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Obama Snubs New Orleans Again!

By NancyA on August 8, 2008 at 6:45 AM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Debates, Flip Flopping, Greta Van Susteran, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Louisiana, Obama

During the primary race Obama snubbed New Orleans and The State of The Black Union 2008 conference, who was there, Hillary Clinton. (He offered Michelle instead.) Here she is speaking at the conference.

Obama refused to debate Hillary anymore during the remainder primary states (as he is doing during the general election race). She offered Obama a debate, mano e mano, no moderators. He said no! He refused a debate in North Carolina as well. Could it be because he can’t speak extemporaneously (off the cuff) ?

And what has he been saying to McCain (as he did to Hillary) about townhalls and debates, ad nauseum, no, no, no. Obama says no to a town hall in Fort Hood and offers this instead I have a schedule conflict. His schedule conflict is a vacation to Hawaii with his family. Does he stop there? No. He snubs New Oleans for the second time. Obama refuses an offer to do a townhall in a city that is still recovering from Katrina, a city that still needs help.

This from Gretawire:

Just in: I was just tipped off that New Orleans (yes, the unfortunate home of Hurricane Katrina…) invited Senator McCain and Senator Obama to do a town hall meeting cp-sponsored by New Orleans and Google. As you might imagine, with all that has happened with Katrina, New Orleans is doing all that it can to attract Presidential candidates, commerce etc to help rebuild and revitalize the area.

Senator McCain accepted the New Orleans / Google town hall meeting 6 weeks ago…and Senator Obama? Well..he just answered yesterday and he declined ….the reason? his campaign says he will agree only to do the Commission on Presidential debates….

Could it be because he can’t debate without teleprompters? Or maybe because he doesn’t know his own policies! Does he even have any of his own policies? Is he still borrowing them from Hillary? Is it because he keeps flipping and flopping everyday? What ever the reason, it isn’t a good one I am sure!

  • blu22

    why does it not suprise me! The DNC is signing their own death warrant!

    • Mickey

      but…but he said he is not afraid of McCain. He SAID he would meet him anytime anywhere.

      Obama my Ass.

      PUMA

      • nancysabet

        GO PUMA,

        • Dawnelle Leona del Puma

          PUMA W00T!!!

          W00T!!!

      • Faustina

        Does anybody have a video of him making that comment? That would make another great McCain campaign ad.

        • http://OTliesvideo Lyn

          How many debates did he say “THAT is a debate I look forward to having with the repub/McCain in the GE”?

    • nancysabet

      I wonder if this idiot even need to be in the convention. Please every one let’s work towards having Hillary on the nomination in Denver. The media talked about abour all day yestarday. Put presure on DNC.
      read this…
      http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12386.html

      • RunningDogLackey

        Colorado’s tickets to see Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High were more than spoken for within about 24 hours, officials said, and the application process closed Thursday for all but those willing to be put on a waiting list.

        Obama’s campaign set aside for Colorado half of the more than 60,000 seats available to the public for the final night of the Democratic National Convention. It turns out the battleground state could have filled the stadium, as the campaign ended applications after collecting more than 60,000 Thursday afternoon.

        “This incredible response and excitement shows that there is a huge appetite for change in Colorado,” Anne Filipic, the general election director for the Campaign for Change, said in a statement.

        The demand for the credentials was so great that phone lines were jammed much of the day.

        • Faustina

          Change yes. Obama No. I hate to tell the folks in Denver, but there are quite a few people living outside the city limits. It might be well-advised to check out the surroundings before getting your hopes up too high.

          Remember Texas with Dallas and Houston. I don’t know the margin by which Obama won primary votes in those metropolitan areas, but I do recall seeing Hillary margins of 70+% in the rural areas. Hillary won Oklahoma; she won New Mexico; she won Arizona; she won California.

          Colorado is as much a southwestern state as a mountain state. Don’t get your hopes up too high Obama people.

          If thing work out the way they should, he won’t even be on the ticket.

          • yaz

            you do realize he’s running against mccain and not clinton this fall, right?

        • no waffles aka drkate

          pure nazi style rally. designed to intimidate.

          yawn. he will give his losing speech right there, plagerized from Dr.King

    • Joe

      The only thing the Messiah is concerned about is what you can do for him. In the case of New Orleans AAs, not much; ergo, he feels he doesn’t need them except as stage props.

    • http://chriss chris

      The great one seems to have a terrible time remembering facts so he can’t debate without his trusty teleprompter or written answers to pre submitted topics. Add this into his stumbling, bumbling delivery when he draws a blank, which is most of the time when not delivering a prescripted speech. Could that be a medical/drug induced memory impairment due to impairment of brain function? Just wondering, not saying it is fact. He admitted regular drug use in high school and college and impaired memory seems to be a result in many young adult drug users. I am not a medical professional, but have worked many years with teens/young adults with educational delays and drugs are a big factor in their educational abilities.

    • workingclass artist

      Aaaand Blu22….Obama’s COLB story is being picked up by Overseas papers….
      chuckle….Israeli papers have got the story….Won’t be long now…..chuckle….

    • s. hall

      blu22 — Obaby has fallen and he can’t get up without Bill & Hillary Clinton’s help. What happened to all the attacks against the Clintons? Aren’t they still Racists? Never mind — the baby needs to win and they better help him.

      Obaby can’t debate because he is terrified of the competition. In the nearly 2 years he’s been running he still has no set policies or principles. The kid can read a teleprompter but he cannot speak. Wonder how much Howard Dean got for his soul–he has sold out the Democratic Party and the reliable voters for what–an ignorant, immature, arrogant, insecure kid who is afraid of his own shadow. Hey bots — its obvious you don’t care about this country — to stand up for this guy while he falls of his own weight.

