When What You See Ain’t Always What You Get
By LisaB on June 12, 2008 at 2:28 PM in Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Black nationalism, Current Affairs
Why is “character” an issue in a presidential campaign? Why aren’t we talking about “the issues,” the “more important issues” or the “things Americans REALLY care about?”
That’s a dodge. Character is important, particularly when the resume is thin. As any psychology major will tell you, “the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.” So, character, as shorthand for looking at a candidate’s pattern of behavior, is simply due diligence when a list of accomplishments isn’t helpful. Someone can fake a political position, but only someone with a psychopathology can even temporarily fake character.
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When people perceive someone is hiding aspects of his character, such as past behavior or decision-making processes or long standing habits or relationships, it’s a problem. And the most problematic are those revelations of character that stand in contrast to stated beliefs. So, “family values” Republicans are hurt more by sex scandals, for example, than non “family values” politicians.
Many people feel Barack Obama’s speeches and presentations of himself on the campaign trail differ distinctly from what we see in his past behavior. We don’t see his words as congruent with his activities. Frankly, we think he’s being deceptive in any number of ways and at very fundamental levels.
An interesting article in the Washington Post about the Johnson vetting controversy addresses this as well.
The most dangerous stories for any candidate are those that raise questions about the core of his (or her) campaign narrative. One needs only to look back to the 2004 presidential race for evidence of this trend. John Kerry won the Democratic nomination for a variety of reasons, but the biggest of those was that his military record of service in Vietnam was seen as a shield against Republican attacks on patriotism, national security and foreign policy.
Enter the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth who, regardless of whether you agree or disagree with their methods, effectively raised questions about the validity of Kerry’s service and, in doing so, sparked broader questions about whether the Massachusetts senator was who he said he was.
For Obama, any questions in voters’ minds about whether he truly is a change agent or is legitimately committed to breaking the alleged stranglehold lobbyists and other power brokers have over the political system is potentially disastrous. Because of the peril involved, it’s not terribly surprising that Obama moved quickly to “fix the glitch” once he realized questions about Johnson weren’t going away.
I would only note that even more “dangerous stories for any candidate are those that raise questions about the core of the” candidate himself. And that’s a problem with Obama. He seems internally incongruent, or, more to the point, his words don’t match up with his actions.
Politicians are, as a group, often less congruent than most people. That’s because they will say whatever the voters want to hear. Believe it or not, we all understand that and, typically, are not surprised when politicians don’t follow through or have fudged about small things. We do get angry and sometimes we’re just resigned. But we understand the bargain when it comes to political promises or positions. However, we’re less forgiving when someone has a “secret identity.” Senator McCain is familiar. He’s cranky; he has a temper; he can swivel on an issue with the best of them. But he is pretty much true to his character. Pretty much what you see is what you get. In terms of who he is anyway. Whether you like that or not is up to you.
Obama is another story. Many talk about his aloofness, his remoteness, his separateness from all the rest of us. This is simply code for: “we don’t know who this guy is.” Doesn’t that really mean “he could be anybody?”
Shelby Steele, in several books about race in America, describes AA “bargainers” and “challengers.” Bargainers are those AAs who interact with the majority culture from a standpoint of “I’ll assume you are not racist if you don’t hold my race against me.” Challengers, on the other hand, approach the majority culture from a standpoint of “you are not off the hook until you prove you are not a racist.”
(This is quite an oversimplification of Steele’s work. To understand, you should really read one of his books, including A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win).
Within the AA community, Obama presents as a challenger. He goes to a church based on Black Liberation Theology, associates with Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, Father Pfleger and other challengers and writes moving books about his search for racial identity as an AA where he also says:
“Any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning.”
During the campaign however, Obama presents himself as a bargainer - offering himself up as a “post-racial” candidate able to bridge divides and speak to all people. His campaign is based on this premise. With so few years behind him in terms of political service and even fewer in terms of national service, Obama is asking us to vote for him based on our perceptions of his future behavior and ability to bring people together.
