Obama aftermath:

[indimuse]

A Dream <><><><><><><><><>snip>

The blogger, Wolf Pangloss, writes about the likely Democratic nominee for President of the United States and captures the true essence of Obamamania and its Obama aftermath:

I had a dream about Barack Obama. I was watching Obama give a speech. It felt so good, so hypnotic. He was so beautiful and he spoke like an angel. I remember
wondering if I was actually floating in the middle of the air. Have you ever had one of those dreams where you are having a conversation of such surpassing brilliance

and insight that you want to remember every single speck of memory from the dream so you can write it down when you do actually wake up? This was one of those
dreams. Every idea, every word, every phrase, every syllable that came out of his mouth was so perfect, so absolutely appropriate and energizing, that I knew I was

giggling and couldn’t help it. I was surrounded by thousands who were, like me, giggling, half-floating, transfixed by the wise one, Obama. When the speech was over
everyone in the dream clapped and we all tossed our shouts of approval at the great man, like so much confetti at a ticker-tape-parade for returning war heroes. Obama

smiled his wide smile and waved his kindly hand at us in a gesture of heart-felt affection, then left the stage. In my dream as I tried to write down the gist of his speech
I couldn’t remember what he said. It was something like “Change, blah blah blah,” and “Yes we can, blah blah blah,” and “Not red states and blue states, but United

States, blah blah blah.” Everything kind of floated away, all airy and insubstantial as is the way of all dreams. Then I dreamed that I had to use the restroom. I woke up.
When I woke up, I was sitting in my armchair watching the end of an Obama speech on TV. I wasn’t asleep. And I hadn’t been dreaming.

As I went to the restroom I still couldn’t remember what Obama had said. The rhetorical brilliance and insight, blah blah blah, disappeared with the last shreds of the
dream that wasn’t a dream and then the hypnotic afterglow was flushed away to be gone forever.

Slogans are not action. Change is not always for the better. Hope is not always fulfilled. And still, we must journey into a future where dreams can inexorably morph
into nightmares. Obama is very good at dreams, but is he up to leading us out of a nightmare. I wonder...Yes We Can WHAT?

)()()()()()()()()()()()()() SO...I awake.Obama OUTRAGED AT SUEING!!! WHAT?? <snip>

((((((((Obama Sued to Win First Election)))))))
by TexasDarlin, Fri Feb 29, 2008 at 11:25:18 AM EST

There is a new MyDD diary today called "Clinton Campaign Threatens to Sue Texas Democratic Party." The Clinton campaign has denied any intention to sue. In any event, Obama followers are apparently outraged that an opponent might challenge election processes or procedures in a contested race.

Given Obama's history, that's surprising.Yesterday Todd Spivak of HoustonPress.com reminded us how Obama won his first Illinois election:

He was just 35 when in 1996 he won his first bid for political office. Even many of his staunchest supporters, such as Black, still resent the strong-arm tactics Obama employed to win his seat in the Illinois Legislature.

Obama hired fellow Harvard Law alum and election law expert Thomas Johnson to challenge the nominating petitions of four other candidates, including the popular

incumbent, Alice Palmer, a liberal activist who had held the seat for several years, according to an April 2007 Chicago Tribune report.

Obama found enough flaws in the petition sheets -- to appear on the ballot, candidates needed 757 signatures from registered voters living within the district -- to knock

off all the other Democratic contenders. He won the seat unopposed.

"A close examination of Obama's first campaign clouds the image he has cultivated throughout his political career," wrote Tribune political reporters David Jackson and

Ray Long. "The man now running for president on a message of giving a voice to the voiceless first entered public office not by leveling the playing field, but by clearing

it.

As I said yesterday in a post...Obama has mastered Bush's accuse the opponent of what YOU are guilty of...putting the opponent on the defensive...making you look clean.

[sendero]

1. Waaahhhhhhhhhhh,

... call a waaaahhhhhmmmm bulance we're losing!!!!!!

