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Gallup Daily Tracking: 46/46% (Open Thread) [Update]

By SusanUnPC on September 25, 2008 at 4:08 PM in Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Open Thread

Update: Our “hero” Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a longtime prominent Democrat and close ally of Hillary Clinton who announced recently her support for McCain/Palin, was just on with Neil Cavuto. I’m adding her remarks below the fold, as I type them up.
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Original: I just heard Karl Rove tell Neil Cavuto that yesterday the Gallup had McCain only 3 down, and today they are dead even. So it appears that John McCain’s bold announcement is paying off. Also: I was in the car this morning, and heard Rush Limbaugh pounding on Obama’s comment yesterday that Congress could “call me if they need me.” And I don’t think the Democrats’ whining that McCain is playing politics is going over with the American public, all of whom realize that this is a potential catastrophe, and who want a leader to take it very seriously and concentrate wholly on the immediate crisis at hand. That’s my two cents, for now.

Besides wishing desperately it were Hillary in the meeting today.

P.S. If body language and facial expressions mean anything, and they do imho, as the cameras scanned over the group in the White House, John McCain looked FAR more confident and at ease in the group whereas Barack looked like the new kid in school who doesn’t know anybody gazing around and wondering what to do and say.

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Lynn Forester de Rothschild in interview with Neil Cavuto, asking her about Bill Clinton’s indication that he understands why John McCain was considering postponing the debate:

“Well, back up to what John McCain really wanted.

“John McCain knows that two-thirds of Americans are really frightened right now. And this is the biggest crisis to face this country in a hundred years.

And that Barack Obama says, ‘Let’s issue a joint statement,’ and says to Washington, ‘Call me if you need me.’

“The other one, John McCain, says, ‘No, we’re going to sit down, eyeball to eyeball, Democrats and Republicans, and do what’s right for the American people.’ That’s what John McCain said. …”

[Cavuto interrupts]

Cavuto: “You know that by agreeing with the guy who’s challenging your party’s guy, it’s not going to look good for your party’s guy, Barack Obama, right?”

de Rothschild: “Bill Clinton has always put the best interests of America first. That’s why he got 45 million people to vote for him. So he’s not going to play politics with the lives of Americans. He never did. And so he’s not being political.”

[Cavuto interrupts]

Cavuto: “So when the Obama folks [unintelligible] Barney Frank, Harry Reid were saying that John McCain was actually the one playing politics, using it to showboat an issue, to make a ‘Hail Mary’ pass, what do you make of it?”

de Rothschild: “I make that such a cheap shot. I mean, how many times does John McCain have to prove he will take a shot from the hallelujah Obama chorus of the media to do the right thing for the American people?

“John McCain knows who he is, he knows where he is going, he knows what is right and he will always do it.

“Obama will always say it’s political. Well, it’s getting to be a little thin. …”

[She said much more. I hope we can get the video later from Fox News. And if you don't know about Lynn Forester de Rothschild's shocking announcement that she was supporting McCain/Palin, click on her name in the Category list just below the title of this story, and you'll see the other stories we've posted, along with videos of her announcement.]

  • PGraber

    Barack [DELETED BY ADMIN] Obama hasn’t been in enough meetings to know how to act – he’s the ‘new kid on the block’.

    [SusanUnPC's note: let's not use his middle name because it's a red flag to those who like to label our blog as racist. I know, I know. It is his middle name. But unfortunately, the extremist racists have grabbed it as a "hot button" item, so we have to avoid it. We can talk about him without using it. So let's do that. I don't mean to put you on the spot. It's just the "dance" we have to dance.]

    • PSP

      “gazing around and wondering what to do and say.”

      …my guess is because they wouldn’t allow him to bring a teleprompter…

      • Creature of Chicago

        And he just feels so naked without his Barackadential seal.

        • wry

          Just to prove my point! The BARACKADENTIAL seal. See, that’s better than muslim slurs. And for the record, the Muslims I know are big Clinton supporters.

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

            Are you saying Obama’s middle name is a “muslim slur”?

            !

            ?

            • Felizarte

              I don’t think that not mentioning Barack’s middle name will keep his supporters from calling anyone racist. It’s their strategy. In fact, they call anyone who does not support him, racist. This is just another way of giving in to not delving into his background.

              • bemused

                I tend to agree. The O-nuts have called racist on his name, the very mention of a major non-Christian religion in the same sentence with his name, the word “skinny,” the concept of a “black hole,” references to his ears, anything. It certainly seems that they will use any negative adjective on the same page, let alone sentence, with Ozero’s name, picture, or secondary reference to claim “racist.” Allowing them to hijack words is letting the camel’s nose under the tent. I should say “back under” because this is how racist got to be a knee-jerk guilt trip in the first place.

                • wry

                  CAMEL under the tent? Is that an Arabic slur? A fairytale?

                  • Hope Floats! Flush Twice!

                    It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for Obama to put his hand over his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance.

              • Obama is a bum

                We need to say Hussein just to piss them off since it bothers them.

                • http://Q Diana L. C.

                  Whenever it makes you the better, more dignified, ethical person, take the high road. You’ve been asked not to use the middle name, so don’t use it.

                  I do not like Obama at all, but when a person posts a comment and mentions the name middle, it does make me feel that the writer is against him for his ethnicity rather than for the fact that his character and experience make him an extremely poor and dangerous choice for the highest political position in the nation.

                  • Obama is a bum

                    I’ll use his middle name anyway and if you don’t like it — tough.

            • wry

              No, Kat, not at all. Barky’s minions act as if calling a man with a muslim name and a muslim father, and adoptive father for that matter, a muslim, is a slur…or to use their word, a smear.
              They’re beyond ridiculous and we know it.
              I think Susan’s just asking us not to give those zealots any thing else to fixate on. You got kooks at TPM changing their names, for God’s sake, like Malcolm Little became Malcolm X.
              And a dimwit down thread just suggested that when we say Barky we really mean darky. That’s about as much of a stretch as “fairytale” being racial code.
              I’ve got Muslim family, european not arabs, and they are not too impressed with Obama getting all in a twist when someone suggests he was raised as a muslim, like it’s on par with saying he’s a pedophile or something.
              I think we can continue to make lemonade from lemons and come up with new and funner Barky words. What do you say?

              • VMorris

                Agreed. Somebody used “Backtrack”. LOL.

                As far as him dodging 10 town hall meetings and his general cowardice after getting his a$$ handed to him by Hillary in their final debate, my preference is

                BAWAK O-UH-UH

                • Docelder

                  Or simply “The Wizard of Uh’s”.

                  • Hope Floats! Flush Twice!

                    Barry Queen of Snots.

              • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

                That is it exactly: Just don’t give them an excuse, especially since the exploitative use of his middle name has unfortunately been appropriated by some extremist right/white supremacist types who really are racists.

                We have real, substantive issues about which we have grave concerns. His middle name isn’t needed in order to discuss those grave concerns.

                • No Obamislamists

                  I think any candidate who has a self identified and provable muslim background and then claims he has, is, and was always a Christian should be a grave concern to voters.

                  Anybody who thinks that Islam is a happy fuzzy feel good religion needs to open their eyes. I don’t believe that is racist, I believe it’s taking the threat of Islamic facism seriously.

                • No Obamislamists

                  since the exploitative use of his middle name has unfortunately been appropriated by some extremist right/white supremacist types who really are racists.

                  http://media.www.thehilltoponline.com/media/storage/paper590/news/2008/09/19/Editorials/White.Supremacy.Groups.Voice.Opinions.About.Obama.Mccain-3441475.shtml

                  “Surprisingly, many white supremacist groups are against Sen. John McCain and would rather see Obama in the White House.

                  This anti-McCain approach is not being ignited because these groups want Obama to lead the country, but because they think that if Obama is president then their memebership would increase.”

                  Almost every article I’ve seen says that White supremicasts are on the Obama wagon because of this belief.

                • Obama is a bum

                  If they have you running away from using his middle name then they are playing with you like a cat plays with a mouse.

                • Bev

                  I understand your point Susan, but I have grave concerns about the consequences of such political correctness.

                  His name is Hu—en. We cannot use it for fear of being labeled racists.

                  When we call him Barky,we are being told we mean Darky. This is not true.

                  We ask for his birth certificate and we are called racists.

                  When does it stop? When are they satisfied?

                  It stops when there is no more dissent, no more questions, no more right to freely speak your mind.

                  Because this is your blog, I will respect your wishes, but I think we have to ask ourselves, when do we stand up against such nonsense?

                  • Tristan

                    I agree with Susan. You just have to pick your battles. There’s plenty of reasons for concern about an Obama presidency if you just stick to policy, history, character, and his underhanded tactics. Name calling serves no purposes – yes, I know Hussein is his name, but generally you don’t call people by their middle names.

                    For example, although I did follow the dicussion about him being raised muslim or not being an American citizen, I don’t even go there because frankly we don’t need to. The moment he called Hillary Clinton “Bush-Cheney Lite” and played the race card on Bill we knew he wasn’t qualified be President, and all the rest is just supporting evidence that hopefully will open other people’s eyes too.

      • vinnie

        LMAO. I can visualize him standing there with the big ass teleprompter by his side…barry’s best friend.

      • Sharon

        Obviously you did not hear any of the reports of that meeting? To a person, the word is that John McCain said three sentences and no one knew what he was talking about….he was useless. Obama, on the other hand, spoke briefly and confidently. this was NOT a meeting for Obama and McCain…it was Bush’s postering to McCain to play his little game. everyone lost.

    • wry

      I agree Susan, besides, our guys are so creative, they come up with much more delightful things to call Barky. We don’t need Hu**#in to diss him, what with the wonderful stuff that Uppity and Strawberry and all our other friends come up with.

      • Creature of Chicago

        I have to give credit where it’s due, I lifted “Barackadential” from Shtuey of oh my valve.

        • VMorris

          “Barackadential” lololol..

      • Ferd McBerfle

        Yeah, but the next thing you know, the zealots will insist that his name cannot be spoken or printed at all. He must be called the candidate than which no greater can be conceived or some such blasphemy.

        • http://deleted Buzz Latte

          Is it true? The middle name that must not be spoken is really Voldemort?

        • Peggy Sue

          Maybe Obama will come up with an unpronounceable symbol for his name, the way Prince did in the early 90s. That certainly worked! ;0)

          • Ferd McBerfle

            An empty circle with a line bisecting it would be appropriate.

          • No Obamislamists

            HAha…see my suggestion below

        • Ani

          Voldemort. Would that be better.

        • http://www.madinthemiddle.blogspot.com churl

          Com’on, Fred. We’re not members of the creative class. How can we be creative?

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

      Susan, I am realizing that some people don’t even know his middle name since it has become so politically incorrect to mention it.

      I went to a party recently and I overheard someone saying it, and the other woman thought she was comparing Obama to Saddam, and then she looked at her and was like, NO, his real middle name is H******. The other woman looked confused and surprised.

      It’s so silly. Obama’s camp made it seem offensive to mention, and so now we follow their rules. I don’t really mind, I just think it’s strange that probably not even 1/2 this country knows his middle name.

      • No Obamislamists

        It’s so silly. Obama’s camp made it seem offensive to mention, and so now we follow their rules

        Bingo! Getting worked up over his middle name only validates their point. Being called a racist by an Obamabot should be taken as a badge of courage and proof that we have won the arguement against Barack Obama.

