RSS Feed for This PostCurrent Article

Like Last Year’s Fad, Obama already seems so Passé * Open Thread

By Bud White on October 29, 2008 at 11:45 PM in Advertising, Bamboozling, Barack Obama, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, Media, Media Bias, Messiah, Obama's Neuroses, Obama's Thugs, Obamedia, Rashid Khalidi, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Tony Rezko

Tonight Senator Obama starred in his own prime time special, about Senator Obama. Is it me or is Obama passé? I find his voice — artificially deep to project gravitas — to be just as grating as George W. Bush’s faux-Texas accent.

Obama the brand is wearing thin. He has his own hand sign, his own temple, music videos, Dish Channel, a fake presidential seal, coffee mugs, t-shirts, etc. But still Obama the man comes across as a caricature of his own creation. And whether we want to be or not, we’re witnesses to his ego-trip. So stale is Obama’s image, it’s reported that even the youth may not be showing up for The One. Obama fatigue is setting in.

Like George W. Bush, another megalomanic with whom he shares many personality traits, Obama is thin-skinned, irritable, paranoid, and in constant need of having his ego stroked. Bush made his chief of staff, Andy Card, greet him every morning with an obsequious, “Thank you for the privilege of serving today.” Would a President Obama command a hand salute and a recitation of passages from his bizzare “race” speech? I am not being facetious.

Obama knows well that the false image he’s projected to the public could crumble at any moment, exposing the man who has accomplished nothing. Both Richard Nixon and George W. Bush forced the nation to ride along on their exhausting megalomania-fueled train wrecks of ego-feed and self-destruction. Can the nation afford another president who sees himself as anointed?

Obama could possibly make a perfect candidate for Donald Trumps’ “The Apprentice,” but I doubt Trump would hire him. Instead this election feels like the reality show, “The Surreal Life,” with Obama in the mansion along with his sordid friends: Ayers, Wright, Khalidi and Rezko. The media force-feeds the nation this junk food. Just think, we could be listening to Hillary talk about the intricacies of health care or something else intellectually nutritious. Instead, it’s more Obama drama.

Early in the primaries, President Clinton told Charlie Rose that picking Obama would be a “risk” and suggested that nominating Obama would be like nominating a “a gifted television commentator.” How right you are, Mr. President. Although “gifted” appears to have been an overstatement.

  • Seattle McMoss

    Obama has made himself the incumbent.
    This election is a referendum on Obama.
    Everyone is getting sick of him including MSNBC

    Like Rap and baggies…Out of style!!!

    and not a moment too soon!!

    • babalu123

      dont ferget;CNN with Campbell Brown and Anderson 360Progresive Radio with ED SHULTZ and Randy Rhode),Move ON- with all above….

      • http://budwhite.wordpress.com/ Bud White

        That’s true. His propaganda team.

        • Campaign Finance Reform

          CBS Exposes The Obama Campaign’s Financing
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86RAp_iuhOQ

          Out spent 2 to 1 and tonight his big Obama commercial, with no questions, cuz you know what happened when Joe the Plumber asked one.

          • Denise

            this is so funny video of Obama requesting a meeting with foreign dictators

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nligvgv3Rfw

          • Rob G in Chicago

            There is a comment in John Kass’ Chicago Tribune story this morning that the Chicago Police have cancelled all days off and are having all officers on duty to provide coverage for the resurrection night Obamafest at Grant Park. The cost for the city’s taxpayers for all of the overtime for police exceeds $4 MILLION !!!, while the city is laying off other workers and is on the brink of bankruptcy.

            http://www.topix.net/forum/source/chicago-tribune/T3PMR01FPL32MDPCJ/p2

      • http://firefox McAnnie Baracuda

        Don’t forget Stephanie Miller. There are a lot of Lefties who are going to be ranting for the next four years…and threatening to move to Mexico.

        • tek

          Let’s help the loony left get down to Mexico. I’ll chip in. My fear is that if Obie somehow gets in, we’ll have all of Mexico moving here. Obama said in an interview that he will spend the first year of his administration making every illegal immigrant legal.

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

      He’s living proof that too much of anything is not a good thing. The irony of Barack Obama is he is the epitome of excess whilst pretending to champion those who have nothing.

      Obama is the feeling you get when you have had too much cake and ice cream and just want to hurl.

      • athena

        “Obama is the feeling you get when you have had too much cake and ice cream and just want to hurl.”

        Amen sista~

    • Chicago Joe

      OPINION OCTOBER 30, 2008 Obama and the Politics of Crowds Wall St Journal observations of the Obama crowd phenomenon, and how the people are being roped in. Worth clicking on, but the first paras are here.

      http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122533157015082889.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

      The masses greeting the candidate on the trail are a sign of great unease.

      There is something odd — and dare I say novel — in American politics about the crowds that have been greeting Barack Obama on his campaign trail. Hitherto, crowds have not been a prominent feature of American politics. We associate them with the temper of Third World societies. We think of places like Argentina and Egypt and Iran, of multitudes brought together by their zeal for a Peron or a Nasser or a Khomeini. In these kinds of societies, the crowd comes forth to affirm its faith in a redeemer: a man who would set the world right.

  • JustMe

    I never watched his pantomime show is this how he appeared?

    • McHope

      He’s not the president, he just plays one on tv :)

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

        He’s not the president, he just plays one in prison

        a. hillary
        b. mccain

        america first!

        • McHope

          gerard,
          You’ve been on a roll. ;)

        • Northwest rain

          That’s the ticket — let his fellow prisoners elected him their leader! They can have him.

  • csuzeq

    As my (probably soon to be former)boyfriend Obama supporter told me just a couple of weeks ago, the new car smell wore off.

    • JustMe

      yes it did I hope they take it back for a refund and get a better scent

      • IndieDogg

        Scent? That’s obviously racist.

        [Just kidding, sort of.]

        • JustMe

          LOL

    • mkm125

      Funny the “new car smell” it the toxic off-gasing of the chemicals used in the the plastic, carpeting etc. How apt–Obama is ‘toxic material!’

      • csuzeq

        Indeed!

  • barry bums a ciggie

    Barry’s looking tired.

    • JustMe

      So he needs to take 4 yrs off and leave the country with someone with stamina,

      Johm McCain will be a fine man in charge

      • barry bums a ciggie

        I heard Kenya and Indonesia are good places for him to go…doesn’t need a visa, his citizenship papers will do.

        • JustMe

          yes and he can wollow away all day in a sauna for all I care and become a prune we will have no use for him when he’s lost.

        • http://a2008presidentialelection.blogspot.com/ HillaryOrMcCain

          Did anyone hear the “rumor?” about the Bush’s buying property in some country with no US extraditioun agreements? Someone mentioned hearing that today? Anyone know anything?

          • PamFlorida

            Yes, he bought acreage in Paraguay. Read about it about 2 years ago. Beautiful country, no extradition treaty with US.

            • http://firefox McAnnie Baracuda

              I wondered when I first heard about that if they were buying it for oil. Then a report said that they’d be sitting on thousands of acres of…water. Even more scary.

              I hope they’re not hiding something. They wouldn’t do that would they?
              For sale: 1 drum of Bush water $150.

            • Monet

              Paraguay sits atop of the Guarani Aquifer, which is one of the world’s largest sources of fresh water. More than a few experts believe it holds the world’s largest single body of ground water and that it can provide the entire world (6 plus billion people) with drinking water for 200 years. It’s theorized that within twenty years the world will see a shortage of fresh drinking water that will make the “shortage” of oil we’ve seen during the Bush years seem like the good old days.

              It is rumored that George, Sr. along with President Bush have bought ranches over the Aquifer near a questionable U.S. military base. It’s been reported that they own own close to 300,000 acres (the elder George, 173k, the younger George 99k. Neil Bush has spent time in Paraguay, he along with Sun Myung Moon’s representatives have met together with Paraguay’s president. Moon owns quite a bit of land near where the Bush’s are allegedly buying up land. It’s interesting to note that the largest Arab population in South America is also located in Paraguay, in the same area where the Bush’s and Moon are buying land.

              Supposedly the military base that is being built (or not being built – depending on which reports you believe) over the aquifer is to keep an eye on all the Arabs in the area, Bolivia and Chavez in Venezuela. I haven’t read much on the subject in a while, but what I last read was that officially, no military base existed. However, our military has built an air strip near the alleged Bush land and the borders of Brazil and Bolivia. This area is a paradise for smugglers along with having a large Arab population. It’s possible that our military is there to keep an eye on drug smuggling and any Arab terrorists who may be operating there.

              Or there are the conspiracy theorists who believe the Bush Family and the Arabs plan to switch hats from being oil czars to water czars by 2030. There are also the theorists who believe the Bush family has bought land there because President Bush plans to retire there to avoid being charged with war crimes. The latter I find far fetched, the former – that they’re planning to switch the family fortune from oil to water I find easier to believe.

              If you google George Bush, Neil Bush, Jenna Bush, Rumsfeld, Moon, Arab, Ambassador Timothy Towell, etc. along with Guarani, Paraguay, etc… you’ll find quite a bit of information along with conspiracy theories to peruse. I’ll leave it up to you to draw your own conclusions as to why the Bush family, Moon and the Arabs all seem interested in Paraguay.

              • Karma

                T Boone Pickens has bought land on top of a large aquifer in the southwest.

                In a Playboy article he stated that unlike hydrocarbons (oil), water was a renewable resource and he stated that it has a 200-300 year investment plan based on it.

                He also stated that the longer he sits on it, the more valuable it will be.

                And that when you own the land….you own the water beneath the land.

                This part wasn’t in the article, but yes the next wars will be fought over water.

          • ritamary

            This happened a long time ago. Bush bought a huge property in Paraguay. It happened around the time the Bush twins were in Argentina. Remember that? They were so out of control the American ambassador to Argentina asked them to leave.

          • Karma

            The Moonies bought land nearby also.

            I don’t know why but the Bush family and the Moonies seem pop up together in strange places.

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaran%C3%AD_Aquifer

            “High-Profile Investments in the Region

            US President George W. Bush allegedly has recently purchased a 98,842-acre (400.00 km2) farm in Chaco, Paraguay atop the aquifer.[4]

            The Reverend Moon has purchased 1,482,600 acres (6,000 km2) in Chaco, Paraguay. “

          • tzada

            Paraguay right beside the Rev Moon’s huge tract of land. George the elder already bought it. I think it sits on a massive water aquifer. Don’t have my notes, but think this is what I found out.

      • tek

        I got an e-mail from ME-chelle this morning about what Barack needs (from all of us, of course, we could never do enough for him). So I wrote back and told her what Barack needs is to step down and let Hillary lead the country in this time of economic crisis.

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

      Just like Obama’s Favorite Holocaust Denier™

      http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5i2O7AhTJxZkpxCXnyHw_FoesS0mw

      a. hillary
      b. mccain

      america first!

  • RM

    I am just so sick to death of Oblahblah, I could just scream. Tuesday can’t come too soon. I pray for him to loose, and be sent running for the hills of Chicago. I have learned so much this year, watching the primary and now the GE. Wow! What an education. If he somehow squeaks by with a win, I may have to move to Mexico. I can’t stand to hear him talk for another minute. Except for maybe a concession speech!!!

    • Midlife Mama

      RM, I wouldn’t even watch that. I am also sick to death of hearing about him. Its a sad day when the sight of someone makes me prefer Bush. Very sad.

      If there is a God, Obama will lose, go back to relative obscurity, and both the DNC and media will learn a very valuable lesson: you can’t force a candidate down the people’s throat without causing them to rebel.

