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“powell’s endorsement is not about race!”

By American Girl in Italy on October 22, 2008 at 11:45 AM in Current Affairs, Race Card

The pro-Obama media and blogosphere is tripping all over itself trying to convince everyone that Powell’s endorsement of Obama was not about race. This one that jumped out at me:

“On Foxnews.com’s “The Strategy Room” yesterday, a woman from Idaho e-mailed in a response to Rush Limbaugh’s allegation that Gen. Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama for president was “totally about race.”

“Give people a credit for having a brain,” she wrote.”

So…Powell did not support Obama because of race, and we should quit thinking that, because, we should “give people a credit for having a brain.”

And this would be like the credit given to Hillary supporters, and now McCain supporters who are not backing Obama?

Hillary supporters and McCain/Palin supporters have been called racist, for not supporting Obama, SO MANY TIMES the word no longer has meaning.

Anyone who dares to blink in the direction of Obama, is a racist. Sarah Palin wore white and was called racist for f*cks sake.

But….after ALL that, Obama supporters are outraged that anyone dare assume that Powell endorsed Obama because of race. (just because 95% of the African American community is backing Obama, I don’t know why anyone would assume that.)

Notre Dame Professor Darren Davis, who specializes in the intersection of race and politics, writes in with his take on the Powell endorsement and the conservative reaction:

“There is nothing racially obvious about Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama. I have read Colin Powell’s comments and he did not at anytime allude to race being a factor in his endorsement. I think what we are seeing is a sense of racial stereotyping of two ostensibly racially transcendent political figures. There has always been a stereotype that all black people will stick together. It seems that this is somewhat in play here, given that they only factor connecting Colin Powell and Barack Obama is race.”

So, if EVERY Obama supporter who has publically called Hillary/McCain/Palin supporters RACIST wants to apologize, and acknowledge that we are using our *brains* when selecting our candidate, and not basing the decision on race, then I will accept that Powell’s endorsement was not about race.

But, until then, I am calling it as I see it.

  • Ani

    So, if EVERY Obama supporter who has publically called Hillary/McCain/Palin supporters RACIST wants to apologize, and acknowledge that we are using our *brains* when selecting our candidate, and not basing the decision on race, then I will accept that Powell’s endorsement was not about race.

    Amen.

    • oowawa

      In an extremely perceptive comment from an earlier thread, an AA named “Smiles” said the following:

      “The best way I can explain it is Colin Powell. For high profile
      AAs they have one of two choices – either come out for Obama or KEEP QUIET.
      The AA community will turn on a “traitor” that does not support Obama.
      Powell did the right thing for a black man. He really had no choice except
      to commit social suicide by not supporting BO. In the AA community this is
      so deep I don’t even know where to begin to explain it. They see this as
      sweet justice. It is not rational, it’s all emotional. Basically we see a
      BLACK man and history from segregation to the present. It’s like OJ back
      when. The AA community just wanted OJ to be found not guilty and somehow (I
      don’t know how, but this is how it is) – somehow OJ being found not guilty
      righted many wrongs in history.

      • JoseyJ

        My AA Dem Congressional rep was threatened and harassed throughout the primary by the Black Caucus to switch to Oblahma – but supported Hillary till the very end.

        • Jane the Plumber

          This website contains a collection of misleading and inaccurate public statements made by the five Administration officials most responsible for providing public information and shaping public opinion on Iraq. This section covers statements made by Secretary of State Colin Powell.

          http://www.bushoniraq.com/powell1.html

          I’m not sure which Colin Powell we are suppose to believe.

          “How can you believe me when I tell you that I love you when you know I’ve been a liar all my life?”

      • oowawa

        I shouldn’t have taken “Smiles” remark out of context. the entire thread in which this appears, along with many other very perceptive comments about the white-black-Obama situation, is here:

        http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/10/21/palin-draws-record-crowd-of-22000-protestors-assault-her-caravan-police/

        Very much worth reading.

    • Kal

      So anybody who is for BO has a brain, and anybody who is for anybody else is racist.

      Ok, that’s pretty clear!

      Do I at least get to say that that’s a double standard, or would that be racist too?

      • Kal

        Now, I know I’m supposed to be one of those no-brain racists, but if, hypothetically speaking, I were not racist, and have a brain too, what do you say to this question:

        If BO is the proper dem nominee because of his superior judgment in being able to see through the Bush administration’s lies about Iraq’s WMD etc., they how is it even better now to vote for him in light of the endorsement by Powell, who was the chief bearer of (transparent to some) Bush’s lies re WMD?

        • JozefAL

          To say nothing of selecting a VP candidate who was also (apparently) incapable of seeing through Bush’s lies on the WMD matter. (In and of itself, that wouldn’t be egregious. But, when you hammered your major primary opponent for her vote on the war authorization issue, you really lose the “superior judgment” argument.)

  • http://Q Diana L. C.

    Amen, again!

    But I wonder also how much of his support was purchased.

    • George Smathers

      Obama did say that Powell will have a place in his administration.

      • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

        Yes, perhaps as his butler.

        • tillthen

          I hear he’s a good driver.

          • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

            Yes, Driving Miss Mechelle, the sequel.

      • propertius

        Obama will need someone to justify his attack on Waziristan before the Security Council. I hear Powell has some relevant experience. ;-)

      • thefirstwonderwoman

        Obama said they would talk about it. Powell was the first black secretary of state. He got that job from a white man. What higher job does he think he can get from Obama? Vice President and Speaker of the House are taken.LOL

    • tzada

      I wonder how long this has been planned. Back in 2004 13 members of the House aided by Colin Powell as Secretary of State contacted the UN and invited them in to watch our election for fraud.

      That opened the door and allowed them to return in 2008 and monitor this election for racism.

      In 2004 Obama was selected to speak at the DNC, which launched his rise to stardom, snark.

      It is time that we start putting the puzzle together. Plain and simple it looks like this whole thing has been a conspiracy going back several years. Maybe starting in Hawaii with FM Davis, or maybe in NY with Ayers, most probably it is connected to the Chicago Political machine, who will have ties to NY. Foundations are involved as well. It’s a nasty nasty dung heap.

      As for Colin Powell he is a racist. He is also a coward. As for OJ Simpson he most certainly got away with something. If those had not been whitey killed he would most certainly have been found guilty. What will happen with this endorsement that caused Obama supporters such joy will be the OJ backlash.

      Blacks were gleeful OJ escaped for some wrongs they perceived? Ok then.

      Powell endorsed Barack because he wanted to. One more slap at whitey. Barack and Michelle 20 years in a racist church……. Many of us have heard enough…. screw him and the other two.

      John McCain and Sarah Palin

  • Jackie

    Plenty I am afraid.

  • Objective Analysis

    For all the PUMAs:

    Sticks and stones may break my bones, but name calling will never hurt me.
    My VOTE against Obama (like the others) WILL THOUGH.

    McCain-Palin, reincarnation of Truman. Get em all the way to the whitehouse.

    One love from a black who supports McCain-Palin (American born, not Kenyan or Indonesian by adoption), loooking to uphold the U.S. Constitution, not trying to rewrite it on fraud and communist deception.

    One love.

    • http://msnGodhelpusall Lee M

      Objective Analysis: I salute you. It takes a lot of guts in todays’ political climate for you to make known your feelings. You are the true American. I can imagine the trashing you have had to deal with because you choose to use your own heart and brain to make your decision.

      I am caucasian and have to deal with abuse every day just because I stand up for what I believe in.

      No longer a Democrat, but not a Republican. Howard Dean, Donna Brazile and Barack Obama say I’m nothing – that I don’t matter. Not wanted in the party anymore. But my vote still matters and on Nov.24th it goes to McCain/Palin. As you said looking to uphold the U.S. Constitution, not trying to rewrite it.

      • http://purplechiten.wordpress.com Chiten

        hope that was a typo, the election is Nov 4, not 24.
        Just double checking that ACORN didn’t canvass your neighborhood and give you the wrong date to keep you from voting!

  • Leisa

    Powell’s endorsement was like reading talking points from Obama’s campaign. Of course race would not be a factor being mentioned, that would be racist…

    I am so tired of the hypocrisy of Obama, his supporters, and the media.

    • Mary

      I heard all the Obama talking points, too.

      But you know, while watching Powell’s endorsement of Obama, I kept thinking that Powell had just gotten back from Alaska, testifying on behalf of Senator Stevens’s “honorable character.”

      And then I just laughed out loud.

  • doc99

    I don’t know if anyone’s posted already, but API has retained counsel – Philip Berg, Esq.

    • destardi

      *ahem, bullshit

  • Leisa
  • tillthen

    A former supervisor, an ex-Marine, once told me that when you are telling the truth you can hang in there all day, that the truth indeed makes you strong and people will see it.

    Its when you lie that your entire persona changes and the words carry no weight and do not flow easily. The face reddens and the blood pressure rises. You cannot hide it.

    Take another look at Powell. He’s like a pig on a spit, half-cooked.

  • AnninCA

    Frankly, had Powell stated much beyond the day’s talking points, I might have considered his endorsement as something more than a distancing from Bush.

    I really don’t see the big fuss. He distanced from Bush. He humiliated himself professionally. It is his scarlet letter, to wear through life.

    He cannot escape it.

    His remarks were disingenuous, tacky, thoughtless, and reminded me of another politician down in the tank spiritually speaking: Richardson.

    No difference.

    Powell just “looks” better.

