By Kathy Kiely and Jill Lawrence - LINKHillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to continue her quest for the Democratic nomination, arguing she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to a wider coalition of voters — including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent contests.
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.
Clinton’s blunt remarks about race came a day after primaries in Indiana and North Carolina dealt symbolic and mathematical blows to her White House ambitions. The Obama campaign, looking toward locking up the nomination, stepped up pressure on superdelegates who have the decisive votes in their race.
In both states, Clinton won six of 10 white voters, according to surveys of people as they left polling places.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said that in Indiana, Obama split working-class voters with Clinton and won a higher percentage of white voters than in Ohio in March. He said Obama will be the strongest nominee because he appeals “to Americans from every background and all walks of life. These statements from Sen. Clinton are not true and frankly disappointing.”
Clinton rejected any idea that her emphasis on white voters could be interpreted as racially divisive. “These are the people you have to win if you’re a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election. Everybody knows that.”
Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Clinton’s comment was a “poorly worded” variation on the way analysts have been “slicing and dicing the vote in racial terms.”
However, he said her primary support doesn’t prove she’s more electable. Either Democrat will get “the vast majority” of the other’s primary election votes in a general election, he said.
Clinton lost North Carolina by 15 percentage points and won Indiana by 2 points after competing full-out in both states. She had loaned the campaign $6.4 million in the past month. She said she might lend more.
“We should finish the contests we have and see where we stand after they’re over,” she said, referring to the six remaining primaries that will end June 3.
There were signs of unrest Wednesday, even among Clinton allies. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein wondered to The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, “whether she can get the delegates that she needs.” Former South Dakota senator George McGovern, whose 1972 presidential bid gave Clinton her first political experience, switched his support from Clinton to Obama.
“Do you know how difficult it is for women to stand up and say we are the best at anything? The Democratic Party has to know that women are the core, women have to be at the table and women are going to be heard as we continue in these contests until they finally end.”
– Hillary Rodham Clinton
She was speaking to a gathering of 1,500 at the “Generations of Women for Hillary” fundraiser at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington. The women gave her “a thunderous and extended standing ovation.” And why not? She is the women’s candidate. She represents us. She is opening doors for us. In the short span of her historic presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken a lifetime of venomous misogyny and she has taken it for all of us. If she has not reawakened the long dormant feminist movement, no one can. If she wins, we win. If she loses, we lose:
“I’ve been counted out more than once. But thanks to all of you I’ve come back. When I was counted out in New Hampshire, it was the women of New Hampshire who came back and said, ‘No, she’s not finished yet.’ When I was counted out before Super Tuesday it was women from California to Massachusetts who came and said ‘No, we’re not finished yet.’ When I was counted out before Ohio, before Indiana, we have always come back.”And it’s not so much about my comeback it is about our comeback.
(link) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is fond of quoting a particular passage of Scripture. The quote, however, does not appear in the Bible and is fictional, according to biblical scholars.
In her April 22 Earth Day news release, Pelosi said, The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, “To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.” On this Earth Day, and every day, let us pledge to our children, and our children’s children, that they will have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and the opportunity to experience the wonders of nature.
Cybercast News Service repeatedly queried the speaker’s office for two days to determine where the alleged Bible quote is found. Thus far, no one has responded.
Claude Mariottini, a professor of Old Testament at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, told Cybercast News Service the passage not only doesn’t exist - it’s fictional.
“It is not in the Bible,” Mariottini said. There is nothing that even approximates that.
In the age of Google, the internet and blogs how dumb do you have to be as a politician to just start making up quotes from the most-published books of all time?
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Cybercast News Service has learned that Pelosi has repeatedly used the quote:– In December 2005, in a Christmas message to the U.S. House of Representatives, Pelosi said: “Mr. Speaker, as we leave for this Christmas recess, let us say, ‘God bless you’ to the American people by voting against this Republican budget and statement of injustice and immorality, and let us not let the special interest goose get fat at the expense of America’s children.“The gentleman from Washington [state], Mr. McDermott, quoted the prophet Isaiah. And as the Bible teaches us, to minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship, to ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us. Let us vote no on this budget as an act of worship and for America’s children.”– On Feb. 8, 2007, in remarks before the U.S. House Science and Technology Committee, when it held hearings on global warming, she used the same quote, verbatim, as in her Earth Day release.
– On April 6, 2007, in congressional remarks before the Easter recess: “In this Holy Week, we are reminded of these words in the Old Testament: ‘To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.’ We must move quickly to honor God’s creation by reducing greenhouse gas pollution in the United States and around the world.”
