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By SusanUnPC on July 31, 2008 at 9:30 AM in Barack Obama, Qualifications

Obama handed out “change burgers” at a BBQ rally in Missouri yesterday.
         – “Road-Trip Reports: McCain In Colo., Obama In Mo.,” NPR Morning Edition

“But, while much has been made of John McCain’s struggles with his party’s conservative base, 33% of the uncommitted voters are Democrats while only 19% are Republicans.”
         – Rasmussen Reports

“GET THIS MAN A TELEPROMPTER!
   ”Barack Obama is a lot like Sean Penn or George Clooney. If you give him a script, he can deliver it pretty well. But if he tries to talk without a script that has been written for him by others, he quickly reveals that he is poorly-informed if not downright ignorant. Today he delivered another classic, by claiming that if only we would all properly inflate our tires, we could save as much gasoline as “all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling.” Seriously: … ”
         – Read all.

Perhaps the deepest thought is below:

“GOP’s celeb-Obama message gains traction — Barack Obama’s critics laid down the foundations of the strategy months ago: The Republican National Committee started the ‘Audacity Watch’ back in April, and Karl Rove later fueled the attack by describing the first-term Illinois senator as ‘coolly arrogant’.”
         – Politico

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Whatever the thought, the conclusion is that it’s “amateur hour” these days on the Democratic side.

What a shame, given the rich field of candidates we began with, most of whom had far stronger resumes and real experience in international politics — not just photo ops.

  • CheatedFLVoter

    I agree totally Susan. And the worse thing is that when he makes these stupid statements, he says them with such arrogance that people actually think he knows what he’s talking about.

    • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

      Yes.

      Give me Joe Biden. Give me Chris Dodd. Give me Hillary Clinton. Even Dennis Kucinich has real beliefs and real experience. (I’ve had to cancel out Bill Richardson because his gaffes are just too embarrassing and I’ve decided he’s somewhat inflated the importance of the items he lists on his resume, but he does have real experience.)

      Had I known how viciously the DNC would treat Hillary Clinton, I might have concurrently pressed for the nomination of Biden or Dodd. At least, then, if the DNC had still gamed the primaries to screw Hillary, we’d have ended up with a qualified candidate.

      • workingclass artist

        Good Post Susan….Obama proves once again how IMPORTANT IT IS TO STUDY UP ON HISTORY….chuckle…Aaaaand current events….LOL

        **** Obama and his crowd probably think Reagan Democrats is the title of a sitcom…..sheeesh ! Will Noone Rid Us Of This Popinjay ? ****

      • MEchelle Hates America!

        Dodd’s a jerk. He screwed HRC over.

        What about Dodd’s once strong stand on FISA?

        Now he’s backing back stabber Barack and taking loans Country wide!

        • Tuppence 411

          Dodd sucks. I live in a state bordering CT. He sucks. That’s why Lieberman got back in so easily-running as an Independent after telling the DNC to kiss his a$$ for trying to steal his seat. CT would have been screwed with only Dodd. They knew it and Dodd knows it.

      • Andy

        Don’t like Dodd or Biden much…although they are good comapred to Obama; at leats they would make responsible presidents.

        BTW, Jeralyn@TL feels so strongly against Biden that she wrote recently that should Biden be the VP she would not support the ticket…
        I think having BO at the top of it is disqualifying just by itself !!

      • mahaska

        I don’t trust Joe Biden.

        • Tuppence 411

          Biden’s a loser. How many times has Joe tried to be the Dem Nominee for President? He’s a loser and Dems hate losers. That’s why Hillary must maintain her “winner” status. She got 18 million votes. She has a winning coalition. She has the states needed to get to 270 electoral votes. She’s the winner in 2008 and she WILL be the winner in 2012. The winner doesn’t accept being the VP of a loser and no way will a winner allow a convention ballot intentionally rigged for her to lose. Hillary is the winner and don’t anyone forget it!

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHjFxJVeCQs dgr

      Yes, and he has no compunction about stealing boldly in the light of day, from Hillary Clinton’s speech on The Stop Excessive Energy Speculation Act.

      “by claiming that if only we would all properly inflate our tires, we could save as much gasoline as “all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling.”

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I73prA_eplc

      of course, he could have gotten that information from one of his advisors… but from his history of lifting freely from Hillary Clinton’s policies, I’d say he is FOS and stealing freely this line from Hillary.

      • lizpolaris

        If you listen to the speech, that’s not what Hillary Clinton says.

        I believe what you are referring to is said after minute 6 in the video. She quotes Sen Cantrell, who says that the equivalent amount of oil per day could be saved by increasing the pressure in the tires of the vehicles that we drive.

        What exactly was Sen Cantrell referring to? I’m not sure but he didn’t say (and she didn’t say) that the equivalent amount of oil could be saved by keeping our tires properly inflated. It could be that the Senator was referring to some type of tire which functions more efficiently under greater pressure. Or it could be that its been found we could follow guidelines for inflating our existing tires to greater pressure than is currently the standard which would help. Or something else…

    • tzada

      Look what else he has to say…..More race baiting.

      http://www.drudgereport.com/obd.jpg

    • mahaska

      A little OT
      Cause and effect?
      He goes to Israel, meets with Olmert and the guy resigns. hmmm

  • JohninCA

    The Ludacris flap doesn’t exactly help him either.

    • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

      One of us who can stomach it is going to write this up.

      • stateofdisbelief

        Susan,

        Oblahma threw Ludacris under the bus so quick they never even slowed down. It must’ve been a bloody site. Wonder what the hip-hop crowd thinks of this diss???

        • wry

          To me Barky didn’t throw Ludacris under the bus forcefully enough. He had his un hip white campaign manager do it, so he can privately tell ludacris “you know I’m just playing with you”. I want sh*#head to come out and tell ludacris to take it off the radio. Otherwise Barky is being too cute. He gets the benefit of using the song as an anthem to rally a group that traditionally never votes, yet he can tell the white public he denounced the lyrics.
          The “paint the white house black” crowd will understand that Barky is doing exactly what Wright predicted he would do…”he’s a politician…he’ll do what politicians do” with a wink.

        • tzada

          He probably told them in private…”just messin wit ya” Like he told his Palestine Chicago pals. “I can acknowledge you, after I win the election”…or words to that effect. Like noone knows all the parties and meetings and connections, including donations from the Woods Fund by him and Ayers that involved him and them….Guess Snow White and his 12 trolls think we are stupid.

          • workingclass artist

            wink*wink*….nudge~ nudge~

      • JohninCA

        Ludacris isn’t helping his candidate,
        Lyrics like that aren’t apt to win any state,
        Profanity, hatred and histrionics
        Linked with his particular kind of ebonics
        May snatch defeat from impending victory’s jaws
        And threaten electoral disaster because
        Voters will remember as November draws near
        And tell the White House, make ready: McCain will be here.

        • jwrjr

          Until Obama publicly, forcefully tells ludicrous Ludacris to stop with the hateful manure, Obama owns it.

          • ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

            yes he does jwrjr and as I have said before the idiot women, sorry but IDIOT women like Joy Behar on the View LAUGHING and reading the lyrics like they are acceptable hurt ALL of us, whoopi says N word is fine, Joy thinks B is fine, fine frak them the n and the b, the rest of us DONT find it acceptable ever.

          • Dawnelle

            his NAME is Lewd&Crass!!!

            now get it right ;-)

      • http://none Peg

        Susan – this is a GIFT!

        Tear into it!

  • Joeconservative

    Wow, just when I thought I had seen everything… A former contributor to liberal blogs is using quotes from Powerline, an arch conservative blog, to denigrate Obama. I love it!!! I was having a field day just seeing you quote Fox news over and over again, but this is just fantastic! The only thing left is to link to sound bytes from Rush!

    I only wish you people would do more to talk up John McCain than just trash Obama every chance you get.

    • stateofdisbelief

      McCain will have to wait. We still have not given up on getting the best qualified candidate – Hillary – nominated.

      • Diana

        Why is Hillary not going to be at the convention until the second night, and then only to deliver a speech?

        WASHINGTON – Barack Obama is offering Hillary Clinton a prime-time speaking slot the second night of the Democratic National Convention, her ex-campaign boss said Monday.

        Clinton will address the convention – and the nation – “probably Tuesday night,” Clinton moneyman and confidant Terry McAuliffe told MSNBC.
        http://tinyurl.com/699nte

        McAuliffe was not supposed to reveal Clinton is getting a choice gig. The Obama campaign refused to discuss McAuliffe’s slip of the tongue.

        Team Obama also declined to say whether Bill Clinton will be given a speaking spot of his own.

