Anderson Cooper: ” Is the tide turning?”
By NoQuarter on August 19, 2008 at 12:35 PM in Veepstakes
From Anderson Cooper’s blog at CNN:
Obama must select a running mate who gives a lift to his campaign and can also hammer home a message in the convention and in the vice presidential debate this fall. He definitely needs a fighter by his side. (For my money, Hillary Clinton looks better and better; if not her, Joe Biden is probably the best fighter — perhaps Evan Bayh, or a surprise choice.)
It is also critical for Obama’s people to realize that Hillary Clinton is FIVE YEARS YOUNGER than Joe Biden.
Joe Biden would be 73 before he could run for president, provided by some miracle Barack Obama gets elected twice.
What I fear for both Clinton and Biden is that they would be shut out by Obama’s staff. Their expertise would gather dust.
And that is solely because Barack Obama does not have the WISDOM to SEEK their advice, I fear.
I see. So, when Obama is reported to have an extensive staff of foreign policy advisors, that’s because he’s ignorant and needs all the help and that’s a weakness. But you also fear that Clinton and Biden’s “expertise would gather dust” because Obama lacks the wisdom to seek their advise.
Whatever.
… with 300 advisors on Foreign Policy, didn’t BO get the history on Bosnia wrong?
Just sayin’ is all.
Keep Chicago Politics out of the Whitehosue!!!
300 advisors and he still stunk at Saddleback.
Face it. Obama is a loser no matter how many people he surrounds himself with.
Personally, I think Clinton should decline and not be associated with such a non-entity.
Amen and amen.
Why on earth does anyone need 300 advisers? Doesn’t that just muddy the waters?
I used to be married to an economist who said that, if you put 7 economists in a room, you’ll get 7 diffrent answers to what’s going on with the economy! There IS such a thing as too much information and with this many opinions, the poor boy will still make the wrong decisions. He just doesn’t have what it takes!
he has 300 advisors,because he is just plain STUPID! Remember he got into college by working the system,which he seems to be very good at.
God Please help the USA! Keep Nobama the horses ass out of the White House!
Unless there is a miracle at the Dem convention and Hillary takes the nomination I am voting for John McCain.He is by far the better choice. He is experienced and he has our country’s best interest at heart!
He likes to have every side and angle covered. That’s why it takes him 286 words to say maybe.
Yup….
Which was the exact same probelm Kerry had.
How does the DNC select these fools?
you are paying his 300 advisors too. I would bet not all of them are his real advisors but rather buddies he is throwing money at at the expensive of tax payers.
Have you ever seen the movie “300?” Will Obama be outflanked by the secrets of his past? Will the movie be in IMAX?
Harry Truman said he was looking for a one-armed economist so that he wouldn’t have to hear, in conversation with him, “On the other hand…”
Just like Dubya. Doesn’t know anything and doesn’t have the sense to get advice. He has to be the big ball of wax. And isn’t he just?
Ear wax, maybe…
Here here! The last thing America needs is to be is infected and poisoned by the corruption of Chicago politics.
Hillary needs to stay far far away from this stinking, festering, pile of fraud puss that is OBambi.
If Hillary attaches herself to Barry Soetoro it will not go well for her ultimately. I believe that he is so unqualified that even with her name attached to his, he will still lose.
Please, Please Hillary, we beseech you not to align yourself any further with this lying, cheating,opportunistic user, and first class ignoramus! It is time for you to stand on your own two feet. Your name and no one else’s should be on the top of the ticket. YOU are the one we have been waiting for!!!
Hillary in ‘08, if not then McCain it will be.
Country before Party, always!
amen and amen
Big difference when one sees the expertise of some to help guide in his efforts to win, vs seeking the help and experience-goddess forbidden given them credit, for work in HIS administration.
No matter who advises him, Obama can be trusted to make the wrong decision.
Silly. Obama can be trusted to make NO decision. He will dither and equivocate just like Governor Gray Davis in California before he got tossed out by Schwarzenegger in a solid recall.
He doesn’t play well with others. He only promises to.
Very, very wise statement.
It’s the hallmark trait of a very spoiled only child. And yes, he’s an only. He didn’t have to live with his sister and he was 10 years older.
