By Larry JohnsoncloseAuthor: Larry JohnsonName: Larry Johnson Email: larry_johnson@earthlink.net Site:http://NoQuarterUSA.net About: Larry C. Johnson is CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering. Mr. Johnson works with US military commands in scripting terrorism exercises, briefs on terrorist trends, and conducts undercover investigations on counterfeiting, smuggling and money laundering.
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From 1989 until October 1993, Larry Johnson served as a Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He managed crisis response operations for terrorist incidents throughout the world and he helped organize and direct the US Government’s debriefing of US citizens held in Kuwait and Iraq, which provided vital intelligence on Iraqi operations following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Mr. Johnson also participated in the investigation of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103. Under Mr. Johnson’s leadership the U.S. airlines and pilots agreed to match the US Government’s two million-dollar reward.
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Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He taught at The American University’s School of International Service (1979-1983) while working on a Ph.D. in political science. He has a M.S. degree in Community Development from the University of Missouri (1978), where he also received his B.S. degree in Sociology, graduating Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1976.See Authors Posts (871) on August 23, 2008 at 1:45 AM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Joe Biden, Michelle Obama
Bud White’s excellent piece on the Republican 527 ad now hitting the airwaves showing only part of Barack Obama’s relationship with unrepentant American terrorist, Bill Ayers, has the Obama campaign worried. First, here is the ad:
Second, the Obama campaign has sent this letter begging stations not to run this ad. Here’s the letter:
Obama’s folks are in a snit that their Golden Child is being associated with terrorism. Well, too damn bad. It is true. Barack was in bed with Bill Ayers for at least 13 years.
Up to this point Barack’s team has avoided scrutiny on this issue because the media is too damn lazy to do simple investigation. Barack has tried to pretend that Ayers was just some guy from the neighborhood. Bollocks!! Ayers hired Barack to run a multi-million dollar foundation for him.
This ain’t swift boating. This ad is true and Barack has to offer a credible explanation of why he climbed into bed with Ayers. It may have made sense in the milieu of Chicago politics, but this dog won’t hunt in a national election. In fact, this dog will continue to bite Barack’s derrière for the duration of the campaign.
I asked a friend who knows someone who has seen the video to Michelle Obama making disparaging remarks about “white” folks. You know, those angry God hugging, gun toting mouth breathers. He wrote me the following:
But there is a very strange air about Republican operatives. In the last three weeks, I’ve talked to real insiders in VA, GA, AL and here. They all remind me of a unit waiting to cross the line of departure on an attack. Quiet, determined, last cigarette, last “can of peaches out of the ration,” radio checks, confident. They all use the term “safely nominated” when referring to Obama. That is weird.
They can’t wait to start taking Barack apart on the issues the media chose to ignore up to this point. And when the attacks intensify Joe Biden’s foreign policy expertise won’t matter one whit.
Speaking of Ohio (where I am), I find it more than a little strange that Barky & Co. talk about winning Virginia and Colorado and seem to pay little, if any, attention to Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The mood here is not Obama-leaning. I know several Dem Party operatives and they offer quiet resignation when discussing him. The vibe is that they are covering their own butts to get elected and trying to get the electorate to look away from who is at the top of the ticket.
I add PA & MI because I travel there and they seem to be in a more anti-BO mood than Ohio.
I live in Colorado. Obama will not win here. The cauccuses were not representative of Coloradans. If we had not hahd a blizzard keeping rural Coloradans from attending caucusses Obama would not have won. We were not experienced with caucusses and didn’t have any idea how to run one. In November, we will have all day to get to the polls, and we can vote by absentee ballot. It will not be lambing season and it won’t matter if it storms like it did in March.
Hi to you from a Colorado native. The Colorado I came from was too smart to be taken in by Barry Soetoro, glad to see that some still hold out for values.
I have to question the timeing and the intent of the mayor listed in the article below.
Colo. city official cancels Al-Jazeera barbecue
AP
GOLDEN, Colo. -The city manager of Golden, Colo., has decided to withdraw his invitation to let the Al-Jazeera news network broadcast from a barbecue in his backyard on the final night of the Democratic National Convention.
City manager Mike Bestor has apologized for any divisiveness he caused in the city of about 18,000, about 15 miles west of Denver.
Bestor made his decision after a City Council meeting Thursday at which residents complained the event with the English-language service of the Middle East news network would be disrespectful to veterans and active U.S. soldiers.
Al-Jazeera is based in Qatar and is funded by the royal family of the Persian Gulf nation. The network says its English service reaches at least 100 million households worldwide.
Oh, these guys are masters. I saw this clip at hillaryis44 yesterday afternoon and was thinking it would end up in an ad and it has. Princess O is toast. Can you say Bush-Cheney again? {well, Bush-Cheney lite because these two cannot accomplish anything bad (or good) as well as the terrible duo did for the last 8 years.}
I love this ad and these comments! I am beginning to relax. America is over. Right wingers spewing out lies to win when they just have to continue to steal elections!
McCain POW McCain POW McCain POW McCain POW and so on…
It is fun to rant though and have other people to share your views so I did enjoy reading a couple pages of this response regarding the ad.
