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By NoQuarter on August 19, 2008 at 1:34 AM in Barack Obama
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The latest hilarity from the Obutthead apologists trying to explain why McCain Handed Obama his a$$ at the fait forums>
McCains staff had blackberries and was most likely texting the questions to MacDaddy.
Which ofcourse fails to explain the above my paygrade Raspberry let loose by Obama.
laughable.
You know the Obuttheads should just cork it for a while. the more they remind people about the Faith Forum the more people will be reminded just how much more presidential McCain was.
I ask again, how many latte drinking apologists does it take to screw in an unqualified inadequate candidate.
I was hoping I would see the punchline to that!
Ok, I’ll bite…How many?
Just Obama. He holds it and the world turns around him.
He’s the center of the political universe, it appears to be causing a red shift in the electorate.
Perhaps we’ll be singing Moody Blues from all this on election day….
HA!!!!!! On the one hand, McCain is uncool because he’s a “technical moron” according to these keyboard krackheads, but on the other hand, he can whip out his “Blackberry,” as he sits beside a Secret Service agent or two, and use that bad boy to get a leg up on the questions!
Let’s ignore the fact that McCain has faced these sorts of questions before, the LAST TIME he ran for the Presidency. Let’s ignore the fact that his dinky little audiences in his dinky little town halls have ASKED him these sorts of questions before (as Hillary has been asked, as well).
When you never take questions, but instead pontificate from on high, it sucks when you’re put on the spot like that. When you DO take questions from the
peasantselectorate, you don’t have any trouble, because you’ve solidified your views on these matters and don’t feel a need to apologize.In order to make this whole “question conspiracy” scenario “work,” you have to make McCain as unbranded and inexperienced as Obama is. And that turd doesn’t float.
Obama simply got run OVER by the Straight Talk Express.
The poor Obama cultists…they’re demoralized for good reason. The cognitive dissonance is starting to sink in–yes, he’s PRETTY. He CERTAINLY gives a GREAT SPEECH. But he’s as deep as a coked-up male model. It’s obvious.
Sorry, we aren’t buying.
But Obama’s handlers (I think we need to bring back that descriptive word) think we low information voters can’t remember what McCain said yesterday and don’t understand that if McCain is “low tech” the moderator would be on to the next question before he could figure out the buttons, let alone get the message!
And Obama sure didn’t cheat; unless you count the big words he strung together to keep from giving a coherent answer. My high school speech teacher would be rolling his eyes in despair.
Obama did have that deer in the headlights look again that I’ve noticed when he gets away from a rehearsed venue and can’t cling to his telepromter.
gee the simple truth is mccain has run before for president. he has handled these types of questions for a long time. after all he is a republican. he didn’t need to do what obama’s campaign is claiming, though i can assure you that is exactly what they would do. i have always believed you can’t see something in someone else unless you have some of that in you.
The suggestion was put out last night on Fox (get over it–what are you going to watch, MSNBC?) that McCain should forget about a telepromptered acceptance speech, and just walk out into the convention hall and have a give-and-take with the delegates.
What a fabulous way to upstage The Messiah delivering the Sermon on the Mount at Ivesco Field. If he’s going to play to his (only) strength, why shouldn’t McCain pay to his?
Although Backtrack is going to have lots of time on his hands after November, I don’t think we need to worry about his being a competitor on the next Dancing with the Stars.
by appropriation:
dean holds BO in his arms while donna and nancy r turning the chair around
but this one does not fit really the christian iconography of mary holding jesus in her arms
at the same time works in the new spirit of CHANGE
I just need to say this to any OBama supporters
who may be lurking.
Your guy lost because he sucks
GET OVER IT!
Not so nice when it’s aimed at you is it.
Now wipe away your tiny tears and SUCK IT UP.
BOWL big time in November!
LOL,
http://glendalenewspress.com/articles/2008/08/19/politics/gnp-delegate19.txt
Read about the Clinton delegate who will vote for her at the Convention!!!! Stay strong delegates, the tide is turning!
Ed Rendell just announced tat he will cast his vote for Hillary
I’ve been rickrolled by Obama! He can’t dance as good as the black bartender in the Rick Astley video, though.
he can’t dance as well has Ellen either, she has better moves. cool video clips…the most I’ve come to a smile on my face seeing his ugly mug. actually, its that great voice of the singer my smile was responding to.
What is this video about ? I can’t bring myself to watch it and therefore try to read what he says, he’s a little easier to stomach that way. (did I mention a LITTLE?)
