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The one that stood out the most was the photo of Obama smiling while walking over the shake the hands of white men holding up a big sign saying, "Rednecks for Obama" - classic
And also the one of him serving hamburgers to the locals...the smiles on their faces...-just classic
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ROLL CALL on ARROGANT: pretentious, overbearingly assuming, insolently proud, presumptuous, haughty, imperious, brazen, superiority, "chesty as a peacock", "species of pride", lordliness, conceit, insolent, disdain, lofty, overweening, high-and-mighty, and---, "drum roll, please" ----SUPERCILIOUS!!
So when we read, see and/or hear ANY of these words/terms, we will know that, in reference to Mr. Obama, they mean - - - - - "UPPITY N****R!!!
Whew. Deep breaths!!! :>) :>)
p.s. Ya got any additions? :>) :>) :>)
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But it was a very tasteful strip joint where conservative family-values Republican Pete Sessions held his fundraisers
http://www.americablog.com/2008/07/but-it-was-v...
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He was going after the women's vote!
Pete Sessions WAS NOT having a lap dance with that woman!
They were discussing his various positions on the as...uh, issues...in private.
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Jonathan Capehart just said on Morning Joe (Joe is focused on Barack's "hubris" today) that Barack was pushing up on "uppity." He prefaced it by saying he knew his inbox was going to be flooded with hatemail, but that didn't stop him from opening his mouth.
Right before he signed off, he talked about his double-windsor-knotted striped tie.
The comment that caused all the disdain: Barack told the Democrats on the Hill: "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."
Dana Milbank (a two-faced fool if ever there was one) reported the quote in his article entitled President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour. Clearly Barack should be walking around in a shroud of doubt instead of acting like he can win this thing. That would make him far more attractive to the envious reporter here are there who just can't stand what he's seeing.
Joe's guest reminded people that Reagan presented himself as the architect of the shining American city on a hill and then had to remind folks that Barack hasn't had a break since the primaries began.
He then cited the Dangrous One's "I know how to win wars" quote as an example of blatant hubris since the man hasn't won a war. But everybody laughed that off and went to talking about Capehart's tie.
Umph, umph, umph.
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So this is why the AP sounds like an arm of McCain communications. But I don't guess "reporters" report on their "own."
Talk about a conflict of interest.
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Many voters are wondering whether a McCain presidency would be an extension of Mr. Bush’s two disastrous terms. If the way Mr. McCain is running his campaign these days is an indication, Americans don’t have to wait until next January for the answer to that one.
From NYT: Low-Road Express
It's about time.
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But I'm sure if they're broke, they still buy food and winter coats....
A simple lesson that the $500 Ferragamo loafer wearing McCain never learned.
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it was to good to pass up..
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Joe: Barack Obama said (insert statement). Isn't he being (insert euphemism for "uppity": arrogant, presumptive, etc...). Americans are asking themselves who is this guy? Do we really know who he is? yadayadayada (repeat with every guest, every day)
I'd love to see a policy-based attack on Obama b/c right now it would be refreshing to see someone actually talk about issues that affect us rather than make this a popularity contest. Have we not learned anything? It is not Personality of the United States, it is President of the United States. The insistence on the President being daddy (or hopefully someday mother)-in-chief is problematic because instead of electing based upon facts, plans, intelligence, ideas, management skills etc...we elect based upon images and perceptions.
Folks like Joe are basing their entire criticism of Obama on personality-based attacks because, unfortunately, it will work with a portion of the electorate(question is how much). Also on most issues they are devoid of ideas. If Morning Joe is to be watchable again (if it ever was) they need to actually talk about issues and find someone with a spine to balance out Joe. (Mieka is like a one-legged woman in a butt-kicking contest).
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Joe (Dead Intern) Scarbourough doesn't want anyone with a spine on his show; he's got to be the alpha male.
Mika is hopeless.