Be afraid and weak citizens! Only McCain POW McCain POW can save you from the terrorists!
Keep shopping, let other people die on your behalf, Americans must be SAFE above all else from the scary people that live somewhere else.
Anyway, this site is terrific, the nation is lost to the least willing to examine facts and consider issues as if it were not their team in a sporting event. It is over, we’re bankrupt, we’re hated, and let us have more war!!!
McCain POW McCain POW McCain POW McCain POW
If Obama truly has nothing to fear, then he should instruct the University of Illinois to release all of the Ayers-Annenberg papers to the public immediately. Until then, we will believe that a connection exists between a domestic terrorist and a predidential hopeful, one that hopefully will do him in.
I live in PA, and I’ll tell you right now that there is an excellent chance for McCain to win here. Many people are not fond of Obama here, as his 6-week bus tour around the state showed. It did almost nothing to help him in the primaries and actually hurt him in a number of locales.
That’s why Obama is going to give out street money in November in PA. They know they are in for a real struggle here.
I’m actually reading comments from ‘bots this morning claiming that Biden will save PA for Obama because he’s originally from Scranton! How do these people get up in the morning and get their shoelaces tied?
Biden made the Dunkin Donuts comment to an Indian supporter, too. That was the sprinkles on top. Hey, welcome to America, Hadji, the land of milk and sugar in my fucking coffee, thanks.
now he’s Mr Hopey Changey Samey (or little black samey). the Lionel & Archie Bunker ticket. at least he won’t be siphoning off Hillary voters by putting her on the ticket. I was hoping the suspense would go on a few more weeks so those VP wanna be’s would be tortured by reporters blocking their driveways. they deserve it.
I notice that the NYT doesn’t mention the year Biden began his service in the senate. I think I know why. Where was Joe Biden in 1973? On Capitol Hill. Where was John McCain? In the Hanoi Hilton.
When these Republican operatives start tearing BO’s candidacy apart, I will be there watching - for Dean, Pelosi, Brazile, Kerry, Kennedy and all the rest of them who went out of their ignoring reason and logic to crown forever bs-ing Mr. BS.
B.O.W.L.* Big Time in November (08) *Barack Obama Will Lose
Let’s not forget Mr. Jeff Gannon/Guckert…What’s Biden’s connection to the infamous miltary porn stud/faux WH Journalist? Hmmmmmmm…
Did they cross paths on the commute from DC to Delaware? Did Biden know about his back tax problem? What about Gannon’s Delaware “Bedrock
Corporation?”
Why did “Jimmy/Jeff” make this intriguing comment about Biden on his blog? Did “Jimmy/Jeff” know Blevins, Biden’s campaign staffer who was indicted for stealing Campaign Funds from him? So many questions that need answers! What’s a Democrat to do?
Here’s a clip of what Gannon/Guckert said on his blog…
“I watched a clip of Sen. Joe Biden on Bill Maher’s HBO crapfest. wonder why he didn’t mention meeting me some years ago. C’mon Joe,
think..”
WTF does THAT mean? I remember Biden “recoiling” after that comment was made. Shut him the hell up. Completely. Now THAT’S news!
Off topic: So much for Hopey/Change, eh? A NEW kind of politics? Give me a fucking break. You can’t get much more “establishment” and “good old boy’s club” than Joe Biden. I mean, REALLY…
Does anyone else remember this little not-so-subtle TAUNT by Gannon/Guckert?
I was curious, but later forgot about it and moved on.
Now I’m wondering if Biden is just a big head fake.
Obama thinks this “suspense” is helpful, but it isn’t–it’s just making him look childish, like someone who is DELIBERATELY trying to own the Sunday news cycle and all the talk shows.
I hope they give it two minutes and move on to other shit, myself. It would serve him right for being so transparently manipulative.
maybe Biden is a plant to bring Olyingcheata down??? I am kind of surprised he is the pick! Or maybe he’s the pick as a childish slam to Hillary since she and Biden are friends? I’m just glad it’s not Hillary!
I find it amazing, too, that the guy took TWO PAGES to whine about what could be whined about on a SINGLE page!
The whiney characteristic of the letter–”He’s being MEAN to me!” and the nitpicking of the rules (it would be interesting to hear the other side’s interpretation of the same rules) do not cause anyone to rise to Obama’s defense. He looks like a crying quasher, here.
Don’t complain about who put the ad out, Barack–tell us, specifically, which parts are NOT TRUE.
What’s the matter Clinton Fan? You don’t find whining like a candy-ass a desirable trait for a POTUS? LOL “Waaah! Your being mean to me. I am telling MEchelle on you!”
YES! Michelle choose the VP. No women concurrence. I bet and I won, because I told my husband who will be the next VP.I was sure would be Biden. You know why? after Larry Siclair arrest in Denver. Biden’s son is the attorney general in Denver,(something like this).Who promised to silence Larry? the ” Judge” in Denver.You are free to have your conclision.
Well, the article says the Obama deplored Ayer’s activities in the 1960s. I guess he deplored them so much that he went to work for the guy and then launched his political career from Ayer’s house.