Some of us simply don’t buy it. Obama’s church, his long-term relationships with Wright, Pfleger, Ayers, Rezko and the very words of his autobiography show many of us that he really is a challenger. And like any good scandal, the problem is not really in being a challenger after all. It is in the cover-up. It is presenting himself as a bargainer when everything in his past shows a different kind of person. That is a fundamental disconnect. People who believe Obama is a bargainer may see his past and feel he has lied about who he really is. People who support Obama as a challenger may feel betrayed by his creation of a bargaining persona.
Or maybe not. Some people will choose to ignore the disconnect and some may choose to take Obama’s changes as necessary to run for president of a multicultural society.
Steele believes Obama will not be elected because, at some point, his mask will be removed and we’ll see who Obama really is. Maybe we’ve already seen it. Folk wisdom, not requiring a college degree, says “when somebody shows you who they really are, believe them.” Some of us believe Obama has shown us who he is. Some people don’t believe their “lyin’ eyes.”
New website:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fightthesmearshome/
Larry you are mentioned right away! Are you going to counter this one?
Yeah I saw that. He won’t avoid being vetted though. The GE is big time. In his case, being vetted IS being swiftboated. Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Wow … Uppity … you must have a very clean computer. I don’t touch a troll link. I can’t afford to lose my communication.
Wow! That page is a joke., filled with outright lies.
He actually implies the words he wrote in his own book aren’t the words he wrote, WTF?
He leads the pledge of allegiance, maybe if it fit his audience, but there is video proof of him NOT putting his hand on his heart, subsequently doing it does not erase it.
The tape does not exist? He can’t know for sure that no one ever caught her racially charged remarks on their own tape. The only logical denial would be that she never said such a thing, in leu of that the speculation remains.
Basically he beleives his own Messiah hype. Present a political campaign that looks like a religious movement and squash any utterance of disapproval.The truth is what Barack says it is.
His tactics are tantamount to brainwashing, voter beware.
Just passing this e-mail along….
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> Obama Explains National Anthem Stance. Is this guy crazy or what?
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> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:48:04 -0400, ‘LT. Bill Ginn’ USAF ret. forwarded:
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> Hot on the heels of his explanation for why he no longer wears a flag pin, presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama was forced to explain why he doesn’t follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.
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> According to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171…… During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart.
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> ‘As I’ve said about the flag pin, I don’t want to be perceived as taking sides,’ Obama said. ‘There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression. And the anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all. It should be swapped for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song ‘I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing.’ If that were our anthem, then I might salute it.’
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> WHAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this could possibly be our next president. I, for one, am speechless.
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> Pass It On Before It’s too Late. Let’s Tell The World About This Idiot.
A friend forwarded this e-mail to me. I guess BO never considered that his attitude is a disparagement to the bravery with which the Founders fought tyranny. Our flag and the anthem has been a symbol of and testement to that courage for over 200 years. If he doesn’t like it maybe he should run for president of Kenya. But then he is supposedly a Christian so he probably wouldn’t be welcome there even if he is a cousin to the PM.
Yea the web page was on Drudge today as well.
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Mr. Johnson, you should frame this one!
You did write that!
Do you have a NQ “scapbook”? You must get a bunch of zingers…enough to write a book with. May be you could write a toungue in check title “The Audasity of Crap Cannons”…
off topic:
Obama’s birth certificate is up at the Great Orange Satan.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/12/11012/6168/320/534616
Known hate site and prevaricator, so it is not a reputable site. Is the evidence of American birth anywhere reputable and signed?
yes looking at it you can clearly see it is not real. There are too many things missing from it.
Those you see following the Obamessiah are not Democrats, though the species may try to look similar. They are in fact nothing but JACKASSES!
P.U.M.A.
Wrong font for 1961 on a typewriter.
OOOH! Dam, I love when somebody puts the bull in its place. Nice work!
Ouch! An Italian letter of sorts!
Johnson, you are a joke.
gdamac,
Nice name. This thread is about the illusion that is Obama. Do you have an answer for his antonymous words and behavior?
Politico reports Obama is moving DNC headquarters to Chicago.
It’s Tammany Hall revisited. Plastic Jeezus needs to go down in flames this fall… for the sake of the party.
