Well, we are seeing more cases like this, which just tells me we have no right to call ourselves civilized...how the hell can we when this is allowed? Who was looking out for the welfare of this poor, tortured woman? Warning: this will not only make you cry, but enrage you.
After weeks of commentary here from people who just couldn't imagine racism happening in our glorious modern age, I'm wondering what people here have thought during the last two weeks of unbridled MSM crypto-racism? Clearly, the issue is taking a toll among the crypto prone as mean-spirited fussing and staring daggers has erupted with tremendous frequency among the punditry. Also, al I alone in imagining the HRC and McStain passport peeks were concocted to steal controversy from the three, politically-timed, Obama peeks?
SarainKC
· 1 year ago
No, you're not alone in finding the "revelation" of HRC and McWar passport breeches mighty suspect. One thing we do know about this administration is they will never admit incompetence, let alone offer up proof of it without a legal fight or insider leak and even then they will spin and distort. Sure was uncharacteristic of the State Department to be so forthcoming. Way too uncharacteristic.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Imprudent fungibility:
The Associated Press later identified Stanley, Inc. as the Virginia-based contractor whose two employees were terminated. One prescient blogger who guessed correctly that Stanley was the contractor in question noted that its CEO is a political donor:
...[O]ne thing that would add to the appearance of impropriety is that CEO Nolan has, according to the Open Secrets database, been a campaign contributor to Sen. Joe Lieberman, a leading supporter of Obama's Republican adversary John McCain. In March 2005 Nolan gave $1,000 to Lieberman's reelection campaign.
Especially after Obama spokesman Bill Burton issued a stern statement lambasting the Bush administration Thursday night, saying:
“This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an Administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years. Our government’s duty is to protect the private information of the American people, not use it for political purposes.
Funny that Hillary's passport was breached LAST SUMMER, July of 2007, when she was the way out in front of the candidate pack. Obama's was only breached after he won the Iowa Caucus, then again after his successful many state wins in February after Edwards retired, and lastly, right after the Rev. Wright "snippets" were suddenly discovered (after they had been on his church's website all along!).
DaveinMpls
· 1 year ago
They also revealed that every year employees are fired for looking up celebrities. I don't see anything here. If you've ever applied for a passport, it's the basic ID-theft info and a photo, which a dirty trickster would be able to get anywhere. Details of these people's travels wouldn't be there (visa stamps are in the passport itself), and for the people in question their travels been very public. "Imprudent curiosity" sounds about right.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Believe me Dave, the rapid MSM acceptance of State's "move along, nothing to see" posture is a sure sign, in the Bush Interregnum, of something to see. Obama's passport file would differ significantly from the others with the volume of international childhood travel and schooling. Certainly the bulk of the right's (HRC included) whisper campaign was larded with morsels of Arabic-flavored extra-CONUS tidbits that could have been initially discovered with such peeks. The absurd phrase "imprudent curiosity", while perfectly Bush in tone, was designed to "sound about right".
GrantinHouston
· 1 year ago
Wonder how the Clintonistas recently came up with their talking point that Obama was weak on foreign affairs because he had NEVER traveled to Latin America and only visited ONE NATO nation? Could be from common knowledge out in the public domain but could also have come from the Dept. of State.
Of course most of Hillary's overseas trips were paid for by the American taxpayer while she was First Lady. Does such travel make Laura Bush more qualified than Barack Obama?
shocker
· 1 year ago
This new format makes a lot of sense for blogs. Lots of options and lends itself to like minded people to express their opinions. Doesn't seem to work well for someone who writes long comments at the end of threads and doesn't really participate in the back and forth though. No worries here. I'll either find ways to adjust or stop commenting.
bumpkis
· 1 year ago
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· 1 year ago
Hey!
How does the rating system work?
Do you just click on the up and down arrows next to the name to rate up or down?
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· 1 year ago
FWIW...With IE7, I have what at first appear to be total browser lockups when I click on a comments link on the Ablog home page. (Can't switch tabs, etc.) However, if I leave it sit for 2-3 minutes it eventually comes out of it. For some reason this does not happen to me when I use either IE6 or Firefox 2.
The way I'm working around it for now is to first click on the post link (i.e. the post headline) -- that takes you to the page containing ONLY that post and the related comment.
grandma
· 1 year ago
I was wondering that too....if the breach of security for Hillary and MoreWar McCain was concocted to cover for the Obama breach.......can't trust anyone in this administration....
