The Obama Policy Train Wreck
By Larry Johnson on May 9, 2008 at 6:41 PM in Current Affairs
Jesus, Joseph, and Mary. Talk about a preview of the horror show that would be a Barack Obama administration. Despite running a pretty good operation in collecting delegates, Barack is a disaster at managing policy. Here’s the headline from the London Times–Barack Obama sacks adviser over talks with Hamas. Yep, another “advisor” of Barack goes under the bus. According to the Times:
One of Barack Obama’s Middle East policy advisers disclosed yesterday that he had held meetings with the militant Palestinian group Hamas – prompting the likely Democratic nominee to sever all links with him.
Robert Malley told The Times that he had been in regular contact with Hamas, which controls Gaza and is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organisation. Such talks, he stressed, were related to his work for a conflict resolution think-tank and had no connection with his position on Mr Obama’s Middle East advisory council.
Rob Malley joins an august group of Obama advisors found suddenly disposable once the public discovers that they represent out of the main stream policies. I give the Illinois Senator credit–he recognizes that these policy positions will kill his chances in the fall and is busy trying to re-invent himself. But a careful look at the train wreck of Obama advisors reveals a more fundamental problem with Barack:
We all remember Austan Goolsbee. He gave the Canadians a wink and a nod that Barack did not really mean what he said about NAFTA, but the lie was exposed subsequently when someone leaked the reporting cable from the Canadian foreign ministry.
How about Samantha Powers? Although fired from the campaign for calling Senator Clinton a “monster,” Powers let the cat out of the bag when she acknowledge that Barack does not committed to his promise to withdraw US troops from Iraq. Powers said:
“He will, of course, not rely on some plan that he’s crafted as a presidential candidate or a U.S. Senator.”
“You can’t make a commitment in March 2008 about what circumstances will be like in January of 2009. . . . So to think – it would be the height of ideology to sort of say, ‘Well, I said it, therefore I’m going to impose it on whatever reality greets me.’”
And let’s not forget the intrepid John Brennan. According to Think Progress:
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has consistently spoken out and voted against granting retroactive immunity for telecoms that participated with the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. This stance was part of the reason he won the support of Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), a leader on civil liberties issues.
One of Obama’s advisers on intelligence and foreign policy advisers, however, is someone who “strongly” supports telecomm immunity. John Brennan is a former CIA official and the current chairman of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. In a new National Journal interview, Brennan makes it clear that he agrees with the Bush administration on the issue of immunity.
Brennan is not some “Johnny come lately” adviser. He’s an experienced hand. Brennan headed the National Counter Terrorism Center in his last job in the Bush Administration. It was under John Brennan’s watch that the Bush Administration issued false statistics on the number of terrorist attacks in 2004. He tried to cook the books and keep the public in the dark that terrorist attacks had soared to unprecedented levels. So if he is taking a position directly opposite of his candidate it has to mean he’s gotten the same wink and nod that Austan Goolsbee and Samantha Powers got from Senator Obama. And now we have Mr. Malley.
Besides these “policy” wonks we have the spiritual advisors. Jeremiah Wright anyone? The most prominent of the Senator’s spiritual advisors, he was dumped a month after Senator Obama promised he would not disown him. In the end Barack disowned him.
Barack Obama would have you believe that he is shocked, shocked he tells us, to discover that these advisors are saying all of these unsavory, impolitic things. But that does not really wash. How did they become advisors in the first place? Was Barack too lazy or too stoned to ask simple questions? I don’t think so. Barack knew their positions and Barack accepted their advice because he reflected his own views. It is only in the face of the white hot glare of campaign publicity that Barack has his epiphany and decides that these positions could torpedo his campaign. So, Obama refuses to man-up and take a stand. He opts for duck-and-cover. He throws these folks from the train. The only question now, who is next?
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Obama’s UTB (Under the Bus) List - Please add
anyone or anything I’ve overlooked:
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Reverend Jeremiah Wright
Obama’s white grandmother
Samantha Powers
Austan Goolsbee
William Ayers
Robert Malley
Antoin (Tony) Rezko - coming soon?
Clinton visits Oregon, stumps in timber country
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1210305311302720.xml&coll=7
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=63787
I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on” than Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton has told USA Today.
She cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
“There’s a pattern emerging here,” said Hillary. “These are the people you have to win if you’re a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election. Everybody knows that.”
The Democratic Party can’t win with just “eggheads and African-Americans,” Paul Begala added helpfully.
so? it happens to be the truth.
I read it initially as “egg mcmuffins,” the democratic party can’t win with fast food from Mcdonalds.
Cheney has proven no one can.
Vote Clinton.