– On April 25, 2007, in a speech to the League of Conservation Voters in Washington, D.C.: “We are now charging ahead to tackle one of humanity’s greatest challenges yet - global warming. We will do this because we hold our children’s future in our hands - not our grandchildren, or great-grandchildren, but our own children. “As it says in the Old Testament, ‘To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.’”
– On Oct. 22, 2007, in a television interview with PBS host Tavis Smiley, she used it in discussion of her roots, attributing the quote to the book of Isaiah: “I’m raised in a family in Baltimore, Maryland, my father was the mayor. He was in Congress when I was born. And we were devoutly Catholic, very patriotic. We love America. Devoutly Catholic, deeply patriotic, proud of our Italian American heritage, and in our case, staunchly Democratic.
“And that faith was related to our Democratic values. That is to say, the gospel of Matthew: ‘When I was hungry, you gave me to eat.’ You know, the least of our brethren. So that’s an inspiration in the New Testament. In the Old Testament, Isaiah says, ‘To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the god who made us.’” Mis-remembered? Mis-paraphrased?
I’m a day late on this because of my KU victory hangover, anywho in case you missed it this first video clip is yesterday’s Today Show segment on some sort of revenge attack exacted for gossiping about the suspects on MySpace. The victim suffered a concussion and damage to the left eye and ear, out of which she currently can’t hear. Each of the eight suspects are facing two felonies and three of them are facing a third.
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The second clip is a discussion on the rise of these cyber bully crimes committed by teens.
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This morning I was watching Mike and Mike in the Morning and there was a discussion on fan behavior and how rude and obnoxious people are at sporting events.
It’s obvious that civility is lacking in our society, DUH!
I was considering writing something with this entire sports fan civility twist but I figured why bang the keyboard revealing the obvious, fans are rude and screwed up but we in society have a much bigger problem.
How long has there been really fucked up people in human society? I would guess since humans began to communicate and walk upright.
Thanks to You Tube people are perfectly willing to air their sick, twisted mentally deficient behavior to starving voyeurs around the globe.
But hey we have lying ass politicians “misspeaking” on a daily basis with little or no repercussions knowing these lies will be highlighted on You Tube and knowing that their political fans will completely ignore their verbal gaffs.
On blog/websites we have shit loads of racial hostility directed at those who have opposing societal views.
We have political hostilities directed at those who differ on stances from “climate change” to the war in Iraq. The hatred frankly is overwhelming.
I sometimes think of how folks perceive me on this blog. I do come off as brash, angry, pissed off. Now I’m an opinionated bastard and what I say here I’m honest about and if I were having a conversation with someone I would still express myself in a very opinionated manner, but I’m not mean about it. I don’t have anything going on in my life that would cause me to be constantly mean and hostile about.
Back to the teens, why the hell would these teens videotape the “animalistic” beating of this girl? As far as I’m concerned instead of bitching and moaning about My Space and You Tube you have to focus on the families of these kids.
Look at the mom in the first clip typical white trash piece of shit almost blaming the victim while brushing aside the responsibility of her own daughter.
Let’s get real here if you are in a fucked up marriage/relationship, family, fucked up job, you look in the mirror and don’t like what you see or you see yourself as a failure you will take that frustration out on anybody and everybody.
That could be a fan shouting obscenities at a player, jealous at the millions of dollars that athlete is making.
Road rage because you are driving an hour to work in shitty traffic to a job where you hate your boss and your boss treats you like dirt.
THEN you have to go home and deal with your “idiot” spouse and Bart Simpson like kids.
What happens from all of that anger, you pass off your rude, obnoxious, socially repulsive fucked up behavior to your kids and what results are these socially repulsive teens. This is not rocket science.
Best example below, the text is from a website called Radar Online there is an article Meet the Web’s 10 most hated people. Check out the story of the most hated person Lori Drew. After reading that ask yourself how big a piece of shit individual must you be to pull off this level of callousness.
This lady clearly has issues. Just watch any reality show. These shows are full of the most retarded self absorbed folks on the planet. Treating your fellow man like shit is a spectator sport.
In this lady’s case how the fuck is My Space to blame for the behavior of this piece of human trash?
From shouting obnoxious fans in a sports stadium, to overcrowded highways, to cyberspace, I swear I’m not sure if people are getting more fucked up.
However for me thank God I’m not around such angry piece of shit examples of human debris.
I have a loving family, Mrs. Snoop, my grandkids, love my job, satisfied with my life and existence.