Condie said she's on top of it and will look into it......yeah right Condi.......suuuuure you will
davespicer
· 1 year ago
I worked in data processing (ancient term - giving away my age!) for 20 years. Wouldn't surprise me if it *was* just "imprudent curiosity". Having access to data sometimes brings out the voyeur in people; a couple of my former coworkers regularly snooped on others' salaries etc. Because they could. The major failure I see here is not reporting it up the line, and maybe hoping it would blow over.
This happens all over the place; the question now is if anything useful is learned or changed as a result. Obama turned the Wright situation into an historic teaching opportunity - I don't expect anything quite that inspired from Bush & Company.
AnarchistComedian
· 1 year ago
A good friend of mine worked for LCC, one of the early cell-phone technology companies. She said the engineers would routinely turn on scanners and listen to cell phone conversations in downtown DC, just to pass the time while they ate their lunch.
grandma
· 1 year ago
From today's NY Times on the security breach at the State Dept:
The administration, whose credibility on ethical matters is zero, cannot be trusted to investigate on its own. Congress should conduct an inquiry, and insist on talking to all of the major players.
The administration, for its part, must release the names of the employees and the name of the companies they worked for, something it is so far refusing to do. The only way for the public to believe that nothing untoward occurred is to provide all of the facts.
Langston had this published in African American newspapers in 1951. In the poem’s introduction, Hughes was described as “sepia poet laureate of America”. While the right did then and would today call him everything and black, his “Where Service Is Needed” prophetically sums up the resurgent crypto-racism we are currently experiencing:
For the Negro Nurse there’s been no easy way. The bars have been high, the day a long day When the hand that could tend the sick or the hurt Must also combat Jim Crow’s dirt.
No caution, no gloves, no antiseptic, no mask Could protect her from prejudice as she stuck to her task. Only devotion, and the will to be what she set out to be, Kept the Negro nurse on her road to today’s victory.
From America’s garden now The ugly weeds are being weeded: Only five states bar their doors to dark hands That would serve where service was needed.
In the Army, the Navy, colored nurses attend. Her long gallant struggle portends a good end. “Negro nurse” is a phrase men no longer need say. “American nurse” means all nurses today.
The bars have been high. There is no magic wand; Only unity and faith have brought this new dawn Where the rights of democracy to all are ceded: Her skilled hands may serve where service is needed.
GrantinHouston
· 1 year ago
A story in our family which all of today's descendants keep telling is how lucky we are that an ancestor to whom we all owe our existence was a sickly baby kept alive in the late 19th century by a black "wet nurse" near Hagerstown, MD. The baby's mother was also very ill after delivery, near death and had no milk in her breasts. A black woman they knew, with a new baby of her own, had plenty of milk for both babies, hers and our white ancestor. Remember this was an age before baby "formula" and pasteurized cow's milk.
AUNTIEDAWN
· 1 year ago
It has been a very busy week politically..... but just an observation last night i was watching MSNBC Keith Olbermann's Countdown and it was extremely creepy to hear him seem to say that there was no way for HRC to win the election that she should just give it up now yea yea I know he's an Obama guy but a commentator trying to tell another canidate to step down just so his canidate doesn't have to face any more friction. We on the left hated and deplored Faux News for handling elections this way and MSNBC has become the new Faux News. I have almost stopped watching all their programming, I keep hoping they will go back to being fair but each time I give them another chance it's just propaganda..... just thinking
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
First and foremost TV, post dereg, is a product geared to fluff audience levels, period. The deregulated environment depends mightily on the trust established with the public during decades of regulated media following the Radio Act of the 1930s. This core multi-generational trust is the grease on the deregulated corporate skids. Even with the obvious audience heights achieved with the liberal-ish Olberman programming (and Mr. O should be thanked for the exciting breaking 3 hour coverage given to the Breach Thursday evening...without it the MSM might have ignored it altogether), GE still feels the need to seed poisonous chunks of Buchanan and Scarborough's spittle-drenched lunacy...
SarainKC
· 1 year ago
I saw his show and don't recall Keith asking for Hillary to step aside. He was talking about the relevance of the Politico piece that explains the media's desire to ignore the math and create a viable contest where one clearly does not exist. The bottom line is Hillary cannot win the nomination without destroying the Dem party by conducting a back room deal with party insiders. In the meantime all the nasty attacks paves way for a McWar win. Even if you are are Clinton supporter and you see nothing wrong with a bunch of political fat cats over riding the majority vote of their constituents, that at least should cause you concern.