‘I want to rip (Bill Clinton’s) eyes out. Kidding!’
Michelle Obama’s latest gaffe: ‘See, this is what gets me into trouble’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=63532
Asked how she feels about Bill Clinton’s use of the phrase “fairytale” to describe her husband’s characterization of his position on the Iraq war, she first responded: “No.”
But, after a few seconds of contemplation, and gesturing with her fingernails, she told the reporter: “I want to rip his eyes out
Thanks, Sonia. I’d forgotten about this. I’m adding it to the file (it’s vile).
If Mr. Triangulating, calculating, throwing people under buses left and right Obama had been a member of the senate at the end of 2002, he would have voted for the resolution. It is a fairy tale for him to claim otherwise. After all, if he actually was Dennis Kucinich, he’d be in the same place in the presidential campaign. Also, there would be some further record of his opposition to the war, i.e., some op-eds.
Another example of the profound lack of judgment of BO. Rezko, Wright, Ayers, Googlesbee, Powers and this!!! Can you imagine what his cabinet would be like…not a pretty picture..
Lemme see..Hagel, Goolsbee, Feinstein, and oh…yeah…
That ‘Crazy Joe’ fucktard! Joe Lieberman Sec of Def.
‘We begin bombing in ten minutes…’ and unlike St. Ronnie Joey ain’t kiddin’
Cabinet meetups will not be prized as you will be required to kiss the hem of The One’s cloth of gold robe.
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton aren’t humping for nothing.
We’ll be seeing a lot of those guys.
I am not surprised, as Trinity Church posted bulletins from leaders of Hamas.
These are Obama’s friends, and he intends to represent them.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/28/obama.pastor/
I think some of these people, particularly the guy talking with Hamas, may have been feeling out public opinion, such as if the public would take an Obama/Hamas chat, with the understanding he’d move on if it didn’t play well. I seriously doubt the Obama campaign was this guy’s real day job.
I doubt these people were fired or let go. I suspect they were part of the team for a time, for a specific reason - kind of like a pinch runner.
I’M SHOCKED ! SHOCKED I TELL YOU! What a stroke.
If she gets to be first lady, are we supposed to emulate her?
No. And just imagine how the European press will pillory her. They have no respect for vulgar people, and that is exactly what Michelle Obama is.
Not a whole lot of Americans will support a First Lady who took her 2 young daughters to church like Wright’s for “religious instruction.”
I want to know how she explained Wright’s “riding dirty” phrase and his humping the pulpit while he said it, to her 2 young daughters.
Did they ask, “Mommy, what’s RIDING DIRTY?”
Yuk.
Perhaps they asked Rezko that question. After all, Daddy Rezko purchased the mansion in which Malia and Sasha live.
Boy Larry…this is a new low, even for you. Maybe you should check some of the facts out there you can spin this stuff until you get a sweater, but it won’t change the votes so far. get used to it. Grow up I should say, big CIA thug - macho macho man….pathetic.
Lenore, do yourself a favor. Use Google to search out the facts as Larry presents them. Everything he says is verifiable. Please don’t get your information from blogs and then come in here and dis Larry for presenting the truth, M’K? Run along now.
http://www.globemagazine.com/story/177
New Obama Scandal
PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Barack Obama is tangled up in a gay-murder probe as insiders ask: How much does the Democratic candidate really know about the shooting death of the choir director at his controversial Chicago church? Our blockbuster Special Report reveals shocking charges of a link between gay murder victim Donald Young and Obama - and a private investigator’s stunning claim the choir director was killed to silence him. It’s must reading - only in GLOBE!
I betcha there’s something fishy going on there. Can’t wait to check it out!
Too bad the Weekly World News went out of bizness.
LOL. They could come up with some great stories!!
So where is the MSM. Another swept under the rug.
Is the London Times the only newspaper reporting this? Well, thank God for Larry and Susan and all the folks at No Quarter. Why does the media consistently hide things about Obama?
lol this is fantasy island. you guys are really in denial. lol.
You should start practicing some humility. You are going to need it in the near future.
Agreed but the crap that’s written hear makes it hard. If anyone had just one coherent thought or comment it wouldn’t be so insulting.
Gee, you’d better not come back. We really don’t want you to feel insulted. After all, you’re just a lurker, are you not? You’re not a contributor of anything worthwhile, are you?
Listen, I would love to have a SERIOUS discussion about some of this, but you all are just over the top. I’m sure that MOST of you are good people, but reading some of this diatribe amazes me.
This troll thinks we are are “you all”.
This is a typical xenophobia troll.
Go away troll- you hateful buzzard.
