Nevertheless, reports out of the evangelical community dispute Huckabee's support. One experienced, credible activist in Christian politics who would not let his name be used told me Huckabee in personal conversation with him embraced the concept that an Obama presidency might be what the American people deserve. That fits what has largely been a fringe position among evangelicals that the pain of an Obama presidency is in keeping with the Bible's prophecy.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/mccain_huckabee_and_the_evange.html
According to this activist, at the heart of the let-Obama-win movement is longtime Virginia conservative leader Michael Farris -- the nation's leading home-school advocate, who is now chancellor of Patrick Henry College (in Purcellville, Va.) for home-schooled students. Best known politically as the losing Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia in 1993, Farris is regarded as one of the hardest-edged Christian politicians. He is reported in evangelical circles to promote the Biblical justification for an Obama plague-like presidency.
In conversations with me, Huckabee and Farris both denied advocating that an Obama presidency should be inflicted on the country. Huckabee was enthusiastic in his support for McCain, noting how well they had bonded during their primary competition.
Farris is another matter. A vigorous supporter of Huckabee for president, he has not endorsed McCain and may never do so (though he quickly adds he never would vote for Obama or Hillary Clinton). "I am concerned about what judges he (McCain) may name," Farris told me, "and the test will be who he selects for vice president." He made it clear that Huckabee would be his choice, and ruefully adds, "I understand he is not under consideration."
At McCain headquarters, there is no doubt expressed about Huckabee's loyalty. "I feel we haven't used him (Huckabee) enough," McCain campaign manger Rick Davis told me. McCain's strategists are more concerned that the libertarian Rep. Ron Paul has not abandoned his candidacy, keeps fighting for delegates and says he will not endorse McCain.
Ron Paul
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Hey, I heard Obama is a Muslim and his wife is an atheist.
whoever wins, we lose
Hey, I heard Obama is a Muslim and his wife is an atheist.
Hey, I heard Obama is a Muslim and his wife is an atheist.
Obama is a Muslim and his pastor is a racist.
Hey, I heard Obama is a Muslim and his wife is an atheist.
Obama is a Muslim and his pastor is a racist.
Obama is both a BAD CHRISTIAN because he HATES AMERICA and a MUSLIM. A bad-christian-muslim.
Obama is both a BAD CHRISTIAN because he HATES AMERICA and a MUSLIM. A bad-christian-muslim.
Plus he's married to a sodomy lovin atheist. :maf
it's "sponsored" and "prophecy", mayne
Poor spelling, not grammar.
elitists :yuck
Where do people dream up this stuff? Forget the “anonymous” sources—there’s nothing anonymous about my stand and here it is. We don’t “deserve” Obama—we DESERVE a President with the character, convictions, experience, and wisdom to see the problems we face and try to lead us to solve them. We deserve a President who truly loves this country and from whom there is no doubt as to his respect for Faith, Family, and the kind of Freedom that those before us have given their lives to pass on to us. John McCain meets that criteria and that’s why I am campaigning for him and not hoping for Obama. The nonsense that I want Obama to win this year so I can run in 2012 is absurd. I love my country more than my own ambition. So let the record and truth be clear. And let the “anonymous” sources either show the courage to stand up and be accountable for their comments or shut up and leave commentary to people who aren’t afraid of their own shadow.http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/
CHARLESTON, W.V. -- Hillary Clinton found dozens of supporters, and at least one of her rival's, as she started her Primary Eve Day with a stop at a local Biscuit World.http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/
Clinton made the unnanounced trip as she seeks to boost her margin of victory in the Mountain State's primary. "We gotta get everybody out, gotta get everybody out," she said as she posed for a picture with a group of women.
One told her the weather forecast looked good. "Yup, let's make it happen, Clinton replied. "Get everybody out, it'll be a good day."
As Clinton worked the room, she ran into Doris Smith, who happened to be wearing a blue and white Obama '08 T-shirt. She shook her hand, and said she would work hard for her.
"I'm still trying to decide on the issues," Smith said to Clinton. "Well, that's what [you] should decide on," Clinton said, her hand now on Smith's shoulder.
Clinton, who did not stop to eat, thanked the staff and supporters for the greeting, and offered a quick pitch on her electability.
"I keep telling people, no Democrat has won the White House since 1916 without winning West Virginia."
As she sat in a booth signing a book, another woman said she hoped she woud "go all the way."
"We're gonna keep going as long as we have people like you helping us," Clinton said.
I read that Hillary's new plan is to try to ride out a majority in the popular vote, then use that to bludgeon the superdelegates into voting for her. I hope that enough superdelegates come out for Obama over the next few days that that line of reasoning becomes unreasonable. Everyone has accepted her campaign is over except for her.
