In a world where genetics and not culture matter, Barack Obama was “half black.” In the real world, however, he is a white kid who called himself “Barry,” attended private school in the paradise of Hawaii, and went home each night to a mother and grandmother from the plains of Kansas. The influence of Barry’s black (African) father was negligible at best, providing him with little more than the name that the child quickly rejected in favor of the more Anglo moniker he used every day of his young life.
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«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 553 of 553George Bush will emerge from the 2008 election as the greatest Republican president since Lincoln. His only failing lay in not suspending habeas corpus and locking up the entire Congressional Progressive Caucus at Gitmo with the rest of the enemy combatants.
As FJ would say: Ah-oh.
They're going to go ballistic, now.
And this should help:
"You always know you've struck gold when liberals react with hysteria and rage to something you've said."
Anne Coulter
:)
FJ, thanks for that info on Hagee.
It'll come in handy.
Elephant Man: Agreed.
George tries the Monica on his prince...gets the back of the hand again...how embarrassing. In Le Monde, Jean-Michel Bezat says, "In the beginning of the 1970s, when a barrel of black gold cost less than $2, no one imagined that one day an American president would be reduced to begging the king of Saudi Arabia for an increase in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' (OPEC's) production to bring down prices. Yet the West has reached that point. After an initial rebuff in mid-January, George W. Bush was at it again on Friday, May 16, during his meeting with King Abdullah in Riyadh."
Meanwhile, the growing debacle in Iraq took an ominous turn and one which could prove decisive for an American public already disgusted with the administrations performance in what they see as an unnecessary,criminal and costly war: Powerful Iraqi cleric flirting with Shiite militant message
Associated Press: 05/22/2008 12:49:44 PM MDT
Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric has been quietly issuing religious edicts declaring that armed resistance against U.S.-led foreign troops is permissible—a significant shift by a key supporter of the Washington-backed government in Baghdad.
The edicts, or fatwas, by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani suggest he seeks to sharpen his long-held opposition to American troops and counter the populist appeal of his main rivals, firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia.
Shunned, Grotesque GOP Freak says: George Bush will emerge from the 2008 election as the greatest Republican president since Lincoln. His only failing lay in not suspending habeas corpus and locking up the entire Congressional Progressive Caucus at Gitmo with the rest of the enemy combatants.
Of course, Lincoln wouldn't piss on the modern GOP. As for the rest of it you did say the best Republican, so that lowers the bar somewhere beneath floor level. However, my response would still have to be...haha...uh, sorry, I meant...oh, fuck it...hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Now, the poor creatures are trying to hang their greasy, little size six dunce caps on Obama lobbying troubles...I really don't think that'll help too much against Mr. McLobby himself. After all, he seems to be the world champ.
Who is that? Izzat you, Uncle "Fathead" Joe (Stalin)? Or Boil?
Damn, you zombies all talk the same.
Or is it Karl? (a.k.a. "Frankie")
You guys are funny, hiding in a closet an talking through the keyhole.
SICK. Disgusting. And yet revealing. Hillary Clinton is staying in the race in the event some nut kills Barack Obama.
It could happen, but what definitely has happened is that Clinton has killed her own chances of being vice president. She doesn't deserve to be elected dog catcher anywhere now.
Her shocking comment to a South Dakota newspaper might qualify as the dumbest thing ever said in American politics.
Her lame explanation that she brought up the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy because his brother Ted's illness was on her mind doesn't cut it. Not even close.
We have seen an X-ray of a very dark soul. One consumed by raw ambition to where the possible assassination of an opponent is something to ponder in a strategic way. Otherwise, why is murder on her mind?
It's like Tanya Harding's kneecapping has come to politics. Only the senator from New York has more lethal fantasies than that nutty skater.
We could have seen it coming, if only we had realized Clinton's thinking could be so cold. She has grown increasingly wild in her imagery lately, invoking everything from slavery to the political killings in Zimbabwe in making her argument for the Florida and Michigan delegations. She claimed to be the victim of sexism, despite winning the votes of white men.
But none of it was moving the nomination needle, with Obama, despite recent dents, still on course to be the victor.
So she kept digging deeper, looking for the magic button. Instead, she pushed the eject button, lifting herself right out of consideration.
Giving voice to such a vile thought is all the more horrible because fears Obama would be killed have been an undercurrent to his astonishing rise. Republican Mike Huckabee made a stupid joke about it recently. Many black Americans have talked of it, reflecting their assumption that racists would never tolerate a black President and that Obama would be taken from them.
Clinton has now fed that fear. She needs a very long vacation. And we need one from her.
Say good night, Hillary. And go away.
A 10-DAY drive by Iraqi troops has dismantled al-Qaeda's network in Iraq's northern city of Mosul regarded by the US as the jihadists' last urban bastion, the interior ministry says.
"Operation Mother of Two Springs has enabled us to dismantle and weaken the al-Qaeda network in Nineveh province," spokesman Abdel Karim Khalaf said.
A total of 1480 people have been detained since the operation began on May 14, Khalaf said.
US ambassador Ryan Crocker said Iraqi troops had displayed leadership in the Mosul operation and the al-Qaeda network was close to being completely defeated.
Speaking to reporters during a visit to the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf in central Iraq today, Crocker said Iraqi security forces in the past six months had shown they were up to the job of dealing with insurgents.
"I am not saying al-Qaeda is defeated, but they have never been so close to being defeated," Crocker said. "Iraqi forces are leading in Basra, Mosul and Sadr City."
Pointing to the security provided for today's visits to the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, Crocker said he was impressed with the deployment of the local security forces.
"Iraqi forces are now protecting foreign visitors," he said.
Few clashes have been reported during the Iraqi-led and US backed operations in Mosul and surrounding areas of Nineveh province.
"Among those arrested were important al-Qaeda leaders, including both military commanders and intelligence chiefs, as well as members of Ansar al-Sunna, the Army of Mujahedeen and the Brigades of the 1920 Revolution", all Sunni Arab insurgent groups, Khalaf said.
Mosul is Iraq's third city with a population of well over a million. It has a mixed population including many Kurds and Christians, but al-Qaeda managed to establish strongholds in several Sunni Arab areas of the city.
Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki announced plans for a decisive campaign against al-Qaeda in Mosul as long ago as February.
The US military has provided support for the operation in Mosul but it has been conducted and led by Iraqi troops.
Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric has been quietly issuing religious edicts declaring that armed resistance against U.S.-led foreign troops is permissible—a significant shift by a key supporter of the Washington-backed government in Baghdad.
The edicts, or fatwas, by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani suggest he seeks to sharpen his long-held opposition to American troops and counter the populist appeal of his main rivals, firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia.
Never has so gross a misreading of the Iraqi War been perpetrated upon Democrats still praying for a US disaster.
If Sistani wanted to oppose US Forces, he'd issue GENERAL and UNLIMITED fatwas against US Forces.
But I will say this, if PM Maliki isn't careful, Iraq's real Shi'a patriots stand ready to take him down. There's no room in a democratic Iraq for Maliki to start taking out his political rivals or taking revenge on behalf of Sunni traitors. Sadr and Sistani will not allow a new Saddam to rise from the ashes of this war. Maliki would be well served to pull his sorry ass out of Sadr City, ASAP.
"We could have seen it coming, if only we had realized Clinton's thinking could be so cold."
"We could've seen it coming if..."
...you stopped calling every Clinton critic a "Clinton-hater" and listened to what they were saying for the last 16 years.
fj said:
"Maliki would be well served to pull his sorry ass out of Sadr City, ASAP."
fj, I'm surprised. It's high time he goes in there and puts Al Sadr and his militia down.
That's crap John. Sistani, Sadr and the Sadr family stood up to Saddam Hussein (AND PAID FOR IT WITH THEIR BLOOD) and kept him off the Shi'a neck for generations. Half of Baghdad is not called Sadr City for nothing.