GDawg
· 1 year ago
Well of course the far-left hates Fox News. Because now you don't have a monopoly on the media anymore. O'Reilly broke the Obama story and look what happened. Obama is finished ... game over. Even if he wins the nomination, which he probally will, he has no chance of beating McCain. Instead of blaming Fox News or O'Reilly, you on the far-left should look at yourself. You got what you deserved. You should of stayed with Hillary instead of flip-flopping and jumping on the kool-aid drinking Obama bandwagon when you knew nothing about Obama except that he speaks well.
The far-left put themselves in the trick bag, and now there is no way out.
Now if the left wing media knew about this story several months ago and didn't report it, well they shot themselves in the foot. Because if they would of reported it, then those on the far-left would of stayed with Hillary and she would of won the nomination. Now you liberals are screwed and you did it to yourself.
Thank God for Fox News and O'Reilly for breaking the Obama story. You go O'Reilly, you are the man.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Hoods, tricks, snares and kool-aid, lots of kool-aid...
GrantinHouston
· 1 year ago
Actually the children over at Faux News are currently fighting on Who was FIRST! Sean Hannity claims he broke the story FIRST! However, the DVD's of all of Rev. Wright's sermons over many years have always been available at the Trinity UCC bookstore and for sale online. This "all of a sudden" revelation of Rev. Wright does raise the question of timing. Who benefits the most? It's probably better they came out now rather than later giving time for the tempest in a teapot to cool down.
Amb. Joe Wilson needs to quit writing foreign policy hit pieces on Obama. He should leave the Hillary Davidian compound and stop giving Mcprunejuice ammunition for november
GrantinHouston
· 1 year ago
Joe Wilson served as Special Assistant to U.S. President Bill Clinton and Clinton appointed him Senior Director for African Affairs on the United States National Security Council in 1997. So Wilson "owes" Bill! However, earlier in his career, he also was posted to embassies of several African nations and Iraq during the George H. W. Bush administration.
grandma
· 1 year ago
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq on Saturday, pushing the U.S. death toll closer to the 4,000 mark at start of the sixth year of the war for U.S. troops
SarainKC
· 1 year ago
Dick Cheney: So?
grandma
· 1 year ago
Yeah...so? says 5 Deferment Dick
GrantinHouston
· 1 year ago
One of those soldiers just killed lived about 5 miles from me. We just buried a soldier killed a week ago in the IED bombing that took five lives. Today's death makes 96 Houstonians killed so far in Bush's folly.
The Bush/Clinton free market: Lattes for some, slavery for others:
Inspector Martha Mendoza ushered Juan Cruz Santiago, a small man with salt-and-pepper hair, away from the others. During gentle questioning under a ficus tree, he admitted that most days, he and his 66-year-old father worked for tips only. So did nearly half the other employees, he said. It had been that way for at least six years. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-carwash...
lynchie
· 1 year ago
i guess what bothers me about the Passport snoop is that the people snooping weren't prosecuted. In addition how was it so easy for them to access these files. Being contract workers should automatically prohibit them from potentially sensitive material. I would also like to know if Senator Clinton's file was accessed last year why were they only telling her about it on Friday. Frankly I don't believe there is any system in place to prevent the contractors from doing anything they want. This Administration is well known for it lack of competency and to accept now that Condi is on top of this investigation is the most hilarious announcement in the past 8 years. I also want to know why she said that the contractors were fired and now can't be prosecuted. Trust me if I broke the law at my current employer and was then fired I could still be charged, convicted and put in jail. Losing your job does not sound like punishment for crimes committed to me. The Bullshit meter just went off the scale. On a lighter note, Condi did look sweet, petulant and retarded all at the same time.
bumpkis
· 1 year ago
Lets see if these links will work for me this morning...
i would recommend the article over at juan cole. com about bush and cheney setting up for war with iran. it is a very good article. after you read this article you should be on the phone to your congress person or senator. they need to be impeached.
CNN, Fox, and MSNBC keep trying to beat the Rev. Wright horse, and they always feature the most bigoted of commentators like Bay and Pat Buchanan as their "go to 'EXPERTS'". Last night as John King on CNN's A.C. 360° played AGAIN more 20 second "out-of-context" snippets of Rev. Wright, Bay Buchanan weighs in:
BAY BUCHANAN, PRESIDENT, AMERICAN CAUSE: I will tell you what the problem is here.