If his foreign policy advisors are so wonderful, lets elect one of them as president. Lets face it, how often do you hire a manager because of his or her ability to delegate authority and responsibility? Sorry but I would rather someone with experience. It does not work in corporate America, it should not work in the White House. I’m very tired of that argument.
biden = cheney now. who would have thought of a bad idea like this? yeah, the obama campaign.
I am reminded of an old Persian proverb: “He who knows that he knows not is a child, teach him. He who knows not that he knows not is a fool; shun him. He who knows that he knows is wise; follow him.” Obama has abundantly demonstrated which group he belongs to: the middle group.
“whatever” sounds like the cry of a teenager…
Guess your in the hip “yes we Can” zone!!
WHATEVER!
Uh, Felizarte, I think we read the same books. Oshareo, yo!
sfhillary,
no, it’s because the men pushing obama’s candidacy — Soros and Brezinski, in particular — have supported obama for the sole purpose of stopping Hillary from getting the nomination, not because they believe in his “hope/change message”. Only the most gullible of people would believe that such an incompetent candidate could ever get such support without an ulterior motive being the impetus.
They knew they could control an inept, neophyte like obama, whereas, a super smart, experienced, savvy candidate like Hillary would obviously be better prepared to handle the job and, therefore, would not be at their beck and call, nor trusted to do their bidding, in order to survive the overwhelming pressures of the job.
obama is merely a puppet for a few power elite who want to use the power of the presidency to advance their agenda of globalization/corporatization and to end a democracy of, for and by the people, forever.
Why else would the DNC have been so willing to blatantly use every “undemocratic” method possible to install obama as the democratic nominee and unleash the MSM, pundits and backstabbers to do everything they could to destroy her, if she didn’t step aside?
Just follow the money.
You would think people would have learned this with the bush admin. Apparently not. They are now electing another corporate puppet. We are truley a bunch of fools in this country.
K. Wynne,
Yes, I share your take completely. Stupid, corrupt, empty, sexist…the man with no records and no history…Barry will simply be a tool. A step-and-fetch-it for the Oligarchs. Why Soros, Ziggie B., Warren Buffet and, recently, T. Boone Pickens are pushing Barry is because they want to privatize America. From natural resources to social security to the US infrastructure…ad nauseam…they will profit. It’s all about profit and power and the looting of our shared patrimony. Not to mention global wars.
I am disgusted. Our Democracy is on the brink of extinction. Our press is not free. The DNC has been bought and our votes, stolen. This nightmare we are experiencing is an American Fascist coup!
It must be stopped. If Hillary is screwed, I can only vote for McCain. The lying, lying, down low, low down Barry Soetoro belongs in jail. I will also work to expose Barry’s vicious enablers…the whole rotten, DNC leadership crew. Especially, the wicked pixie hiding behind the torn, rayon curtain…Rahm Emanuel! People forget that he controls Pelosi. Growl.
Retribution and payback is a bitch!
PUMA POWER!
catdancer,
Check out Nancy Pelosi’s hiring of George Soro’s right hand man, Joseph Onek:
http://www.freedomszone.com/archives/2007/02/nancy_pelosis_hiring_of_george.php
The democratic party leaders are a bunch of crooks, who sold out the American people.
PUMA POWER! right back at ya!
Taken from the Hannity Blog:
Nancy Pelosi says that she is trying to save the planet and prevent global warming, but the reality is that, according to disclosure statements, in May 2007 she invested in T. Boone Picken’s clean energy fuels corp., CLNE, which is the sole sponsor of a proposal in California to funnel $5 billion in state funds and $5 billion in Federal funs to this corporation which will indirectly help them create a giant wind farm in the Texas panhandle.
An overlooked story in November of 2007 shows that the T. Boone Pickens plan involves the private control of water, which Pickens wants to be able to sell to big cities via giant water pipelines which will be built on land seized under eminent domain.
How did he do this? He did this by pushing through a “water district” which consists of only 8 acres of land and then applying eminent domain to expand that district and seize land from local ranchers which, in the end, puts vital water resources under his private control.