We are a group of independent people who have critical thinking ability and agree that Obama is one of the biggest frauds to hit US politics.
I hope Obama takes the rest of his supporters DOWN when he falls — like Kerry and Kennedy — the good old boy network.
come on! tell the truth. you are hear for a dose of sanity and reality.
Ed Schultz today was having a hissy fit on his show over the fact that Begala and Carville continue to appear on CNN- “they are Clinton surrogates, they might as well be on the payroll!!”
Of course, Schultz didn’t mention another regular CNN political contributor, one who, unlike Begala and Carville, is not open about her preference for one of the candidates. Rank Hypocrite.
May 09, 2008
Categories: CNN
Lanny Davis on CNN primary night: ‘Worst experience I ever had on television’
When Clinton supporter Lanny Davis appeared on CNN during primary night, shortly before 10 p.m., there was a peculiar exchange with host Anderson Cooper.
Cooper: Lanny, let me start off with you. We haven’t heard from you tonight. Your take on Barack Obama’s speech earlier?
Davis: You haven’t heard from me tonight. And I’m not sure — I’m not sure you want to hear from me tonight but —
Cooper: We heard from Paul Begala. This is your big chance.
Davis: Well, actually, I don’t think we heard very much from Paul Begala. We did hear an awful —
Cooper: All part of the conspiracy against Hillary Clinton, I suppose.
(May 9, 2008): Lanny Davis on CNN primary night: ‘Worst experience I ever had on television’ (Politico) - MUST READ!
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http://www.politico.com/blogs/michae…elevision.html
Check out Lanny’s experience on CNN. Utterly amazing.
They’ve removed the page! Imagine that.
page gone!!!!!!!!
gee shutting up Lanny big time…
Larry..can you get Lanny to post his story here…we need to all read what he has to say!!..I knew Lanny was damn mad on CNN on Election night..but could not figure out why..
please if you could get this sotry and post it here it would be most informative.
thanks..fly
What about him going on MSNBC and CNN spouting his Blowhard, sock puppet, Hopium, Jesus juice infused comments? Jeebus! this guy is so whacked out on the Juice that he has become a parody of himself.
Unlike that Hillary blowhard that goes from town to town, state to state pandering like a $2 … I’ll freeze foreclosures, I’ll stop the gas tax, I’ll buy you a new house, a new car lol just tell what you want I’ll do it. lol lol lol what desperation. That’s your candidate, just tell em what the want to hear.
Oh, you’re not used to competence, how sweet.
See, too ,much McDonald’s rots your brain, next thing you know, you’re using “strunk and white” as a defense when you’re humiliated, and it’s all downward from there…
You’re brave though, I’d be afraid others were setting me up, using a SHOWN dependence on logical fallacies, against me…
Fools rush in where even stupider angel wannabes fear to tread…
Or something like that…
I SAW THIS ON HILLARYCLINTONFORUM …SO I AM GONNA PASTE IT HERE ,,,,
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Obama Camp Calling W. Va Voters & Telling Them It’s Over - Not To Bother Voting!!!!
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Just got an email from Bernie via S in PA about this:
Quote:
Bernie–could you pass some info on to the rest of the callers that are calling into WV?
I’ve been talking with some people already on the ground in WV and the Obama camp is calling voters, NOT to get out the vote, but to ask for money - campaign donations. The gist of the call is that its not important that they vote, because the election is over, and then they ask for money to help put this primary campaign to an end and move on to the general election. Basically, they are telling voters its over. Then they ask for $400 donations. What the dollar amount is about, I don’t know. Perhaps they are just getting greedy.
Anyhow - I’ll be in WV for the next 3 days, and if I hear anything else I think needs to be passed on, I’ll let you know. But, I think this needs to get out now.
Thanks!
PA for Hillary 08
Call W.VA this weekend and tell them the truth!!!!!!
someone needs to tape it..but they need to say they are taping it!..they need to record that they are informing the person they are taping it.
put ads in newspapers and on their local news and radio. Tell them this is a scam by obama ccampaign.
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FUNNY CARTOON
Love it! Sonia, I wish Hillary knew all you do for her. She’d be so impressed!
I am gong to vote on May 20th for Hillary just like the rest of the good people of Ky. Obama and company does not impress us.
Thank you, Dina, and the good people of Kentucky!
it’s me being OT again but I was so impressed with Obama’s US knowledge I had to share http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/05/09/obamas-59-state-union/
there is a video from him today saying he has been to 57 states this campaign but still hasn’t gone to the last 2 Hawii and Alaska
Maybe that is why we think you can not count Fla and Mi and still have a 50 state strategy? and still have a couple left over not needed voters
OMG, that is just pitiful. Of course he was speaking in Oregon, home of the great lakes. Is there something seriously wrong with this man? Some genius, huh? Can you imagine if Hillary had said this?
