Obama Snubs New Orleans Again!
By NancyA on August 8, 2008 at 6:45 AM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Debates, Flip Flopping, Greta Van Susteran, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Louisiana, Obama
During the primary race Obama snubbed New Orleans and The State of The Black Union 2008 conference, who was there, Hillary Clinton. (He offered Michelle instead.) Here she is speaking at the conference.
Obama refused to debate Hillary anymore during the remainder primary states (as he is doing during the general election race). She offered Obama a debate, mano e mano, no moderators. He said no! He refused a debate in North Carolina as well. Could it be because he can’t speak extemporaneously (off the cuff) ?
And what has he been saying to McCain (as he did to Hillary) about townhalls and debates, ad nauseum, no, no, no. Obama says no to a town hall in Fort Hood and offers this instead I have a schedule conflict. His schedule conflict is a vacation to Hawaii with his family. Does he stop there? No. He snubs New Oleans for the second time. Obama refuses an offer to do a townhall in a city that is still recovering from Katrina, a city that still needs help.
This from Gretawire:
Just in: I was just tipped off that New Orleans (yes, the unfortunate home of Hurricane Katrina…) invited Senator McCain and Senator Obama to do a town hall meeting cp-sponsored by New Orleans and Google. As you might imagine, with all that has happened with Katrina, New Orleans is doing all that it can to attract Presidential candidates, commerce etc to help rebuild and revitalize the area.
Senator McCain accepted the New Orleans / Google town hall meeting 6 weeks ago…and Senator Obama? Well..he just answered yesterday and he declined ….the reason? his campaign says he will agree only to do the Commission on Presidential debates….
Could it be because he can’t debate without teleprompters? Or maybe because he doesn’t know his own policies! Does he even have any of his own policies? Is he still borrowing them from Hillary? Is it because he keeps flipping and flopping everyday? What ever the reason, it isn’t a good one I am sure!
why does it not suprise me! The DNC is signing their own death warrant!
but…but he said he is not afraid of McCain. He SAID he would meet him anytime anywhere.
Obama my Ass.
PUMA
GO PUMA,
PUMA W00T!!!
W00T!!!
Does anybody have a video of him making that comment? That would make another great McCain campaign ad.
How many debates did he say “THAT is a debate I look forward to having with the repub/McCain in the GE”?
I wonder if this idiot even need to be in the convention. Please every one let’s work towards having Hillary on the nomination in Denver. The media talked about abour all day yestarday. Put presure on DNC.
read this…
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12386.html
Colorado’s tickets to see Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High were more than spoken for within about 24 hours, officials said, and the application process closed Thursday for all but those willing to be put on a waiting list.
Obama’s campaign set aside for Colorado half of the more than 60,000 seats available to the public for the final night of the Democratic National Convention. It turns out the battleground state could have filled the stadium, as the campaign ended applications after collecting more than 60,000 Thursday afternoon.
“This incredible response and excitement shows that there is a huge appetite for change in Colorado,” Anne Filipic, the general election director for the Campaign for Change, said in a statement.
The demand for the credentials was so great that phone lines were jammed much of the day.
Change yes. Obama No. I hate to tell the folks in Denver, but there are quite a few people living outside the city limits. It might be well-advised to check out the surroundings before getting your hopes up too high.
Remember Texas with Dallas and Houston. I don’t know the margin by which Obama won primary votes in those metropolitan areas, but I do recall seeing Hillary margins of 70+% in the rural areas. Hillary won Oklahoma; she won New Mexico; she won Arizona; she won California.
Colorado is as much a southwestern state as a mountain state. Don’t get your hopes up too high Obama people.
If thing work out the way they should, he won’t even be on the ticket.
you do realize he’s running against mccain and not clinton this fall, right?
pure nazi style rally. designed to intimidate.
yawn. he will give his losing speech right there, plagerized from Dr.King
The only thing the Messiah is concerned about is what you can do for him. In the case of New Orleans AAs, not much; ergo, he feels he doesn’t need them except as stage props.
