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Oh Look! Everyone’s Coming Together!

By SusanUnPC on August 13, 2008 at 7:42 PM in Electability

OH LOOK! We all used to be so far apart! And now we’re becoming united! We are INDEED becoming “one.” That’s so beautiful. It’s like totally spiritual.

Uhoh. My cat just told me that it’s not good to come together like that. He slapped me silly with his paw, and told me:

“You dope. The blue line is supposed to go UP! And the red line is supposed to go DOWN! Just how dumb are you?!?!?!? Read the damn text at the PEW Center!”

I guess I haven’t taught my cat very well. He’s just like those cats at Uppity’s hangout.

Anyway, here’s what Pew says:

With less than two weeks to go before the start of the presidential nominating conventions, Barack Obama’s lead over John McCain has disappeared. Pew’s latest survey finds 46% of registered voters saying they favor or lean to the putative Democratic candidate, while 43% back his likely Republican rival. In late June, Obama held a comfortable 48%-to-40% margin over McCain, which narrowed in mid-July to 47% to 42%.

Two factors appear to be at play in shifting voter sentiment. First, McCain is garnering more support from his base – including Republicans and white evangelical Protestants – than he was in June, and he also has steadily gained backing from white working class voters over this period. Secondly and more generally, the Arizona senator has made gains on his leadership image. An even greater percentage of voters than in June now see McCain as the candidate who would use the best judgment in a crisis, and an increasing percentage see him as the candidate who can get things done.

Conversely, Obama has made little progress in increasing his support among core Democrats since June – currently 83% favor him compared with 87% of Republicans who back McCain. The likely Democratic nominee is still getting relatively modest support from Hillary Clinton’s former supporters: 72% of them support Obama, compared with the 88% support level that McCain receives from backers of his formal GOP rivals. Obama’s strong points with voters are in being seen as the candidate with new ideas and as someone who connects well with ordinary people. …

http://www.cafepress.com/flyingmonkeyinc/5767556 NObamaNoHow

Can we get your cat to visit the superdelegates?

meileen

Thanks for the chuckle.
http://blog.changeandexperience.com/2008/08/barack-obama-is-weak-candidate.html Matthew

I created a rudimentary map displaying Obama’s falling polling advantages.

http://blog.changeandexperience.com/2008/08/barack-obama-is-weak-candidate.html

RepublicanChick

How disturbing is that map of yours?

Obama can’t win those “typical white folks” in gun and country lovin’ Oklahoma? Where is the effort?

/sarcasm

Actually, I wish I lived in Oklahoma this election year. I wouldn’t have to worry about Obama’s volunteers knocking on my door as much. I guess there are just too many white people to care about for Obama.

Nice map by the way!

http://blog.changeandexperience.com/2008/08/barack-obama-is-weak-candidate.html Matthew

Thanks!

http://! Buzz Latte

Yup. I live in a state that is relatively Obama and Obot free. We don’t even see the ads unless we catch them on the internet.

This state even voted for Obama in the state primary and now McCain leads by double digits.

This is what the Obots have never figured out. Just because Obama won the primary it doesn’t mean he’ll carry the state in the GE.

RepublicanChick

Want to switch locations until say…um…November 5th?
Lucinda

Same here. He won our state primary handily, thanks to the AA vote, but this has been a red state for 40 years and that’s not likely to change for “the One”.

http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

He can’t win appalachia. Good luck with that.

workingclass artist

LOL….Wonder what they’ll do when Obama sees all those cracker christian campers in his new party return to Jesus camp right after the convention….chuckle…..Spose Commisar Brazeal will finally understand that the AA 13% of the american population is well….13 % and that baby boomers…..still outnumber babies….and Hey this is not the New Party that I knew……Are there enough eggs in America to cover this many faces without causing a food shortage or endangeing chickens ?

TeakwoodKite

Those weren’t the chickens I knew!
stodghie

they should have paid more attention in math class.
Hope Floats

How did the Democrats think Christians would stick with Obama when they found out he voted in favor of suffocating babies with Downes? He not only voted for it, but he held the bill up in the Illinois Senate for two years.

workingclass artist

The Cracker Christian Campers were always Rove soldiers gamin the primaries earnin extra Jesus Points….chuckle….It was easier and cheaper to game it….All they had to go with was old Arkansas Project crap about WJC and the Old stupid and lame lesbian lable.
Foolin Obama and his Fascist Fools was so much easier and with that idiot Donna Brazeal and Uberputz Dean and their colossal EGOS…..Half Rove’s Work Was Done Already…..Texas was the Obvious Conclusion to the caucus sham….A Classic Set Up
All Rove did was play Democrats against themselves to preserve their power and egos…..Aaaand GOP used Clinton Envy and a Phony Messiah volunteered…..ROVE DIDN’T EVEN BREAK A SWEAT.
tzada

Oh but lQQky here. Pandering for votes?

http://synthaetica.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/bat-obama-cross.jpg

workingclass artist

Kinda sickening…aint’ it….What is Barry and Uncle Jerry goin to say when Tap Dancin Jesus does show up ( If the Preachers do have an edge )…..And says HEY! OY VAY….I’ll Take LOX and Onion on my Bagel….Schmuck !
Just the thought of that makes me wanna ind Pastor Manning for my mornin sermon….chuckle….

s. hall

working class artist — what I will never get over is why Brazile and the rest of the fools thought was necessary to get rid of the Democratic Base. Shouldn’t they want to build from their base. If you take the 76 Million Boomers — the 45 Million Seniors and the millions of white workers from the party what you have is 13% AA voters — elitist snobs and the youth who are already tiring of this guy.

