cutthroat, fraudulent politics that lie at the foundation of Obama's supposedly uplifting campaign

[Maribelle]

Race Man

How Barack Obama played the race card and blamed Hillary Clinton.

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=aa0cd21b-0ff2-4329-88a1-69c6c268b304

It may strike some as ironic that the racializing should be coming from a black candidate's campaign and its supporters. But this is an American presidential campaign--and there is a long history of candidates who are willing to inflame the most deadly passions in our national life in order to get elected. Sadly, it is what Barack Obama and his campaign gurus have been doing for months--with the aid of their media helpers on the news and op-ed pages and on cable television, mocked by "SNL" as in the tank for Obama. They promise to continue until they win the nomination, by any means necessary.

[blm]

1. Jackson Stephens played for Fascists and that doesn't bother you. Bush and Clintons sure had a sure

thing going for decades, eh?

Aren't you glad regular American CITIZENS are ready to take their country back from the fascists and the GOPs and Dems who have enabled them?

[BlackVelvet04]

27. So you have no real rebuttal except to sling shit at someone else

and hope nobody notices you have no real rebuttal? That's pretty sad.

[blm]

28. The rebuttal is that too many Dems have NO SENSE OF PROPORTION. Clue phone rings 24/7

and some are smart enough (and responsible enough as citizens) to pick it up, while others....just....don't ....seem ....to....catch ....on......

[flordehinojos]

2. good article. it speaks the truth about BO and his dirty politics.

[GeorgeGist]

3. TNR = DLC sympathizers

who have yet to produce a progressive presidency. Clinton No.1 was a flash in the pan.

[Maribelle]

4. Obama and his Problem with Ethics and Judgment

It is obvious that Obama has been less than truthful


Remember, the NYT reported that while Obama implied his relationship with Rezko was casual and he was only a "one-time fund-raiser" and he only socialized with Rezko occasionally, that was a bald faced lie. As stated in the NYT, "...interviews with more than a dozen political and business associates suggest that the two men were closer than the senator has indicated."

At the same time Obama was taking money from Rezko in 2004, Rezko was being investigated by the FBI and was later indicted. It has been pointed out that "an ABC News review of campaign records shows Rezko, and people connected to him, contributed more than $120,000 to Obama's 2004 campaign for the U.S. Senate, much of it at a time when Rezko was the target of an FBI investigation."

There are several issues here besides the fact that he may have less than honest intent. Everything should be considered, not least of all obama's ethics (lack of) and his judgment (or lack of). But the media does not seem to be doing it's job. They are not asking the right questions. Obama has been getting a free pass as many thought he might be as an African-American. Political correctness seems to be winning out over good sense.

http://inyourface.info/ArT/Theta/EtH.shtml

[bowens43]

8. blah blah blah blah

[Skidmore]

5. Must have had shift change at the old tech HQ in

Hillaryland.

[Maribelle]

9. Or a sea change

somewhere else

[Maribelle]

6. From Ralph Waldo Emerson to Deval Patrick, the politics of hope have been a bust.

Yes, We Can’t

http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0225fs.html

Patrick hasn’t delivered reform, much less the transformation that both he and Obama promise. This should come as no surprise. Obama’s utopian vision of transcending the interests that make up the fabric of our democracy is unlikely to fare any better than the “politics of hope” did in Emerson’s time. The key question at hand is whether Obama’s Edenic bubble bursts before or after the election.

[Dark]

23. Yea, it's not like Ronald Reagan, JFK or FDR won by inspiring people. n/t

[bowens43]

7. more bullshit from those who support the politics of hate.

you people should be ashamed of yourselves. Pathetic. NO wonder you're losing.

[Maribelle]

18. Now, are you talking about yourself AGAIN?

Say it isn't so.

[UALRBSofL]

10. Maribelle, Thanks for the article, I book marked it

Maribelle, BTW, look for this to occur again leading into the General Election and then pull this article out, look at it, and tell yourself, have I ever seen an election cycle this full of race bating in my life? Because you can expect it until the GE in november.

[Maribelle]

17. It is awful, I never would have believe this.

and I agree we have not seen the end of it yet

[RBInMaine]

11. Maribelle, you're obviously FRUSTRATED and DESPERATE

[Maribelle]

13. lol sure I am

:evilgrin:

[Maribelle]

12. Obama exposed as a fraud

LOS ANGELES TIMES EXPOSES BARACK OBAMA AS A FRAUD

http://www.bufford.politicalgateway.com/main/columns/read.html?col=737

Monday's Los Angeles Times exploded one of the major myths in Obama's memoir, Dreams From My Father, that Obama had been the spearhead behind efforts to remove asbestos contamination at Altgeld Gardens on the South Side of Chicago: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-obama19feb19,1,7228837.story

In reality, Obama stole the credit from real community activists and "organizers" and appropriated their efforts as his own. Obama covered the tracks to his burglary of the truth by using fictional characters to replace the "real" people in the Altgeld episode. It is no surprise that Sweet reports today Obama was "worried about a pending potentially negative…story."

Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times, who is an unabashed Obama-lover, is also an honest journalist. She too, way back in 2004, questioned Obama's use of fiction as fact, and stated, "It is impossible to know who is real and who is not." (Sun-Times, 2/20/07, see http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/264478,CST-NWS-sweet20.article). Indeed, Ms. Sweet, it is not impossible at all. "Obama" is not real. Mr. Obama is a fictional creation of a very talented and very intelligent bunkum artist, Barry (Barack) Obama. From end to end, from start to finish, Barack Obama is an imaginative self-invention.

In 2004, Sweet writes today, Obama could not remember the identity of one of the key characters in his book: "I don't remember what Smitty's real name was. I think it was Wally." He wrote a book about events that had taken place a few years earlier, and "forgot" the names of his key characters. So much for Obama's respect for fact checking.

Sweet also says that Obama's campaign staffers had to read his book over the past few days to decipher who the "real people" in his book were. They couldn't just ask the candidate. He couldn't tell them. And the man wants to be president? Be real.

[UALRBSofL]

16. K/R

[cali]

14. written by one of the biggest partisans out there with a fucking monster size

ax to grind. Sean Wilentz is a very close family friend of the Clintons. His analysis is worth a tidy pile of dogshit.

[Maribelle]

21. Tisk, tisk

you and your mouth

[grantcart]

15. gee quoting from an old Clinton hack - why this article he has 15 others

its just that no one agrees with him

[journalist3072]

19. I've been saying this all along....how Obama and his minions are the ones injecting race into this

campaign..

For example, Obama's comment to Tavis Smiley that "There's no doubt in my mind that if we consolidate the Black vote, that would cause a profound shift in the national polls."

And let's not forget him telling a predominantly African-American audience in South Carolina that he needed them to bring Pookie and Ray-Ray to the polls.

I've got to give it to David Axelrod---he's done a helluva job of marginalizing Obama as the Black candidate. They don't hesitate to inject Obama's race into this campaign.....but if anyone is the least bit critical of Obama, they are instantly labeled as racist.

As an African-American, I am offended by the Obama campaign and I will NEVER cast a vote for him.

[Maribelle]

22. This is a trick they played in Massachusetts that got Patrick elected.

Patrick's campaign was Obama's prototype.

It truly sends shivers up my spine.

[Window]

20. Same shit, different day...you are tiresome.

[NJmaverick]

24. Ah, I think you posted this at the wrong message board

Google Free Republic, they would love a post like this.

[Name removed]

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Sub-thread removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Maribelle]

25. Barack Obama, a liar or a rube?

Obama's most crucial, explosive claim, that ": They were actually capturing Taliban weapons, because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief" remains utterly and completely false.


http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/255488.php

Rachel, was this story about Iraq? No it was not... it was about Afghanistan, and soldiers that I know and trust (sorry, I don't know you) who have served there said the claims made or insinuated by Obama were false and/or misleading.

We've already established that the shortage of ammunition occurred at Fort Drum, not in theater. This was from the captain himself, the same captain Obama used, who also said bluntly that contrary to Obama's claim, "The purpose of going after the Taliban was not to get their weapons."

Yes, there are shortages in wartime. There have been since the first caveman ran out of rocks, and they will no doubt occur for thousands of years into the future, which is why logistics is such an important part of combat.

The fact remains at the end of the day that Obama misrepresented the Captain's story into a lie to attack the President.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at February 28, 2008 11:08 AM

[Maribelle]

29. Barack Obama Lies About Legislative Record:Backed Nuclear Industry But Claims He Didn’t!

You know that candidate of “change”–you know, this fellow named Barack Obama who promises a new kind of politics, a new way of doing business in Washington, a new approach to business as usual?


http://thefeldmanblog.com/2008/02/03/barack-obama-lies-about-legislative-recordbacked-nuclear-industry-but-claims-he-didnt/

Obama has to make stuff up to get elected, one wonders what he will do once in the Oval Office?
Would he make up that some nation has weapons of mass destruction as a pretext to invade it?
Would he make up that the U.S. doesn’t actually torture people in secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe ?
Would he make up that he supports legislation while signing statements saying he won’t actually enforce it?
Would he make up that the economy is doing well when statistics show it is not?

Well, why wouldn’t he? Bush did and got away with it.

But, of course, Obama is about change, about doing things differently, about going down a new road.