Obamamania Fades on Capitol Hill
By Charles Lemos on July 16, 2008 at 5:35 PM in Barack Obama, Chicago politics, DCCC, DSCC, Democratic party, Electability, Fat Cat Money, Hillary Clinton, Hoodwinking, Iraq, John Edwards, Lobbyists, Obamaisms, Superdelegates
Perhaps they are just out of the loop, the Chicago loop, that is. What could you have expected when he moved operational control of the DNC from Washington DC to Chicago? And if you think it will get better, it won’t. You keeping on seeing what you want to see in Barack Obama and not what is really there. Obama can change his policies with the wind, he can’t change who he is, at least not without a lot of therapy.
I have long argued that Obama is the political reincarnation of Richard Nixon. Sure their politics are different, but their personae are not. Richard Nixon was a control freak, so is Barack Obama. Nixon would do whatever it took to win lying and pandering his way into office, Barack is no different.
Nixon broke into a psychiatrist’s office to get dirt on his opponent’s, while innuendo that likely emanated from within the Obama campaign undid the candidacies of Blair Hull (domestic abuse allegations) and Jack Ryan (sexual impropriety allegations). Nixon was a narcissist, Obama is hardly any less of one.
I see a very different Obama. I see one who threw four people off a ballot so he could run unopposed. I see someone who played the race card over and over again. I see someone who has been nothing but duplicitous.
I see someone who tells the American public that his campaign takes no money from lobbyists and then rakes in millions from lobbying firms via the back door. His political 180s are nothing new. I have said this before there is no there there in Barack Obama. He has no core convictions other than his own political welfare.
Via Politico:
After a brief bout of Obamamania, some Capitol Hill Democrats have begun to complain privately that Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is insular, uncooperative and inattentive to their hopes for a broad Democratic victory in November.
“They think they know what’s right and everyone else is wrong on everything,” groused one senior Senate Democratic aide. “They are kind of insufferable at this point.”
Among the grievances described by Democratic leadership insiders:
• Until a mailing that went out in the past few days, Obama had done little fundraising for Democratic candidates since signing off on e-mailed fundraising appeals for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee immediately after securing the Democratic nomination.
• Obama has sometimes appeared in members’ districts with no advance notice to lawmakers, resulting in lost opportunities for those Democrats to score points by appearing alongside their party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
• The Obama campaign has not, until very recently, coordinated a daily message with congressional Democrats, leaving Democratic members in the lurch when they’re asked to comment on the constant back and forth between Obama and John McCain — as they were when Obama said earlier this month that he would “continue to refine” his Iraq policies after meeting with commanders on the ground there.
• Coordination between the Obama campaign and the House and Senate leadership is so weak that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) — who will chair the Democrats’ convention in August — didn’t know of Obama’s decision to move his final-night acceptance speech from the Pepsi Center to Invesco Field until the campaign announced it on a conference call with reporters.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton dismissed the criticism as not-for-attribution complaints of staffers who aren’t knowledgeable about the campaign’s Hill coordination efforts.
“It’s a favorite parlor game in Washington for low-level staff to take shots at anyone they can, given the opportunity,” Burton said. “But as leadership aides across the Hill have confirmed even in this story, we have a constructive working relationship with the House and Senate leadership and continue to work with them to bring about the change the American people demand this November.”
On the record, spokesmen for Democratic leaders and the campaign committees say they’re pleased with the coordination they’re getting from the Obama campaign.
“We have a great relationship with the Obama campaign and work closely with them on everything from message strategy to on-the-ground coordination in states where we have races,” said DSCC spokesman Matthew Miller. Jennifer Crider, the DCCC’s communications director, said the DCCC and the Obama campaign are working together “to bring our change agenda to the country.”
Privately, however, there is a different message coming from some Democratic quarters on the Hill and on K Street. Some Democratic leadership staffers complain that, having defeated the vaunted Clinton political machine in the primaries, the Obama campaign now feels a “sense of entitlement” that leads to “arrogance.”
One Democratic aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity, compared the Obama campaign unfavorably to President Bush’s administration.
“At least Bush waited until he was in the White House before they started ignoring everybody,” the aide said.