        By Baracka’s own admission he went to muslim school and studied the Koran as a youth.

        • Obama is a bum

          Bingo! Getting worked up over his middle name only validates their point.

          Agreed. The Obama camp has nothing but the race card and running around like little kids afraid of being called racist by the Obama pukes means they win. Once you are manipulated by Obama you lose — I refuse to be manipulated.

        • Sharon

          Did not go to a muslim school. indonesia is 95% muslim…so every school has some religious study. how many times do we have to repeat this? not a muslim school, he studied religion like everyone else was required to do in elementary school. and Obama does not care if you use his middle name…he is not ashamed of it. its the way the republicans and Hillary people used it that was generally offensive.

      • No way No Mccain

        Who care what his middle name is?

        I am greek and have a very long middle name. Because his parents gave him a middle name when he was a baby? You people need to get a life. This is the best conversation you can come up with?
        No woner the rethugs are going down. Good freakin riddance. Bums. Policy and the direction of the country is important. What a bunch of racist hacks.

        • Ferd McBerfle

          My mother’s side of the family is Greek–they can’t abide the plastic one. My Father’s side is Welsh and they can’t stand the hypertwit, either. So ethnicity hasn’t a thing to do with it. As for racists–Oblahblah is doing a greaat job of uniting us all, huh? I see the selective indignation from that side daily, so don’t go lecturing us, troll. Get your own house in order before criticizing ours.

          • Felizarte

            One sure-fire way of stopping someone who starts throwing around the ‘racist’ accusation (especially when one is not) is to just say, “so?” or “and . . .?

            This is still a democracy. Whether one agrees or disagrees with someone else’s preferences is irrelevant. People can still like or dislike someone without giving any reason. If someone calls me a racist, I let them. It’s their right to think the way they want. I, however, maintain my right to disagree. What goes on in my head is entirely my business. How I translate my thoughts into action–that is the question. But only if I harm or injure anyone in the process.

            • Ferd McBerfle

              I prefer to hold the mirror up to the trolls. Tat tvam asi–that art thou.

        • Obama is a bum

          Without the race card you are nothing. What do you thugs plan on doing if Obama wins? Go on a witch hunt to find everyone who did not vote for him and hang them under political correctness?

        • Newly Independent

          You people need to get a life.

          You need to get your ignorant ass off of this blog.

          I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’ll be damned if I will ever allow the Obama scum to keep me from speaking my mind.

          This is America – land of the free and home of the brave. And I’m f—— sick of Obama’s stupid supporters trying to psychologically terrorize and intimidate American citizens that will not vote for him.

          They’re not going to hold this voter mentally hostage.

      • CamdenRave

        How many people know what John McCain’s middle name is? Personally, I have no idea what John McCain’s middle name is. The only reason people know what Obama’s middle name is is because it matches the dictator who used to rule Iraq.

        • audacity

          try Sydney

        • alexei

          It is Sidney. Hillary’s is Diane but of course she has her maiden name, Rodham.

          • CamdenRave

            Why don’t people on No Quarter ever refer to him as John Sidney McCain? Or “Sidney” or “Sid” yet always refer to Obama’s middle name?

            • beebop

              I have called him John Sydney McCain. I assume that it is a family name. I have heard Sarah Palin — Sarah Heath Palin — use Sydney out on the stump.

            • Obama is a bum

              If you want to use McCain’s middle name then have at it. Nobody will whine like little babies and call you a racist.

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

                Ya, really.

                Call John McCain: John Sydney McCain!

                Go AHEAD!

                It’s OK with us!!!

                Seriously!

                No Problem!

                We won’t go hysterical over it, I promise!

                John Sydney McCain! John Sydney McCain!

                See? It’s fine!

                lol..

    • No Obamislamists

      Why are you worried that the Dailykooks types think I, you, us are “racist”? We’ve already seen what happens when affirmative action and PC-ness gets out of control. In essence, you’re accepting their arguement and premise that we are racists. When these chumps play the racist card on us it’s proof that we’re winning the arguement. Censuring his middle name only reinforces their ignorance. Remember, the only people playing the race cards are the Obamabots.

      I mean, I have YET to see any news on an anti-Obama rally by the KKK or any white supremicists, yet Barky and his surrogates have to keep reminding us “did I mention he has a funny name and he’s black”.

      • Obama is a bum

        Well said.

    • Obama is a bum

      Since when has someone’s middle name been off limits? Obama should not be treated with kid gloves. If Obama goes to an arab country he may insist they use his middle name.

    • PhxNickD

      Susan please don’t do this. This is exactly why I left Taylor Marsh – her idiotic stance that we not use Obama’s middle name. It is his name, no one ever stops us from using Hillary’s middle name. This is very ugly that you need to start doing this.

      • No Obamislamists

        Does anybody get this worked up when Catholics and Christians use “Paul” and “Peter” for their children’s middle names? I didn’t think so.

        Hate to break it to the people here, but muslims often name their children Hussein and Mohammad, much like for the reasons above.

      • audacity

        agree. many people when u mention h. think u r making a joke.

        especially AA’s. they don’t believe it is his middle name

        • Mr. X

          I agree too. It’s stupid to not be allowed to use someone’s middle name. In fact, it’s caving to the race card. That’s what it is.

    • Joy

      I noticed no one ever used John McCain’s middle name but I’ve noticed many posters use the Beautiful O’s middle name and others call him Barky. Why Barky? Do you think he’s a dog or is b similar to d?

      • Ferd McBerfle

        Because he’s a lapdog. Any more questions?

      • Maverick

        Yes. He barks like a dog..talk talk uh uh Bark
        talk talk uh uh bark!

      • Newly Independent

        Do you think he’s a dog or is b similar to d?

        No…….

        But you’re an “i”, as in idiot.

        • Joy

          No it was a valid question. If you don’t think he is a dog and aren’t using b for d then why do you call him Barky, newby independence?

          • gumdart

            Good lord, I hadn’t even thought of that (that’s terrible — people aren’t really doing that, surely?) and I’ve been reading Barky for months. It made sense to me because he does nothin’ but yap.

            • Joy

              Thank you for your response. Calling him Barky because he yaps is understandble.

          • Steve_in_KC

            It’s simple. Bar(ac)K-y. It’s a short nickname like calling Jennifer Jenny or Elizabeth Libby.

            You Obama people are so damn sensitive, and obviously not very worldly.

            And no, we don’t use it affectionately. It is intended to be derisive in a doggish way, but you are really reaching to find some hidden reference to his color.

            And excuse me while I barf… Beautiful O???

            (wretch!!)

            • Joy

              Try again Steve. I am not an “Obama person.” The Beautiful O comes from a birthday card I received. On the front was a picture of Obama’s face on Oprah’s body and then words Beautiful O and inside it said have a Beautiful O Happpy Birthday.

              I see Barky used to refer to Obama on this board and asked why and you over react. In the past he’s been called a bastard on this board so Barky isn’t as bad in comparison

          • bemused

            I thought it was because bark is a superficial deadwood.

    • csuzeq

      I was listening to CNN at work (couldn’t see it), but they were describing McCain on one side of Bush and Obama on the other, both with big smiles. What came to mind was how perfect this is. McCain is a genious. To show Barky in the white house, slouching and all like he does is a good image of how he doesn’t belong in the white house. Before the meeting, they were showing him outside on his blackberry. I did not see that either, but the image in my head seemed like a child having to call home and let them know he got there ok.

      anyone else find it funny that Bush had to tell lil sparky what was the right thing to do? Bush. Worst President ever. So far. Hahahahaha. ROFLMAO!

    • NoBamaNoWay

      i understand what you’re saying, but that’s basically giving in to the “race card.” fact: half of obama’s family is muslim and he has had very close attachments with/sympathy for islam his entire life. show me one muslim country that practices democracy, freedom of religion, equal rights for women, separation of curch and state, etc. such as what we practice and advoctae for here in america. real issues should not be taken off the table.

      • No Obamislamists

        People need to open their eyes and stop pretending that Islam is a happy fuzzy feel good religion. See my response above to Susan.

    • Maverick

      We can’t use his middle name anymore? Larry uses it. He calls him Barky Hussein Obama. Must be a new rule. Hmmm

      • Obama is a bum

        Obama has been walking around with “change” signs for over a year. If this jerk hates his middle name so much then why does he not change it. Seems to me that it is not a difficult procedure. Obama cannot even change his middle name — pathetic.

    • beebop

      Susan:

      May I call him Barack Insane 0bama? How is that different than McSame, etc? I’ll live with your “judgment,” even though I might not be happy with it …..

      • wry

        That’s a good one, beebop. I think that passes the test!

    • oowawa

      In the spirit of this new graciousness, I suggest that we stop using the term “Obama” since it rhymes with “Osama” and may be construed as an ethnic slur and an attempt at guilt by association. Let’s just call him “O” from now on.

      • No Obamislamists

        He shall be now officialy known at NQ as “The Candidate”…which is short for “The Candidate formerly known as Barack Hussein Obama”

        • Ferd McBerfle

          I like Junior Senator from Illinois, hereafter referred to as Junior.

    • Midlife Mama

      While I understand your reasoning, SusanUnPC, I find it extraordinarily frightening that one cannot type a presidential candidate’s given middle name without facing some sort of negative consequences.

      I am shocked that it has come to this. That alone is reason enough not to vote for him.

      If this self-censoring becomes the accepted norm online then I suppose they have really won.

    • tzada

      But when and where will it stop? We don’t say the N word, which is no problem by me. Never was in my vocabulary. Then “they” say the ad with Brittany and Paris and Obama was racist. The ad on Raines was racist. The Eifel tower ad was ….. well we all know what it was said it was.

      Not to argue with you, but why is the name that shall not be spoken and starts with an H and is shared by thousands racist? It is an ARAB name. All of Obama’s names are Arab. How is speaking someones given name racist? Can we still say Barack and Obama or do we have to address him as his ONENESS? All the while face down in the gutter.

      They come here to make a problem, anything will set them off, anything. So what will we give up next?

  • meileen

    Backtrack know nothing about leading, only about campaigning. Thank goodness he’ll lose in a landslide once the undecideds go behind the curtain on Nov. 4th.

    • Obama is a bum

      The problem with 80% of the people is they spend little or no time following politics. They turn the news on and see the media slobbering over Obama. In this election people have to put some effort in on their own to discover how bad Obama is.

    • http://deleted OBSP

      “Backtrack” is the best name anyone has come up with. LOL!

      • wry

        The beautiful O…is that like the big O? This isn’t Cosmopolitan.

        • wry

          OOPS. This is an ode to Joy, above.

  • suthrn

    the only thing better in this picture of the seating arrangements in the meeting would have been an empty seat separating the one seated on his right…would have put him im left field all by himself….but we are holding our breath waiting on his comment he made known that he would have after the meeting.. yeah right we are..of course he cant just be in attendance, he has to make a spectacle and grunt out empty words…

  • Andrew

    If they need him, they’ll call—as if anyone would. Can this man even find his Senate office without assistance? Has he done ANYTHING for his constituents in Illinois since he was elected Senator? As a New Yorker, I know that Hillary Clinton had an impressive list of achievements by the end of her first year. I believe that John McCain is honestly putting the country’s interests first, and doing the patriotic thing. But even those who disagree with that ought to be clear on the fact that these guys are public servants, and they had damn well better get back to Washington when duty calls. It’s their job, after all.

