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Obama Gaffes the MSM Don’t Notice (and wouldn’t even if you put a figurative gun to their heads)

By SusanUnPC on September 27, 2008 at 5:00 PM in Obamaisms

Heck, the media wouldn’t report this even if Jack Bauer opened up the 24 TV series’ de rigueure torture suitcase. “The One” will be protected and kept from harm, except for a few renegade bloggers and you — you heretical readers! You incorrigible disbelievers! But we will try nonetheless:

There’s the now only-infamous-on-the-right “‘I’ve Got a Bracelet, Too’” gaffe.

“Jim, let me just make a point. I’ve got a bracelet too. From, Sergeant, uh, uh, from the mother of, uh, Sergeant, Ryan David Jopek.”

As Matthew Sheffield notes:

Had a Republican, say Sarah Palin, made this gaffe, who wants to bet that we wouldn’t hear this clip repeated endlessly during the post-debate spin shows and in the days ahead? How much would the sincerity of our hypothetical Republican politician be called into question.

Shockingly, MSNBC’s tingly Chris Matthews — who also described McCain as “troll-like” and “grumpy” — is angry with Barack. Matthews told Obama press person Linda Douglass: “Linda, my friend, why did your candidate agree so much, openly and relentlessly, with his opponent tonight?”

Now, just imagine if John McCain or, during the primaries, Hillary Clinton had made the following gaffes. The MSM “mantra,” even on Fox News, is mostly that neither candidate made any notable errors or misstatements. But, as I watched the debate live, I gasped as I heard Obama remark below, from CNN’s transcript. Okay, it was really just a misstatement, but again imagine if Hillary had said it. Or, if McCain had said it, the MSM would be clamoring to hint that it’s an indicator that he’s too old for the presidency.

MCCAIN: … I supported Nunn-Lugar back in the early 1990s when a lot of my colleagues didn’t. That was the key legislation at the time and put us on the road to eliminating this issue of nuclear waste and the nuclear fuel that has to be taken care of.

OBAMA: I — I just have to correct the record here. I have never said that I object to nuclear waste. What I’ve said is that we have to store it safely.

And, Senator McCain, he says — he talks about Arizona.

LEHRER: All right.

OBAMA: I’ve got to make this point, Jim.

LEHRER: OK.

OBAMA: He objects…

MCCAIN: I have voted for alternate fuel all of my time…

OBAMA: He — he — he objects…

LEHRER: One at a time, please.

OBAMA: He objected…

LEHRER: One at a time.

MCCAIN: No one can be opposed to alternate energy.

OBAMA: All right, fair enough. Let’s move on. You’ve got one more energy — you’ve got one more question.

Then there also these doozies last night:

Still, Obama had several moments where he was either at a loss for words or seemed to have forgotten what he was supposed to say. One particularly bad exchange for Obama came when Lehrer asked what programs Obama would cut in light of the tight budgets that will almost certainly result from the current economic crisis. At first, Obama said nothing. Then he brought up energy, but initially just said that he wanted to be sure the U.S. is still investing in energy. Finally, he seemed to remember the question and said that while he’s committed to investing in energy some of those investments might have to wait. Awkward.

In the very next sentence, he referred to McCain as “Tom”–saying “Tom called me wildly liberal.” He said this in reference to McCain’s claim that Obama was the Senate’s most liberal member and explained that he probably just seemed liberal because he was opposing George W. Bush. (Weak.) Obama followed that by citing his bipartisan work with Tom Coburn, a conservative senator from Oklahoma. It’s fair to wonder whether he jumbled them a bit. … (Read all of “Scoring the Debate.”)

Go ahead and scan the transcript.

I’m sure there’s plenty more there those came from.

P.S. It cracks me up every time that Obama brags about his relationship with Tom Coburn, who is just about as reviled on the left as is possible. However, when “The One” lauds his coziness with the far-right arch-conservative, it’s all way cool, man.

  • Andrew

    La Raza to get money from bailout.

    • tek

      Please post a link. If this is true, I’m going to give Dick Durbin an earful. La Raza helps Mexicans come into the U. S. illegally and the president travels the country telling Americans that Mexicans are going to take the U. S. back because it really belongs to Mexico. Why do they get money?

      • Bo

        Community Reinvestment Act which in turn has doled out billions to ACORN and La Raza. Yes, these folks were heavily involved in subprime to get home loans for people not even authorized to be in the country.

        Someone needs to write up the real numbers but I have no idea our government was giving huge government money to such an odious organization that pushes for illegal immigration.

        Gotta love this one, they claim to have the Hispanic vote so they get now billions out of the government for people who should not even be here in the first place.

        I don’t have the real details on the money numbers but someone should research it up.

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

    Chris Matthews — who also described McCain as “troll-like” and “grumpy”

    How ironic coming from Matthews….

    • http://medusa2.wordpress.com Medusa

      And the fabulous Ms. Uppity Woman has the “I’ve got a bracelet, too!” T-Shirt on her site.

      http://uppitywoman08.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/igotabracelet.jpg

      • Zorro Astor

        ROFL

      • Susan

        You people are SOOOOOO stupid. Obama’s remark was the zinger of the night. He JUST got that bracelet 4 days ago in Green Bay Wisconsin (my sister told me about it, she was there)-he was NOT planning on using this tired old bracelet story that McCain uses EVERYTIME he gives a speech, its sickening. So he perhaps did glance at his wrist to see the name of the soldier. His point was that he wanted to show the differences in the two candidates’ thinking…it was SOOOOOO obvious he had a gotcha moment! McCain: i promised this mother that i would wear the bracelet to show her son did not die in vain (HUH???) whereas Obama said ‘i have a bracelt too, and unlike you am NOT USING THIS to gain votes, but to show that NOT ONE MORE PERSON should die in this regrettable war’
        You guys are pathetic….use your brain for once!

        • ces

          If I got one of those bracelets, the FIRST damn thing I’d do is look at the name…and REMEMBER it.

          Obama = “symbolic”
          McCain = Substance

        • NoTrollZone

          Geez, I don’t know guys, you think the hostile troll strategy works? This is one pissy little troll. Too bad pissy doesn’t cover up stupid.
          Seems the fatal flaw of the Obamatroll is their
          unrelenting ignorance of fact and history.
          Oh well. Guess if they had a brain they wouldn’t vote for Obama.

        • bmc

          Um…but Obama said all the troops who have died in Iraq have died ‘in vain.’ He said that in his 2002 speech against the Iraq War. So, wearing the bracelet was precisely the exploitative act he was blaming McCain for.

          Obama is a liar. That’s the bottom line. He’s a USER, and a LIAR and a POSEUR.

          Last night Obama declared that “no soldier dies in vain who follows the orders of his commander-in-chief.”

          But here’s how poseur ended his 2002 anti-war speech, which remains to this day the biggest/only credential on his foreign-policy resume:

          The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not — we will not — travel down that hellish path blindly. Nor should we allow those who would march off and pay the ultimate sacrifice, who would prove the full measure of devotion with their blood, to make such an awful sacrifice in vain.

          http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/27/video-obama-shamelessly-contradicts-himself-about-troops-dying-in-vain/

        • Dee

          Sorry Susan–Obama received that bracelet months ago. In fact, he wore it during his convention last month. Plenty of time to memorize a name and maybe even be able to tell us something about Sgt. Jopek’s great sacrifice for freedom. Instead, like a kindergartener trying to score points, he pipes up with, “I’ve got a bracelet too!” All that was missing was the singsong, “Na, na, na, na, na.”

        • athy

          Susan,
          Why are you being an apologist for Sen Obama.
          How do YOU know that he was not planning to use this bracelet story? Did he tell you?

          Bottom line-
          He lost his cool, his instinct took over and his ego blinded him.

          He TRIED to get into a ‘pis*ing match” with Sen McCain. Sen McCain is too emotionally intelligent to take the bait.

          If Sen Obama merely meant to glance at his bracelet, then why did those comments come out
          come out of his mouth. His voice was very shaky and he was stuttering a bit when he responded.

          Was it a judgment call to respond to sen McCain’s heartfelt bracelet comment in that manner? If so, BAD BAD judgment call Sen Obama.

          Was it a sign of his emotional immaturity and short fuse where he flys off the handle because a latent rage has blinded his ability to know when to fight and when to keep quiet? Possibly.

          In any case Susan…I am not comfortable with any of these possibilities.

          And..not for anything Susan, I was a little unnerved during the debate when I noticed Sen Obama’s glare towards Sen mcCain. He shot him that look at least three times during the debate/discussion. If looks could kill-Sen McCain would be 6 feet under right now.

          My take on the media’s response to Sen Obama last night?

          They are trying to mess around with our minds and opinions. They are trying to convince us not to trust our own eyes and ears.

        • socalannie

          Obama’s bracelet remark was a zinger!?!?! Now that is funny! It was probably his lamest moment of the night. You obots are a riot! You have the most warped sense of humor.

          Definition of a zinger: a striking or amusing remark

          Obama’s bracelet remark doesn’t come close, and you ad hominem attacks are childish and contemptible.

          • mcpalin hill

            socalannie — the comment by Obama on his bracelet which is his ultimate me-too moment shows that he is nothing but a copy cat. Whatever anyone says Obama says it better. Why vote for the imitation when we can have the real thing.

            McCain/Palin 08

        • Tyrione

          So, people find it offensive that Obama says, “two can play at this game” are therefore brainless drones? The drone is the one professing to find any merit in that tactic.

          It’s classless, baseless and downright opportunistic. If you find it becoming of a politician to use this maneuver it’s no wonder people today have zero character, principle nor merit to make a stand.

          Obama would have shown more class to point out that the days of proclaiming he was against the war were verified by showing a principled position while in the US Senate by voting nay to future funding.

          What is the purpose of proclaiming a principled view when you don’t follow through with it through action?

          • mcpalin hill

            tyroine — Obama now claims to be a conservative. The man stands for nothing. He changes his policies more often then a snake sheds his skin.

        • Holden Caulfield

          no you twit – there was a AP article from 2/08 about how Obama had started wearing the bracelet and how swell that was of him…. Do you Moronic Obamabots ever do ANYTHING but lie?

        • Alex

          Amen Susan.

          I think the folks on this site are getting desperate.

          • Dr. Kate

            roflmao. r i g h t.

            :-D

        • PKJAYNE

          I bet the mother that gave Barry that bracelet wept.

          Use your brain, if he is going to use it as a gimmick he shoud have known what he was talking about.

        • Helen S

          Susan if Obama felt that the braclet story was so tired and old Why the hell did he even accept if from the parent. You Obama people make me damm sick. This is not a racist comment I am BLACK thank you. I pray that this man is NOT elecetd as POTUS. If he is I really fear for my grand childern and their children. Instead of getting caught up in so stupid “pretty speech” as accepting the fact that some empty head actor or actress endourses some one in an effort to get their name in the newspaper, “LISTEN TO WHAT THE PERSON WHO IS RUNNING FOR OFFICE IS SAYING “OR” NOT SAYING in Obama case.