Okay, never mind. I braced myself, took a good stiff drink and watched it. All I can say is I admire the person who made this video. Imagine how much footage of Barry he/she had to watch to edit and produce this. I couldn’t have done it in a million years!
Awwww, that’s just the white part dancin’
I don’t know how I can bear watching the convention. I’m soooooo tired of this guy. He’s really got a short shelf life.
Love how Rick Warren came out tonight supporting the integrity of the logistics of his program…wonder what the loonys will come up with tomorrow?
Maybe Barry Soetoro should be demonstrating the hula — yes in Hawaii there is a masculine version of the hula. But he didn’t hang out with Native Hawaiians — or he didn’t make those claims in his autobiographies.
He can’t dance. I couldn’t get past the first few seconds.
Well, judging from his freestyle dancing, Barry couldn’t do the masculine version of the hula. Michelle, on the other hand…
Why would anybody do that to poor Rick Astley?
Apparently, it’s the “fashion” on the “internets” these days.
For example, you tell some horny teen that this link goes to a video of, oh, a topless Britney Spears, or some other rare and impossible-to-see footage (say, the most recent episode of “Family Guy”) and they eagerly click on it, only to be treated to the 1980’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” video.
And then, they chortle “Yew got Rick-Rolled!!!!”
It’s just a childish fad of the day. In ten years no one will see the context…like a pet rock, or Twiggy, or something.
or like obama…
Rick Warren himself talking about the silly claims from Obama camp that Mccain cheated:
http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=3036142&referralPlaylistId=playlist
Obama has no shame claiming that Mccain cheated…
they are basically admitting that Obama bombed…
Obama bombed because of his pathetic answers… nothing to do with mccain…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
I don’t believe Obama himself suggested or implied in any way that McCain cheated. Some Obama supporters raised that issue. That’s certainly no worse than the characterizations a few McCain supporters have made about Obama.
Nor did Obama bomb. The audience at Saddleback certainly didn’t seem to think so. Obama got plenty of applause, and it wasn’t just for the sake of politeness. Pastor Warren didn’t think he bombed, either. His comments on both Larry King and FOX this evening were entirely complementary. (In spite of that fascist moron Hannity’s efforts to trick him into to saying something negative.) I doubt if Pastor Warren will take kindly to any efforts to distort his comments by skillfully using bits of them out of context.
Of course Reverend Warren was complimentary. Otherwise he might be deemed a racist.
The questions were easy ones about how you feel as a person, what your views are. Why would you need to cheat.
Do we really want a president who’s only major accomplishment is the ability to read well.
Well of course not, ziggy, they are supposed to save that distortion stuff for Senators Clinton and McCain.
Obama, like Bush, can’t be expected to take that kind of criticism about their intellectually brilliant nonsensical answers! Only low information, democracy-believers would expect to actually understand what was said. The way those anti-Obama voters act you would think this election was not about Obama but them! What will they expect next? An honest election where their votes count?
Pastor Warren was very diplomatic and respectful with his Monday morning quarterbacking of the forum. But if you listen to the end of the Hannity clip where he talks about character and it’s character that counts when the unexpected happens (Russians invasions, a natural disaster similar to Katrina), the viewer is given a clear answer as to who Pastor Warren is voting for. In a crisis, being able to understand and explain both rationales of an issue and how people reach their conclusions doesn’t cut it, it’s clear, decisive, immediate action.
I’m impressed with how Senator Obama can look at both sides of an issue. The only problem is, when he’s done giving the lecture, I’m still left wondering where he falls between the opposing views. Is he leaning this way or that way? With Senator McCain, he comes down on the opposite end of the spectrum quite often from me but at least I know if he’s elected, there will be no national health care program, same sex marriage, protection of a woman’s right to choose, etc. set forth by the federal government. With Senator Obama, based on his history of when it’s time to put his words into action, his action often doesn’t mesh with what I was led to believe he stood for.
Senator Obama would be an excellent professor teaching modern political issues at a top university. Senator McCain wouldn’t be. I can see why the youth is so enthralled with him, they can place their ideals on him, never realizing that in reality, Senator Obama is as likely to follow through giving birth to those ideals as Superman is.