    • Obama is a bum

      I do not need Obama for anything, I don’t even think he knows how to inflate tires.

      What will Obama say if he becomes president “Call me if you need me but I work bankers hours and take a 3 hour lunch, an hour nap in the moring, and an hour nap in the afternoon. And besides, all of the problems are above my pay grade. If I show up to work I will notify everyone with a text message that I am present. Once per week I will come out and read a speech.

      • VMorris

        Call me if you need me, but make sure you don’t include my middle name!!

        In fact, don’t use my first or my last name, either!!!

        Just call me THE ONE!

  • Vanessa

    Obama acts as if his birthday party might be cancelled. What a baby! We need a grown-up NOW. If not Hillary then McCain. Did anyone notice when he came to the mic yesterday the first thing he said was I’m sorry to get so and so off the golf course and they laughed. He does not get it.

    • csuzeq

      I agreed with Barky that he should just keep campaigning. Leave the tough stuff to the grownups. No sense in the little one missing out on all of his fun for things that don’t concer him and he wouldn’t understand.

  • Duras

    That’s because McCain has been there and done that before. Barack Obama is the greatest pretender in the history of American politics. He is the consummate “empty suit”.

  • benny

    Come election results, and I’ll have fun watching Obama give his concession speech. hope he gives it gracefully, the great orator that he is. cant depend on Michelle though. ;-)

    • lark

      I don’t hold hope that he will ever give a concession speech.

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

        Obama’s concession speech will not be pretty. Obama will try to play it cool, but then he will slowly lose it, Ladies and Gentlemen…I really uh, I..uh…cannot believe…this..you know…Michelle already had the drapes measured…uh…I was going to remove that TV from the Lincoln Bedroom…remember I said 10 years…and now..uhh, none?…uhh, and, uh..bowling sucks!…I was going to put in that basketball court…can’t uh…believe I lost…stupid ACORN failed me, (then the tears)…Pelosi, you promised meeee. booo hoooo….(then the anger)…uhhh… It’s Hillary’s fault!!

      • csuzeq

        He won’t.

        He’ll just believe he’s entitled and pull him and Mechelle’s moving van up to the White House anyway.

  • Mr. X

    I remember seeing on CNN quite a while ago during the primaries when Obama used to go to diners and TRY to meet people, he could not do it. He has no idea how to just go up to someone and say “Hi, how are you? Nice to meet you!” He is 100% socially inept. People would go up to him and he did not know what to do. He could not even talk to the waitress to order what he wanted without fumbling.

    Then you contrast that with someone like Hillary, who has admitted that she is not a comfortable public figure, but she got the hang of it rather quickly where she really shined in town hall situations. And we’ve seen Bill go to a million different small towns. The guy is in his natural state talking directly with people.

    • Obama is a bum

      He is 100% socially inept.

      Agreed. He, and even more so micHELLe, looked way out of touch when they went around to white people’s home campaigning. micHELLe looked disgusted, the thought must have been going through her mind “Why do I have to ask this white trash for my vote when they should just be kissing my ass.”

  • lark

    I think every one of those politicians at that table hate Oblahblah. Why? Their hate for him grows because he is always accusing politician in Washington of not doing their jobs and not being responsible. They know that most irresponsible politician among all of them is him. So they hate him for accusing them of what are his personal traits. Anyone would. That’s how I know.

    If Oblahblah would by some chance win the presidency, none of them would speak to him a word of cordial sympathy. And they know that he will always appropriate their hard efforts.

    • suskin

      Good point Lark.

      I’ve been saying for some time now (to my Obama leaning son) that one of the reasons I proudly support McCain (as a long time Democrat and HRC supporter) is because McCain holds the respect of Congress and because he has that respect, he will be much more effective than Obama, who I think is not respected and most likely disliked by most of them.

      And that goes for the Military as well

      • PSP

        If I had to use just one word to describe each of our two candidates, it would be this:

        Obama = Arrogance

        McCain = Integrity

        Which man should be president is a no-brainer.

        • csuzeq

          Definitely. It’s the person, not the party!

          Lately, I have been asking O supporters who claim McCain is just another Bush if they truly believe that our country’s problems were caused by the Republican platform or by Bush’s personality and lack of leadership?

          lightbulb goes off in head.

          Try it!

          • Obama is a bum

            I like McCain’s attitude of Country First. I don’t care about party.

          • No way No Mccain

            It’s the republicans. Get their friends rich and screw everyone else. No it’s policy and what is best for this country. McCain needs to go home and take a nap. What a whining baby. Now he injects himself into this stupid bailout. Now they are all screaming and yelling. McCain thought he could score political points with this farce and he looks like an idiot. The next poll numbers will show him sinking even further because of this stunt. “I want to postpone the debates because I can’t do more than one thing at a time”. If he really put country first he would have been working on this a long time ago. This bailout was being worked on 6 months ago at the Whitehouse. McCain is a rethug and no one bothered to tell him? Well his VP has a bridge she can sell you too! McCain is toatlly freakin clueless.

            • http://www.madinthemiddle.blogspot.com churl

              I wonder… could Ted Kennedy drive across that bridge without killing someone?

            • Steve_in_KC

              Wow, you used nearly every talking point on your list with that post. That must be worth bonus O-points on your next check.

    • Steve_in_KC

      I think every one of those politicians at that table hate Oblahblah. Why? Their hate for him grows because he is always accusing politician in Washington of not doing their jobs and not being responsible. They know that most irresponsible politician among all of them is him. So they hate him for accusing them of what are his personal traits. Anyone would. That’s how I know.

      If the Super Delegates were able to cast a secret ballot right now, just to see what the majority thinks, I bet more than half of them would NOT be voting for Barko. After seeing Hillary back in action in the Senate this summer, I am confident a majority of them would pick her in a blind poll.

  • samb

    Have you ever seen the smaller kid running after the bigger kids, saying wait for me, wait for me, that was Obama at that table today.

    • Creature of Chicago

      That was probably the most charitable way to phrase it.

    • No way No Mccain

      Yeah and you got all of this from a 30 second photo op? Right. Oh maybe you were there and I just missed you?

  • No Obamislamists

    Dems trying to have it both ways. They want to play this as a major financial “catastrophe” and bang it over the GOP’s head, but yet they want to do nothing but maintain the status quo. That’s the dems in a nutshell really.

  • Paul3triple

    mccain’s bold move will pay of in dividends.
    If he wins the debate or does well(with the media it is hard to tell who wins because they will all say obama did) he locks this up.
    In the new zogby poll mac is up by 2! It said it was a 2 day poll and after the first day obama was up by about 3, then they polled todday and mac lead by five giving him a 2 point lead overall.

  • d2d

    o/t but i need your help. I’m having a delightful partisan conversation with some colleagues about the $84B loan for AIG, $25B loan to carmakers and the $700B bail out for mortgage lenders AND am trying to make the point that when one party is in charge of the House, Senate and Executive office the citizens aren’t well served.

    That said, there was an article here at NQ in recent days about Barry’s proposed policy for a global financial outreach plan for other nations. Ugh! I can’t recall all of the article. Anyways, I’m hoping someone on this thread may be able to point me to a link so that I may share w/my colleagues how many more dollars from the treasury will be flying out the door if we have one party rule i.e., Democratic rule. Thanks in advance to whomever can help me out.

    On topic, it’s nice to see McCain gaining some traction in the polls following his bold step in suspending his campaign to, heaven forbid, do his job as a partisan bridge builder to strike the right deal for us, the American citizen.

    When I was listening to him announce his suspension yesterday in the car I said “YES” finally some FRIGGIN LEADERSHIP!!!

    McPalin 2008
    Hillary 2012

    • Chicago Joe

      You can search this phrase: Global Poverty Act.

      From WND:
      Obama bill: $845 billion
      more for global poverty
      Democrat sponsors act OK’d by Senate panel
      that would cost 0.7% of gross national product

      • d2d

        Chicago Joe, I can’t thank you enough!

    • tzada

      The Global Poverty Act Gives 845 Billion to the UN. If the money has to be borrowed it will cost taxpaye1.5 Trillion. It also has clauses giving the UN control of the USA, including taking our guns.

      • tzada

        Obama bill would commit $845 billion to global poverty

        Chad Groening – OneNewsNow – 2/19/2008 4:00:00 AM
        Cliff Kincaid, the leader of the watchdog group America’s Survival, is urging the U.S. Senate to reject a bill introduced by Barak Obama that Kincaid says would subordinate U.S. foreign policy to the United Nations.

        The measure is known as “The Global Poverty Act of 2007″ (S. 2433). It would require the president of the United States to “develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.” The bill, introduced in the Senate on December 7, 2007, is sponsored by Democratic presidential frontrunner Senator Barack Obama.

        Sen. Barack Obama, perhaps giving America a preview of priorities he would pursue if elected president, is rejoicing over the Senate committee passage of a plan that could end up costing taxpayers billions of dollars in an attempt to reduce poverty in other nations.

        Many Americans were alerted to the legislation by a report from Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media. He published a critique asserting that while the Global Poverty Act sounds nice, the adoption could “result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States” and would make levels “of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations.”
        He said the legislation, if approved, dedicates 0.7 percent of the U.S. gross national
        product to foreign aid, which over 13 years he said would amount to $845 billion “over and above what the U.S. already spends.”

        • tzada

          All Americans need to know what else is contained in The
          Global Poverty Act Senate Bill 2433
          Which Barack Obama co sponsored.

          *It would require .07% of our gross national product on top
          of what we are now paying. “In addition to seeking to
          eradicate poverty, that *(U. N.) declaration.

          It commits nation to banning small arms and light weapons,
          and ratifying a series of treaties including the
          International Criminal Court Treaty
          Kyoto Protocol *(global warming treaty)
          Convention of Biological Diversity
          Convention on the Elimination of All forms of
          Discrimination Against Women
          Convention of the Rights of the Child.”

          These UN protocols make U.S. law on issues ranging from the
          2nd amendment to energy usage and parental rights all
          subservient to United Nation whims. It is estimated that the
          only way to raise the necessary funds to pay for this would
          be a global tax, preferably on carbon-emitting fossil fuels.
          Perhaps that taxes from 35 cents to 1.00 per gallon, would
          be added to gasoline and fuel oil. Who knows what would
          happen to the coal industry.

          THIS BILL HAS PASSED THE SENATE COMMITTEE AND IS WAITING> FOR FULL VOTE ONCE HE BECOMES OUR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
          PLEASE READ THE GLOBAL POVERTY ACT.

  • pm317

    P.S. If body language and facial expressions mean anything, and they do imho, as the cameras scanned over the group in the White House, John McCain looked FAR more confident and at ease in the group whereas Barack looked like the new kid in school who doesn’t know anybody gazing around and wondering what to do and say.

    My thoughts exactly, Susan. I tried to imagine Hillary there instead of O’Zero and kept seeing her overshadowing the clowns Pelosi and Reid and even Bush. And of course, O’Zero seemed nervous (obviously, without his 300 advisers, he is fish out of water.)

    • kgirl1028

      Well that’s because when obama came back from debate camp Winnie the Pooh took McCains lead and headed back to the magic. Even though he’s just Mickey’s Foreign policy advisor, he felt that Cinderella and Aladdin, his surrogate’s who now that he has been working for the obama team, need him there to rally the troops. Scrooge McDuck, disney’s sec of treasury has come up with a new proposal that will help keep the Magic Kingdom afloat during this period of economic uncertainty.

