Jeremiah Wright said something last night on PBS last night that confirmed my worries about Barack Obama. It makes me very nervous about his presidency. What I have been wary of about is his willingness to speak with grace and eloquence out of one side of his mouth and then do something very worrisome when it comes to his true reality.
Wright said that Obama will say what he has to say because he is a politician. What this tells me is that Obama does not believe these things he says, but he will say them to get elected. He says them because his running for president and that's what people want to hear. He isn't necessarily a different type of candidate, but he will say that to get elected. He will make something a racial issue that he knows is not true.... if it will get him elected. He does not believe in his message per se, but as a politician, he will say what he has to say to get elected.
He can do this. It is fine. But if he chooses to do this, the American people should be aware of it.
Hillary admits her faults. She admits her style, She admits that you may not love her. But she puts it on the table. She is honest and will tell the truth to the American people. She is not a closet racist (like the front page of the WaPost today claims). Obama hides his true nature. He will not tell you the truth. He will tell you what you want to hear and then do something else behind the scene. He is the perfect (deceitful) politician.
The media and his followers have so bought in to his political message that they will never open their eyes to this hypocrisy. To me, this is scary, and it reminds me that I am not on the same page as most Americans. What seems obvious to me is usually overlooked by most of the electorate. It has been that way for the past 8 years and it seems that not much has changed.
tbhull
· 1 year ago
While your concerns about Obama and Wright may be well founded, you stateemtn that Hillary is honest and admits her faults could not be more incorrect.
Was she honest with Americans on NAFTA and the Bosnia sniper fire story? Even a liar can achieve a small level of honesty by admitting they lie regularly.
Admit mistakes? What about her Iraq war vote five years ago? She stillcannot admit this is a mistake as this albatross hangs around her neck continuuiing to choke the life out of her now failed campaign.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Good morning, AmBloggers. It's a lovely morning and a good weekend for the beach. Hang ten, y'all!
grandma
· 1 year ago
Media Matters has a post on how the media is 'carrying' McCain:
Things are a little easier if your name is John McCain -- after all, who needs the RNC when you have MSNBC?
As Media Matters has repeatedly documented, the media have largely given McCain a pass on his possible law-breaking -- and even continue to tout him as a paragon of campaign finance virtue.
But even if McCain were to slow his spending, he would hardly need the RNC to carry him -- not when the media are carrying his water.
Last week, Politico reported that John McCain has an "unorthodox strategy" to capture the presidency -- he "will rely on free media to an unprecedented degree to get out his message."
.......on CNN, Wolf Blitzer and Gloria Borger engaged in what one can only assume was a contest to see who could cram the most favorable descriptions of McCain into a single sentence.
But nowhere was the media's assistance of McCain (intentional or otherwise) more apparent than during MSNBC's coverage of two new right-wing advertisements attacking Barack Obama.
And so, because MSNBC was taken in by the oldest trick in the book (or pretends to have been), an anti-Obama attack ad that is airing nowhere gets a national television audience.
"She is honest and will tell the truth to the American people. "
Heavy sigh.
Traumatic
· 1 year ago
Do you really think Hillary is telling the truth? Or is she telling a lie by telling you she tells the truth? I'd guess the latter. No politician tells the whole truth. The ALL say what they need to say to get elected. I think they are OK with the lies and misdirection because they honestly feel that they are the best person for the job, and it's worth the deception so they can get elected and do what is best for us.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Pastor John Hagee has revised his view of God's wrath, and chances are John McCain couldn't be happier.
Without fanfare, in an e-mail sent the latter part of Friday, Hagee backed off his assertion that Hurricane Katrina was the Almighty's punishment of New Orleans because it had planned to host a gay pride parade.
If Hillary Clinton finds a way to win, she'll have a long list of grudges and grievances.
If she does, a lot of folks—including a huge chunk of the media—will join Bill Richardson (a.k.a. Judas) in the Deep Freeze. If the Clintons get back into the White House, it will be retribution time, like the Corleone family consolidating power in "The Godfather," where the watchword is, "It's business, not personal."
