Totalitarian Tactics and an Illegitimate Nominee
By Bud White on June 27, 2008 at 6:39 PM in Barack Obama, Bloggers, Bolshevikization, Censorship, Cultist Thugs, Current Affairs, Daily Kos, Democratic Party, John F. Kennedy, Just Say No Deal, Media Bias, Misogyny, New McCarthyism, PUMA, Race Card, Riverdaughter, Sexism, Women's Suffrage, women
Neither the main stream media nor the Democratic Party nor even the Obama campaign itself has come to terms with the damage Obama’s tactics have done to our Party. The damage was facilitated by the media and the big blogs.
Obama’s first task was controlling the media. Politicalcenter writes:
Taking their cue from totalitarian regimes, Obama developed his own propaganda arm which spewed facts and figures to the media and made false claims designed to keep controversial issues dealing with the candidate off of the main stream media. At the same time, Obama attacked in merciless ways those who voiced opposition on various Internet systems and sources, including the media who dared to question him, and has now stopped debates in favor of tuning his message against McCain again with the help of completely compliant media.
Consider that there’s a growing movement of determined progressives who are committed to Obama’s defeat. Our swelling numbers and strength of purpose are actually pretty shocking when you stop and think about it. The PUMA movement isn’t bitter or small; it’s radical and revolutionary: This is how parties are born and die. You are living history. SusanUnPC writes:
Hundreds of thousands of Hillary Clinton supporters will NEVER vote for Barack Obama. And a great many will vote for John McCain simply because they believe he is qualified to be president, and that Barack Obama is NOT qualified or experienced enough — and we’re worried sick about such a teleprompter-dependent neophyte being handed the toughest job in the world.
In addition to Obama’s race-baiting and thuggish tactics, Anglachel suggests that Obama’s problem is the illegitimacy of his nomination:
The increasing rejection of Obama by voters is a measure of his declining legitimacy. People who once thought they would gladly vote for him, like me, are now implacably opposed to him. He is no longer legitimate in our eyes…Participating in and profiting from the media hatred of the Clintons, throwing out accusations of racism to try to forestall criticism and inflate AA vote counts, encouraging people to be “Obamacans” not Democrats, the “Democrat for a Day” strategy, engaging in intimidation and threats to extract caucus votes, aggressively trying to monopolize money specifically to silence alternative voices, and treating voters who do not choose him first with contempt.
As Anglachel writes, there are several million of us who feel that Obama’s nomination is illegitimate, that his tactics are counter to our values as progressives, and that he is not the unity figure he claims to be. Indeed, Obama wears two masks: at one moment he gives high-minded speeches, at the next he is accusing Bill Clinton, a beloved former president, of racism.
As progressives, we are repulsed by the totalitarian nature of Obama’s candidacy — creating a cult of personality, the venom espoused by his adherents, the delegate stealing — tactics that are repugnant to the many who have spent a lifetime working for democracy and social justice.
Almost four years ago at DailyKos, DemFromCT wrote about Bush in ways which seem even more fitting for Obama today:
I was intrigued to hear some of the theories on the talking heads shows; it’s culture issues, not class economic issues. Kerry’s reality-based, Bush is not. Bush has run for four years to select and indoctrinate those who believe him and everyone else is against him.
During this primary season, Obama’s campaign used the big blogs as instruments to indoctrinate progressives and silence the opposition. Take the strike of DailyKos, for example. Imagine that this had happened at a progressive company: a group of women and men complain to management about rampant sexism and abuse. The manager, Kos in this case, regardless of his own agenda, would investigate and set limits on abusive language and behavior. Instead Kos, the proprietor of the biggest liberal blog, in a moment of unbelievable arrogance, calls their strike “laughable.” Feminism, justice, and respect are thrown out in favor of one candidate.
Politicalcenter continues:
The propaganda process was carefully managed turning everything damaging to Obama into racist or irrelevant issues. These included blatant refusals to print or to discuss clearly relevant issues to claims that any discussion was racism. Obama did not care about the truth. Only the message.
From this vantage point, Obama’s continual attacks on Hillary Clinton supporters were continually repeated through numerous MSM channels with little or no questioning and constant support for the Obama view of the truth. Obama thereby created the most one-sided message system ever developed in US politics.
The PUMA movement is the classic liberal fight against injustice. The ancestors to Just Say No Deal PUMAs are the abolitionists, the suffragettes, the labor movement, and the civil rights movement. We’re not bound to a particular party or a candidate. We’re joined together by our values. John Kennedy famously defined liberalism as:
not so much a party creed or set of fixed platform promises as it is an attitude of mind and heart, a faith in man’s ability through the experiences of his reason and judgment to increase for himself and his fellow men the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves.