      I was also told that First Lady Minnie is a huge sarah palin fan. She said she plans on running in 2050 when her husbands term of president expires. She said Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have inspired all little girls in the magic kingdom to dream big, work hard, and that they can be anything they want when they grow up. She also says that she finds obama’s over use of the race card, to be distasteful. Her husband, a mouse did not use the species card to get him elected, even though the magic kingdom is 50% humans, 30% magical creatures, and 10% animals.

      Rev Simba, her husbands spiritual advisor, told Micky that in order for humans to take him seriously he had to jump through the same hoops as they did, human guilt is not enough to get you elected, you just have to be the best. Father Bambi a close friend agrees. ” Mickey would never use the human card, it’s just un called for.” My own mother was killed by a human, but i did not let that stopping me from persuing, equality and peace for all citizens of the Magic Kingdom. Senator Obama should be ashamed of himself for his countinual race baiting. If animals in the magic kingdom can see one of us ascend to the castel with thought use of species baiting, then he can reach the white house without race baiting.” micky had what it took to lead. He started as a steam boat captin, worked his way up to magicians apprentice, and then started his own club with human children, I still remember our campaign slogan M-I-C-K-E Y M-O-U-S-E. what a mouse.”

      • No way No Mccain

        Your juvenile post only shows your ignorance. No one race baits but you people on this site. You want to try to make it about race but people have moved on except here. Your pathetic attempts to make this about race and gender did not and will not work. It is over. Move on.

        • kgirl1028

          My juvinille post, was inspired by an obama’s foreign policy advisor who actually had the silliness to say we could learn foreign policy from winnie the pooh in front of the international press. Now that is ignorant.

      • bemused

        Really good translation, kcgirl. :) Made that pesky troll NoWhatsisname use the “racist” claim about it just as was predicted above–he can’t respond to such a complicated allegory specifically so he falls back on taunts.

        • bemused

          PS sorry I mangled your name, kgirl1028.

  • Capt Howdy

    prediction:
    Alcee is going to be sorrrrryyyyy.

  • Keep It Up

    “If they [Congress] need me, call me.”

    This is Obama’s “KATRINA” Moment…

  • Loveharriet

    McCain the genious! Obama the fraud!

  • samb

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13920.html

    MCCAIN GAMBLES WITH HIS POLITICAL FUTURE

  • http://www.noquarterusa.net Linda

    I think McCain should be in pretty good shape for the election. But what keeps nagging at me is the thought of all the voter fraud. I keep hearing about all these new registrations of college students in Virgina, etc. who actually live in other states and it makes me cringe.

    • tzada

      yes and every where on the internet you see his smirk and a link to register to vote…. it is indeed scary

  • lark

    Prediction on Oblahblah’s statement after the meeting.

    Obama: I am satisfied with the results of the meeting. Sec. Paulsen included all my 5 points, 6 points, and 7 points as I dictated them to him. And also the agreement includes my 3 principles, 4 principles and 5 principles I instructed them to include.

    The President thank me for writing the most important parts of the agreement and McCain didn’t contribute anything and he just was sleeping during the whole meeting.

    • Capt Howdy

      the Harry and Nancy show can say whatever they want but Boner and Mitch say the House is not on board. so McCain will still be able to appear to be twisting some arms for the good of all.
      they have been out maneuvered and its killin um.

      • Joy

        Nancy is not taking her Dems over the bail out cliff unless atleast 110 plus Repubs are with her. And at this point they ain’t there.

        Shrub sent Chaney to jawbone the conservatives and they told him to take a hike. Now McCain dropped by to try his luck with the Repubs. So far no go.

      • tzada

        Did you see this sickening photo of Nance?

        The Line in from Drudge says
        Treasury Secretary down on one knee before Polosi.

        Picture just shows her fac.

        http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080925/i/r3338871921.jpg?x=400&y=266&q=85&sig=ivYxQa8eifOHiiOgFTS5kg–

  • Amalia

    just saw the ad of some so called democracy group that questions McCain’s health because of the skin cancer.

    those people should be ashamed of themselves. what evil.

    but, since they want questions about medical records, perhaps their candidate, Obama, will finallly show his medical records.

    after all, his father died young, much due to his problems with alcohol, and his mother died young from ovarian cancer.

    Obama is looking grayer every day, and his complexion varies with the makeup artist of whatever studio he is in. how is his health?

    • Obama is a bum

      Obama is looking grayer every day

      Wait until Obama gets into the White House. Like Hillary said when Obama was crying, answering a question about Ayers or Wright is nothing. Ask Bush or Clinton about the stresses of the job. Obama does not have a clue about what he is getting into and we are all screwed if he wins.

    • JP49

      I read about it on the Drudge Report. Its Howard Dean’s brother, James Dean. What low lifes the dems have become under the current leadership. The democratic party is selling out America. they must be run out of the congress and the senate except for a very few, Hillary, Sheila Jackson Lee and a few others who are true democrats and patriots.

    • Joy

      Amaila, I question any 72 year old candidate with a history of cancer. That’s not evil but common sense. That does not mean I would not vote for him but it is one factor of many I consider.

      • Seattle Moss

        I question any candidate that has a history of Cocaine abuse

      • Obama is a bum

        I question a 47 year old with a cancer of close associations with far left radicals and has a cult following similar to Jim Jones.

    • tzada

      His purple/blue mouth is indicative of heart disease.
      One person said cocaine use, dunno about that one.
      Yassar Arafat had the same purple mouth, so maybe it is his Arabic heritage?

  • NoBO

    I’m quite pleased Gallup has them tied again. No bounce from the economic mess, Mr. Obama. It’s time for John McCain to take the lead, as he so well deserves.

    I put together a bunch of links to interesting articles and videos that should be of great interest to all here. Please take a look:

    http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?p=397792#post397792

    Warning: the first Jackie Mason clip, second from bottom, could make you burst out laughing so be careful of what’s in your lap or in your mouth. My wife was having tea when I played it for her and, well, I thought I should give this warning. :)

  • http://wayne52 wayne52

    What the media did’t tell people is that Harry Reed
    called John McCain and asked him to come, to me it was a set up by the Dem to make him look bad and the media bashed him. I hope it will back fire on the Dem but the American people are pretty stupid and will belive everything that the media say.

  • RememberWeWill

    What’s going on w/the Berg lawsuit….someone posted what follows at another blog:
    ============================
    From Barack Obama’s Fight the Smears page, this new language has been added:

    “When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.

    Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”
    ====================================

    • Docelder

      None of which would be relevant with a US birth certificate… why the long way around such a simple thing? Just show the nice federal judge your birth certificate and be done with it… right?

      • Hap Hazard

        Totally right on the money. Just think about it. If you or me or I would guess anyone actually born in America were seriously questioned about our country or origin or whether we were a US citizen, we would simply produce a certified copy of the birth certificate.

        I didn’t hesitate to do that when the California State Bar required proof of citizenship. Come to think of it, I am quite sure that Obama should have had to produce a certified birth certificate when he applied for membership in the Illinois Bar Association. Is he not in fact a licensed attorney in Illinois??

        • tzada

          Think he gave it up, but he was supposed to have been. Also I think on his application under other names used he put NONE. I think he did have the use of the name Barry Soetoro. If so that was a lie. Seems like a law was broken if so.

    • HC

      “Shadowy claims” say he has failed to produce a valid birth certificate. I guess “shadowy claim” is another word for “lawsuit”.

      The smears website has a bizarre attempt to “clear the smear” by mentioning The Nat Act of 48. So Obama was born a British Colonial? Is that what this says? Subject to British laws like Daddy Obama?

      This doesnt exactly seem to “clear the smear” to me. I hope the “shadowy claims” keep digging away.

      • tzada

        Here is an interesting article. It opened my eyes to how peoples of the world may view the candidate we call Barack Obama. It also was interesting to note how an Iranian looked upon what he called Barack Obama’s “attempt at obfuscation. He has behaved as if he did have a family secret, and as if the name Hussain was something to be ashamed of.”

        Much ado about a middle name

        Amir Taheri is an Iranian author based in Europe.

        Is pronouncing a man’s middle name tantamount to insulting him? In the case of Senator Barack Obama, the favourite to win the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency of the United States, the answer appears to be yes.
        Senator Hillary Clinton, Obama’s last remaining rival within the party, has already apologised because her aides used “the unmentionable middle name”, ostensibly without her consent.
        Last week, it was the turn of Senator John McCain, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee and Obama’s possible rival in the final contest, to apologise because the host of a meeting he attended was rash enough to pronounce the seven-letter word.
        The word in question is Hussain, Obama’s middle name that was also the name of his Kenyan Muslim father.
        What is astonishing is that Senator Obama has accepted the apologies as if the use of his father’s name was, indeed, an insult.
        What is the rationale behind this strange behaviour?
        It is simple. Hussain is an Arabic word supposed to have a negative resonance with many Americans, reminding them of Saddam Hussain, the late Iraqi dictator who has entered American folklore as arch-villain. The fact that, in Arabic, Hussain means “most benign” or “very beautiful” is not enough to persuade Obama and his PR gurus to treat it more kindly.
        However, Obama’s problem does not end with censoring his middle name. His first name, Barack, is also Arabic, from the stem barakah meaning “blessing”. His surname Obama, from Swahili*, the Arabic-based lingua franca of East Africa, refers to members of the Luo tribe who converted to Islam.
        In other words, Barack Hussain Obama Jr’s name is a perfectly ordinary identification for someone with an ethnic East African Muslim background.
        What is troubling about Obama’s approach to the mini-storm stirred by his political enemies over his name, is what may look like an attempt at obfuscation. He has behaved as if he did have a family secret, and as if the name Hussain was something to be ashamed of.
        Obama’s efforts to distance himself from Islam, is in contrast with his innovative approach to US relations with its Islamist challengers.
        President George W. Bush has chosen the “iron fist” option by invading Afghanistan and Iraq, building quarantine around Iran, keeping the Baathist regime in Syria in check, and helping a dozen Muslim states fight Al Qaida or its variants on their soil. Both Senators McCain and Clinton offer variations on the same theme, albeit with caveats designed to satisfy their respective constituencies.
        By contrast, Obama is offering a policy of dialogue and accommodation. He has opposed the listing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation, and proposed a grand bargain with the regime in Damascus. Obama is even prepared to ignore two United Nations’ Security Council resolutions that require Iran to stop its uranium enrichment programme as a precondition for talks at the highest level.
        Key demands
        In an important symbolic move designed to signal an end of the special relationship between Israel and the United States,, Obama has become the first major American presidential candidate in more than 30 years not to commit himself to transferring the US embassy to the Jewish state from Tel Aviv to Occupied Jerusalem.
        Last but not least, Obama has promised to withdraw from Iraq within the first year of his presidency, thus meeting one of the key demands of radical Muslim forces, whether Sunni or Shiite.
        The message is clear: Obama wants a new relationship with radical forces in the Islamic world while distancing the US from its traditional allies in the region. In other words, he proposes to reverse policies that have taken shape over more than six decades under 12 successive American presidents. It is this revolutionary idea that deserves to be closely examined, studied and debated, not the origin and meaning of Obama’s middle name.

        http://archive.gulfnews.com/indepth/uselections/more_stories/10194808.html

        *My Notes

        Arab traders began to settle among the Africans of the coast, resulting in the emergence of a people and culture known as Swahili. There started the East Coast slave trade.

