american idol…or it is the amazing RACE ?
It appears that the race card is the only one that Obama has in his deck. The AP has reported that Obama made the following comments in Missouri yesterday:
“Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me,” Obama said. “You know, he’s not patriotic enough, he’s got a funny name, you know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”
Precious can’t be talking colonial-era fashion vs. his sleek Beatles style (to match his Beatles persona). He obviously means that the GOP will use Obama’s skin color as a scare tactic…
This claim may not be totally unjustified. After all, we saw what Repubs did to John McCain in South Carolina during the 2000 primary when anonymous pollsters (Karl Rove) asked supporters if they would be more or less likely to vote for McCain if they knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child. (We now know, of course, that he hadn’t. The child in question was adopted from Bangladesh. Still, McCain lost South Carolina by 12 points that year. Mission accomplished.)
But during this election cycle, the only race baiting that I have seen has come from the Democrats, and mostly from the bi-racial candidate himself. Remember the remarkably similar statement at a Florida fundraiser in June, where he added “And did I mention he’s black?” Yep, he went there. No lame comparisons to our founding fathers or shapers of our nation needed. Everyone got the message: RNC=Racist National Committee.
And then there are his groupies, like Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius, who conveniently predicted that Republicans would undertake “a major effort to try and frighten people…” about Obama’s race and any such challenges to Obama as being too inexperienced or liberal would be “code words” for racism. Howard Dean told FOX News’ Chris Wallace that any mention of Jeremiah Wright was tantamount to race baiting and compared it to the infamous Dukakis-era Willie Horton ad.
New York governor David Paterson took the racism charge even further by suggesting that if Obama loses in November, it will be because Americans aren’t enlightened enough to elect an African-American president:
“Can America reject the crucible of race that has dictated and pervaded all of our history to embrace an African-American man who has the right policies for the next decade in this country? Can America go past the crippling way that we’ve shot ourselves in the foot over and over, denying opportunity to people who are bright, to people who are qualified, to people who are able because they didn’t look like us, or they didn’t come from where we came from, or they are from a different gender, or they are from the African continent? Can America push that away and find new leadership? We’ll find out in the next few months what America can do.”
Does anyone else see a pattern here?
If mentioning Obama’s race is so awful, why do the Dems keep doing it? Is it to inoculate Precious from legitimate questions about his weak legislative record and shady associates? Are they trying to capitalize on white guilt by playing the victim of unscrupulous (and so far, non-existent) Republican campaign tactics? Or is it because the Hope and Change™ strategy isn’t working anymore, and the race card is all they’ve got left?
I suspect that it’s a combination of the three. I also suspect that if the Dems aren’t careful, they’ll soon overplay their hand, if they haven’t already.
on July 31st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
http://www.emii.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1988434&LS=EMS195683
a bit tangential …. but interesting… a study on woman in leadership
on July 31st, 2008 at 1:13 pm
grrreat reseach piper….indeed, the pattern is well established and worth reminding hireheelers and the american voters….they won’t be fooled twice (or in this case, 4 times)!
sadly, the obama camp has diluted the meaning of the word “racism” in america
…. not the kind of “change” this country needs…!!
on July 31st, 2008 at 1:56 pm
the w.o.r.m. is out and they’re trying to walk it back. from fox:
Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said Thursday that the senator was not referring to race.
“What Barack Obama was talking about was that he didn’t get here after spending decades in Washington,” Gibbs said. “There is nothing more to this than the fact that he was describing that he was new to the political scene. He was referring to the fact that he didn’t come into the race with the history of others. It is not about race.”
that explanation makes no damn sense. he said ‘looks like’. what else could he have meant. and those presidents on our currency weren’t washington insiders. wikipedia says that when grant took the white house “he was politically inexperienced and, at age 46, the youngest man yet elected president”. lincoln served in politics at the state level in illinois and served one term in the us senate. why can’t he just admit what he really meant?
on July 31st, 2008 at 2:18 pm
piper “why can’t he just admit what he really meant?” … no offense but we can’t ever expect anything more than hype, spin and platitudes from the BHO campaign. and yes, they are going to cry foul (race) at everything because they have nothing else to say.
i don’t have much hope for the paid-off SD’s coming around in Denver (and it galls me to no end to hear pundits talk about why HRC lost when in fact she did not lose) but I do hold out hope that BHO loses in November. Once the repubs know they don’t have to run against her they will annihilate him in the same way they did John Kerry - only they have “more or less” to work with. … and before any troll goes crying about my use of the word annihilate it is called metaphor.
on July 31st, 2008 at 3:19 pm
There are two sides of the card. The “race” card is played when people do not vote for him. And the melanin-challenged people who do vote for Obama get the other side, the “get-out-of-racism-free” card.