Unlike Khomeini and the other pussy-clerics who scurried off to Qom and Iran when Hussein rattled his saber... Sadr and Sistani stayed and ministered to the Iraqi people. These leaders deserve our utmost respect, for they are not the Iraqi people's 'fair weather friends'. THEY are Iraq's true patriots, and they deserve a voice in the Iraqi government. We should NOT allow Maliki to cut them out for the sake of political expediency.
Worries in GOP About Disarray in McCain Camp
Adam Nagourney, of The New York Times: "Senator John McCain's presidential campaign is in a troubled stretch, hindered by resignations of staff members, a lagging effort to build a national campaign organization and questions over whether he has taken full advantage of Democratic turmoil to present a case for his candidacy, Republicans say. In interviews, some party leaders said they were worried about signs of disorder in his campaign, and if the focus in the last several weeks on the prominent role of lobbyists in Mr. McCain's inner circle might undercut the heart of his general election message: that he is a reformer taking on special interests in Washington."
THEY are Iraq's true patriots, and they deserve a voice in the Iraqi government. We should NOT allow Maliki to cut them out for the sake of political expediency.
Never were truer words spake...and by a wingbat!! ass- tounding...
now that patriot is doing what he must and what he should and is beginning to unleash his forces on the invader. Total nonsense to say he doesnt mean it.
He's cautions and tough and will up the ante when needed.
We should have steamrolled Fallujah.
And Iraq is now a constitutional republic, not a collection of fiefdoms.
The fact that simian agrees with you should tell you something, fj.
Sick News Channel...
FOX News "Jokes" About Assassinating Barack Obama, Would Do It If "We Could." Abominable. The FOX News FCC License Should be Yanked.
FOX News "Jokes" About Assassinating Barack Obama, Would Do It If "We Could." Abominable. The FOX News FCC License Should be Yanked.
FOX News "Jokes" About Assassinating Barack Obama, Would Do It If "We Could." Abominable. The FOX News FCC License Should be Yanked.
And Iraq is now a constitutional republic, not a collection of fiefdoms.
This is what your brain looks like on Fox...It aint purdy...Just Say Turn it the Fuck Off, Mama!
McCain's White Pastor Bigotry Problem Doubled Down on Rev. Wright: "After saying Friday that he would not withdraw his endorsement of Sen. John McCain, pastor Rod Parsley has changed his mind."
Buffett sees "long, deep" U.S. recession 5/25
BBC: An audit of some $8bn (£4bn) paid to US and Iraqi contractors has found that almost every payment failed to comply with US laws aimed at preventing fraud. 5/26
See, that's your small, accountable government party.
BBC: An audit of some $8bn (£4bn) paid to US and Iraqi contractors has found that almost every payment failed to comply with US laws aimed at preventing fraud. 5/26
Gee, did they DECLINE?!! Noooo!
Gee, are you spazzing out?
Yeeeeeeeeeeees!
Gee, auditors are upset that their immaculate contract laws weren't followed in a war zone... ain't that a shame?
Some arguments are just too stupid for consideration.
I wonder how Obama's gonna 'splain his close association w/Frank Marshall Davis.... hmmmm.
Senator McCain’s communist connections consist of bombing the communists during the Vietnam War and then being shot down, badly injured, captured, and tortured by them. On the other hand, Senator Barack Obama was mentored by an identified Communist Party member in Hawaii who had functioned as a Stalinist agent. That was before Obama developed cordial relationships with communist terrorists who openly supported the communist regime that tortured McCain and killed 58,000 of our fellow Americans.
Can we have some coverage of the contrast between the two candidates on Memorial Day? It’s not just a matter of McCain serving in the military and Obama not doing so. It’s a matter of which side they were on.
McCain was on the American side during the Vietnam War. He personally risked his life and carried out the U.S. policy of resisting the communist military conquest of South Vietnam. Obama had friendly associations with those who had been on the other side and they helped launch his political career in Chicago. Obama can’t solve this problem by occasionally wearing an American flag lapel pin.
Keep in mind that we are not talking about associating with those who simply opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Obama’s friends, such as Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, cheered for a communist victory and visited Havana, Cuba and Hanoi, North Vietnam to bring that about. Like his comrades in the communist Students for a Democratic Society, Tom Hayden of “Progressives for Obama” wrote a letter urging a communist military victory over the U.S. These were people who actually supported the enemy.
In the case of Frank Marshall Davis, Obama’s childhood mentor, we are dealing with someone who was on the communist side long before the Vietnam War. Davis supported Stalinist Russia even after the Hitler-Stalin pact. This relationship may help explain why Obama would leave Hawaii, associate with Marxist professors and attend socialist conferences in college (as he admits in his book, Dreams From My Father), and then associate with terrorists, communists, and socialists in Chicago, where he would launch his political career. Davis was a key influence over the young Obama, filling his head with anti-American thoughts.
Taking down the Obama campaign is gonna be easier than shooting fish in a barrel...
He left all the ammo just lying around in his first book...
Rev. Jeremiah Wright's a mere choirboy compared to Frank Marshall Davis.
I love it how a red diaper baby like Obama grows up dreaming of taking down the system, and ends up with delusions of becoming the system's leading advocate.
And then Barry has the gall to run around without his flag pin on Memorial Day. Isn't his patriotism problem bad enough?
Buffett sees "long, deep" U.S. recession
You knew the GOPigs would give us another Hoover in time...but some idiots have to be shown.
Buffett doesn't even know how to spend his own money... that should tell you something about his intelligence... a stump comes to mind.
Red Badge said:
"And then Barry has the gall to run around without his flag pin on Memorial Day."
That was funny, after that spiel he gave to explain why he didn't wear one.
flag pins...hahah....no wonder they're losers
Precisely. Why is it that commie scum who hate their countries have such a hard time putting on a simple flag pin? They're principled in their hatred of America!
And if they can't "curb" their 'principled' ego's in support of a symbol of the collective ideal they aspire to lead, how can we trust them to curb them to the principles embodied in the US Constitution?
A flag pin is such a little 'compromise' to make. But if you can't compromise on a small thing... you can be sure that the "big" things are completely out of the question...
Pierced noses? Sure, me too! Pierced tongues? Sure, me too! Pierced nipples? Sure, me too! Pierced clitorises? Sure, me too! Pierced belly buttons? Sure...
Well, pierced belly buttons are sexy.
But American flag lapel pins?
That's just silly!
May consumer confidence falls to near 16-year low
Soaring gas prices and weakening job prospects left shoppers gloomier about the economy in May, sending a key barometer of consumer sentiment to its lowest level in almost 16 years. The New York-based...
Can you spell LANDSLIDE...of course not, you're wingbats...
Home Prices Fall an Astonishing 14.1 % in First Quarter...damn
Anonymous said...
flag pins...hahah....no wonder they're losers
Wow...really...and they're still chattering!! Good place to park those little minds.
I guess affirmative action home-lending wasn't such a 'hot' idea after all. LOL!
Ah-oh. Here comes the troll patrol.
Sales of new homes across the United States rose an unexpected 3.3 percent in April from the prior month, to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 526,000 homes, a government report showed Tuesday.
The spike in sales confounded most economists forecasts of a sales decline last month.
Obama's lies keep coming...
Less famously he (Obama) placed his uncle then serving in the US military at the liberation of Auschwitz :
In World War Two we didn't have the concept of post traumatic stress syndrome. People had to basically handle it on their own," he said. Referring to an uncle who had been one of the first U.S. troops into Auschwitz, the concentration camp, Obama said: "The story in the family is he came home and just went up in the attic."
Historians would have told him Auschwitz was not liberated by U.S. troops but by those of the Soviet Union.
Seems like more than his uncle belongs in the family attic.
"...of course not, you're wingbats..."
That's gotta be Karl. Karl, I already told you that we're "wingnuts," YOUR moonbats.
