Disturbing GOP Vid Targets Obama on Wright
By Laluchasigue on April 23, 2008 at 1:51 PM in Barack Obama, North Carolina, Republicans, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
The PA primary demonstrates that the Jeremiah Wright controversy badly hurt Obama. Contrary to the finger wagging New York Times editorial, “The Low Road to Victory,” blaming Hillary for daring to wage a winning campaign in Pennsylvania, Obama was undercut mainly by his own severe problems, especially his 20 year relationship with Wright.
We now know that Obama’s Philadelphia speech on race in which he refused to disown Wright was not as the media touted a fabulous success but instead a crashing disaster. Obama’s Wright relationship has permanently alienated white working class voters, Catholics and Jews, among others. And the Republicans know it and are preparing for it.
A new 30 second video produced by a shadowy Republican group, which only contains factual footage, no commentary at all, is headed like a torpedo toward the Democratic Party is it nominates Obama. Every superdelegate should watch this video and explain why they would want every Democrat to bear this burden.
Meanwhile, down in the Tarheel state, NBC/National Journal’s Carrie Dann reports: “The North Carolina Republican Party will unveil a 30-second ad [Wednesday] that attacks Democratic gubernatorial candidates Beverly Perdue and Richard Moore for endorsing Barack Obama. The ad, per the party, will reference `controversial figures from Barack Obama’s past’ and raise the question of the candidates’ `judgment’ in supporting him. The ad will be unveiled at an 11am press conference.”
According to Dann, “The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is expected to play a starring role.”
Because of his relationship with Wright, Obama is becoming a serious drag on down-ticket Dem candidates. Why should every Democrat have to bear the burden of Obama’s recklessness?
First?
They’re doing our work for us. Every American should know what BO’s about, and the sooner, the better!
Actually Hillary did the work for the Republicans and gave them the framework to trounce Obama in a general election. I like the way McCain condemned it (wink, wink) and asked to have it removed from the air.
No work was required to see Obama has too much dangerous baggage.
Yes, of course you’re absolutely right. RovenCo would never, ever ever have found out about Wright or Ayers or Rezko et al. iffen That Monster hadn’t run such a dirty, negative campaign.
Whose side is she on, anyhow?
/snark
The press hid this information.
You are being lead around by the nose.
Clinton could have destroyed Obama in Iowa with an ad just like this. She had the tapes and understood just how bad this could be for the party.
She held off. The press then ran the tapes in the last few weeks.
Yes, I agree, Clinton could have gone negative and destroyed Obama months ago.
They aren’t bright, those bamaboys.
Yes, please don’t let them spin this. Clinton did not expose this. The media via the Fox Network ran the tapes. In fact, MSNBC, CNN held off from running it for days. It wasn’t until angry viewers got pissed off and demanded that they cover the story.
So don’t come talking that bullshit over here. Especially when we all know this was going to come out in the GE anyway.
What is wrong with you people? You think everyone is as stupid as you?
actually ,,you guys did it to urself ,,,,,its not our fault
we are JUST typical white people who are bitter and cling to guns and church
and we are the ones whom obama said ,,,,I CAN GET HILLARY SUPPORTERS BUT HILLARY CAN,T GET MINE,,,,
WE ARE those voters whom u obamabots call,,,,white trash,,low income,,,uneducated,,,,rural area,,,,working folks,,,,old women,,,,,dumb,,,stupid ,,,,,brainless,,,
we heard all that on tv ,,and on pro-obama blogs
so thats why we will never vote for obama
do i hear***you are proud of this USA for the first time****
do i hear ***god damn AMERICA***
wright said ,,,,hillary never been called a n*gg*e*r*
well obama never been called ***b*i*t*c*h*
no media is looking at obama,s wrinkles,,clevage,,ankles,,a*s*s
so pls,,,,,,
clean ur mind ,,think of all the wrong that you OBAMABOTS HAVE DONE
YOU HAVE A SUPPORTED A ANTI- AMERICAN ,,SO PAY THE PRICE
Hillary didn’t force Obama to associate with the guy for 20+ years. Nice try.
There’s the real answer, thank you.