on July 31st, 2008 at 4:48 pm
http://politicallydrunk.blogspot.com/2008/05/obamas-super-delegates-money-machine.html
https://www.lobbydelegates.com/Default.aspx
The first site is a publication dated May 2008, kept in my favorites. Shows all the contributions each candidate gave. The second site is the contact Super Delegate Watch. That site has not been updated since Obama stole the primary season. Comparing both of these lists, I found a few SDs whose name did not appear on the publication of May 2008, and are still listed as uncommitted on the Delegate Watch. All considered, it appears to me that Obama gave them the money in May after that publication came out, so their name would not appear yet. Example Gabriella Giffords, Congresswoman from AZ. Received $9,000 from O. Her name did not appear on the May 28th publication, and to this day she is listed as uncommitted on the Delegate Watch. 10:1 she received that money so she could help drag his sorry behind across the finish line. $9,000 is a lot more than some of them received. I bet anything, the closer to the MT/SD primary, the more he gave them. I would say that $9,000 is in the high median range for these contributions. Age old adage, you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. Seems to me O’s been pretty busy cause there’s been a whole lotta scratchin’ goin’ on. I am working on those letters. It may not make a difference at the convention, but they need to know we are keeping records and we are onto them.
As always Piper…great post!! Caught O talking into the camera, so disrespectful last night addressing John McCains, ad…unprofessional and sounded so unintelligent, almost talking ghetto-like, rather than Harvard lawyer.
on July 31st, 2008 at 4:51 pm
as obama has his head measured for mount rushmore, 11 of the last 12 state polls conducted show a tightening of the presidential race….towards mccain!! only one state, nevada, has tightened toward obama.
where are our vegas pumas….come on guys/gals - let’s hear u roar!!!!!!!!
on July 31st, 2008 at 4:52 pm
and speaking of puma power….does anybody think it coincidental that, at this same period in 2004, there were half as many undecideds? [source: Rasmussen]
on July 31st, 2008 at 4:58 pm
according to correntewire.com, a puma has been spotted inside the beltway.
on July 31st, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Racism. He is so over-playing that hand. This is sooo boring and redundant. Seems to me O’s running out of new tricks. Maybe he needs to go back to Chicago and take a refresher course and take Axelrod with him. Let’s buy him a one-way ticket shall we? Grey Hound Bus seems appropriate to me and a couple of cans of generic dog food in a picnic basket.
on July 31st, 2008 at 5:10 pm
yea i agree it realy pissed me of when time after time they accused the Clinton’s of be racist again & again
& then there was the chosen one the golden child who could do no wrong . even when his racist buddys showed up. & his typlical white person stament i didnt here one person iin the mainstream accused him of making a racist statment
on July 31st, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Sibelius parroted that statement a day after Obama did at a public speech in FL (I think). He and his talking heads have made this EXACT statement for months. It’s only now that the press grew some ovaries that they have decided to pay attention to it. Or maybe it’s better to say that they are paying attention now that he is attacking a man… typical.
on July 31st, 2008 at 5:19 pm
the media was so afraid of offending the black cumminty they or being call racist or bigots . thats one of the reasons obama got treated with kid gloves by the media . but buy doing that
they media & the dnc atacked hillary . & WHEN THEY did that they pissed of the dems largest voteing block women .
on July 31st, 2008 at 5:19 pm
polly–welcome. yeah, i’m stunned that this is getting coverage, especially on msnbc.com. i’m glad that the mccain camp is pushing back on it. he was the vicitim of underhanded racial tactics back in 2000, so i don’t think that he’d employ them in 2008.
on July 31st, 2008 at 5:21 pm
boogie–there was all of that talk from wilder and sharpton about riots if the super deli’s chose hillary over o. i think that the sd’s were afraid to be called racist. apparently, they’re not afraid to be called stupid. i think they’re used to it.
on July 31st, 2008 at 5:23 pm
one last thing: i think the threats from wilder and sharpton were an insult to the black community.
on July 31st, 2008 at 5:26 pm
wow….mccain didn’t waste any time….check this out!!!!
“In Wisconsin, McCain and his wife, Cindy, also had coffee with Debra Bartoshevich, a former Hillary Rodham Clinton delegate to the Democratic National Convention who switched her support to McCain after Clinton dropped out. The state party has voted to strip Bartoshevich, a nurse from Waterford, of her status as a delegate after she announced she would vote for McCain in November.”
on July 31st, 2008 at 5:31 pm
piper….this was clearly a ‘rallying cry’ to obama’s base….maybe they’re trying to get up that 97% to 99%….i say 99, because we have a new puma group at Just Say No Deal…
pocpuma.com (People of Color)
….check them out pocpuma send my buddy Wayne some love on his new blog!!
on July 31st, 2008 at 5:34 pm
30% of conserv. dems for mccain and no. is growing…that’s a prob seeing as their are more dems than repubs in this country (rasmussen’s words, not mine).
on July 31st, 2008 at 5:35 pm
ohio, michigan & pennsylvania…and maybe florida ….
that’s it guys — that’s where we stop obama!!!
on July 31st, 2008 at 5:58 pm
looks like mccain truly does know now that the only way he can win is with us!!!! McCain Camp threw an open house in Brooklyn for (clinton) Dems the other day!!
