Barack Obama is Coyote Ugly
By Larry Johnson on July 10, 2008 at 5:44 PM in Barack Obama, Campaign Financing, Electability, Iran, Iraq, MoveOn.org, NAFTA
Groggy Democrats are waking up with a terrible hangover after a year of drinking the Obama “Magic Elixir” and are getting a good look in the morning light at the real Barack Obama. Holy hair shirt! The dude ain’t the handsome charmer that seduced us. He is looking more and more like George Bush; and boy, it don’t get much uglier than that. In the darkness of the winter and the low lights of the primaries Americans found a sexy man they could not wait to take home. Here is the Barack Americans thought they were falling in love with:
And now? He’s not standing on principle, he’s running to the center. He has reversed himself on public campaign financing, late term abortions, gun control, FISA, Iraq, MoveOn.org, NAFTA, and Iran. How bad is it?
I got a call this afternoon from the Barack Obama campaign. (Apparently, they have hired Meyer Associates, who can be reached at 301 851-4961, to help them with fund raising.) The woman on the other end of the line opened with a pitch about Barack Obama representing “hope and change,” at which point I cut her off. I recounted the litany of Barack’s flip flops. Imagine my surprise (and my delight) when the woman sighed and said, “I agree with you.”
She went on to tell me that 70% of the people she had talked to during the last two days were telling her the same thing. Most, she said, were unwilling to vote for McCain and were vowing to stay home. Needless to say the fundraising was not going well. I mentioned that I had heard that Barack’s campaign failed to reach their fundraising goals for the second quarter. She confirmed that this was true. We had a very pleasant conversation. I wished her good luck and hung up.
A few minutes later I was checking email and came across this message from a NoQuarter reader (thanks dude):
Incidentally, I just now received my first fund-raising call from the Obama campaign — not the DNC, DCCC, or DSCC, but the campaign (the D groups probably won’t be calling me again). You would have loved hearing that call from the campaign, not so much for my opening rant about how “I will not be contributing to the Obama campaign or any other national Democratic groups after their treatment of Senator Clinton, race-baiting, and race slurring”, but for the young caller’s response to my rant, which was an exasperated “what is all this I’m hearing about how we treated Hillary? We took all the flack for Wright with no help from her, and now you people are saying we called her a racist!”
That told me that their fund-raising operation is running into more Clintonistas than they imagined. Or else, that one poor guy is somehow getting ALL OF US on the phone!
The only way Barack raises new money (because most of his major existing supporters are maxed out) is to get some coinage from Hillary supporters or disenchanted Republicans. Well, that ain’t happening. And if traffic at Barack’s website is an indicator then it certainly appears that Barack is not having much success in expanding his base. In fact, the base is contracting.
Coyote Ugly used to refer only to a situation that started with too much alcohol and led to casual sex with a partner that, in the soft low lights of a bar, appeared to be cute. But when the sun rises and you open you eyes, you discover that the beauty you thought you bedded was actually a beast. Like a coyote caught in a trap, you will chew off your arm rather than risk moving it and waking the sleeping horror show at your side.
Let’s face facts–Super Delegates are slowly discovering that they climbed into bed with a Barack Obama that does not really exist. He is not a new and different kind of politician. Nope. He’s an old style Chicago politician who has feasted on graft, compromised principles, got public money for slum lords who put black folks in homes not fit for pigs, and is now pandering to an imaginary conservative center. His decision yesterday to abandon his promise to fight George Bush for shredding the fourth amendment was not an aberration, it was a window into his soul. Will Super Delegates come to their senses and put a halt to nominating the fraud that is Barack Obama? We will see.
Ugly is as ugly does. And Obama makes ‘doing ugly’ into an art form.
That reminds me of a story.
Backtrack goes into a bar and orders
a double scotch. He downs it in one
gulp, then looks in his shirt pocket.
Then orders another double scotch.
Downs it and looks in his shirt pocket.
This happens 2 more times and when he
orders another shot the bartender asked him,
“Every time you down your drink, you look in
your pocket. What you got in there?”
Backtrack said, “A picture of my wife.