I read that Hillary's new plan is to try to ride out a majority in the popular vote, then use that to bludgeon the superdelegates into voting for her. I hope that enough superdelegates come out for Obama over the next few days that that line of reasoning becomes unreasonable. Everyone has accepted her campaign is over except for her.
Since last Tuesday, Obama has netted 21 supers to her... 1.5. Her bs arguments aren't working. It's over.
I read that Hillary's new plan is to try to ride out a majority in the popular vote, then use that to bludgeon the superdelegates into voting for her. I hope that enough superdelegates come out for Obama over the next few days that that line of reasoning becomes unreasonable. Everyone has accepted her campaign is over except for her.
Since last Tuesday, Obama has netted 21 supers to her... 1.5. Her bs arguments aren't working. It's over.
She's like an undead zombie candidate who can't be killed.
I just donated to Obama! I would like to think my small contribution will contribute to kicking Hillary out of the race sooner rather than later.
Got this from Digg
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/ronpaulgop.html
“I don’t need a guided tour of the White House,” she said. “I know my way around, and I know we gotta get to work immediately, because we’re not gonna have a lot of time.”
Mr. Malcolm, how instrumental have you been in informing the citizens of Greater Los Angeles about the insidious, underlying intent... the sad modern-day reality... behind LA Agenda 21 (and the supremacy of communitarian law), I wonder?
Has this subject been beyond your particular purview? A search of the LA Times website for these exact keywords turned up... not a thing... nada... zilch.
I see you are one of the few at the LA Times assigned the task of agitating for GOP dissension within its ranks, while most eyeballs remain focused on this meaningless Democratic Party horse race.
Why do you think that is?
Obama and Clinton are both avowed communitarians beholden to the central planners who claim slave-master status over our government representatives and the U.S. economy. McCain, like the other two, actually likes being led around by his nose, all the while pretending he is a gallant military-political man "of principle." Just ask Senator Lieberman and Mrs. McCain, his wife. Ask Mrs. Clinton and her husband. Ask Mr. Obama who ALL these other candidates MUST pander to in order to secure their Party's nomination.
And these same elite, psychopathic internationalists and warmongers are merely the enablers for the real controlling influences... behind the real-world plotting... of LA Agenda 21, for instance - yet few Angelenos, and few patriotic Americans for that matter, know a cotton-picking thing about it.
This is precisely illustrative of the reason why Big Media puppeteers like the LA Times and their working lackeys doing the dirty work are a clear and present danger to the American Republic and ALL its citizens: They no longer report the impartial news of the day without some pre-determined outcome - a secretive, centrally-planned agenda - already in mind. And they certainly don't dance to the tune of the great unwashed, now do they?
Once the American people learn that Big Media is a CIA asset "owned" by the same people who own these three "anointed" candidates AND "their" monetary system, the quicker they'll realize their Constitution, American sovereignty... their rights and their liberties... are in very grave danger...
... Then the sooner they'll realize who the actual conspirators have been that worked behind the scenes so diligently to enslave them, once and for all.
Which is why I have to ask, "Are you a journalist for The Third Way", or are you a "man of principle" like McCain? Do you have an honest affection for liberty or truth? Or do you think you'll be somehow "protected" too?
Ron Paul and his supporters are not going away, Mr. Malcolm. Their numbers will only increase exponentially in the aftermath of what "our" treasonous central planners are deliberately doing to us, I promise.
Until such time as the Fed is abolished, the power of Big Media is finished, and the monopolists so beloved by communitarians are positively undone... Ron Paul's star will continue to shine... with or without him in the White House.
Perhaps your real job is to help identify the "terrorists" to the status quo "appointees" in Homeland Security and the CIA - would that be the reason you write of Ron Paul being "correctly dismissed" by deliberately dumbed-down voters who still think we live in a democratically-controlled never-neverland run by We, the People?
Is this why you associate terms like "revolt", "plot", and other scary-sounding code words with Paul's clarion call... albeit, practically now silenced by the underhanded mainstream media... for a constitutionalists' simple message... of peace, prosperity, and freedom?
Or is it the case that you and your paymasters merely fear the wrath of the American people once they've finally wised-up to your disgraceful subterfuge?
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/12/1012909.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessageQuote“I don’t need a guided tour of the White House,” she said. “I know my way around, and I know we gotta get to work immediately, because we’re not gonna have a lot of time.”
uh what?