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By the way, that "symbol " statement wasn't Obama's, even though its being reported as such. It was Jim Clyburn, which brings me to lesson number two: blacks are neither supposed to celebrate Obama's ascendancy, nor are we to expect anything in return. I brought this up because I specifically remember Suzanne Malveaux voicing that as a "concern" of the minority media while talking to Wolf Blitzer after the UNITY forum. Meanwhile I'm browsing FireDogLake last night and guess what the front page story was? This:
"What Should Obama Do For Us?"
What can we get from the Obama Administration in exchange for our money and our work on his campaign? There is no doubt we will vote for Obama. Many of us will do more, contribute money, do phones, door-to-door and all the other nuts and bolts of an election. But what are we going to get for it? We have something to offer, our enthusiasm and our work. They need to put something on the table to earn it.
Jane Hamsher and her crowd are turning into a punk of wnining losers.
11 months ago
What Joe and crew are actually asking is "Who does this n*#%&$r think he is?"
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THE GOP IS VERY EXCITED ABOUT a quote that The Washington Post runs on both a blog and in the paper, in which Obama supposedly tells House Democrats: “I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.”
BUT A DEMOCRATIC SOURCE SAYS: “His entire point of that riff was that the campaign IS NOT about him. [The Post] left out the important first half of the sentence, which was along the lines of: ‘It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign, that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It’s about America. I have just become a symbol … .”
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I really on watch MSNBC for Olbermann, and sometimes Hardball. In the morning, the best bet is to channel surf. (except fox)
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Extremists trying to get Joe Klein fired from Time
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Professor Obama
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Some of the questions I have are:
How/Why is Obama's teaching important to this election? Should people have examined Mike Huckabee's preaching? Or John McCain's Naval career?
If Obama's teaching is to be examined to gather clues on how he'll govern and views the Constitution, shouldn't McCain's Naval career be examined to gather clues on how he'll end the war?
But that's not what offends me. The original article is what offends me, because the basic theme of the article is that Obama is a do nothing, anti social, absentee affirmative action hire.
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Nothing is off limits with Barack.
The same can't be said for the Dangerous One.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-k-wilson/the...
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Strained by war, U.S. Army promotes unqualified soldiers
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/07/30/se...
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This comes close to calling McCain a lying M.F
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/politics/3...
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It doesn't make sense that O would release it. And what was the story about the student taking it from the wall? If they already had a copy and Obama's blessings, why talk about the student? I think that paper is trying to cover their ass.
I also think O absolutely knew someone would get a hold of the paper after watching him put it in the wall. Now it occurs to me that if he made it public at all, it was to prevent someone from producing a counterfeit version to try and smear him.
Barbara did smack down Elisabeth though when she disagreed that it "spoke volumes" about Obama.
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Barbara is supposed to be a journalist, yet she couldn't pick up on the doubt the allegation generated, and repeated it as fact.
I also enjoyed the Elisabeth smack down but if she didn't repeat that lie in the first place......
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I haven't heard a single "reporter" mention it on the cable shows, but the View breaks the lie on network television.
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(Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if one of the pollsters does a "hypothetical" matchup between HIllary and the Dangerous One in the run up to Denver....
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I can't stand watching Capeheart anymore and I only watch a little of Joe S. to see what the rant is but it gets harder and harder everyday!
Angela
Paul Jenkins
July 29, 2008
Obama Still Does Not Know His Place
When Barack Obama started running for president, he was widely described as arrogant for daring to take on the Clintons after just two years in the Senate, despite the fact that polling at the time showed him to be the only threat to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.
Eighteen-months later, we are told by the McCain campaign and its traditional media parrots that Obama is at risk of looking "presumptuous" for his recent trip abroad, even as he has registered a small but significant bounce in the polls upon his return, presumably for doing what most of us expect of a presidential candidate.
