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Obama Quest
A New Yorker cartoon. Now that's elitism.
Maybe that is why we thought it was pretty funny. We were actually working on one with John McCain as a manchurian candidate (he did after all spend a lot of time in a communist training camp when he was younger), but our drawing skills were not as good as we thought.
Nixon Bush desperate to stop Obama from reaching JFK-status
"Bush blamed for Merkel opposition to Brandenburg date for Obama" The Independent
However, evidence emerged yesterday which suggested that Ms Merkel could have been pressured into objecting to Mr Obama's plans by the Bush administration. A report in Germany's conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper said that one of Ms Merkel's top advisers had been criticised by a member of the Bush team over the planned Obama visit during the G8 summit in Japan.
McCain '08 - Be afraid of the hippies*
* hippies = people with long hair, most likely the arch nemesis of you grandfather
Hmm, wonder how we should sell this movie we've made?
Here comes the smear machine!
"McCain Orders Shake-Up of His Campaign" NY Times
Mr. Schmidt, who is 37, is one of the most intense, hard-driving figures in his party today: when he worked for Mr. Bush, his nickname in the campaign was “The Bullet,” a reference to the shape of his shaved head.
He has been at the center of some of the most politically significant Republican operations of the last 10 years. In working with Mr. Rove and Ken Mehlman, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, Mr. Schmidt has become immersed in the use of data-driven methods to find and turn out Republican voters.
He also ran the campaign’s war room, which was responsible for capitalizing on mistakes of opponents (nice way of putting it), Mr. McCain’s advisers said that one sign of Mr. Schmidt’s increasing influence in the campaign’s rapid response operation was the quickness with which it seized on a remark by Gen. Wesket J Clark questioning whether Mr. McCain’s years in Vietnam gave him the experience he needed to be president.
1 and 1/2 men, the story of a non-human, professional politician
"Who Is Bobby Jindal? The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" Huffington Post
Bobby Jindal, however, is much less well known -- though that's an impression the 36-year-old second-generation Indian American has been doing his best to address in the first five months of his new job as Louisiana governor.
Nigerian 419 Obama-is-a-Muslim e-mailer gets a reply
"How The Obama Smear Email People
Respond
When Confronted With Elite Facts" Wonkette
ps. 911 would never have happened in hilters’ country. now you are going to cry about that also right, don’t get me wrong hitler did a few things the wrong way.. ok. i understand that, but he was a creation of the brainwashing forced on to him. 911 was the worst day in my life, i dated someone who was in the building, and i lost a cousin that day, so dont try to tell me about a president obama!
Ouch, it's Nash McCabe all over again. Sad.
American Conservatives are turning the US more and more into.... France
"The List: The Worst Places to Be a Terrorist" Foreignpolicy.com
1. France - Though many Americans view them as softies when it comes to the war on terror, the French actually have some of the world’s toughest and arguably most effective antiterrorism laws.
A new NEWSWEEK Poll shows that he has a substantial double-digit lead, 51 percent to 36 percent, over McCain among registered voters nationwide.
Breaking the law, breaking the law
"Predicting McCain will attack Obama over public financing, CNN's Crowley did not report that McCain may be breaking the law" Media Matters
Summary: On CNN's American Morning, reporting on Sen. Barack Obama's decision to opt out of public financing for the general election, Candy Crowley asserted that "you can expect that [Sen. John McCain] will hit Obama on two scores: One, you went back on what you said you would do; and two, this is not how to reform Washington." But Crowley did not report that McCain may actually be breaking campaign finance law.
Sidney 3.0's heretic-VP talks.
"Jindal supports intelligent design as a viable science" Raw Story
“I do think that God played a role in creating not only the earth but mankind. Now the way that he did it, I’d certainly want my kids to be exposed to the very best science. I don’t want any facts or theories or explanations to be withheld from them because of political correctness.”
Mmm yummy, a career based on using retarded thoughts religion for political power. Now that's political correctness we know and love.
We are hoping that a Sidney/Jindal-ticket would spend a lot of time exposing kids to other ideas and thoughts.
McCain, Bryan, Carter and "a Google" C&L
Given Bush’s historic unpopularity, the linkage between Bush and McCain is quite damaging for the presumptive Republican nominee. Moreover, Bush’s presidency is fresh in voters’ minds. On the other hand, Carter lost his bid for reelection to the presidency in 1980. That means anyone who was old enough to vote for or against him will be 46 or older by the time this election rolls around.
According to exit polls from 2004, at least 46 percent of the people who voted for president last time around were younger than that. That’s a whole lot of people who might not get the joke as fully as McCain would like.
Sidney 3.0 was against Obama's
Iran
divestment idea before he stole it
"McCain calls for divestment campaign against Iran" Reuters
"Even so, we hear talk of a meeting with the Iranian leadership offered up as if it were some sudden inspiration, a bold new idea that somehow nobody has ever thought of before."
Guess what, who thought of Sidney 3.0's brilliant new idea of divestment against Iran? Well.... who?
