Breaking News: Obama Bombs
By Larry Johnson on June 26, 2008 at 9:38 PM in Current Affairs
Barack, you may be from Illinois, but you are no Abraham Lincoln. You may be tall and you may be a great speaker, but you lack President Lincoln’s magnanimity and vision. Lincoln, in the waning days of the Civil War, ignored his supporters who wanted revenge on the South and sought reconciliation. His words from his second inaugural address still resonate:
With malice toward none, with charity for all, …let us strive on to finish the work we are in, …to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Barack had his opportunity tonight to start healing the rifts in the Democratic party and, to put it bluntly, he flopped. (CNN is giving the Barack spin, but don’t believe it.) I am told from people who attended the fundraising soiree at the Mayflower Hotel that the One was a dud.
Hillary, ever the good trooper and team player, gave Barack an intro to her big dollar donors and an opportunity to start the healing. But Barack continues to play the role of petulant bore. He gave an uninspired, mechanical speech. The charm exhibited on the campaign trail that left women swooning, was missing in action. Folks from the Hillary camp described the speech as snobbish, arrogant, and boring. But it was Barack’s response to questions from Hillary’s supporters that produced sour bile.
1. What about the Vice President slot? The questioner told Barack that if he named Hillary as the Vice President that the Democrats would be in a position to own the White House for the next 16 years. Barack said nothing to give Clinton supporters hope that he would consider the Senator from New York.
2. Will you help Hillary retire her debt? On this one Barack said he had written a check for $2300 (note, no check from Michelle UPDATE: according to the AP, Michelle gave a check as well. A good first step.), but that his real interest was getting access to the phone lists of Hillary’s donors and contacts. Hillary supporters at the gathering sat on their hands, their checkbooks, and their lists.
3. What will you do to stop the sexist smear of Hillary? The questioner noted that Barack did nothing to quell the rampant sexist attacks on Hillary during the campaign and that she continues to be brutalized. Barack said, “Yes, I know. But there is another woman who has been brutalized as well. The healing will take a long time to fix.”
So there you have it. No vision. No magnanimous gesture. It is still all about Barack and Michelle. Most of the Hillary supporters left unassuaged. Instead of a promise from Barack to tell his supporters to stop the attacks on Hillary and her supporters, he essentially put his hands in his pockets and shrugged his shoulders.
Let’s be clear. The recently concluded Democratic party primary season does not even begin to compare to the death and horror that convulsed America during the Civil War. But the hurt feelings and anger among Hillary supporters are real. And Barack’s refusal to tackle this issue head on is but one other reminder that he is not ready to unite a nation fractured by political strife. We know Mr. Lincoln, and you sir are no Abraham.
Where’s the “whitey” tape?
Who needs the whitey tape with all the slime that is constantly oozing from nobama’s campaign?
Has there been a more vicious lie spread in this campaign than the “whitey” tape? And it came from Hillary’s supporters. And Hillary hasn’t denounced it.
Obama owes her nothing.
Dude, who are you? Like the guy from the movie or something?
Someone told me you were writing stuff about me in a blog somewhere but I couldn’t bring myself to care enough to read about it.
Don’t worry, your homegirl Mish and the Whitey tape will be delivered when the time is right.
As Billy Ayers might tell you, no need to deploy the bomb until you can ensure it will have maximum effect.
Tick tick tick, Bambi.
Ha ha ha.
I think Paul wants a blog on my.barackobama.com, too — just like Steve Diamond!
No, that site’s radioactive with New Black Panther Party, Che-loving, anti-American drivel. I don’t want any part of that craphole, thanks.
That’s second-fiddle land, where jokes and outcasts congregate.
I’m not looking for a demotion.
Too late.
Uh, yeah, I guess that means that some astrotroll named “Hillarity Ensues” says I am demoted?
You have ensued, Hillarity. And unintentional or otherwise, you are funny.
Just as a good joke should be.
BAM! YOU’VE BEEN SERVED like you wuz Kobe and I wuz Paul mo fo Pierce dunking on that sorry booty!
Shaq wants to know how his behind tastes.
Ha ha ha.
Paul,
Undercover BlackMan has posted here before. If you go into the bowels of his site you will understand his “problems”. He speaks of his need for therapy and that people just don’t understand him. I am thinking he has real identity issues. I really feel sorry for him. NOT.
