One has to wonder about how he chooses to interact with women in a PC world. From Maureen Dowd:
Hillary has clearly raised Obama’s consciousness about the importance of courting the ladies. Touring a manufacturing plant in Allentown, Pa., Tuesday, he was flirtatious, winking and grinning at the women working there, calling one “Sweetie,” telling another she was “beautiful,” and imitating his daughters’ dance moves by twirling around. Later, at a Scranton town hall, he went up to Denise Mercuri, a pharmacist from Dunmore wearing a Hillary button. “What do I need to do? Do you want me on my knees?” he charmed, before promising: “I’ll give you a kiss.”
I suppose he was trying to be charming, but it sounds immature, condescending and politically naive coming from the mouth of a presidential candidate. His behavior in Pennsylvania went beyond the “habit” of calling women “sweetie.” As a presidential candidate, he needs to come across as,well, presidential. (I know the standards have been lowered in the last 7 years by the current occupant of the White House, but we should demand more from those aspiring to be president.
To be honest, I would have thought Barack Obama would be right up Sean Penn’s alley. For what little it’s worth, turns out he’s not. He had this to say at Cannes; Read the rest of this entry »
As the Democratic nomination contest slouches toward a close, it’s time to take stock of what I will not miss.
I will not miss seeing advertisements for T-shirts that bear the slogan “Bros before Hos.” The shirts depict Barack Obama (the Bro) and Hillary Clinton (the Ho) and are widely sold on the Internet.
I will not miss walking past airport concessions selling the Hillary Nutcracker, a device in which a pantsuit-clad Clinton doll opens her legs to reveal stainless-steel thighs that, well, bust nuts. I won’t miss television and newspaper stories that make light of the novelty item.
I won’t miss episodes like the one in which liberal radio personality Randi Rhodes called Clinton a “big [expletive] whore” and said the same about former vice presidential nominee Read the rest of this entry »
Limbaugh says, “I now believe he would be the weakest of the Democrat nominees,” Limbaugh, among the most powerful voices in conservative radio, said on his program. “I now urge the Democrat supereldegates to make your mind up and publicly go for Obama.”
As Obama’s former friend and mentor recently noted, “he says what he has to say as a politician.”
Sure, I understand that to overtake a more-popular and more-experienced party rival, it’s necessary and appropriate to destroy her and her husband’s reputation via completely fraudulent charges of racism. Sausage ain’t beanbag, as they say.
But was it necessary to piss away this “change year,” this once-in-several-decades opportunity to repudiate the Reagan Revolution, selling a mere façade of change and propagating — as shystee so succinctly put it — “the absolute fabrication that the problem with Washington is excessive partisanship”? More here.
Obama argues that Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Sen. John McCain — he calls them “the two Washington candidates” — are pandering to voters by proposing to suspend the federal gas tax of 18.4 cents a gallon for three months. He says a tax holiday would provide consumers little real relief, ignore the country’s energy problems and take money from road and bridge repairs.
“This is the problem with Washington. We are facing a situation where oil prices could hit $200 a barrel. Oil companies like Shell and BP just reported record profits for the quarter. And we’re arguing over a gimmick that would save you half a tank of gas over the course of the entire summer so that everyone in Washington can pat themselves on the back and say that they did something,” Obama says.
THE FACTS:
In 2000, gasoline prices were climbing quickly, reaching $2 a gallon in the Chicago area — a remarkable price back then. Illinois legislators scrambled to offer some election-year relief to angry motorists.
Obama voted three times for a tax holiday.
The version that ended up becoming law required a six-month suspension of the state’s share of the sales tax on gasoline, a 5 percent tax paid directly by consumers rather than gas stations. It also required gas stations to post signs on their pumps saying that the Illinois General Assembly had lowered taxes and the price should reflect that cut.
Things are really looking up for the comeback woman, Hillary Clinton. The latest CNN headline reads, “Poll says McCain should fear Clinton.” The poll shows that Clinton beats McCain by 9 points, but in an Obama McCain matchup, it’s a statistical tie. No wonder Karl Rove is dishing out the advice to Obama on how to beat Clinton…
Be sure to watch the video in full. The media keeps pretending there was an agreement by the candidates not to seat the delegates from Florida and Michigan. One guess as to who the continuing misinformation campaign benefits…
When looking through Obama’s website in order to gauge where he stands on reproductive rights, I became very upset when I literally couldn’t find any mention of abortion or scientifically based sex-ed.Not in his section on healthcare, not in his section on poverty, not in his section on education, nowhere.