Neither senator is going to take this country towards my idealistic preference. However, one senator I trust to put the interest of the nation as a whole first, not his self-interest. I disagree with him on many issues, but those aren’t issues that will make or break this nation. When clear, decisive action is needed in a crisis to resolve it, he won’t be locked in an internal debate contrasting all the variables before reaching the decision of how to act or whether to act at all. Whether the action chosen proves historically to be right or wrong, the U.S. needs a leader in the current climate (economically, internationally, security, etc.) who isn’t afraid to act. Not a leader who is in an Ivory Tower, has yet to decide where he’s going to fall on the side of an issue and tests out popular opinion first before making a move. Stubborn or financially challenged people who made the decision not to remove themselves from the path of a hurricane need immediate action, not a leader who waits to see if the latest ABC, Gallop, CNN and Rasmussen polls indicate they should be rescued.
Amen brother!
That was one of the most well spoken, thoughtful posts I’ve seen, You totally summed up what a lot of us are feeling.
Sorry, just saw the name, Amen Sister if Monet is a woman
Liz, it’s sister. But if it will help me win the electoral votes, I’m open to sex change surgery.
(Senator Obama may not have won me over, but osmosis through media inundation, I’m learning to emulate him).
Fantastic Post!
It concerns me that by voting against Obama, a McCain term will reinforce a status quo that the religious right determines who is worthy of civil rights in this nation and not the Constitution. More conservative justices on the Supreme Court who I believe are as as likely to legislate from the bench as moderate or liberal justices is another concern. Health care is going to reach a crisis point that will be as devastating as the oil crisis has been to our economy if something isn’t done about it now. Giving tax credits isn’t going to aid the people who live from paycheck to paycheck or the unemployed the ability to afford health insurance.
Those are major issues for me. Nothing Senator Obama has said or done leads me to think he’s going to do anything different than a McCain administration or put forth a policy or program that Senator McCain refuses to consider that will be effective.
Without a Democrat candidate that has the experience to make policy decisions and lead, I’ll risk the issues at the top of my list for a leader.
First of all, Sean hannity rocks! He has been the only news guy with the exception of Bill O’Reilly, who spoke in DEFENSE of our gal Hillary (sorry Obot you got lost, this is a PUMA blog, and we ain’t selling footwear) Secondly, Rick warren is a Gentleman with integrity, Not a trash talking, Kool Aid sippin’ lachey for Obama, when he says nice things about Barry all the rest of us know it’s cuz Rick’s mama RAISED him (unlike BO’s) and taught him if you can’t say something nice about somebody, don’t say anything at all…I guess you and the other Obamites never heard that adage before, because if you did The Huffington Post and The Daily Kos would be blank screens.
HaHa!!
I am glad I do not have to defend the indefensible.
Nobama~~
obama bombed. his campaign thinks so or they wouldn’t be trying to make excuses for him. warren isn’t going to diss obama in public, fool.
Putting emotions in Pampers mouth using the song and dozens of clips….STILL doesn’t do it because there’s no empathy on the inside…
PUMA
O. is tanking in the polls, & if he selects Hillary for VP and continues to go down maybe with a scandal or three, and she replaces him….Will we have a letdown, will the scene get less dramatic?…will this madness continue?
Whatdo you nodollarsusa think?
Sure he is.
RealClearPolitics consolidates all of the major national and state polls daily on a single website.
Obama is now running ahead of McCain in nearly all of them.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/
Enough already with polls, one side or the other.
The polls aren’t showing a damn thing except that this is and always has been a highly contested and narrowly close contest.
Here is the near flat-line of them all:
http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/08-us-pres-ge-mvo.php
Note - neither of them get above 50%.
They might each get a bounce for their VP picks, but that too is just a side-show and doesn’t mean a damn thing come November 4th.
November 3rd can change the entire ball game instantly.
~”Note - neither of them get above 50%.”~
Looks like it’s shaping up to be another primary-type “victory”. Who ever steals the most and steals it best gets the “spoils”?
A Pyrrhic Victory?
If Barry Soetoro is the Dem nominee after the convention, McCain will be well over 50% after the landslide of pent up information starts coming out. The only way for McCain to win is if Soetoro runs against him.
BTW: What is Barry Soetoro’s middle name ?
Nobama!!
Laying aside the fact that the polls are heavily weighted for Obama…I think lots of people are lying to the pollsters–saying they’ll vote for Obama when they won’t–so as to avoid having their tires slashed.
Obama’s thuggish tactics have not won the heart of the nation. The AOL online poll shows McCain scoring in the 60s, Obama in the 30s–and this with Obamites knocking themselves out trying to boost Obama’s scores! It’s just pathetic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRJHTP7gNY0
The right would have us believe we should hold corporations free and individuals accountable; the left would have us believe we should hold individuals free and corporations accountable. Either option views freedom and security as adversaries rather than as allies. Each alternative, alike, misleads us into believing that we are just embodied souls that need to escape the curses of a world made evil; they just differ in the directions they take in order to execute their means of escape.