        • sammie

          Although this was one of Obama’s best debate performances, I don’t see how anyone can argue that his bracelet comment was a zinger. To begin with, it just sounded so childish, and reminiscent of a refrain mothers and teachers of small children hear on an almost daily basis: I have one too, mine is bigger than yours, or oh yeah, I can do it better than you can. If the childish nature of his comment wasn’t enough, he then fumbled with the name and appeared to actually read it off of the bracelet. Overall, the moment just didn’t leave a positive impression.

          Oh, and I hope people realize that based on what Obama said in the debate, he doesn’t want to pull troops out of Iraq so they can come home, he wants to pull them out so he can send them to Afghanistan. So, I guess his stance can’t really be categorized as anti-war, and really should just be viewed as anti-war in Iraq. Additionally, his stance isn’t anti-surge, but rather just anti-surge in Iraq (he seems perfectly comfortable calling for a surge in Afghanistan).

        • tommyo77

          Susan,
          The point is a) the I have a bracelet too line is stupid and childish b) if you do have a bracelet remember the dead soldiers name c) of course he’s using it to get votes if not he never would of brought it up, your the one who said it was the “zinger of the night”, nice use a dead kids bracelet to score the “zinger of the night”. Your a moron!

        • agent77
      • karen for Clinton – 2012

        The transcript is not exact. Figures, CNN, ugh.

        He mentioned the words “Green Bay” about the bracelet, of that I am sure. I think he said it is something he “remembers” well. If he has only had the bracelet for 4 days I sure would hope he remembers it well.

        The bracelet he should be wearing is one that says “property of the Chicago PD” and is silver.

    • Sinomax

      “and that happened during the Great Depression when Roosevelt purchased a whole bunch of homes,”.

      No one called Obama out for making the same mistake that Biden made when actually Hoover was the president during the great depression!

      No wonder they are on the same ticket!

      • Lark

        Why for God’s sake are the people in the media saying that this debate was a tie. It is so transparent that they are so in the tank for Obama.

        • NoTrollZone

          I agree with you Lark. Personally, I thought Obama was toast in the first minute. He looked like a freakin psychopath. I know he was no doubt trying to look “butch” and all, but he just looked really, I don’t know, erratic.

          Anyone with the slightest life experience should be able to recognize someone who is really deeply off-kilter. Obama is way off.

      • Susan

        You stupid cluck…he was referring to the HLOC (which your idol Hillary reminded us should be created again) which Roosevelt introduced – the depression began under Hoover in 1929, but continued with huge unemployment and banks closing well into FDR’s first term. Why don’t you study your history a little???? Because you just can’t stand Obama.

        • NObamaNOWayNOHow

          Angry left.
          Pathetic.

          McCain/Palin 08

        • Sinomax

          Actually, I quite like the guy just as BaBa WaWa said on “the View” that he is cute and sexy.

          But I don’t want someone as our CIC, who took money from a convicted felon, Rezko, to buy his mansion and who forced out an African American icon, Alice Chambers, from standing against him.

          Now he he is using the same coercive tactics through his legal goon squad in Missouri to stifle criticism at taxpayers’ expense.

          What I can’t stand is a bunch of self-loathing MSM commentators licking up to him and seeking to destroy values which made this nation great.

          Like Obama, MSM wants to turn us into Hamas land!

        • C.S.

          When you have to “explain” everything your candidate does and says, you have already lost the argument. And most Obama supporters could use a few remedial courses in math and the Constitution before they start handing out history grades.

        • Dr. Kate

          I’ve studied history, and I still can’t stand obama. :-P

        • tommyo77

          yes, we don’t study history because we can’t stand Barack. Verrry intelligent.

      • Phil Murphy

        The Great Depression lasted until 1940. Roosevelt did purchase a “whole bunch of homes” after coming on board. WWII is the end of the depression.

        My parents were married in 1933, and I know the stories like the back of my hand. To cheat – go to wikipedia, or Go back to history class.

        I thought they taught this stuff in school?

        • Donna Brazile

          Phil lip!

          Wiki? LMAO!

          Shows your depth of schooling or there lack of.

          You have parents? You’re kidding right! We thought you were an alien baby.

          Stop the hate!

        • tek

          The Great Depression lasted until 1942 when WWII started in U. S. and war factories created jobs.

          • Felizarte

            Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. You’re right Tek. An all-out effort to rebuild the U.S. armed forces and re-equip began in earnest in 1942.

            But before the entry into world war II by the U.S. when Europe was already overrun by the Germans, Roosevelt embarked on the biggest public words projects that provided jobs to the people and revived the economy.

            I am surprised that no one in the administration is thinking of massive govt. sponsored public works projects that would generate jobs (except Hillary Clinton) even when there is consensus that much of the nation’s infrastructure needs to be rebuild/improved/added to.

            They should have done this some time ago and this bailout may not have been necessary.

  • Larse12

    See how Obama campaigns tells people to cheat on the polls:
    http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/democracynow2008/gGCgS5/commentary

    • Andrew

      I don’t dare go on the site. Just summarize it please.

      • Kal

        It gives instructions on how to vote more than once, and clearly tells people to do that.

        It’s on the official site!!

        • Ai1een

          That should be made into a commercial as well!

          The poll numbers now show that Obama is beating McCain on trustworthiness. This occured based upon all the Obama ads saying that McCain was lying in his ads (as though he wasn’t!)

          This Voter Fraud being on the website and all these other under the table sleazy dealings, like caucus fraud need to come out one by one on McCain’s ads.

          • Chicago Joe

            It is for the AOL straw poll. The post was written in April. For as long as I have been watching the poll, it has been almost completely RED (GOP) for the entire time. Every now and then, Barky carries a state or D.C. So the trolls don’t seem to be following directions.

          • BettsAZ

            DEMOCRACY NOW=ACORN ONLINE

        • ritamary

          I am against Obama as much as anyone but the instructions are for voting more than once on the AOL poll. And John McCain is winning and has been winning since I started voting on this poll.

        • bemused

          This is for the AOL straw poll, however the technique might work for many sites that rely on cookies.

          • Zorro Astor

            Yes of course.

        • vinnie

          please somebody, take a snapshot of this.

        • jangles

          Do you think the MO law enforcement “truth squad” will look into that double voting order?

      • vinnie

        agree.

    • Zorro Astor

      A typically illiterate post as well. The claim it’s Hill folks who have skewed the poll is of course taken out of thin air. The stupidity of these people alarms me.

    • Joy

      Larse12, the link you posted takes you to DemocracyNow2008′s website with an post from April 2008. This group certainly supports Obama but is not Obama’s web site.

      AOL Presidential Poll Make Your Votes Count Online
      By DemocracyNow2008 – Apr 19th, 2008 at 1:40 pm EDT

  • c17wife

    Barack Obama had that man’s bracelet for 7 months.
    His mother, an anti-war democrat gave it to him for a specific reason-

    “I wanted him to know my son’s name for one thing, for when he’s commander in chief,” Mrs. Jopek said”

    Go read the whole article. It is so sad, but so typical of Barack and what so many dems have become.

    http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/36e59418-fbcb-46fd-8d2a-969aa42e8f4d

    • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

      That’s a great post. Thanks for the link. I hadn’t realized that what he was really doing was reading his bracelet — i couldn’t quite tell why he hesitated. Now that i’ve read that post, it’s all so clear. Pathetic.

      If John McCain had had to read the name on his bracelet, it’d lead every newscast for days, and the soldier’s entire life and death would have been gone over in every detail.

      • c17wife

        You are correct.

        I’m a regular RS reader and poster. Ryan was in the same unit as one of my RS buddy’s son. He said that the Marine Moms are pissed!!! The chat room is full of fury at Barack over this.

        What galls me the most is that she supports Barack. She is one of his faithful. And this is how he treated her and her son’s memory. Shameful!!!

      • Ai1een

        Yes, I agree too. I didn’t realize that B.O. was pausing to look at the name on the bracelet either…PATHETIC PLUS I’d say.

        Guess that soldier’s name meant about as much to Obama as his half brother as well as the school (named after Barack Obama) that BO swore he would support and to which has NEVER sent a dime.

        Barack Obama supports “Mission – Barack Obama” and that is IT.

        • Blue Intrigue

          Oh, please! Obama has been wearing that bracelet every day since February. He started to say that he got it from “Sergeant – ” and paused to correct himself, saying “from the mother of”. It takes a pretty wild stretch of the imagination to think that he forgot the soldier’s name. Now, I’m not surprised that liars like Malkin, Hewitt and Sheffield want to distract from Barack’s answer. Nobody on your side wants to admit that McCain, who has told that bracelet story a hundred times on the campaign trail, is exploiting one dead soldier to justify more dead soldiers. And nobody on your side wants to admit that Barack was right – no soldier dies in vain fulfilling the mission that their leaders set. Who really has the best judgment on use of force?

          • http://Q Diana L. C.

            He had to look at the name. I was watching!

            • Blue Intrigue

              Obama scored huge points with his answer and that’s why you’re trying to make this another “lipstick on a pig” moment – distract, divert, duck and just outright lie. Let me ask you an honest question and I hope for an honest answer – do soldiers die in vain when they’ve served honorably even if a war is lost?

              • Chicago Joe

                He scored points all right with that one, but in the minus direction. You people sicken me with your willingness to give him the benefit of the doubt in every situation. He has been my Senator, and he has done nothing of any note for the people of Illinois. Just as he rode on the coattails of Emil Jones in the Illinois legislature, he rides on the coattails of Dick Durbin now. Durbin does all the heavy lifting. Obama is a big fat self-important zero.

                • Blue Intrigue

                  He scored points all right with that one, but in the minus direction.

                  Not according to the realtime graph on CNN last night or CNN and CBS snap polls. Now, would you like to answer my question?

                  • Ferd McBerfle

                    Realtime graphs and polls are to objective facts as your posts are to reasoning abiliy.

                    • Blue Intrigue

                      Objective facts are to your posts as polar bears are to Africa.

                    • Ferd McBerfle

                      So now you take other people’s style of response. How very Obamalike of you–I hope you feel all hopey-changey inside.

              • C.S.

                Let me ask you an honest question and I hope for an honest answer – do soldiers die in vain when they’ve served honorably even if a war is lost

                Well, Ronald Reagan believed that. He created an international incident and insulted World War II veterans when he justified visiting Bitburg Cemetary April 18, 1985 with these words:

                “I think that there’s nothing wrong with visiting that cemetery where those young men are victims of Nazism also, even though they were fighting in the German uniform, drafted into service to carry out the hateful wishes of the Nazis. They were victims, just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps.”