workingclass artist

The only thing that makes sense to me is to see this as reflective of what happened when the GOP was swamped by Demented Christians…sorta like two sides of the same coin….. Only the motives were kinda different or maybe it was the incentives $$ that were different…..GOP want $$….Left wants Power
What does a national focus on ID Issues achieve beyond calling attention to the issues that need addressing….
Sometimes….with Luck legislation passes that provides much needed relief that addresses the issue and benefits the nation as a whole.
Most often however even worthy causes can be degraded to another shell game that diverts the electorate with distortions while the PowerBrokers line their pockets and cement their power.
Oldest game in Town…Devide and Conquer…Squeeze the Middle

workingclass artist

To conclude….What do people like Commissar Brazeal and Comrade Dean the UberPutz want ? Money for themselves…maybe…I think it’s Idealogical Power and the extra nifty ego stroke of Being History makers. These folks are so driven by this need they are delusional and in their narrow tunnel vision they are easy prey for Guys like Rove. Most idealogical egotists are….easy prey and almost childlike in their stubborn refusal to seek perspective beyond what their ego can handle.
What drives people like Rove….The sheer and utter delight of the game itself. Rove is Apolitical….He is into the game. GOP has always understood that Wealth is Power except when a gifted populist comes along to upset the scheme. GOP only began to understand this and use it with St. Reagan. Teddy R scared the shit out of them and they tried to destroy him as both a party traitor and a class traitor. The GOP did the same thing to Teddy Roosevelt that the Democrats did to anything Clinton ( WJC. GORE and HRC ) Why ? Because Independent Minded Smart POTUS Material with Popular Support will ALWAYS Go against the Power Brokers because they rise to the Demands of the Office and Put Country Before Party. As I see it The GOP Ideaology has become a sham It’s about $$ But then again so has the DNC it’s about Power…..2 Wrongs don’t make a Right and this has been bubblin for a while.

NoObamislamists

It’s quite clear that you haven’t taken into account all 57 states…

Seattle Moss

I bet those absentee ballots will be coming in soon from those 57 states
States like Qater,Yemen,Sudan,Iran and Syria.
One Islamic state that won’t be voting for Obama is Iraq.
Obama’s cut and run strategy would have made Iraq look like the killing fields of Cambodia.

http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

Hey! Don’t leave out those guys with the $33,000 in T Shirts over in the Gaza strip! Hamas gave them each a bag of rice to do that!

Seattle Moss

Obama is going to make Gaza a US state along with the DC.
That’s unless Gaza suffers fallout from Israel being nuked by terrorists with an Iranian bomb.
I’m sure Clooney and Obama will love that scenario and even say it was necessary.
wry

Were they Abercrombie & Fitch t shirts?

s. hall

seattle moss — rofl

workingclass artist

Seattle Moss…Too Funny….Clooney a prime example of a confused and Neo-Liberal Catholic who regularly navel gazes….better check out what the vatican has to say….chuckle….Vatican is on the Jewish Side on this one…..Pope says we must all join together for Bagels and a Whiskey chaser…..Clooney if he was baptized Catholic thinks he can wiggle out…..A lot of us do and then we’re screamin for a priest on our EPIC CATHOLIC FEET DRAGGIN EXIT DRAMA…..too funny….

One of my favorite quotes from an old Irish Priest….chuckle…..
THE SUREST WAY TO HEAVEN IS TO STEADILY BACK OUT OF HELL

http://blog.changeandexperience.com/2008/08/barack-obama-is-weak-candidate.html Matthew

I created a rudimentary map displaying Obama’s falling polling advantages.

http://blog.changeandexperience.com/2008/08/barack-obama-is-weak-candidate.html

fif

You have WV red, but on the Unknown list, it is in the Obama category. WV is not going to vote for Obama, I think we’ve already seen that.

http://blog.changeandexperience.com/2008/08/barack-obama-is-weak-candidate.html Matthew

It is in the unknown list because RCP has no polls listed between McCain/Obama but it will obviously will go McCain’s way. It is listed in parenthesis emphasizing this.

wry

Matthew, check WV again. It is misleading.

Seattle Moss

Calling Obama an empty suit is an insult to clothes hangers everywhere.

s. hall

seattle moss — check out Obama in his swimsuit with the little pot belly and the skinny arms.

Seattle Moss

That picture of Obama is very hard to look at.
Yuck!!!
workingclass artist

Chuckle…..The Obama Baywatch Photo……What more is there to say ?

s. hall

Check out Mr. Universe Obama in his swim trucks–wonder what he sees when he looks in the mirror that I fail to see.

http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/

sjc-tx

Adobe photoshop is an amazing thing eh??!! Wonder how old this photo is??? Its NOT summertime light. NOT taken this year…

Bridgette

People are waking up and opening their eyes for the first time!!!
All Obama Supporters Are Violent and Sexist. All Obama Supporters Are Easily Duped Drones. All Obama Supporters Are Low Information Voters

According to Rasmussen, McCain has surged ahead of Obama in Nevada. I also notice that Missouri is now unattainable for Obama. And now Iowa is competitive. Everything Obama touches seems to turn to shit.

RepublicanChick

Where oh where is debbie, Francis, and sfhillary to dispute what you’ve just posted?

Firefly

Between shifts, I guess. Or one of them called in sick…

Lucinda

Aren’t they all the same person?

http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

At this point, I imagine the people in colorado think he’s stark, raving mad.

TeakwoodKite

For those of you in the Denver area, do you think having FISA vacuums and Blackhawks and god knows who and what else will have a negitive effect when the “party is over”?

I get the feeling that folks will remember the chaos and the absence of civil liberties…

I don’t believe the residents of Colorado will have a favorable immpresion of Barky and the Pinstripes, when the Band blows town.

Just curious.