JUST SAY NO TO BLACK LIBERATION MARXIST THEOLOGY
NO OBAMA
MCCAIN 2008 OR UNTIL HILLARY RISES
Thanks, man.
UBM sounds a lot like Obama: Major identity issues.
Hey, I’m not hating on those suffering from emotional and mental issues. I have had my own struggles with PTSD and some OCD. These are real things…
…and the reason why someone with a real health care plan like Hillary’s is the proper choice for the Dem nominee.
Choosing a barren ’symbol’ — or ‘mascot’ to use Thomas Sowell’s term — like Obama isn’t going to help anyone. It’s like getting your kid a bunch of fake trophies to try to build his self-esteem: All you end up doing is setting him up for failure by rewarding him for nothing.
Barack’s a joke, a fraud. Electing him isn’t going to help AA’s. It’s going to bring even more attention to the problems of quotas and spur white backlash.
The guy isn’t fit for the job and doesn’t have the qualifications. No ‘trophy’ given to him is going to change that. Like an affirmative action entrant at a college who can’t handle the work, all Bwak will do is poison the well for those minority candidates for president who ARE qualified who follow him.
Sad but true.
You got the “bowels” part right.
UBM, I know you want to free yourself from the cliche that is a black man supporting Obama. Search those bowels and find the courage to just say “damn, what the hell was I thinking?”
Join us UBM, no kool-aid, but you’ll find the company much more stimulating. Er, no pun intended.
Yeah, Therapy and Reparations, and not necessarily in that order.
…
Kinda like this blog, huh?
nobody reads my.barackobama.com anyways
Hey Paul, wasn’t Undercover Black Man really a chick from Canada?
Honestly, Tampa, I have no clue. I truly did never look at what he/she supposedly wrote about me but I was told that he/she did write something on that subject.
If I wrote about you, hoss, you’d be feeling it… like the jerk behind the “Power 2 Obama,” who had to pull it down after I shined the light of truth on him… BAM!
Yeah, that’s how I roll…
again, go to the black agenda report then come back and have an intelligent conversation …
Right.
No, I got some reliable intel you were writing about me and I have yet to ‘feel’ anything.
Roll as you will, which is to say roll about as flaccid as Sinclair says BaJoke is.
Ha ha ha.
No wonder you’re undercover. If I sucked like you did I wouldn’t want anyone to know who I was, either.
Ahh. “Reliable intel.” The No Quarter crowd is renowned for its “reliable intel.”
But if you want me to write about you, hoss… I’ll write about you.
Word on the street is you already did write about me. Now, if you want to remix what you wrote previously, that’s up to you.
I just hope that your skills exceed that of that Rebecca Traister Salon lady’s. She couldn’t win a 1st grade essay contest with her stuff.
me me!
write about me. I am way worse than Paul.
GET LOST CRYPTO-DRUGSTER DUNDERHEAD
PUMAS ROAR!
NOBAMA ‘08
Obama should send his weightless resume to McCain for the chief speechwriter’s position in November….a job’s a job, moron.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard so many cliches as I’ve heard from the bots.
Cliches by de Carload.
Metaphors by MixMaster.
Fred C. Dobbs, will you marry me?
Wow, you are just SO WITTY.
Here’s how we roll:
UNDERCOVER BLACKMAN
Born in K.C. MO., we roamed around a lot. We lived in L.A., Santa Fe, Houston, and now, I live in NYC. I was formerly a Black Nationalist, then a Marxist-Leninist, then anarchist, now black autonomist. I worked with the Black Fist collective in Houston and we put Black Fist, an anarchist ‘zine that focused on people of color. The Clarance Brandley Coalition, did police brutality work as well. Later, I hosted and produced a political hip-hop radio show called Street Vibe for 5 years in the 90s
DO YOU THINK WE ARE AFRAID OF YOU UNDERCOVER BLACKMAN?
GO AWAY AND OH, BY THE WAY, I HAVE NO WHITE GUILT.
JUST SAY NO TO BLACK LIBERATION MARXIST THEOLOGY
NO OBAMA
MCCAIN 2008 OR UNTIL HILLARY RISES
Nice work, OTAI. Thanks.