The Sierra Club, which you might think has an opinion that means something to Nancy Pelosi who just wants to “save the world”, had this to say, “We have real concerns about private control of water,” said Ken Kramer, director of the Texas Sierra Club. “Water is a resource, yet in some respects it is a commodity. It’s as essential to human life as air. That puts water in a different class.”
Pickens plans to sell 200,000 acre-feet from parched West Texas Staked Plains annually. His plan is opposed by water policy planners as economically infeasible. This extensive extraction will affect natural spring flows and the rural Texas Panhandle communities that depend on that water. It will also adversely affect family farming and sustainable development from Texas to South Dakota, according to opponents.
Pickens needs money and he has not been able to find investors to pay for a $110 Billion Bond he wants his new “water authority” to issue, therefore he is piggy-backing the windmill plan on to the water infrastructure development plan to use the money obtained for the wind farms in order to pay for the water infrastructure, which was his original goal.
While these plans were in the works as of November 2007, with the creation of this “water district”, the energy company, CLNE, was offered for public investment in an IPO in May of 2007, an IPO that was not advertised, but which resulted in Nancy Pelosi quickly jumping on board. Nancy Pelosi Purchased between $50,000-$100,000 in CLNE stock on May 25, 2007 apparently on it’s initial public offering.
It is hard to tell if the water scheme is the device being used to seize the land or if the wind turbine scheme is the means by which he will fund the water scheme, but no matter what the case may be, Nancy Pelosi will personally profit from whatever he does as an investor.
Nancy Pelosi is one of the richest members of Congress with a net worth of over US$25 million, which comes primarily from investments a large portfolio of jointly owned San Francisco Bay Area real estate, and, now, of course, stocks in CLNE.
While the stock was initially offered at $14 and is now valued below that amount, the low of $10 in early July of this year is bouncing back, especially in light of ads by Pickens and growing consensus that the Pickens plan will gain support, especially if Pelosi is firmly behind it.”
sorry for the long post but thought it was important and exposes Pelosi’s refusal to drill.
Another reason Pelosi and Gang may not want to drill … it may not be in the best interest of their friend and financier, the Nazi collaborator George Soros:
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/soros-invests-811m-in-brazilian-oil
Overall, you’d have thought that Industrial Light and Magic, Disney Imagineering or Pixar couold have cranked out a hologram candidate who was less obnoxious and odious than the Mahogany Bhagwan.
You know, like the Ronald Readan Animatron.
Obama (brought to you by the same MSM who brought you the war)
Obama is a puppet, just like GWBush… it was just Dems year to have one.
VERY WELL SAID!
I’ve been tellin folk the same thing from the beginning. Nobody heard me in my African Amer. community, Particularly then. More folk are listening now.
GO MCCAIN! VOTE FOR “MAC” B/C A WRITE-IN OR A ‘SIT-OUT’, GIVES MORE POWER TO A VOTE FOR OBAMA. AS A DEM., DON’T LET YOUR OWN PARTY - THE DNC - GET AWAY W/MANIPULATING YOUR VOTE THAT WAY. WHEN YOUR OWN PARTY DOES THE MANULIPULATING OF IT’S OWN MEMBERS, THEY DON’T DESERVE TO WIN.
This oilman learned well. He’s doing what the oil companies do, control non-renewable resources. As water gets more and more scarce, the price goes up. He gets richer, and we get screwed. Note that he is a highly partisan republican, and what he is trying to get away with is the republican way. Also note pelosi getting on board. She claims she is Democrat. Note also she is pushing obama. What is her motive, do you think? We’re double screwed.
Here’s the “whatever” part.
The truth is,your shitty candidate can’t win on his own chops, because he HAS no chops. He is an empty box and it shows more and more every day. As a media creation with a plastic jesus veneer glued to him, he was never intended to have such a long run, so much exposure of his empty box. His veneer is cracking away and the real nothing that he is has started to reveal itself. A man who hasn’t even got a clue what Putin is up to for starters. So you see, he needs a running mate with some real-life knowledge and actual experience, two things he has none of. However, being a Narcissist, this would only help him win–it will not ensure that he will actually LISTEN.
Furthermore, his 300 advisors consist of some pretty damned dangerous people.