    He’s obviously a good man who sunk to the depths with Bush.

    I think it’s his lesson.

    None of our business.

    And neither is his endorsement.

  • Soldier of Christ

    I believe that this is about race. As I have stated to you many times, I am half colored. I wrote awhile back that if it was Powell that was running, I would vote for him. Now I see him as a racist and scum. Why? Because I am a conservative democrat. The only thing that separates me from a republican is “incest”. A child raped by a family member should not bare the scars of the molestation in my opinon. But, now I see a Conservative Republican, and a general at that, endorsing Obama. Know well that he is the most liberal man on this planet. Knowing well, that Mccain is more experience, knowing well , that his mentors are either racist or terriorist or in the case of Frank Davis, child molesters and rapist. No, this was “race” and people cannot compare this to ex-hillary supporters in any way shape or form! Powell choosed race over G-d and principal. He and his entire family in the old days would have been tarred and feathered for this decision. You don’t give up G-d for a spot in Obama’s adminstration.

    • AnninCA

      I suspect a lot of people had Powell up on a pedestal. He’s a well-spoken AA guy. I still say the real prejudice in our society is that surprises people.

      That is true racism.

      They are surprised someone is bright and AA?

      How nuts.

      • JozefAL

        Yeah, it’s almost like Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan had never existed. (It’s my belief that both women would be appalled with the Obama candidacy. Both women showed real class and even their most die-hard opponents respected them without feeling a need to diminish them because of either gender or race. Chisholm and Jordan fought their campaigns on the real issues.)

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

          I’ve said it a thousand times, I’ll say it again– I proudly voted for Shirley Chisholm for president– but that was before I became a racist.
          Powell’s endorsement is racial in nature. Period.

  • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

    The Powell endorsement hurts The Precious. Even if his endorsement has nothing to do with so-called “race” it has been turned into that by the moronic MSM and I presume Axelgoebbles behind them with a shit eating grin on his mug. The reason this hurts is they’ve been crying wolf racism for too long now. Certainly the indy voters are on to this. They are indy for a reason. GOP laugh at this nonsense. PUMAs are smart cats, they don’t buy it either.

    • AnninCA

      Well, I don’t think it hurts. It changed the topic from Joe the Plumber. *haha

      That was the purpose.

      They were getting KILLED by that story.

      But I notice it’s already over. Powell only commanded 2 days.

      That’s about right, frankly.

      • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

        Well, I don’t think it hurts.

        I disagree, I think it hurts badly. People are rightfully sick and tired of being branded as racists. Any diversionary benefit away from Joe the Plumber is far outweighed by this.

        • AnninCA

          Well, everything has yin and yang at this point.

          I think people need to get over being called racist, frankly.

          So they finally figured out that they aren’t viewed favorably by minorities?

          I live in a very diverse city, so this lesson was learned a long time ago.

          It is an illusion for white America to think that minorities actually like us, trust us, or care one dang about our vote. *lol*

          It REALLY is a good thing to get over that.

          They DO think white America is racist. It’s good that’s out on the table.

          • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

            They DO think white America is racist. It’s good that’s out on the table.

            Anyone who thinks that are practicing their own form of racism.

            I think people need to get over being called racist, frankly.

            We are being called racists by racists (race baiting is racism) to try and get a racist president elected. I won’t be getting over anything!

          • http://deleted Buzz Latte

            Let’s take it the next step. It’s also true that minorities are racist against whites. Otherwise, the likes of Rev. Wright would have no play.

            Racism is inherent in the thought patterns of those who deem to hold themselves different for one reason or another. Until those barriers are broken down there will be racism everywhere.

            Blacks are just as racist. Now that’s out on the table. Who should be looking in their own backyard right now? Whites, who’ve had forty plus years of apologizing or blacks who think they’re owed? Refer back to Obama’s mentors: Wright, Cone, Davis, Michelle Obama, ETC.

            • kgirl1028

              blacks can be bigots but we can’t be racist, in order to be racist you have to able to opress. However I would like to report we are getting there, It’s called threatening to riot if white people don’t give you want.

              • socalannie

                The word “racist” is a noun; ie, person, place or thing. The definition of “racist” does not include the verb oppress

                The actual dictionary definition of the word (noun) racist is:

                person who believes that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior.

                The definition of the verb oppress is:

                to keep someone in subservience and hardship by unjust excercise of authority.

                the definition of the word bigotry has a much broader meaning:

                intolerance toward those who hold different opinions

                Although the word bigot is often used now to denote someone who is racially prejudiced, the word bigot originally was used to denote religious prejudice.

                I am a former teacher, have traveled the world & lived in or near 3 major cities. I can assure you that I have met many people over my lifetime who were clearly racist, but were never in any position to do any actual oppressing.

                End of todays lesson. Have a great day!

                • athena

                  Racist – It has been used and abused so often this election cycle it carrys no weight or worth anymore. I have heard it enough now that I laugh when I here it. It is a tactic – or is that a strategy? that the Obama campaign uses the word racist?

              • destardi

                “Though the term racism usually denotes race-based prejudice, violence, discrimination, or oppression, the term can also have varying and hotly contested definitions”

                Also, http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/bigot?o=0

                Racist is a synonym for “bigot.”

                One and the same…and as far as “oppression”, having your opinion discounted because of your skin color (ahem, “white not voting for Obama”) is pretty freakin oppressive to THIS blogger.

                I’m not buying racial guilt..EVER.

                • http://americanpumainitaly.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

                  I thought racist meant you were wearing white panties?

            • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

              Most people of either type are not racists, and if the Sharpton’s and Obama’s of the world would learn to shut up on occasion and not make every event “racist,” we could actually achieve equality.

          • stodghie

            hey ann i think many aa’s are racist. i feel so much better now that’s out on the table.

      • tzada

        Joe the Pumber was on FOX News today. Really a well spoken person. We have not forgotten, much to the chagrin of Obama and his camp. Maybe I can call it his tribe. Nothing racial intended, in college he gathered with like people and said that there were enough for a tribe. Look it up.

  • Hadrianus

    Obama and his Obots have single handedly set back race relations to 1960 levels. Congratulations.

    • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

      Not to mention gender relations.

      • http://deleted Buzz Latte

        Agreed.

        Hopefully the turn around time will not be so long. We should be past the likes of Obama. Truly, I think he selected Powell because Powell has been generally accepted as just a guy rather than a black guy. I think they believe that Obama can ride in on this particular coat tail.

        Obama, however, will forever be a black guy with a huge socialistic chip on his shoulder. Therefore he IS NOT what this country needs right now.

        I’d put my money on Harold Ford, JR before I’d ever trust Obama to be unbiased.

        As for gender relations…Ladies it’s time to stand behind Palin and help her heal that rift!

    • AnninCA

      I don’t agree. I think we’re a lot further along in this arena than people think.

      I DO think you can look to the sexism, ageism, etc., and guage where we’re at with racism. It’s all the same deal. It’s people who are fearful of others because they are “different.”

      To me? ISM is ISM. Doesn’t matter what the outside link is.

      People think small until they give it up.

      It’s just a human nature problem. We’re still a lot more peasant-thinking than our education allows us to admit.

      We think like people in Europe in the pogroms. “Torch him!”

      Look at my posts that reject that with Obama. See how many posters wish to torch me. *haha

      It’s just human nature.

      You’re either agin’ us or for us.

      No gray.

      The reality is? Gray is where we really live.

      • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

        I’m beginning to think your motto is “every turd has a silver lining.”

      • http://deleted Buzz Latte

        Are you on meds for depression?

        The world is sunny and a wonderful place to be! But, there are times when we must define ourselves and stand up for the betterment of all.

        This election is one of those times.

        Gray is not acceptable today.

        • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

          Yes, I’ve been trying to tell her there is an election on and it would help to be more optimistic! There will be plenty of time for debate after we defeat The Precious.

        • AnninCA

          Oh, you guys are just into right or wrong, my way or the highway thinking.

          I am not.

          Try it. It’s a lot more pleasant.

          • dpvegas

            No, not making a decision leaves one indecisive. Life offers a lot of decisions to be made, and it’s not about sitting and pondering all the little nuances.

            I have a sister who has trouble making decisions, and she drives me nuts. You, you’re just typewritten words on an electronic screen.

            • AnninCA

              I have made my decision, so your post makes no sense whatsoever to me.

      • socalannie

        AnninCA, I’ve been reading your comments for months now and you do seem depressed or something. I hope you’re okay and your life is going well. I’m trying to send good vibes to you!!

    • tillthen

      You’re absolutely right. I am 72 and I have never felt like this. I don’t like feeling this way. I would never hurt anyone no matter who they are, except for someone infringing on my freedom…but I sure don’t like all the negative thoughts that run through me when I turn on the TV. It will get better, I have now blocked, ABC, CNN, NBC MSNBC and CBS.

      • Eric

        And Drudge has a story showing that ABC, NBC, CBS ratings are tanking. Could it be that people just don’t beleive their bull any more?

        Wonder what is happening to FOX News ratings?

        • ryan2483

          I have come to believe that the only person more dishonest then a politician making campaign promises is the journalist covering the story.

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

      I’d say it is more like the 50′s.

  • tillthen

    I live in Florida and I just got a phone call from Hillary Clinton asking me to vote for Obummer. When I dialed the number, I got a recording of the Asshole himself. I am on the no call list. Can someone tell me if that is a violation of the no-call list?