Hope Floats

Good point. Nothing like barbed wires and snipers on rooftops to give you that not-so-fresh feeling.
tzada

Not sure about that. They have that really bizarre airport there. I am from Colorado and the ranchers that lived there when I was coming up, would never have voted for Obama. Things have changed and you have the Boulder, Aspen mentality now in the state. Guess I need to call family and see what is going on. My uncle was big on the Republican party.

stodghie

i am grateful for the first time i live in a red state.
s. hall

Speaking of everything Obama touches turns to shit. That would include the Democratic Party I trust.

Uña de Gato

One of my favorite graphics!
csuzeq

That graph was pretty. I like it when the red line goes up. I know, I know, that’s undemocratic and very republican, but this year up is down, left is right, day is night, etc. I used to be a very good dem and clearly didn’t buy the right kool aod or should I say the left?

audacity

i like minimalist paintings

i want it all red to have the REAl marxist touch that BOBO is projecting.

i was never totally red. this is the big chance

Ferdberfle

Watch out now–this coming together may get Bob Herbert all apoplectic again about sexual innuendo. And what’s this about erections? Oh, elections. Never mind.

fif

Good one Ferdberfle!

Seattle Moss

John(the dick)Gibson who secretly seems to like Hillary made the point that Hillary would be 15 points ahead of McCain.

AX10

Or perhaps Gibson, Ingraham, and Bruce know among other things that Hillary would have some redeeming qualities to conservatives such as themselves,
while Obama has proudly surrounded himself with the most hate filled/America hating radicals around.
They know that Hillary would keep the country safe
and that Obama has no idea of what to do in a crisis.
Hillary would defeat McCain by 10-12 points on election day and take almost 400 EV’s.

Seattle Moss

The conservatives are scared!
Like us they know that McCain is now the Firewall against radical socialist anti-American change in this country.
They spent years destroying the Clinton’s and now that they have succeeded they have created a monster in it’s place.

Ferdberfle

And that just goes to show that it’s a good idea to be very careful about what you wish for.

RepublicanChick

Obama’s strong points with voters are in being seen as the candidate with new ideas and as someone who connects well with ordinary people. …

Ordinary people being Ayers, Rezko, Phleger, Rev. Wright?

Strong points?

Don’t forget the “soft eyes” and the Bono “like qualities”.

He’s such a stud. /barf

All Obama Supporters Are Violent and Sexist. All Obama Supporters Are Easily Duped Drones. All Obama Supporters Are Low Information Voters

Ordinary people eat arugula, I guess.

RepublicanChick

It was once considered an aphrodisiac.

If you see a lot of cheering, whistling, and hooting when Obama’s onstage, you will know that arugula was probably served by the boatloads to the Kool-Aid drinkers at the convention.

Beware of arugula!!

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

I love arugula. Will you still speak to me?

(‘course I like almost never buy it because it’s so expensive, and the local stores don’t have it, and I’d have to blow two gallons of gasoline to get any, so ….)

RepublicanChick

It depends.

Are you going to the convention to drink the kool-aid?

Arugula is expensive–if you can find it around here.

If Obama becomes President, they’ll stock arugula around the country.

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

I’m not going to the convention. Costs too much + I can’t get around too well. But I’ll be watching as much of it as I can stomach on C-Span.

RepublicanChick

I shall live vicariously through you and others that will share your insights regarding the convention.

Although, you must tell us if it happens to “rain” during his acceptance speech.

stodghie

hehehe, i hope it pours buckets of rain on the chosen one.

Seattle Moss

Another reason Obama has to loose.

Obama is a threat to all carnivores!

I didn’t get to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables!

Just kidding

audacity

great intro as always

i love arugula too. and goat cheese.

but i prefer it in salad with blue cheese and a good glass of zin.

i live 2 blocks from the farmers market, in SF, and there r 2 stands were one can buy any green one imagines or not. this lady goes to the library and makes copies of all the plants to educate/inform the costumers.

Susan, it will be a pleasure to send u some. but after the convention, so u will reinvigorate your bitter spirit.

will u ban me from the blog?!

Smells like McGovern

My family always grew arugula in our vegetable garden, but they called it “rochetta”. It was considered peasant food in Italy, just like broccoli rabe and polenta which all of a sudden became trendy. (Imagine our surprise when we saw food network chefs showcasing the same food that my folks ate because they were poor!)

Anyway one of the best pizzas I had was in Italy: arugula, truffle and asiago cheese. And it wasn’t an upscale place, just a regular lunchtime pizzeria.

A digression, I know, but I love thinking about good food, and writing about it, and eating it.

Zee

Can you fry arrugula?

AX10

Arugula: More dangerous than Heroin!

Postmaster

the Devil eats Arugula or am I thinking of a different movie?

All Obama Supporters Are Violent and Sexist. All Obama Supporters Are Easily Duped Drones. All Obama Supporters Are Low Information Voters

Ordinary people apparently attend a “God Damn America” church in inner city Chicago wherein the pastor humps the alter and issues death threats with impunity. Ordinary people are also friends with Antoin Tony Rezko and other slumlords who moonlight as political fixers.

I wish I were ordinary.

RepublicanChick

Ordinary people have George Clooney onboard to give advice about the Middle East.

Ordinary people have wives that hate America for forty some years—until their husband runs for President.

Oh the trials of the ordinary people. How can they stand it?

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

I’d let George Clooney give me advice anytime [UPDATE: except for politics].

RepublicanChick

You ain’t Obama ordinary, okay? Sorry to break that to you Susan.

workingclass artist

Look I think Clooney is helpin Barry resolve Barry’s obvious Conflict with his Inner Cracker…..chuckle….Bet Meeechelle’s jealous…snicker

tzada

This looked like at least one of them was wishing for a lip lock….

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

http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

Oh hey I never said I wouldn’t lie down for him.

fif

“connects with ordinary people?!!” LOL! Yea, that’s why he did so well in Ohio, PA, WV, & KY. Those regular elite, latte drinking, Pelosi-lovin’ folks sure do love him though. Where do they come up with this stuff??