The man who slayed Democratic royalty, who has raised more money than any political campaign in US history, drawn record-breaking crowds in the US and abroad, who has been ahead of John McCain since widespread general election polling began four months ago, this man is presumptuous for thinking he has a good shot at becoming president and should therefore get to know his potential counterparts and visit the sites of US military activity?
Most candidates Obama's age will be charged sooner or later with youthful conceit for taking on their elders, no matter how guilty those elders are of mismanaging the country. It happened to some extent to Bill Clinton, and surely to others before him. However, it is hard not to see in the ongoing attitude towards this presidential frontrunner, just three months before the election, something more uncomfortable that is not simply a matter of age, but one of race.
Throughout the primary there was a growing sense of disbelief in the Clinton camp that this young'un (older than Bill was in 1991 when he started running, mind you) really thought he had a shot at this. Bill, in particular, showed little patience for Obama's "fairy tale" campaign, eventually going ballistic because, in his own version of "some of my best friends are," he did not understand that even he, whose office is in Harlem, may be condescending towards African-Americans, and towards this African-American in particular. Perhaps more perniciously, some long-time African-American political and business leaders joined in with some of the worst stereotyping of the campaign, seemingly upset at the upstart who dared to go where most of them had not.
Now McCain is recycling some version of this superciliousness, heavily aided by a traditional media still so easily scared into thinking it is not tough enough on Obama. McCain can hardly hide his rage at this uppity kid who thinks he can hobnob with world leaders just as he does -- who thinks he has more judgment than a septuagenerian war-mongering former prisoner of war. And who sees no reason to wait his turn when barely 1 in 10 Americans think the country is on the right track, thanks to his elders' enlightened leadership. In a weird echo of the Clinton attacks, McCain smirks his way through one sarcastic comment after another, his face twisted in hatred and disbelief. Not only is Obama "presumptuous," he also "doesn't understand." It is never clear what Obama doesn't understand since he actually has not gotten his facts or, so far, his analysis wrong, as opposed to McCain whose errors in fact and in judgment are so numerous as to make one wonder where he has been for the past 20 years (poring over Cold War era reports on Czechoslovakia? Hanging out at the Iraq-Pakistan border? Plotting to bomb-bomb-bomb bomb-bomb Iran?). McCain is the most arrogant of Senators (not a light charge), yet even by his standards the tone he adopts towards Obama is so densely patronizing that here too it is hard to dismiss it as purely a matter of age gap. McCain's joke of an economic advisor, Carly Fiorina, is now also laying it on thick: she is glad that Obama is consulting with experts. This from the woman who nearly ran a Fortune 100 company into the ground and whose candidate knows so little about economic issues after three decades in Congress that Fiorina is reduced to repeating that McCain "has been understanding [economic issues] for months."
That Obama is actually able to listen to facts, absorb them and analyze them should be a good thing. We assume that those skills came in handy throughout his life, not least at Harvard, where he graduated near top of his law school class. This, of course, now makes him an elitist, as he would not be expected by the old DC guard to possess any such competence (charisma perhaps, analytical ability no.) Both McCain (894th out of 899 at Annapolis) and George W. Bush revel in their under-achieving school days, as if this made these scions of hyper-privilege any closer to real people. This tactic clearly succeeded well enough for Bush to be elected president twice, and McCain to be nominated once. But there is a sense that American voters may not be taken in again and that they may actually enjoy as president someone who isn't an inbred moron or a senile fratboy.
Obama's partner in elitism, his wife Michelle, is in extreme tongue-biting mode. This is a shame, but it is inevitable, as she too is under the kind of scrutiny that would make Cindy McCain's face melt back into some approximation of reality. It is widely understood that Obama is more deserving of close examination than McCain because she is more actively involved in her husband's campaign than Cindy is. This of course is a lie: McCain has campaigned extensively for her husband and, were it not for her family fortune and her private jet, he wouldn't even have come close to being nominated. The truth is that Obama is expected to play a certain role: strong, angry, overbearing, and every one of her statements is demeaningly parsed in that light. If every word uttered by McCain were analyzed and reported to fit the stereotype of the rich, spoilt, husband-stealing white woman that she is, all would be fair. But instead, we get adoring glances, little examination of her actual role and an occasional hiccup about Michelle Obama's lack of patriotism.