    • George Smathers

      There were so many exceptions written into the no call law, it became a legal joke. The most notable exceptions are for political campaigns, charitable contributions and of course companies you already do business with.

    • doc99

      LOL … Remember Charles Schumer was one of the architects of the Don’t Call List.

    • George Smathers

      BTW, when you called back, if you do not have caller ID blocking, they captured your phone number and through reverse lookup now know who you are, not to make you paranoid or anything.

    • Shiloh

      No, political callers and debt collectors are exempt.

    • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

      Barack Hussein Obama is a violation!

    • Dee

      I believe when I registered for the do not call list, it specifically said it didn’t appply to political calls.

    • Soldier of Christ

      No…not donation places and unfortunately you donated to Hillary and now they have the info.

  • Bud White

    Obama’s interesting background is about the only thing I do like about him. His politics and campaigning tactics, not so much.

  • irish1139

    Manning is Maaaaaad at Colin Powell!

    • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

      Go Rev. Manning!

  • wac for hillary

    If it’s not racist, then I’ll give you my alternate theory. It’s simply one liar backing another liar.

    • Kristen

      Exactly- we can find other adjectives- liar seems appropriate to me too!

  • Soldier of Christ

    Does anyone have any cloud here with the Mccain’s camp? Oreally is tearing up Palin on his radio station and we ALL know is because she has been on everybody’s show except his. Palin, give the guy a chance………go on his show…..don’t upset our Independent guy, okey?

    • doc99

      BOR is a legend in his own mind.

  • typical.white.person

    Powell admits it was partially about race:

    MR. BROKAW: And you are fully aware that there will be some–how many, no one can say for sure–but there will be some who will say this is an African-American, distinguished American, supporting another African-American because of race.

    GEN. POWELL: If I had only had that in mind, I could have done this six, eight, 10 months ago. I really have been going back and forth between somebody I have the highest respect and regard for, John McCain, and somebody I was getting to know, Barack Obama. And it was only in the last couple of months that I settled on this. And I can’t deny that it will be a historic event for an African-American to become president. And should that happen, all Americans should be proud–not just African-Americans, but all Americans–that we have reached this point in our national history where such a thing could happen. It will also not only electrify our country, I think it’ll electrify the world.

    By stating that “if [he] had only had that in mind,” Powell seems to be admitting that he did take race into consideration when making his decision to support Obama.

    Or, stated differently, Powell played the race card.

    My guess is that when Powell admits it played somewhat of a factor, it was probably the major factor.

    • tzada

      Do not know the date but he said that “electing a black man for president would be electrifying.” So I think he planned it. Maybe as far back as 2004

  • http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=PALIN Mary Cusack

    They keep on crying race, race. Well it’s desentitizeing us. As a matter of face whenever someone cries race its more like a threat of opression. A threat that if you say something we don’t like you will be silenced. They keep this up and race will no longer mean race but shut the fuck up. they keep this up and we won;t listen to racial slurs and monitor them anymore. we will dismiss them as invalid aurguments to silence us. Eventually the “n” word will be used quite frequently again by us. It will mean:”DON’T TELL ME TO SHUT UP!!! FACIST!!” Obama is redefining words in the dictionary

  • Anthony

    I’ve listened to Powell’s dribble on Meet The Press and made the following observations:

    Interesting statement:
    “There will be a serious crisis on or about January 21 that’s going to be tough for the next President to deal with”
    My question: “WTF???? What the hell are you talking about, Colin?”

    Other points of strangeness:
    Powell says that McCain is indicative of the “turn to the right that this country has taken” despite his role in rushing to war with Iraq

    Powell also said that “McCain is unsure as to how to deal with the economic problems facing America;, and that Palin is not ready to be President” while stating that Obama “Exhibits a steadiness of judgement, a vast depth of knowledge, and Biden could easily be President” despite his (Powell’s) lifetime of actions proving otherwise

    Powell also reflects that “Obama is much more friendly to Muslims, where the GOP characterizes them as terrorists”. Then, he goes on to mention that he finds “Obama is inspirational, inclusive (WTF? what about Hillary supporters and his ‘outreach’ to us?) and eloquent”

    In essence, he was praising Obama for rejecting Powell’s own perspectives, tactics and actions over the past several years. So, with that contradiction, I would say that what he really means is “I’m voting for Obama because he’s the only black guy running for POTUS”

    I’d still like to know more about the “serious crisis on or about January 21 that’s going to be tough for the next President to deal with”

    All that said…….
    I think that Powell’s endorsement is priceless. Can you imagine the footage of Powell’s UN presentation attached to ads criticizing McCain? That would be deadly. I only hope that the GOP will use that same footage to represent the duplicity and ridiculousness of Obama’s claims of superior judgement regarding the rush to war in Iraq. This one item is gold, if it is used properly

    so, let’s find the footage of the UN dog and pony show and use it!

    • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

      Powell is a fucking idiot.

    • jwrjr

      If Powell actually believes those things that he said it proves that he is certifiably insane.

    • tzada

      Interesting statement:
      “There will be a serious crisis on or about January 21 that’s going to be tough for the next President to deal with”

      Where could he be getting his intelligence from? Is it not against some law for people like him and Joe Biden to be speaking out on things like this?

      Why would any America vote for someone like Obama who has no experience and has “boneheaded moments” And those are the two best qualities he has, it goes downhill from there.

  • Nobama

    OT

    They reported on Fox that the Obama campaign is predicting a landslide and it will be obvious early on election day when they win Virginia :-( The Fox poll is showing a 9 pt advantage for Obama.

    I am sick of all the spinning. Maybe I am hard headed, but I do not see how the majority of Americans support Uhbama. My faith in the intelligence of Americans has never been all that great, but now it is at an all time low.

    • http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=PALIN Mary Cusack

      If Mcain wins florida, Ohio, pensyvlania, new hampshire, he may be able to pull off a virginia defeat

    • AnninCA

      Well, Fox is not spinning for Obama.

      So that’s crazy.

      I think it will be tighter, but who knows?

      We’ll just have to vote and see.

    • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

      I still have faith in Americans…just no faith in the MSM. And why wouldn’t the nobama camp be predicting a landslide…to keep us from voting. Here’s an email I just received from Barky’s camp, underplaying that they would win:

      “The race is deadlocked in a number of crucial battleground states, including Ohio, Missouri, and Indiana. And we’re neck-and-neck in Florida, North Carolina, and Nevada…

      The margins of victory in this election will be slim, and it’s going to be decided in the field.

      We’re up against the Republicans’ proven get out the vote push — which delivered victories for George Bush in 2000 and 2004.”

      Doesn’t sound too confident to me.

    • Joker

      Nobomba You just put my thoughts down perfectly

    • Dr. Kate

      “early in the day” is east coast time before polls in the west have closed…this is designed to depress turnout. this is the same tactic used against HRC.

      This is also what Odinga did. Call the election before it was over and then claim voter fraud.

    • tzada

      Obama has paid over 21 Million for polls. Who and what is he paying for? The MSM is in the tank for Obama. Axelrod has astroturfing, he may well have a program that can vote over and over and over in online polls. He also has paid bloggers, who can and will do same.

      The Zogby poll is owned by Arabs who support him. This should be disclosed, but remains hidden.

      Plus the polls have to show Obama ahead, this is done to distress McCain’s voters, cause us to lose heart. But most importantly it is setting the scene for the big STEAL. ACORN is not the only thing out there working to defeat the McCain/Palin ticket. Look for the following.

      1)Electronic voting machines to be hacked
      2)Obama squad of attorney intimidation tactics
      3)Obama army of thugs
      4)The electoral college to be changed
      5)In Nebraska all they need is to win Omaha to get 1 electoral vote out of the total 5.
      6)Faithless electoral voters
      7)UN involvement (could that include troops?)

      It will take everyone of us being vigilant, standing up, calling law enforcement if necessary to defeat the Chicago Political Machine, backing Barack Obama, funded by outside forces and foundations, and old hippies like Bill Ayers and his wife.

      Fugitive Days by William Ayers omits these from his book:

      “Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.”

      He also omits any discussion of his wife Bernardine Dohrn’s famous reaction to the Manson killings, she gave Manson a three finger salute and said “Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!”

      How many of us want these addled creatures anywhere near the White House and that red button?

  • McHope

    A Colin full of crap endorsement only produces the need to flush.

    In a related question, what produces that trademark condescending snicker all the Obots display? It is really worrisome, they are almost deranged.

    and

    FOX & Friends had one of the former Sec of States that endorse McCain on this morning.
    Former Sec Eagleburger. He was great.

    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3158878&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/foxfriends/

  • Shiloh

    Who believes that either Powell or Obama would ever have been household names had they been white? I’m not saying neither has credentials, just that had they been white the road before them would never have opened up like it did as both the army and the media yearned for blacks to promote.

    For sure, past generations of blacks have been horribly disadvantaged by being black, but these two have been greatly advantaged by it, and yet they want to sell us the idea that they have prevailed in spite of their race, and deserve even more race-based preference.

  • ugo

    Personally I think his endorsment is just one vote.

    • http://Dinocrat gardenvariety

      Personally, I thought that his endorsment is just an endorsment. In the privacy of the voting booth he may still vote for MCCAIN!