I always say, don’t put out for mccain….and i think that is why u’v now got twice the number of undecideds than in 2004….guys, we are forcing both parties to the clinton-middle!!!!
“In New York, we are finding that there is a groundswell of support by Democrats who are fundamentally uncomfortable with Obama and coalescing around John McCain,” a spokesman for Mr. McCain, Peter Feldman, said.
on July 31st, 2008 at 6:12 pm
I WAS SO THRILLED JUST AWILE AGO ON C.N.N. HAD A BUNCH OF DEMS FOR MCCAIN ON SOME WEARING THEIR HILLARY SHIRTS MADE ME SO PROUD THIS GUYS GOTTA BE STOPPED ITS HILLARU OR MCCAIN
FOR AMERICA
on July 31st, 2008 at 6:34 pm
reverse racism…..is what it is…we need to come up with a word that we can throw out that means you the one that said it , not me !
on July 31st, 2008 at 6:39 pm
The only time O doesn’t stammer and stutter is when he is either reading a speech or charging someone with racism. Just watched him calling McCain on the Paris and Brittany ad. He has come up with a new twitch I’ve not seen before. His hand is at the back of his neck pulling at his collar, and he’s twisting his head while he’s clenching his teeth, talking and half smiling. Trying to be funny but he isn’t. Creepy and telling. Dealing with McCain is already getting under his collar. He makes immature remarks, like a high school kid or younger, but it’s getting to him. Reminded me of how he acted when he called Senator Clinton Annie Oakley, not knowing that was a compliment. He was unglued - and it’s starting again. He doesn’t have the stamina to be president. And besides he’s hearing those polls are even more in decline today. Voting fraud investigations in AL, Perry County. We are going to need the guard at the Voting Polls if this keeps up. And O is leading the way - playing the race card over and over - - and stirring things up. Not a leader. He’s dangerous.
on July 31st, 2008 at 7:53 pm
the mccain camp can hit back…but the clintons couldn’t because of the sensitivity in the democratic party……i am glad mccain pushed back — and did you see his little intvu with john king….i’ll try to find the clip.
on July 31st, 2008 at 8:03 pm
what no t-bone? darn well garychapelhill atthe confluence refuted the obama camp statement about his comment not playing the race card-very time the big “o” opens his mouth he plays the race card.
also it cocktailhour and fuzzy is leaning for $$ th pay off the debt!
fuzzybeargville
I have a special collar and leash waiting for t-bone’s return
on July 31st, 2008 at 8:05 pm
hey princess ohio, michigan & pennsylvania…and maybe florida ….
that’s it guys — that’s where we stop obama!!!
whell hes alreadly lost FL & MI THANKS to the dnc’.s shady stunts & rigging that meeting & i dont think he can count on all those typical white people he slamed in pnn either so its a good shot that hes not getting there votes
as far as ohio hes lost that by 10 points plus his flip floping on nafta didnt help him either .
go hillary
on July 31st, 2008 at 8:20 pm
sista joined rd for a cocktail. lovely scenery this evening. cheers all!
— scl
on July 31st, 2008 at 8:57 pm
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
on July 31st, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Hillary looks even less like “those other presidents on the bills” than Obama, and yet she got more popular votes than Obama. Maybe experience rather than looks are more important??!!
Attention DNC and Superdelegates - there’s still time to nominate Hillary in Denver and have a winning candidate!!
on July 31st, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
Someone needs to throw a flag on this guy and penalize him for 50 yards for unsportman like conduct………….what’s a matter can’t handle the heat? The game just begun.
on July 31st, 2008 at 10:15 pm
indeed, ray….almost a month til convention….anything can happen …and it Will!!!
on July 31st, 2008 at 10:17 pm
sorry “rey”
on July 31st, 2008 at 11:55 pm
yea your right the elections so crazy anything could happen
go hillary
on August 1st, 2008 at 12:00 am
yeah boogieman…like maybe this (from The Examiner)
The Democratic Convention may be shaping up as the O.K. Corral, Part Two. The weapons will be delegate votes instead of Colt Peacemakers. “Where are the Clintons?” They are patiently waiting for Denver. The only question is: will it be an easy nomination for Obama or one of the grandest political ambushes ever pulled off…on the voting floor of the Convention.
on August 1st, 2008 at 12:18 am
np, princess…….you can call me ray…you can call me jay….you …natural. (you got the point).