        • Kevin

          I will not watch it Sam I am

          • Diana

            Sorry about that I put the link in the middle. Early here and I need coffee. I guess I’m just wondering if we haven’t been fed even more lies…why would Hillary only be there one night if her name is to be on the ballot? Or if there is going to be a roll call?

            Here’s another
            Scratch Hillary off the VP list
            http://tinyurl.com/5ofztv
            and:
            http://tinyurl.com/6ehgv6

      • NoName

        McCain will have to wait. We still have not given up on getting the best qualified candidate – Hillary – nominated.

        Then you are a fucking idiot.

        • stateofdisbelief

          Hey NoName — Go F%#k yourself.

          Have a nice day troll.

      • PKJayne

        I agree State, we work for Hillary first.

    • RepublicanChick

      Joe: It isn’t our site and therefore, we don’t set the agenda or opinion.

      Obama is the ordained candidate of the Democratic Party. It would seem pretty obvious that NQ isn’t particularly “fond” of Obama. Therefore, they can say what they like.

      Also, I have seen links to Rush’s site and heard a few soundbytes from his show posted from time to time.

      If Obama wasn’t so darn dangerous, I would probably vote for someone other than McCain. Here’s hoping McCain doesn’t alienate more conservatives with a lousy VP choice.

      • http://! TeakWoodKite

        RepublicanChick;

        If Obama wasn’t so darn dangerous, I would probably vote for someone other than McCain. Here’s hoping McCain doesn’t alienate more conservatives with a lousy VP choice.

        As an “BlueDog Indie” your statement is on the mark, speaking for myself.

      • workingclass artist

        Don’t ( sigh )…KID YOURSELF JOE….YOUR WETDREAM IS EMBARRASSING….
        This aint’ about NQ regulars suddenly seeing the GOP Light….sheeesh !
        Hillary Clinton had a strong Democratic and Moderate/Centrist Republican Base. Comrade Howard ( iblobarry ) Dean the UberPutz and Commissar Donna Brazeal have thrown 2/3 of the traditional Democratic Base Outta their New Party For a New America….This is about THE BIGGER PICTURE…
        If McCain was not the GOP choice….I wouldn’t even consider voting for the usual REGULAR GOP GOOSESTEPPERS YOU USUALLY OFFER….
        Sen. Clinton reminded me more and more of FDR & Truman…I’m Hopin McCain pulls a Teddy Roosevelt ( Independent Thinker )

        REMEMBER….THIS IS ABOUT THE BIGGER PICTURE !….savvy ?

    • Kevin

      Joe,
      some of us do praise Mac, but here we must get into the mud with trolls.
      just put a nice oval McCain sticker on my truck, by the way
      What I like about McCain is his bi-partisanship, his experience, heroism, the fact that he is concerned about balanced budgets and the deficit.
      OK?

      and, barfy’s a pinhead
      :) -~

      • Dawnelle

        yea but HILLARY is WAY WAY better!

      • Fred C. Dobbs

        >>> just put a nice oval McCain sticker on my truck, by the way

        O’d like to change my Vanity Plate to: 935 LIES

    • no waffles aka drkate

      anchovy

    • hank48188

      I don’t have a link to Rush, but I did hear a funny bit last week. Rush had audio clips of Obama and Bono doing the line “this is our moment, this is our time”, it was funny as hell, he kept flipping from Bono to Obama saying the same thing. I guess when your speechwriter is 25 you might get some Bono lines in your speech.

    • mahaska

      I wish you people would stop saying you people.

      • workingclass artist

        Mahaska….If on occasion you catch me sayin you people…it is usually in jest or…..a hazard of environment ( Texas ) where this colloquialism is used by anybody to anybody….things down here tend to get a different translation up north or out west…..So Call me on it if I offend but I will cling to…..chuckle…..the use of Cracker when describing myself and that special bond I share with Barry.

        Also I will self identify as an Official Member Of the Whore of Babylon Cult
        ( Roman Catholic ) as I find it funny and Typical of Bible Belt Paranoiacs…..

        • Fred C. Dobbs

          “You people,” is a way Texans try not to use, “y’all,” to non-Southerners. When one says, “Y’all,” one must endure scorn from the North and Midwest, or one must explain it.

          “You people,” is the Work-Around.

          Speaking Southern, especially the Texan variants (there are 8 different idioms/accents in Texas), is a daunting task and best not attempted by non-Southerners.

          Floridians, like me, say, “Hey! How y’all?”
          East Texans say, “Hi! Hire yew?”

          Trust me…Japanese is a LOT easier.

          • Fred C. Dobbs

            ADDENDUM:

            I would MUCH rather converse in Hill Country Texan than any of the Alabama or Georgia dialects.

            Remember: “God is EVERYWHERE…but he keeps his horses over by New Braunfels!”

            • workingclass artist

              Sheeeeit ! Mr. Dobbs ( using the Houston Twang ) You got that Right.
              and now I’ll chase that chili down with an ice cold local….lol

              • mahaska

                My friend from Kansas says wail hail for well hell.

            • Idiocracy08

              Fred!!!! I’m in the Texas hill country!!!

              and I’m by New Braunfels!!!

              I’m so happy to see a non-Texan write New Braunfels…not New Braunsfels.

              workingclass – I’m sorry if you’re in Houston. I lived ther for about 6 years. ewww. Bush country!
              :) kidding…Uston isn’t that bad.

              I’m a native Texan and don’t really like the phrase “you people”. It’s ok for me to say it, but I don’t like people saying it to me! lol!

              • Fred C. Dobbs

                >>> I’m so happy to see a non-Texan write New Braunfels…not New Braunsfels.

                I can even pronounce it…

                If you own a house in Houston and a farm in Hell, sell the house and move home!

                My daughter’s husband’s father is from Hill Country stock, product of the great migration from Germany 1854-1890. Big-time lawyer in San Francisco area. Has a little ranch/farm (no grapes) around Napa where he puts his ropers on and scratches where it itches,

                Shocked the shit out of the old boy by identifying his dog as a Texas Leopard, then talking about Polled Herefords and Santa Gertrudis cattle.

                Took us about five minutes to squat down and start drawing in the dirt with our pocket knives.

                You can take the boy outta Fredricksburg, buut you can’t take the Hill Country outta the boy…

                :::::::::::

                YOU KNOW YOU’RE IN TEXAS WHEN: They say, “Twin Cities,” and mean Midland-Odessa. (“OH-dessa”)

          • jwrjr

            Japanese isn’t really all that difficult. It just takes some ‘getting used to’.

          • mahaska

            I just posted that about you people cuz a lot of times when people use it, trolls jump all over it as though it was an insult. I asked one once if yinz, youse or hey dork worked better, but got no reply.

            • workingclass artist

              LOL…..never heard yinz….But I did live in Philly for a while and they have plenty O’ colorful language…YO!

              • mahaska

                My friends mom from Cleveland used to say yinz.

                • mahaska

                  I wonder if yinz is a variation of you ‘uns.

          • Dawnelle

            I get all mixed up living in Fla so long and also NC and WV

            doing basic in Alabama
            Army school in Indiana
            First duty station in Savannah

            etc,etc, you should hear me switch around (usually not even realizing it)

            chuckle

        • NO for O

          I’m with you.

        • mahaska

          Me too. as a snark sometimes. wasn’t for you, was for troll.

        • mahaska

          you sound like my kind of person.

          • mahaska

            oops, both posts for workingclassartist

        • Dawnelle

          ditto I slip too but hate hearing it

          I’ll be honest it is kind of confusing at times remembering I am no longer a D and “allowed” to mingle with moderate republicans w/out getting all defensive

          it’s been a long 8 yrs of anger and disbelief to find myself HERE@!!

          It’s creeping me out freaking me out a bit.

          Anyone else?

    • http://nobho.blogspot.com/ Johnny at Work

      You need to read more. There are Democrats here who both criticize Ibama and praise McCain.

      I have praised McCain on Iraq, and on hs Energy Policy. Energy directly ties to the short term and long term fate of the economy.

      The price at the pump is the economy stupid!!

      Exploring every energy option, including opening up new drilling leases, will lessen dependence on mid east oil, and put a damper on speculation.

      Speculation is driven by SWAG. It is not based on current supply and demand. Opening up every eergy option will effect speculation psycology.

      This post has a link to Ibama telling a Missouri audience that by inflating car tires, we can save the same amount of oil that all the new drilling would create. Ibama should take a math refresher.

      Ibama said “we can’t drill our way out of our energy problem.” But we can inflate our way out?

      Why not, Ibama is inflating his way to the White House.

