Obama Delegate Behind Texas Polygamy Hoax?
By Carlos on April 25, 2008 at 10:54 AM in Barack Obama, Texas
The hits keep coming in the media meltdown at the Barack Obama campaign. As local police, the Texas Rangers and the FBI investigate the hoax phone call that lead to the massive raid on the Texas polygamist compound, word emerges that the woman arrested for the hoax is … a pledged delegate to the Obama campaign?
Thirty-three year-old Rozita E. Swinton was arrested in Colorado Springs, Colo., and “charged with false reporting to authorities in connection with the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints case in Texas,” reports the Houston Chronicle. Swinton is listed as a Precinct 269 state delegate pledged to Barack Obama, according to the El Paso (CO) County Democratic Party, a fact first reported by some conservative blogs.
Investigators say Swinton, who is black, is “obsessed” with the polygamist cult. “She knew it was a racist cult, ” says Linda Walker, who runs the Child Protection Project, run by a former member of the FLDS members. “We know that these kids are very frightened of black people. … The Texas Rangers told us she was obsessed with the FLDS. They confiscated tons of material on the FLDS. She even gave real addresses and real names of FLDS people.” Police say Swinton was charged with falsely reporting abuse to authorities in connection with a separate incident in Colorado Springs two months ago.
Police believe it was Swinton’s false report that started the investigation which has led to the removal more than 400 children from their parents’ custody. The drama is running wall-to-wall on FOX, with lurid tales of child brides and a “honeymoon suite” in the main church at the Teaxs compound. Choose your Monday morning spin from the “Creative Class” Obama bloggers: A woman obsessed with a cult and intent upon making mischief and tying up police and court resources? Or someone frustrated at the same old (child welfare) politics who was “inspired” to “change” the system? Yes we can!
“Obama Delegate Behind Texas Polygamy Hoax?”
More politics of nothingness…
Ooohhh…..Juicy….More radical extemism for the national roasting of BABY-O’S cause….Perfect timing what with Jeff’s favorite pastor on a roll…..Bite your pillow Jeff….
Well, that should revive the McCain/Romney discussion …
Great thing that SD’s were put in place to vote on Judgement for the good of the Party!
Anyone see Obama’s memo to SD yesterday to try getting SD’s to back him , using old polling numbers, pre-NAFTA-gate, Wright and Ayers to support his case and talking of cross over Republicans he has attracted, most of whom have returned to their Rep base!
Again–this woman is a prime example of the people that are attracted to Obama. Obsessed with the FLDS, obsessed with their racism, she commits a crime because of these obsessions. And then we find out that she is a pledged delegate to the Obama campaign….. Why am I not shocked?
I wonder if she was also one of the “swooners” at his rallies.
Interesting take . . . but I notice that you say nothing at all about the one key fact . . .
She was right!
To rephrase Donna BraZilla’s criticism on Sen. Clinton,
Why can’t Obama just control his people and stick with the issues?
LOL…Joey that was perfect…Friz they are erving Breakfast in Gaza now…You better run along….mmmkay….
Wow. So you’re on the side of the FLDS? Enjoy that. And read your John Krakauer so you know who your new friends are.
A woman obsessed with a cult?
Gee, those Obamabots don’t brook any competition, do they?
Many Obama supporters are clearly unstable.
Many Obama trolls are unstable and reside in GAZA…LOL…
Will she be able to call in her vote from prison?
But of course!
DNC Delegate Selection Rules: Florida & Michigan
True or False?
1) The DNC Rules state that pledged delegates elected by Florida and Michigan voters must be excluded because those states scheduled primaries before February 5, 2008.
FALSE: The DNC Delegate Selection Rules explicitly give the Rules and Bylaws Committee and the Credentials Committee ultimate jurisdiction over delegate selection. These committees, each in their independent capacities, can seat the delegates from Michigan and Florida at their discretion.
2) The mandatory penalty for a state holding a primary before February 5, 2008 is exclusion of that state’s delegates from the Democratic National Convention.
FALSE: The mandatory penalty is exclusion of one half of the offending state’s pledged and alternate delegates. Unless otherwise provided, the other half of that state’s pledged and alternate delegates will be seated at the convention.
