BARACK OBAMA destroying the democratic party

[Caro]

Why does he keep lying about Clinton's positions? How does that promote unity?

NAFTA: Us, Hillary and the "Boon" (Spin Cycle, New York Newsday)
The Democratic campaign has moved in earnest to Ohio, where times are tough and NAFTA has become a dirty word. In an effort to score points, Barack Obama has been dropping a mail-piece … that repeats a charge he has made several other times during the campaign -- that "Hillary Clinton believed NAFTA was 'a boon' to the economy."… As it turns out, the primary source is us… Because it's raised questions -- with Clinton criticizing Obama for making "false claims" in the mail piece -- we've looked into the chart. In it, we did not have the Clinton campaign using the word "boon" in describing NAFTA… Obama's use of the citation in this way does strike us as misleading. The quote marks make it look as if Hillary said "boon," not us. It's an example of the kind of slim reeds campaigns use to try to win an office.

Click through to see a graphic of the mailing. Remember, Carl Bernstein, who wrote a book about Hillary Clinton, has said she opposed NAFTA in the 90s, but of course she couldn’t go public about that. Even now, it has to be a tricky topic for her, but as she and Bill Clinton both have said, there was supposed to be a safety net for displaced workers to go along with NAFTA, but somehow the Republicans in control of Congress wouldn’t let that part go through.

Obama: "I Believe In Free Trade" (by LindaSFNM, posting at MyDD)
Senator Obama: "I believe in the Free Market. I believe in Capitalism. I believe in Free Trade. I am not worried about us being able to compete anywhere on earth with American workers"-Obama. Too bad, at least Hillary does.

Click through for a link to the video.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

[Midlodemocrat]

1. I think you need a hug.

:hug:

[robertpaulsen]

9. I second that. Group hug!

:grouphug:

[grantcart]

11. I think that in the next two weeks we are going to see a lot of Clinton

folks going through withdrawal - going to need a lot of hugs

[Midlodemocrat]

14. Except that's not why we're doing it.

We're doing it to watch people's heads explode.

:patriot:

[robertpaulsen]

15. And unity. Unified Head Explosions.

:yourock:

[TZ]

16. Woo-hoo!

Hug explosion..How's this..I think the OP needs more than A hug.....:hug: :grouphug: :hug: :loveya: :loveya:

[grantcart]

18. its going to get messy in here

[LostinVA]

21. OMFG -- that's why I like you

:spray:

:patriot:

[Fredda Weinberg]

2. This is nothing the Democratic Party hasn't seen before.

And good to see you're still here.

[DJ13]

3. Repost

You just posted this a half hour ago.

[mckara]

4. Barack Obama IS the Democratic Party

Since when did nitpicking substitute for economic debate? And, how does Hillary rise to the level of becoming our savior? She's just another tin-horned politician, and NOT a great leader!

[GarbagemanLB]

6. amen

[noiretextatique]

8. both obama and clinton are a part of the democratic party

neither is a savior.

[Caro]

19. Obama OWNS the party?

Lock, stock, and barrel?

And if we don't like it we should move to Canada?

You sound just like a Bushbot. If you think Obama isn't just another politician, you haven't been paying attention.

We Illinois progressives sent Obama to the U.S. Senate, where he promptly joined the Joe Lieberman wing of the Democratic Party.
http://progressivepunch.yvod.com/members.jsp?member=HI1&search=selectScore&chamber=Senate&zip=&x=43&y=9

He’s not a progressive.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=11936

But he’s a master at pretending to be one.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=463&Itemid=34

"Obama is a company man.”
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=251&Itemid=34

“Barack Obama Inc.: The birth of a Washington machine”
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/11/0081275

Friend of Exelon
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/03/america/03exelon.php

His economic advisers are very conservative, from the University of Chicago-Milton Friedman school of economics.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080211/fraser

My favorite economist, Paul Krugman, caught Obama using right-wing talking points on what to do about Social Security
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/opinion/16krugman.html

and about his health care plan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/opinion/30krugman.html

His voting record is pro-business.
http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Feb2007/street0207.html

His voting record is pro-war.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12687

He glorifies American imperialism.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=13396

He flip-flopped on the Palestinians and Israel, and now is AIPAC-approved.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2008/01/obamas-israel-shuffle.html

He has shown repeatedly what good friends he is with anti-gay African American preachers.
http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2007/11/obamas-anti-gay.html

He misuses history, according to a prominent historian.
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/46866.html

He, uh, stretches the truth.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=463&Itemid=34

Example:

Trying to sound authentically African-American during a speech memorializing the forty-second anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights March at the Pettis Bridge in Selma, Obama claimed that his black (Kenyan) father and white (Kansan) mother married and conceived the future Barockstar because of the great Civil Rights struggles fought in Selma and Birmingham, Alabama… (Obama 2007).