Just kiddng. YOu have to say something worse than that. hell I’ll even let you call me sugar tit’s and I wont’ call you sexist either. Just don’t all me stupid.
When Biden had that 1987 plagiarism scandal, some Republican, I forget which, commented– in 1900, “or as Joe Biden would say, four score and seven years ago…”
This first Ayers ad has got to be an opening ante. There is something about that relationship, perhaps something involving the Annenberg Challenge, that Obama is very afraid of. It’s got to be something that is just below the surface, in the Annenberg Challenge papers that Ayers apparently put a lock on, that they don’t want found. Everyone knows that the AC was essentially a failure, a huge project with gradiose objectives that wasted a great deal of money and in the end achieved very little. Obama was the Chairman, so in his only previous executive management outing he failed. But what is hidden are the details of where that money was actually spent, or perhaps a proposal that Obama and Ayers jointly backed that the board didn’t approve because it was too far off of the reservation for even the mainstream left. Whatever it is, Obama and Co. desperately don’t want it found before the election. Why?
Regardless of what is beneath the surface, BO thought it was so horrible, he withheld the material information that, Ayers hired him to head the Annenberg Challenge; or even that he had that job. That’s how I knew there was a there, there. Given the paucity of relevant experience on his resume, I assumed he must have kept this experience off the page because it would torpedo his candidacy. Now, I expect to see an ad with all these flip-flops about the true extent of his relationships to these people. (For example, Ayers was just a fellow in my neighborhood vs. he hired me to head the Annenberg Challenge; and Rezko was just a client of the firm for whom I did ~5 hours of work vs. Michelle and I visited him at his vacation home and he helped me to buy a million dollar home.)
Comment by karen for Clinton
| 2008-08-23 04:26:23
“Ayers was just a fellow in my neighborhood vs. he hired me to head the Annenberg Challenge; and Rezko was just a client of the firm for whom I did ~5 hours of work vs. Michelle and I visited him at his vacation home and he helped me to buy a million dollar home.”
yep. etc. etc. etc.
ob/bi - the dems had already shot themselves in the foot, now they’ve put a nick in their jugular.
Biden - change nobody can believe in. Biden said ob is the first AA candidate that is articulate bright and clean. And the obots call US racists?
ha ha ha ha ha ha. Biden. ha ha ha. At least between them both this site is secured continued material to explore and a humorous gaffe festival.
I really don’t know what to say. I am feeling really down after this announcement just broke. I think I kept secretly hoping that he would pick Hillary. I think I must have really wanted this to happen, otherwise I wouldn’t be feeling so crappy right now.
I like Joe Biden, but this is not about him. It’s that Hillary was just as qualified as anyone, if not more so. It’s that Obama kept saying she would be on anyone’s short list. It’s that his campaign never even vetted her. It’s that Hillary got screwed one more time. If there was ever a faint hope that I would vote for the democrats this year, it’s gone. withoutparty.com
The whole DNC needs to be fired — the only way to do this is for a massive loss in November.
Hillary should NOT be anywhere near Obama — he is going down (and hopefully going to jail).
Then in 2012 — Hillary will rise out of the ashes.
Unless McCain gets real smart and asks Hillary to be his VP. However — that might eliminate her from running in 2012.
I was greatly relieved with that creep Biden was the VP pick.
Biden who is in the pocket of the credit card industry– just as Obama/soetoro is being funded by Wall Street and other financial hard hitters. Biden in his own way is dirty.
And if we scratch the surface Biden is probably another sexist pig — just like Soetoro.
I was really hoping Hillary would be on the ticket myself. It seemed like the strongest combination. For all we know, though, Hillary might not have wanted the spot. And this VP outcome might be better for Hillary and the party in the long run.
As long as she supports the Obama campaign this time around, another run at the presidency remains a distinct likelihood. She’ll be in the clear for 2012 if Obama crashes; if Obama is elected, she’s an obvious candidate for an important cabinet slot that further empower her and position her for another run at the White House.
Comment by karen for Clinton
| 2008-08-23 04:47:34
First of all he will not be president and will not have a cabinet and - she wouldn’t want it anyway.
Second - I am THRILLED and doing the HAPPY DANCE that it is Biden and NOT Hillary.
I love Hillary, she is a great senator to NY and that is where she will continue to make a difference for each and every NY’er till 2012…
For her to have anything to do with ob’s crash and burn would ruin her reputation that she has guarded for her entire life. She will exit this year unscathed by his demise.
To watch them crash and burn from a safe distance is Hillary’s best option, provided the SD’s do not awaken from their one year toxic slumber and say “I could have had a V8!” and NOMINATE her.
That expresses my sentiments. I have no respect for Biden anyway. He was tied with Kucinich and just above Gravel IMHO in our original choices for Dem nominees.
The rumor mill has it that she turned him down three times, the first time at that secret meeting at Diane Feinstein’s house. She reportedly said something like, “You’re going down and I’m not going with you.”
But 2012? God, I don’t know if I can wait that long without losing my marbles. I sat through eight years already. UGH. No. I’m still going to hold on to the “hope” that the Super D’s will come to their senses.
I am totally relieved she is not on the ticket with that liar. She would never have been able to BE the leader that she is, as barky’s ego couldn’t handle it.
