Keith Olbermann is right with that "special comment".  However, what Clinton is doing is still less heinous than the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and the nasty stuff that Bush did against McCain in South Carolina in 2000. 

 

I am not lamenting my vote for Barack Obama, that is for sure!

^^ ILMAO!

If you have 30 minutes and haven't seen it already, here's Obama's "A More Perfect Union" speech in Philadelphia this week.

 

 

Even if he dosen't get elected, this speech will forever be remembered.

I've been waiting for someone to post this.  My brother had many of our cousins children over to watch this as we are multi racial/multi ethnic family.   :clap:

I thought that was an amazing speech on race issues. No one ever wants to talk about race, esp in Cleveland. I have to say though I am losing faith in our country's ability to open their minds to his candidacy on election day (someone cheer me up please!). Here is some intereting analysis about this issue, with some key points bolded. the link as some good graphics http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/magazine/16wwln-lede-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin

 

What’s the Real Racial Divide?

By MATT BAI

Published: March 16, 2008

When old-time Democrats in Washington reminisce about the days of brokered conventions — floor fights and frantic early-morning calls, deals cut under the haze of cigar smoke — they talk about them the way a paleontologist might describe the hurtling stride of a velociraptor: an awesome spectacle, to be sure, but not one you would really want to see up close. Last week, Democrats woke up to find that the unthinkable may be upon them. There might still be an unforeseen turn in the titanic clash between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, but the way it looks now, the outcome will probably rest with the party’s nearly 800 superdelegates, many of whom will no doubt expect to be bribed and beseeched by both campaigns. If that’s the case, there is about as much chance of settling the issue before the convention as there is of, say, Obama waking up one morning and deciding that “hope” is kind of a dumb slogan after all.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=164521&title=the-dialogue-begins

I don't like Hillary Clinton! The Clintons will stop at nothing to WIN. First that broad said McCain would make a better president than Obama then she tried to get OBama to be her Vice President. All she cares about is winning!

The Jeremiah Wright uproar is a painful reminder of how socially backwards the US still is. We'll accept "God Bless America" served up on everything from the marquee at Burger King to a Made In China beer coozy. But give us one decontextualized utterance of "God Damn America," and we lose our sh!t.

 

Kingfish's message to America:

 

"My fellow Americans. Get over yourselves. Not everybody believes every word out of their preacher's mouth. Thank you, and God bless."

 

Amen!

"All she cares about is winning!"

 

Folks, there's a word for politicians who lose - unemployed.

 

Regardless of what candidate you support, can we please PLEASE PLEASE get our brains around that?

Or in the case of this election - SENATOR

 

Point well taken, though.

"All she cares about is winning!"

 

Folks, there's a word for politicians who lose - unemployed.

 

Regardless of what candidate you support, can we please PLEASE PLEASE get our brains around that?

 

Who cares, she's already rich. She could write another book slandering Bill or start a big law firm or something. Besides, isn't she in her 60s? I'd be retiring!

 

People crave the power that comes with politics. Politics dictate who gets what and when.

 

 

 

Kingfish's message to America:

 

"My fellow Americans. Get over yourselves. Not everybody believes every word out of their preacher's mouth. Thank you, and God bless."

 

 

Are you saying I wasted all that time I spent in grade school with my hand over my heart reciting the pledge of allegiance?

Obama on Larry King tomorrow.

 

Kingfish's message to America:

 

"My fellow Americans. Get over yourselves. Not everybody believes every word out of their preacher's mouth. Thank you, and God bless."

 

 

Are you saying I wasted all that time I spent in grade school with my hand over my heart reciting the pledge of allegiance?

 

No, but the time you spent with your hand over your heart while the national anthem was playing was pretty much a wash.

 

As a side note, by wife grew up in communist Poland and was never, ever required to pledge allegiance to anything.

I totally agree it is brainwashing.

 

But while I do think Europe seems great, I don't believe they are a democracy. Energy policy, trade policy, immigration policy, agriculture policy, and monetary policy are all dictated in Brussels by an unelected body of ministers. That would be illegal under any democratic constitution. Polish folks are pro death penalty but Brussels outlaws it. The Euro was devastating to Italy. Europe is even moving towards joint military force.

 

We should all take solace in the fact that we don't live in Pyongyang :police: :police:

Europe is no more or less a democracy than North America. In fact, I'd say the process is more organic than ours in that most of the constituent countries have parliamentary systems. Action packed coalition-based politics!

 

And don't knock Pyongyang until you've seen the majestic Public Urinal Gardens. Breathtaking. Especially in the spring.

I consider those policy issues to be of most importance and I think most people agree.

The Chancellor of Germany can't regulate trade with China by imposing tariffs or duties, can't weaken or strengthen their currency, can't adjust borrowing rates, which would come in handy for their poor former soviet East. He can't create his own agriculture policy or close borders to other EU countries--some have terrible immigration inforcement, and they can't close their job markets to cheaper labor from the East (which you may or may not agree with but at least people have the right here to vote someone in who will do what they want).