Own your shitty candidate. He’s all yours. Stop dancing around it and trying to detour the fact that he is not only a loser all by himself, but thank GOD he’s a loser, considering how inept he is showing himself to be beyond his chants and teleprompter speeches.
Furthermore, as additional proof that he can’t put two sentences together impromptu, the guy can’t even debate when he’s the only one in the room. He even lost without his opponent there. SO what does he do, yell Waaaaaaaaaaaa, he cheeeaaaaaaateddddddd! This is the same jerk who constantly claims he’s the High Road on the campaign trail. Imagine somebody having the temerity of undercutting the Plastic Jesus!
I can’t wait till they swiftboat his ass right back to Chicago Thug Land.
Uppity Woman,
I love the way you articulate your feelings!
Hope to see you in Denver!
K. I’ll be the first one in the cage.
You and me both!
I second that Uppity! Get you life jacket Nobama your boat is comming in to port to take your dumb ass back to Chicago, or is it kenya, no wait I think it is Indonesia……hmmm your very own world cruise. LOL
Bye Bye Obambi!!!!
Obama hates to share the spotlight; he isn’t called “the one” because he plays well with others.
Maybe Obama doesn’t need advice from anyone - especially old guys.
I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
Yeah. Children! Leave home NOW while you still know EVERYTHING!
Which one of his 300 advisors told him that they speak Arabic in Afghanistan? Or was that a merely a consensus of nimwits?
Are 300 different advisors the reason Obama gave three different versions of his take on the Russian-Georgian conflict?
the 300 advisors is just for show. He doesn’t even listen to them. He is an arrogant prick who thinks he knows it all. It shows big time.
All the kings men could not put humpty dumpty together again.
Soetoro has already lost the election.
Good riddance.
Sen Obama may have all those policy advisors but dont be fooled by the smoke & mirrors.
Ask who his most important foreign policy advisor will be.
I do not see Z Brzenzski (ZB) taking a back seat to anyone.
Does Sen Obama have the wisdom & experience to detect if/when he is being manipulated?
Does he care?
According to the Saul Alinsky school of community organizing- it doesnt matter-as long as he can get these guys in his pocket so that he can do what he came to Washington DC to do…which is…??? Here I am stuck.
Check out my posts on http://www.windycitizen.com/2008/07/ask-a-community-organizer-what-is-community-organizing-anyway
What is Sen Obama’s decision making style?
Does he have a morale compass? Based upon his position on tnhe partial birth abortion ban…I DO NOT THINK SO. Everything for him appears to be about political expediency…
No one knows…WHo will he rely on the most in foreign policy? If I had to guess- it would be ZB.
(Whether Sen Obama realizes it or not)…
http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/1497.html
obama is a puppet. Every decision he makes will come from his handlers (Soros and Brezinski, and the other 300+ advisors).
It’s important to understand that obama CANNOT and WILL NOT go against the powers behind his “throne”. He is their “mouthpiece” and can only say what they want him to say. He expresses no independent thought. Hence the “ahhs and uhhhs” whenever he has to speak independently of a teleprompter or when he’s not “preaching” with platitudes.
Besides, it’s also evidenct that he’s only in this for the glory, which makes him the perfect puppet.
It is too late to turn Obama’s campaign around. He peaked in his own mind months ago and has not gained a single new constitutent. Poll trends show the independents starting to make up their minds and McCain’s advantage is growing. They are not moving to Obama and this was before his disasterous showing on the lastest “debate” with McCain.
The only thing the DNC can do now is save the Dem Party in the future for all the disgruntled Hillary supporters, but they can not save the Obama campaign. It was the Obama campaign that thoroughly turned off so many Hillary supporters and the DNC has blood on its hands on that account.
The only thing the DNC can do is help wash the blood off their hands for later party support. But they can never wash off the stink of the Obama campaign.
Never. Dean and Brazile are the Judas Escariots of the Dem Party. Ditch them along with trainwreck Obama and there may be a breath of fresh air again in this party. The more the jack boot tactics of the “new” Obama supporters come to light, the more this party cries out to rid themselves of this undemocratic menace.
Even after we rid ourselves of the Obamites, the damage from his campaign will linger.