      • Kevin

        Less money to the Sauds is fine in my book.
        What funds madrassas?
        Oil money.
        What funds islamic terrorists?
        Oil money.

    • Hope Floats

      Obama supporters quoted Rush all through the primaries when they whined about Operation Chaos to explain Hillary repeatedly thumping Obama’s skinny butt. The Dems still pushed to nominate that loser, and here you are on NQ still complaining. Obama couldn’t close the deal. Now he can’t break 50% in the polls.

      • http://! TeakWoodKite

        OT: Hope Floats; A few threads back you stated the US? had transfered Nukes to the Saudis.

        Can you please give a link for that?

        Sorry for the OT, but it matters. Thanks.

    • ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

      Larry for one does not support MAC, I do tho’

      BIG MAC WooT!!!!!

  • stateofdisbelief

    Obama is just like one of today’s star-maker created pop idols. All superficial image creation and zero substance. It’s so easy once the surface is scratched to realize there is absolutely nothing under the suit.

    Hillary on the other hand (while certainly an impressive presence to behold) is pure and full substance in the areas necessary to lead our country back in the right direction.

    Why are we even having this discussion when Oblahma let us know his campaign was about “words” and Hillary told us hers was about “solutions.” Doesn’t seem like rocket science to me. Why is it so hard to pick the right one when we’re choosing between Milli Vanilli and Barbara Striesand???

  • Kevin

    Any thoughts as to why the MSM hasn’t picked up on the reparations comments made by BHO?
    I know I’ve harped on this theme off and on, but I really believe that his affiliation with crazy uncle #1 (Wright) and ties to TUUC, NOI, Etc. are behind this.
    What stuns me is that he made his statements to the media (with them applauding) and the biggies aren’t getting on him about it.

    • workingclass artist

      Hmmmm….Want to keep tires intact ?
      MSM NEWSPORN IS HAZARDOUS TO THE HEALTH….

      • Kevin

        Nail guard tires my friend

        Sticker is below the american flag, next to NRA life member (yes democrat independant and NRA, I revel in contradiction)

        And I live in a rural town in the glorious people’s republic of Massachusettsastan, folks here mind their business.

        • workingclass artist

          Hmmmm…..Comrade Kevin….chuckle….I live in the Mildly Fascist State of TEXAS….We simply must compare notes someday….

          • Kevin

            TEXAS?!?
            you know what comes from texas?

            just kidding

            spent way too much time at Ft. Bliss (the most non-apt name for a base in the Army)

            • workingclass artist

              What’s really SAD….Is Hillary Clinton really had a chance to bring the republic back into the tent….That’s why they rigged the caucuses with the help of Roves troops….Talk about playin into somebody’s hands….It was pathetic

              • NoName

                The caucuses weren’t rigged. I keep hearing this from sore losers, but not one of you whiners can prove it.

                Lick your wounds and if you can put up, then shut the hell up.

                • Kevin

                  I’ll try this with you..
                  I’ll give you 5 minutes
                  Why do you plan on voting for BHO?
                  Enlighten us, please.
                  Try not to use the words hope, change, new, or different.

                  • NoName

                    I am voting for BHO because he won the democratic primaries. I am a yellow dog dem.

                    I think he is intelligent and has the skills to solve our problems. Hillary would have created another 4 years like the 90′s. She is way too divisive. I am voting for BHO because I want to move forward not backward.

                    All you Hillary supporters who bash the Dem nominee are doing NOTHING to help our country. All you sore losers are doing is helping McCain and his 4 more years of Bush policies.

                • workingclass artist

                  HEYNONAME….You Fascist shit ! Teenagers who were ineligible to caucus showed up and caucused and then bragged about it at My Kids school the next day….And that’s just One example….there are 1,999 other complaints of INTIMIDATION…BLOCKING…FRAUD….THE USUAL OBAMA TRICKS….THERE ARE NO CAUCUSES IN NOV.

              • NoName

                The caucuses weren’t rigged. I keep hearing this from sore losers, but not one of you whiners can prove it.

                Lick your wounds and if you can’t put up, then shut the hell up.

                • stateofdisbelief

                  NoName Troll – were you at any of the caucuses? Do you personally know anyone who was? Do you personally know how the caucus process is SUPPOSED to work in each state? Do you know the difference between open, closed and semi-open?

                  Since you probably just passed your 18th birthday, I’m going to guess the answer is NO to each of these questions.

                  Well, many of us here can answer YES to most if not all of the questions so we know what we’re talking about.

                  Please return to your master – baiter and tell him you FAILED. Go Fire Yourself.

                  • mahaska

                    It’s funny to me, lol funny, when the bots come on here and make their lonely little statements like the caucuses weren’t rigged.
                    To me it’s as though they are caught in a gale and yelling into the wind. The words just blow back in their faces and none can hear them.

                    • NoName

                      I ran a caucus for my precinct. I was there and I am a leader. I kept it legal and under control.

                      How about you?

                  • NoName

                    Yes, idiot. I was a precinct chair. Ours ran fine – even with the Republicans there to vote for Hillary while laughing their ass off. She won our precinct.

                    There was no rigging.

  • Hillaryfighter

    a bunch of bad polls for bambi…

    http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x2882.xml?ReleaseID=1196

    Florida and Ohio are now too close to call. No one has been elected President since 1960 without taking two of these three largest swing states in the Electoral College. Results from the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University polls show:
    Florida: Obama has 46 percent to McCain’s 44 percent, compared to a 47 – 43 percent Obama lead June 18;
    Ohio: Obama has 46 percent to McCain’s 44 percent, compared to a 48 – 42 percent Obama lead least time;
    Pennsylvania: Obama leads McCain 49 – 42 percent, compared to 52 – 40 percent.

    Bambi spent $5 million in FL, McCain spent ZERO. There’s no chance bambi will be able to carry FL, I guess he just has too much money to burn.

    He’d better pray for VA & CO, otherwise, he’s toast.

    • stateofdisbelief

      This slow drip drip drip of defeat for Oblahma will pick up speed and turn into a gush after Denver if the SDs refuse to do what they were appointed to do.

    • RepublicanChick

      Virginia has a huge military population (both active and retired). I doubt Obama will win Virginia. He may very well win Colorado as it seemed to be leaning more and more to the left.

      He should be well ahead at this point, but these numbers should be worrisome. Although, I don’t put much stock into any polls until after Labor Day.

      • Indy

        Latest Colorado poll shows BO leading by 1.7. He has slipped here too (poll number from Real Clear Politics). Four years ago there were Kerry signs & bumper stickers everywhere (I’m in Denver). This year there are quite a few local campaign signs but not much else. There’s a BO sign here and there, but nothing like the last election. I did see a Hillary sign in one yard (go puma). We are a one car family so I don’t do a lot of driving around, but my husband hasn’t seen much either on the various routes he takes to work.

        What it says to me is there is not the kind of support for BO I’d expect to see in this Dem stronghold (and home to this years convention).

      • ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

        CO put on the ballot a measure saying life begins at conception,. That will fix Barrys wagon methinks……

    • Kevin

      slip sliding away
      slip sliding away
      the nearer your destination
      the more you’re
      slip sliding away

      • ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

        motre Paul for DNC cabal of dunces:

        my Mama said who
        whoooo
        who do u think youre foolin

    • pasmalltowngirl

      Don’t believe Pennsylvania, no doubt this is a Democratic state, but us BITTER people will not take orders and fall in line from the DNC. This state was for Hillary. If we can’t have her, we sure as hell aren’t voting for Obama. I have not talked to one single Dem. who will be voting for Obama.

      PUMA
      NOJOKEOBAMA

      • jus messin wit you man

        I live in a suburb of Pittsburgh and last weekend, had a wake-up call when talking to a former 76 year old neighbor. I hadn’t discussed politics with him since March, when we were both changing our registrations to Democrat (him from R; me from I) to be able to vote for HRC in the PA primary. He’s now saying that he’s going to vote for BO in the GE, because he doesn’t want to have GWB’s 3rd term. His concern is that with the economy tanking, his retirement fund has diminished significantly.

        I understand his concern about his nest egg, but was shocked at his mis-information in thinking that McCain would be GWB’s 3rd term, when clearly, BHO = GWB’s 3rd term.

        Evidently, the message that’s still getting out to the general population is that BO is The One to solve all problems and that McCain would be more of the same of what we’ve had for the past 8 years.

        We still have a lot of work to do, to ensure that obama is defeated.

        PUMA!

        • tzada

          Obama is using scare tactics on the older people. He uses the guilty whites also, with fears that they will appear racist. His minions turn on the black population, that don’t support him, calling them Uncle Toms …the Great Divider is he. Right out of the Arab play book “divide and conquer”….