What angers John McCain and bemuses many traditional observers is how unflappable Barack Obama remains in public, no matter how condescending the attacks. There is little doubt that the thick skin he grew over decades came in handy as he started to run for president. The past 18 months surely were not the first time Obama was baited for being black, for being white, for being Muslim, or for not being from "here," and it must be fascinating, although not unexpected, for him to see these patronizing attitudes resurface at this stage of his life. For the rest of us, what is fascinating is to witness how these old-school mindsets are backfiring on those who hold them, making them look less wise, more prejudiced, less fit to lead and altogether completely unappealing. And to witness that in America in 2008, it is perhaps not a bad thing not to know your place.
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I noted the word SUPERCILIOUS in the article! Whew! Deep Breaths!!! :>)
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It is never going to stop or relent. The media is going to do everything it can to help McCain win this election. They haven't been "for" Obama since this past February.
Every time Obama has a big lead, except the "hubris, arrogrant" nonsense to continue.
From what I've read, Dana Milbank was putting words into Obama's mouth.
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www.jedreport.com/2008/07/mccain-camp-a-1.html
O.K. So I'm seeing a pattern here. Every time "mcancient" gets CAUGHT, in a lie [which is just about erry time he opens his mouth], it's SOMEONE ELSE'S FAULT!!
So I draw these conclusions: 1. He's in my Category #1 - FLIP-FLOP mode and Category #3 -POUTY mode and he's just straight LYING like any CHILD would do when caught in it. 2. He's in "MAVERICK" mode = C-O-N-F-U-S-E-D!!! [in the Tues. Open Thread, I tried to make a case for the term "maverick" as the new P.C. term [as it relates to "mcancient"] for C-O-N-F-U-S-E-D!!!!
Whew! Real Deep Breaths!!! :>) :>)
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More Obama satire from overseas.....though I think the Brits did it much better.
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Why can't we (Americans) come up with stuff like that? I still think the NYer cover was a little funny, but it wasn't subtle in the least, and I think that's what may have contributed to the offense of some.
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This is presumptious, but do you normally work this hard to piss people off, or am I an exception?
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Much of the increased registration activity involves block-by-block efforts by the campaign of presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama to add tens of thousands of new young and minority voters to Virginia's rolls.
This, of course, will be explained away.
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Along with registering people, people (especially black folks) need to be told to carry their ID as well as their voter registration card to the polls in November. Even though I've known my poll worker and we've been neighbors for over 20 years, I plan on taking my voter card to the polls in case she's not working that day and the other poll workers decide to get crunk.
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I'm starting to think that the goal is to add as many people as possible to make the (almost inevitable) Obama win seem larger than life itself. Throw in a few ficticious people, give a few felons their rights back, and those votes will go marching right into the hands of the dhimmicrats who "fought" for them.
Course, I can't be too terribly mad. 2008 is the year for the GOP to take it as hard as it was given in 2000 and 2004. Everything done then is coming back 5-10 times worse than when it was done.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/07/sanford....
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Also, people need to find out where their polling station is. My polling station has changed about 4 times even though I've remained at the same residence for years.
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Now that I'm in the lovely Commonwealth of VA (which is on its own program), and fully expecting to have the Obamaists checking EVERY SINGLE MOVE at the polls that day, I may well show up with ID, my registration card, and a DNA sample.
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Mr. Obama "moved a chess piece" a long time ago when he appointed her the Chief of Staff over the VP candidate/choice!! A statement in the article said that billary and Patty "haven't spoken since February 10!" Additionally, billary wouldn't comment on this article except to say that she wishes Patty well!
