Deep Thoughts for the Day
By NoQuarter on July 31, 2008 at 9:30 AM in Barack Obama, Qualifications
Obama handed out “change burgers” at a BBQ rally in Missouri yesterday.
- “Road-Trip Reports: McCain In Colo., Obama In Mo.,” NPR Morning Edition
“But, while much has been made of John McCain’s struggles with his party’s conservative base, 33% of the uncommitted voters are Democrats while only 19% are Republicans.”
- Rasmussen Reports
“GET THIS MAN A TELEPROMPTER!
”Barack Obama is a lot like Sean Penn or George Clooney. If you give him a script, he can deliver it pretty well. But if he tries to talk without a script that has been written for him by others, he quickly reveals that he is poorly-informed if not downright ignorant. Today he delivered another classic, by claiming that if only we would all properly inflate our tires, we could save as much gasoline as “all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling.” Seriously: … ”
- Read all.
Perhaps the deepest thought is below:
“GOP’s celeb-Obama message gains traction — Barack Obama’s critics laid down the foundations of the strategy months ago: The Republican National Committee started the ‘Audacity Watch’ back in April, and Karl Rove later fueled the attack by describing the first-term Illinois senator as ‘coolly arrogant’.”
- Politico
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Whatever the thought, the conclusion is that it’s “amateur hour” these days on the Democratic side.
What a shame, given the rich field of candidates we began with, most of whom had far stronger resumes and real experience in international politics — not just photo ops.
I agree totally Susan. And the worse thing is that when he makes these stupid statements, he says them with such arrogance that people actually think he knows what he’s talking about.
Yes.
Give me Joe Biden. Give me Chris Dodd. Give me Hillary Clinton. Even Dennis Kucinich has real beliefs and real experience. (I’ve had to cancel out Bill Richardson because his gaffes are just too embarrassing and I’ve decided he’s somewhat inflated the importance of the items he lists on his resume, but he does have real experience.)
Had I known how viciously the DNC would treat Hillary Clinton, I might have concurrently pressed for the nomination of Biden or Dodd. At least, then, if the DNC had still gamed the primaries to screw Hillary, we’d have ended up with a qualified candidate.
Good Post Susan….Obama proves once again how IMPORTANT IT IS TO STUDY UP ON HISTORY….chuckle…Aaaaand current events….LOL
**** Obama and his crowd probably think Reagan Democrats is the title of a sitcom…..sheeesh ! Will Noone Rid Us Of This Popinjay ? ****
Dodd’s a jerk. He screwed HRC over.
What about Dodd’s once strong stand on FISA?
Now he’s backing back stabber Barack and taking loans Country wide!
Dodd sucks. I live in a state bordering CT. He sucks. That’s why Lieberman got back in so easily-running as an Independent after telling the DNC to kiss his a$$ for trying to steal his seat. CT would have been screwed with only Dodd. They knew it and Dodd knows it.
Don’t like Dodd or Biden much…although they are good comapred to Obama; at leats they would make responsible presidents.
BTW, Jeralyn@TL feels so strongly against Biden that she wrote recently that should Biden be the VP she would not support the ticket…
I think having BO at the top of it is disqualifying just by itself !!
I don’t trust Joe Biden.
Biden’s a loser. How many times has Joe tried to be the Dem Nominee for President? He’s a loser and Dems hate losers. That’s why Hillary must maintain her “winner” status. She got 18 million votes. She has a winning coalition. She has the states needed to get to 270 electoral votes. She’s the winner in 2008 and she WILL be the winner in 2012. The winner doesn’t accept being the VP of a loser and no way will a winner allow a convention ballot intentionally rigged for her to lose. Hillary is the winner and don’t anyone forget it!
Yes, and he has no compunction about stealing boldly in the light of day, from Hillary Clinton’s speech on The Stop Excessive Energy Speculation Act.