  • pj

    The Wall Street Journal says Bernanke is endorsing Obama, too. It seems as though the election has already been decided already …

    • TMendez

      The headline to the WSJ article is really misleading. Fed Chairmen do not endorse political candidates — they want to stay above the fray. If you read the article, it just says that Bernanke indicated some support for the Democratic stimulus plan, which the author took as endorsing Obama. I really don’t agree with the analysis.

      http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455027730552509.html

      • Mary

        I concur with this.

        Bernanke is endorsing the idea of another round of stimulus for taxpayers.

        He NEVER said a thing about endorsing Obama.

    • cookiegramma

      So that explains why he has screwed up so badly on te economic front. I knew that The “ONE” had asked him to stay on, but, this makes it look like the economic crisis might have been more manufactured than I thought before. I have always been suspicious about the sudden failure of so many financial institutions and wondered what the catalyst was that drove it all open after two years of covering everything up.

  • Sue

    I have no respect for Colin Powell. None. He and John McCain have been friends for decades and he couldn’t even bother to pick up the phone and give his “friend” a call to let him know his intentions. He is beyond contempt.

    His endorsement was about race and there is nothing that can convince me otherwise.

  • Hank

    Powell endorsement is not about race, neither are the other 95% AA. Like Clinton said give me a BREAK!!

  • irish1139

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUuaYXO0ze0

    Manning is mad at Colin Powell.

  • Liz B

    No, of course it isn’t about race.

    When 95% of all AA’s are supporting Obama it is NOT about race. (BTW, Thank You 5% of AA’s who will not let this be about race)

    When at least half of White America is supporting Obama, and we are all racists, are we to assumee they are supporting the White part of the ticket?
    After all, it is a 3/4 White ticket.

    When will the MSM get it? we don’t support the Socialist agenda that he is promoting, the voter fraud, the payoff’s, the secrecy, there are many things about Barack that we can find to not support…his 1/2 African heritage is not even in the “Top Twenty-five reasons” list.

    Why aren’t we calling the women who won’t support Sarah Palin sexist?

    Colin Powell MADE the case to go War. He said there were WMD’s, and he is now endorsing Barack Obama, the Anti Iraq War candidate? If it isn’t about race, then WTF could it be? Do they share a love for Bruce Springsteen?

    The SAME Big Money backers that supported George W Bush are now supporting Barack Obama. Bush 3 is Barack Obama, and it would not surprise me to see W offer his endorsement of BO in the coming days. These people don’t have any real principles that they are standing by, they are all about the money. In a world gone mad, Bill will be voting for McCain, while Hillary works her ass off to support Obama, meanwhile, George W hasn’t given any support of McCain, and his Cabinet Members are jumping ship midstream to get on board with Barack and Joe. What about Joe? He can’t find anything to say to Americans that would convince them to vote FOR BO, but he’s raised lots of arguments as to why we should vote against him.
    Let’s not forget the one person who has had the gonads to ask Barack a realistic question and how the Media responded to that! “How dare somebody point out the Emperor is Wearing No Clothes!!!” “after we have spent the last eighteen months describing to all you blind fools how gorgeous his threads are!”
    I am glad I am not watching this Election through the eyes of a Non U.S. citizen, because I would have come to the conclusion by now that the whole damned country must be NUTS!!! Do we realize how F***ing crazy we must look to our enemies? Joe Biden is probably right, if BO wins and we allow him to take control, every country with an Army will be lined up ready to take us over. Why wouldn’t they? We apparently can’t get at least 51% of the population to pull their heads out of their asses.
    Yeah, I’m ready to go to that Obama Rally here in Leesburg today. Let somebody ask me a question, they will at least get off Joe The Plumber’s back, because I will open the biggest can of worms yet.

    • http://pumabydesign001.wordpress.com/ Denise (Brooklyn, New York)

      I agree with everything you said but the 95% of African Americans supporting Obama. As an African American, (please don’t use AA, reminds me of alcoholics anonymous or maybe I’m just being too sensitive) I can tell you that the figure is more like 60% Obama, 40% McCain.

      MSM, Obama, his campaign, the Democratic Party, including certain factions in the black community are working very hard to perpetuate this myth, brainwashing tactic. There is an insurmountable amount of pressure on those of us in the black community ‘to have a brother’s back’.

      Those of us who are not strong enough and do not speak and think for ourselves will vote for Obama. Those of us who are mavericks in our own right, will not.

      In other words, it’s all about following the leader, which I admit, I have never been good at. I acknowledge the fact that I have lost a lot of what I once thought were friends, but hey I can live with it because I must vote my conscious and my conscious says that Obama is not the one.

      Most of the robots in the African American community who are voting for Obama are doing so because they view him as America’s first black president.

      Their reasoning is based on total ignorance: (a) they have no idea of the man’s agenda; and (b) we have already had 5 or 6 black presidents. Obamabots are clueless to this fact.

      Most importantly, even if there had never been a black president before, why compromise one’s principles just to have one? Such logic is terribly flawed.

      Enter Colin Powell, see: COLIN POWELL ENDORSEMENT OF OBAMA DOES NOT MEAN WHAT MSM AND THE DNC WOULD LIKE YOU TO BELIEVE, http://pumabydesign001.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/colin-powell-endorsement-of-obama-does-not-mean-what-msm-and-the-dnc-would-like-you-to-believe/

      Again, with all that Colin Powell has accomplished in life, I as an African America will tell you that before all else, Colin Powell is a black man, before all else! That is how we are raised and regardless of whether we are republican, democratic, conversative, independent, catholic, muslim, male, female, young, old, educated or otherwise, being African American comes before all else!

      If you notice Powell did a lot of hemming and hawing about his endorsement of Obama. His explanations for supporting Obama had all kinds of holes. There’s a reason Colin Powell does not want to go out and publicly campaign for Obama. Just because he endorsed the man has nothing to do with whether Powell ACTUALLY believes in Obama or the Myth of Obama. He is just ‘having a brother’s back’.

      Another example, is Jesse Jackson. Jackson will say he endorses Obama, but it is clearly obvious that the two are not on the same page.

      Has anyone seen Al Sharpton? Reverend Al is keeping a very low profile as well. Why? Because he went to Obama in early spring and offered his services and Obama told him he did not want his help. How insulting could that have been for Al Sharpton?

      But both of these men will tell you that they support Obama. Colin Powell is no different. They are just ‘having a brother’s back’.

  • Tuppence 411

    Let’s look at the Army Times voter survey for 2008:
    McCain- 68% Obama-23% Impressive number, but not as impressive as previous years. Regardless of whether we are at war or peace, whether the canidate has military experience or not, the votes trend overwhelming Republican. In fact in 2004, Bush beat Kerry 4 to 1. What’s the difference in 2008? What could possible lower the historical trend of military votes THIS year? How about that 80% of AA military are voting for Obama? Nawh… it has absolutely nothing to do with race, he is just transformative. Yeah right!

  • kgirl1028

    Pigs are flying out side my window because i totally agree with Rush. No matter what he or anyone says I remember 2 things. One Powell endorced bush and two Powell is an accomplished liar. Infact if you want to be technical about it, Powell is an assessory to murder of 5000 US military personell. The biggest reason i know it is about race. I because he slamed mccain for picking palin who has no experience, when Obama is at he top of the ticket and he claims to condemn Mccain for people implying that obama is terrorist or muslim and yet he mentions nothing about the constant character attacks on Palin and Joe the Plumber.

    I would respect Powell more if he told me the truth. I knew he was lying to the UN and i know he’s lying now. So he needs to go try and sell that To someone likley to believe him.

  • OBAMA IS A FRAUD

    1) I think that stat about 95% or whatever of AAs supporting OhBlowme is a lie. I know tons of AAs who would rather die than vote for that mess and liar.

    2) Colin Powell did it for race. I think the Dems who were already voting for OhBlowme are thrilled about this. I don’t think Independents will see it for anything other than another old and tired politician like Biden joining OhBlowme and his NO CHANGE campaign. The GOP doesn’t care, IMO either. Like someone else here said…Who’s next, CHENEY?

    • http://americanpumainitaly.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

      I don’t think when it comes to Nov. 4 it will be 95%. but during the primaries, that was about the average of AA’s supporting Obama, in many states.

      • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

        I don’t necessarily buy that figure. It is possible the number is much lower, and a high figure would make it easier to cheat.

  • fif

    New AP Poll of likely voters: Obama 44; McCain 43 (well, looky there!)

    FOX: Obama 49; McCain 40 (but re: who is most qualified to be president the split was McCain 80; Obama 20?!)

    It’s pretty obvious that the results are highly unreliable, and it all comes down to the vote. I’ll be there.

  • samb
    • doc99

      The shocker here is that it’s AP!

      • AnninCA

        It’s a media poll.

    • stodghie

      booray!

  • fif

    Gallup likely voters Obama +5.

    Don’t believe the haka.

    • doc99

      October Polls 2000 Election.

      • Pragmatist

        cool! McCain/Palin will win in a LANDSLIDE!

        AMERICA WILL BE SAVED!

        McCain/Palin 2008!

  • HARP

    Lets not forgot that the racist Powell sat on information that Armitage was the one that leaked Plame`s name to Novak.

    Powell is a self serving ass hole.

    • NCgirl

      Powell is gutless. He should have resigned in protest instead of making that UN speech that was the catalyst to the war in Iraq. He does what is easy instead of what is right. Endorsing Obama is the easy thing for him to do. I hope this ruins whatever is left of his reputation.

    • socalannie

      So true, Harp. I’ve been astounded ( and annoyed) for years when I hear people speak of him like he’s some kind of superhero or something.