“These relationships matter,” said a House Democrat close to the leadership. “I really hope these guys try to get off on the right foot. We all know what happened to [former President] Jimmy Carter and [former President] Bill Clinton. We don’t want to see a repeat of that.”
Brian Wolff, the DCCC’s executive director, said that some of the “supposed arrogance” coming from the Obama camp is in reality a misinterpreted sense of confidence in the campaign’s plan for winning the Oval Office, including grass-roots mobilization, in-state political infrastructure, messaging and get-out-the vote operations.“They have to set the tone, and they are setting the tone,” Wolff said. “Arrogance is sometimes mistaken for competence. I think having a real competent approach to your campaign, whether it’s field [operations] or politics, or overall message, I think it’s really important. … They’re really doing a really good job at this.”
Some of the complaints about the Obama campaign are the result of tensions inherent in any presidential campaign — Democratic or Republican — as a candidate’s staff tries to deal with the Washington establishment.
Others are the result of the circumstances in which Obama finds himself: Having battled Hillary Rodham Clinton into June, Obama hasn’t had much time for the normal interaction between a campaign and Congress. And having to struggle to help Clinton pay off her own debt, he hasn’t had the time or the resources to raise money for Democratic House and Senate candidates.
But some problems are specific to the choices Obama has made — to run as a “change” candidate and to base his operations in Chicago rather than Washington. In distancing himself from “politics as usual,” Obama has shown little interest in being seen with Reid, Pelosi or other members of the Democratic congressional leadership.
And by forbidding lobbyists from playing formal roles in his campaign, Obama has denied himself access to people — in many cases, former Democratic members and aides who are still close to leaders and other lawmakers — who could help him smooth over issues with the Hill. Without lobbyists involved, hotel rooms and tickets for the convention are harder to come by, spurring protests and leaving bruised egos among congressional Democrats used to being treated like VIPs.
The Obama campaign has already moved to address some of these sore spots, recently appointing Phil Schiliro, former chief of staff to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), as Obama’s Capitol Hill liaison. Schiliro, who also served as an aide to former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), sat in on his first Democratic leadership meeting and House Democratic Caucus meeting last week, said House aides.
“I wouldn’t do this if it wasn’t a priority for Sen. Obama and the campaign,” Schiliro said of his new role.
Daily message conference calls have been established, and Obama’s campaign has begun consultations, still in the early stages, with Democratic leaders over political strategy for November. Schiliro said it was “premature” to criticize the Obama camp’s level of outreach to congressional Democrats.
Other Obama campaign sources repeatedly noted that the drawn-out fight with Clinton has “put the campaign behind schedule” in terms of Hill outreach and message operation, but that the campaign remains confident it can make up lost ground.
I love that when all else fails, blame the Clintons. That’s another characteristic of Obama, never accept responsibility for anything. Blame an aide for filling out a questionnaire improperly even though it has your handwriting on it. Misspeak on your plans for Iraq, but blame the media for not understanding you. Go to the Trinity Church for 20 years but never did you hear a disparaging word from the Reverend Wright until March 2008. Your grandmother, however, she made you cringe. How much of this guy are you going to endure before you pull the plug?
The funny thing is that those complaining are superdelegates who can change their minds and vote for someone else. That would take courage, however, and courage is not a trait generally found in Congressional Democrats and certainly not in the leadership of the House or Senate.
From my blog, By The Fault.
Finally!
OOPS…did not catch the rest
The bubble has burst. Yeah!
And I love how his spokesperson wants to blame the fact that he has had to “help” Hillary pay off her debt. His campaign has helped to the tune of $100,000 — that’s it.
PUMA supporters and others have helped pay her debt.
I am so sick of Obama’s excuses.
I hear you. It is a bit much to have to listen to Obuttma continuously make excuses for this or that. If I tried to unload like he does, I would have been out of business and on the street. My business would not have withstood the distractions, delays, lies, etc.
If he does lose this election, he will steal his next speech and declare that “you don’t have Barack Obama to kick around any more.”