The great one seems to have a terrible time remembering facts so he can’t debate without his trusty teleprompter or written answers to pre submitted topics. Add this into his stumbling, bumbling delivery when he draws a blank, which is most of the time when not delivering a prescripted speech. Could that be a medical/drug induced memory impairment due to impairment of brain function? Just wondering, not saying it is fact. He admitted regular drug use in high school and college and impaired memory seems to be a result in many young adult drug users. I am not a medical professional, but have worked many years with teens/young adults with educational delays and drugs are a big factor in their educational abilities.
Aaaand Blu22….Obama’s COLB story is being picked up by Overseas papers….
chuckle….Israeli papers have got the story….Won’t be long now…..chuckle….
blu22 — Obaby has fallen and he can’t get up without Bill & Hillary Clinton’s help. What happened to all the attacks against the Clintons? Aren’t they still Racists? Never mind — the baby needs to win and they better help him.
Obaby can’t debate because he is terrified of the competition. In the nearly 2 years he’s been running he still has no set policies or principles. The kid can read a teleprompter but he cannot speak. Wonder how much Howard Dean got for his soul–he has sold out the Democratic Party and the reliable voters for what–an ignorant, immature, arrogant, insecure kid who is afraid of his own shadow. Hey bots — its obvious you don’t care about this country — to stand up for this guy while he falls of his own weight.
Wow, you must have a split personality you went from one of our blogs to another, changing your tune, from bot to bot basher.
He never ceases to amaze me by his ignorance.
OT I came across this earlier, thought you might like an early chuckle.
McCain Web Ad Is Accused
Of Linking Obama to Antichrist
By DOUGLAS BELKIN, STEPHANIE SIMON and SUZANNE SATALINE
August 8, 2008; Page A5
An Internet ad launched last week by the McCain presidential campaign has attracted more than one million hits by appearing to mock Barack Obama for presenting himself as a kind of prophetic figure.
The ad has also generated criticism from Democrats and religious scholars who see a hidden message linking Sen. Obama to the apocalyptic Biblical figure of the antichrist.
The spot, called “The One,” opens with the line: “It shall be known that in 2008 the world will be blessed.” Images follow of Moses parting the Red Sea and Sen. Obama telling a crowd, “We are the change we’ve been waiting for.”
Brian Rogers, a spokesman for John McCain’s campaign, said the spot reflects only that Sen. Obama sometimes “gets carried away” when he speaks, and points out “his many audacious statements.”
“It’s a light-hearted ad that pokes fun at him,” Mr. Rogers said.
There’s more if you want to read it.
First they moved the Tower of Pisa and Washington Monument to Berlin, now McCain’s “The One” ad is a code message for the Obama/Antichrist.
Come on, if Obama really was the Antichrist, the cameraman would have zoomed in on the 666 shaved into Barky’s head. Who doesn’t know that?
sheesh
What a tool. Truly. McCain has found his achilles heel. He hates to be mocked. It makes him crazy. If he keeps up these bizarro ideas, they will carry him off waving his arms and screaming. I guess he can’t use his famous race card any longer, since he got nailed red-handed the last time, so I guess we can look forward to the Antichrist Card next. And just think: McCain’s campaign hasn’t even started to release the REAL stuff. That comes after the convention.
Antichrist@ROFL
What’s that about protesting too loudly methinks?
Yep- Barky Nobama thinks everyone is concerned over the color of his skin. Nawh- we are concerned over how THIN his skin is,
I think my PUFFS is thicker! It has lotion added for softness!
Maybe that’s it with Barry
THIN and BRITTLE
Uppity did you see that video of the photographer who interrupted the Obama/ Ohio Townhall by asking that they start the meting with the Pledge of allegiance ? http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/
It’s not just a matter of mocking ( although that is HUGE…) it also a matter of any challenge, interruption, question that falls short of numbing adoration and agreement. Obama cannot handle not being admired or ANY SORT OF DISSENT….