Just as Michigan can't negotiate trade with China or impose tariffs and manipulate the dollar or overrule the federal death penalty (they were the first to ban it, you know).

 

Oversimplified, I know, but on the whole, EU member nations have seen (sometimes accidental) benefits. For example, once Poland made EU status, many Polish laborers headed elsewhere in Europe creating opportunities for workers from further east (Bialorus, Ukraine). Even still, member countries do enjoy direct influence over larger EU affairs; members directly elect their parliamentary representatives (seated by party, not country--still, pretty interesting), and those seats are apportioned by country size, giving populous, former eastern bloc countries  a nice presence--Poland has a lot of weight to throw around, and they have (for better or for Kaczinski). They're enjoying some mighty healthy economic growth--doing rings around Germany, in fact.

 

But back to Clinton/Obama:

 

 

 

The EU reminds me a bit of two earlier central European quasi governments:  Holy Roman Empire, or better yet, the German "Zollverien" of the mid 19th century, which also incoporated a customs union and even a currency union in some parts, but maintained state sovereinity.  EU is sort of in that tradition of a government that isn't based on the nation-state, and that it has developed in an ad-hoc, somewhat evolutionary fashion.

 

Im not sure that the European Parliament is all that powerefull yet, but Europe is just as democratic as we are.

 

What this has to do with Clinton or Obama I have no idea. Obama I think did a pretty good comeback from the "God Damn America" preacher flap with his speech last week.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg1LEsSeYJw

 

.... Obama I think did a pretty good comeback from the "God Damn America" preacher flap with his speech last week.

The republican media will do anything to not have to talk about the war or global warming.

 

Hey Mayday, where's our peace sign smiley?  Need something to counter machine gun man with tophat.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/03/pew-poll-finds.html?loc=interstitialskip

 

Pew poll finds that 'Obama weathers Wright storm'

 

A second national poll released today finds that Democrat Barack Obama has survived the furor over his former pastor's incendiary remarks, in no small part because of the speech he gave in response.

The coverage of Obama's "race" speech really made an unjunkie of me. This was a wide-ranging high-minded speech about an impossibly complicated issue, and all the talking heads could sputter and spew was "Did Obama Do Enough To Put The Wright Problem Behind Him." Of course not, just as he didn't put the race issue to bed with one speech. Many commentators judged his refusal to abandon his church and Wright as a failure on Obama's part. Quite frankly, I thought it showed great courage, and I think other voters, in their quiet, non 24-hour cable news cycle perceptions, saw the same thing.

 

Mike Huckabee saw it. His fellow Arkansan, Hillary Clinton, could not:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtUvro66ywk

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVWPcNmKG6s

hmm. it seems obama may be courting bloomie as a running mate. a not-muslim black man and a jew in the white house -- wrap your brains around that mr. & ms. voting america!:

 

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/27/obama.bloomberg/index.html

 

 

How do you think a President Obama will be received by the black people in the US military?  Probably a lot better than anybody named Clinton.  The officer corps was wholly disrespectful toward President Clinton.  They were full of shit, but nevertheless dealing with the military was a big problem for the Clinton administration.

I am not a Clinton supporter, but one thing I will give her credit for is the fact that she recognized how her husband was viewed by the military.  In her career in the Senate she has worked very hard to work with the top brass to have a better relationship.  From all accounts, it has worked.

^The New Yorker was floating the McCain-Rice ticket a few weeks ago. The way things are going now, a McCain-Howdy Doody ticket would prevail.

The coverage of Obama's "race" speech really made an unjunkie of me. This was a wide-ranging high-minded speech about an impossibly complicated issue, and all the talking heads could sputter and spew was "Did Obama Do Enough To Put The Wright Problem Behind Him." Of course not, just as he didn't put the race issue to bed with one speech. Many commentators judged his refusal to abandon his church and Wright as a failure on Obama's part. Quite frankly, I thought it showed great courage, and I think other voters, in their quiet, non 24-hour cable news cycle perceptions, saw the same thing.

 

I feel exactly the same way, and I have also tuned out the pundits and national news coverage for the time being.  It was pretty weak the way they covered what was meant to open up dialogue about a very complex and important issue in America.  They chose to ask/cover the simple questions, and not cover the topic that was intended to be covered.  Truly unfortunate.

Just as Michigan can't negotiate trade with China or impose tariffs and manipulate the dollar or overrule the federal death penalty (they were the first to ban it, you know).

 

Oversimplified, I know, but on the whole, EU member nations have seen (sometimes accidental) benefits. For example, once Poland made EU status, many Polish laborers headed elsewhere in Europe creating opportunities for workers from further east (Bialorus, Ukraine). Even still, member countries do enjoy direct influence over larger EU affairs; members directly elect their parliamentary representatives (seated by party, not country--still, pretty interesting), and those seats are apportioned by country size, giving populous, former eastern bloc countries  a nice presence--Poland has a lot of weight to throw around, and they have (for better or for Kaczinski). They're enjoying some mighty healthy economic growth--doing rings around Germany, in fact.