Throw some more mud. Make up some more bullshit to tell people that they are in a dream.

Well, Obama is a maybe dream, HRC is a definite nightmare. I'll take my chances.

[Hepburn]

12. You just had to ask...and it is yours:

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[fenriswolf]

2. didnt i hear something about hillary wanting to sue texas?

[indimuse]

4. both campaigns are upset over some rules..

and hae remained open to sue...IF?

[cali]

3. I'll say blah, blah, blah

what terribly written piece. And you forgot the link. Can't you do better than this? Boring.

[indimuse]

5. thank you...

:)

[RetroLounge]

20. Yet you reply

:rofl:

RL

[Faygo Kid]

6. You win. Most absurd post of the day.

Shouldn't you be over at Free Republic arguing against evolution?

[indimuse]

8. thank you...

:hi:

[Hepburn]

13. Oh, yeah....

...the one about Noah having dinosaurs on the Arc! :rofl:

[FrenchieCat]

7. Learn to give links....and know that Obama did the right thing in

contesting those signatures. He turned out to be justified, and was able to use election laws on the books and evidence that the signatures were not authentic to his favor. I believe that this was a good thing. He also was principal in further reforming Old Style Chicago politics by passing the most far reaching campaign reform laws on Illinois books.



Obama Forged Political Mettle In Illinois Capitol


The campaign finance effort came at the initiative of former U.S. senator Paul Simon (D-Ill.). A Republican and a Democrat in each legislative body were tapped to tighten a system that, among other things, allowed politicians to use campaign accounts for personal expenses.

Obama was given the job of representing Senate Democrats by state Sen. Emil Jones Jr., who chose him on the recommendation of Abner J. Mikva, a former judge and Democratic congressman.

"He was very aggressive when he first came to the Senate," said Jones, now president of the state Senate. "We were in the minority, but he said, 'I'd like to work hard. Any tough assignments or things you'd like me to be involved in, don't hesitate to give it to me.' "

Obama favored more ambitious changes in campaign law, including limits on contributions, but nipped and tucked in search of consensus.

"What impressed me about him was his ability in working with people of the opposite party," said Mike Lawrence, director of the Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University. "He had definite ideas about what ought to be contained in a campaign finance reform measure, but he also was willing to recognize that he was probably not going to get everything he wanted."

The result, according to good-government groups, was the most ambitious campaign reform in nearly 25 years, making Illinois one of the best in the nation on campaign finance disclosure.

Five years later, Obama waded into a complex capital-punishment debate after a number of exonerations persuaded then-Gov. George Ryan (R) to empty death row.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/08/AR2007020802262_pf.html

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OBAMA'S US SENATE RECORD:

S.1975 : A bill to prohibit deceptive practices in Federal elections.

Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack (introduced 11/8/2005) Cosponsors (4)
Committees: Senate Rules and Administration
Latest Major Action: 11/8/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.

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S.4102 : A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the use of telecommunications devices for the purposes of preventing or obstructing the broadcast or exchange of election-related information.

Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack (introduced 12/7/2006) Cosponsors (None) Committees: Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Latest Major Action: 12/7/2006 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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S.4069 : A bill to prohibit deceptive practices in Federal elections.

Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack (introduced 11/16/2006) Cosponsors (4)
Committees: Senate Rules and Administration
Latest Major Action: 11/16/2006 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
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Obama's Rewards

13,000 a year, plus $2,000 for a car--a beat-up blue Honda Civic, which Obama drove for the next three years organizing more than twenty congregations to change their neighborhoods.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070416/moberg

Obama's organizing history may give few clues about what policies he would pursue as President, but Obama the presidential candidate still shows his roots--a faith in ordinary citizens, a quest for common ground and a pragmatic inclination toward defining issues in winnable ways.

