Obama for President 2008

“Yeah, Barack Obama went back on his word to accept public funding. I am not surprised by his phoniness though. I never believed him when he said he slept through all those hate filled sermons. I never believed him when he said he forgot about his cocaine use when a Peoria reporter asked him about his drug and marijuana use. I never believed him on all his recent switches to centrists positions after voting for extreme left causes in his brief political career. If Obama gets elected, the public will soon long for the honesty of the Bush administration by comparison.”

“I would hope he (and you) will remember this when McCain, or some other Republican, changes his mind about something. - noProb

Are you kidding? Yogisan has proven beyond a doubt that he's okay with double standards.”

“Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...”

“Standing on the deck of a sinking boat while the crew is voting for a new captain is fun beyond being shark bait,but wait....”

“This campaign season is going to be hilarious. It's going to bring the worst out in America: white racists, black racists, idiot religionists, and white guiltists/apologists (think jimmysan):

[...]Racially charged criticism of Obama already has surfaced in several states.

Shortly before North Carolina's May 6 primary, the state Republican Party aired a TV ad linking Democratic candidates to Obama, who was described as "too extreme" because of his ties to the retired Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

Obama eventually ended his relationship with Wright, his longtime pastor who had been criticized for sermons in which he cursed America and accused the government of conspiring against blacks. The state party ignored McCain's repeated calls to kill the ad.

In South Dakota, a TV station briefly aired an ad that was edited to show Obama saying, "we are no longer a Christian nation, we are also a Muslim nation." It omitted his saying, in the same speech, that the United States is not solely a Christian nation.

The ad, which included a photo of Obama wearing a turban as part of a traditional outfit given to him in Africa, concluded with a man saying: "It's time for people of faith to stand against Barack Hussein Obama." A group called the Coalition Against Anti-Christian Rhetoric paid for the ad, which stations quickly dropped after the Obama campaign complained.[...]

LMAO!

Click here for rickroll article.”

“It will be interesting. I read yesterday that 1/3 of Americans admit to some racial bias. That's only those who "admit" to it.”

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“Corruption: Yet another Democrat's sweetheart mortgage deal is exposed � and this time it's the party's standard bearer. What could Sen. Barack Obama do for a lender in exchange for more than $100,000? Plenty.

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“What have we here, mutt? � A stoviepoo meltdown? � He's bouncing from thread to thread and across multiple websites like a freaked out superball. � I've never seen anything quite like it.

Man... that Internet addiction is kicking your ass isn't it? � Better give it a break before you damage yourself further.”

“I think Stovie has the hiccups!!!!!”

“Let go of some of that hate, tilt.”

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“Nice T-Shirt.”

“Why is Obama reversing himself and taking on all of John McCain's positions?”

“With things like the; hostage-McCain coincidence in Columbia and the Bagdad- McCain-street visit a few years back, can you blame Obama for not being at least somewhat onboard to cover the possibility of more administration Hollywood tricks.”

“Why is Obama reversing himself and taking on all of John McCain's positions?


So he could get elected and on the day he is sworn in as President, go back to being the extreme left liberal he has been his whole life.”

“Judging by the flop-sweat from the right, this November is going to a wonderful thing.

Hand me the popcorn.”

“Frenzied race-based swiftboating on the horizon.... ?

For a taste of what's in store, I was listening to people reminisce about the tactics Jesse Helms always used ---- and again wondered "Just how low will they go?"”

“Frenzied race-based swiftboating on the horizon.... ?

For a taste of what's in store, I was listening to people reminisce about the tactics Jesse Helms always used ---- and again wondered "Just how low will they go?"�
tiltTiltBLAM

No lower than violins agism and photo-shopped old man picks of McCain, ya know the whole fairness and equity thing.”

“When you begin to complain about about the other things on This thread, be sure to send up a flare.”

“I dont think you will see much complaining from me tilt, thats more your style.”

“Sorry El Conquistador but you're out of your intellectual league here. Tilt reads long articles, listens to obscure shltty music no one likes, likes astrology and is the only one who realizes his true intellectual superiority over all humans.