        Arabs and Persians moved to the East African coast. It is an undeniable truth that Arab and Persian cultures had the greatest influence on the Swahili culture and the Swahili language.

        Radical Islam uses stealth to gradually eroded countries rights. We should be careful of the slippery slope called political correctness.

        That said I will respect your wishes and not use that name, while in my heart I respectfully disagree.

    • http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com TexasDarlin

      Very interesting diversion.

      It’s the Indonesian citizenship that is the real problem.

    • JP49

      How about his adoption by Soeteoro (don’t remember spelling) and becoming an Indonesian citizen and traveling to Pakistan on an Indonesian passport? I don’t believe he is a U.S. citizen. I believe he can’t produce a true birth certificate because he isn’t a U.S. citizen. The democratic party didn’t expect us citizens to be so astute as to catch this now did they?

      • Felizarte

        I assume he has a U.S. Passport and to apply for it, one has to present proof of citizenship: birth certificate or naturalization papers. The State Dept. has his passport records. This could be the October surprise. I just don’t know what legal protocol is involved to reveal the contents of his application. A subpoena perhaps? resulting out of the Berg lawsuit as part of discovery?

  • Hispana

    For those that enjoy a simple analogy to “call me if you need me”:

    http://quipster.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/crisis-in-the-washington-emergency-room/

  • Obama is a bum

    On paper McCain should be 30 points ahead. Imagine if Obama were white and somehow was not run out of the election by the Democratic Party and the media. The only support he would get would be from radicals and those who automatically vote for Democrats regardless of who they put up. Obama could get about 35% of the vote from that formula leaving McCain with 65%.

    I am not impressed by Obama’s attitude of “call me if you need me.” Obama accepted a position in the Senate, he should want to solve serious problems that exist like the current one instead of acting like a pompus jackass. If Obama had any real leadership or ability he would be in the middle of it. Another one of Obama’s problems is he does not know how to prioritize tasks. Some tasks take time and they take immediately, anybody in business understands this.

    In defense of Obama not wanting to get involved in the present crisis, he does not have anything to offer in solving it — nobody needs this asshole for anything. This conclusion supports the position that Obama is not qualified for president.

    • Duras

      The one single thing that Obama has in his favor is the incompetence of the Bush administration. The Democrats’ constant mantra all along has been that a vote for John McCain is a vote for “four more years of failed Bush policies.” If I were in their shoes, that’s the message I’d be pushing too 24/7.

      McCain was looking strong until this mortgage meltdown last week. That’s given Obama a bounce, and if Obama does end up winning this election, we can point to Bush’s ineptitude at using the “bully pulpit” of the presidency to try and head off this crisis when it was still building in 2003-2006. There’s no reason that things should have been allowed to get to this point, and now McCain is having to deal with “guilt by association”.

      However, polls like this one out of Michigan are encouraging, and most of the remaininng undecided voters are from a demographic group with which Barack Obama did not do well in the primaries.

      • Obama is a bum

        The Democrats’ constant mantra all along has been that a vote for John McCain is a vote for “four more years of failed Bush policies.

        This is so absurd, Bush is not even running and everyone is their own man. They look like idiots by repeating this. Obama is more like Carter than McCain is like Bush.

        Another dumb thing Obama has done is holding up these “change” signs. What the hell does that mean? I have seen the change Obama has offered so far with Wright, Phleger, Ayers, etc. and I don’t like it.

    • wonderwoman

      I think Obama is just interested ina lifetime salary with benefits. He already got one from the Senate for doing nothing.

  • FLGirl

    September 25th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
    Michigan Poll Released by Market Research Group of Lansing: Barack Obama 43%, John McCain 46%

    Washington D.C. 9/25/2008 06:21 PM GMT (FINDITT)

    Here are the latest results from the Michigan poll by Market Research Group of Lansing published on USAElectionPolls.com:

    There were 600 voters polled on 9/15-20.

    Market Research Group of Lansing
    Date: 9/15-20
    Michigan
    Added: 9/24/08
    John McCain 46%
    Barack Obama 43%

    Quote:

    Editor of Inside Michigan Politics. “The current polling shows that they still like him and they like and support Sarah Palin as his running mate.”

    • Obama is a bum

      I just read a poll today that had Obama ahead by 13 in Michigan.

  • RememberWeWill

    Comment from another blog:
    ———————————————–

    Did everyone see Obama’s team’s legal response to the Berg lawsuit?

    He could have gotten an immediate “case dismissed” by providing a few certified documents.

    Yet, he didn’t. Rather than providing the proof to make the lawsuit go away, he’s fighting the suit under the claim that Berg does not have jurisdiction or authority to challenge his qualifications to run.

    I’m beginning to think this thing has meat. Especially after Obama changed his fight the smears wording, now acknowledging that he did at one time have dual citizenship.
    ————————————————-

    • Hap Hazard

      I agree with you. He could have gotten a dismissal with prejudice upon proof attached to an affidavit. Gone in 60 seconds. Instead, we have legalese, which means there may be legs on this lawsuit. I suppose he could be delaying until the election is over, even though he has proof of citizenship, not wanting to dignify the plaintiff or his lawsuit, but still, prudence would seem to dictate that these things get flushed as soon as is practical. Hmmmm…

    • Annie Oakley

      I think every voter should be entitled to know if this candidate meets the Constitutional requirement before they vote.

  • kgirl1028

    I must say that JOhn McCain and Hillary Clinton have proved themselves worthy of the office of president this week in a way no candidates have probably since the birth of this country. I mean their response to this latest crisis have not proven them to be leaders more than any television ad ever could. And one who would not give these two people the presidency are certifiably insane. I’m sorry but it’s just the truth. They handled this better than bush and Hillary Clinton isn’t even running. Come on guys these two senators rock. and while I would have preferred Clinton, I am definitely crossing over the the ” white party” for this election. America is there priority, not themselves, that’s what you want in a president.

    • Hap Hazard

      I had lunch with my octogenarian mother this afternoon, who said nearly exactly the same thing. What we both thought was part of it is that both of them come from an upbringing steeped in old-timey American values, which, although pretty corny, seemingly rings true for me this year. I never thought I would be so defensive of and supportive of a republican in a presidential race, having grown up like my boomer siblings in a household (in the Midwest) full of hard core democrats in the FDR tradition. But those democrats are different from what we now see, unfortunately.

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

    McCain realized Obama used the economic crisis for political gain, and he called him on it. Obama even made an ad about the crisis for a fundraiser.

    I wonder if the democrats were stalling agreements just to try to help Obama??

    I think McCain knew that he needed to get back there to stop their waffling.

    The only reason Obama went to DC is because Bush called him to work, otherwise Obama would be in Beverly Hills with Barbara Streisand, still telling everyone, “call me if ya need me.”

  • dixie

    “Lest we forget an over the shoulder acknowledgement to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins–or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that HE AT LEAST WON HOS OWN KINGDOM–Lucifer.” —Saul Alinski

    “If the ideals Alinski espouses were actualized, the results would be social revolution.” — Hillary Rodham Clinton’ 1969 Senior Thesis.

    Interviewed about “A Woman In Charge”, His biography of Hillary Clinton, Carl Berstein explains, “She chose Yale (in 1969) because, unlike Harvard, where she had also been accepted, it was an activist school that very much believed in the use of the law as an instrument for social change–in the mold of Thurgood Marshall…. This was the year of the Black Panther trial in New Haven. She monitored the trial to see if there was any abuses of the rights of the Panthers on trial, and helped schedule the monitors. Her reports were turned over to the ACLU.”
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=39595ECB-C0AD-4E37-A093-A2E510FE3A60

  • JohninCA

    The good news: McCain up 2 in another tracker.

    The bad news: it’s a Zogby.

  • 30yrdem-not any more

    I saw a Zogby poll saying McCain/Palin are in front..
    http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1562

    not that it means much

  • Docelder

    the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that HE AT LEAST WON HOS OWN KINGDOM–Lucifer.” —Saul Alinski

    That’s one of the scariest quotes I have seen from Alinski yet. It’s one thing to be an athiest… but to believe in GOD and choose to take the other side… that is something else altogether.

  • Capt Howdy

    bad news for those cheering the “cancer ad”

    Actuarial Firm Projects McCain, Obama Healthy for Eight Years as President

    http://tinyurl.com/4p2zz6

    • HC

      Quick, someone call Matt Damon and let him know!

  • http://me414.wordpress.com/ Divine Democrat

    Dodd is on CNN complaining that McCain is keeping them from doing their work because the President called Obama and him to have a meeting with everyone. And they were saying they wanted to keep politics out of this? What a bunch of Obama tools!

  • http://anvp.typepad.com/soldier4hillary/ soldier4hillary

    Hello everyone…I have had my very first up close and personal experience with a member of that group “Move On” at a Wal Mart right off post and I can honestly say that it was a situation where you would have to actually had to be there to believe it.

    Let me tell you these people have taken that “get in your face” message to heart. He couldnt of been from around here because if he would of been he would of been smart enough to not pull the shit he did that almost got his ass dropped by me in the Walmart parking lot.

    He was at the entrance of Wal Mart where all the people from various organizations like the Red Cross etc etc who are trying to get donations. Normally I give them something on the way out after I finish shopping. Well I saw him on my way in with three people feeling stuff out on a clip board but I went on in.

    On my way out, I was walking past and I heard someone saying “Hey” but I kept on because I thought they were refering to someone else. Next thing I know someone grabbed my arm saying “Hey” I was calling you and then this fool said are you registered to vote.

    I will leave out the profanity.

    But Move On needs to hire better quality representatives because all I saw was a thug, yes thug, if your going to conduct business, jeans falling off your ass with a black hoodie covering your head, and grabbing women in the parking lot will get your ass beat down where you stand. Especially here and especially if said individual is in uniform.

    I went back into walmart, came back out, got his information, name poc info, (they didnt know he was out there)and told his ass I was voting for Mccain and left. I dont like shit like that because it attracts attention. But if Move On people are going to be down in here near a military installation acting idiotic they might want to learn the rules of engagement.

    • NoBO

      Loved the story! Thanks! Glad you stood up for yourself. Love your videos!

    • Arabella Trefoil

      Holy heck, patsy. You really are a soldier!

    • Creature of Chicago

      But if Move On people are going to be down in here near a military installation acting idiotic they might want to learn the rules of engagement.

      No, no, let’s keep them in the dark. Isn’t it more of a character builder if they learn via the School of Hard Knocks?

      lol

      Soldier, I like your style!

      • Creature of Chicago

        if your going to conduct business, jeans falling off your ass with a black hoodie covering your head, and grabbing women in the parking lot will get your ass beat down where you stand.

        And rightfully so.

        • Seattle Moss

          I’ve been talking about these New Democrats.
          You find them lurking at the mall i-pods in hand with their baggies ready to engage the issues
          Obama! Obama!
          Thanks Dean for kicking us to the curb…

          Hope you enjoy this new crop!

    • Duras

      I’m sure those kinds of tactics will win over a LOT of voters for Obama.

    • StrawberrybitesBarky

      He grabbed your arm while you were in your BDUs…OMG, the guy had a deathwish. Talk about a lack of respect for women, African Americans and the uniform. Poo, if you had been in your civies, you could have decked him without being reported to your CO.

    • http://www.hillaryorbust.com Hillary or Bust

      Good for you. Love your videos BTW, posted one up on my blog this week.