                This question was asked by a Viet Nam vet.

                Can those who fought in that immoral war really be heroes?

                This is the answer to that question Ghandi believed.

                I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

                Does this help answer your question?

              • athy
          • vinnie

            he doesn’t give a care, admit it. Like he doesn’t care enough to send well wishes to his buddy Teddy Kennedy. Your guy is lacks class, period.

            • Blue Intrigue

              Oh, and speaking of gaffes – Kennedy was already home from the hospital when McCain made his statement.

              • Phil Murphy

                Yeah – I thought that was being pretty informed – NOT. I do like the way he has that prop marker in his hand all the time.

              • athy

                Blue Intrigue-
                AT LEAST SEN MCCAIN HAD SEN KENNEDY IN HIS PRAYERS.

          • Deep Truths

            Hey stupid, did he say the mother’s name…NOOOO. He had to look at the bracelet first and then say the mother of…

            SHEESH. You and Obama are exactly alike – STOOPID.

            • Blue Intrigue

              Typical NQ response. Call somebody names instead of addressing the substance of what Obama said. Obama will be up by at least 10 points in the polls by Monday because of the strength of his debate performance – particularly this answer! That’s why you’re grasping at straws. “Obama flipped Hillary off! He called Palin a pig!” Grasping at straws and attacking anybody who dares say that you’re full of a word that would get me banned but can be used with impunity by the regulars.

              • Ferd McBerfle

                Obama’s performance was pedestrian. He looked angry and, at times petulant. His grasp of thie issues is only passing as it is obvious that he spent a great deal of time memorizing. The trouble with that style of preprartion is that you can end up flat-footed, which he did. He does not think on his feet well at all.

                I’ve addressed the substance. Now to the punch: he is unfit and unqualified for POTUS. You can’t get around that by pointing to his resume because it is paper-thin; you can’t use the race card to make him qualified; your can’t divert attention away from his glaring inexperience by changing the subject. He will not get my vote.

                • Phil Murphy

                  Obama is totally qualified on every legal front. Unless you mean the idiot trying to question his birth certificate. lmao.

                  He is a experienced as is needed to be. As experienced as Hillary, unless you include sleeping next to the big one as experience. [ADMIN: THIS IS A SEXIST, and completely untrue, remark. Typical of Obamabot blather, however. It's sad how rational and constructive discussion has disappeared from all of the 'bots' minds. Others, please IGNORE this troll. He is GONE NOW.]

                  • Donna Brazile

                    Phil lip!

                    Always trying to use that big lip to lap up support for the candidate who needed Big Daddy Biden to come in and save the day.

                    I’m sure you don’t know what “experience is” obviously! Don’t worry they say there’s someone for everyone.

                    Stop the hate, hater!

                    • Ferd McBerfle

                      Donna–educating obamatrolls is such an impossible task, as I’m sure you’ve found out over the months. I suppose someone has to make the attempt.

                  • Ferd McBerfle

                    The legality is not the issue, which are only de minimis requirements, you little snip. The issue is that he is unqualified in terms of experience and he is unfit for office. HRC is much more qualified. You could actually do a little research before you post such unmitigated tripe. But I’d rather you just stop polluting this perfectly good blog with your hogwash.

                    • Blue Intrigue

                      Oh please cast a write-in vote for Hillary!

                  • athy

                    Phil…
                    Do the facts contained in this video concern you in the slightest?

                    Dear Mr. Obama: Who Are You?

                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16aBNduAyQ4

                    BTW-please explain why you think Sen obama is qualified on the legal front.

                • Blue Intrigue

                  The angry, petulant guy with the answers memorized from his stump speeches was McCain. Except in your home town in Bizarro World.

                  • Alex

                    No doubt. I was saying Mccains responses before he was, becasue he was reguritating his CONVENTION SPEECH, which he’s been doing ever since onthe campaign trail.

                    Obama mopped the floor with Mccain in what was supposed to be Mccains strong suit.

                    Obama defintely passed the presidential threshhold and looked FAR from an empty suit.

                    Now Sarah palin and that empty dress looks like a perfect fit!

                    • tommyo77

                      That’s interesting because everybody (including Donna Brazille) except Keith Obermeyer said McCain won. But you just go on living in your fantasy world, thats why you bought the drugs to begin with.

              • C.S.

                I guess you missed the foreign press that stated McCain won the debate and their assessment is more unbiased than the U.S. Obama Media.

                Fortunately, I don’t need either one to tell me what I think – I’m quite capable of analyzing facts and body language without help and all the rehearsal between now and November is not going to improve the guy’s delivery or image…ever thought of getting a surrogate?

                • Blue Intrigue

                  You mean foreign press like the Sydney Morning Herald, the BBC, The Age (Australia), the Economist (UK), the Guardian (UK), the Edmonton Sun (CA), The Financial Times (UK), Howrah News Service (India), The National (UAE)? All had Obama winning or a draw (which is really an Obama win when you consider that foreign policy is supposed to be McCain’s strong suit). The only foreign press I saw that had McCain winning was the UK Telegraph. So please, what foreign press exactly are you talking about?

          • NObamaNOWayNOHow

            $

      • Zorro Astor

        Yep.

    • Dan

      That bracelet was just a prop that he broke out of storage for this debate. It’s obvious that it didn’t mean anything to him at all. Otherwise he would have readily known the soldier’s name.

      Issues aside, that one single incident captures the essence of why I so strongly prefer McCain over Obama.

      McCain is genuine.

      Obama is not.

      But sadly, I’m beginning to think that this country, after eight years of staggering incompetence from Bush and his crew, is simply looking for a reason to vote for a Democrat … any Democrat, no matter how flawed, who has a silver tongue and is willing to tell them whatever they want to hear.

      But this mortgage meltdown and pending freeze-up of the credit markets has come at a disasterous time for McCain. Had it happened two months ago, the public would have had time to forget about it. But as strong as he was last night on foreign policy, McCain missed a key opportunity to explain exactly why he cut his campaign short to fly to Washington. He could have explained that he did so to try a stop a flawed bill that would have reamed the American taxpayer. But by not explaining himself, it looks like it was simply a political stunt.

      Up until last night, I felt resonably confident of a McCain victory. Granted, there’s five weeks left in the campaign yet, and that’s a very long time in politics. But McCain better really stick it to Obama with specifics about his voting record and all of his flip-flops during their next debate and explain to voters just how bad Obama’s tax increases would be for the economy.

      Also, I’m praying that Sarah Palin doesn’t embarass herself against Biden next week. Her performance with Katy Kouric didn’t exactly fill me with confidence. She needs to stop worrying about making a mistake and just let it rip.

      Man, I sure hope that “Whitey Tape” actually exists. That may be the only thing that could pull this out for the GOP. However, the fact that the race is even close at this point in time is a miracle, given the mess that Bush has made of things. He could have deflated this mortgage bubble years ago, but instead he, once again, sat around with his thumb up his ass and did nothing.

      As a Republican, I can say that even though I give Bush major credit for the war against terrorism, his presidency has been a disaster. He’s set the Republican party back decades.

      • Leisa

        I was disappointed that McCain did not hammer Obama with the truth of what was going on in Washington when he suspended his campaign.

        Then I realized, negotiations are still going on. Democrats have the majority in congress. McCain had to hold steady in order to get everyone to work together to find a solution to this crisis.

        There are many pols with dirty hands in this, it will not be pretty, the porkers are squealing.

        I hope they find a workable solution with no pork. Once that is cleared, McCain should hit Obama hard with the truth of Obama’s ties to this mess.

      • Zorro Astor

        However, the fact that the race is even close at this point in time is a miracle, given the mess that Bush has made of things.

        Not according to Bill Clinton. It’s usually 45%-45% on either side with the final 10% up for grabs.

      • csuzeq

        At this point, I don’t think the whitey tape would work. No one seems to care what the one does. I swear he could kill Sarah Palin at a rally in front of 60,000 people and the left would just praise him and then make excuses why he had to do it.

        • Lark

          I agree. The stage was not big enough for the two of them, so he pushed Palin off the end because he was a candidate before Palin was a candidate.

        • NoTrollZone

          Do you know the movie, “The Dead Zone?”
          Martin Sheen’s a bad guy pres nominee.
          The hero of the story shakes his hand and sees into the future. He sees Sheen pressing the red button. So the hero decides he must
          take Sheen out before Sheen destroys the world.
          When the hero goes to shoot Sheen, Sheen picks up a baby to use as a shield.

          This ends Sheen’s political career.

          I have no trouble at all seeing Obama using an infant as a shield. I have no trouble at all seeing that. I can bet you 700 billion dollars
          (the figure just comes to mind) that that is exactly the kind of thing Obama would do.

          What concerns me more (and no doubt most of you), is that if Obama did use an infant as a shield, the MSM would be completely fine with it.

          They would say Obama thought of the country before even the life of a child which we all know is so dear to him.

          • NoTrollZone

            i take back the “what concerns me even more.”
            obama using a child to shield himself concerns me plenty. The press excusing Obama’s disgusting lack of decency also concerns me plenty.

    • kevin

      He had to look at it to remember the friggin guy’s name!
      If I had someone’s name on my wrist for 7 goddamn months I would probably be able to remember what the hell the name was.

      the one that got away was when booboo said he opposed the war at the beginning.
      Best retort possible
      “When you were a State Senator in Illinois?”

    • http://Q Diana L. C.

      That is very sad. As a mother, I feel so lucky that my two adult “boys” are safe. One served on a nuclear sub, but never had to get involved in the Iraq situation. The other is in an “alternative” rock band. Two wonderful boys who are totally opposite, but who love each other.

      I always worried most about the one who served on the sub. (He’s a proud ‘nuke.’) As he grew up I often feared that he might end up in a war zone. I couldn’t bear losing those two. Of course she wants her son’s name remembered. How awful that it wasn’t, at least by O.

      I’m going to remember it for her.

      I was touched by McCain’s statement that he “loved” the soldiers. That is really what we need in a Commander-in=Chief.

      • moi61537

        That was Lincoln’s sentiment too. There are stories about Bush visiting Walter Reed after hours to visit soldiers. He cries when talking about their sacrifices. That is not something I could see Obama do, unless of course he needed a prop. I think for the next debate Obama can show his patriotism (rather than his treason) by bringing out Ayer’s flag used as a carpet in the Sept 2001 article. Obama could carefully dust it off, smooth out the creases and wrap himself in it. Wouldn’t that be a moment of sincere patriotic fervor?

      • oowawa

        Yes Diana, when McCain said he “loved” the soldiers, I believed him, and it was indeed a very touching moment.

        Now imagine the Mighty O repeating the sentiment: Well, uh, John, you know, I really love the soldiers too!” Not even the O-bots would have been able to keep from laughing.

        I feel very strongly that McCain personally cares about the soldiers, and that The Precious certainly does not.