He is a god among men...”

“Don't get your manties in a wad, kid.”

“no mantie wads today tilt. I am commando...”

“What you will see as more and more people make objections to the policies and positions of Obama, you will see more and more liberals accuse those people of being racists. Under those circumstances, who are the real racists?”

“Playing the race card before the cards are even dealt? NO WAY!!”

“What race are the mechanical slaves that are eating us out of house and home? The race to hate is the 'rat race' in the air and on the land and sea.”

“There are 199 Republicans in the US House of Representatives and not one of them is Black.

Hmm.”

“Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, REPUBLICAN

J. C. Watts, former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, REPUBLICAN

Allen West, candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Florida, REPUBLICAN

Colin Powell, first African-American U.S. Secretary of State, REPUBLICAN

George Washington Murray, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina, REPUBLICAN

Thomas Ezekiel Miller, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina, REPUBLICAN

John Mercer Langston, former U.S. Representative from Virginia, REPBLICAN

Jefferson Franklin Long, former U.S. Representative from Georgia, REPUBLICAN

John Roy Lynch, former U.S. Representative from Mississippi, REPUBLICAN

Martin Luther King, Sr., father of Martin Luther King Jr the Civil Rights Leader, REPUBLICAN

Wallace B. Jefferson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, REPUBLICAN

Jeremiah Haralson, former U.S. Representative from Alabama, REPUBLICAN

Gary Franks, former U.S. Representative from Connecticut, REPUBLICAN

Oscar Stanton De Priest, former U.S. Representative from Illinois, REPUBLICAN

Henry P. Cheatham, former U.S. Representative from North Carolina, REPUBLICAN



Why do you wonder, tiltTiltBLAM? Do you vote for or against a candidate because of race?”

“House members voting not to extend the Voting Rights Act in 2006:

Richard Baker (R-LA)
Gresham Barrett (R-SC)
Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD)
Joe Barton (R-TX)
Jo Bonner (R-AL)
Dan Burton (R-IN)
John Campbell (R-CA)
Michael Conaway (R-TX)
Nathan Deal (R-GA)
John Doolittle (R-CA)
John Duncan (R-TN)
Terry Everett (R-AL)
Virginia Foxx (R-NC)
Trent Franks (R-AZ)
Scott Garrett (R-NJ)
Phil Gingrey (R-GA)
Joel Hefley (R-CO)
Jeb Hensarling (R-TX)
Wally Herger (R-CA)
Sam Johnson (R-TX)
Steve King (R-IA)
John Linder (R-GA)
Patrick McHenry (R-NC)
Gary Miller (R-CA)
Charlie Norwood (R-GA)
Ron Paul (R-TX)
Tom Price (R-GA)
Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)
Edward Royce (R-CA)
John Shadegg (R-AZ)
Tom Tancredo (R-CO)
Mac Thornberry (R-TX)
Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA)


Do you detect a pattern?”

“Why do you wonder, tiltTiltBLAM? Do you vote for or against a candidate because of race?

You'd have an easier time getting a cat to look at itself in a mirror than to try and get tilt to look at his errors much less get him to actually admit he was wrong.”

“Of all the legislatures in all the 50 states, you managed to scrape together that paltry list? � Covering what span of time? � I'm surprised you didn't reach back to Reconstruction. � What about County Councils and dog-catchers?

It appears that you're more likely to run into a one-legged albino Hypnotherapist.

You people are 0 for 199. � What's the current talking point for that? � Is that it?”

“http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/bawer_on_obama/

December 4, 2007 - by Bruce Bawer



Everybody’s gaga over Barack Obama. Or so it sometimes seems. People whose judgment I deeply respect are in ecstasy over the prospect of the junior senator from Illinois being elected President. Some of them have heard him speak live and have come away enchanted. For my part, I’ve seen him talk and debate and have read as much as I can find about his positions. The result? I’ve appreciated some stands he’s taken - and been extremely offended by others. I’ve noted some signs of what may actually be real principle and courage - as well as classic examples of political waffling, cynicism, and expediency. I can see that he’s smart, charming, and articulate - but, unlike some people, I don’t see him as some knight in shining armor who’s going to deliver us from government as usual.