Ferdberfle

Where do they come up with this stuff??

Intravenous injections, apparently.
audacity

just side effects of the kool-aid

Ferdberfle

Obama’s strong points with voters are in being seen as the candidate with new ideas

What a load of cattle dung. Oblahblah gets all his ideas from HRC. Jesus H. Christ.
Hope Floats

I read an article today where some media hack crowed about how the Gang of Ten was Obama’s checkmate on the domestic drilling issue. The thing is it’s Pelosi who is holding this up, everyone knows it, everyone hates her, and she’s up for reelection this year. Democrats always cave in to the Republicans, too, so no one sees the value of Obama’s supposedly brilliant compromise.

http://takeaction.wordpress.com/ A.Citizen

Oh, Lord what fools these mortals be!

The assclowns over at MyDD are all a tizzy at the rumor that Obambi might ‘select’ Colin Powel for Veep!

Oh. [REMOVED BY ADMINISTRATOR] me raw…If only The Precious were that dumb!

Colin ‘My Lai’ Powell the [REMOVED BY ADMINISTRATOR FOR BEING RACIST] who stood, actually he sat I watched, in front of the U.N. for hours and….

……lied his toadying [REMOVED BY ADMINISTRATOR] head off.

Man, I’m done for the evening those punkass ignorant little morans [It's morons, not morans -- SPELLING CORRECTED BY ADMINISTRATOR] at MyDD have made my day….

Colin Powell…..

Haahhhaaaaaaaaaahhhhhaaaaaahahhahahhahaahhahahhh!

[PERHAPS YOU NEED TO FIND ANOTHER PLACE TO COMMENT. WE WILL NOT ALLOW RACIST and OFFENSIVE LEWD REMARKS. -- ADMINISTRATOR]

Papoose

A. Citiizen,

I feel your pain.

Why are we so alone? Where are our leaders tonight?
We cannot even get an acknowledgement from our elected officials. Nary, a word. We’re hopin’ the National Enquirer will nit pick something. lol ahhh.

I am calling or our leaders, people Rev. Manning, a leader with audacity to stand up and saywith conviction:

yo, STOP, Listen. now there’s a speech for ya! Let’s see some olympics here ~ while half the world is watching people swim and bat the big ball.

Yep, I’m feeling your pain.

Where’s our Governor (Pennsylvania)? Ed, Come out!C ome out wherever you are. We don’t wanna get togeher so YOU can tell us WHAT we’re TO DO…but, lets All meet up somehwere and we’ll tell you WHAT we WANT you TO hear.

So, shoot me.

Papoose

Eddie,

Check out A. Citizen and see who exactly it is that we have to put up when we’re only trying to to know what’s going on and tune into what people are really thinking. The people that we’ve been with since Christmas, ’07. Us. When you needed us then.

This is our oppostion. Your supporter.

Great.

God Save America

MEchelle Hates America!

Powell is a lying traitor who intentionally and knowingly used the thinnest evidence to deceive the U.N. and ruin the reputation of the U.S.

Powell did everything he could to start the Iraq war.

An honorable man would have resigned and spoken out.

Ashcroft showed more concern for his country from his hospital bed.

Ambassador Wilson did the right thing.

Powell should be tried and convicted.

Oblowme and Powell deserve each other. And they both deserve jail cells.
stodghie

rest assured obambi won’t select anyone good for him or the party. he just isn’t that smart.

llilytoo

They had to know this trend and yet he goes off for another vacation?? WTF? I think the Dem elite hate the Clintons because they are so coarse as to want to win. Heavens no!

Wherever I worry Barry will win, I remind myself we are talking about Dems. They work only yo lose

Northwest rain

Obama is avoiding the American voter — or so it seems.

First he goes off on his “world” tour — and acts like it is his presidential tour.

Then he’s off to Hawaii — while a world crisis is unfolding. He should be using the time to learn more about world politics and the players — but no he wants the fawning media to stroke his ego.

I do believe that the polls are reflecting the Obama overload. HE can’t be bothered to debate — to be questioned — but he can cram the air waves with his images and his canned voice.

Seems like voters want fresh meat — not canned bland garbage.

I suspect that Obama’s numbers are worse than the polls show. A lot of people I know who used to respond to telephone polls are now hanging up or lying.

Cats are superior judges of humans (who they consider to be an inferior species).

PUMA

swannyj

Obama is banking on all those new voters he is paying to register and his other voter fraud ways to win the GE. And, I’m scared to death it may just work.

Hope Floats

He needs voter depression for McCain. So far, the base seems to have gotten on board. (The Dems were counting on Republicans staying home unless Hillary was the nominee.) Then enough of these new voters have to show up. And maybe a little cheating here and there. I think the media wants to psych voters out. My guess s it will be close with McCain winning.

stodghie

think about it. obama’s mother couldn’t wait to get out of the usa, so bambi follows mom’s path.
tzada

I recently got a poll call. I told them I was voting for McCain and NO i would NOT change (hate that word) my vote. Before the hangup I said would you like to know the reason(s)they said sure. And I gave them the condensed version. They were silent for a second or two. Then they said ” You know, I am having a lot of people tell me the same things.”

Papoose

It’s 3 A. M.

Anybody know where our leader is?

WildChild

She’d be sound asleep if BOBO would stop calling up to ask for HER plan.

Will Smith

LoL I love this phrase “Calling Obama an empty suit is an insult to clothes hangers everywhere.”