      • Katmoon

        Wow, you must have a split personality you went from one of our blogs to another, changing your tune, from bot to bot basher.

  • CheatedFLVoter

    He never ceases to amaze me by his ignorance.
    OT I came across this earlier, thought you might like an early chuckle.

    McCain Web Ad Is Accused
    Of Linking Obama to Antichrist
    By DOUGLAS BELKIN, STEPHANIE SIMON and SUZANNE SATALINE
    August 8, 2008; Page A5

    An Internet ad launched last week by the McCain presidential campaign has attracted more than one million hits by appearing to mock Barack Obama for presenting himself as a kind of prophetic figure.

    The ad has also generated criticism from Democrats and religious scholars who see a hidden message linking Sen. Obama to the apocalyptic Biblical figure of the antichrist.

    The spot, called “The One,” opens with the line: “It shall be known that in 2008 the world will be blessed.” Images follow of Moses parting the Red Sea and Sen. Obama telling a crowd, “We are the change we’ve been waiting for.”

    Brian Rogers, a spokesman for John McCain’s campaign, said the spot reflects only that Sen. Obama sometimes “gets carried away” when he speaks, and points out “his many audacious statements.”

    “It’s a light-hearted ad that pokes fun at him,” Mr. Rogers said.
    There’s more if you want to read it.

    • Smells like McGovern

      First they moved the Tower of Pisa and Washington Monument to Berlin, now McCain’s “The One” ad is a code message for the Obama/Antichrist.

      Come on, if Obama really was the Antichrist, the cameraman would have zoomed in on the 666 shaved into Barky’s head. Who doesn’t know that?

      sheesh

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

      What a tool. Truly. McCain has found his achilles heel. He hates to be mocked. It makes him crazy. If he keeps up these bizarro ideas, they will carry him off waving his arms and screaming. I guess he can’t use his famous race card any longer, since he got nailed red-handed the last time, so I guess we can look forward to the Antichrist Card next. And just think: McCain’s campaign hasn’t even started to release the REAL stuff. That comes after the convention.

      Antichrist@ROFL

      What’s that about protesting too loudly methinks?

      • Tuppence 411

        Yep- Barky Nobama thinks everyone is concerned over the color of his skin. Nawh- we are concerned over how THIN his skin is,

        • Dawnelle Leona del Puma

          I think my PUFFS is thicker! It has lotion added for softness!

          Maybe that’s it with Barry

          THIN and BRITTLE

      • workingclass artist

        Uppity did you see that video of the photographer who interrupted the Obama/ Ohio Townhall by asking that they start the meting with the Pledge of allegiance ? http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/
        It’s not just a matter of mocking ( although that is HUGE…) it also a matter of any challenge, interruption, question that falls short of numbing adoration and agreement. Obama cannot handle not being admired or ANY SORT OF DISSENT….
        Obama is a classic NARCISSIST as you and others have repeatedly pointed out….IMHO…..HE IS ALSO A FASCIST….chuckle…But then again I have never met a fascist who wasn’t also a narcissist….chuckle….the two go hand in hand….
        AA’s who aren’t GOOSESTEPPERS….tend to rile Obama’s inner cracker conflict…..No ?

      • voterinexile

        he was nearly stopped dead the other day by a heckler who insisted that he recite the Pledge Of Allegiance…

        the LOOK barry shot him was dark – then he recovered but only to flutter his hands around saying:
        WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT…
        NO NO WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT

        he must’ve said it 50 times.

        he’s so street…

        reminded of how he brushed Hillary off his shoulder…such antics!

        • yaz

          you’re an idiot or a liar. he was saying “wait” to the assembled crowd b/c he was going to disarm the heckler by reciting the pledge of allegiance. which he did. which made the heckler look stupid b/c, well, what was his fucking point?

          “wait” = “street”? maybe you’re not a liar.

          • WildChild

            Was BOBO wearing an ear peice? Because it might have taken fifty or so “waits” for his staff to google the pledge and shoot it over

            • yaz

              that IS funny. not only does obama not know the pledge, but nobody on his staff does either. what a bunch of idiots! loFl.

              • WildChild

                I concur wholeheartedly (ROFLMAO)

      • s. hall

        uppity — If only Hillary had mocked this fool. Thank God McCain is doing it. We are now seeing what’s beneath all that skin he keeps shedding. The arrogant elitist is just a timid little man who thought he could fool the world and ended up fooling only himself.

    • Smells like McGovern

      The spot, called “The One,” opens with the line: “It shall be known that in 2008 the world will be blessed.” Images follow of Moses parting the Red Sea and Sen. Obama telling a crowd, “We are the change we’ve been waiting for.”

      But – suppose some Obama supporters really see a modern-day Moses leading them to the Promised Land:

      Yes, this would be considered emotional but it’s much more than emotions. When I assess what is going on from a spiritual perspective, I have visions of Moses leading the people out of Egypt. I vision Senator Obama leading ALL people to a better land.

      (comment at 10:18)

      So some Democrats and “religious scholars” have no basis to criticize the ad…right?

      • Smells like McGovern

        I forgot the rest of the quote:

        I believe Senator Obama is annoited to be the father of many nations and will be able to bring about world peace.
        God Bless,
        Carla

        • workingclass artist

          Carla is probably a TUCC member…..And Jesus was just another Black Ghetto Freedom Fighter…..sheeesh!

  • http://! Clinton Fan

    Cluck, cluck, cluck….Baraaack, bwack, bwack, bwack, bwack, bwack!

    He’s terrified.

    He’s going to HAVE to debate at some point.

    • Grail Guardian

      He doesn’t HAVE to do anything. He is The One. He gets to write (and change) the roolz. Who’s going to challenge him? He’s got a platinum plated Get out of Jail Free card.