We called you moonbats first, btw, then you came back with "wingnuts," but moonbats sounds worse, so you now you changed it to wingbats because you're plagiarising copycats.
Today's NY Times...
AT the end of last year, when conventional wisdom said the economy was headed for recession — and a severe one at that —a fixed-income strategy was simple: just shift into the lowest-risk investments you could find.
The flood of money that poured into ultrasafe Treasury bonds sent the average long-term government bond fund soaring 10.6 percent between Oct. 9, 2007, near the peak of the credit crisis, and March 10 of this year.
But in March, there was a noticeable shift in thinking. After the stock market began to stabilize — a move that, in past economic downturns, has often foreshadowed a rebound in business activity — investors started to contemplate the possibility that the economy, though still sluggish, might not be in as much trouble as they had once feared.
Now, bond investors face some hard choices.
Oooops. So much for DNC talking points.
Consumer confidence hits a 16-year low, which isn't good because consumer spending comprises two-thirds of economic activity.
And the economy-bashers know that.
Thing is, they'll be bashing the economy thru the first Tuesday in November, then suddenly discover a "recovery" and a reason to spend more $$$
The Washington Post's "Fact Checker" blog has given Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama three Pinocchios (significant factual error and/or obvious contradiction) for his bogus claim that one of his uncles helped liberate the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz.
This is down from the four Pinocchios (whopper!) fact checker Michael Dobbs originally gave the junior senator from Illinois for his Memorial Day misstatement reported by NewsBusters just hours ago.
Pinocchio's fact checkers get their own liberal bias Pinocchio for downgrading Obama's Pinocchio rating.
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence.
hahaha, that trumps that little Obama non-story by a factor of ten.
Richard Viguerie Tells Libertarian Party Convention: McCain 'Trying to Get Conservative Support on the Cheap;' Conservatives May be Open to Libertarians in 2008 Vote
This will be the Libertarians biggest year ever. If they continue to press after the election, they have a chance to build a significant third party. The GOP is effectively dead.
Obama gains the ever important Fidel Castro endorsement...
Gee, first Hugo Chavez, then Hamas, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and now Fidel Castro himself.
Obama, the choice of a new totalitarian generation!
Gee, he got the wrong camp name...ooooooh, biiiiig deal...
Holocaust Museum confirms, Obama's uncle's Infantry Division liberated Buchenwald
too bad, twerps ...nothing goin right for you losers, it seems.
First, Scott McClellan....and now... the Uber Neo-Con:
Change of heart: Francis Fukuyama 'is one of America's most famous neo-conservatives and his ideas on the spread of democracy have informed the Bush administration's foreign policy. But Francis Fukuyama, the author of The End of History and Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, is now a sharp critic of US President George W Bush and has even come out as a supporter of Democrat frontrunner Barack Obama for president.' 5/28
just a bad day for riko sikos....
Worst president in history is also most embarrassing to be seen with...
McCain afraid of being seen with Bush today. 'The Wall Street Journal’s Laura Meckler writes that President Bush and John McCain’s joint fund-raiser in Phoenix tomorrow will be the “first time in three months” the two will be seen together. But the McCain campaign is trying its hardest to ensure cameras don’t capture the moment:'
Fukuyama is soooooo yesterday's news. Is THAT all you can come up with?
So does Obama have the ever-inmportant Putin endorsement yet? LMAO!
So, how's the Democrats "Plan" to save us from high gas prices working for us???
Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices..." Republicans "continue to give the American people empty rhetoric rather than join the Democrats who are working to lower gas prices now." So said Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on April 19, 2006.
Well, Democrats have been in charge of the House of Representatives for more than two years now, and the price of gas is a whopping $1.61 higher than it was when they took control of the House and Senate — a 58 percent increase!
What was their plan in 2006? It was to empower the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute oil companies engaged in price gouging and market manipulation. How would they prove this? By doing what they do best: Govern by subpoena.
They started by subpoenaing Republicans by the bucketful to investigate past "misdeeds," then shifted to steroid use in baseball, and finally got to "Big Oil" by grilling their CEO's as you read this. (More populist pandering to their base.) About all they can prove is these guys make hefty salaries, and that the problem is really supply and demand.
As to supply, over the years Democrats have effectively shut down U.S. oil companies from costly exploration by prohibiting offshore and ANWR drilling (Arctic Natural Wildlife Refuge.) It is guesstimated that ANWR would yield maybe 1.5 million barrels per day and that the Gulf of Mexico has about 40 billion barrels in reserve. (China has a deal with Cuba and is already doing exploratory drilling off the Florida coast. Our oil companies cannot.) Democratic environmentalists hate oil refineries. They loathe coal: We have a 200-year supply. (China builds a new coal plant every three days.) They reject nuclear power.
And to top it all off, the House passed a bill to sue OPEC over oil prices and production. Talk about political pandering and arrogance. Democrats talk about Bush imperialism and yet they are writing laws to govern the rest of the world. We certainly do not have equity on our side. We want OPEC to increase their production, yet Democrats refuse to allow our companies to drill for oil in our own U.S.! Drill for oil anywhere but in our back yard. (My dislike of OPEC oil oligarchs is, that like Saddam Hussein, they siphon off all the profits for themselves. At least in the U. S. a substantial amount of oil company stock is owned by pension funds which share in the dividends.)
As to demand, oil guru T. Boone Pickens figures peak oil production to be at about 85 million barrels a day. Demand is at 87 million. China and India are becoming large consumers, with China alone doubling oil consumption during the past 10 years. The industrial revolution was a huge success because of the widespread use of fossil fuels. The rest of the world is now enjoying economic growth and prosperity because of its consumption of energy, which added to ours, is at a rate greater than it is being replaced.
We are probably right now in the midst of a major global energy paradigm shift because of energy consumption, which will require prodigious advances in science and technology. I believe this will happen. But success will also require experienced, extraordinary leadership both in the executive and legislative branches. Unfortunately, I don't see this happening. It'll be politics as usual.
So the Democrat's "commonsense plan" worked like a charm — if their goal was to raise the price of gas for the consumer. Their slavish devotion to the "Gore" theory of the cause of global warming has also prompted proposed legislation that will create a complicated system called emissions trading or "cap-and-trade," which will set caps on emissions and allows trading in resulting emission allowances as though they were securities.
This subject goes well beyond this column, but it has failed in Europe, and one can only imagine the political chicanery and cheating, as companies lobby for high limits in emission allowances. Most experts think that placing a price on carbon dioxide, either through this scheme or through a tax, will result in punitive costs to lower income families. In fact in March, Roy Innis, the chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, warned that Democrats were "Slowly destroying the energy system we have, and we are promoting an expensive, environmentally harmful illusory energy system that exists only in theory and environmental rhetoric ... We are harming our poorest families ... This must not and cannot continue."
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said it best: "All we need is two or three more years of not doing something stupid and the science will regain the debate instead of the political activists, and we'll have policies based on science and not emotion."
Former press secretary's book bashes Bush
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that President Bush relied on an aggressive "political propaganda campaign" instead of the truth to sell the Iraq war, and...
Of course, everyone but morons knew this all the time. GOP...party of mass murder...
Look at this moron...
Well, Democrats have been in charge of the House of Representatives for more than two years now...
Took office beginning of 2007...now in one year, five months...and oh yeah...a majority in one house,...everybody knows they run the government...hahahahahaha lots of luck with that one you sick fuck.
Well, Democrats have been in charge of the House of Representatives for going nigh on two years now, and the price of gas is a whopping $1.61 higher than it was when they took control of the House and Senate — a 58 percent increase!
Notice he doesn't deny Democrat's responsibility, just the length of time they'be been fucking up the economy...
Here's the whole thing for the little neokooks to deny...
Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled US on Iraq
Wednesday 28 May 2008»
by: Michael D. Shear, The Washington Post
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan speaking to the media on board Air Force One in 2006. In his new memoir, McClellan has charged that President George W. Bush was not "open and forthright on Iraq" and relied on "propaganda" to sell the war. (Photo: AFP/File/Tim Sloan)
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" led by President Bush and aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" and "downplaying the major reason for going to war."
McClellan includes the charges in a 341-page book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," that delivers a harsh look at the White House and the man he served for close to a decade.
He describes Bush as demonstrating a "lack of inquisitiveness," says the White House operated in "permanent campaign" mode, and admits to having been deceived by some in the president's inner circle about the leak of a CIA operative's name.
The book, coming from a man who was a tight-lipped defender of administration aides and policy, is certain to give fuel to critics of the administration, and McClellan has harsh words for many of his past colleagues. He accuses former White House adviser Karl Rove of misleading him about his role in the CIA case. He describes Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as being deft at deflecting blame, and he calls Vice President Cheney "the magic man" who steered policy behind the scenes while leaving no fingerprints.
McClellan stops short of saying that Bush purposely lied about his reasons for invading Iraq, writing that he and his subordinates were not "employing out-and-out deception" to make their case for war in 2002.
But in a chapter titled "Selling the War," he alleges that the administration repeatedly shaded the truth and that Bush "managed the crisis in a way that almost guaranteed that the use of force would become the only feasible option."
"Over that summer of 2002," he writes, "top Bush aides had outlined a strategy for carefully orchestrating the coming campaign to aggressively sell the war.... In the permanent campaign era, it was all about manipulating sources of public opinion to the president's advantage."
McClellan, once a staunch defender of the war from the podium, comes to a stark conclusion, writing, "What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary."
McClellan resigned from the White House on April 19, 2006, after nearly three years as Bush's press secretary. The departure was part of a shake-up engineered by new Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten that also resulted in Rove surrendering his policy-management duties.
A White House spokeswoman declined to comment on the book, some contents of which were first disclosed by Politico.com. The Washington Post acquired a copy of the book yesterday, in advance of its official release Monday.
Responding to a request for comment, McClellan wrote in an e-mail: "Like many Americans, I am concerned about the poisonous atmosphere in Washington. I wanted to take readers inside the White House and provide them an open and honest look at how things went off course and what can be learned from it. Hopefully in some small way it will contribute to changing Washington for the better and move us beyond the hyper-partisan environment that has permeated Washington over the past 15 years."
The criticism of Bush in the book is striking, given that it comes from a man who followed him to Washington from Texas.
Bush is depicted as an out-of-touch leader, operating in a political bubble, who has stubbornly refused to admit mistakes.
"A more self-confident executive would be willing to acknowledge failure, to trust people's ability to forgive those who seek redemption for mistakes and show a readiness to change," he writes.
In another section, McClellan describes Bush as able to convince himself of his own spin and relates a phone call he overheard Bush having during the 2000 campaign, in which he said he could not remember whether he had used cocaine. "I remember thinking to myself, 'How can that be?'" he writes.
The former aide describes Bush as a willing participant in treating his presidency as a permanent political campaign, run in large part by his top political adviser, Rove.
"The president had promised himself that he would accomplish what his father had failed to do by winning a second term in office," he writes. "And that meant operating continually in campaign mode: never explaining, never apologizing, never retreating. Unfortunately, that strategy also had less justifiable repercussions: never reflecting, never reconsidering, never compromising. Especially not where Iraq was concerned."
McClellan charges that the campaign-style focus affected Bush's entire presidency. The ill-fated Air Force One flyover of New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina struck the city, was conceived of by Rove, who was "thinking about the political perceptions" but ended up making Bush look "out of touch," he writes.
He says the White House's reaction to Katrina was more than just a public relations disaster, calling it "a failure of imagination and initiative" and the result of an administration that "let events control us." He adds: "It was a costly blunder."
McClellan admits to letting himself be deceived about the unmasking of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, which resulted in his relentless pounding by the White House press corps over the activities of Rove and of Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in the matter.
"I could feel something fall out of me into the abyss as each reporter took a turn whacking me," he writes of the withering criticism he received as the story played out. "It was my reputation crumbling away, bit by bit." He also suggests that Rove and Libby may have worked behind closed doors to coordinate their stories about the Plame leak. Late last year, McClellan's publisher released an excerpt of the book that suggested Bush had knowledge of the leak, something that won McClellan no friends in the administration.
As McClellan departed the White House, he said: "Change can be helpful, and this is a good time and good position to help bring about change. I am ready to move on."
He choked up as he told Bush on the South Lawn, "I have given it my all, sir, and I have given you my all."
Bush responded at the time: "He handled his assignments with class, integrity. He really represents the best of his family, our state and our country. It's going to be hard to replace Scott."
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Notice he doesn't deny Democrat's responsibility, just the length of time they'be been fucking up the economy...
Haha...is some little math wizard commenting on those big economic numbers?
Gee, Barry's grandpa liberated Buchenwald. What a HERO! I wonder what his other relatives did...
A barefoot old woman in a ripped dress is sitting on a log in front of her tin-roof bungalow in this remote village in western Kenya, jovially greeting visitors.
Mama Sarah, as she is known around here, lives without electricity or running water. She is illiterate and doesn't know when she was born. Yet she may have a seat of honor at the next presidential inauguration in Washington — depending on what happens to her stepgrandson, Barack Obama.
Mama Sarah cannot communicate with Obama, who calls her his grandmother, because she speaks only her Luo tribal language and a little Swahili. Senator Obama's Luo is pretty much limited to ''musawa,'' meaning ''how are you?''…
Mr. Obama's late grandfather is said to have been the first person in the area to wear Western clothes rather than just a loincloth. For a time he converted to Christianity and adopted the family name Johnson.
Later he converted to Islam, taking four wives. Senator Obama's father, who apparently converted to Catholicism while attending a Catholic school, was also polygamous in keeping with local custom, taking an informal Kenyan wife who preceded Mr. Obama's mother but remained a consort, according to accounts by local people and the senator himself.
The father, also named Barack Hussein Obama, was as much of a pathbreaker as his son. He went from herding goats in Kogelo to studying in Hawaii and at Harvard, even if his career as an economist was frustrated in part by ethnic rivalries…
Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices..." Republicans "continue to give the American people empty rhetoric rather than join the Democrats who are working to lower gas prices now." So said Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on April 19, 2006.
Well, Democrats have been in charge of the House of Representatives for [nigh on] two years now, and the price of gas is a whopping $1.61 higher than it was when they took control of the House and Senate — a 58 percent increase!
Wow, those sure are some big economic numbers that demonstrate one heck of a lack of common sense planning. But then, what's ANOTHER broken promise from the Speaker? She said she was going to end the war, too...
Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices..." Republicans "continue to give the American people empty rhetoric rather than join the Democrats who are working to lower gas prices now." So said Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on April 19, 2006.
Well, Democrats have been in charge of the House of Representatives for [nigh on] two years now, and the price of gas is a whopping $1.61 higher than it was when they took control of the House and Senate — a 58 percent increase!
Wow, those sure are some big economic numbers that demonstrate one heck of a lack of common sense planning. But then, what's ANOTHER broken promise from the Speaker? She said she was going to end the war, too...
Swifty's raising the volume to a Spinal Tapesque 11.
Up until today, he was spewing "The party of criminals!" line, over and over again.
Now it's "The Party of Mass Murderers!"
He made sure to come over to my blog and spew it.
"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."
Lenin
However:
"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."
FDR
And:
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
Plato
And there you have it.
ReCreate '68 may indeed do so...
So far, the Denver DNC Convention host committee is about $15 million short of the $40.6 million it must raise by June 16. With only $25 million raised so far, the committee is scrambling to offer a new round of special deals for corporate underwriters, as well as to devise a backup plan should the fund-raising fall short and plans for the convention need to be scaled down.