WildChild

LMAO
Seattle Moss

I got to give credit to Dennis Miller on that joke.
A total ass that hasn’t made me laugh for a decade.
I watch O’Reilly and Hannity all the time now.
I listen to Sirius Patriot 144 everyday.
Am I in the twilight zone?

s. hall

Seattle — if you’re in the Twilight Zone you are not alone there. I am also a Hannity fan and a newly minted Independent.

fif

That is one smart kitty!
helen

Colin Powell?

but but but what about being against Senator Clinton because she voted for the war when colin powell said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
He had pictures and everything at the UN.
Would he lie?

COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS, AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

workingclass artist

I love this Colin Powell Rumor….Wasn’t he called an Uncle Tom Stooge for his role in selling the phony war….This is Rich….chuckle….as if….

Lizzy

Next Elvis will be coming back to run with the Big O.

http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

Why not? In chicago they bring back dead people at election time regularly.

workingclass artist

chuckle….I hear Al Capone is stumpin for Barry…..chuckle…
Lucinda

Why not? In chicago they bring back dead people at election time regularly.

OMG! I hope my grandparents didn’t vote for Obama.

J. Smith

Over 1 in 4 Clinton supporters do NOT support Obama.

Hmmm, More than Four and one half million strong.
anna shane

I wonder what plan B is? I hope it’s winning back Democrats with a competence agenda, some clearer goals, and HIllary on the ticket. Any bets?

jwrjr

Bet against (unfortunately). Dean and Brazile have painted themselves (and the Democratic party AND AMERICA) into a corner. They would rather support the big Zero rather than get off of the Titanic.
stodghie

look i have to tell you this general elections is all taken care of as of now. no problemo! obambi will call repubs a bunch of racists. they’ll all feel guilty and vote for him. that’s it! that’s the plan.

s. hall

stodgie — Don’t think so. Republicans are not worried about being called racists–they don’t worry about pleasing AA voters.

workingclass artist

S.Hall….How true….GOP is 10 feet tall and bullet proof to that shit….I think they get special ear plugs when they sign up…..chuckle….Having lived most of my life in the mildly Fascist state of Texas utterly outnumbered I can attest to that…..They just look at you like your speaking to them in Dutch…..Truly incredible…..

Seattle Moss

Working Class Artist
“Having lived most of my life in the mildly Fascist state of Texas utterly outnumbered I can attest to that…”

I lived for some years in Houston making my way to liberal Austin.
I always felt frustrated and in the minority as a democrat.
One day I said I’m out of here and moved to Seattle.
Now Seattle has become Obamaland and I feel like a minority again

workingclass artist

chuckle…Well Seattle Moss to quote one of our best modern Presidents…” I feel your pain ” – Bill Clinton….I dunno a lot of Texas Democrats are sorta underground working in the resistance and having loud and showy parades on occasion that are a hoot. I’ll vote for McCain GOP for the first time in my 30 year voting life and not bat an eye….Mild Fascism I can take 4 more years of and I refuse to believe that McCain is a party Goosestepper since the GOP has been tryin to get rid of him forever….chuckle….That’s how I sleep at night
But then again WJC was not a democratic stooge either and neither is Hillary. I just try to keep what few wits I have about me….seek refuge at NQ where I learn and laugh and fix some Texas Chili for Tap Dancin Jesus just in case those Crazy MOFO Preachers do have an inside edge on the big apocalyptic HoDown we have all been told about…..Maybe the landing site is Denver…..Just keep your sense of humor Seattle it’s the most important asset you have……

jrterrier

and they haven’t even started on the rev wright and black liberation theology ads. ouch.

audacity

it is hard to cover everything, especially when BOBO is a fountain of youth and yes, FRESH material on a daily base
jwrjr

When the Repubs really cut loose on the big Zero he will be political road-kill. They won’t even have to lie. The truth is bad enough.

fif

The likely Democratic nominee is still getting relatively modest support from Hillary Clinton’s former supporters: 72% of them support Obama, compared with the 88% support level that McCain receives from backers of his formal GOP rivals.

But I thought we didn’t matter?

And the candidate with “new ideas?” Like what? He stole most of his innovative policy ideas straight from Hillary, and other than that, it’s all “hope” and “change” with no details. Also interesting that those working class whites are leaning McCain–another big surprise after OH, PA, KY etc., but they’re all racist anyway right? And “those people” don’t matter either I suppose.
http://obamafact.blogspot.com/ Mel

What TexasDarlin just posted sure won’t help Barry out much, and kind of confirms Bill Clintons statements:

*Breaking* Photo Documents Barry Soetoro, Indonesian

Ferdberfle

Jeebus, the trolls will come in waves to display their invincible ignorancce yet again.

http://obamafact.blogspot.com/ Mel

Wonder if Tony Rezko is warming up a cot in the Federal Pen for Barry to occupy shortly when it all comes out…..lol

Papoose

so do I, fervently.

~Peace To All Who Enter Here~
Ferdberfle

A nice cozy cell with bunk beds is awaiting him.

NoObamislamists

The idiots at Dailykooks were already spinning this poll as good for Hussein Obama, lol. Good. Markos and his pathetic psychophants are headed for a big downfall, hopefully.
bemused

Let them have their best shot. We are more than up to cut-and-paste and without compare in the witty comeback dept.

Ferdberfle

You got that right. I do hope se and Ray and that talking mule come to take his well-deserved lumps.

Ferdberfle

“their well deserved lumps.”

Can’t type for squat tonight.

MEchelle Hates America!

You got it right the first time. They’re all the same idiot with different on-line names.

Ferdberfle

ROFL. That was a good catch which I hadn’t thought of.

bemused

Someone, somewhere accused “Ray” of being another version of Joseph Cannon, because he always gets hot on the birth cert., perhaps. Instead of just getting led on, we could start analyzing them like the “text style” expert identifying Texas Darlin’ with somebody else. As they are not subject to education or persuasion, they might as well be objectified, classified, and put on the shelf.