    • wry

      Soldier, I could marry you just for that story. And since your last video you got Joseph Cannon and my husband crushing on you too!

    • Obama is a bum

      Move On needs to hire better quality representatives because all I saw was a thug

      Aren’t they all thugs in that organization?

      jeans falling off your ass

      Have him arrested for indecent exposure.

    • csuzeq

      That’ll help Obama-not!

      It kind of reminds me of when a saleman wants you to buy an extended warranty or something else you don’t want and they won’t take no for an answer. Well, if you’re like me, I will never want the thing after being bullied. never. Plus I throw them a few choice words on my way out!

  • IronMan

    Chris Dodd, speaking with Wolf blitzer just now about the negotiations on the bailout plan.

    “We’ve been working for 7 days. I’m tired.”

    Sen. Chris Dodd on CNN
    9/26/2008

    Tired??!! You’re TIRED?!! $*&*(#&*(#&* !!!

    Tell you what, Senator Dodd, you’re also part of the problem!!

    • Michelle

      Oh – poor baby – guess that nice deal on your home loan from Countrywide was not enough!!

    • Obama is a bum

      “We’ve been working for 7 days. I’m tired.”

      Then retire and take Obama with you — two lazy bums can sit on rocking chairs.

    • wonderwoman

      He should be tired.., they get four months out of a year vaction.LOL

  • VMorris

    Good grief. Typing his middle name is now code among racists? I don’t know what the Obamacrats are smoking these days but I don’t want any of it.

    It is his name, after all. If he doesn’t like seeing or hearing it then he should change it, for God’s sake.

  • James Nelson

    We’ve had 8 years of a president who can’t seem to react well in a crisis, 9/11, Katrina, etc. Do we really need another one who mails it in? JN

    • csuzeq

      I guess that is why he thinks we should be impressed that he can email and McCain can’t. Ofrauda will just email his instructions to his servants from his yacht in the Carribean.

  • Mike

    Zogby Poll: McCain Recovers as Contest Takes Dramatic Turns; McCain 46% – Obama 44%

    • VMorris

      Gallop has them tied at 46%. Barky dropped. He was leading until now.

      • VMorris

        ooops! It’s Gallup…lol.

  • Brendy

    I thought Obummer looked very ill at ease when the cameras scanned the room. It seemed to me he was scared that someone would ask him a question/his opinion and he wouldn’t know how to answer it.

    Obummer can ONLY look and be ‘cool’ when he’s in front of an adoring audience – when he’s in a room with other politicians, he just looks like a scared rabbit who thinks to himself “What in the world am I doing here” with these heavyweights?

  • Michelle

    The poll results are even more interesting at Zogby:

    McCain – 46
    Obama – 44

    http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1562 (for full release)

    My favorite part:

    The survey, half conducted before McCain’s announcement Wednesday that he would suspend his campaign to concentrate on the financial crisis and half conducted after the announcement, shows movement in McCain’s favor after his announcement. Before the announcement – which included about half of the total polling sample – Obama led by one point. But McCain led by 5 points in polling completed after his statement about the suspension of his campaign.

  • Hank

    John Gibson just said on Fox that Jim Johnson is still working for Obama. Busted!!!!

    • VMorris

      Oh, Dear, Oh, Dear!!!

    • Duras

      Oh, THAT oughta go over well!

  • http://calpuma.wordpress.com gorgonica

    Hi,

    This is off topic but I don’t know where to post it. Am a die-hard Hillary supporter (though Hispanic, post-grad, Whole Foods type, thus bucking the simple stereotypes.

    Anyway I can’t vote Obama. I haven’t signed entirely up for the McCain/Palin ticket but respect McCain as a leader.

    I just got phone spam from a telephone number: 1-210-330-6498 indicating Telemundo has a video of Sarah Palin as going through some ritual to rid her of witchcraft. Sounds like some sensational drivel to try to scare off the Hispanic vote from McCain. This should be countered.

    • dixie

      Only in Mexico.

      • I Like Middleclassness

        Joe Biden belongs to a church that trains select priests to do exorcisms, and they make no attempt to hide it.

        The Vatican has an Exorcism team that has been working overtime in Italy.

    • HC

      The foolishness will never stop. The best way to counter it is to vote McCain or a third party candidate.

      Sí, se puede.

    • Creature of Chicago

      scare Hispanic women from McCain…wtf?

      hasn’t anyone ever heard of Santeria?

      Come on people, don’t you know about those candles that say Run Devil Run on them? There’s a red devil running away I guess from the Holy Spirit. They’re sold in Hispanic and Black communities. Then there’s the Money candles, the Make Him Mine candles, and the Latino population really likes all the different saint and Mother Mary depictions on the candles too.

      There’s a candle for every purpose, especially exorcism. I don’t think this will turn Hispanics away from Palin. She may get a lot more support from that community.

    • http://deleted OBSP

      They showed it on The View this morning. No one can verify that is was Palin. But, if it is so what! As a govonor she represents everyone in her state including Witch Doctors.

    • Michelle

      I agree with you. Especially because the video isn’t actually connected to Hispanics. The story is about a Kenyan higher-up who visited Alaska and visited her church and then “blessed her” – but he subscribes to some form of “witchcraft” (Druge has a link to it on his site).

      Whatever – from my perspective – I thought we actually had freedom of religion in this country??

      And if this person who Palin met once is at all a big deal, then why aren’t people more focused on Rev. Wright and Obamba’s 20 year association with him.

      And I know what you mean about “breaking stereotypes” – I’m a woman with a graduate degree who drives a Volvo, loves lattes, and shops at Whole Foods – and I think Obama is just a lot talk – no action. I don’t trust him at all.

      • I Like Middleclassness

        Well then it can be countered by airing footage of a Catholic priest doing an exorcism, and make sure everyone knows Joe Biden wears his Catholicism on his sleeve.

        And this is not a slam on the Catholic church, either. One of the newsweeklies did a poll recently, something like 85% of Americans believe in angels and demons. I know a latte liberal New Age type who went to another New Ager who did exorcisms using crytals!

        So using someone’s spirituality is not a winning strategy because there are so many different belief systems out there.

        • I Like Middleclassness

          who did exorcisms using crytals!

          crystals

          And she got paid for it, too.

    • wry

      McCain has a Latina coordinator. She too is a “whole foods type” (I like that). She probably knows about this. They are probably trying to scare off conservative homeowning Cubans among others who are breaking big time for McCain.

      • I Like Middleclassness

        Soebama himself carries around an amulet of a Hindu monkey god. Why are they going down this road?

    • tzada

      They had something on the Drudge Report about it. In some churches (I came from this background)they have what is called a laying on of hands. The minister or the church members pray as they do so.

      According to the article I read this is what happened.
      (They are mixing and lying about things.)

      There was a visiting minister from Kenya at Sarah’s church. He prayed with and for Sarah, that God would guide her life.

      During the ministers sermon he told of a “witch” in Kenya that his church had prayed for and finally she had moved away. There had been several fatal accidents in the area of where she lived. Witch craft may still be practiced in Kenya.

      What that video has done is created a lie. Similar tactics used in the Charles Gibson interview of Sarah.
      Change things when and where they can be used for distortion. This is CHANGE we cannot believe in.

  • KathyNeocon

    I guess the latest tactic from Obot training camp is TO SHOUT AT US ALL CAPS?? Tsk. Tsk. They’re so desparate to bring this blog to its knees. Poor dears.

    • Michelle

      LOL :)

    • Duras

      Well, at only $5.00 an hour, you really can’t expect your paid trolls to understand the rules of internet etiquitte.

    • Firefly

      Following barky’s orders to GET IN THEIR FACES, eh?

      Now we have first-hand knowledge of just how effective that is! LOL! Here’s hoping all the bots are roaming their neighborhoods 24/7, doing exactly as he says.

  • J.J.

    I want to refer to the article that said McCain is using the fighter pilot concept of the OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act) against Obama. The idea is to be able to process information and act faster than your opponent so that you interfere with his OODA loop. Create some chaos in your environment in oder to create more chaos in the other person’s environment.

    Suspending his campaign caught Obama off guard. (Obama is a slow reactor, given that he is a thinker, not a doer, and is afraid to make mistakes). The result is that Obama created a huge blunder with the sound bite “Call me if you need me”. Now, I bet McCain already knows what he is going to do about the debate, but Obama does not. Obama will be preparing for multiple possibilities for tomorrow night. McCain will be planning for just one.

    • StrawberrybitesBarky

      Gawd, wouldn’t that be great if McCain just showed up at the last minute, can you imagine Barky’s meltdown?

      • Duras

        That’s precisely what I think is going to happen.

        • Clara Barton

          Naw. He won’t be able to slide into town under the radar. His plane will be staked out and it will be known before he leaves DC. But McCain will do the honorable thing and call the Obama campaign, or perhaps Barky himself to let him know his plans.

          He sure is messin’ with Barkster’s head, though.
          During that Cabinet Room shot, he was looking around a little sheepishly. Likely was soiling his shorts at the prospect that his ass could soon be in that hotseat having to take the heat and doing some work. I believe he truly believes he’ll get to play President and wear the uniform but it won’t be hard work.

      • Lonnie

        Obama will be standing at the podium in full theatrical makeup, clean pressed suit, preening for the cameras and in bolts McCain, disheveled, tie loosened, top shirt button undone, jacket flung over the should and says.. Sorry I’m late, but I just flew in from DC rescuing the country from financial collapse as my esteemed colleague the junior senator from the proud state of Illinois stood by on call in case he was needed. First question, please.

    • Michelle

      Absolutely!

      Oh and just fyi – this is the same advantage that women have when they go out on dates – when a man is combing his hair, he is thinking, will she invite me to stay over or won’t she – but when a woman is putting on her LIPSTICK, she already knows.

    • Firefly

      That’s very interesting, JJ – I like it – and it sounds like exactly what McCain is doing

  • Docelder

    The names aren’t relevant… unless Obama’s mom and dad did not name him BHO. What *if* he was named Barry and he chose in later adult life to become BHO. Then it is fair game to ask… why? why change it? why choose a Muslim name? Maybe the mystery of the birth certificate is simpler than it seems on the surface?

  • Mr. Whitey Tape

    Not using Obama’s middle name is a giant crock of crap!!!….IT’S HIS NAME!!!….You are just bowing down to the reverse racism crap that he and his flock peddle….Grow a set of nads and stand up for yourselves….Hussein, Hussein, Hussein…See, it’s easy!!!

    • wry

      I don’t need a set of nads, thank you. I’m a woman, I was born brave.

      • tzada

        :) great quote.

  • Kal

    Can somebody explain what, if any, relationship there is between that dinner at the Hyatt for A-jad tonight, Valerie Jarrett, and BO?

    • http://deleted OBSP

      Penny Pritzer is one of the family members that own the Hyatt chain. Jay Prtizer was HRC finance chairs. They were suppose to hold a fundraiser in Chicago a couple of weeks ago. But, because of weather, it had to be canceled.

    • csuzeq

      Valerie Jarret was born in Iran, isn’t that fascinating? Geezus! Are any of the people who Sparky might put in his administration Americans? Has this ever happened before? Why would we take that crap after 9/11? Why would someone surround themselves with Syrians, Iranians, Iraqis, Palestinians? WTF is wrong with that H dude.