Barky and the DEMs will crash and burn. HRC will rise from the ashes of this dung heap and bring sanity back to America in 2012.
ARE YOU NUTS? I’m happy is not Hillary the VP. She won the first place,why she would accept the second? It’s a metter of self respect. Let Obama go down by himself. She deserve better for what she was working so hard and pass all the humiliations by Obama camp.,starting day-by-day a new fight in what she was believing,the fairness and US, the people, from whom she was fighting.
I bet Hillary is relieved he didn’t ask her, she couldn’t have refused. She would have gone down with him and the rest. Now she is free; oh, she’ll support him in her own way, but with the necessary distance. And we are free to NOT vote for OBS. I have hoped for this, I am relieved.
Comment by karen for Clinton
| 2008-08-23 04:51:52
Who says she couldn’t have refused?
Of course she could have. She can do anything she wants. Did you hear the music she chose for her final speech when she announced her suspension?
It was “who says you can’t go HOME” - she took her ball (and her 18 million voters) and left the stage for all intents and purposes. She honored her commitment to shill for him now and then, she paid her dues and then some.
Yes, but will she support him enough? Will she mention his name MORE than 10 times in a speech (see nyt on Fri)? It’s gonna be HER FAULT that BO loses!
She got down on her knees and said “THANK YOU GOD”
The last thing she needed was to be picked to be vice president and carry that load.
Let them sink on their own.
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS,THOSE PEOPLE AND HILLARY’S HARRIDANS RULE
Obama is also whining to the Obamabots, stirring them up yet again to threaten the stations airing the ad. He’s sending out this email:
” Yesterday, a right-wing smear group launched a full-fledged attack against Barack, pulling in every baseless lie and re-hashed false assertion in their playbook.
Not only that — it turns out the ad may be illegal. Campaign finance experts are weighing in about violations of election law. And the ad is so ridiculous that CNN and even Fox News have both refused to run it.
This is exactly the kind of politics Barack is running to change.
Unfortunately, some TV stations in Michigan are running the ad right now.
Contact stations in Michigan and tell them this kind of garbage shouldn’t be run on the public’s airwaves — no matter how much money they are getting to run it.
John McCain claims he had nothing to do with this attack, but a former McCain consultant leads the so-called ‘third-party’ group behind these lies.
The primary funder of the ads, Harrold Simmons, is one of the main culprits behind the Swift Boating of John Kerry and a top bundler for John McCain. The spokesman for the group also has ties to the Kerry Swift Boat attacks.
The McCain camp and the Swift Boaters must be truly desperate to change the subject from John McCain’s shocking disconnect with the economic struggles of the American people.
Take action right now to make sure this trash doesn’t pollute another election:
Use the link to send letters of support for the stations bravery in standing up to the intimidation by The O and his cult to silence free speech and dissent.
Not only that — it turns out the ad may be illegal. Campaign finance experts are weighing in about violations of election law. And the ad is so ridiculous that CNN and even Fox News have both refused to run it.
They are always vague about their claims…
What laws are broken here?
What is ridiculous about it about the ad? What is not true? Prove how it is a lie, just don’t say it is. Unless you can not prove it and can only whine and name call as your only defense.
Move On already came out and said they will harass all 527’s and just tie them up with frivolous suits. There are likely no laws being broken, or you would have to be pretty creative to make a case, it’s just meant to be tiresome.
All it will take is a few more of these ads and McCain will have a 10 point+ lead in no time. If Obama ran an ad asking/questioning if we knew enough about John McCain, it wouldn’t be effective, and not just because we’ve known all about the personality and bio of McCain already (for, well, forever now) it’s because of the fundamental differences between Democrats and Republicans.
Please forgive the broad generalizations I am about to make; the veins of which the argument comes is valid..it is late and I am certain I probably won’t articulate this well enough.
OH is tipping towards McCain; the Republicans are within 3 in PA. If they overtake Obama there, it’s over.
With the link above disabled for some reason, here is another link to the Ayers/Obama ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXXr9oLd9S4
This ad is getting plenty of hits on YTube. Besides your upload it is getting viewed on many others, one of them around 50,000 hits.
Some of the other anti-ob ads have a quarter million hits.
The word is slowly getting out and that snowball just started its roll downhill to hell.
Biden on barky and McCain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDVUPqoowf8
Speaking of Ohio (where I am), I find it more than a little strange that Barky & Co. talk about winning Virginia and Colorado and seem to pay little, if any, attention to Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The mood here is not Obama-leaning. I know several Dem Party operatives and they offer quiet resignation when discussing him. The vibe is that they are covering their own butts to get elected and trying to get the electorate to look away from who is at the top of the ticket.
I add PA & MI because I travel there and they seem to be in a more anti-BO mood than Ohio.
I live in Colorado. Obama will not win here. The cauccuses were not representative of Coloradans. If we had not hahd a blizzard keeping rural Coloradans from attending caucusses Obama would not have won. We were not experienced with caucusses and didn’t have any idea how to run one. In November, we will have all day to get to the polls, and we can vote by absentee ballot. It will not be lambing season and it won’t matter if it storms like it did in March.
