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Love it, and you're on point. Gotta keep the nose to the ground.
I'm quite weary of these petulant, onoxious, spoiled brat white kids who act like little more than teenage rebels, intent on pissing off their parents. They're so consumed with their personal Hillary drama that they'll allow it to carry them right through another 4 years of war and economic decline.
I say fuck 'em. Let 'em marinade in real life for a minute. Meanwhile, we need to be reachin' out to Latinos, Asians, Native Americans and all manner of Brown Americans who have adult lives to lead, and who have a grip on reality.
And then Our campaign will go all Chicago on those entitled dolts and beat the living daylights out of them.
It was the strategy all along.
I'm a Midwesterner.
I know rope a dope when I see it. And Bid Whist. And Poker. And Backgammon. And Sheepshead.
And Basketball.
And to every Barack supporter who whined about him being a lightweight...
Well....
Fasten your seatbets.
"Though McCain is widely perceived to to drawn first blood by attacking Obama's character, the official said that the difference between Obama's mocking McCain for his wealth and his shaky answer on the number of homes he owns was that McCain's charge "reflects an existential reality," where Obama's charges "attack Cindy. She owns the homes. I thought he said the wives were off-limits."
Oh please! This is such a weak excuse! The McCain camp has been dying to attack Obama on Rezco, Wright and Ayers, but they needed an excuse to go there, so they create this weak crap. I won't even go into the subliminal message that they're trying to put out: The big, bad black guy is picking on the poor, wittle white woman.
However, they left themselves wide open. A Dem 527 could use Cindy owning all those houses as a way to paint McCain as a man who has to depend on his wife for financial means, and/or a man who dumped his physically disabled first wife to hook up with an UNDERAGED heiress.
We need to stay focused.
This of course does not speak to everything in your post by a long shot. Just throwing it out there.
The next rumor they're putting out is Barack is really a Kenyan citizen because his daddy was Kenyan so he's automatically a Kenyan citizen, not an American citizen.
The next rumor is that his legal name is Barry Soetoro and he's a dual Kenyan / Indonesian citizen but not an American one.
The next is that he forged his name over his sister's birth certificate. And they claim that both Bill and Hillary know that Barack is not an American citizen because Bill said that "if he's qualified by the Constitution then he's qualified."
I heard on local radio today some PUMA woman saying that Obama was going to prevent the superdelegates from voting for Hillary at the convention because everyone at the convention knows they really want to vote for Hillary and Obama and the DNC were going to prevent it.
There's no reason for the media to keep giving this group air time. It's like they're the 2008 version of the swift-boaters.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/21...
The PUMA people are stealing plot lines from Buffy the Vampire Slayer! These are not even original rumors. These are all episodes from season 3. I guess they think Hillary is Buffy and Obama is the Mayor of Sunnydale.
Yep, that's it...I knew I'd heard it all before.
Are you being serious or sarcastic?
quote from my 7 yr old nephew on why he likes Barack Obama:
"he knows how to talk to people"
so dose pimps
LOL.
If we dissect that statement with minimal precision, it just simply isn't up to snuff.
She's still stoking.
We see them.
This woman is out of her damned mind if she thinks the contest is still on.
1. I agree that some of the criticism of Obama is over the top coming from various progressive segments. However, some of the support for the Senator has been equally uncritical. I think both sides have ample room to "come to Jesus" on that issue.
2. On a personal note, at this point I'll vote for the brother but I'm going to have to hold my nose to do it. And I was pretty excited when he spoke here in Columbia, SC at the football stadium, appearing here with his wife and Oprah. What happened to that candidate? I want to acknowledge and validate the hope and engagement his candidacy has brought to many people. But, I see Obama beginning to run the same DLC-inspired campaign we got from Gore and Kerry/Edwards. And frankly, I think his dwindling poll numbers reflect this. I HOPE he gets it together.
Can you give examples?
2. His capitulation on the death penalty, that it should be broadened. That is, to the best of my knowledge a change in position. My impression is not that this change of mind is based on some new data or new insight. He's chasing a segment of the voting public that frankly, probably isn't going to vote for him anyway. At the same time, to my knowledge, there has been no major statement about racial inequality in criminal justice. When you're the Senator from Illinois, and the question of the death penalty is raised, no matter how it's phrased, how can you NOT mention what has gone on in that state with its death row inmates?
With those two examples, the thing is I understand the political calculus of playing to the so-called center. I just think these Republican-lite tactics are losing tactics, and have been for a long time.
3. This final example isn't so much about DLC-inspired, as a question of basic political competence. Why does he continue to allow Hillary Clinton to just punk him unmercifully at every opportunity? I'm genuinely confused by this. The Clinton family is going to have more airtime than the Obama family at the convention. He's paying down her debt. After all that, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say, she hasn't exactly campaigned hard on his behalf. She's been civil. That's about it. He has not demanded that SHE "denounce and reject" anyone the way she demanded that he "denounce and reject" Farrakhan.
If this were my brother, cousin, or friend trying to reconcile with a former enemy I'd tell him, you're not being a bridge builder. You just think you are. You don't look magnanimous. You look like a punk.
You won't hear this a lot on j and j but thank you. Sometimes I feel like I'm in twilight zone. My god, even MLK had black critics (like Malcolm X). DeBois criticized (hated) Booker T and Garvey but we still honor the memory of all these men.
