Obama’s Coattails Just Got a Little Shorter
By Ani on August 11, 2008 at 12:30 PM in Barack Obama, DNC, Democratic Nomination, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
According to The Washington Times’ article Centrist Voters Tilt from Obama:
Sen. Barack Obama is doing what Republicans once thought only a presidential candidacy by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton could do – united the right and center.
State Republican Party leaders interviewed by The Washington Times said fear of a far-left Obama presidency is warming once-skeptical voters to Sen. John McCain, fueling growing enthusiasm among Republicans that Mr. McCain’s more aggressive campaigning can lead to victory.
“It appears that the more that Obama speaks, the more afraid folks in South Carolina get,” said Spartanburg County Republican Party Chairman Rick Beltram. “We are seeing ‘die-hard’ Democrats tell us that Obama is not their man.
“We are expecting the white Democrats to be fleeing the Democratic ship when November 4 comes around – plus, the Democratic candidate [Bob Conley] that is running against Senator [Lindsey] Graham is also running away from the Democrats, and you can quote me on that,” Mr. Beltram said.
Holy Cow, Batman! This is one of the states Howard Dean said he could turn blue in the fall!!
Look, this is an article quoting some state party leaders and the conventions have not happened yet; all too true. But one of the DNC’s main reasons for pushing Obama was their confidence in picking up seats for down ticket Dems. That Democratic candidate for Senator Bob Conley is “running away from the Democrats” does not bode well. And we know he is not only one to have done so these last couple of months.
In union-dominated Michigan, a state targeted by both major parties, state Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis said he is seeing signs that independents and Reagan Democrats are moving toward Mr. McCain.
“People who may have been apprehensive about McCain now see this race as potentially winnable,” Mr. Anuzis said.
What accounts for this development?
Republicans credit Mr. McCain’s gains in recent weeks partly to the campaign’s new feisty, hard-hitting ads painting Mr. Obama as a self-absorbed celebrity who ducks meetings with wounded American troops and wants to raise taxes.
Couple that with the fact that foreign policy issues are coming to the fore once again with Russia attacking Georgia – McCain was widely touted as having his 3 A.M. moment this weekend and having been prescient on his warning about the dangers of Putin.
If Senator Clinton were still in the race, McCain would not be able to take advantage of this right now. Hillary would be way out in front with a specific call to action and policy recommendation – unlike Obama, making some vague, generalized statement about this new conflict, on his way to yet another vacation.
“People are getting more enthusiastic about McCain because he is getting more aggressive toward Obama, which makes Republicans and conservatives believe McCain actually can win,” said Jeffrey M. Frederick, the newly elected Republican Party chairman in Virginia.
“…the more people hear about Obama, the more enthusiastic they get about McCain,” Mr. Frederick said.
Uh. Isn’t it supposed to be the opposite? The more you hear about Obama, the more you like? Apparently as more people get to know the real Senator Obama, his poll numbers are sinking. Even his hugely touted foreign tour didn’t give him a bump.
People used to think they ‘hated’ Hillary – certainly reflecting the after-effects of 15 years of incessant media brainwashing by the Republican machine that did not want this lady to succeed – either with universal health care or any progressive agenda. She was labeled in the worst possible terms. Over the years, without knowing why, people started to think they agreed with those unfair assessments.
But a surprising thing happened out on the campaign trail – particularly in the last three months of the primary. Voters got to know her and hear her on the stump, and many were converted. In fact, some voters were left scratching their heads as to where this initial reputation came from. She also won a grudging respect from many on the Republican side who had previously been her detractors. I personally know many Republicans who had every intention of voting for her in November, confident of her preparedness, smarts on the economy as well as feeling safe with her centrist foreign policy.
In Indiana for example, despite being massively outspent, despite the negative drumbeat in the media and the dirty snarks of Pelosi et al, and no matter what voting shenanigans happened in the state, Hillary pulled out a win. Obama was supposed to take Indiana comfortably. It is, after all, his neighboring state. And now…:
“It’s the polls - it’s definitely happening,” said [Indiana] state Rep. Jackie Walorski, a Republican from Elkhart. “But it’s not that these hard-core conservatives I talked with at the county fair here are softening their attitudes toward McCain. They’re sliding toward him out of fear of a liberal Obama presidency, and they think McCain can win.”