Self inflicted wounds on Obama’s part — shame on you to bring in Hillary into this. Hannity talked about about it for more than a year and when the videos came out, it was a problem. Moreover, who asked him to sit in that church for 20 years and call that pastor his mentor and guide? Would you? Well, not if you thought you were presidential material and were ambitious enough to go after that.
Wait for the second ad on his Illinois district. No paper trail for good or bad, eh? No defense, either.
And I don’t think he would have sat there if he loved America.
Right, because the GOP would have never figured it out! And, unlike the GOP, Clinton is not ruthless. Believe it. She raised legitimate questions about his so-called “judgment.” The GOP will smear him–and the Democratic party.
Oh please! Operation Blame Hillary For The Landslide is well underway!
This is why Democrats lose elections- what the Republicans are doing in NC is a HUGE favor for us- a sneak preview of what we can expect if we nominate Obama. I remember the 1980s, when every Democrat was linked to Walter Mondale and Jesse Jackson. This will be far worse.
But instead of taking it as a favor, we’ll just wring our hands and cry foul and scream “it isnt faiiiirrr, it’s raaaacist” and go on to lose 46 states in November.
Oh, but we’ll still have our pride which, with $2.00, will buy you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
Damn we are such suckers.
“Oh please! Operation Blame Hillary For The Landslide is well underway! “
I love that!
And it’s so much more. It’s also We Don’t Care As Long As Obama Gets The Nomination and Hillary Doesn’t!
A lot of spiteful faces without noses running loose on the land!
Wow, where can you buy Starbucks coffee for only $2.00?
S. Markom you seriously can not be that STUPID, can you? LOL I swear for being the more “educated” you haven’t got a clue.
Unfortunately, some of his supporters, like one in my family, will not hear a bad thing about Obama. Some of them will continue to unwittingly blame it on a conspiracy. Some will just blame it on the Republicans, and unfortunately they are the ones making this ad. I”m glad they are doing it myself, but others will spin it as they always do for lack of not wanting to face up to the ugly truth about Obama.
Baby-O’s campaign has wrecked the democratic party and tried to nuke the only weapon the party had which was Peace and Prosperity during the Clinton/Gore administration….He is UNELECTABLE…Any way you cut it he is headed to POLITICAL OBLIVION and I hope he takes all his endorsers with him. This cracker will NEVER FORGIVE HIM for tearing apart the party built by FDR.
Sadly, Barry has wrecked nothing. It’ been decades since the what calls itself the ‘Democratic’ Party has been about anything resembling FDR’s vision.
Win or lose in the GE Barry’s candidacy and or Presidency, a doubtful prospect, will help many in the party see that the party is bankrupt in it’s ideas and it’s vision for America.
Should Barry lose the GE to McSame current party ‘leadership’ will be forced to step aside.
Should he win the party will be in deeper shit as the citizenry is going to refuse to accept ‘more of the same….’
Which is all Barry will offer.
Either way the days of Pelosi, Schumer, Reid, and Dean if he doesn’t get his head straight and throw Barry under the bus are numbered.
Barry is right when he says we need change.
We just don’t need him to be part of it.
Or the Clintons, if they choose, can rebuild the party.
And really, the democrats have far less to worry about then the republicans, after losing three wars, and staffed, as it is, by a bunch of toothless morons.
Really, the republicans have to get their own house in order, first, before they pretend they can take apart the democrats.
It doesnt help they lost three wars, and can’t figure out why.
A lot of the democrats know why.
The Democratic Party has been bankrupt for a long time. I blame a lot of this on the far-left wing fringe who can’t seem to understand that they are not in the majority. This is why we have Obama. Sickening really.
Don’t forget “hope.”
He didn’t wreck anything.
Barry just exploited the hell out of some already obvious weaknesses in a already dying Democratic party that long ago abandoned FDR’s economic populism agenda in favor cozying up to Wall Street.
Hillary is at best damage control. She might stop the bleeding but thats it, she’ll come into office with a dollar near free fall, a economy in recession, insane trade imbalances, sky high oil thats causing inflation, food and transportation costs going ever higher, and a Democratic Congress thats all but useless.