3) Any attempt to seat 100% of the pledged or unpledged delegates of Florida and Michigan at this point is “changing the rules.”
FALSE: The DNC Rules explicitly contemplate that excluded delegates will eventually be seated at the Convention. For states in violation of the timing rules, the DNC Delegate Selection Rules provide remedies to reinstate all of their delegates, both pledged and unpledged.
4) Florida is not entitled to reinstatement of its delegates because the Democrats in the Florida State Legislature did not make efforts to keep the state’s primary in compliance with DNC Rules.
FALSE: Evidence that that a Republican majority in the state legislature set the primary date in violation of the DNC timing rules in spite of efforts by the state’s Democratic legislators to keep the primary in compliance is grounds for appealing a DNC decision to strip a state of its delegates.
Though Florida has a 2:1 Republican legislative majority, the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee ruled that the Democratic minority did not make sufficient efforts to keep the primary date in compliance with DNC Rules. The Florida State Party disputes this factual finding. The State Party argues that the Democrats in the legislature were robbed of meaningful power to stop the Republican effort to set an early primary date because Republicans drafted the controlling legislation and packed it with other unrelated issues which the Democrats in the legislature felt they could not in good conscience oppose.
5) The DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee has taken action and is unable to change the sanctions imposed on Florida and Michigan.
FALSE: The Rules and Bylaws Committee has the power to lift any and all automatic sanctions along with the power to impose and modify additional sanctions. The Rules and Bylaws committee also has the power to create its own committee to create an alternative process for delegate selection should the state party not cooperate or be unable to resolve the issue on its own. The Rules and Bylaws Committee failed to use the tools it had to independently resolve the matter in good faith before Florida and Michigan voters went to the polls of the ill timed primaries to express their candidate preference.
6) Hillary violated the DNC Rules by keeping her name on the Michigan ballot.
FALSE: Nowhere in the DNC’s Delegate Selection Plans is there any suggestion or command that any candidate remove his or her name from a ballot in a state that is in violation of timing rules. This is why Obama and Edwards were on the Florida ballot, in spite of its primary also being before February 5.
7) Hillary manipulated the process by being the only candidate who kept her name on the Michigan ballot.
FALSE: Kucinich, Dodd and Gravel also kept their names on the Michigan ballot. In fact the decision of some candidates to remove their names from the Michigan ballot was a tactical move designed to curry favor with Democratic Party officials in Iowa who were concerned that the significance of their first-in-the-nation status was being diminished. The risk paid off handsomely for Obama.
FALSE: According to the Delegate Selection Rules & Bylaws, “Delegates shall be allocated in a fashion that fairly reflects the expressed presidential preference or uncommitted status of the primary voters…” The Michigan ballot included an option for “uncommitted” to ensure that voters could express a presidential preference or uncommitted status consistent with this rule. Nothing in the Rules requires a state to allocate delegates to candidates who voluntarily remove their names from the ballot as John Edwards and Barack Obama did.
9) The primaries in Florida and Michigan are invalid because voters were under informed due to the lack of active campaigning.
FALSE: Voters in Florida and Michigan were very well informed. They had ample access to newspapers, television, books, radio, and the Internet. They could have availed themselves of over a year of coverage of the 2008 election. They could watch every campaign commercial on YouTube. They had the same opportunity as the rest of America to watch 17 televised debates.
Moreover, nowhere in the DNC rules does it specify that candidates must campaign directly in a state to make its primary a legitimate expression of voter candidate preference. Voters in Alaska and Hawaii never get visited by the candidates.
10) All the candidates signed a pledge to the DNC not to campaign in the states violating primary timing.
FALSE: The candidates signed no such pledge to the DNC.
11) Hillary violated the rules against campaigning in Florida and Michigan.
FALSE: Jurisdiction over determinations of whether a candidate shall be considered in violation of the relevant rule (Rule 20 C.1.b.) lies with the Rules and Bylaws Committee. Because the Committee has not ruled against either candidate, it is false to assert that either candidate is in violation.