Democrats’ Countrywide Hypocrisy: No Hearings on Industry Scandals
Speaker Pelosi & Other Dems Demanded Hearings on Lawmaker Links to Industry Scandals… When They Were in the Minority

Washington, Jun 19 - The Republican-led Congress conducted bipartisan hearings and investigations following scandals at Enron, WorldCom, and other corporate entities during the early part of this decade, in part to address public concerns about the possibility of unethical links between high-powered lawmakers and the powerful interests they were charged with overseeing. But the Democrat-controlled 110th Congress has no such track record. Under Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who once ironically pledged to “drain the swamp” in Washington, the House has stood flatfooted as scandals have erupted involving the trial lawyer industry and possible sweetheart deals between senior Democrats and mortgage lending giant Countrywide.
Speaker Pelosi and her committee chairs have refused to hold even a single hearing on the illegal kickback scandal that has embroiled the powerhouse trial lawyer firm formerly known as Milberg Weiss, despite assertions by the firm’s former chief (a major Democratic donor now serving a two-year prison sentence) that the criminal acts his firm engaged in are an “industry practice.” And this week, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) stated he has no plans to hold even a single oversight hearing to look into special “VIP” housing perks that Countrywide gave powerful congressional Democrats at the same time it was hiking mortgage rates on American families. House Republican leaders have formally requested bipartisan hearings on both matters.
Rep. Pelosi and others once said Congress had an obligation to hold oversight hearings to restore public confidence in the wake of major industry scandals, regardless of who might get burned. But that was then; this is now. Now settled into their majority, senior congressional Democrats have lost all traces of the investigatory zeal they demonstrated during the dark days of Enron and WorldCom. Instead they’re thumbing their noses at calls for oversight hearings on industry scandals involving the trial lawyer industry and Countrywide.
A look back at what now-Speaker Pelosi and other top Democrats said just a few years ago on the politically-tinged scandals at Enron and WorldCom:
- “Enron clearly raises the suspicions of the American people about the connection between political contributions and public policy.” – Rep. Nancy Pelosi (“Democrats force House to vote on campaign funds; Enron’s actions help assure vote on halting ‘soft money,’”San Francisco Chronicle, Marc Sandalow, January 25, 2002).
- “I think there should be hearings. Republicans won’t have hearings.” – Rep. Nancy Pelosi on the WorldCom collapse (CQ Daily, June 26, 2002, “WorldCom Scandal Shakes Up Senate Calendar, Summer Politics,” Emily Pierce, Susan Ferrechio and Keith Perine).
- “We can’t sit here sanctimoniously and browbeat Enron and Arthur Andersen executives and question every decision that made if we’re not willing to give the same scrutiny to ourselves, and the Bush Administration and the Clinton Administration. And if we don’t examine how the political system broke down, the public will see through us and that, in truth, will only deepen cynicism.” – Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), House Financial Services Committee hearing on Enron collapse, February 6, 2002.
- “A group of House Democrats today asked House Republican leaders to hold hearings to determine if there were any improper relationships between Enron Corp. executives and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission officials. In a letter sent to House Speaker Hastert, House Minority Whip Pelosi, Government Reform ranking member Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Reps. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., and Bob Filner, D-Calif., said ‘the American people deserve to know whether or not FERC has been doing its job and protecting consumers or whether it has been influenced by Enron to do otherwise.’ The lawmakers, who did not reveal any specific links between the embattled company and the energy regulators, asked for hearing[s] in the Government Reform and the Energy and Commerce committees.” (Mullins, Brody; National Journal’s CongressDaily, “House Dems Ask Hearings On Enron, FERC Connections,” June 18, 2002)
- “We can’t say anything [about the Enron scandal] until we know what the facts are. But the facts — some of the facts that we know are these: We know that Enron gave a huge amount of money, over $6 million over a period of time, to elected officials. . .Whether there is a crime connected there remains to be seen, but I think that we cannot dispose of the issue until we have the facts.” – Rep. Nancy Pelosi, CNN’s “Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields,” February 16, 2002.
- “The group’s startup was funded through a large contract [secured from] Enron. . .The image and integrity of Congress have been called into serious question. To restore public faith in Congress, the institution must initiate a careful examination of how corrupt practices have influenced the legislative process. Understanding what went wrong is a prerequisite to accountability and reform.” – Letter from House Minority Leader Pelosi, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, and Rep. Henry Waxman seeking congressional investigation of Alexander Strategy Group; Pelosi press release, January 25, 2006.