And I ain’t going home ’til she looks gooood.”
Heh heh.
Just go to the limo Bambi…
And God don’t like ugly.
This is what I am envisioning:
BO driving away from the stadium in Denver his Chevrolet SUV with Michelle in the front seat shooting us gang signs while the kids in the back are screaming “President Clinton will be our role model”.
No more Secret Service. Hopefully, he will stand trial for his financial dealings in Illinois with MO.
CPS will find a good home for the girls.
President Hillary Clinton will take President Elect Chelsea’s advice and not grant BO and MO pardons in 2016.
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“shooting us gang signs”?
It’s fine if you want to accuse Obama and his surrogates of playing racial politics - there are a few examples where you could at least make the argument.
But what in the world would lead you to believe that Barack is in any way supportive of gangs? Because he’s… black? Please, at least try to recognize your own biases.
How about his statement “if they bring a knife, we bring a gun” or Brazile on if he loses “there will be blood”? Those work for me. They sound like street corner statements, rather than reasonable adult statements. I am getting that reasonable statements are passe, but they do have their appeal.
Oh, yeah, check all over the net for threats from his followers. If you don’t find enough there, ask any “out” Hillary supporter how often then have been threatened. I say “out” as so many are in the closet now, due to said threats.
p.s. In some areas it is now much safer to be an out queer than to be an out Hillary supporter.
Thank you for presenting your “reasonable statements”. I’m quite thankful I apparently don’t share any of them.
P.S. I think it’s pretty safe to say that Donna Brazile wasn’t literally threatening violence in the quote you’ve referenced above. TV talking heads tend to speak in hyperbole. If we interpreted their words literally, we’d probably finally realize that they don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.
By the way, the good folk(s) at http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ recently referred to this website as part of the “loopy left”. After visiting it a couple times, I’ve got to say they’re really onto something.
Obvioiusly you haven’t read MO’s rants against what is referred to as “whites” lately. The race card is in place because BO (perfect name the the smelly tactics he uses) advocates it.
Another reason his fundraising is tanking, is that those Republicans that were donating to him, to torpedo Hillary, no longer have a need to.
The DNC has tried real hard to finish the job.
Can’t have a viable democratic candidate. Seems to me that the powers that be, are willing to go to any length to get in another Bush-like candidate, another puppet.
Of the two Bush-like candidates we currently have, Obama is by far the more Bush-like and puppet like. But just like Bush, they are finding problems with managing a puppet that cannot think on his feet. And just as with Bush, they spend most of their time explaining his most recent mispokeism.
The biggest message is, we no longer have a democracy. America has been stolen and they will soon no longer even go to the trouble of having us faux vote.
This is our third stolen election. The third election where we were cheated out of our candidate.
Dissent and democracy are inseparable. Soilent Green is just around the corner.
Read “Banned from MyDD for Questioning Obama and Demanding a Roll Call Vote for Hillary” on this site.
I sure like the Republican koolaid better.
Bourbon and seven!
The Republican Koolaid is for adults only!
The Obama Koolaid is for 3rd graders just like it should be.
A big sugar high with horrible withdrawls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU0IwBJThl4&feature=user
Great video, thanks…I’ll pass it along.
Thank you for the video!
Obama has shown that he is a coward and unwilling to commit to anything that might prevent him from getting elected
I’m sorry that he was absent for that vote.
Obama also turned his back on our troops by wishing for defeat and retreat in Iraq
AbsoF%$kinglutely heartbreaking! I am actually tearing up as I write this, me! A former special Ops guy and I’m bawling like a little kid.
Did you know that by percentage of population American Indians far outnumber any other ethnicity when it comes to fighting our wars. They are patriots beyond compare(one has to wonder why,)how in the hell do we let this go on!
SSGT,Motley
Yes, the Northern Cheyenne have the highest per capita military enlistment rate of anyone in the US since WW1!
Native Americans should not have to want for anything. As proud as I am of our great country, I hang my head in shame after watching that video.
It’s a shame that after generations of living in poverty, Having their country taken away by force and murdering, that Native American who are citizen are treated worst than people of another country. Your video bring tears to my eyes.
