“Hypo” Open Thread [Update]

That weird whirrrring sound you heard was the spinning of O-BOT heads….chuckle…
Just how many LBS. do ya think Barky has sweated off in the last week…Aaaaand does Axelgoeebles have ANY hair left?

Country First…Go Johnny Go!

McCain needs to hammer Obama relentlessly tonight on the fact that while he (McCain) tried to introduce legislation that would have reformed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and perhaps prevented this mortgage train wreck, Obama was busy collecting over a million in campaign cash from the very Wall Street wizards that helped caise the mess.

“Talk is cheap, Senator. When it was time for action, where were you?”

Palin did fabulous, and this is the result. This is the real deal of how people saw her.

Moreover, the press has now pretty much spent themselves. No more to uncover. Amazingly enough, the timing may work out for McCain.

Everything in THIS year’s election seems to be about timing.

CNN is covering this? is it the end of the world? (looking out my window).

CNN credibility as a news channel is DEAD. If they don’t cover or even mention Ayers, then they seem completely out of touch….even the local news program are talking about it. So, they give as little as possible to ‘shed’ light on the subject but at the end of it all, they’ll play the role of barry security guard…yes, everyone, move aside, move along.

Meechelle has undoubtedly said a lot of things on the campaign trail this season and I think the best way for the 527s or whoever to release the whitey tape would be to introduce it with some remark that’s come from Michelle’s own mouth (I’m sure she’s made many that have been recorded) about how she and barky “agree on everything” or “are on the same page” or “have the same political views/philosophy” – something like that. Actually, the same kind of remark has no doubt come from barky too – that could be used.

That way, the whitey tape can’t be attacked by the barky campaign and the 0bamamedia repeating that the tape is “an attack on the candidate’s wife, which should be off limits.” (That’s what barky was trying to set up – pretending to be taking the high road – when his minions were attacking Sarah Palin’s daughter.) Whatever Michelle says about whitey on that tape, and however ugly it is, it must be tied to her husband – the two of them as one mind.

Of course, additional video of an involved and approving barky in the pews of the church while Wright is ranting about whitey couldn’t hoit either…

WOW what a great read. Thank you for writing that soldier.

Welcome, Mr. Sinclair, to Maryland’s Gitmo-North.

( Makes me wonder if the real reason Hyatt Dynasty billionaire Penny Pritzker is running Obama’s finances is that she wants in on the building of a nationwide chain of Gitmos.)

Lies are Beauty, Baby.

Now McCain is starting to fight back. Good for him. He is fighting fire with fire. Sending Giluiani out there to take the heat while he, “stays above it all”.

LoL some funny stuff from that one

Obama under fire for missing gun vote

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Adam Harrington / CWN Asst. News Editor
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State Senator Barack Obama signed his candidacy papers for Congress in early December. Later that month, he missed a key gun control vote in Springfield. ()
When Hyde Park State Senator Barack Obama packed his family off for a Christmas vacation in Hawaii, he thought he would rest up before a grueling Congressional campaign this winter. Instead, he created the first major issue by missing a key senate vote for a gun control measure.

The bill, which would have made unlawfully carrying a firearm a felony instead of a misdemeanor, failed in the state senate by six votes in a special post-Christmas session.

Obama said he was on a long-planned vacation to visit his 80-year-old grandmother in Hawaii and that his infant daughter became ill while there, preventing him from leaving early to make the vote.

Obama and the two other major candidates in the Democratic primary, incumbent Congressman Bobby Rush and State Senator Donne Trotter, all support the bill and have identical positions on gun control. But his rivals were quick to use Obama’s absence against him.

“As far as doing the job he is expected to do for his community, [Obama] dropped the ball,” said Trotter, who attended the special session and voted for the gun measure. Trotter said Obama’s presence could have changed the outcome since several senators voted “present” to avoid taking a positions on the controversial bill when it appeared that there would not be enough votes for passage.

Rush contrasted his post-Christmas activities with Obama’s. “I was working on a public service campaign to prevent gun violence over New Year’s while Obama was vacationing,” said Rush, whose efforts included running paid newspaper ads and making public appearances warning against gun violence.