Whoa, whoa! Rut Roh!! We kinda saw this coming but, gulp, I’d hate that to be MY Screw Up Gone Wild
http://www.leadership-project.org/preview/
if you are maxed out with @2300 limit donation
you can donate to this linkwho makes ads on behalf of hillary and runs them in upcoming states
or just pay cash to someone to swipe thier credit card to hill website
thats what i did,,i had my sis do it
That might not be legal. Eligibility to vote rules from Hillary’s web site:
I mean eligibility to DONATE rules.
well my sis is obama supporter
i gave her 500 cash and had her use her credit card on hill website ,,,,,,she won,tdonate any to any candidate ,,,,
Sam has been told a number of times his suggestion might not be legal.
Here is the NC Republican ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXxkctYRAZQ&eurl=http://www.ncgop.org/home/index.asp
Yup all the Reps running are using Obama as an example of why ANYBODY is better than he is. And they are right. And this is just the BEGINNING. Obama is poison to the Democratic party. Next to him, the McGovern fiasco would look like CHild’s play. At least McGovern had some real experience and was a hero. What killed him was the moronic sycophants just like the ones Obama has. People couldn’t WAIT to make sure these little assholes didn’t pick a President. But with Obama, it’s even worse because he has horrdenous baggage and Wright is just the start of this. Wait till the Hamas ads come out. Somebody needs to pull the plug on Barack Obama. He is poison in November.
Dang, you are gonna make the trolls melt-down if you keep pointing out the stark reality of a losing election against McCain for BO (and all his horrific baggage).
Speaking of melting down, poor Ron Reagan was about to blow a gasket last night on CNN. He was in spin and misdirect overdrive, as Hillary has just beaten the demi-god BO.
They are gonna pull this guy off with a hook. You watch.
Uppity - Do you mean Obama will get pulled off with a hook? I don’t see any way he’ll go quietly.
He has a death wish. If he takes the party, and worse, the country down with him, he doesn’t care.
They just interviewed Linda Daves, the N.C. GOP Chair on MSNBC about the tape.and that John McCain asked them not to run the Video which includes Wright..
to her credit, LINDA DAVES said her Obligation is to the People of North carolina First and that they will continue to run the Ad…
Yeah, they are playing Good Cop Bad Cop in NC- McCain takes the high road by asking that the ad be taken down, the NC GOP says nope. Oh well, McCain did his best.
Frankly, if the ad is factual, I see no reason for it to be taken down. Don’t want this crap aired, Barack? Build a time machine, go back twenty years, and choose your associates more carefully.
Sucks to be you. But it IS you, isn’t it?
LOL John…Very Good..
I am TOTALLY enjoying it. TOTALLY. I mean it’s BEAUTIFUL out today and I’m inside enjoying watching what’s going on.
Larry: The Times has put out a piece on Hillary and complaining that she has gone too negative, blah blah blah. You should read it. I couldn’t believe it. She wins PA and they can’t give her any credit. Just trying to keep her down and do the Democratic elite’s and Obama’s dirty work. Its disgusting. Shame on them. This is too much. Go Hillary.
2008 Democratic Popular Vote
http://tinyurl.com/2hbf4a
Up to date chart
Taylor has it posted on her site. Also, NC Rep chair was just on MSNBC saying that she is going to run the ad. She said it’s about local issues and not national. She also said if the canidates for gov had endorsed Hillary, she would be doing the same thing. Again, talking heads ask if it was racist? I guess any ad featuring AA can be considered racist. If this is the case, this is going to put a lot of AA out of work. I think having Gene Robinson on television is racist.
At some point in a presidents term in office he is going to ask our brave soldiers and marines, reservists or national guardmens to place their lifes in danger. There has to be a certain amount of respect for the country shown by our leader for the country if he expects them to make the ultimate sacrifice, his relationship with the questionable cast of characters compromises that respect. Obama maybe the most patriot man in America but he is auditioning for the role of president of the United States and he has to portray an image of being deeply patriot. It is here were he just doesn’t get it. The sons and daughters of the elites he so seeks approval of do not send children in harms way it is the working class that does and by his attitudes how he can ask them to make sacrifices.
deke, how do you explain Bush, and Cheney, then?
It’s my impression they don’t give a shit about the military, breaking it as they are, and well, Cheney and Bush aren’t the brightest we’ve had, it shows in teh complete failure of strategy concering Iraq, Afghanistan, well, everything.
I despise Obama for the same reasons, vapid intellect.