Maybe he was having a “senior moment.”
Either that, or the drugs…
Bingo. I have thought this so many times these past few weeks. When Carter spoke to them and they made that announcement about them supporting Obama there was a comment made they had spoken to his people.
That was all dropped because obamacandonowrong is not going to be held to blame for anything he does.
Of course Ted Kennedy, Carter, Kerry, Dean, Brazile, Pelosi, McGovern, and the rest of them need to be told a billion times how they have definitely backed the wrong horse in this race but the message might get though to them when they see something like this.
Teddy taking a swipe at Clinton really went far for party unity. Touchy feely all over, dismiss florida and michigan.
I don’t recognize my EX-party anymore.
Divorcing the DNC after 32 plus years for cruel and unusual punishment!
I wonder how he’s really doing in the polls against Clinton, since we dont have an honest press?
Failing I would suppose…
jumping in
fyi
Hillary getting ready for a rally right NOW on
CNN LIVE
In Louisville, Kentucky!
yeehaw!
Obama is playing a tactic to say it is over because too many are coming too close to the real destroyer of Obama, the link between Obama and his terrorist friends! Obama is going to be exposed real soon and the questions will be narrower and narrower in scope!
Remember that Anti war Speech in 2002, the one Obama claims to fame on, well check out Carl Davidson, the one who organized it, former Student for Democratic Society VP in 1968, Bill Ayers buddy and now working for Obama’s campaign and website “progressives for Obama”
One other thing, and remember this, David Axelrod worked for the Chicago Trib, and in the mid-80’s went to help run a campaign for Paul Simon, then afterwards, quit the Trib to do more campaign work etc. Mentor of Axelrod was none other than Trib Director Thomas Ayers.
Why would Axelrod become friends of Obama in 1991 upon his return to Chicago and been by Obama’s entire political career?
Think about it! The answers are coming soon!
You have a talent Mel.
C’mon folks! Its NOT OVER BY A LONGSHOT!! Florida and Michigan have 200 delegates (elected and super) and they are very angry at the screw job Obama is laying on them! Contribute at HillaryClinton.com! Even $10 helps a lot! I gave $220 two days ago. Its time for her comeback (again) !!
Good to see you writing again.
Yer man Murdoch plays an interesting game.
He’s got the story headlined in the Times Global Edition before the Beeb or even Al Jazeera picked it up. Exit stage right to the his Post and we learn that yanks are running a Sex In The City parody of Dublin’s Bloomsday, that Obama has picked up more supers, plays to a full house and focuses on McCain.
Oh well, only 15 more shopping days before the Rules Committee meets.
Oh wise man riddle me this, will Donna Brazille still be on the uncommitted list that fateful Saturday morning?
Donna Brazile is off the rules committee.
since when?
never mind, found the mistake
“Was Barack too lazy or too stoned to ask simple questions?”
Yikes are you intimating that he still does dope?
Again, BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW! If we’re not getting HRC in the White House due to machinations of the Democratic Party elite, let’s keep our country safe by voting for John McCain. Like Hillary, he will never put our country’s national security on the line. I hope the superdelegates are paying attention. Fat chance; they’re drunk on O’Juice.
How can you make that assertion?
Wow, I’d disagree.
Is it any wonder that Oprah has quietly thrown Obama off of her own “bus?”
Better Oprah than 200 or so super delegates. lol Help Hill up off the ground, just got run over by that Obama bus with all those new super delegates in it. lol lol lol
So, this is what you refer to as a serious discussion? Sounds like incoherent crap to me. But, I’m sure that most of “you” is nice.
Judy, Judy, Judy, it’s the best I’ve been able to do here. Stupid in stupid out. It’s all crap here I agree.
naw you don’t want converation and discussion. that is just a play! dang, you are pathetic troll.
zzzot, I have to think you are just having fun! Aren’t you glad you joined us?
Weird night.
When I was 9, our family dog was hit by a car, and killed, at the time our basement had this really peculiar smell, out of the ordinary.
So I always associate that smell with a dog’s death, a Proustian thing, I call it, strangely enough, “dead dog smell.”
And I swear I just smelled it, even though I have no dog.
Sorry, I guess it’s off to bed.
Last night, I dreamt about a huge obese pig wearing a bell hop uniform far too small for him, I hope I don’t dream it tonite.
I always think of that scene in MASH where nurse meg craddy refers to the brass at Henry’s court martial hearing as “high priced bell hops.”