In short, I can’t exactly say I’ve caught Obama fever.

I’m eager, however, to understand as best I can what all the excitement is about - really I am. So when a friend lent me his copy of Obama’s 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father, I gave up my dream of spending my week’s vacation on the Costa Blanca blissfully unplugged from current events and took the damn thing with me. To my surprise, it turned out not to be a bad beach book at all - it was well written, richly human (i.e., not the usual politician’s pap), and genuinely moving.

But it disturbed me, too.

As the title intimates, the figure in Obama’s carpet is his father, a Kenyan exchange student who met Barack’s white, Kansas-born mother at the University of Hawaii. After marrying her and fathering Barack, Dr. Obama - as he was universally known - returned to Kenya to take up a high-ranking government position. Thereafter, he showed little or no interest in Barack, whom he met only once, when the boy was ten. Though Barack’s mother had a brief second marriage that took her and the boy to Indonesia, she raised him mostly in the Aloha State - and, by his account, was unfailingly selfless and loving, as were her parents, “Gramps” and “Toot,” who helped bring him up.

Yet on whom does Barack’s memoir focus? On his father - whom Barack, against all evidence (which suggests that Dr. Obama was colossally selfish and narcissistic), seeks to portray as heroic, sympathetic, indeed near-mythic. Obama p√®re was a polygamist (and a lousy husband to all his wives), but Barack gives no indication that he finds this morally problematic; on the contrary, he seems determined to excuse his father’s many failings as consequences of imperialism, colonialism, and/or racism. One can, of course, well understand why a small boy - or even a young man - might idealize out of all proportion the father he never met. But Obama shows few signs in this book of recognizing that he’s doing this. Meanwhile, perversely, he treats his mother and grandparents, who by his own account raised him with extraordinary devotion, all but dismissively. At one point he even suggests that Gramps and Toot were really racists - and that all white people, in fact, are racists, and that black people have been so deformed by this racism that black individuals can hardly be held responsible for their own moral lapses.

Forget the content of our character; this is a work preoccupied with skin color. It’s drenched with the legacy of Malcolm X (whom Obama, at least in this book, openly idolizes). At times it’s as if there were no historical injustices in the world other than those visited upon blacks by whites. Obama routinely refers to other black men (but never white men) as “brothers”; he exhibits considerably more concern for the dignity of black men than for that of women or non-black men; and he’s acutely sensitive to perceived racial slights (yet even as he deplores the subordination of blacks in America, curiously enough, he appears to accept as his due his family’s lofty position in Kenya). While occasionally gesturing toward an ideal of colorblindness √† la Dr. King, in his heart of hearts he’s anything but colorblind, fervently endorsing black solidarity while repeatedly expressing distrust of, and even contempt for, whites. When, lamenting Kenya’s intertribal rivalries, he tells a relative that “We’re part of one tribe. The black tribe. The human tribe,” the last three words feel like an afterthought - as does his attempt, in the book’s closing pages, to move beyond strict racial line-drawing and to articulate broader sympathies. As if all this weren’t enough, it seems clear by book’s end that his heart’s home is not America but Kenya.

What does it say about the young Obama that he was well-nigh obsessed with his vain braggart of an absentee father but trivialized his mother’s accomplishments? What does it mean that he himself plainly can’t see that his father comes off in these pages as a world-class jerk and his mother as a woman of admirable self-discipline and quiet achievement? What does it mean that throughout his account of his work as a community organizer in Chicago, Obama himself is in sharp focus while the underprivileged folks he’s supposedly trying to help are hazy figures in the distant background? What does it mean that some of the characters in this book - whom one would otherwise assume to be important people in his life - are, as he admits in the introduction, composites? What does it mean that despite his fixation on his father and his Kenyan kin, their religion (Islam) is barely mentioned, and that in the most substantial reference to it, he gives a genial thumbs-up to his brother’s newfound religious fervor?