Scandals involving the trial lawyer industry and Countrywide have shaken confidence in our institutions at a
Squash this verment before it is too late!
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The story is a lie. The story was put out by
RepublicansPUMA to try and encourage more dissent. The simple fact is that the Hillary site does not ask if you are a real Democrat or aKKK PUMA supporter.Simple fact is Hillary disowned PUMA types again yesterday.
One has to show up for work more than 143 days to have a presence. He has been a lightweight throughout his political career, and yet he’s been ordained to become President of this country.
I need chocolate just thinking about this mess.
One of the reasons for moving the dnc to Chicago is he’s too lazy to make the trip to DC.
Another is the money. Illinois has loose disclosure laws which makes it easier to hide the source of money and claim its not coming from lobbiests even if it is.
This point has been floating in the breeze with me.
Having the DNC move to Chicago is a big mistake. Demarats that conduct DNC buisness will be inconvienced, if required to travel to Chicago.
If you are you are from out west and working as a congressperson or staff in DC and then must fly into Chicago. This is going to make co-ordination harder not easier.
It also will tend to dislocate certain functions with in the DNC and cause moral issues that will NOT be resolved.
While the DNC is an out of control orginization, it still had it’s roots in DC. What strikes me as odd when it comes to this “move” by BO, is if something isn’t broke don’t fix it.
Why the need for control and increase in alienation BO? This does not bode well when someone seeking to be POTUS incurs needless costs and the understandable wrath of those affected.
Charles, to my knowledge this moving of the DNC headquarters in such a manner has not occured in my life time. Am I wrong? What is K street do do? How much square footage in office space will become available in DC?
And how did Barky manage to get them to move there with him not having been even nominated officially? It is obvious why Hillary had to suspend- this shit has been absolutely preordained by very powerful people. It makes me shiver (not in a good way) to think about what’s REALLY going on and at what level. Fasten your seat belts…
The DNC just recently built a brand new building, after years in shitty rented digs….thanks to a guy named McAuliffe and a couple of fundraising fiends named Clinton.
Quite honestly, I don’t think a DNC in Chicago will float–most people think CROOK when they think Chicago. Certainly, not everyone from Chicago IS a crook, but the reputation is there. It’s like thinking LEGALIZED PROSTITUTION when one thinks of Nevada–yes, it’s actually limited, but the perception is that there are legalized cathouses all over the place.
A Chicago DNC is not AMERICA’s DNC. Such a HQ needs to be in neutral territory.
>>> It’s like thinking LEGALIZED PROSTITUTION when one thinks of Nevada
The World’s Oldest Profession is waning in The Silver State because of the UN-regulated competition - the State Legislature, the Governeor, State Agency executives, etc.
“Welcome to Nevada! NO Adult Supervision!”
“The DNC just recently built a brand new building, after years in shitty rented digs….thanks to a guy named McAuliffe and a couple of fundraising fiends named Clinton.”
Another reason, probably, why Barky wanted out of there. He doesn’t want “his” party to be beholden to them in any way, shape, or form.
What a petty little man he is.
1. I think that has been theee MAJOR goal.
2. Good; then all their jackasses will be indicted together and we’ll have the joy of watching defend their dopey donkey faces.
cripes, this could go on for years.
Barack, bud, where the hell is Alsammarae when you need him?
I still think the worst example of Obama’s shirking his duties is his failure to hold even one policy meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on European affairs that he chairs. This subcommittee oversees NATO and therefore Afghanistan.
Republican Jim DeMint has asked Obama to hold a meeting on Afghanistan. Obama did not respond directly to Demint but did send out an email criticising DeMint for failing to attend a subcommittee meeting for routine confirmations of Bush’s diplomatic nominations - the only kind of meeting Obama has held, (because he had to). Obviously DeMint’s absence was no big deal since there was no controversy over the appointments. Once again Obama uses the typical 6-year-olds’ tactic of finding some petty thing to blame on the other guy rather than accept responsibility. Why McCain does not hammer Obama over this is beyond me.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/44371.html
Once again McClatchy does its job while other news oorganizations are focusing on trivia. I urge everyone to regularly visit their website. They were the only major newspaper that got the WMD story correct, yet no one hears about it. You do not see the McClatchy reporters on cable (sometimes they are on NPR). The people who got it wrong - dead wrong - are still the go to guys for “expert opinion”. McClatchy is struggling so more hits would help them.