An AP story published today discusses the arrogance of Obama. Some highlights;
Arrogance is a common vice in presidential politics. A person must be more than a little self-important to wake up one day and say, “I belong in the Oval Office.” Read the rest of this entry »
You probably would have heard of Nadhmi Auchi by now if Sen. Barack Obama were a Republican.
A British citizen of Iraqi descent, Mr. Auchi, 70, is a billionaire, the 279th richest man in the world, according to a Forbes magazine survey last year.
Now that the seating of Florida’s delegates has come to the forefront in this election, it’s important to understand why the Florida election was legitimate as it stands. In that vein, I’m re-posting one of the first postings I wrote for this blog below. The reasons that Florida should have been considered a great victory for Hillary are the same reasons why the delegates must be seated.
Obama loses bigtime in Florida..
Of course, he doesn’t want the public to believe that, and as usual, the mainstream media is more than willing to sing his tune.In his typical George W Bush style, Barack Obama has smugly Read the rest of this entry »
I watched with nausea as Obama spoke a while back in Minneapolis and praised and praised the popular former senator from Minnesota, Paul Wellstone, who unfortunately was killed several years ago in a plane crash.
I couldn’t help but think of David Sirota’s article about Obama in The Nation, Mr. Obama goes to Washington, in which Obama refers to Wellstone as a gadfly. Gadfly is defined as; a persistent irritating critic; a nuisance.
In a similar vein and a must read is Harper’s Magazine’s, Barack Obama Inc.
ABCNews.com Analysis Shows the Campaign Still Hasn’t Returned More Than $100,000 in Questionable Contributions
By AVNI PATEL
Jan. 28, 2008—
Despite claims over the weekend from Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama that his campaign had given away all the donations connected to accused fixer Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the campaign has not returned Read the rest of this entry »
Barack Obama could be excused for believing two weeks ago that he had nothing more than a flower-strewn path to the nomination. Women fainted in his presence, the media loved telling the story of the new Bobby Kennedy, and Hillary Clinton appeared to have all but conceded in her last debate. A funny thing happened on the way to Obama’s coronation, howeverRead the rest of this entry »
Obama would lose one quarter of Hillary supporters in the general election. A quarter of Democrats (25%) who back Clinton for the nomination say they would favor McCain in a general election test against Obama. The “defection” rate among Obama’s supporters if Clinton wins the nomination is far lower; just 10% say they would vote for McCain in November, while 86% say they would back Clinton.
“Obamacans” – those Republicans who are supporting Obama — are outnumbered two-to-one by what we would have to call “McCainocrats.” There goes Obama’s theory of winning the election by converting republicans.
Those were Obama’s words as he curtly walked out on a press conference earlier today, a sign of the continuing deterioration of the relationship between Obama and the press. As the Rezko trial begins and more and more evidence mounts that Obama has been rather untruthful (shocking!) with the press about his relationship with Rezko.
From Obama’s best friend in the media MSNBC;
From NBC/NJ’s Aswini Anburajan
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Led by the Chicago press corps that has covered Obama for years, the candidate today faced a barrage of questions in what turned out to be a contentious news conference. Read the rest of this entry »
Away from the bright lights and high-minded rhetoric of the campaign trail, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has quietly worked with corporate lobbyists to help pass breaks worth $12 million.
In his speeches, Obama has lambasted lobbyists and moneyed interests who “have turned our government into a game only they can afford to play.”
“It’s an entire culture in Washington — some of it legal, some of it not,” the Democratic hopeful told a New York crowd in June, rallying support for his ethics reform agenda.
But last year, at the request of a hired representative for an Australian-owned chemical corporation Nufarm, Obama introduced nine separate bills Read the rest of this entry »
Once again the Obama’s are pretending that they are saintly public servants, living in poverty and struggling to pay back their student loans. (See “Obama: Not cashing in???”) She fails to mention that she currently rakes in more than six times the average salary of the citizen s in the town she’s speaking in, and that she has Read the rest of this entry »
The Houston press published this piece on Obama yesterday, below are the highlights.
Also click here for the article 2004 article referenced by the author.