          • workingclass artist

            Well…It is certainly THE FASCIST PLAYBOOK….Ask Brother Mao…Heir Adolf…Comrade Josef….Once you put race or class or any other distinction as a mechanism of the state….You got a Fascist.

            *** Obama and his tactics are merely a clever synthesis ***

            • Kevin

              wonder how well-thumbed is his copy of the little red book?

              • workingclass artist

                Gee I would imagine after sitting in that church and takin advice from Uncle Jerry and Ayatollah Louis….Obama has the Fascist Classic Library committed to memory by now…If he forgets somethin….There’s always Meeeeeechelle to remind him…no ?

          • mahaska

            His mob calls black people that won’t back him race traitors. That’s really stupid because it shows the truth. They want them to vote for him just because he’s part black.

        • pasmalltowngirl

          Yes, that is the main concern of this election.

          Most of the elderly base their decisions on what the MSM is telling them. And we all know what that is, Obama is the all mighty wonderful candidate who will bring about the change that we have all been waiting for.

          When you try to get thru to them, explain that the media is corrupt, that they are giving you their biased opinions instead of the true facts, that they are pushing for this man for their own agenda, money. And you try to explain that you have done tons of research on Obama on the Internet, and their reply to that is, you can’t believe every thing you read on the net. But if CNN says it, it must be gospel.

          The young voter lives in their own little world. With all of the privileges they have had, they don’t realize that their life can change in a heart beat, and not for the better. They look at you like you are a pathetic paranoid old person who doesn’t know anything, to them anyone over the age of 30 is old and dumb.

          It is so frustrating that the majority of voters take for granted our freedoms, and do not take the time to do their own research as to who is the most qualified person to lead our country and will vote for a man because the MSM has glorified him.

          They don’t realize that their vote may very well be one of the most important decisions that they will ever have to make in their life time.

          But I have to believe and pray that little by little, day by day, we are getting the message out, that Obama will destroy our country.

          • Hope Floats

            PA went to Gore and Kerry in 2000 and 2004. The rest of the OH river valley will vote red. That is OH, then the other Rust belt states MI, and IN then the Appalachian states WV, KY, TN, AK and NC. PA always breaks away from that trend and usually because of Philadelphia.

            • Boxer Mum 06

              I live in the Philly suburbs and keep counting the many McCain signs that are popping up – lawn signs, bumper stickers.

              It’s a good thing!

              Don’t count Philly out yet – there are many bitter white people clinging to their guns and religion here too!

              • Boxer Mum 06

                Oh and one more thing to point out.

                Barry is not carrying as many of the AA community in Philly as he thinks. I was at a Hillary fundraiser and there were many folks from the AA community there. They know a fraud when they see one.

                Philly is the home of Rocky and the reference Hillary made to Rocky really hit home here (no pun intended)

                We are loyal and would rather see McCain win than give it to Barry.

                Plus, Barry made a nasty comment about Eagles fans too – something about bringing a knife to a gun fight.

        • MEchelle Hates America!

          I’ve run into the same thing. Is AARP pitching that crap or what?

          Can you imagine Maverick rolling over more than Oblowme?

          The ultra-conservatives still don’t accept Maverick.

          • stateofdisbelief

            I just talked a former republican – now independent – out of voting for Barky. He was apparently getting all of his information from MSNBC. Oh PALLLEEEZE. I directed him to http://www.justsaynodeal.com for links to REAL TRUTH

            • workingclass artist

              Bravo! Stateofdisbelief….Tell your friend to limit exposure to MSM NewsPorn to protect his health…LOL

        • ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

          man he better rethink that

          Obummer will tax the hell out of his retirement savings

          he will kill the goose that laid the golden egg oh yes

          tell him to watch Kudlow on CNBC nightly to get the skinny

          • mahaska

            As he has with the discarding of the real democratic party base. But this golden goose isn’t dead, we have gathered up our golden eggs and walked.

        • mahaska

          I turned a frind of mine. She’s an older lady and was going to vote for bo. I told her some of the things he’s said and done a few times. I don’t push it or harangue her. I have been very subtle. This week she came back from a vacation in Montana and she visited the battleground at greasy grass/little big horn. She started telling me how vainglorious and arrogant Custer was. She said all because he wanted to be president.
          I told her hunh, sounds like obama. And she said, it sure does! Yippee, one for our side.

      • PKJayne

        Same here in Ohio. I know maybe one Dem who says they will vote for Barry.

  • http://! TeakWoodKite

    Hillary is speaking in SF today at Moscone center.

    BO ??? Can you call what he does “speaking”? There is something so completely wrong with him and the DNC.
    Does any one else have a sense of storm clouds gathering around BO?

    • workingclass artist

      Agree with you Teak….Pablum is not very intellectually filling but his followers need it….kinda like Baby Food….easy to digest and nothin to chew over….

      • MEchelle Hates America!

        Oblowme’s a Pepsi commericial. One slogan and logo after another.

        No substance.

        Never the President for an energy crisis weakened economy during war.

    • Indy

      Does any one else have a sense of storm clouds gathering around BO?

      Yes, and that’s a good thing. Bad thing is I don’t think Dean and his flunkies will correct their blunder.

  • http://IthinkIfeel... Tricia Spiegel

    I used to think Obama was just going to be a silly mistake on the part of the Democrats. But now it feels like a flagrant and potentially dangerous (for us and the whole world) blockbuster of a calamity.

    • workingclass artist

      And you thought FASCISM….was a European ( hiccup ) thing of the past….
      Once a voter pauses and reflects…looks at the formula….and the set up…
      It’s easy to see what’s happening….and it’s not paranoid either.

      *** WE WERE LUCKY ( US & UK ) DURING THE DEPRESSION WITH FDR & WC ***

  • B from Bloomington

    He was using a teleprompter or there would have been more ummmm errrr heard. Unfortunately, people don’t do the math, or think even though the figures don’t add up, bo is thinking along the right lines.

    Truth is, the figures don’t add up and these are just empty words because he can’t be trusted to do anything except toss taxpayer money to his friends in high places. He is just telling his “followers” what they want to hear.

    I’m for inflating tires, cutting back, developing alternative energy, etc. But I believe bo’s so called environmentally friendly legislative record is false. Drilling isn’t great, but lying about it is worse. This guy is for big oil and doesn’t give a hoot about the environment.

  • georgiapeach

    I thought that a gradual gravitation to Obama would be the natural progression for me once Edwards dropped out. What stopped me dead in my tracks was the spectacle of Oprah on stage at a campaign event informing us that Obama “is The One”. When I started paying closer attention, I noticed that Hillary had a lot better grasp of all of the issues, and concrete plans that she could discuss in detail at the drop of a hat. Obama’s answer was “What she said” or some variation of that more often than not. It caused me to have serious misgivings about being able to vote for him if he was the nominee. What sealed the deal for me, ironically, came out of Obama’s own mouth. When he was challenged about holding no oversight hearings on Afghanistan, that smug look when he said it was true because he was too busy running for President, I knew that I would never be able to bring myself to vote for him. I would feel the same way if it had been HRC or John McCain who said it. It is beyond arrogant to assume that you are so wonderful and important that your Presidential bid is more important than actually doing your job and looking out for troops in a war zone.

    • ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

      my FAVE was when O told us we were FREE WOMEN and didnt have to vote for a women

      thanks for the word O here I thought I was enslaved to my uterus!!

      what a moron

      • mahaska

        Telling us what to do again. Hey thanx bo, you made our argument for us. We are free women and we don’t have to vote for a fraud male.

  • Lee12

    Isn’t this behavior what people call the articulate incompetent?

    • mahaska

      I think bo is what you call a functional illiterate.

      • Kevin

        He’s smart! He can do things!
        Apology to Fredo Corleone

        • Fred C. Dobbs

          “How come Don Corleone has ONE Fredo and I have FOUR?” GHW Bush

  • http://elect2009.wordpress.com/ Cindie

    It all comes down to this.
    Who do YOU trust to keep our country safe?
    Right now there’s only TWO choices (really)
    McCain
    Obama
    For myself it’s nothing personal, it’s about who “I” would feel safer with running our country.
    McCain

  • http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/ NotYoursweetie

    Dunno about Clooney, but I think Sean Penn is more informed than B0 – unfair comparison.
    I was pondering about that 33% uncommitted dems and concluded: “your PUMA is showing”
    The other good news – after being criticized in the media , McCain’s “celebrity” ad seems to have hit a nerve
    http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/britney-obama/

    • workingclass artist

      Truth is in America…( Currently that is ) Everybody has a right to their opinion.