Just as a reminder billary, Patty IS standing in the doorway of the VP's office. That means YOU CAIN'T COME IN!!!! :>) :>) See how that works!! :>) :>)
"Surviving The Free Fall" - Lois Romero
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2...
AR2008072902451.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter
In a word in the "game of chess" ---- CHECKMATE!!! :>) :>) [Isn't that the end?]
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"13 Things To Know About The 3rd Straight Mac Attack Ad" William Bradley tears "mcancient" a BRAND NEW ONE!!! :>) :>)
www.huffingtonpost.com/william-bradley/13-thing...
I'll just let you sit back and ENJOY the READ and the SLAM!!!
Yes, this is a "DISS THE DUDE" moment! :>) :>) :>)
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It's comedy gold.
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It's great to celebrate the growing number of Black bloggers, but the question now is what are you doing with that collective voice? This is not just about Senator Obama, but all of US!
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There are some Black diarists on Daily Kos writing about it.
But I hear you.
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but i get the since she's an OBAMACAN..if not, she's fooled me..
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I think many of those black talking heads also believe that Sen. Obama is an uppity n!ggr. Just look at half of the CBC skinning and grinning and cosigning Billary and their attacks (as well as joining in, in some cases). He didn't "wait his turn." Just look at Jesse Jackson and his comment that Obama is "talking down to blacks." So it should be no surprise that Obama has very few black defenders on the TV Tubes because he's never had them. Michelle Bernard defends him harder than all the rest of them combined.
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Whew!! Real deep breaths!!!
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Perhaps the only consistent voice on MSNBC who exposes the constant MSM double standards that impact Obama is Rachel Maddow. So there's the rub, NMP; the cable shows have a de-facto policy in place to limit Black voices so as not to give Obama a fair shake. If you're Black, you better be either critical of Obama or completely indifferent to the Black experience.
They resent his presence, and they're determined to make him work twice as hard to win this thing.
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Just thinkin' . I'm feeling NMP's passion. Thank you.
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As a matter of fact, he was the Washington Post staffer who contributed the Obama chapter in the book, Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril, which is an anthology of writings on black manhood edited by the staff of The Washington Post based on a 2006 series of Post articles.
Robinson's piece in the book is titled, "Not Just Any Walk-On Part" and discusses Barack Obama's career and his blackness. IIRC, he starts his piece by writing that "Obama walks black."
Anyone who hasn't read the book should do so as it is an excellent treatise that offers far more solutons than all the episodes of CNN's Black in America combined.
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As I noted B4, Attorney Warren Ballentine is on a MAJOR CAMPAIGN of putting "mcancient" on blast!! I need to listen to the other Black radio personalities to see what they're saying. BUT, I hear you! It's NOT being heard [always a qualification-lest I'm missing something; and I could be.] LOUD enough in the main.
Thanks for the passionate statement. :>)
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Angela
Obama arrogance watch
July 30, 2008 09:55 AM
The chorus of voices suggesting that Barack Obama might be getting ahead of himself and more than a little full of himself is growing louder.
The Washington Post reported that in a closed pep talk session with US House Democrats Tuesday evening, Obama talked about his triumphant visit to Europe and declared, "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."
Democrats are already telling reporters that the comment was taken out of context -- that he was really saying that the campaign was more than about him and that he was a mere symbol.
They say Obama prefaced the declaration that is getting so much buzz by saying something along the lines of, "It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign, that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It’s about America."
That didn't stop Republicans from forwarding the report as the latest entry in the Obama "audacity watch."
The Republican National Committee just launched a website compiling all the examples it claims shows Obama's arrogance, and said it will update it through the election.
Also, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank weighed in with a piece published this morning that starts: "Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee."
"As he marches toward Inauguration Day (Election Day is but a milestone on that path), Obama's biggest challenger may not be Republican John McCain but rather his own hubris," Milbank writes later.