Thanks to the Obama gang, the Democrats have lost much of the African American vote. The smears against the Clintons which helped Obama steal the nomination will lose us millions of voters after Obama gets creamed in November. (Now that they know the whole Clinton thing was bogus, why would they come back?)
The Obamites have also cost the Dems much of the women’s vote. Using the crudest misogyny against your opponent during a primary will tend to do that.
People like myself, who don’t like dirty campaigns and corrupt politicians, have also stopped being Democrats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRJHTP7gNY0
ditto Perry
“woe betide the democrats”
I know, Perry. I agree. I’ve been a lifelong Democrat and voted in all elections since 1964. I’ve worked diligently, phoning, canvassing and sending money to Dems for years. But I’m thinking of becoming an Independent.
I can’t see rewarding the Democratic Party for manipulating the primary to select their favored candidate. I can’t see this guy in office. He’s just like GW Bush, thin-skinned, punitive, arrogant and narcissistic. Hi Chicago thug and corporate connections are scary. IF he wins, he’ll sell all progressives down the river and do as he’s told (that’s one way in which he’ll be just like his hero, Reagan). He’ll also may be so bad as a President that he won’t last more than one term and turn everyone against the Democrats for the next twenty years. If he loses, at least the Democratic leadership who got us into this mess will be chastened and, at best, they’ll be thrown out. They will also know that there is a limit beyond which you can’t browbeat and ignore and bully your voters.
For these reasons, I’m probably voting for McCain.
I’m going in the voting booth this year as a Dem. Voting for McCain and after the election, switching to Indie, Life-long Dem, never voted Repug in 35 years. I refuse be a part of their thuggery after November.
On my way out after voting, I will fill out an exit poll and let them see - Dem crossed Party lines. That’s the best way I can give them the middle finger salute.
Hillary or McCain ‘08!!!
Obama’s people are too naive if they really believe that verbally abused Voters will go back for more abuse unless physical force is used; and there will be those that won’t work on either.
After I watched his little punk display with his cheek scratch and his shoulder brush off, it didn’t matter if he was the most experienced candidate in the world he was too undignified and closed minded, like Bush, to be a senator, let alone president of my country.
Is Obama qualified to be Speaker of the House? A Supreme Court Justice? Majority leader of the Senate? A White House cabinet secretary of anything?
No. No. No.
How the hell did he get so many people to believe he can be President of the United States.
He is not fit to be Alderman of even his racist baiting white-hating church.
Methinks Obama lives in an echo chamber which he thinks is real life. Woe to the electoral college vote count which will serve as his one and only reality dose. Another McGovern, Dukakis trainwreck for the Dems.
How crazy was it to put Dean and Brazile in charge when the Dems wanted and could have won anything they wanted this year? What a stinkpot they created.
I always know who I’m going to vote for. How about what Rick Warren said about if you don’t know who you are going to vote for after seeing that forum…
Well, this shouldn’t be any real surprise, given that 80% of the remnaining undecided voters are middle-class and lower middle-class whites. Who do you think they’re likely to gravitate towards in the election’s closing weeks?
In the case of Obama, it makes no difference who the VP is, you cannot overshadow a useless choice by selecting a second in command.
Focus of every attack come August 29th will be on Obama, every debate will be a failure by Obama and every serious considering voter will realize that Ameica and the world cannot accept the form of change Obama brings to Washington, one of pathological lies and total inexperience in any political arena except for campaigning and eliminating competition by the lowest forms of actions.
The Republicans over-shadowed a useless choice when they picked Cheney to run this country from the back seat. Obama thinks this is a winning argument as he claims he has just as much experience as Bush and Bush got elected twice. How is that for rocket science in action? McCain 2008
Great comment!
I posted it on my blog.
Here’s another one. Please don’t vote for McInane. Saying you will vote for McInane only attracts trolls to spread their winger piece of shit nonsense (sorry, repetition).
Obama lost more Democratic supporters than he ever brought in. Dean and Brazile got mugged by Obama supporters and sold out the party.
Can someone help me understand how Joe Biden is less inside than Hillary Clinton? Or having been LESS successful during the primaries what exactly he brings to 0bama now?
If anyone tries to tell you that it wasn’t about 1) the Clintons and 2) a woman president LAUGH LONG AND HARD IN THEIR faces because they are full of shit!