      Why debate when he can preach?

    • yaz

      you’re ignorant. since 1960 there have been 2 or 3 presidential debates in every election. and there was four only once, in 1960. obama and mccain have agreed to three debates. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_debates)

      so what exactly was your point?

      • WildChild

        SO then you’re saying BOB isn’t going to change anything? LOL I can believe in that.

        • yaz

          zing! another good one. man, totally changing the subject? i didn’t even see it coming. kutgw!

          • WildChild

            thanks. That’s very nice of you. :)

      • navyvet48

        Don’t worry Obama will flip on these too! He will have a sudden scheduling problem and not debate McCain….frankly he can’t debate. He was always abysmal….especially on ABC. Don’t get your hopes up, trust me I believe this is what will happen.

  • Grail Guardian

    No surprise here, either. New Orleans has no money or power to offer the Precious, so why would he bother?

    • beebop

      And hey, why worry about voters, right? Right? Pesky people. Won’t freakin’ vote for their best interests … who the hell needs ‘em.

    • s. hall

      Grail — Acorn is busily registering voters in La. so why should Obaby put himself out.

  • Steve

    Listen, if it is a real debate? With unfiltered, honest questioning from the public. Obama will not debate or answer questions. Can you imagine what type of real, honest questions would be like.

    Mr. Obama could you please explain the controversy regarding your BC? Will you immediately release your BC and medical records? Can you explain your positions regarding Nafta, FISA, oil drilling, ???

    What about allegations from a Mr. Larry Sinclair? Could you explain why you knowing did business with an indicted person, Tony Rezko, in purchasing your home? What is your birth name? Well you get my drift…Obama is scared sh**less! He won’t have his huggy pillow to cling to (teleprompter)

  • MEchelle Hates America!

    With Google being one of Oblowme’s major donors – after Terrorists – Telecommunications – and Energy –

    this just goes to show that McCain is still a straight shooter and …

    fearless.

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

    The man cannot speak unscripted, in fact he is a dismal failure whenever he tries to do so. If he cannot do so regarding his own policies and beliefs, how in the world can he when facing the leaders of Iran, Cuba and others he claims he will sit down with?

    Imagine how huge of gafts he’d of made if he did not follow his community organizing day policies of let surrogates speak and he sits back while they deliver his message, when his campaign envoked the race card against the Clinton’s? Had Obama spoken out on this instead of the surrogates, he never would have made it past Super Tuesday!

    So how on earth can he think he’d make it as POTUS?

    • csuzeq

      Sean Hannity keeps inviting the (boring)one to come on the show to tear into him. e baits him saying, “Senator Obama, you are willing to talk to leaders in Iran, Cuba and the rest without preconditions so will you take on Hannity?”

      HAHAHAHAHA! I love Hannity now! I used to despise him. I’ll give Obama some points on the change thing. He has certainly changed my life and politics. I’m not sure if that’s the change he was waiting for though!

      • HARP

        LOL I`m waiting for him to change my tires.

        • Dawnelle Leona del Puma

          or at least give em some air! (ha)

          • Steve

            More like will he blow your tires! Uhmmm, I really meant inflate your tires!

      • Raven

        I wouldn’t go as far as saying: “I love Hannity”!
        Since the primaries, I have an appreciation for
        him I’d never known. However, any opportunity
        that presents itself, he’s very happy to take a
        frontal or backhanded slap at Hillary! Let’s NOT
        forget the “Clinton Chronicles”.
        He deserves all the props for going after OB
        when just about everyone else was building a “pedestal”! He led the charge against Rev. Wright and others. I respect Sean, we have areas
        of strong disagreement.

      • s. hall

        csuzeq — Obama will beg for the Hannity interview when it becomes clear to him that the media love affair is over. Then he will go anywhere and everywhere to try to get his popularity back. However, when you run for the Presidency as a Messiah–where do you go from there? Messiah’s don’t grovel.

    • beebop

      When you can’t have fun and not look RIDICULOUS answering a question from a 7 year old for God’s sake …

      Slightly off topic. Charlie Gibson took the gloves off last night. Pushed back twice on Odona Brazen when she tried the unification meme on ABC. He was having none of it. Do you think they are more than mildly miffed that they were ignored for the debates? Karma, baby!

      • http://! TeakWoodKite

        beebop;
        That was an a remarkable exchange in that DB was in dream land. The impression I took away from it was that if you are not “with” BO” at the convention, you will be excommunicated from the “BO Church of Denial”.

        There are not divisions in the party? That will only be true if after the massacre dissent is eliminated.

        Mean while the only press interviews BO has is at 30,000 ft.

        • workingclass artist

          Hmmmm….Maybe the dead Opossum Commissar Brazeal wears on her head will wake up and finally attack!…..LOL…could’nt resist…..scuse’

          • ritamary

            Sorry to disagree, but that is a dead skunk on her head.

  • hootnannie

    BO apparently believes that he is the affirmative action candidate and that others will simply place him into office. Thus, he doesn’t have to debate or talk to Hannity or appear at important functions. Instead, he takes a week-long vacation in Hawaii! I don’t know how the national polls are being manipulated, but there’s no way mainstream whites, for starters, will make this man President!

    • nancysabet

      yes, absolutely right. He wants every thing for free, even the presidency! how pathetic!!

    • Dawnelle Leona del Puma

      The LESS often McCain reminds us of how OLD he really is and how possibly brittle he might be mentally the better it is for HIM and worse it is for BARRY!!!

      I recommend to McCain’s people to keep doing exactly what they are doing. Also hold your news on VP until AFTER BArry!