      Of course….Fascists have little TOLERANCE for independent thinking or the expression of it…..

    • tzada

      thanks for the link… I see Huffy is at it again

    • WildChild

      The huffy poops aren’t going to win any new converts from the broad swath of America if they keep calling all those who oppose BOBO racists. All they are doing is making BOBO the Black candidate and they are doing it in a way that is alienating people. So ah LOL… yall keep up the good work yahear!

      • workingclass artist

        There are many AA’s I’d vote for including our local DA who is busy overturning unjust convictions here….Hell I’d vote for that actor who does such a great job playin GOD in the movies…Morgan Freeman….
        This aint’ about Obama’s thin skin……sheeesh !

        • Boxer Mum 06

          Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia is another great example. And a Hillary supporter!

          • workingclass artist

            10/4 Boxermum….I went to Graduate School in Philly ( Love Philly ) and my kid is goin on scholarship to U of Arts….Yeah! Finally she’ll understand when I gripe about Poor Cheesesteak Immitations….Good news about the signs….I’m still prayin Sanity returns at the convention.

            • Boxer Mum 06

              There is nothing better than a Philly cheesesteak from Philly.

              Just like there’s nothing better than gelato from Italy – imitations are far from the real thing.

              Kind of like Obama – nothing but an imitation :)

              PA will go red this election!

              McCain will win – unless Hillary can pull a Hail Mary!

  • pasmalltowngirl

    Does he really think that the American people are that fr’n stupid.

    I have a nephew who is a junkie, and he is quite good at playing the system and people. He truly believes every stupid ass con game he creates in his mind. At first he comes of as a intelligent human being to those who have just encountered the likes of him for the 1st time.

    You know when someone has a child who is in to drugs or something else that is immoral or illegal, they want to give that child every benefit of the doubt, they truly want to believe them, they let them con you for many many years, just hoping and praying that your heart was right and not what you actually knew deep down inside all along. His supporters will soon realize, like most parents eventually do, that he is one big CON.

    Just like many people believed that Obama was or is going to be the answer for all human kind.

    Every time they listen to him, watch his actions, they will slowly realize that he lives in a fantasy. That they are being bamboozled.

    The drugs make them feel grandeur, they think that they are actually smarter than anyone else on the planet, that they have the answer to solve every problem and to BLAME others if things just don’t go as they had planned in their drug induced mind.

    So sad that the media and the DNC has chosen a drug user to be our POTUS, I surely will feel safe knowing that he is looking out for my children.

    PUMA

    NOJOKEOBAMA

    • CheatedFLVoter

      Didn’t Hitler use drugs to “expand his mind” before he thought he could rule the world?

      • roseeriter

        Bush was a user also and we saw how well that worked.

      • workingclass artist

        Adolf did it all…..Aaaand he had a Mystical Connection and a Mission….

        • pasmalltowngirl

          Yes Obama is like Hitler and I believe he definitely has a mission.
          His mission is to destroy the USA.
          He has accomplished so much already, like starting racial tensions, pissing off every nationality, every nation, every religion, blatant sexist attacks towards women. Whether he gets elected or not the damage is already done.
          All of his terrorist, anti American friends and backers of his campaign are laughing at how stupid, naive and gullible the Americans are. How many Americans are bowing down to this American hater, all for the hope that there might be a chance for hope and change.
          Obama represents the beginning of the end of our life as we know it to be today.

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

        Hitlet was hooked on Anphedimines

    • wodiej

      I used to be friends w someone like that. Very charming,funny and attractive. Big liar, wouldn’t work, stole money from people-even her own Mom. She didn’t care who she did it to or how much they cared about her. She wasn’t into drugs and drank some beer, that’s it. Her Mom and all of her other relatives were charmed by her as well and she grew up thinking her looks and charm would get her by. Even though she had an awful reputation, people would still get involved w her. These people are “wolves in sheep’s clothing”.

  • Mr.Murder

    McCain compared Obama to pill popping blondes Britney and Paris Hilton.

    Maybe his wife should retract that statement before people compare her to them?

    • Pragmatist

      huh?

    • Kevin

      ah
      the old make fun of someone’s addiction gag

      and what is it about BHO that makes you support him?
      try to answer without using the words, hope, change, fresh, new or different

      2 minutes

      • Kevin

        ah
        mr. redrum didn’t answer in the allotted time (he got 10 minutes)
        but we have some lovely parting gifts

    • Hope Floats

      She had two dislocated discs in her spine and became addicted to the Percoset precribed following her back surgery. For two years which coincided with Keating 5, she was addicted to painkillers. Then she got help.

      Cindy McCain has her pilot’s license and flies her husband sometimes since he can’t anymore. She knows how to disarm landmines, and that is one of her pet charities.

      She founded and ran a non-profit organization, the American Voluntary Medical Team, from 1988 to 1995 that organized trips by medical personnel to disaster-struck or war-torn third-world areas. She continues to be an active philanthropist and serves on the boards of several charitable organizations.

      She is infinitely smarter, tougher and kinder than Michelle Obama, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton put together. Her old drug problem is mild compared to the problems of those three women.

      • Boxer Mum 06

        Cindy will make an excellent first lady

        • dee5hill

          I want Bill to be the First Gentleman, but if I can’t have him, then Cindy wins hands down.

          Cindy knocks MEchelle’s butt in the dirt. MEchelle Obama is NO Jackie Kennedy, but Cindy McCain has the poise, class and demeanor reminiscent of Jackie. She would be an excellent First Lady… someone we could all be proud of.

          Hillary or McCain ’08!!!

  • Anon 1

    Obama needs to havce a townhall debate with John Mccain if he wants to be viewed as a serious candidate. Otherwise this empty suit celebrity will stick

    • Mr.Murder

      Why should Obama have a debate? He avoided that with Hillary.

      “Uhmmm, what she said…”

    • pasmalltowngirl

      He would have to either take Hillary with him or wait till he has a V.P. pick, so they can answer any major issue for him.

      • imustprotest

        It’s like when Bush had to take Cheney along when he was testifying before the 9/11 commission.

    • mahaska

      He’s too chicken. bar-awwwk, bar-awwwk!

  • WildChild

    Garry Trudeau hit it spot on when he depicted Papa Bush as a feather. The guy had a great resume but always seemed like a lightweight in that always he said what he had to say, regardless of any contradictions with previous statements and rarely took any kind of firm stand. I had to laugh out loud when Trudeau depicted the son as the same feather but with a cowboy hat and then later a roman soldiers hat. W was the same empty suit as dear old dad, just more stupid, more arrogant and more dangerous. If BOBO is elected, Trudeau is going to have a new feather to lampoon for a four year term. But this one will get a halo… and probably kill us all.

    • workingclass artist

      GWB = Unresolved Oedipus Issues….Result Big Trouble
      BHO II = Uresolved Oedipus Issues + Serious Conflict With His Inner Cracker +
      No Restraint…..Result Bigger Trouble

      *** OPRAH CANNOT CURE PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES….SHE’S UNQUALIFIED ***

      • Kevin

        I’m in touch with my inner cracker

        • workingclass artist

          LOL….Did you ever read that Newsweek ( mid 90′s ) about what DNA was proving about the genetic makeup of race ? It was a great story and I saved it somewhere….anyway I showed it to a favorite righteous bigot I like to needle sometimes who has been tryin for years to turn me into a christian ( Catholics don’t qualify ). He about had a fit when the article stated that if you were descended from Ol’ Time Cracker Families in the South….who owned Plantations yada..yada..yada…You most likely had a Jefferson Type who had kids and it shows up in your DNA….Kinda like The Indians ( Native Americans )…..So If Obama hands out Reparations will Crackers who have AA in their genes qualify…..Will there be a formula like the Tribes have…a percentage ? Will Sally Hemmings Partially Cracker Cousins be eligible ? What about Cheney ? Kinda gets complicated….No ?
          Obama has set back Race Relations/Progress 40 years….sheeesh!

          • tzada

            Wonder how much Misery and his kids would collect if he rams it through? Himself too? But he will be KING of the WORLD and get it ALL.

            • workingclass artist

              The whole thing is ridiculous and I’m a refusnik….Unless the Queen O’ England ponys and buys my Po’ Mick Ass a New Car and restores the ancestral potato farm in Ireland that the Brits strved my family out of…Makes as Much Sense….But Hey! The Romans Owe Everybody
              WRIIIGHT ?
              And what about those Viking Hordes and Atilla the Rampaging Hun ?