Simon too thats the exact point the military initially responded to Bush/Chaney (although the military has now seen through them) because of their patriotism as phoney as it may have been. Obama goes to the other extreme by distaining any sort or patriotism. Against McCain that is a fatale flaw. Hillary has the credentials to face McCain with her bills supporting troops and reservists.
Ed Schultz encouraged Hillary supporters to call in today. Many did. Good news, right? WRONG!
The people who got through were the most spineless “supporters” imaginable. Schultz would say things like “hey, this woman promised to nuke Iran when she gets into the White House,” and the “supporter” would whine “well, yeah, I don’t like that about her…”
Schultz to another Hillary supporter: “She and Bill ran a nasty campaign in Pennsylvania..”
Caller: “Well, yeah, but…well, yeah, I didnt care for that…”
Schultz to another supporter: “Bill used the race card in SC..”
Caller: “I didn’t like that…”
Spineless, gutless, clueless weasles posing as Clinton supporters. Anyone on this blog would have ripped Schultz a new one. BTW I called into the show, couldnt even get anyone to pick up the phone.
Hillary “supporters” who called in to Schultz’s show today; You are a disgrace. You did your candidates no favors. If you don’t have the guts to argue with the host when he says something that you KNOW is wrong, just leave the phone on the receiver, ok?
Oh, and to wrap up his show, Schultz took a call from an OBAMA supporter who bitched about Hillary’s “whining about the media” and the racists in PA, of course. Wouldnt be an Ed Schultz show without at least one big serving of THAT crap.
Kinda makes you wonder if it was faked.. just sayin’
Wouldnt surprise me. The “supporters” were all timid dunces. Certainly no one who writes for this site would have put up with Big Eddie’s shit.
That’s the producer’s job… screen the callers.
YOU KNOW ,,,DON,T BE SURPRISED IF THEY WERE OBAMABOTS ,,,,JUST CALLING TO MAKE IT WORSE
they have done that before
they are all negative people who will do anything and everything like robot per owner instructions
so may be u should call as obama supporter and say bad things about him
OK, pattern would indicate the best way to fight a troll is to feed his expectation, and then pull the carpet on him, sometime, somewhere, depending on the final objective — notice to trolls who can’t understand WHY, given all the work they do, they still lose. You’re stupid.
Those who use propaganda 101 are too DUMB to understand how they’re being countertrolled, despite numerous explanations, whether it’s Obama’s crew, or Hamas.
(Oh, wait)
Anyway, don’t let it get to you, keep fighting with the truth, and you will be ok.
But guys like Schultz, or the rest?
Keep clear.
The concept of honor code in this primary is out the window — nothing is as it should be or as it seems. We have to question everything and without evidence don’t accept the premise (like they were Hillary supporters)
That was no Hillary supporter, just another Obamazoid.
Shrug.
Sure don’t sound like Hillary supporters.
Also, this is what our favorite TV networks are doing lately. Pretend to be for Hill (Nora O’Donnell is one, but there are others, too - all trolls), then criticize her big time. Makes it more credible, viewers can say this is from her supporter, must be true.
Great idea to turn it around.
So. Do they want to drive our party into the ditch by supporting a candidate that the white middle class is rejecting in droves?
A candidate that is carrying more baggage than a Greyhound bus?
Or do they want to WIN? I am starting to think my Democratic party has a pathological fear of success.
A much more troubling thought is that the Democratic nominee will go up against a guy that is considered:
1) War hero
2) Straight talker
3) Will be portrayed as squeaky clean
4) Considered moderate by most
5) Considered independent to many.
One of the things that the GOP did, either on purpose or accidentally, is paint McCain as someone not extreme enough to be their nominee. that put it into the Dems minds that he’s not as bad as Bush. That’s all bullshit, of course, but the moderate Dem voters could have problems if they are choosing between Obama and a repub they see as moderate.
The term Reagan Democrats comes to mind…. and when it comes to Hillary, I’m thinking of the Clinton Republicans from the 90s, as well as the Reagan Dems he won back to the Party. We need them to win. Dean & The Elites seem to think that their new scheme to render those swing voters irrelevant does not take into account the loss of the Hillary supporters that have been pissed off and driven away from the Party.