12) Hillary signed a pledge that she violated by remaining on the ballot in Florida and Michigan?
FALSE: The only pledges signed were between the candidates and the state party chairs in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada. More to the point, they were not binding on the DNC, which is the only organization that has authority over seating delegates. Thus, these pledges are not controlling over the seating of Florida and Michigan delegates
13) Hillary’s activities in Florida and Michigan look suspicious, between fundraising and holding a victory rally in Florida.
FALSE: Hillary acted well within the letter and spirit of the rules. The rules stipulate that candidates can fundraise in states violating the timing rules and that fundraising activity is not considered impermissible campaigning. Further, the prohibition on campaigning in any state ends as soon as the primary in violation concludes. Hillary’s victory party was within the rules because she did not appear at a campaign event in Florida until after the polls closed.
14) Barack Obama would likely win more delegates if there were a new contest.
FALSE: The rules provide that a candidate who campaigns or holds press conferences in a state in violation of timing may not receive any of the pledged or unpledged delegates from that state. Because Barack Obama campaigned in Florida when, on Sunday September 30, 2007, he held an impromptu public news conference in Florida, when he bought television advertising time on stations in markets which included much of Florida, and when he ran a campaign in Michigan to encourage voters to vote “uncommitted,” Barack Obama may not be entitled to receive any delegates from Florida or Michigan.
15) Reinstating any of the delegates from either Florida or Michigan would be a travesty against democracy and fair elections. It would be cheating.
FALSE: There are many good and valid reasons for the DNC to have rules regarding delegate selection timing, but none of these reasons relate to ensuring that primaries accurately reflect voter preference. None of these involve the preservation of democracy.
Neither Clinton nor Obama has the power to reinstate the delegates unless they already have won 50% plus 1 of the total delegates. Therefore neither has the power to cheat. This matter lies in the hands of the DNC’s Rules & Bylaws Committee which is neutral.
Were Obama to gain control of the Credentials Committee at the DNC, he would have the power to exclude the delegates from Michigan and Florida. That would be a biased effort to disenfranchise two large states. That would be a travesty and one the Republicans could easily exploit in November.
Sonia, you do know that this was all posted yesterday, right?
Yeah, and you still don’t get it.
I also hear that even though we continually hear that Obama did not campaign in Florida, he was the only one to run TV ads there. Is this true?
Yep, it is true. See this Herald Tribune article for more info:
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080123/NEWS/801230668
Keep it up Sonia…Speak truth to Corruption….
16) Hillary has changed her position on Florida and Michigan now that she may not receive 50% + 1 of the total delegates need to win before the pledged delegate primaries conclude.
FALSE: From the beginning of the Florida controversy, Hillary has consistently stated that if she wins, meaning securing 50% + 1 of the total delegates, she will reinstate the Florida and Michigan delegation at the convention if the DNC fails to resolve the problem on their own before such time.
Obama has changed his position now that seating the Florida and Michigan delegates would put Hillary in the lead. In August of last year he said that resolving the delegate issue was not his job (”I’m like a player on the field. I shouldn’t be setting up the rules” ) and in September he suggested to Florida donors that if he were the nominee whether he would seat in the state’s excluded delegates, declaring that he would “Do right by Florida voters.”
Currently the race for pledged delegates is so split that neither candidate will receive the 50% plus 1 delegates they need to seal their nomination before the Convention. Obama now wants to set the rules and insists that the DNC must refuse to seat Florida and Michigan’s delegates, even though DNC Rules clearly provide remedies to include them. His arguments are not based in the rules and are not in the interest of democracy or the Democratic Party, but only in the fact that those delegates reflect a greater nationwide preference for Hillary Clinton.
17) A new primary or caucus would settle the issue in a fair way that would maintain party unity.
FALSE: A new primary or caucus that complies with timing rules would have been fair if the date had been set before people started voting in Iowa. Once people started voting, each subsequent primary or caucus was affected. The campaigns have campaigned and spent money in reliance on this calendar. The candidates, campaigns, and electorates are not the same today as they were before voting began. Any new contest would be on an unlevel playing field. It is unnecessary, an insult to the voters who already voted, and unacceptable.