      Keep up the moderate/fair minded/stop paying the WEALTHY talk….. flip again on the tax breaks for the wealthy and you MIGHT even get ME to put on a bumpersticker if HILLARY doesn’t make it.

      I said MIGHT. (trust me for this X bleeding heart that is saying a LOT)

      MEGA lots!

    • helen

      He took a vacation to the carribean not too long ago.
      Now he is taking a vacation to hawaii.
      Does he think campaigning is like be a state senator you only do it for 55 days a year?
      God forbid he should get into the whitehouse, he will treat it like a weekend getaway vacation house.

      COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

      PUMAS,BUBBAS, AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

      • helen

        Excuse me
        should be like being a state senator

    • s. hall

      hootnannie — You said it. The polls are being manipulated because the media loves a horserace. However, the media will turn against him and the Obaby won’t know what hit him. The media always turns on you so its better never to court them at all. How much stronger Hillary would have been. Ah well….

    • navyvet48

      O’Reilly looks like an idiot every time he says Obama has agreed to come on the factor….BillO you will still be waiting when Obama loses the election.lol…..

  • JS Ruby

    Maybe BO’s plan for HRC in his campaign, is for her to debate JM for him, since BO really sucks as an ad libber. No teleprompter no BO.

    HRC 2012

    • csuzeq

      I think Hillary should debate McCain. All O supporters will not know what’s going on and will think, Oh, wow, is she the nominee now???

      Damn I want her. Hillary, Hillary, Hillary! Give me the Clintons!

      The MSM, including FOX is saying the Clintons are hijacking Obama’s convention. Hillary is speaking on Tuesday, Bill on Wednesday and she has the nerve (gasp ;-) ) to suggest she put her name in nomination and have a role call vote. What is she trying to pull, they wonder! hahahahaha.

      If Obama was smart, he’d disappear when he leaves for his Hawaii trip. Obama, fake your disappearance. I promise I won’t tell anyone that you are hiding. You can go to Cuba, or Iran, or Kenya. Hell, go to Tahiti for all I care. Just fake your disappearance and skip the convention will ya???? Bye-bye now! Don’t send a postcard.

      • fif

        It’s all Hillary’s fault. The MSM is so pathetic. If they did any research at all instead of BO promotions 24/7, they’d know that her supporters have been driving the Convention issue and that there is an actual HISTORY of candidates putting their names in for nomination. It’s still the same b.s. from the primaries: that woman and her pesky reporters are making Poor Bawack look bad!

      • nancysabet

        I wonder why is he going to Hawaii, out of all the places. He did not even bother to go there in the primary. Is he going there to get his BC fixed?? I guest with $1 ml. he can get a real one.

        • CheatedFLVoter

          Found this today. Sounds like he going to see Granny(typical white, of course). Gess he needs her to help him get some papers & BC.

          Hawaii homecoming rally on Friday for Barack and Michelle Obama. Battling “Obama fatigue.”
          By
          Lynn Sweet
          on August 8, 2008 12:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

          Presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) lands in his native Hawaii on Friday and starts a vacation with a “welcome” rally at Keehi Lagoon Beach Park near the airport in Honolulu featuring Obama and wife Michelle.

          Obama’s vacation starts on the opening day of the Summer Olympics and he’ll let his paid advertising–the campaign bought time on the Olympics– work for him while he takes some time off the campaign trail with his wife and two daughters.

          The last time he was in Hawaii was December, 2006; that’s when that famous bathing suit photo of him in the Pacific Ocean surf was shot. Before his presidential run, he would return to Hawaii each year. His grandmother, Madelyn Dunham and half sister Maya Soetoro-Ng are in Hawaii.

          A Pew survey said 48 percent of the public is suffering from “Obama fatigue.”

          Asked if he was overexposed, Obama said, “We are going to correct that this week,” speaking to reporters on his campaign plane en route to Chicago.

          “I’m going to see my grandma, who I haven’t seen in almost 18, 19 months,” Obama said. “And who is getting to the age where I want to make sure where I am spending time with her on a consistent basis so she can see her great grandchildren and I want to spend some time with those children as well.”

          • Dawnelle Leona del Puma

            excuse me but

            THOSE CHILDREN?

            WTF?

            That’s another one like the “no girl(or was it no ONE) should be PUNISHED with a child”

            I do NOT like the off color words that drip like a leaky faucet from his cold purple lips!

            If he gets 5 states I will ban those states from my further travel EVER in my future or my families! I PROMISE.

            I do NOT want to be around people that would vote for such a sick punk!

            • Dawnelle Leona del Puma

              btw I feel the same about the people that voted for the lying weiner dog W too!

            • http://! TeakWoodKite

              Dawnelle Leona del Puma;

              BO refers to his kids with something other than the word ‘MY’???

              That just tells me at some levelBO views “those” kids as baggage and he emotionally unavailable….

              • Dawnelle Leona del Puma

                yea and Michelle calls him

                my babies daddy

                hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :-?

                what a chameleon

        • debbie

          Many of us go to our home towns on vacation to see our relatives. Does that actually seem odd to you that Obama would do the same?

          • Smells like McGovern

            Actually, Senator Prom Queen should send O Force One to Hawaii to pick up Typical White Granny and bring her to his home for some quality family time.

            (I’ve heard typical white people like to fly on big fancy planes with special candidate logos and faux presidential seals.)

            • imustprotest

              Yep! He’s a wealthy man and he admits he hasn’t seen his grandma who raised him for almost 2 years!! Not to mention the grandma in Kenya with no running water! He really knows how to treat people! NOT!

              • Karma

                Geez…even rappers buy their mother a house or have their families live with them when they make it big.

                Obama can’t be bothered to make either of their lives easier.

                If he doesn’t care for black folks, poor folks, or his old folks….then clearly only rich folks hit his radar.