    • pcbedamned

      “I wanted him to know my son’s name for one thing, for when he’s commander in chief,” Mrs. Jopek said”

      Too bad he forgot it…
      I would love to hear what Mrs. Jopek thinks about her savior now.

  • fred

    Obama camp sends out video predicting McCain wins the election. Video here http://countusout.wordpress.com/

    • OhioMary

      I don’t know about you but that is what I am praying will happen Nov 4. I still cannot understand why America is even considering Obama as a competent choice. It is not like there is just one small reason not to vote for him. There is a complete laundry list. It actually makes me sick to think he could win POTUS. Obama is a trojan horse.

      • fooj

        Exactly my feeling. I can’t even believe he was one of the ones debating for POTUS! It’s mind-boggling.

        Didn’t Al Gore say there is “no such thing as CLEAN COAL”…guess the Little Lord didn’t get that memo.

        • elliewyatt

          July 17, 2008

          Gore: There’s no such thing as clean coal. It’s non-existent. Theoretically, it might be possible, many years from now, to come up with a way to clean it as it’s burnt. But there’s not a single demonstration project in the United States. They’re not doing anything … to put substance … to the slogan, “clean coal.” Clean coal doesn’t exist.

          http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/17/eveningnews/main4270123.shtml

      • beverly leslie

        Well people voted for GWB and now people are voting for Obarf. Two idiots.

        If you really want to see the pathetic embarrassment Obarf is, watch the House of Commons debate on C-span. Intelligent quick thinkers, then turn on a debate with barky. It’s a complete joke, and our country keeps slipping away.

    • csuzeq

      Damn. I love the first part of that video!

    • HRocks

      Good, accurate ad by Obama, send this link to everyone.

      Obama camp sends out video predicting McCain wins the election. Video here

      http://countusout.wordpress.com/

  • RocktheBeast
    • ritamary

      This website contains misogynist insults to Hillary.

    • Zorro Astor

      Which only affects idiots running Windows.

    • John Smith

      TROLL alert !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • acorn hater

    Trivial (perhaps), but a true reflection on the Democrat Mentality in this Election:

    Two houses with 1/8 of a mile of mine have proudly displayed their Obama signs for many months. Both signs are now worn and faded, but have remained there (without molestation or removal) for nearly nine months. I pass both signs every day.

    Two days ago, I traveled to the local GOP office to get my long-awaited McCain/Palin sign. Though I had called in advance and was told that I could get a whole stack to give to my enthusiastic neighbors, because of the exceptionally high demand it ended up that they could only give me one sign, which I happily accepted.

    After I placed my new sign on my property, any guess as to how long it lasted before it vanished?

    Less than 24 hours.

    Is the Obama/Biden crowd really that afraid of a little lawn sign?

    Do free speech rights only apply to liberal Democrats?

    • c17wife

      I’m sorry to hear that.
      Maybe you should go get another sign and display it in a front window.

      Party of tolerance and diversity of thought, indeed!

      • Ga6Independent

        Yes, Obama’s minions remind me very much of Bush’s in 2004. Kerry signs were regularly stolen in my area and a friend had hers burned by someone.

    • NObamaNOWayNOHow

      Yes, and if NObama wins, then not for them, either.

      This is 1930′s Germany.
      God have mercy on us.

      McCain/Palin 08

    • Zorro Astor

      After I placed my new sign on my property, any guess as to how long it lasted before it vanished?

      This is a brown shirt tactic. People don’t get it. They don’t know how perilously close they are. Clue: Hitler never had this much ground support. Never.

  • Soldier of Christ

    Gosh….nothing new….the savior always comes up on top. Why isn’t anyone on this blog upset after the riots against Palin last night? The poor woman couldn’t even sit in a Irish Pub without having Obama’s demonstration outside the tavern. I haven’t seen anyone demonstrate against Obama in his stump speeches except Michaelwarn- an african american blog that believes he is the devil and Oprah is the woman in the revelelation. It took black folks to protest against Obama, unbelievable. Not one thing about the disrespect to this woman. She couldn’t even have a beer in the pub with these monsters bothering her. I am very dark skin, since I am half colored, and I purposely went up and down the highway with a Mccain/Palin sign. People actually do a double take on me because they cannot believe that I am black and I am also daring to show that I don’t give a hoot to what they say to me. I am proud to be a patriot- and not afraid of it.

    • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

      This is the first I’ve heard about it. Do you have links to stories? We would definitely love to post a story about this. I’m dashing so can’t look right this minute, but I sure will do so later.

      • Soldier of Christ

        Susan- here is the link to the protest at the Irish Pub- video attached:

        http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-95763#postComment

        • Typical White Sweetie

          What they do is spamail marching orders where/when to meet

          this is not spontaneous, this is axelrod/plouffe fascism

          • Zorro Astor

            this is not spontaneous, this is axelrod/plouffe fascism

            Either Axelrod/Plouffe sponsored, directed, or indirectly encouraged. Of course it is. You treat all such candidates with more respect.

            But Killadelphia is strongly Obama territory anyway. Lots of uppity teenage twerps. Really repugnant.

        • ritamary

          Wow, that is disgusting.

        • Leisa

          I wonder what the folks in Alaska thing of the way Sarah is being treated.

          • Zorro Astor

            They’re probably in shock? My guess is they don’t realise how vile people in other parts of the US can be.

          • PKJAYNE

            I am from Ohio and I am disgusted and pissed.

        • Leisa

          I wonder what the folks in Alaska think of the way Sarah is being treated.

        • street_parade

          My god, they ARE the the brownshirts. I’m convinced that about 1/3 of Obama’s supporters mostly the young ones, are truly criminal, evil people. This will get some more votes for McCain/Palin though.

          • Phil Murphy

            street-parade – You guys are truly funny. Brownshirts. Lets see how you get to 1/3 of Obama’s supporters as brownshirts. Ouija Board maybe? Always bring out the nazi or stalinist imagery when your candidate is flaming out.

            [ADMINISTRATOR: I'VE RECEIVED COMPLAINTS that you're spamming threads. Upon checking your comments, such as this one above, I see you're also just indulging in gratuitous and ugly insults, without an iota of constructive citations, examples or ideas. So you'll be visiting other blogs from now on.]

      • No Way, No How, NoBama
        • ritamary

          I guess this is the type of mob rule we have to look forward to with the election of Dear Leader.

          And someone commenting on that post has the idea the mob is made up of Hillary supporters. I cannot imagine any Hillary supporter behaving this way after all that Hillary suffered.

        • Zorro Astor

          Yeah exactly. Inside the pub it was a different melody – all the people who love her. And damn! That woman is hot! ;)

      • c17wife
        • Zorro Astor

          heckling her on as Philadelphians know how to do

          No, Tapper, you’re clueless again. It’s:

          disrespecting her and harassing her as only Obama bots know how to do

          Read the comments in that article if you want to know the Nature of the Beast.

          Is it not possible to deport these people?

        • Zorro Astor

          This was Axelrod directed. I’m sure it was.

    • Dan

      Well, let’s just hope that the proverbial “silent majority” is taking note of all this and will make their opinions known on election day.

      But this is the mentality that will be running our country in three months’ time if Obama is elected.

      I cringe at the thought.

      • Typical White Sweetie

        It doesn’t mean half the country will follow this crap…..

        CIVIL WARS have been fought over lesser circumstances

        • Zorro Astor

          This already is a civil war.

    • wodiej

      good for you! you obviously have sense and was raised right.

      I didn’t hear about the Irish Pub thing. All I can say is these immature, vulgar, violent, bullying tactics are going to help McCain and Palin win the White House. Most people simply do not like bullying and intimidation. Not only that, they act like a bunch of spoiled, selfish pampered brats.

    • churl

      Indeed you are brave. I recall what happened to Sugar and Hillary bumper sticker.

  • LookingForwardTo2012

    P.S. It cracks me up every time that Obama brags about his relationship with Tom Coburn, who is just about as reviled on the left as is possible. However, when “The One” lauds his coziness with the far-right arch-conservative, it’s all way cool, man

    I honestly believe there was a hypnotic element in all of B.O.’s Primary speeches….I think the chanting of his name over and over created a cult-like mentality. After he loses the election, about 17.5 million people will have to be de-programmed.

    Also, speaking of way cool…I heard one commentator refer to him as a “young man” a few days ago. He is not young.

    • Joy

      Looking Around Person, some liberals in Oklahoma disagree with Senator Tom Coburn on every social issue there is but agree with him on fiscal issues. They support him and will vote for him when he comes up for reelection.

      And I might add they are none to pleased his party has him up on ethic charges for delivering babies (he is a M.D.) while at home on the weekends. I might add he does this free of charge.

  • IronMan

    Last night, Barack Obama tried to say that he never opposed funding for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that his vote in opposition only intended to force a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq.

    Today, the McCain campaign responds with a new ad, “Promise”, that they will run nationally:

    Click to see new video:

    Promise

    http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/27/mccain-ad-promise/

    ANNCR: In the midst of war, Senator Obama voted to cut off funding for our troops. What did Biden say?

    JOE BIDEN: “They said they voted against the money to make a political point.”

    ANNCR: He added…

    JOE BIDEN: “This is cutting off support that will save the lives of thousands of American troops.”

    ANNCR: Barack Obama. Playing politics. Risking lives. Not ready to lead.

    Here was Obama’s response during the debate:

    OBAMA: Jim, there are a whole bunch of things we have got to answer. First of all, let’s talk about this troop funding issue because John always brings this up. Senator McCain cut — Senator McCain opposed funding for troops in legislation that had a timetable, because he didn’t believe in a timetable.
    I opposed funding a mission that had no timetable, and was open- ended, giving a blank check to George Bush. We had a difference on the timetable. We didn’t have a difference on whether or not we were going to be funding troops.

    Not according to his running mate. According to Joe Biden, the move to defund the troops was deliberate —an attempt to interfere with the surge strategy that wound up winning the war. Biden, Obama, and the rest of the Democrats who voted against the funding wanted to force the administration into a precipitous withdrawal that would have left Iraq a failed state. And it also would have defunded Afghanistan, which Obama has called the central front on the war on terror.

    This ad needs to run nationally, and more ads like it need to follow.

    • Kal

      Terrific ad.

    • bert

      Great ad.

    • kevin

      Got to get nasty
      It is the only way to defeat this pompous jerk

  • SJ

    Here is an interesting one Larry

    http://governor.mo.gov/cgi-bin/coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EkkkVFulkpOzXqGMaj&style=Default+News+Style&tmpl=newsitem

    Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign’s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement

    JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Matt Blunt today issued the following statement on news reports that have exposed plans by U.S. Senator Barack Obama to use Missouri law enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics.

    “St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.

    “What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.

    “This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.