“by claiming that if only we would all properly inflate our tires, we could save as much gasoline as “all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I73prA_eplc
of course, he could have gotten that information from one of his advisors… but from his history of lifting freely from Hillary Clinton’s policies, I’d say he is FOS and stealing freely this line from Hillary.
If you listen to the speech, that’s not what Hillary Clinton says.
I believe what you are referring to is said after minute 6 in the video. She quotes Sen Cantrell, who says that the equivalent amount of oil per day could be saved by increasing the pressure in the tires of the vehicles that we drive.
What exactly was Sen Cantrell referring to? I’m not sure but he didn’t say (and she didn’t say) that the equivalent amount of oil could be saved by keeping our tires properly inflated. It could be that the Senator was referring to some type of tire which functions more efficiently under greater pressure. Or it could be that its been found we could follow guidelines for inflating our existing tires to greater pressure than is currently the standard which would help. Or something else…
Look what else he has to say…..More race baiting.
http://www.drudgereport.com/obd.jpg
even more racist stuff today..
http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/
A little OT
Cause and effect?
He goes to Israel, meets with Olmert and the guy resigns. hmmm
The Ludacris flap doesn’t exactly help him either.
One of us who can stomach it is going to write this up.
Susan,
Oblahma threw Ludacris under the bus so quick they never even slowed down. It must’ve been a bloody site. Wonder what the hip-hop crowd thinks of this diss???
To me Barky didn’t throw Ludacris under the bus forcefully enough. He had his un hip white campaign manager do it, so he can privately tell ludacris “you know I’m just playing with you”. I want sh*#head to come out and tell ludacris to take it off the radio. Otherwise Barky is being too cute. He gets the benefit of using the song as an anthem to rally a group that traditionally never votes, yet he can tell the white public he denounced the lyrics.
The “paint the white house black” crowd will understand that Barky is doing exactly what Wright predicted he would do…”he’s a politician…he’ll do what politicians do” with a wink.
He probably told them in private…”just messin wit ya” Like he told his Palestine Chicago pals. “I can acknowledge you, after I win the election”…or words to that effect. Like noone knows all the parties and meetings and connections, including donations from the Woods Fund by him and Ayers that involved him and them….Guess Snow White and his 12 trolls think we are stupid.
wink*wink*….nudge~ nudge~
Ludacris isn’t helping his candidate,
Lyrics like that aren’t apt to win any state,
Profanity, hatred and histrionics
Linked with his particular kind of ebonics
May snatch defeat from impending victory’s jaws
And threaten electoral disaster because
Voters will remember as November draws near
And tell the White House, make ready: McCain will be here.
Until Obama publicly, forcefully tells ludicrous Ludacris to stop with the hateful manure, Obama owns it.
yes he does jwrjr and as I have said before the idiot women, sorry but IDIOT women like Joy Behar on the View LAUGHING and reading the lyrics like they are acceptable hurt ALL of us, whoopi says N word is fine, Joy thinks B is fine, fine frak them the n and the b, the rest of us DONT find it acceptable ever.
his NAME is Lewd&Crass!!!
now get it right
Susan - this is a GIFT!
Tear into it!
Wow, just when I thought I had seen everything… A former contributor to liberal blogs is using quotes from Powerline, an arch conservative blog, to denigrate Obama. I love it!!! I was having a field day just seeing you quote Fox news over and over again, but this is just fantastic! The only thing left is to link to sound bytes from Rush!
I only wish you people would do more to talk up John McCain than just trash Obama every chance you get.
McCain will have to wait. We still have not given up on getting the best qualified candidate - Hillary - nominated.
Why is Hillary not going to be at the convention until the second night, and then only to deliver a speech?
I will not watch it Sam I am
Sorry about that I put the link in the middle. Early here and I need coffee. I guess I’m just wondering if we haven’t been fed even more lies…why would Hillary only be there one night if her name is to be on the ballot? Or if there is going to be a roll call?
Here’s another
Scratch Hillary off the VP list
http://tinyurl.com/5ofztv
and:
http://tinyurl.com/6ehgv6
Then you are a fucking idiot.