*thumbs up*
You got me mixed up with a brother known as “brotherkomrade.”
Lordy, can’t you do anything right?
Undercover Blackman,
Good try ass. We know your secrets.
You not the only one who can use the internet.
JUST SAY NO TO BLACK LIBERATION MARXIST THEOLOGY
NO OBAMA
MCCAIN 2008 OR UNTIL HILLARY RISES
Under Cover Black Man, You find it very difficult to keep your dumbness to yourself. You just have to spread the news>>>>>How sad
Under Cover Black Man, You find it very difficult to keep your dumbness to yourself. You just have to spread the news>>>>>How sad
This is nonsensical and superfluous garbage Undercover person.
And you have us mixed up with someone who cares what you think.
Get lost, Obamabot! Go bury your head in Obamsand..
PUMAS ARE ROARING.
Santa Fe must have been a trip for undercover black man.
If he/she/it survived Santa Fe, a REAL adventure awaits in Prescott.
Geez….they just can’t stay in their own Obamatron boxes, can they?
Sick of the racist allegations. Sick of YOU people, Undercover. You created us with your bile. Now you have to deal with it, you bunch of hate-oriented asses.
That’s funny, though. Does Black Fist really need to explain that its focus is on people of color? Ha ha.
uhh, you roll horribly, and you’re incompetent. But I guess you all think that we’re that same. Btw, I think Undercover Black man is cool, but he has a link to black conservative blogs - afronerd, and the like. I wold never have links to them. So you get a F..no, better yet, an incomplete.
Do better next time, Moron.
You sound sooooooo white.
Tampa,
Undercover Blackman is a black man with identify issues hiding behind a black agenda. He talks about it on his site and the “new” site I guess he is developing for his “new” identity. He does not feel accepted and is searching for himself. Don’t exactly know why he comes here because he is not gonna “find the love” at this anti-Obama site.
Undercover Blackman - please go away and be around people with whom you have something in common. It is not healthy for you here.
JUST SAY NO TO BLACK LIBERATION MARXIST THEOLOGY
NO OBAMA
MCCAIN 2008 OR UNTIL HILLARY RISES
Hmmm, sounds like someone I know wanting to be POTUS…
That’s what the ‘deal’ is with most of the Bots. They’ve been on the losing side of everything their entire lives - career, personal relationships, for instance. They have now chosen to identify with what APPEARS to be an underdog, a black candidate, and they’re feeling empowered by his so-called ’successes’. However, what they fail to realize is that Obama is anything BUT an ‘underdog’. He’s not truly black and has no real connection to the average black voter, other than skin color. He’s an elitist snob. He’s a racist of the worst sort. He’s never worked a true day in his life, while American black families have worked hard and struggled EVERY day of their lives.
But the Bots don’t want to hear this. They just are another bunch of losers who suddenly feel like they’re going to be ‘winners’ and ‘in charge’.
Just weeks after HRC suspended her campaign, you can see that they’re very bad winners - thugs with power (or perceived power) are scary. That’s what we’d have to look forward to if BHO wins the election and that’s why we have to fight against that.
Great post, FloridaDem.
Just like also-rans such as Kerry, Biden and Ted Kennedy, it appears many of Bwak’s supplicants are looking Fake Messiah to help buoy their own lackluster fortunes.
Good luck. He doesn’t care one whit about any of you. If you don’t know that yet I don’t know what to tell you to help you see the reality of the situation.
I think he /she suffers from an identity disorder. We did have a dialog with this person a few days ago, maybe this person said they were a Ron Paul supporter. Whatever,he / she needs help.
If all this is true, good luck, Undercover.
Pinning your hopes on a fraud like Obama won’t solve anything, even if he is elected. He doesn’t care one whit about you and is only self-focused, so I would suggest you turn your energies in other directions, particularly if what these guys are saying is true.
Obama is the OJ remix. When he thinks it helps him to pander to AA’s, he does so. When he thinks he has you guys on the string, he goes Bill Cosby on black fathers.
The guy could care less about the AA community, or any other community.
He’s only thinking about himself. Always was, always will be.