Tammany Hall
I never heard of this. Looked it up and read. Damn that’s ugly stuff.
From wikipedia:
By 1854, Tammany’s lineage and support from immigrants had made it a powerful force in New York politics. Tammany controlled businesses, politics and sometimes law enforcement. Businesses would give gifts to their workers and, in exchange, tell the workers to vote for the politicians that were supported by Tammany (usually a straight Democratic ticket). In 1854, the Society elected its first New York City mayor. Tammany’s “bosses” (called the “Grand Sachem”) and their supporters enriched themselves by illegal means. The most infamous boss of all was William M. “Boss” Tweed, whose control over the Tammany Hall machine allowed him to win election to the New York State Senate.
Eerily similar to what’s going on today, huh? Just change Boss Tweed to Boss Obama, immigrant support to African-American support, and New York to Chicago and voila - you have the corruption of today. Complete with gifts like large houses to Obama and boardroom positions and you end up having Tammany Hall all over again. Thank goodness Tweed went to jail, Rezko is now, hmmmmm - Obama?
Oh - and instead of “businesses give gifts to their workers” to get them to vote a certain way, we instead have Wright’s and Pfleger’s churches taking government earmark money for their “community programs” to help Chicago members while espousing political doctrines under tax-exempt and charitable status — isn’t it obvious that it’s not out of the goodness of their hearts, but rather, political patronage?
Yet another sign of the corruption to come if this country is naive enough to vote for Obama. He has the DNC over a barrel. He is their cash cow now, and they need to cow tow to him to get anything for themselves.
It’s clearly time for a new party.
PUMA!!!
Does this mean that the Chicago !@*&%! has already shanghai’d the DNC? Chicago style politics are now national?
With Daley and his guy Axelrod at the helm…
funny, i thought obambi was pretending to be a senator. and the senate’s in d.c., isn’t it?
guess obambi no longer feels a need to even pretend to be anything other than a chicago vote-stealing thug.
read the other day that he’s now calling the democratic party “his” party. not in the sense of yeah, that’s my party, i’m a dem. no, in the sense of it’s my party, i own it.
well, if it’s his, it’s no longer mine.
I went to this blog - and one of the bloggers also wrote that Howard Dean and Obama are making plans to cancel the 2008 Denver convention - can they even do that?
Mary - I’m beginning to think the DNC elites can do anything they want to. They haven’t let rules bother them before; why should they now.
I guess they’re officially neocons now…
Say bye bye to the Democratic party as you know it, once Obama gets his cronies in key positions.
Its going to be a poisonous mix of pay to play politics and authoritarian liberalism.
Holy S***! Audacity? Yes We Can!
If this ain’t Hitler I dunno what. Next chapter: some feigned attack like the Reichtag fire.
Reichtag fire? Uhmmmm - it’s called Recreate68 rioting and looting in the streets and at the convention with only Blackwater troops to protect us…what’s an American to do other than surrender ourselves to the almighty Obama’s will to protect us. Please save us “the One”!!! You are the one we have been waiting for. Yes we can. Change and Hope. You better believe it - or else…
And so the takeover of the Democratic Party begins in earnest.
Unbelievable!
Maybe that’s because he’s planning to steal the GE.
He sure seems confident. I don’t think he can win legally, but if they use those same techniques they used in the caucuses, and used when they could in the primaries…
I find this really scary.
Has any other “presumptuous” nominee ever done this before? Calls himself head of DNC now. Is this usual? Has any other official nominee even done this?
You’re absolutely right. Talk is cheap (hot air is free) but actions speak louder than words. B.O. says “unity” but what we get is Wright and Pfleger. B.O. says “change” but what we get is Johnson and Holder. When there is a disconnect between what they say and what they do, ignore what they say and bet on what they do!
http://www.counterpunch.org/wise06072008.html
This article has me totally PEEVED!
Excerpt:
This is just going to tick me off even more than I already am.
HOW can people actually THINK like this?
The author was kind enough to leave his e-mail address. I suggest we e-mail him and tell him his played out cliched self loathing white guilt bullsh*t is so 1990s.
DON`T do that. They will then have your e-mail.