The use of the fear factor via "threats" of retribution just further evidence Clinton's desperation. So what. If she loses, which she should, she is the Junior Sentar without any yank having squandered all of her political capital in the monumental failure of a sickening and damaging campaign.
Old fart limousine liberals, frequenters of the DC circuit currently carrying the Clitnon's water like Eleanor Clift cannot stand the fact they are currently and for now everlastingly irrelevant
Eleanor's shaky bony finger swagger in somene's face while her weak whiny voice utter: "Watch out all you young whippersnappers for feeble failed feckless grandma Eleanor and bisqit and gravy grandpa Bill will get you if you do not support Hillary."
What a freakin' joke. These people need to leave.
dad
· 1 year ago
at least you can say i ran.
tbhull
· 1 year ago
It is diffcult to understand why Super Delegates, many of whom had led this country head first into its current situtation, should be trusted to select anything. A change candidate is at a distinct disadvantage when the candidate must peruade them for their vote while at the same time saying past leaders must leave for they have failed.
Traumatic
· 1 year ago
Hmmmm...What kind of hooker can I get for $600? :)
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
Hmmmm...What kind of hooker can I get for $600? :)
Well, if you are a fat girl I will spend six night with you! Trust me I will make it worth your wile. If you are a guy I can makes some calls...
And as Forrest Sptizer sais. "Hookers are like a box of chocolets. You got to pay more for the good ones."
grandma
· 1 year ago
WASHINGTON April 26, 2008, 07:54 am ET · A plan to award half-delegates for the disputed Michigan and Florida Democratic presidential primaries will get a hearing before party leaders.
The co-chairs of the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws committee sent members a memo Friday announcing a meeting May 31 to consider the idea.
If it were valid, Florida's election would have given Clinton 105 delegates to Obama's 67. Michigan's would have given Clinton 73 delegates, while 55 were uncommitted. That means awarding half-delegates would give Clinton 89 more delegates and Obama 33.5, with 27.5 uncommitted.
The plan would narrow Obama's lead among the pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses. But Clinton still would not catch him in the remaining primaries.
Obama has a 154-delegate lead among pledged delegates.
Why note have Dean commit DNC money for a Flrida and Michigan re-vote if the candidates pledge that the candidate behind in pledged delegates gracefully exits?
Busboy
· 1 year ago
That makes WAY too much common sense. What are you thinkin?
tbhull
· 1 year ago
I am thinking Obama needs to come out publiclly in favor of such a plan, turning up the pressure on Dean and Clinton.
Deacon_Blues
· 1 year ago
I'll be glad when we can re-direct all that pissed off energy that's been directed at the "other side" of our party to where it belongs -- at that crazy bastard McCain. They may think all this is sapping our energy, but just wait til we start taking it out on their sorry, greedy, traitorous asses.
grandma
· 1 year ago
McCain’s special It’s Time for Action Tour was in the impoverished Kentucky town of Inez on Wednesday, so he was unable to make it to Washington to vote on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. This is the bill that would restore workers’ ability to go to court in cases of pay discrimination.
McCain made it clear that if he had been in Washington, he would have voted no because the bill “opens us up for lawsuits, for all kinds of problems and difficulties.”
The bill being voted on this week would have made it clear that every time a woman like Ledbetter got a check that was lower than those of the men doing the same job, it triggered a new 180-day deadline. That was the status quo before Alito and John Roberts arrived on the scene. But the sponsors needed 60 votes, and they only got 56. “I would never have believed this in the United States of America,” said Ledbetter, 70, who watched from the Senate gallery.
Thanks for the lovely poem. Sometimes I need a break from all this 'white background noise'.
bill__free
· 1 year ago
why the media are doing such a "good job" reporting statement that they consider a :gaffe" by obama? where was this great media when every scandal of bushco was dismissed? plame, DA scandal, etc., you know them all. where was the media???
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
Did anyone see the interview with Rev Jeremiah Wright?