      The Obots would learn that voters don’t appreciate being abused and called horrific names. That is no way to gain support for your candidate of choice. Maybe next time they will support a candidate with a clear message and valid credentials who they can honestly argue for instead of one they must always defend.

    • tek

      RM: no hills in Chicago. It’s a former swamp on the prairie.

      Obama has a lot to answer for, tarring Chicago the way he has. It’s really a great city.

  • IronMan

    Obama represents the ultimate symbolism over substance candidate.

    That’s why millions of PUMAs are voting Country First!!

    McCain-Palin ’08

    ROAR PUMAS ROAR!!

    • JustMe

      ROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR

      • http://firefox McAnnie Baracuda

        I love the caption on one of the Puma logos: “We are the ones no one expected.” Complete with winking PUMA. hahaha.

        I heard Michael Savage today while driving over to McCain HQ (is Hannity now on a new schedule?) saying that the 2 pt bump for JM and 1 pt loss for Obama is due to his finally endorsing McCain. He believes that all of his listeners are making the difference. Out of desperation because Barry is too dangerous. Also heard that The Minutemen and all of the anti-illegal immigration orgs (still mad at Mac for the bill he supported with Teddy) are telling their members to vote McCain for the same reason.

        No one seems to give any credence to the PUMA vote but did love seeing Will Bower on Greta saying that he believes the 4million are holding steady.

        • http://johnMcCain.com McGalt, Master McThrall of Planet McTriskelion

          Will is correct! PUMA power!

    • jwrjr

      VOTE PUMAS VOTE!!

  • Vicki

    It’s official… he’s BOOOOORRRRRRING!

  • LindaA1

    I’ve been so busy agonizing over what next week will be like if Obama wins, I’ve not taken the time to envision what the week will be like if Obama loses.

    What will shape will all this Obama vitriol take if McCain-Palin slips past THE ONE? The momentum seems to be gathering steam for McCain today.

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

      If McCain wins I am sure there will be riots in some major cities (like mine, Los Angeles).

      The most rabid leftists will also take to the streets in what will probably end up as very violent protests.

      Many Democrats will be disillusioned and say that McCain won by cheating and “dirty Republican tricks.”

      After the hoo-ha dies down, most Americans will accept McCain as president, while the rabid left will continue on as they have been for the past 8 years, staging lame protests and now burning McCain in effigy.

      And life will move on.

      • PJ

        I think you’re right that all of that will happen if McCain wins – and he’s going to win. I do feel bad for anyone living in a blue state full of bots. As for me in my red state – I’ll be snug as a bug in a rug. A happy former dem now independent.

        Even if you’re in a bot infested area, just remember…

        It could have been even worse – much worse – if Obama had won.

        • Buzz Latte

          Tee Hee. The same here. This time around I kind of like living in a red state, too.

          Honestly, we haven’t seen one Obama shirt or one Obama yard sign in our immediate area. Haven’t run into any one voting for him.

          It’s as if he already doesn’t exist in the political arena. Obama who?

          • bethtopaz

            I live in the greater S.F. Bay Area, and honestly, if you didn’t know there was a presidential election this year, you wouldn’t know it by the lack of yard signs and bumperstickers.

            • Obama: Bush II Electric Boogaloo

              I went from the peninsula to Folsom just outside of Sacramento and me and my wife counted about 8-10 cars with Obama stickers, and one of them was an Obamacar with placards taped to the side of the car, lol. This was a Friday so there was plenty of traffic to choose from.

              I wanted to get a McCain/Palin bumber sticker but with the thuggish behavior of many Obamabots I chose against it.

            • John House

              Funny, I see tons of Obama crap all over the damned place here in the East Bay…AND every time I go into the City (SF)…some Obamatron is always hocking his pins and tees.

              I cannot in good faith create an image that the Bay Area is not Obamatron Central, because it is. Every. Day. I see it.

            • Mike

              I’m down in the south bay/San Jose area. A friend said he’s seen McCain/Palin signs here and some bumper stickers. The local newspaper said you can find cars with BO stickers at Whole Earth Foods markets.

            • Karma

              I just came from the SF bay area and there were tons of other political signs.

              But no Obama signs.

              Didn’t really get into the neighborhoods though.

              Only saw one Obama bumpersticker the whole trip.

      • PamFlorida

        Can you really picture the Hollywood bunch or the young college students rioting over an Obama loss? Don’t think so.
        I’m more concerned about gangs and other opportunists taking advantage of an Obama loss as an excuse to start trouble.

      • tzada

        I was watching the news this AM and there was a mob crowd in Philly rocking a news van, almost to the point of tipping it over. And these were happy people….what will the angry mobs do? I think I will hire a guard for my commercial property on the 5th. And lock and load at my farm.

      • elliewyatt

        Bill Ayers always loves a good riot.

        He & his old Weather Undergound pals would be pleased to help with the organizing, I’m sure.

  • Artemis

    My hope is that this infomercial backfires and instead of ingratiating That One into the hearts & minds of undecided voters, it falls flat. Thirty minutes of Obama talking about Obama may be the biggest ad yet for McCain. (and it didn’t cost the McCain campaign one cent!)

    • Seattle McMoss

      The Obama commercial has already bombed. I have my wife watch these things for me…and she said it was totally boring pandering to the down and out crowd which are already voting for him

      • imustprotest

        haha! My daughter (12 years) watched it for a few minutes and she said it was just Obama talking about himself a lot.

        • Mr. X

          I watched the whole damn thing and your daughter speaks the truth!

          It was a brutal attempt at appearing connected with working Americans. At least that’s what I think he was trying.

          Trust me. That informercial is nothing but wasted money.

          • http://firefox McAnnie Baracuda

            According to “the media” they spent $3-5million on their attempt. Let’s see $2million for the losers party…I don’t think he can be trusted with a budget.

      • http://johnMcCain.com McGalt, Master McThrall of Planet McTriskelion

        McMoss you McBastid! :shock: Is your wife also your food taster? :shock:

        • Seattle McMoss

          I knew I was going to get a comment like that.

          Actually I have been trying to cut off the cable for months.
          My wife still watches the dinosaur media and always want’s to get me away from this site and others to go watch.

    • IronMan

      I didn’t watch Obama’s 30 minute paid false advertising tonight, but the AP did and according to the AP, Barry lied!

      Yep!

      No joke!

      The AP is calling Obama out on his lies in the 30 minute infomercial!!

      Great has the AP story on her site tonight:

      http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/10/29/associated-press-says-senator-obama-was-less-than-upfront-in-his-12-hour-commercial/

      The AP has been in the tank for Obama for months and months!! Maybe they see that the election is slipping out of reach for The One!!

      Stay strong PUMAs!!

      We’ve got Obama on the run!!

      Momentum is swinging toward McCain-Palin!

      Stay the course!!

      No retreat!!

      Country First!!

      McCain-Palin ’08

      • JustMe

        Whoot Whoot !!

    • jrterrier

      i’m not sure that many people watched. i understand the #/s for the world series game that started right after the infomercial were the lowest ever.

    • tzada

      The AP actually putting our something that shows Barack in a lesser light? Amazing

      Obama’s prime-time ad skips over budget realities

      WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was less than upfront in his half-hour commercial Wednesday night about the costs of his programs and the crushing budget pressures he would face in office.

      Obama’s assertion that “I’ve offered spending cuts above and beyond” the expense of his promises is accepted only by his partisans. His vow to save money by “eliminating programs that don’t work” masks his failure throughout the campaign to specify what those programs are—beyond the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
      A sampling of what voters heard in the ad, and what he didn’t tell them

      http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D944H6EO0&show_article=1

  • typical.white.person

    Bill Clinton from August of this year:

    “I bragged on Sen. Obama hundreds of times,” he said. “Now, I will be glad, as soon as this election is over in January, to have this conversation with you and everybody else. I have very strong feelings about it.”

    .

    “I never was mad at Sen. Obama,” the former president said. “I think everybody’s got a right to run for president who qualifies under the Constitution. And I’d be the last person to begrudge anybody their ambition.”

    It appears Clinton knows Obama is not qualified under the Constitution.

    • csuzeq

      Well, as MEchelle has said, this is Barack’s only chance at President. If that F-er isn’t sent to prison before 2012, he will never survive a second PUMA vetting that starts from day last of his 2008 candidacy!

    • Rob G in Chicago

      The Chicago Tribune is trying to throw cold water on the birth certificate issue — see link below:

      http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-birth-certificate-30-oct30,0,1742172.story

      • elliewyatt

        The article LIES.

        At the time Obama was born, the law stated that a person would be considered a “natural born citizen” if either parent was a citizen who had lived at least 10 years in the U.S., including five years after the age of 14—in other words, 19.

        Dunham was three months shy of her 19th birthday when Obama was born. But subsequent acts of Congress relaxed the requirement to five years in the U.S., including just two years after the age of 14, meaning Dunham could have been 16 and still qualified even if Obama was born in another country, Volokh said. Congress made the law retroactive to 1952, doubly covering Obama.

        Were BO born outside of the US, the law would NOT make him a “natural born citizen”, it would make him a US citizen, but NOT “natural born”.

  • McPalin Hill

    I believe that Obama fatigue has set in because there is nothing behind the facade. T-Shirts, Mugs, Presidential Seals and a carnival atmosphere while people in the real USA are hurting and longing for a serious leader who is committed to fixing this nation.

    What happens when you stay too long at the Fair — you get an upset tummy and all the things you were so excited about you now realize are just boring and tedious.

    Obama is cotton candy — sticky, sweet and has no substance. McCain is beef stew. Tastes good and gets better with age.

    • http://budwhite.wordpress.com/ Bud White

      nicely put. I agree.

    • JustMe

      and keeps you warm on long cold nights that are drawing in….

    • bethtopaz

      Am I just feeling better (reading these great comments while listening to Kenny G play Christmas Classics) or is everyone on this comment thread fired up and hot tonight?!

      I am loving these comments!

      • Mr. X

        You should go on hillbuzz. The people there are extremely upbeat.

        Seems the PUMAs are not as angry as the MSM would lead one to believe.

        • Aleph

          This puma woman hasn’t simmered down.
          -a voting this ex dem will go, a voting this ex dem will go and then starts the REPO (reid pelosi obama) ho ho ho

          okay so I’m not a lyricist and it’s time to kick off for the night.
          peace out

    • lisa in va

      Very nicely put!

  • Buzz Latte

    Obama is indeed yesterday’s fad.

    He is attempting to stay relevant by blasting the airwaves with his brand of rhetoric and lying silliness.

    I actually heard Blitzer on CNN today question the veracity of Obama!!!! Then came the report from Scott someone about the fraudulent credit card charges by the Obama campaign on FOX. The Khalidi – Obama connection is enough to say, “NO THANKS!”

    Whether the whitey tape is ever released is inconsequential. We can just imagine – perhaps correctly – that Michelle Obama would have a hate on regarding whites. She’s been honing it for years in the form of her decisions, thoughts, and her association with Rev. Wright and the Farrakhans.

    We can no longer excuse any of this. We don’t have to buy the infomercial or the product. We don’t need it. We don’t need the Obamas, ever.

  • IndieDogg

    Maybe we could use a fine red wine rather than beef stew (getting older in the fridge doesn’t conjure up the right image for me) but I get the point.

    Well said. And spot on.

  • JustMe

    TY Bud for keeping us up on Mr. Obama’s world show.

    You dedicate your time for us all here. We appreciate it.

    • http://budwhite.wordpress.com/ Bud White

      Trying to do my small part. Thanks.