      H is the new W

  • KathyNeocon

    Liberal “PC” ridiculousness is way out of hand if someone’s name is off limits. It’s not our fault his name is what it is. Blame his parents. Don’t succumb to MSM pressure to censor anything remotely unpleasant for BO.

  • http://none Jessie Britton

    Obama is boxed in and trying to figure out a way out. He is trying to force McCain to return to Mississippi to the debate and at least get a tie on this issue It took the Viet cong. three years of torture to break McCain and if this “punk thinks playing games is going to break him and do something that would harm our country he is going to be sadly mistaken. For all of his faults, he loves this country and he will do it do harm.

  • http://mybluecountry.googlepages.com/whattheobamademocratsaresayingposter Linda

    Woohoo, you go Lynn!

    Thank you susan for the update.

    …the shame I have witnessed in these Democrats. Harry Reid was always a disappointment, but amazing how they can stoop stoop much lower. But nothing should surprise me after how they treated one of the best leaders, Hillary Clinton.

    ‘nuf said there.

    OK, one more. Photo Op, coming from the King of emptiness, Mr. Photo Op, who goes to German to give a free concert so he can speak to a large crowd. Even if it were 700,000 fewer people than he expected. shhh don’t tell the media.

    Oh Oh and PHOTO OP, because he couldn’t have a photo op visiting the wounded troops in Germany, he had to visit without cameras and media crew, SO HE CANCELLED THE VISIT.

    ….the most disgusting behavior in a wannabe President.

    • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

      Thank you! At least you read what I took the time to type up.

    • HRocks

      Obama projected “photo op” onto McCain because Obama would use the financial crisis for a photo-op.

  • http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com InsightAnalytical-GRL

    What is this?

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13876.html

    Obama moving into electoral lead
    By MIKE ALLEN | 9/24/08 6:36 PM EDT

    State by state, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill). is showing signs of breaking open a presidential race that looked deadlocked through much of September.

    A new wave of polls released Wednesday showed decisive leads for Obama in the critical states of Colorado, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

    That follows noticeable progress in polls in Virginia, which had looked safe for Sen. John McCain, and Florida, which had looked promising for McCain.

    This is the first time that one of the candidates has dominated state polls in the most closely contested battlegrounds.

    Republican strategist Karl Rove had predicted this tectonic shift, writing at Rove.com earlier this week: “[I]f the movement toward Obama in national polls continue to percolate down to the states, we could see an Obama lead later this week.”

    Wisconsin is the most closely fought battleground where McCain has made noticeable progress. Polls show that Obama is still ahead, but he has not put away the Badger State, as some had expected.

    Opinion Research polls for Time magazine and CNN released Wednesday showed:

    — Colorado: Obama 51, McCain 45 among registered voters. In late August, McCain had been ahead, 49 to 44. Among likely voters, Obama led in the new poll by 51 to 47.

    — Michigan: Obama 51, McCain 44 among registered voters. Among likely voters, Obama leads 51 to 46.

    — Pennsylvania: Obama 52, McCain 43 among registered voters. Among likely voters, Obama leads 53 to 44.

    In summary, the campaigns agree that since the conventions:

    Obama has gained in Florida, Virginia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Indiana and New Mexico.

    McCain gained in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Alaska and North Dakota.

    Both campaigns claim gains in Iowa.

    Ohio remains a toss-up —perhaps the decisive prize. Nevada and New Hampshire are too close to call.

    (I almost worked for Opinion Research at one time…I don’t know much about them anymore….)

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

      Wow another “I am in the tank for Obama CNN paid poll”

      Why not just ask Axelrod to tell you what poll numbers to use?…..lmao

      • http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com InsightAnalytical-GRL

        Sorry, you misunderstand..I’m panicking about Obama possibly winning!!

        • wonderwoman

          The politico always has Obama winning.

    • http://www.hillaryorbust.com Hillary or Bust

      OK, don’t get me wrong – I am very very concerned Obama will win. But I just don’t buy this. I think the red states are going to go straight red and our fabulous flyover discounted bitter gun-totin’ rednecks are going to save the country from Obama in the end.

      • Ferd McBerfle

        Oblahblah can’t control his mouth. The Great gaffe is coming. We had a minor one yesterday with the “call me” response. The only thing that gives me pause is the potential for voter fraud and that ACORN organization. However, I think the GOP is on top of that one.

      • tzada

        Maybe this will help in PA.

        John Patrick “Jack” Murtha, Jr. U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
        A Democrat, Murtha has served in the United States House of Representatives since 1974, representing Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district. The district includes a large swath of southwestern Pennsylvania, stretching from Johnstown (the largest city in the district and Murtha’s hometown) to the eastern and southern suburbs of Pittsburgh.[1] Murtha is best known for his calls for a withdrawal of American forces in Iraq.

        Murtha sued over remarks
        BY MIKE FAHER
        The Tribune-Democrat
        In May 2006, six months after 24 people were killed in a small Iraqi town, U.S. Rep. John Murtha made a startling accusation.

        American soldiers, he contended, had killed innocent civilians “in cold blood.”

        Now, less than six weeks before the longtime Johnstown Democrat is up for re-election, a Marine involved in the now-infamous Haditha incident is suing Murtha for slander.

        http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_270000717.html

  • Mr. Whitey Tape

    Yes you’re right, she is a Princeton grad skank-wipe

  • tillthen

    The One just made a profound statement on FOX. He was against the catastrophe from the beginning!! So deep. So telling. The empty suit preserves his reputation.

    • Ferd McBerfle

      LMAO. I bet he’s against the common cold, too. What a half-baked nitwit.

  • BARACK HITS 52% IN POLLS!

    WELL GENIUS….THAT MUST MEAN HE’S AHEAD BY 13 THEN BUBBA!

    [ADMINISTRATOR: SPAMMERS AREN'T WELCOME. BYE, BYE.]

    • Mr. X

      Warning: Racist Troll!

    • Duras

      Thank you.

    • Soldier of Christ

      Yeah….sure…what Polls? Msnbc or Cnn? Or maybe it is the 800 people polls. Gosh….what a big grassroot awaking this guy is going to get in November. He looked like a lost boy in the whitehouse. Pelosi looked like she had strings under the table using them to move him.

    • Maverick

      LOL

  • Zelda Crunch

    this is a potential catastrophe

    It’s not a potential catastrophe. It already is a catastrophe. And I think all things considered “catastrophe” is much too mild a word.

  • Andrew

    Fox News: JIM JOHNSON STILL WORKS FOR OBAMA

    Fox News/Johmn Gibson Radio show ^ | 9/25/2008 | John Gibson

    Former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson STILL advising Obama, Further this was reported by e-mail from Tom Daschle to Democrat insiders to see updates daily on political progress from the campaign, by Tom Daschel and Jim Johnson. Gibson also reported today that Franklin Raines was still advising Obama on housing! As you all well know that Jim Johnson was in charge of Fannie Mae with Franklin Raines. They also were paid very well with Johnson getting in excess of 20 million dollars and Franklin Raines getting 90 million dollars in executive pay.

    (Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com …

  • MCCAIN TRIED TO WARN US

    If Barack Friggin Obama doesn’t want people to use his middle name

    HE NEEDS TO CHANGE IT.

    NO OBAMA
    MCCAIN/PALIN 2008

  • JP49

    Do you think Obama lies? Of course you do. So it stands to reason that his trolls lie. Just ignore them. They are as crazy as he is.

  • James
  • Artemis

    And I don’t think the Democrats’ whining that McCain is playing politics is going over with the American public,

    Agreed. People want to see what McCain & Obama will do in this crisis. That’s what the Obama folks fear…people watching their guy up close.

  • Soldier of Christ

    I want everybody to look at this: http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2004/Pres/Maps/Oct11.html

    http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2004/Pres/Maps/Nov01.html

    NOW I WANT ALL THE IDIOTS THAT ARE VOTING FOR OBAMA TAKE A ‘VERY’ GOOD LOOK AT THIS MAP. AND THEN ASK YOURSELVES- WHAT HAPPENED HERE? HOW COULD THIS BE? BECAUSE ‘THE STRONG GRASSROOTS CAME OUT” -YES! THOSE BITTER, CLINGING TO GUN AND RELIGION FOLKS! OH! BY THE WAY—–THE POLLS OF 800 PEOPLE THAT NORMALLY ARE GIVEN TO CNN OR MSNBC- AND THEY KEEP ON REPORTING? KINDA FORGOT ABOUT THESE HERE 18 MILLIONS FOLKS TOO. SAY—MAYBE ONE OF YOU THAT CAN GET THROUGH CNN AND MSNBC SENT TO THEM TO REMIND THEM BEFORE THEY CONTINUE MAKING ASSES THEMSELVES WITH THESE 800 PEOPLE POLLS THAT THEY KEEP PUSHING DOWN OUR THROAT- YOU ALL HAVE GOOD DAY……THATTTTTTT ALLLLLL FOLKS…..

  • Maverick

    ‘Cause we feel like it. This is your brain. This is your brain on booze and drugs ~~**&^%$##~~)}{}{#@$%~~
    Any questions?

  • Maverick

    Confidence in the U.S. financial market erodes at home and abroad with China reportedly saying no more lending funds to American banks.

    Confidence in the U.S. financial market erodes at the thought of Obama as president.

  • Annie Oakley

    Thanks, Susan. I saw part of Lynn Forester de Rothschild. She’s a great spokesperson for Dems thinking about voting for McCain. Let’s hope it catches on. It’s reassuring to see Gallup has them tied again.

    You’re cracking me up, though. We do appreciate you. Really, we do.

  • tamerlane

    “Barry Soetoro” — that’s his real name.

  • http://deleted YES HRC

    Give me a break. We can’t say Hussein, but the Obots can be misogynistic, racist, obnoxious thugs? If you drool over a candidate with the middle name “Hussein” then you have to learn to deal. Are they now saying that having a muslim middle name is a bad thing? That’s so bigoted.

    Maybe the bots can play “99 Problems But a Bitc* Ain’t One” to make them feel better. Or wear shirts that say “Bros Not Ho’s”?

    One of my biggest gripes with this election year is that clearly it’s fine to bash women, but it’s a CRIME, for instance, to say Hussein.

    Please.

  • http://deleted YES HRC

    Hussein.

  • ron

    obama is a mac daddy

  • fif

    how many times does John McCain have to prove he will take a shot from the hallelujah Obama chorus of the media to do the right thing for the American people?

    The hallelujah Obama chorus! If that doesn’t say it all. We all recognize it and know it to be true. How has the press come to this–it’s pathetic.

  • Tristan

    Hillary would be so far ahead right now. Remember, she had a plan to address the housing crisis last year and I bet you it didn’t cost $700B. Stupid Democrats.

  • Pragmatist

    you will be ignored! enjoy!

  • Capt Howdy

    I cant wait until election day
    really, I cant.

  • Keep It Up

    Shall I pull up one of thousands of transcripts with the following random combination of words like:

    um
    ummm
    uh
    uhhh
    ahh
    u-uh
    gotta
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    … uhhh. uh. uh?

  • Duras

    Now, please regale me with tales of Barack Obama’s foreign policy experience?

  • Paul3triple

    you do know that we have missile systems in alaska to defend or attack russia? Also as CIC of alaska’s national gaurd she would be in charge of them to give the order. They have command posts there specifically for russia.
    She makes a very valid point. If/when they interfere in our airspace over there, it is her state her duty to deal with it . She neighbors canada and had to negotiate a pipeline with them.
    Has obama negotiated at all with a foriegn country before running?

    also, has he ran a state?a government?A business? a town?
    She has been an elected official for 13 years. How long has barry been?

