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Remembering The Past Is A Key To The Present »

As you know no doubt know, Obama just took his first big trip abroad as president … to Ottawa. That got me to thinking – it has been almost a year since Canadian TV reported that Obama’s aide, Austan Goolsbee, was assuring Canada that NAFTA was safe and sound, despite Obama’s campaign promises to [...]

Obama’s Economic Plan »

Reprinted from Huffington Post with the express permission of Lady de Rothschild. Lynn will open today’s “Closing Arguments for McCain/Palin” conference call at 5:00 p.m. ET.
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In a stunning about face this week, Barack Obama announced that “I’ve got an economic plan that is similar to Bill Clinton’s.” On its face, this would mean [...]

Hallelujah!! »

Good news, All Ye Faithful! The Obama Camp has designed religious paraphernalia on which you can spend your hard-earned dollars! Now you can show your adoration for your faith and for Obama all at the same time! Oh, wait – was that redundant?? At God-O-Meter, the new items available were revealed. Oh, yes.
Up first, [...]

AFL-CIO Reminds Us About Obama Rumors »

The AFL-CIO endorsed Obama. They have released two mailers. The first mailer is here:
• “Does he wear a flag pin on his lapel? Yes, but not always. Like many presidential candidates, sometimes he wears a flag pin, sometimes he wears a breast cancer awareness pin, sometimes he wears his U.S. Senate [...]

Seriously, Is Obama Just a Puppet? »

We first learned who was behind Obama and his inspiring speeches months ago. Those very speeches that excited the crowds, and drew people in. Those very speeches that many people voted for. Despite the fact that he ever really said anything more than just *hope* and *change*, people saw JFK, MLK and RFK all rolled [...]

Barack Obama is Coyote Ugly »

Groggy Democrats are waking up with a terrible hangover after a year of drinking the Obama “Magic Elixir” and are getting a good look in the morning light at the real Barack Obama. Holy hair shirt! The dude ain’t the handsome charmer that seduced us. He is looking more and more [...]

Rove: Obama is the Democrats’ Nixon »

“Instead of consistency, Mr. Obama has followed Richard Nixon’s advice, to cater to his party’s extreme in the primaries and then move aggressively to the middle for the fall.
“In the primary, Mr. Obama:

supported pulling out of Iraq within 16 months,

called the D.C. gun ban constitutional,

backed the subjection of telecom companies to expensive [...]

Salon Reporter Hears the PUMAs Growl »

Rebecca, you’re surprised you’ve heard from thousands of PUMAs? Really?
When you write, “Who are these women, and why are they such buzzkills?”
When you fail to acknowledge the primary reason that PUMAs oppose Barack Obama — which is his utter lack of qualifications and experience?
Especially since you did not interview a single member [...]

Barack is not Qualified »

Ah, it is “feel the love” day. American Prospect put up a piece by David Weigle with the catchy title, Larry Johnson’s Strange Trip that strongly suggests nobody likes me. The rightwingers hate me (Rush called me a “leftwing hack”) and the “progressives?” They are in full meltdown.
And then I got this [...]

A Response to Salon’s Story on PUMA: The Most Important Reason Clinton Voters Will Not Support Senator Obama »

Salon magazine published an article today: “Will Clinton supporters vote for Obama?,” by Rebecca Traister. The story’s subtitle: “The attack of the PUMAs, or a dozen reasons why Clinton voters are still too angry to come home.”
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Barack Obama: A Bold-Faced Liar? »

See also, the true story about that 2002 Iraq speech, so little noted that it wasn’t videotaped or even covered in Chicago media, forcing the Obama campaign to “recreate” the speech, as reported by NPR: “The Staged Iraq War Speech & More “Creative” Embellishments.”
This means, of course, that we have to take creative [...]

FREE LARRY SINCLAIR, OBAMA’S POLITICAL PRISONER »

By Webster G. Tarpley
Washington DC, June 21 — Tonight political prisoner Larry Sinclair is spending his fourth night in the DC Jail, the victim of a Gestapo-style enemies’ list operation carried out just three blocks from the White House last Wednesday afternoon.
Sinclair had come to the National Press Club to detail his [...]

Obama Repeatedly Defecates On Progressives (re: John Barrow, FISA, NAFTA, Campaign Finance…) »

It’s been a painfully interesting few days for progressives who were cock positive that Barack Obama would prove to be an agent of capital-C Change –for those who truly believed that he was new and clean and would fight against corrupt, self-serving, old-style Washington politics.
The biggest clue that such capital-H Hopes were not rooted [...]

Obama on NAFTA: Against It Before He Was For It »

“I have always opposed NAFTA.”
“I don’t think NAFTA has been good for America – and I never have.”
“Ten years after NAFTA passed, Senator Clinton said it was good for America. … Well, I don’t think NAFTA has been good for America – and I never have.” –Senator Barack Obama in Toledo, Ohio on February [...]

Obama apology demanded, No Vogue – no vote, Conservatives Don’t Like Strong Women?, Obama Flip-Flop, and MO Praises Hillary »

NEWS LINK
1) One of the headscarf-wearing women denied a seat behind Obama is demanding a personal apology from the candidate.
Aref said she received a phone call and apology from an Obama campaign offiicial, but said that’s not enough.
“I do appreciate they’re taking the time to look into what happened,” Aref said. “I think [...]