Based on our progressive values, we reject Obama’s use of race-baiting and sexism as political tools — although ignored by the press and perpetuated by bloggers — we have documented it and are emboldened by these injustices:
Indeed, to this day, the Democrats have continued to use racism wherever they turn. From the Wright controversy, where Dean called the coverage racist, to the war against Geraldine Ferraro claiming that she is a racist, Obama has turned the tables dramatically against free speech and toward some other place that we dare not go or discuss.
Our movement faces ridicule and obstacles but is born out of our principles, and we will not be silenced. We believe that Obama’s defeat will strengthen the progressive cause long-term, we vote our conscience and we will not be bullied into supporting a candidate and movement who consistently violates the progressive tenets that include free thought and expression.
Riverdaughter perfectly expresses the progressive’s rational to reject to Obama. She writes:
Time is not going to heal this wound. Oh, I take that back. If I wake up on Nov. 5 to find that Barack Obama, the inexperienced, untested, unvetted, lightweight candidate who we counted on you to stop, if I find that he is NOT my president, I will finally be over it. If the man who called me a racist because I thought he was unready does not take the oath in January, I will be satisfied. If all the people he threw under the bus, the old, poor, working class, Appalachians, woman, latinos, asians, gay and Muslims find that the Democratic Party is now genuinely shocked and chastened for screwing us over as well as any Republican would have done, then we will have exercised our power.
Obama helps PUMA launch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtgwmmoamwY
Just tell me when the busses to DNC headquarters are loading. I can’t believe I can buy a cap and t-shirt and sit in on a conference call with John McCain, and digest every moment of the last 20 years of Barack Obama’s life but there’s no organized protest to shut the DNC down for attempting a coup de tat. Somebody please explain it to me.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/65/petition-for-howard-dean-to-resign-as-dnc-chair
Hey Mr. Teleprompter! Why are you scared of debating McCain? Your cries of “racism, racism, racism,” are sooo BORING. Not all white folk are stupid!
PUMA’s Of all stripes!
Native American’s Against Obama -Where?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReaNbXkygn8
NO UNITY!
NO DEAL!
Look, Obama is not “illegitimate” nor is the Democratic nomination process “totalitarian”. You folks posting here would be a lot more convincing towards people who don’t already agree with you if you didn’t make such hysterical statements. He’s not illegitimate because, for one thing, he hasn’t been formally nominated yet. However, he has been endorsed by the only possible opposing candidate. As far as the nomination race goes the fact that there is an election at all with multiple candidates indicates that nothing “totalitarian” has occurred. Those unfortunate people in the world who DO live in totalitarian regimes - for example, China - would laugh at such an odd claim from a US Democrat, claiming to be put down by “totalitarianism”.
Hillary Clinton is now actively campaigning for Obama. Your vote is of course your own but the candidate you claim to support has endorsed this other figure you seem to have an over-the-top, unjustifiable and irrational hatred for and you can no longer use her candidacy as a soapbox for your venting of your own anger because she herself has endorsed him.
Finally, making these ridiculous and dubious allegations on this web site - using hysterically vitriolic language - really only makes you inaccessible to people who otherwise might try more to understand your viewpoint.
Than ask Obama to DEBATE DEBATE DEBATE. He can’t, he sounds like a bumbling moron when he is not scripted.
The statements are certainly not hysterical and the passage of time does not dim the outrage.
HRC may suggest and encourage us to vote for him, just as she suggested and encouraged us to vote for her.
We have the right, obligation and duty to evaluate those suggestions and make our own choices.
Having done so, we are not obligated to recruit anyone else.
We simply find solace and comfort in the company of like-minded people.
Those who disagree are free to go elswhere.
What’s so hard to understand about that?
josgirl — I have never voted Republican in my life but I am comfortable voting for McCain. He loves this country as do I and 4 years from now this nation will still be a Democracy with him at the helm. To me Obama is not a Democrat — He is the brainchild of Corporate Whores who control the media and have pushed him 24/7. It is our country too and our votes should matter as much as those with the big checks. PUMA
I’ve never voted Republican - ever - for the first time in 27-years I will vote McCain. Be A Democrat - Vote McCain
fdrjim:
If you vote for McCain you will still have an unbroken record of voting Democrat.
The only ones who are using “hysterically vitriolic language” as you so pompously put it, are obamabots like you.