Why are the motives of any black person who is not fervent supporter of Obama questioned. No one here can answer that, just like no one can explain that father's day speech.
Black men had been Obama's most ardent supporters up until that time.
Were a significant number of them MIA dads? Who knows? I do know if I had been a black man, I would taken as a gut punch.
This is how he repaid his earliest supporters.
That's not change I want to believe in
Several years ago, when the Dems got spanked in the Congressional races, Don Fowler came to my campus (U of S. Carolina). Fowler, as you may know, is one of the architects of the Clinton/DLC "capture the center" strategy. He's also from right here in Columbia. These are his words below, practically a direct quote:
* Roughly a third of the electorate will vote Democrat, no matter what. Another third will vote Republican. The number may fluctuate a bit from year to year, but I believe this is the way it is. The winner is the party that's more successful in capturing that third of the electorate in the center.*
I almost wept. I thought, "Damn. This is why these people keep losing to vastly inferior candidates." All both these parties really do is sell a "brand," one of the first rules of branding is that you craft your appeal to your heaviest users, your "red meat" base in political parlance. You don't appeal to the casual users, the undecideds. They aren't influencers. They get influenced by others. Nike basketball doesn't craft its appeal to people who don't play basketball (even though they sell most of their shoes to people that don't play). The Republicans don't play to the center. They play to their base, who pulls the center to the right.
Unfortunately, I see Obama taking the Don Fowler assumptions and running that playbook play by play. It's one thing no to go out of your way to antagonize white folks. That's wise. But that's not the same as letting them run you over. Even *they* don't respect that who just kisses their butts. It feels like Obama has denounced damn near every black person he's not married to. I saw an Obama ad here in SC a couple days ago focused on the economy and the mortgage crisis. It had NO black people. Not one. Come on brother! You can do better than that. And WE have to demand that from him--but without engaging in insane fratricidal attacks. I definitely agree with the tenor original post.
He's not a fan of that wing of the Democratic party.
I think of how I wasted my vote on Kerry and Gore, I get mad at myself. They were the "best" candidates. Two men would would keep a Republican out of the White House. I voted for both men because I thought they had the experience and intelligence to lead this country. They had those qualities in spades, what they didn't have was balls. They wouldn't get down dirty and fight for the voters who believed in them.
Now I know not to waste by vote on someone who has the best chance of winning. Do we have the same values. Will he stand down when the Republicans kick him in the balls (and they will. This Fisher Price stuff is going to end after the convention).
You can say a lot of thing about McKinney, but no one will ever say she doesn't call it like she sees. No one will can question her commitment to progressive issues.
"It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arriving partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favor; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had an actual experience of it. Thus it arises that on every opportunity for attacking the reformer, the opponents do so with the zeal of partisans, the others only defend him halfheartedly, so that between them he runs great danger."
http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,164859_...
found over at www.rightwingwatch.org
August 19, 2008
Jerome Corsi, McCain Basher
Current New York Times best-selling author and proven liar Jerome Corsi has been lavished with attention by the likes of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh for his slanderous new book about Barack Obama.
But before Corsi put Obama in his crosshairs, he plied his wares in the GOP presidential primary. Fox and Limbaugh treat Corsi like he’s a legitimate political commentator, so we’ll trust they’ll have Corsi back on to discuss his groundbreaking work on McCain:
Group tied to al-Qaida backs McCain for prez
March 02, 2008
By Jerome R. Corsi
McCain fortune traced to organized crime
February 26, 2008
By Jerome R. Corsi
Influence peddling claims dog McCain
February 15, 2008
By Jerome R. Corsi
John McCain funded by Soros since 2001
February 12, 2008
By Jerome R. Corsi
McCain aide touts 'Mexico first' policy
January 25, 2008
By Jerome R. Corsi
Yes. This.
Thank you.
There's something about this pattern that I never really saw clearly until this election season.
Thank you!!! :>) :>)
Whew! Educational Deep Breaths!!! :>) :>)
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That is the same view of the election, not a different one. Why must we all see it that way, or else be accused of all of these absurd things? I don't understand that.
Seriously, I don't understand this. What is it you would have people not think and not say?
What is it that is so threatening?
It seems to me that it takes a lot of work and mental gymnastics - listening to Limbaugh to drive oneself onto some sport of frenzy of fear, for example, or portraying any and all critical voices as Stalinists or something - in order to keep re-creating this all-or-nothing good versus evil scenario in your mind. And for what? Just to shut out unpleasant or disquieting thoughts?
"You are a bunch of commies and they are no different than fascists" and "you just tear down and don't have a plan" are not rational arguments, they are desperate attempts to discredit people who don't agree with you.
Support Obama. Vote for Obama. Whatever. Many will. Most here will, no doubt. What is the problem? If no critical analysis is to be tolerated, does that itself not suggest that there is something seriously wrong? Can we not talk about that?
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I have a bad feeling about this country and a bad feeling about many of the "enlightened" people and their thought processes. I am thoroughly depressed by this. I can't wait until we overtake the majority in this country, I'll be old but revenge is best served cold.
Some of this circular firing-squad stuff is for reals, but I think we should start taking everything with a grain of salt and start looking into ways to expose the frauds among them.
I thought....Oh shit, he's really going to win this thing!
These pictures are great, thanks again, Evita.
http://www.scouttufankjian.com/main.php