This is the real problem for the superdelegates who are themselves elected officials. They are on the verge of having Wright, Ayres, Rezko, etc. hung around their collective necks. They might bewilling to accept Obama as the nominee in order to placate certain segments of their electorate even though he is likely to lose the Presidency. What they don’t want is to lose their own precious little races because of him. Let’s hope they have the political acumen to recognize what’s coming. Don’t hold your breath waiting for the lights to come on, however. Democratic officials have pretty much fallen into whatever political advantages they now enjoy and become aware of political tsunamis only when they’re caught up in the waves.
its like OMFG they can hang my endorsement around my freaking neck!
“arrrggghhhh I never expected that!” they will say.
From: The Not So Simple Life of Barack Obama - Chicago Tribune 4/23/08
“This is something I’m not enjoying about the presidential race, ” Obama said in an interview. “Me getting screwed I’m fine with. Suddenly everybody who’s ever touched my life is subject to a colonoscopy on the front page of the newspaper.”
Now, does that sound Presidential?
He has no class. Seriously. Bush is a narcissistic and immature baby, but he understands how polite society works.
Every time Obama opens his mouth, unscripted, I feel like I’m reading the comments of the guy that works at the grocery store down the street.
Geez, man.. have some class! Talk like the leader of the free world. Don’t they always say that if you want a job that considered a promotion, that you should act, dress, and speak, as though you’ve already been hired?
Maybe if he hadn’t voluntarily thrown his grandmother under the bus for being a typical white person, I could feel a little sympathy for him. As for Wright, Ayres, and Rezco– not so much.
That sewed it up for me. I knew then that:
1) he hates white people and
2) he hates women and can’t resolve his relationship with his grandmother.
If he grandmother were running, I would vote for her, since she is clearly superior to him.
Agree…..there is not a psychiatrists couch anywhere that could help this guy with his cracker hate….It is lodged deep within himself…and fed by the woman he is married to and the father figures he is attracted to….Obama has lost whatever credibility he might have had with regards to the rest of the country with his tepid speech and throwing Ganny cracker under the bus….
As I said yesterday, on the southside of Chicago we would say that’s a punk move, he’s a punk, punk a_s, punk A bi_ch. Should I go on?
“As I said yesterday, on the southside of Chicago we would say that’s a punk move, he’s a punk, punk a_s, punk A bi_ch. Should I go on?”
Oh yes please do go on!
He can’t say he wasn’t warned.
Frankly, with Robert Gibbs on Obama’s payroll, I can’t imagine they have any room to complain about this stuff.
Gibbs was the architect of the grotesque smear piece against Howard Dean that was resoundly denounced by everyone (and Gibbs represented a shadowy group that he refused to name)
From Jerome Armstrong, MyDD in Feb. 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/6lqjx8
As far as Obama’s associates and baggage.. that’s his problem. Do any Obamacrats believe that the Repubs are going to go soft on him in a GE? Or on Hillary for that matter? Since when is stating the obvious destroying the Party?
Obama doesn’t have a Hillary problem, he has an Obama problem.
Well put, catriley…but you know the number one O-baby rule:
Everything is ultimately Hillary’s fault.
i approve ur message ,,i am a typical white bitter woman who goes to church not becauseshe is materially poor but because she is spiritually rich …
The ad that you’re referring was not a smear piece; it was factually accurate and dealt with a substantive issue. It stated (factually) that Howard Dean did not have any military or foreign policy experience and raised the question (one that many had) as to whether he would be the best one to deal with dangerous people such as Osama bin Laden.
Not a smear job at all. The Dean campaign cried foul because they had no answer to the legitimate concerns that some had about him, concerns that would certainly have been exploited by George W. Bush had the Vermonter been given the Democratic nomination.
One more example of Democratic wimp out factor …
Imagine … allowing George Bush to have the upper hand on the commander in chief discussion?
God, how anyone could call that bilious piece of crap a “spiritual advisor” for twenty years is beyond me.
Senator Casey: Take a Seat next to Kennedy and Kerry
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Another bogus endorsement that could not deliver the Catholic vote. The doublecrosser got his ass handed to him. Just like the walking “dead Kennedys” and the surfsailor, Kerry.
remember the tune
double dutch bus coming down the street…
its loaded with the cabal of dunces now
Dean Pelosi Kerry Kennedy Daschle Richardson Bradley, Brazile is driving and casey just boarded, claire is following in a smaller bus with all their kids who pressured them to support Obamba
Add to your list Judas Richardson….