Again, the voice of reason. I dam near did it!
They should change their name to Donkey Punch. Animals.
There are racists of all colors. People can oppose Obama for many reasons other than he is a black man. People will not be intimidated by this bully tactic. Look at the amazing increase in the African-American voter turnout. Does this mean all the African-American who sat out of the election were racists? I would not conclude that. I think many of them had rational reasons to sit it out.
Most of the race-baiting, hate, prejudice, and fear mongering is coming from the Obama supporters. Just because you’re supporting a minority does not automatically mean you are open-minded and tolerant.
I don’t think people should email this person because who knows what he will do with your email address.
Not as if anyone cares…but I wrote this letter to the “tim wise”.
Are you REALLY so dimwitted as to address your article to white “women” only?
Boy, are you in for a rude surprise. Even in the instance of a poll being pushed to show women being split between McCain and Obama, you’re ignoring the huge number of white men falling away from Obama.
Yet, you focus on “women.” White women.
Let’s be clear here: You are propagating the FALSE idea that the sole reason people are not voting for Obama is his mixed heritage.
YOU are crying wolf, so the words “racism” “racist” will lose every bit of their meaning. You are trivializing a part of society that DOES need attention, and communication…dreaming it up, where it is far from being the core of womens’ aversion to Obama, is DISGUSTING.
You THINK you understand race, but take your filters off once in awhile and LISTEN to the reasons people are giving for not voting for Obama. I could provide a litany of factual (yes, right there in the good ol’ public record that prove Obama is a pure empty suit politician) but your filters prevent you from undestanding.
Just as a Doctor who specializes in radiation therapy favors…radiation therapy, instead of holistic methods…you push RACE as the reason for all of this division.
YOU ARE MISSING THE BIGGEST CLUE in your writing of this ridiculous article.
Yes, there are some people who are pure out and out racist, but that is a small cross-section of democrats OR republicans, or independents, or Europeans, or little old Jewish men…
I feel sorry for people who are SO focused on race, that they operate from that standpoint, with that filter in place…
It’s not all about your skin color.
Ahh the CP crowd, its no surprise they are Obie supporters given their hatred of the U.S. Nor is it any wonder they’d use the racist card to bully and denigrate those who aren’t supporting Obie.
Scum no matter how attired is still scum.
Answer to that article:
Yes, many of us are white (though many aren’t, although I guess you’re not addressing those others).
And we’re bitches. And we get to vote. (Though I’m sure if you could stop us you would.) And it’s still a secret ballot. At least for now.
Deal with it.
Character testimony in a courtroom, while never used to prove or disprove a fact, is important to evaluate the truthfulness of the witness statement asserting the fact. Without character testimony being admissible, we would be unable to decide the merits between competing testimony.
The same is true in political campaigns. Each candidate uses speeches and policy statements as testimony. We evaluate that testimony through the lens of the candidates character.
Obami’s Character is defined in his own words..go to youtube and search for his audio of his books and listen to his own words what he thinks about whites, jews, etc. His character wad molded into the image of his teachers..Rev. Wright, Priest Pliegar..ck spelling..lol..Character is built from the the time of birth and this Obami Character is the very image of what he claims..”I never knew “insert current person he is throwing under the bus here”..was like that..well”..Obami is a piece of each one of them! No character and he does not even know himself who he is..he admits to depression and issues in his book and doubts about himself..he has always been a follower and now is saying he is a leader..someone is pulling his puppet strings..That is my thought of the day!
Update on the AOL straw poll:
McCain still leading Obama by 10% 55%McCain 45%Obama
Oregon has gone Red with a statistical tie of 50-50
Obama leads California, Washington and Illinois by 2%. 51%Obama 49%McCain
New York and Connecticut favor Obama by 4%. 52%Obama 48%McCain
Obama leads Maryland by 6% 53%Obama 47%McCain
Washington DC 76%Obama and 24%McCain
Over 431,000 votes cast in this poll so far.
Those you see following the Obamessiah are not Democrats, though the species may try to look similar. They are in fact nothing but JACKASSES!
P.U.M.A.