We regular folks are just going about trying to save our country from this nightmare of a candidate.
Republican for a day on Nov. 4th!
I am not an “obamabot” or whatever you called me. I was not particularly thrilled with him and he was not my first choice of candidate. I also do not find anything I wrote remotely vitriolic. I am not trying to get you to “support obama”, in fact, I don’t really care who you support. I am merely pointing out to you that you no longer have the option of using Hillary Clinton’s campaign as a soapbox to stand upon while venting your hatred of Obama because she has endorsed him, and is actively campaigning for him, and has stated that she wants her supporters (and donors) to get behind him. So you probably need to quit appropriating her image and her campaign and her political platform and ideology as your own, because you are actively opposing her at this point, and purely for reasons of your own -
Her donors are not jumping on the unity pony, either.
She asked them nicely, too.
You gonna pester them?
Fred, when I read your posts, I feel like I’m listening to Dan Quayle.
That’s very sad.
Dan Quayle will be voting for John McCain this year. Enjoy the company -
(PS - insulting me doesn’t reduce the truth of what I wrote.)
Well when you vote for Barack, just remember all of his quaylisms:
57 states
10000 died in Kansas
uncle liberating Auchwitz
Hello Sunshine
Typical white person
Lied on his first TV ad (
Present , present, present
uh, uh, uh, (without teleprompter)
I think Dan Quayle is an idiot.
And your childish platitudes in regard to insults, which in fact point to truth, are tiresome.
No point in arguing tactics with the unqualified.
Can you kind of see it?
LOL
Hunh?????
you just exposed yourself for what you really are.
Kind of like what Obama does.
Dearest Fred,
You are very confused. It’s no surprise many people are. Let me spell it out for you…
We are not,
‘…appropriating her image and her campaign and her political platform and ideology…’ for the simple reason Fred that, now listen very closely Fred, she….
Does not own those things.
Do you really think she owns single-payer health care or ‘…taking care of our troop when the return home…’ because she’s spoken out about said issues. Does she own every idea she puts forth whether or not it was hers to begins with?
I think not Fred. Your problem, and many Americans suffer from it, is you want somebody to tell you what to do. You don’t have the stones to stand up and ask for what you need. You look around and align yourself with the ’strong man’ you find most agreeable.
Your a sad individual but I’d not worry too much about you…
Except when an accomplished Demagogue like Barry comes along. He’s dangerous because you believe the drivel that comes out of his pie hole.
Fortunately the number of scared and frightened folks like yourself is on the decline.
The citizenry is awake to Barry and his totalitarian mindset. The fact that you want to argue that point really shows you for what you are.
A man desperate for someone to follow.
As Ben Franklin noted so long ago you are a menace to our Republic sir.
That’s what you are.
To be honest, when you got to the part about how “I need someone to tell me what to do” I pretty much quit reading. I do appreciate your effort to respond to me but until you can respond to someone with a different viewpoint than yourself with something besides massive hostility and insults, we aren’t gonna be able to talk.
PS - Hillary Clinton assuredly DOES own her own image and political ideology. That’s why she was running for office, not you. You don’t own her image, her ideology, or her campaign.
PPS - Speaking of appropriation, I don’t think you have any business coopting the image and history of Benjamin Franklin, a figure who probably wouldn’t have had much respect for your insulting and condescending comments to me. He was another figure who succeeded in intellectual life for real who has been repeatedly appropriated by an endless number of figures such as (sadly) yourself who don’t, apparently, think on his kind of level, and instead try to associate themselves in the minds of others with more impressive figures.
G’night -
I think you’re not qualified to offer intelligent analyzation, so I don’t bother.
You dont know you’re unqualified, and you proceed, as if you’re effective.
Tha’s the problem when you can’t understand why you’re weak.
Poor Fred can’t offer intelligent “analyzation,” huh? This is why I cannot stop reading NQ; you people are priceless. LOL.
Fred,
Why does Obama display a fake birth certificate on his ‘fight the smears’
web page?
Nyah! nyah! nyah!
You can’t make me vote for Hussein Obama, and apparently there at least 47% of us who ain’t buying Obama’s bullshit. Take that poll back to Dailykooks!
FRED, WHY DO YOU NOT GET THE CONCEPT OF “YOU OWN YOUR VOTE”. IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE TO US THAT HILLARY IS SUPPORTING OVOMIT. WE ARE NOT SHEEP AND WE THINK FOR OURSELVES. GET OVER IT. PUMA
baghdadobama Well said. Whether Hillary supports Obama means very little to me. I have to live with the consequences of another amateur in the White House–I will never vote for Obama PUMA
If you read through this site, you’ll find out that people here, unlike the Obamaholics, do not follow Hillary blindly. They are free thinkers
Hear Hear
Obama loses in 2008. Clinton wins 2012. We are starting early here.