  • imustprotest

    The good news for me is I don’t have to get over him because I never was into him. I always thought Barry was a bore and an snore. Ho hum, Obama made a speech???

    • http://firefox McAnnie Baracuda

      Well, there you have it. He lost because “We just weren’t that into you, Barry.”

  • Vicki

    It gives the local news show an excuse to slather more praise and worship on him. I purposely missed the broadcast but had to listen to the local pundits go on and on about him. Blech.

  • Tricia

    In Philly we have waited 28 years for a World Series and this jackass ruined are pre-game show. I am sure he lost several hundred votes for that . We take are sport very serious

    • Seattle McMoss

      When was the last time the Phillies won..1930

      What a coincidence..They win in bad economic years.

      • Hap Hazard

        1980, but there was a worldwide economic slump that year as well. I remember it because I graduated from college that year and it was talked about considerably among graduates and advisors..

    • http://firefox McAnnie Baracuda

      Yes indeedy. I’ll bet everyone forgot that infomercial even happened with the excitement of the game coming immediately after. Huh? Obama who? Bad media buy.

  • trixta

    I’ve mailed my McPalin vote and have decided to tune out the rest of the week. Might even go out dancing (Tango) on Tuesday night, instead of hearing the TV spin for BO. This election has certainly been exhausting!

    Should BO take the presidency, we PUMAs will be a thorn in his crown during his entire reign, to be sure!

    Principle over Party!

  • Jerry

    If he wins, I’m going to barf. Can you imagine MSNBC ooh-ing and ahh-ing over his inaugural ball, inauguration speech, etc.

  • Sarracuda

    Obama is a fad that I think many people are seeing is just full of fluff. We have all seen this kind of crap speech before, in Adolf Hitler, Obama is NO different, just a newer version of him. Obama is like the Spice Girls, they were a big hit for a while, then everyone got tired of them, now where the heck are they, who the hell cares where they are now, and that’s my point about Obama, his tax plan is GARBAGE, first it was 250,000, then 200,000, now its 150,000, pretty soon its gonna be 42,000 like he voted for TWICE in the senate. I think people are finally waking up now, the ones that were leaning to Obama are leaning back and saying “What the hell, this guy is a phony” the ones that are in the tank for Obama, forget about them, they are a lost cause, their brains are already swiss cheese, but have faith in the undecideds and leaners, they will be the ones that decide this election

    • Vicki

      With the tax cuts due to expire in 2010, the dirty little secret is that he gets to raise taxes without a vote.

      • http://firefox McAnnie Baracuda

        That would be if he won…which he is not and will not.

  • SJ

    I did not watch the Obama show but judging from the little on the net it seems as if it was not a big hit, because so far no wonderful reviews with the media falling all over themselves OB must be so disappointed.

    • IronMan

      AP reporting that Obama was not truthful in his 30 minute paid ad tonight.

      greta has the scoop on her site:

      http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/10/29/associated-press-says-senator-obama-was-less-than-upfront-in-his-12-hour-commercial/

      The dude lied and the AP is calling him out!

      Hell just froze over!

      • IndieDogg

        These people are getting nervous. I don’t know how to back that up. It’s sort of like the movie, where the sonar operator says there’s nothing on the submarine’s scope but the captain (or, to be more in tune with BO’s communist theme, make it a 1st Mate) says, “There’s something out there, I feel it in my wooden leg, and my parrot won’t shut up.”

        Okay, submarines and pirates, but you get the point.

        I sense a subtle shift in the current.

        It takes a while to turn a battleship (so I hear). You won’t get whiplash or necessarily notice the movement but, in the morning, you’re headed in a new direction.

        Let’s hope my wooden leg is right. The parrot. Who ever know what the hell he’s talking about.

        Something about Polly and a Cracker, but that’s racist.

        • Aleph

          lol I am not the only one who is losing it tonight. Good thing we have only one more week to endure of this faux election fiasco.

    • ritamary

      Don’t tell me Tweetie didn’t get a tingle in his leg this time. And what about Keith Obamaman? Didn’t he give rave reviews to the infomercial?

      • Aleph

        the tingle? didn’t you hear. That was diagnosed as early onset dementia nerve damage. heheheh

    • Mike

      Ah, George Stephanoplo… what’s his name on ABC “Nightline” was fawning over it.

  • William l Donlon

    Barack Obama Is the Black, 21st Century Version Of Elmer Gantry!

    Obama’s exhalted Hipocracy is about to be un-done
    by Sarah’s persecuted Honesty.

    The Obama Gantry Tent Show closes out of town next Tuesday.

    • Bel

      I think the McCain people should be fired. They don’t have strategy to put Obama on the defense.

      [ADMINISTRATOR: For heaven's sake, whine after the election. RIGHT NOW, let's ALL STAY UP -- POTENTIAL McCAIN VOTERS ARE READING YOUR COMMENTS -- ACT LIKE WINNERS, not LOSERS!]

      They should hammer him and make him on the defensive otherwise all the time is Obama. It seems McCain doesn’t even get break into the news

      [Administrator: Additionally, you are on moderation because you are posting under multiple usernames, which is forbidden at NoQuarter. And think like a WINNER!]

      • http://firefox McAnnie Baracuda

        Hold on Miss Scarlett…tomorrow is another day.

      • George Smathers

        How can McCain put Obama on the defensive when the MSM won’t let him. Here is a perfect example, two AP headlines from a few days ago as appeared on the Yahoo homepage.

        “Obama slams McCain’s economic policies”
        “Obama brushes off GOP criticism of economic policy”

        Note how the second headline does not even mention McCain as the one leveling the criticism, which it was, and even puts the criticism passively. In both cases it is Obama being the subject actor for the verb.

  • rickrickrick

    I saw the review of his show on Hannity and that creepy guy. Wow~ I thought west wing was cancelled a few years ago? . First it was families making over $250,000.00 a year, now its $200,000.00. I’m sure his base felt the love but the undecideds who are looking at his economics are wondering WTF?

  • JustMe

    McCain camp responds: “As anyone who has bought anything from an infomercial knows, the sales-job is always better than the product. Buyer beware.”

    • streetparade

      Vote for Obama!! But WAIT there’s more!
      Vote today and we’ll include this set of FIVE, that’s right FIVE Ginsu steak knives for FREE.
      Vote in the next five minutes and shipping is FREE!
      Operators are standing by, don’t delay and remember vote early and vote often!

      I WANNA BE ELECTED – Alice Cooper had it right all those years ago.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN7qNlnAqxU

      • IronMan

        LMAO!! :)

      • ritamary

        That Alice Cooper video is so funny and just perfect for what we are experiencing right now. The scene where the chimp rolls in the wheel barrow full of cash made me laugh out loud.

        (My cats are staring at me wondering what the heck happened. It is way past bedtime here.}

  • JustMe

    it’s like getting a sausage when you could of had steak….

    • Seattle McMoss

      Obama is like drive thru McDonalds

      Quick and fast but the bad taste stays with you for several states.

      • George Smathers

        I get left with more than just a bad taste from Mickey D’s, and it is about the same reaction I get when contemplating Obama’s disdain for our individual rights guaranteed in the constitution.

      • Rob G in Chicago

        No, he’s much worse than McDonalds…more like day old “sliders” from White Castle.

    • lisa in va

      Wasn’t that similar to what Paul Newman said about his wife and having affairs? Something like, why go out for hamburger when there is a steak waiting at home? Cool guy. Cool husband.

      I miss him.

  • Buzz Latte

    Okay…this is eerie. My homepage has an article about McCain’s response to Obama’s dog and pony show. There is no article, zip, zilch, nada, no how, and no way about Obama’s great? informercial.

    WTF? It’s been nothing but Obama for months to infinity.

    Could it be? The Obama spell is disintegrating before our eyes?

    God, please say it’s true.\

    PS> Did anyone even watch it? We went to dinner instead.

    • JML

      Not me. I went grocery shopping. Figured it would be a good time, as whenever I’m in there, usually, the customer base seems about 60 percent or more Black.

      Got a great parking spot and only stood in line behind one person.

      Heh.

      • JustMe

        when I go shopping I turn all the mags round at the check out stand when I see his face….

        • tzada

          lmao……me too!

        • Kristen

          That is a great idea Just Me. I’ll do that the next time I’m there. I can’t stand his face!!!!!!!

        • fif

          I do it in book stores and coffee shops! lol.

    • smarter than you

      My homepage is Yahoo (which is usually like the www version of MSNBC) and it carried two post-infomercial stories – one was on the McCain response and the other was one that talked about how Obama is less than truthful about how much all of his big promises will cost. It mentioned the ‘spin’ and the facts for each. No glowing stories to be found!!

      Also, I walked into a room where CNN was on and AC360 had a Joe the Plumber segment. During the lead-in, AC called him an “un-licensed plumber … whose 15 minutes of fame is about up”. Jerk.

      • http://firefox McAnnie Baracuda

        whose 15 minutes of fame is about up”.

        Not even close, AC. Did anyone see Sarah this morning when she introduced Tito the Builder? He was inspired by Joe and was defending him. He was interviewed by Meghan later and he is charming. From Venezuela years ago, started as a Janitor, moved up gradually and now has a construction company with 4 employees. I loved what he said about being nervous on camera because it’s new to him but he had to speak out because of their treatment of Joe. He said in quite a pleasant Latino accent, “they are just trying to throw “leetle” crumbs to us and what we want is jobs and opportunity, not welfare.” That is what America offers.

        • tzada

          I saw Tito the other day, in fact twice and he is great. He was in the crowd at the first one and he took on CNN, them defending Barack and him answering right back. Hope he will have an effect on our Hispanic voters.

    • http://johnMcCain.com McGalt, Master McThrall of Planet McTriskelion

      PS> Did anyone even watch it? We went to dinner instead.

      I don’t think the 1/2 hour Barfomercial was on any PUMAs schedule to watch. :shock:

      • Newly Independent

        LOL @ “1/2 hour Barfomercial!”

    • jrterrier

      maybe he jumped the shark with the infomercial. perhaps even his lapdogs in the MSM are embarrassed by the ostentatious spending.

  • suskin

    When I was at the gym I looked up at the TV screen, it was CNN and the “bottom line” read something to the effect of “Is Obama trying to buy the election” and “Is Obama Informercial over the top?” I have a instinctual aversion to CNN so that was as long as I could look at it. But WTF? CNN? What is going on?
    Is there hope yet?

    • suskin

      One more thing

      I see some of our collective faith in HRC is fading. All I can say is, mine is too, but its not irreversible. That said, HRC would have to win me back; my support for her is not unconditional. And if it makes a difference, I was one of those supporters who flew out to four different states to work my butt off for her – for months, that was all I did, on my own dime.

      • streetparade

        My faith in the Democratic party has faded and it’s probably terminal for me. All institutions seek to perpetuate themselves and a political party is just another institution. But the BIGGEST institutions are government and religion.

        The less power the government has the more power WE have as individuals and that position is probably not compatible with the Democratic party, even if the party is savagable.

        I’m swearing off the political parties going forward, I’ll vote for the individual not the party. It actually feels good to not believe in them anymore – freedom!

        • Seattle McMoss

          Liberty and Freedom all the way!!

          When McCain wins I will tell all those that remember that I voted Hillary and I told you that Obama wasn’t qualified.

          I have changed and the democrats Suck!!!

        • IndieDogg

          For another time, I believe there is another “informal” party that has been formed already as a result of this election madness. It’s made up of PUMA’s and moderate R’s and moderate D’s and upwardly mobile and motivated sections of almost every recognized minority in America.