I guess I’m sick of these calls again blaming internet sites, text messaging or some sort of technological aspect for why people or kids are fucked up.
Frankly people need to find God, or some religion (not some cult crap). Family counseling, intact families, I don’t know but the “is society getting worse” question is a never-ending debate. Heck I’m just a blog dude what do I know!?
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1. LORI DREW
You know you’ve struck a nerve with the Internet masses when your saga has been covered breathlessly by media outlets big and small, yet the first Google hit involving your name is titled “People You’ll See in Hell.” But that’s what happens when you’re an adult who maybe drove an adolescent girl to suicide. A fantastic account of the whole sordid mess can be found in the New Yorker, but for the uninitiated, the story goes something like this: A 13-year-old girl named Meghan Meier hung herself in the upstairs closet of her suburban Missouri home after receiving a bunch of nasty MySpace messages from a boy she had been corresponding with. Except the boy in question, “Josh Evans,” wasn’t actually a boy: He was the fictional creation of a woman named Lori Drew, the mother of a girl with whom young Meier had once been friends. Meghan and the friend had a falling out, as adolescent girls are wont to do, which prompted the girl’s mom to punish Meghan by “friending” her as a 16-year-old hottie named “Josh Evans.” Seemingly, Drew planned on toying with Meghan’s emotions to teach her some sort of life lesson, failing to realize that 13-year-old girls are fragile creatures who don’t take well to that style of teaching. Granted, it later came out that Drew knew Meghan had battled depression, making her cold “This isn’t my fault and I had no idea this would happen” defense ring somewhat hollow. (To make matters worse, she even enlisted the help of another young girl to make the ruse more plausible.)
Interestingly enough, the St. Charles Journal, the paper that originally broke the story, didn’t mention Drew by name, but a bunch of pissed-off bloggers eventually outed her. Drew hasn’t yet been charged with a crime, but prosecutors are looking to see if her creating the fake MySpace account can be grounds for fraud. In the interim, congratulations, Lori! You are officially the most despised person in the whole wide web!
(Imperial Tip O’ the Crown to LC Hoghead for this one).Following yet another string of lies from the Hildebeest about her selflessly heroic acts in Tuzla where she, according to her, dodged the concentrated fire of the entire 3rd Serbian Shock Army as she pirouetted into the airport in a Corkscrew of Doom, followed by a frantic sprint across the tarmac as nukes were incoming and the Four Horsemen were rearing their steeds, laying waste to the countryside, it’s no wonder that some people, at least those who aren’t already intimately familiar with her mendacity, might ask themselves if she’s ever said a true word in her entire life.
The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes.
The punishment visited on Sen. Hillary Clinton for her flagrant, hysterical, repetitive, pathological lying about her visit to Bosnia should be much heavier than it has yet been and should be exacted for much more than just the lying itself. There are two kinds of deliberate and premeditated deceit, commonly known as suggestio falsi and suppressio veri. (Neither of them is covered by the additionally lying claim of having “misspoken.”) The first involves what seems to be most obvious in the present case: the putting forward of a bogus or misleading account of events. But the second, and often the more serious, means that the liar in question has also attempted to bury or to obscure something that actually is true. Let us examine how Sen. Clinton has managed to commit both of these offenses to veracity and decency and how in doing so she has rivaled, if not indeed surpassed, the disbarred and perjured hack who is her husband and tutor.I remember disembarking at the Sarajevo airport in the summer of 1992 after an agonizing flight on a U.N. relief plane that had had to “corkscrew” its downward approach in order to avoid Serbian flak and ground fire. As I hunched over to scuttle the distance to the terminal, a mortar shell fell as close to me as I ever want any mortar shell to fall. The vicious noise it made is with me still. And so is the shock I felt at seeing a civilized and multicultural European city bombarded round the clock by an ethno-religious militia under the command of fascistic barbarians. I didn’t like the Clinton candidacy even then, but I have to report that many Bosnians were enthused by Bill Clinton’s pledge, during that ghastly summer, to abandon the hypocritical and sordid neutrality of the George H.W. Bush/James Baker regime and to come to the defense of the victims of ethnic cleansing.
I am recalling these two things for a reason. First, and even though I admit that I did once later misidentify a building in Sarajevo from a set of photographs, I can tell you for an absolute certainty that it would be quite impossible to imagine that one had undergone that experience at the airport if one actually had not. Yet Sen. Clinton, given repeated chances to modify her absurd claim to have operated under fire while in the company of her then-16-year-old daughter and a USO entertainment troupe, kept up a stone-faced and self-loving insistence that, yes, she had exposed herself to sniper fire in the cause of gaining moral credit and, perhaps to be banked for the future, national-security “experience.” This must mean either a) that she lies without conscience or reflection; or b) that she is subject to fantasies of an illusory past; or c) both of the above. Any of the foregoing would constitute a disqualification for the presidency of the United States.