"Obama Camp Response to McCain’s AIPAC Speech" TIME
Obama Cosponsored The Iran Counter-Proliferation Act, Which Would Designate The Iranian Revolutionary Guard As A Terrorist Organ, Prohibit Trade With Iran, Freeze Iranian Officials’ Assets, Help Combat Terrorist Financing. In 2007, Obama cosponsored legislation expressing the Senate of the Senate on a variety of existing and proposed sanctions against Iran and providing mechanisms to assure a supply of nuclear fuel for peaceful means.
And guess how McCain voted on it. Well... guess
"Florida, Michigan get all delegates, but each gets half vote" CNN
Clinton supporters interrupted the proceedings, loudly chanting "Denver! Denver!" Denver is the site of the Democratic convention, where Clinton could will appeal any decision made by the committee.
No matter what happened yesterady, it will go to Denver. Unless, of course, Clinton will have bailed before (which isn't gonna happen).
The hardest working woman in showbusiness
(cause God knows it ain't in politics)
Is Gene checking out Condi?
The UN Conference on debt relief for Iraq brought, not debt relief for Iraq (not even from its biggest mid-east lenders), but Condi Rice and Kiss together. Stockholm was shut down for days due to security reasons for this!?!
Lets hope the Iraqi reps at least got some merchandising advise from Gene.
JUST REMEMBER 1: McCain is getting schooled on veterans issues by all major veterans groups, not just one Illinois Senator. When will Sidney 3.0 start attacking Jim Webb?
JUST REMEMBER 2:
Hillary Clinton knows she can't wrap up the nomination before or after the convention. According to the procedures she can get half of the Michigan and Florida delegates before the convention. She then has to get the other half and change the minds of superdelegates who by then will realize that McCain will be the next president of the United States because of her (as parties divided at the convention don't win general elections).
Basically, Hillary Clinton will cost the Democrats the White House in 2008 or Barack Obama will pull off the greatest win in American Political history.
Sorry to say, but
Hillary Clinton's place in history, no matter what, will be as the biggest w***ker US politics had to offer.
The worlds first international Obama support site
(that
would be Swedes for Obama) welcomes the newer groups.
"Bridging the World - Supporting Obama in France"
Unlike some other senators, Obama would kick ass in CA
"Obama would take California in November..." LA Times
The poll appeared to illustrate that Democrats, at least in California, are gravitating toward the candidate who is broadly expected to eventually seize the party's mantle. Obama now runs better against the Arizona senator than does Clinton among many of the groups that powered her victory in the state, among them Latinos, Catholics and those without college degrees.
Obama in Portland
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We all knew it was heading in this direction.
This is the guy who oversaw the arms for hostages deal with Iran in 1985 (among other crimes), right in the middle of the Iran-Iraq war in which the US was actively and openly arming and supporting Saddam Hussein. Ollie North didn’t just talk with Iran at a time they were our enemy in a proxy-war, he actually helped to arm them, bypassing Congress by violating the Boland Amendment to help fund an illegal war in Nicaragua. |
Remember kids, supporting McCain will lead to memory loss
(aka Tweety owns silly right-wing talk show host)
"President Bush compares Obama's Iran diplomacy statement to appeasement of Nazis" C&L (video)
During a speech in Jerusalem, President Bush jumped head first into the 2008 presidential campaign by taking a shot at Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, by comparing his willingness to hold diplomatic talks with Iran to the appeasement of Nazis in the 1930’s.
Then it got ridiculus...
President Bush got it exactly right today when he warned about the threat of Iran and its terrorist proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah. It is imperative that we reject the flawed and naïve thinking that denies or dismisses the words of extremists and terrorists when they shout “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” and that holds that — if only we were to sit down and negotiate with these killers — they would cease to threaten us. It is critical to our national security that our commander-in-chief is able to distinguish between America’s friends and America’s enemies, and not confuse the two.
- Joe Lieberman
Isn't the US (under McCain's Bush's anti-terror leadership) just paying off its enemies in Iraq at the moment? Wouldn't it be cheaper to just skip that?
Edwards endorses Obama
Edwards WWE-entrance C&L
"Top 10 Reasons Obama Defeated Clinton for the Democratic Nomination" Huffington Post (Robert Creamer)
John Edwards voted for BHO OneGoodMove
"Edwards' Campaign Manager to Endorse Obama" ABC News
Bonior is also said to like Obama's general positive tone, as well as Obama's message of change and stance against taking money from federal lobbyists.
Edwards has not yet endorsed either candidate.
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Thank you.... good night
"Senator: Most superdelegates
in Congress
privately back Obama" Raw
Story
"The majority of superdelegates I've talked to are committed, but it is a matter of timing," Obama backer Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) told Parnes and Hearn (Politico). "They're just preferring to make their decision public after the primaries are over. ... They would like someone else to act for them before they talk about it in the cold light of day."
"Former Democratic leader switches to Obama" MSNBC
Joe Andrew, who was Democratic National Committee chairman from 1999-2001, planned a news conference Thursday in his hometown of Indianapolis to urge other Hoosiers to support Obama in Tuesday’s primary, perhaps the most important contest left in the White House race. He also has written a lengthy letter explaining his decision that he plans to send to other superdelegates.