  • HARP

    AP presidential poll: All even in the homestretch

    WASHINGTON (AP) – The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch.

    The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain’s “Joe the plumber” analogy struck a chord.

    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93VM4PO0&show_article=1

    • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

      So the AP is admitting the public polls they spew at us are full of shit. Assholes.

    • Sarracuda In So Cal

      I actually believe that McCain is leading they just won’t admit it. Also, on the 25th, John and Sarah will be going to Iowa for TWO visits on the same day, kinda strange that they would be visiting Iowa, since the state is supposedly Obama’s. For the AP to even post this is a SHOCK

      • Urban Hillbilly

        Iowa????

        I would love to have a look see at McCain’s internal polling numbers.

    • AnninCA

      Of course, Joe the Plumber changed the race. That is obvious.

      And of course the pundits were wrong in calling this race before it was over.

      That’s also obvious.

      Obama is still ahead, but the fact that McCain HAS crawled back out of the hole is significant at this stage.

      • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

        Obama is still ahead,

        If you are referring to that poll its a tie.

    • athena

      So what about that other 13%??????

  • stodghie

    this is so appropriate to what i was thinking on the way home. i saw a couple of cars with obama signs and took the time to see what race the drive was. yup, they were aa alright. i laughted to myself and thought “hmmm maybe i’ll write a posting stating that i am voting for mccain because he is white.” i wonder how long it would take the bots to lose their minds. it is about race. it always is about race with the obama. that their lifeblood.

    here is another thing i was thinking. i don’t see the dims keeping power in both houses of congress in two years. yeah, they’ll be that stupid. and the repubs will shut them down.oops i mean obama will be shut down if he is elected. booray! and powell, you so suck!

  • DavidM

    Why hasn’t the media discussed the failure of Obama health plan in Hawaii been reported? Why hasn’t he given the courts what they want, his birth certificate, his school records. Then there’s ACORN, AYERS, REV. WRIGHT, REZKO and heaven only knows what else. The media continue to suppress all this information from the public. Wake up AMERICA before it’s too late. Obama is a Fraud. Doesn’t the media care of what happens to this country. Are they so committed to Obama that they are willing to destroy our system of government? If the media has discovered it and has not reported it to the public, then they should be censured.

  • Papoose

    Compliments…Sara? I feel like I know you.

    I can’t stomach the WORDS of Colin Powell this past weekend…and I am stunned by his ACTIONS.

    I feel dishonored, disrespected and discarded by someone I truly wanted to believe.

    Someone called Obama a stooge last year in Kenya…it is on video tape. And, no one cares.
    A sitting U.S. novice Senator running for the Presidency in the 21st century is actually campaigning with MOVE bullhorn in hand …blah, blah, blah.

    I lived through Move here in Philly. I saw it again only it wasn’t Powellton Village. It was in Kenya. Campaigning and participating in the Elections of a President in a foreign government on Company Time.

    I wonder if ACORN ever heard of MOVE. Or Mumia whatever his name is now. He’s the guy in the hood who killed Danny Faulkner and shattered our City forever. Probably not.

    I am disappointed that Colin Powell has no knowledge of life here in the USA over the past 50 years. Hmmm.

    • http://Dinocrat gardenvariety

      I think they probably do know about Mumia. They probably think he’s a hero.

  • Papoose

    If I may,

    http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030922/alterman

    I’m grateful for your report.

  • samb
    • notrees

      I haven’t been bird hunting in years but I did recently buy a box of Double O buckshot. That is what we used in our riot guns (12 guage) as prison chasers in the Marine Corps.

  • PewL

    I really hope after November 4th..I won’t have to hear the name Barack Hussein Obama again..

    I can’t stand to look at him anymore,and I mute him every time he’s on the teli///

    • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

      I wonder what my neighbors think when they hear me yelling “You fucking piece of shit!” if I happen to catch a glimpse of him? :mrgreen:

      • Liz B

        ROTFLMAO

      • Kristen

        HA HA HA HA HA Galt You crack me up. I can’t use quite the adjectives you use with 4 kids running around. But my sentiments exactly!!!!

      • AnninCA

        No wonder you’re such a cheerleader, then. You’re over-compensating for your true anger. :)

        (Sorry, I just had to throw in a bit of my own psychobabble for you guys!)

        Seriously, back to real stuff. That AP poll is cheering, eh?

        It’s starting to get very interesting!

      • http://deleted Buzz Latte

        LOL! We’ve been wondering that, too for ourselves. However, since Obama has been banned from our TV it’s lessened.

    • Nobama

      Me too…mute him every time.

      I hear Obama on the radio…EVERY time I am in the car. I cannot stand to hear that mans voice anymore.

      I shouted back at the television “f-in a-hole” when Obama said that the McCain campaign was running out of ideas.

      • Sarracuda In So Cal

        I change the channel every time I hear “I am Barack Obama and I approve this message” I change the channel. I can’t stand to hear his voice, and I can’t stand seeing his ugly racist face. When I hear him in the other room on the other tv I yell “CHANGE THE DAMN CHANNEL” I have never hated a presidential candidate like I despise Barack Obama

        • mel in tx

          Darn Straight Sarracuda – I loathe Nobama with every fiber in my being and I actually dislike Mechelle even more !!

        • Liz B

          Anybody here have the uncontrollable urge to rip up magazines in the grocery store? I haven’t done it yet,but I have taken the first one in the pile and turned the cover facing in…I am a rebel.

          OT, the Obots are in full force outside my house. They are parked all over the streets, traffic is backed up…I’m tempted to let my kids set up a Kool-Aid stand out front.

          Maybe i can go to the store and buy lots of roses and sell them in the crowd, so they might tear off the pedals to cast at his feet.

          I should walk down the line of cars while they are at the Rally and put Mccain stickers on top of their Obama ones.

          • http://americanpumainitaly.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

            hahhaahhaahhaaha

            LOVE it!

        • NC Dem

          OMG that sounds so much like what i do.i have about wore my remote out.

        • stodghie

          then you are changing your channel a lot these days because he is all over the airways. i am so sick of obama.

  • http://ahillarybmccainamericafirst.com/ gerard “Barracuda” Nedich

    http://www.nypost.com/seven/10222008/postopinion/editorials/obamas_education_idiocy_134770.htm

    you might want to be sitting down when you read this:

    So, what was Barack Obama up to when he ran former Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers’ “education reform” foundation?

    Not much good – at least according to the guy in charge of Chicago’s public schools while he was there.

    “There was a total lack of accountability” at Obama and Ayers’ Chicago Annenberg Challenge, former city school superintendent Paul Vallas has told The Post. Indeed, “If you went back and asked, you’d be hard-pressed to find out how the money was spent.”

    Well, maybe.

    As it turns out, the Obama-helmed CAC was directing big bucks toward the propagation – in Chicago public schools – of the whack-job racist ideology most famously preached by Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

    That’s the bottom line of research on CAC documents by Stanley Kurtz of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

    For example, the Obama-led foundation funneled more than $200,000 to an outfit called the Coalition for Improved Education in South Shore.

    Its mission: training public-school teachers in “Afrocentric” education, a pseudo-scientific movement that (as a trainer brought in with CAC funds put it) rejects Western civilization, and America in particular, as “white supremacist” and seeks to “recover our disrupted ancestral culture.”

    Reading, writing and ‘rithmetic this isn’t. All of which gives the lie to Obama’s breezy assertion in last week’s debate that his CAC activities were somehow bipartisan or mainstream.

    It also certainly explains why schools chosen for the foundation’s largesse showed no gains in student performance.

    Sadly, this latest revelation also casts new light on one of Obama’s finest moments – his candid and hope-filled primary-season address on race in America.

    Back then, faced with Rev. Wright’s equally anti-American sermons, he made the plausible case that while his devotion to his pastor was based on 20 years of community involvement, he rejected Wright’s extreme views.

    But how can anyone now take that assertion seriously, given that he spent years funding the teaching of those ideas?

    a. hillary
    b. mccain

    america first!

    • destardi

      Thanks for that post!!

    • http://www.johnmccain.com Michele (not the nasty one)

      Well it would seem that this brings the whole Rev. Wright issue into a whole different light as far as the campaign is concerned. I mean, John McCain has said that Rev. Wright was off limits and I took that to mean that he didn’t want to make Obama’s “religion” an issue. But I think this clearly takes the Rev. Wright issue out of just religion and puts it squarely smack dab in the middle of just what are Obama’s true philosophical beliefs regarding, not religion, but education, class, race, etc. What are his thoughts of an “ideal” society? What does he find exceptional about America? What are America’s faults?

      My mother was Okinawan (Japanese) and my father American. Growing up, my mother was so concerned that my sisters and I grew up as 100% American that she did not even teach us Japanese! Of course, that was a shame as one sister married a Japanese man and another married a man (American) who has a degree in Anthropology, Asian studies (maybe it is Japanese studies, I’m not really sure) and speaks fluent Japanese.

      We were brought up to love America as a great country. As an adult, I have come to realize that America is not always a perfect country. We have had times in our history that we can all surely agree have been an embarassing chapter in America’s relatively short history (slavery and the Japanese internment camps are two that come to mind); however, I truly believe that for this country to continue toward that goal of being an exceptional country, we need elect those that strive to find those things that bring us together and not those things that would divide us.