In Michigan, Mr. Anuzis said, “the idea that McCain all of a sudden could win is generating a degree of excitement and involvement among people, many of whom may not have been very excited or motivated by McCain at the time he locked up the nomination.”
Jay Kenworthy, communications director for the Indiana Republican Party, said his state’s voters are getting to know Mr. Obama and not liking what they see. “We hear people saying, ‘McCain may not have been my guy, but we can’t afford Obama,’” he said.
But where are all those ‘Obamicans’ we kept hearing about back in February? It just might turn out they were just being “Democrats for a day” after all.
Mr. Kenworthy said a tax raiser who is weak on national defense - the image Republicans are trying to create for Mr. Obama - is “not a good combination in the Hoosier state.”
These are battleground states: South Carolina, Virginia, Indiana, Michigan. Wow.
How about Nevada?
“McCain is attracting independents and Hillary Democrats. The more time he spends in Nevada, the more people like him. It’s a small state and easy to reach out to voters,” [Nevada Republican Party Chairman Sue Lowden] said.
Uh oh.
Down ticket Democrats may have some reason to worry. Senator Obama’s fundraising may not be the continuing cornucopia his campaign bragged about. In the past week, I have received six fundraising letters from him. Just me. Obviously, I’m not sending him a dime. Why are they pushing so hard if they’re rolling in it? Even if he has plenty of dough, since Senator Obama decided to forego public financing, those running in state races have expressed unhappiness because his need to fundraise for his own election bid is cutting into contributions they might otherwise receive. Further, his policies, to the extent that he can stick to them, don’t seem to be registering very well out in the heartland.
It looks like the DNC was brainwashed, too, when it bought into the Clinton Derangement Syndrome that labeled Hillary as “divisive and polarizing” – turns out, she may not be after all. In fact, she would have been – and still is – the stronger choice. Just as she always predicted.
Divisive and polarizing?
It looks like Senator Obama may wind up being the man stuck with that moniker.
Oh yeah…
The Washington Times? Well, if it’s in Rev. Moon’s mouthpiece, it MUST be true, right?
Wikipedia: Straw Man Argument
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCRLBJfVXIQ
Which part do you think is false?
The part he doesn’t like …. hahahahahhahaha
And I suppose those state party leaders do not exist either? Quotes are quotes and the truth is the truth.
The Washington Times is certainly not the only paper to make the points above. There are a bunch of Southern Dems who have distanced themselves from Obama. That’s the truth.
I see.
So lemme get this straight… Pro-GOP propaganda paper quotes bunches “State Republican party” sources saying Obama is in trouble?
Yeah… I’m sure this is a fine journalistic effort, I mean — none of the sources have any reason to color their words a certain way, right?
So the Republican party tells a Republican paper things are just peachy…
Uh-huh… Cardinal fans tell me that dropping 2 of 3 against the Cubs this weekend was according to plan, too.
Hey tell you what — The National Enquirer is a much bigger “rag” and I would never read them — but they got the Edwards’ story right on the money — and left ABC and CNN doing interviews with him and eating NE’s dust.
This whole election year is upside down — you know damned well the MSM doesn’t tell you squat any more. Most of them are so in the bag for Obie it’s ridiculous. Why is this scenario any less sound than one of theirs?
Your team is actually trying to spin that it’s a good thing that he DIDN’T get a bounce from his foreign rock star tour. Are they kidding?? Are you? And the MSM just repeats his talking points like they are facts.
Are you trying to tell me that’s reality?
I’ve got family and friends living in some of these states — yep - that’s right — folks on the ground — and they are telling me exactly the same thing. This is spot on.
Believe it or not — that is completely your right and privilege.
cahill — the National Enquirer has been writing for months about the abuse and extra marital affairs in Obama’s marriage. When is the media going to pick that up?
Pardon me? Do you have references to issues of the NE?
References? Don’t you ever glance at the headlines while standing in line to check out your groceries? If you did you would know that Clinton, Bush and Obama are staples; buy a couple of issues and read them if you doubt. (Just make sure to pick a week when a Hollywood celebrity didn’t do something really bad.)
Is there such a thing as a Republican paper? I’ve seen nothing from the paper that backs that up. Where does the Washington Times announce that they are a “Republican newsletter.” Provide a link, or drop the right wing conspiracy talk.
