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Where Does Obama Really Stand on Pay Equity?

fdrjim — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:23:16 +0000

What He Wants Us To Believe

Barack Obama has made recent claims indicating pay equity for women would be a top priority if he were elected President. Sounds great. In fact, it might compel some to seriously consider his candidacy.

Don’t be fooled. What we’ve seen of Mr. Obama is a candidacy based on opportunism. Whenever convenient, he will use his prose to proclaim lofty ideals, ideals that many want so badly to believe in, ideals so many want to become realities.

Mr. Obama is all talk. How do we really know if his lofty ideals will translate into actual policy? We certainly can not point to his legislative accomplishments. There are too few. He may have been present but what the hell does that mean - nothing in the context of policy.

Anyone can advocate anything. A true leader turns advocacy into bona-fide action. We’ve not seen this from Mr. Obama. We have seen, unfortunately, reversals and inconsistencies. (more…)

Two at a Time: Saving the Dems and GOP with One Vote

iam0nly1 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:35:45 +0000

The Far Left Wing forces of the Democratic Party have raided our wagons, are taking the reins and are attempting to leave without us. However, we Pumas are encircling the wagons, determined to prevent the theft of our Party, our principles and above all, Democracy.

Like many of you, I have clung to hope, a sense of righteousness, principle and a somewhat naïve belief in cosmic justice throughout this entire primary season. After the Iowa caucus, I remained an optimist, believing Hillary would prevail. I believed it even more after Super Tuesday, and still more after March 4^th. I felt confident that if she and we did what we had to do, win Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Puerto Rico, South Dakota to boot, and win the popular vote, that reason would reign. Even through the deafening calls for her to prematurely leave the race, I still believed. Why? Somehow, I had gotten through more than two decades of my life with the privilege of believing that the right thing always happens, that somehow the universe will right itself when it seems to be headed down the wrong path: a by-product of growing up in the 90’s, and not having the first hand knowledge of tragic assassinations and unjust wars the members of Hillary’s generation endured.

I am still clinging to this belief, this hope, that ultimately Hillary Rodham Clinton will be nominated as the Democratic Presidential Candidate for 2008.

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The Worm in the Chameleon Suit

PaganPower — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:10:53 +0000

I’m a little confused. And it’s starting to bother me. Just when I think I am beginning to understand who Obama is the guy just up and changes. As easy as putting on a new pair of socks. But forgetting that your feet still stink. So I’ve been wondering if it is possible that Obama stands for anything at all. Or if he wasn’t kidding about all that change stuff. Maybe that is why the rest of us need hope so bad. Because we sure as hell can’t count on him to show any backbone. But worms are like that.

I mean you gotta figure that a politician will change from time to time. Especially when they talk about working across the aisle. The art of compromise requires a little give and take. And call me silly, but I actually think that people willing to evolve their perspectives are the kind of folks we need in politics. If someone is incapable of learning and growing then they sure as hell don’t need their hands around the reigns of power.

But that doesn’t appear to be what is happening with Barky Obama. No, I think he has a bad case of the I have no core values syndrome. AKA I will be whatever people want me to be as long as it allows me to gain power over them. And what gets me is that he has the audacity to call this a new kind of politics. It’s such a shame that a Harvard graduate wouldn’t know that slimeball I’ll pretend to be on your side politics has been around for ages. Hardly a new phenomenon.

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Quibbles and Bits 6/30

LisaB — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:00:59 +0000

If anyone has seen the movie Becket, Peter O’Toole, as Henry II, screams at a ragged group of mean looking men, “Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?” The king was making a political request. “Do in the bishop without me actually having to ask for it, OK?” Someone does; the king pays a rather nominal political price for seeking the bishop’s death and life goes on.

Except for the bishop, of course.

This tradition of doing in a “troublesome” friend, enemy or frienemy continues with particular transparency in the Obama campaign’s “creative” use of surrogates and those-who-cannot-be-named-surrogates.

1) On June 30th, ABC News blogs that an Obama “informal advisor” (I suppose the better to disassociate from after a nasty bit of work is done) Rand Beers said that Senator McCain doesn’t really have the chops to be a war-time leader because during Vietnam, he was A POW AND DIDN’T REALLY KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON.
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Spray Paint. Middle of the Night. Business Cards. Let’s Profile.

Uppity Woman — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:00:18 +0000

It seems that 60 24 cars were vandalized in the middle of the night in Orlando, with “political” remarks spray painted on three of them. And the spray painters even left business card-sized notes behind that said terrible things about Barky Obama and John McCain on one side, and said nice things about Hillary Clinton on the other side.

The Reaction: Those horrible Clinton people! Note the comment that the remarks were “racist” even though the article says nothing of the sort. That’s not typical or anything is it?

Ok let’s recap here. Actual grown adults went out in the middle of the night. Then they spray painted cars and wrote things like “Obama smokes crack” on the cars. They left other messages such as:

“Legalize Marijuana/Stop Building Prisons”

“Ladies I’m Single Some Girl Step Up”

“How About Them Gators.”