I live in Colorado too. I SO resent having this fraud of a DNC here in my home town.
GO AWAY BOZO! AND TAKE YOUR TERRORIST FRIENDS WITH YOU.
me three! With the exception of maybe Denver, Barry is going to have to work really hard to win Colorado. Lots of conservatives here.
Hi to you from a Colorado native. The Colorado I came from was too smart to be taken in by Barry Soetoro, glad to see that some still hold out for values.
I have to question the timeing and the intent of the mayor listed in the article below.
Colo. city official cancels Al-Jazeera barbecue
AP
GOLDEN, Colo. -The city manager of Golden, Colo., has decided to withdraw his invitation to let the Al-Jazeera news network broadcast from a barbecue in his backyard on the final night of the Democratic National Convention.
City manager Mike Bestor has apologized for any divisiveness he caused in the city of about 18,000, about 15 miles west of Denver.
Bestor made his decision after a City Council meeting Thursday at which residents complained the event with the English-language service of the Middle East news network would be disrespectful to veterans and active U.S. soldiers.
Al-Jazeera is based in Qatar and is funded by the royal family of the Persian Gulf nation. The network says its English service reaches at least 100 million households worldwide.
McCain will need to pull significantly ahead in order to win the swing states due to the voter fraud that will/is occurring.
Swanny, you are so right!
He will NOT win Colorado. Count on it.
I’m from Ohio as well and Obama doesn’t have a chance here.
Nope.
Oh, these guys are masters. I saw this clip at hillaryis44 yesterday afternoon and was thinking it would end up in an ad and it has. Princess O is toast. Can you say Bush-Cheney again? {well, Bush-Cheney lite because these two cannot accomplish anything bad (or good) as well as the terrible duo did for the last 8 years.}
I love this ad and these comments! I am beginning to relax. America is over. Right wingers spewing out lies to win when they just have to continue to steal elections!
McCain POW McCain POW McCain POW McCain POW and so on…
It is fun to rant though and have other people to share your views so I did enjoy reading a couple pages of this response regarding the ad.
Be afraid and weak citizens! Only McCain POW McCain POW can save you from the terrorists!
Keep shopping, let other people die on your behalf, Americans must be SAFE above all else from the scary people that live somewhere else.
Anyway, this site is terrific, the nation is lost to the least willing to examine facts and consider issues as if it were not their team in a sporting event. It is over, we’re bankrupt, we’re hated, and let us have more war!!!
McCain POW McCain POW McCain POW McCain POW
Emma,
I just love a coward with her head up her ass…
If Obama truly has nothing to fear, then he should instruct the University of Illinois to release all of the Ayers-Annenberg papers to the public immediately. Until then, we will believe that a connection exists between a domestic terrorist and a predidential hopeful, one that hopefully will do him in.
I live in PA, and I’ll tell you right now that there is an excellent chance for McCain to win here. Many people are not fond of Obama here, as his 6-week bus tour around the state showed. It did almost nothing to help him in the primaries and actually hurt him in a number of locales.
That’s why Obama is going to give out street money in November in PA. They know they are in for a real struggle here.
I’m actually reading comments from ‘bots this morning claiming that Biden will save PA for Obama because he’s originally from Scranton! How do these people get up in the morning and get their shoelaces tied?
He-Man tennies with zippers and velcro
This
veiled threat“letter” , is just MORE obassole campaign CENSORSHIP and media manipulation. And we thought Communism was dead…Obama will get Pa. with Biden as VP. UNLESS something devastating comes out on Obama.
Biden is loved there and frequently referred to as their third Senator.
Outside of Philly there’s not much love for Joe Robinette Biden.
There is this new commercial out about Obama and Rezko:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjC2AlWy6CI
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Yup. Jail is a housing problem.
ha, yep, Rezko has the house he deserves.
ob in the WH? No, no, no GD America won’t do it.
Biden???
LOL!
Obama’s platform entirely on “change” and getting away from same old “washington politics”; Biden is a 5 term senator.
Obama prides himself in being opposed to the war: Biden voted for it.
Obama was accused of plagiarism; so was Biden.
Biden called Obama “articulate” and “clean”. Biden also said you cant walk into a dunkin donuts without an Indian accent.
but the classic: Biden is quoted as saying that Obama is not ready to be President.
Obama’s campaign is like a gift to the GOP with a big red bow.
I can rest easy now.
President McCain…hero, patriot
Biden made the Dunkin Donuts comment to an Indian supporter, too. That was the sprinkles on top. Hey, welcome to America, Hadji, the land of milk and sugar in my fucking coffee, thanks.
now he’s Mr Hopey Changey Samey (or little black samey). the Lionel & Archie Bunker ticket. at least he won’t be siphoning off Hillary voters by putting her on the ticket. I was hoping the suspense would go on a few more weeks so those VP wanna be’s would be tortured by reporters blocking their driveways. they deserve it.
HEY, THAT’S STORYBOOK, MAN! But, apparently not a fairy tale.
I notice that the NYT doesn’t mention the year Biden began his service in the senate. I think I know why. Where was Joe Biden in 1973? On Capitol Hill. Where was John McCain? In the Hanoi Hilton.