Hillarity ensues — The MSM has been in Obama’s pocket for the last year and a half. The only honest reporting we are getting is coming from the right. I voted Democratic for 44 years and I have never seen a party push so hard for one candidate. They are WRONG. They live in their elitist world and have no idea how much people out here are hurting. People are afraid that Obama is not an American and that he is a racist. These are people who know nothing about PUMA — they just know what they feel. 48% of Americans are sick of him and an equal number wants to hear more about McCain.
I agree with you about losing 2 to the Cubs was not part of their agenda. Obama only had one chance to make a first impression — he played the Race card and that in the end will be what finished his campaign.
Go Cubs Go 1908-2008
Someone from here or several someones from here who are PUMA or know all about it should set Tommy Christopher at the Politcal Machine AOL election “news” straight. I don’t know enough about it to speak in an intelligent way. But he is twisting the knife, telling things that don’t seem true to me. The Title is Pumas Turn Scary or words to that effect. He is a Hillary basher Obama lover, until he/they need Hillary’s voters then he wants her on the ticket as VP of course.
Tzada,
by all means, set me straight. What did I write that wasn’t true?
So obambi trolls let me ask you this:
If Barry looses in a 49 state landslide
come november are y’all gonna
“GET OVER IT”?
or will that be the excuse du jour for
riots and looting?
Enquiring minds want to know!
BOWL big time in November!
Bode,
BOWL …
An allusional “text” …
Excellent… love it!
Better than a 7-10 split…
Hillarity, one of the states Obama’s campaign has said he must win is Colorado. The last poll shows Mark Udall(D) is in a dead heat with Bob Schaffer(R). Mr. Udall was ahead by double didgets just two weeks ago and I have to tell you Bob Schaffer wasn’t given a chance to win this one. The poll was in the RMN yesterday. I’m an Indy now (since I left the Dem. Party in June and I have been following this closely. I do not believe Colorado will turn blue in Nov. for Obama or Udall.
oooh..you must be scared, anchovy! Try not to shit in your pants, m-kay?
I’ll be fine, but thanks for your concern.
It’s your innate humanity that comforts me during these acrimonious times.
McCain Ahead in Virginia Poll of LV–SUSA
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/va/virginia_mccain_vs_obama-551.html
Sorry off topic…
Cindy Sheehan has QUALIFIED for the ballot as an independent candidate to challenge Nancy Pelosi for the seat from the 8th Congressional district of CA.
excellent, thank you!
Official: Sheehan to Oppose Pelosi
Newsmax
A year to the date exactly after formally announcing her intention to challenge Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi for her seat in California’s 8th district, Cindy Sheehan is officially on the ballot as a “Decline to State” candidate.
In order to qualify as an “Decline to State” candidate Sheehan was required to submit 10,198 signatures from registered voters in the district by August 8th, 2008; Sheehan’s campaign collected close the double the amount of signatures needed and qualified before the deadline.
“Getting on the ballot is just the first victory for our campaign,” says Sheehan
Buh BYe Nancy. Sheehan is going to win!
If you don’t mind I am going to be brutal here and say *uck off Nancy, you no good son of a bitch! oh, by the way Jesus loves you too,just.
Jesus loves Nancy, but I think she’s a pandering, gutless dipshit who’s an embarassment to IA pols everywhere.
Even if she doesn’t, it hurts Pelosi’s total and reminds her that things are not always in her power.
Great News!! Here is Cindy’s official web site:
http://www.cindyforcongress.org/
People need to support Cindy..you can beat Pelosi Cindy.
Cindy may not be perfect but she’ll defend the constitution and she’ll cooperate to get things done. Tell Nancy a “fresh face” is going to beat her.
The irony is so thick…
To Bugs Bunny re: off topic and Cindy Sheehan running for Pelosi seat.
I don’t even live in that state and I will send Cindy a financial donation for her run. Pelosi is an absolute disgrace.
PUMA
PELOSI IS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE.
Go Cindy!!
I, too, have sent Cindy money and don’t live in her state. I’ve also asked all my friends who do live in her district, to vote for her. They assured me they would.
Serious food for thought regarding where Obama’s real sympathies may lie as Russia invades Georgia: excerpt from Canada Free Press article “The Frank Marshall Davis Network in Hawaii.”
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4203
“Davis as Mentor
What about Frank Marshall Davis’s role as a mentor to the young Obama? This is one of the assertions that Conybeare’s media council disputes.
Merriam-Webster defines “mentor” as “a trusted counselor or guide.” Was Frank a “trusted counselor or guide” to Obama? And what “vision” did Davis give to the young Obama?