This speech that Reverend Wright -- is full of hate for his country. It's full of hate for his fellow man. He talks about it in angry, angry, spiteful terms. He doesn't belong in a church, any church whatsoever that calls itself Christian.
And the problem that -- that Obama faces is, he sat there. He sat there in the pew. I'm not sure if he was there that one speech where -- where Wright condemns America three different times right in a row.
I tell you, I don't know an American that wouldn't have stood up and walked right out that door.
Bay is an Irish Catholic but I guess she also would feel comfortable in the churches of Falwell, Robertson, and Hagee where John McCain now finds "comfort" for his soul! Does Bay Buchanan know ANYTHING about the great missions of Trinity UCC in Chicago? Their many programs for feeding, clothing, sheltering the poor? Their aid in helping Senior Citizens, AIDS counseling, hospice care, prison ministries, thousands of students tutored and also given scholarships to college? There are many reasons why the 8,000 member Trinity Church has supporters all over Chicago and the nation from many denominations, both black and white.
Speaking of fundies, a Federal Judge just ruled that the Southwestern [Southern] Baptist Theological Seminary's School of Theology was within its rights to fire professor Sheri Klouda after teaching there for six years as their interpretation of the Bible claims that a WOMAN cannot teach to men!
They are DEATHLY afraid of Obama....sounds like the next POTUS to me...
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Aside from that fact that Bay Buchanan is a joke and a single mom living with another woman, I've noticed many of the post-Imus black punditry paired with the established crypto-racists are TV newbies who suffer from the technical newness not shared by the likes of Pat, Bay, Joe, Tucker and the fiends at FOX. Additionally, the jacked-up wingers pout mightily when challenged but mainly interrupt and talk-over newbies blindsided by the technology and the snare-laden and all too brief on-air minutes. It's another cute trick from the folks who brought you TVboarding but it's wearing as thin as the viewership...
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Aside from that fact that Bay Buchanan is single mom living with another woman
REALLY???
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Obviously, McCain hates Catholics because his preacher does.
Bay Buchanan must hate Catholics too.
I knew their hatred would turn back on themselves eventually.
GDawg
· 1 year ago
Has anyone seen the Turkish riots that are happening?
I think this is what Denver is going to look like in August at the Democratic Convention. Not sure why I think that, but I would bet the farm on it.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Better than a bunch of pols hanging around airport bathroom stalls, which will happen during the Repub Convention in Minneapolis.
GDawg
· 1 year ago
Now there is an intelligent comment. How old are you? 14
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
You want to match minds, let's go.
What do you got beside bigotry?
War on terror? The economy?
C'mon. Tell me why McCain's supposedly better.
GrantinHouston
· 1 year ago
Not all Marines are reich-wingers, Bush Bites, even though they get a good dose of brainwashing while in the Corps. One of the few liberals in my family is a grand nephew, currently serving at Camp Pendleton.
When I met my partner in 1999, he was very much a Republican and I couldn't persuade him to vote for Gore in 2000. Even though from a strong Minnesota Democratic family, his serving 23 years of active duty in the US Navy and hearing mostly Republican talking points from superiors, he was steered away from his family's beliefs.
However, since 2000, I have showed him every article published on how much the Republicans LOVE military contractors and shower them with BILLIONS of dollars, but also how much the Republicans play cheap and try to short change the "boots on the ground" and the VETS. He voted for Kerry in 2004 and is now a proud registered Democrat supporting Barack Obama.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
That's encouraging.
But this guy's been posting with so much superficial process stuff--Obama's preacher, riots in Denver--that's he's obviously been programmed by Fox News.
Don't see so much hope there.
GDawg
· 1 year ago
BOTTOM LINE: The Dems are stuck with Obama, this story should of broke a few months ago. But now it's too late, you Dems are stuck with Obama.
And Obama will get smoked by McCain. You will see in November.
You on the far-left should just accept it and look forward to 2012, because you have lost 2008.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Thanks for raising the level of discourse above that of us 14 year olds.
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Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
In the interview Friday, Richardson also said he called Hillary Clinton Thursday to inform her of his decision to back Obama, a conversation he described as "painful."
"It was painful and it wasn't easy," he said. "I've spoken to others who have had that same conversation and they say at the end, it’s not all that pleasant.
"The former Democratic presidential candidate declined to elaborate further on his conversation with Clinton.Last month, Chris Dodd — another former presidential candidate who decided to endorse Obama last month — said he had a "not comfortable" conversation with Clinton informing her of the news.