If Barry was sincere with his words of approaching you ladies and all with humility. He should be comdemning the racist card and sexism all together in all fairness and should act as an advocate of healing for unity in the party and most importantly the nation. This however are going to be difficult for him to achieved, by taking to account his mentors and affiliation and his precious cards (not ring). which are a very clear sight for us all who have virtuous and even for those like moi who have a little mind.
This guy is nothing but a parasite, who needs a hosts that can support his objective. He has no good vision in this country nor the peoples interest other than his own buddies who are well paid, which we know who they are and they all scares me, not for myself but, for my country. and lets not forget about his massive experience he gain in his world tour and his rethorical flip flop. A simple man like me can’t help to ponder the situation and I thought that perhaps due to the tragedy in 9/11, usurpation of power within our Government and a culture with no conscience, that BO is just maybe a mirror of what we are becoming? Such a perfect harvest for what was sow. And that to me is even more scarier!
We need a leader that will lead by example, with virtuous and with integity, not by popularity and ….Just woooooords.
If the convention goes ill, we need to reach out to those silent voters to stop OBAMA.
Just my 2cents…..Now back to my useless posting with links and quotes…to much thinking hurts my ears from listening to reasons.
on August 1st, 2008 at 12:56 am
The Denver Group needs another ad with a side by side of bo’s very same comments made on the stump in the primaries against Hillary and the same sucker punch he just made against McCain. That’s what it is, a cheap sucker punch. That, and indeed the bald-faced race-baiting bull**** that it is. You’ve all seen the basketball player that throws an elbow then hits the boards as though he’s the one who was fouled on, right?
on August 1st, 2008 at 12:58 am
My basketball-watching husband said it’s called a “flop.” Yeah, that’s bo, all right. A big flop.
on August 1st, 2008 at 6:39 am
mornin all gotta get to work early today but could not leave with out spreading so me love to the Hireheels wing of the rapidly expanding puma coalition-it will soon be easier to name who is not a puma than who is…a puma-roar.
I would love to start a game called the obama poll limbo the tag line “how low can he go” in the polls I opened 39 as his preconvention to convention poll numbers and my friend pat says that is to low she sas 42 so we split the diff and say 40.5…
come on everybody how low can obama go in the polls by convention…and will the delegates care? if he does hit thirty nine.
remember 1984 and Mondale/ferraro they recieved only 35% of the vote on election day and if geraldine had not been on the ticket….it probably would have been 25%!
so saying obama can go real low in the polls sayyyy 39 is not historically impossible! lets here you numbers in the obama poll limbo game!
fuzzybeargville
on August 1st, 2008 at 7:54 am
I think one of the reasons the Clinton campaign didn’t hit back is that they never saw it coming. It was like a sucker punch. I think it really stunned Bill that they would stoop so low. I think by the time he caught his breath, the news cycle had already canonized it.
The Repubs were watching the whole time. They were ready for this and they shot back.
on August 1st, 2008 at 8:42 am
sophiel, i agree. the clintons probably thought aa’s would be loyal to them considering everything bill and hill did for their community, even after bill left office. it just goes to show that no good deed goes unpunished.
on August 1st, 2008 at 8:46 am
sophie inspired hireheels’ splash page….
i will never forgive obama campaign for leveling racism again Bill…(and Hill) …. I applaud Rick Davis for hitthing back hard….
NEW: GALLUP DAILY TRACKING POLL - 1 POINT APART!!!
I guess that answers the question: Did the race card hurt Obama?
on August 1st, 2008 at 10:57 am
http://www.stop-obama.org
Advice to the Inevitable Pres. (McCain) by Jeff Gold
Four Point Stategy: 1. Attack Obama on playing the race card.
The country noticed, despite what the news channels put out there to cover up. Had this primary not been fixed, Senator Clinton would be the nominee, and playing the race card is a large factor. I won’t forgive O for what he did to Pres. Clinton either, and Senator Clinton of course; but his attacks began first with President Clinton, (”This whole thing is the biggest fairytale I have ever heard”) and the media supported it.
on August 1st, 2008 at 11:09 am
wow….mccain didn’t waste any time….check this out!!!!
“In Wisconsin, McCain and his wife, Cindy, also had coffee with Debra Bartoshevich, a former Hillary Rodham Clinton delegate to the Democratic National Convention who switched her support to McCain after Clinton dropped out. The state party has voted to strip Bartoshevich, a nurse from Waterford, of her status as a delegate after she announced she would vote for McCain in November.”
Are we going to see any reporting here that Bartoshevich was replaced by another Clinton supporter, which means your candidate didn’t lose any support.
Marilyn Nemeth, 76, of Racine WI, is pledged for Clinton.