Consider these examples from Obama’s 1995 book, Dreams from My Father:
Obama’s grandmother (Toot) and Gramps have an argument over whether Gramps should give Toot a ride to work after she had been threatened at a bus stop by a black panhandler. Obama looks to Frank to sort it out in his mind. (p. 89-91)
When Toot is having difficulty convincing the drug-abusing young Obama to apply for college, it is again Frank who is able to convince Obama that college is necessary. (p. 96-98)
Frank delivers to the young Obama the one key lesson which radicals have sought to inculcate in the mind of every black person whether under slavery, segregation or civil rights: “…you may be a well-trained, well-paid nigger, but you’re a nigger just the same.” (p. 97)
In his short column about Dr. Kathryn Waddell Takara’s “anger” at the “bloggers…twisting her research,” Star Bulletin columnist John Heckathorn lets slip: “In the ’70s, a by-then-elderly Davis was a friend of Barack Obama’s grandfather and would proffer advice to a young Barry, as he was called then.” Ooops.
Are “critics of racism” being unfairly tagged Red, as Takara says?
In reality, Reds often unfairly tagged other “critics of racism” who did not toe the Communist line. The examples start with Davis himself.
In the Honolulu Record of August 11, 1949, Davis denounces black leaders who criticized Communist Party member Paul Robeson for saying, “American Negroes would never go to war against Russia.” Said Davis, “They were like faithful dogs, trying to curry favor with their masters.”
In his memoir, Livin’ the Blues, Davis writes that when author Richard Wright in 1944 left the Communist Party, “his resultant series of articles in widely read publications was an act of treason in the fight for our rights and aided only the racists who were constantly seeking any means to destroy cooperation between Reds and blacks.” (p. 243)
There are other “critics of racism” who got a taste of the Communists’ tactics―from Davis. A 1949 letter sent to NAACP acting National Secretary Roy Wilkins by a Honolulu attorney and NAACP leader named Edward Berman:
“I was at one of the election meetings at which one Frank Marshall Davis, formerly of Chicago (and formerly editor of the Chicago Communist paper, the Star) suddenly appeared on the scene to propagandize the membership about our ‘racial problems’ in Hawaii. He had jut sneaked in here on a boat, and presto, was an ‘expert’ on racial problems in Hawaii. Comrade Davis was supported by others who had recently ‘sneaked’ into the organization with the avowed intent and purpose of converting it into a front for the Stalinist line….
…Already, scores of Negro members were frightened away from these meetings because of the influx of this element. Only by a reorganization with a policy that will check this infiltration, can we hope to get former members back into a local NAACP branch. We are going to have to have that authority over here―otherwise you’ll have a branch exclusively composed of yelping Stalinists and their dupes―characters who are more concerned about the speedy assassination of Tito (who had just broken with the USSR) than they are about the advancement of the colored people of these United States.”
Shortly after receiving this letter, the NAACP revoked its Honolulu Chapter’s charter in order to reorganize and prevent a Communist takeover of the organization.
NAACP leader Roy Wilkins had another view of “cooperation.” Writing to CPUSA member William Patterson on November 23, 1949, he explains:
“We remember the Scottsboro case and our experience there with the (Communist front) International Labor Defense, one of the predecessors of the Civil Rights Congress. We remember that the present Civil Rights Congress is composed of the remnants of the ILD and other groups. We remember that in the Scottsboro case, the NAACP was subjected to the most unprincipled vilification. We remember the campaign of slander in the Daily Worker. We remember the leaflets and the speakers and the whole unspeakable machinery that was turned loose upon all those who did not embrace the ‘unity’ policy as announced by the communists.
“We want none of that unity today.
“We of the NAACP remember that during the war when Negro Americans were fighting for jobs on the home front and fighting for decent treatment in the armed services we could get no help from the organizations on the extreme Left. They abandoned the fight for Negro rights on the grounds that such a campaign would ‘interfere with the war effort.’ As soon as Russia was attacked by Germany they dropped the Negro question and concentrated all effort in support of the war in order to help the Soviet Union. During the war years the disciples of the extreme left sounded very much like the worst of the Negro-hating Southerners.”
Wilkins’ final sentence should be considered when reading Frank Marshall Davis’s words to the young Obama: “…you may be a well-trained, well-paid nigger, but you’re a nigger just the same.” Then as now, Communists see African-Americans as merely a tool with which to acquire power and are quite willing to send highly self-destructive messages in pursuit of that power.