      • s. hall

        csuzeq — Isn’t Obama a citizen of just about every country in The Middle East? He could be a goat herder just like his dad–or was that a lie too?

    • s. hall

      JS Ruby remember when Obama got himself a VP Chief of Staff but he can’t find anyone who wants to be his VP.

  • roseeriter

    The Beatles said it best about Obama. How did they know?

    He’s a real nowhere Man,
    Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
    Making all his nowhere plans
    for nobody.

    Doesn’t have a point of view,
    Knows not where he’s going to,
    Isn’t he a bit like you and me?
    Nowhere Man, please listen,
    You don’t know what you’re missin’,
    Nowhere Man, the world is at your command.

    (lead guitar)

    He’s as blind as he can be,
    Just sees what he wants to see,
    Nowhere Man can you see me at all?

    Nowhere Man, don’t worry,
    Take your time, don’t hurry,
    Leave it all ’till somebody else
    lends you a hand.

    Doesn’t have a point of view,
    Knows not where he’s going to,
    Isn’t he a bit like you and me?

    Nowhere man please listen,
    you don’t know what your missin’
    Nowhere Man, the world is at your command

    He’s a real Nowhere Man,
    Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
    Making all his nowhere plans
    for nobody.
    Making all his nowhere plans
    for nobody.
    Making all his nowhere plans
    for nobody.

  • I Will Remember in November

    I have said this before, personally i did not think obama wants to be president–it is too much work. Obama likes running for president-flying around in his own personal jumbo (not a gulfstream jet) with his name blazen across it, going place to place reading other peoples words (that is why no townhalls with any opponent, too much work having to know stuff), being cuddled and adored by the msm and treated like rockstar without any sacrifices. Oh yeah did i mention you have a bunch of adoring suckers (adoring foreign suckers) paying for it! On some level obama will be relieved when all this stuff comes out about him. He will then have his excuse for not winning or in my dreams for pulling out and letting hillary take over.
    I bet those folks in new orleans would have loved to have a free rock concert with free food and beer–it would have been a nice relief from all the govt red tape and trying to find affordable housing when the govt stops paying their rents. Is jesse jackson jr cryng about that? Yeah I didn’t think so.

    PUMA

    • Fandango13

      Great post! Thanks.

      Did I read today that Bill Clinton has been (finally) asked to speak at the convention? Will Obama let himself be seen playing golf (again) while a Clinton speaks?

      Thanks, PUMAs

    • nancysabet

      YOU ARE SO RIGHT PUMA…

  • HARP

    Obama is a coward. How on earth would he manage to give press conferences? Oh thats right he wouldn`t.

  • katmandu

    Jonathan Alter at Newsweek —–

    There, Barack Obama has the edge, however narrow, and his supporters are a bit nervous about the “catharsis” getting out of hand. They don’t worry that their man could actually lose the nomination but that the carefully scripted ad for their candidate (i.e., the convention) might be marred by, well, genuine human feelings.

    http://www.newsweek.com/id/151388

    Genuine human feelings? Yes.

    • basil

      So-called ‘journalists’ are hypocritical toe-suckers ala Dickie-Odinga Morris.

      Bozo Alter trashed HRC on all the usual talking heads shows, never saying a word against His Snobbiness and now it’s suddenly dawned on him that the One may not be worthy?

      And he still has his job and there are no consequences for his unconscionable slandering of HRC?has

      it is all so nauseating.

      • Dawnelle Leona del Puma

        I TOTALLY AGREE!!!!

        He deserves what he gets and KARMA will pay the debt if society doesn’t!!

        Sometimes Karma does it regardless right? LOL

        52 yrs on a planet will show you that
        (over and over and over)

        ;-)

    • fif

      CAREFULLY SCRIPTED AD!!

      That says it all about Obama’s entire candidacy.

      McCain should do an ad comparing Obama to Dove soap or the iphone or something. Sell that brand baby!

  • Elliott

    Preparing for debates takes a lot of time and work. No one can do it for you. Reading a speech written by 20 speechwriters for Deval Patrick is much more efficient for his time. Preparing for a committee hearing also takes time and work. Writing articles for legal publications also takes time and work. So does writing a book, but one gets advances from a publisher to do it. Maybe is someone offered to pay him for these debates he would show.

    • Donna Brazile

      Amen Elliott exactly! He does the EASY things well. It’s the ones that take effort and work he can’t handle.

      Stop the hate:-)

  • roseeriter

    A few of Obama’s favorite things: This was funny and a bit telling:
    http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20217406,00.html

    Barack Obama: My Pop-Culture Favorites
    The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee talks to EW about his picks in movies (”The Godfather”), TV shows (”M*A*S*H,” ”The Dick Van Dyke Show”), singers (Frank Sinatra, Sheryl Crow),

    So neither of you are fascists when it comes to the remote…
    If I tell her, ”Sweetie, we’ve got game 5 of the NBA finals on,” she’s willing to give me a little slack. Most of the time, though, the TV is on HGTV, and I suffer that silently.

    Are there any shows you two argue about?
    She likes American Idol, her and the girls, in a way that I don’t entirely get.

    I wonder if he wears briefs?

    • s. hall

      roseeriter — Can’t the Obama’s afford a second TV?

  • MEchelle Hates America!

    Oblowme has never really worked at anything, so he has no idea that POTUS should be “hard work”.

    Sure, he wants to be BUSH 3 – LAZY!

    Just willy nilly throwing our hardearned taxdollars away.

    I know many lazy people who think that other professions or occupations are easy because they have no frame of reference, but their own.

    Oblowme is the guy who admits that he isn’t good at

    running things:

    “I’m not a COO” and

    “I can’t keep track of my paperwork”.