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Ya know unless Hillary is able to hire someone to assassinate Obama her chances of winning the presidency is pretty much zero.
Putting aside Rush’s “Operation Chaos” successfully fucking up the Democratic Party, after her sniper fire lie I have often thought about the mental acuity of people who still actually believe that Hillary Clinton should be president.
EVEN AFTER THIS MOTHER OF ALL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LIES, how
could someone willingly show up at one of her campaign rallies and keep their integrity in check?
I have yet to find a blogger or columnist who is willing to bang out on a keyboard truthfully and honestly why Hillary, despite being a lying fuck should be president.
Only the fact that she is a woman and her name is Clinton. If she were a man named
Tom Richardson everyone including flaming lib tards would avoid her like the plague.
after reading this article, I’m just dumbfounded.
Observations of liar liar pants on fire fraud retard Democratic presidential candidates…
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Obama’s Pastor Slurs Italians in Latest Magazine
By Penny Starr - CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) - Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of Trumpet Newsmagazine.
“(Jesus’) enemies had their opinion about Him,” Wright wrote in a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue. “The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans.”
Wright continued, “From the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that said his daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ death on a cross, a Roman cross, public lynching Italian style. …
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday sought to quell concerns over anti-American remarks by his former pastor, saying people are paying too much attention to a small number of “stupid” comments.
Obama gave a sweeping speech on race last week in which he condemned incendiary remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, but the words of the former pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago continue to dog the candidate. Reflecting the campaign’s concern about the fallout, Obama used a question about religion at a town hall forum as an opportunity to address the issue.
“This is somebody that was preaching three sermons at least a week for 30 years and it got boiled down … into a half-minute sound clip and just played it over and over and over again, partly because it spoke to some of the racial divisions we have in this country,” Obama told an audience in this central North Carolina city.
“There are misunderstandings on both sides,” the Illinois senator said. “We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere does something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and forgets about the war in Iraq and we forget about the economy.”
Obama is becoming Bill Clinton like. I mean in the “it depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is.
Remember:
“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the–if he–if ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not–that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement….Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.”
So now we have a “small number of “stupid” comments” I guess it depends on what you would define as “small.”
Mrs. Clinton said that she says “millions of words each day” so “we were under sniper fire” so five small words out of a million, is indeed small. “God damm Americkkka” is just a blip on the radar.
Ya know I get the fact that politicians on both sides have some serious issues with honesty. And neither side has a monopoly on what may be the correct path to dealing with some of America’s issues but anybody paying attention has to be struck by just how incredibly deceitful and conniving Democratic politicians are.
A simple story about a foreign policy trip or whether or not (your church and pastor of CHOICE) is a raving racist America hating lunatic can produce the most bullshit rhetoric is just beyond belief.
One of my commenter’s Allen posted this and it describes Democrats perfectly;
“I can’t quite imagine what a conversation in that family must be like. The best I can figure:”
Neighbor: Your damn dog tore up my garden.
Bill: We have no dog. Hillary: Our dog was inside when the incident occurred. Chelsea: We have a dog?
Neighbor: Of course it’s your dog everyone knows it.
Lanny Davis: I find this focus on the dog to be irrelevant.
“If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn’t be in the race,” she said.Really. The cite is an April 15, 1988 Washington Post story (byline: Howard Kurtz), available only on Nexis.
Here’s the full context:
Placid of demeanor but pointed in his rhetoric, Jackson struck out repeatedly today against those who suggest his race has been an asset in the campaign. President Reagan suggested Tuesday that people don’t ask Jackson tough questions because of his race. And former representative Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that because of his “radical” views, “if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn’t be in the race.”
Asked about this at a campaign stop in Buffalo, Jackson at first seemed ready to pounce fiercely on his critics. But then he stopped, took a breath, and said quietly, “Millions of Americans have a point of view different from” Ferraro’s.
Discussing the same point in Washington, Jackson said, “We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got North to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I’m making history.”
If former Democratic vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro is worried she has offended Barack Obama by suggesting his political success is due to the colour of his skin, she isn’t showing it.Ferraro caused outrage in the Obama camp by telling a California newspaper that the Illinois senator would never be winning the Democratic race if he was a white man or a woman. But facing calls for her ouster from a ceremonial role in Clinton’s campaign, Ferraro instead tried to turn the tables on Obama’s aides.