Note: Frank Marshall Davis’s early columns in the Honolulu Record can be read HERE.
No wonder backtrack barack is so screwed up.
Called as child “oops” what a great grandfather as well as parents he had.
Hitler said give me the youth and I will have your country.
Davis started brainwashing backtrack when he was young and turned him over to his comrades as he got older.
His grooming to be put in place to harm America started when he was young.
With the internet a lot more information is known than would have been before.
With that information American voters can stop the destruction he would bring.
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS, AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
helen — All this stuff was out there. Obama wrote 2 books about his ambivilance towards white people and yet the dummies who call themselves the Democratic Party elite were fooled. Amazing. So bamboozled were they that they thought they no longer needed the real Democratic base. Voters were going to fall from the sky for this bag of bones. Now the Party will implode and guess what — it will be Hillary’s fault. F’ you Howard Dean and the horse you rode in on.
One of Obama’s paid bloggers. Marxist? Meet
Sam Graham-Felsen
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/04/24/media-missing-another-unsavory-obama-associate-official-blogger-
Spewing Hope and Change with no substantial stumping, changes Hope back to reality- ‘There’s nothing there’ Just empty words in an empty suit. People are seeing through his preachy boring rhetoric.
NOBAMA!
roseeriter — Obama used to offer Hope — now all he offers is Audacity.
The same Hillary that was ducking imaginary sniper fire in the Balkans? I am not sure why yall think Hillary has any foreign policy experience, other than the imaginary kind. As a citzen of three different nations, Barack Obama understands foreign policy, and will bring credibility on the world stage. World leaders will see President Obama correctly as an internationalist, who doesn’t have just the US interest at heart, but the interests of the world as first priority.
WOW,Freedom Fighter you are drowning in the Kool-Aid.
Please explain and prove to us that Obama understands foreign policy?
Don’t bother trying for his credibility cause he ain’t got none.
Maybe Obama should run for an Ambassador spot since he is an Internationalist- or get a job at the UN. This is the second time an obamabot has brought that up.
They seem to fail miserably in understanding for which office Obama is running… The President of the United States of AMERICA! Americans will not vote for a candidate who’s allegiance is in question. There is no President of the World, and if there were, the Obots would be greatly disappointed to find most ‘world memebrs ‘ wound’t want him either.
Internationalist
People that is the word for today.
Just keep repeating it over and over. It does not have to have any meaning, it just sounds good.
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS, AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
You cut and paste very well! Good Job!
But Freedom Fighter eats the paste, too! That’s a no no.
Each president recites the following oath, in accordance with Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Show me where it swears to uphold anything in the rest of the world. What an ass you are.
Freedom Fighter:
If Obama is “a citizen of three different nations”, as you assert in your comment, then he certainly does not meet the constitutional requirements for POTUS, then does he ? I’ve also read that Obama says that as one of his first acts as POTUS, he would reduce the readiness status of our country’s nukes. Nothing like announcing that one of your first foreign policy decisions would be to weaken the country’s readiness posture and encourage a first strike against our country.
rob check this out. It makes it very clear that Obama cannot become the President of this country.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4375
As a citzen of three different nations, Barack Obama understands foreign policy…World leaders will see President Obama correctly as an internationalist, who doesn’t have just the US interest at heart, but the interests of the world as first priority.
Freedom Fighter (which you aren’t by the way):
If BO had all this “foreign policy understanding” why did he find it necessary to go on a world ‘fact finding’ tour? Why was it so important to speak to a crowd of Germans who can’t even vote for him?
If BO is a citizen of three different nations he is ineligilbe to be POTUS.
If BO has the interests of the WORLD as his first priority he has the wrong focus. I don’t want a President who is looking out for the world first, then the US. I want a President who puts the interests of the United States FIRST.
If the world wants BO, they can have him. And his little possum too.
That’s all you can ever counter with — it’s gettin’ mighty old — what does Obama have — a rock star speech in front of an old German war monument (very poor taste to speak in front of that thing by the way) — he spewed more generalities while people ate knackwurst and drank beer — by the way — they were there to watch the rock band, too.
Oh Yeah!! He really completes with her on foreign policy.
Find a new talking point please.
cahill — sausages and beer which were paid for by the Obama Campaign in order to attract a crowd.