Though often sympathetic (what fatherless Bildungsroman protagonist isn’t?), the Obama of these pages can also be unbearably self-absorbed - yet, at the same time, astonishingly short on self-knowledge. What’s more, he’s a young man of fierce - if powerfully muted - emotions. Raised on glorious Hawaiian beaches by three wonderful people who were utterly devoted to him, he attended top schools and walked straight from graduation into a cool job in New York - all in all, a pretty lucky guy. Yet between this memoir’s lines, one senses a barely suppressed rage; his good fortune notwithstanding, one has the distinct feeling that Obama feels he - Dr. Obama’s son! - still hasn’t received his due. As for his social, racial, and political attitudes - well, yes, since 1995 he’s definitely changed his tune about a few things. But how much has he changed deep down inside?

Racism is the #1 blot on America’s escutcheon. As a kid in the South - and the North - during the 1960s I saw and heard things that impressed upon me for all time the utter ugliness and evil of it all. I know beyond a doubt that the spectacle of a black person for whom I had some modicum of respect (i.e., not Jesse or Rev. Al) taking the oath of office would move me to helpless tears. I can see, moreover, that Obama is in many ways a terrifically attractive candidate; I can understand why so many people whom I respect for their intelligence and sense of moral responsibility want him to be president. I’d love to be able to agree with them. In other words, I want to want him to be president. But largely because of what I read in Dreams from My Father, it’s hard for me - at least given what I’ve heard thus far - to climb on the bandwagon.”

“"Do you detect a pattern?”

Yes.

Two patterns.

First, Tilt likes to play the race card.

Second, Tilt ignores the fact that the vast majority of Republicans in the House voted in favor of extending the Voting Rights Act of 2006.

I am glad you asked that question, Tilt.”

“Out of arguments? Losing an argument? Can't support your candidate? Call the opposition racists---works every time!

LMAO! Never saw this coming. (rolls eyes)”

“"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." - Brack Obama 7/2

Scariest thing he's said yet.”

“Rascist ping pong NE1?”

“He can call it the Security Squad. Or 'SS' for short. That has a nice nestalgic ring to it.”

“Usually bringing up nazis is a godwin's law failure in debate, but it rings eerily true of Obama. Consider his ideas for his federal "community service" program - very hitler youthish.”

“And of course, consider Brack's followers. This quote from Hans Von Luck memoir's (Panzer Commander):

"How could a people from whom a Goethe and a Beethoven had sprung become blind slaves of such a leader and fall into hysteria whenever he made a speech, as for instance at the Berlin sports stadium? I believe all people are ready to follow idols and ideals if they are sufficiently emotionalized. Though every epoch brings forth its own idols, the people who cheer them remain the same."

Jimmysan anyone? For instance, despite all the facts behind obama's anti 2A history, Jimmy is instead swayed by the emotionality of Barak's just-so campaign promises.”

“But, but, but...Obama is for change.


Wait, so was Stalin...

I'm so torn. On one hand I want freedom but I do so love change. I think I'll take freedom and just change my underwear.”

“Freedom is not underwear.”

“I don't think anything should change. Well, it would be nice to get a stimulas check every quarter or so.”

“Sorry about your boy Jesse. � He was the Limbaugh of his day, you know. � Started out on radio as a loudmouth suckup to the tobacco companies and milked it for decades.”

“*yawn*

My my, how the world is changing! It's enough to make a good ol red-blooded redneck TT hoser want to go out and shoot Democrats.”

“LOL @ Geo! Ya started a little slow on that one but ya stuck the landing. A perfect 10.”

“FISA is on track to be renewed without any amendments that would hold the telecoms responsible for conspiring with Bush re: warrantless wiretaps.

And Obama is just another sellout to the corporations.

"a nation of laws"..... � Dream on, suckers.

I know you 'patriots' are going to run out and slap Obama stickers on your cars, now ---- �
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