You know, back when BO was giving the ‘downtrodden workers unite’ speeches it sounded like Lenin on the back end of that train. Do they really think that being a Democrat means being a Marxist?
Larry, you are getting so many of these short four or five word posts from Obamabots. Maybe this is some type of initiation ceremony they must go through to become part of the cult. Like when wannabe gangsters have to kill a rival gang member to become part of the gang.
Or maybe they want a job with the Obamazoid anti-smear task force and insulting Larry Johnson is part of the application process. I’m just throwing some theories out there.
Do you think the CIA is like dk?
Really?
I thought character didn’t matter when Clinton was being lambasted by the MSM during Monicagate et al??!! Oh well, maybe Peter Paul can host McCain’s inaugural party when he is elected this fall.
I disagree. Bill Clinton did not pull at “bait and switch.” His character wasn’t hidden - folks pretty much knew he was a “people person” and that he was, at the very least, a terrible flirt. This wasn’t news. He lied about Monica, but that wasn’t an attempt to hide who he was, it was an attempt to hide what he did.
Talk about Bill Clinton’s character at this point was about whether he should be punished, how he should be punished and why he would have done this. But there were hardly any folks saying “Bill, we hardly knew ya.”
bart, isn’t it funny how the obots can’t even remember who the enemy is at the moment? they’re talking about mccain and the general election, yet they’re bringing up the classic clinton smears of monica and peter paul.
obots are almost as dumb as their leader, who thinks jerusalem is the capitol of isreal and thinks it must be undivided/well maybe not, depending on which day it is and who’s in the audience.
I have never understood Clinton Derangement Syndrome. It seems to attack only folks on the far left or far right. I suppose it is similar to Roosevelt Derangement Syndrome, because i remember older folks telling me the hate and vitriol directed at both FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt was breathtaking. And it lasted for generations.
So, aren’t the Jews willing to move their capital now that the chosen one has spoken?
So you fools are still attacking President Clinton?
President Clinton was the LAST Democratic President — TWO term Democratic President.
Obama is taking over control of the Democrat party — by moving the Democrat headquarters to Chicago — home of the dirty political machine.
Why bother wasting all that money on a Convention in August? Why bother even voting?
I certainly hope that the Republicans are big enough to fight the Chicago political machine.
This is going to be one hell of a dirty political season.
with the oblowme’s in control, bill clinton was indeed the LAST democratic president.
as in there will never be another.
chicago, my ass! the dnc’s allegedly about democrats, not just obamacrats.
guess not any more.
re convention - why bother? did hitler bother with such niceties? (ok, he did some, before he decided it was easier to just kill a few million people he didn’t like).
Confidentially? Had you even been born when Bill Clinton was serving his first term?
CHECK THIS OUT!……..This is how the DNC is operating now>>>>>>>>
http://www.youtube.com/kimfrederi
The DNC’s political department, housed in Washington, D.C., will be dramatically rebuilt, with staffers offered a choice of moving to Chicago, joining state operations, or staying in Washington, DNC spokeswoman Karen Finney said.
But the power will clearly be shifting to a centralized Chicago hub.
Folks, the minute they “centralize” power, that’s the beginning of a form of dictatorship and total control by the power elite. The people are mere cogs in the wheels of their coup and will be thrown in the trash bin as soon as they have served their purpose.
This is totally unacceptable. Who gave Dean the right to allow this transfer of power? Does he even have the power to make such a decision on behalf of the entire democratic party membership?
It is for this reason alone, we should stop obama from getting into the White House. His administration would be the beginning of the end of democracy as we know it.
Well, there is a “Million Women March” website which is dedicated to organizing a large group of Hillary supporters to go to Denver and have our voices heard. I suspect this is why Hillary fought so hard and allowed herself to go through hell before suspending her campaign. She is still a great force for the people and that’s precisely why we MUST be there to stand with her. She should not stand alone in Denver.
HELL NO, NO BO!
Should fit right in on the south side of Chicago. Meetings could be held at TUCC.