Andrew said in his letter that he is switching his support because “a vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote to continue this process, and a vote to continue this process is a vote that assists (Republican) John McCain.”
What!?! Mr MSM got donuts
from the press.
Well, what did Obama get? Oh!
Obama embarrassed of US handling of Iraqi refugees
"Barack Obama beromde Sodertalje"Metro.se (in Swedish)
"Head" of small Swedish city who have housed more refugees from Iraq than the US and Canada together goes to Washington angry, but returns inspired by Jesus Hussein.
"Top 10 Myths Keeping Hillary in the Race" Huffington Post (Chip Collis)
Myth:
This race is tied.
Myth: Okay, the popular vote is tied.
Myth: Fine, but what if we count electoral votes? NOW Hillary
is ahead!
Myth: But if we did do it like the Electoral College, that
proves Hillary is more electable than Obama, because of states like California.
Myth: Very well, then, Mr. Smarty-Math. But if we counted
Michigan and Florida, THEN Hillary would be winning!
Myth: Ah HA! So Dean is keeping them out just to help Obama!
And Obama is keeping them out.
Myth: If they don't get seated until the convention but a
nominee is selected before these poor people get counted then these states
are disenfranchised.
Myth: Well, I say they are disenfranchised, and Hillary Clinton
is their champion.
Myth: Well, never mind 2007. She's doing more now to bring
them in.
Myth: Whatever! Hillary can still win! I know she can! She
and her 37% positive rating will sweep through the remaining primaries and
Michigan and Florida, winning 70% of everything and superdelegates will flock
to her banner and Barack Obama will personally nominate her at the Convention
and John McCain will give up and George Bush will even quit early so she can
take over and... and... and... can I have a glass of water?
Paul Waldman (Media Matters)
on his and David Brocks
new book about the medias love affair with McCai
Waldman_maddow (.mp3, 13:24, 7,6 mb)
Basically, Obama needs to be caught with kiddie porn for Hill to win this...
"Democratic race over? Clinton doesn't think so" Yahoo (Reuters)
Obama has captured more state contests, more votes and more of the pledged convention delegates who will help decide which Democrat faces Republican Sen. John McCain in November's presidential election.
But Clinton, a New York senator who has flirted with disaster before in the back-and-forth nominating battle with Obama, shrugs off growing predictions of doom and still sees at least a narrow path to victory.
"Obama Fever in France
and Germany Europe" NY
Times The Caucus
On Thursday, two days after a speech that is being widely read and viewed in Europe, Presses de la Cité released the French translation of Mr. Obama’s best-selling memoir, “Dreams From my Father.” It appeared in German bookstores the same day, after being published in Italy last November.
“The hype surrounding his speech this week was quite something,” Mr. Bombard said in a telephone interview on Thursday. “Obviously that’s great news for the book.”
Richardson, Kilmeade and the indie kids all got the OBAMA-RAMA
Still holding out for
that pro-Obama media bias everybody is talking about... but wait! What is
this!?! Some kids goes up against lazy M$M innuendoes about BHO and Rezko.
(so much so that the Republican trolls go crazy)
"Lets get Rezko right" CJR
But journalists need to be careful about cherrypicking and playing up Obama’s name from the barest mention in a trial document or transcript. When the evidence is ambiguous or not relevant to any suggestion of collusion between Obama and Rezko, or when there’s no hint of wrongdoing on Obama’s part, the press needs to frame the revelations soberly, carefully, and accurately.
Gerry the Martyr
"Geraldine Ferraro steps down" C&L
Dear Hillary –
I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what is at stake in this campaign.
(remember, a vote for
Obama,
is a vote for the terrorists)
The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you.
(wasn't the whole point
here that
you wanted to attack Obama)
I won’t let that happen.
(well you just did let it happen)
Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do to make this a better world for my children and grandchildren.
(remember,
a vote for Obama,
is a vote for the terrorists)
You have my deep admiration and respect.
(why? because she's a woman in politics?)
Gerry
Don't worry, remember what happened when Norm MacDonald came out for McCain on Weekend Update in 2000. Could be a curse...
"SNL Spoofs Hillary's 3AM Ad" Huffington Post
Two weeks after "bitch is the new black," and just one week after Hillary Clinton's surprise appearance on the show, SNL is at it again: this time, opening the show with a spoof of Hillary's 3AM ad. The sketch, seen below, depicts a 3AM phone call between Senator Clinton and a very inexperienced President Obama, who calls Hillary in the middle of the night for advice on what to do about Iran and how to fix the heating in the White House.
BTW, when are we gonna start seeing some of that pro-Obama press we keep hearing about. You know Obama, that one-speech, crazy "fans", no content, frontrunner for the Democratic party.
Hillary C wears crazy foreign clothes!
"Feingold's vote..." The Nation
Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold, a progressive icon who briefly considered seeking the Democratic presidential nomination himself, said he voted in Tuesday's Wisconsin primary for Barack Obama.