Hey NoName — Go F%#k yourself.
Have a nice day troll.
I agree State, we work for Hillary first.
Joe: It isn’t our site and therefore, we don’t set the agenda or opinion.
Obama is the ordained candidate of the Democratic Party. It would seem pretty obvious that NQ isn’t particularly “fond” of Obama. Therefore, they can say what they like.
Also, I have seen links to Rush’s site and heard a few soundbytes from his show posted from time to time.
If Obama wasn’t so darn dangerous, I would probably vote for someone other than McCain. Here’s hoping McCain doesn’t alienate more conservatives with a lousy VP choice.
RepublicanChick;
If Obama wasn’t so darn dangerous, I would probably vote for someone other than McCain. Here’s hoping McCain doesn’t alienate more conservatives with a lousy VP choice.
As an “BlueDog Indie” your statement is on the mark, speaking for myself.
Don’t ( sigh )…KID YOURSELF JOE….YOUR WETDREAM IS EMBARRASSING….
This aint’ about NQ regulars suddenly seeing the GOP Light….sheeesh !
Hillary Clinton had a strong Democratic and Moderate/Centrist Republican Base. Comrade Howard ( iblobarry ) Dean the UberPutz and Commissar Donna Brazeal have thrown 2/3 of the traditional Democratic Base Outta their New Party For a New America….This is about THE BIGGER PICTURE…
If McCain was not the GOP choice….I wouldn’t even consider voting for the usual REGULAR GOP GOOSESTEPPERS YOU USUALLY OFFER….
Sen. Clinton reminded me more and more of FDR & Truman…I’m Hopin McCain pulls a Teddy Roosevelt ( Independent Thinker )
REMEMBER….THIS IS ABOUT THE BIGGER PICTURE !….savvy ?
Joe,
some of us do praise Mac, but here we must get into the mud with trolls.
just put a nice oval McCain sticker on my truck, by the way
What I like about McCain is his bi-partisanship, his experience, heroism, the fact that he is concerned about balanced budgets and the deficit.
OK?
and, barfy’s a pinhead
:)-~
yea but HILLARY is WAY WAY better!
>>> just put a nice oval McCain sticker on my truck, by the way
O’d like to change my Vanity Plate to: 935 LIES
anchovy
I don’t have a link to Rush, but I did hear a funny bit last week. Rush had audio clips of Obama and Bono doing the line “this is our moment, this is our time”, it was funny as hell, he kept flipping from Bono to Obama saying the same thing. I guess when your speechwriter is 25 you might get some Bono lines in your speech.
I wish you people would stop saying you people.
Mahaska….If on occasion you catch me sayin you people…it is usually in jest or…..a hazard of environment ( Texas ) where this colloquialism is used by anybody to anybody….things down here tend to get a different translation up north or out west…..So Call me on it if I offend but I will cling to…..chuckle…..the use of Cracker when describing myself and that special bond I share with Barry.
Also I will self identify as an Official Member Of the Whore of Babylon Cult
( Roman Catholic ) as I find it funny and Typical of Bible Belt Paranoiacs…..
“You people,” is a way Texans try not to use, “y’all,” to non-Southerners. When one says, “Y’all,” one must endure scorn from the North and Midwest, or one must explain it.
“You people,” is the Work-Around.
Speaking Southern, especially the Texan variants (there are 8 different idioms/accents in Texas), is a daunting task and best not attempted by non-Southerners.
Floridians, like me, say, “Hey! How y’all?”
East Texans say, “Hi! Hire yew?”
Trust me…Japanese is a LOT easier.
ADDENDUM:
I would MUCH rather converse in Hill Country Texan than any of the Alabama or Georgia dialects.
Remember: “God is EVERYWHERE…but he keeps his horses over by New Braunfels!”
Sheeeeit ! Mr. Dobbs ( using the Houston Twang ) You got that Right.
and now I’ll chase that chili down with an ice cold local….lol
My friend from Kansas says wail hail for well hell.