    ANY job is what you make of it.

    • s. hall

      MEchelle — Obama just runs for office–once he gets the job its downhill from there.

  • JML

    I’m not sure if he is “afraid” to debate or if in fact he just dismissively feels that extra debates are a waste of his time. The latter, I think, falls within his arrogant attitude. You know, along the lines of “Just let me eat my waffle” and “I already answered like 8 or 9 questions” and “Hang on, sweetie.”

  • alan carrier

    obama knows that there are 100s of candidacy killing questions waiting to be asked by ordinary americans like you and me. he will be toast at his 1st one!

    • fif

      Did you see the answer he gave that 7-8 yr. old this week? “America is no longer what it should or could have been?” Uhh…uhmmm…uhhh….

      HOW IN GOD’S NAME DID IT GET THIS FAR???

      • Dawnelle Leona del Puma

        He’s like this reverse magnet

        the MORE he pushes with the UNITY BS

        the MORE I reverse my gears in equal distance to THE ONE

        it’s like a giant sucking void and for some once lost in it are gone forever

        they ASKED for it
        they GOT it good!

        pahahaha! blech!

  • bmc

    Obama is a coward. Clinton would have done half a dozen town hall events with McCain by now–including one in New Orleans and Fort Hood. It is really SICKENING to see how low the Democratic Party will go to push NOWHERE MAN on the American people. Shameful. Shameless. Pathetic. I’m furious at these people…

    • standard

      This is true. He has run a soggy, lackluster campaign, so far.
      Maybe he’ll pick an energetic, intelligent VP who will win the GE for him.

      • fif

        Since 6 of the prospective VP candidates have already rejected his offer, there aren’t many (any?) energetic choices left. Bayh is a nice guy, but hardly magnetic.

        • DougUNH

          Oh really and who are these 6 that rejected him and how are you privy to that information?

          • Brodie

            Geez- you really have NOT been paying attention, have you? It isn’t our job to educate you- do the work on your own. Hmm, maybe that’s how you came to like Nobama… Research, baby, research- what informed people do. People like Hillary, for example. or the people who post here who actually know their ass from their elbow. Do try to keep up- this NOT the remedial class.

          • Brodie

            Geez- you really have NOT been paying attention, have you? It isn’t our job to educate you- do the work on your own. Hmm, maybe that’s how you came to like Nobama… Research, baby, research- what informed people do. People like Hillary, for example. or the people who post here who actually know their ass from their elbow. Do try to keep up- this is NOT the remedial class.

        • s. hall

          fif — Obama doesn’t want anyone magnetic. He is envious of everyone elses luster.

      • Dawnelle Leona del Puma

        I don’t even think HILLARY could do it for him now!

        Unless she grabbed first position and tossed him overboard

        otherwise I’m either NOT voting or pluggin my nose (and it’s not even that bad until he picks some sick perv VP from the 109th then I can’t even plug my nose for him)

        it will be a sad scary day
        one that will make my family consider other pastures in other hemispheres
        (perhaps)

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

    Methinks Mr. Obama has developed a debate phobia. I shall have to work on that.

  • SlowBurn

    Off-topic but No Quarter should do a major lead-in post on this:
    http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2008/08/07/one-nation-under-a-new-obama-salute.html

    • roseeriter

      Oh the orgasm code symbol-too much work, I doubt the bots can handle that.

      PUMA

      • helen

        Is the the black hole we are no longer allowed to talk about.
        It is now racist you know.
        How the hell did some in this country get so stupid?

        COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

        PUMAS,BUBBAS, AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

    • Tuppence 411

      WTF! PUMAs already have a salute for Nobama. You take your middle finger……….

      • roseeriter

        LOL! That’s my favorite one.

    • Dawnelle Leona del Puma

      I thought it was disgusting looking and I told him so. Just like the O.

      almost like a sick porn joke

  • standard

    OT: Paul Krugman has a great editorial in the NYT today.
    (Even tho he doesn’t discuss Obama in this one, Krugman was always more enthusiastic about Clinton)

  • Tattie

    He already has the AA in his pocket, They blindly vote for him, why debate?

    • s. hall

      tattie — AA voters aren’t enough. There are only 12% and Obama will bring out Republicans to vote against him in record numbers in states where the AA vote might make a difference. Face it Obama is scared. Scratch any arrogant elitist and you will find someone frightened of his own shadow. We are watching Obama implode on right before our eyes.

  • SlowBurn

    “THE OBAMA SALUTE”

    Off-topic but No Quarter should do a major lead-in post on this:
    http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2008/08/07/one-nation-under-a-new-obama-salute.html

  • fred

    Excerpt: Brenda Krause is tired of fear mongering among the Democrats.

    The 55-year-old delegate to the Democratic National Convention doesn’t think the party – or its unity – is in any way compromised by her voting for Hillary Rodham Clinton at the roll call.
    When Clinton dropped out of the running, Krause mourned that her generation likely isn’t going to see a woman claim the Oval Office.

    That day, she vowed to stick with the New York senator.

    “I’m not going to be coerced into something I don’t believe in,” said Krause, who lives in Colorado Springs and owns a real estate office. “That makes me less unified. If they let me have my voice, I’ll feel more unified.”
    http://countusout.wordpress.com/

  • democracyfirst

    OT: President Bill Clinton is giving a speech right before the VP nominee at the convention. I sure hope that doesn’t mean he picked Hillary for the VP slot to head off a floor vote at the convention.

    • fif

      I really hope not. Since he’s shown absolutely no political savvy since the primaries, I doubt he would be wise enough to choose her.