After another Repub term there will not be many who can turn up for work.
I could not have said it better myself. Thanks Charles for making it so crystal clear. NoBama!
Go PUMA
I see someone who never won a damned election. He gamed the elections.
He has yet to earn anything.
And he is still intending to continue gaming them as he is doing right now. He has never run in an election truly opposed by any opponent worth mentioning. To simply get rid of them prior to the election is Nixonian. But then of course to get rid of your opponent after the election by stealing it is simply Bushonian…
They can do the right thing and nominate Hillary.
They still have a choice.
That would require them to actually draw a line in the sand and then take a principled stand. They won’t even stand up to Shrub when the country is behind them actively telling them to so do. I have never in my life seen such a group of pansies.
cripes, no shit. what in the hell did they want to be the majority for if they weren’t going to do anything about Bush?? He should have been impeached!!
Why compare the dipshit democrats (my ex party) in Congress with the pansy? Pansies are some of the toughest flowers in the garden. And although supposedly annuals, come back year after year, despite the odds. The f-ing democrats have nothing in common with pansies: they lack the flowers beautiful colors, tough nature and purpose in life. Flowers provide oxygen and nourishment for insect life, mulch as they move on. The democratic “leadership” will probably devolve into toxins for the earth, giving not even the common earth worm cause for celebration.
LOL
LMAO!!!
So what? He’s still better than McCain. Any Democrat with a brain knows this. Look, has there EVER been a candidate who ran for president in the modern era who wasn’t dissed at some point? They all lose steam because of the media saturation. So what?
It comes down to what are you voting for: A Republican administration or Democratic one?
McCain has a lifetime of experiences, both executive and legislative, to draw upon to when judgment is needed to arrive at the best solutions for difficult issues. What does Obama have other than 143 days in the Senate with no legislative accomplishments, a committee chair for a committee that hasn’t since met, a speech he may or may not have given in 2002, and a lot of bloviating on the campaign trail.
Probably because there are no pension funds to dispose of on this committee.
Shell games are his expertise - just ask him and any of his cohorts. There is nothing of interest so, therefore, the dusty chair.
I’ll vote for the best candidate for this country. If the choice is between Obama and McCain, I will vote McCain. The only reason Obama has a ‘D’ behind his name is because he knew it would be easier to gain power in the Democratic Party than the Republican. He is not a Democrat, just a power hungry ass.
It comes down to voting for what is best for the US of A and it ain’t Obama, no way, no how, uh-uh.
I’ll take curtain number 1, thank you. The Dem are spineless fools who fell in love before the first kiss. so let them go down with the fraud. Was that the answer you were hoping to provoke? I rather do 4 years of McCain and 4 days of O-ummm.
Vinnie, It is a time for a CHANGE.
We can no longer trust anyone under 30. Who would have thunk it?
Well there are SOME under 30 who can be trusted. My daughter is 19 years old and a full-fledged PUMA. She goes to one of the top Liberal Arts colleges in the country and is disgusted with the so-called intellectual student body that laps up the kool-aid like thirsty animals.
If the choice is between Obama, aka Bush III or McCain, I’ll take McCain anyday. You want to replace an ignorant, arrogant right-winger with an ignorant, arrogant left-winger. I don’t want ignorant or arrogant anymore from either side. The adults (the center) are going to take back this country and send you children to bed.
I agree. The country doesn’t need another Bush even if he’s dressed in Democratic Party rhetoric. Hillary 2008 and if the Dems are too spineless to nominate her: McCain 2008. And except for a few personal exceptions, I’ll vote straight Republican down ticket as well. Enough is enough!
McCain 2008; Clinton 2012! Experience over incompetence; character over ego; patriot over global figurehead; get the picture?
Hero over zero!
to bring down the DNC and to thwart the Chicago coup.
We don’t have enough information to know if he is better than McCain. He doesn’t have any accomplishments or convictions. He’s just a power monger.
However, the SDs still have the opportunity to do the right thing in Denver and nominate Hillary. Without a doubt, we know that Hillary is better than McCain.