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
i heart Sappho
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
LOL Sitting here watching someone use their little finger to systematically go through and downgrade the points on what appears to be every comment I made yesterday. Have fun because it will not keep me from posting.
Face it Busboy, the tax 'refund' is just a modern way to buy votes for the GOP. It worked the last time so they are doing it again right before the Nov. election.
coolit needs to watch the Rev. Wright interview with Moyers again. Is Wright, speaking as a pastor, always lying to his people? hardly. coolit missed the point entirely.
lauren1959
· 1 year ago
Really good op in the NY Times OPINION | April 24, 2008 Op-Ed Contributor: Visible Man By COLSON WHITEHEAD People think I have it easy, but it’s surprisingly difficult being The Guy Who Got Where He Is Only Because He’s Black.
If Hillary Clinton finds a way to win, she'll have a long list of grudges and grievances.
If she does, a lot of folks—including a huge chunk of the media—will join Bill Richardson (a.k.a. Judas) in the Deep Freeze. If the Clintons get back into the White House, it will be retribution time, like the Corleone family consolidating power in "The Godfather," where the watchword is, "It's business, not personal."
Its worse than you think! She will also have a major majority in both upper and lower houses in DC. By the end of her second term there will be no more USA. WE will be the Socialist States of Hillery. Hear is an idea of the things she will do. #1) Re-education camps for all who voted for McCain or where Dems who sat out the race. #2) The replacement of all taxes to there pre-bush levels retroactive to 2001 when they took place for everyone who did not vote for her. #3) The Confascation of all proporties and moneys of anybody who refused to vote for Hillery Clinton. #4) An draft of all men age 18 to 24 for control of the population. #5) The arrest, detention and commitment of all persons who suffer from the mental disorder of conservitisum. #6) The disbanding of the two party system. And elections all together. #7) Camras placed in all homes to watch over and keep the population from hurting itself or commiting crimes. #8) The fifteen minnets of hate will be directed at Oboma the arch-traitor this will be expected of all party members dayly. As more directives come in I will keep you guys in touch. After all if you guys will wish to be in on the fun wont you?
lauren1959
· 1 year ago
The problem is she cheats... I wouldn't do it!
Clinton challenges Obama to debate without moderator
By MIKE GLOVER and SARA KUGLER, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago
MARION, Ind. - Hillary Rodham Clinton takes the debate dispute to a new level, challenging her opponent Barack Obama to face off with her in a debate without a moderator, Lincoln-Douglas style. ADVERTISEMENT
The Democratic presidential candidate said while campaigning in South Bend, Indiana, on Saturday the 90-minute debate would allow two candidates to ask each other questions.
Her campaign formally made the offer in a letter to the Obama campaign.
Clinton has been putting increasing pressure on Obama to debate her again before the Indiana and North Carolina primaries in nine days.
nsr
· 1 year ago
I did not live until this time crowned my felicity when I could say without a crime, I am not thine but thee.
This carcass breathed and walked and slept so that the world believed there was a soul emotions kept, but they were all deceived.
For as a watch by art is wound to motion, such was mine but never had Orinda found a soul til she found thine.
Which now inspires, cures and supplies and guides my darkened breast for thou art all that I comprise: my joy, my life, my rest.
No bridegrooms nor crowned conqueror’s mirth to mine compared can be. They have but pieces of this earth, I’ve all the world in thee.
Then let our flames still light and shine and no false fear control, as innocent as our design, immortal as our soul.
-Katherine Philips, 1631-1664
Busboy
· 1 year ago
In an attempt to double and triple the boost in the economy from the $600 rebate, Bush has proposed that citizens spend the money in the black market or the "cash" market so as to keep the money in circulation without being collected as taxes. Recommended expenditures are: hookers, moonshine, panhandlers, illegal immigrant yardboys, street vendors and waitress tips.
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Manipulating little brains for fun and profit.
Wright said that Obama will say what he has to say because he is a politician. What this tells me is that Obama does not believe these things he says, but he will say them to get elected. He says them because his running for president and that's what people want to hear. He isn't necessarily a different type of candidate, but he will say that to get elected. He will make something a racial issue that he knows is not true.... if it will get him elected. He does not believe in his message per se, but as a politician, he will say what he has to say to get elected.
