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By SusanUnPC on August 2, 2008 at 12:06 AM in Current Affairs, Open Thread

Our blog, and many others, were inaccessible to IE browser users tonight for a while. Someone attacked Sitemeter. Once we removed that feature, the site worked again for everyone. The trickiest part was finding out why the site wasn’t working, but our writer Ani did some digging and came up with the answer. Three cheers for Ani!

That is why we took down the YouTube about Hillary for a short while. We wondered if there was a problem with its code, but it had nothing to do with that. Thanks so much for your patience. I bet a lot of blog owners were scratching their heads tonight!

  • Matthew Weaver

    Cute, even their site is still down.

  • Denisem

    Three cheers for Ani! Applause!

  • Joe

    Booyah!

  • Hillary’sSimplytheBest

    Yea for Ani! Thanks

  • typical.white.person

    No wonder I didn’t notice the problem.

    First, I use Firefox.

    And second, I use the ABP add-on (and No-Script add-on), which blocks sitemeter.

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

    Astonishingly, Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod now admits that Ibama played the RACE CARD in Missouri, and that the multiple references in Ibama’s speeches to Presidents on dollar bills was about race.

    Axelrod, acknowledged on “Good Morning America” Friday that the candidate was referring, at least in part, to his ethnic background. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/story?id=5495348&page=1

    When pressed to explain the comment, David Axelrod told “Good Morning America” it meant, “He’s not from central casting when it comes to candidates for president of the United States. He’s new to Washington. Yes, he’s African-American.”

    As previously pointed out by McCain, Ibama played the “Race Card” in Missouri. The networks reported Ibamas comparison with the Presidents on the dollar bills, but they did not report Ibamas comment about being Black.

    This has been reported. “What they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me,” Obama said. “You know, ‘He’s not patriotic enough, he’s got a funny name,’ you know, ‘He doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.’”

    This injection of race in the same speech has not been reported. “It’s a leap, electing a 46-year-old black guy named Barack Obama,” Said Ibama.

    The video of the speech was posted by the Ibama Campaign, but they recently scrubbed it from youtube.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o5IQvMl4A0

    This is the same scare tactic used by Ibama during his attempt to shake down Hillary supporters for cash. And again during a fundraiser among his supporters in Jacksonville.

    OBAMA: We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me,”

    “He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black? Obama told the crowd, which cheered.

    http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/tag/fundraiser/

    The only person injecting RACE into the campaign has been IBAMA.

    Post Racial My Ass

    • CountryFirst

      That same old song coming out of Obama’s mouth is getting old, old, old. He keeps reminding us of how black he is to avoid telling us how inexperienced he is.

    • BernieO

      I was annoyed that he brought this up in his Berlin speech, too, but the media was oblivious. What the heck do they think when he makes the remark about not looking like other presidents? Do they think he is referring to not wearing a powdered wig? Hillary looks less like the guys on our money than Barack does.
      If you read the NYTimes piece on his days as a “law professor” you will see that Obama was obsessed with race then, just like he is now.
      http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/politics/30law.html?_r=1&ei=5087&em=&en=861f132206d3885d&ex=1217649600&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
      He is projecting his obsession on the rest us. Just imagine Colin Powell going on and on about race the way this neophyte does.

    • Obama is a bum

      Obama is sitting there with nothing else to play but the race card. Obama is trying to back into the presidency with as little record and experience as he can since he knows if he hung around the Senate for another 4 years he would have been a big flop and his chance would have passed him by.

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

        if he would have hung around the senate for another 4 years instead of running for president he would have been indicted along with his buddy Tony Rezko for the Tenement scam they ran in chicago.

        • http://www.greensunshine.net jadwiga

          It may not be entirely out of the picture. If he falls, he will fall deep. There are too many skeletons. One (or more) will bite him.

          Oh, and he WILL fall.

      • CountryFirst

        Your view is very much in line with information found in the preceeding link provided by BernieO.

    • jwrjr

      I’m not afraid of B. Hussein Obama. Disgusted, yes. But not afraid.