When these Republican operatives start tearing BO’s candidacy apart, I will be there watching - for Dean, Pelosi, Brazile, Kerry, Kennedy and all the rest of them who went out of their ignoring reason and logic to crown forever bs-ing Mr. BS.
B.O.W.L.* Big Time in November (08)
*Barack Obama Will Lose
BO’s candidacy …I thought you wrote “candy ass” ..
Hiya Teak!
Let’s not forget Mr. Jeff Gannon/Guckert…What’s Biden’s connection to the infamous miltary porn stud/faux WH Journalist? Hmmmmmmm…
Did they cross paths on the commute from DC to Delaware? Did Biden know about his back tax problem? What about Gannon’s Delaware “Bedrock
Corporation?”
Why did “Jimmy/Jeff” make this intriguing comment about Biden on his blog? Did “Jimmy/Jeff” know Blevins, Biden’s campaign staffer who was indicted for stealing Campaign Funds from him? So many questions that need answers! What’s a Democrat to do?
Here’s a clip of what Gannon/Guckert said on his blog…
“I watched a clip of Sen. Joe Biden on Bill Maher’s HBO crapfest. wonder why he didn’t mention meeting me some years ago. C’mon Joe,
think..”
http://www.jeffgannon.com /
“C’mon Joe, think…”
WTF does THAT mean? I remember Biden “recoiling” after that comment was made. Shut him the hell up. Completely. Now THAT’S news!
Off topic: So much for Hopey/Change, eh? A NEW kind of politics? Give me a fucking break. You can’t get much more “establishment” and “good old boy’s club” than Joe Biden. I mean, REALLY…
Does anyone else remember this little not-so-subtle TAUNT by Gannon/Guckert?
Now that you mention it, I do.
I was curious, but later forgot about it and moved on.
Now I’m wondering if Biden is just a big head fake.
Obama thinks this “suspense” is helpful, but it isn’t–it’s just making him look childish, like someone who is DELIBERATELY trying to own the Sunday news cycle and all the talk shows.
I hope they give it two minutes and move on to other shit, myself. It would serve him right for being so transparently manipulative.
maybe Biden is a plant to bring Olyingcheata down??? I am kind of surprised he is the pick! Or maybe he’s the pick as a childish slam to Hillary since she and Biden are friends? I’m just glad it’s not Hillary!
It’s really annoying, because no matter who he chooses, Obama still sucks. His acting like he’s picking his date for the prom is very childish.
B.O.W.L.I.N.G
Barrack Obama will loose in november…guarenteed
And Bauer writes in that letter “Please reply my colleague…”
Do any of them proof anything before it’s sent out!
Jeebus!!
I find it amazing, too, that the guy took TWO PAGES to whine about what could be whined about on a SINGLE page!
The whiney characteristic of the letter–”He’s being MEAN to me!” and the nitpicking of the rules (it would be interesting to hear the other side’s interpretation of the same rules) do not cause anyone to rise to Obama’s defense. He looks like a crying quasher, here.
Don’t complain about who put the ad out, Barack–tell us, specifically, which parts are NOT TRUE.
What’s the matter Clinton Fan? You don’t find whining like a candy-ass a desirable trait for a POTUS? LOL “Waaah! Your being mean to me. I am telling MEchelle on you!”
We have to admit, BO/BS is the Commander in Chief of whining. He can whine in the morning, in the evening, and all around the world.
YES! Michelle choose the VP. No women concurrence. I bet and I won, because I told my husband who will be the next VP.I was sure would be Biden. You know why? after Larry Siclair arrest in Denver. Biden’s son is the attorney general in Denver,(something like this).Who promised to silence Larry? the ” Judge” in Denver.You are free to have your conclision.
I think his son is AG in Delaware… that is the state that nabbed LS on some charge.
Biden is the tactic admission that Obama lack’s the experience to be President.
University to Release Obama Records
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_records/2008/08/22/124240.html
Well, the article says the Obama deplored Ayer’s activities in the 1960s. I guess he deplored them so much that he went to work for the guy and then launched his political career from Ayer’s house.
I figured it would take longer to destory all references to barky. I guess Daily had a couple of his best guys on it.
They have been scrubbed.
Scrubbed Lilly white.
Oh shit i hope i don’t get called a racist for saying that.
>>> Oh shit i hope i don’t get called a racist for saying that.
No trolls tonight? Do we have to call each other names, just to stay in shapr?
You are racist!!!
Just kiddng. YOu have to say something worse than that. hell I’ll even let you call me sugar tit’s and I wont’ call you sexist either. Just don’t all me stupid.
I’ve always wanted to call someone “Sugar tits.”
Thanks!
And you’re smart, too!
When Biden had that 1987 plagiarism scandal, some Republican, I forget which, commented– in 1900, “or as Joe Biden would say, four score and seven years ago…”
One of the great one liners in campaign history.
OUCH…
I’d love to know who said that. That’s pretty sharp!
I will relish every moment of their attack. I can’t wait to find out the stuff on this guy that NONE of us have even heard about yet.
It will be great after all this VP bull if barky doesn’t get the nomination.