“We will raise the money,” Chris Lopez, a spokesman for the host committee, said. “We are working every day to get it done. We are in a situation where we have to get it done and we will. We can’t make any excuses.”
There are many reasons that have been floated for the money woes faced by the Denver committee. It is not uncommon for host committees to lag in fund-raising, only to see large donations arrive in the month before the convention. And some are concerned that the protracted nominating fight between Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has made fund-raising more difficult.
Gee, maybe nobody wants to sponsor a Convention that has been designed to rob Hillary Clinton, the DNC's first woman presidential candidate, of the Democratic Presidential nomination... think?
LMAO!!!!
US cluster bombs to be banned from UK
Richard Norton-Taylor
The Guardian,
Thursday May 29 2008
Article history
The US will no longer be able to stockpile cluster bombs at its military bases in Britain under government proposals for an international ban on the controversial weapons, it emerged last night.
As diplomats from more than 100 states unanimously passed a treaty banning the use of cluster bombs around the world, it emerged that British ministers are prepared to go further.
The government has agreed to scrap the two types of cluster weapon in the armoury of British forces, but it will also ask the US to get rid of its cluster bombs based here, and it will no longer ask for a "phasing out" period for its newest cluster munition - the M73, which is attached to Apache attack helicopters.
Both this weapon and the M85 - an Israeli-designed artillery shell used by British forces during the 2003 invasion of southern Iraq - will now be scrapped as soon as possible. Cluster weapons scatter "bomblets" across a wide area. Many of them fail to explode, later killing and maiming civilians long after the weapons are fired.
The US will no longer be able to stockpile cluster bombs at its military bases in Britain under government proposals for an international ban on the controversial weapons, it emerged last night.
Oh well, I guess we'll just have to forward deploy nukes instead of cluster bombs. LOL!
... or maybe we can use the space for the fifth generation mind-control biologicals!
Shhhh. Let's simply refuse to tell them what's where!
McClellan said that bush could convince himself that a lie was not a lie simply because bush convinced himself to believe the lie
No shit? Him and his kkkult munkis.
Sure beats parsing just what the definition of "is", is.
Hey, are you trying to insinuate that ontology ISn't an important subject relative to philosophical existentialISm?
Nah, wouldn't dream of it. That's FAR too sophISticated a way of thinking... all yah gots to do is b'lieve, hon!
Yep, works for me.
General conclusion:
How aboutr box-cutters? Are they okay?
Makes you wonder if any of the terrorists signed the treaty...
"McClellan said that bush could convince himself that a lie was not a lie simply because bush convinced himself to believe the lie."
In other words, he was convinced he was telling the truth (duh), kind of like fathead, only with better justification.
Breaking from Newsmax.com
Murdoch Predicts Democratic Landslide, Obama Win
News Corp Chief Executive and Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch on
Wednesday predicted a Democratic landslide in the U.S. presidential
election against a gloomy economic backdrop over the next 18 months.
Meanwhile, Bill Clinton predicted that without Hillary Clinton at the top of the ticket, Democrats will lose in November...
and she's NOT going to be at the top of the ticket. :)
...and the racist ravings from Obama's church continue...
Sen. Barack Obama issued a statement this afternoon after a video tape emerged showing Father Michael Pfleger, a Roman Catholic priest, 'speechifying' from the pulpit of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
In the statement Obama said he was "deeply disappointed" in Pfleger after his sermon was captured on videotape showing the priest mocking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and white people from the pulpit of Trinity, the home church of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Sen. Obama.
I'm deeply disappointedf too...
that Barry and his wife are such petty RACISTS.
OMG - It's another minister-el show, but THIS time done in white face...
I don't hate ALL white people. Only the GOP bugger-ow-z.
Scott McClellan offers withering portraits of George Bush and Karl Rove, confirms we went to war in Iraq under false pretenses, and that we were serially lied to about the outing of Valerie Plame. Interesting stuff, Scott. But about five years too late. How many times are we going to have a key Bush administration official try to wash the blood off his hands - and add a chunk of change to his bank account - by writing a come-clean book years after the fact instead of when it actually could have made a difference?
Damn right, commie!
They've been keeping us down for far too long.
Viva la Revolution!
Power to the people! Strength to the revolutionary vanguard! Toss that useless Constitution and break out the MANIFESTO!!!!
It's time for CHANGE!
YES WE CAN!
Glad to see ya finally de-cloak, Barry. Isn't it refreshing not ti have to repudiate your friends and embrace the unwashed masses?
Who's giving the sermon at Trinity this Sunday? Or are you going to come out completely and start attending mosque again?
After all "...it's just a goddam piece of paper," say GDumbyer.
He'll throw it out and we'll rewrite it...he's one of those useful tools and fools.
Former Bush Donors Now Giving to Obama
Greg Gordon writes for McClatchy Newspapers: "Beverly Fanning is among the campaign donors who'll be joining President Bush at a gala at Washington's Ford's Theater Sunday night, but she says that won't dissuade her from her current passion: volunteering for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. She isn't the only convert. A McClatchy computer analysis, incomplete due to the difficulty matching data from various campaign finance reports, found that hundreds of people who gave at least $200 to Bush's 2004 campaign have donated to Obama. Among them are Julie Nixon Eisenhower, the granddaughter of the late GOP president Dwight Eisenhower; Connie Ballmer, the wife of Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer and Ritchie Scaife, the estranged wife of conservative tycoon Richard Mellon Scaife.
Obama may be the only candidate in history to be backed by George Soros and his new lover, the estranged wife of Richard Mellon-Scaife.
Wow! Let's be real proud of THAT!
It's not an accusation, John. It's a fact. FJ just copies and pastes these loooooong passages of Plato, etc., that have no relevance to anything. He does it as a diversionary tactic when he's completely lost on a topic or has been thoroughly thrashed--and, usually, both.
Bingo! More than a few have noted this strange defense mechanism...If you really want to upset him, tell him he can't post that crap on your blog (if you have one). He'll get all pouty and toddlery in no time.
Or ask him about that time he argued that Americans were only really free in the 19th century (forget black Americans). Or, that time he kept arguing that blacks are genetically dumber than whites. I just love that one. Every racist in America is just getting eaten up inside by Obama's Columbia-Harvard creds.
Ah, Narcissus is back. Where's Echo? Oh, I get it, You're Echo too (this time)! Do you like playing role-reversal games?
Please, dora, just because your boyfriend is willing to parrot the pirate doesn't mean squat. People can judge for themselves the relevance of the passages I quote.
They don't need you, or him, misrepresenting cases to them.
But hey, if building strawmen and knocking them down is your bag, then go for it!
btw - Keep doing your Pfleger impersonation and push the racial division angle... you've got it workin', girl!
...but you might want to consider doin' those impersonations on the q.t. for a while. Barack is in another one of his throw the messenger under the bus moods. ;-)
Fj, your unstable babbling is really disturbing. The repressed homosexuality got you down again? Get your "wife" to check you into a clinic or something..
hahaha..."toddlery"
is very nice word
What witless repartee! I'll be back if/when the A Team ever shows up.
Hayden’s ‘Upbeat Assessment’ On Al Qaeda ‘Not Consistent’ With Intel Reports To Capitol Hill 6/2
Nobody's allowed to get optimistic till we tell Congress we're optimistic. Now get back in line everybody.
P*ss off, simey!
But hey, if building strawmen and knocking them down is your bag, then go for it!
Isn't that rich. FJ is accusing someone other than Evan of building strawmen. Also, definitely a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Where is "Evan is a Boil on the Ass of Society"? He'd really get a kick out of this.
"'The media won't let go of these ridiculous cocaine rumors,' I heard Bush say.
'You know, the truth is I honestly don't remember whether I tried it or not.
We had some pretty wild parties back in the day, and I just don't remember.'"
"I remember thinking to myself, How can that be? How can someone simply
not remember whether or not they used an illegal substance like cocaine?
It didn't make a lot of sense."