      That doesn’t mean we should forget the past. We should learn from the past. For example, on the issue of race relations, can we not all agree that we should acknowledge those things which should clearly be condemned (discrimination, bigotry and hatred) in our history but that we should also acknowledge those things which should be honored (civil rights movement, the brave individuals that took a stand and and fought for civil rights).

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

        Well said.

  • Soundtrack to Powell’s Endorsement

    Aww, but he’s so ELECTRIFYING and he is TRANSFORMATIVE

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D16rOXiXu_w

    Who cares if Obama disagrees with Powell about everything related to Iraq? Who cares if Obama will throw our troops and the Iraqi people under the bus? Who cares if Obama’s wacko sidekick Biden is predicting a national security crisis within 6 months of his presidency?

    Obama is so transformative that a conservative, anti-abortionist like Noonan has publicly embraced the partial-birth abortion, tax and spend candidate, and feminists proudly stand by as his supporters call Palin sh@t and c*nt and threaten to beat her up and rape her.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59QeKkjishs

  • notrees

    If Powell’s endorsement of Obama is not about race, then it must be about socialism. Obama and Powell, according to their party lines, were almost entirely opposite of each other on everything else. Was Powell a closet Socialist?

    • http://mmb silverfox

      notrees

      methinks obama and powell are merely two of the many closet one world order advocates fannying around and within the political atmosphere .

      the two party facade is a fakery, and the real deal is apparent to the tin hat crowd, of which i am a proud card carrying member.

      remember, if you’re feeling a bit paranoid right now, there is a very real possibility that a good reason for it exists somehwhere hovering in the ether, if not just up the street.

      very disheartening. after this election if the bobo wins, i’m going back to some serious meditation practice for as long as it takes to blot out what i have witnessed pass for Democracy in my country this past election cycle.

      if the bobo loses, well….there is a god in heaven who cares.

  • mountainaires

    Obama schmoozes people until he knows he’s got their endorsement, then the campaign sits on the endorsement until they need it; then they trot out the “high-profile” endorsement. At one point, early on in the campaign, there was an article about it, with the campaign even admitting it. I think it was the Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy endorsement moment when that article referred to the campaign’s timing of the endorsements.

    Happened with John Edwards; happened with Colin Powell.

    It really IS all about the timing. They needed to change the subject from Joe the Plumber; so they trot out Colin Powell to endorse Obama on MTP.

    But, Powell’s endorsement is ALL about race, and Powell proved it when he said he knows “BOTH” candidates very well.

    Got that? Powell’s known John McCain for 25 years and have been his friend for that long. But, he knows Colin Powell like, well, a brother.

  • Sally

    I need help with my anger issues….can you any of you guys give me some ideas by which to remain calm and composed during this insanity?

    Anyone? Thanks

    • cackicoo

      me too sally…. let me know if something works…..my heads been hurtin

      • http://americanpumainitaly.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

        Here you go:

        watch, learn and let loose and LAUGH!

        • http://americanpumainitaly.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly
          • http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/19/can-the-msm-get-over-its-precious-self/#comments Steven

            100 million views wow

            • http://N/A breeze

              It was IMUS, talking to the little ‘pudgy boy’,

              what’s his name….Oh, yea, Neal Cavuto.

              He’s voting McCain, but thinks 0Zero is going to
              win, because “we are a celebrity-driven society….”

        • Sally

          Thanks.

    • destardi

      Rub the Saint Obama candle floating around out there…that should ease your stress /snark

    • Nobama

      Count me out. I am driving my husband crazy with all of this.

      Fox just announced that the AP is questioning their poll information.

      We cannot elect a pacifist as our president in these times. I am middle of the road and it is scary thinking that the Dems will control everything…with Obama leading the way.

    • AnninCA

      Well, I think a lot of positives have emerged. John is definitely the underdog, of course. But it’s obvious that there’s no “mandate.” Even now, we can see that.

      I also like to remember that Pelosi is an idiot. She angers people. Too much.

      She’ll get hers soon.

      I’m cheered up by people recognizing Biden is really not that bright. That’s a good sign of intelligence. They guy is a loose cannon. He’s representative of leadership today…..a mess.

      And I’m really cheered up by people recognizing real leadership.

      • http://mmb silverfox

        AnninCa…

        biden as next in line if the bobo expires, actually frightens me more than the bobo.

        seriously.

        • AnninCA

          Hey, we survived Harding and Hoover. :)

          You guys worry too much.

          • Sally

            You must mean Pres. Wilson! I’m sure you must.

            Read “liberal Fascism” now…its not a bashing of Liberals as you may think…You’ll see. The world will look totally different to you….I promise….and you may just end up feeling sick at how brainwashed we ALL are.

        • NC Dem

          I think i know why Biden did’nt release his brain scan they scaned his head and could not find a brain

          • stodghie

            but but but biden has such pretty teeth! smile!

      • Sally

        You’re right…it does feel good to revel in the misforture of ones opponent but the feeling only lasts so long…until the next piece of BS comes through the door….usually even worse news because the opponent is acting out of desperation.

        I guess the core of my anger is that I have always clung to the ideal of freedom too much so now it scares me to realize that most Americans don’t much care or know about it….hey Obama never brings up the word “freedom” ….never!

        To “them” freedom means either 1) not having to work (to the ghetto class) or 2) getting grants forever and ever to study the ghetto class (for the upper/middle classes) or 3) getting to control and rob everybody without sanction (for the very wealthy).

        My notion of freedom is out of style….I guess the ingratitude and dishonor gets me the most.

    • wodiej

      I think most of us have felt that way at times. all I can say is take a walk outside if the weather is nice, exercise, watch a funny or romantic movie on tv, stay away from the news and blogs.

      • Sally

        Thank you….That exactly what I’ll do!

        Tomorrow, I’ll reassess. Maybe some shopping?…oh, with what money though!…mmm

        • Sally

          …ok now I’m off! SYL. Be well.

    • Urban Hillbilly

      I’m thinking of putting on both a McCain/Palin button and an Obama/Biden button to lighten the mood.

      And, to celebrate the end of Bush’s Presidency.

    • Shiloh

      To paraphrase Gen Patton: Don’t get angry and have a heart attack for your country, make the other guy get angry and let “him” have the heart attack.

      • Sally

        How do you do that?

  • wodiej

    excellent post Sara…

    of course Powell endorsed Obama because they’re both black. Are we suprised?? People have deluded themselves into thinking if they just get one more “justice” served, that will erase the stains of history. It won’t. Everyone has had hardship and heartache. You grieve over it then you use it to be stronger and a better person. Jewish have, women have and so many others. How unfortunate when people choose to cling to the past w bitterness when it cannot be changed no matter what.

    Anyone in Indiana, Sarah Palin will be here Saturday night!

  • typewriterstreaming

    Sickening my entire office is ordering new t- shirts
    “Black is the New President”. They’ll be wearing an ass on their chests.

  • NCgirl

    I just read this. Illegals who speak no English, only Spanish, being brought in vans to vote:

    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112300/posts

    • AnninCA

      So?

      • Pragmatist

        I agree . . .so?
        There are many people who are U.S. citizens that do not speak English very well.

        • NC Dem

          did you miss the word ILLEGAL ???

        • Postmaster

          and illegals voting? So?

      • NCgirl

        I suppose you think persons who are not citizens should have the right to vote then.

      • Dr. Kate

        Ann, please explain your comment “so”. Is it the fact that they are undocumented workers, they they don’t speak spanish, or that they are being bused in to vote?

        ????

        • Dr. Kate

          english*

        • AnninCA

          First of all, who is checking their papers? How do you know they are illegal?

          Stuff and nonsense……

    • Liz B

      Illegals?

      I was wondering if anybody else here has thought about just voting all over the place.

      I have. i have thought about voting in ALL the precincts in my county, and the crossing the line and attempting to vote in PA, too. I might roll on down the road to Ohio and vote as many times as they will let me. Why not? Haven’t we just taught our young people “It’s not how you play the game, it’s whether you win or lose?” We will never have an Election that is not a sham ever again.

      If BO gets a free pass at this one, he’ll probably hurry in to enact new laws that will undo our two term limit for POTUS, and Congress will give it to him.

      I think I need meds.

      • J.J.

        I’m getting tired of the nonesense in this discussion. If dead goldfish who are not American citizens can vote for Obama, what do you have against Hispanics?

  • http://mmb silverfox

    Powell for obama….not about race?

    puhleeze.

    Powell, who helped sell the Iraq war to the American people, is part of the bushies who are jumping ship as fast as they can onto the obamacan bandwagon…

    career before country, as they say.

    country before party, we sez.

  • Hap Hazard

    I can’t think of anything in this campaign that has had less of an impact on public opinion than Powell’s endorsement. I remember when he was rumored to be interested in running for president. I knew at the time that he would NEVER actually RUN for any office, let alone the presidency. Powell is the sort of “leader” who only kisses ass to get the jobs he gets.

  • hootnannie

    As I heard it, Powell gave as his first reason for endorsing Bobo that he’s a “transcendent” candidate. Now, let’s see–we’ve had people running as a major party nominee who were nincompoops, 40-something, friends of racists and crooks, and pathological liars. There were no pals of domestic terrorists that I can recall, and Powell probably didn’t mean that anyway. What does that leave? The fact that Powell took this long to issue the endorsement, after hemming and hawing for months, makes it looks like someone finally pressured him in a desperation measure. And the irony is that it may well do Bobo more harm than good. A lot of Americans are already fed up to the gills with the victimhood whines of minorities and scarcely veiled threats to get payback if BO wins. No one can HONESTLY believe that Powell issued a statement of support for any other reason than ethnicity. And who would be impressed with that?