Casey to Kerry and Kennedy: “Is that seat next to you taken?”
No, no it isn’t Mr. Casey.
we have a lot of room ….one for oprah too
We’re gonna have to get more chairs. Scoot down, Ms. Shriver. Yes, Senator McCaskill, you can still reach Barry’s butt from there. If not, Mr. Matthews and Mr. Olbermann will be happy to pass the kisses down the line!
lmao
I know I’m a horrible person to LOL, but I don’t care.
“one for oprah too” … that’s funny
YES WE WILL
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Wonder how many are here on OUR soil and handing cash over to someone else to donate under another name?
We need activists to join in and capture as much of NC as possible.
Money to Hillary and activists to the phones. We have three states to win in sight right now.
Join us ..you have to get into action.
It made the difference in PA and it will make the difference in two weeks.
bernie4hillary@gmail.com for phone scripts.
this is a pasted one from hillforum ,,,,pls join
Casey to Kerry and Kennedy: “Is that seat next to you taken?”
No, no it isn’t Mr. Casey.
Where are you reading the Elisabeth Edwards story?
Ha Ha - they will have to get a whole stadium.
Great comment…these will need a longer bench before long…I said when Kerry and Kennedy endorsed, it was the kiss of death…and now Casey goes down the same road…when will they learn!
Great comment…they will need a longer bench before long…I said when Kerry and Kennedy endorsed, it was the kiss of death…and now Casey goes down the same road…when will they learn!
4. I am not a foreign national who lacks permanent resident status in the United States.
So how come Obama can have people living in the Gaza strip making phone calls to persons for money? I saw that clip online and on TV and yet no one has asked about this and if its allowed.
I can’t wait to see it!
in Senator Casey’s district. From what I heard on the ground there, they were NOT impressed at all by his endorsement of Obama, that he did so because his kids liked Obama, and even though he is well-liked, it made a lot of people angry and might cost him a re-election. Hillary took Lackawanna county by 75%!
And he should loose it… he is not thinking here… Carolyn K. same thing “her kids liked him… ” he is hanging out with the wrong people and he is not good for our country how do they not read that or see it????????
KEEP RISING HILLARY RISE!
Casey supported Obama because he has a bug his ass about the way Bill treated his old man. This entire campaign is about people’s hurt feelings and axes to grind. I cannot begin to believe what a bunch of babies this party is made up of!
Casey supports the most liberal pro abortion candidate just to even a score with Bill Clinton? Ted Kennedy gets pissed off because he thinks that Lyndon got too much credit for the Civil Rights act? Is there something wrong with the drinking water in the capitol? Are they all getting early stage dimentia? They are a bunch of pathetic ninnies.
i love it….the ad about the good rev., and hillary had nothing to do with it, yet it is an ad that needs to run several times to remind people who that pig is and he’s obama’s mentor. the problem is the big aa voters in north carolina will show their obvious racism by voting for obama. its so disgusting on their part and the media wont dare say it…..
received the following “Poll” from sodahead today.
http://www.sodahead.com/poll/77869/
There’s two things about it that concern me:
1) It came to my email inbox identified as coming from Barbara Boxer
2) It actually came from the Sodahead founder
Even though the poll came as a direct question, I think the way it was phrased is EXTREMELY BIASED. I’m also upset that Sodahead is using Barbara Boxer’s name to get responses to such a poll. I believe Sen. Boxer has remained neutral in this campaign thus far.
I am asking here that all Hillary supporters do two things: 1) Complain to Sodahead that they should not use Barbara Boxer’s name (or anyone elses) for their own phishing expeditions and 2) Contact Barbara Boxer’s office and complain about this poll, and make sure they know her name was used and the context in which the question was asked. If Boxer did indeed endorse this question, I would be personally outraged.
I’m divided on whether to actually respond to the poll and show our strength. There are so many such BS internet polls, it probably matters little…except for unfortuantely the Sodahead founder’s posts probably get more page hits.
sodahead is not considered a legitimate site. Going there invites web bugs and as much spam as you can handle. You should really avoid them.
oh ok thx