              • mahaska

                I’m not to pleased with the Mongols overrunning eastern Europe either.

          • Kevin

            What is truly amusing is that there is no one of BHOs supporters who can/will answer my question. Other than some blather about improving schools (like he and Ayers did in Chicago, not). How would it work? How would you figure it out, does a recipient of a good/great education get some? Does the beneficiary of affirmative action get less? How about the chinese laborers who built the railroads? They weren’t exactly paid or treated well, but were not “owned”. How about the mine workers in the 1800s? They were owned in all but name by the coal companies, but fought for their worker’s rights, and slowly gained the right to organize. How about the decendents of the civil war troops?
            Where does it stop?

            • workingclass artist

              BINGO….This is why FASCISM is seductive to idiots….and dangerous.
              There is no end to it…Hell if Obama becomes POTUS the Pope better move out of the Vatican.

          • ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

            I did the Natl Geo dna project, traces the matriarchal dna back to its origin

            Africa baby!!!

            my Italian and Irish sides all of us all came from one migrating woman from Africa at one point many many eons ago….

            yep

            we are all ONE

            WE ARE THE WORRRRRRLD

            • workingclass artist

              That is cool….We are all one tribe….And Obama and his gang of little fascists just cannot handle it….Separatist Whining….sheeesh!

            • mahaska

              OK, we are all one, but I refuse to sing any Disney songs.

  • NoObamislamists

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-07-31-obama-mccain_N.htm?csp=34

    I see Hussein Obama couldn’t resist playing the race card again this morning…

    Barack Obama, the first black candidate with a shot at winning the White House, says John McCain and his Republican allies will try to scare them by saying Obama “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”

    Obama did not make clear what distinctions McCain was likely to raise regarding the presidents on U.S. currency, men who are white and, for the most part, much older than Obama when they were elected. McCain has not raised Obama’s race outright as an issue in the campaign, though he has said that Obama lacks experience

    • mahaska

      And also dead

    • pasmalltowngirl

      Oh pleeaaseeeee, That line is so worn out already. Geesh, his young speech writer needs to come up with a new excuse for him to cover the fact that he is a joke. But he is correct, that he does look different, and not because he’s black, he looks different because he is wearing a mask to disguise the real Barack Obama.

  • katmandu

    Other polls have now confirmed what Rasmussen Reports was the first to report on Monday–that Obama’s Berlin bounce faded as quickly as it came and the Democrat enjoyed no gain from his world tour.

    New data released today shows that 30% of conservative Democrats plan to vote for John McCain. Nineteen percent (19%) of White Democrats say the same. Full crosstabs are available for Premium Members. There are nearly twice as many uncommitted voters today as there were four years ago in late July . . .

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

    Apparently the Obama advocates on this site think only a few people distrust Obama and will or may vote for McCain. Yet the numbers above suggest millions feel the same way.

    • getfitnow

      And as one of those uncommitted voters, I am committed to voting for McCain.

      Rise Hillary, Rise ’12

  • MEchelle Hates America!

    What symbol would you use for Oblowme?

  • wodiej

    I know young people are convinced of their belief in Obama and what they think he stands for. People like Obama are very conniving and charming. I’ve known people like him. It is easy to get caught up in it. Obama’s supporters are mainly very young and at that age people are very immature and some very naive.

    • katmandu

      I agree with you. Hey, I was young and irrational once. Really. Three kids changes one a lot.

      Here’s a nifty article from the LA Times Blog, asking

      Where did Barack Obama’s mojo go?

      Something’s going on. Or some things.

      A new CNN/Opinion Research poll out Wednesday shows that despite nine solid days of blanket media coverage from overseas with Barack Obama cheered by adoring throngs of Germans and parlez-vousing with the French, making a three-point shot in the Middle East and standing outside No. 10 Downing Street, the freshman Illinois Democratic presidential nominee to be Senator Barack Obama of Illinois stayed static in the polls despite his well-covered long foreign tripsenator is stuck right where he was in the polls before he left.

      No bounce. Not even a roll.

      http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/07/obama-mccain-po.html

      Anyone remember that old Buffalo Springfield protest song, “Something’s happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear.”?

      The writer, Andrew Malcolm, has some ideas –

      Several strategists of both parties sense Americans want to vote for Obama, but something is holding them back. Or several somethings, as we suggested up top.

      Maybe Obama’s flips — his outspoken opposition to denouncing the Rev. Jeremiah Wright until he did, his promise to take public campaign financing, since broken, his eagerness to debate McCain in townhalls, now abandoned, his apparent unwillingness to see progress in the Iraq troop surge, which he opposed and predicted would worsen sectarian violence?

      Is there a simmering concern over arrogance by the Ivy League lawyer and mere candidate who so blithely patted the French president on the back for a well-done news conference? Asked the other day if he ever doubted himself, Obama replied smartly, “Never!” And grinned broadly. Sounded more like a 20-year-old than someone about to turn 47 next week.

      Gee, ya think?

      Obama’s talking change too. But he’s a legislator who’s been in Washington three years now, two of them as a member of a Democratic-controlled Congress that was elected in 2006 with great promise but currently holds historically low favorability ratings.

      What’s Obama done for D.C. change since arriving? What’s Obama done for reform back home within the historically monolithic and corrupt Chicago Democratic machine, where some up-and-comers are sent off to Congress for seasoning before advancing to the big-time of City Council?

      The longer the Obama campaign goes without pulling comfortably ahead of the former fighter pilot who was trained to stay on his opponent’s tail, the more worrisome it’ll become for chief strategist David Axelrod (see photo) and others behind the closed doors in their Windy City headquarters.

      Now the staffers scanning the site for BHO go back and tell the campaign that independent writers are asking the same disturbing questions the PUMAs are asking.

      • WildChild

        At the end of their career, the bee gees had been so successful and so much in the public eye that radio stations were starting to offer no bee gees weekends because people were burning out on them. I’ve been hoping the same thing would happen to BOBO. He’s certainly been helping it along by always going for flash over substance. This is good because BOBO seems to forget the job he is running for is all about substance. The flash we can do without.

        • http://nobho.blogspot.com/ Johnny at Work

          The Hebee Jeebees always made me puke with their “Meaningless Songs in Very High Voices”.

          The Obots of today are the same as the mindless throngs of yesterday who listened to that crap.

          The Hebee Jeebees made me puke, but Ibama pegs the Puke-O-Meter way off the scale.

  • pm317

    Susan, does not hurt to go back to this clip: we’re forewarned but SDs did not listen. It is on their heads now. Let us defeat everyone of them, starting with this nincompoop.

    Remember this? Obama gaffe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxBX8sz3tO8

    • MEchelle Hates America!

      I CAN’T HEAR MYSELF?! Is he being fed this crap via some electronic device?

      It reminds me of the movie Roxanne with Steve Martin giving lines to the dimwit check the box guy.

      If GWB had done this, the MSM would go apeshit!

      • mahaska

        I commented when this happened that he hadn’t learned his lines very well, because he was trying to reconstruct the exact sentence. If you are speaking extemporaneously you would just phrase it another way.

    • PS

      The video ended…did he ever finish the statement and how long did it take him.

      • pm317

        If you google you may find longer versions of it. But it was painful to see him pouncing on a poor audience member for his own failing. There were other incidents of stuttering like this in the same townhall — Bristol, VA.

        • mahaska

          I’ll bet the ladies went home to rethink their support. Nobody likes to be embarrassed in public.

  • http://www.sugarnspice.typepad.com SUGAR

    Gosh, how the media can let this foolishness slide is beyond me. I’ve never seen a group of middle aged professionals in a public industry give up all sense of reason so easily. It would be one thing if it were just one network or just a handful of journalists, but so many of them are just turning a blind eye it’s nauseating.

    • WildChild

      The media is making money off it. They gotta go with what sells. Even if it is a flash in the pan, one hit wonder, destined for obscurity.

      • workingclass artist

        Agree with you Sugar….MSM American = NewsPorn

      • pew

        Fox News Hannity and Oreilly, are the only people in the Media that are being Honest about Obama.imo

        Obama needs to step down,and Bring back Hillary..

        The race should be between Hillary and Mccain.

        Two people Americans can trust!!!

  • Ani

    Susan,

    Wow — just heard this inflating the tires nonsense.

    I have to say, my hubby called this one from get-go. I never wanted Obama but I did think he was smart. Hub has been saying since Feb. that he’s another Bush — not real bright.

    You know what — he called it.

    Wake up, Super Delegates.

    Wake up, America. (I mean the half that always seems to sleep through the good judgment and common sense parts of the equation when making therse decisions!)