He can do this. It is fine. But if he chooses to do this, the American people should be aware of it.
Hillary admits her faults. She admits her style, She admits that you may not love her. But she puts it on the table. She is honest and will tell the truth to the American people. She is not a closet racist (like the front page of the WaPost today claims). Obama hides his true nature. He will not tell you the truth. He will tell you what you want to hear and then do something else behind the scene. He is the perfect (deceitful) politician.
The media and his followers have so bought in to his political message that they will never open their eyes to this hypocrisy. To me, this is scary, and it reminds me that I am not on the same page as most Americans. What seems obvious to me is usually overlooked by most of the electorate. It has been that way for the past 8 years and it seems that not much has changed.
Was she honest with Americans on NAFTA and the Bosnia sniper fire story? Even a liar can achieve a small level of honesty by admitting they lie regularly.
Admit mistakes? What about her Iraq war vote five years ago? She stillcannot admit this is a mistake as this albatross hangs around her neck continuuiing to choke the life out of her now failed campaign.
Things are a little easier if your name is John McCain -- after all, who needs the RNC when you have MSNBC?
As Media Matters has repeatedly documented, the media have largely given McCain a pass on his possible law-breaking -- and even continue to tout him as a paragon of campaign finance virtue.
But even if McCain were to slow his spending, he would hardly need the RNC to carry him -- not when the media are carrying his water.
Last week, Politico reported that John McCain has an "unorthodox strategy" to capture the presidency -- he "will rely on free media to an unprecedented degree to get out his message."
.......on CNN, Wolf Blitzer and Gloria Borger engaged in what one can only assume was a contest to see who could cram the most favorable descriptions of McCain into a single sentence.
But nowhere was the media's assistance of McCain (intentional or otherwise) more apparent than during MSNBC's coverage of two new right-wing advertisements attacking Barack Obama.
And so, because MSNBC was taken in by the oldest trick in the book (or pretends to have been), an anti-Obama attack ad that is airing nowhere gets a national television audience.
Who needs the RNC when you have MSNBC?
http://mediamatters.org/items/200804250009
Heavy sigh.
Without fanfare, in an e-mail sent the latter part of Friday, Hagee backed off his assertion that Hurricane Katrina was the Almighty's punishment of New Orleans because it had planned to host a gay pride parade.
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog...
thanks for the loan, me.
If Hillary Clinton finds a way to win, she'll have a long list of grudges and grievances.
If she does, a lot of folks—including a huge chunk of the media—will join Bill Richardson (a.k.a. Judas) in the Deep Freeze. If the Clintons get back into the White House, it will be retribution time, like the Corleone family consolidating power in "The Godfather," where the watchword is, "It's business, not personal."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/134012
The use of the fear factor via "threats" of retribution just further evidence Clinton's desperation. So what. If she loses, which she should, she is the Junior Sentar without any yank having squandered all of her political capital in the monumental failure of a sickening and damaging campaign.
Old fart limousine liberals, frequenters of the DC circuit currently carrying the Clitnon's water like Eleanor Clift cannot stand the fact they are currently and for now everlastingly irrelevant
Eleanor's shaky bony finger swagger in somene's face while her weak whiny voice utter: "Watch out all you young whippersnappers for feeble failed feckless grandma Eleanor and bisqit and gravy grandpa Bill will get you if you do not support Hillary."
What a freakin' joke. These people need to leave.
Well, if you are a fat girl I will spend six night with you!
Trust me I will make it worth your wile.
If you are a guy I can makes some calls...
And as Forrest Sptizer sais. "Hookers are like a box of chocolets. You got to pay more for the good ones."
The co-chairs of the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws committee sent members a memo Friday announcing a meeting May 31 to consider the idea.