Bill Clinton flew to New Mexico to join Bill Richardson in viewing the Super Bowl (whether or not he was invited or just "dropped in" I never have heard). Supposedly at that time, Bill Clinton was miffed not to go away with an endorsement for the Clintons reminding Richardson "how much" Bill Clinton had done for him....placing him in two positions, first as the Ambassador to the United Nations, THEN on his cabinet as Sec. of Energy.
However, Pat Buchanan right now on MSNBC doesn't think Richardson will help Obama , even with the Hispanic connection, and McCain will have an easier time with Obama if he is the nominee than with Pat's "girl" Hillary.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Well, Buchanan, Hillary and McCain are all from the same school of politics.
Will be very interesting to see if they're right or politics can be changed.
GrantinHouston
· 1 year ago
A CBS poll just released reports 69% of those polled felt Obama did a great job on his speech about race this week, however the question of "Obama uniting Americans" dropped from 67% in February to 52% today so the MSM playing Rev. Wright's snippets 24/7 may have had at least a temporary effect.
GDawg
· 1 year ago
NEW POLL NUMBERS: This is bad news for the Democrats!
Rasmussen: (3/20/08) McCain leading Obama by 8% McCain leading Hillary by 10%
Reuters/Zogby: (3/14/08) McCain leading Obama by 6% McCain leading Hillary by 8%
Gallup: (3/20/08) McCain leading Obama by 3% McCain leading Hillary by 3%
PS - A few weeks ago McCain was behind in all of these polls by as much at 10%, so the swing is huge. The Democrats are finished for 2008.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
PS - A few weeks ago McCain was behind in all of these polls by as much at 10%, so the swing is huge..
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Which means it can swing back just as quickly.
GrantinHouston
· 1 year ago
Plus McCain hasn't been in the news as much. With Rev. Wright being played all of the time by cable news, we haven't seen so much of John. Bill Richardson is right...we need to get back to exposing John McCain for the fraud he is instead of intra-party fighting. Only a few like Keith Olbermann on MSNBC even commented much about McCain's "senior moments" of forgetting important facts in the Middle East with his lap dog Joe Lieberman feeding him the correct answer.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
By the way, GDawg.
You're trying to be a cop, but every police union I know supports Dems.
Why is that?
GDawg
· 1 year ago
So what? Every cop I know votes republican. Remember, most cops are former military, so the union can endorse who they want, the union doesn't pull the lever at the voting booth, the cops do.
See what you fail to realize that we aren't sheep. We don't vote a certain way because the union endorses a candiate. That is something that we all laugh about. The union endorses dems and most cops vote republican.
GrantinHouston
· 1 year ago
Of 40 precinct captains in New York City Police Department, 13 are Democrats, 13 are Republicans and the remaining 14 are Independents or undeclared. Twelve are Roman Catholic.
So our expert who probably only KNOWS other reich-wingers doesn't know New York City.
kiki
· 1 year ago
How many times are we going to hear about Obama's preacher on the main stream media? Enough is enough. If they think that this is what the American people want to hear, they are wrong! Nothing negative that they say about him will sway the peoples vote. Their brainwashing days are over! We have had it with their BS. Faux news is the worst. Even Mike Wallce is sick of it. It's the same old broken record playing over and over again. How many times do they think they can use it and have people keep believing it??? They have no idea how idiotic we think they are. Their KKK days are over. It's a new generation and a smarter generation. They won't get away with it this time and even through the BS people who are for Obama will stick with him.
The MSM's spewing about McCain being ahead of Clinton and Obama in the polls is laughable. If McCain becomes the next president we all will know the election was fixed AGAIN. There is no way in hell the people would believe that he won the election honestly. HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK WE ARE??????????? We listened to their phony poll crap for years, it's growing real OLD! No one wants 4 more years of Bush!
As far as Pelosi is concerned, she is a joke! She has b*lls to talk about the situation in Tibet when we are interfering in the sovereign nation of Iraq. Hundreds of thousands people dead, wounded and maimed on both sides brought on by a president and administration that lied (and is still lying) about wmd and Al Qaeda. It really angers me that she is worried about China and Tibet when we still have a sitting president that should have been impeached long ago for what he has done to this country and the whole world. When Nancy takes impeachment off the table and starts bringing the troops home I might start listening to her, until then, she isn't any different than the rest of what is running this country. It's time for a change. It's time for the LIES, GREED, DEATH and DESTRUCTION to end. Nancy should get her priorities straight in this country before she starts interfering where she doesn't belong. Time to vote Pelosi out with the rest of them. None of them care about you or me, all they care about is Corporate America and filling their pockets. As you can see, they are set for life and their spouses will also be set for life even after they are long gone. They are setting everything up for the New World Order with United Nations as the police force for it. SOMETHING VERY WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!