PUMA
Yeah, Yeah we know, you used to support Hillary, you have advanced degrees from an Ivy League and you make millions while only working part time. We’ve heard it all before. Why don’t you jackoffs go f*** yourself. Oh, I forgot, and you have a black relative. Have I covered it all? Oops, and you served in Nam.
“Why don’t you jackoffs go f*** yourself.”
This is what I am increasingly noticing about this site — aside from the amusing spectacle of low IQ people trying to condescend to their betters and winding up inventing words like “analyzation” — the shocking degree of unwarranted hostility; the sheer unrestrained vitriol. Calling a writer like Fred, who has been entirely polite on this thread, a “jackoff” who should go f*** himself. Why? Because he has the effontrey to say critical words about what passes for thought on this website?
When this is all over — when Obama is president and the Republic still stands — I wonder what you regular posters on NQ are going to do with all this anger.
sf — I disagree with the premise that the Republica will still stand if Obama is President because frankly we have no clue about what Obama will do. Cause its all about Obama the Rock Star and nothing about the rest of us. You make an amateur President and the chances of his being successful are slim and none. McCain can and will be a great president. PUMA
just for your edification, ‘analyzation’ is most definitely a word. please look it up.
You mean effrontery.
wunderful
LOL!!! sfhillary, open a dictionary.
“Analyzation” is a word, and it does not refer to the perverted act you are performing on yourself with the Unity Dildo
How about the DNC totally manipulating - no, fixing the election by reworking the rules for certain Obama-leaning states while eliminating Clinton-leaning states? Hillary has to do what she has to do and we understand that. However, we will not forgive the DNC nor will we vote for the selected not elected candidate.
All elections are used to illustrate points. This primary will also be used to illustrate the point of the problems within the party. It will be written about for YEARS regarding the sexism seen.
Hillary is bigger than Hillary. Heck, she always has been. So there’s nothing new about her being a focal point.
Most of us have moved forward. We’re alot more about defeating the current party leaders and their gang of insider boyz who have made a horrible mistake to think they could trick voters.
NO DEAL!
Hillary is not actively campaigning for Obama. She is doing the minimum necessary to maintain appearances on behalf of the Democratic Party, in case it survives this fiasco. It is still not clear whether that will be the case - or whether a new centrist/moderate alternative movement will attract the base and assume power as Obama implodes and the DNC goes bankrupt.
“Republican for a day on Nov. 4th!”
Oh what fitting justice that would be!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080627/ap_on_el_pr/obama_clinton_18
No vote at the convention? That’s near authoritarian.
Clinton has a team of lawyers working on it.
Her speech sounds like it’s already after the convention. Why is she endorsing him for president?
I have never seen anything like it.
She needs to be prez not him..Is’t she gettig a fair shake at the convetion? She still has her delegates.
Do all the rest of the candidates get a roll call as well, for all of *their* supporters? And frankly, the word “totalitarian” is just over the top. You’re talking about an institutionalized representative democracy in the US, using the words “totalitarian”. The two political parties allow the general public to vote - and then the general public votes on the nominees. In a totalitarian system, for example, China, there is one political party, it is inseparable from the national government, its leaders are chosen by committee at the top level of the party, and public dissent results in prison (life long hard labor) or execution. I can understand that you want a roll call at the convention. That makes sense to me, so long as we roll call ALL the candidates, not just one who is ahead and the closest challenger who is your preference. But trying to make (repeated, on this web site) statements about “totalitarianism” is over-the-top.
Thanks for responding to what I wrote, rather than just calling me “robot” or whatever.
“Do the rest of the candidates…”
As far as I know, yes.
Asking a contender in the primaries to drop out of the race or even suggesting that they not be represented in a roll call at the convention is unprecedented as far as I know.
Trampling and outright denying dissent is indeed the MO of all totalitarian systems of both the right and the left.
Edward Kennedy had a roll call in 1980. Bradley had a roll call in 2000. Hell there was even a roll call in 2004. Now perhaps you see nothing unsettling about the suppression of a roll call in 2008. And perhaps it doesn’t bother you in the least that the DNC has moved its offices to Chicago. But don’t try to pretend that those who are bothered are idiots. Just because the anti-democratic nature of the American political process is less primitive and overt than its Chinese counterpart doesn’t mean that there isn’t a justifiable cause for concern.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCeImyvNnZ0
“…its leaders are chosen by committee at the top level of the party…”
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Kind of like Dean, Brazile, and Pelosi.