“I have to tell you that what I find is offensive is that everytime somebody says something about the campaign, you’re accused of being racist,” Ferraro told Fox News Channel.
” ‘Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says let’s address reality and the problems we’re facing in this world, you’re accused of being racist, so you have to shut up. Racism works in two different directions. I really think they’re attacking me because I’m white. How’s that?’ “
She then explained why she thought Obama was “lucky” to be a black candidate running for president, a statement that would seem to fly in the face of White House campaigns going back to, well, America’s origins.
“If in 1984 my name was Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferraro, I would never have been the nominee for VP,” she said.
Ferraro was Walter Mondale’s running mate in the 1984 presidential campaign.
Geraldine Ferraro: Obama’s Winning Because He’s Not White!
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
This is the beauty of You Tube, and this current Democratic presidential campaign.
All of these years us folks on the right have always been accused as being the racists, and Democrats have consistently tried to sell that bullshit to the masses and now everything we have been saying for years is now on full display.
All you have to do is listen to this retarded racist ass bitch.
(link) “The bigger the lie, the better the chance they think they’ve got. That’s been their whole approach,” he said. “She’s going to lose a whole generation of people who got involved in politics believing it could be something different.”
Bradley believes that Clinton will stop at nothing to tear down Obama even if it boosts John McCain, who was confirmed last week as the Republican nominee:
”The Clintons do not do long-term planning. They’re total tacticians and right now their focus is on Obama, not McCain.”
First Chuck Barkley, now Michelle Obama, who will be the next idiot Obama supporter to insert foot in mouth?
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
UPDATE - When I wrote this rant at the time I did not know this: Bill O’Reilly
Now, the problem with that statement is the words “for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country.” Perhaps Michelle Obama simply misspoke. That happens all the time when you give speeches. But Mrs. Obama said it twice in two different speeches.
Now I’m willing, I’m willing to give Mrs. Obama the benefit of the doubt if she wants that benefit. The problem is she’s been silent, letting others speak for her.
Keep that in mind, when (or if) Michelle goes on a “I DIDN’T MEAN IT” talk show tour, starting with Oprah. She clearly meant it.
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I’ve been pondering all day that stupid ass remark Michelle Obama made and I tried like hell to come up with something relevant, something worthy of inquisitive eyes. You know what I could not come up with anything to say, her comments, so outlandish and repugnant there is no explaining her either colossal stupidity or she has already learned that there will always be a segment of the American population, where playing the victim makes you somehow noble, cool, aware, a proud non conformist.
Politics is already a cesspool of corruption made up of the most egotistical manipulative people on the planet. Michelle fits in nicely.
I think about my own life, I’m as Middle American as they come, ridiculously simple, wanting for nothing, I have a nice job, one where I can easily work until I’m 70 or more in relative comfort.
I have a great wife, a loving family, some issues, but certainly nothing that causes me any great concern.
I have been virtually around this entire nation, and had the opportunity to travel Europe.
I have been involved in some great endeavors, had the opportunity to meet and work with some extraordinary people.
Mrs. Snoop and I are not wealthy folks, not will we ever be, unless we hit the lotto, but I’m cool with that.
I have never climbed towering peaks, rode the great wave, or sought the adrenalin rush of lets say bungee jumping off a picturesque bridge or skydiving into a beautiful valley.
I have never had the opportunity to either speak to or perform before a crowd of thousands with adoring applauses afterwards.
I have never made it big on Wall Street, nor have I closed a multi-million dollar real estate or business deal.
I have never owned a business, never with my own two hands constructed my own home.
Although I have many times experienced racism, been treated less than fair on some occasions, and have been frustrated at some of the decisions I have made that caused me to take a less than desirable path. Good, bad or otherwise I have never questioned the greatness of this nation nor oblivious to the fact that if I desired to achieve greatness that being an American gives me a distinct advantage millions come here to take advantage of each year.
This nation provides an abundance of opportunities to those that CHOOSE to take advantage of it.
Michelle Obama the wife of a man in a very exclusive club, United States Senator.
Friend of and political partner of arguable the richest and most influential woman in the world Oprah Winfrey.
This woman, hugely successful with more money that I will ever see, I guess is not proud or our American standard of living compared to people throughout the world.
Even in some of America’s most impoverished areas our poor are not living in grass huts, without running water. Let not forget most likely drive decent automobiles, has multiple TV’s (with cable) and most of their lives paid for on the backs of hard working Americans.