Fred!!!! I’m in the Texas hill country!!!
and I’m by New Braunfels!!!
I’m so happy to see a non-Texan write New Braunfels…not New Braunsfels.
workingclass - I’m sorry if you’re in Houston. I lived ther for about 6 years. ewww. Bush country!
kidding…Uston isn’t that bad.
I’m a native Texan and don’t really like the phrase “you people”. It’s ok for me to say it, but I don’t like people saying it to me! lol!
>>> I’m so happy to see a non-Texan write New Braunfels…not New Braunsfels.
I can even pronounce it…
If you own a house in Houston and a farm in Hell, sell the house and move home!
My daughter’s husband’s father is from Hill Country stock, product of the great migration from Germany 1854-1890. Big-time lawyer in San Francisco area. Has a little ranch/farm (no grapes) around Napa where he puts his ropers on and scratches where it itches,
Shocked the shit out of the old boy by identifying his dog as a Texas Leopard, then talking about Polled Herefords and Santa Gertrudis cattle.
Took us about five minutes to squat down and start drawing in the dirt with our pocket knives.
You can take the boy outta Fredricksburg, buut you can’t take the Hill Country outta the boy…
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YOU KNOW YOU’RE IN TEXAS WHEN: They say, “Twin Cities,” and mean Midland-Odessa. (”OH-dessa”)
Japanese isn’t really all that difficult. It just takes some ‘getting used to’.
I just posted that about you people cuz a lot of times when people use it, trolls jump all over it as though it was an insult. I asked one once if yinz, youse or hey dork worked better, but got no reply.
LOL…..never heard yinz….But I did live in Philly for a while and they have plenty O’ colorful language…YO!
My friends mom from Cleveland used to say yinz.
I wonder if yinz is a variation of you ‘uns.
I get all mixed up living in Fla so long and also NC and WV
doing basic in Alabama
Army school in Indiana
First duty station in Savannah
etc,etc, you should hear me switch around (usually not even realizing it)
chuckle
I’m with you.
Me too. as a snark sometimes. wasn’t for you, was for troll.
you sound like my kind of person.
oops, both posts for workingclassartist
ditto I slip too but hate hearing it
I’ll be honest it is kind of confusing at times remembering I am no longer a D and “allowed” to mingle with moderate republicans w/out getting all defensive
it’s been a long 8 yrs of anger and disbelief to find myself HERE@!!
It’s
creeping me outfreaking me out a bit.Anyone else?
You need to read more. There are Democrats here who both criticize Ibama and praise McCain.
I have praised McCain on Iraq, and on hs Energy Policy. Energy directly ties to the short term and long term fate of the economy.
The price at the pump is the economy stupid!!
Exploring every energy option, including opening up new drilling leases, will lessen dependence on mid east oil, and put a damper on speculation.
Speculation is driven by SWAG. It is not based on current supply and demand. Opening up every eergy option will effect speculation psycology.
This post has a link to Ibama telling a Missouri audience that by inflating car tires, we can save the same amount of oil that all the new drilling would create. Ibama should take a math refresher.
Ibama said “we can’t drill our way out of our energy problem.” But we can inflate our way out?
Why not, Ibama is inflating his way to the White House.
Less money to the Sauds is fine in my book.
What funds madrassas?
Oil money.
What funds islamic terrorists?
Oil money.
Obama supporters quoted Rush all through the primaries when they whined about Operation Chaos to explain Hillary repeatedly thumping Obama’s skinny butt. The Dems still pushed to nominate that loser, and here you are on NQ still complaining. Obama couldn’t close the deal. Now he can’t break 50% in the polls.
OT: Hope Floats; A few threads back you stated the US? had transfered Nukes to the Saudis.
Can you please give a link for that?
Sorry for the OT, but it matters. Thanks.
Larry for one does not support MAC, I do tho’
BIG MAC WooT!!!!!
Obama is just like one of today’s star-maker created pop idols. All superficial image creation and zero substance. It’s so easy once the surface is scratched to realize there is absolutely nothing under the suit.