  • Joe

    Judah Benjamin has a new article posted at TexasDarlin’s site. Hope it gets posted here at NoQuarter as well.

  • TeakwoodKite

    Way to go Ani!

  • Cahil

    When you have no policies, you flip-flop on the ones you supposedly had, you should be soaring in the polls but are tanking, the only thing you can do is play the race card. It reminds me of a drunk who stumbled out of a bar in New York, a complete stranger mind you, followed me for three blocks screaming at the top of his lungs “You hate me don’t you? You hate me ’cause I’m black.” Finally, I turned, confronted him and replied “No, I don’t hate you because you’re black. I hate you because you’re an assh—-.” Same applies this time too.

  • sayitisntso

    Thanks, Joe, I just read the last post on Obama’s possible dual citizenship.

  • Thomas

    I was making a comment about Memorandum.com only showing sites like Huffpost, DK, TM, displaying that hit piece from the NY Daily News when I got kicked off NQ. I downloaded Mozilla Firefox IE to continue surfing the net. In case you have problems with trolls in the future, this is a backup to keep in the back of your mind.

  • Hillary’sSimplytheBest

    BREAKING NEWS >>> Another controversial book about Obummer is coming called “The case against Barack Obama”. More about this on H&C Fox News Monday.

    How many more are there? Geez this looks bad for Barky. I feel bad for him… really, really, I do. ;)

    • jwrjr

      Citizen Obama can have all the foibles that he wants. For President-candidate (he’s not yet the nominee and with luck never will be) Obama it is another matter entirely.

    • csuzeq

      And soon, Hype-the Obama effect movie is coming out. It is out September 1st.

    • beebop

      Doesn’t Unka Jerry have a book deal?

  • Carla Purks

    It was either early in the primaries or when BHO ran unopposed for his Senate seat in IL that MRO, while campaigning for her husband, threw this line out about “his name being funny, he’s Black and oh, he’s a Muslim too.” Seems like he needs to leave her lines out–he now has to figure out how to back out of this one. Don’t guess he can go back to Philadelphia and give the race speech again.

    Perhap he better leave the long speeches alone period. Fmr US ambassador to the UN, takes BHO to task about his speech in Berlin “One-World Spiel Radical- if Real.”

    Sounds like he and his surrogates need new ideas or at best some CHANGE in direction.

    HRC gave him advance notice that she had already been tested and could handle the GOP, but now we have a Democratic candidate who is well educated and sounding more and more like a whinner versus a winner everyday. No problem–I decided before HRC suspended her campaign what I would do this fall.

    • Hillary’sSimplytheBest

      Throw OBummmer out for Change (replace with HRC) we CAN believe in…

      • jwrjr

        I saw a bumper sticker that said “NObama – keep the change”.

        • Clinton Fan

          I do BELIEVE that’s the funniest thing I could HOPE to hear this evening!!!

        • CountryFirst

          I want one!

        • Hillary’sSimplytheBest

          Good one, I like it. But what a TROLL magnet. Don’t need that thank you very much.

          • beebop

            Heavens. You’d come back and find that your car looked like it had been used for target practice.

        • JoseyJ

          “NObama – keep the change” – that’s a good one!
          LOL
          I saw “Dems for McCain – no Hussein”

        • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

          Now that’s one bumper sticker I’d be safe putting on my car. I learned the hard way when I had a Kerry/Edwards sticker.

          I hope it fits in with my “Art Saves Lives” and “Save Our Farmland” stickers.

  • Clinton Fan

    You know, I never–well, not never, but rarely, use Firefox, but my first instinct was to try it with that, because I kept getting that error message.

    I kinda like Firefox…it takes some getting used to, but it seems pretty peppy.

    So, those childish Obamahackers did me a favor, though they didn’t intend to …..

    • Ferdlberfle

      I’ve been using it for about a week and like it. It is better than that bug-ridden “competitor’s” product.

  • MikeB

    I was not able to access this site earlier this evening. I use IE 7 and I kept getting the message operation aborted.