I’m sure in the next day or so, she will qualify her remarks and try to brush them aside.
To me this little incident only outlines just how far politics has fallen in this nation.
To think that by disparaging a nation that has provided her with so much is in her mind “necessary” to court the political favor of those who would just assume this nation be brought to its knees is frankly sickening.
What the hell, all I can say is we simply need to make damm sure that individuals like Michelle Obama and her ilk are not bestowed the honor of representing this nation as first lady.
I’m sure one of those diseased ravaged, war torn, AIDS infested African countries will make her queen.
But ya know the funny thing is one of her first acts as African queen would be to meet with evil American leaders to beg for money.
Yes, America sucks until you need our damm money, or the blood of our soldiers to liberate you.
MILWAUKEE — So what did Michelle Obama think of the United States before her husband decided he wanted to run the place?
“For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country,” she told a Milwaukee crowd today, “and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change.”
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This quote from Bryan at Hot Air Sums it up perfectly…
Only her husband’s run for president has made her proud of America? That’s…extremely narcissistic and self-centered.
Nothing America has done in Michelle Obama’s adult life, which at 44 goes back 26 years to 1982, has made her proud of her country? Nothing? Not winning the Cold War? Not our regular and orderly transitions of power based on the rule of law? Not the fact that we feed and defend the world, not that we lead in science and technology research, not that we elected the first black president in 1992…nothing? Not the fact that she and her husband were able to go to Ivy League schools before embarking on extremely lucrative careers? Not the fact that we help out in disasters wherever they strike in the world? Nothing has made Michelle Obama proud of her country in her entire adult life?
How sad. I certainly don’t want such a vain pessimist as First Lady.
Crap I’m taking back what I said about her, fucken ignorant ass cow!
Will it ever be possible again for a damm Democrat, in his or her run for the presidency to run a campaign that is not full of anti-American, America is evil bullshit?
What possesses a woman who is highly educated, at one of the top schools in this nation, making nearly a quarter of a million a year, privy to all that is good with this country, get up on stage, look people in the eye and say; “for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country.”
I just don’t understand how most of these Democrats can look themselves in the mirror after they regurgitate the mounds of empty rhetoric and anti-American bullshit in their quest to manipulate people into believing that their never ending bitching and moaning is what folks look for in selecting their next president.
Fuck it pisses me off that McCain is the nominee, it just makes me sick, however if I am running his campaign, I run ads all across this country using Michelle Obama’s own words against her and Obama’s campaign.
Between idiot jackasses like Charles Barkley and now this cow, Obama’s presidency will not be torpedoed by what he says, but what his idiot supporters and fans say.
Snoop ranting about this Winehouse chick, popular culture… so what else is new?
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
America’s next top model? Singing sensation? Trailer court junkie?
If you are an Amy Winehouse fan, don’t read, but then again I doubt that anyone who peeps this blog could possible be a fan of this white crackhead drug fiendI watched some of the Grammy Awards; Mrs. Snoop was able to tolerate far more of it than I could. I tried to watch the performance of this Amy chick; I have read some amusing stories about her recently.As I’m typing this I started to say the obligatory “I can’t understand how people, bla, bla bla, totally amazed bla bla bla that a person, bla bla bla who is a self destructive, ugly crackhead skank can be so celebrated in the music world.
She is exceedingly untalented, skinny, just ugly, and perpetually fucked up.
Our society continues to amaze me at the type of skanks, skeezers, ratheads, checkenheads and bums we prop up and make stars out of.
This Winehouse skank was initially denied a U.S. visa to perform live at the Grammy’s due to the “use and abuse of narcotics”. This was subsequently reversed but not in time for her to perform at the Grammy’s in person. Instead she was “forced” to perform from London.
She, as is Paris Hilton, is rewarded for her less than stellar behavior, basically letting her know that her abuses are fine and that she can and will become even more famous by simply snorting some more power and adding a few more tattoos to her bony ass body.
I read that during a recent concert of hers, the bitch spat at fans while they exited during the show. She got pissed, wacking her own head with the microphone when she kept forgetting the lyrics to her own damm songs!.
Wait, you mean fans of hers paid money to see this skank, knowing that she likely never performs sober or not drug induced and they got mad when she acted “normally” in her mind? I love it!
As this society continues to degrade I recognize that many artists do bizarre and different things to make a name for themselves, but bizarre and different is a long way from drunk, stoned and obnoxious.