          It’s essentially the people who have gravitated to this site and others after the paper castle collapsed (my personal feeling, just for me, was during the open blog monitoring of the final pre-convention meeting of the DNC Rules Committee, where the true colors of those fools in charge were shows once and for all).

          So, let’s go work to make this election right.

          And, after that, let’s see if there isn’t some common ground here, somewhere in the middle, often unsure of the right answer, but always willing to look for it.

          Stand up!!!!

          • stodgie

            there are more than that. everyone i speak to has the same feelings as we do. they are not as active but the thoughts are there.

        • NoBamaNoWay

          i think it is definitely time to SHRINK the government. it has gotten completely out of control and is totally unaccountable to the people.

        • tek

          The Democratic Party isn’t the Democratic Party anymore.

        • athena

          Very well said and I have always felt that way. It just so happens that I have never aligned myself with a repulican presidential candidate … until this year.

        • AnninCA

          I pointed that out in the great Potomac blow-out.

          The future was pretty clear. A large number of people will probably start voting Republican.

          The Republicans are at a crossing-roads.

          If they can blend true conservative thinking with a more tolerant social agenda……they will be the party of the future.

          I believe the Democrats have regressed. Obama is old-style Democrat. He’s all about buying votes, cronyism, and making promises he won’t deliver upon.

          That will fail.

          This is what I call a “retro” year in politics.

          It’s nostalgia, for the good ole’ days.

          It will fail.

          The true new path for America is very obvious, to me. I’m obviously opinionated, though.

          But it’s social liberalism combined with fiscal conservatism.

          That is the winning combo.

          The voters may be a bit behind.

          But I’m convinced…..that’s where we’re really headed.

      • http://firefox McAnnie Baracuda

        HRC on my back burner for the time being. But I’ll probably never go back to the Democrat party now. I’m finding Republicans and conservatives nicer, more civil and respectful of people in general and women in particular. More to my liking. Who knew? I’ve been looking for love in all the wrong places!

        • NoBamaNoWay

          there’s some truth to that, but their gay-bashing would make it impossible for me to stay repub if dems ever get their act together. don’t know if that will happen, but i also can’t see the repubs really giving up the gay-bashing any time soon.

          • lisa in va

            Can you define gay bashing for me? I only ask because I think the phrase is thrown around alot. I don’t scrutinize everything that politicians say, so I might have missed it…but I’ve never seen gay “bashing” from a Republican politician. Maybe my definition is different from yours?

            I’m a moderate Rep. I’m against gay marriage. But I’m not anti gay. I think it is wrong (and illegal) to discriminate against them in housing, employment, etc… I believe in civil unions. I just believe that the word marriage, for centuries, if not milliniums, has meant a union between a man and a woman. If we are going to start changing the meaning of words, then lets start with my front door. I don’t like the word “door” so I want to call my front door a “can”. Why? Because I want to. If I can get enough people to agree, then darn it, everyone should ALL start calling “doors”, “cans”.

            I know its a simplistic example, but I’m just sick of the political correctness. And no one can say that me being against gay marriage is because I’m a conservative religious fanatic. Why? Because I’m a moderate Rep & atheist. (Yeah, thats a shocker to some). (And for the record, just because I’m atheist, doesn’t mean I dislike Christians…the only ones I dislike are the intolerant ones…and imho, those aren’t real Christians…but thats another post:-)

            Anyway, I don’t think that most Repubs are gay bashers. Heck, most of us, if not all of us, have gay family members.

            • Rob G in Chicago

              Lisa in VA:

              Civil rights are civil rights. A door has no civil rights. You would have defended the separate but equal laws ? If (and that may be a big if, for some people) you believe that being gay is a matter of nature rather than nurture (genetic, rather than by choice), how can you limit the rights of gays to something that you would not limit the right of others? Not too many years ago, interracial dating/marriage was illegal, but civil rights are civil rights, and you can’t pick and choose which groups of Americans gets one right while that right is being denied to others, without some sort of compelling argument (sorry, but the arguiment of “that’s how it’s always been” doesn’t work). The arguments advanced by former Senator Santorum, “well, if we let gays marry, then someone will demand the right to marry their dog” don’t work either, as dogs don’t have civil rights under our constitution, and there is a valid medical and scientific basis for maintaining that type of interspecies marriage. There are now several states where gays have been permitted to wed, and I’m not seeing the world coming to an end, and I’m not seeing any evidence that heterosexual marriages have somehow been diminished, jeopardized, or threatened by these legal gay marriages.

              • AnninCA

                I agree. I am anticipating that the CA proposition to amend the constitution will not win.

                The religious right are out in force. However, people seem (to me, anyway) too comfortable with this change.

                Right change at the right time.

    • IndieDogg

      CNN is a shill, but they’re not stupid. That’s the thing about flying a kite. When the wind shifts, the kite’s going with it. I don’t care how much you pay the wind to shift back (public perception), ain’t gonna happen.

      [p.s. / I said "gonna" instead of "going to" in honor of that wonderful secret weapon whose out there literally busting it up, Governor Palin.]

      [p.s.#2 / I’ve taken to always referring to her as Governor Palin rather than Sarah as my silent protest against the (trailer) trashing of her. A hot tip. In the legal world, in a courtroom, if you can get away with it, you always try to change perception by the way you refer to someone. If it’s an opposing witness, you might try to get away with calling her “Connie” rather than “Ms. Wycoff” and, on the other hand, you always refer to your own witness in the most proper form possible, that doesn’t sound silly. You can violate the rule in your client’s case, e.g., when familiarity might help them. But, you never violate it in the case of the opposition. I suggest trying it. It’s actually changed my own manner (though I already like her a lot) to always refer to the candidate for Vice President of the United States as Governor Palin.

      • JML

        Great tip. I try to do the same thing re: Governor Palin, just as I tried to always refer to Senator Clinton AS Senator Clinton, although, hey I’m sure lots of “Hillarys” slipped out.

      • C.S.

        I have always used her title, Governor Palin; she earned it. Same with Senator Clinton; she has earned it. (Although it is hard to distinguish her from her husband unless you use first name or title.) Soertoro/Obama never earned his since he ran unopposed and then neglected to do any work for the People in his district.

        It is a psychological ploy by the Obama campaign to always reduce their opponent’s credibility by refusing to acknowledge their opponent’s experience.

        It’s the same psychological ploy he uses to enhance his own stature without actually earning it; the fake Greek temple, the fake presidential seal, the airplane O symbol over the U. S. flag symbol – all psychological imagery to boost perception that he is better than the other candidates.

        Might work in a dictatorship (dictators do use a lot of symbols) but just strikes us as being presumptuous because we do value the hard work of those who earn their promotions over those who brown nose to get them.

      • tzada

        Which is why I have started calling Obama Barack (among other names) ;) Chip, chipping away…he hates to be mocked too, hope he is seeing all the cartoons and snark coming from here and elsewhere.

        Great job Bud, you always deliver….and you were spot on with this.

    • http://firefox McAnnie Baracuda

      I heard that McCain ran ads before and after the 1/2 hour self-love fest.

    • AnninCA

      Politico has an article that a piece they did on media bias received more feedback than any. They were innundated with people writing in to complain about the pro-Obama coverage and the shoddy treatment of McCain and Palin.

      The media definitely has received the message that these complaints are not the usual “you’re not backing MY candidate” type of deal.

      People have gotten through. It’s safe now, anyway, for them to pretend to be objective. It’s almost over.

      I think that’s pretty jerky, personally.

    • Newly Independent

      The MSM have lost a serious amount of viewers and readers. At the same time, they’re still clinging to Obama’s “jewels.”

      My take is this: the MSM have thoroughly convinced themselves that Obama’s going to win. So much so that they figure they can now afford to appear “objective” to the American public by going negative on him during these final few days. The phony bastards did this patronizing s— after the primary – pretended to give a damn about sexism and the horrible treatment Hillary Clinton received from them and the rest of the Obamabrats.

      These are probably the MSM’s cheap attempts to try to gain back the masses of loyal customers they’ve lost with their almost two-year Obama pornfest. They don’t realize (yet) that because of their actions during this election, many Americans are done with the MSM for good. We now know that we can go to the Internet to get ALL of the news – without putting up with the biased foolishness of the MSM..

      • stodgie

        yup and what will those over paid, too much makeup, poorly informed sellouts do for money and a job without anyone to watch? the young will do what they always do. that is grow older and go on to other interests. the aa community will for the most part realize sooner or later they have been had.

        so who does the media then have? why us the good ole standbys they kicked in the teeth. no thanks cnn, msnbc you can all go to the back of the line down as the unemployment office.

  • barry bums a ciggie

    This is a good video with Dennis Miller on O’reilly talking about Palin’s effigy. But the best part is when Miller starts to talk about how he’s getting “creeped” out by Obozo laughing at Joe the Plumber and his campaign banning the tv station for asking questions they didn’t like. He also mentioned how Americans are being branded stupid, bad or racist if they don’t like Obama. Hitting all the points that we’ve talked about for months.

    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3171902&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/

    • http://johnMcCain.com McGalt, Master McThrall of Planet McTriskelion

      I bet that gasbag Miller thinks he all by himself discovered these things. :shock:

      But us PUMAs welcome the help!

      • if onlyHillary

        I can’t stand Dennis Miller. I would appreciate Dennis miller’s comments on Obama if he had been as astute in his fawning of Dumbya. I couldn’t stomach Bush and I have the exact same response to Obama. But Miller loved Bush and hates Obama. Not much credibility for Dennis!

  • Mr. Natural

    Open thread?

    $2.29/gallon for gas today!

  • melisa

    I think Obama was a test baloon.

    • Chicago Joe

      “Offishal Birth Certificate”

      Funny stuff. http://ginacobb.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c2c6053ef010535c3fc9d970b-pi

      • Aleph

        hhehehehhe Everyone is cracking up tonight.

    • HARP

      “POP”……Went the balloon.

    • bethtopaz

      And a very expensive one at that. But what do the Kommies care when they’ve got all that Middle Eastern and other wealth to pull from?

      • JustMe

        I am hoping it was helium and on Tuesday nite we can just let go of the string~~

        Gone and forgotten

  • melisa

    My last post was actually a test balloon. To see if obamacrats can spell….
    :)

  • streetparade

    Obama requires too much work…it’s like his wife warned us: “Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual.” Who the hell wants to put up with that.

    I want politicians to do as little damage as possible – to NOT break all of our national dishes and to shut the hell up as much as possible.

    His mammoth ego requires way too much effort and I’m incredibly tired of him already. Barack – just go away!

    • melisa

      Yeh, I’m with you. I am all out of adulation. The very thought of 4 years of this exhaust me.

      • tzada

        We would be required to listen to hour long “fireside” chats from der precious every week.

        OT but I have a theory about the Clintons. I think Bill has been promised to head the UN if they support Barack and he gets elected. Just my opinion.
        It has to be threat or promise.

        • Rob G in Chicago

          tzada:

          I can certainly see the threat part, but why would any rational thinking being (especially someone as smart as Bill Clinton) EVER believe a promise made by Obie ?

    • Mollye

      He’s kind of like the know-it-all little snot from the neighborhood who wants to be the boss of everybody. He’s not the boss of me!!!

      • ritamary

        He is the type who would get beat up all the time on the playground, even by girls. (Maybe that is why he hates Hillary and Sarah so much?) Now he has a group of thugs all his own and he is getting even!

  • Buzz Latte

    2.29 a gal for gas. Do you mean to say that capitalism is working and we don’t need Obama’s brand of socialism?