The Obama campaign disputes portions of the column, including its mention of unconfirmed reports that it was already planning his post-election transition to the White House.
Obama campaigns in Missouri today with Senator Claire McCaskill at his side. She was one of his strongest surrogates during the primaries, and was the subject of some early vice presidential buzz. But she reportedly has not been asked for documents as part of the vetting process
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This comes on the heels of companies spying on Greenpeace and other environmental groups. And now we learn the Maryland State Police were spying on peace groups and the WV ACLU suspects the same thing has happened in other states.
Those of us at Netroots Nation probably had our pictures taken by covert police operatives. And who knows what others have infiltrated us. The answer is not to be suspicious, but to operate as transparently as possible. And yes I note the irony of that since I use a handle.
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Given who he was and the work he did in western Virginia, this reeks.
Single shot to the head is an execution.
And on the heels of the Tennessee church shooting....
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Karl Rove Held In Contempt By House Judiciary Committee
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/30/karl-r...
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My friend, if that's what does it for you, you need to get out more.
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Welfare Check:
A guy walked into the local welfare office to pick up his check. He marched straight up to the counter and said, "Hi. You know, I just HATE drawing welfare. I'd really rather have a job." The social worker behind the counter said, "Your timing is excellent!' We just got a job opening from a very wealthy old man who wants a chauffeur and bodyguard for his beautiful daughter. You'll have to drive around in his Mercedes, and he'll supply all of your clothes. Because of the long hours, meals will be provided. You'll be expected to escort the daughter on her overseas holiday Trips and you will have to satisfy her every need. You'll be provided a two-bedroom apartment above the garage. The salary is $200,000 a year." The guy, wide-eyed, said, "You're lying !!!" The social worker said, "Yeah, well . . . you started it."
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The U.S. should stop arresting responsible marijuana users, Rep. Barney Frank said Wednesday, announcing a proposal to end federal penalties for Americans carrying fewer than 100 grams, almost a quarter-pound, of the substance.
Also brought to you by Ron Paul and Barbara Lee.
Will someone tell me what a "responsible" drug user is? One who robs you to feed their habit and doesn't kill you?
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I'm not convinced that marijuana has any medical benefits, but as an experimental, ok. Thing is, this doesn't say that......
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Is that safe? Is that smart?
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Let's stop treating drug use like a violent crime (which in turns creates more violent crime) and try and put money into treatment rather than privatized jails.
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Just not convinced this will help more than hurt.
Besides, between this and apologies for slavery....my gas is still high. What about fixing that?
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As for gas, it was bound to happen that we were reminded that A) we're an oil poor country; and that B) we just ain't all that. Look at steel, look at copper, all these things are being used by a lot more people who aren't us which equals higher prices. And guess what? No matter what some tell us we are never going to be able to get out in front of oil on the production side, but maybe just maybe we can fight this on the demand side.
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"Democrats Urge Head of EPA To Resign"
Seems as if Stephen L. Johnson had a "change of mind" under pressure from the White House on statement he made during his testimony.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2...
All hands [Dems] on deck!! Keep the watch for Mr. Obama!! :>) :>)
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‘Extreme Makeover’ house faces foreclosure
Harper family used home as collateral for a $450,000 loan'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25888546/
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30 Jul 2008 04:10 pm
John Weaver, for years one of John McCain's closest friends and confidants, has been in exile since his resignation from McCain's presidential campaign last year. With the exception of an occasional interview, he has, by his own account, bit his tongue as McCain's campaign has adopted a strategy that Weaver believes "diminishes John McCain."
With the release today of a McCain television ad blasting Obama for celebrity preening while gas prices rise, and a memo that accuses Obama of putting his own aggrandizement before the country, Weaver said he's had "enough."
The ad's premise, he said, is "childish."
"John's been a celebrity ever since he was shot down," Weaver said. "Whatever that means. And I recall Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush going overseas and all those waving American flags."