Obama is a classic NARCISSIST as you and others have repeatedly pointed out….IMHO…..HE IS ALSO A FASCIST….chuckle…But then again I have never met a fascist who wasn’t also a narcissist….chuckle….the two go hand in hand….
AA’s who aren’t GOOSESTEPPERS….tend to rile Obama’s inner cracker conflict…..No ?
he was nearly stopped dead the other day by a heckler who insisted that he recite the Pledge Of Allegiance…
the LOOK barry shot him was dark - then he recovered but only to flutter his hands around saying:
WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT…
NO NO WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT
he must’ve said it 50 times.
he’s so street…
reminded of how he brushed Hillary off his shoulder…such antics!
you’re an idiot or a liar. he was saying “wait” to the assembled crowd b/c he was going to disarm the heckler by reciting the pledge of allegiance. which he did. which made the heckler look stupid b/c, well, what was his fucking point?
“wait” = “street”? maybe you’re not a liar.
Was BOBO wearing an ear peice? Because it might have taken fifty or so “waits” for his staff to google the pledge and shoot it over
that IS funny. not only does obama not know the pledge, but nobody on his staff does either. what a bunch of idiots! loFl.
I concur wholeheartedly (ROFLMAO)
uppity — If only Hillary had mocked this fool. Thank God McCain is doing it. We are now seeing what’s beneath all that skin he keeps shedding. The arrogant elitist is just a timid little man who thought he could fool the world and ended up fooling only himself.
But - suppose some Obama supporters really see a modern-day Moses leading them to the Promised Land:
(comment at 10:18)
So some Democrats and “religious scholars” have no basis to criticize the ad…right?
I forgot the rest of the quote:
Carla is probably a TUCC member…..And Jesus was just another Black Ghetto Freedom Fighter…..sheeesh!
Cluck, cluck, cluck….Baraaack, bwack, bwack, bwack, bwack, bwack!
He’s terrified.
He’s going to HAVE to debate at some point.
He doesn’t HAVE to do anything. He is The One. He gets to write (and change) the roolz. Who’s going to challenge him? He’s got a platinum plated Get out of Jail Free card.
Why debate when he can preach?
you’re ignorant. since 1960 there have been 2 or 3 presidential debates in every election. and there was four only once, in 1960. obama and mccain have agreed to three debates. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_debates)
so what exactly was your point?
SO then you’re saying BOB isn’t going to change anything? LOL I can believe in that.
zing! another good one. man, totally changing the subject? i didn’t even see it coming. kutgw!
thanks. That’s very nice of you.
Don’t worry Obama will flip on these too! He will have a sudden scheduling problem and not debate McCain….frankly he can’t debate. He was always abysmal….especially on ABC. Don’t get your hopes up, trust me I believe this is what will happen.
No surprise here, either. New Orleans has no money or power to offer the Precious, so why would he bother?
And hey, why worry about voters, right? Right? Pesky people. Won’t freakin’ vote for their best interests … who the hell needs ‘em.
Grail — Acorn is busily registering voters in La. so why should Obaby put himself out.
Listen, if it is a real debate? With unfiltered, honest questioning from the public. Obama will not debate or answer questions. Can you imagine what type of real, honest questions would be like.
Mr. Obama could you please explain the controversy regarding your BC? Will you immediately release your BC and medical records? Can you explain your positions regarding Nafta, FISA, oil drilling, ???
What about allegations from a Mr. Larry Sinclair? Could you explain why you knowing did business with an indicted person, Tony Rezko, in purchasing your home? What is your birth name? Well you get my drift…Obama is scared sh**less! He won’t have his huggy pillow to cling to (teleprompter)
With Google being one of Oblowme’s major donors - after Terrorists - Telecommunications - and Energy -
this just goes to show that McCain is still a straight shooter and …
fearless.
The man cannot speak unscripted, in fact he is a dismal failure whenever he tries to do so. If he cannot do so regarding his own policies and beliefs, how in the world can he when facing the leaders of Iran, Cuba and others he claims he will sit down with?