So, is Bartoshevich still a Clinton martyr?
on August 1st, 2008 at 11:18 am
justzisguy–i don’t know that our problem was that hillary would lose a delegate. i can’t speak for the other heels, but my problem was that she was being punished for not falling in line. i don’t know what the delegate rules are, but i follow the principle that no one should be intimidated to vote a certain way, and that includes wal-mart employees.
on August 1st, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Piper, it may not have been your problem with the issue, but the wording all over the puma inspired blogosphere was that bartoshevich was stripped of her delegate status because she supports hillary, to the point where some of riverdaughter’s commentors claimed bartoshevich never said anything in support of mccain.
Maybe we should have a rule that forces the party to say “no delegate will be intimidated for expressing their opinions”
But it requires a major change in both parties, and it’s not just about the Clinton/Obama issue.
What happened to Dbera is a standard party rule - that delegates to the convention cannot make statements of support for the other party.
It’s sometimes called the Zell Miller rule, named in honor of the democrat who supported George W. Bush and made an extremely disrespectful speech against Kerry at the Repub Convention in 04.
and it’s the sort of ruling that keeps lieberman from being a superdelegate - once he ran against a democrat, as an independent, he stopped being part of the party.
But if we are going to do that, we need to also fix the system of superdelegates and delegates.
Maybe we need to get rid of supers, maybe not.
But, while the rules specifically allow a super to vote their conscience, we need to quit saying that the supers need to follow the will of the people. It’s not the case, right now, that such a call would bite HRC in ass (except for alabama, maybe), but it is a possibility.
So, if we aren’t going to do away with superdelegates, should we require them to follow the will of the people, or their own personal conscience?
kind of like the problems being voiced in opposition to the popular vote pact currently making its way through various state’s legislatures.
on August 1st, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Anyone got the scoop on Baracko visit St. petersburg fl.? I heard there was a ruckus of protest during his speech. Anyone? must have been some pumas in the area.
on August 1st, 2008 at 1:07 pm
No, Rey, they were about three black men holding up signs “what about the black community?”
More likely they were paid as a Rove tactic hoping to have the new headline be “Obama has black protesters escorted out…”
on August 1st, 2008 at 1:16 pm
thx just
on August 1st, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Piper, I have language regarding delegates from the DNC Call to Convention:
…the delegates it certified will not publicly support or campaign for any candidate for President or Vice President other than the nominees of the Democratic National Convention.[II, A]
One account I’ve heard about Debra’s situation was that she went on the record with a reporter saying she’d vote for McCain before Obama (if anybody has a primary source on this, I’d like it). If so, she’s violating the rules of her delegate status. The other account I’ve heard says that she expressed misgivings about Obama, wondering aloud if McCain didn’t stack up as more experienced against him, and that the Obama supporters pushed it into her dismissal. If that’s the case, I feel bad for her–she made a mistake in judgment, not broke a rule, but mistakes in judgment in her position can come with a heavy cost. It’s why the politicians and operatives I know are cautious about what they say, where, in front of almost everyone save their most trusted confidantes.
I agree with you that people’s votes should be sacrosanct, but that applies most specifically to a citizen’s right to cast a ballot in an election. Running for delegate is not a right enshrined by the constitution, so she’s subject to their rules. Unfortunate, yes, but them’s is the rules and the other guys used (or misused) them to better affect than she did.
on August 1st, 2008 at 1:20 pm
More likely they were paid as a Rove tactic hoping to have the new headline be “Obama has black protesters escorted out…”
If I were Rove, it’s what I’d do. (I may have ethics, but they don’t keep me from having an evil mind.)
on August 1st, 2008 at 1:46 pm
OT but very fun: The McCain camp won’t be qualifying for entrance into Mensa anytime soon. You know the new ad calling Obama a rock star by comparing him to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton? It’s probably not a good idea to diss Paris when her parents are big donors to your campaign. (Note: it leads to Michelle Malkin’s site. Take all appropriate hazmat precautions before clicking.)
on August 1st, 2008 at 1:51 pm
If I were Rove, it’s what I’d do. (I may have ethics, but they don’t keep me from having an evil mind.) So much for being Rove plants. A Kos diarist from St. Pete’s says they’re from a small leftist group in the area known for staging outre protests.
on August 1st, 2008 at 2:05 pm
minx, you went to michelle malkin and dkos in one day? ewww…
i liked the mccain ad, and understood what they were going for. however, they must not have gotten the memo that it is racist to include young, white, blonde females in an ad criticizing an African-American candidate, (see 2006 Tennessee Senate Race-Bob Corker v. Harold Ford, Jr for details.–’Harold, call me’)
on August 1st, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Here is the “Better” version of you currently featured vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC_C1bdpQwo&feature=related
on August 1st, 2008 at 2:32 pm
BACKGROUND: These Representatives ‘represent’ Congressional Districts that Hillary Clinton won AND are in states that Clinton also won (win, win, right? wrong) in the presidential primary– but they are endorsing Barack Obama. They reside in swing states and are up for reelection (as all U.S. Representatives are). Call them! (Script below)
Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-IN-2) (202) 225-3915
Rep. Baron Hill (D-IN-9) (202) 225-5315
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI-1) (202) 225-4735.