OMG- what planet are you from? Excuse me, but I thought Nobama was running for POTUS- not president of the world…and being a “citizen of three different nations” disqualifies him from being our Pres., not that little “details” like that matter to you…
Guess I have always viewed the President of the United States in the wrong light. Have always thought that his first priority should be the United States and then the world not the other way around.
Hey Fu**Face, as a citizen of three nations, ObooHoo doesn’t quality to run as President.
What foreign policy experience? He’s the supreme dumbshit is what he is.
Barf. Gag. No clue u.
How many times are you going to cut and paste this garbage? No one here is gonna buy it. We had a good time this weekend Freedumb. We were takin’ gets about whether he thought Georgia was where Atlanta is. Sorry you missed it. We had sum fun! hahahahahahahahahahha Still have my suspicions ….
Freedom Fighter, I’ve always thought from your nick that you actually are a Palestinian, and if so you might be acting out of patriotism and hope for your people, which we would all applaud. On the other hand, you are not experiencing the same reality we are apparently (which is why I concluded you might not be one of us). For instance, it is NOT a good thing for the presidential candidate to be a citizen of 3 countries. It DISqualifies him. Period. No more argument after that, if he has every other merit, he can’t be president. Thanks for your input.
“Barack Obama …. will bring credibility on the world stage.”
Yes, Barack brings a lot of credibility - to the terrorists - they are the only people who find him very credible.
As a citizen of three different nations Barack Obama understands foreign policy? Obamabots are so bizarre, it’s funny.
There must be a small print clause that states if someone has 10 thousand air miles they qualify for foreign policy jobs. Oh All the airline pilots and host and hostesses (or whatever stewardesses are called thes days- it’s been awhile since I’ve flown)
would surely qualify above Obama’s flying experience.
Hey, I’ve got 300,000+ FF miles.
Can I be Emperor?
In an interview this weekend with George Stephanopoulos, Pelosi continued to evade questions about why she won’t allow a vote on more domestic drilling. She spoke nonsense to the point where even Stephanopoulos got frustrated. At one point, the exchange went like this:
STEPHANOPOULOS: But why not allow votes on all that? When you came in as Speaker you promised in your commitment book “A New Direction for America,” let me show our viewers, you said that “Bills should generally come to the floor under a procedure that allows open, full, fair debate consisting of full amendment process that grants the Minority the right to offer its alternatives.” If they want to offer a drilling proposal, why can’t they have a vote?
PELOSI: They’ll have to use their imagination as to how they can get a vote and then they may get a vote.
I am not a big fan of Pelosi, but I think she was right on this. She has said that the Democrats will not vote on just drilling, but insist on a comprehesive bill. If Republicans want a compromise on drilling then they need to agree to other measures such as support for alternative sources. That’s how bargaining works, folks. Drilling is the leverage that Dems have over Republicans to get them to compromise. They need Republican votes to override Bush’s veto. To give in now not only gives up your bargaining chip, it also puts Democrats in the position of either giving Republicans what they want or defeating the bill and allowing the Republicans to paint them as doing nothing. A compromise such as the one being worked on by the “gang of ten” makes a lot more sense. Let the Republicans vote against that! It will include some increase in offshore drilling but also many other things to improve non-oil solutions.
It’s because she’s on a book tour.
An internationalist ? Give me a break. He doesn’t even have the interests of the 50% of Americans who don’t support him at heart. What planet are you living on?
It’s not in Obama’s best interests to support the down ticket Dems, either, according to a Politico article, 7 Worrisome Signs For Obama. Michigan looks bad, especially in light of the recent jailing of Kwame Fitzpatrick. The voters there know what Obama thinks of Democracy, too. But this next part echoes Eric Cantor recently suggesting the GOP should attack the Democratic brand name, since the Congress Obama is so chummy with has such low approval ratings.
7. Americans may want divided government. Some Democratic operatives think a possible landslide for their party in congressional races could backfire on Obama.
“Fairly or not, folks think he’s pretty liberal and nobody wants a pair of Pelosis running things,” says a New York-based Democratic consultant.
I hope we can find an activist judge to declare the Obama campaign unconstitutional or illegal - you know the preferred method when it can’t be done through the democratic process.
John Edwards Closes Anti-Poverty Center
http://countusout.wordpress.com/
Guess he dosen’t want it to show he was paying Hunter out of the money. So much for the fight on proverty
ABC News “chief investigative correspondent” Brian Ross has been reporting on John Edwards’ adultery, but seven months ago Ross was telling the American people that the story of Edwards’ cheating was a campaign “dirty trick” by sinister and unknown forces.