  • http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com Gloria

    “Snubbing” seems to be his way of doing business…

    Kenosha Marge and I team up with a post for a lot of PUMA women among “those people” (and others, too… ;)

    W.O.M.A.N.

    http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/woman/

  • fred

    FEC Investigation of Obama Eligibility
    The petition

    The signers of this petition request the Federal Elections Commission and Mr. Donald McGahan, FEC chairman, to take responsibility to verify the eligibility of Mr. Barack H. Obama to be President of the United States. Mr. Obama has refused to produce a physical certified, stamped copy of his birth certificate. An electronically-displayed image displayed by his official campaign website has been alleged to be a forgery. We request that the FEC require Mr. Obama to authorize the FEC to obtain an official copy of his birth certificate and if he does not produce the authorization that the FEC reject his registration as a presidential candidate; that the FEC not monitor his campaign finances during the primary or election; that votes cast for Mr. Obama and reported by the states’ boards of elections not be recorded and displayed by the FEC; and that Mr. Obama be considered in violation of 2 USC 437g for filing a false statement on FEC Form 2, as specified on that form.
    http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Federal-Elections-Commssion/

    • jbjd

      Look up the statutory role of the FEC. It is not to verify the eligibility of presidential candidates put forward by the parties. It is to ensure the parties do not steal the election.

  • nancysabet

    PLEASE, IT”S NOT TOO LATE!!!IT IS A NO BRAINER HILLARY WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN TALK FROM HER BRAIN AND KNOWS THE FACTS THAT DOESN”T NEED TO READ VERBATUM off the teleprompter…WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU…COME ON AMERICA WE CAN”T NOT AFFORD TO WASTE ANOTHER 4 more years like the last 8 LETS PUSH FOR HILLARY TO GO TO THE CONVENTION AND AT LEAST HONOR THE l8 million who voted for her!!

  • TimNCGuy

    what amazes me about these things is that after he turns them down, why don;t they still hold the events without him? I would think it would be great coverage for the one who shows up.

    In the primaries, when Obama turned down Hillary, I thought she should have invited McCain instead just to piss Obama off….

    • Five Thirty

      These are all opportunities for Sen. McCain, to pay attention to the areas that Sen. Obama is neglecting.

  • obamaphobe

    Obama supporters have a new gesture/symbol of their love of their new religion: Go to http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2008/8/7/one-nation-under-a-new-obama-salute.html.

  • SBwa

    McCain should insist on the “debates” even with Obama’s absence. They could be run as townhall meetings with people asking him questions….and they could leave an empty seat for Obama and mention how this is the 124th invitation Obama refused (or whatever number it is).

    It is outrageous that he should refuse this, and it unfairly hurts McCain because the media will cover every basketball game Obama plays or waffle he eats, but never covers McCain.

    • debbie

      There are three debate times already set. Obama offered to have five. McCain only wanted three.

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

        prove it that Bambi wanted 5 debates troll.

        • debbie

          Ultimately, the Obama campaign countered with a proposal for a series of five debates including the three debates under the purview of the commission. The counterproposal included a debate on the economy and one on foreign policy – one of which would have been held on the July 4 weekend.

          http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20080803/pl_cq_politics/politics2933571

          Mel,
          Glad to hear your prostate isn’t giving you trouble anymore. We may not agree on politics, but I certainly didn’t want you to have problems with that. Then again, most men get that as they age. Hopefully medical breakthroughs will prevent those problems for future generations.

          • no waffles aka drkate

            hey anchovy. Oh, like bambi said he’d meet mccain in town halls, only to say no?

            five meetings is an empty gesture by barky. he never means what he says.

            better go back to your sandbox, sweetie.

      • http://chriss chris

        You need to go back and do your homework sweetie. You are conveniently leaving out a whole bunch of debate offers by Mac that your scaredy cat candidate turned down. Get real Missy Troll. You and yours always distort the truth as does your fearful leader.

  • Jaime in Texas

    Obama won’t debate McCain because he knows that if he does he will more than likely convince the superdelegates to vote for Hillary at the convention instead of him. That’s what he did during the primary. He didn’t want to debate Hillary towards the end of the primary season because he knew he would have superdelegates vote for Hillary instead. Obama is a coward. And this guy wants to be president?

    • nancysabet

      thanks for the insight. I did not look it this way. you’re right.

  • Sassy

    The “O” will “show” in states he MUST win!
    I don’t think he has any USE for southern states NOW!

  • Tattie

    The Obama salute= Just pull your pants down , bend over, there you have it. The big O

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

    Well another Obama supporter and SD is lost, Detroit mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick was thrown in jail yesterday.

    Incredible how Obama main supporters are ending up, looks real good on the messiah doesn’t it….lol

    • Dawnelle Leona del Puma

      yes weird as we used to reserve those positions for the likes of Delay, Cunningham, Foley you know?

      I was proud when all we had to worry about was a greedy jefferson or two

      NOW this is not just personal. This borders on WORLD ORDER MAYHEM!

      I’m against it.
      I hate pervs just as bad though.
      :-/

    • nancysabet

      well, he will be thrown in jail when it’s find out that his BC is a forged one.

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

    Barack Obama should be ashamed of himself. I really mean that. I hope that while he is on vacation, reality will hit him in the head and maybe he will grow a conscience…he better start feeling guilty about being the least electable dem candidate because he is so disliked and so inexperienced. Oh it is audacity, and just plain selfishness, to want EVERYTHING NOW, no matter what–even if it means that the country will suffer with him at the head of it. What a monster. How selfish.

    Oh, and why should it surprise me that he decided not to have any debates or town meetings? His candidacy is so controlled and fake, and the whole thing is an act that needs to be protected…cause he doesn’t know WTF he is talking about.