Katmoon

OMG, I just checked, wow.
http://OTliesvideo Lyn

and Muslim
Ferdberfle

That’ll put a significant kink in his resume, huh?
ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

OMG those frakkin lying media whores!!!!

they had this since 2007 and are calling everyone a conspiracy theorist and xenophobic racist for claiming he was EDUCATED as a MUSLIM in his indonesian school under Soetero!!!

good golly Miss Molly!

yay TXDarlin yay!!!

I feel a song comin on..

IIIII’m hooked on a feelin’
im high on believin
we will have Hillareeeeeee

HASSELHOFF SRYLE FOR OBAMAFANZ IN GERMANY!!

WOOT!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8
Hooked on a feelin!!

Katmoon

I must have missed this from River Daughter yesterday, what howl!

riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/jack-cafferty-i-have-a-message-for-you/
http://obamafact.blogspot.com/ Mel

Obama statement: That isn’t the Barry Soetoro I once knew.

DeaninMI

Oh. My. God!!!

Just in time for the convention!

Christmas is early!

db

BO connects with ordinary people! You’ve got to be kidding!
The only thing he connects to are those who have deep pockets.
ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

WOOT there it is!!

BWAAAAHAAAAAHAAAA!!!

base stay home!!

BWAAAAHAAAAAAAHAAAA!!!!!
http://www.democrats-against-obama.org/ Michael

http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/breaking-photo-documents-barry-soetoro-indonesian/

What impact, if any, will this have?

NoObamislamists

That he registered as a Muslim has been known for awhile. That the media and Obamas assmunchers continue to ignore this fact is another story.
http://obamafact.blogspot.com/ Mel

Falsifying documents to the Illinois Supreme court, duel citizenship and more.

http://! Buzz Latte

Gosh and there’s already a lawsuit filed challenging Obama’s drug use statement on his paperwork to be an attorney. Now he didn’t list his Barry Soetoro moniker>

Barry, Barry, Barry. Barry’s only great in his own mind. Some people are committed and institutionalized for that kind of thinking.

s. hall

buzz latte — you need to cut Larry King some slack — he is on his 9th or 10th divorce.

PewL

Larry king interview,was terrible, Poor Jerome Corsi,wasn’t even allowed to speak,,…Now I know why I listen to Fox…At least the interview is fair.
http://www.democrats-against-obama.org/ Michael

ha! no surprise there…..

Larry King -

*yawn*

(although, Im impressed with his abilities to make children at his old..old age)

LOL!
http://www.democrats-against-obama.org/ Michael

ha! no surprise there…..

Larry King -

*yawn*

(although, Im impressed with his abilities to procreate (sp) at his old..old age)

LOL!
workingclass artist

Good Article Susan….I’m sure this is not the UNITY Dean had in mind…chuckle…
Just wanted to add that My increasingly Bitter Ol’ Dog Harry….is a PUMA at heart if not species…chuckle…and growing up around cats is quite fond of them….
Harry concurs….Aarf !
Philip Henika

Repost:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/13/EDCD129NI4.DTL

Georgia war is a neocon election ploy
Robert Scheer, Creators Syndicate, Inc.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Is it possible that this time the October surprise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave little Georgia struggling for its survival from the grasp of the Russian bear was stoked to influence the U.S. presidential election?

Before you dismiss that possibility, consider the role of one Randy Scheunemann, for four years a paid lobbyist for the Georgian government, ending his official lobbying connection only in March, months after he became Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s senior foreign policy adviser.

Previously, Scheunemann was best known as one of the neoconservatives who engineered the war in Iraq when he was a director of the Project for a New American Century. It was Scheunemann who, after working on the McCain 2000 presidential campaign, headed the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which championed the U.S. Iraq invasion.

There are telltale signs that he played a similar role in the recent Georgia flare-up. How else to explain the folly of his close friend and former employer, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, in ordering an invasion of the breakaway region of South Ossetia, which clearly was expected to produce a Russian counter-reaction. It is inconceivable that Saakashvili would have triggered this dangerous escalation without some assurance from influential Americans he trusted, like Scheunemann, that the United States would have his back. Scheunemann long guided McCain in these matters, even before he was officially running foreign policy for McCain’s presidential campaign.

In 2005, while registered as a paid lobbyist for Georgia, Scheunemann worked with McCain to draft a congressional resolution pushing for Georgia’s membership in NATO. A year later, while still on the Georgian payroll, Scheunemann accompanied McCain on a trip to that country, where they met with Saakashvili and supported his bellicose views toward Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Scheunemann is at the center of the neoconservative cabal that has come to dominate the Republican candidate’s foreign policy stance in a replay of the run-up to the war against Iraq. These folks are always looking for a foreign enemy on which to base a new Cold War, and with the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime, it was Putin’s Russia that came increasingly to fit the bill.

Yes, it sounds diabolical, but that may be the most accurate way to assess the designs of the McCain campaign in matters of war and peace. There is every indication that the candidate’s demonization of Putin is an even grander plan than the previous use of Hussein to fuel American militarism with the fearsome enemy that it desperately needs.

McCain gets to look tough with a new Cold War to fight while Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, scrambling to make sense of a more measured foreign policy posture, will seem weak in comparison. Meanwhile, the dire consequences of the Bush legacy McCain has inherited, from the disaster of Iraq to the economic meltdown, conveniently will be ignored. But it will provide the military-industrial complex, which has helped bankroll the neoconservatives, with an excuse for ramping up a military budget that is already bigger than that of the rest of the world combined.

What is at work here is a neoconservative, self-fulfilling prophecy in which Russia is turned into an enemy that ramps up its largely reduced military, and Putin is cast as the new Joseph Stalin bogeyman, evoking images of the old Soviet Union. McCain has condemned a “revanchist Russia” that should once again be contained. Although Putin has been the enormously popular elected leader of post-Communist Russia, it is assumed that imperialism is always lurking, not only in his DNA but in that of the Russian people.