    • bert

      I had the same problem here and over at Liberal Rapture and a few other anti-Obama sites. I figured it was an Obamaattack. But I am not tech savvy enough and don’t know about all these new things like Firefox to do anything about it. Obama trolls must really hate freedom, especually freedom of speech.

  • jbjd

    BO didn’t actually say that Berliners hadn’t seen a President who looked like him; he said they hadn’t seen an American who looked like him.
    “I know that I don’t look like the Americans who’ve previously spoken in this great city.”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,567932,00.html

    But Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice was there, before him.
    http://photos.state.gov/galleries/germany/70808/rice-palestine/4.html
    And before her, there was Secretary of State Colin Powell.
    http://germany.usembassy.gov/germany/afghanistan_conf.html

    • http://www.greensunshine.net jadwiga

      This is a gem.

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

      Of course Ibama does not “look like the Americans who’ve previously spoken in this great city”.

      An that includes Powell and Rice.

      Wo could ever mistake Ibama with someone who had an actual resume and accomplishments?

    • Thomas

      OOPS

      • jbjd

        Thank you all for appreciating this information. Now, please, pass it on.

    • Ferdlberfle

      Or all of the black GIs over there as a part of USAREUR.

      What a drooling moron.

    • http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/02/michelle-obama-dont-trust-bloggers-because-people-lie/ Kelly

      Jesse Owens spoke to 75,000 Berliners in the 1950s.
      Mary Church, daughter of slaves, spoke in Berlin for a woman’s suffrage caucus in 1905. She gave her speech in French, English and German.
      W.E.B. DuBois went to university there in the 1890s for two years; he later received an honorary degree from the same university in East Berlin in the 1950s.
      Langston Hughes performed poetry there.
      Michael Jackson got some Humanitarian awared there and he too spoke.

      • Kevin

        Jesse Owens spoke to 75,000 Berliners in the 1950s.

        And one Austrian

        • http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/02/michelle-obama-dont-trust-bloggers-because-people-lie/ Kelly

          Close- that Austrian was already toast when Jesse returned from his first visit in 1936. The mayor of Berlin said something like “Hitler would not shake your hand, but I will.” The crowd went nuts.

      • mimi

        Kelly,

        Thanks for the quick history lesson.

        Obama is just plain embarrassing. Him, and his drooling kool-aid morons.

        The statement is founded on a bullshit premise as you have just proved. And another thing, there are Africans and African Americans spread out all over the world now as immigrants, exchange students, American military and Ambassadors with families.

        I guess he forgot that Africans have Diplomats in European countries.

        Obama is dumb as rocks.

        • http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/02/michelle-obama-dont-trust-bloggers-because-people-lie/ Kelly

          Thanks, Mimi

          To him, this is the Year Zero. He is trying to break down our patriotism and sell himself as the only ONE to restore it. I had spent half a day finding those people- I provided links and exact dates on an earlier post.

          He is so reckless with his speeches. He will say anything. If he felt he needed to remind everyone that he is black again, he should have shared the stage with those who came there first.

          He is just SO special. puke.

      • ritamary

        Donna Summer’s career was launched in Germany. I think she was married to a German.

  • jbjd

    I think I just figured out how to contest BO’s eligibility to run for President, based on questions as to whether he is a natural born citizen!

    Anyone wishing to appear on the ballot for President must register with the Secretaries of State in the individual states, according to their rules regarding numbers of signatures; and citizenship. The timetables for contesting the validity of ballot submissions are listed for each state. So, if BO manages to take the nomination in August then, his people will file paperwork to get him on the ballots of the 50 states. At this time, people can file individual challenges against his eligibility with the individual Secretaries of State.

    For a full discussion of BO’s legal eligibility to be POTUS, see http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/birth-certificate-obama-soetoro-or-dunham/

  • http://safari AnnieCarmel

    He floated his plan for wealth redistribution by confiscating oil profits to help the poor. So far it’s getting the lead balloon treatment.

    Does he ever think past his radical/socialist agenda? What happens to the people who have retirement investment plans, mutual funds, etc.?