Paul,
Don’t fall for it. He is a Black Panther wannabe. I was just pointing out from his website some shit he has written on it. He will rip you at any chance so there is no need for pity for Undercover Blackman. He is so full of black victimhood I am thinking he should join Rev. Wright church.
JUST SAY NO TO BLACK LIBERATION MARXIST THEOLOGY
NO OBAMA
MCCAIN 2008 OR UNTIL HILLARY RISES
It’s all good, OTAI.
If the guy is truly going thru something, I wish him well.
But that’s as far as it goes. My own magnanimity ends where Bwak’s joke campaign begins.
Whatever, he is a Pendejo!
a Black Panther Wannabe
pfft
hard to get more pathetic than that.
honestly thats worse than being a low information low income low IQ Hillary supporter.
A friend in Seattle said the bunch he knew that were ron paul supporters and were loud, rude and pushy switched over to bo and are still loud, pushy and rude.
The shitty remarks from Obama supporters started before Ron Paul self-imploded in NH, though. When the psych ward turned these miscreants loose, and they went with the Obama camp, that’s when the crazy got turned up a notch.
I dont think I am the only one who is counting the minutes until I get to see the reaction of these guys when the Precious loses 49 states.
the Obamasphere is going to turn in to one big support group.
of course it will be Hillarys fault.
and ours.
personally I am totally ok with that.
^ It most certainly will be Hillary’s fault… if she doesn’t campaign vigorously for her party’s nominee out of spite. And the Party will remember her betrayal. Which means don’t get y’all’s hopes up for 2012.
Tampagurl;
No. He is a white man and I don’t think he is paid by OB or even supports him. Some people want to stir up racial tensions. Have you heard of Charles Manson and Helter Skelter? I think it’s the same thing and Manson didn’t care about Blacks and neither does this one.
Then why does he expect Hillary to hand him her donors on a silver platter, and campaign for his sorry ass?
Love your site Paul. Great videos and commentary. tick tick tick…LMFAO! Scorched venison anyone?
Thanks, 85. Glad you like it.
Why don’t you go ask the Republicans about that tape and leave us alone? It’s not going to be released before August. Man, this guy probably goes to movie theatres going “Where’s BATMAN? You said there was a new BATMAN movie. I still don’t see it. WHERE’S BATMAN? Those were smear ads against BATMAN! All LIES!!! There is no BATMAN.”
BWAAHAAAAAHAA
Where’s the new Batman?!!!!
Ahh those dopey troll bastids….LOL!!!!
Fran — I think McCain should call Obama on his racism. Obama is already into his — everybody is a racist and won’t vote for me. Seems to be the only racist is Obama himself.
That cracked me up. “Where’s Batman?”
AND we owe Obama Nothing … go read the black agenda report and come back and hold an intelligent converstion
Article about PUMAs and No Deal —
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062604162.html?hpid=topnews
Pretty good article there. Thanks. I loved the video.
Inspiring!
I love how you Obots can’t leave the “whitey” tape alone.
You always have to bring it up. You do realize that everytime you mention it, you place another seed of doubt.
But be my guest and continue mentioning it. The truth is it only hurts Obama.
The “whitey” tape will go down in the history of American political dirty tricks… like the “Canuck letter.” I bring it up as the ultimate refutation of the proposition that the Obama campaign is responsible for the negative tone of this campaign.
Hillary is ashamed of you people.
Oh, you know her personally?
You’re not listening!!!
Keep bringing it up and another doubter has his/her wings.
I appreciate your efforts though!
For every comment you make, you lose another voter to the other team.
You’re our best asset. We wouldn’t want to loose you so keep on posting.
Thanks, Bonita. I just might.
The Canuck letter was true. How is that a dirty trick? Then Obama came out in favor of NAFTA after all.
Uh, Hope - I don’t think that’s what he was referring to. Think Edmund Muskie. But that only goes to show you what a lame threat UCB is making. It would be something no one remembers.
UCB - problem is, history will be remembering much worse about the Obama campaign for generations to come. The first serious bi-racial candidate that screwed the pooch for future legitimate candidates.
Oh, sorry… rat-fucking! Of course.
this is important I think.
as someone who would love to see a qualified AA run as a real democrat and win I think this is really one of the most tragic things about this fiasco.
he will lose so badly it will be a long time before there is another AA candidate I think.
