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BMT (RIP)
06-11-2008, 05:37
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGeu_4Ekx-o
:D
:munchin
bmt
List just one of Senator Obama's accomplishments
He stopped Hillary (Bill & Chelsea)???
He stopped Hillary (Bill & Chelsea)???
He has ears like Ross Perot's so we know he'll be "all ears" regarding our issues....:D
Obama released his "Birth Certificate"
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/06/21/obamas-birth-certificate-bamboozle-cont/
Somebody has a few questions about it.
Some of the comments are rather interesting... :munchin
Passing out the "Homemade signs" for Obama.
http://theunfocused.blogspot.com/2008/02/passing-out-signs-at-obama-rally.html
You have to press the vedio at the link.
If he was a Republican the press would have ripped him to pieces months ago.
This Presidential election is shaping up to be the funniest show this year.
Latest: Spike Lee is calling on Obama to create a Chocolate City (aka:CC) in
(D.C.),, after Mayor Ray labeled NO a CC,, Stayed tuned,, there will be a CC near you shortly!!!
I Wonder if Spike even knows about the album/song Clinton wrote about D.C. as the "Chocolate City" in 1975?? That's George Clinton, of the funkadelic band Parliament.
We didn't get our forty acres and a mule,
but we did get you CC . . .
A Chocolate City is no dream,
it's my piece of the rock and I love you CC
It can only get better,, Waiting for McCain's retort..
Quick summary: Obama is smart. Very smart. And as ambitious as they come.
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June 20, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
The Two Obamas
By DAVID BROOKS
God, Republicans are saps. They think that they’re running against some academic liberal who wouldn’t wear flag pins on his lapel, whose wife isn’t proud of America and who went to some liberationist church where the pastor damned his own country. They think they’re running against some naïve university-town dreamer, the second coming of Adlai Stevenson.
But as recent weeks have made clear, Barack Obama is the most split-personality politician in the country today. On the one hand, there is Dr. Barack, the high-minded, Niebuhr-quoting speechifier who spent this past winter thrilling the Scarlett Johansson set and feeling the fierce urgency of now. But then on the other side, there’s Fast Eddie Obama, the promise-breaking, tough-minded Chicago pol who’d throw you under the truck for votes.
This guy is the whole Chicago package: an idealistic, lakefront liberal fronting a sharp-elbowed machine operator. He’s the only politician of our lifetime who is underestimated because he’s too intelligent. He speaks so calmly and polysyllabically that people fail to appreciate the Machiavellian ambition inside.
But he’s been giving us an education, for anybody who cares to pay attention. Just try to imagine Mister Rogers playing the agent Ari in “Entourage” and it all falls into place.
Back when he was in the Illinois State Senate, Dr. Barack could have taken positions on politically uncomfortable issues. But Fast Eddie Obama voted “present” nearly 130 times. From time to time, he threw his voting power under the truck.
Dr. Barack said he could no more disown the Rev. Jeremiah Wright than disown his own grandmother. Then the political costs of Rev. Wright escalated and Fast Eddie Obama threw Wright under the truck.
Dr. Barack could have been a workhorse senator. But primary candidates don’t do tough votes, so Fast Eddie Obama threw the workhorse duties under the truck.
Dr. Barack could have changed the way presidential campaigning works. John McCain offered to have a series of extended town-hall meetings around the country. But favored candidates don’t go in for unscripted free-range conversations. Fast Eddie Obama threw the new-politics mantra under the truck.
And then on Thursday, Fast Eddie Obama had his finest hour. Barack Obama has worked on political reform more than any other issue. He aspires to be to political reform what Bono is to fighting disease in Africa. He’s spent much of his career talking about how much he believes in public financing. In January 2007, he told Larry King that the public-financing system works. In February 2007, he challenged Republicans to limit their spending and vowed to do so along with them if he were the nominee. In February 2008, he said he would aggressively pursue spending limits. He answered a Midwest Democracy Network questionnaire by reminding everyone that he has been a longtime advocate of the public-financing system.
But Thursday, at the first breath of political inconvenience, Fast Eddie Obama threw public financing under the truck. In so doing, he probably dealt a death-blow to the cause of campaign-finance reform. And the only thing that changed between Thursday and when he lauded the system is that Obama’s got more money now.
And Fast Eddie Obama didn’t just sell out the primary cause of his life. He did it with style. He did it with a video so risibly insincere that somewhere down in the shadow world, Lee Atwater is gaping and applauding. Obama blamed the (so far marginal) Republican 527s. He claimed that private donations are really public financing. He made a cut-throat political calculation seem like Mother Teresa’s final steps to sainthood.
The media and the activists won’t care (they were only interested in campaign-finance reform only when the Republicans had more money). Meanwhile, Obama’s money is forever. He’s got an army of small donors and a phalanx of big money bundlers, including, according to The Washington Post, Kenneth Griffin of the Citadel Investment Group; Kirk Wager, a Florida trial lawyer; James Crown, a director of General Dynamics; and Neil Bluhm, a hotel, office and casino developer.
I have to admit, I’m ambivalent watching all this. On the one hand, Obama did sell out the primary cause of his professional life, all for a tiny political advantage. If he’ll sell that out, what won’t he sell out? On the other hand, global affairs ain’t beanbag. If we’re going to have a president who is going to go toe to toe with the likes of Vladimir Putin, maybe it is better that he should have a ruthlessly opportunist Fast Eddie Obama lurking inside.
All I know for sure is that this guy is no liberal goo-goo. Republicans keep calling him naïve. But naïve is the last word I’d use to describe Barack Obama. He’s the most effectively political creature we’ve seen in decades. Even Bill Clinton wasn’t smart enough to succeed in politics by pretending to renounce politics.
LINK (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/opinion/20brooks.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print)
Ret10Echo
06-25-2008, 05:54
Classic Dim...no accountability...write checks you can't cash...take a handout. I wonder if this decision was a catalyst for her concession. The buyout.:rolleyes:
Obama asks donors to help Clinton with debt
June 25, 2008 - 5:28am
Clinton donors had been making a clear case to Obama that he needed to use his fundraising resources to help her get out of the red. Her national finance co-chair, Hassan Nemazee, told The Associated Press last week that Clinton would be freer to campaign for Obama and raise money for him if she did not have to concentrate on retiring her debt.
Moreover, Nemazee said, it would be easier for Clinton fundraisers who wanted to help Obama to be able to tell former Clinton donors, "Look what Senator Obama has done for Senator Clinton."
At least one Obama supporter said that message was heard, prompting Obama's entreaty to his finance team on Tuesday.
for the rest of the story....
http://wtop.com/?nid=213&sid=1428045