Imagine how huge of gafts he’d of made if he did not follow his community organizing day policies of let surrogates speak and he sits back while they deliver his message, when his campaign envoked the race card against the Clinton’s? Had Obama spoken out on this instead of the surrogates, he never would have made it past Super Tuesday!
So how on earth can he think he’d make it as POTUS?
Sean Hannity keeps inviting the (boring)one to come on the show to tear into him. e baits him saying, “Senator Obama, you are willing to talk to leaders in Iran, Cuba and the rest without preconditions so will you take on Hannity?”
HAHAHAHAHA! I love Hannity now! I used to despise him. I’ll give Obama some points on the change thing. He has certainly changed my life and politics. I’m not sure if that’s the change he was waiting for though!
LOL I`m waiting for him to change my tires.
or at least give em some air! (ha)
More like will he blow your tires! Uhmmm, I really meant inflate your tires!
I wouldn’t go as far as saying: “I love Hannity”!
Since the primaries, I have an appreciation for
him I’d never known. However, any opportunity
that presents itself, he’s very happy to take a
frontal or backhanded slap at Hillary! Let’s NOT
forget the “Clinton Chronicles”.
He deserves all the props for going after OB
when just about everyone else was building a “pedestal”! He led the charge against Rev. Wright and others. I respect Sean, we have areas
of strong disagreement.
csuzeq — Obama will beg for the Hannity interview when it becomes clear to him that the media love affair is over. Then he will go anywhere and everywhere to try to get his popularity back. However, when you run for the Presidency as a Messiah–where do you go from there? Messiah’s don’t grovel.
When you can’t have fun and not look RIDICULOUS answering a question from a 7 year old for God’s sake …
Slightly off topic. Charlie Gibson took the gloves off last night. Pushed back twice on Odona Brazen when she tried the unification meme on ABC. He was having none of it. Do you think they are more than mildly miffed that they were ignored for the debates? Karma, baby!
beebop;
That was an a remarkable exchange in that DB was in dream land. The impression I took away from it was that if you are not “with” BO” at the convention, you will be excommunicated from the “BO Church of Denial”.
There are not divisions in the party? That will only be true if after the massacre dissent is eliminated.
Mean while the only press interviews BO has is at 30,000 ft.
Hmmmm….Maybe the dead Opossum Commissar Brazeal wears on her head will wake up and finally attack!…..LOL…could’nt resist…..scuse’
Sorry to disagree, but that is a dead skunk on her head.
BO apparently believes that he is the affirmative action candidate and that others will simply place him into office. Thus, he doesn’t have to debate or talk to Hannity or appear at important functions. Instead, he takes a week-long vacation in Hawaii! I don’t know how the national polls are being manipulated, but there’s no way mainstream whites, for starters, will make this man President!
yes, absolutely right. He wants every thing for free, even the presidency! how pathetic!!
The LESS often McCain reminds us of how OLD he really is and how possibly brittle he might be mentally the better it is for HIM and worse it is for BARRY!!!
I recommend to McCain’s people to keep doing exactly what they are doing. Also hold your news on VP until AFTER BArry!
Keep up the moderate/fair minded/stop paying the WEALTHY talk….. flip again on the tax breaks for the wealthy and you MIGHT even get ME to put on a bumpersticker if HILLARY doesn’t make it.
I said MIGHT. (trust me for this X bleeding heart that is saying a LOT)
MEGA lots!
He took a vacation to the carribean not too long ago.
Now he is taking a vacation to hawaii.
Does he think campaigning is like be a state senator you only do it for 55 days a year?
God forbid he should get into the whitehouse, he will treat it like a weekend getaway vacation house.
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS, AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
Excuse me
should be like being a state senator
hootnannie — You said it. The polls are being manipulated because the media loves a horserace. However, the media will turn against him and the Obaby won’t know what hit him. The media always turns on you so its better never to court them at all. How much stronger Hillary would have been. Ah well….