If I were the “new” DNC, knowing the rap on Chicago politics, I might not go back there just yet. They are soooooooooo in love with him in the New York and DC media, that they don’t report squat. Whereas in Chicago, they are not so bamboozled and hoodwinked and don’t think that hopey changey is so okey dokey. I would be willing to bet that more true investigative reporting comes out of Chicago than would out of DC where everyone is a “short termer.” Bad, bad decision.
Here’s a snip from black agenda report:
At an antiwar meeting last October (2002) Obama was certainly pitching to that Democratic base in the progressive and African American community:
“I don’t oppose all wars … What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war …”
For a while the whole speech could be found on Obama’s campaign web site …
Then, a few weeks ago, (early 2003) Barack Obama’s heartfelt statement of principled opposition to lawless militarism and the rule of fear was stricken without explanation from his campaign web site, and replaced with mild expressions of “anxiety,” and because “the speech was dated once the formal phase of the war was over, and my staff’s desire to continually provide fresh news clips.” The speech was returned to the site following Associate Editor Bruce A. Dixon’s June 5 commentary:
Somebody else’s brand of politics appears to have intruded on Obama’s campaign. For a while the whole speech could be found on Obama’s campaign web site, a key statement of principle for a serious US Senate candidate in an election season when the President’s party threatens the world with permanent war and pre-emptive invasion, and cows US citizens with fear mongering, color coded alerts, secret detentions and the abrogation of constitutional liberties. Although Obama may have appeared at meetings of other citizens opposed to the war or let them use his name, no further public statements from the candidate on these important issues have appeared.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=468&Itemid=34
Good idea, HARP!
Hey change the capital to Chicago whilst you’re at it. Make the TUCC the new White House. And congress both. It plays!
And he doesn’t even have the nomination yet - Hillary has not released her delegates. Obama did call the democratic party “HIS” party the other day in a speech when he said HIS party was not going to take money from lobbyists anymore (of course they will take it from law firms representing lobbyists, who bundle their clients donations, etc.). Will the MSM ignore this bold takeover move by OB?
I think in medical terms it’s called ‘premature nomination’.
Folks, the minute they “centralize” power, that’s the beginning of a form of dictatorship and total control by the power elite.
I can’t believe this is happening. It’s fucking Germany all over again. Who could have seen it coming a year ago?
After reading a few comments before yours, I was getting a little worried. The only way that BO wins is if people let him.
I predict something now which may sound dumb, but if Acadia is any judge, that’s already a given… I think Barack O’F'ing’Bama may turn out to unite this country after all.
I don’t think that mainstream Republicans hate Democrats nearly as much as they let on. Its very much like that great Warner Brothers cartoon where the Sheepdog and the Wolf meet each other in the morning and clock in for work…
“Mornin’ Ralph,”
“Mornin’ Fred,” and then spend the day trying to kill each other. The whistle blows, they clock out and say, “see ya tomorrow,” and the cartoon ends. There is an implied contract between them, thus ensuring job security.
Republicans can see the potential for permanent damage to our political system just as well as the people on this blog.
They can see what BO will do. They are not stupid. Anyone who says so is showing some bigotry.
I think America will come together simply because some things work lots better when there are two sides. Teeter-totter ain’t fun if its just teeter. Ping pong becomes ‘ go get the ball,’ and a one-party system becomes enslavement.
Ask an Eastern European.
Marxism sucks…Forever
The move to Chicago sounds like a very bad idea. More bamboozling, now all out in the open.
From Rush.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_061108/content/01125110.guest.html
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: I had a plant today in a Howard Dean breakfast with reporters, and I just got the report from the plant who attended the Howard Dean breakfast, and this is what he said. He said, “Democrats are nervous about Obama’s chances in November, but Howard Dean called such unease healthy.” I know they’re nervous. They have been nervous when the guy started losing primary after primary after primary in major states to the witch. They were bugged by this. They were troubled by it. He did not get votes from traditional Democrat constituencies. You know they’re worried! So my plant at the Howard Dean breakfast confirms this. Dean says, “I’m actually thrilled that they’re nervous. I think it’s about time. Last spring there was this feeling of confidence, that we’re just going to roll through everything, and that’s how you lose elections. So I’m delighted that Democrats are really worried about whether they can win or not. I’m just delighted about this! It’s absolutely going to be close.”