Hillary on the other hand (while certainly an impressive presence to behold) is pure and full substance in the areas necessary to lead our country back in the right direction.
Why are we even having this discussion when Oblahma let us know his campaign was about “words” and Hillary told us hers was about “solutions.” Doesn’t seem like rocket science to me. Why is it so hard to pick the right one when we’re choosing between Milli Vanilli and Barbara Striesand???
Any thoughts as to why the MSM hasn’t picked up on the reparations comments made by BHO?
I know I’ve harped on this theme off and on, but I really believe that his affiliation with crazy uncle #1 (Wright) and ties to TUUC, NOI, Etc. are behind this.
What stuns me is that he made his statements to the media (with them applauding) and the biggies aren’t getting on him about it.
Hmmmm….Want to keep tires intact ?
MSM NEWSPORN IS HAZARDOUS TO THE HEALTH….
Nail guard tires my friend
Sticker is below the american flag, next to NRA life member (yes
democratindependant and NRA, I revel in contradiction)And I live in a rural town in the glorious people’s republic of Massachusettsastan, folks here mind their business.
Hmmmm…..Comrade Kevin….chuckle….I live in the Mildly Fascist State of TEXAS….We simply must compare notes someday….
TEXAS?!?
you know what comes from texas?
just kidding
spent way too much time at Ft. Bliss (the most non-apt name for a base in the Army)
What’s really SAD….Is Hillary Clinton really had a chance to bring the republic back into the tent….That’s why they rigged the caucuses with the help of Roves troops….Talk about playin into somebody’s hands….It was pathetic
The caucuses weren’t rigged. I keep hearing this from sore losers, but not one of you whiners can prove it.
Lick your wounds and if you can put up, then shut the hell up.
I’ll try this with you..
I’ll give you 5 minutes
Why do you plan on voting for BHO?
Enlighten us, please.
Try not to use the words hope, change, new, or different.
I am voting for BHO because he won the democratic primaries. I am a yellow dog dem.
I think he is intelligent and has the skills to solve our problems. Hillary would have created another 4 years like the 90’s. She is way too divisive. I am voting for BHO because I want to move forward not backward.
All you Hillary supporters who bash the Dem nominee are doing NOTHING to help our country. All you sore losers are doing is helping McCain and his 4 more years of Bush policies.
HEYNONAME….You Fascist shit ! Teenagers who were ineligible to caucus showed up and caucused and then bragged about it at My Kids school the next day….And that’s just One example….there are 1,999 other complaints of INTIMIDATION…BLOCKING…FRAUD….THE USUAL OBAMA TRICKS….THERE ARE NO CAUCUSES IN NOV.
The caucuses weren’t rigged. I keep hearing this from sore losers, but not one of you whiners can prove it.
Lick your wounds and if you can’t put up, then shut the hell up.
NoName Troll - were you at any of the caucuses? Do you personally know anyone who was? Do you personally know how the caucus process is SUPPOSED to work in each state? Do you know the difference between open, closed and semi-open?
Since you probably just passed your 18th birthday, I’m going to guess the answer is NO to each of these questions.
Well, many of us here can answer YES to most if not all of the questions so we know what we’re talking about.
Please return to your master - baiter and tell him you FAILED. Go Fire Yourself.
It’s funny to me, lol funny, when the bots come on here and make their lonely little statements like the caucuses weren’t rigged.
To me it’s as though they are caught in a gale and yelling into the wind. The words just blow back in their faces and none can hear them.
I ran a caucus for my precinct. I was there and I am a leader. I kept it legal and under control.
How about you?
Yes, idiot. I was a precinct chair. Ours ran fine - even with the Republicans there to vote for Hillary while laughing their ass off. She won our precinct.
There was no rigging.
a bunch of bad polls for bambi…
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x2882.xml?ReleaseID=1196
Bambi spent $5 million in FL, McCain spent ZERO. There’s no chance bambi will be able to carry FL, I guess he just has too much money to burn.