Both approaches, unfortunately address us, as the electorate, as objects of force – be it a push or a pull – rather than as agents of our own destiny. Faith is much bigger that that. It believes that we should neither be pushed into blindly obeying conventions of the past; nor should we be pulled willy-nilly into any movement without some assurances as to our future.
Our Faith says individuals and corporations alike should be free to be accountable and accountable to be free. Sure there are ways in which we, as a people, need to address our responsibilities to uphold one another’s liberty. The reasons why we do so have less to do with being embodied souls and more to do with being ensouled bodies. The reasons why we do so should have less to do with escaping that curses of world that’s evil and more to do with participating in the blessings of a world worth saving
Happy with those numbers? Post Eurotrip? Spending all the freaking money in the world? Press in his side pocket? Happy with where he is? hahahahahahahahahaha
It really is funny when you remember all that, Barry Soetoro is toast. By the middle of September, most Americans will know Rezko and Ayers well. I am also sure GD Wright will get another 15 mins . The silver lining in this American Tragedy is getting to watch Barry Soetoro and his cult go down in flames .
Nobama!!
http://www.politico.com/convention/swingstate.html
Except that Politico’s electoral poll map gives McCain the lead in EVs right now.
And if you go to the RCP EV map and eliminate the tossup states, nationally it’s a tossup.
Ziggy, you dork, most of the polls fall within the margin of error. So do you, by the way.
ziggy, go take some meds.
All I actually see from the polls is that they’re so close they don’t predict much of anything. When somebody asserts Obama is tanking in the polls, however, I feel compelled to look at them. When I do, I see Obama in the lead across the board.
Obviously Obama’s “lead” is mostly within the statistical margin of error. It’s certainly not a McCain lead, though. Obama is in no sense “tanking”.
The suggestion that the national polls have been swayed by the menace of a brainwashed army of Obamabot tire-slashers is an amusingly paranoid thought. No doubt Camp Obama participants are all given box cutters on graduation day. Probably they decided on box cutters in honor of the 9/11 terrorists.
It’s possible I might not be the one who needs to have his medication levels checked.
By the way, FOX News focused on the Obama/Rezko relationship in considerable detail during their extended backgound piece on Barack Obama yesterday evening. They also took a close look at Obama’s long-term relationship with Rev. Wright and his church. Surprisingly their examination was factual. I doubt if Sean Hannity approved of the content. If he’s not on this evening, it will probably be because his head exploded.
i like your thinking about getting obama out of the way, but the so called dem leaders aren’t going to let that happen.
There’s a split-screen YouTube with Rick on one side.
Early morning sexist, ageist, racist humorous thought in my pre-coffee barely awake dream state:
The three candidates are a S’MORES.
Mac is a Jet Puffed marshmallow, ob is the Milk Chocolate, and Clinton is the two Honey Maid graham crackers. Apply heat and only one stands firm.
It’s no longer just about Hillary
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/no-longer-about-just-hillary/
Exactly
Jake Tapper at Political Punch is reporting that the McCain campaign is calling around to state GOP officials and asking about the possibility of a pro-choice VP, which would most likely mean Ridge. If he picks Tom Ridge, it will be a brilliant move. Ridge was a very popular governor of Pennsylvania, and it will likely (I’d say 60-40) win McCain PA. The Dems already have lost KY and WV, and OH is back to a tossup. This is going to be a close finish (unless the Dems come to their senses and nominate Hillary — which won’t happen).
McCain already is winning over alot of Clinton supporters. Select a pro choice VP and goodnight Obama. This is one of the Bot talking points that McCain isn’t pro choice. Actually I think he doesn’t personally believe in abortion but said it is a state issue. That is what Hillary said about gay marriage as well. People like that know how to govern, stay true to their own beliefs wo pushing them on to everyone else. I believe it would be an extremely smart move by McCain as well.
you know jimmy carter said years ago that he was personally against abortion but said the law is the law. i always thought that was a good answer for someone who has personal beliefs.
I’m not sure if that tactic would work or backfire. A pro-choice VP might be attractive to Clinton democrats, but it might also might kick the box out from under his already shakey support on the far right.
Both presumptive nominees seem to be working hard to blur the distinction between them on hot-button, litmus test issues. Hard to say how that’s going to work out.
Obama dances like a white woman and punches like my little sister.