  • Dark Knight

    everytime i get optimistic, i get some depressing news: tomorrow’s zogby poll has obama up by 7 again

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

      ah ahah a hah aha hha

      and you believe that crap?

      a. hillary
      b. mccain

      america first!

    • http://firefox McAnnie Baracuda

      I believe the pollster on Fox tonight singled out Zogby as having peculiar practices and is usually further off than most. Everyone else has it dead even.

      • John House

        That’s because the Zogby brothers are personal friends of Obama. They’re Arabs and Obama is all over the damned Arab community in Chicago.

        Of course, no one in the MSM seems to want to focus on that, which is why the LA Times is suppressing that tape.

    • Seattle McMoss

      Fox has an exclusive poll that shows McCain is ahead on the economy..Rasmussen

    • tzada

      The Zogbys are personal friends of Barack. It is a fact and not a rumor. James writes for HuffPo, surprise surprise and also has a anti semitic paper.

      Since you are a moderate Muslim I am surprised that you didn’t know this. But since the Zogby magazine is radical anti semantic maybe that is not something that you read?

  • http://www.foundingfathers.info/stories/gadsden.html Don’t_Tread_On_Me

    I’ve always felt Mr O was boring and fake… ad nauseum… I guess many of us here at NQ were ahead of the curve ;)

  • William l Donlon

    Obama Is A Looser!

    Tonights “show” was nothing more than a Cracked up Pimp’s ostentacious “Bling”.

    It was an over confident “end zone dance” by a clueless, no talent Jerk, in a three point game when the other team has the BALL with two minutes left to play.

    Obama couldn’t close against Hillary!
    Obama can’t close againt McCain/Palin.

    To quote Minnesota Fats

    “Bet against him, He’s a looser”.

    Good night!
    Sleep tight!
    It’s in the bag for John & Sarah!

    The Left Main Stream Media Has Backed A Looser!

    • Geo

      I think the air is finally leaking out of Obama’s tires. We might have to drill after all.

      McCain/Palin

      • imustprotest

        LMAO! Good one!

    • if onlyHillary

      Obama reminds me of the jerk who spiked the ball before he got into the end zone.

  • http://johnMcCain.com McGalt, Master McThrall of Planet McTriskelion

    Some things I said tonight:

    I am one of those Dems who was duped by my party. I would never even consider having a friend who was a Republican. Things have changed. Now, if I was not in a relationship already, I would consider even sleeping with a Republican!
    _

    Don’t forget in addition to being Vice-President, the Sarahcuda will be President of the Senate as well. She can lob moose shit at Obama and Biden from the podium in the Senate chambers!

    • bethtopaz

      You were hot tonight, McGalt. Thanks for the good time one and all and Good Night and God bless you and the U.S.A.!

    • http://firefox McAnnie Baracuda

      McGalt, how you do talk! Funniest image of the evening…

    • JML

      LOL, I *do* sleep with a Republican. ;)

      I’m 100-percent positive I could’ve convinced him to vote for Hillary, though, were she in her RIGHTFUL place on the ballot. I saw glimmers of him coming around to her just as the Primaries were winding down.

      Goddamn. I’ve worked on softening his politics for 8 years now and he was just finally coming around and, then, ugh, damn. What a waste!

    • IndieDogg

      The fools who claim she’s a dolt giggled that she mis-stated the role of the VP, only because no VP in recent history actually read the Constitution, only to find out, later (after the prime-time news hour closed), that the VP is, indeed, the President of the Senate. So, yeah, some moose dung repelling helmets might be in order.

      At least for the front row. We don’t know how good an arm the Guv has yet.

    • athena

      I can’t wait to see the moose shit fly!

  • melisa

    Aside from possible voter fraud tipping the balance (heard today that Adolf Hitler was registered to vote in Florida. He wasn’t in that bunker after all, and will be participating in a democracy at long last. He’ll be hitching a ride with Mickey and Minnie. Then there are those Felons that claim they are being disenfranchised…but I digress…)I really believe they have lost this one.
    Americans like their politics real. From Roman pillars, to someone having the audacity to come on television during prime time (the sitting president would only do that in times of crisis) makes this seem like someone is trying a little too hard to create something out of nothing.
    He is not the one.

    • csuzeq

      I wonder if Osama Bin Laden has registered yet? Well, I’m sure if he missed the deadline, he can register on election day. I hope Homeland security will take note if they want to find these terrorists, they should look no further than the voter registration logs!

  • grb

    The St. Petersburg Noosed Palin mannequin removed from front yard
    Thursday, October 30, 2008
    http://www.baynews9.com/content/120/2008/10/30/397444.html?title=Noosed+Palin+mannequin+removed+from+front+yard++++

    • NoBamaNoWay

      article says:

      “Then, on Wednesday, neighbors covered up the Palin mannequin with sheets, and more protesters showed up later in the day accompanied by a man driving a vehicle adorned with an effigy labeled “Chad,” with a noose around its neck, said sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore.”

      “chad” is the owner of the house. payback’s a bitch, isn’t it?

      • athena

        That just gives me a lump in my throat! Americans – true Americans (who live everywhre in our country – we just hate being told how horrible our country is) will just not tolerate this sh** anymore……we have had it.

    • stodgie

      yup i exchanged some emails with that pathetic excuse for a mayor. very defensive and attemtped to shame me. i responded and told him i was posting his comments on the major blogs and emailing fox. i didn’t hear back.

  • evgenia

    This is sickening, I just watched our local ABC station KGO’s 11 o’clock news lead in with a report on 10 mentally- challenged residents in a group home voting. There isn’t anything wrong with this, after all it’s in their constitutional rights to do so, but it turns out the group home’s director was the one who filled out the ballots for these new voters.

    Apparently this group home is in Sonora, and the reporter interviewed one of the residents who “voted” about who he voted for. The resident said “the black man”, and when he was asked if he was told to vote for Obama, he answered yes. Also, the young man’s dad was interviewed and he said his son didn’t have the capacity to understand what his vote meant, and that he felt his son was exploited. BTW, it turns out that 9 out of 10 residents in this home voted for Obama. Looks like the director failed to deliver 100% of the votes for the ONE.

    • Mr. Natural

      No gruel for #10.

  • angie

    Obama fatigue is setting in.

    From your lips to God’s ears.

  • USAPROUD

    CBS AND AP RIPPING OBAMA INFOMERICIAL APART..WWW.HILLARYCLINTONFORUM.NET

  • darryl

    Just want to say Obama sucks. I sent in my absentee for McCain today. Funny, this is my first election and all I knew about politics before the primaries was that Bill Clinton was the best president ever and how I was going to be a diehard Democrat once I could register. And I did register Democrat to vote for Hillary. And here I am voting for McCain because Obama had to go and ruin it all. I, personally, am embarrassed at my generation for being so gung-ho over Obama because he’s black and younger. People my age are treating this election like an American Idol poll. And clearly McCain is like the talented McPhee and Obama like is the guy who looked 50 but he had grey hair and was funny so that’s why he won. Let’s hope it’s not a repeat. If McCain wins next week, I will be so freaking happy.

  • Buzz Latte

    No kidding, Melisa. Obama is just too high maintenance. Crap, the reality is he would just be in our faces all the time trying to get our attention. Little Narcissist that he is. He reminds me of a toddler. Cutesy, very demanding, and ready to belt out the tears when something doesn’t go their way.

    We need someone who is willing to work, not someone who is ready to let someone else do it and then take all the credit.

    I still haven’t seen one satisfactory answer on what Obama has exactly done to better anyone’s life besides his own.

  • Peggy Sue

    I think the glitz is wearing off because the man was promoted like a product, the Obama brand, Emperor of the World. The hopey-dopey mantra becomes hollow without details. Even the change message seems silly without the particulars. Change to what, for God’s sake? I’ve been asking the question for months: what will Obamaworld look like. I’ve never rec’d a cogent answer. But when you poke around what you find is disturbing, even scary.

    Do we know Barack Obama any better now than we did when he ran against Hillary? Do we know what sort of leader he would be? My guess is not so good. I agree with Bud. He seems thin-skinned and has a background of crass opportunism, using people to get where he wants to go. And when the French say you’re arrogant, you know you’re ego is the size of Jupiter! These are not good signs.

    Obama started as a blank slate and except for the lofty words, he’s remained a blank slate. And the details we do have are far from attractive.

    It’s like buying that pair of really cool $150 sneakers, then finding out they’re just . . . sneakers. And they’re not even that comfortable, all show. But you keep wearing them because you paid $150.

    Well, I wear Keds. They’re not exciting but they are reliable. I know what I’m getting for my money and they’ve always been a good fit. Plus, I trust the workmanship.

    The only thing I see fueling Obama now is the intense dislike the public has for GW, well earned, I might add. I don’t think McCain is GW and the Bush III label has always sounded lame to me. But if you’re still buying into the Democratic brand [which I've done all my life] then you may very well swallow hard and vote for the Dem.

    I can’t do that anymore. But a good number of people will. How many? We’ll find out on Nov. 4th.

    • scarface

      I think the glitz is wearing off because the man was promoted like a product, the Obama brand, Emperor of the World.

      Emperor of the World? More like the emperor in “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, and all Obots will agree how great he looks.

    • Lizzie Struthers

      Even the change message seems silly without the particulars.

      I want my politicians to represent me, not to lead me. I think all intelligent people want that. It’s only the weak minded who want otherwise.

      I want answers to specific questions. I regard elected politicians as administrators and nothing else and employed by me. Political campaigns are employment interviews. I am behind the desk – not them. They will not tell me what to do – I will tell them what to do. I don’t need them to give flowery speeches. I couldn’t give a hoot about their stump speeches. I want things to be done and I want to know what they intend to do and if they get the job then I will hold them to it.

      I want a CV for the interview. I want to know what they’ve done. I want character references. I don’t want to listen to Deval Patrick cover recordings. At no place of work will a shiny suit get a job on smiles alone. Astute alert HR people will dig into CVs to find out who people really are. Only fools want a song but no substance.

      Barry’s CV:

      - Character references. He certainly doesn’t have any good character references. But he has a lot of bad ones. Wright, Meeks, ACORN people, Pfleger, Farrakhan, Auchi, Rezko, Ayers, ‘Dig It’ Dohrn, Mansouri – these are the people I can contact if I want to know more about this employment prospect?

      How about people from Occidental? No one knew him? Appears not. How about Columbia? Nope – same thing there. How about at Harvard? He didn’t write a single article for the Harvard Law Review? What? Are you serious? This in and of itself is enough to both raise an eyebrow and get the CV tossed in the circular file. This person might be pathological and one’s curiosity might be heightened by such a bizarre personal history but this is absolutely not HR hiring material. On the contrary.

      - Past accomplishments. There are none. That’s quite a sweeping statement but it’s true. Mostly he’s pissed off a lot of people in Illinois, Chicago, and Washington. Alice Palmer, Ted Kennedy, John McCain to name a few.

      I need to judge an applicant on past merits. If I can’t do that I won’t hire. I might still be interested in knowing more about this erratic personality anomaly but I definitely cannot hire. If I do dig deeper then I will look at the company this person keeps. I will also in the context of this campaign look at how he has comported himself. There are terrorists all over in the wings of this person’s political life. There are 57 states. His relative in the US navy liberated a concentration camp in Germany or Poland. ACORN had nothing to do with the economic meltdown. Voting ‘present’ more often than anyone else ever. That’s not someone who wants to do things, who wants to get involved – that’s someone who simply isn’t interested in the job.