Thanks for sharing that video.
That End Global Poverty Act…is simply a raise over what we already send to all the UN leaders and despots around the world.
They same kind of program that Iraqi Oil for Food program was….never intended to help those truly in need.
And of course, Auchi got rich off of that Iraqi scheme….among other schemes.
Obama just wants to funnel money to rich people…that is his only goal. There is nothing about him that geniunely cares about poor folks.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/obamas_iraqi_oil_for_food_conn.html
It’s been removed.
I love that woman on the phone! Hilarious. The only thing I would disagree on Larry is that I NEVAH found him the least bit sexy…
Watching this unfold (literally) is becoming fun. If only the entire country didn’t have to suffer for the DNC’s ignorance and greed.
“what is all this I’m hearing about how we treated Hillary? We took all the flack for Wright with no help from her, and now you people are saying we called her a racist!”
Lucky for that caller it wasn’t you on the other end of the line Larry.
Backtrack Barack….Just won`t do!!
Backtrack Barack. Oooooo, that’s a good one!
Sexy my butt - I don’t like black men who are on the Down Low.
Senator Barrack Hussein Obama - ye is one of those brothers with crossing your legs to tight you don’t have testicles
Ooops I forgot Jackson cut those off. LOL!
Will the supers come around..I doubt it..they will just keep their arm around the beast…Great piece…glad to here you had such a friendly person on the other end of the line also glad to hear the people are waking up…is it to late? will they let Clinton delegates have a say in Denver?…looks like they will go to any length to get Obama the nomination…
I hope he doesn’t reach the $85 million he would have got if he opted for public financing. That would be real funny, and maddening to his wonks.
Oh, yes, that would be good fun!
That would be a DREAM come true.
That would be hilarious! I’d LMAO and invite over the few O supporters I know and say I told you so! And offer them some kool aid!
I also hope the DNC doesn’t pony up the dough for their Denver festivities!
We should bring koolaid to Denver!
Wouldn’t that just be the kick in the pants? Fingers crossed!!!
Hillary or McCain ‘08!!!
Great post!!
And hats off to Shelby Steele who months ago warned that people would become disenchanted with Obama once he started dropping his mask.
It’s true, his actions really “windows into his soul.”
Who is Shelby Steele, because we like to mail her a gold feather to place on her heart. A true believer!
A male author, who wrote a book about why Obama can’t win, but now says he’s changed his mind about that.
This video is a goldmine for the McCain campaign. I realize that there are still four months to the GE, but the Republicans would be smart to start kicking Barry while he’s down.
Larry,
I sure hope the Super Delegates come to their senses. We need Hillary more than ever. I bet you Hillary and McCain raised more money than Obama last month. We almost paid off her debt, but she still has a little to pay off. We can do that. Sadly, I’m getting a quite a pleasure from watching
IcarusObama fall from the skywell harold ford said on cnn this evening…..obama transcends and hovers in politics!
well then there you go!
how do you know Hill’s debt is almost paid off?
This whole weird primary has been like living in the twilight zone with a twist of American Idol and a bad reality show ’script’ for ratings abuse.
Bizarre and I don’t think Obama is sexy either. But Bill Clinton is still sexy:-)
“and I don’t think Obama ”
OHHH, same here. YUK. As my Mom used to say, their taste must be all in their mouth.
But, Larry is correct, that is why so many Woman were voting for him. Like Chris Matthews, he “sends a thrill up his leg”.
I guess I need strong real personal qualities to be attractive (IE integrity, principled, Ideals, conviction) and he lacks that, so….
I call dibs on the name for this. I dubbed it the, “Harry Belafonte Effect.”
Much more polite than calling them some other, ruder, more appropriate names.
Big Dawg is the man.
LURV THE BIG DAWG
What happened, didn’t Not Too Sparky Barky pay attention to the funds situation before BACKING OUT OF PUBLIC FINANCING? They arleady declared not much use for the “internet fundraising”…As we all know, was just a way to change the average donation amounts from the Big Dollars that were keeping the campaign going. Collecting $5.00 at the entrance for Rallies…..