    “Barack Obama needs to grow up. Leftist blogs and others in the press constantly say false things about me and my family. Usually, we ignore false and scurrilous accusations because the purveyors have no credibility. When necessary, we refute them. Enlisting Missouri law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts – not a free society.”

    • vinnie

      I saw this bit of news scroll at the bottom of the screen on FOX. Hopefully they are all over this one. Whatever happened to freedom of speech? And where is Barry’s concern if the ad are lies about Palin or McCain?

      • athena

        I emailed the news link in a comment posted here yesterday about the state law officials and highers up in office threatening anyone who spoke out against “the one” to my father-in-law, a retired judge in Kansas. He made sure the appropriate persons were informed ;0……..Thank you Gov. Blunt.

    • No Way, No How, NoBama

      This needs to be a McCain commercial. At the end he could say, “Bite Me”.

    • AnnS

      I sent the Governor a thank you note. At last someone has the guts to take a stand against this regime.

    • Zorro Astor

      Like a symphony. ;)

  • jrterrier

    Susan,

    Do you remember when Gibson went after Gov Palin for saying she supported the entry into NATO of Georgia and other former Soviet republics and the media had a field day claiming Palin wanted to go to war with Russia and was not ready to be CIC. Obama said the same thing last night and no one has ridiculted him for it.

    • MrMike

      Obama is stealing from Sarah Palin now?

      • Lark

        That is in keeping with his ways from the very beginning and why I despise this man so much.

  • Mr. X

    This just in!

    Erin Brockovich supports Sarah Palin!

    Erin will be under the bus soon enough for this act of treason. What will Julia Roberts say?

    • Zorro Astor

      Erin Brockovich supports Sarah Palin!

      OK! The next round is on me! Drinks on the house! Woo-hoo!

  • Zorro Astor

    But Hayes winds up his article with the following.

    Barack Obama seemed like he belonged on stage with McCain and came across as a plausible president. For that reason, he probably walks away from the first debate a winner.

    And that’s from the Weekly Standard so it’s saying a lot.

    PS. Don’t accuse me of being a bot. I’d use bug spray on them if it helped. They’re the ultimate deal breaker for Obama. And he already has a barrel full. ;)

    • Andy

      Pretty low standards…. Pitiful.

  • JAY in Los Angeles

    As my friend John at Liberal Rapture said, The One could take a dump on stage right now and it would be received as a landmark of his humanity.

    • http://firefox AnnieCarmel

      Doing his utmost to fertilize the corn fields of Iowa.

    • VMorris

      ROTFLAMO!!! I need a new computer screen. This one is doused with coffee as I laughed and snorted it out my nose.

    • Zorro Astor

      He might end up doing that. As full of shit as he is. ;)

  • http://IthinkIfeel... Tricia Spiegel

    Gaffes are only fun when they are exposed. Thanks Susan! These are good ones. I especially liked the one about nuclear waste.

    • alexei

      I heard that one last night and thought for sure that sound bite would be like wildfire.

      OBAMA: I — I just have to correct the record here. I have never said that I object to nuclear waste. What I’ve said is that we have to store it safely.

      Yeah, he wants some in every pot instead of the chicken!

  • http://firefox AnnieCarmel

    The one that got my attention was his comment, re: the financial crisis, about how we have to save “early childhood education”. HUH? Then I remembered about how the Black Panthers focused on getting government money through LBJ’s programs to give impoverished children school breakfast programs, etc.,(their schools, of course). They’ll use anything to rape the treasury again. This one will probably be funded through ACORN…if we fail to have them indicted.

    • http://Q Diana L. C.

      As an ex-teacher in public schools, I’ve had to listen to the “early childhood education” mantra since the 80′s. It was simply a grasp at talking to teachers to get their votes.

      Sorry, it won’t work for me.

      • wonderwoman

        Yeah, I’m a teacher here. I think people know better. We have at least three programs here for early childhood education. SOme of these programs need to be consolidated and eliminated.

    • snosandy

      I caught that, too. Jim Lehrer was asking where the candidates would make budget cuts because of the current financial bailout and Obama said that he would ADD to programs like early childhood education.

  • catherine

    The media can put all the negative spin on McCain for returning to Washington to try to learn more about the financial crisis the all the positive spin for Obama on the debate they want, but one would have to be an idiot not to have recognized who was the person most in command of the financial situation and the debate last night in terms of knowledge, experience, tenacity, and commitment to country. McCain put Obama to shame and had him in a tail spin and everyone knows it. Hillary tried to tell the Dems this would happen in the primary but few listened. I have no sympathy for the dems. They dug their own black hole- let them lie in it.

    Hillary 08, If not
    McCain/Palin 08

  • lind

    The cnn poll propaganda Obama wins the debate. 41% of people asked who won the debate were democrats,only 27% of those asked were republicans and 30% were independents. Not an accurate poll by any means.

    • snosandy

      Did you know that before the debate Obama sent out a text message to his supporters to watch the debate on CNN?! It doesn’t seem like it should be legal to tell someone what tv station to watch a nationally televised debate on. CNN does not have any credibility in any polls they take concerning this election.

  • Bell’Artista

    Hmmm
    I just called The Irish Pub on Walnut Streer in Philadelphia (215 568 5603 ) and spoke to a nice man named Jeff.
    He told me that there were only about 75 protesters outside, not the number (mob ) that was reported and that the event went well and the crowd inside had a good time.
    He said the KoolAid drinkers outside were made because they couldn’t get in.

    interesting.

    • wodiej

      75 is quite a few but glad they weren’t allowed in and Sarah was able to drink a beer. I am sure that someone who has more balls than alot of men who will take on her own party because it is corrupt, beat the incumbent Governor in the election and then take on greedy oil companies in her state, could care less about some snot nosed, kooks outside holding signs instead of doing something productive. I think it’s funny…they are helping tank the election for Obama.

    • Andy

      ABC Tapper reported 300 “classy Obama supporters” (ie. thugs) yelling “Hey Hockey Mom — Keep the Puck out of PA” outside and 400 inside. What a bunch of liars… Unbelievable.

      http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/palin-gets-the.html

  • Eastan McNeal

    Now if people showed up with anti-obama signs this vile they would be arrested in MO. Or at least called every name in the book by the MSM, as they demanded McCain to apologize for them. This was in AK, and at least one of the signs looks very Obama professional.

    http://nigelparry.com/photos/anti-palin-demonstration-in-alaska.shtml

    • Bell’Artista

      Why are Obama supporters so scruffy and unattractive looking?
      When I look at the women in that crowd, it’s probably a good thing that they have “choice” either that or one can pray that natural selection would win out and they just didn’t create more of themselves…..and a little lipstick surely wouldn’t hurt.

      And speaking as a straight woman, I wouldn’t touch any of those men with a 10 foot pole.

      I’ve been to AK, I know people dress casually, but those people are Ugly! Maybe that’s why they’re so cranky.

    • Leisa

      Why does Obama attract such angry and hateful people?

  • NObamaNOWayNOHow

    Bambi is angry on the stump today. Riling up all the low info blacks in Greensboro, N.C.
    I didnt hear him teach how to intimidate whitey thought. I guess he only does that in emails.

    • csuzeq

      I’m waiting for Barky to start instructing his supporters to riot and loot if he is not elected. That day is coming, if not before the election it will be his concession speech

      Go Riot because I was cheated and because I’m black and people are racist!

      • Lark

        I agree. This will happen after the second debate towards the last week before the elections.

  • Wayne

    If John McCain had spit out his answers, drooled all over the podium, and gushed about thrills running up his leg, Chris Matthews would have said McCain was at the top of his game.

    • Lark

      Undoubtedly

  • Ferd McBerfle

    The debate only demonstrated what I have thought all along–Oblahblah does not think fast on his feet. For someone who is alleged to be so intelligent, he seems incapable of answering a question directly, nevermind honestly. He also has an irritating habit of always referring to past statements he’s made as though he can’t respond to a question in a new way using different words (which might actually make him appear more intelligent). Everything is scripted to the n+1 degree, leaving me feel as though I’ve just been lied to. His skills at subterfuge, though, make him eminently qualified for a career in used car sales.

    • Zorro Astor

      Referring to past statements is a retort to the many accusations he’s been flip-flopping. There’s a reason for everything and it need not be what one wants. I don’t want Obama by any stretch of the imagination but a lot of these comments really lack substance. Sorry.

      • Ferd McBerfle

        but a lot of these comments really lack substance.

        My comment lacks substance? Hmmm. I think not and stand by my post. A good debater, which Oblahblah is not, does not use the same, “as I said before” and then repeat the same phrase verbatim. This only demonstrates that he can memorize a line, which dovetails with the intial statement I made concerning his inability to think on his feet.

        As to accusations that he flip-flops and so that is why he uses the same statements over and over again–that also dovetials with my second statement that he isn’t as bright as all his drooling bots seem to think he is. The ability to say the same thing using different words is a better sign of intelligence than putting together words that sound great but mean nothing. I prefer substance over style and content over format. Sorry.

    • Lark

      This is because a brain like his, in the first second or two goes through thousands of instances when he had lied previously. By hesitating and stuttering the brain gains time to process through and come up with something close that will not totally expose previous lies. The brain of a habitual liar lives a tortuous and painful existence.

  • Denise

    I bet that McCain has lots of pictures of him wearing a bracelet. I bet Obama only put his on last night.

    • mcpalin hill

      Denise — go back and look at the pictures from his Hawaiian trip. He was in his bathing suit. See if he is wearing the bracelet in those pictures.

  • hedy

    When I watched the debate I felt that Obama talked so fast that you knew that he wanted to hurry so he did not forget his lines. He did make mistakes but you won’t hear any thing from the MSM. I laughed when he was arguing with McCain about Kissinger you knew that he was wrong but he makes it look like he knows everything. He looked stupid when he said I got a bracelet too and he should have said but oh let me see who it is from. He gets more arrogant as the days go by.

    • Ferd McBerfle

      Oblahblah certainly has zero people skills and is self-absorbed to the exclusion of all others, i.e., a sociopath

      • Zorro Astor

        That’s my assessment. Always has been.

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

          I just wrote a post about Obama’s serial killer eyes (sorry if some have seen this twice…I am not trying to spam)

          http://hillaryorbust.com/2008/09/obama-at-the-debate/

          How Obama looked last night scared me.

          • Lark

            They are not serial killer because this man is truly a pacifist and he would personally harm no one. But they are serial liars eyes.

            • mcpalin hill

              lark In 1995 Obama was the Community Organizer in his district when Chicago had a heat wave. It was 105 everyday and 700 old sick and poor AA’s died. They were afraid to open their windows or seek shelter in the Grocery Stores so they sat in their houses and died of the heat. Obama’s job was to contact these people and get them to leave their homes but he never did. 700 died in one week.