Here's the worst: In Muncie, a factory town in the east-central part of Indiana, Ross and her cohorts were soliciting support for Obama at malls, on street corners and in a Wal-Mart parking lot, and they ran into "a horrible response," as Ross put it, a level of anti-black sentiment that none of them had anticipated.
"The first person I encountered was like, 'I'll never vote for a black person,' " recalled Ross, who is white and just turned 20. "People just weren't receptive."
For all the hope and excitement Obama's candidacy is generating, some of his field workers, phone-bank volunteers and campaign surrogates are encountering a raw racism and hostility that have gone largely unnoticed -- and unreported -- this election season. Doors have been slammed in their faces. They've been called racially derogatory names (including the white volunteers). And they've endured malicious rants and ugly stereotyping from people who can't fathom that the senator from Illinois could become the first African American president.
The contrast between the large, adoring crowds Obama draws at public events and the gritty street-level work to win votes is stark. The candidate is largely insulated from the mean-spiritedness that some of his foot soldiers deal with away from the media spotlight.
Meeting cruel reaction
Victoria Switzer, a retired social studies teacher, was on phone-bank duty one night during the Pennsylvania primary campaign. One night was all she could take: "It wasn't pretty." She made 60 calls to prospective voters in Susquehanna County, her home county, which is 98 percent white. The responses were dispiriting. One caller, Switzer remembers, said he couldn't possibly vote for Obama and concluded: "Hang that darky from a tree!"
Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy, the daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, said she, too, came across "a lot of racism" when campaigning for Obama in Pennsylvania. One Pittsburgh union organizer told her he would not vote for Obama because he is black, and a white voter, she said, offered this frank reason for not backing Obama: "White people look out for white people, and black people look out for black people."
Obama campaign officials say such incidents are isolated, that the experience of most volunteers and staffers has been overwhelmingly positive.
The campaign released this statement in response to questions about encounters with racism: "After campaigning for 15 months in nearly all 50 states, Barack Obama and our entire campaign have been nothing but impressed and encouraged by the core decency, kindness, and generosity of Americans from all walks of life. The last year has only reinforced Senator Obama's view that this country is not as divided as our politics suggest."
I actually heard this once at a buddy's house. His father was a politician.
So my buddy invites me to his house for lunch. I don't remember how the conversation veered towards racism (I think my buddy's dad was commenting about having loads of servants on their hacienda) but I remember clearly that after one of his servants and her daughter (they were both black) served the food, he said, "I have nothing against blacks.
"In fact, I think every household should have at least two."
Honest - in those words. Couldn't believe my ears.
I really can't fathom racists. I guess you have to be born in a certain area.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24588813/(http://videodetective.com/photos/122/005131_24.jpg)QuoteHere's the worst: In Muncie, a factory town in the east-central part of Indiana, Ross and her cohorts were soliciting support for Obama at malls, on street corners and in a Wal-Mart parking lot, and they ran into "a horrible response," as Ross put it, a level of anti-black sentiment that none of them had anticipated.
I hate racists but even I am a little. Its kinda weird racism where its like, I see black people so infrequently that when I see them I want them to know im not racist so I am extra polite. Its not noticable but while I dont smile at most white people ill smile and nod at every black person I see.
Its a weird sort of racism.
I hate racists but even I am a little. Its kinda weird racism where its like, I see black people so infrequently that when I see them I want them to know im not racist so I am extra polite. Its not noticable but while I dont smile at most white people ill smile and nod at every black person I see.
Its a weird sort of racism.
what do black guys do when a buff asian man nods at them tho? i should know this :'(
How many times have I heard this in the US:
"You're a great kid, but I wouldn't let my daughter marry you."
I really can't fathom racists. I guess you have to be born in a certain area.
You've got to have certain parents.
I really can't fathom racists. I guess you have to be born in a certain area.
You've got to have certain parents.
So then how did racism start?
I really can't fathom racists. I guess you have to be born in a certain area.
You've got to have certain parents.
So then how did racism start?
Group protests at Cobb bar, calling Obama T-shirts racist
Mulligan's selling shirts with 'Curious George' picture
By CHRISTIAN BOONE
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/13/08
Marietta tavern owner Mike Norman says the T-shirts he's peddling, featuring cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana, with "Obama in '08" scrolled underneath, are "cute." But to a coalition of critics, the shirts are an insulting exploitation of racial stereotypes from generations past.
"It's time to put an end to this," said Rich Pellegrino, a Mableton resident and director of the Cobb-Cherokee Immigrant Alliance. He was among about 15 people who protested outside Mulligan's Bar and Grill Tuesday afternoon against the sale of the "racist and highly offensive" shirts.
How many times have I heard this in the US:
"You're a great kid, but I wouldn't let my daughter marry you."