Even seizing control of the DNC to collect the maximum $28,500.00 per person to subvert Campaign limits- it seems aint going to help him. Especially the way Not Too Sparky Barky spends money.
Starting in late September Howard Dean will be getting calls from around the country from down ticket candidates asking for money-help in tough races and Dean will say he’ll get them the money–and never come through with the promise. Because he can’t. Obama’s people will control it, Dean is the puppet. Maybe they’ll give him some allowance money to spread around.
Yep. Isn’t this all so sad. AND, while they keep talking about the “50 State Strategy”…at least Barky has the excuse he can’t count and must have lost the piece of paper an aid handed him (57 states), and we see there is no longer a 50 state strategy, because there is no money to support it, but ALSO, Barky hired all the State Employees, like the Exec Directors on to his Campaign Staff, instead of being employed by the DNC, how the heck could Howie allow THAT…or sit back and WATCH it, so now the DNC HAS NO STAFF for their 50 State Strategy and then Barky will dismiss them - or at least the ones who didn’t support him early on (like Florida) and we know he likes holds grudges and will make them pay. will have NO STA
I hear the kool aid drinker group on his own website numbers 22,000 members now, in a bout a week’s time. They have commented that they will send no money. Some still say they will vote for him, but not all.
What a bunch of rookie kool aid drinkers! Scare the freak by saying he lost your vote, you fools. All it has to be is a threat. They could flip flop. Oh, well. Why am I helping them???
Backtrack, Obother! I hope he loses in a landslide. Embarrassing like the 9% congress approval rating! That would be awesome! I hope we never see his unsexy, ugly lying face again! And as far as I’m concerned that could start tonight!
Don’t those Chicago thugs like to give a fella like that some cement shoes and a nice swim? That is so funny. When Ofraudma loses big and the thugs take him to the land of the missing, probably no one will look for him or notice he’s gone! Not even Mechelle.
Congress is down to 9% approval?
Seems a little on the high side.
Wow, great news that maybe BO supporters are waking up. I still can’t believe he threw MoveOn under the bus! What a slap in the face!
I never did understand how people could say BO was sexy either. His eyes lack energy, they are vacant. He doesn’t have a nice face. His voice and way of speaking isn’t at all melodic to listen to. All he has going for him is a thin build with a nice shade of skin color.
I think he was being sarcastic. Having said that, I have never considered bo sexy or handsome.He is too listless. His has no passion, no curiosity, no spirit. A man can’t be attractive without these things.
He has too many mental health issues. I do not want him to work out his oedipal issues in the white house.
obama is soul-less. He has no soul.
Big Dawg - has a soul. Big soul.
Hill — has a soul.
attractiveness never crossed my mind with him. He’s got big ears!
Yes! And he looks like a little boy wearing his Daddy’s suit, doesn’t even look like a man.
I think his ears are fine- perhaps he has a tiny, little head?
OMG! I can’t stand the phoney voice when he gives speeches! I just can’t listen to the freak! I thought Bush was bad, but at least he was sometimes funny! Ofrauda? Just rude!
Same here… can’t stand the monotonous sermons… words, just words. I don’t want words. I want affordable health coverage, job security, cost of living to stop skyrocketing, the rights guaranteed in the Constitution that our forefathers were willing to die for but we are slowly losing, to be able to retire before I die… just words won’t do at all.
BOBO is too much in love with himself — and that does not make a person sexy.
A whole lot of people are really lousy judges of character.
BUT the majority of voters saw through BOBO — and a whole lot of us are NOT BACKING DOWN from our assessment of his lack of qualifications to be Prez of the US.
A few years ago there was a coyote in the field — he had lost his hair — a naked coyote — THAT was an ugy coyote. BOBO is that ugly naked coyote.