-- Scotty the Underbear, ratting out his lying former employer
Link
So simey, why is Obama ducking the mayor of Detroit? Could it be because he's a DEMOCRAT? LMAO!
LA Times: John McCain Has A "Nightmare" YouTube Problem 6/2
"I remember thinking to myself, How can that be? How can someone simply
not remember whether or not they used an illegal substance like cocaine?
It didn't make a lot of sense."
Well, he admitted he was a boozer, so to say "I forgot" (i.e. because he was drunk) is a perfectly legitimate excuse.
And it's not like Jeb said "My brother has a nose like a vacuum cleaner" or anything, and when Roger said that about Bill, none of you (hitherto) Clinton-loving Bush-haters gave a damn, so shaddup.
Hi Dora. :)
Mr. Sayet:
I took the liberty of posting your Heritage Foundation speech at my blog. Excellent analysis.
Gee, looky looky. I'll give this to Barack, he sure knows how to take care of his friends, ESPECIALLY the one's he disses...
I wish I could donate $15M to my church.
...especially using other people's money.
It's "owed" as reparations.
Spelling bee contestants: Bush is ‘embarrassing.’
The Examiner caught up with some contestants in the recent National Spelling Bee and asked them their thoughts on national politics:
First important question: Can President Bush spell “constitutional”? Jessica Shakesprere, an 11-year-old from West Virginia, doesn’t think so. Texas’ own Raymond Soriano, 14, remembered that “Bush misspelled ‘business’ one time. That’s embarrassing.” Eleven-year-old Vincent Medina from Florida told us, “Anyone can out-spell Bush.” Jonathan Schut, a 13-year-old from Canada, thinks he can out-spell Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice too. Those are some big words for middle schoolers.
Gee. Democrats sure are getting desperate... things must not be going as well as they claim.
GRAND RAPIDS -- Kent County Republicans continue to claim a recent break-in at their Grand Rapids headquarters was politically motivated
And one party leader publicly blamed unnamed Democrats in a mass e-mail sent to supporters.
"We knew the Democrats would do anything to win, but we didn't expect this!" wrote Kent GOP Chair Dave Dishaw in a note asking for money to help cover "costs" and support candidates.
Grand Rapids Police on Tuesday confirmed they are investigating an early morning break-in that occurred last Thursday at the GOP's offices at 264 Leonard St. NW, near U.S. 131.
Lt. Ralph Mason said a report indicates thieves entered a side door and took about $200 from a cash box, a laptop computer and a large box of stamps. They also smashed computers, crumpled banners and took miscellaneous items, he said.
Hey, did you like the great affirmative action stunt that the Democrats pulled off on the DNC so that their "boy" Obama could secure the nomination before the convention? All they had to do was throw democracy and the concept of one man, one vote OUT the window and LOWER the BAR in the number of delegates needed to secure the nomination. So they disenfranchised HALF he voters from Florida and HALF the voters from Michigan.
Damn, even the Founders counted a slave as 3/5th a person.
But hey, gotta lower dat bar for dem negroes and wimmins.
from today's news...
"The conviction of Tony Rezko represents a deep stain on the Democratic Party in Illinois. Democrats from top to bottom, including Barack Obama, stood idly by — and in some instances directly benefited — while the massive Blagojevich corruption scheme flourished. They rode into office promising to clean up after the George Ryan scandals and they have taken corruption in Illinois to a new low. They ought to be held accountable at the polls starting this November."
Oh my. Barry, say it ain't so...
Wow. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are a godsend for the GOP.
Congress' disapproval rating hitting 76% this week. We could get a Constitutional Amendment abolishing the DNC ratified with those kind of numbers...
Whatever else he might accomplish, Senator Barack Obama has prevented the restoration of the Clintons. That alone is cause for rejoicing.
How did he do it? It was partly about him, but mostly about her. Many have remarked that in the identity-politics world of the Democratic Party, the first credible black candidate trumped the first credible woman candidate.
That is largely true, but it is not a phenomenon of the Democratic Party alone. Americans as a whole are eager to give their support to blacks who manifest aspirations of racial harmony. Consider the last 25 years. The most popular comic: Bill Cosby. The most popular athletes: Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods. The most popular talk-show host: Oprah Winfrey. The most popular general: Colin Powell. Obama demonstrated the same holds true in politics.
Yet a freshman senator with an ultraliberal voting record does not win the nomination without deep weakness in the competition. Obama became the chosen instrument for those who fervently wished to prevent the Clintons from coming back. In this race, being the not-Clinton was as important as being black.
When the Democratic Party rules committee decided last weekend to give Obama several dozen delegates from the disputed Michigan delegation, it marked the end of Clinton's slim chance to win the nomination. But it was back in Michigan on Jan. 15 when the formidable power of being the not-Clinton first became clear.
In Michigan, Clinton was the only name on the ballot, the others having withdrawn their names to conform with the rules against too-early primaries. Competing against no one in what was considered a meaningless primary, Clinton won 55% of the vote. But a staggering 40% of Democratic primary voters went out in the middle of winter to vote for "uncommitted," i. e., to vote for anyone but Hillary Clinton.
That was the key to this election year -- the determination of so many to stop the apparent Clinton juggernaut. It is the flip-side of the Obama phenomenon -- just as he makes Americans feel better about their country, the Clintons make Americans feel dirty.
It's not just that both of them are "extraordinarily gifted liars," in the words of former Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey, though
Hillary's make-believe story about dodging sniper fire in Bosnia confirmed that. It's not just their shady associations, though Bill's lucrative post-presidential life has been filled with those. It's not just their willingness to damage their party for their own good, though their explicit racial campaigning shocked even their progressive supporters.
It's not just the sexual harassment, the cash-for-pardons, the preening sense of entitlement, the perpetual claims of victim-hood, the general all-purpose tawdriness of it all. It is something deeper, a sense that this couple exists solely, exclusively, totally and utterly for the pursuit of power. It is what they have devoted their entire adult lives to. Power cannot corrupt them, as the perpetual search for power has long since rendered them free of any principles or honour to corrupt.
A year ago Barack Obama stated, "I have been a long-time advocate for public financing of campaigns combined with free television and radio time as a way to reduce the influence of moneyed special interests. I introduced public financing legislation in the Illinois State Senate, and am the only 2008 candidate to have sponsored Senator Russ Feingold's (DWI) bill to reform the presidential public financing system. In February 2007, I proposed a novel way to preserve the strength of the public financing system in the 2008 election. My plan requires both major party candidates to agree on a fundraising truce, return excess money from donors, and stay within the public financing system for the general election. My proposal followed announcements by some presidential candidates that they would forgo public financing so they could raise unlimited funds in the general election. The Federal Election Commission ruled the proposal legal, and Senator John McCain (r-AZ) has already pledged to accept this fundraising pledge. If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election."
...unless I can get a whole bunch MORE cash from George Soros.
"The Democratic Party has devolved into a club for the illegitimately aggrieved, the self-absorbed, the self-hating and the perpetually pissed-off. It is a sanctuary where solipsistic malcontents and their disjointed causes find refuge and support. It has long ceased being an earnest gathering of broad minds where man’s timeless problems are examined against the backdrop of the Constitution and solutions to them proposed based on the actual realities of the human condition. It is now the political province of the intellectually deceased, where frightened, lock-step ideologues and other small men and women concoct and promote divisive, destructive, weird and cowardly policies developed within a not-so-quaint, quasi-Marxist stricture of gender, class and race. " --Rocco DiPippo
Rocco kicks ass!
Wow. I guess Evan's trolls are getting new talking points this week. Must have been the Clintonites.
Why does Barack Obama have trouble finding untainted members for his three person panel vetting vice presidential candidates?
Eric Holder vetted the March Rich pardon for Bill Clinton. That bad judgment should disqualify him. Now comes news that a second member of the panel, James Johnson -- former head of Fannie Mae -- received a sweetheart "mortgage" from disgraced Countrywide Finance, one of the major sources of our mortgage crisis .