Thanks for posting this again, Sonia. It’s the most important thing right now. We all need to get in touch with super D’s and tell them why our girl is their best bet. The email link to the list:
http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/superdelegates-who-havent-endorsed.html
If what they say was going on at this place is true, this woman should have called. She should have told the truth about it, and the police would probably still have responded. Maybe she thought otherwise, or had tried before. Apparently this had been going on for a long time.
4/24/2008
An Open Letter from Dr. Maya Angelou
Dear Friend:
I am writing to tell you about my friend, Hillary Clinton, and why I am standing with her in her campaign for the presidency. I know the kind of president Hillary Clinton will be because I know the person she is.
I am inspired by her courage and her honesty. She is a reliable and trustworthy person. She is someone I not only admire but one for whom I have profound affection.
Hillary does not waver in standing up for those who need a champion. She has always been a passionate protector of families. As a child, she was taught that all God’s children are equal, and as a mother, she understood that her child wasn’t safe unless all children were safe. As I wrote about Hillary recently in a praise song: “She is the prayer of every woman, and every man who longs for fair play, healthy families, good schools and a balanced economy.”
It may be easy to view Hillary Clinton through the narrow lens of those who would write her off or grind her down. Hillary sees us as we are, black and brown and white and yellow and pink and relishes our differences knowing that fundamentally we are all more alike than we are unalike. She is able to look through complexion and see community.
She has endured great scrutiny, and still she dares greatly. Hillary Clinton will not give up on you, and all she asks is that you do not give up on her. She is a long-distance runner. I am honored to say I am with her for the long run.
I am supporting Hillary Clinton because I know that she will make the most positive difference in people’s lives and she will help our country become what it can be. Whether you are her supporter, leaning towards her, undecided, or supporting someone else, I believe Hillary Clinton will represent you – she will be a president for all Americans. It is no small thing that along the way we will make history together.
Vote for Hillary Clinton and show your support at http://www.hillaryclinton.com. I know she will make us proud.
I wonder if she still gets to vote at the convention from jail? Yeesh, she’s going to miss all the Recreate68 crash and burn stuff too! Guess she will just have to remain in 2008. Bummer.
She probably let her Obama campaign training from the Texas caucuses carry over into real life as she prepares for the the Coming of the New One Order!
Does anyone else find it odd that for a guy who is such a wonk on the Constitution of the United States, he knows a lot of people who think that its words, just words?
these obama supporters are true extremists. out of touch, they enjoy upending the lives of those with whom they disagree. they disgust me.
There is a real meddling self-righteousness about them that is so off-putting ….
Thanks Rev….Of course these OBAMATOTS BOOED MAYA AGELOU at he Texas convention….Right along with Jackson Lee….I’m sure the delegate from houston mentioned above led the chant….
i bet this stupid obamabot is unemployed. it seems she has a lot of time on her hands. but i guess that is obama’s base.
Thus making the Koolaide and concert tickets, bus rides to Pennsylvania and the other obamagoodies more attractive.
all funded by rezko cash. after all, it is change they can believe in.
She’s holding out for the reparations.
Does she LOOK like someone who would know what to do with forty acres and a mule?
A member of one cult ratting out members of another cult.
Strange
But amusing!
I really don’t understand why Obama supporters come here. It will never get me to vote for Obama by insulting me and being rude. In fact, many undecideds I’ve directed here to No Quarter now understand how rude and arrogant Obama supporters are and understand what I’ve been trying to say about Obama. Another cult of personality just like Bush. And they want nothing to do with that again. Hey wait….Jeff and fritz, keep it up, keep coming here, we need you. I’ve already got half a dozen indies and 3-4 former Obama supporters voting for Hillary and donating cash. Thanks for your help!
They are paid to be here. They need to do something in return for their brand new black berry.
People, I like this site and occasionally comment, but are you really defending investigating the FLDS compound because the tipster may be an Obama delegate? You think it’s fine for 12 and 13 year old girls to be “married” to old guys and impregnated? To keep them submissive and barely educated? And you’re supporting Clinton, who has spent her life championing oppressed women?