Fred please stop…Barri was not chosen by “the public”…he was CHOSEN by the committee. What is it about MI, DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND or a Caucus for that matter…a few making the choice for the many.
You are just like Obama, drivel on and on, with regards to how wrong the members of this forum are, yet never able to understand, or even make an attempt to understand the differing points.
Your pathetic scribbling are just like Barri’s policies, full of opinions and devoid of facts.
fred — You know nothing about Conventions–or how the nomination process works. If you did you might be a little annoyed at Obama and the way he has gamed the system.
Fred,
It is traditional to have a roll call vote to determine how many votes each candidate has. If not one candidate has the required majority then additional roll calls are taken and in the interim representatives of a candidate can bargin with individuals to persuade a delegate to change his or her support from one candidate to another.
Brokered conventions were the norm and FDR was the nominee from the 1932 convention which was a brokered one.
At this point in time, Obama is the presumptive nominee. He will not be the official nominee until after the convention.
To forego having a roll call vote does not give the delegates that were selected during the primary a chance to cast their votes, nor does it give the superdelegates (who exist to prevent the party from selecting someone unqualified) to change their support in the event that Obama becomes a train wreck between now and August.
I do not intend to vote for McCain in November if it is a contest between Obama and McCain nor will I vote for Obama.
I hope that between now and the convention in August that it will be apparent that Obama’s background does not make him a suitable nominee and Hillary will emerge from the convention as the nominee.
You might be uncomfortable about the statements made above but can you categorically deny that the events reported DID NOT HAPPEN?
Obama is a joke to me. Really. I see right through him. And so do millions of others.
Poor Obamarhoids. You still can’t comprehend the irreparable damage you’ve caused from the very top (Obama)down(cyber bullies).
I suspect the main reason camp Obama and the media thought they could smear the Clintons with impunity is the myth that Hillary is such a polarizing figure that regardless of how she was treated we would all just in line.
You seriously underestimated the loyalty of her supporters and recklessly overdid the vicious and personal attacks on both Clintons.
Obamabots have not yet understood the very real enormity of what they unleashed. You awoke sleeping lions…or rather pumas and we will NOT be tamed, caged or otherwise subdued. Get over it!
To quote WWII Japanese Admiral Yamamoto:
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
Listening you Obamasheep?
Obama winning the nomination is as legitimate as GWB winning in 2000 and 2004. Why am I “hysterical” if I refuse to support the most unqualified candidate the Democratic Party has come up with in a very long time? Hillary can support whoever she pleases, and I will do the same. I’m sure she has personal reasons for what she is doing. I personally will never vote for Obama because I don’t want our military in the hands of a man who does not remotely have a good grasp on world affairs. Oh, and if the allegations on this site are so ridiculous and dubious, refute them, but please use facts; I’m willing to listen to your arguments. Just please don’t use the words Hope, Change, or Unity.
Fred, you know those words were used figuratively. To suggest otherwise is just looking for an argument. For you to claim we use hysterically vitriolic language, must be your way of insulting the women here. We know the word hysterical is used to describe womens emotions, we’ve heard it all our lives. So don’t be coy.
Look, Fred. First off, you’re a condescending ASSHOLE. Any motherfucker that addresses me with “Look,…” and “You folks…” and then proceeds to speak to me in patronizing tones while telling me how to act and behave is pitiable and contemptible shit. Secondly, true to your nature as a MINDLESS FOLLOWER, you’re incapable of recognizing the irony of what you write. Do you not realize that you have FOLLOWED us here from places like Dkos, Americablog, Huffingtonpost and TPM, places from which we were HOUNDED and BANNED? We CAME here because we, as well as our candidate, were subjected to, as you put it:
–”ridiculous and dubious allegations”, –”hysterically vitriolic language”,
–”over-the-top, unjustifiable and irrational hatred”,
So spare me the accusations that this place is a “soapbox for your venting of your own anger”–boy, YOU certainly know something about that, don’t you?
And you can keep your snide, facile comparisons…”Those unfortunate people in the world who DO live in totalitarian regimes - for example, China - would laugh at such an odd claim from a US Democrat, claiming to be put down by “totalitarianism” How ironic coming from the likes of you, ASSHOLE.
Bravo Kimmy!!!!!!