Johnson was forced out of Fannie Mae when a regulator found the company had violated accounting rules in an effort to conceal fluctuations in profit and had failed to maintain adequate risk controls. In April ,he finally agreed to settle charges.
Now he is one of the key people helping Barack Obama, whom he has served as a long-time advisor . One of the people who is responsible for ensuring an orderly, and honest, market accepted a sweetheart deal, and now he is picking a veep candidate?
What kind of judgment is Barack Obama displaying?
Judgement? It's all paybacks. Where you you think Obama got the money to run with?
Obama is such a corrupt little tool. McCain needs to sick the attorney generals office after these corrupt Democratic assclowns.
I doubt that they'll do nearly as good a job as the DNC's little gay flying monkey's do to EVERY opposition voice... especially strong and clear ones like that of Evan Sayet.
No wonder the liberal leeches want free health care. They can no longer afford to pay the wages of sin.
1 in 4! wow!
ROFLMAO!
Nanc has the same post as that link. Where's the h/t fj?
Oh My. Another wormy DNC apple heads back into the rotten apple barrel.
Nope, those Democrats are no better than the rest of the pols in DC. Worse, because they only snitch on (R)'s and wash the feet of the multi-generational career criminals like the Kennedy's and Pelosi's.
Amen, fj!
Is it “demonizing” Barack Obama to point out that he’s “the most liberal senator” in Congress? Mike Huckabee, auditioning for the vice presidential nomination on the Republican ticket, says “I think we will make a huge mistake if we try to demonize Barack Obama.” Is identifying him as a liberal demonizing him?
If so, the first big mistake goes to the lone Democrat in Oklahoma’s congressional delegation, Dan Boren, who is the son of former U.S. Senator David Boren. “I think this is an important time for our country,” Boren said in an interview with the Associated Press. “We’re facing a terrible economic downturn. We have high gasoline prices. We have problems in our foreign policy.”
While Obama talks about reaching across the aisle and fashioning a new Washington, “unfortunately his record does not reflect working in a bipartisan fashion.” Boren speaks the truth, of course. Obama is a factory-issue leftist who is as partisan as they come in Washington. There’s a real disconnect between the talk and the walk.
Boren represents a mostly rural district that gave two-thirds of its primary vote to Hillary Clinton. “We’re much more conservative,” he said. “I’ve got to reflect my district. No one means more to me than the people who elected me. I have to listen them… Our nominee is not my first choice.”
Huckabee, who made the comment about Republican activists demonizing Obama while campaigning for a state senator in New Hampshire, does have good political insticts, even though I far prefer a host of others to him as the vice presidential nominee.
“I’m grateful for Barack Obama and his magnificent climb and the journey he has made” as the first black positioned to win his party’s nomination.“As an American, I can obviously salute the extraordinary barriers that have been broken already in this election cycle. But…he has gone far enough this year because, ultimately, this election is not going to be about something symbolic, it [will] be about something substantive.” said Huckabee.
He compared the Obama surge to the new-car shopping experience. “When you got to the showroom, the car is really appealing; it’s got that new car smell and all the bells and whistles. But then you’ve got to decide, can I afford the payments? I think when people start looking at what Obama is saying, the very last thing they need in this tough economy is more tax burden on their families and their future.”
Question of the day: Will the new-car smell wear off before or after Democrats sign the contract and drive it out of the showroom? I’m betting that Boren is the first in a line of blue dog Democrats who know the full tab to be paid for picking the hybrid version of a shiny new McGovern-mobile. Promises 40 miles per gallon, delivers 12. And when the costs of buying off all the constituencies who assembled the Obama ride are factored in, working Americans will suffer an extreme case of sticker shock..
Sounds familiar... like someone I know who's already lost that new car smell... ;-)
DENVER - Coloradans once again will see Ralph Nader's name on the ballot when they vote for president in November.
Nader's campaign staff in Denver filed papers to get him placed on the ballot Thursday.
It was a simple process that required only $500, a statement of intent from Nader and his vice presidential pick, Matt Gonzalez, and the names of nine people willing to serve as Nader's votes at the Electoral College, said Jenny Przekwas, Nader's Colorado campaign manager.
"It's a tremendous, leading-the-nation example of democracy," Przekwas said.
Nader has been on Colorado's presidential ballot for the last several elections. In 1996, he got 25,000 Colorado votes. He swelled to 91,000 in 2000, but dropped to fewer than 13,000 in 2004.
Nader is running as an independent candidate and isn't affiliated with the Green Party, like he was in 2000.
His 2000 run was his most successful. He earned enough votes in Florida that some Democrats blamed him for tipping the state - and the presidential election - to George W. Bush.
Przekwas isn't worried about something similar this year in Colorado, where polls show Barack Obama with a slight lead over John McCain.
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"We're not concerned with that," Przekwas said. "We're concerned with voting our conscience and voting for a candidate that best represents our views."
Unlike the major party candidates, Nader supports universal, government-run health care, she said.
He also supports full military and corporate withdrawal from Iraq, she said.
Nader has made the ballot in three other states, and his campaign hopes he makes the ballot in at least 40 states by November.
Seven other candidates are on Colorado's ballot, and Democrats and Republicans have not formally named their candidates yet, said Secretary of State spokesman Rich Coolidge.
...as it should be
Democrats in the Congress, who came to power last year on a call to end the combat in Iraq, will soon give President George W. Bush the last war-funding bill of his presidency without any of the conditions they sought for withdrawing U.S. troops, congressional aides said on Monday.
The loud "thud" you just heard over in the corner of the Senate hearing room was Senator Chris Dodd's vice presidential hopes hitting the wall.
The Senator was the second major political figure caught up in and possibly brought down by various aspects of the mortgage mess in general and Countrywide Financial in particular.
The Senator, a Democrat from Connecticut and Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee which regulates mortgage lending, was named in an article by Julie Hirschfeld Davis of the Associated Press and earlier by Conde Nast Portfolio magazine, as one of two senators - the other being Senator Kent Conrad (D - ND) - as having received preferential treatment from Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo in obtaining mortgage loans. Dodd had earlier this year called Countrywide's lending practices "abusive."
One week ago the allegation of a similar deal with Countrywide forced former Fannie Mae Chairman Jim Johnson to step down from his volunteer position as head of Barack Obama's vice presidential search team.
The three men were alleged to be participants in a special program for "friends" of Mozilo that awarded discounts and waived fees for those friends. Portfolio, citing internal Countrywide documents, said that the company made two loans to Dodd in 2003, shaving three-eights of a point off of a $506,000 loan to refinance a townhouse in Washington. The discount saved Dodd about $2,000 in interest payment. A second loan to refinance a house in Connecticut was written at a quarter point off the going rate, saving the Senator about $700 a year.
Conrad, who said he was referred to Mozilo by Jim Johnson, received a one point discount on orders of Mozilo which saved him about $10,000 per year on a $1.07 million mortgage used to purchase a vacation home in Delaware. According to the Associated Press, Countrywide also made an exception in lending Conrad $96,000 in 2004 to buy an 8-unit apartment building in spite of its policy of only providing loans for buildings of four units or fewer.
"They said they frequently made exceptions, especially for good customers," Conrad said.
It’s official. There will be no more argument from the Democrats about the success of the troop surge. Their plan is to bury their error in judgment in a larger fabricated argument about American hegemony. Not only is Barack Obama acknowledging progress in Iraq–he’s now pleased with it. And he let Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari know as much when the two spoke by telephone earlier today. However if you’re a Democrat, a smidgen of U.S.-praise must come with a heaping pile of “but.” Here’s Obama on his talk with Zebari:
I emphasized to him how encouraged I was by the reductions in violence in Iraq but also insisted that it is important for us to begin the process of withdrawing U.S. troops, making it clear that we have no interest in permanent bases in Iraq.