It’s not quite eight in the morning and Barack Obama is on the phone screaming at me. He liked the story I wrote about him a couple weeks ago, but not this garbage. Read the rest of this entry »
In addition to previous mentions on our site about Obama’s winks and nods to homophobes (here), here are more even more examples and sources. Read the rest of this entry »
Matt Gonzalez is the former president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and is best known for nearly winning the San Francisco mayoral race as a Green party candidate. At a time when so many progressives have been duped by Obama’s false prophecy, Matt’s recent article is a breath of fresh air.
The Obama Craze: Count Me Out
by Matt Gonzalez, 2008-02-27
Part of me shares the enthusiasm for Barack Obama. After all, how could someone calling themself a progressive not sense the importance of what it means to have an African-American so close to the presidency? But as his campaign has unfolded, and I heard that we are not red states or blue states for the 6th or 7th time, I realized Read the rest of this entry »
Getting His Money and Raising It, Too? Washiongton Post
Friday, February 22, 2008; A10
Last week, a coalition of advocacy groups, including Common Cause and the League of Women Voters, expressed “deep concern” that Sen. Barack Obama might wriggle out of what they depicted as a “pledge” to accept public financing in the general election. The Obama campaign denies making a formal promise Read the rest of this entry »
It’s becoming more and more well known that Obama has practically cut himself off from the press, having nearly no unscripted contact with reporters. And now it seems that when he does give his adoring press corps a moment to bask in his glow, he can’t even take a joke…
The last Obama-Clinton debate drew little blood, but we noted a few factual claims that could use correcting or clarifying: Read the rest of this entry »
Remember when Hillary Clinton pointed out Barack’s numerous present votes (rather than taking a stand) on abortion? As always, Barack Read the rest of this entry »
Hillary Clinton Feb. 23 accused Barack Obama of “using tactics that are straight out of Karl Rove’s playbook” with two attack-mail pieces that criticize her stands on trade and health care. “This is wrong, and every Democrat ought to be Read the rest of this entry »
Obama and Clinton ads both claim all Americans would be covered by their health plans. Clinton’s would come close.
Summary
In television ads, Clinton’s campaign says her health care plan is the only one that will provide universal coverage, while Obama says his plan will cover all Americans, too. We find:
Not nearly enough attention has been paid to the differences between Obama and Hillary’s healthcare plan. While there is mainly just one difference, the lack of a mandate in Obama’s plan, that difference can be make or break for Read the rest of this entry »
Thank god for Saturday Night Live… Bitch is the new black!
From the Democratic Daily;
Tonights Saturday Night Live opened with a devastating opening skit about how in the tank the news media is for Obama and how Read the rest of this entry »
…the result is still the same. For the second time (that I’m aware of) during this campaign, the Obama camp has expressed outrage at the Clinton camp’s purported spreading of supposedly damaging information and/or pictures, their source being Robert Novak in the first instance, and Matt drudge in the most recent flap. Now, any democrat that automatically assumes to be true, any claim made by either of these men, is, well, gullible, lazy, or just plain dumb.
This is a hilarious clip of Clinton mocking Obama’s la la land routine. Clinton’s friends always talk about her great sense of humor, and now we’re getting a glimpse of it. Of course the media will either ignore it or call her a bitch, you choose.
The media refuses to point out that for all his talk of wanting to get away from “politics as usual” Obama has been its biggest supporter. Throughout this campaign Obama has levied false charges against Clinton, using tactics that can only be compared Read the rest of this entry »
When I fly in an airplane I want the pilot with the most experience, not the one who can inspire hope in me that I get to where I am going. When I pay my taxes, I want the person filing them to be experienced, not the Read the rest of this entry »
This article by Taylor Marsh speaks for so many of us…
Delusion is catching. But obviously part of this is my fault. I evidently haven’t made it clear enough for the Obamabots and others who think every post I write is meant to aid Hillary Clinton in her quest for the nomination. You’re seeing all I write through that prism; through the partisan prism of all things Clinton. Sorry to have not Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Jeffrey 
Things are really looking up for the comeback woman, Hillary Clinton. The latest CNN headline reads, “Poll says McCain should fear Clinton.” 
Real Clear Politics
Of course, he doesn’t want the public to believe that, and as usual, the mainstream media is more than willing to sing his tune.In his typical George W Bush style, Barack Obama has smugly 
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