O’Reilly looks like an idiot every time he says Obama has agreed to come on the factor….BillO you will still be waiting when Obama loses the election.lol…..
Maybe BO’s plan for HRC in his campaign, is for her to debate JM for him, since BO really sucks as an ad libber. No teleprompter no BO.
HRC 2012
I think Hillary should debate McCain. All O supporters will not know what’s going on and will think, Oh, wow, is she the nominee now???
Damn I want her. Hillary, Hillary, Hillary! Give me the Clintons!
The MSM, including FOX is saying the Clintons are hijacking Obama’s convention. Hillary is speaking on Tuesday, Bill on Wednesday and she has the nerve (gasp ;-)) to suggest she put her name in nomination and have a role call vote. What is she trying to pull, they wonder! hahahahaha.
If Obama was smart, he’d disappear when he leaves for his Hawaii trip. Obama, fake your disappearance. I promise I won’t tell anyone that you are hiding. You can go to Cuba, or Iran, or Kenya. Hell, go to Tahiti for all I care. Just fake your disappearance and skip the convention will ya???? Bye-bye now! Don’t send a postcard.
It’s all Hillary’s fault. The MSM is so pathetic. If they did any research at all instead of BO promotions 24/7, they’d know that her supporters have been driving the Convention issue and that there is an actual HISTORY of candidates putting their names in for nomination. It’s still the same b.s. from the primaries: that woman and her pesky reporters are making Poor Bawack look bad!
I wonder why is he going to Hawaii, out of all the places. He did not even bother to go there in the primary. Is he going there to get his BC fixed?? I guest with $1 ml. he can get a real one.
Found this today. Sounds like he going to see Granny(typical white, of course). Gess he needs her to help him get some papers & BC.
Hawaii homecoming rally on Friday for Barack and Michelle Obama. Battling “Obama fatigue.”
By
Lynn Sweet
on August 8, 2008 12:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) lands in his native Hawaii on Friday and starts a vacation with a “welcome” rally at Keehi Lagoon Beach Park near the airport in Honolulu featuring Obama and wife Michelle.
Obama’s vacation starts on the opening day of the Summer Olympics and he’ll let his paid advertising–the campaign bought time on the Olympics– work for him while he takes some time off the campaign trail with his wife and two daughters.
The last time he was in Hawaii was December, 2006; that’s when that famous bathing suit photo of him in the Pacific Ocean surf was shot. Before his presidential run, he would return to Hawaii each year. His grandmother, Madelyn Dunham and half sister Maya Soetoro-Ng are in Hawaii.
A Pew survey said 48 percent of the public is suffering from “Obama fatigue.”
Asked if he was overexposed, Obama said, “We are going to correct that this week,” speaking to reporters on his campaign plane en route to Chicago.
“I’m going to see my grandma, who I haven’t seen in almost 18, 19 months,” Obama said. “And who is getting to the age where I want to make sure where I am spending time with her on a consistent basis so she can see her great grandchildren and I want to spend some time with those children as well.”
excuse me but
THOSE CHILDREN?
WTF?
That’s another one like the “no girl(or was it no ONE) should be PUNISHED with a child”
I do NOT like the off color words that drip like a leaky faucet from his cold purple lips!
If he gets 5 states I will ban those states from my further travel EVER in my future or my families! I PROMISE.
I do NOT want to be around people that would vote for such a sick punk!
btw I feel the same about the people that voted for the lying weiner dog W too!
Dawnelle Leona del Puma;
BO refers to his kids with something other than the word ‘MY’???
That just tells me at some levelBO views “those” kids as baggage and he emotionally unavailable….
yea and Michelle calls him
my babies daddy
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
what a chameleon
Many of us go to our home towns on vacation to see our relatives. Does that actually seem odd to you that Obama would do the same?
Actually, Senator Prom Queen should send O Force One to Hawaii to pick up Typical White Granny and bring her to his home for some quality family time.
(I’ve heard typical white people like to fly on big fancy planes with special candidate logos and faux presidential seals.)