    • pm317

      My husband too. At first he thought I was overly critical of Obama because of my support for Clinton. But he only had to see a couple of examples of this charlatan — we never fell for his speechmaking skills and anything related to his eloquence went out the door when we first saw him do all stuttering without a teleprompter and a script. Apparently in France with Sarkozy in that press conference he was looking at his little note cards — can you believe that? His first reason for not going to visit wounded troops, he could not take some General with him — why didn’t he go alone? Why did he need this General as chaperon?

      • Boxer Mum 06

        Ever since the world began
        Women been banned from the ways of man
        Listen boy cuz I’ve got a plan
        Give it up, don’t try and understand

        It ain’t me
        It’s the people that say
        Men are leading the women astray
        But I say, it’s the women today
        Smarter than the man in every way

        That’s right
        The women are smarter
        That’s right
        The women are smarter
        That’s right
        The women are smarter
        The women are smarter
        That’s right

  • obamaphobe

    Todays Gallup:

    Gallup Daily: Obama 45%, McCain 44%
    Race returns to statistical tie

    July 31, 2008The race for the presidency has moved back into a statistical tie in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update of national registered voters, with Barack Obama now ahead of John McCain by just one point, 45% to 44%.

    • Kevin

      The trend is our friend

  • NO for O

    CAUTION: Obamanella Burgers are very bad for you. They can lead to serious or permanent brain injury.

    • Hope Floats

      Soylent Change Is PEOPLE!

      • workingclass artist

        ROFLMO….Hopefloats…You are hot today my friend! Keep it up

  • indypol

    It looks like Obama’s European adventure was the anti-mojo :

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/07/obama-mccain-po.html?cid=124703610#comments

  • james

    Actually, it’s true. Under-inflated tires decrease an automobile’s fuel efficiency by about 0.4% for every 1 PSI they are below their recommended PSI. For the average automobile, with gas at $4.08 per gallon, being 1 pound below recommended PSI adds the equivalent of $0.12 per gallon to your fuel costs.

    http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/maintain.shtml

    There are over 30 million cars on the road in the United States. Most owners don’t keep their tires properly inflated.

    “More than a quarter of all cars and nearly one-third of all SUVs, vans and pickups are driven with tires at least 8 pounds below their proper levels, according to a new survey by the Department of Transportation.

    “If all Americans kept their tires properly inflated, NRDC estimates the nation would cut its gasoline use by 2 percent.”

    http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/fensec.asp

    A 2% reduction in gasoline useage would have the effect Obama alluded to.

    If the government required fuel efficient replacement tires, this would save 5.4 billion barrels of oil over the next 50 years–70 percent more than the total amount of economically recoverable oil that is likely available from the Arctic Refuge over the same time period.

    Fuel-efficient replacement tires add only $2.50 to $5.00 to the cost of a new tire.

    • Kevin

      And how do we mandate to Americans to keep their tires inflated?
      I’m all for conservation. I am not referring to drilling ANWR, and neither is Senator McCain. We need more domestic oil production, and we cannot transfer to a oil free economy in 10 years like Gore suggests. I am not referring to economics, but security and freedom from mid-east oil.

      • obamaphobe

        You mandate it with the “Tire Police”. Part of Obama’s Civilian Police Force.

        • Kevin

          Will they be the “officer friendly” type
          Or the sadistic prison guard type?

        • PKJayne

          LOL!!!!!!!! ROFL!!!!!

      • workingclass artist

        Why does this remind me Of St. Jimmy and his cardigan sweater moment…SHEEESH!

    • flyingsongster

      Uh huh, and you must be one of those people who say that America uses 25% of the world’s energy.
      Did you ever notice, that our citizens live in houses? We have electricity?
      The comparison by the MSM is hilarious. Of course we use more energy.

      The tire inflating answer to the energy crisis, is as crazy as the 25% energy usage argument. The only way we will lower our energy usage, is to lower our standard of living.

      Huts anyone?

    • ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

      helloooo, he BIT the line off Hillary again, but he failed to provide the analysis to support iot, he said we can just inflate tires and get engines checked INSTEAD of drilling, which is total BS

      CHINA is taking our oil off the coast of CUBA dude

      America is ready to drill offshore NOW

      I am in NRDC WWF and I am ready to drill here now now now

      this is a big losing issue for the DEMS, Hill took it away from MAC in the primaries with her excess windfall profit tax funded gas tax holiday, to oppose MACs, and take the issue back, MORON Obummer stepped right into the trap with his arrogance, Pelosi and Reid are in it too

      tsk tsk
      perpare to lose seats in the Fall, betcha !!

      • ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

        and if you drive a 20 yr old car inflating your tires wont cut it either, you need more, you need more supply, you need it all, wind solar, drilling, nat gas, all of it, to get it we need compromise, what happened to Obummer meeting across the aisle, la la la??

    • mahaska

      Thank you professor, like we didn’t already know that.

      • mahaska

        post was for James.

        Y’all are too fast for me with the posts.

  • Raging Tiger!

    Here’s a message to the Feminazis for “equality”.
    Women don’t have any “professional accomplishments”.They only “accomplish” through the Hard work of MEN. MEN built the offices you hard in. they built the cars you drive. They built the roads you ride on. They built the cell phones you talk on..They created the government you complain about, yet want to do “more’ for you!! While you would sit on your fat ASS,and hate men and the patriarchy! I think I should send you back to the year 700, have you live in a time when no men existed, to see if you would survive! You would live in a cave in the middle of nowhere, with disease, and bugs crawling around you!! You probably wouldn’t last long!!!!!!!!! And if you GODDAMN BITCHES say My “dick is small” , I will say your breasts are small, and shriveled up!! I can insult as well as you can, so FUCK OFF WHORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fuck Off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STICK IT SO FAR UP YOUR GODDAMN HUGE ASS, that you CHOKE ON IT BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • flyingsongster

      Have you thought about seeking out therapy?

      • Hope Floats

        This dude is wearing some woman’s skin right now. He needs more than therapy.

        • Kevin

          lmfao

          Just the thought of Jame Gumm prancing around saying “i’d **** me!” is causing me to suppress laughter.

          • james

            Sometimes there’s stuff we can agree on. I’ll help if you want to throw this guy under the bus. I’ll check to make sure the tires are properly inflated…

            • Kevin

              I’m still trying to figure out the year 700 and no men around line

              • mahaska

                AD or BC? or BCE?

        • workingclass artist

          Hopefloats…That is scary funny…LOL

        • Zeke

          At first, I thought about blowin’ him out of the water but now I think he’s kinda funny. Sounds like a knucklehead Iranian I knew about the time of the Assahola Cockamamie. He used to get all would up and drooling, eyes wide open, yelling translations of some stupid Iranian insults. Stuff like “I slap your goats testicles with my sandal, you Infidel!”
          He was about five foot nuthin’ in heels. I used to pick him up by his belt and collar and toss him out of the bar.
          So much for Iranian-American relations in the late 70′s.

      • ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

        dont think they cover that in Gaza do they?

    • obamaphobe

      Raging Tiger…Your mother obviously survived long enough to bear the likes of you. And hopefully survives despite you. Do you speak to her like that?

    • Kevin

      So is this Francis, sfhillary or some other recycled troll?
      Just ran into some BHO campaigners when I walked uptown for a coffee, asked if i wanted to help BHO this weekend, I politely informed them that I was thankful that BHO had made me wake up and think. They paused for a moment, then the gleam took over their eyes, that’s great they said. I told them that if it wasn’t for BHO I wouldn’t have left the democratic party.
      Good luck kiddies

      • Zeke

        Kevin,
        Please take a camera with you so you can share a Kodak Moment for us next time. The jaw-drop effect is too cute to pass up!
        :)

    • ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

      women BUILT the men you think accomplish so much sweetie, in our uteri, LOL whadda maroon!!

    • Fred C. Dobbs

      I’m not sure of this guy needs a Thorazine drip or a Rusty Trombone…

  • james

    I figure Americans are smarter than they’re sometimes given credit for. Fuel efficient replacement tires should and could be mandated. With proper tire inflation, Americans only need a clear explanation and the encouragement of regular reminders. Public service announcments. Maybe a mandated sticker they’d see on gasoline pumps every time they gas up. Something to remind them it’s good for their individual wallets and for family safety. And proper tire pressure is patriotic. A responsible government would be reminding us.

    We’ve fallen into some sort of dysfunctional psychology. We have a common problem, but we’v been led to believe we have no personal responsibility when it comes to fixing it. The government wants us to believe our own responsibility is limited to simply voting for someone who will fix things for us.