Just because Obamabots come in asserting various things doesn’t mean we need to check our brains at the door and knee-jerk oppose them without evaluating them first.
Tell the trolls to fuck off when it’s warranted, ridicule them when their spouting lies, but please continue to think for yourselves.
I absolutely agree that the FLDS sect needed to be raided. I do not agree with using illegal tactics to do it that may jeopardize the case against these pedophiles down the road.
This person was clearly unbalanced in her obsession, an obsession that was based on the sect’s racism, and NOT done out of concern for the children there. So, instead of pursuing the proper legal channels, she files a false report and has now jeopardized the warrant that allowed them to raid the compound.
This is not someone we want to make a hero out of.
The FLDS compound may have needed to be raided. But the fact that the call that caused it was fraudulent may seriously impact the legal proceedings against FLDS. The fact that the fraudulent call was made by an Obama delegate is in character for the Obama camp but is otherwise irrelevant.
I agree– delegates come from the general population, and as such will be a mix of people. This has nothing to do with the campaign. Besides, there was plenty to find inside the compound, whether the caller was real or not.
you’re kidding right? No way the genesis of the investigation weakens the case against what they found.
based on your presumptions… the majority of the stories in the MSM (for what they’re worth, granted) note not only her racism obsession w/ the group but her own history of abuse (among other things).
In the end - does it freakin’ matter how it went down if in the end, children and adults are helped?
unfortunately, that seems to be standard operating procedure. Thanks for bucking the trend and pointing out the otherwise obvious
I really hope this dumb Obamabot does not have children.
N Carolina poll who gets your vote
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http://share.triangle.com/electionpoll08
Who gets your Vote:
Who gets your vote?
Barack Obama 725
Hillary Clinton 574
John McCain 585
please vote in this poll - if NC people think that hillary can win, they’ll come right back to her side. obamalama will be TOAST if that happens…the supers will start dropping like flies.
then why do her negatives continue to go up. America is tired of the negativity. We can´t afford her.
Not my America.
Count me out of your “we.”
Your candidate is weak and fading away as he doesn’t even have the balls to debate and they only debated one on one four times.
Where in God’s name do they get these really scary people from? This one actually got a “column” on MSN you guys remember that I am a Clinton supporter when you read this and that this guy is an Obama supporter … and apparently doesn’t give a shit about America:
Drop Out, Obama
By Chris Wilson
Even as Hillary Clinton trails Barack Obama in pledged delegates, the popular vote, and number of states won, she has made it clear that she plans to stay in the race for the nomination. All of which brings me to this logical conclusion: It is time for Barack Obama to drop out.
If Clinton had the good of the Democratic Party in mind, she would have given up her bid the day after the Mississippi primary, which Obama won by 25 points. The delegate math was as dismal for her campaign then as it is now, even after Pennsylvania, and she was facing down a six-week gulf before the next election.
But Hillary Clinton isn’t going to drop out. There simply isn’t a function in her assembly code for throwing in the towel.
Obama, on the other hand, is fully capable of it. And if he’s really serious about representing a new kind of politics, now is the time for him to prove it in the only meaningful way left. Moreover, were he to play it right, dropping out now nearly guarantees that he’ll be elected president in 2012. Here’s the roadmap:
Obama drops out next week, stating that although he could almost certainly win the nomination by fighting it out until the convention in August, he is simply not willing to drag the party through a battle that will cripple its chances against John McCain. He then pledges to help support Sen. Clinton in her bid—with full knowledge that she will not take him up on the offer.
In one stroke, Obama will regain his messiah creds by making the ultimate sacrifice for the good of the party. His followers will be furious. The mere mention of Clinton’s name will provoke unspeakable acts. They will abandon Clinton in numbers sufficient to hand McCain the election in November.
Losing the presidency again after eight years of Bush will ruin the Democratic Party. It will become obvious that Clinton’s decision to stay in the race was the turning point in the election. The base will turn its wrath on party leaders like Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi, who failed to push Clinton out. Obama, as the de facto head of the party, will broker negotiations to install new leaders loyal to him.