But forget about that, the bitch is not even remotely talented yet we celebrate her lifestyle and mediocre talent by giving her awards and finding a way for her to perform before a national audience. Amazing!
It’s the same thing with this Heath Ledger dude. He assumes room temperature from an “accidental” overdose of drugs yet the public feels sorry for him. “He had such promise as an actor” or “We are going to miss him in the movies”. No we won’t, he was a fucken drug fiend too, and his demise was inevitable.
Making a goddamm saint out of some prescription junkie white dude yet he is no different than a crackhead in the hood who “accidentally” overdoses and ends up with a tag on his toe as Leroy or Lekisha Doe in the morgue.
However I guess it explains these young morons screaming and crying at Obama rallies or Hillary’s supporters who swear that her presidency will bring “change” or a “new direction.”
I guess that if you believe that some skank like Winehouse is “talented” then you too would think that Obama or Hillary is “qualified” to be president.
It makes you cringe when you think about the voting age being 18.
Posting just in case you folks did not catch this article…
The campaign’s other most potent form of currency remains its thick deck of race cards. This was all too apparent in the Hallmark show. In its carefully calibrated cross section of geographically and demographically diverse cast members — young, old, one gay man, one vet, two union members — African-Americans were reduced to also-rans. One black woman, the former TV correspondent Carole Simpson, was given the servile role of the meeting’s nominal moderator, Ed McMahon to Mrs. Clinton’s top banana. Scattered black faces could be seen in the audience. But in the entire televised hour, there was not a single African-American questioner, whether to toss a softball or ask about the Clintons’ own recent misadventures in racial politics.
The Clinton camp does not leave such matters to chance. This decision was a cold, political cost-benefit calculus. In October, seven months after the two candidates’ dueling church perorations in Selma, USA Today found Hillary Clinton leading Mr. Obama among African-American Democrats by a margin of 62 percent to 34 percent. But once black voters met Mr. Obama and started to gravitate toward him, Bill Clinton and the campaign’s other surrogates stopped caring about what African-Americans thought. In an effort to scare off white voters, Mr. Obama was ghettoized as a cocaine user (by the chief Clinton strategist, Mark Penn, among others), “the black candidate” (as Clinton strategists told the Associated Press) and Jesse Jackson redux (by Mr. Clinton himself).
The result? Black America has largely deserted the Clintons. In her California primary victory, Mrs. Clinton drew only 19 percent of the black vote. The campaign saw this coming and so saw no percentage in bestowing precious minutes of prime-time television on African-American queries.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to garnish the wages of workerswho refuse to buy health insurance to achieve coverage for all Americans.
The New York senator has criticized presidential rival Barack Obama for pushing a health plan that would not require universal coverage. Clinton has not always specified the enforcement measures she would embrace, but when pressed on ABC’s “This Week,” she said: “I think there are a number of mechanisms” that are possible, including “going after people’s wages, automatic enrollment.”
Today’s birds of a feather entry: Race-hustler Maxine Waters is set to endorse Hillary Clinton in a conference call today. Maybe Hill will put a little Selma-style flavor in her voice today to celebrate. I came to know and loathe Waters when I lived and worked in Los Angeles. Here’s the column I wrote about Democrat pandering to Waters in August 2000. It still stands today:The Party of Maxine WatersShe is one of the most self-serving, hate-filled, race-obsessed politicians in America. The Democratic Party doesn’t just embrace her. It kneels at her feet.
Los Angeles Congresswoman Maxine Waters reigned supreme this week when Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman appeared before a black audience to “explain” himself. The Connecticut senator’s sins? Opposing affirmative action and supporting educational vouchers that benefit minority children. Lieberman, once a courageous voice for equal opportunity, has now been schooled: Pander hard and keep your dissenting thoughts to yourself.
After throwing a hissy-fit in the press because she had not been personally consulted about Al Gore’s veep picks (”I never had the opportunity to talk to anybody about it before he was decided on as the vice presidential choice,” she whined), Waters gave her benediction.
The skilled publicity hound dissed and then kissed Lieberman for the cameras; a cheek-to-cheek photo of the couple appeared in newspapers across the country.