Even when Obama was an organizer, Augustine-Herron told him he would be the nation's first black President. Now the Rev. Alvin Love, whom Obama recruited to DCP, looks at his candidacy and says, "Everything I see reflects that community organizing experience. I see the consensus-building, his connection to people and listening to their needs and trying to find common ground. I think at his heart Barack is a community organizer. I think what he's doing now is that. It's just a larger community to be organized."
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070416/moberg

What Obama has done in the past, not including what he has done thus far during the primaries; bringing new voters into the frey.


Vote of Confidence
A huge black turnout in November 1992 altered Chicago's electoral landscape—and raised a new political star: a 31-year-old lawyer named Barack Obama.

In the final, climactic buildup to November's general election, with George Bush gaining ground on Bill Clinton in Illinois and the once-unstoppable campaign of senatorial candidate Carol Moseley Braun embroiled in allegations about her mother's Medicare liability, one of the most important local stories managed to go virtually unreported: The number of new voter registrations before the election hit an all-time high. And the majority of those new voters were black. More than 150,000 new African-American voters were added to the city's rolls. In fact, for the first time in Chicago's history-including the heyday of Harold Washington-voter registrations in the 19 predominantly black wards outnumbered those in the city's 19 predominantly white ethnic wards, 676,000 to 526,000.

None of this, of course, was accidental. The most effective minority voter registration drive in memory was the result of careful handiwork by Project Vote!, the local chapter of a not-for-profit national organization.

"It was the most efficient campaign I have seen in my 20 years in politics," says Sam Burrell, alderman of the West Side's 29th Ward and a veteran of many registration drives.

At the head of this effort was a little-known 31-year-old African-American lawyer, community organizer, and writer: Barack Obama.

To understand the full implications of Obama's effort, you first need to understand how voter registration often has worked in Chicago. The Regular Democratic Party spearheaded most drives, doing so using one primary motivator: money. The party would offer bounties to registrars for every new voter they signed up (typically a dollar per registration).

The campaigns did produce new voters. "But bounty systems don't really promote participation," says David Orr, the Cook County clerk, whose office is responsible for voter registration efforts in the Cook County suburbs. "When the money dries up, the voters drop out." Nor did the Democratic Party always vigorously push registration among minorities, Orr says. "It's not that they discouraged it. They just never worked hard to ensure it would happen."
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-1993/Vote-of-Confidence

[indimuse]

10. a few 4 u!!

http://oncenter.blogspot.com/
In June 2005, Obama bought a 98-year-old Kenwood mansion from a University of Chicago doctor for $1.65 million, using a $1.69 million advance he received from

publishers Crown for his book, "The Audacity of Hope." The same day Rezko's wife Rita paid the doctor $625,000 for the empty lot adjoining Obama's property.

Even though at the time Rezko was under federal investigation for influence-peddling in Illinois Governor Blagojevich's administration, Obama did business with him,

buying for $104,500 a 10-foot wide strip of Rita Rezko's lot, ostensibly to provide space for a fence. The deal left Mrs. Rezko's lot too small to build upon, thereby lifting

the value of Obama's home.

Obama denies wrongdoing. "I misgauged the appearance presented by my purchase of the additional land from Mr. Rezko," Obama told the Chicago Sun-Times. "It

was a mistake to have been engaged with him at all in this or any other personal business dealing that would allow him, or anyone else, to believe that he had done

me a favor."

Obama now calls "boneheaded" his decision to continue to consort with Rezko even after a grand jury investigation into his dealings had begun and he has given about

$150,000 of Rezko's campaign contributions to charity.

But that was not the end of the affair. The senator's claim to have been completely open about his relationship with Rezko was called into doubt on Monday when the

senator belatedly admitted that, before he bought his home, he and Rezko visited the property together.

Rezko is a presidential candidate's nightmare buddy. He stands accused of demanding fake finder's fees for payments made to Illinois teachers' and health workers'

state pension funds. And he is accused of defrauding GE Capital out of $10 million in loans for his fast-food franchises.