Hey SusanUnPc;happy friday!
looks like the RNC-blackwater ops are done with NY and have moved to Chicago…just like you said, been and gone
his ATTITUDE;
Are the Dems for real? WOW! (laughing) Can’t find Obama’s paper work? Ask Rove for it.
Dumb ass DR. Dean should have done this — I really have questions about what sort of MD he really is/was?
Dr. Dean should have vetted Obama — used Private detectives and dug through every bit of information on Obama and INTERVIEWED everyone.
Or should the FBI do a background check on Prez candidate? But the FBI is now tainted - hell I don’t know the answer. Contractors who work on military bases with classified material and on classified project have to undergo background checks — as do their spouses. There is so much in Obama’s background that would surely exclude him from Top Secret clearance. (My father had a Top Secret clearance — so I know a bit about such matters. Just a tiny bit.)
A person running for president should have the highest clearance — and this individual should be investigated completely. Can this person be blackmailed?
The vast majority of voters don’t know a fraction of what we know — and WE don’t know 1,000 pages of information that the GOP has collected.
I really hate Dr. Dean and Donna B — for what THEY are responsible for.
Oh well — what do I care — Obama isn’t my candidate and the GOP are doing what must be done. It’s only politics — so Obama should understand when they come after him.
Gee the Government has put babies on the no-fly list — amazing that Obama wasn’t on the no-fly list with his list of friends.
Don’t count your super delegates before they’re hathced, those who live in glass madrassas shouldn’t throw stones.
hatched*
See… that’s that the crap that Hill and Bill as spawned. “glass madrassas”? Be Clear, say what you mean or too afraid to say don’t imply. Just like Hill and Bill. Cowards to the core. lol
To translate (and make it crystal clear to you), Mr. Murder believes that your candidate is sympathetic to jihadists.
Need more clarity? Jihadists = al Qaeda. A leads to B leads to C. Get it?
You need to understand this because if your guy gets the nod the Rethugs (through their 527 arms..the RNC won’t want to get THAT dirty) will be working a whispering campaign with this angle. They will have many campaigns running with many angles, but one singular theme — Obama is anti-American, he can’t be trusted…oh you get the idea. IT’S THEIR NATURE.
I understood clearly. It’s just that it so unbelievably ignorant, unfounded, and quite frankly cheap that he couldn’t just come out and say it. That’s why I called him a coward.
Hatched*
like a raptor egg?
He throws these folks from the train. The only question now, who is next?
Arnold is to big…Moma? na he did that a few stops back…mmm Chris Dodd and the Telco immunity?
Which raises a serious concern over transition and disclosure from the Bush admin. There are clear and present dangers combined with criminal acts.
I worry that the flash traffic will be cut mid transmission leaving the next administration with last orders and in the dark.
Obama has no idea, and no experience to go find out. If the national intelligence is intertwind with criminal activity, it will be the last thing you want to drag out in the street revealing sources and methods. Blackmailed. The court ruled on standing and it can’t be reached.
Okay, Superdelegates, listen up! We look like idiots. We look like we care more about our “liberal guilt” than we do about winning the Presidency. We look like we’d rather not have to say to the Black man, “We can’t make you our nominee,” than, “Sorry, we looked at the Swing states and we can’t name a nominee who hasn’t won California, New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts. We want to win.” Here’s what Hugh Hewitt said tonight on Fox, smiling and salivating about November:
Say what you like about Republican Hugh Hewitt, but he is a smart man.
Thanks, Howard Dean. Thanks, Donna Brazile. Thanks, Nancy Pelosi. We’re going to have to listen to this crap for the next six months before we get our ASSES kicked in November.
Come on, Superdelegates, get some balls! Do the right thing!!
HGirl that’s just plain stupendously stupid!! Don’t make it about being black. That’s the easy way out for you and yours here. Make it more about the FACT that in the history of elections, the person (black, white, green, yellow, man, woman, dog, alien) with the most delegates, popular votes, and states won has never failed to get his parties nomination. Don’t try and use his blackness against him by using that ignorant played out primarily white induced argument that “they won’t take it away from him because his black”. How about they won’t take it away from him because it’s just never been done before in the history of elections!!!
And for your information, I’m not White.
That makes it even worse.
Good luck with playing the race card in Nov if he lasts that long.
Ignorance is bliss. You all use that crutch, if it helps console you. Don’t let the facts get in the way. Hill and Bill introduced race because she was getting her ASS drug. It’s worked. Scorched earth HIll. Glad she’s done.
I’m not making it about being Black…if you haven’t been watching the cable news channels today, that’s ALL they’ve been talking about.
And I don’t appreciate being called stupid.