  • Sally

    Powell is turd….a turn coat….a liar….an opportunist. My husband tried to persuade me otherwise, saying that he would make a much better president than Obama. Well, he’s wrong…..he’s proof that he has been and still is a turd.

    If he thinks he’s gonna get something out of this…he’s even dumber than he looks….time to stop affirmative action because it makes black feel they own these fascists loyalty. Ooops, I’m sorry–I’m getting bitter again.

    • Sally

      Typo…”makes blacks feel they OWE these fascists loyalty”.

  • no acorns

    FROM MARIE AT tD

    Here’s an idea to get help with the birth certificate issue:

    Senator Bob Bennet from Utah is the Ranking Member (Republican) of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee. He may or may not know that his committee has been identified as a defendent in the Berg case. Diane Feinstein may not be shouting it from the rooftop if you know what I mean. I just sent him a letter (see below) asking him to investigate this matter quickly. I think we should all (especially any of you who live in his district!!) send him letters asking for his help. Please flood his email with letters so he understands that this is not just a crazy conspiracy kook but that there is legitimate and widespread concern out there.

    Here is the link to send him an email.

    https://bennett.senate.gov/contact/email_casework.html

    Below is the email I just sent him. Please, everyone–Democrats, Republicans, Independents–if you are concerned that our constitution is being trampled please let’s flood his email with letters of concern and beg him to help do something before its too late.

    Sen. Bennett,
    On October 6th, an amendment was filed in the case of Berg vs Obama, et al, Civil Action No: 08-cv-04083 in the District Court of Eastern Pennsylvania that adds the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration as a defendent in the case.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-paedce/case_no-2:2008cv04083/case_id-281573/

    The plaintiff, Mr. Berg states that this committee has the responsibility to ensure that Sen. Obama is, in fact, constitutionally eligible to be president of the United States. Evidence is mounting to suggest that Sen. Obama has falsified his affidavits of eligibility that he submitted when running for the Senate as well as for the Presidency. Mr. Berg also has evidence to suggest that Sen. Obama is, in fact, not a natural born citizen of the United States and may, in fact, have lost his citizenship when he was adopted by his Indonesian stepfather.

    Since Sen. Obama has consistently refused to produce certified copies of birth records and other documentation of his citizenship, there are millions of American citizens who are concerned that he is attempting to gain the highest office in the land through illegal, fraudulent means. In recent weeks, lawsuits have been filed in other states, including the State of Hawaii, asking courts to mandate that Sen. Obama and the DNC prove that he is eligible by producing the required birth records and evidence of citizenship. We fear we are headed for a constitutional crisis that will result in serious problems for the country.

    As the Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee, would it not be your responsibility to investigate this situation and ensure that Sen. Obama is, in fact, qualified to be President? We simply cannot wait for this situation to drag through the courts. If Sen. Obama wins the election and it is later determined via the courts that he is not eligible to serve and has falsified his eligibility affidavits, then Joe Biden will be the President. Obviously, this is not the will of the people since he has run for President several times unsuccessfully. Please help resolve this situation quickly before the election.

    Sincerely

  • Diana

    “Give people a credit for having a brain,” she wrote.”

    Someone should ask her what she thinks of Bush and the Iraq War. Powell endorsed and sold people on Both. I read in the paper that Obama said Powell will have a spot in his cabinet.

    I’ve been looking at the blogs and reading the comments, it seems the MSM and Pollsters have accomplished what they set out to do with the silly Psych 101 tactics. I wonder how many will now stay at home and not vote because they think it’s over. Loosing the votes that could have put McCain over the line. I can’t believe normal intelligent people are falling for these tactics. Skewed polls. His side is energized because they’re being told he’s already won. He gets all glowing reviews/articles. No one calls him or Biden out on anything.

    When in fact it should be the other side that is energized that get in people’s faces and say don’t tell me how to vote! What to think.

    If I worked in an office of Obama supporters I’d be wearing a McCain pin everyday. If I could wear a T-shirt. I’d be wearing a McCain T-shirt everyday. If someone said something to me I’d get right back in their faces and tell them. I never realized I worked with so many racists that are supporting a racist. And don’t you dare tell me he is not a racist. He sat in a church listening to Black Power/Black Liberation Theology for 20 years, which makes you a racist as well. I’ve done it. I’ve done it to AA’s that have told me they’re voting for Obama. Had one told me someone should beat my “A”. I said oh yeah? So you’re telling me if a Skinhead was running for office. Or a member of the KKK it would be perfectly acceptable for me to vote for them, and you wouldn’t see a think for one second I was a racist with that vote? He never said a word back to me.

    Instead of getting out there to be cheerleaders, they’re acting like little kids that have been told no ice cream before dinner…Blah, blah, blah yeah McCain and Palin.

    • Diana

      that should be see “or” think for one second. Not a.

    • AnninCA

      None. Voter suppression is not going to happen this year.

      That’s obvious.

      • Diana

        It’s the Republican blogs that are irking me off, they’re acting like someone just stole their best friend and they have nothing left to fight for. The RNC ONE ad? They bombarded us with ad’s for Bush. If they think they’re being slick not fighting for McCain because he’s not “conservative” enough for them, just wait till 2010, and 2012. Why should someone want to vote in the party of cowards, who aren’t even willing to fight for their own party…I still say if they don’t get off their “A”‘s and start with their own energizing of the party instead of laying it on Palin’s shoulders to do, acting like a bunch of defeatist. They’re going to have their own PUMAS to deal with in 2010 and 2012. What they’re doing to McCain is going to backfire on the entire party.

  • jangles

    I have a dream. It is a 30 sec to 1 min video of Colin Powell convincing the world about WMD before the UN, snippets of shock and awe followed by NO WMD news reports—his words endorsing Obama. Then a big thud followed by:

    Fool me TWICE?
    NOBAMA, NOWAY.

    • Pragmatist

      Excellent idea!

  • CE415

    interesting that Powell’s statement sounded exactly like the statements we heard from others in the primary , like Richardson, Reich, etc… It’s all about the nasty campaign by whomever is opposing the Zero.

  • tommyo77

    2004 Headline:

    AP/Ipsos Presidential Poll 2004: Kerry Mobilizes New Voters

    Democracy Corps: Bush 47, Kerry 49

    Zogby: Bush 45, Kerry 47

    Survey USA: Bush 48, Kerry 50

    ARG: Bush 47, Kerry 50

    These polls were taken the last week of October 2004. It aint over till it’s over.

    • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

      No shit Sherlock. ;) Us anti-pollsters have been screaming this for bloody weeks! Don’t mean to sound like I am jumping on you personally. :mrgreen:

      Polls were never intended on telling us who we should vote for or how hard we should campaign for someone we believe in. Polls and the MSM are being used against us to subvert the democratic process and thwart participation.

  • kcfromtx

    Powell is buddies with Republican Sen.Ted Stevens of Alaska. Not even 2 weeks ago, Powell flew to Alaska and testified for Stevens. Powell said Stevens was honorable, upstanding, and was a man of great character.
    Gov. Palin defeated a sitting republican Governor. Gov. Murkowski was part of the “good old boy” network in Alaska.
    Palin took them on and won. She exposed much of the unethical dealings of these people. They were and are not happy with her.
    Stevens and Powell know what Palin is capable of.
    Powell endorses barky less than 2 weeks later. Besides the obvious issue of race, could this endorsement have anything to do with Sarah Palin? He endorses after testifying for Stevens, Why?

    • AnninCA

      Makes sense. Payback.

      • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

        Let me play Ann for a bit: The endorsement was in the pocket for months and was released when Joe the plumber arrived on the scene. (You did say that earlier, Ann). :mrgreen:

        • AnninCA

          Come on….play harder.

          She beat him months ago. :)

  • http://N/A breeze

    OT

    Somebody just called Katie Curick(sp?) a

    RODENT

    on FOX NEWS…..

    • http://N/A breeze

      It was IMUS, talking to the little ‘pudgy boy’,

      what’s his name….Oh, yea, Neal Cavuto.

      He’s voting McCain, but thinks 0Zero is going to
      win, because “we are a celebrity-driven society….”

  • Bruce

    Powell is only the latest in a long line of prominent moderate Republicans who are supporting Obama. Former Okalahoma Rep. Mickey Edwards, Susan Eisenhower, former Iowa Rep. Jim Leach, and the list is almost endless. McCain has left his independent credentials behind and has fully embraced the die-hard, angry, anti-intellectual wing of the Republican party, and it’s allowing Obama to peel moderate Republicans off in droves.

    Both Powell and Obama have longstanding reputations of transcending racial politics. That’s why both have had the success they have enjoyed. You folks need to wake up and look at things a little more realistically.

    • AnninCA

      Dems have Lieberman. Now Repubs have Powell.

      Even steven trade.

    • Sally

      LOST TROLL!!!! Abort all trolls now.

    • tommyo77

      Bruce,
      You are ill informed. 1) Over 90% of Republicans (based on all polls) are supporting McCain 2) What independent credentials is McCain leaving behind, hasnt changed one position in this campaign 3) Calling Powell a Repub. is foolish. Name one position Powelll agrees with the Repubs on. He’s pro-choice, pro-social spending, anti-tax cuts, pro racial quotas, pro UN. His only connection with Repubs is strong military.

