & wodiej:

        I cannot stand Lugar so Obama can have him. Although, I’m not sure what he’ll get maybe Indiana in his column?

        Depends on which Republicans you’re referring to when discussing Hillary. Conservatives–hell no! Everyone else–perhaps.

        As one of my Republican friends said this morning, McCain would do better selecting Guiliani over Romney or Huckabee. Personally, if McCain chooses Romney–I’m totally screwed because I don’t like Romney at all.

        I do not believe that Hillary would jump ship and run with McCain. She’s dedicated to the Democrats and geniunely seems to agree with the platform of the party (pre-Dean). Unless McCain and the RNC promised Hillary that her concerns and issues she has always championed are a priority or near the top, I don’t see it happening.

        HOWEVER—there’s Bill.

        Bill is a loyalist type of person. If you’re loyal to him and his family, he’ll return the favor. Although, it didn’t do squat for him in regards to Richardson and so many others.

        I believe Bill and John McCain geniunely like each other from behind the scenes stories that I’ve heard, but again that’s hearsay.

        If Obama chooses Lugar as VP (which I don’t see happening), then it might not be a tough sell to Republicans for Hillary to join the ticket. After all, the goal for most Republicans is not to see Obama in the White House. With the media shoving Obama down our throats it might not be too terribly difficult at all.

        • wodiej

          McCain needs to choose wisely.

          • RepublicanChick

            Among Republicans, many are betting that it will be Romney.

            If you want to bring the country together, McCain will need Hillary or Lieberman. I don’t believe either wants to join the Republican ticket.

            If he wants to divide the Republican party, he will choose Romney, Guiliani, or Huckabee.

            I like Guiliani and could live with that choice. The other two will be very difficult for me and my friends.

            At this point, I hope he nominates Russ Feingold. I like Russ for some reason. Always have and always will.

            Okay, I’ve made my confession for the day. :-)

            • beebop

              I would really have to think long and hard about supporting Senator McCain if Rudy is on the ticket. Talk about a guy who has a low opinion of women! And a panderer as well. No. I’d rather have someone younger or female, to be honest.

              • Hope Floats

                I’d love Olympia Snowe as McCain’s VP, but no one else seems to be thinking along these lines. But as for accomplished females and moderates, there’s no better choice. I don’t like Romney, Giuliani or Huckabee.

        • ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

          Thank you Republican Chick!
          I enjoy your comments very much!

          • RepublicanChick

            LOL! I’ve been reading articles and comments on this site to a group of my friends. We’re all FReepers, but we’re finding ourselves disgusted by fellow FReepers who are refusing to vote for McCain. You don’t vote for McCain and you’re basically ensuring an Obama Presidency. No thank you!

            We have thoroughly enjoyed reading everyone’s posts. Although, we could do without Ted’s postings; but he’s amusing for entertainment purposes.

    • wodiej

      so he’s not only intellectually challenged, crooked, dishonest and anti American, he’s also dirty. Nice….

      • RepublicanChick

        I am supposed to be working on a report, but I can’t be bothered or motivated at the moment.

        Would it not be the most hysterical moment in US history to see Hillary receive the nomination in Denver? After all this bravado of traveling the world to make his presence known, it would be just desserts for him to be shutdown in Denver.

        • Boxer Mum 06

          I’d settle for this teleprompter to go on the blink and him standing there in front of the world with only his words to speak.

  • just-another-sweetie

    Obama doing fake interviews.
    I just ran across this story and I can’t believe Andrea is speaking out like this.I love it.
    Andrea Mitchell “You’re Seeing…What Some Would Call Fake Interviews” Andrea Mitchell who let loose some of her frustrations with the lack of access being given to reporters on the trip, specifically in Afghanistan and Iraq. Mitchell’s comments came during an appearance on Hardball with Chris Matthews. “You’re seeing selected pictures taken by the military, questions by the military and what some would call fake interviews because they’re not interviews from a journalist,” she said. “Politically, it’s smart as can be, but we have not seen a presidential candidate do this, in my recollection, ever before. Do a search for Andrea Mitchell Fake Interviews

  • Disgusted

    Gergen still has a long way to go to make up for his “Hillary should have a press conference and tell people that she doesn’t want their racially motivated votes”. That was ths final straw for me and CNN. They never even asked why the votes were racially motivated. Was it because of Rev Wright ? Was it because AA were voting for Obama at a 92% clip? You can not call people racist without knowing why they feel the way they do. God I wanted to punch that duse in the face right thru my TV.