Yep! He’s a wealthy man and he admits he hasn’t seen his grandma who raised him for almost 2 years!! Not to mention the grandma in Kenya with no running water! He really knows how to treat people! NOT!
Geez…even rappers buy their mother a house or have their families live with them when they make it big.
Obama can’t be bothered to make either of their lives easier.
If he doesn’t care for black folks, poor folks, or his old folks….then clearly only rich folks hit his radar.
csuzeq — Isn’t Obama a citizen of just about every country in The Middle East? He could be a goat herder just like his dad–or was that a lie too?
JS Ruby remember when Obama got himself a VP Chief of Staff but he can’t find anyone who wants to be his VP.
The Beatles said it best about Obama. How did they know?
I have said this before, personally i did not think obama wants to be president–it is too much work. Obama likes running for president-flying around in his own personal jumbo (not a gulfstream jet) with his name blazen across it, going place to place reading other peoples words (that is why no townhalls with any opponent, too much work having to know stuff), being cuddled and adored by the msm and treated like rockstar without any sacrifices. Oh yeah did i mention you have a bunch of adoring suckers (adoring foreign suckers) paying for it! On some level obama will be relieved when all this stuff comes out about him. He will then have his excuse for not winning or in my dreams for pulling out and letting hillary take over.
I bet those folks in new orleans would have loved to have a free rock concert with free food and beer–it would have been a nice relief from all the govt red tape and trying to find affordable housing when the govt stops paying their rents. Is jesse jackson jr cryng about that? Yeah I didn’t think so.
PUMA
Great post! Thanks.
Did I read today that Bill Clinton has been (finally) asked to speak at the convention? Will Obama let himself be seen playing golf (again) while a Clinton speaks?
Thanks, PUMAs
YOU ARE SO RIGHT PUMA…
Obama is a coward. How on earth would he manage to give press conferences? Oh thats right he wouldn`t.
Jonathan Alter at Newsweek —–
http://www.newsweek.com/id/151388
Genuine human feelings? Yes.
So-called ‘journalists’ are hypocritical toe-suckers ala Dickie-Odinga Morris.
Bozo Alter trashed HRC on all the usual talking heads shows, never saying a word against His Snobbiness and now it’s suddenly dawned on him that the One may not be worthy?
And he still has his job and there are no consequences for his unconscionable slandering of HRC?has
it is all so nauseating.
I TOTALLY AGREE!!!!
He deserves what he gets and KARMA will pay the debt if society doesn’t!!
Sometimes Karma does it regardless right? LOL
52 yrs on a planet will show you that
(over and over and over)
CAREFULLY SCRIPTED AD!!
That says it all about Obama’s entire candidacy.
McCain should do an ad comparing Obama to Dove soap or the iphone or something. Sell that brand baby!
Preparing for debates takes a lot of time and work. No one can do it for you. Reading a speech written by 20 speechwriters for Deval Patrick is much more efficient for his time. Preparing for a committee hearing also takes time and work. Writing articles for legal publications also takes time and work. So does writing a book, but one gets advances from a publisher to do it. Maybe is someone offered to pay him for these debates he would show.
Amen Elliott exactly! He does the EASY things well. It’s the ones that take effort and work he can’t handle.
Stop the hate:-)
A few of Obama’s favorite things: This was funny and a bit telling:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20217406,00.html
I wonder if he wears briefs?
roseeriter — Can’t the Obama’s afford a second TV?
Oblowme has never really worked at anything, so he has no idea that POTUS should be “hard work”.
Sure, he wants to be BUSH 3 - LAZY!
Just willy nilly throwing our hardearned taxdollars away.
I know many lazy people who think that other professions or occupations are easy because they have no frame of reference, but their own.
Oblowme is the guy who admits that he isn’t good at
running things:
“I’m not a COO” and
“I can’t keep track of my paperwork”.
ANY job is what you make of it.
MEchelle — Obama just runs for office–once he gets the job its downhill from there.