    Meanwhile, why should Obama go to New Orleans?? We already know how he feels about black people, and we already know he is a selfish jerk. You think he gives a crap? LOL. NOOO. He only cares if the media shined a light on his cold shoulder to New Orleans, it is ONLY about image.

    No Deal

    PUMA!

    • Dawnelle Leona del Puma

      you mean like

      (((TWAPP)))) “WOW! I coulda had a V-8!”

      like that?

      snicker

    • debbie

      There are three presidential debates planned for September 26, October 7 and October 15. The vp debate will be Oct 2.

      • http://chriss chris

        And all prescripted I bet. He can’t speak without a script or teleprompter. What a joke for a Presidential candidate. He can’t speak to Americans, but he wants us to trust him to speak to world leaders in some sort of coherent fashion that seems to elude him here at home. Read up on what the Iraqi leadership thought of his unusual conversations with them. Riiiiiiht. Go back to the troll cave and hang upside down for awhile. Blood flow to braincells helps sometimes correct lack of oxygen.

    • s. hall

      kat in your hat — I think Obama has faced reality. Look at his face in the last couple of days. His eyes are almost swollen shut and his usual pressed Gray Suit is looking a bit tired. He knows what the polls are saying and he looks worn out and depressed. He has no conscience however, so its now about everyone trying to get him.

      I watched him talk about his tire filling and he took it all so seriously–Experts agree with me he moaned. All he had to do was laugh and say he also will hand out tire gauges. But he is too terrified to joke.

  • DemHawk

    And don’t forget his complete lack of Experience! I wonder even if Obama knows that there is now war between Russia and the Nation of Georgia now.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,399962,00.html

    • debbie

      You think he’s not getting the very same briefings McCain is? Huh – That would be most unusual.

      • no waffles aka drkate

        no, he is not you idiot. Obama is only interested in his poll numbers. In fact he might think Russia attacked Georgia in the US!

        No way obama gets his hands on the nuclear trigger.

        you’re an asswipe, troll.

        • debbie

          Did no one ever tell you that cursing is a nasty habit?

      • beebop

        If he’s getting the same briefings as John McCain and can only muster the pathetic little statement he released, then he certainly wasted his Harvard education. I’d be asking for my money back!

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

      Not only is there a war there, but US Marines are right near the spot that Russia attacked.

      If Obama was President I’m sure we would all be rest assured with his tough negotiations.. that will solve everything.

  • Cathy6224

    Comment by Mickey | 2008-08-08 08:35:33

    but…but he said he is not afraid of McCain. He SAID he would meet him anytime anywhere.

    Obama my Ass.

    PUMA————————————————- Yes and we all know what he says and what he does is two different things. Just like he said he opposed FISA, campaigned on that. Then the idiot wasn’t smart enough not to show of for the vote. He shows up and votes for it. Basically giving all americans the finger.

    Thanks for this site it keeps my sanity.

  • Hank

    Wouldn’t this be another FLIP FLOP for Obama for not debating against McCain? He refuses Public financing for his presidential campaign. Now Obama, backed away from rival John McCain’s challenge for a series of joint appearances, agreeing only to the standard three debates in the fall. Tme man of change, keeps changing his mind….AGAIN!!

  • Hank

    Double standards for the selected “ONE”. Refuses public financing but only wants to do the 3 standard debates.

  • HillGirl

    Goin’ on vay-cay to HI to fix his BC problem????

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  • david in iowa

    Hillary said it best during the debates. Sen Obama-all hat and NO cattle

    • ritamary

      The same as Bush…

  • Raven

    “Courage is taking action in the face of fear…” .
    Showing up at townhalls with John McCain could take
    some courage.
    It is unfortunate for Sen. Obama, and his campaign that they seem to believe, that all he has to do is
    give a “great” speech and the undecideds,independents
    and others will just be caught up in his “rhetorical wave” and be moved to support him!
    He doesn’t have to speak to the people at a townhall.
    Why share the “light”? That his excuse. At a debate,
    the standard, “same ole politics”, three debates,
    it is more controlled. Think Hillary and McCain would
    have had more? Yup!
    Not accepting the NO debate or the Fort Hood invitation to meet with military families, just shows
    where his priorities are. It is all about HIM. Rather
    than the voters. The MSM has it wrong, they accuse
    the Clintons of undermining OB. Truth is he does it
    to himself!

  • Bridgette

    What does this mean? “his campaign says he will agree only to do the Commission on Presidential debates” I dunno what the “Commission” thing means…sorry if this is a dumb question…

  • reason

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  • Steve

    Hey, come on, with Obama’s reputation as a great inspirational speaker, debating McCain would not be a fair contest. The old man would debate the crap out of Obambi…

    Obama never gets tired of mentioning that the town hall format gives McCain an unjust advantage. What a loser…

  • NoObama

    wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed:

    “FEC Investigation of Obama Eligibility”
    http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Federal-Elections-Commssion?e

    I really think this is an important cause, and I’d like to encourage you to add your signature, too. It’s free and takes less than a minute of your time.

    Reply to this comment

    Comment by NoObama | 2008-08-10 10:05:48

    http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/obamas_foreign_contributions/

    14 posts categorized “Obama’s Contributions: Foreign and Domestic”

  • Hillary4McCain-noobama

    wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed:

    “FEC Investigation of Obama Eligibility”
    http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Federal-Elections-Commssion?e

    I really think this is an important cause, and I’d like to encourage you to add your signature, too. It’s free and takes less than a minute of your time.

    Reply to this comment

    Comment by NoObama | 2008-08-10 10:05:48

    I will stay Hillary untill after the Denver convention.And if they so Obama, well then I go McCain.

    Never Obama.

    Never Obama

    http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/obamas_foreign_contributions/

    14 posts categorized “Obama’s Contributions: Foreign and Domestic”

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