      I will check to see if I can catch him in a lie. If I can catch him in a lie already in the employment interview I cannot trust him for the job and I know it.

      - He’s against NAFTA but he’s for it.
      - He’s opposed to FISA but he’ll vote for it.
      - He’s for gay rights but don’t let him be photographed with gays.
      - He’s for gay rights but he stumps with a ‘reformed gay’???
      - He’s for guns but he’s also opposed to guns.
      - He’s against lobbyists but gets more $$$ from them than anybody.
      - He’s for public campaign financing but he’s not – and on this flip-flop takes the opportunity to lambast his opponent who’s done nothing to deserve it.

      So we cannot find a single ‘good’ character reference, we catch him repeatedly in obnoxious lies – what pray tell would ever induce us to hiring this pest? Nothing.

      It’s about representation. They work for me. It’s about trust, as Hillary said. And this two bit loser jerk doesn’t get the job. He doesn’t even get a followup interview.

  • darryl

    I also believe a lot of people are voting for Obama because of Bush. They don’t trust Obama but they feel McCain is a republican therefore he is Bush in their minds. This is the FEAR that Obama is putting into people’s minds and it is pathetic. They hold their nose and vote Obama because they feel they have to when they don’t. If they would just look at the freaking facts they would see Obama as the liar he is.

    • Northwest rain

      Camp Obama is banking on a huge percentage of voters being too damned lazy to do the research — and they’ve put up all sorts of smoke screens to discourage voters to ask questions.

      Can’t question teh one — that’s racist.

      However, threatening and lies can only work for so long before we realize that this is a damned rerun.

      Congratulations to all the early voters, those who stood in line and those of us who mailed in our ballot for McCain-Palin!!!

    • Lizzie Struthers

      Then I hold them as irresponsible voters. Pure plain and simple. They were too lazy to do the research, they have a disregard for their most important of civic rights (duties).

  • Pat Downing

    George W. Bush’s Texas accent isn’t “faux” anything.

    His parents moved with him to Texas when he was TWO YEARS OLD. They settled in Midland after a few years.

    Let’s get the facts stright before we get snarky.

    • Northwest rain

      Oh come on now — GWB’s accent slips around. He also went to eastern prep schools and to colleges in the east. The Texans I know do NOT claim GWB as a fellow Texan.

      Obama’s accent also migrates — depending on who he’s talking to.

      Valid observation for both narcissistic bores.

      • John House

        That’s just bullshit. My cousins live in the town he was born in and they treat his childhood home like a shrine. Midland Odessa people LOVE that man. There’s no sense in denying that.

        • Northwest rain

          Go worship the creep — that’s your business. But GWB was born in Connecticut — and the Texans I know are very quick to point out that bush isn’t really FROM Texas.

          Bush is a lying piece of crap and he should have been impeached — thanks to Pooposie he is getting a pass on one of the biggest crimes of this century or the last century.

          Just ’cause I’m voting for McCain doesn’t mean I can forgive GWB for being a lying bastard and one of the worst Presidents EVER.

        • C.S.

          Midland, Texas may “love that man” but it doesn’t change his birth certificate.

          His grandfather, Prescott, was a Senator from the state of Connecticut, his father a Congressman from Texas. He couldn’t get into the private St. Johns School in Houston, Texas but graduated from Phillips Academy prep school where his father graduated from. He couldn’t get into the University of Texas School of Law but was accepted by Harvard where he got an MBA. So he obviously spent a lot of time “back east” getting educated in Ivy League schools as a legacy where relatives lived in Connecticut and Kennebunkport, Maine. It’s all in his bio. Typical Texas resident he wasn’t.

          • stodgie

            “all hat,no cattle”! That’s George! heck he is scared of horses too. real ranchers laugh at him.

            • melisa

              I’m scared of horses. Oopps! internal dialogue.

  • http://lesstalkmoreactivism.blogspot.com/ whoframedrudy

    In fairness to President Nixon, he actually accomplished something in his Presidency — shattering the Sino-Soviet coalition — unlike our resident orangutan. But Nixon’s personality disorder is on record.

    An Obama presidency would be a screwed up mix of Marxist ideology, Bush-style incompetence, Nixonian neurosis, and policy confusion as all his advisors pull in different directions, showing zero respect for the bogus figurehead Obama. “You’ve served your purpose, Barack. Now shut up. We’re running things now.” To keep Obama happy, the Cabinet will let him run his very own team of Nixonite ratfuckers whose only job will be to take petty revenge on Obama’s enemies list.

    • scarface

      I totally agree. His downfall was Watergate, but he was a chess master when it came to foreign policy. In his commendable quiet way, he strategically averted many disasters. I too had so many misconceptions about him until I looked into his bio. He was a victim of his own insecurities propagated in many ways by the media bias during his presidency.

      For those who are interested, I recommended a summarized version of his presidency in the piece “Richard M. Nixon” from American Experience.

      • Northwest rain

        Years ago I predicted that another President, probably Republican, would come along and be far worst than Nixon. Then GWB showed us what a useless frat boy could do to screw up and now the bar has been set so low that Obama is trying to claim the office with even lower qualifications and expectations.

        However, I do believe that enough of the American voters don’t want another frat boy in the White House — they want a steady, honest guy who has been working for America since he was a teenager.

        Funny — Obama isn’t picking on McCain — but Obama has found another woman to attack. With the help of the media.

        • Lizzie Struthers

          I think the reason a two bit jerk like Obama even has a chance is W. W destroyed the fabric of the US. People today don’t know if they’re coming or going. That whole foolish idea of human rights got systematically tossed out the window. People got used to it. They don’t know what they want anymore. They don’t know who they are anymore. They don’t have any visions or dreams or aspirations anymore. Not tangible intelligent ones at any rate. To twist an old phrase, they’re so down everything looks up to them.

          And into this mess David Axelrod and George Soros introduce the choomin’ Barry Soetoro. Fake baritone, coached in rhetoric and hand gestures just as Adolf Hitler. Do you really think George Soros is not acutely aware of how Adolf Hitler could rise to power? It’s the same formula all over again but with the Big Brother Boob Tube to help even more. And Karl Rove and his friends showed them all in the past eight years how to further refine the technique, the technology: they were able to dupe at least 60% of the nation (enough to win a GE) to believe there was a connection between 911 and Saddam without once having to submit any arguments or proof why. It’s the art of propaganda, and David Axelrod and his evil friends watched, listened, and learned.

          And these are the fruits of the past eight years. Adolf Hitler is coming home to roost in the United States. People in the US never had to see what led up to Nazi Germany and how things like this were possible. They never stopped to think something must be wrong if Hitler could get 100,000 lunatics to Nuremberg for a frantic frenzied rally. And the teachers in the US have failed in their responsibilities in a horrendous way. All the while the likes of Bill Ayers have been able to plant their violent agendas in the minds of students instead.

          We’re reaping those fruits now. This will not end well. Hitler didn’t have nuclear weapons. We got off lightly in comparison. There was a very important lesson there to be learned. It hasn’t been learned. Now try to tell a Kool-Aid drinking Obama teen about it. Good luck. They will make us all pay. The planet teeters on the brink and its future hangs in the balance. Make no mistake about it.

          • adelaide

            Lizzie, you are right on.

  • scarface

    Over $600 million dollars and still at a statistical tie? That’s obscene!

    For all BO’s rhetoric about helping with the economy and the Democrats’ super urgent stance on passing the bailout package, you would think that someone on BO’s advisory committee would have told him that he may get more votes by forking up the 600 mil. It would have played well with the Robin Hood/Messiah image too.

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

      Over $600 million dollars and still at a statistical tie? That’s obscene!

      yep!

      what does that tell us? It says Americans are so smart they don’t want Obama…

      for the first time in my adult life, i am proud of america…

      -=wipes tear from eye=-

      a. hillary
      b. mccain

      america first!

      • Lizzie Struthers

        what does that tell us? It says Americans are so smart they don’t want Obama…

        But it also tells us he and his campaign are ruthless crooks and charlatans.

  • IndieDogg

    Okay, give me hell, but I’m posting this entire article. From the Manchester Union.

    Feel the chills creep up your spine as you recognize the words from Obama’s current speeches and writings.

    They’re not new at all. In fact, they’re pulled verbatim from another time in American History.

    Might want to share this with some of the young rapture victims who think Obama came down from a mountaintop with some brave, original thinking. Not hardly. Been there, done that.

    # # #

    Barack Obama offers nothing new
    By JONAH GOLDBERG

    There’s an old saying: The oldest word in American politics is “new.” Only in that sense is there anything new to Barack Obama.

    Obama prefers the word “progressive” to “liberal” because it makes it sound like he’s shedding old liberal ideas. But if he is, it’s only to embrace older ones.

    America first encountered the vision Obama espouses under Woodrow Wilson, the first progressive President and the first to openly disparage the U.S. Constitution as a hindrance to enlightened government. His new idea was to replace it with a “living constitution” that empowered government to evolve beyond that document’s constraints. The Bill of Rights, lamented the progressives, inhibited what the government can do to people, but it failed to delineate what it must do for people.

    The old conception of individualism needed to be replaced by a new system in which the citizen would “marry his interests to the state,” in Wilson’s words. This would allow the state to fulfill the progressive pledge to “spread the prosperity around.” Obama shares Wilson’s faith in a living constitution and has argued that Supreme Court judges should be confirmed based on their empathy for the downtrodden.

    In a vital essay in the current Claremont Review of Books, Charles Kesler notes that Obama mentions Franklin Roosevelt in his book, “The Audacity of Hope,” more times than any living Democratic politician. That’s not surprising, given that FDR — a veteran of the Wilson administration — carried the progressive vision of government much further than Wilson himself.

    In 1944, FDR proposed updating the Bill of Rights with a new “economic bill of rights” that would define freedom not as liberty from government intrusion but as the possession of goodies provided by government. “Necessitous men are not free men,” FDR proclaimed. It’s a statement Obama surely agrees with; his adviser, Cass Sunstein, wrote a book saying FDR’s “second bill of rights” should become the defining principle of American politics.
    Wilson, Roosevelt and now Obama — all their ideas sprung forth from the work of John Dewey, the most important liberal philosopher of the 20th century. Dewey held that “natural rights and natural liberties exist only in the kingdom of mythological social zoology,” and that “organized social control” via a “socialized economy” was the only means to create “free” individuals.

    Dewey proposed that statism be taught as a kind of civic religion in our schools so that Americans could be raised to see the government as the solution to all of our problems.

    Dewey lives on in the education reform ideas espoused by former Weatherman Bill Ayers. Ayers, now an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, often invokes Dewey when justifying his own dream of indoctrinating public school students in “social justice.”

    Obama doesn’t condone Ayers’ ’70s-era bombings, but he certainly subscribes to Ayers’ educational vision. In fact, Ayers’ educational work is the primary defense for the candidate’s association with an unrepentant terrorist.

    Much has been made of Obama’s comment to “Joe the Plumber” that things are better when we “spread the wealth around.” The Obama campaign has rebuffed charges of “socialism” or “radicalism” with the usual eye-rolling.

    But Obama’s words that day in Ohio were consistent with his past statements.

    A just-unearthed 2001 interview with Obama on Chicago Public Radio reveals as much. Then a law school instructor and state legislator, Obama offered an eloquent indictment of the Warren Court for not being radical enough. While the court rightly gave blacks traditional rights, argued Obama, “the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth.” Unfortunately, according to Obama, “it didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution.”

    Officially, Obama says he is not advocating single-payer health care. That would seem too un-moderate. But in 2003, Obama told the AFL-CIO, “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program. … But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House.”