GrantinHouston
· 1 year ago
Pastors all over the nation, black and white, mainline and fundamentalists are coming to support Rev. Wright and calling "foul" on the 20 second sound bites "out-of-context" from Rev. Wright's sermons. This YouTube video gives NINE minutes of a sermon from which one of the 20 second snippets was excised. Doesn't sound extremist when one hears more of the WHOLE sermon.
That is funny. They are afraid to endorse a candidate. Wow ... that is unreal. What are they waiting for?
KatherineHepburnEyes
· 1 year ago
Had you been paying attention, you would have noticed Pelosi made it perfectly clear that she would back the will of the voters, meaning, if Barack gets the most votes and Hillary gets the most delegates, she will vote for Barack. Edwards sounds like he's on the same page as Pelosi on this.
And did you hear what Gov. Richardson said in his speech for support of Obama? He said he is tired of dirty politics and this is why he's backing Obama.
Who is backing McCain? Foreign money? Yep! Are you backing him?
hector
· 1 year ago
The Zapantas are fourth-generation Mexican Americans from East Los Angeles, part of a wave of doctors and lawyers, small-business owners and school administrators who are remaking Whittier into a center of upper-middle- class and upper-class Latino life in Southern California. Like Reilly years before, the Zapantas host political events at the spacious mansion. But their preferred candidates are Latino Democrats. They have held two fundraisers for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and one for former presidential candidate Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico. Once a year, they offer tours of their vast collection of Mexican art. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-whittie...
Shannon
· 1 year ago
In the mean time, the Bush White House announced (the weekends are always best) that they had destroyed all of the "old" hard drives that were being sought in the email investigation of Bush's involvement in the firing of the Justice Dept lawyers for political reasons....all of which is against the laws....but never mind that, let's all go with the distraction, the non-story of the pass port peekers....that is so much more inportant than the lawless administration's continued crimes.....
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Clearly, the issue is taking a toll among the crypto prone as mean-spirited fussing and staring daggers has erupted with tremendous frequency among the punditry.
Also, al I alone in imagining the HRC and McStain passport peeks were concocted to steal controversy from the three, politically-timed, Obama peeks?
The Associated Press later identified Stanley, Inc. as the Virginia-based contractor whose two employees were terminated. One prescient blogger who guessed correctly that Stanley was the contractor in question noted that its CEO is a political donor:
...[O]ne thing that would add to the appearance of impropriety is that CEO Nolan has, according to the Open Secrets database, been a campaign contributor to Sen. Joe Lieberman, a leading supporter of Obama's Republican adversary John McCain. In March 2005 Nolan gave $1,000 to Lieberman's reelection campaign.
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“This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an Administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years. Our government’s duty is to protect the private information of the American people, not use it for political purposes.
Funny that Hillary's passport was breached LAST SUMMER, July of 2007, when she was the way out in front of the candidate pack. Obama's was only breached after he won the Iowa Caucus, then again after his successful many state wins in February after Edwards retired, and lastly, right after the Rev. Wright "snippets" were suddenly discovered (after they had been on his church's website all along!).
Obama's passport file would differ significantly from the others with the volume of international childhood travel and schooling. Certainly the bulk of the right's (HRC included) whisper campaign was larded with morsels of Arabic-flavored extra-CONUS tidbits that could have been initially discovered with such peeks.
The absurd phrase "imprudent curiosity", while perfectly Bush in tone, was designed to "sound about right".
Of course most of Hillary's overseas trips were paid for by the American taxpayer while she was First Lady. Does such travel make Laura Bush more qualified than Barack Obama?
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Condie said she's on top of it and will look into it......yeah right Condi.......suuuuure you will
This happens all over the place; the question now is if anything useful is learned or changed as a result. Obama turned the Wright situation into an historic teaching opportunity - I don't expect anything quite that inspired from Bush & Company.
The administration, whose credibility on ethical matters is zero, cannot be trusted to investigate on its own. Congress should conduct an inquiry, and insist on talking to all of the major players.