“to the witch” - what a sweetie! just like oblowme.
Howard Dean is so stupid and out of touch it can’t be described.
OMG: What the hell is happening? I thought Obama was the puppet…but apparently Dean has the hand up his ass now. Very frightening news.
Move to Chicago . . . .nail in the coffin for obama.
For them to be so blatant in their lust for control over the DNC, there must be some pretty powerful forces protecting them. And that ought to scare the S_ _ T out of everyone!
This move is a major slap in the face to the democratic membership, not to mention, the democratic process and we better wake up and realize the dangers this kind of power grab poses to the future of our country and American soverignty.
Who gives a damn about what happens to the democratic party any longer. It’s been literally taken over by the demons from the Exorcist!
I think they’re being mocked.
Take the party back…
Nominate and run alternative Democratic candidates.
Anti-popes ran Europe for centuries..
Create a “Democratic Govt in Exile”
Tell Dean to stick it up his “Wahoo!”
Our elected representatives still have to do what we tell ‘em.
Maybe we just aren’t loud enough yet.
But PLEASE stop being so dam defeatist.
It may be time to wipe the stink of this non-representative party leadership off of the party but whining will only get so much done.
These guys are playing for keeps and are just that far away from stealing not just the Democratic Party but maybe the whole country.
A solid plan
as anyone who has ever been married can tell you …
generalizing this lesson would lead to despair, so folks don’t.
Now that he is the presumptive nominee, even the white supremacists have admitted they are hoping Obama wins.
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/06/11/president-obama-many-white-supremacists-are-celebrating/
Obviously their reasons for hoping he becomes President are the worst possible reasons, but as I stated in some previous comments I have suspected they were playing that game during the primaries. Their aim is obviously to ensure that no African American no matter how qualified will even be considered to have a remote chance for decades to come. As much as I dislike Senator Obama and do not think he is qualified in any way to be President. I do hope he comes out with a nice plan for any donations he finds coming from these morons. Something fitting such as donating the money to the UNCF. Yes I believe that would indeed stick in the throats of these moronic hate peddlers! So any of you Obama bloggers who see this, please pass my suggestion on.
Those you see following the Obamessiah are not Democrats, though the species may try to look similar. They are in fact nothing but JACKASSES!
P.U.M.A.
More poor judgement? Eric Holder, who is also among Mr. Obama’s veep vetters, will probably be the next to join the Under The Bus Club. WSJ is reporting that as Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton Administration, Eric Holder played a role in the Marc Rich pardon that also deserves to be fully vetted – all the more so if Mr. Holder is on the short list to be Mr. Obama’s Attorney General.
Obama’s intimate ties to ACORN, a voter registration group that has faced numerous indictments for voter fraud, has been well reported in the past. This new report out of Louisiana may be even more troubling.
A “Democrat-affiliated group” responsible for a voter registration effort that is inundating East Baton Rouge and other parish registrars with bogus and incomplete applications. This “Democrat-affiliated group” is VIP, which is affiliated with the Muslim American Society. The MSA is reported to be a chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Islamist, anti-western organization whose goal is the “introduction of the Islamic Shariah as the basis for controlling the affairs of state and society.
Given that Obama has written in his book that he would side with the Muslims, does he also side with them in this attempt at subversion of the electoral process?
Who can say whose ratfuck that is, isn’t it?
Could be a two-fer.
This new report out of Louisiana may be even more troubling.
Maybe Barky and Axelrod will just send some more mafia lawyers down there and have them all disqualified?
with the democratic negro committee moving to chicago, it just made me a new republican. any political party that allows itself to be hijacked and bought is extremely corrupted. there is no longer a democratic party, it now is owned by obama. i hope the clintons will now move away from this piece of shit party. and any other politicians that see what is taking place. i really believe that something is sinister here, w.t.f ????
democratic negro committee
LOL. But you’re right. Hill and Bill should simply start their own party, pull away all the politicians who supported them, set up operations on their own.
The primary goal must be to destroy Obama at all costs. After that the rest is icing on the cake.
Now, when you use the language of “negro”, all of the argument&