Weaver remains in contact with senior McCain strategists and, for a while early this year, regularly talked to McCain.
The strategy of driving up Obama's negatives "reduces McCain on the stage," Weaver said.
"For McCain to win in such troubled times, he needs to begin telling the American people how he intends to lead us. That McCain exists. He can inspire the country to greatness."
He added: "There is legitimate mockery of a political campaign now, and it isn't at Obama's. For McCain's sake, this tomfoolery needs to stop."
On a conference call with reporters, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said the ad "addresses a unique facet in Barack Obama's campaign that is unlike any other campaign we've seen in modern history: a campaign that is focused on the development of an enormous image of celebrity status." Davis and Weaver do not get along, and the campaign's operations chief, Steve Schmidt,was reportedly upset that Weaver told the New York Times that the campaign "lost" the week that Obama went overseas.
Obama, speaking to reporters outside a diner in Lebanon, MO, at first did not answer a question about the ad. Then he said,.
"You know, I don't pay attention to John McCain's ads, although I do notice he doesn't seem to have anything to say very positive about himself. He seems to only be talking about me. You need to ask John McCain what he's for and not just what he's against," he said.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/20...
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He sucks at going negative. He should really leave that to a third party.
However, I can't-in good conscience-vote for Obama. So I'll vote for McCain in what I recognize will probably be a losing effort.....or just not vote at all.
11 months ago
Ludacris Obama video denounced
Oh good grief.
Good grief @ Obama / Obama camp denouncing and rejecting something that had nothing to do with them,yet again
and
Good grief @ Ludacris and everyone else who's taking the opportunity to act a fool in the name of Obama.
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You don't see McCain denouncing, repudiating or rejecting Toby Keith's lynching video, do you?
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I am Admiral Komack, and I didn't pay for this message.
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I am Admiral Komack, and I didn't pay for this message.
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Brown-skinned assassins.
Y'all ain't seen nothing yet.
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Who is really surprised by this? The only thing that gets me is that it's taken this long for a rapper to do it.
Can't wait to see the McCain ad on this. Whoever pulls it off-without offending anyone-is a genius.
11 months ago
Obama actually should come out with a statement like that. He can not be held responsible for everything every black person says or does. And not just black people, but anyone. Just remind people that there are only a certain amount of individuals that are authorized to speak for the campaign.
The problem is that Obama can't avoid getting asked about things like this. If someone mentions his name, a reporter is going to ask for his opinion. There's just no way of getting around that . . .
Except . . .
to say "no comment," or "I disagree." And that's what he should do. Obama CAN control his response. Just keep it short, sweet and move on to the next topic. But he needs to stop giving these long a*s responses to every little nontroversy that's out there. He's just asking for trouble when he does that.
Still, I don't know what people expect Obama to do when put in a situation like this. What did Luda think was gonna happen? Luda made an Obama tribute and called Hillary a "bi*ch" in the process. Hello??? Like he didn't think that would grab major headlines?
11 months ago
Just stick to Motown!
It's really simple. Motown is some of the least offensive, mainstream black entertainment that you can find. Everyone loves Motown. Even old blue-haired Republicans love some Motown every now and then.
Just stay away from everything else. I don't wanna see no more Kings of Comedy . . . no hip-hop . . . . heck, I don't even wanna see any black gospel (remember the McClurkin' controversy). Not to say I don't love these things myself . . . but keep 'em away from the political spotlight. Just keep it simple . . .
I'm sure Wayne Brady could use some work. That's the kind of entertainment Obama needs. Anything else is asking for trouble.
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I'm tellin' ya . . . Obama needs to call Wayne Brady. He might be corny, but he's about as noncontroversial as it gets. LOL
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Love "nontroversy."
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Patriotric music plays, a photo of Obama standing at a podium giving a speech, pictures of Rev. Wright, Father Pfleger, Jesse Jackson, Min. Farrakhan, random rappers, etc. flash by
The screen fades to black and the words appear on the screen:
"I did not do it. I did not say it."