The administration, for its part, must release the names of the employees and the name of the companies they worked for, something it is so far refusing to do. The only way for the public to believe that nothing untoward occurred is to provide all of the facts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/opinion/22sat...
In the poem’s introduction, Hughes was described as “sepia poet laureate of America”.
While the right did then and would today call him everything and black, his “Where Service Is Needed” prophetically sums up the resurgent crypto-racism we are currently experiencing:
For the Negro Nurse there’s been no easy way.
The bars have been high, the day a long day
When the hand that could tend the sick or the hurt
Must also combat Jim Crow’s dirt.
No caution, no gloves, no antiseptic, no mask
Could protect her from prejudice as she stuck to her task.
Only devotion, and the will to be what she set out to be,
Kept the Negro nurse on her road to today’s victory.
From America’s garden now
The ugly weeds are being weeded:
Only five states bar their doors to dark hands
That would serve where service was needed.
In the Army, the Navy, colored nurses attend.
Her long gallant struggle portends a good end.
“Negro nurse” is a phrase men no longer need say.
“American nurse” means all nurses today.
The bars have been high. There is no magic wand;
Only unity and faith have brought this new dawn
Where the rights of democracy to all are ceded:
Her skilled hands may serve where service is needed.
Even with the obvious audience heights achieved with the liberal-ish Olberman programming (and Mr. O should be thanked for the exciting breaking 3 hour coverage given to the Breach Thursday evening...without it the MSM might have ignored it altogether), GE still feels the need to seed poisonous chunks of Buchanan and Scarborough's spittle-drenched lunacy...
The far-left put themselves in the trick bag, and now there is no way out.
Now if the left wing media knew about this story several months ago and didn't report it, well they shot themselves in the foot. Because if they would of reported it, then those on the far-left would of stayed with Hillary and she would of won the nomination. Now you liberals are screwed and you did it to yourself.
Thank God for Fox News and O'Reilly for breaking the Obama story. You go O'Reilly, you are the man.
It's probably better they came out now rather than later giving time for the tempest in a teapot to cool down.
http://www.prlog.org/10058429-fox-news-tv-shock...
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/humble/n...
Inspector Martha Mendoza ushered Juan Cruz Santiago, a small man with salt-and-pepper hair, away from the others. During gentle questioning under a ficus tree, he admitted that most days, he and his 66-year-old father worked for tips only. So did nearly half the other employees, he said. It had been that way for at least six years.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-carwash...
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/069
Large Gamma Ray burst March 19th
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/21mar_n...
Jules Verne Cargo Hauler and International Space Station fly-overs (2.5MB)...JV is 1st streak and ISS the 2nd
http://spaceweather.com/swpod2008/20mar08/issat...
BAY BUCHANAN, PRESIDENT, AMERICAN CAUSE: I will tell you what the problem is here.
This speech that Reverend Wright -- is full of hate for his country. It's full of hate for his fellow man. He talks about it in angry, angry, spiteful terms. He doesn't belong in a church, any church whatsoever that calls itself Christian.
And the problem that -- that Obama faces is, he sat there. He sat there in the pew. I'm not sure if he was there that one speech where -- where Wright condemns America three different times right in a row.
I tell you, I don't know an American that wouldn't have stood up and walked right out that door.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0803/21/...
Bay is an Irish Catholic but I guess she also would feel comfortable in the churches of Falwell, Robertson, and Hagee where John McCain now finds "comfort" for his soul! Does Bay Buchanan know ANYTHING about the great missions of Trinity UCC in Chicago? Their many programs for feeding, clothing, sheltering the poor? Their aid in helping Senior Citizens, AIDS counseling, hospice care, prison ministries, thousands of students tutored and also given scholarships to college? There are many reasons why the 8,000 member Trinity Church has supporters all over Chicago and the nation from many denominations, both black and white.
Speaking of fundies, a Federal Judge just ruled that the Southwestern [Southern] Baptist Theological Seminary's School of Theology was within its rights to fire professor Sheri Klouda after teaching there for six years as their interpretation of the Bible claims that a WOMAN cannot teach to men!
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/side/563939...
How about that for GENDER HATE?
REALLY???
Bay Buchanan must hate Catholics too.
I knew their hatred would turn back on themselves eventually.
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/72678885.jpg?v=1...
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/sports/2006-10/19/...
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42869000/...
I think this is what Denver is going to look like in August at the Democratic Convention. Not sure why I think that, but I would bet the farm on it.