“ModDem”? Give me a break! If you were not so worried you would not be making lame excuses. Go to your room! And no supper!
Dude/Dudette, get a frikking life. He’s NOT “dissing” anyone. He’s and out-and-our frikking LIAR. He could not find his as#hole if someone handed it to him on a silver plate!
Yes, by all means, give him the keys to the White House! He deserves it. He has bruised by the Clintons for Heavens sake. Lord forbid he would ever get a tongue lashing by a foreign nation!
and his gums look sick..
mishya!
I have a brain in my head and I am no longer a Democrat.
BTW: Barakarama is not a Democrat either.*******
Another topic that he should cite on his smears site. He’s a marxist-lite in jackass clothing.
******* If he was, he would be campaigning for Senator Clinton for the good of his country and the success of his party.
Obama is a Republican — look at his votes — FISA, Bush/Cheney Energy Bill — now he’s flip flopped on Iraq, Womens’ Rights, Guns, NAFTA, Israel and more.
Plus he’s been touting the disastrous ‘Reaganomics’ forever.
Please give me a break with this koolaid that Obama is some big Democrat. The only party Obama is for is the “Obama Party” — and that has nothing to do with Democratic values. Do not be fooled.
I’m in with the In~Crowd
I’m in with the In~Crowd
’cause I knoooooooooooooooow
where the In~Crowd goo-ooe-0$$$zzz
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Acid is groovey.
I wonder what form of government he’ll be fostering tomorrow.
Yo, when’s that bastard leaving our country, anyway?
Aren’t there goars that require herding back in Kenya?
Sorry, Barack is not a Republican nor is he a centrist or even leftist Democrat. The buffoon is a Communist/Facist plain and simple (if that can be plain and simple). In any event, he is a dictator with narcissist written all over him.
He is also good and scared right now.
Just listen to how his reading skills during speeches and his tone have been all over the place the last few days. Some of the speeches almost take on a pleading air. He is anxious and unsure of himself. Other speeches he is trying to put on an extra-deep bass voice in order to sound commanding but it comes off mostly as demanding and strident.
No better comparison as far as paranoia and hubris could be put together than justaposing him to Richard Nixon. It is an insult to Nixon as far as knowledge of foreign policy is concerned; however, it is very close to perfect when you judge how thin-skinned Obama is and add in his distrust and hatred of the media.
Wait until his civilian peace keeping forces come to your town (see July 08 speech for more info). They are supposed to be as mighty as our armed forces. All I can think is Guardian Angels with guns.
Fortunately, we still have the Second Amendment.
“It comes down to what are you voting for: A Republican administration or Democratic one?”
What’s the difference, lately? Obama just voted to strip my 4th Amendment rights!
By the time we get to November, I hope the American electorate wakes up to this fraud.
I find Obama holding positions that are more reprehensible than McCain’s.
At least McCain is willing to take courageous stands (immigration, campaign finance, etc.) Obama? Nada!
Obama just stripped me of my sense of Americanism, and where does that leave me now?
That effer would probably be against the Revolution, if it would get him into King James’ chambers.
He definitely knows how to do the two-step, wink-wink all the while he ponders in that transcedential stare. (middle finger on the pulsing temple at all times).
Please somebody tell me I’ve been in a coma ~ like over the rainbow or somewhere. I swear I have seen a chimp with wings… 2 or 3… and a chump with a big fat smirk on its face.
One of Axelrods little “dem bulbs” aren’t you? Remember the Wizard of Oz. Okay, tap your heals together 1….2….3…. and say “If I only had a brain”…
I can’t wait for the part when all the munchkins come out giggling and dancing in the streets.
This is what I got:
P U M A, courage
Any Democrat with a brain knows this… to “know this” your brain must up BO’s ass.
They all lose steam because of the media saturation.
Media saturation is one thing. It is quite another as to the content of the “saturation”. To date all we have from BO is the slppery slop of “flipfloppery” from BO.
Reduced to that argument, eh? That’s the BEST you can manage? How sad. There’s nothing else to recommend the guy, except your “belief” (or is it a HOPE?) that he’s “better than McCain.”
It would be funny, only it’s so pathetic.