“We have to keep fighting gun violence and that’s where my focus is even if that is not where Senator Obama’s focus is,” said Rush.

The special legislative sessions were precipitated by a December 2 Illinois Supreme Court decision that overturned the 1994 Safe Neighborhood Act on technical grounds. That law made unlawfully possessing a gun a felony; when the law was overturned, the crime automatically became a misdemeanor again.

Called into special session by Governor George Ryan, the legislature agreed to pass constitutional versions of most of the Safe Neighborhood Act provisions, but a coalition of Republicans and Downstate Democrats balked on the felony penalty, arguing it was excessive and would unfairly penalize otherwise law-abiding citizens using guns for self-defense or hunting.

“The Safe Neighborhoods Act was a very important piece of legislation-the governor called us back three separate times [to revive it],” Trotter said. “Senator Obama missing the vote [helped cause] the piece of legislation to still be inactive. It’s indicative to a point of the senator’s lack of commitment on this piece of legislation.”

Noting that Obama had voted “present” on an unsuccessful motion to reduce the penalty for unlawfully carrying a gun in 1998, the Rush campaign suggested that Obama’s failure to show up for the vote showed lack of commitment to gun control.

“Senator Obama did not show up for the vote then [in 1998], and he did not show up for the vote now,” said Rush.

Obama says that he attended the first special sessions and supported the gun felony legislation, but could not attend the last vote because of a family emergency.

“We had been in special session for a week before Christmas trying to get the issue resolved,” Obama said. “The governor called another special session for the Wednesday after Christmas, and I missed the vote because I’d taken my family to Hawaii to visit my grandmother. My 18-month-old daughter became ill over there, so I was unable to return in time for the vote.”

Obama downplayed the importance of the vote, saying that the issue will be reconsidered in the future. But he conceded that the senate may not get the chance to vote again this year.

“It’s clear there are 30 or more votes, [enough for] passage in the Senate, but it’s not clear that [Senate President] Pate Philip will let it come to a vote,” Obama said.

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This is what he do best “he was on a long-planned vacation”
He would voted “present” anyway btw

Hey. I googled for Obama, and on the second page of listings, I found his legislative office mentioned in Chicago under the name, get THIS, Barack J.Obama.

I couldn’t access the page, natch. The site’s probably been down for years. Also, I don’t know how to screen shot, and I’m on an Ibook, so directions will not help me, plus I’m a tech dweeb.

Does anyone have an Illinois Blue Book for the appropriate years? Is his middle name or initial listed there? I wonder what his middle name is said to be on his birth certificate?

Barack J. Obama. Honest. That’s that it said.

No one ever talks about this, but you are right; Bin Laden’s goal was not to just kill the people in the World Trade Centers. It was in killing those people, who were representative of the world, the he would destroy the world economy.
While this economic crisis has many different factors involved in creating it – what is happening in the world is what Bin Laden planned to achieve.
Bin Laden also said he had the time and patience to plan his next attack on us, do you think 8 years is long enough to do it again? And yet again to attack us from inside our country, this time with help from the democratic party.

Yeah, this is the stuff that Sarah missed last week during her debate. While I do not believe the democrats are all responsible for this economic crisis they played a big hand in it. All this pointing the blame solely to the democrats needs to be straightened out. I hope McCain hits hard tonight. VERY HARD

Argh… should have read “Glad THEY’RE getting on him about this.” Sorry – it’s a pet peeve of mine when people use the wrong “their” “there” “they’re” and I just did it.

I kept thinking last night while “not sleeping” about “Animal Farm” by Orwell so, this morning, skim read the thing again.
SHUDDER

“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?”
- George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 5

“they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.” Chapter 7

“It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, ‘Under the guidance of our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days’; or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, ‘Thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!’”

Comrade Napoleon Obama …
more equal than all the others

He won’t be using one tonight.

From the LA Times

In short, he (Biden) just makes stuff up. But he does it with passionate, self-important intensity. He’s like a politician in a movie with a perfect grasp of a world that doesn’t exist. He’s not an expert, he just plays one on TV.

Yes, he’s a blowhard and a perfect complement for Oblahblah.