What do you got beside bigotry?
War on terror? The economy?
C'mon. Tell me why McCain's supposedly better.
When I met my partner in 1999, he was very much a Republican and I couldn't persuade him to vote for Gore in 2000. Even though from a strong Minnesota Democratic family, his serving 23 years of active duty in the US Navy and hearing mostly Republican talking points from superiors, he was steered away from his family's beliefs.
However, since 2000, I have showed him every article published on how much the Republicans LOVE military contractors and shower them with BILLIONS of dollars, but also how much the Republicans play cheap and try to short change the "boots on the ground" and the VETS.
He voted for Kerry in 2004 and is now a proud registered Democrat supporting Barack Obama.
But this guy's been posting with so much superficial process stuff--Obama's preacher, riots in Denver--that's he's obviously been programmed by Fox News.
Don't see so much hope there.
And Obama will get smoked by McCain. You will see in November.
You on the far-left should just accept it and look forward to 2012, because you have lost 2008.
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"It was painful and it wasn't easy," he said. "I've spoken to others who have had that same conversation and they say at the end, it’s not all that pleasant.
"The former Democratic presidential candidate declined to elaborate further on his conversation with Clinton.Last month, Chris Dodd — another former presidential candidate who decided to endorse Obama last month — said he had a "not comfortable" conversation with Clinton informing her of the news.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/21...
Has to suck to have that woman screaming at you.
However, Pat Buchanan right now on MSNBC doesn't think Richardson will help Obama , even with the Hispanic connection, and McCain will have an easier time with Obama if he is the nominee than with Pat's "girl" Hillary.
Will be very interesting to see if they're right or politics can be changed.
This is bad news for the Democrats!
Rasmussen: (3/20/08)
McCain leading Obama by 8%
McCain leading Hillary by 10%
Reuters/Zogby: (3/14/08)
McCain leading Obama by 6%
McCain leading Hillary by 8%
Gallup: (3/20/08)
McCain leading Obama by 3%
McCain leading Hillary by 3%
PS - A few weeks ago McCain was behind in all of these polls by as much at 10%, so the swing is huge. The Democrats are finished for 2008.
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Which means it can swing back just as quickly.
You're trying to be a cop, but every police union I know supports Dems.
Why is that?
See what you fail to realize that we aren't sheep. We don't vote a certain way because the union endorses a candiate. That is something that we all laugh about. The union endorses dems and most cops vote republican.
So our expert who probably only KNOWS other reich-wingers doesn't know New York City.
The MSM's spewing about McCain being ahead of Clinton and Obama in the polls is laughable. If McCain becomes the next president we all will know the election was fixed AGAIN. There is no way in hell the people would believe that he won the election honestly. HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK WE ARE??????????? We listened to their phony poll crap for years, it's growing real OLD! No one wants 4 more years of Bush!
As far as Pelosi is concerned, she is a joke! She has b*lls to talk about the situation in Tibet when we are interfering in the sovereign nation of Iraq. Hundreds of thousands people dead, wounded and maimed on both sides brought on by a president and administration that lied (and is still lying) about wmd and Al Qaeda. It really angers me that she is worried about China and Tibet when we still have a sitting president that should have been impeached long ago for what he has done to this country and the whole world. When Nancy takes impeachment off the table and starts bringing the troops home I might start listening to her, until then, she isn't any different than the rest of what is running this country. It's time for a change. It's time for the LIES, GREED, DEATH and DESTRUCTION to end. Nancy should get her priorities straight in this country before she starts interfering where she doesn't belong. Time to vote Pelosi out with the rest of them. None of them care about you or me, all they care about is Corporate America and filling their pockets. As you can see, they are set for life and their spouses will also be set for life even after they are long gone. They are setting everything up for the New World Order with United Nations as the police force for it. SOMETHING VERY WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9159....
Why won't Edward pick one either?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9162....
That is funny. They are afraid to endorse a candidate. Wow ... that is unreal. What are they waiting for?
And did you hear what Gov. Richardson said in his speech for support of Obama? He said he is tired of dirty politics and this is why he's backing Obama.
Who is backing McCain? Foreign money? Yep! Are you backing him?
Like Reilly years before, the Zapantas host political events at the spacious mansion. But their preferred candidates are Latino Democrats. They have held two fundraisers for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and one for former presidential candidate Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico. Once a year, they offer tours of their vast collection of Mexican art.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-whittie...