McCain will be eminently more beatable in 2012. Demographics will continue to shift in Obama’s favor as his 14- to 17-year-old supporters come of voting age. Anyone foolish enough to challenge Obama for the nomination—and don’t rule out Clinton—will go nowhere. Obama’s utopian vision for a Democratic party unified around him will be complete. QED.
Bee…Trinity United has a defending the faith blog up….Thought you’d enjoy the CIA GENOCIDE VIA US GOVT. ISSUE CRACK aimed at African Americans videos….Also we can all order Wrights books and tapes….These people have no clue….Access through ABC….enjoy….
Rozita Swinton has “a history of making false claims of sexual abuse, according to an affidavit filed in Colorado Springs.”
Washington Post
Obama delegate or no, this woman has serious issues. This post is unnecessary.
she is a typical obama supporter.
wow…you have issues. Why such the mean spirit? I can understand being a hater of BO, but you hate his fans by proxy…and can´t understand why SD´s have been flocking frm her to BO…(she has like a net gain of 2 since super tuesday, opposed to +85 by Barack Obama). Where is all of this koolaide people drink? I´ll guarantee nobody has seen it, you people don´t know what credibility and message are? You sit around and post on 3 or 4 sites that are still in your ¨bubble¨ and according to you because the majority are not following your girl they´re crazy. Wake up, how many lies has Hillary been caught in? She was tired my you know what. And now you hate a man that you´re apparently have vetted all he can be vetted. You continuously friedman unit you way week by week over a real estate deal that has been dredged like white water. Find whatever means you will to attach Obama to this obviously deranged woman…
You can blame whoever you like on Hillary´s inevitable demise…but you only have to look within…when it comes down to it what she says goes…she´s a fighter (whatever that means) I don´t know if we need a fighter especially if she´s wrong on an issue. And as we know ANYBODY can be wrong. Your chief strategist is mostly to blame. I´m sure any of you would have better advice. But to blame a man for defending himself…is ridiculous…then call him a whiner when she clearly whined herway through several debates…she has whining highlight reels. It´s clear to most fair-minded Americans who ran the negative campaign…people are NOT stupid…chances are the person who employs the strategy of ¨kitchensink¨ is probably not going to be running on positivity.
wake up, check please…
Yes take your check and move on. We don’t hate Obama supporters by proxy. We hate them all by themselves–for the filthy vile things they have called women in general and ourselves in particular. If you are a woman and you think that won’t reflect on you sometime in YOUR future than you are not a very bright person. You are squandering your own rights but ignoring signs that are more blatent than they were even thirty years ago. Better you than me. I already made my nut in life.
So why don’t you just go over to daily kos where they are having a nice discussion today about slitting Hillary Clinton’s throat and tossing her in a river.
Correction: The throat slitting is not occurring at Daily Kos, it’s over at that fine example of manhood Barack Obama’s my.barackobama.
I couldn’t find the “throat slitting” page you mentioned. Can you post a better link?
ugh … Nancy Grace for weeks on end with this … it will dwarf her concern about Scott Peterson …
The horror! The horror!
Fruit of the poisonous tree. If the warrant is based on false information, then any evidence gathered through said warrant will be thrown out.
Thanks a lot Obama asshole. There were probably people working on this case, building the necessary legal information to put these crazy disgusting people behind bars. Thanks to another idiot Odama zealot, more injustice in the world in the name of justice. I hope you all enjoy going to hell where you belong. If there is no karma for you worthless garbage in the election, let there be karma for you in the rest of your pathetic existence.
My point exactly….SandyR…Thankyou….
Your point is erroneous. See below. You probably have been watching too much “Law & Order” and confuse the TV “law” with the “real” law. Here is a hint: just because Jack McCoy says something, that does not mean it is accurate.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Not atypical of Hill-bots, of course.
This is how it works: if a police officer or an informer makes a false report that happens to uncover a real crime, the question is whether they acted in good faith.
In this case, the person who reported was an anonymous informer. She has no link to the police, so there is no “fruit of the poisonous tree”. Why? Because the police acted on the good faith belief that a child was reporting her own abuse. THEY HAVE TO INVESTIGATE THAT IDIOT! And they did . . . and instead of that child abuse, they find OTHER child abuse. So, no, moron, this will not get excluded.