    This, I think, is symptomatic. It’s like Bush’s war in Iraq. We were never called on to make personal sacrifices as citizens toward a cause we were told was so important. Instead, Bush lowered our taxes and borrowed billions, hiding the costs and leaving the sacrifices to the future. We were encouraged to pull out our credit cards and consume to stimulate the economy. Same thing now, it seems. The government borrowed billions, handed out the money in stimulus checks, and told us to go spend it. As if increasing debt would somehow fix things. Common sense and actual conservative values seem to have flown out the window. John McCain certainly isn’t looking for them.

    I’m not against increased domestic oil and gas production. That’s obviously necessary as we transition to alternative energy, which we really have no choice about if we want to have a future. Unrestrained offshore drilling, though, I see as an industry scam. It won’t have a significant effect “sometimes in months” as McCain carelessly stated a few days ago. The significant increase in supplies would be 10 years away–when alternative energies could be coming online in a very big way, if we begin the big push now.

    The industry wants the offshore oil in 10 years to sell to the Chinese and Indian markets. That’s what the offshore development is all about: Enormous profits from foreign markets.

    In my humble opinion, of course…

    • workingclass artist

      It’s not about sacrifices or adjustments or adaptation….It’s about Obama sounding like a sanctimonious IDIOT !….( sigh ) I haven’t seen any SOLAR UNITS at the Chicago Rezkoshack….But Hey! His Granny in Kenya has a mini unit but no….INDOOR PLUMBING….that would be way too imperialistic and might adversely effect Granny’s connection to Culture….sheeesh!

      • MEchelle Hates America!

        workingclass artist

        Chicago Rezkoshack

        Too perfect in this context.

    • Kevin

      James, I agree that unrestrained offshore drilling is dangerous, but what I believe is that a reasonable increase in exploration and production, combined with increased conservation and alternative energy development will have a combined effect. What that effect will be is an increase in our security, by a decrease in our reliance on Mid-East oil, and an increase in domestic production will have an impact on the futures market, not today, but eventually.
      The most important aspect to me is reducing and eliminating our dependance on the Saudis, because we are their servant. And look what that gets us.

      • Fred C. Dobbs

        We can find all the oil under North America tomorrow, but we are WAY short of refining capacity.

        Crude gotta be cracked!

        BP os shutting down the refinery at Bakersfield soon, probably adding 8 cents/gallon to CAL fuel.

        Takes almost as long to build a refinery as a nuke plant…

        There’s lots of refining capacity in the Western Hemisphere (north half): Aruba, Punta Cardon, VZ, Hess VI, Peerless in Puerto Rico, etc.

        But we’d have to kiss some serious ass to get our crude cracked. AND, it takes two tanker trips: crude terminal to refinery; then refinery to Distribution terminal.

  • Sassy

    Noname
    why don’t you and your kin saddle your “braying jack-ass” and ride along?
    P.S. take a guide, cause none of you know where your going!

  • Raging Tiger!!

    No, I don’t HAVE to speak to my mom like that. And whatever our differences are,(WE disagree on a lot) She is NOT a total Feminist NUTCASE like so many people that I have met!!! AND She doesn’t like Hillary any more than I do!!….YES!!!!!!!!!!! She is almost 70 years old, is on vacation often, and is quite possibly checking into a nursing home.BUT That is besides the point!!! I have been to FEMINIST websites and blogs, where the author of the website says things to people like “Fuck off”, “Get lost”. “Go to Hell” “slam your little dick in a door” Haha Uppity, etc. If they can insult their political opposition that way by using those words, then why can’t I? It seems like a winning strategy for them! And you still haven’t addressed feminuts living off man’s inventions and immense help, while screaming “I DONT NEED A MAN”, while living longer off these inventions, and becoming an ever larger percent of the rich and middle-class, while yelling “I”m oppressed!” But whatever. RAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REVOLUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    RIOT!!!!!!!!!!! END THE PIG STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GGGRRRRRRRR!!!!! RoAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • workingclass artist

      Clean up in Aisle 6

      • imustprotest

        I forgot the name for this troll….maybe there isn’t one. Wait, Barry? Is that you?

        • Kevin

          sfhillary
          has a thing for uppity it seems
          not reciprocal

        • mahaska

          I think it’s mo.

          • Kevin

            but are they all one?
            that’s the $64,000 question

    • Kevin

      and after that, I must vote for BHO?
      such a compelling and well-reasoned argument must be listened to.

    • obamaphobe

      I am not a feminist “nutcase”. Just the average hard working woman, wife, mother who is disappointed that the DNC selected an un-qualified candidate as our nominee. I’m sorry for your GGGRRRR…anger. And, you can express your anger any way you wish. But, with that kind of talk, don’t expect much in response to it. Have a better day Tiger!

    • Idiocracy08

      so someone doesn’t like girls…
      isn’t that so elementary school?

      • mahaska

        I’ve been thinking of drawing a cartoon of the white house with a sign on a nail hanging on it saying No Gurlz.

    • http://! Buzz Latte

      Another twelve year old with no personal power…

  • Kevin

    flapping enema hose
    butterfly net
    yawn
    it’s sfhillary
    still not taking his meds

    who built the b-29s?
    who built the liberty ships?

    (that’s WWII if they skipped over that minor event in history for psychos in the Arkham Asylum)

    • Fred C. Dobbs

      My sainted Granny was the best fucking machinist that God ever put on the planet. If you wanted to know, just wait about an hour and she’d tell ya.

  • typical.white.person

    Birth certificate of child linked to Edwards lists no father

    The birth certificate of a child who a tabloid newspaper claims is linked to former Sen. John Edwards doesn’t identify a father.

    The certificate, obtained by The Charlotte Observer today, shows Frances Quinn Hunter was born Feb. 27, more than two months after an Edwards aide claimed to be the father. Andrew Young, a former Edwards campaign finance director, claimed paternity in a statement from his lawyer posted at the political blog mydd.com.

    The girl was born at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, Calif., to Rielle Jaya James Druck, also known as Rielle Hunter. Hunter, 44, was a videographer on Edwards’ presidential campaign last year.

    Asked Thursday why no father was listed on the birth certificate, Hunter’s attorney, Robert Gordon of New York, said, “A lot of women do that.”

    Reminded that he and Hunter had publicly revealed the father’s identity two months earlier to the National Enquirer, Gordon said, “That’s a personal matter between them.”

    Gordon declined to comment further.

    • typical.white.person

      One question is, how can the media obtain this birth certificate, but not Obama’s?

      • workingclass artist

        Good Question indeed….TWP

    • Fred C. Dobbs

      If that was her first kid, at 44, that’s Some Broad!

  • RMinNC

    I think obama has been smoking some of that wacky weed he wrote about, or sniffing some of that white powder he praised in his book. I think whatever it is has fried his brain. His comments claiming “if only we inflate our tires and get a tune-up, we can save as much oil as we would get by drilling” just shows his total ignorance! Anyone who acccepting that comment as a viable energy policy in lieu of drilling is just as stupid(perhaps more so) as he is! Did obama get a Law degree from Harvard, or a simple certificate of completion from kindergarten in Chicago? Now that is the 64,000 dollar question isn’t it? God hurry November so we can get this insulting madness over!

  • Northwest rain

    Raging Tiger = OBAMA

  • Bruce

    RaginG tiger says:
    “I have been to FEMINIST websites and blogs, where the author of the website says things to people like “Fuck off”, “Get lost”. “Go to Hell” “slam your little dick in a door” Haha Uppity, etc. If they can insult their political opposition that way by using those words, then why can’t I?”

    Good point. The “progressives” for “equality” can insult people to promote their own candidate or ideas, but if you do it back to them, they cry foul, or object. Checkmate.

  • Tom

    NO DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN FACISM!!!
    The Hippie Coup Revolution is here!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We will march on your streets, throw open the gates, and STORM THE DAMN CASTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK YOU ESTABLISHMENT!!!!!!!!!!!FUCKING RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Peace Train!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE ARE the PotHEAD Socialist REVOLUTION!!!!!!!!!!!! NO justice!!!, NO peace!!!!!!!!!!Things will be different after the revolution!! Nirvana is OURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE will change the FUCKING WORLD FACISTS!!!!! Spirit of 68′!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    THE 60′s are NOT over!!! Hey, does anyone here have some pot that I can smoke??? YEEEHAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Zeke

      Did somebody forget their Ritalin today?
      Tommy-boy…. whew,
      Slowly now, keep your hands where we can see ‘em and back away from the computer…. good. Now take a freakin’ breath!
      You don’t need to get tossed outta’ here just yet but be a good boy now or its the garbage chute for ya’…