          • NoTrollZone

            hey, I’m glad you noticed that. I hadn’t seen anyone else mention how he looked.
            He really looked like a freakin maniac.
            Right from the start he looked like central casting’s idea of a crazy, crazy, scary, scary
            megalomanic demagogue. Truly whacko nuts.
            I can’t believe no one seems to have noticed the look on Obama’s face. I thought for sure that was the ball of wax right there. Man, people are blind out there.

          • mcpalin hill

            Hillary or Bust — It was later in the evening last night and we had the TV muted. I turned to look at it and Obama was on. His face made me shudder. He really looked scary.

  • Shiloh

    On the bracelet: surely someone can come up with some recent photos of BO in short sleeves without the bracelet proving that he wore it for the event only.

  • Zorro Astor

    Obama reached out and touched first. The handshake makes it a standoff but then Obama pats McCain’s elbow. Obama wins. That sucks.

    • Ferd McBerfle

      Obama pats McCain’s elbow

      On the contrary, I’d call that getting a little too familiar. Point to McCain.

    • Lark

      Bush does the same thing many many times. Obama is Bush 3. He does that like as if in a wrestling match. He tries to get an advantage move very early in the relationship. It is a form of domination through body language.

      • http://firefox AnnieCarmel

        Yeah, as when he kept reaching out to touch O’Reilly’s knee in the Fox interview. Ick. Definitely manipulative.

        I can’t stand his hissing “s’s” or the way he emphasizes the last word of every sentence as if he’s spitting it out. Double ick.

    • Andy

      Zorro: are you 3? What’s with the silly comments?

  • Wayne

    Obama praised China for their recent space launch and space walk, insinuating we were somehow technologically falling behind the Chinese.

    NEWSFLASH for OBAMA: The United States put a man on the moon……in 1969!!!

    • Zorro Astor

      Obama praised China for their recent space launch and space walk, insinuating we were somehow technologically falling behind the Chinese.

      That’s utterly ridiculous. Praising one person automatically implies disparaging another?

      Get a grip!

      • Wayne

        “….The third thing we have to do is we’ve got to make sure that we’re competing in education. We’ve got to invest in science and technology. China had a space launch and a space walk. We’ve got to make sure that our children are keeping pace in math and in science.” – Obama

        No automatic implication necessary when he’s outright asserting that because China had a space launch and a space walk somehow means the U.S. is not competing or keeping pace. Ever heard of the Space Shuttle?

        Got it? sheesh

    • NObamaNOWayNOHow

      NObama was too busy in the madrassah to notice American moon landing.

  • Lindsy

    So Biden was all over the MSM today making Obama’s points. There was little to no representation of McCain’s camp- so as usual America is getting one-sided coverage.

    Obama has now opened up a 6 point lead on Rasmussen & Gallup today.

    And Rasmussen now says swing states of MI, PA, FL, and OH are all trending Obama.

    If the GOP has any dirt to bring out, it needs to be brought out now. Obama just about has this wrapped up.

    • Mr. X

      Those polls are before the debate. Tomorrow morning, Rasmussen will provide the first poll with the debate included, but only Tuesday’s poll will be 100% post-debate.

    • Zorro Astor

      Biden is disgusting. Repulsive. I think that’s one thing everyone can agree on no matter they supported McCain, Obama, or Hillary: Biden is a piece of refuse that should be flushed out into the Potomac.

      • Wayne

        Really a lot of substance there, huh?

        • NoTrollZone

          Zorro astor is trying to be Zoroaster?
          As in Zarathustra?
          As in Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”?
          As in what?
          As in troll?

    • Lark

      The people of America are obsessed with ‘MORE.’ They think that more is better than less. Everything has to be larger and bigger and contain more and more and more. That’s is what American culture is all about. And Obama gives more bull crap and the more he speaks his lying and deceptive ideas the more they love him because he gives them more. Obama is for more of everything. McCain is for less. Obama wins the hearts and minds of Americans by offering them more. But…

      But more also means more debt and more work and more problems.

    • mcpalin hill

      lindsy — Obama does not have this wrapped up. This is the media’s wet dream.

  • http://www.newsweek.com/id/138519 jessinwis

    The comment that Obama made that made ME cringe was at the very end, when he said:

    OBAMA: Well, let me just make a closing point. You know, my father came from Kenya. That’s where I get my name.
    And in the ’60s, he wrote letter after letter to come to college here in the United States because the notion was that there was no other country on Earth where you could make it if you tried. The ideals and the values of the United States inspired the entire world.
    I don’t think any of us can say that our standing in the world now, the way children around the world look at the United States, is the same.

    That was such a self-serving, negative portrayal of the country he says he wants to lead. I have noticed this throughout the Obama campaign: his message of self-loathing he instructs us to have, that shames us into believing he’s ONLY one who can redeem our sorry souls and make America great again. I resent that portrayal of America. I know what John McCain meant when he said that the fundamentals of our economy are strong. He meant that we, as a people, are kind, resilient, strong, generous, and capable of seeing economic crisis situation through. Obama wants us to seem failures so he can claim to be able to fix us, and McCain wants self-serving bureaucrats to get out of the way and make it possible for the best within each of us to shine.
    I’m starting to “get” what’s going on here, and McCain needs only to expose this ploy and make his case for the great potential of the American people.

    • Zorro Astor

      That was such a self-serving, negative portrayal of the country he says he wants to lead.

      I don’t agree at all. I think he was advocating bringing the country back to that (ostensible) level of respect. It’s not as if the past 8 years of W and what they’ve done for the rest of the world hating the US is a secret. Education’s down; jobs are going overseas; the economy’s trashed; it is so not like before. And rather than meaning what you decide to infer I think he was asking people to help put the country back on track.

      Now I don’t believe a word that bullshit artist says. But what the words meant is not what you infer.

      You don’t have to skew things to criticise Obama. He’s got enough dirt on him to go around for everybody. ;)

      • beverly leslie

        That’s how you digest what he was saying, doesn’t mean everyone else will. The only way to know what he truly meant is by hearing his private thoughts. Since you can’t do that, you could be right or jessinwis can be right. Considering the people he spends time with (rev. wright, Ayers) I’d say jessinwis has a good case.

        Sorry.

      • street_parade

        I’ve always wondered exactly WHEN this mythical golden age in America was to Obama? It couldn’t have been before the ’70′s because of the way minorities and women were held back before that time. It couldn’t have been the ’70′s because it was such a soul searching time for the country with Watergate and Vietnam just over. The ’80′s? Greed and Reagan (take a look at what occured in Central America during that time). You’ve already pointed out that it’s not the last 8 years…so that leaves only the 1990′s. When Bill Clinton was President? Noooo, couldn’t have been then.

        So when was this mythical time?

      • NoTrollZone

        okay, I gave you the benefit of the doubt.
        But you obviously are a real asshole troll.
        I see your gig is to say you are against Biden or Obama all the while saying “oh, but that criticism isn’t valid.”
        Interesting technique, I’ll give you that. But you are troll meat and, as such, not worth wasting any more time on.

      • http://www.newsweek.com/id/138519 jessinwis

        Obama’s gaffe here, in my eyes (and I gasped when I heard him say it) is gratuitously and purposefully conflating our political standing in the world with our worth as a people, for his own political gain. Obama likes to troll for votes among the peevish and dissatisfied. My daughter goes to an American college with students from around the globe. Companies in Europe buy equipment from the company I work for. You’d think that a great leader (like a good-enough parent) would seek out the positive, and encourage ways to make things even better. As a voter, I’m completely put off by Obama’s put downs (that includes charges of racism made by his surrogates). My perception, that’s all.

    • Leisa

      Well, I guess it depends what country one is from. Americans have been considered pushy and arrogant for years. Remember the Ugly American.

      Bush has not been the best PR guy, that is certain, but we are still looked up to as the land of opportunity.

      I went to Tanzania last year and toured schools as well as the countryside. It was beautiful and the people I met form various tribes were lovely and generous.

      If any of the schools had on map, it was of the USA. Americans do so much for others. We need to focus on the good, and do more as we can.

      Did you know that little girls in parts of Africa still have forced clitorendectomies, that polygamy is accepted and a man with many wives is considered rich?

      There is so much we can do to improve our world. Obama only inspires one to get in people’s faces if they disagree with his campaign. The mob mentality of his assembled supporters concerns me.

      He attracts people that are angry, and they justify their ugly behavior toward others because they somehow believe they have the higher moral ground. The problem with their thinking is that they are not thinking, they are getting sucked into the negative void of groupthink.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink

    • Lark

      Extremely difficult to do. Like in my previous posting, by reducing and devaluing our presence and present culture, Obama is able to offer Americans MORE. This is a tricky and deceptive practice.

      He reduces what is in order to offer what is.

      How does that works. It is a great offer and cost nothing at all. He appropriates what is for himself by diminishing what is and then providing it.

      I take a dollar from your pocket and then give you your dollar back. I steal your wallet and then claim I found it and give back to you. You are so grateful you’ll give me a reward – in this case your vote.

      It is the strategy of a pathological liar at its best. That’s when pathological liars win and prosper. But no pathological liar has ever succeeded in the long run. Why? Because you will keep your wallet in a safe place and the opportunities slowly diminish for that strategy. The ultimate end of a pathological liar is bankruptcy.

    • http://firefox AnnieCarmel

      And here I thought the Kennedys brought Obama Sr. over from Kenya. Hahahaha. Liar.

  • Andy

    SusanUnPC: you forget one that was a BIG GAFFE: Obama said that as POTUS he will take his pen and go “line by line” to veto (whatever). He forgot a Pres. does not have any longer the power of line item veto!!

    Now can you imagine for a second if Palin had said that??? The comments would have been clueless, etc etc.

    But this was SENATOR OBAMA; candidate for POTUS.

    THERE IS NO LINE ITEM VETO SIR.

    • Zee

      All the progressive blogs should headline this one for weeks on end and shame the MSM for missing it.

    • Zorro Astor

      Wikipedia: Line-item Veto

      Line Item Veto Act of 1996
      Presidents have repeatedly asked Congress to give them a line item veto power. According to Louis Fisher in The Politics of Shared Power, Ronald Reagan said to Congress in his 1986 State of the Union address, “Tonight I ask you to give me what forty-three governors have: Give me a line-item veto this year. Give me the authority to veto waste, and I’ll take the responsibility, I’ll make the cuts, I’ll take the heat.” Bill Clinton echoed the request in his State of the Union address in 1995.

      The President was briefly granted this power by the Line Item Veto Act of 1996, passed by Congress in order to control “pork barrel spending” that favors a particular region rather than the nation as a whole. The line-item veto was used 11 times to strike 82 items from the federal budget by President Bill Clinton. [3][4]

      However, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas F. Hogan ruled on February 12, 1998, that unilateral amendment or repeal of only parts of statutes violated the U.S. Constitution. This ruling was subsequently affirmed on June 25, 1998, by a 6-3 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case Clinton v. City of New York. The case was brought by the then New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.