Thats strange I have never heard this in my 23 years in america.
How many times have I heard this in the US:
"You're a great kid, but I wouldn't let my daughter marry you."
Thats strange I have never heard this in my 23 years in america.
How many times have I heard this in the US:
"You're a great kid, but I wouldn't let my daughter marry you."
Thats strange I have never heard this in my 23 years in america.
What's your ethnicity?
Terry McAuliffe raised some serious expectations for Hillary's speech on MSNBC.:lol
"You're going to see a great speech tonight from Hillary Clinton. Talked about it on the way down. I saw it. It's going to be a great speech. One of the greatest speeches, Chris, ever given," he said.
"Better than the second inaugural of Lincoln, perhaps," Matthews said after he got off the air.
"Better than stuff in the Bible," said Olbermann.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/136315
To keep that trickle of superdelegate commitments from turning into a flood, Hillary will likely continue the delightful and uplifting argument that she made to USA Today that she has a large and expanding base among "hardworking Americans, white Americans." This is code for "America isn't ready for a black man," but it's also unsubstantiated. Her share of white, working-class voters actually diminished considerably from Ohio and Pennsylvania to North Carolina and Indiana, largely because the more recent primary states are younger. It's "the granny gap," stupid. For all her claims of a broad coalition, Hillary's only reliable base is older white women with no college education. She obviously doesn't crush Obama among white voters more generally or she would already be the nominee.
OMFG @ CNN.
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I've shied away from all the racism charges coming out of W Virginia but...
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The last several primaries have all had surprisingly large chunks of people who openly said that race was the most important factor in voting for Clinton.
I say surprisingly not because of the levels of bigotry but the openness. Who cops to being a white racist these days?
Hey!
Campaign Touts Big Endorsementhttp://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/obama_campaign_touts_big_endor.phpObama
14 May 2008 02:58 pm
A big national endorsement that Obama will unveil at 7pm ET tonight.... a conspicuous Clinton deserter, perhaps? I don't know.
It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity. After that, the next step is to become a small power itself.
I like how the democrats have to deal with racism in their own party. :lol :lol :lol :lol b-b-b-but I thought racism and republicans were one and the same thing huck huck huck
The Obama campaign confirmed today that Howard Dean will remain chairman of the Democratic National Committee, even as Obama puts his own stamp on the DNC.http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0608/Dean_will_remain_as_DNC_chair.html
"Sen. Obama appreciates the hard work that Chairman Dean has done to grow our party at the grass-roots level and looks forward to working with him as the chairman of the Democratic Party as we go forward," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said.
Dean has shed his lightning rod status in recent years and focused more heavily on building state party organizations — a mission that gave him a base of support in the states and that matches Obama's plan to use his resources to keep McCain on the defensive in a wide range of states.
A senior Obama campaign official confirmed to NBC News that Sen. Barack Obama delayed his departure from Washington tonight to meet with Sen. Hillary Clinton at her home.http://politicalwire.com/
http://truththroughaction.org/media-gallery/photos/political-monogamy/eye roll
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee did more than just give a speech at the North Carolina Republican Party convention. He also may have saved a life.http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/07/the-huckabee-heimlich-may-have-saved-life/
State GOP spokesman Brent Woodcox says the former Arkansas governor did the Heimlich maneuver on Robert Pittenger, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, at a lunch before Huckabee gave his speech Saturday.
Woodcox says Pittenger was walking by the front table of the lunch greeting people when he began to choke.
Woodcox says Huckabee jumped up to help Pittenger, who was able to walk away after the incident without medical assistance.
Phone messages left for Huckabee and Pittenger on Saturday were not immediately returned.
Our movement must stay strong to keep Hussein out of the White House .. him and his ugly ass wife,.
I wonder how many people there are plants for Obama to ensure there is any clapping for him.
She is laying the groundwork for 2012. She knows he will not win.
NObama: the illegitimate nominee
18 million hands - send them to the DNC:rofl
1. trace your hands on an 8×11 sheet of paper
2. write your name and city/state in the center of your hands.
3. above the hands, write: “These hands are on the front lines of democracy and they continue to work for Hillary.”
4. below the hands, write: “I am one of 18 million. Hillary for President 2008″
put it in an envelope and send it off to the DNC.
From NBC/NJ’s Carrie Dannhttp://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/
NASHUA, N.H. -- It looks like McCain is not worried about losing the occasionally inaccurate-economist vote.
At a town hall here today, McCain sought to steer his message toward high gas prices, the issue-du-jour being debated by both campaigns today.