    Wonder if the money would be used to fund his “faith based” programs. Would the BLT’s be the distributers? He’s delusional if he thinks Americans are that stupid.

    • Perry Logan

      Radical/socialist? Obama is a neocon!

      • Ferdlberfle

        You hit that one on the head. He is bought and paid for by corporate interests. “We the People” is rapidly becoming “We the Corporate entities”. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t consider that progress at all.

  • http://americanpumainitaly.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    So, they were attacked? I removed it from my puma site, and all is good. I left the code in my Girl site thinking the problem would be resolved soon… hmmm

    Bravo Ani – She saved me too! :OD

    I was having NQ withdrawls.

  • http://dontcallmesweetie.blogspot.com/ Blu

    I removed sitemeter from my site and all is well. Thanks for saving me hours of frustration!

    • fedup

      I had a carload of trouble and my hard drive crashed. I’m not happy. I’d like to get my hands around their scrawny necks.

  • C.S.

    ~”When pressed to explain the comment, Axelrod told “GMA” it meant, “He’s not from central casting when it comes to candidates for president of the United States. He’s new to Washington. Yes, he’s African-American.“~

    Barack Obama is NOT African-American; he’s Kenyan-American and this distinction should be made. Kenya was under British rule until it became a member of the Commonwealth and Africa, like other continents is made up of many countries, but it is not an ethnicity or a nationality.

    And, no he isn’t like other Americans, African or otherwise, because he was born in Hawaii which has an ethnic diversity more similar to California than any southern state and spent his childhood immersed in the culture of Indonesia and in spite of his denial that he was not assimilated into that culture it’s hard to believe he spent all those years in isolation when we have evidence that his step father enrolled him in the Indonesian school system.

  • mimi

    His only claim to fame is the black part in his DNA. If I were white, I’d be insulted by this.

    He’s also using the Harold Washington playbook on racial politics to win elections. This is why he went to Chicago in the first place.

    The Democrats were fools to allow him to use racial politics in the Primary just to beat Hillary. All it did was divide and fracture the Party. This is why the Dems will be conquered on Election Day if they insist on making him the nominee.

    We are 26 days and counting to his ‘big’ acceptance speech. Have SDs awakened and realized yet that he doesn’t have a significant portion of the Dem base to win? Are they watching his goofs, gaffes, flip-flops and race-baiting? The man is a self-destructing machine and strong-arming Hillary to be on his ticket is not the answer.

    DUMP OBAMA!

    He’s not working out. And he’s steadily eroding all the gains we made with regard to racism in this country.

    It’s high time the leftwing of this fractured Party grew up and acted like adults. Obama is not fit to be POTUS!

    Hillary Clinton is the one to lead this country right now.

    Obama is a loser and a head case.

  • Chicago Joe

    I am still having trouble getting in to different blogs that might be characterized as anti-obama. It is affecting many blogs, some of which I had never visited before, but just followed postings and links. So it looks like a coordinated effort to thwart free speech among those not infatuated with BHO. Larry, this must be illegal and should be exposed for what it is. I posted the link for reporting cybercrime for those of you whose sites have been affected. I think we should all report this. wwwDOTcybercrimeDOTgovFWSLASHreportingDOThtm

  • yttik

    Thank you for figuring out what was wrong with the sitemeters!

  • http://investigatebarackobama.wordpress.com/puma/ kat in your hat
  • EightBelles

    When attempting to find out what was happening with my browser, I came upon a comment posted at volokh.com/posts/1217644268.shtml. A bobby b wrote, “There is nothing wrong with your internets. Do not attempt to drop your assigned IP addresses. We are controlling packet loss. If we wish to make it slower, we will flood your routers. If we wish to make it faster, we will cut out spam. We will control the pixels. We will control the scan rate. We can cross link your porn to your homework sites, or make it flutter. We can change your home page to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next week, sit quietly and we will control what you see and hear. We repeat, there is nothing wrong with your internets. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to…Obama’s Limits.”

    A joke or cryptic message?