According to court documents, Rezko is also accused of prompting "at least one other individual" to give money to Obama's senatorial campaign, then reimbursing

him, in violation of federal election law.

Prosecutors have submitted to the court a 26-page list of those Rezko wanted appointed to posts in Illinois Governor Blagojevich's administration. The list contains

those whom Obama recommended for state jobs. On Thursday it was reported that among those Rezko proposed for a job was the real estate agent who conducted

the sale of Sen. Obama's home.



By Craig Crawford | February 18, 2008 6:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (32)

The news media’s long-awaited scrubbing of Barack Obama’s concrete plans for governing has begun and, not surprisingly, it doesn't take long. The Democratic

presidential contender’s famously inspirational speeches offer little sustenance for wonks.

In a rare and much-heralded policy address last week, Obama attempted to get specific on economics but the details turned out to be so reminiscent of Hillary

Rodham Clinton’s proposals that an aide to Republican nominee-to-be John McCain stepped in to cry foul. “He basically took Clinton's words and Clinton's policies and

called them his own,” McCain economic advisor Kevin Hassett said.

Obama’s supporters and advisers refer pesky policy inquiries to the campaign web site, but it is difficult to connect the dots between this internet data dump and a

candidate whose public comments reveal little evidence that he has read it himself. As Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, an Obama fan, concluded after

examining the web site, “I'm still puzzled about where to locate Obama on this policy map.”

No one expects Obama to use every opportunity to wade through the policy thicket that Clinton seems to enjoy navigating in her often mind-numbing stump speeches.

The Illinois senator apparently intends to be a motivational president who stays above the fray. But on the stump he provides little guidance to the occasional voter who

might be curious about exactly what he would do as president.

Politically speaking, it is probably true that Obama does not need to sweat the policy details. He has so far made it to the brink of success in the Democratic race

without specifics. Instead, his admiring crowds appear content to chant “Yes We Can” without bothering to finish the sentence.


Source: http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2008/02/yes-we-can-what.html

http://www.blackvote.org/

http://www.colorofchange.org/

http://www.blackconservative.net/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x99617


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e40oCMqFuZs&eurl=http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2008/02/african-american-super-delegates-stick.html


BeatleBoot (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-29-08 07:09 PM
Response to Reply #44
75. Texas Republican Voters Received This Letter
http://republicansforobama.org/?q=node/359


E-mail to send to Texas Republicans


Attention All Texas Republicans and Independents!!

On March 4th, Texas Republicans and Independents will have an opportunity to end Hillary Clinton's (and Bill's) presidential ambitions once and for all!

Since Texas has on open primary, Republicans and Independents should sign in at their polling place and request a Democratic ballot. They should then vote for

Barack Obama. Even James Carville admits that if Hillary loses Texas, "she's done!" Republicans can help make this a reality!!! Just think, no more Clintons in the

White House!

Voting Democratic this one time will have NO effect on your ability to vote in the next Republican primary or obviously on your vote in November. Since John McCain

has the Republican nomination locked up, voting for McCain or Huckabee at this point will have no effect on the outcome on the Republican side.

After you vote during early voting or on March 4th, you ARE NOT done! Report back to your regular polling place at 7PM on March 4th to sign the Barack Obama list

for caucus delegates. In a little known Texas voting quirk, 67 delegates to the Democratic convention will be seated because of these caucuses. This is a full one-third

of the total number of Texas delegates. For Hillary to lose, she has to lose the primary votes AND the caucus votes.

I urge you to vote against Hillary Clinton by voting for Barack Obama. Please forward this e-mail to all your Texas Republican and Independent friends so that we can

help ensure the Clinton's defeat on March 4th!!!
http://republicansforobama.org/?q=node/359
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LtbLEKHsi0 liar news..
Wonk the Vote | 02.18.2008 - 08:09 am

[FrenchieCat]

11. None of what you are refering to has anything to do with

the op. :eyes:

But thank you for Rezko shit spam once again.