Patrick Murphy (D-PA-8) (202) 225-4276
Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL-19) (202) 225-3001
*Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Shultz (D-FL-20) (202) 225-7931 (was strong Hill Supporter - be sure to thank her for her support)
Rep. Ron Klein (D-FL-22) (202) 225-3026
Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH-01) (202) 225-5456
Swing State Phone Pounce
Between the hours of 9am - 5pm EST call these U.S. Representatives.
One Suggested Phone Pounce Message - change up your way!:
I am calling to urge (Representative ____) to endorse Hillary Clinton for President. Hillary won both the congressman’s district and state. I encourage the representative to reconsider his/her endorsement, which is not written in stone until voting at the convention, and to change it to reflect the wishes of their constituents. (You can then say why you support Hillary over Barack Obama ) Thanks!
on August 1st, 2008 at 3:29 pm
minx, you went to michelle malkin and dkos in one day? ewww…
It’s a dirty job but somebody’s gotta do it. (I’ll be doing major exfoliation tonight to get Teh Crawlies off.)
on August 1st, 2008 at 3:31 pm
hee hee….pumas’ response to obama’s ludacris
“Pumas Just Say No Deal…A Rap Anthem by E Luv”
Ed is a self-described PUMA from Obama’s home state of Illionois…he tosses in a few expletives, but who can blame him!!!!
on August 1st, 2008 at 3:50 pm
It’s a dirty job but somebody’s gotta do it. (I’ll be doing major exfoliation tonight to get Teh Crawlies off
Well, I stick with it, because where else would I get updates on how the neocon/neopente movement is destroying religious freedom for everyone else
http://dogemperor.dailykos.com/
Where else would I get info on the most recent abuse of intelligence powers by Bush and Co?
http://limelite.dailykos.com/
where else would I get political commentary, well written, by someone of my faith group?
http://ibonewits.dailykos.com/
Not likely anywhere, really.
So, yeah, I read that, and I read this, too.
does reading daily kos make me a kool-aid drinker?
on August 1st, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Well, well youtube vid surfaces, hear Hillary herself talk about the “nom on the floor.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8gdU_1MM44&eurl=http://dakiniland.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/731-hillary-video-by-simofish-must-see/
on August 1st, 2008 at 4:28 pm
there’s a new mccain ad out. take a peek.
on August 1st, 2008 at 8:30 pm
piper, i think mccain’s “silly” ads are great. it’s the summer, only political junkies are paying attention to the campaign, and these ads break through the media clutter and get some attention. they make important points about the media’s promotion of obama as a celebrity and obama’s presentation of himself as a savior.
on August 1st, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Good evening Obama troops this is Tokyo rose and lord ha-ha again!
Bringing you Kool-Aid free news….first from Tokyo rose…
Obama continues to shine like a fading star…he has lost his shine and unlike Evita he has lost his style….
He is like a quantum singularity (look it up bots) he is collapsing in on himself.
His poll numbers continue to sink lower and lower and in several he even behind that is right behind john McCain…
Wait but democrats have a shining hope Hillary is still polling ahead of McCain and outside the margin of error…oh sorry Obama-bots not the news you wanted to here!
also news is that most women whose husbands and boyfriends support Obama are actually cheating’ on them buy getting a little hillaryman supporters on the side seems like most big “o” supporters lack the cojones to satisfy them….
and for you Obama supporting women you husbands and boyfriends can be found ogling all the lovely ladies who shine for Hillary-who can blame your guys they are just intoxicating….they are leaving you for women who value their ballot boxes….my will it be lonely at home with your men out cocktailing at the scratchin post?
Tokyo rose says when you support a liar and a cheater its permission to you significant others they can do the same!
Now you take it lord Ha-ha…
Well looks like the guy who played the race card did so one too many times he made it seem like it was 3 of the four suits in his deck! My oh my throwing George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Abe Lincoln under the bus on the race issue is not sitting to well with your former base or independents
Ha-ha THINKS… you may have been caught with cards up your sleeve…all of them jokers to bad Obama…
How much of the O-bot money did Obama spend trying to get Europe’s vote? And merkle was unimpressed! But when you throw all your latte and arugula money at him what did you expect.
Obama showed his true colors by dissing the troops keeping them at attention in Afghanistan for two hours while he hob knobbed with the brass all those troops sure made him feel presidential I am sure at attention for the great Obama!