If it were valid, Florida's election would have given Clinton 105 delegates to Obama's 67. Michigan's would have given Clinton 73 delegates, while 55 were uncommitted. That means awarding half-delegates would give Clinton 89 more delegates and Obama 33.5, with 27.5 uncommitted.
The plan would narrow Obama's lead among the pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses. But Clinton still would not catch him in the remaining primaries.
Obama has a 154-delegate lead among pledged delegates.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st...
McCain made it clear that if he had been in Washington, he would have voted no because the bill “opens us up for lawsuits, for all kinds of problems and difficulties.”
The bill being voted on this week would have made it clear that every time a woman like Ledbetter got a check that was lower than those of the men doing the same job, it triggered a new 180-day deadline. That was the status quo before Alito and John Roberts arrived on the scene. But the sponsors needed 60 votes, and they only got 56. “I would never have believed this in the United States of America,” said Ledbetter, 70, who watched from the Senate gallery.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/opinion/26col...
where was this great media when every scandal of bushco was dismissed?
plame, DA scandal, etc., you know them all.
where was the media???
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-ridley/the-u...
sean hannity - pull your head out
coolit needs to watch the Rev. Wright interview with Moyers again. Is Wright, speaking as a pastor, always lying to his people? hardly. coolit missed the point entirely.
OPINION | April 24, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor: Visible Man
By COLSON WHITEHEAD
People think I have it easy, but it’s surprisingly difficult being The Guy Who Got Where He Is Only Because He’s Black.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/opinion/24whi...
If Hillary Clinton finds a way to win, she'll have a long list of grudges and grievances.
If she does, a lot of folks—including a huge chunk of the media—will join Bill Richardson (a.k.a. Judas) in the Deep Freeze. If the Clintons get back into the White House, it will be retribution time, like the Corleone family consolidating power in "The Godfather," where the watchword is, "It's business, not personal."
Its worse than you think!
She will also have a major majority in both upper and lower houses in DC.
By the end of her second term there will be no more USA. WE will be the Socialist States of Hillery. Hear is an idea of the things she will do.
#1) Re-education camps for all who voted for McCain or where Dems who sat out the race.
#2) The replacement of all taxes to there pre-bush levels retroactive to 2001 when they took place for everyone who did not vote for her.
#3) The Confascation of all proporties and moneys of anybody who refused to vote for Hillery Clinton.
#4) An draft of all men age 18 to 24 for control of the population.
#5) The arrest, detention and commitment of all persons who suffer from the mental disorder of conservitisum.
#6) The disbanding of the two party system. And elections all together.
#7) Camras placed in all homes to watch over and keep the population from hurting itself or commiting crimes.
#8) The fifteen minnets of hate will be directed at Oboma the arch-traitor this will be expected of all party members dayly.
As more directives come in I will keep you guys in touch.
After all if you guys will wish to be in on the fun wont you?
Clinton challenges Obama to debate without moderator
By MIKE GLOVER and SARA KUGLER, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago
MARION, Ind. - Hillary Rodham Clinton takes the debate dispute to a new level, challenging her opponent Barack Obama to face off with her in a debate without a moderator, Lincoln-Douglas style.
ADVERTISEMENT
The Democratic presidential candidate said while campaigning in South Bend, Indiana, on Saturday the 90-minute debate would allow two candidates to ask each other questions.
Her campaign formally made the offer in a letter to the Obama campaign.
Clinton has been putting increasing pressure on Obama to debate her again before the Indiana and North Carolina primaries in nine days.
when I could say without a crime, I am not thine but thee.
This carcass breathed and walked and slept so that the world believed
there was a soul emotions kept, but they were all deceived.
For as a watch by art is wound to motion, such was mine
but never had Orinda found a soul til she found thine.
Which now inspires, cures and supplies and guides my darkened breast
for thou art all that I comprise: my joy, my life, my rest.
No bridegrooms nor crowned conqueror’s mirth to mine compared can be.
They have but pieces of this earth, I’ve all the world in thee.
Then let our flames still light and shine and no false fear control,
as innocent as our design, immortal as our soul.
-Katherine Philips, 1631-1664
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/...