I would laugh laugh laugh.
This first Ayers ad has got to be an opening ante. There is something about that relationship, perhaps something involving the Annenberg Challenge, that Obama is very afraid of. It’s got to be something that is just below the surface, in the Annenberg Challenge papers that Ayers apparently put a lock on, that they don’t want found. Everyone knows that the AC was essentially a failure, a huge project with gradiose objectives that wasted a great deal of money and in the end achieved very little. Obama was the Chairman, so in his only previous executive management outing he failed. But what is hidden are the details of where that money was actually spent, or perhaps a proposal that Obama and Ayers jointly backed that the board didn’t approve because it was too far off of the reservation for even the mainstream left. Whatever it is, Obama and Co. desperately don’t want it found before the election. Why?
Money laundering and bribes would be my guess.
How about incompetence - all that money spent with nothing to show for it.
Incompetence in a thin resume - not exactly POTUS material.
Worked for Shrubbie, didn’t it?
Obama makes bush look economical.
I love when Barky’s supporters retort, “But Bush didn’t have any experience, and we elected him!”
Hey kinda like barkys primary campaign in PA.
Steve Diamond indicated that he was only able to get info from Brown University, Not much in Chicago.
Cooked books.
Regardless of what is beneath the surface, BO thought it was so horrible, he withheld the material information that, Ayers hired him to head the Annenberg Challenge; or even that he had that job. That’s how I knew there was a there, there. Given the paucity of relevant experience on his resume, I assumed he must have kept this experience off the page because it would torpedo his candidacy. Now, I expect to see an ad with all these flip-flops about the true extent of his relationships to these people. (For example, Ayers was just a fellow in my neighborhood vs. he hired me to head the Annenberg Challenge; and Rezko was just a client of the firm for whom I did ~5 hours of work vs. Michelle and I visited him at his vacation home and he helped me to buy a million dollar home.)
“Ayers was just a fellow in my neighborhood vs. he hired me to head the Annenberg Challenge; and Rezko was just a client of the firm for whom I did ~5 hours of work vs. Michelle and I visited him at his vacation home and he helped me to buy a million dollar home.”
yep. etc. etc. etc.
ob/bi - the dems had already shot themselves in the foot, now they’ve put a nick in their jugular.
Biden - change nobody can believe in. Biden said ob is the first AA candidate that is articulate bright and clean. And the obots call US racists?
ha ha ha ha ha ha. Biden. ha ha ha. At least between them both this site is secured continued material to explore and a humorous gaffe festival.
Obama may or may not be successful in stopping the ad from running but i just posted this ad on my website…
hopefully if everyone spreads this ad online enough americans will get to see it anyway…
http://notetoselfdontdie.com/members/
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
I really don’t know what to say. I am feeling really down after this announcement just broke. I think I kept secretly hoping that he would pick Hillary. I think I must have really wanted this to happen, otherwise I wouldn’t be feeling so crappy right now.
I like Joe Biden, but this is not about him. It’s that Hillary was just as qualified as anyone, if not more so. It’s that Obama kept saying she would be on anyone’s short list. It’s that his campaign never even vetted her. It’s that Hillary got screwed one more time. If there was ever a faint hope that I would vote for the democrats this year, it’s gone. withoutparty.com
The whole DNC needs to be fired — the only way to do this is for a massive loss in November.
Hillary should NOT be anywhere near Obama — he is going down (and hopefully going to jail).
Then in 2012 — Hillary will rise out of the ashes.
Unless McCain gets real smart and asks Hillary to be his VP. However — that might eliminate her from running in 2012.
I was greatly relieved with that creep Biden was the VP pick.
Biden who is in the pocket of the credit card industry– just as Obama/soetoro is being funded by Wall Street and other financial hard hitters. Biden in his own way is dirty.
And if we scratch the surface Biden is probably another sexist pig — just like Soetoro.
I was really hoping Hillary would be on the ticket myself. It seemed like the strongest combination. For all we know, though, Hillary might not have wanted the spot. And this VP outcome might be better for Hillary and the party in the long run.
As long as she supports the Obama campaign this time around, another run at the presidency remains a distinct likelihood. She’ll be in the clear for 2012 if Obama crashes; if Obama is elected, she’s an obvious candidate for an important cabinet slot that further empower her and position her for another run at the White House.
First of all he will not be president and will not have a cabinet and - she wouldn’t want it anyway.
Second - I am THRILLED and doing the HAPPY DANCE that it is Biden and NOT Hillary.
I love Hillary, she is a great senator to NY and that is where she will continue to make a difference for each and every NY’er till 2012…
For her to have anything to do with ob’s crash and burn would ruin her reputation that she has guarded for her entire life. She will exit this year unscathed by his demise.
To watch them crash and burn from a safe distance is Hillary’s best option, provided the SD’s do not awaken from their one year toxic slumber and say “I could have had a V8!” and NOMINATE her.
The DNC is full of flaming idiots.
That expresses my sentiments. I have no respect for Biden anyway. He was tied with Kucinich and just above Gravel IMHO in our original choices for Dem nominees.
Nobama!!