      A constitutional amendment to give the President line item veto power has been considered periodically since the Court ruled the 1996 act unconstitutional. Some scholars, including Louis Fisher, believe the line item veto would give presidents too much power over government spending compared with the power of Congress.[5]

      • Andy

        Don’t need Wikipedia to know the history of this ZorroAstor. Most of us here are old enough to remember extremely well what happened with the line item veto during the Clinton Adm.

        It ain’t one no more and Obama was clueless and stupid to talk like that.

  • Blues Tate

    My eyes glaze over when Obama speaketh.

    Did anyone see Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric last week? Gov. Palin speaks from her heart, she knows alot about the real world, and she is an inspirational leader.

    I can’t wait to see her smush Biden next week!

  • IronMan

    In case anyone missed this:

    In Wake of Debate, Kissinger Corrects Obama
    Saturday September 27, 2008

    Republican nominee John McCain justifiably scoffed at Obama’s use of Kissinger to validate his own wrong-headed idea. Instead, he exposed it for being more evidence of Obama’s naïveté regarding foreign affairs. Not only is this “meet-without-precondition” idea irresponsible, McCain said — it is dangerous.

    Just a few hours after the debate ended, Kissinger released a brief, but powerful statement through the McCain campaign:

    Sen. McCain is right. I would not recommend the next president of the United States engage in talks with Iran at the presidential level. My views on this issue are entirely compatible with the views of my friend Sen. John McCain. We do not agree on everything, but we do agree that any negotiations with Iran must be geared to reality.

  • lind

    The surge saved alot of lives and it’s an outrage to have Barack Obama wishing for its failure,it’s bloody discusting, I mean what kind of presidential candidate would choose politics over saving life. I just don’t get it, why the msm and at least 40% of the pupblic like this guy? I just don’t know what they see.

    • csuzeq

      I do not understande what is happening. I know very smart people who are completely taken in by Obama. They would never fall for this kind of con in any other situation. I do not understand.

      • http://www.theindependentview.com Matthew Weaver

        The same likely could be said for Hitler and all of the rest of the obscene leaders the world has had the misfortune to experience. At least we still have several weeks to stop Obama.

      • Lark

        I am trying to explain that Obama offers more and most people in our country are now obsessed with having more and keeping more. The example is in ‘THE GARAGES’ of people’s homes. Most garages are filled with excesses. Mine is too. I just had a garage sale this morning and pulled out a washing machine. We needed another one that has a slower delicate cycle. What can I say.

        The people that want more vote for those who offer them more. McCain offer those who love money that they will keep more of their money. Obama offer those who like goodies, more goodies.

        • HRocks

          Lark, good observation. So, with all of the smart people(minus the trolls) on this blog, how do we get around the MSM and broadcast the other side of BO, so we can reach the maximum number of people?

          I’m just sick and scared that BO will be president and life as we have known will end and the US will never recover from it.

      • Andy

        Ditto here csuzeq. But tehn again the Holocaust happened despite very smart people knowing and doing nothing. What’s important and matters to you (or me) the limits of what each of us can stomach, accept or reject is very different and has no correlation to intelligence whatsoever.
        Many people are enamoured with an “ideal” which they decided was named Obama.

      • mcpalin hill

        csuzeq — Seven Million Hillary supporters will not vote for Obama. The Republicans are pumped–92% of Republicans will vote for McCain. 74% of Dems will vote for Obama. That stat alone spells trouble for Obama. He has dissed, White Workers, Unions, Women, Seniors and Gays. Indies are breaking for McCain. The Democratic Party is split and their anger at women is turning more woman away everyday. Then there is the Bradley Factor combined with the fact that this nation is in big trouble and a man with no experience at all to show for his 47 years on earth is not what people are looking for.

        Fully 86% of Republicans and 49% of Democrats believe the media is in Obama’s pocket. Lets stay cool — the people out there get it.

    • Zorro Astor

      His point is there’s no reason to be there in the first place. Let’s look back at the facts. The original ruse was Hussein had WMDs and ties to al Qaeda. And 60% of the highly intelligent and well informed voting populace believed Hussein was behind 911 because that’s what the W propaganda machine wanted people to believe. Larry Johnson’s friend Joe Wilson was sent to Afrika to find proof Hussein had WMDs. He found instead there was no evidence whatsover; and next thing you know Rove’s outed Joe’s wife, Larry’s good friend. Cute. Over at 10 Downing Cherry Blair is preparing more bullshit and saying openly it’s bullshit. In the UN Hans Blix comes back time and again and tells everyone [b]no goddammit Hussein does not have WMDs[/b]. What does W say? Every time Blix speaks (and Villepin castigates the US to a standing ovation) W comes on camera and says eloquent things like [b]oh he’s got them there WMDs alright[/b]. Oh please.

      The MSM could have outed this. Reporters at the NY Times were on the Rove payroll; it was another Nintendo war in a way. [b]But there was no justification.[/b] All the supposed reasons for attacking another country were outright lies.

      • Andy

        Obama has no point whatsoever. All he had a a staged speech a noun and a verb. “His point” was made by tons of people already and the discussion now is about the future: what is he going to do now?

      • HRocks

        Zorro, good observations on Bushs’ behavior. Bush was loud and obnoxious and kept harping over and over the same point. This is why I’m afraid Obama will win because Obama has copied Bushes style.

        Obama is loud, obnoxious, repeats the same thing speech after speech. Thanks for helping me understand why Obama is called Bush 3.

        Keep up your observations.

  • Lark

    “Tom called me wildly liberal.”

    I believe ‘Tom’ here could mean Tom Dashel. What that means to me is that Tom Dashel was quizzing him and instructing him how to answer on such questions and he mistakenly recalled the answer and the person who instructed him about it. That my opinion.

    • athena

      Oh good catch! DId Tom really quiz him?

    • NoTrollZone

      good theory. And wouldn’t it be just like Obama not to have the common sense to call Daschel “John” or “Senator McCain” during debate rehearsals.

      You know Tommy, you just can’t rehearse the stupid out of Obama. It’s innate.

  • http://www.liberalrapture.com/ John

    unless WE go after the media nothing will change. WE MUST GO AFTER MSNBC AND CNN.

    Contact them.

    phone

    make yourself heard.

    • socalannie

      I did, repeatedly, months ago. So did my husband. It was very frustrating. They don’t care what we think, they just want to ram their beliefs down our throats. Oh, we also wrote boycott letters to their sponsors.

    • mcpalin hill

      John — If McCain gets in he needs to put people in charge of the FCC who will do their jobs. The FCC issues licenses to stations and they must state what the station is used for. For instance if you say you are a news station you had better do the news and not just commentary–they could lose their licenses if they do not operate under the licenses that were issued to them.

  • Seattle Moss

    The really big news this weekend

    The MSM are losing viewers big time!!

    Depending on the show -18%-38%

    Now that’s what I call a backlash!

    Just say NO to Hollywood Marxists that want to shove their selection on us.

    • socalannie

      That is good news. We stopped watching cnn & msnbo, after they wouldn’t let up on Hillary back during the primary. Nice to know we’re not the only ones.

  • educatedwhitewoman

    I noticed that gaffe about the line-item veto too. Egads. I shouted out at the TV screen, “You don’t have the line-item veto, fool!” Of course, if Palin or McCain had said such a stupid thing, it would have been blasted across the airwaves ad nauseum.

  • Eastan McNeal

    GAFFE! I caught this last night, but just now remembered it.

    Comment by jessinwis | 2008-09-27 18:14:29 | Edit This

    The comment that Obama made that made ME cringe was at the very end, when he said:

    OBAMA: Well, let me just make a closing point. You know, my father came from Kenya. That’s where I get my name.
    And in the ’60s, he wrote letter after letter to come to college here in the United States

    Obama born 1961. If his father was writing letters in the 1960′s trying to come to America, then either Obama was born later than 61 or in Kenya. Or was Obama just confused. Maybe what he meant to say was ..in the ’50′s, he wrote letter..

    • Crystal

      He’s just having trouble keeping his lies straight. That’s all.

    • Zorro Astor

      Oh LMFAO! I didn’t get that either! Brilliant! Bloody brilliant! ;)

    • wonderwoman

      Maybe he was born in Kenya, that’s just like he said his Mom and Dad met in Selma. He’s never corrected himself.

    • socalannie

      Great catch, Eastan!

    • Andy

      EastanMcNeal: good catch; that’s right… But you know what do you expect of someone that got a few neurons fried by all the drugs?

  • http://www.theindependentview.com Matthew Weaver

    Slightly off-thread, but after listening to the news reports and accusations fly from Dodd, Reid, and Pelosi yesterday, then as I watched the debate last night, I recalled happily forgotten Leiberman. I think he has one last role to play in these last few weeks before the election.

    Leiberman should excuse himself from the Democratic caucus and join the Republican one. Immediately Reid would lose his majority. Talk about putting a monkey wrench into the Democrats political games in the senate…

    • Zorro Astor

      Immediately Reid would lose his majority.

      It’s that close? Any idea where Lieberman stands on these issues? I presume he’s against the ACORN funding too?

      • http://www.theindependentview.com Matthew Weaver

        If I’m not mistaken, Reid holds his position by 1 vote. McCain’s friend Leiberman would shift this to a tie or to Republican. Then, the leadship would shift to Republican. At this point Leiberman doesn’t have any reason to remain Democratic–he’s a traitor to the group and will have have the respect he craves.

        • athena

          The democratic party asked him to resign last week (before all of this). He is an independent but registered in the democratic caucus. Lieberman was a lil miffed about it. Maybe this week he should take them up on it……

    • mcpalin hill

      Matthew — its not that easy. Reid would still be the Majority Leader. It was a deal the parties made a couple of years ago.

  • Winston

    All too familiar??…..a must read on Blagojevich…”Gov health plan expansion halted”…

    http://www.suntimes.com/news/index.html

    Seems to be a growing trend these days.

  • Skiron

    P.S. It cracks me up every time that Obama brags about his relationship with Tom Coburn, who is just about as reviled on the left as is possible. However, when “The One” lauds his coziness with the far-right arch-conservative, it’s all way cool, man.

    Um, Susan? Did you take a look at, y’know, the actual bill the two of them put together? The one whose purpose is to “create a Google-like search engine and database to track approximately $1 trillion in federal grants, contracts, earmarks and loans.” Sounds like a damn sound idea to me…

    You see, every once in a blue moon, conservatives (at least, the principled ones) and liberals actually find common ground on a few issues. That’s a good thing.

    On other issues Coburn has some pretty odious positions but in this one instance he happened to take the correct one…

    As an aside, it’s funny that on the campaign trail, Sarah Palin is STILL railing about putting Washington’s checkbook online, still blissfully unaware that this has already occurred, thanks to Obama/Coburn! As Katie and Charlie have found out though, she’s blissfully unaware of a lot of things…

    • Donna Brazile

      Skeezer!