PS -
Rick Astley is more qualified to be President than Barky Obammy.
Obots should like the one Rick Astley song “never gonna give you up”….
Personally I like Rick Astley, used to go the bar and dance the night away to his music.
WOnder if obassole knows ellen degeneres is gay?… (a gay woman who should be ashamed of herself for shilling to him!).
Dang! LOL! Rick Astley was the geekiest dude in the 80’s and it’s only appropriate that Barry is singing this tune. Nicely done.
I don’t even have to be running for President to talk on the questions.Obama still never did say what was ask of him.He instead turned it to I,I,UM,LOOK I SEE THIS AND THAT.WHAT A FOOL NASTY UNGLY GUY OBAMA IS
ABOVE HIS PAY GRADE,WHAT A LOSER OBABA IS!
And he sits there look I don’t want to call people a liar.they are lying.Well Obama we have your records now,ALL OF THEM..JUST LIKE THE BUSH-DICK0CHENGY BILL.LOL WHAT A LIE.YOU VOTED FOR IT.FISA YOU VOTED FOR IT.GUNS YOU VOTED FOR IT.
PASS VOTEING RESCORDS AND NOW.AND MORE THEN YOU KNOW IS FOUND.Ok Denver here we come.
Barack Obama had a mini Bob Dole moment after the Saddleback presidential forum the other night. Asked on the Christian Broadcasting Network about a controversy over his opposition to legislation in Illinois protecting infants born alive after surviving abortions, an irked Obama replied, “I hate to say that people are lying, but here’s a situation where folks are lying.”
Obama’s line recalled Dole’s plaint on national TV after the first George Bush beat him in New Hampshire in 1988, “Tell him to stop lying about my record.” Dole’s outburst would live in infamy as evidence of his distemper. Obama’s problem isn’t his temperament, but the unsustainable exertions necessary to attempt to square his reasonable-sounding rhetoric on abortion with the extremism of his record.
Asked by Pastor Rick Warren when a baby gets rights, Obama said, “I’m absolutely convinced that there is a moral and ethical element to this issue.” This is a crashing banality couched as thoughtfulness. If Obama is so sensitive to the moral element of the issue, why does he want to eliminate any existing restrictions on the procedure?
In 2007, Obama told the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that the Freedom of Choice Act would be the first piece of legislation that he would sign as president. The act would not only codify Roe v. Wade, but wipe out all current federal, state and local restrictions on abortion that pass muster under Roe, including the Hyde Amendment prohibiting federal funding of abortion. This is not the legislative priority of a man keenly attuned to the moral implications of abortion.
At Saddleback, Obama said determining when a baby gets rights is “above his pay grade.” Leave aside that presidents usually have an opinion about who deserves legal rights. If Obama is willing to permit any abortions in any circumstances, he’d better possess an absolute certainty about the absolute moral nullity of the fetus.
He told Warren that he favors “limits on late-term abortions, if there is an exception for the mother’s health.” But the exception he wants is so broad it makes the restriction meaningless. Obama opposed the partial-birth bill that passed the House and the Senate, 281-142 and 64-34 respectively, and has criticized the Supreme Court for upholding the law.
It’s not just partial-birth abortion where Obama is outside the mainstream, but on the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act — the occasion for his televised accusation of lying.
In 2000, Congress took up legislation to make it clear that infants born alive after abortions are persons under the law. The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League opposed the bill as an assault on Roe, but it passed the House 380-15. Back in the Illinois state Senate in 2001, Obama spoke out against and voted “present” — effectively “no” — on a similar bill, aligning himself with the tiny pro-abortion rump of 15 congressmen.
In 2002, Congress considered the legislation again, this time adding a “neutrality clause” specifying that it didn’t affect Roe one way or another. The bill passed without any dissenting votes in the House or the Senate and was signed into law. In 2003 in Illinois, Obama still opposed a state version of the law. He long claimed that he voted against it because it didn’t have the same “neutrality clause” as the federal version. But the National Right to Life Committee has unearthed documents showing that the Illinois bill was amended to include such a clause, and Obama voted to kill it anyway.
Confronted about this on CBN, he said the pro-life group was lying. But his campaign has now admitted that he had the legislative history wrong. Obama either didn’t know his own record, or was so accustomed to shrouding it in dishonesty that it had become second nature.
Here’s one of the central dilemmas of Obama’s candidacy. Nothing in his career supports his contention that he’s a post-partisan healer. So, as someone as splenetic as Bob Dole might put it, he’s forced to lie about his record.