Then fades to black again.
"I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message."
Hell, that could be a "web only" ad.
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I guess what's really important is how it can be spun so that a white politician can benefit from it.
Unbelievable.
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Cause I see no possible way.
But, with the way his campaign's been going, I bet he tries. That speaks to the "tactical errors" that I mentioned earlier....and THAT was the point of that statement.
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I just saw Pat Buchanan reference the Ludacris incident as "coming from his (Obama's) own people."
WTF???
And I see pjamma's point about the commercial. But that could backfire as well. McCain would be playing with some serious racial fire if his campaign is dumb enough to try something like that. But, after today's Paris Hilton commercial, I can't say I'd put it past him.
11 months ago
Nas, Ludacris, Bernie Mac, Rene Marie...
This list is going to get longer and longer.
For Barack to meet with Ludacris and give him props and then to get this in return is, well....
Betrayal.
Fasten your seatbelts.
The Denver Project.
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Ford said: I agree with Pat A LOT. Seee, Under no circumstances would I ever utter the WORDS -I agree with the VERY RACIST Pat!!! Mannnnnn! :>(
Whew!!! DEEP BREATHS!!!!!
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Ford should go back to Fox where I don't ever have to see him.
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My comuter doesn't know what a "dap" is! :>) :>) :>)
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She introduces him in Missouri today
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Richardson will host 2 fundraisers as an Obama supporter on Aug 17[for billary]. Well this is what is done. The article states that Richardson has a $292,726 in debt. Who helps him?? Just askin'
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/07/30/ri...
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Nasty.
Both books will be released three weeks before the convention.
Anti-Obama books hit shelves within days
The Denver Project.
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Whew. Deep breaths!!"
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I am THA-ROUGH!!!!
Whew!!! [as she slowly lowers her head]. Slow, sustained DEEP BREATHS!!
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To view the RNCs new Web site Obama Audacity Watch, go to http://gop.com/images/audacitywatch/audacitywat....
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Law ha' mercy!!! [she said shaking her drooped head and pounding on her desk!!!]
Double WHEW!! And Deep breaths to the hundreth power!!!!!
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I declare Claire McCaskill and Rachel Maddows honorary sistahs! Somebody get a crown because they hold it down ERE time.
Tanya Acker is always holding it down on the Verdict with Dan Abrams...but I haven't seen her for awhile.
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Co-sign and "virtual dap" on the rest! :>) :>) :>)
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(now where did I put it....I know I just had it...geez, can't find anything in this purse)...AHAAAA!!! There it is!! My RACE CARD (its everywhere you...well....if you're black its not everywhere you wanna be, its just everywhere you BE)
There is one reason and one reason ONLY that Obama is not 25 points ahead in the polls and I'm sick of these condescending "well why can't he close the deal" rethuglicans......no, the question is why is a lily-white military vet BEHIND?
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Toward the end of the show, Keith mentioned the fade in from Obama to the 2 blond white women and wondered if there was anything behind it. The comedian Finnegan didn't run with the line...he was too skurd.
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This one's for your PILL-POPPIN' PIECE ON THE SIDE.
CINDY LOU HENSLEY McCAIN in DICKIPEDIA...a wiki of dicks
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"Report: Hillary Gets Major Speaking Slot At Convention"[Eric Kleefeld]
She will be speaking on the first night which happens to be the day of the anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment - the right of women to vote. Billary will be joined on stage by all other FEMALE Democratic senators. Will this be the LAST DAY of her CAMPAIGN, FINALLY!!!???
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...
Geez!! SSSSSSnakes!!! Whew!!! Deep breaths!!!
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www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/opinion/30wed1.html?...
"McCain has wholeheartedly adopted Mr. Rove's LOW-MINDED and UNCIVIL playbook."