OMG! check out this national enquirer cover. this is gonna be all over teh supermarkets this week! looks like with wright all over tv and michelle fuming, obamalama’s got his hands full this week!
i am so not surprised this blatant misogynist also might be a CHEATER.
http://popbytes.com/archive/2008/04/marriage_drama_for_barack_obama.shtml
Cheating with men or women?
Inquiring minds want to know!
all these obamabots are the same. this is why i will never vote for obama.
So she’s an Obama delegate. So the fuck what? If you want to help Hillary, walk away from the keyboard and make some phone calls to voters in Indiana and North Carolina. This crap IS NOT HELPING. Grow the fuck up.
she is the typical obama supporter. all of them lie, and all of them will do anything for attention.
“she is the typical obama supporter. all of them lie, and all of them will do anything for attention.”
Is Bruce Springsteen a liar? Is John Lewis a liar?
she is the typical obama supporter. all of them lie, and all of them will do anything for attention.”
Do you like floundering in your obvious ignorance?
And I bet she also knows someone who is friends with somebody who happens to be an acquaintance of Kevin Bacon, too. As far as I’m concerned, this is nothing but a bunch of overemotive, melodramatic Lifetime Movie Channel-worthy hooey that’s not worth the bandwidth it’s takes to tell us about it.
uuuhhh…hold on just one second.
Backtracking through the stories, the story is, IF she’s a delegate, not IS. IF there really is confirmation, it would indeed be likely to stick in MSM. IF not, probably less likely, due to possible lawsuits over slander.
Tracing the links back, the Patterico story
http://patterico.com/2008/04/18/was-the-flds-search-instigated-by-a-prank-call/ says:
“In an odd coincidence, a person named Rozita E. Swinton of Colorado Springs is listed on the El Paso County Democratic Party website as an Obama delegate. I don’t know if this is the same person but it’s an unusual name.”
and the El Paso site
http://www.peakdems.org/obama_state_del.asp
does indeed list
“Swinton, Rozita E - pct.# 269″
Unusual yes, but then the Jawa Report
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/192350.php
jumps to
“Rozita Swinton, the woman arrested today for falsely tipping off the police that she was an abused child bride at the FLDS polygamy cult in Texas is a PLEDGED BARACK OBAMA STATE DELEGATE!!”
I’m NOT saying the woman is Not THE delegate, but shouldn’t there be a confirmation?
Where is it?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042402978.html
“One little-noticed finding was that 6 percent of Clinton’s own voters said that they would defect to John McCain in the fall against Clinton herself.”
Alright, fess up people! Who here was it?!
Loud and proud! In a heartbeat. When you see the numbers come in for John McCain in November … I was voting for Hillary as a write in and rooting for John.
ooops … my bad!
YBNORMAL, are you delusional or drunk on Kool-Aid? The woman’s name is all over the news and the county Democratic Party has one delegate from Colorado Springs with the same name. Unless you seriously believe there is more than one Rozita Swinton in Colorado Springs?
Oh my God! If you monitor appeared to blip or flash just now, it might be because I laughed so hard just now reading this post, the sound may have caused a damn earthquake on the internet. Great work Carlos! Yes They Can! lmao Dumb Obamabots!
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/2008/04/24/drop-out-obama.aspx?GT1=38001
I think some compassion for this woman would be appropriate. As Blue State says above, clearly she has some issues. Personality disorders are serious business, and are fairly frequent among people who were themselves abused in cults as children. This woman may have a trauma history that she is not even aware of, that could be causing her to act out.
Lots of us have issues, Obama and Clinton supporters both, it’s called the human condition.
I myself was severely abused in a cult when I was a girl, but I am one of the lucky ones who did not develop multiple personalities as a result, and I got away when I was 17.
One reason I support Hillary is because I believe she will care about what happens to girls in cults.
And I think it is fair to say that a cult that forces girls to marry young deserves to be investigated, as this amounts to rape. And if, as is likely, the girls are not allowed to leave, it also amounts to sexual slavery and imprisonment.