Bill Clinton dozed off at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem just as his wife was receiving the endorsement (or, more properly, the blessing) of Calvin Butts at Abyssinian Baptist Church, eight or so blocks away. This church had been the pulpit of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. — “Mr. Jesus” to his congregation, member of Congress and husband to the politically fearless lefty (just one instance: as a witness before the House Un-American Activities Committees) and staggeringly sexual songstress of my youth, Hazel Scott, like Lena Horne. A randy fellow. I don’t think that black preachers have the sway they once had. Or white ministers, for that matter, except for those who are evangelicals and fundamentalists operating out of humongous mall churches.But back to the black ministers and their diminished sway. The decline of preacher power is a coming of age of the African-American population, much as it is among Irish and Italian Catholics or Jews or, for a demographically near-fatal shift, mainstream Protestants, who mostly and at best think their ministers are irrelevant. The black clerisy cannot any longer instruct its parishoners about their voting. It is an irony, of course, that the Harlem pastorate’s last swing at real political influence over their congregations is for a white woman and against a black man. Yet it also emphasizes their reactionary cast. No one since Martin Luther King has anyone so inspired and energized young whites as Barack Obama. This, then, is a real cross-racial alliance built on the cultural and educational achievements of African-Americans and on the true openness of whites and Asians to their black brothers and sisters. The bond between every Calvin Butts in America and Hillary is the old fix, pliant for the former, patronizing for the latter. And, as for the latter and her husband, it is also ugly. An article in this morning’s Financial Times by Edward Luce and Stephanie Kirchgaessner makes clear how perilous this is for the Clintons — and for the Democrats, in general. The most significant trap is that Bill risks making himself the prime issue of his wife’s campaign, two nasty and unimaginably calculating folk baying at Barack Obama whom almost everyone finds gracious. Me too.
There is a calculus to the Clintons trying to make Obama run as the black candidate. It is to stir up fear in one part of Hillary’s constituency, white women and particularly older white women. The other goal for Hillary is to turn Obama into a taunt for Hispanic Americans. After all, there was not one significant black figure in the Clinton administration, except on what you’d have to call the black reservations like Housing. Yes, there was the supreme fixer outside the administration, probably because he couldn’t get confirmed for anything or no plausible appointment was high enough for him, Vernon Jordan. The Clintons did not offend Hispanic Americans, not at all. For instance, they made Bill Richardson U.N. ambassador.
One of the largely unexamined frontiers in American politics is the one between African-Americans and Hispanic Americans, and it is at best a frosty frontier. There are more voting Latinos than there are voting blacks in the electorate, and probably more in the larger states that are soon to have primaries. Like New York and California on Super Tuesday. Watch for malicious mischief.
Is Hillary a racist? yes, yes she is…. her political pimps are too!
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Bill Clinton “Gone With More Black Women”
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland (Hillary backer) Makes Racist Comments
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton drew criticism Tuesday for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech in which she told a mostly black audience at a Harlem church that Republican leaders have run the House “like a plantation” and the Bush administration will go down as “one of the worst” in U.S. history. (link from 2006)
Hillary’s Plantation
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Robert L. Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, who is campaigning today in South Carolina with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, just made a suggestion that raised the specter of Barack Obama’s past drug use. He also compared Mr. Obama to Sidney Poitier, the black actor, in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.”At a rally here for Mrs. Clinton at Columbia College, Mr. Johnson was defending recent comments that Mrs. Clinton made regarding Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She did not mean to take any credit away from him, Mr. Johnson said, when she said that it took President Johnson to sign the civil rights legislation he fought for.Dr. King had led a “moral crusade,” Mr. Johnson said, but such crusades have to be “written into law.”
“That is the way the legislative process works in this nation and that takes political leadership,” he said. “That’s all Hillary was saying.”
He then added: “And to me, as an African-American, I am frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues since Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood – and I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in the book – when they have been involved.”
Moments later, he added: “That kind of campaign behavior does not resonate with me, for a guy who says, ‘I want to be a reasonable, likable, Sidney Poitier ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.’ And I’m thinking, I’m thinking to myself, this ain’t a movie, Sidney. This is real life.”
Gee, yet another Clinton hireling attacking Mr. Obama for his drug use and/or dealing.
(And just after attending church services, too.)
Still, why doesn’t Obama just explain how he “didn’t inhale” and put it all behind him?
Over at Michelle Malkin She brings up the Sidney Poitier remark:
This is how they view Obama–as the unbearably, too perfect, too presumptuous, accomplished black doctor character in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.”If Obama is Poitier, then Johnson and Hillary’s black demagogues are the real-life analogies of Spencer Tracey and Katharine Hepburn’s racist black maid, Tillie, who derides Poitier and treats him as a traitor to his race.
The film also attempted to touch upon black-on-black racism, as when both the doctor’s father and the household cook Matilda ‘Tillie’ Binks, played by Isabel Sanford in a small but memorable role, take the young man to task for his perceived presumption……The original version of this film that played