The rumor mill has it that she turned him down three times, the first time at that secret meeting at Diane Feinstein’s house. She reportedly said something like, “You’re going down and I’m not going with you.”
But 2012? God, I don’t know if I can wait that long without losing my marbles. I sat through eight years already. UGH. No. I’m still going to hold on to the “hope” that the Super D’s will come to their senses.
Troll
Hillary on an Obama ticket as the VP?
ARE YOU NUTS!!!!!
You want her to go down in flames along with the Fauxbama?
I thought you guys were Pro-Hillary.
The last thing we want or need is Obama’s dirty political stink on Hillary.
I am totally relieved she is not on the ticket with that liar. She would never have been able to BE the leader that she is, as barky’s ego couldn’t handle it.
Barky and the DEMs will crash and burn. HRC will rise from the ashes of this dung heap and bring sanity back to America in 2012.
ARE YOU NUTS? I’m happy is not Hillary the VP. She won the first place,why she would accept the second? It’s a metter of self respect. Let Obama go down by himself. She deserve better for what she was working so hard and pass all the humiliations by Obama camp.,starting day-by-day a new fight in what she was believing,the fairness and US, the people, from whom she was fighting.
I bet Hillary is relieved he didn’t ask her, she couldn’t have refused. She would have gone down with him and the rest. Now she is free; oh, she’ll support him in her own way, but with the necessary distance. And we are free to NOT vote for OBS. I have hoped for this, I am relieved.
Who says she couldn’t have refused?
Of course she could have. She can do anything she wants. Did you hear the music she chose for her final speech when she announced her suspension?
It was “who says you can’t go HOME” - she took her ball (and her 18 million voters) and left the stage for all intents and purposes. She honored her commitment to shill for him now and then, she paid her dues and then some.
Thankfully Bill (the NON-racist) didn’t have to.
ob/bi - now ain’t that a laugh. Change/Same ‘08.
Yes, but will she support him enough? Will she mention his name MORE than 10 times in a speech (see nyt on Fri)? It’s gonna be HER FAULT that BO loses!
She got down on her knees and said “THANK YOU GOD”
The last thing she needed was to be picked to be vice president and carry that load.
Let them sink on their own.
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS,THOSE PEOPLE AND HILLARY’S HARRIDANS RULE
She got down on her knees and said “THANK YOU GOD”
It would have been the death of Hillary’s political career if she had been the VP pick, so don’t feel too bad!
Remember, Obama needs her help, she doesn’t need Obama for nothing, unless she is looking for losing or corruption in her resume.
Oh! Hell, it’s the Xerox’s twins.
Obama is also whining to the Obamabots, stirring them up yet again to threaten the stations airing the ad. He’s sending out this email:
” Yesterday, a right-wing smear group launched a full-fledged attack against Barack, pulling in every baseless lie and re-hashed false assertion in their playbook.
Not only that — it turns out the ad may be illegal. Campaign finance experts are weighing in about violations of election law. And the ad is so ridiculous that CNN and even Fox News have both refused to run it.
This is exactly the kind of politics Barack is running to change.
Unfortunately, some TV stations in Michigan are running the ad right now.
Contact stations in Michigan and tell them this kind of garbage shouldn’t be run on the public’s airwaves — no matter how much money they are getting to run it.
John McCain claims he had nothing to do with this attack, but a former McCain consultant leads the so-called ‘third-party’ group behind these lies.
The primary funder of the ads, Harrold Simmons, is one of the main culprits behind the Swift Boating of John Kerry and a top bundler for John McCain. The spokesman for the group also has ties to the Kerry Swift Boat attacks.
The McCain camp and the Swift Boaters must be truly desperate to change the subject from John McCain’s shocking disconnect with the economic struggles of the American people.
Take action right now to make sure this trash doesn’t pollute another election:
http://mi.barackobama.com/offtheairMI
Keep fighting the good fight,
Obama Action Wire”
Obama excels and whining and threatening. His foreign policy will make Bush’s foreign policy worthy of a Nobel Prize or two.
My Beloved Hitler Youth!!! Now is the time for you to RIZE RIZE!!!
Use the link to send letters of support for the stations bravery in standing up to the intimidation by The O and his cult to silence free speech and dissent.
Nobama!!
They are always vague about their claims…
What laws are broken here?
What is ridiculous about it about the ad? What is not true? Prove how it is a lie, just don’t say it is. Unless you can not prove it and can only whine and name call as your only defense.
Obama, the squelcher of free speech.
Move On already came out and said they will harass all 527’s and just tie them up with frivolous suits. There are likely no laws being broken, or you would have to be pretty creative to make a case, it’s just meant to be tiresome.
“safely nominated” = mission accomplished
All it will take is a few more of these ads and McCain will have a 10 point+ lead in no time. If Obama ran an ad asking/questioning if we knew enough about John McCain, it wouldn’t be effective, and not just because we’ve known all about the personality and bio of McCain already (for, well, forever now) it’s because of the fundamental differences between Democrats and Republicans.
Please forgive the broad generalizations I am about to make; the veins of which the argument comes is valid..it is late and I am certain I probably won’t articulate this well enough.
Republicans tend to base decisions