 

But back to Clinton/Obama:

 

 

 

 

Why does Obama have a fade from 1983?

I am not a Clinton supporter, but one thing I will give her credit for is the fact that she recognized how her husband was viewed by the military.  In her career in the Senate she has worked very hard to work with the top brass to have a better relationship. 

She got the Armed Services Committee appointment and put "a lot" into it.  good catch

I think someone used MS Paint to put on Obama's "wig".

March 28, 2008

Categories: Barack Obama

 

Obama vindicated on law-school title

 

As the first in a bill of particulars titled "Just Embellished Words: Senator Obama’s Record of Exaggerations & Misstatements," the Clinton campaign charged earlier this week: "Sen. Obama consistently and falsely claims that he was a law professor. The Sun-Times reported that, 'Several direct-mail pieces issued for Obama's primary [senate] campaign said he was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He is not. He is a senior lecturer (now on leave) at the school. In academia, there is a vast difference between the two titles. Details matter.' In academia, there's a significant difference: professors have tenure while lecturers do not. [Hotline Blog, 4/9/07; Chicago Sun-Times, 8/8/04]."

 

But the University of Chicago Law School has now posted a statement declaring his claims semantically sound: "The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as 'Senior Lecturer.' From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School's Senior Lecturers have high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined."

 

By Mike Allen 10:26 AM

 

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Obama_vindicated_on_lawschool_title.html

FNC's Chris Wallace comes to the aid of Obama. Welcome to Bizarro World.

 

FNC's Chris Wallace comes to the aid of Obama. Welcome to Bizarro World.

 

^Fair and balanced. ;)

^Such an unpleasant little dispute between such unpleasant little people.

Sometimes I am actually glad that I don't have cable.

http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/opinion/walthandelsman/blog/2008/03/animation_its_3_am.html

Obama Would "Immediately Review" Potential Of Crimes In Bush White House

 

Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that is on the minds of many Americans, yet rarely rises to the surface in the great ruckus of the 2008 presidential race -- and that is whether an Obama administration would seek to prosecute officials of a former Bush administration on the revelations that they greenlighted torture, or for other potential crimes that took place in the White House.

 

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Barack_on_torture.html

the boss backs obama. maybe now he can help barack out by sharing a few pointers on the secrets of how rich guys like them can get over with the working people. after all, bruce has certainly done pretty well for himself with that group. :roll:  :laugh:

 

 

April 16, 2008

The Boss backs Obama

Posted: 11:00 AM ET

 

Bruce Springsteen put his weight behind Obama Wednesday.

 

(CNN) — Rocker Bruce Springsteen has endorsed Barack Obama for president.

 

“At the moment, critics have tried to diminish Senator Obama through the exaggeration of certain of his comments and relationships,” said the New Jersey native, in a statement posted on his Web site Wednesday. “While these matters are worthy of some discussion, they have been ripped out of the context and fabric of the man's life and vision… Over here on E Street, we're proud to support Obama for President.”

 

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Obama/Springsteen '08

the boss backs obama. ...

 

"I always look at my work as trying to measure the distance between American promise and American reality," he told the paper. "And I think (Obama's) inspired a lot of people with that idea: How do you make that distance shorter? …”

 

I like Bruce's quote when he was campaigning for Kerry in 2004 about "creating the America that we hold in our hearts". 

Clinton on an Iran Attack: 'Obliterate Them'

 

Clinton further displayed tough talk in an interview airing on "Good Morning America" Tuesday. ABC News' Chris Cuomo asked Clinton what she would do if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons.

 

"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," Clinton said. "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."

...snip...

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Vote2008/story?id=4698059&page=1

Tonight Show Town Hall Meeting:  :-)

 

http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/video/#mea=243033

^^"Totally obliterate"? That has a real professional sound to it.

By BETH FOUHY and LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writers

40 minutes ago

 

 

 

PHILADELPHIA - A six-week, increasingly hard-edged Pennsylvania primary contest between Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama culminated Tuesday as voters registered their choice — a decision that could save or sink Clinton's flagging candidacy.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080422/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_rdp

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24594032/

 

Clinton Status puts focus on $20 million debt

AP

WASHINGTON - Should she lose or abandon her quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Rodham Clinton will have to deal with her campaign's more than $20 million debt — a step that could test her relationship with Barack Obama and raise new issues in campaign finance law.

75,000.

 

Well, I guess it explains why she is so determined to be Obama's running mate....

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Hillary Clinton's colossal blunder simply the last straw

 

Michaael Goodwin

Saturday, May 24th 2008, 4:00 AM

Neel/AP

 

SICK. Disgusting. And yet revealing. Hillary Clinton is staying in the race in the event some nut kills Barack Obama.

 

Hillary Clinton apologized Friday after citing the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (below) in defending her decision to keep running for the Democratic presidential nomination.

 

 

 

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http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/05/24/2008-05-24_hillary_clintons_colossal_blunder_simply-2.html