Noting that economists almost universally panned his support for a summer gas-tax holiday -- one that was shared by but ultimately unfruitful for Hillary Clinton -- McCain had some uncomplimentary words for the egghead-y money maestros.
"You know the economists?" he said. "They're the same ones that didn't predict this housing crisis we're in. They're the same ones that didn't predict the dot-com meltdown. They're the same ones that didn't predict the inflation that's staring us in the face today."
Cracking a joke, he added, "I'm reminded of the old line that if you took all of the economists in the world and put them end to end, you wouldn't reach a conclusion."
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"You know the economists?" he said. "They're the same ones that didn't predict this housing crisis we're in. They're the same ones that didn't predict the dot-com meltdown. They're the same ones that didn't predict the inflation that's staring us in the face today."
Cracking a joke, he added, "I'm reminded of the old line that if you took all of the economists in the world and put them end to end, you wouldn't reach a conclusion."
Just before the Iowa caucus, I saw Goolsbee approach New York Times columnist David Brooks in Des Moines and gush when the quirky conservative agreed to pose for a picture.
he's got a che poster?! omg obama better fire him and tear up his voter card so he can't besmear him in november
he's got a che poster?! omg obama better fire him and tear up his voter card so he can't besmear him in november
And you dont think there is anything wrong with a politician having a che poster up? I think it's pretty telling that a public official has one up right next to Obama.
It's at an Obama head quarters in a local election branch in a state. Should Obama dictate the decor in every election station that works for him? We already know he has nothing in common with that murderous asshole, so what's the problem unless you're apart of the "what do we REALLY know about that black man" crowd. I know you're not that stupid.
After his public conference call with Clinton supporters (covered extensively by Jonathan Martin) Saturday, John McCain met privately with some 75 of those supporters in his Virginia headquarters, two people who were there said.http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/
McCain's staff extended the last-minute invitation to Clinton die-hards, including a founder of a group called "Party Unity, My Ass" (PUMA), and substantial numbers came from Washington, D.C., and New York. They represented passionate campaign volunteers and supporters, but they're essentially a marginal group in Clinton's orbit, including no one with a prominent campaign role, public office, or close relationship with the candidate.
"He stayed for a good almost half hour afterwards shaking hands, listening to our concerns, talking to us," said PUMA founder Will Bower, who said he thought many of the people there would vote for McCain.
Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina also stayed to mingle with the crowd, whose members also included Cinton backer Harriet Christian, made momentarily famous on YouTube for getting ejected from the Rules & Bylaws press area.
Bower said he'd liked McCain's answer on judges, in which he "pointed out that he supported Bill Clinton with both Ginsberg and Breyer."
Another person who was present, but asked not to be named to avoid conflict with fellow Democrats, said he'd pressed a McCain staffer on McCain's position on same-sex marriage.
The staffer "said it was the same as [John] Kerry's position," he said.
Whats best for the country is to get Obama elected. To do that he needs votes. Whoever the VP is that gets even a single extra vote than another should be picked IMO.
Be it Biden, Selebius, Clinton, or Hitler.
God forbid something should happen to Obama if he were to become president, but it's a possibility.
In the event that a President Obama did die or become incapacitated, I would prefer -- nay, strongly prefer -- not to be ruled by a president Hitler.
He'd have the democrat congress keeping his antisemitism in check.http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=307802&page=85
Lately I've been wondering what an Obama White House might mean for the future of bling. For the fate of heavy gold, medallions, below-the-butt denim, the whole hip-hop gangsta fashion habit. What if January 20, 2009 turned out to be not just a cultural and clothing pivot point for adults -- a return to the minimalism of sleek, 60s-era sharkskin suits, the containment of golf-ball sized Barbara Bush costume pearls -- but a watershed fashion moment for teenaged boys? Picture it. On Inauguration Day next year, thousands and thousands of young men and boys from city street corners to suburbs, look up from their X-Boxes and catch a glimpse of the impeccable President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama climbing the steps of the Capitol and suddenly feel... unfashionable. Out of it. Old. What if they are overcome by the same stunned, something's-happening-here feeling that teenagers in the early 60s, their closets full of sock hop regalia, felt when they first laid eyes on The Beatles in 1964, on the nationally televised Ed Sullivan Show. For adults, this kind of moment is, at most, something to take note of. To a teenager, it's a gale force warning of imminent social tsunami, an urgent prod from the eyeballs and the amygdala that to everything there is a season, and now is the time to change, change, change. Ask not what you can do for your closet, but what your closet, if ignored, can do to you.
Quote from: CheebsGeorge [Harrison] at least lived a long life. Russert's death was sudden and far too early.
...George died at 58 too.