PUMA
Larry, you are such a breath of fresh air. Once a day , I make it a point to read your blog. There is no comfort in the contemplation of such a Messiah making mistakes, and their hearts are saddened now by the tearing down of scaffolding which they had mistaken for a leader. Didn’t we all tell these people that the man who they fainted and screamed for at stumps, was not who he appeared to be? As I would remind the Koolaid kids, “If it grows wings in the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the country, it is not an eagle but a carrion eating bird. Circling around waiting to prey on the dead. Yes, the spell dead that were in masses for him. I hope the liberals come into this blog and read, and put some of those childish preconceptions of some kind of wonderful “hopeful” leader they thought they were getting. He is a politician- that is all, and now you can see for yourself, he sways to where the wind blows- and his roots are sunk deep into the dirty puddles of his thugs associations. Wake up, astrayed children, for our country is at risk and we can’t be asleep in it!
I was just polled by Quinnipac U. This may be the first time for me from a major polling place. Said I am voting for McCain, never Obama and will only change my mind if Hillary should be the nominee. Said I would think about voting for Obama if Hillary was on the ticket but doubted it. Lots of questions on gay marriage…maybe 6 or so. Said I was for legalized marriage between gays, opposed a ban on gay marriage etc. Also several questions on faith based bull shit. Said I was a big time liberal, always voted Democrat, opposed gun control, didn’t give a damn about a black being elected, just not Obama. Only cared a little about McCain’s age. The poll seemed to have an Obama bias in his favor. Went on about a black candidate and a really old one. I expect the Democrat natives are getting very restless since Obama can’t seem to close the deal or raise the bucks. I wonder how much Hillary raised in comparison to Obama in June. Wouldn’t it kill ya if she took in nearly as much as he.
We got a call from Gallup over the holiday weekend …They were having problems finding men to take their poll…my husband took it…McCain…they asked mostly personal questions…about health…how much money we spent the day before…how many fruits and vegetables he ate in a day….silly stuff…
I live not too far from Quinnipiac U., and my sister was called for the same poll not long ago. The results appeared two days later in our local paper, and you’ll be happy to know that the majority of those polled said basically the same things you did. Things aren’t looking too good for Obama, but I would like to see more of McCain out in the public eye. Maybe that will happen once his new manager gets under way. I still believe the only way to defeat Obama, if Hillary is not the nominee after the convention, is to vote for McCain. Abstaining from voting or a write-in vote could still give Obama the presidency. I also think that the closer we get to the convention, and if Obama is still not doing well in the polls or with fundraising, he will have to choose Hillary as his VP running mate if he wants to win. I believe we can expect that to happen. If it does, then we have another decision to make!
Why do people keep saying Obama is moving to the center?
Obama has moved well past center and straight into Republican territory
he has to…he is taking on McCain’s policies now…Hill is gone he can’t steal her stuff anymore.
well he did say he admired Raygun and Bush I policies, he specifically complimented BUSH I handling of Iraq, I guess not knowing he was complimenting Rumsfeld?
You are so right. Ages ago in a letter to superdelegates I said to them - how do you know he’s not a Republican, he could be a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
I wonder if he might be smarter than he appears. Maybe the gang of 3 think they are playing him, but he is really gaming them. I feel like he is really a muslim or a commie.
He will be holding hands with BU$H soon.
Oh eek. I just scared myself with that image.
Pretty soon he’ll be making Charleton Heston look like a moderate.
Obama hasn’t moved to the center.
He’s moved to the bottom.
Obama looks like a washed up crack whore.
All scrawny and empty eyed. IMO
Larry thank you very much for that excellent article!
I am holding out for Hillary. Waffles is one major scandal away from imploding. But it will have to be an indictment or an arrest. Short of that I feel the delegates are too spineless to stand up to him and his insane followers. I think the GOP are rolling the dice by waiting until Waffles is nominated to attack him more strongly.
absoLUTEly.
Maybe that should be the protest symbol — waffles.
We can go to his rallies with our eggo waffles, hold our waffles up and tell everyone how Obama waffles and puts eating waffles above answering important questions and then eat the waffles when were are done
…..and hope Obama’s not elected so we don’t have to eat his waffles for the next 4 yrs.
don’t toast those waffles or allow them to dry out. That way they will be limp and floppy.