Four years of McCain, constrained by a Democratic House and Senate, is preferable to EIGHT years of Obama and his GOP-ish flaky ideas, rubberstamped by Congress so that they aren’t cut off at the knees when they have legislative initiatives they want to prosecute.
Of course, a halfassed Congress kowtowing to Obama would probably result in a number of turnovers in the outyear elections, and we’d be back to GOP control in the wink of an eye, after working so hard to get over that hump.
Congress can check McCain for four years, and Hillary can run, and WIN EASILY, in 2012.
Understand this. We’re just not going to support Obama. Give it up. You can stay here all day, and even use those words that rhyme with WITCH and HUNT, if you’d like, and we still won’t see things your way.
Go off and eat your cans pringles and cry into your KoolAid, why don’t you…you’ve failed at convincing us of the viability of your incompetent, irrevocably flawed, and inexperienced candidate.
HOPE is not a part of any plan!!!
give me the reasons why he is better than McCain. Tell me why he should be president.
I know you can’t tell me and won’t.
No deal. Obama is a danger to this country. I will vote my country first, and right now, that is John McCain.
Baractrack is an abomination!
If the superdelegates could cast a secret ballot they might feel more comfortable (safer) voting for someone other than Obama. They are probably facing more intimidation than Hillary supporters did at the caucuses!
Now you are talking! That is exactly what needs to be done.
P U M A, courage
Yup - and that’s how the Union members feel right now until Barky helps Jimmy Hoffa II get rid of the secret ballot.
Howard Dean is coming my way on his bus tour.
Here is a link to Nola.com, the comments so far are telling.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6hmmfx
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I love it how the Obama haters all cry about how the election was stolen from Hillary and yet given the choice they would gladly have it stolen back just for Hillary.
I see absolutely no principles on this web site about the way the primary actually works.
Weird.
Is that you, believe?
We don’t hate Obama, bot, we just think he’s monumentally unqualified to be anything other than a visiting lecturer at an Illinois college. How does that work for you?
Trolls been gone all day to reprogramming and this is what they got? Lame.
Hillary 08!!!!
That’s just what’s wrong with the bots. They don’t know the difference between stealing and standing up for your rights.
It could still be dark out in Pockeeeston.
Since the election was stolen from Hillary, her taking it back would not be stealing.
If someone stole your wallet and you took the wallet away from the thief are you stealing?
Love it. Just like your master, there is no logic to yous post. I don’t know what you meant to say, but you just admitted Obama stole the nomination. Fool
How do you steal something that was always yours?
how is the SD casting a vote at the convention for Hillary stealing the vote? That’s their job! To vote based on electability fool. Your guy is not doing so good because, surprise, he a fraud.
If the superdelegates put Hillary over the top, it’s stealing, if the superdelegates put Obama over the top it’s manifest destiny.
If Hillary can find a way to “steal” the nomination I’ll gladly drive the getaway car!
LOL…I’ll ride shotgun!!!
Scuse pinhead but oBOMBalamadingdong ain’t won NOTHIN yet. You’re a pretty good example of either the moronic, ignorant asses or the lying, koolaide drugged obamazoids willing to lie. FACT oBOMBalamadingdong ain’t won NOTHING yet. Comprenda? N-O-T-H-I-N-G. Let’s hope the delegates and superdelegates behave like Americans and mempers af der PARTY!!!
whaaattt???? he’s not President yet???? What about the seal???? what about the world domination tour from the Brandeberg gate???
Let me clarify it. You can only steal back something that was stolen from you.
Why waste your time, then, ya stinking troll?
Here’s some light reading for you–Obama can’t hold on to his ass with two hands, and he can’t hold INDEPENDENT VOTERS either.
He’s fucked. He keeps LOSING supporters, not gaining them. He’s “ahead” like Kerry was, and we saw how well THAT worked out.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1535315320080716?feedType=nl&feedName=ustopnewsearly
It will definitely be roe vs wade if that imposter is selected for the presidency. Don’t ya think?
Tsuami-like.
Sometimes the truth leaks out.
Why should I vote for a Party that did not nominate my candidate? What have Democrats done for me? Where is my check?
This is a lie and why I don’t read those bastards. Struggled to help.. I don’t think he has made much of an effort as seen from