    Note: If Obama wins next week, all three of his preconditions will have been met, and his colleagues in the House and Senate are itching like junkies for a new New Deal. Only in a country of amnesiacs could one claim that socialized medicine is a “new idea.”
    Blowing away the dust and cobwebs from ancient wares doesn’t make them new.

    Save for his skin color, Obama doesn’t represent anything novel. Rather, he symbolizes a return to an older vision of the United States that was seen as the “wave of the future” eight decades ago.

    I, for one, have no desire to go back to that future.

    # # #

    Nor, do I.

    • Lizzie Struthers

      But as you realise yourself, a link would have been more polite. Thank you.

    • Mr. Natural

      Look around you. Look around at a world half filled with lazy ignorant slobs who can’t pry themselves away from their giant television sets, people who don’t read much beyond the cover of TV-Guide, credulous simpletons who believe whatever they’re told because it’s so much easier than thinking, slack jawed sheep who spend their entire lives being herded.

      That’s who’s getting “Obama’s” money.

      Here ya go. This will help you get used to it. Repeat after me:

      It’s not my money; it’s Obama’s money…

      It’s not your money; it’s Obama’s money…

      It’s not our money; it’s Obama’s money.

    • tzada
  • http://ahillarybmccainamericafirst.com/ gerard “barracuda” Nedich

    oh dear…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA9-boGzIc4

    hilarious…

    a. hillary
    b. mccain

    america first!

  • Skip

    Others have pointed this out before, but…

    Yet again, as McCain inched closer in the polls the stock market shot up over 1000 points in the last few days.

    Obama Up = Dow Down
    McCain Up = Dow Up

    As has been said before, follow the money.

    John McCain
    44th President of the United States

  • Mike

    I saw the review of his show on Hannity and that creepy guy. Wow~ I thought west wing was cancelled a few years ago? . First it was families making over $250,000.00 a year, now its $200,000.00. I’m sure his base felt the love but the undecideds who are looking at his economics are wondering WTF?

    And didn’t Biden say $150,000 this week? That would include a lot of average families in the SF Bay Area where the cost of living is astronomical. McCain/Palin need to make a new commercial ASAP and hammer BO with this. The man can’t be trusted. He says one thing today, yesterday…… what’s it going to be if he wins Tuesday?

  • jrterrier
  • jrterrier

    this is laughing out loud funny review of the infomercial:

    The Barack Obama Lack-Of-Variety Show [Mark Steyn]

    For what it’s worth, I don’t think the night worked for him. The last time anyone did this — Ross Perot — it was so weird a world unto itself (strange-looking guy with pie charts) that, beached between Cybill and Murphy Brown (or whatever it was back then), it had a kind of integrity and distinctiveness. This time round, The O Show followed by the Phillies followed by Jon Stewart cumulatively undermined the candidate.

    For a start, the show itself was slick only in a drearily generic way. The waving wheat and music made it seem like a standard campaign commercial, only longer — “It’s Morning, Noon And Night In America,” which is a big enough problem thanks to the media’s Obama cultists without the candidate himself piling on. As for the King Barack Meets [Insert Name Of Downtrodden Subject Here] stuff, aside from the fact that I don’t recognize the hellhole this country apparently is, there’s something faintly ridiculous in doing it in the middle of the Phillies winning the World Series. Maybe on Super Bowl Sunday, instead of Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunctioning, Obama could come out and interview people about how our entire rotten society is malfunctioning. And then The Daily Show kibbitzing stepped all over the infomercial even more.

    This is an amazing race. The incumbent president has approval ratings somewhere between Robert Mugabe and the ebola virus. The economy is supposedly on the brink of global Armageddon. McCain has only $80 million to spend, while Obama’s burning through $600 mil as fast as he can, and he doesn’t really need to spend a dime given the wall-to-wall media adoration. And tonight Chris Matthews’ doctors announced that his leg tingle has metastasized leaving his entire body like a vibrating cellphone whose ringtone is locked on “I’m In Love, I’m In Love, I’m In Love, I’m In Love, I’m In Love With A Wonderful Guy.”

    And yet an old cranky broke loser is within two or three points of the King of the World. Strange.

    • Mollye

      Funny stuff! I like Mark Steyn. He definitely has a BS detector and it’s in great working order where the one is concerned.

  • DJ

    Comment by McAnnie Baracuda | 2008-10-30 01:13:36

    HRC on my back burner for the time being. But I’ll probably never go back to the Democrat party now. I’m finding Republicans and conservatives nicer, more civil and respectful of people in general and women in particular. More to my liking. Who knew? I’ve been looking for love in all the wrong places!

    More fun to be independent or “decline to state” as they call you in California. I decided that I vote for the best person for the job, not for the party. I used to listen to the local SF Bay Area liberal radio station KGO until Hillary lost the nomination. I switched and listened to Rush Limbaugh for the first time…. never thought I’d say this, but I enjoy the guy’s show especially since he’s sticking up for McCain/Palin.

    • anon

      Tell me about it!! Holy sh*t!! Between becoming a devotee of Fox, Hannity, Limbaugh, Michael Medved, and most things right/conservative and the upchuck reflux on all things DNC, Pelosi, Dean, Reid, and Obama . . . I am stunned at the whole thing. My republican family members and our family’s republican friends are (delightfully) surprised at me too (but they always thought I was farther left than I was, despite my arguments).

      By the way, looking back now I’ve realized that the people in my career who were just the sh*ttiest backstabbers were dyed in the wool dems. They mocked me for being a girl scout on ethics and decency. I never made the connection before now.

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

    Even Barackula’s grandma doesn’t support him…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FUq223TGEc

    very strange…

    a. hillary
    b. mccain

    america first!

  • Indyvoter

    My email and answering machine is full of Obama campaign stuff.

    Did Hillary finally pass over her 2008 lists to him?

    They wanted money, calls to PA, volunteering.

    Ugh! I unsubscribed twice, saying I already voted for McCain.

    • Indyvoter

      I should have said “Donna Brazile said I was not needed.”

  • Brenda

    Watched a clip of Obama’s speech on Greta. If I’m not mistaken, I think Obama stated he would lower the taxes for people making $200,000 and less. I thought he originally said $250,000 (and Biden said $150,000 the other day).

    I went to a Sarah Palin rally today in my hometown (Indiana); the news estimated 20,000 people were ‘packed in’. It was AWESOME! Tons and Tons of cars, people, state police directing traffic…Loved it! Hank Williams, Jr. was part of the rally.

    • DJ

      It was $250,000. If BO wins he’ll probably lower it to the $49,000 that McCain/Palin have hit him on before.

      20,000 for Gov. Palin!…. of course the MSM rarely reports her numbers when they rival BO’s. Indiana, will you stay red for McCain/Palin?

      • tzada

        Yesterday they said Biden was at a high school gym and it was 3/4 empty. ;)

    • AnninCA

      Yes, they are lowering it daily! LOL* And Obama’s flippant remark that it was too late to go back and check his contributors for illegalities was not received well, either, yesterday.

      • Rob G in Chicago

        AnninCA:

        I remember how President Bill Clinton was attacked in the press and by Republicans for months on end for his Indonesian connections/contributions and Gore caught a lot of crap for the fundraiser at the Buddhist temple. President Clinton was accused of treason and selling secrets to the Chinese in exchange for campaign contributions. Obama has been caught like a rat in his financial shennanigans, and barely a peep out of the MSM. He even has his supporters making calls for him from Gaza (see link below):

        http://savagepolitics.com/?p=2332

  • Lizzie Struthers

    Obama: the consummate bullshit artist. Migod this person is despicable.

  • Lizzie Struthers

    All this crazy stuff going on around Obama: let’s not get confused. These are not Obama’s own ideas, even if he has to give them his approval. These are the satanic children of David Axelrod.

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

    Obama’s Favorite Terrorist™

    http://ahillarybmccainamericafirst.com/?q=node/41

    a. hillary
    b. mccain

    america first!

  • www.me

    Someone wrote elsewhere that all Obama needed was Sally Struthers bawling and he could have done a Feed the Children commercial. There really wasn’t much difference.

    The last people who find this insufferable bore even remotely interesting are in the media. And they wonder why circulations and viewership have plummeted.

  • www.me

    Someone wrote elsewhere that all Obama needed was Sally Struthers bawling and he could have done a Feed the Children commercial. There really wasn’t much difference.

    The last people who find this insufferable bore even remotely interesting are in the media. And they wonder why circulations and viewership have plummeted.

  • LAMusing

    hey – is it a good sign that yesterday I was in a 99 cent store here in sunny Southern CA and they had a mountain of BO/Biden t shirts?
    99 cents.

  • Mr. Natural

    Hollywood Insiders Rip MSNBC, Defend Palin:

    http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE49R0GK20081028?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=10112

    Olbermann was criticized by many who attended Monday’s luncheon sponsored by the Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The event was dubbed “Hollywood, America and Election ’08.”

  • notrees

    You are right Bud White. I hardly read anything about Obama any more. Now I mostly read about who his cronies are, and my wife was all TOed last evening because he preempted something on TV.

  • ame

    Here’s an example of Obama’s work ethic.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah9W24oMIRc

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

      that is pure class…

      isn’t that what is also referred to by many as the “Socialist” work ethic too?

      a. hillary
      b. mccain

      america first!

    • Mollye

      Wow, this would have been a great 527.

  • tango

    Funny how when grilling machines, magic putty, easy hang drapes and latest in mineral make up informercials come on tv, we change the channel because we know if we watch we’re going to see a fair amount of lying, double speak and misleading statements. And of how many times when we did give in and watch and buy what was presented, were we truly satisfied with the product? Hardly ever in my experience. I figure it’d be the same for ANY presidential candidate who did one also.

    I am so bored with Obama. For someone who is supposedly killing the competetion, he sure isn’t acting like it since he’s flooding all media with his message. I love how McCain is supposedly desperate to bring up Obama’s associates. How come noone is pointing out how desperate Obama looks by spending all this money in the last few days?

  • Steven

    http://www.globalnewsdaily.com/SDS-Weather-Underground/index.htm

    I wish the media would wake up!
    Obama is to close we cannot let this stand :(

  • Linda

    Just say, O, NO!

    • Linda

      or in response to a question

      O? NO!

  • fif

    The media force-feeds the nation this junk food. Just think, we could be listening to Hillary talk about the intricacies of health care or something else intellectually nutritious. Instead, it’s more Obama drama.

    Early in the primaries, President Clinton told Charlie Rose that picking Obama would be a “risk” and suggested that nominating Obama would be like nominating a “a gifted television commentator.”

    Lord, I was tired of him by March. Last night on FOX, Juan Williams, who has now chugged the Kool Aid, said there are “still late deciders who may not know Barack Obama, and they are just being introduced to him with this ad.” Have they been living under a rock?! It is virtually impossible to avoid his face, the logos, the bumper stickers, the signs, the ads, the events, the news, the magazines, etc. etc. etc. I have NEVER seen anything this overexposed. Personally, I stopped listening to him a long time ago. If he is elected president, it will be 4 years with the mute button.

  • tek

    OMG! He didn’t use the OBAMA OFFICIAL SEAL did he? Bwaahaahaa!

    Obama fatique is setting in. Would that it were so. (I know I’m tired of him).

    • AnninCA

      Well, he’s the decision maker. He’s been over-flooding on ads.

      Today, it’s reported that McCain is just now hitting the TV ads hard, matching Obama’s ads. That’s the correct strategy.

      Hit in the last week. We’re all prepared to be bored silly with political ads this week.