I agree…one major scandal, and it must involve an indictment or a looming indictment, but not necessarily an arrest (’cause I think the one who’d get arrested would not be a politician, which is too rare, but someone already awaiting sentencing in Chicago). Another option is the “Whitey” tape, which I believe to exist based on LJ’s knowledge of it. I think that would cause some SDs to move, or at least faint, which would cause others to move.
Terrific post, Larry. Everybody I talk to says they will never vote for BO, and they despise him even more now than a month ago.
The more they see, the less they like. This is the problem with selecting a nominee, rather than going with the people’s choice.
The trolls don’t get it. It’s over. We’re not going to vote for him ever.
I got a call from the Colorado Dem. Committee asking for a donation (even though I told them to take me off the list 3 calls ago). The guy was like “So, we’re urging you to volunteer and vote for Obama, and support all the down ticket Democrats in Colorado.” I told him, NO WAY. He didn’t seem surprised, and then said “I suppose you’re voting Republican then? I can understand that.” LOL! WHAT?? He probably was like ’shit, I got another one’.
That is great news…all these calls are good news when we here people won’t vote for Obama..Hill may still have a chance..
LOL, such good news, there are a LOT of calls from state Dem Parties going to members and getting that reaction., I am seeing them posted on the blogs all about…..
I noticed about a half a dozen lawn signs for Obama in my Colorado neighborhood just after Hillary suspended her campaign. I think everyone of them has come down.
I really wonder what he thinks he will gain by his campaign financing and FISA flipflops. I think he is playing a really cynical, soulless, evil con on both his supporters and the evangelicals.
He better tell the people he plans to import to Invesco Field in Denver to behave themselves or he will see the bottom fall out of his disgusting campaign without any whitey tapes or Rezko revelations.
But don’t despair over the whitey tape! It’s here!!
Check it out, it’s just leaking onto the web:
http://whiteytape.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/the-whitey-tape-is-here/
IT’S INCREDIBLE!!!
troll alert. just scroll on by this idiot.
He’s probably voting republican, too!
For me, Obama has always been easy to figure out and I never understood why people have been so easily suckered by this clown.
Obama is a megalomaniac without integrity. Obama is a hard left liberal and if elected that is where he will reside, his history indicates that. In the meantime, Obama’s campaign has him saying and doing what they feel is necessary for him to win which means he has to continue to alter positions. Obama feels he can talk his way out of any situation or lie and with the help of an inept and bias media it makes it easy for him to do.
Anyone who actually thinks Obama has integrity at this point ought to disqualify themselves from voting due to shear stupidity. Obama’s interest is in himself not in the US.
We all think that Obama is a liberal, but there is no way for us to know what he is.
Obama has been ‘playing’ to a liberal crowd in Chicago for his whole career. The liberals and championing liberal causes was a way for him to gain and hold power.
His liberal record could have been all for politics and ambition just like all the dribble he said during the primaries that people wanted to hear was and all the dribble he is saying now is as well.
This is the song for him….
Will the real Barrack Obama Please stand up
Obama? A liberal? Where did you ever get that idea?
Barack Obama is no liberal. Barack Obama was never a liberal.
Barack Obama is a corporatist, globalist, homophobic neocon.
He just plays a liberal on TV.
You know I thought that as I got older things would get better.
Hah…
It is to laugh.
Here is what I have to read now:
Don’t misunderestimate Obama
And guess what?
Tired out, fat, slow Pat Buchanan is correct on every point. The ‘Democrat’ Party has ’selected’, as Stalin used to do, a no-talent, tin-eared, gutless punk who has never won a really contested battle, except by cheating, in his short unimpressive life.
Sad Sack McSame is going to mop the floor with Barkey. When America gets a load of ‘Boma’s African-rooted, Liberation Theologist, machine politics, sexist, flip-floppinest approach to campaigning, hoppin’ down dat road with one foot continually in his big fat mouth, they are gonna run screaming for McSame.
With him at least you know what you are getting.
Barkey?
Even HE DOESN’T KNOW WHO HE IS OR WHAT HE STANDS FOR!
Thanks Howard, thanks Donna ya ignorant, grasping fucktards. Thanks for givin’ the ReThugs the election on a platter.
Hey!
Lay off my boyfriend!
I meant PAT!