I was banned from Huffington a few months ago.
Never posted any personal attacks..all I did was defend Hillary with FACTS!
So Fred..don’t come here defending the indefensible!
“Comment by LilRod | 2008-06-27 20:50:23
I was banned from Huffington a few months ago.
Never posted any personal attacks..all I did was defend Hillary with FACTS!
So Fred..don’t come here defending the indefensible!”
Same with me at america blog, the chithead there John would not allow ANY pro-Hillary posts and took great glee in letting other pro-Obama posters write the most vile chit about Hillary, he even made tons of his own vile comments
.
The Obamabots drank the kool-aid , then have the nerve to come over here and tell us how to vote and behave, get over it Obamabots, I will NEVER vote for Obama and I tell as many other people the same thing, I also inform them about Obambi’s dark side and nefarious past and present crooked friends!!
Ditto, LilRod. I was banned on Huff&Puff for trying to reason for moderation and being against attacking another Democrat. At first I thought some error had occurred but no, it’s all Obama or nada. Very democratic.
I detest being called folks! It’s almost as bad as you people.
Yes, it is so much better to be called “friend” by someone who isn’t one.
kimmy you go girl ^5 ^5
I feel no empathy for you Fred. (Basset hound?) It is not about Senator Clinton any more.
As for you comparing human beings living under Communist China totalitarianism, I beg to differ.
They would not be laughing. They would recognize, in an instant, what is occurring and call it for what it is, Totalitarianism.
Now mix in a little DSA, Acorn, Frank Marshall, Ayers, BLT,(hold the 2 tomato packets) Rezko, Auchi and all the welfare distributing communistic clowns, and you are sitting on a powder keg. You own it and your sitting on it.
Bud White, the authors he sites and MILLIONS of US Citizens are calling BO out on his BULLSHIT.
As late as today, BO was up there talking about women and high heeled shoes, while Senator Clinton was on stage with him. The BO ass-clown has no manners or brains. I suspect he had Rezko put those in a trust like he did with his “Mansion”.
His sly reference to Ann Richards who, if she were still with us, would laugh in his face.
Belittleling our outrage over Obama hijacking the Dem nomination does nothing to change anyone’s mind. Just the opposite and you are too dense to even understand how offensive your attitude is.
Your is exactly the same brand of patronizing we got from the Obama camp before you knocked off and knocked up Hillary. Go away. Stop wasting our time and space on this forum.
Mr. Obama has won nothing but a place along side Mr. Bush in the category of stolen elections.
When you receive votes belonging to other candidates to force your delegate count upwards you are an illegitimate candidate. When you begin to refer to your “second term” when you have yet to be nominated for your first it smacks of totalitarian.
When you assume that We the People not only only owe you our vote but that you are entitled to it, you have crossed the line of Democracy and entered that dark realm of corrupt government that our ancestors fought to escape.
We owe Mr. Obama nothing; but Mr. Obama owes us a lot more than he is willing to give if he wants to be our Public Servant. And he can start by giving us a look at that mysterious birth certificate and those secret medical records.
The only thing he has to fear is equal justice from Prosecutor Fitzgerald.
fred,
I lived in a totalitarian regime. I know one by the smell. Your candidate smells.
PUMAs are wise to recognize and call out totalitarian tactics when they see them. After the election it may be too late to do anything about it, so Obama must be stopped now.
We don’t care what you think. We’re tired of trying to talk to you. We’re tired of your crappy minimizing, which is what the article is specifically addressing. We’re tired of your tactics.
We refuse to play the game your way any longer.
if you don’t like it, leave. we know the truth. you apparently don’t. Leave this blog, troll.
Here is an example - controlling the media:
Gretta Van Susteren is reporting that Barack Obama’s campaign is dictating the media appearances for Al Sharpton. Sharpton than goes on CNN and outs Anderson Cooper as ordered by the campaign.
http://media.nationalreview.com/
http://pageoneq.com/news/2008/cooper_0625.html
Sharpton just did a bad thing.
The question is Why? Is Cooper not taking ordeers?
Sharpton’s counting his chickens before they’ve hatched.
Maybe Cooper’s got a story coming up that camp Obama got wind of? I think I read somewhere that Copper’s mom is a Clinton fundraiser.
Sharpton’s mouth overloads his brain.
He’s an idiot who comes down on the wrong side of any controversy.
Funny, I took the comment to mean Cooper is going to Hell for being on CNN…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G9jA-FGGd8 (with Madonna’s Vogue)
I think this is going to be a pro McCain video.