Wow! Talk about shallow.
ahhh maybe this is why the platform meeting decided to not discuss the amendment with POVERTY CZAR
what a frakker that Breck Boy is, lying frakker
What would you expect from a trial lawyer who is more concerned about his hair and private parts than his ailing wife? Just what we are getting.
With Edwards now admitting the affair, reporters and commentators in the mainstream media are acknowledging that they were deceived and blew it. But why is it that they always seem to miss big scandals involving Democrats? In this context, why haven’t they yet reported on the relationship that Obama had with a Communist Party USA (CPUSA) member by the name of Frank Marshall Davis, a subject of an FBI investigation and several official inquiries into Soviet-sponsored activities in the U.S.? Davis was so deeply involved in the CPUSA that he recruited members for the Moscow-funded and controlled party and had personal connections to other top party members such as Harry Bridges and Paul Robeson.
Right. Great info here.
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaPolitics.htm
here is some info on Marshall for you!
http://obamafact.blogspot.com/2008/06/obamas-communist-roots.html
When this race started, I absolutely hated Hillary. I was wishing for Bambam to cream her. But then I am a conservative who really didn’t care who the nom was. Then came Rev. Wright. Then came Michelle. Then came______(fill in the blanks). For some reason, I actually found myself ADMIRING
When this race started, I absolutely hated Hillary. I was wishing for Bambam to cream her. But then I am a conservative who really didn’t care who the nom was. Then came Rev. Wright. Then came Michelle. Then came______(fill in the blanks). For some reason, I actually found myself ADMIRING Hillary. Imagine my shock. As time went on, I found myself ROOTING for Hillary. Yes, it is a strange world indeed. So for the Bambam Club Followers, what this article says is true. Hell, even Hannity has displayed admiration for Hillary. That says a lot for your boy, now doesn’t it…
I have heard this from Republicans I know as well. Thank you for commenting, it is good to hear first hand, it is happening, like a groundswell for MAC to keep Obummer out (and Hillary earned respect by fighting the good fight I think)
pcbedamned –
Thank you so much for your comment.
This brings up another point, for me, about the obama pretzel-bots.
When republicans support bambi, it’s “cuz he’s such a magnanimous, bi-partisan, reaching-across-the-aisle kinda hero.”
When republicans support Hillary, it’s “cuz she such a phony, cold, calculating b*tch, trying to destroy the democratic party, doing ‘anything to win’ and hurting our poor, abused-but-wonderful barry in the process.”
It’s like I’ve always said - it matters not to the bots what bambi says or does - it’s all about the “fact” that he just “is.” The bots will twist themselves into pretzels to defend the indefensible, worm the unwormable and attack Hillary for doing the EXACT same thing as “The One” (undoubtedly because he copied her - again).
By “bots” I mean the mean orange kids, the congressional dems, the DNC, the entire American media, and barky’s own personal gang of thugs.
The John Edwards affair is a chilling reminder that Democratic cover-ups can succeed, with the help of the media, and that even the most sophisticated “investigative” reporters are prepared to overlook potential Democratic scandals.
Obama, in running for the highest office in the land, seems confident that the media will not blow the whistle on his Marxist associate, Frank Marshall Davis.
Great article…made my day!
Go Hillary
Obama staffers tap barbershops, salons to register voters
By Gregory Lewis | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
August 10, 2008
Barack Obama’s campaign went looking for unregistered black voters in barbershops and beauty salons across the state Saturday, including Broward and Palm Beach counties, in a new outreach effort to African-Americans.
“There are nearly 600,000 eligible but unregistered black voters across the state,” said Bobby Gravitz, an Obama campaign spokesman. “We dropped off posters, registration materials, and we will continue going in barbershops and beauty salons until Oct. 6.”
While the campaign is still organizing its list of barbershops and salons, staff members and volunteers worked shops in Fort Lauderdale, Lauderhill and Lauderdale Lakes in Broward County and Lake Park in Palm Beach County. They plan to target more shops in southern Palm Beach County in the future, Gravitz said.
The Obama canvassers also sought potential voters in Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, St. Petersburg, Sarasota, Tallahassee and Tampa.
The nationwide campaign kicked off last weekend in Atlanta.