Now we all know that legalizing marijuana and discussing Them Gators is a top priority of Hillary’s supporters. Not. (more…)

Red Dirt Talk - Part 2, the Positions (1)

CRAIG DELLA PENNA — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:55:54 +0000

Note: All text in blue is taken directly from the candidates’ websites.

Foreign Policy

Obama

Ending the War in Iraq
Iran
Renewing American Diplomacy
Nuclear Weapons
Building a 21st Century Military
Bipartisanship and Openness

Foreign policy is not BHO’s strong suit. He has trouble remembering how many states there are in the US, not to speak of confusing Arabs, with Iranians with Afghans (they all look alike, don’t they?). He’s developed the novel idea of sitting down around a big table and sorting out this mess with all those Arab folks. I’m sure that’ll work. Apparently, even the Libyan President-for-Life Muammar Gadafy gets it: “The statements of our Kenyan brother of American nationality Obama on Jerusalem … show that he either ignores international politics and did not study the Middle East conflict or that it is a campaign lie.” and he goes on to say: “We fear that Obama will feel that, because he is black with an inferiority complex, this will make him behave worse than the whites … This will be a tragedy.”

You know you’re in trouble when even the people who should be happy to take advantage of him feel that he’s a disaster-in-waiting. (more…)

Bill Ayers would be so proud

PaganPower — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:30:34 +0000

The so far left that they forgot what is right wing of the Democratic party has taken a new tact. They have decided that they don’t really have a problem with swiftboating after all. Just as long as the shoe is on the other foot. And Republicans are the ones wearing it. Starting this week they are coming out in droves to paint John McCain, a decorated war hero, as a traitor and a war criminal. And gosh wouldn’t you know it, some people even posted their drivel on Barack Obama’s website.

Here’s a screenshot of one of my favorites. Change you can believe in type stuff if you ask me. Strictly new politics. No doubt about it.

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Red Dirt Talk - Part 1, the Setup

CRAIG DELLA PENNA — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:30:51 +0000

So it looks like Hillary and Bill, kinda, are going to be good Democrats and try to lead the Unity Donkey down the garden path. A lot of folks will sigh “Oh well, we tried.” and trudge back into line because they been told (and so they believe) that Obama is the lesser of two evils, that a McCain presidency would be such a catastrophic event that it is simply unthinkable… some of us won’t buy that for any price. We’re hearing hysterical wailings about the dreadfulness of McCain and blue sky predictions about the coming Obamatopia. Not so fast…

Most of the time, in business, in life and in politics, people throw around “blue sky” predictions. A lot of us do it for the sake of optimism, salesmen and politicians do it for a living. This is not a bad thing, per se, and we learn to counter the ‘blue sky’ talk with a healthy dose of skepticism: “Oh, come on,” we’ll say, “don’t tell me that Mustang GT was only driven on Sundays by a little old lady who never went over twenty miles per hour – I just don’t believe you.” It tends to work out and if it doesn’t, well, experience is a very fine teacher.

Sometimes, however, in life and business… and in politics, we need to get down from the blue sky to what I call the “Red Dirt Talk”. What are the numbers? Who’s on the hook? Who gets what and when do they get it? And the bedrock question: What’s it going to cost me?

I think we’ve reached a Red Dirt Talk point now – there can be as many Red Dirt Talk points as needed –we need to sit down, stare at the wall and really think about where we are, how we got here and what we really want to do next. It’s important, critical in fact, because history will be changed by what we do in the next several months – even if we do nothing at all, the world will change, just a bit, go there when it might have gone here… and a different future unfolds.

Let’s review the facts, then look at the options and see if we can form a plan. (more…)

He who sleeps with dogs….

PaganPower — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:00:32 +0000

I used to like Ed Rendell. He seemed like the straight up kind of guy that you could count on to tell it like it is. But no more. Seems Eddie boy has been sippin on the Cult-Aide. And now he wants all of us PUMAs to recognize the error of our ways and join him and the HOUNDs in defeating John McCain.

He starts with a ridiculous premise. And it goes downhill from there.
But here, have a look.

HOUND’S CREDO

We believe Sen. Clinton supporters should vote for Sen. Obama because, as Hillary herself said so forcefully and poignantly in her great speech a few Saturdays ago, the best way to achieve the changes she has fought so hard to bring to America, and on which she based her campaign, is to support Sen. Obama, whose policies are almost identical to hers.

Well Ed, if that were true then none of us would have supported Hillary to begin with. I mean come on, does it even make sense to say that the best way to achieve the changes Hillary championed is to vote for someone that didn’t champion those issues? Does it even enter that apparently tiny little mind of yours to consider that we supported and still support Hillary BECAUSE Obama does not champion the issues we feel so strongly about?
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NPR’s Scott Simon on Obama’s Exploitation of the Race Card

SusanUnPC — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:35:47 +0000

Eloquent, elegant, and eminently fair — to John McCain who, Simons makes very clear, has NOT attacked or in any way insinuated Obama’s race. Instead, as we know here, it is Barack Obama who has played the race card.

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