Ha-ha and rose are grateful but wished he had been president instead of FDR! We would be national heroes and the Reich would have stretched from the Urals to California and the Japanese empire from Hawaii to the Urals to India!
your humble lord ha-ha would like to leave you obamabots with one final thought
is he really worth all this adoration for agreeing to FISA, supporting offshore drilling, and wanting women to speak to their husbands and pastors before making decisions about their bodies…hey wait Rose this Obama is our kind of guy!
on August 1st, 2008 at 9:23 pm
great post on the race card, piper. see also “Obama Caught with Race Card in Mouth, Admits Comments Were Racial; Media Shills Look Dumb, Clinton Dems Rejoice”
http://donedems.com/front-page/
on August 1st, 2008 at 10:07 pm
awsome post micheal
& indieogini that was i very good link
looks like princess ok corral is shaping up
looks like the chosen is getting ready to implode
on August 1st, 2008 at 10:07 pm
awsome post micheal
& indieogini that was i very good link
looks like princess ok corral is shaping up
looks like the chosen is getting ready to implode
on August 1st, 2008 at 10:24 pm
thanks for posting that vid sista. looks like hillary going to do everything she can do get her name up for nomination.
go hillary
on August 1st, 2008 at 10:31 pm
piper in pucci :
i’m jumping in here - trying to catch up on the posts -
Apparently there is documentation involved when one is a delegate to the national convention. The delegate “pledges” to vote their nonimee or face a consequence. I’m not fully informed, but that is the jist of the rules as explained to me by Hillary delegates to the national convention.
on August 2nd, 2008 at 12:26 am
I guess Barracko has been reading this peice of article, considering his new flip flop on drilling.
http://politicommentary.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/political-suicide/
on August 2nd, 2008 at 12:27 am
http://politicommentary.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/political-suicide/
on August 2nd, 2008 at 12:28 am
Weird…..things happening here. Has anyone been hacking on the php code on this site?
on August 2nd, 2008 at 12:43 am
weird stuff?
on August 2nd, 2008 at 7:22 am
testing
on August 2nd, 2008 at 7:42 am
does reading daily kos make me a kool-aid drinker?
No, it doesn’t, am-soldier. Believing any leader’s spin uncritically does.
And a note about the term “kool-aid”–yes, it comes from the horrific mass murder-suicides in Jonestown, Guyana 30 years ago, where drink mix was spiked with poison. I’ll save the meta-discussion for another post, perhaps, but I don’t have a basic problem with using edgy or even offensive language on the net. I’m trying to be more cautious about not using tactics against my opponents that I disapprove of when they use them against me…but sometimes we all need a safe place to vent and use bleak humor to cope with bleak times. For us, this is that place.
on August 2nd, 2008 at 7:42 am
Oops. Sorry. Dropped tag. No blogging for me before coffee.
on August 2nd, 2008 at 8:19 am
i think britney said it best” oop’s he did it again this time its ofshore drilling
looks like pancake man in back
on August 2nd, 2008 at 8:32 am
“the one” is never wrong when are we going to get that into our heads-offshore drilling is a core democratic value and universal healthcare is not…..women consulting there preachers and husbands before making decisions about their bodies is a core democratic value choice is not….FISA support and government spying on its own citizens is a core demopcratic value the first through tenth amendments to the constitution are not!
gotta love this post-democratic candidate-can I now have hillary back?
fuzzybeargville
on August 2nd, 2008 at 9:06 am
good morning gang! did o shift on offshore drilling? if so, does anyone have a link?
thanks indieyogini. i’m so tired of the o and the dems using the race card while pretending that it’s their opponents who are using it. i’m glad mccain pushed back on it.
minx, e-mail princesss, give her the closing tag, and tell her where to put it. i made the same mistake yesterday and she was able to fix it for me.
on August 2nd, 2008 at 11:28 am
i found the link to obama’s shift on offshore drilling
can we have hillary back now please?
on August 2nd, 2008 at 11:29 am
http://politicallydrunk.blogspot.com/2008/08/obamas-inconveniently-begins-flip-on.html
Hey guys, I heard that the pope had BO image on his toast this morning.
on August 2nd, 2008 at 11:40 am
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/aug/01/if-your-blog-is-not-loading-in-internet-explo/
on August 2nd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Great article, Piper. Obama played the race card against Hillary and Bill Clinton. He’s playing the race card against John McCain. Only a true coward, who can’t make it on his own, does this.
I believe Obama and his wife Michelle are racists and they’re trying to muzzle Americans by calling people racists if they dare to demand to know about his background, associates, beliefs and values.
Americans will not be muzzled. We will have our beliefs and speak our minds. It doesn’t surprise me that Obama doesn’t want us to find out about his background, associates, beliefs and values. Too bad. We will find out who this man really is. Our country’s future is at stake.
on August 2nd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I know this was a dead issue to some of you folks but, I just got a bit more curious and did some research on the web regarding this mystery.