Don’t waste those tears, Capt. After all, just because Hillary ran a lousy campaign and lost, that doesn’t mean voters will hold it against the next woman to run.
Same with black folks, if Obama is indeed brought down by the smears, lies and insane hatred of Hillary’s most devoted fans.
Sen. Obama proved “qualified” to win the most delegates… “qualified” to raise the most money ever in a primary campaign… “qualified” to draw the biggest, most enthusiastic crowds. I think he’s “qualified” to win in November, regardless of the pathetic practitioners of the politics of personal destruction.
Right as long as there is a band scheduled to play after his stump speech. Does everyone know that the crowds (75,000) was a crowd that was showing up for a free concert that is why they were there. not to see him. It just worked out that way. It was reported that evening on CNN that the crowd was there for the band that day, not for the Obama campaign. he just took advantage of the crowd that day to make it look like they the crowd was there to hear him speak. That happened in Oregon check it out, it was in the paper there.
Not qualified to recieve the popular vote LOL
Indeed, NY… pardon me for assuming that No Quarter dwellers were knowledgeable about the past few decades of political history. (”Watergate? Was that anything like Travelgate?”)
Anyways, you wrote: “UCB - problem is, history will be remembering much worse about the Obama campaign for generations to come.”
1. It’s UBM.
2. Obama didn’t campaign negatively; it was a Hillary staffer who told the New York Times about Team Hillary’s “kitchen sink” strategy of negative attacks. I think history will remember how incompetently Sen. Clinton’s campaign was run.
Hillary is ashamed of us.
thats rich darlin.
being from AR I know the Clintons better than most. I have been campaigning for them since the late 70s and you dont have a freakin clue what you are talking about.
you want to know what Hillary is doing right now?
she is working on doing those caucuses better four years from now.
thats what she is doing.
its worth mentioning because it shows how nuts many on No Quarter are when it comes to Obama. Larry Johnson heavily promoted this tape and said he was coming out with it on June 3rd. yet no tape. You guys and gals will be hoping for this tape and the election will have come and gone. Nonsense about this tape reminds me of all those Ark. Clinton kills people crap the repubs were pushing when he was in office, yet you folks here want to believe nutty crap like this “whitey” tape. You don’t think it hurts your credibility?
Slobodanee, you’re a liar. Larry has never said he had the tape, or even that he’d seen it himself.
He said he’d reveal some new information about the tape on June 3rd, and he did.
But be patient, little troll. The Republicans will spring the tape on B&MO when it will do the maximum damage.
details details.
hey land of lincoln. I am currently living in the “land of lincoln” for work and it is great to know there may be at least one other person in this state who has not drunk the koolaid.
UBM - 18 million of us do not Obama anything.
I guess Obam can try and replace us with the felons he and the Demoratic party are registering in VA and the dead people they’re registering in Louisiana:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602535_pf.html
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/06/dems-hire-radical-muslim-group-in.html
Dead people are very popular voters in
Daley’s Chicago too and Obama is his guy…..
Yeah,
Well just wait ’til they see the tape!
Karen Tumulty reported the Obama campaign learned of the rumor one full month before Larry Johnson did and ran it on his website. So the Obama campaign clearly had its own sources about this supposed tape. The rumors of the tape came from Republicans who supposedly have been showing it at fundraisers.
Bingo.
Nice work, Hope Floats!
Exactly right. Sen. Numbnutz ran it on his site back in April, Larry J. in May the first time.
Like my man Paul sez:
tick, fick, tick, …
Can’t wait until the explosion. You know it’ll be “it’s not ‘Whitey,’ it’s ‘Why’d he,’ and all that BS.
Ha ha.
Hope,
I truly believe there is a tape and that the Rep’s have it.
But I also think that no one is good enough at keeping a secret for this tape to be used as a fundraiser.
It is the silver bullet, after all. Not even the white-guilt masochists who have been sucking up to BoBo will be able to stomach him or her after it plays.
unfortunately I disagree.
at this point I dont think there is anything that either of them could do or say that would not be rationalized away with Olberbamaman leading the way.
yesterday Greenwald called him out on cheering on Obambis embrace of FISA and Olberman freaked.
its only the beginning.