      So pretty much your entire post is stupid.

  • MoniQue

    REMEMBER: Colin Powel said “Obama’s race was not the ONLY reason,” meaning it WAS ONE OF THE REASONS, just not the ONLY reason.

    So we need to highlight THAT.

    Powell said in his own words on national television that Obama’s race WAS a factor, although it wasn’t the only one.

    BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: POWELL DID SAY IT WAS ONE OF THE REASONS.

    !!

    NOBAMA.

    I WILL NEVER CALL HIM MY PRESIDENT, he cheated Hillary and now he’s trying to cheat McCain and in BOTH cases OBAMA IS CHEATING AMERICA.

    SOCIALIST!

  • upper east side

    I’m voting for McCain/Palin. They’re caucasion, anglo saxon, white non-hispanic, those are the words they use to describe them what is wrong with that?!

    Someone else is voting for the Black candidate, the African American, the Bi-Racial Kenyon – White non-hispanic, I don’t see anything wrong with that either… if you can understand his shuck and jive.

    I don’t!

  • JS

    The best thing about this site is that it doesn’t BS. Obama is nothing but a fraud-he’s a classic racist, but in 2008 America, it is his right because he is black. He tossed us a huge Wright soft ball, and instead of hitting it out of the park, the scared white population gave him a pass. It is hilarious now to watch so many sites, and listen to so many talkies, trying to get that pitch back. All of a sudden, Wright matters again. But 99% of “our” media STILL cannot bring themselves to correctly label Obama a racist.

    Keep fighting NQ. You do us proud…

  • IndieDogg

    Today, listening to the “expose” of Andrea Mitchell and NBC’s switching out the audio tape of Joe Biden’s Seattle gaffe with tape from a different event, while attributing it to the Seattle debacle, something else was raised of which I was not aware.

    The commenter on the webcast was pointing out that this has been done before, limiting the focus of damaging remarks, editing the content and then responding to those selected remarks, even if slightly damaging in their own right, rather than addressing the more incendiary, full story. This relates back to the infamous April 6, 2008 remarks of Barack Obama to a group of San Francisco supporters.

    We all know about the “bitter” remarks and that is how the “incident” has come to be known in political slang. About people in Pennsylvania and other such places being “bitter” and clinging to guns and religion.

    What was pointed out to me this morning is that, by admitting that and focusing on that portion of the remarks, the Obama campaign limited the fallout, even though it hurt him. The point was that, if you look at the remarks in their entirety, the whole “bitter” section, which came at the end, was only a part of the fabric of this quilt and that, rather than merely referring to “bitterness” among these groups of citizens, Obama was only expounding on the lead-in theme – that these people were racists.

    Sound familiar? Heard that theme lately?

    Like many of you, I expect, I’d never gone to the remarks and read all of them. And, there is audio as well, which matches. Well, now I have and I will share the opening segment. See what you think.

    From the transcript of Obama’s April 6, 2008 remarks to a group of San Francisco supporters:

    So, it depends on where you are, but I think it’s fair to say that the places where we are going to have to do the most work are the places where people feel most cynical about government. The people are mis-appre…I think they’re misunderstanding why the demographics in our, in this contest have broken out as they are. Because everybody just ascribes it to ‘white working-class don’t wanna work — don’t wanna vote for the black guy.’ That’s…there were intimations of that in an article in the Sunday New York Times today – kind of implies that it’s sort of a race thing.

    Here’s how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed by government, and when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn’t buy it. And when it’s delivered by — it’s true that when it’s delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama (laugher), then that adds another layer of skepticism (laughter).

    So, a shout out to the good folks of PA and OH. It isn’t just lately that you’ve been called racists. It started a long time ago, in San Francisco, if not before, and it wasn’t coming from John Murtha.

    How did I miss this? Embarrassing. I’ve become far more skeptical and suspicious as this campaign has played out. Having been through the gutting of Hillary Clinton, I’ve learned.

    And, to add another thought, a link to another place and time… Chicago, 1995:

    If Obama will say one thing in the living room of a supporter and another in public, which he obviously will, what did he say in the living room of Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dhorn that caused them to support him and donate to his campaign in 1995?

    Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dhorn do not strike me as people who just go along to get along. I can’t imagine, for example, Bernadette (who openly celebrated the Charles Manson murders — and the fact the killers had even stuck a fork in the victim’s stomach — the pregnant Sharon Tate) donating $200 to Governor Palin’s campaign. Can you?

    So, what did he tell them, in that living room, that pleased them?

    What does he say when he’s not reading from that damned teleprompter programmed by Axelrod?

  • Garfield

    Approximately 95% of voting blacks support Obama. That is racism. Obama represents everything Powell was against. It doesn’t take a genuine to know Powell is supporting Obama due to race.

    Anyone who ignores this fact has no brain.

  • jmt

    In the Powell interview he made his determinaton based on these “LAST SEVEN WEEKS” of these campaigns. Wouldn’t a rational (non-racist, non-sexist, open-minded) person want to examine the history of the candidates over the last few years, or decades for that matter, rather than the “last seven weeks”???? That is pretty scary.

    He went on to say Barack is “inspirational” and “transforming”, yet he’s a junior senator that for the majority of votes does not cross party lines (not very inspiring is it!, named one of the most liberal senators, voting left more times than Hillary…and that’s transforming?), while for Sarah Palin he said “she’s not ready to be president”, and that the judgment on McCain’s part was a poor judgment. Powell deliberately not stating the FACT that Sarah Palin is a Governor, (i.e. responsibilites of a Governor: in charge of the National Gaurd in Alaska, appointments, budget, making executive decision, ect. (hmmmm, the Office of the President is the “Executive Branch” and isn’t it odd, the only person on these two tickets that has “executive experience” IS SARAH PALIN, a WOMAN, a WHITE WOMAN But in the eyes of a Black Man, Colin Powell, he cannot see a White Woman as qualified. Mr. Powell, I have news for you, being that she is the only one with executive experience, she is more qualified than all three others combined. Period. And if you want to add in character, she beats all three in that department too. Hmmm, Obama, ran unopposed in his State Senate seat, because he was a DIRTY POLITICIAN who hates COMPETITION, and essentially knocked off his competitors…now tell me is that really “change we can believe in”? I don’t think so.

    But I guess, experience is about “being able to inspire”, to talk the talk, but not walk the walk, which Senator Obama has done by spewing out promises in his State Senate career, and NEVER fulfilling them. And Barack does not have “executive experience”…ZERO, like Palin has.

    So is Powell a Racist and Sexist Man??? You tell me! If he is not, he must be pretty ignorant to judge a candidate on these “last seven weeks”. Hey, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he is “all the above: racist, sexist, and ignorant.

    On a world scale, America is far behind when it comes to electing women to higher office. Why, because of people who are racist and sexist like Powell.

  • al from nj

    Obama’s nomination has made our country a complete mess and an embarrassment for the world to view.

    Obama and his team of supporters have reared the ugly head of sexism and racism, criticized our country to the world and have been a complete embarrassed with voter fraud and the entire voting process.

    Many in my community have never seen such bias in reporting, if you want to call it that. It is an embarrassing time to be an American.

    The media should be emphasizing the importance of a man with good character, not defend a man that has associations with far left, anti American radical leaders and the like.

    Shame on the media, shame on the Democrats and all Americans that support Obama’s unfair tactics and lack of experience.

  • tzada

    OT I finally received something back on my Logan Act petition. Letter back as follows.

    Thank you for contacting me with your concerns about reports regarding the potential breech of the Logan Act by Senator Barack Obama (D-IL). I appreciate hearing from you and would like to respond to your concerns.

    As you know, we are continuing to see significant successes and trends that will lead to a stable, democratic Iraq over time. Ethno-sectarian violence is down dramatically since the beginning of the new strategy for success in January of 2007. Thanks to the ever increasing efforts of the Iraqi Security Forces in conjunction with our Armed Forces and coalition partners, more Iraqis than ever are able to carry out their day to day lives without fear of violence and death. Currently, our diplomatic efforts in Iraq have been focused on the creation of a Status Of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the Iraqi government to ensure that the government of Iraq will have the support of Armed Forces they need to ensure a stable security situation in their country.

    There have been reports in the news that claim that Senator Obama may have violated the provisions of the Logan Act during his trip to Iraq by interfering with the negotiation process that is ongoing there. Execution of delicate diplomatic initiatives, like Status Of Forces Agreements, is best left to the President and the cabinet, as defined by our Constitution. Speaking with more than one voice in foreign affairs issues sends mixed signals that can work contrary to our national security interests and those of our allies and friends.

    Again, thank you for sharing your views with me. Please contact me if you have additional comments or questions. For more information about issues and activities important to Florida, I invite you to sign up for my weekly newsletter at http://martinez.senate.gov.

    Sincerely,

    Mel Martinez
    United States Senator

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bijtBkKQwY8 Jeremiah God Damn Barack Amerikkka Wright

    I agree.

    I am thrilled that Obama has a 10 point lead as well.

    There is no way McCain can catch that.

    All those young first time voters can relax there is no need to worry about voting.

    Obama has it in the bag.

    Nothing to worry about. On November 4 go catch a flick or shop or play video games instead.

    Obama is the Second coming, nothing the GOP can do will stop him he is predestined to lead up to the new promised land.

    Relax guys, even if you don’t vote he will be elected.