  • Joy

    Bush’s foreign experience as Texas’ Governor was the state bordered Mexico. Palins ahead of Bush. Alaska borders Canada and she can see Russia from her state.

  • lark

    Thanks for posting what are her daily cares and awareness. What do you think are the daily cares and awareness of Oblahblah? I know. And they are the reason why he stutters so much. His daily cares and awareness are his concerns that Rezco, Ayers, and many other of his unsavory character friends will spill the beans on him or or or that any one of his lies get investigated by any serious reporter. Too bad there aren’t any serious reporters anymore.

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

    No clean coal or terrible ads in 1929 on Roosevelt’s TV, so stand up AIG paralyzed person, have some Indian Dunkin’ Donuts, but only if you are clean and articulate and without a PhD, because that can be a problem, even though I have the highest IQ…the Vill–ahh–ges! Speaking of Villages, it takes a village, and Hillary is more qualified; get me a beer, my head hurts.

  • McCain rox!

    whoa!

    news flash: BIDEN the gaffamatic is your world class VP!

    news flash: Obama sans telepromptor/speechwriter is PAINFUL!

  • No way No Mccain

    Sirocco,

    I watched this and laughed. No one can possibly think this woman has a brain? She is a joke and will help McCain lose this election. She is Bush in drag. LOL

  • Obama is a bum

    Before you start to knock Palin or Quayle at VP position at least put up a better person at the president position. You look like a joke with Obama who is unqualified as a Senator.

  • Kara

    Peggy, try decaf. And reality.

  • Duras

    That’s an ABC News / Washington Post poll, Peg. Hardly an “unbiased” poll, honey.

  • tampagurl

    Her answers sound good to me. Go get the text of some of Obama’s interviews. huh, ah, um,huh, huh, duh! dumb ass Ohitler supporter.

  • Joy

    Paul, Paul, Paul, are you saying Palin can give the command to bomb the hell out of Russia?

  • tampagurl

    And Obama was a Muslim in Indonesia. I know that’s the kind of man I want for president. (snark)

  • tampagurl

    Joy, Joy, Joy, Why are you acting so dumb? Oh maybe because you are.

  • fif

    If you are in any way open-minded you will search for the ABC transcript of her interview and ready it in it’s entirety. ABC cut out EVERY mention–and there were several–of diplomacy, working with our allies, economic sanctions, and avoidance of war. Palin even went so far as to say, “My own son went to Iraq…I don’t want war. I hate war.”

    ABC very conveniently butchered the interview to make her look like a warmonger to suit their Special Prince.

  • tzada

    She can. Washington tells her it’s a go and it’s bombs away.

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

    Words spoken from a lame ass troll!

  • Duras

    Actually, if you’d followed politics for a while (which obviously you haven’t) you’d know that the ABC News / Washington Post polls regularly overstate the level of Democratic support. In particular, in this particular poll the over-represented the percentage of African-Americans in the general population while significantly under-representing the number of voters identifying themselves as Republican. The result was predictable, but it gave them the result that they wanted to be able to report.

  • http://www.thepetitionsite.com/148/petition-to-urge-hillary-clinton-to-run-as-an-independate Amazon Queen

    It’s a poll out of Michigan and I would trust they know they’re people a little better than some national Elitist. When it comes to state by state polls, State Agencys are a little more accurate. but you’re an Obot and you haven’t been around long have you?

  • JP49

    Believe anything that ABC, CBS, CNBC, NBC, CNN or CNBC says? Totally hysterical idiocy.

  • Capt Howdy

    fact
    you are a moron who cant find the caps lock

  • NoBO

    FACT: THE RACE IS TIED

    FACT: I LOVE IT!

  • Capt Howdy

    and shouldnt you screen name be Peggy Ann?

  • 30yrdem-not any more

    All the alphabet soup polls are heavy with dems..they aren’t answering any questions about it when asked..I read something on it today…Zogby was always in favor of Obama during the primary and were always wrong when they did states so I don’t trust them at all but they do report…

    The big shift in the race appears to have come among independent voters, where McCain now leads by nine points, 43% to 34%. In the survey conducted over the weekend, Obama led by one point among independents.

    Both candidates have a sturdy grip on their political bases, the survey shows. McCain and Obama each win 88% support from voters in their respective political parties.

    keep in mind when the poll was done..

    The survey, half conducted before McCain’s announcement Wednesday that he would suspend his campaign to concentrate on the financial crisis and half conducted after the announcement, shows movement in McCain’s favor after his announcement. Before the announcement – which included about half of the total polling sample – Obama led by one point. But McCain led by 5 points in polling completed after his statement about the suspension of his campaign. Overall, the interactive survey, conducted Sept. 23-25, 2008, included 4,752 likely voters nationwide and carries a margin of error of +/- 1.5 percentage points.

    http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1562

  • wry

    The sane media has been all over that Washington Post poll because it is such an outlier and the sampling is so skewed. No one in America believes Barky is up 9 points.

  • HARP

    FACT….Zogby has McCain up by 2

  • JohninCA

    Obama for Senate ’08.

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

    FACT: you people in Gaza do not get to vote!

  • audacity

    i hope he hits 52 at bowlling

  • VMorris

    LOL!!!!

  • Stray

    Is he qualified for that job?

  • http://noquarterusa.net/blog/ Truthteller

    this is spam. i will recommend it be deleted.

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

    Obambi sees and talks to ghosts….lol

  • Mr. X

    Obama thinks there are 57 states and believes the Great Lakes are in Oregon.

  • Joy

    Tampaxgirl, I asked triple Paul a question. I enjoy posters’ names like Paul, Paul, Paul, and Tampaxgirl.

  • Ferd McBerfle

    Oblahblah–talks too much; says too little. Also known as lightweight or featherduster.

    Try a new line of work troll, like panhandling–it’ll get better results for you.

  • Postmaster

    wow….Obama52% you must really be worried…..ha ha ha

  • csuzeq

    We should see if congress will move up the date. Really, it will save money. The dems are so stupid they’ll think it will help Barfy so they may go along with it!

    I want to vote for McCain now!

  • Michelle

    Do you actually think insulting people is going to sway votes?

    If anyone is dumb, it would be you for thinking that your strategy might help your candidate.

    And btw – why don’t you take a look at who has taken money from Wall Street – your candidate is up to his eyeballs in contributions from Goldman and Fannie – so, the real question is:

    Do you know what Obama actually has in store for you? (FISA – flip-flop; Surge – flip-flop; Iran – “tiny country”; universal health care – “casualty of the economic crisis” – what exactly does he stand for????)

  • Duras

    Tell me, are there any black helicopters circling around outside your window? Or do they even let you have rooms with windows in those padded rooms where you are right now?

    Idiot.

    Google “Obama” and “muslim” and tell me what you come up with. But do it quickly, because Daddy is likely to be home soon and will want to use the computer.

  • Michelle

    Better check your stats!!

  • VMorris

    I guess it is no longer acceptable to state facts about any thing anywhere?

    You’ve got it partially right.

    NEW RULES:

    You can never state facts about Barack without his prior approval. As far as Hillary and John go, you can state facts, make up facts and be as sexist, misogynistic and ageist as you please!

    (Obvious sarcasm…)

  • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

    Are we going to discuss this endlessly or are we going to discuss the topics of this story that I spent a lot of time gathering up?

  • Obama is a bum

    Getting hung up on middle names is paranoia.

  • csuzeq

    Don’t forget that world tour where he gained all that valuable experience!

    He lost several million votes from it, too, but he could carry Germany if they were allowed to vote!

  • Donna Brazile no longer hatin

    I love your comment. I’d like to be in for those tales as well.

    Stop the hate

  • Donna Brazile no longer hatin

    Peggy’s new to the game and doesn’t know the LIBERAL media:-)

    Stop the hate!

  • Duras

    I suspected that most people would react positively to McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign and head to Washington to help craft a bailout bill. Americans want a “doer” as president, not a “talker”.

  • Duras

    LAUGHING AT PEGGY THE IGNORANT TROLL

  • wry

    Yeah, but I talk wistfully about my beautiful Senator Clinton all the time, but I never call her Hillary Diane.
    Let’s face it, most of us say Hussein because it gets under Barky’s skin.
    Susan is UN PC, she’s running a great clubhouse for us here, we the resistance, let’s give her this one.

  • VMorris

    Sorry.

  • typical bitter whitey woman

    lol, that poll over-sampled dems 3:1

    calm down, race-baiter

  • http://deleted OBSP

    I’m Black, so am I a racist for not supporting Backtrack? I also live in Chicago and know he is not about crap!

  • Mr. X

    You’re the one obsessing about race. No one here but you is using his race as a political ploy.

  • Chicago Joe

    Didn’t we agree to ignore trolls?

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

    For starters, he is a pathological liar, a home grown terrorist lover, a slumlord lover, a Rev Wright lover, hasn’t a clue where the Great Lakes are and yet lived for years on the shores of them, speaks to ghosts, claims to be head of Senate commitees he isn’t even on!

    Enough for a start troll?

    Now do not forget, your mom will smack you in the head if you get anymore Dorito crumbs on the basement floor!

  • Mr. X

    Uses the race card as you’ve done in this very thread by wrongfully calling anyone who doesn’t like Obama as a racist. Calling Bill Clinton racist in SC. Flipping on FISA, NAFTA, Iraq war, public financing, etc. etc. etc.

    Take your pick. There’s really nothing to like about Obama.

  • Ferd McBerfle

    Fact: You aren’t programmed to understand facts. GIGO describes you nicely.

  • Mr. X

    Troll!!!

  • http://deleted Buzz Latte

    Some things you know nothing about, Joy.

    One: Where is a strategic navel installation on the West Coast?

    Two: Where is the nuclear reservation near the West Coast?

    Three: Where is the largest tanker refueling base in the world?

    Why is Alaska strategically important to the area that these installations are located in?

    What state would be the most vulnerable and on the first line defense of an concerted navel/land attack by Russia?

    What inside information have you been privileged to, Joy? None?!

    STFU

  • Seattle Moss

    Jo.
    How dare you talk that way to Tampa!

    You have no class!!

  • Joy

    So can Palin give the commant to bomb Russia? It’s a simple question Paul, Paul, Paul. I see ole Buzz Lite Beer going off but no answer to a simple question. Location location location does not give the governor of that state authority to make military decisions for this Country.

  • Joy

    I don’t know about Jo but Joy calls em as she sees them. Cutesy screen names are so much fun Tacoma Tumbleweed.

  • Ferd McBerfle

    I don’t know about Jo but Joy calls em as she sees them.

    I’ll take that as an admission that you don’t see too well.

  • Seattle Moss

    Poor Joy..
    Assuming you know things when you have no clue.
    I love my friends down in Tacoma.

    Out of all the trolls on this site today you are the lowest information troll thus far.

  • Joy

    Oh another fun screen name. Do you stay awake at night thinking of the names you use Terd McTerfle?

  • Joy

    Tacoma Teubleweed, Paul, Paul, Paul, said “you do know that we have missile systems in alaska to defend or attack russia? Also as CIC of alaska’s national gaurd she would be in charge of them to give the order.”

    And you call me a low information poster. Do you really believe the Governor of Alaska can give the commant to bomb the hell out of Russia?