How convenient to forget that Stalin was a Georgian, and indeed if Russian troops had occupied the threatened Georgian town of Gori, they would have found a museum still honoring their local boy, who made good by seizing control of the Russian revolution. Indeed five Russian bombs were allegedly dropped on Gori’s Stalin Square on Tuesday.

It should also be mentioned that the post-Communist Georgians have imperial designs on South Ossetia and Abkhazia. What a stark contradiction that the United States, which championed Kosovo’s independence from Serbia, now is ignoring Georgia’s invasion of its ethnically rebellious provinces.

For McCain to so fervently embrace Scheunemann’s neoconservative line of demonizing Russia in the interest of appearing tough during an election is a reminder that a senator can be old and yet wildly irresponsible.

Robert Scheer is author of a new book, “The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America.”

This article appeared on page B – 11 of the San Francisco Chronicle

ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

can we see the piece the Right does manyana showing how SOROS installed Saakashvili? thereby making it a LEFT conspiracy?

:0>

Philip Henika

Neocons are opportunists – they do not work Right or Left and they will take advantage if they see an imbalance; if narrowmindedness is perceptible such as frequently observed here at No Quarter

Lucinda

You posted that article, and you think we’re narrow-minded?
It’s the same kind of idiocy that supposes Roosevelt actually started WWII. I don’t fall for crap like this, and maybe that’s why I haven’t fallen for Obama.

JS Ruby

I really take exception to the statement that 72% of HRC supporters are backing BO. To me that is BS.

http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

Take heart. let him have his statistic. Because it means that 28% of 18,000,000 are about to screw Barky. That comes to…….let’s see….
5,040,000 voters. Works for me!

tzada

Yes, but keep in mind that “they” are madly registering felons in and out of prison. Wonder who “they” think the felons will vote for?

However it makes for restful sleep knowing that felons will make our country safe by putting the ~~wright~~ right person in office.
workingclass artist

We’ll have even more accurate figures once Obama’s Cracker Christian Campers return to pick up Extra Jesus Points after the convention….chuckle….1/2 of his trolls have already disappeared…Gearin up for the GOP Onslaught and the fight to save Cracker Tap Dancin Jesus…lol

Honora

I must only know the 28% of Hillary supporters that are now planning on voting for mccain. I know how to choose friends

csuzeq

me, too.

My personal poll is 48-MCain (fair disclosure, 2 are republicans) and 6 for Barky (loyal dems-damn it!)

tzada

Mine is 100 in favor of McCain. 5 for Obama. And this is just in my family. I know I know large family but it is true, extended family included.

http://! Buzz Latte

A small and unofficial sampling of all the dem votes I know is exactly ZERO PERCENTare voting for Obama.

There have been some hold-outs, but not anymore.

ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

I know someone who knows someone who is going to vote Obummer

onmomnaturesside

If only I could draw what i think.
Pat, you have a strong sweet voice.
Political cartoon is a language of the informed person.
Thank you and keep it up.
We need more like you.
Brava.
One thing, if I could draw, I would draw hillary as
“the thinker” in 2″hills and pant suit.
What I love most about Senator Clinton…
She is always the smartest one in the room.
Love that or hate that.
You can not deny that.
She teaches me every time I listen to her closely.
There is only one .
Madame president Clinton., support all us 18 and so many more millions who need you.

doctorwang

“She is always the smartest one in the room.”

Even if Stephen Hawking is in the room, too?
tzada

How would you draw these 2?

http://obamawho.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/barackobamaedwardsaid2.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Mutual_respect_-_Barack_and_Michelle_Obama.jpg/800px-Mutual_respect_-_Barack_and_Michelle_Obama.jpg

Someone needs to do a video based on some of the pictures. They are sometimes more telling than words.
Wonder what that kool aide head would think of the Meshellll eyes? Soft? Maybe no.

yttik

Cute post, susan.

I have to laugh, too. After the last horrendous eight years, I’m now agreeing with Republicans. See, Obama’s building unity already. It’s a miracle!

We’ve found common ground. Obama is flippin scary, Bush has really fouled things up, and McCain is a barely tolerable choice.
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

ROFL! My cat can beat up your cat Susan!

TeakwoodKite

Bear is a bear , I hear Uppity.

Perhaps they could join forces teach MO a thing or two about “scratching”!

Evgenia

Speaking to an adoring crowd inside a stadium might look good on paper, but it will end up biting the Messiah in his puny ass. It will just reinforce Obama as the American Idol candidate, not to mention that people will be sick of epic, cheering spectacles after two weeks of Olympics viewing. Personally, I will watch it for pure entertainment only. I can’t resist a freak show, and the sweet combination of a Hitler Youth rally and Moonies hysterics is too tempting to pass up.

ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

oh totally totally agree!! this is Obamapalooza Part Deux, the second leg of the Tour…

he didnt learn a thing from the failure of a good sized sustained bump post Uhhbamapalooza One, and he fails to take into account the effectiveness the MAC campaign had in getting that empty celebrity label to stick to him

they are enhancing MACs case with this stadium business…
Lucinda

I’d rather watch reruns of The Kardashians on E! than watch that spectacle in Denver.

workingclass artist

See…Lucinda I’m kinda torn…I want to have discipline and integrity like you and I sense that too much Exposure to the Demofascists could place my health in jeopardy….But this witness to the shipwreck pastime thingy has become so addictive….chuckle….Hmmm….I know I’ll avoid Meeecheele and her Bro like the plague….I’ll tune into Hill & Bill as long as I can stomach it….
But you’re most likely right….and you’ll probably hold onto your dinner doin it your way….chuckle…
I’m still mugwampin on this….

http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

Come Together!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJqNxKdgyqM

TeakwoodKite

He bag production he got walrus gumboot

workingclass artist

Got to be a joker he just do as he please…..sigh….

yttik

Rev Manning says Obama’s sinking like a lead rock in a glass of kool aid. LOl, it’s a funny clip.