Wow. Too bad Barack Obama Jr. was born in 1961, two years before the famous campaign to desegregate Birmingham, three years before the Civil Rights Act, and four years before the famous Selma march!

More on his “gaffes”.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/03/sweet_column_item_obamas_gaffe.html

His chief political adviser is a Daley machine strategist.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/magazine/01axelrod.t.html

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

[meow mix]

33. no just represents it best --therefore most supported.

very glad he came along..

[K Gardner]

5. Oh no ! He's drawing distinctions ! Discussing issues ! Damn him ! Why

isn't he going negative? !

[Radical Activist]

36. He should be talking about the number of debates and who is copying who

You know, the serious stuff.

[eShirl]

7. "---- is detroying the Democratic Party" posts = automatic ignore

I don't care who you're trashing

[Yael]

10. *sigh*

Wake me up when November is here. :(

[Tatiana]

12. You need a time out.

I can't believe how this primary race has changed so many (formerly) rational posters into irrational contortionists.

I think I'm still on your email list and have been since 2001. I am ashamed to see you posting tripe like "Barack Obama is destroying the democratic party." And I am angry, as a Democrat, that you would paint yourself into the same corner as those back in 2004 who insisted Wesley Clark was a "Republican."

Unreal.

[Caro]

20. I was paraphrasing ...

... another post.

Turnabout is fair play.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

[MH1]

23. Fair or not, you lost credibility, apparently

Was it worth it?

[elixir2]

13. "I believe in free trade" I bet he wishes he hadn't said that.

[Olney Blue]

17. No he's not.

Look I voted for Hillary, but I am so against these kinds of titles for a thread. WTF?

[TexasObserver]

22. Obama is saving the party from sure disaster. He's building it.

[NOLALady]

27. "He's building it"

And that will be his legacy even if he is not the nominee.

[NOLALady]

24. Have a great day.

:grouphug:

[BuyingThyme]

25. He's destroying the DLC. Good riddance.

[Caro]

30. He's DLC approved.

Honestly, how people can make their decision on a candidate based on such little knowledge is beyond me.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=463&Itemid=34

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

[BuyingThyme]

38. He went to some length to keep himself separate from the DLC.

He even made them remove his name from their website.

Maybe you're not smart enough to be voting this time around.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

26. he's building his own party....The Republicrats

[ProSense]

28. Complete distortion! The Peru agreement is not the Clintons' NAFTA

Here is information about the Peru bill.

Obama never said he was against trade. NAFTA was a horrible bill, which Bill Clinton signed into law and Hillary has defended.

[Cha]

29. No, you caro, are trying to destroy the fucking

Planet. Keep it up..your whinging is fucking entertaining.

[Caro]

31. I'm trying to destroy your illusions.

It's illusions that gave us George Bush.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

[Cha]

34. Bullshit!! you and your "make them accountable"

are a freaking joke. You get on here and whine about Obama who is a class act and and you don't make hilary "accountable" for shit. She's been conniving from day one, including sending our Soldiers to IRaq to die and be maimed 'cause she wants to be the bloody president. No thanks.

[meow mix]

32. Barrack Obama: Destroyer of Worlds.

after todays victories this is gonna get nastier...
:eyes:

[Marrah_G]

35. neither of them are ruining anything- please stop this crap

[ellisonz]

37. Democratic Party, spell it right.

:eyes:

[Myrina]

39. ... LAST WEEK, we were told HRC wasn't involved in Bill's biz ...

... now her camp is saying she knew enough to oppose NAFTA?

Flip. Meet Flop. (on this and many other issues) :eyes:

[Caro]

40. Barack Obama loves free trade.

There's video.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/2/17/171927/342

Flipped and flopped.

So NOW what's your reason for hating Hillary Clinton?

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

[Infinite Hope]

41. Iraq, Iran, bankruptcy...she's on the wrong side of key issues. Bye-bye, Clinton. n/t

[Caro]

42. Obama's voting record ...

... is almost the same as Clinton's.

NOW what's your reason for hating Hillary Clinton.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com