  • Disgusted

    ths=the LOL

  • vonay

    BO shows his inexperience more and more……How the hell can he speak to a leader of another country for our nation?
    The republicans need to get with it and start showing people what BO is.
    I Heard BO had 2 or 3 hundred adnisors, either they’re all stupid like him or he’s not listening to them.

  • vonay

    BO shows his inexperience more and more……How the hell can he speak to a leader of another country for our nation?
    The republicans need to get with it and start showing people what BO is.
    I Heard BO had 2 or 3 hundred advisors, either they’re all stupid like him or he’s not listening to them.

  • Disgusted

    And duse=dude. I get pissed just thinking about Gergen and that statement.

  • pew

    Remember the Words Change Change Change, and told the Clinton Supporters to GET OVER IT>>Came from Obama’s mouth, and also Farrakhan’s Scary!!!!!

    http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=9319375

  • pew

    Go Read The Denver Group, for explanation of Clinton’s debt,and Puma. It will show up middle of August because of timeframe.

    Do your homework,and some reading

  • otbjr

    Do you know which direction Mecca is? Do you know the call to prayer that all Muslims must know? You’d better learn it because Obama’s faith iniative is going to be the indoctrination of Islam for all America. We are going to be faced with the choice from Al Quida to convert or be destroyed by our own nuclear weapons. President Obama will demand we all convert. Science fiction? Think again America. This has been foretold many many years ago and will come to pass.

  • chezmadame

    Hey everyone, ScumBagginBarkyBama (who trolls here as an unpaid sevant) has a grammar error in his blog title. It’s not punster’s license or anything like that. It’s the kind of error that bad writers make and then can’t find.

  • Catherine

    I don’t care for Bush and his gang at all but the fact remains he is POTUS and NOT OBAMA. Once again Obama goes around acting grandiose with absolutely no legitimate authority to do so (while Hillary is in the senate fighting for women’s reproductive rights). It is unbelieveable that a presumptive nominee for a political party can be galavanting around the nation and world acting like he is POTUS and the media somehow thinking this is appropriate. Obviously Obama and the media lack the basic knowledge of what it means to be part of a democratic country where you have one president. The narcissism of this man never ceases to amaze me and I am not a scholar of political science. I am just an average American voter who is shocked at the arrogance I see in this young man who has little on his resume that qualifies him for senator no less POTUS. Looking forward to tomorrow’s arrogant behavior as always.

  • okie/paul

    http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/06/07/more-obama-gaffes-media-will-ignore
    Look at this closely see if it looks more like drug problem than being tired.

  • Madison

    I wrote a letter to the NY Times because Obama wrote an NYT Op-Ed about the Iraq War about a week before he went. I was bothered by the fact that he would write his position on Iraq before be went and thought his words would be much more effective if he had written that Op-Ed after his trip. Obama is a man that gets his ideas from selective reading and listening to others but not from experience, which is dangerous. Bush Jr. was like that and he got us into a lot of trouble. I think it will take more than one PR trip to the Middle East before Obama can understand the scope of what the issues are. We need to demand far more of Obama than we did of Bush if we want to avoid the same pitfalls. They both lack(ed) accomplishments and experience to qualify as president. We should not make the same mistake twice. The media is favoring Obama the same way they favored Bush. We need to expect more from our politicians and our media.

    Hillary 08
    Mccain 08

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  • MIDem

    toad

  • beebop

    Her debt is gone, asshat. You worry about Little Lord Fauntlaroy. He’s not doin’ so well. Have you sent him your full $2,300 or are you buying new tires for the bike instead?

  • Elizabeth Reilly

    You’ve even worn out your nuisance value!

  • brodie

    piss off, troll

  • brodie

    again- piss off, troll

  • chezmadame

    There’s a grammar error in your blog name.

  • Hope Floats

    No one said it was all paid, idiot. Now go do what you do best… slurp.