      Quit bringing those infections to this site man and get yourself cleaned up.

      Stop the hate!

    • UM

      Like bambi, perhaps? That idiot has been campaigning for 2 year on a very thin record, very limited knowledge.

    • Ferd McBerfle

      He bothead: Palin isn’t running for POTUS. As for the blissfully unaware part, I’d say you bots have that in spades with all the jimsonweed you’ve been smoking.

      • mcpalin hill

        Ferd — Why is AOL saying that the Republicans want her replaced on the ticket? Could it be because Obama is going to replace Biden and everyone will think he’s demented for not picking Hillary in the first place.

        • Ferd McBerfle

          I don’t know, but you may have something there. I’ll have to check some other sources. I can’t imagine that they would replace her as she helps bridge a gap between the moderates in the Republican party and the not-so-moderate.

          • mcpalin hill

            Ferd — Palin energized the Republicans — I think this is more crap coming out of the Filty Obama Campaign.

            • Ferd McBerfle

              I’d say you’re right on both. The obamabots know no depths to which they will not stoop. The are gutter snipes.

    • mcpalin hill

      skidron — I bet if Palin received a bracelet to honor one of our soldiers she would remember his name. Mr. Me-Too knows nothing and copied all his answers from McCain.

  • Judy L. NC

    If I were Ryan Jopek’s momma I’d ask for the bracelet back.

    • mcpalin hill

      Judy L — Damn right. Obama used Jopek’s mother for his own ends. Imagine if this became CIC — he could care less who died for this country.

  • mcpalin hill

    I just read on AOL that the Republicans are getting nervous over Palin? I doubt that its true however, the slime machine is out there doing its job.

  • mcpalin hill

    I just read on AOL that the Republicans are getting nervous over Palin? They want her replaced. I doubt that its true however, the slime machine is out there doing its job.

    • http://firefox AnnieCarmel

      Probably Chuck Hagel a Republican for Obama. I doubt he speaks for any Republican or Independent.

      • Ferd McBerfle

        I can’t find anything on it either. Hagel is certainly a disappointment but maybe he’s just tired and wants to return to Nebraska.

  • Hank

    Can somebody do a summary of Obama lie’s from the debate. I would love to flood FoxNews with Facts via emails.

  • Hank

    (1) Notice the date of this NY Times Article

    (2) Carefully read paragraph # 3

    (3) NOW……who is “REALLY” responsible for our Country’s present economic crisis?

    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE7DB153EF933A0575AC0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print

  • SJ

    What the hell is the problem with so many and this nonsense that this debate was a tie? Even FOX is saying this over and over, what tie Obama at one time did not even answer the question as to what he will cut in his budget with the bailout.

    I swear there seems to be no more honest people out there, all the nonsense, wrong information Obama gave if that is what they call Presidential well they all must not be very bright or intelligent people and are all easily impressed

    • Hank

      That’s why we need to point out what they aren’t mentioning. And flood there emails with our fact findings.

  • Hank

    I gotta say something about Obama that reminded me of Bush this week. When Obama said call me if you need me. Remember when Bush was flying over New Orleans after Katrina then flew straight to D.C. Then returned a week later.

    Obama=Bush3

  • mcpalin hill

    Why are so many trolls in here tonight? Did we hit a nerve with Mr. Me-too and his bracelet which meant so little to him and he had to read the name to remember who it was that he was honoring. Obama is not Presidential — Obama is not even Senatorial. All that media help and we all still can’t stand him.

  • vjhinFla.

    Has anybody seen Taylor Marsh’s take on the debate? I haven’t beed there in over a month, and at that time I hadn’t been there in a month and swore I would never go back… I just had see what the pro Obama sites were saying. Her commentary on the debates is absolutely delusional. Again – I see why I don’t go there anymore.

    Obama clean McCain’s clock?? I NEVER saw that happen, even when they were not talking foreign policy. Obama cannot clean ANYBODY’S clock at a debate. He cannot formulate thoughts well enough… oh, that’s right, he doesn’t have thoughts to formulate!

  • Ferd McBerfle

    O/T:

    McCain is in Washington to work on the bailout plan, while Obama is on the campaign trail. I guess the economy isn’t as important as he let on during the debate. I don’t really think he wants the job, but the title. He surely doesn’t ever roll up his sleeves and get his little mitts dirty.

    • fif

      I don’t really think he wants the job, but the title.

      That is the story of his entire career. His old colleagues in IL–the ones brave enough to speak on the record–all said the same thing: “He likes others to do the work, and he takes the credit so he can go to the next level. He’s not really interested in doing the work.”

      Even the NY Times, Obama propaganda arm that it has become, did a long piece on his lack of interest in work and his enjoyment of his celebrity status. He wants to be George Clooney. Please, go to Hollywood. We need statesmen/women in DC. God knows there are few enough of them as it is.

  • http://firefox AnnieCarmel

    “Home ownership has, in fact, exploded among minorities during the economic boom of the 1990′s. The number of mortgages extended to Hispanic applicants jumped by 87.2 per cent from 1993 to 1998, according to Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. During that same period the number of African Americans who got mortgages to buy a home increased by 71.9 per cent and the number of Asian Americans by 46.3 per cent.”

    Tancredo on Fox this morning said that there were over 250 realtors and mortgage brokers in CO doing subprime loans for minorities through ACORN and there was a high percentage given to illegal aliens, who when they couldn’t make the payments, just walked away. No down payment, no citizenship, no papers, no income verification and no way to track them down since they were in the country using whatever name they chose.

    I’m thinking maybe I should go down south and get some fake papers, SS#, etc., and apply if ACORN stays in business.

  • acorn hater

    Where’s My Lipstick???

    Trivial (perhaps), but a true reflection on the Democrat Mentality in this Election:

    Two houses with 1/8 of a mile of mine have proudly displayed their Obama signs for many months. Both signs are now worn and faded, but have remained there (without molestation or removal) for nearly nine months. I pass both signs every day.

    Two days ago, I traveled to the local GOP office to get my long-awaited McCain/Palin sign. Though I had called in advance and was told that I could get a whole stack to give to my enthusiastic neighbors, because of the exceptionally high demand it ended up that they could only give me one sign, which I happily accepted.

    After I placed my new sign on my property, any guess as to how long it lasted before it vanished?

    Less than 24 hours.

    Is the Obama/Biden crowd really that afraid of a little lawn sign?

    Do free speech rights only apply to liberal Democrats?

  • Hmm

    Obama could not recall John McCains first name on several occasions. I fear he may have early onset Alzheimer’s.

  • Cat in NJ

    Until very recently, Obama wore one of his campaign’s own Obama ’08/Hope bracelets that are sold on his site. It can be seen in many photos of O. I guess this new bracelet is akin to the flag pin … I doubt the sincerity of the gesture. I cannot give Obama the benefit of the doubt anymore.

  • Bo

    Google for Government.

    Obama is heavily funded by Google, they literally “write” his technology “plan” and he has been there internal for speeches to employees.

    So, I think Obama means just a little bit more than using the Internet to disseminate information and have compatible databases here.

    Nice fat contract for Google too, shame they probably won’t hire US workers, especially older workers.

  • MoniQue

    WELL, MY SISTER AND I ARE HILLARY SUPPORTERS AND WE ARE NOT FOOLED BY OBAMA.

    There is no way we would vote for that buffoon!

    NoBama, NoWay, NoHow, NOT IN THIS LIFETIME.

    P U M A !

    COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY!

    We are GLADLY voting McCain.

    MCCAIN-PALIN 2008

  • Bo

    Tancredo on illegals and using Government funds to sell homes to illegal immigrants

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs2XI-IFGm0

  • Bo

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs2XI-IFGm0

    Above is Tancredo interview on FAUX saying that La Raza and these groups were/are indeed getting federal funds, are getting federal funds to help people who are here illegally buy a home.

    I do know this is true at least that illegals were/are buying homes because I read about BoA, WaMu and others doing these subprime deals with zero documentation (read the undocumented).

  • fif

    In the very next sentence, he referred to McCain as “Tom”–saying “Tom called me wildly liberal.”

    Tom?!! lol.

    One of the biggest gaffes I noticed–that any other candidate would have been crucified for–was the criticism by McCain re: the fact the Obama did not visit Iraq for “900 days, and didn’t hold A SINGLE HEARING as Chair of the Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs.”

    Obama’s response: “I am very proud of my VP.” Then, he changed the subject.

    WTF?! He basically said, “You’re right, I am irresponsible and inexperienced–that’s why I chose Biden.” So, why isn’t Biden the nominee then? He answered his own lack of responsibility and concern with his choice for VP?!

  • Tristan

    Also, the “I have a bracelet too” line came right after McCain gave a great speech about how difficult it was to be a soldier in a war that was lost for the wrong reasons, so it seemed especially juvenile.

    I personally think it was the constant smirk that did Obama in. Nobody over 40 is going to vote for the guy.

  • acorn hater

    Worst Obama Endorsement….

    “People that I know that have never cared about politics are registering to vote this time: gang members, ex-cons, you name it.”

    – Snoop Dogg, in Newsweek9/26/08, discussing excitement amongst black voters for Obama. http://www.newsweek.com/id/161214

    Posted by hillbuzz: http://www.http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/

  • acorn hater

    Worst Obama Endorsement….

    “People that I know that have never cared about politics are registering to vote this time: gang members, ex-cons, you name it.”

    - Snoop Dogg, in Newsweek9/26/08, discussing excitement amongst black voters for Obama. http://www.newsweek.com/id/161214

    Posted by hillbuzz: http://www.http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/

  • http://barbarany_9.blogspot.com Barbara

    Gotta ask…

    Anyone else notice Obumble called McCain “JOHN” and McCain called Obambi “Senator Obama” during the debate.

    Obama is a disrespectful thug. When I read the MSM’s SLANTED take on the debates I wondered if we even saw the same program!

    Obama needs to pass out that Kool-Aid surgical patients who have problems affording medicine, because it’s some STRONG, BRAIN NUMBING STUFF!

  • Lindsy

    Of course the MSM didn’t notice this gaffe. However it is all over the news this morning that some in the GOP want sarah Palin to step down because of her inadequate interview with katie Couric.

    She needs to get back out there and get her message out. McCain hiding her is not helping her. If Biden wins the debate she will be crucified in the media. She needs to be genuine and not worry about knowing all the facts. The media will not give her a free pass like they did Obama.

  • s.b.

    http://newsbusters.org/

    The family of Ryan Jopek had asked obama to not wear the bracelet and to stop using their son’s name before the debate.

    There is a radio clip on the site above of Ryan’s father saying this and that he supports the surge and not Obama.

    Spread the word!