He’d better pray for VA & CO, otherwise, he’s toast.
This slow drip drip drip of defeat for Oblahma will pick up speed and turn into a gush after Denver if the SDs refuse to do what they were appointed to do.
Virginia has a huge military population (both active and retired). I doubt Obama will win Virginia. He may very well win Colorado as it seemed to be leaning more and more to the left.
He should be well ahead at this point, but these numbers should be worrisome. Although, I don’t put much stock into any polls until after Labor Day.
Latest Colorado poll shows BO leading by 1.7. He has slipped here too (poll number from Real Clear Politics). Four years ago there were Kerry signs & bumper stickers everywhere (I’m in Denver). This year there are quite a few local campaign signs but not much else. There’s a BO sign here and there, but nothing like the last election. I did see a Hillary sign in one yard (go puma). We are a one car family so I don’t do a lot of driving around, but my husband hasn’t seen much either on the various routes he takes to work.
What it says to me is there is not the kind of support for BO I’d expect to see in this Dem stronghold (and home to this years convention).
CO put on the ballot a measure saying life begins at conception,. That will fix Barrys wagon methinks……
slip sliding away
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the nearer your destination
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motre Paul for DNC cabal of dunces:
my Mama said who
whoooo
who do u think youre foolin
Don’t believe Pennsylvania, no doubt this is a Democratic state, but us BITTER people will not take orders and fall in line from the DNC. This state was for Hillary. If we can’t have her, we sure as hell aren’t voting for Obama. I have not talked to one single Dem. who will be voting for Obama.
PUMA
NOJOKEOBAMA
I live in a suburb of Pittsburgh and last weekend, had a wake-up call when talking to a former 76 year old neighbor. I hadn’t discussed politics with him since March, when we were both changing our registrations to Democrat (him from R; me from I) to be able to vote for HRC in the PA primary. He’s now saying that he’s going to vote for BO in the GE, because he doesn’t want to have GWB’s 3rd term. His concern is that with the economy tanking, his retirement fund has diminished significantly.
I understand his concern about his nest egg, but was shocked at his mis-information in thinking that McCain would be GWB’s 3rd term, when clearly, BHO = GWB’s 3rd term.
Evidently, the message that’s still getting out to the general population is that BO is The One to solve all problems and that McCain would be more of the same of what we’ve had for the past 8 years.
We still have a lot of work to do, to ensure that obama is defeated.
PUMA!
Obama is using scare tactics on the older people. He uses the guilty whites also, with fears that they will appear racist. His minions turn on the black population, that don’t support him, calling them Uncle Toms …the Great Divider is he. Right out of the Arab play book “divide and conquer”….
Well…It is certainly THE FASCIST PLAYBOOK….Ask Brother Mao…Heir Adolf…Comrade Josef….Once you put race or class or any other distinction as a mechanism of the state….You got a Fascist.
*** Obama and his tactics are merely a clever synthesis ***
wonder how well-thumbed is his copy of the little red book?
Gee I would imagine after sitting in that church and takin advice from Uncle Jerry and Ayatollah Louis….Obama has the Fascist Classic Library committed to memory by now…If he forgets somethin….There’s always Meeeeeechelle to remind him…no ?
His mob calls black people that won’t back him race traitors. That’s really stupid because it shows the truth. They want them to vote for him just because he’s part black.
Yes, that is the main concern of this election.
Most of the elderly base their decisions on what the MSM is telling them. And we all know what that is, Obama is the all mighty wonderful candidate who will bring about the change that we have all been waiting for.
When you try to get thru to them, explain that the media is corrupt, that they are giving you their biased opinions instead of the true facts, that they are pushing for this man for their own agenda, money. And you try to explain that you have done tons of research on Obama on the Internet, and their reply to that is, you can’t believe every thing you read on the net. But if CNN says it, it must be gospel.
The young voter lives in their own little world. With all of the privileges they have had, they don’t realize that their life can change in a heart beat, and not for the better. They look at you like you are a path