I believe Obama is also over polling. You’ve got the bully factor, people are feeling pressured to vote for Obama. It’s easier to just go along with the crowd then to have deal with Obama fans. But later in the privacy of a voting booth, people will not vote for him. You don’t win hearts and minds by harassing people, by silencing them, by trying to shame them into supporting someone.

Other people will be disillusioned by November and not bother to vote at all. He made a big mistake by peaking so early. There’s nowhere for people to go except towards disillusionment. What’s he going to do to top his messiah like status? Part the Red Sea?

workingclass artist

chuckle….” It’s gonna be a wang dang doodle of a convention…” – Pastor Manning ( MLK’s Avenging Angel )…..

stodghie

susan,i have three furry family members and they do keep me focused. they even have a place they like to go to call me where they have it out with me. (my mom’s old cedarchest) so i can sympathize with the takedown.
http://barbarany_9.blogspot.com Barbara

Anyone else get this email?

“Getting Smear Emails about Barack Obama?

Forward the email to:
watchdog@barackobama.com
So we can fight back.”

Anyone smell the Obamaican’s desperation growing here?

csuzeq

Wow! F them! How dare they??????

http://barbarany_9.blogspot.com Barbara

I wrote them back saying:

“Define Smear

PUMA Devotee”

LOL

workingclass artist

Babs….That is a classic….too funny…lol

tzada

I finally got my donation reqest for Obama by mail. I will return it with the 2 pennies as suggested by one person on these forums. My hubby is kinda a strict type, but even he got tickled when I told him what I was going to do. I will wipe all fingerprints off and no DNA from saliva. Paranoid? Ya betcha, and prudent as well.

workingclass artist

chuckle….Al Gore e-mailed me to donate for the Citizen O’ the World Cause….I told Al we had to break up…and not to e-mail me anymore cause I’m pretty disappointed with him and I know that Tipper is sleepin down the hall till November….chuckle….Not that Tipper was a big fan of Hill’s personally but when Obama trashed WJC Administration he trashed Gore too…DUH !

So Al is gonna have to do some major ass kissin if he wants to restore our special e-mail global cleanup relationship…..and that ain’t even possible until…..maybe Feb/09…..Kinda depends on IF Obama is The FIC….
FIC = FASCIST IN COMMAND

Peggy Sue

We have a great [though unfortunate] test to judge the present Presidential, presumptive nominees–this current ultimatum by Putin. My ear will be pressed to tomorrow’s coverage in terms of comparing John McCain and Barack Obama’s reaction to this real world test of leadership skill and ability. You can’t wait for polls, you can’t wait to analyze a gazillion opinions, you have to react from experience and knowledge of international affairs. You need to be a card shark.

The risk is enormous, the sort of decision that the POTUS faces day-in and day-out on the world stage. How these candidates react will say everything about who and what these men are as potential leaders, our potential leader. And right or wrong, their reactions and reasons will follow them right into the November election.

I think I know how this will play out. But I could be wrong. I could be surprised. Life is strange that way.
http://firefox AnnieCarmel

Great to be able to print out the school registration. Again tonight on CNN/King the Democrat defending Barry, insisting that he has NEVER been a Muslim…and Soetoro himself filmed priming his worshipers that they may hear lies that he has been a Muslim.

I think I’ll carry a copy around with me.
tzada

This thought just hit me. The poll that I took part in had to be from the voting rolls. Because the pollster asked for me by name. My phone number is not listed in my name, so that had to be the only way. They were polling Democrats, about all it could be. y state is Florida.
Kelvin

McCain, just as Hillary did, will fall before Obama. All your hate and ignorance towards him will not change that fact.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_donor_contributions_sil.html Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright

Translation – Koolaid is so tastey!
candymarl

But my outrage about his ignoring poor black people in his home district in Chicago will not wane.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_donor_contributions_sil.html Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright

“As I uhh have said many times before so uhh i want to uhh be uhh absolutely clear on this, uhh those uhh aren’t uhh the poor black folk I uhh thought I Knew!! They are uhh bitter and uhh cling to their rundown husing projects uhh as a way to uhh explain their uhh ummm uhh frustration”

FLGirl

At No Quarter we are aware of the potential consequences of an Obama Presidency.
Ferdberfle

Troll. I suppose your answer is to have Oblahblah go talk both sides to an early grave. Great, they’d come after us for foisting that crap artist on them.
Uña de Gato

You can tell when an article is full of crap when it starts out with an ideologically motivated rhetorical question.
Fenelon spoke

I love that word “neocon” . Everytime it’s used now I tune it out. At this point it’s like “racist”. We’re all racist if we don’t support Obama and anyone who supports McCain is a neocon. Yawn.
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

Oh yeah, I want to trade right wing neocon fascists for neo liberal fascists. oh goodie. Here’s my pie.
Ferdberfle

Wow, what are you smoking tonight?
wry

You forgot to say Stop the Hate, Michael. Otherwise excellent analysis.
stodghie

oh shut up!
workingclass artist

Oh Brother….Soros cares about Humanity….( eyes roll )
SOROS IS A RICH AND BORED CRAZY CRACKER MOFO PLAYIN TWO SIDES AGAINST THE MIDDLE WITH TOO MUCH TOME ON HIS HANDS AND TOO MANY FOLKS IN THE WAY TO HIS OBNOXIOUS PERSUIT OF TWISTED PERSONAL GLORY….BITE ME NATIONAL SECURITY MIKE….WADDLE BACK TO GAZA…..SHEEESH!