If anyone tries to tell you that it wasn’t about 1) the Clintons and 2) a woman president LAUGH LONG AND HARD IN THEIR faces because they are full of shit!
Right ON YES You HAVE said it!
My feelings exactly!
You got that right!
It was always about stopping Hillary/The Clintons. Biden brings Foreign Policy to the ticket, but THAT’S IT. The media LOVES him. He also has that small problem of plagiarism though…..but so does BO. What a pair, eh?
How many votes did Joe get in the Primaries? 2? Hillary? She got more than jerk BO. Biden on the ticket won’t change my opinion of BO. I will never vote for him…..period. It’s Hillary or BUST.
Amen. How it galls them to see her refuse to fade away. They need her to win. To have her by his side shows how weak he is. And this is why he needs 300 people to tell him it will all be ok.
Not to mention a chronic case of ‘foot-in-mouth’ disease. With such under-the-microscope scrutiny that a Veep candidate will get, he will only expedite the “O” implosion.
In November, no matter what, who or why, “O” will crumble like a dry cookie. Bet on it.
Democrats, Ebay, block sale of Convention Tickets
Sounds like their intent is to make sure the fake messiah’s fake “acceptance speech” is carefully monitored and only true obamaites get inside-
Is this communist America?
Are American’s going to get their heads out of their asses before it’s too late?
Gotta keep Obama in front of a teleprompter, fake crowds and requisite fainting ladies. Gobama. Celebrity worship is your only strong suit. Play it for all its worth. Play to the crowds who don’t give a shit about America and only want to poke a stick in our eyes.
Wasn’t there only a crowd of 20,000 in Germany? I read that in a German newspaper. Did Obama add a zero tot he number? Just like in Portland. That area does not hold 75,000 people. Maybe half that if you are lucky.
Before the rally started an Obama operative claimed there were 5000 people at a rally I attended. No way.
They may have had 5000 inquries on their website ahead of time but no way were there 5000 people in attendance. Yet the Obama jack-booters were smuggly happy letting that lie lay.
(one more time I try to post this)
Aww Happy Birthday President Clinton!
Here’s a CARB FREE CAKE just for YOU!
As Ren & Stimpey would say, “Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy, Joy”
I tried to add this to the above but it wouldn’t fly
Slainte
or if you prefer
CHEERS!
You are right…it is the Big Dawg B-Day!
Happy Birthday President Clinton!!
Big PUMA Hug for you!
Big Dawgs B’day is in April..He’s an Aries. Am I wrong?
He’s a Leo. Today’s the day! Per centi anni, Signore Presidente
it was posted on the dcmedia girl blog - someone said happy b day President Clinton
I tried to post happy B day over there and it didn’t work with all the links so I cam over here
lmao is it NOT HIS B day? I wasted my time then. Oh well.
Great. Thanks Mandelay
August 19th is President Bill Clinton’s birthday.
Have a good one Mr. President!
Born: August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas
Today is Big Dawg day!
My son’s birthday, too. Go LEOs!!
He’s a Leo and Hillary is a Scorpio. Power couple personified.
Actually, that blog entry was written by DAVID GERGEN, who knows his way around politics, having worked for both Democrats AND Republicans during his long career as a political staffer. When Gergen says THIS, people oughta listen:
And when he says this, it’s almost as though he’s predicting the opposite result:
I wouldn’t hold my breath for any KUMBAYAH “Roaring Success” moments. They’ll be lucky if there isn’t outright revolt. I’m quite sure I’ll still be spitting tacks once this Farce In Denver finishes.
i see “yawn, honey change the channel” for the democrats and their so called convention.
Well that stadium will hold all loyal Hussein Obama worshippers, there won’t be any left at home who care.
Hahaha! that’s right
I’m not even going to put it on. I’ve made plans for next week and they don’t include that ‘dog and pony show’ in Denver.
That didn’t soundlike something Anderson would write.
Gergen looks like he gets on whatever bandwagon is going forward. His face was priceless after Saddleback,”John McCain’s going to be toguher to beat than we thought-duh” How did the Obama camp ever think McCain would be easy to beat?