Why? Why does Obama — without delving into the regional ramifications — want to make it clear to Iraq, its neighbors, and terrorists laying in wait that “we have no interest in permanent bases”? This is not necessarily to say that we do have such interests or that we should. But it’s certainly a question that demands a more nuanced approach than the one the Democratic nominee has fashioned into a cuddly soundbite. Obama was hasty (and wrong) about the need to send more troops into Iraq in 2007. You’d think the knee-jerk inclination to apologize for American force would have been tamped down by some humility. But once again, he’s arguing against the judicious implementation of U.S. troops.
Moreover, it’s not yet clear where Iraq and the U.S. stand relative to one another in the status of forces discussion. Someone might want to let Obama know that there are compromises between immediate withdrawal and a permanent U.S. presence, and that U.S.-Iraq negotiations on this point are underway. Having lost the surge debate, the Democrats are grasping at straws. If Obama can shave an hour off a proposed drawdown plan, he’ll do it and say he’s halting a Republican scheme for global military domination. The Democrats were wrong on the surge, but their arguments deserved a fair hearing. We were, after all, in the midst of a punishing war that looked like it could only end disastrously. But if they continue to adopt a default anti-military stance at every last turn, they will start to look very silly indeed.
Beijing - China's top state newspaper said on Monday Barack Obama is unlikely to bring the dramatic changes that he has promised if he wins the US presidency and that his rise confirms, rather than challenges, racial divisions.
The Chinese government has avoided comment on the US presidential contest, but the commentary in the overseas edition of the People's Daily shed a little light on how the ruling Communist Party views the prospect of Democratic Party hopeful Obama winning the November election.
In the view the party's mouthpiece, Obama is unlikely to usher in a promised transformation of Washington politics if he beats the Republican contender, John McCain.
Obama has opposed the Iraq war but is less clear about how and when he would remove US troops, the paper said in a front-page commentary by a senior editor.
"Nobody believes that such a complex problem can be resolved by just relying on a resolute stance," the editor Ding Gang writes. "The same problem faces any transformation in the economy, social security and education."
The overseas People's Daily is a small-circulation offshoot of the Party's top paper, and it often issues more forthright views than the main domestic edition.
Bush never lied to us about Iraq
The administration simply got bad intelligence. Critics are wrong to assert deception.
By James Kirchick LA Times
June 16, 2008
Touring Vietnam in 1965, Michigan Gov. George Romney proclaimed American involvement there "morally right and necessary." Two years later, however, Romney -- then seeking the Republican presidential nomination -- not only recanted his support for the war but claimed that he had been hoodwinked.
"When I came back from Vietnam, I had just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get," Romney told a Detroit TV reporter who asked the candidate how he reconciled his shifting views.
Romney (father of Mitt) had visited Vietnam with nine other governors, all of whom denied that they had been duped by their government. With this one remark, his presidential hopes were dashed.
The memory of this gaffe reverberates in the contemporary rhetoric of many Democrats, who, when attacking the Bush administration's case for war against Saddam Hussein, employ essentially the same argument. In 2006, John F. Kerry explained the Senate's 77-23 passage of the Iraq war resolution this way: "We were misled. We were given evidence that was not true." On the campaign trail, Hillary Rodham Clinton dodged blame for her pro-war vote by claiming that "the mistakes were made by this president, who misled this country and this Congress."
Nearly every prominent Democrat in the country has repeated some version of this charge, and the notion that the Bush administration deceived the American people has become the accepted narrative of how we went to war.
Yet in spite of all the accusations of White House "manipulation" -- that it pressured intelligence analysts into connecting Hussein and Al Qaeda and concocted evidence about weapons of mass destruction -- administration critics continually demonstrate an inability to distinguish making claims based on flawed intelligence from knowingly propagating falsehoods.
LOL! Even the libbies ADMIT THE BUSH LIED LINE WAS ALL A LIE
Wow, who needs Drudge? I can just come here for news.
While liberal journalists have moved on from the Christopher Dodd-Countrywide Financial scandal, questions linger about the sweetheart loans he got in 2003 from Angelo Mozilo. At the time, Mr. Mozilo was chairman and CEO of Countrywide, which would become a leading player in the subprime-mortgage crisis and would benefit greatly if Congress passes Sen. Dodd's lending-industry bailout bill.
Does anyone believe Sen. Dodd when he says he and his wife did not "anticipate any special treatment" from Countrywide and were unaware they got it? A senator get treated royally everywhere he goes. He gets his jollies from the rump kissing of Capitol Hill staffers, lobbyists, special interests and journalists, and those who won't pucker up get no favors. As ranking member of the Banking Committee (he's now its chairman), he was keenly aware of mortgage rates in 2003. Yet he implausibly suggests Countrywide issued him and his wife two subprime loans totaling $781,000 and charged them below-market rates, waived $10,000 in fees and points, and ultimately saved them $75,000 simply because they "shopped around." Published reports said those who got "Friends of Angelo" discounts were told Mr. Mozilo had priced their loans so they knew they were being greased. Now Sen. Dodd claims Mr. Mozilo didn't say boo before saving the Dodds $75,000?
What's the difference between accepting sweetheart mortgages and unsolicited bribes? Mr. Mozilo was trying to buy Sen. Dodd's influence, and the senator accepted payment. Was Sen. Dodd's bailout bill that would shift $300 billion in non-performing mortgages — Countrywide alone holds $6 billion — from reckless lenders to taxpayers the quid pro quo payoff?
Did Sen. Dodd illegally accept special loans offered solely because of his position? Did he violate Senate rules that bar members from receiving gifts worth $100 or more a year from companies that have registered lobbyists?
In 1967, Sen. Dodd's father, then-Sen. Thomas Dodd, was censured for spending $116,000 in campaign cash on personal expenses. How does Sen. Christopher J. Dodd's use of an indirect, de facto $75,000 political donation to reduce his personal expenses differ materially from what his father did? For that matter, is it materially different from John G. Rowland accepting drywall, gutters and a hot tub while he was governor?
n Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., who also has been implicated in this scandal, at first lied about it, but later admitted he called Mr. Mozilo and got a special rate on a $1 million mortgage. Sen. Conrad said he will donate his ill-gotten gains to charity in hopes of staving off criminal and ethics inquiries. When will Sen. Dodd come clean? When can Americans expect the criminal and ethics investigations to begin?
Two Muslim women at Barack Obama’s rally in Detroit on Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers seeking to prevent the women’s headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate.
The campaign has apologized to the women, both Obama supporters who said they felt betrayed by their treatment at the rally.
“This is of course not the policy of the campaign. It is offensive and counter to Obama’s commitment to bring Americans together and simply not the kind of campaign we run,” said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. “We sincerely apologize for the behavior of these volunteers.”
When is Evan going to be released?
Anyone know?
Barack Obama has never been shy about comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln. He did so when he announced his candidacy at the Illinois state capitol, where both he and Lincoln served in the legislature. "The life of a tall, gangly, self-made Springfield lawyer tells us that a different future is possible," Obama said. "He tells us that there is power in words ... He tells us that there is power in hope." That was, well, audacious, to say the least — and the comparisons have continued, on issues large and small. But the most important similarity, in Obama's mind, is how he plans to govern if elected.
Last year, Obama filled out a questionnaire where he pledged to "aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election." But since clinching the Democratic nomination earlier this month, Obama has not broached the subject with McCain. And as a matter of fact, Barack Obama announced today that his campaign is abandoning his pledge to accept public financing. Obama is now the first major-party candidate to ever bypass the tax-checkoff system that was established in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
I have decided that the phrase that best describes Barrack Hussein Obama is "post turtle"
If you are not familiar with the term, I'll explain what a I mean by a "post turtle".
Say you're driving down an old country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'.'
Obama is a true post turtle because You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he is up there, and you just wonder what kind of a dumb ass put him up there.
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