      Prior to this, it’s annoying when it’s overkill. It’s like having to listen to Christmas carols before Thanksgiving.

  • hootnannie

    I’ve had friends and co-workers tell me just how tired they are of hearing The One’s voice and seeing his visage, so I knew I wasn’t being overly sensitive or melodramatic in expressing that I feel like I’m being subjected to verbal water torture! I feel like Pavlov’s dogs everytime I hear his grating croak emanating from where my husband is listening to CNN or MSNBC. How brainwashed must the O-bots be to want to listen to this mantra-like swill day and night?! They don’t care that he supports Marxism, terrorism, criminality, or infanticide. Or is that what these fools want? If he became President, we’d no doubt be subjected to longer rants than Fidel Castro used to deliver. Of course, The One would appear in a tasseled toga instead of a military uniform!

    • stefystef

      I talked to all my friends and none of them watched Obama last night.
      I didn’t watch him and kudos to ABC for NOT showing Obama and putting on “Pushing Daises” a MUCH better show (love it!)

      I’m sick and tired of “The One”. I hope the PUMA come out in full force on Tuesday. Don’t be fooled by the early voting… get out there on November 4th!

  • http://www.wewillnotbesilenced2008.com OBAMA IS A FRAUD

    This is the greatest chat about TROLLS from Hillbuzz. ROFLMAO.

    Hey Eeyores: how good are you at spotting trolls?
    Posted by hillbuzz

    This is something we should have addressed a long time ago, but we always assumed Eeyores were smart enough to spot trolls on their own.

    Trolls come in a wide variety, but the most frequent ones we find lurking here are “concern trolls”, which are loosely defined for our purposes as trolls who come to sites like this and outwardly feign support for Hillary Clinton or John McCain, but really have a pro-Obama agenda to demoralize you. We’re not aware of these critters existing in 2004, so they seem to be a new phenomenon of astroturfing (or, Axelrod turfing, if you will).

    We have no idea who these people are in real life, but we imagine they are ugly.

    And dateless.

    We completely ignore them here — but Eeyores we know, surprisingly, actually read the comments the concern trolls leave and wonder if any of it is true. Of course it’s not — the trolls come here to breed Eeyores in our midst, and spread rain clouds far and wide. For some reason, these people always remind us of Rumpelstiltskin, malicious and gnarled, lurking in the dark, popping up here and there, belching and farting while trying to get people to kill themselves so they can gnaw on their bones.

    Extra drama in the coffee this morning!

    We could name the worst trolls we see here, but unlike Rumpelstiltskin, naming these trolls doesn’t banish them to the phantom zone: because they revel in attention and power. You can figure out for yourself who they are — because they all read from the Axelrod astroturfing playbook, if not work for the Obama campaign itself.

    They’ll say things like, “Well, McCain did have a surge in the polls and he is a good candidate, but now Zogby and Rasmussen say this race is over because Obama is so far ahead.” Their MO is to try to stike some psychological affinity with you, agreeing on some point, before casting an Eeyore spell over your gullible self and bringing you down with troll lies. Their hope is to spook Eeyores to stampede, and call or email all of their friends in panic. “Trolls told me we should give up and I listened because the trolls said it and I read what they said and now I need my dydee changed because I am the world’s most gullible 45-year old!”. And your Doorman or whoever is staring back at you wishes he never met an Eeyore such as yourself. Enough with the pants wetting over things trolls tell you.

    And, if you haven’t figured this out by now, you deserve to be called stupid by us, because the biggest concern trolls OF THEM ALL are the mainstream media. The biggest Eeyores we know park themselves in front of MSNBC and wail and cry throughout the day, gnashing their teeth and pulling their hair, despondent the concern trolls on the Obama propaganda channel keep telling them to SURRENDER! because “all hope is lost, you can’t possibly win”. MSNBC tells Eeyores there is nothing any of us can do to stop Obama’s socialist paradise from arriving: the Age of Obama has begun!

    And Eeyores collapse into puddles of tears and pee, sucking their hooves in fetal positions, burbling and babbling “Doomed! Doomed! Doomed!”.

    It really is this ridiculous, people.

    And the harder the trolls work to breed you Eeyores, the more we’re certain of John McCain and Sarah Palin’s win — because trolls wouldn’t be working this hard if they really thought they had it in the bag. The media would not be trying to manufacture rain clouds for Eeyores to wallow in if they really believe Obama was winning this. Why bother if you have this sewn up?

    They are going to do what they did to Clinton supporters during the primaries: they will clobber you hard with Eeyore-inducing, concern troll logic the next few days in massive efforts to depress John McCain’s votes. Eeyores will email all of the troll logic around, spreading it — completely oblivious to the fact that this is exactly what trolls want you to do.

    We have a good friend named Astrid who we love dearly but who is the absolute worst at this — we had to tell her yesterday that we never read anything she sends us because it’s all troll logic and Eeyore chow. We scan the first line of whatever email she sends, and if we see the slightest bit of concern troll in there, POOF!, into the recycle bin it goes. We have no idea what Astrid’s deal is with this or why she insists on spreading the lies she reads on MSNBC.com — but she’s a stubborn Eeyore who doesn’t see how much damage she does by forwarding troll polls or media lies around.

    We repeat ourselves around here because we still haven’t found a way to get through to Eeyores like this, but you really need to stop spreading what you read in the media around to people. If you really want McCain/Palin to win, then spread only the articles you find that cut through the troll logic and media lies and inspire people to work harder for that win. Forward what you read on HillBuzz to people, because what we post is 100% troll logic free. We are a safe zone and won’t ever spread any of that raincloud media nonsense.

    We’ve already told Astrid that after this election we’re having a long talk with her about changes she needs to make going forward – because life’s too short to depress people around you needlessly or hurt the causes you believe in by being so negative. Everything you want to communicate can be parsed in a positive way. Instead of telling people “This is so terrible!” or “Why aren’t they doing this?”, you need to manage your message and say, “Here’s an idea that can make this better” or “How about we try this?”. That might be silly to some of you out there, but you set a psychological tone with everything you do — and when people are stressed and the stakes are high, if you’re someone who brings people’s spirits down, and that’s not your intent, you need to change the way you communicate whatever it is you want to say. The concern trolls aspire to bring people down and deflate them. But, Eeyores don’t intend to do that, even though that’s what happens. We know Astrid means well — but she’s worth about 20 concern trolls sometimes.

    Be mindful that we have just a few days left in what, for some of us, has been a 2 year long adventure in our lives. We’re confident of a win for McCain/Palin next Tuesday, but we need to stay strong together to weather a few more days of troll attacks and Eeyore rain storms — and make sure we get as many people to go out and vote for McCain/Palin as possible. Get people pumped up — don’t help the trolls bring them down.

  • musicxroom

    hellooooooooo

  • John House

    Uh, dude, England’s got Sharia Law courts. Really? You’d move there? That country is the perfect example of what happens when people are TOO NICE and TOO politically correct. You get Sharia Law & assholes who treat women like punching bags (and firestarters) and property.

  • Kristen

    My 7 year old daughter came home from school yesterday and said her friend told her that her Dad said they were moving out of the country if “That one” was elected. She said her friend said “That one” wasn’t even from this country! My husband and I have discussed moving too- kind of joking really. But I have faith McCain will pull this off.

  • BlueTopaz

    Yep!

  • BlueTopaz

    God save the KINKS!!!!!

  • Buzz Latte

    Should God save the queen?

    Absolutely. I have to say that as I am a descendent of the House of Stewart or if you prefer the french – Stuart. LOL Seriously though on the royal stuff.

    God Save the Queen AND Rufus Sewell!!!

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

    what? Obama palling around with more racists?

    oh dear…

    a. hillary
    b. mccain

    america first!

  • Newly Independent

    Clinton might just close the deal for Obama in that state

    Yeah – the same state Bill’s WIFE won (and Obama LOST) back in January during the primary. Or have you self-centered, arrogant dummies in the Obama camp forgotten that?

    (*sarcasm*) Suuure – the Democrat voters in Florida have forgotten all about how Obama and the DNC fought like HELL to disenfranchise them during the primary. How the DNC finally ended up marginalizing their votes back in May. Surely the memory of Obama and the DNC stealing the nomination won’t be crossing the minds of Clinton supporters every time they see Bill or Hillary stumping for Obama. Everything is peaches and cream now – riiiiight??

  • tek

    Undercover: Wrong. When Bill Clinton speaks, it just reminds voters of what they’ve lost: another GREAT Clinton presidency. The times I’ve seen Clinton speak at Oblahma’s events, the crowd is NUTS for Clinton, not so much for Obama and they’re saying: we want you, not this fraud the DNC pushed on us.

    Barack, I knew Bill Clinton, and you’re no Bill Clinton.

  • NoBamaNoWay

    heh heh.

  • NoBamaNoWay

    yeah, i guess all that untraceable foreign and corporate money goes a long way. if obama wins, i suppose we can count on him to dance with the on that brung him.

  • Newly Independent

    Wethinks so.

    The Obamamercial was a complete waste – because the majority of the American voters Obama needed to convince wern’t watching it.

    Outspending an opponent 2:1 never guarantees victory.

  • Deep Truths

    Surely you don’t believe those polls with 12+ Obama. Those are Obama propaganda tools. This race is closer by the minute. The youth vote is non-existent. The Black vote will go from 90% to 92% for a Dem, big whoop. The PUMA vote is steady if not growing. The Republicans are pumped and the independents are leaning heavily for McCain.
    ACORN is being disinfected with FBI raids and court appearances so that election officials are on the alert in every state.

    Ergo to wit, UBM, your enthusiasm for The One is misplaced, misguided, and thoroughly disabused.

  • AnninCA

    Actually, no….what has dominated the news is that story about the LA Times tape. Or at least here in CA, that’s the big story.

    In CA, the take on his ad was that it was an infomercial. They had the guy who sells Ginzu knives on to talk about it. *haha

  • csuzeq

    He often outspent Hillary as much as 4 or 5 to 1 and that didn’t help him!

  • Midlife Mama

    Do you say that because you are so certain of an Obama victory?

    Just what if the majority of Americans aren’t buying it? What if he loses? It COULD happen. What then?

  • tek

    I think Pam’s concern is the most logical one, actually.

  • melisa

    OK, not leaving the country, but I was actually googling real estate in Alaska yesterday.

  • lisa in va

    You might go to realtor.com

    I’m guessing O’blahblahs house is going to be on the market real soon. What with repaying hundreds of millions in illegal contributions; paying for his legal defense to try to keep him out of a cell next to Resko. I think he’ll be trying to unload his house…cheap!

    Darn, I just realized. His daughters are going to lose out on their $10k ballet lessons. Hey, maybe Bill and Bernadette will help them out?

  • JustMe

    Yes being an ex brit there is nothing more powerful than an American and a Brit put them together and they will go to the ends of the earth for all!!

    Made in England
    Cemented in the USA!!

  • JustMe

    Yes God save the Queen
    However I lost some respect for the Royals after Diana….. when you look at Diana and Hillary both went through rough times in their lives with men etc…. both came through well.
    Worked hard VERY HARD… for the less well off….

    One woman survived to be let down by her own party…

    One perished after gaining her strength & her light was diminished with the TURN OF A KEY!

  • athena

    Interesting….my husband and I have also contemplated moving out of the country as well. When I mention it to friends I am kinda shocked to hear them say the same thing. This is not a “hate” thing either. This is getting ahead of the curve when it may be too late to leave. Was just told that a recent tax law now taxes 50% of income transferred out of the country. Anyone know about this?