Other countries doesn’t allow a dual citizenship, which include Kenya. And if BO claim to have a dual citizenship within these scenario, it mean also that for him to be a Kenya citizen he has to give up his current status as a U.S. citizen, which makes him ineligible to run for office.
This is the sworn allegiance for the naturalize in the U.S., I’m sure other countries have something similar in that sort.
“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen…” from the Oath of Allegiance
There are to many document out there that hasn’t been release regarding “The man who wants to be a king” that I’m sure will connect the dots. I think were just looking at the wrong thing.
Please check the links:
http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/obama-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen/#more-1341
http://www.newcitizen.us/dual.html
http://www.geocities.com/jusjih/dncdp.html
http://www.politicalgateway.com/main/columns/read.html?col=731
on August 3rd, 2008 at 11:49 am
“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen…” from the Oath of Allegiance
Thanks for the info, rey, but it doesn’t mean a hill of beans.
There is no oath of allegiance for someone who was born a US citizen, and no requirement for US citizens not to have dual citizenship - witness those who can prove at least one grandparent was born in the Republic of Ireland, they get citizenship in the Republic just for asking, without having to relinquish american citizenship.
on August 3rd, 2008 at 6:17 pm
http://www.hillaryheads.blogspot.com/ said,
on August 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 pm
“Obama wants ‘full vote’ for Michigan, Florida delegates”
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/03/obama.delegates/index.html?section=cnn_latest
on August 3rd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Hey Just,
I’m well aware of that arguement, however those who emigrate and are nationalized take an oath. Those who are born here are born to the oath, or we can leave.
Having a dual citizenship is a security risk to this country and if he wants to remove all the doubts on people minds, then release all the document and address the issues. Else, how can you be so sure about his legitimacy (no forge BC pls), do you know something that some of us don’t? Did you know if you vote or involve in any political movement on your other claim of nationality, you can be strip of your rights as a U.S. citizen as well?
“witness those who can prove at least one grandparent was born in the Republic of Ireland, they get citizenship in the Republic just for asking, without having to relinquish american citizenship.”
So which part is it that you miss that we don’t accept dual citizenship with Kenya? so much for your beans!
Dual nationality / Conscription / Death penalty
KE Kenya No No Yes/No
on August 3rd, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Hey Just,
I’m well aware of that arguement, however those who emigrate and are nationalized take an oath. Those who are born here are born to the oath, or we can leave.
Having a dual citizenship is a security risk to this country and if he wants to remove all the doubts on people minds, then release all the document and address the issues. Else, how can you be so sure about his legitimacy (no forge BC pls), do you know something that some of us don’t? Did you know if you vote or involve in any political movement in your other claim of nationality, you can be strip of your rights as a U.S. citizen as well?
“witness those who can prove at least one grandparent was born in the Republic of Ireland, they get citizenship in the Republic just for asking, without having to relinquish american citizenship.”
So which part is it that you miss that we don’t accept dual citizenship with Kenya?
Dual nationality / Conscription / Death penalty
KE Kenya No No Yes/No
on August 3rd, 2008 at 9:13 pm
my bad, I read the damn chart wrong. However, lack of regards on their part doesn’t mean it should be ours also, most especially for the highest office in this country.
on August 4th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
tell it to JFK who qualified for dual citizenship.
Those who are born here are born to the oath, or we can leave.
Wrong! no choice is forced onto people who are born as citizens of the usa.
love it or leave it seems to be your motto, when it’s applied to someone you dislike.
whereas some of us think, hey, this is my country, and that country that I can also have citizenship is part of my background, too, so why shouldn’t I?
is it only acceptable if it’s a european union member?
is it less acceptable if it isn’t?
on August 22nd, 2008 at 3:57 am
Its a shame that democrats would think like you guys. Blacks has always voted for democrats regardless of the candidates running. This is obviously an eye opener and its really time for black americans to start looking somewhere else. I have read a lot of your bulls and i must say that after this election, i will never vote democrat again. behind all your stupid claims and your dumb reasons lies pure ignorance. hillary lost big time and its time for you and your silly groups to suck it up and move on. live with this suckers-FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT IS ON HIS WAY DEAL WITH IT! if you didnt go to africa to slave folks they wont be here running for president. by the way who is actually a real american? THE INDIANS! the rest of us are just immigrants. if americans can select dumb bush to be president, i dont see why they cant give a brother a chance to run.
on August 22nd, 2008 at 4:10 am
wow! sounds like fox news here…go get a life folks. by the way i agree with you marcel.
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obama uses the race card as much as clinton uses the gender card.
if she were a man, you guys would not be hatin’ as much as you do now.
you guys are making women look angry, vindictive, and petty. it’s embarrassing