Here's some data for you to ponder in reference to Hillary's unvetted status as we speak:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2856579

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=4473288

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=4306591


in addition to this:

Senator Clinton's biggest problem is that she is sanctimonious. ....The biography devotes 95 per cent of her legal career to her public advocacy work even though she spent just 10 months in public advocacy and 15 years as a corporate lawyer. She worked for the Rose Law Firm, the top commercial firm in Arkansas, from 1976 to 1991. She earned more than her husband. She also served on the board of Wal-Mart, one of the most anti-union corporations in America. That's why Obama has begun to lace his speeches with barbs about Wal-Mart. ...Hillary Clinton's problem is not her gender but her character.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/paul-sheehan/undone-by-ghost-of-trysts-past/2008/03/02/1204402265736.html

[stillcool]

19. Nothing left in the kitchen sink?

Campaign Notebook
Sellers say they didn't cut price for Obama

The couple who sold Barack Obama his Chicago home said the Illinois senator's $1.65 million bid "was the best offer" and they didn't cut their asking price because a campaign donor bought their adjacent land, according to e-mails between Obama's presidential campaign and the sellers.

Obama has said he made a "boneheaded" move in involving contributor Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a Chicago businessman, in the purchase of the property June 15, 2005.

Rezko's wife, Rita, also an Obama donor, bought the adjoining plot from the couple, Fredric Wondisford and Sally Radovick, for the $625,000 asking price, the same day Obama bought the house for $300,000 less than the asking price. Antoin Rezko was under a federal investigation at the time.

Rezko was indicted on unrelated fraud charges 16 months later, in October 2006. Obama has since returned about $85,000 in campaign contributions made or raised by Rezko.

The sellers hadn't previously made their side of the story public out of concern for their privacy, according to Bill Burton, an Obama spokesman. They approached Obama's Senate office 15 months ago and agreed to break their silence now through the campaign out of concern that the story was being distorted.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004189001_campdig19.html?syndication=rss

Illinois Blogs Recap Rezko & Obama: Not Much There There, UPDATED

January 23, 2008 in Obama by robnesvacil

Tags: Barack Obama, President 2008, Tony Rezko

Two Illinois poliblog institutions, The Capitol Fax Blog (by political journalist Rich Miller) and ArchPundit (by political blogger Larry Handlin), are producing primers for the American people and the self-proclaimed media of record (not that the “national” media feels a need to be bothered with actual details when there’s a good soap opera to splash some ink on).

For those interested in learning just what Sen. Barack Obama’s not-very-much-of-a-relationship with Chicago developer Tony Rezko is, read up…
http://illinoisreason.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/illinois-blogs-recap-rezko-obama-not-much-there-there/

[dkf]

9. Well maybe he heard all the sigs were faked or something.

If they are cheating to get on the ballot then what are we supposed to do?

[anigbrowl]

14. Tou're supposed to kiss the ass of your elders and betters

After all, they deserve their elected office. They shouldn't have to go through the tedious business of asking real people to vote for them every time. They are on a higher moral plane than those people who just get out there and compete.

[Forkboy]

15. Indimuse aftermath:

[indimuse]

16. LQQK Obama's (((WORDS))) again..

sheeeeeiiiT!

[Forkboy]

17. No, that was brain sample from you.

They didn't have much to work with though.

[LWolf]

18. My prediction:

The only thing Obama supporters can hear, or can see on the screen, is "blah, blah, blah."

Don't expect them to acknowledge your point.

[cliffordu]

21. What point? There was a point in all that drivel??

:puke:

[LWolf]

22. The points being:

the willingness to use dirty tactics to win an election, which does, indeed, make me :puke:

and the hypocrisy of criticizing his opponent for using dirty tactics when he is no stranger to them himself, which is also repulsive.

[indimuse]

23. drivel...lol..

drivel right along now...